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he picked is a statement about his character. The American people don’t seem to be aware of this fatal flaw, no matter how hard I try to draw attention to it. To review, on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 the terror attacks on Paris occurred. In response, on Monday, Nov. 16, more than 20 governors across our great land attempted to suspend, eliminate or block Syrian refugee programs in their states under the guise of “security.” No meaningful suggestions on security have been made by this bunch, though. Gov. Pence joined the herd of sheep on this one, and as if it were on cue, he did it while a Syrian family was en route to Indiana. As a result of his America, there is a man on the almost-trademark bad Republican ticket that cannot admit it timing, our state was again the national when he has lost. Not Donald Trump. once leader of intolerance and fear. It is Governor Mike Pence. In the coming days and weeks, we learned that state government had acted outside of its authority on this one. Pence had not vetThe same rules apply to politicians. ted the authority of the state program, in And the faster a politician learns from the midst of his haste to complain about the teaching moments given to them, the federal government’s inadequate the more successful he or she will ultivetting. mately become. It was obvious early on that he was So let’s talk about Gov. Mike Pence and on the wrong legal side of this situation, the Syrian refugee battle that he is losing and the series of court defeats have been in embarrassing fashion. As a counselor, predictable. In December of 2015, even my advice to the governor would be Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph Tobin simple — walk away. His refusal to acpublicly announced his plan that the knowledge that he has lost the fight that archdiocese would continue to resettle s a younger, less sophisticated man, I was employed as a counselor at the Indiana Boys School. I left that job 20 years ago, but the lessons I learned trying to help my young criminals in that juvenile prison continue to help me in the world of politics today. Go figure. One of the most common “teaching moments” a counselor gets is when the child is faced with conflict. Any kind of conflict will do. The challenges and opportunities created by conflict are invaluable to any young person’s growth.
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families here. Exodus Immigration has also continued its work, and more than 170 Syrian families have been settled since this regrettable example of politics began. You see, the State of Indiana does not get to decide whether refugees are placed here. Not one, but two federal courts have now ruled that way. The ruling this week was a shameful scolding of the state, featuring quotes from 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner like, “You’re so out of it!” This comes on the heels of a 36-page order issued by Judge Tanya Pratt in February that read like a drill sergeant speaking to the troops on the first day of boot camp. Governor, the battle is over. Though I can identify a list of opportunities over the past 10 months where you could have, and should have, walked away from this loser, it is now obviously the end of the road. And then, I read in horror the statement provided by his spokesperson, Kara Brooks on Thursday following the court’s ruling. It read in part:
“The Pence administration will continue to use every legal means available to suspend this program in Indiana unless and until federal officials take steps to ensure the safety and security of our citizens.” Uh, you already tried that. And you lost, big. Twice. The only legal means you have is to withdraw from the federal program. That of course doesn’t “block” resettlement; it simply removes state government from being a part of the resettlement. Judging by recent history, I’m not sure the state’s involvement has proven vital anyway. But, other than that, this fight is over. America, there is a man on the Republican ticket that cannot admit it when he has lost. A man who won’t acknowledge when the public disagrees with him. A man who does not respect the authority of the judicial branch of the federal government. And on this one, it is not Donald Trump. It is Governor Mike Pence. Excuse the analogy between crime and politics here. Some of the criminals I used to counsel early in my career would look at this column and laugh. Many of them would say that I always taught them to look for the way out of any conflict early so they would know later where it is when they absolutely needed it. They were a captive audience, so they listened to me even when they didn’t want to. Our governor doesn’t want to listen either. Maybe the electorate will. n
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Gubernatorial candidates discuss violence and mass transit For the first time, gubernatorial candidates Democrat John Gregg, Republican Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb and Libertarian Rex Bell took the stage together at Central Library Sunday to discuss issues regarding public transit and police violence. Transit Infrastructure in the Hoosier state could make the leap toward more mass transit if voters find it a pressing issue.
Goose Pond Visitor Center grand opening provides spectacular sights
Under Gregg’s administration, $3.2 billion would be added to the state’s current infrastructure program. He would use 40 percent of the money on roads and bridges, while 60 percent would go to adding more mass transit and expanding broadband access. “All large cities need ways to get people to and from work, to and from entertainment and a way to travel safely across the state,” Gregg said.
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Like Gregg, Holcomb said mass transit can be an asset, but Holcomb thinks that issue should be left up to the voters. “Mass transit is one of those investments where citizens have to decide if this is what they want,” Holcomb said. But Bell said mass transit is not cost efficient, therefore he does not support it Perceived Police Violence
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n a hill overlooking 8,900 acres of prairie and marshy wetlands stands a newly constructed visitor center at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area (FWA). The old adage “think globally, act locally” has proven useful here — not only for nature lovers across Indiana, but also for the vast array of wildlife making this area a migratory destination point. VISIT
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“Goose Pond is the work of visionaries,” says Department of Natural Resources director Cameron Clark at the red-ribboncutting ceremony, acknowledging the many partners who made this enormous expanse of wildlife habitat conservation a reality. “This is a beautiful, eco-friendly building. But it’s a tool. Our focus is to get people outside, to enjoy nature.” With 12,000 visitors a year, it helps to have a focal point: a place to get a map, ask questions and use the restrooms. A spacious wildlife viewing room provides extraordinary wall-to-wall windows,
designed to prevent bird collisions. Landscaping around the building will be wildlife-friendly native prairie grasses. Lee Sterrenburg, a founding member of Friends of Goose Pond and avid birder, says of the building, “It will revolutionize birding, with as many as 10,000 birds flying low to forage for food in the morning and within view.” Property manager Travis Stoelting explains the cutting-edge technology used in the 7,000-square-foot building. “It has a geothermal heating and cooling system and is built with sustainable and energy efficient materials.” By early next year, Stoelting plans to include interpretive displays to highlight the history of Goose Pond and supply educational information about habitat types and the species that use them. Once the inside features are completed, signage will be added to help visitors find their way, along with accessible trails near the visitor center. The building also houses a regional office for the DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife so staff can provide information and answer questions. Already, school buses and families are making their way to the new visitor center. At Goose Pond, there is something to see every season. Depending on the time of year, there are tens of thousands of egrets, herons, ducks and geese, along with other shore birds, waterfowl and marsh birds, including Sandhill cranes,
American white pelicans, and federally listed endangered whooping cranes. Sterrenburg says excitedly, “We saw 65,000 waterfowl flying low against the backdrop of the red morning sun.” Bird sightings here have surpassed all expectations. According to Friends of Goose Pond, prior to 1997 there were no Sandhill crane records in the Greene County bird database. In 2013, the count reached an astounding 25,953 Sandhills at Goose Pond FWA. Sterrenburg notes that November through March offers some of the most impressive views. One annual, not-to-be-missed event is Marsh Madness, on March 4 – 5. Daryn Lewellyn, Friends of Goose Pond President, says, “I took my car to a hill to look at a bald eagle’s nest. A young couple and their children drove up next to me and got out. Suddenly, out of nowhere, 2,000 snow geese took flight right over our heads.” In addition to the multitude of birds, there are frogs, (non-venomous) water snakes, muskrats, grasshoppers and butterflies. Lewellyn smiles broadly. “Well done!” he says to everyone who made Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area possible. Those in attendance at the visitor center grand opening applaud loudly. Take your cameras, take your children and take your friends to visit this amazing window into the magnificent world of wildlife. n
Following the recent police shootings of unarmed African-Americans across the nation, voters present at the forum said they are concerned about similar situations happening in Indiana. Gregg, Bell and Holcomb all recognized a need for police dashboard cameras. Holcomb said dashboard cameras are more beneficial than body cameras because they allow for clearer video and have more storage. He also said dashboard cameras are much cheaper than body cameras. “The state police has determined that they are leaning toward the use of dashboard cameras,” Holcomb said. “Dashboard cameras are vitally important for officers to carry out their duties.” As governor, Bell said he would have higher standards as to who can become a police officer and would implement more hours of training prior to going out in the communities. He said he would also have a conversation about the racial divide. Gregg said policies regarding camera regulations and independent investigations are also important when speaking out against police violence. — STATEHOUSE FILE
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items. So their goal is to become the first statewide distribution center for food pantries to supply them with hygiene and diaper items. While they’re currently helping to provide hygiene and diaper items around Indianapolis, the long-term goal is to be able to touch every county in the state, as well. Since October of last year, they’ve given away well over 10,000 diapers and thousands of hygiene items like soap, shampoo and deodorant, according to Lindsey.
harles Lindsey and his wife Holly set out in 2002 to help the underprivileged by beginning their own nonprofit, Freedom Ministries. Almost 10 years later, in 2011, the Lindseys created Indiana Hope Bank, a sector of Freedom Ministries dedicated to helping the homeless by “providing help, hope and health through the giving of hygiene.” “Freedom Ministries is simply about loving people, liberating people and leading people,” Lindsey said. Regardless of age, gender, race, etc. Lindsey says that their mission is “providing hope through hygiene items” because there has been a lack of focus in collecting and “Freedom Ministries is simply distributing hygiene items at food banks. about loving people, liberating Last year Indiana people and leading people” Hope Bank was contacted by the — CHARLES LINDSEY National Diaper Bank saying that they didn’t have a diaper bank in Indy, expressing interest in having the Lindseys Lindsey said that they recently rehead up diaper contributions in Indy, as ceived a proclamation from Indianapolis well. mayor Joe Hogsett stating that National According to Lindsey, food stamps Diaper Week is Sept. 26-Oct. 2, and their don’t cover hygiene items or diapers and goal is to get the word out and raise these are the most demanded items. He donations. While they accept all forms of said that they’re the first things to go at donations, they suggest dollar donations food pantries and also the least provided because, according to Lindsey, they’re
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able to get more diapers for fewer dollars in bulk than if they purchased the items from grocery stores. With the items collected, Lindsey says they’ll be able to help single moms by giving them these items that may then free up their finances to go toward other bills or purchases. In addition, Lindsey also said that 50 percent of public school students struggle with hygiene. He said that the city of Shelbyville provides showers to the elementary kids and IPS is in need of hygiene item donations as well.
Lindsey said that when students go to school, they’re ashamed because they haven’t taken a shower, but when they have the hygiene items to clean themselves, it makes a difference. “By us providing these items, we’re making a difference not just in adult lives or babies’ lives, but we’re talking
about students,” Lindsey said. “There’s a huge unmet need that we’re trying to step up and meet … It provides hope to them. It makes an emotional difference. That’s what we want to do and that’s what we’re endeavoring to do.” Indiana Hope Bank just launched an online giving project called #HopeforHoosiers where they’re trying to gain the awareness of 10,000 Hoosiers to give just a dollar a month to help provide diapers and hygiene items to Hoosiers statewide. Visit freedompeople.us to learn more about the project and to contribute. Lindsey said that their goal isn’t to take away donations from other nonprofits like food pantries — that’s why they provide the items to the food pantries as a way of teaming up to help out. That’s why they launched the #HopeforHoosier project. Lindsey says that the donation is less than a Starbucks coffee for an entire month and could really make a big difference. “We’re really excited about that, where people don’t have to feel like they have to make a choice and quit giving here or there but they’re saying ‘yeah I can give a dollar extra a month,’” Lindsey said. Currently, Indiana Hope Bank is in the process of officially opening a diaper bank in Indianapolis. However, they’re looking for a warehouse to store all of the items. They’re currently running their operations from their home and the space is limited. In addition, they’re looking for potential board members and business partners to help launch their project. “The need is there,” Lindsey said. n
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THIS IS WHAT AN AMERICAN LOOKS LIKE The beacon of the American Dream brought an Iraqi family to Indianapolis BY AMBER STEARNS • ASTEARNS@NUVO.NET
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aad Tawfeeq is an American citizen. At 28 years old, he says he feels truly blessed every day to be in the land of the free and the home of the brave. But while that may seem trite and trivial to some, it is extremely deep and meaningful for Saad — and for his entire family. The Tawfeeqs understand the “free” and the “brave” more than most Americans who were born into their citizenship, because Saad, his parents and his three sisters were not. Refugees from war-torn nations have been a constant topic in this election cycle, the subject of lawsuits between our state government and aid organizations and a flashpoint for political conversations (and Skittles tweets) all over the country. This story — the Tawfeeqs’ story — reminds us that every single refugee has a story of surmounting incredible obstacles.
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NATURALIZATION IN THE U.S. Becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen is not an easy process. First, a person must determine if they are even eligible to begin that process. Eligible persons must:
• Be at least 18 years of age • H ave Permanent Resident status for a minimum of five years
• N ot have been out of the U.S. for more than 30 months within a five-year period
• Have residency in the state
Saad Tawfeeq took the Oath of Allegiance (left) and received his certificate of naturalization (above) on October 29, 2015.
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• Read, write and understand English. Once those criteria are met, the eligible citizen candidate must submit to an interview, which includes a conversation about the candidate’s background and application, a demonstration of proficiency in speaking, reading and writing English and a naturalization civics test, which covers important U.S. history and government topics. Once all of that is approved, candidates for citizenship must take the Oath of Allegiance in a ceremony before a judge. A certificate of naturalization is only issued after the Oath of Allegiance is taken and the permanent resident card is relinquished back to government officials.
SAAD’S REALITY Saad was born July 5, 1988 in Baghdad, Iraq, right at the end of the eight-year war between Iraq and Iran. He and his twin sister, Shahad, spent their first years of life in Baghdad with their parents and two older sisters. “I was a cute kid,” says Saad with a smile, when we meet at the Hillary Clinton campaign headquarters in Indianapolis. (More on that later.) “I was a very quiet kid and I was a very smart kid.” Just like kids in Indiana, Saad went to school, did his work, played with friends, endured his sisters and lived as normal a life as could be expected in a country torn apart by constant war and conflict. After all, Saad’s toddler years included the first Gulf War, when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and the United States led a campaign that ended with an Iraqi withdrawal in February 1991. A month before Saad’s fifth birthday in 1993, the U.S. launched a missile attack on the headquarters of Iraqi intelligence in Baghdad in response to an assassination attempt on former President George H.W. Bush in Kuwait in April of the same year. Saad’s entire model school — what Americans would consider primary school — career is laden with sanctions against Iraq, no-fly zones and a growing American resentment toward Saddam Hussein’s regime. The education of the Iraqi people during this time may not seem all that
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significant, but prior to the conflicts with the U.S. and other NATO countries that began in the ’90s, Iraq had one of the best educational systems in the Middle East, with exceptionally high literacy rates (over 90 percent among kids ages 6-12) and the lowest dropout rates in the region with over 20 percent of the total budget for the country spent on education. That all changed through the IranIraq conflict and beyond. Less and less money was spent on education, and dropout rates rose to double digits. Despite the constant conflict, Saad continued to grow and live life as an Iraqi boy. He worked to follow in his father’s engineering footsteps and enrolled in the School of Engineering at Nahrain University, considered one of the best universities in Iraq because of its high admissions standards and up-to-date curricula. But all of that changed when the U.S. began another offensive strike against the country in 2001. The February strikes — which were coordinated months before September 11 — were designed to take out the country’s defense systems. But the bombings and continued conflict took out the power grid for the country as well. “I had a lot of suffering in my studies in Baghdad,” says Saad. “At that time I always studied my homework by candlelight. And I couldn’t finish my college because the country was in the war.” That war was the campaign that led to the fall of Saddam Hussein’s reign while the U.S. and other NATO forces tried to maintain the peace in the midst of violence as various groups jockeyed for power. The year was 2003.
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But as Saad lived this reality, the only thing he had known, since strife and conflict and rough living had been the norm since his birth, his father had a different vision of what was and what should be. Shihab Tawfeeq’s vision was to go to America. It was something he had dreamed about since he was a boy himself.
SHIHAB’S DREAM Although Saad remembers his father working as a technician with Americans during this time and even remembers working with his father for the American troops in Baghdad, Shihab’s role with coalition forces was much bigger than as a simple technician. “I was an active duty military officer with the Army based in Baghdad in 2003-2004 so we were a military police unit assigned to the southern sector of Baghdad,” says Todd Harrison, a Hoosier and a former commanding officer with the U.S. Army’s 168th Military Police Battalion. Harrison recalls in the haste to topple Hussein’s regime, translator services for military units weren’t immediately established. “There weren’t a lot of support structures available to include access to interpreters, so we had to go find people that we hoped we could trust that spoke English and Arabic and could serve as my interpreter and interpreters for the rest of my MP teams.” And that is how Harrison met Shihab
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Tawfeeq. Shihab speaks five languages including English and was working as an international tour guide. Shihab was assigned to Harrison as his personal translator. He not only translated between Arabic and English, but he also provided cultural awareness and an understanding of the Iraqi people that proved invaluable to the military personnel he worked with and served. Harrison kept Shihab in that position even after the Army secured contract Arabic translators. It was a move that not only secured a friendship and bonded the men forever — it was a move that saved lives. “Because we dressed [Shihab] in a military uniform, a lot of the Iraqis and the Iraqi police didn’t know he was from Baghdad and didn’t realize he spoke English,” recalls Harrison. “He picked up on what [other Iraqis] thought were secret conversations in Arabic that ended up saving my life twice. In two different instances, there were ambushes being planned or being discussed that had been set up for my team.” Shihab’s loyalty to Harrison personally and to the American military was invaluable to the U.S. forces he worked with, but it also came at great risk. Harrison and his unit were deployed back to the United States while Shihab continued to work for coalition forces. “While he did a very deliberate job of trying to not let his friends and neighbors know that he was working for coalition forces, they obviously always get out,” says Harrison. “The family was tormented. They had family members killed and left on their doorstep as a sign of, ‘don’t work with the coalition.’ ”
By this time, it’s late 2004. Saad is just 16 years old. He remembers 2004 as being a bad year. While with friends and his girlfriend on the east side of Baghdad, an explosion occurs where the teenagers are. Saad is critically injured. His friends and his girlfriend don’t survive. “I got injured and I’m in a coma for one month,” says Saad. “My family thought that I’m dead but I thank God that I’m alive. After one month, I wake up in hospital in Jordan.” Today, Saad talks about this time of his life with a guard over his emotions. He reflects on the sadness and the grief, but there’s a hint of survivor’s guilt in his eyes. It’s a lot to take for a teenager to survive an incident that results in the deaths of friends and loved ones. It is also the final straw for a young man who has had enough of war and suffering. “I talk to my father and I told him that I will never go back to Iraq and I told him never tell me again that Iraq is my country,” says Saad. The family (father, mother and sisters) is able to secure temporary visas to stay in Jordan for six months through Saad’s recovery. Then the Tawfeeqs relocate to Cairo, Egypt on other temporary visas and stay — even after the temporary visas expire — until they can relocate permanently to the United States. “[They] basically lived there as illegal aliens because they had nowhere else to go,” remembers Harrison. “Saad’s father ran out of money so he ended up volunS E E , S AAD T A W F E E Q , O N P A GE 1 2 NUVO // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // 09.28.16 - 10.05.16 // COVER STORY 11
“I talk to my father and I told him that I will never go back to Iraq and I told him never tell me again that Iraq is my country.” — SAAD TAWFEEQ SUBMITTED PHOTOS, PHOTO BY MARK A. LEE
SHIHAB’S STORY Saad’s father, Shihab, did not have an easy time in Iraq in the Saddam Hussein regime. According to Saad, his father was removed from his job as a power plant manager, but Hussein’s Baath Party subjected him to horrible abuses, both mental and physical. Throughout the dark days, he still had an admiration for America and a desire to come here that stemmed from his childhood. Shihab didn’t speak to NUVO directly about his experience, wanting instead to highlight his son’s story. But Todd Harrison, as Shihab’s close friend and American confidant, shed some light on Shihab and his desire to come to the United States and willingness to help Americans. “I talked to Shihab about that many times even while we were still in Baghdad.” Harrison says Shihab had a childhood friend who was able to migrate to America as a young man while he could not get permission from his parents to leave Iraq. “So he ended up joining the Air Force and was trained as an electrical engineer by the Russians in Ukraine in Kiev where he got his master’s degree in electrical engineering,” says Harrison. “He came back [to Iraq] and stayed there, but always harbored a
Saad’s parents (above): Shihab Tawfeeq and Kay Hariz. Shihab (left, center) was honored for his work as a translator by Harrison (right of Shihab) and members of the 168th Military Police Battalion.
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hope of being able to rejoin his best friend in America and just never was able to do that.” His dream of joining his childhood friend, who settled in Michigan, kept him going and inspired his decision to assist coalition forces in 2003. “He was constantly curious and asking questions about America. And the one thing that we used to do routinely was raise and lower American flags, U.S. flags, to send home to people,” explained Harrison. “And he asked me one day, ‘Why is your flag so important to you? Nobody cares about our flag.’ He said nobody cares about the country, everyone just cares about himself or herself. I said, ‘Shihab, our country is made up of people from all over the world.’ I said it is the ultimate melting pot and that flag is what unites us, people from everywhere, and it’s the thing that we go back to as a symbol of our freedom. “And the first thing he did when he got here — Exodus Refugee Immigration provided him with an apartment — was take the flag that I had given him when we left and hung it on the family room wall. He has just had this desire. They are the poster family for the American Dream. It’s there for the taking and people have no excuse not to realize it whether you are born here or born somewhere else.”
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teering to go back to the coalition forces in Iraq and at great peril.” Shihab and the entire family had applied for visas to come to the United States prior to the explosion that injured Saad. The fall of Hussein’s regime and the civil war that followed created a lot of refugees eager to flee the country. U. S. military personnel like Harrison were especially concerned for the translators and other locals who had assisted them in their efforts while in the country at personal risk to themselves. “I was working with Senator Lugar and his office as the U.S. was trying to establish translator visas, special immigrant visas for interpreters who had worked in Iraq and Afghanistan for U.S. forces,” says Harrison. Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) worked together on bipartisan legislation to grant more special immigrant visas (SIVs) to Iraqi and Afghan nationals who worked as translators for the U.S. in 2003 and later. The original number of accepted applications was 50 but the Lugar-Kennedy legislation increased that number to 500 from 2007 to 2009. The SIVs applied to the translators, spouses and any children 21 years of age and younger.
A DREAM REALIZED It took six years from the time Shihab applied for the visas to the time the family was accepted. With Harrison as Shihab’s sponsor, the family established
residency in Indianapolis. However the visas were only granted for Shihab, his wife, Saad and his twin, Shahad. Saad’s two older sisters, Rand and Ban, had aged out of the program. But with the assistance of Catholic Charities and Exodus Refugee Immigration, the older sisters were able to travel to the U.S. and reunite with the family within a year. Once in America, Saad was able to learn English at 21 years of age, and most importantly finish the degree he started at 15. He went to Ivy Tech Community College to study computers while his father fell back on his own engineering graduate degree and found employment with Foxconn, a Taiwanese electronics company with holdings in Indianapolis. After receiving his Ivy Tech degree, Saad joined his father at Foxconn. “His father got him that job and he flourished, he blossomed into this wonderful, responsible, intelligent young man,” says Harrison. However those happy days were short-lived. After just a few years of gainful employment, Saad’s health declined and he went into renal failure. His American Dream hit a wall, identified as kidney disease. Saad says he believes the condition is hereditary because his sister Rand suffered from the same thing and has since had a kidney transplant. Saad, his sister and his mother are all on disability, receiving Social Security benefits. Although it’s hard to imagine when face-to-face with Saad’s warm brown eyes and genuinely happy smile, the initial diagnosis sent the young man into a dark lonely place.
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Saad has had the opportunity to meet the entire Clinton family during their campaign visits to Indianapolis.
Harrison remembers that time and the struggle Saad had with his condition. “I travel a lot for my work and when I got back into town I found out that he had been hospitalized in renal failure and his sister called and said Saad’s refusing to take dialysis,” says Harrison. “He lost that job and he got very dark and he went into a very dark place, got very despondent. And he was really down for a long time.” Saad doesn’t talk about the specifics of that time, except for the multiple surgeries and procedures he endured to prepare his body for dialysis. But Todd, as a mentor and close family friend, recognized the battle Saad was fighting inside. “I spent three days in the hospital day and night with him, and finally got him to do dialysis. I got him to realize that this wasn’t the end of his life, he could still have a life,” says Harrison. “He thought this was an older person’s disease, but he started to meet other young people and realized you can have a life and still be on dialysis. He pulled himself out of it. It was all him, but it was a very dark period.” Another turning point again came from dad, who gave his son a new focus, a new goal and a new reason to live. “His dad got him studying for the citizenship exam. He said, ‘You need to know this, you need to become an American,” recalls Harrison. “‘You will get your kidney transplant and you need to be ready so that you can work again and you can have your own family.’ And that kind of got him out of that deep despair.” “I studied the book of the history of America and I know now all the history of my dream home country, America,” says Saad gleefully. He took the Oath of Allegiance to become a naturalized citizen October 29, 2015. Almost immediately after becoming a new citizen, Saad registered to vote and
got involved in the American political process by joining the Indiana Democratic Party as a volunteer. Now, when he’s not in dialysis, you can usually find Saad making phone calls on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign or supporting other Democratic candidates, like gubernatorial nominee John Gregg, state legislature candidate Dana Black and many others. Saad has made over 10,273 phone calls on behalf of the Clinton campaign and continues to speak to voters. He was able to meet the Clinton family during their various individual campaign stops in Indianapolis before the May primary. There’s no question who Saad will vote for when given the opportunity for the first time come November. “Trump said America is not great, but I refuse what he says,” Saad says with conviction. “America is already great. Go to Iraq, go to South Africa, go to Somalia, go to Syria. And he says America isn’t great. What are you talking about, man? Really?” Saad recognizes the gift of freedom Americans have in being able to actively choose the nation’s leader and speak out against the politicians they disagree with. Saad recalls when his father was removed from his engineering job because a distant cousin said something in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s regime. “Every two weeks, Iraqi CIA comes for my father,” Saad remembers. “And when he went to the building, sitting three hours, four hours; no one is talking to him. They show to him how they kill the people in front of his eye. And they didn’t look to the people they killed; they looked to him [Shihab] and how he feels. [If] he [showed] compassion, they would have killed him the same as they killed those people. That’s what my father faced. He faced the dictator.” Saad knows in his heart that Trump or anyone else who questions America’s greatness wouldn’t last a month in the
conditions he grew up in. Harrison has noticed the new light in Saad and takes great pride in his “2.0” version. “The last time he came out to the house, we had a get-together over the summer, [Saad] was a different person — in a good way,” says Harrison. “While before he grew up and he was a man, he was still somewhat introverted. But that experience in living the American Dream and being able to take part in the political process freely, he was shaking people’s hands, he was introducing himself, he was just … I couldn’t be more proud of him.” The awe and admiration Harrison has for his adopted family is evident in the emotion of his voice describing Saad’s growth into his own man in America. And Saad himself takes nothing for granted, including his patriotism and his own awe for the country he now claims as his own. It’s what keeps him motivated to get well and to live. “When I sit for dialysis, I am thinking of all the good I have in my life,” says Saad. “ I’m there for three hours, so I think about volunteering at headquarters and I think about my friends and the family I have here.” Saad is Muslim by faith, and recognizes the peace in all religions including his own. The volunteers hail from all socioeconomic backgrounds, races and religions. (Two friends he has made at headquarters and refers to as additional “mom” figures are Jewish.) Saad is still on dialysis and still in need of a kidney, but he does not let that or anything else stand in his way. “I never forget of what I have done in my life and thank God that I’m here in my dream home, America,” says Saad. “And as I say always, every day is good day for me because I’m American citizen.” n
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iMOCA is leaving Fountain Square Last week the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA) announced that they would be leaving their location of seven years at the Murphy Art Center. The UNLOADED show that is scheduled for an October First Friday opening will remain at the Murphy location until Nov. 19. After, UNLOADED will move to iMOCA’s second location at the Alexander CityWay gallery. According to Paula Katz, executive director of iMOCA, the move was not as unexpected as it might seem. It had been planned for some time. “We are just in the early phase of what our next move will be — where it will be,” says Katz. “We know we will stay close to Downtown.” Although Katz made sure to say that they love Fountain Square and the Murphy Building, she noted that their current space has a few issues (like noise from concert venue The Hi-Fi during business hours). So when The Hi-Fi showed interested in expanding into the space, iMOCA took it as an opportune moment. “We have been landlocked, so to speak, between The Hi-Fi and the Red Lion,” says Katz. “We have always been aware that if we were to move out, there would interest in moving into our space. “I guess in some ways it came to a point with [The Hi-Fi] being interested,” says Katz. “But I think we have had some really good stability for a couple of years now. We have had the experience of what it’s like having two spaces … I think we kind of recognized as a group that we want to kind of be doing more at one venue.” They indicate the CityWay location may not continue past 2017. iMOCA plans to continue its work with the Englewood CDC on the Near Eastside. For the time being, they will be using the studio at Cat Head Press for exhibits. “We want to create opportunities for local artists — which we do already — but we are one of the few organizations that brings in national, international artists,” says Katz. “That will always be something that we continue to do; so how do we do that, and also make sure that we have great ability to support our local artists as well?”
The National Abstract Art exhibit opens October 1
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s the daughter of a petroleum geologist, Madeleine Wories had the privilege of living all over the world, from Australia to Canada to Costa Rica. Now years later, the 66-year-old is letting those travels inspire her work as an abstract painter. “In Australia, we often went out into the bush,” recalls Wories. “Australia has a very, very interesting environment, ranging from rain forests to Outback desert. I was influenced by that. I’ve always liked open spaces and horizons.” After working a high-pressure architecture job in Montreal for 20 years, Wories moved to Southern California, where she currently resides. Since moving there, she’s redirected her creative energy to abstract art. “It was only about three years ago that I started painting, and I absolutely love it. Now, that’s what I want to do,” she says. With her current pursuit, she admits that her architectural background has come in handy. “Some of my work, especially the paper work, is quite structural,” Wories says. “I look for balance and how shapes fit together. So there is some architectural feeling in some of the work.” Unlike her architecture work, however, Wories’ paintings often formulate on the fly. “The work is very intuitive,” says Wories. “It’s kind of like a dialogue with the painting. It speaks to me, and it tells me what to do.” In all cases, authenticity is what’s at the heart of her paintings, though. “It’s not something where I’m like, ‘Okay, I want to sell this and people will like it,’” says Wories. “I don’t care about that. What I care about mostly is how I feel about a piece, and that I’ve actually achieved something in that painting.” Despite having this mindset, Wories’ work has been featured in galleries all over the world. In fact, two of her pieces will be included in the Southside Art League’s twelfth running of the National Abstract Art Exhibition at the Garfield Park Arts
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Center. The exhibition will feature a juried selection of works by 60-plus artists from all over the country. Michael King, hailing from Louisville, will be featured as well. A longtime lover of abstract art, King remembers discovering Franz Kline’s work while attending college in New York City during the early '60s. “They were such big canvases and such bold statements,” says King. During his time in New York, the arts movement that was happening around King had a big influence on him. “Jazz and abstract expressionist painting grew up together, right there on the Lower East Side,” he says. “It was there along with the beat poets, the literature of the day and the modern dance. It was kind of the beginning of counterculture.” Although many years removed from his time in New York, King admits that
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jazz music still has quite an impact on his abstract work today. And after pursuing a career in graphic design for several decades, King decided to try his hand at abstract art about five years ago. “Finally, I retired from the [graphic design] business, and I was able to get back to my roots and back to what I had always wanted to do all my life — abstract art,” says King. Like Wories, he also treats each painting like a conversation. “I put some paint on the canvas and make a stroke or a palette knife smear,” says King. “And then, it talks back to me. It’s a give and take, back and forth.” In addition to King and Wories, several Central Indiana artists will also have work featured in the Southside Art League’s exhibition. By presenting work from artists from both near and far, event organizer Robert Aichele hopes to continue to draw attention to the arts on the Southside. “It’s good for the community, but we’re also trying to reach out of Central Indiana and make a name for ourselves,” concludes Aichele, who’s an abstract artist in his own right. “I’ve had a lot of artists say that they really look forward to this show every year.” n
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efore there was Tinker Bell, Captain Hook or the “second star to the right,” there was an orphan boy. The Phoenix Theatre opens its season with the Tony Award-nominee Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel to the well-known Peter Pan stories, which relates the origins of Peter and Neverland. Set in the 1800s, 13-year-old Molly (Phebe Taylor) is trying to overcome the burden of being a smart girl in a man’s world. Her astute supportive father, Lord Leonard Aster (a dignified Paul Nicely), is a “starcatcher,” and she is a starcatcher in training. Starcatchers gather rare “star stuff.” The Asters board separate ships, accompanying identical trunks. Molly travels on board the Neverland, where she finds a trio of enslaved orphans: “Boy” (Nathan Robbins, recently in Hand to God), Ted (Peter Scharbrough), and Prentiss (Tyler Ostrander). Of course, requisite pirates take control of both ships, and the Boy (Peter), who wants to be more than a nameless orphan, helps save the real treasure. Bryan Fonseca directs a large cast, most of whom play multiple characters. Liberal use of choral speaking gives the play a poetic feeling. James Gross' set is both
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ost people — even children — are familiar with the basic tale of the brave and daring Three Musketeers and their protégé D’Artagnan. The Indiana Repertory Theatre’s production, adapted for the stage by Catherine Bush, is a brilliant period piece — and we would expect no less from the IRT. Director Henry Woronicz coaxes his cast into a performance that eloquently invokes the time period, enhanced by William Bloodgood’s atmospheric, imposing set that towers over the characters, much as political intrigues hovered threateningly over Paris. The set is complemented by Ann G. Wrightson’s posh lighting, and Devon Painter’s elegant costuming is the finishing touch. Jeb Burris is thoroughly charming as D’Artagnan in his naivety and dedication. He has a smile that could break hearts. He befriends the swashbuckling titular threesome made up of the prone-to-drunkenness Athos (Ryan Artzberger), the mild
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seaworthy and island-accessible, and Emily McGee’s costumes add the finishing timeperiod touch. Taylor and Robbins pull a little too hard on childish affectations for my taste, but it is diluted by other intentionally overthe-top characters, such as the flamboyant, malapropism-inclined Captain Black Stache (Eric J. Olson, in a snort-worthy performance), and the tongue-in-cheek romance between Alf (Michael Hosp), a pirate, and Mrs. Bumbrake (John Vessels Jr.), Molly’s nanny. The show is heartwarming if occasionally
Aramis (Nathan Hosner), and the fun-loving Porthos (David Folsom), each of which seems to carry his character’s personality effortlessly. The Musketeers are led by Robert Neal as Monsieur de Treville, who can make hairpin turns from thunderous rage to intimate camaraderie. Antagonists in the play are the evil incarnate Rochefort played by Rob Johansen (who is the recipient of some good laughs nonetheless), his subtly cunning cohort Milady de Winter played by Elizabeth Laidlaw, and the intimidating Cardinal Richelieu played by Dan Kremer. Amanda Catania is sweet as Constance, D’Artagnan’s love interest, and Charles Goad gets a comedic if short turn as the foppish King Louis XIII; these are among the multitude of intriguing characters. Barry G. Funderburg’s music reflects the tension of the play, but some musical underscoring during fights is distracting. The swordplay is realistic thanks to fight director Paul Dennhardt, but it often goes on too long — something that can be said of the show as a whole. n
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bittersweet; however, if you are taking kids, note that even though there are singing mermaids one event is dark — Peter being caned. I was glad I didn’t take my 7-yearold. n
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The Addams Family Footlite Musicals’ staging of The Addams Family rides on two things: nostalgia and a strong cast under the direction of a passionate director, Ed Trout. The musical is actually based on Charles Addams’ cartoons as opposed to the TV and movie adaptations. But all the favorite black-and-white characters, including Thing and Cousin Itt, are depicted to a T here. The plot is merely a vehicle for catchy songs and a chance to revisit these beloved ghoulish characters. Wednesday (Ivy Bott), now in her 20s, has fallen in love with a regular guy, Lucas (Joseph Massingale). They are secretly engaged, and they plan a dinner so their families can meet and hear their news. But instead of being a show about Wednesday, Gomez (Michael Davis) is the pivotal character, sort of like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof minus the political and religious themes. There is some excellent staging here. The costumes by designer Curt Pickard are spot-on, and the ethereal chorus of lively dead Ancestors shows an array of styles over the centuries. The Addams mansion, sound effects and makeup are also grand accomplishments, as is the kicky choreography by Trish Roberds. A personal favorite is Uncle Fester’s (a hilarious Bryan D. Padgett) number “The Moon and Me” that utilizes a black light. Everyone from lead to chorus does a standout job on stage. Davis and Kathleen Clarke Horrigan create spitting images of Gomez and Morticia (respectively) both physically and in their mannerisms. Both have first-rate performances that include exemplary musical numbers, but the vocal superlatives are Bott and Carrie Neal (as Lucas’ mother Alice), both of whom have powerful voices behind their shy characters’ demeanors. Even Pugsley (seventh-grader Xavier Wilson) gets a good turn in “Pulled” with Bott and “What If” with Grandma Addams (Marie Beason). Rounding out the cast is Darrin Gowan as Lucas’ stuffy father and Trenton Baker as the reticent Lurch. The lighting and orchestra were a little off on Saturday, but these minor quibbles don’t detract from the show that is a dreadfully guilty pleasure.
Through Oct. 9, Footlite Musicals, 1847 N. Alabama St., $10, footlitemusicals.wildapricot.org
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A CULTURAL CRITIQUE OF RURAL INDIANA Angela Palm’s memoir discusses sexism, privilege and incarceration.
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rowing up within the rural communities of Indiana’s Kankakee River floodplain provided Angela Palm with the setting that would later become the context for her book Riverine. Palm’s journey from childhood to mid-life traces why we grow up tethered to place and friendship. Oh, and there is a murder case involved. NUVO spoke with Palm via email about her memoir. NUVO: Memoir writing is simultaneously cathartic and scary — what happened when you ventured into the genre? ANGELA PALM: I ventured into the genre by accident. I had written the book as a series of personal essays, which differ from memoir in that they tend to portray experience as related to a central concern and show how the writer thinks about a particular topic or how she thinks about her experience. When the essays were arranged in chronological order and some connective narrative tissue was inserted to make the individual pieces flow more
ANGELA PALM: The Midwest certainly has some lovely fairs, 4-H clubs, organizations and communities — some of which I’ve taken part in but have chosen not to write about. It wouldn’t be novel or very interesting to write at length about those, or to say I had been a Girl Scout. Those might be mainstream Indiana experiences, but not everyone had access to the same opportunities or had interest in them. This book is labeled memoir, but it’s got a healthy dose of cultural criticism … I’m interested in writing toward the conversations that the rural (and for that matter, urban) Midwest needs to have about racism, classism and sexism as a result of privilege and power. … NUVO: Your story is a cautionary tale mated with hopefulness; it merits being a project for families to read together. How does reading as a family/community help us?
ANGELA PALM: To address the premise of the question, I don’t think having had a (mildly) wild period in my 20s and having built a loving family are mutually exclusive. It’s not a miracle that a sexually empowered person who didn’t put a lot of thought into who she was dating in her 20s ended up with a (mostly) functional family. Likewise, I’m not neces“Hopefulness exists in the most sarily less wild because I now have a family. It’s a unlikely places, in the most unlikely fallacy of female identity circumstances.” — ANGELA PALM that you must be one or the other or that one is a conversion of the other. Maybe it would be surprising to learn that seamlessly in the editing process, it during this wild period, I worked for the became a memoir. The last two chapters Indiana Chamber of Commerce and was were written as they were happening in president of Indiana Young Democrats. my life, which was jolting and didn’t give Or that it was the time in my life that I felt me the appropriate amount of distance most free and that I miss it dearly. This is I would recommend to people writing what’s interesting about memoir — it’s not memoir. The scariness associated with a complete autobiography, but rather the memoir speaks to discomfort regarding selection and shaping of information in personal truth, fear of judgment and the order to tell a particular part of one’s perexposure that comes with sharing personal sonal story. People become flatter versions experiences. … of themselves. That said, it was certainly a tumultuous time in which I was not fully NUVO: There’s a lot written about the aware that I was dealing with the conmyth of idyllic rural life. Dysfunction piercsequences of my youth and upbringing, es the landscape. Why do you think that is? 16 BOOKS // 09.28.16 - 10.05.16 // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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which in many ways was a girlhood that survived manhood. A girlhood that lacked the kind of female leadership I needed. Hopefulness exists in the most unlikely places, in the most unlikely circumstances. It must reside there. That’s where it is needed. A one-book movement would do wonders for families and communities if you could get everyone to read it. I’m thinking of Jacqueline Woodson’s novel, Another Brooklyn. Perfect book for that.
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Reading or listening to stories about people whose experiences are dissimilar to our own is one of the most important things we can do to ignite empathy for others. When we are living in a country where one in 35 people are now under some form of correctional control and we’ve an incarceration rate that well exceeds our portion of the world’s population, we better start finding more ways to care about the people we incarcerate and how to reverse this trend. n
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Sounds of Silents: Alloy Orchestra September 30 - October 1. Hailed by Roger Ebert as “the best in the world at accompanying silent films,” the three-man musical ensemble Alloy Orchestra is coming to Bloomington for the first time this weekend on their U.S. tour. At IU Cinema on September 30 at 7 p.m., they’ll accompany 1925’s Varieté, a surreal love story between a trapeze artist and a sideshow dancer. (Alloy brought this film to the Telluride Film Festival earlier this year.) The next day, October 1 at 3 p.m., Alloy will accompany a compilation of short silent comedies, including a few Buster Keaton vehicles. That program is free for children 12 and younger, but tickets are required. IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th St. (Bloomington), $6, cinema.indiana.edu
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eepwater Horizon is a powerful disaster film from director Peter Berg that does not mess around. It’s efficient, explaining the basics and dropping in an omen or two while introducing a few key characters. It shows you how things look when working correctly. Then it slams you. The film recreates the 2010 explosion and sinking of the titular BP-leased, Transocean-owned deep water drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. 11 people were killed, and oil flowed from the ocean floor for 87 days before it was capped off. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. It was a nightmare. Six years later, many people continue boycotting BP. Our story begins in the home of Mike and Felicia Williams, played by Mark Wahlberg (who starred in Berg’s Lone Survivor) and Kate Hudson, as Mike prepares to leave for a stint at sea. Wahlberg bulked up for the role and — following the Hollywood Rule of Weight Gain or Loss by Male Stars — appears shirtless, so the audience can see the great sacrifices the actor has made for his art. You’ll be pleased to know that Wahlberg looks suitably beefy — well-marbled, in fact. Mike is an engineer on the DH, Captain Jimmy Harrell (Kurt Russell) is his boss. At the beginning of the fateful trek, they are joined by a few BP execs there to present Jimmy with a safety award. Uh-oh.
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Among the execs is a guy named Vidrine, playing with a silky Southern accent by John Malkovich. My son, who knew nothing about the story, leaned forward in his seat as soon as Malkovich appeared. After Malkovich said his first sentence, my son leaned over and whispered “He’s the bad guy.” Way to go, son! At the beginning of the visit, by the way, Capt. Jimmy asks one of the BP suits to take off his magenta tie, because it is the same color as a severe warning signal. Uh-oh again. And earlier, when Mike was home with Felicia, he tried to explain to his daughter how the DH worked, using a can of Coke as a surrogate vessel, only to end up with foam spurting all over the place So many uh-ohs ... If this sounds like standard disaster movie stuff, it is, but Berg keeps it brisk and crisp. He understands we need to know a few people in order to increase the drama when everything goes bad, and he does so without burdening us with a load of contrived melodramas. He also makes a choice that is proving to be a bit controversial. On the Deepwater Horizon we hear the crew talking to one another as they gear up operations. What is normal work conversation to
them is technobabble to most of us. I had no problem with that — in fact, I appreciated the fact that we weren’t being spoonfed explanations for the ship’s operations. Once the disaster begins, the tech talk becomes even more difficult to understand. The general audio grows harder to decipher. There has been speculation that Berg had genuine technical troubles recording the scenes. Don’t know about that; all I can say is that I thought it made the film play more realistically. Berg puts us in the middle of a horrific disaster at sea. At first we watch the men trying to fix the problems. Soon, they must focus their attention solely on getting out alive. Berg strips his disaster to the bare essentials. Dialogue is irrelevant, getting to a life raft is all that matters. There are rescues, attempted rescues and noble gestures. What we see and hear feels genuine. While driving home from the screening, it struck me that Berg and company did their jobs so well that I never thought about the special effects. How much was done with real sets on water with real fire? How much was CGI? I don’t know and thanks for that. Deepwater Horizon closes with the names and faces of the 11 human beings that died in the disaster. Is it right to turn such a recent tragedy into entertainment? There’s something to discuss during your drive home after the movie. As for me, I bought the setup, became totally engrossed in the action and cried when I saw the faces of people that died. n
Hocus Pocus September 30 - October 1, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. each day. A gentle introduction to the dark magic of Halloween, this whimsical comedy revolves around a trio of witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy) accidentally resurrected by a teen boy in Salem, Massachusetts. Originally conceived as a TV movie for the Disney Channel, Hocus Pocus made it to theaters and went on to become a cult classic. Midler said it was the most fun she’d had in her career up to that point, which is saying a lot considering her body of work! The Historic Artcraft Theatre, 57 N. Main St. (Franklin), $5 adult, $4 senior/student, $3 kids 12 and under, historicartcrafttheatre.org Cereal Cinema: Coraline Oct. 1, 10 a.m. Based on the children’s novella by Neil Gaiman, this surreal stop-motion fantasy follows an adventurous young girl who discovers an alternate universe behind a secret door in her new home. An Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature, Coraline is dark yet dazzling, creepy yet charming. As film critic David Edelstein wrote, “It’s a bona fide fairy tale.” The film is screening as part of Cereal Cinema. Created by the Indy Film Fest, this monthly event offers the breakfast of champions — cereal and a movie! Tickets are just $5, and they include admission to the film as well as the cereal buffet, which opens at 9:30. The films will play either at the IMA or the Athenaeum on the first Saturday of each month at 10 a.m. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Rd., $5, imamuseum.org
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emon is a haunted film. It’s filled SHOWING: AT KEYSTONE ART CINEMA with promise, but its flaws loom RATED: R, y over every scene like a somber ghost — the spirit of the film it could’ve been. of Piotr’s changes, especially since they Sadly, director Marcin Wrona combarely know him. They have no frame of mitted suicide before the film’s prereference for how he normally acts. miere at the Gdynia Film Festival in The problem is that we don’t get to Poland, his homeland. His wife and know Piotr either. Therefore, his violent producing partner, Olga Szymanska, is transformation isn’t as tragic as it could now taking the film overseas and carrybe. He merely morphs from one mystery ing her husband’s memory. to another. Unlike The Exorcist, which The film follows a man named Piotr deeply distresses us with the deteriora(Itay Tiran) as he travels to a small Poltion of its lead character’s innocence, ish village to marry Zaneta (Agnieszka Demon grows dull and tiresome. Zulewska) and fix up the old house her It loses sight of the humanity amid father left for them. While doing some the horror elements. landscaping the night before the wedding, Piotr uncovers a skeleton. It turns out to be the body of a young Jewish girl who was killed by her It loses sight of the humanity amid Polish neighbors in the vilthe horror elements. lage during World War II. And like a “dybbuk” from Jewish mythology, this spirit possesses Piotr and Despite his character’s lack of depth, clings tightly, threatening to stay until her Tiran delivers a largely engaging perdeath is avenged. formance. He’s a magnetic actor, drawAs she slowly takes over his body, Piotr ing you in even when the drama enters acts quite odd during the wedding party. thematically thin territory. He sweats, stutters and breaks out into Demon isn’t a bad film; it’s a disapfits of anger. At first, his mood swings pointing one. It makes us squirm in our seem to simply be the result of alcohol, seats — not out of fear or boredom but stress and the disorienting intoxication out of hope for the film to go in betof entering a new family. But then he ter, more compelling directions. If only starts flailing around in horror film fashWrona had the chance to evolve as a filmion, displaying demonic behavior that maker. This film certainly shows that he echoes The Exorcist. had the potential. n The family doesn’t know what to make
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eal Brown made his mark in Carmel and Mass Ave with Pizzology and Libertine, and now he's preparing to do the same in Fountain Square with Japanese sushi joint Ukiyo. Though the chef and restaurateur’s newest venture is still in its nascent stages, the spot is already highly anticipated by many in the city, especially after Brown’s project Juanita fell through due to a handful of setbacks. Brown has a history in sushi, having spent years at the popular H2O Sushi in Broad Ripple before opening Pizzology. Though H2O closed in 2014, it held a special place in Hoosiers’ hearts due to its inspired and creative take on sushi. The first question that comes to mind whenever an already established restaurateur is opening a new place in a new style of cuisine is “Why?” What's leading them into this new foray? In Brown’s case, why — after years away from sushi spent creating pizza and cocktails — is he deciding to move back into the realm of seafood and Japanese cuisine? Brown answered that, and five more questions about Ukiyo, via email for NUVO.
1. Ukiyo brings Brown back to his first love BROWN: “I’ve been thinking about this restaurant in one iteration or another literally for years, but I always thought this would be the restaurant that I would do later. I have always been in love with sushi. So much so that when my time at H2O came to an end, I mourned and wouldn’t eat sushi for probably five years after. It drove my wife crazy, but that food was more than just thought and work and motion for me; it very much became part of me. I had to let it go for a long time to come back to it to appreciate that it was still real in me.” Knowing Brown’s past makes it easy to assume the direction he may take it, but as the old saying goes, “When you assume, you make an ass out of Uma Thurman.” (We think that’s the saying.)
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While the above statement tells what we can expect from the main menu, Ukiyo will have an option not many sushi restaurants in the city currently offer. For veteran sushi lovers, especially those who enjoy experimenting with different fish and styles, there is one way to enjoy fresh slices of fish: omakase (literally, “I’ll leave it up to you,” a.k.a chef’s choice). Brown's restaurant will offer omakasestyle dining. BROWN: “We will offer omakase by reservation. These will be limited to the six seats in front of me per night. There will be an $85 omakase that is approximately 10 courses and a $120 omakase for approximately 15 courses. Wine/sake supplements will be around $75 per person, or one can choose a grand tasting where we will pair wine, sake and/or cocktails for each course for $100.”
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2. Ukiyo respects tradition and looks forward BROWN: “That Ukiyo will focus on maki, edomae sushi or sashimi probably isn’t representative of what the restaurant is. I would encourage you to look at Ukiyo more as a creative space that offers impeccable sushi, rather than a sushi restaurant that embraces creativity. We will do what chefs in Japan have done forever. We will feature foods that are local to us, combined with foods from the sea. In all things, we will respect tradition while driving ourselves toward the future, and being mindful of the present.”
It’s all in the name, people. The people behind a restaurant can spend hours and hours running names through their heads, jotting them down in notebooks, on napkins or even on their palms. It won’t make or break a restaurant, but it’s your chance to share the story behind your establishment. So, diving into the word “Ukiyo” gives a glimpse into the restaurant and its purpose. BROWN: “The literal translation of ukiyo is ‘the Floating World’ and refers to a time when the middle class of Osaka and Kyoto began gaining access to the finer things of Japanese urban life. This cultural shift, gave birth to an entire period of Japanese art, called ukiyo-e. This period was, not unlike modern-day Indianapolis, a time of cultural revolution. “In Zen Buddhism, ukiyo refers to the life that we live now, in this moment. For our purposes, the translation is a S E E , S U S H I , O N P A GE 2 0
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Recently Paste Magazine released its 2016 Märzen beer blind tasting, which included Upland’s Oktoberfest. Enjoy your own tasting quest across Indiana this fall. There’s a good chance there’s an Oktoberfest beer within 10 miles of your home and you can only get them for a short while. Here’s a few we know of: “Our very popular, award winning Oaktoberfest beer is on tap,” reports owner Kwang Kasey, of Oaken Barrel. “This German lager is brewed to celebrate the Oktoberfest in Germany and it has a malty aroma with a light, hoppy finish.” Bier Brewery is tapping all bases with Märzen and Pumpkin Ale freshly up in the tap room & about 20 other locations. TwoDEEP Brewing Co. unleashed their classic Oktoberfest Märzen: “Brewed back in May, this lager is medium-bodied with an upfront sweet breadiness and rich malt character. Our Oktoberfest is brewed with 100 percent Noble hops for a pleasant and mildly spicy herbal bitterness.” Bloomington Brewing Company surprised with Indiana’s indigenous Persimmon Ale. “Our cool weather seasonal is brewed with wild-harvested persimmons, cinnamon and a touch of nutmeg. This medium-bodied, malty ale is perfect for chilly evenings with family and friends. It’s our way of paying homage to this most Hoosier of fruit,” reads the promo. “Rock Bottom has launched its annual promo for Roktoberfest — now through Oct. 16,” reads the email. “Created to bring the flavors of Oktoberfest from Germany to the U.S., the award-winning beer features a rich, toasted malt character and a subtle hop finish, and can be paired with several of the limited-time Roktoberfest menu items, including the Drunken Ribeye and the Cheddar Brat Sausage Platter.” Pink Boots Society is “offering an awesome beer trip to Bavaria October 14-22. Several of the people going on the tour are heavy hitters in the brewing industry, as are our sponsors (Sam Adams, Oskar Blues, Barth-Haas, to name a few). Contact our tour director, Tom Conrad, at upclosetours@ gmail.com. You can still get good rates on flights to Frankfurt.” — RITA KOHN
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thing that we could work with. “I was deeply disappointed that Juanita [a Mexican restaurant Brown bit more simple, and represents the attempted to open] didn’t come to mission of the restaurant. To be in the fruition in Fletcher Place. In my heart I moment. This means that the team has knew it was best for all parties involved a singular mission: to be mindful in that it didn’t happen, but I was crushed. their work so guests may be mindful in When Skip’s became a possibility, I was their leisure.” so happy, but there was clearly no way I could put Juanita across from Jon’s 5. Ukiyo’s location is a surprise place [La Margarita]. Being an independent restaurateur is hard enough; For any business location is imwe shouldn’t be creating unnecessary perative, especially in the independent competition for one restaurant business another.” where landing on Okay, okay, you the wrong block or know enough about neighborhood can “In Zen Buddhism, the place. You’re stop even the best thoroughly excited restaurants from ukiyo refers to the life to know when you flourishing. So, with that we live now, in can get a taste. Here's Ukiyo coming in to the not-so-definitive Fountain Square, this moment.” answer. it’s important to realize why this is a — NEAL BROWN, neighborhood that 6. Ukiyo’s opening is to OWNER OF PIZZOLOGY AND UKIYO will benefit from the be determined restaurant while the restaurant benefits BROWN: “[There is from the neighborno set date of opening] at this time. hood. There are no other seafood or It’s an old building that will require sushi restaurants in the area – for that an immense amount of rehab and reason alone, it could do incredibly well. customization. These types of buildBROWN: “In this business, you are conouts almost always present unforestantly being presented with real estate seen challenges.” opportunities, most of which are fairly boring. When I learned of the Skip’s See NUVO.net/food for restaurant Market building [where Ukiyo will opening info open] I knew that property was someS U S H F R O M P A GE 1 9
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07 years after the first aviation race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the ultimate motorsport in the sky returns to the Speedway this weekend. The first ever Red Bull Air Race at IMS will feature two days of racing, culminating with the Master Class Round of 4 Sunday afternoon. What does a Red Bull Air Race entail? Racing against the clock, the world’s top pilots navigate an aerial racetrack featuring air-filled pylons while attempting to incur the fewest penalties. Pilots must complete three laps around a course that features multiple air gates, a chicane — a narrow
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are. That’s how great these pilots are,” said Challenger Class pilot Kevin Coleman at a media event a week before the race. Coleman, 26, is the first ever American to compete in the Challenger Cup, the sport’s second division, and also the youngest pilot participating in the 2016 season. The small time differential between finishing places puts a premium on running a clean race. Pilots can incur penalties for hitting pylons, having incorrect levels through gates or flying too high through a gate. Penalties range from one to three seconds, virtually eliminating the pilot in that round. While hitting a pylon might sound dangerous, it’s quite the opposite. Made up of material similar to light paper, pylons are designed to break apart if hit by a plane. “Most of the time when you hit them, you don’t even feel it. Red Bull Air Race has done such a good job of improving the pylons over the years. As a pilot, you know with all confidence that if you hit one, it’s not a big deal,” said Coleman. It’s one less thing pilots have to worry about in a sport where there are many things to worry about. Like many other motorsports, Gforce also plays a big role in the Red Bull Air Race. “The G-force is the ultimate enemy in the cockpit. Not only are we flying 50 feet about the ground, trying not to pick up pylon hits, we also have to focus on staying awake, keeping all the blood to your brain,” said Coleman. Standing on Earth at sea level equals 1g, and 10gs is the maximum amount of G-force permitted during the race. Pilots reach that limit dur-
ing the vertical turning manoeuver portion of the course. Located on the north end of the track, this portion is where a pilot can pick up the most time on their competition. It’s also where they can make the most mistakes. Pilots push their skills and bodies to the limit in attempt to shave off a valuable few tenths of a second from their overall time. The best pilots break the 10g maximum for an extremely short time span — not a penalty if kept under four tenths of a second. The Red Bull Air Race in Indianapolis will feature a standing start, only the second race on the schedule where this is the case. Pilots take off from the infield and fly straight into the track. “When we got our schedule for 2016 and I saw Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the schedule, I circled that one. If I’m going to win anywhere, it’s got to be there. I keep up with all these motorsports and I know how special Indianapolis Motor Speedway is to the motorsports community,” said Coleman. Coleman is hoping to kiss the bricks and drink the milk like many champions before him. n
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n May 14, many of those attending the Bluebird’s popular Battle of the Bands Finale were unprepared for the ungodly amount of raw shredding to unfold. Although each of the bands performing was technically savvy — keep in mind, it was the finals, after all — one band stood out, in all senses of the phrase. Bloomington’s Siddius owned the stage to prove they were there to rock. Bassist Alex Welp rocked classic leather pants and leather vest; his brother Andrew wielded an awe-inspiring white keytar; guitarist Khalid Stetkevych, wearing a sleeveless Iron Maiden shirt, brought in his own PA so his intimidating solos could wail over the band; drummer Pat Hitchings arrived early to begin setting up his massive — yet appropriate — kit; and singer Hayden Frasier greeted the crowd in his leather jacket, screaming an ear-busting falsetto akin to Bruce Dickenson, with the showmanship of James Brown. All of this, plus massive stage ban-
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ners displaying their nautically themed artwork, fog machines, professional lighting and the stage presence of true rock legends, could all be summed up into one word: overkill. Absolute overkill. But that’s the point, said Stetkevych. “We’re just going to do everything we can to make it worthwhile,” he said. “We’re going to do what we can on stage to make someone crack a grin. As much as seeing people rock is great, seeing someone break a smile about how ridiculous we’re being is just as good.” Performing to their biggest crowd to date, Frasier said they worked off the crowd’s energy. “I feel that playing on a bigger stage brings out the best of us. Up to this point, we thrive during every show with a larger audience." And thrive they did. Thanks to the amount of headbanging that occurred at the bar full of twenty-somethings
who could have been at their first metal show, Siddius won the Battle of the Bands Finale. In August, the band released their first single, “Don’t Be Afraid to Run,” which is a sneak peak into their debut album, When Time is Time Again. Clocking in at 6:17, the first three minutes alone offer an overture of what can be expected on the rest of the album: guitar solos, bass solos, Frasier’s soaring vocals, breakneck drums and a metal atmosphere that feels like if Iron Maiden’s musicianship was even more virtuosic — which is difficult to imagine. As relative unknowns in the Southern Indiana scene, on the verge of putting out their first public release, you'd think Siddius would be a new, up-and-coming band. But the band has existed in a couple different entities since its inception in December 2004. For 12 years, they have fought through lineup changes, years away at college, and serious injuries in order to keep the metal dream alive. When he was 12 years old, Stetkevych was introduced to metal by Andrew, he S E E , S I D D I U S , O N P A GE 2 6
On Sept. 25, when I left Jazz Kitchen close to midnight, a standing room audience was still inside and a coterie of people was hanging out at the side door, listening to the final set of IJF 2016. Clint Breeze and The Groove was pushing a highfever sound into the night — way, way past Wes Montgomery’s conscious effort to play mellow so as not to disturb the neighbors. Many moments throughout the 10 days of IJF shimmered in space and time, until, hummingbird-like, a sudden dart to elsewhere broke the spell. Throughout, it was a living overview of the 100-year-old genre that grew out of the African American experience from New Orleans, entwined with the European American experience and transformed itself into a worldwide universal language with layerings of you-name-it-fromeverywhere experiences. Main Street Speedway is coming into its own with the Farrelly-Markiewicz Jazz Quintet and the Red Hot Whiskey Sippers; ranging across the region are Jared Thompson & Premium Blend, Si Señor & Pavel, Rob Dixon & Trilogy, Gregg Bacon, Tucker Brothers, Bashiri Asad, Scott Routenberg Trio, Charlie Ballantine Quartet, Avenue Indy and Sean Imboden; specially created for IJF we heard Jazz Futures, Friends of Fest and Indy Jazz Fest Band; and our enduring gift of jazz singers includes Brenda Williams, Everett Greene and Wendy Reed, along with instrumentalists who all are out someplace every week keeping alive our rich heritage of Indiana Avenue Jazz. Following the sterling Ravi Coltrane Quartet program, Robert Montgomery and I talked about the singular choices Ravi has made, in light of his father’s fame. “Ravi is his own person, making his own music,” summed up Robert. “He’s so new work,” flew out of my mouth. That prompted the location-centric question: “What would have happened to the world of jazz guitar if your dad had not turned down John Coltrane’s offer to join his band and chose instead to lead his own band, based in (and out of) Indianapolis?” Others joined the conversation on “the path taken” providing insight into Wes Montgomery, family man. The consensus — Wes’ humanity is at the center of his compositions, his playing, his choices. Wes Montgomery defined modern jazz guitar in the 1950s and ‘60s because he believed in bringing the listener into his own soul. Norman Brown, Russell Malone and Phil Ranelin made that clear in their programs. — RITA KOHN
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said. By the time they were in middle school, he and Alex started a band called the Fallout — and this was before the era of Fall Out Boy, mind you — which transformed into Siddius by the time they were in high school. The core of the band has always been Stetkevych, Andrew and Alex. However, from 2008 through 2013, the three dispersed to pursue different college experiences. Alex went to Ball State, Andrew stayed in town at Indiana University, and Stetkevych went to California to study at the Musicians Institute. Unlike most bands based in Bloomington, Alex said summers were their most productive times. While in California, Stetkevych was busy studying at the Musicians Institute and playing rugby. While playing rugby one day, Stetkevych suffered a serious neck injury, which left him unable to play guitar. “I had to physically place my fingers on the guitar, then move my arm to the next position,” he said. “It was about two minutes a day for a week, then three minutes a day for a week, and then building up increments like that, until I eventually made it up to five to eight hours a day.” While going through physical therapy, Stetkevych began to compose Siddius’s songs on paper, since he was unable to play them himself. It became a habit he continues today, though at the time, he said it was easy to feel discouraged about the band’s future. “It sounded like a pipe dream,” he said. “I couldn’t even fucking play guitar. We didn’t have a drummer or a singer.” But in 2014, with everyone back in Bloomington, Alex said they began revamping the band, which has since been deemed the second era of Siddius. After dropping out of IUPUI, Hitchings began playing drums in local bands. During one of his shows at Rhino’s, he said Stetkevych was running the sound system
and approached him after their set. “He walked up to me and asked if I knew anybody who wanted to play metal drums,” Hitchings said. “So I said, ‘Well, I do.’ So he sent me some tracks, and I learned them. We all appreciated the progressive metal stuff. Our styles were similar enough; it was just a matter of being exposed to it. It was a natural fit.” With guitar, bass, keys, and drums in place, it was time for them to find a singer. Stetkevych said he and the rest of the band knew that Frasier sang in the local band Danger Field, but they wanted him for Siddius. “He wasn’t faking it,” Stetkevych said. “Even though I think Hayden is the great rock and roll impersonator of Bloomington, it wasn’t forced. The first time I heard him live, I knew he was in my band. I didn’t have a band at that time, and it would’ve been another 3 or 4 years, but it was always in the back of my head that he was our singer." In February 2015, the band began the recording process of When Time is Time Again. Because they are recording it themselves, Alex said a number of factors have influenced the lengthy process: schedule conflicts, trial and error, technical issues and more. Stetkevych described the album as an abstract narrative string loosely revolving around death, the stretching of time and coming to terms. These ideas coincide with how the band members feel about their time on Earth. Hoping to release the album by Black Friday, Alex said he’s confident it will be the foot in the door they need to get to the next level. “I’m hoping it gives us the opportunity to get the gigs we want,” he said. “To really start establishing ourselves and get the high-end gigs. To have promoters take us seriously. To play around not just in your local bars. We’re in it to win it, I guess. I think all of us don’t want to be just another band that played around town for a while.” n
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s the Indianapolis music scene continues to grow and evolve in new ways, it's important that a new generation of journalists and critics ascend to create spaces for documenting and disseminating the work of emerging young artists. Music journalist Ariana Beedie was seeking to do just that when she launched her new digital media platform Face à Face this summer. The content on FAF runs deeper than the strictly musical. Beedie and her contributors also offer editorial opinions on everything from gentrification in Indy, to the Black Lives Matter movement. NUVO: My impression of FAF is that you’re covering music, social justice, and culture at large — but from a different perspective than we might see in more established publications. ARIANA BEEDIE: You really captured it. I wanted to start something that covered a full scope. I just know that I have a different experience than you do, and a different experience than my contributors do. We just wanted to shine light on what we see. It's a cultural hub for millennials in Indianapolis to shine light on what they see.
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NUVO: Before starting FAF you were active as a music journalist and, if I’m not mistaken, you contributed content to the much-loved site AfroPunk. BEEDIE: Yes, I contributed a few stories to AfroPunk. It was totally freelance. I had some ideas, emailed someone, and I got picked up. That was back in 2012 or 2013. And I wrote specifically about hiphop for AfroPunk. NUVO: One thing I really appreciate about FAF is that you're covering music and social justice shoulder to shoulder. That's something I've tried to do in my work for NUVO and I think it's important to connect these themes. Music is such a big part of that move-
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ment. It's more than just a soundtrack for the movement, it's often the inspiration for people to even begin thinking about ideas relating to race, justice and equality. That was certainly true in my case. And in your case, you're directly involved with these issues as an activist. You're a member of the Indy 10, which is affiliated with the national Black Lives Matter movement. BEEDIE: We are the Black Matter Lives group in Indianapolis. Indy 10 was founded by two beautiful and amazing Black women that I love, Leah Humphrey and Kyra Harvey. Indy 10 was a blessing for me. I had just moved back to Indianapolis and I saw that they were really doing things as far SUBMITTED PHOTO as standing up for Black Lives Matter and just raising their voices. I went to a few meetings and joined and they welcomed me into their inner circle. They really get out on the frontlines and connect with other organizations like DON'T SLEEP. They are really standing up and in the face of the police — not to spread hatred at all, which is the common misconception. But just to make people aware that this is clearly still an issue we're dealing with. It's good to see people in Indy really stepping up for the cause. n
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The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., prices vary, 21+ NUVO STUFF BYBYE, Rob Funkhouser 6:30 p.m. Free, all-ages, and organized by yours truly + the wonderful folks at Musical Family Tree. Indy CD and Vinyl, 806 Broad Ripple Ave., FREE, all-ages FESTS Evermore Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, times vary This embattled, slightly odd festival has made major appearances in various news sources for its sheer audacity. Organizers promise a
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three-day major festival atmosphere, with a food truck village, VIP area and more. Headliners include Prism, Atlas Genius and Guster. Also, the fest announced all proceeds from the inaugural event will be donated to the American Red Cross. Per the press release issued earlier this month: “In times of disaster, we need all the help we can receive from the community to serve those in need. On Friday, Sept. 30 through Sunday, Oct. 2, from noon until 10 p.m., the American Red Cross and Evermore Music Festival will team up for a music festival event. All proceeds will benefit the American Red Cross Disaster Relief.” American Legion Mall, Downtown Indianapolis, $69 - $189 for three-day passes, all-ages SOUL Ana Popovic 7 p.m. Popovic will release her new album Trilogy on this tour, plus highlight music from her 10 other albums. The Warehouse, 254 1st Ave. SW, prices vary, all-ages Kelly Pardekooper, Melody Inn, 21+ Dope Sweater, Small Arms Fire, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Celebrate!, Grove Haus, all-ages Slidecat Royale, Indiana RedBarn, all-ages Native Sun, Be ON It, Alaina Renae, Brianna Terrell, Mousetrap, 21+
15th Annual Punk Rock Night Awards Show 9 p.m. The Whoremones, Anti-Queens, Amuse and Vigoda play this red carpet awards show — yes, literal red carpet included. Never been to a PRN awards show? Founder Rich Barker gives the deets: “The PRN staff spends about a week creating the award statuettes (cutting, welding, shaping, painting and all!). It’s our moon logo with a safety pin in a metal statuette form. We’ll be giving away 18 awards this year. Before the show and in between acts a retrospective slideshow will play on the big screen, featuring all of the wild and crazy photos from the past year. The night kicks off promptly at 10 p.m. by giving away a few awards. [Barker] and Greg and the rest of the PRN staff will be dressed up (suit and tie) for the occasion. Nominees will be posted
on the screen and read aloud then the winner will be revealed, the winning act can accept the award on stage along with a speech, just like the big award shows. Then one band will perform, and we will repeat the process until all awards have been handed out and all four bands have played. The four bands performing are four of the best we’ve had in all year and all are also nominees. There are always some fun surprises and unexpected insanity — big fun, our biggest party of the year.” Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $10, 21+ TRIBUTES Josh Wold 4Ever October 1 - 2, times vary This fest is organized in memory and support of Josh Wold (Pessoa, too many other bands to name). All proceeds from the fest go to the Great Strength Band Fund, created by his family and friends after his death to help local musicians pay for studio time, tours and more. Day one features Wounded Knee, Sirius Blvck, Flaco, Grxzz, The Icks, Ishia, Coma Regalia, Handsaw, Hive Mind and House Olympics. Day two features Bowels of Judas, Kill Surf City, Crescent Ulmer, Stranger Sex and Grief Seeds. Locations vary, $10 donation requested, all-ages Goblin Cock, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Clayton Anderson, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ A Crooner’s Delight, Theater at the Fort (Lawrence), all-ages
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While honesty (best policy) and confession (good for the soul) get all the positive press, there are times when unburdening yourself is absolutely the wrong thing to do. The person who confesses may wind up feeling better — because at least now they’re being honest — but the person to whom they’ve confessed can wind up feeling a whole lot worse. Some burdens should be borne, not shifted. If your fiancée is going to inevitably find out, CPOS, better she find out about it from you. But if the secret can be kept and if living with the guilt motivates you not to cheat again, then you can keep your mouth shut with a semi-clear-ish conscience. This advice is not a license for serial adulterers. If you can’t be faithful to someone — if that’s what you discovered when you had the affair — then you should extract yourself from the monogamous commitment you’ve already made to your I’m a guy, 35, and a cheating fiancée and refrain from making monogamous commitments to piece of shit. I’m engaged to a anyone else in the future. But if you honestly believe you can be woman I love, but earlier this faithful, CPOS, you don’t have year I cheated on her. to see yourself as a cheating piece of shit. A serial adulterer/ betrayer/liar is a cheating piece of shit; someone who cheated once, regrets it and makes a good-faith, What do I do? Should I just accept this as multi-decade effort not to do it again is a a lesson learned and keep it to myself? fallible human being. Perhaps there’s selfishness at play here, since I’m trying to make myself feel better, but I’m struggling.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): What’s the difference between a love warrior and a love worrier? Love warriors work diligently to keep enhancing their empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence. Love worriers fret so much about not getting the love they want that they neglect to develop their intimacy skills. Love warriors are always vigilant for how their own ignorance may be sabotaging togetherness, while love worriers dwell on how their partner’s ignorance is sabotaging togetherness. Love warriors stay focused on their relationship’s highest goals, while love worriers are preoccupied with every little relationship glitch. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because the next seven weeks will be an excellent time to become less of a love worrier and more of a love warrior. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): How will you deal with a provocative opportunity to reinvent and reinvigorate your approach to work? My guess is that if you ignore this challenge, it will devolve into an obstruction. If you embrace it, on the other hand, you will be led to unforeseen improvements in the way you earn money and structure your daily routine. Here’s the paradox: Being open to seemingly impractical considerations will ultimately turn out to be quite practical. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is it possible that you’re on the verge of reclaiming some of the innocent wisdom you had as a child? Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect it is. If all goes well, you will soon be gifted with a long glimpse of your true destiny -a close replica of the vision that bloomed in you at a tender age. And this will, in turn, enable you to actually see magic unicorns and play with mischievous fairies and eat clouds that dip down close to the earth. And not only that: Having a holy vision of your original self will make you even smarter than you already are. For example, you could get insights about how to express previously inexpressible parts of yourself. You might discover secrets about how to attract more of the love you have always felt deprived of. CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m not asking you to tell me about the places and situations where you feel safe and fragile and timid. I want to know about where you feel safe and strong and bold. Are there sanctuaries that nurture your audacious wisdom? Are there natural sites that tease out your primal willpower and help you clarify your goals? Go to those power spots. Allow them to exalt you with their transformative blessings. Pray and sing and dance there. And maybe find a new oasis to excite and incite you, as well. Your creative savvy will bloom in November if you nurture yourself now with this magic. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One of your old reliable formulas may temporarily be useless or even deceptive. An ally could be withholding an important detail from you. Your favorite psychological crutch is in disrepair, and your go-to excuse is no longer viable. And yet I think you’re going to be just fine, Leo. Plan B will probably work better than Plan A. Secondary sources and substitutes should provide you with all the leverage you need. And I bet you will finally capitalize on an advantage that you have previously neglected. For best results, be vigilant for unexpected help. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Attention! Warning! One of your signature fears is losing its chokehold on your imagination. If this trend continues, its power to scare you may diminish more than 70 percent by November 1. And then what will you do? How can you continue to plug away at your goals if you don’t have worry and angst and dread to motivate you? I suppose you could shop around for a replacement fear -- a new prod to keep you on the true and righteous path. But you might also want to consider an alternative: the possibility of drawing more of the energy you need by feeding your lust for life.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Thank you for all the entertainment you’ve provided in the past 12 months, Libra. Since shortly before your birthday in 2015, you have taken lively and gallant actions to rewrite history. You have banished a pesky demon and repaired a hole in your soul. You’ve educated the most immature part of yourself and nurtured the most neglected part of yourself. To my joyful shock, you have even worked to transform a dysfunctional romantic habit that in previous years had subtly undermined your ability to get the kind of intimacy you seek. What’s next? Here’s my guess: an unprecedented exemption from the demands of the past. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you able to expand while you are contracting, and vice versa? Can you shed mediocre comforts and also open your imagination to gifts that await you at the frontier? Is it possible to be skeptical toward ideas that shrink your world and people who waste your time, even as you cultivate optimism and innocence about the interesting challenges ahead of you? Here’s what I think, Scorpio: Yes, you can. At least for right now, you are more flexible and multifaceted than you might imagine. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You Sagittarians are famous for filling your cups so full they’re in danger of spilling over. Sometimes the rest of us find this kind of cute. On other occasions, we don’t enjoy getting wine splashed on our shoes. But I suspect that in the coming weeks, the consequences of your tendency to overflow will be mostly benign -perhaps even downright beneficial. So I suggest you experiment with the pleasures of surging and gushing. Have fun as you escape your niches and transcend your containers. Give yourself permission to seek adventures that might be too extravagant for polite company. Now here’s a helpful reminder from your fellow Sagittarian, poet Emily Dickinson: “You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I believe that during the coming weeks you will have an extra amount of freedom from fate. The daily grind won’t be able to grind you down. The influences that typically tend to sap your joie de vivre will leave you in peace. Are you ready to take full advantage of this special dispensation? Please say YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES. Be alert for opportunities to rise above the lowest common denominators. Be aggressive about rejecting the trivial questions that trap everyone in low expectations. Here are my predictions: Your willpower will consistently trump your conditioning. You won’t have to play by the old rules, but will instead have extra sovereignty to invent the future. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you can expect an unlikely coincidence or two in the coming days. You should also be alert for helpfully prophetic dreams, clear telepathic messages, and pokes from tricky informers. In fact, I suspect that useful hints and clues will be swirling in extra abundance, sometimes in the form of direct communications from reliable sources, but on occasion as mysterious signals from strange angels. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You know that inner work you’ve been doing with such diligence? I’m referring to those psycho-spiritual transformations you have been attending to in the dark . . . the challenging but oddly gratifying negotiations you’ve been carrying on with your secret self . . . the steady, strong future you’ve been struggling to forge out of the chaos? Well, I foresee you making a big breakthrough in the coming weeks. The progress you’ve been earning, which up until now has been mostly invisible to others, will finally be seen and appreciated. The vows you uttered so long ago will, at last, yield at least some of the tangible results you’ve pined for.
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