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Where’d you drink your first beer?
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WE MUST SAY “ENOUGH” TO GUN VIOLENCE
In America, it too often takes a serious tragedy to drive us to action BY REPRESENTATIVE ANDRÉ CARSON // NEWS@NUVO.NET
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his week, the largest mass shooting Universal background checks for firearm in American history left at least 59 purchases; limits on the number of bullets innocent Americans dead and over 500 per magazine; a ban on civilian ownership of injured. assault weapons; and lifting the ban on gun Tomorrow, more of our fellow Americans violence research at the Centers for Disease will be killed by guns. Control and Prevention (CDC). And the next day, and the next day … and Everything we propose has been met with every day until we finally make a change. unyielding opposition from the Republican In America, it too often takes a serious tragmajority in the House and Senate. These edy to drive us to action. Today I am praying same colleagues offer words, thoughts and that finally, after thousands upon thousands prayers in the House chamber after each of gun deaths, the shootmass shooting — the ing in Las Vegas will break same chamber where, the gridlock and show Congress must act and if we chose to act, legisus just how critical our lation could be passed act now to stop this action is needed. within hours to promote The shooting in Las horrific and avoidable responsible gun ownerVegas is a heartbreaking ship and prevent future carnage. reminder of the gun tragedies. violence epidemic that I have said, and will is crippling our nation. No family and no continue to say, “Enough.” No more silence. community is immune. We have seen the Congress must act and act now to stop this impact of these senseless shootings in our horrific and avoidable carnage. I am deterneighborhoods, our elementary schools, our mined and will not give up this fight. movie theaters, our night clubs and even our Now more than ever, Congress must not places of worship. be silent. In Congress, I continue to support nuCongress must act. N merous proposals to combat gun violence:
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aybe we need a wall. lobby’s goal isn’t to win the argument. That’s what I find myself thinkNo, it is to cloud the issue, to build ing in these sad hours after the delay into the discussion and process, to tragedy in Las Vegas, the deadliest wait for the next outrageous tweet from mass shooting in American history, an act the White House or natural disaster to of carnage in which more than 50 people divert our attention. To wait for us all to were killed and hundreds of others injured. go back to sleep again. I’m not talking about a wall along a The choir directors at the NRA aren’t border. No, I’m thinking about something stupid, even if some of the chorus members more along the lines of the Vietnam War are exceedingly gullible. They know their Memorial. It would be a monument to argument that gun laws can’t possibly work is our moral obliviousness, a place where absurd. If the laws-can’t-work argument were we could etch the names of the fallen in true, then the fact that some people speed stone, where we could stop and ponder or drive recklessly would be an argument the consequences of doing nothing in the against, rather than for, speed limits, stopface of horror after horror after horror. lights and other traffic regulations. That wall prods me to consider what hapIt is because the gun lobby doesn’t have a pens when we abdicate strong argument that its our moral responsibility minions instead resort to consider the conseWe lead the developed to throwing up smokequences of doing someshouting down world by a wide, wide, screens, thing. Or doing nothing. opposition and doing That the rampage in wide margin when it everything they can to Las Vegas was predicthonest and open comes to gun-related thwart able adds to the sense discussion of the role of tragedy. We have deaths. guns might play in the become so deadened carnage in our streets. to the horrors of mass shootings in this They know the American attention span country that they no longer even dominate is short, while their agenda is long. The cost the news unless the body count reaches of our silence – our abdication – is steep. double figures or a congressman is shot. In Las Vegas now, more than 50 people We lead the developed world by a wide, are dead, their last seconds on earth wide, wide margin when it comes to gun-refilled with terror. Hundreds of others lated deaths. There are, in fact, war zones survive with scars upon their bodies and where the body counts aren’t as high as the souls that will be a long time healing, if ones we Americans rack up each year. they ever do. This is but the latest of our Concerned citizens will cry for action. gun-related horrors. The flacks at the National Rifle AssociDoubtless, there will be more such ation, their hirelings in elected office and tragedies in the days ahead, particularly if other gun lobby fellow travelers will seize we continue to do nothing. on some obscure point – the fact that the Yeah, I think a national memorial with shooter once had an expired driver’s license, the names of gun victims carved in it didn’t pay his taxes or even let the trash would be a good idea. It would be a place pile up behind his house – to argue that no for those who have lost loved ones to change in gun laws could have stopped this mourn those dear to them. from happening. It won’t matter whether And damn the rest of us for not doing the “fact” is true or not, because the gun anything about it. N For more opinion pieces visit nuvo.net/voices
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BACK TALK
BEST TWEET: @PeteButtigieg // Oct. 2 I did not carry an assault weapon around a foreign country so I could come home and see them used to massacre my countrymen.
WORST TWEET: @realDonaldTrump // Oct. 1 Being nice to Rocket Man hasn’t worked in 25 years, why would it work now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won’t fail.
MAYORS, UNITED
Climate change prevention is topic of September summit BY ABBY SPEITEL // NEWS@NUVO.NET
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n September 13, 2017 a summit occurred where Indiana mayors, regardless of political affiliation, gathered together to discuss how their cities can aid in the prevention of climate change. Not all mayors chose to attend but that didn’t stop some of the most influential officials in Indiana coming to speak about what needs to be done statewide. The Climate Leadership Summit was hosted by Earth Charter Indiana for the purpose of sharing details on what Indiana cities do and could potentially do to help stop the furthering of climate change. About 21 cities from Indiana including Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Bloomington and Carmel, attended. Not only did Indiana mayors speak but representatives from cities, universities and foundations gave presentations on research and progress they have made toward climate control. Earth Charter Indiana executive director Jim Poyser (Editor’s note: Poyser is NUVO’s former managing editor) began the summit with a speech about the importance of cities from Indiana coming together to discuss how we as individual cities could help prevent the advancement of climate change. “Given the heartbreaking environmental disasters happening around the country right now — wildfires, record-breaking heat, hurricanes — our Summit should provide a guide for cities to start to prepare for similar extraordinary weather extremes,” Poyser said. The day went on with multiple presentations and speeches about climate change in Indiana. The first to speak was Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett. Hogsett spoke about climate resilience and how Indianapolis residents are fighting for the cause. Hogsett mentioned the 24-hour
Climathon that occurred in 2016. The Climathon gave many Indianapolis residents a chance to speak out and engage in the fight against climate change. Only 59 cities throughout the whole world participated in Climathon and Indianapolis was one of two cities in the United States to participate. Hogsett also spoke about getting the community engaged in the prevention of climate change. He repeated the phrase, “think globally and act locally” to emphasize his point of getting local communities to do their bit in the large fight. Hogsett wasn’t the only mayor to speak at the event. Fort Wayne mayor Tom Henry touched on some critical points on how his city has progressed greatly throughout the past couple years. Henry spoke about the combined sewer overflow problem Fort Wayne has experienced for the past 10 years. Their combined sewer overflow issue was caused by about 1 billion gallons of raw sewage being discharged per year. Now Fort Wayne is resolving the problem with a deep rock tunnel project that runs five miles under the city which will take the raw sewage to “We take human waste and convert a filtration plant and that will lead to a re- waste to power,” Henry said. “We are now duction of discharge able to power some of by 90 percent. our buildings now that “Not only does it In November of 2013 an we use methane gas.” help us environmenHenry also menEF-1 tornado at speeds tioned tally but it will create a smaller initialot of jobs for the next of 111 to 135 mph left tives that Fort Wayne five to seven years,” has begun to create 30,000 residents of Henry said. This isn’t an environmentally the only initiative that Kokomo without power. healthy community. Fort Wayne has started Many mayors, repto aid in the further prevention of climate resentatives and professors spoke about change. Fort Wayne has already begun climate change, its potential impact and methane gas production as well. initiatives to combat it. Kokomo Mayor
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Greg Goodnight, however, spoke about tornadoes. Many can recall the viral photo of a Kokomo Starbucks destroyed due to seven tornadoes that occurred on Aug. 24, 2016. But that isn’t the only case in which Kokomo has experienced tragic damage due to tornadoes. On Nov. 17, 2013 an EF-1 tornado at speeds of 111 to 135 mph left 30,000 residents of Kokomo without power. Goodnight spoke on the increasing numbers of tornadoes Kokomo has experienced and how rising temperatures play a factor. Goodnight’s message was that not all natural disasters have taken place in foreign countries; many happen locally and are ignored. The Climate Leadership Summit also contained panels of people from all different professions who were well informed on Indiana’s climate status. The panels also allowed the audience to submit questions through an app that Earth Charter Indiana had specifically created for the event. The summit gave political representatives a chance to talk to their peers and discuss how Indiana can do more locally to help aid in the prevention of climate change advancement. Climate change is a controversial topic, but mayors from Indiana urge other political officials to stop fighting the truth and take the actions that are necessary for Earth’s survival. N This report was co-published with Ben Davis High School through a partnership between high school journalism students and NUVO.
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ust when our attention switches from the smack of bat to the run for a touchdown, we begin transitioning from crisp pale ales to beers with higher alcohol content and malt heft. The complexity of fall seasonals came to the U.S. with the growth of craft beer, transitioning us from summer’s light and refreshing to winter’s hearty and robust. Oktoberfest is the harbinger that awakens us to this change of seasons. It’s a reminder of the time before refrigeration when brewers throughout Austria and Germany could not assure the quality of a beer brewed during the summer. They brewed in March and stored the beers in deep caves to “Lager” until fall. Hence, the corresponding name: Märzen or March beers. Oktoberfest probably is the best-known fall seasonal; even non-craft beer drinkers are aware of something magical happening wherever they see the flutter of Bavaria’s blue and white flags and catch the savoring aromas from heaping platters of bratwurst, sauerkraut, dark rye bread, soft pretzels and hot mustard. Pumpkin beers are a close second to what says fall-time, with rich aromas of cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves creating the illusion of pie in a glass. Variants abound — canned pumpkin or fresh pumpkin and whatever else the imagination prompts. We love them on their own and they’re best enjoyed snuggling around the fireplace. Bière de Garde (“beer for keeping”), like Märzen, long ago were brewed in French farmhouses in the spring because yeast was unpredictable in the heat of summer. With an earthy, musty character they feel like fall whenever we drink them. IPAs, brewed at the close of summer with freshly harvested hops that heighten bitterness, demand more malt backbone to maintain balance. More malt makes for a bigger beer, perfect for warming your bones.
Hard ciders, like IPAs can happen yearround, but apples freshly picked during summer favor us with a robustness that mellows out with storage. The feel of fall comes with the addition of warming spices — cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg — and hints of the barrel in which the cider ages for two months. Meads inherit the unique flavor of their main ingredient — honey, which gives each mead its aroma, color and taste, from the flower that busied the bee. Meads require time to mature; the finest of varietal honeys recently harvested must sit in a bottle for many months or years, to impart their story. Meads we drink this fall were created last year or the year before. Dark beers, including yeast-forward dunkles and weissbiers, are part of a heavy and sweet tradition. When it’s sweater time, we want that breadth of complexity — whiffs of cookie dough or of dark toffee, with hints of coffee and chocolate skirting throughout. Browns and reds segue us towards the hearty porters and heartier stouts of winter. As we adjust our bodies and frame of mind to the onslaught of inclement weather, barrel-aged beers comfort us with big, bigger, biggest. Smoked beer brewed with malt dried over an open flame imparts an assertive smokiness from the kind of wood used. We favor this quality in the fall because we can drink a smoked beer sitting on the sofa and feel like we’re outside around a wood fire pit. Finally, what, you ask, makes a classic ESB particular to fall? Extra Special Bitters are known for a meticulous balance between malt sweetness and hop bitterness. Upping the ante for each raises the ABV percent. Imperceptibly, we feel cozier. Here’s a listing of what you can find to bring you comfort and joy as you wrap the muffler around your neck and pull on warm socks. — RITA KOHN
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This shit has got cinnamon in a big way and outside
Proof that not every fall-time beer has to be heavy,
of its color you’d be hard-pressed to define it as a
Lost Red Glove is as easy-drinking as a lager and
red ale. The use of Belgian candi sugar balances this
yet flavorful enough to not be drowned out by the
out to a beer of sugar and spice and everything nice.
smoke of a campfire.
IRISH COFFEE
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ROUND TOWN BREWERY
DEER CREEK BREWERY (NOBLESVILLE)
Another red ale with coffee added, this time from
This imperial red is about as full-flavored as a red ale
Indy’s own Limelight Coffee Roasters. The blend is
is ever going to be with a hoppier side than red ale
chocolaty and the best part is this brew is offered
drinkers will be used to, and that’s not a bad thing
year-round.
since it comes in at a whopping 8.5% ABV which means you won’t need to drink as many to start
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feeling it.
MASHCRAFT BREWING (GREENWOOD) The untraditional addition of coffee into the traditional red ale truly pushes this into a category all its own. It is a nearly perfect fall beer if you’re wanting something light, and yet still intriguing.
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MARZEN OKTOBERFEST ANTONIUS 1742 THREE WISE MEN Did your mom or grandma ever bake fresh loaves of bread or biscuits? This beer is basically that smell in liquid form. It’s incredibly bready with a nice touch of caramel.
BRACHEN MEHR BIER SALT CREEK BREWERY (BEDFORD) It’s all about the caramel in this fall seasonal. Grab a crisp, malty growler full for a night of camping after a day of tramping around Indiana’s beautiful southern hills. // PHOTO VIA @BLACKCIRCLEBREWING
LUGTOBERFEST BIG LUG CANTEEN There’s an entire party based around the annual release of this malty glass of goodness. It is about as classic as you’ll get when it comes to a marzen, and that’s a good thing.
ESB
ROCKTOBERFEST
NESBITTER
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METAZOA BREWING
One of Indy’s newest breweries pushed
A straightforward, malty ESB with a nice
out this light, mildly sweet Oktoberfest this
balance; definitely worth heading into
year, and for a first year brew it’s pretty
Metazoa to get it on cask to get that true
damn good.
English experience.
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The fall-ness of this beer is phantasmic
The best ESB is a traditional ESB and that
as it drinks very light like a lager but has
is what this beer is, malty, easy-drinking,
hints of October, which means it’s easy
clean and slightly sweet. England’s climate is
to catch yourself on your third and fourth
basically ever-fall, so, of course, this beer pairs
pint while munching on some soft pretzels
perfectly with fall.
dipped in spicy mustard.
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IPA CAMPSIDE SESSION IPA UPLAND BREWING CO. (BLOOMINGTON) While the name definitely is fitting since this beer is best enjoyed beside a campfire, the piney, floral flavor feels more like the rest of the forest than the campsite itself and is as crisp as the cool air on a fall evening.
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as a great beer blanket in the fall chill.
HOLY ROLLED OAT IPA
PUMPKIN
ST. JOSEPH BREWERY
PUMPKIN ALE
An IPA unlike any other due to the creaminess
CINNAMON GIRL AUTUMN ALE
BIER BREWERY
that feels like you’re drinking an oat stout, but
FOUNTAIN SQUARE BREWING CO.
For those who live for all things pumpkin, especially
then you’re hit with the citrusy, melony hops that
Taking the route of pumpkin spice can be divisive in a
in pie form, this beer is the drink of your dreams. Fall
take you for a spin.
world where seemingly everything is pumpkin spice.
spices whip through this ale like leaves through an
But the cinnamon in here offers a spicy balance to
autumn wind and down your gullet, bringing a smile
TROPIK THUNDER IPA
the sweet vanilla and pumpkin notes, and we love it
to your face.
OFF SQUARE BREWING (CROWN POINT)
like Ugg-wearing freshman love PSLs.
Just because it’s fall outside doesn’t mean you
PUMPKIN ALE
can’t drink like it’s summer. This IPA is like a
DEATH BY PUMPKIN
WOODEN BEAR BREWING (GREENFIELD)
hoppy pineapple punch that transports you away
INDIANA CITY BREWING CO.
Another easy drinker with the fall spices upfront here.
from the short, cool, dreary days of fall into a
Stepping in the opposite direction of pumpkin spice,
A perfect beer to go along with your jack-o-lantern
summertime state of mind.
this beer is all about the natural taste of pumpkin: 180
carving evening (don’t drink too much with that knife
pounds of pumpkin to be exact. Cinnamon, nutmeg
in your hand) and an evening of binge-watching Over
and vanilla are all here too, but the pumpkin is the
the Garden Wall.
one holding the gun.
PUM-KWAN GOURDON PUMPKIN ALE
OAKEN BARREL BREWING (GREENWOOD)
PEOPLE’S BREWING (LAFAYETTE)
Another pumpkin pie in a glass, you get all of those
A well-balanced pumpkin ale, meaning the spices
yummy-nummy spices, some bready notes to recre-
don’t overpower the actual, malty beer flavor or the
ate the crust and you don’t even need a fork or knife
vegetal pumpkin taste, which is a nice change for
to down this as fast as possible.
people who like to taste beer in their beer.
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BARREL-AGED BLOT OUT THE SUN THREE FLOYDS (MUNSTER) Love ‘em, or hate ‘em, barrel-aged beers are fall beers and this imperial stout aged in cognac barrels is one of the best of ‘em. It starts hoppy and then slides into a sweet mesh of chocolate and coffee, and it’s so dark that once it’s in your glass it can blot out the sun, moon and stars.
BARREL-AGED BEARD TAX BLACK ACRE BREWING CO. If boozy beer is your thing, then this brew aged in whiskey barrels is all yours. It has that sweetness that comes from barrel-aging and great little
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fruity and vanilla notes throughout, but really, it’s uber boozy.
OH SCHIESSE
BROWNS
BURN ‘EM BREWING (MICHIGAN CITY) The peeps at Burn ‘Em like to brew outside the
BACONFACE
FIFTY SHADES OF BROWN
box and this is definitely a different play on the
WABASH BREWING
TWODEEP BREWING
bourbon barrel medium, since the base beer is a
Bacon-lovers, don’t get too excited.
If the other two browns featured here
Märzen. It drinks like a marzen, but then there is
There’s no bacon in here, it’s just named
are traditional, this is about as far away
just a hint of something else, something more —
after the brewer’s friend’s dog; that
from them as you can get. This brew
and that’s what this beer is all about.
said, it’s a solid brown ale. It has that
has some additions including allspice
signature toffee, caramel sweetness
and citrus notes that take it into
TIA HUGS
that browns are known for with a hint
another flavordom, and we can always
CENTRAL STATE BREWING
of earth and smoke that lend a more
appreciate that when drinking our way
New Day’s Breakfast Magpie mead is a thing of
fall-friendly flavor.
through 50 beers.
and honey. Now take the uniqueness of a farm-
BUSHEL BRITCHES ENGLISH BROWN
DOG DAY
house stout, with its earthy, roast flavors and age
FLAT12 BIERWERKS
450 NORTH BREWING (COLUMBUS)
it in New Day’s barrels, and you get one of the
You’ll go nuts for this nutty brown ale.
Upon first look, you’ll think this brown
most intriguing, weird and surprising beers ever.
It’s an easy drinker with a little hint of
is a porter, but one taste of that malty
Plus, we’re sure Tia gives great hugs.
chocolate and it is about as traditional
caramel flavor and you’ll have no
as browns come. You’ll have to put
doubt that this is a brown you’ll want
on some britches before you head to
to drink over and over again.
wonder with the blend of coffee, black raspberry
Flat12’s taproom for a growler-full.
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STOUTS & PORTERS
PB&C DEVIATE BREWING
CHAR SMOKED ENGLISH PORTER
The peanut butter flavor in the highly drinkable
DAREDEVIL BREWING (SPEEDWAY)
imperial stout is astounding. Blend that with the
Smoked stouts and porters can ofttimes be overly
heavenly flavor of coffee and you truly have a majes-
smoked, but this is the smoked beer Goldilocks
tic brew. This is possibly a better fireside snack than
would have chosen, the smoke is just right. You
s’mores, it’s even better to wash them down.
still get the taste of malts before giving into the wood-smoked flavor.
PEANUT BUTTER MILK STOUT TRITON BREWING
DECODER RING
The release party for this is Oct. 4, so get your ass
TWENTY BELOW
over to Triton Brewing at Fort Harrison and be one
Step right up and get your chocolate here. This
of the first lucky ones to get a taste of this chocolate,
chocolate milk stout is a chocolate lover’s dream,
peanut butter, sweet bottle of yum.
and since you’ll be drinking it on tap at the recently reopened Twenty Tap, you’ve gotta enjoy some
RING OF DINGLE
cheese curds alongside it.
SUN KING BREWERY Gotta admit, this is one of those beers that we look
NICK EGAN’S IRISH STOUT
forward to releasing every year and never feel like
REDEMPTION ALEWERKS
we drink enough of it while it’s around. It’s a dry Irish
Sometimes all you want is a traditional dry Irish
stout and it is toasty and roasty and oh, so fuckin’
stout (think Guinness), and that is what we have
good.
here. It’s a low ABV, dry, coffee-ish tasting stout that is perfect for a couple of pints on a cool
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DEVIL’S TRUMPET BREWING (MERRILLVILLE) The smoke in here is sneaky and subtle, but it defi-
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ingly (and delightfully) light porter. If you can find it
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in bottles it’s the perfect accompaniment to a steak
at the Indiana Brewer’s Cup and for good reason,
cooked over fire.
it’s toasty and chocolaty and as their website so eloquently puts it, “breakfast in a glass”.
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OTHER DEFALLT BIERE DE GARDE TAXMAN (BARGERSVILLE) NUVO’s Beer Maven Rita says, this beer “represents the old country idea of keeping the beer in the root cellar for all winter.” It hits your tongue with spices, especially cinnamon, and is followed by the caramel and vanilla flavors of classic Belgians. It is a unique fall beer that happens to taste just as great come spring.
HARVEST MOON AUTUMN ALE CHILLY WATER Pretty much autumn in a glass, this beer is packed with cinnamon and cloves and other fall spices. It drinks similarly to many pumpkin ales and does not hold back on the spice forward flavors of fall.
HESITATION POINT APPLE ALE QUAFF ON! (NASHVILLE) This is for people who love beer that also happen to like apple, basically people who think hard ciders taste nothing like alcohol and dislike them for that reason. The ale is up front and then you get the nice, crisp flavor of apples on the back end that reminds you of going to the apple orchard as a wee child.
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but you may as well start prepping yourself for
Named after the love interest of everybody’s
winter and there’s no better way than with this
favorite fall-time literary character Ichabod
smooth gingery, cinnamony, nutmeggy treat of a
Crane, this ale is sweet and spicy and wickedly
beer. The flavors blend together to form a sort of
delicious. It’s a blend of brown sugar and cinna-
warming taste that leaves you feeling like you’re
mon and pretty much taste like a snickerdoodle,
laying naked on a bearskin rug by a fire.
and we would go to battle against the Headless Horseman for another bottle.
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The only sour to make this list, Tin Man has
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If you like coffee and also like feeling tipsy then
loved produce, rhubarb. The sour is laden with
this is the best of both worlds. This dark ale is
tartness and a hint of the earthiness of rhubarb
about as close to a cup of joe as you’re going to
and drinks close to a cider. It’s a unique and
get from a beer, and let’s face it, coffee and beer
inevitably fall-time drink that is easy to drink way
are, like, the two best drinks on earth.
too many of.
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SMOKED BEER DARK HELMET EVIL CZECH BREWERY (MISHAWAKA) If a lot of smoked beers are bong rips of smoke, the smoke here is a one-ie hit, but those subtle flavors are enough to get you buzzed. We got lost
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beer and its light smoke and toasty flavors; it’s a fall time treat.
RAUCHBIER ZWANZIGZ (COLUMBUS) If you are a fan of rauchbiers (rauch means smoke in German) then this is the beer you’re craving. Basically if you took the smoke monster from
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Game of Thrones, and shoved it in a glass that’s what you’d have here. It’s a campfire in a glass and goes perfect with smoked meats.
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10/14: GERMANFEST
Most drinkers wouldn’t consider a sour as a fall-time beer, but
They have wiener dog races, need I say more? Okay, I will.
Upland’s sour program is a thing of beauty and they are truly
Think of anything and everything German, sausages, beer, stein
crafting sours that are fitting for all seasons. This event will
hoisting, sauerkraut, a ZwergenLand for your guten kinder to
feature a five-course Italian dinner with each course being
enjoy and so much more. Start the day with the Lederhosen 5K
paired with a sour. The beers on display are kiwi, blueberry, oak
to work off all those extra calories you’ll be eating and drinking
brux, Vinosynth red sour ale and the Harvest Ale. It will truly be
throughout the day, bring your favorite stein and spend the day
a unique beer experience.
cavorting about with friends new and old. Prost!
Upland Brewing Wood Shop; 350 W. 11th St. (Bloomington)
Rathskeller; 401 E. Michigan St.; 317-636-0396
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10/14: MUNSTER ALE FEST
10/28: BROAD RIPPLE BEERFEST
There’s no doubt that some of the highest quality beers in Indiana
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are coming from the Northwest corner of the state and this festival
Opti Park where they held their first beer fests. 45 Hoosier
highlights many of these breweries including Three Floyds, Burn
breweries and guests will be pouring 3-ounce samples for
‘Em, Byway, New Oberpfalz, Devil’s Trumpet, Figure Eight and
guests dressed up in their finest Halloween costumes. This
Zorn Brew Works. It also has plenty of beer from the neighboring
event also will offer up 10 specialty fall beers that you won’t
states of Illinois and Michigan. Enjoy plenty of beer, local food
find elsewhere. Plus, it’s a fundraiser for two local nonprofits:
trucks, live music and more.
Asante Children’s Theatre and The Brewers of Indiana Guild.
Centennial Park; 900 N. Centennial Dr. (Munster)
Opti Park; 780 E. 66th St.
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GRAFFITI ON THE WALLS OF THE IMA City as Canvas highlights iconic New York graffiti artists — and locals, too BY SETH JOHNSON // ARTS@NUVO.NET
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or Samuel E Vázquez, the move from Puerto Rico to New York City in 1979 was quite a drastic one, especially considering the city’s social, political and economic conditions at the time. Eventually, however, he was able to cope with the chaos through the art of graffiti. “I arrived in the late ‘70s, coming from Puerto Rico with bright skies, blue water and a colorful, joyful place, to New York City, where it’s wintertime, the sky is gray and the buildings are brown,” recalls Vázquez, who would eventually begin tagging around the city under the name of BRAME. “There were not many joyful colors happening. For us, it [graffiti] gave us joy whenever we saw it. It was a way to create our own Fantasy Island.” This iconic period of ‘70s and ‘80s graffiti will be on full display at the Indianapolis Museum of Art as a part of an exhibit called City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti from the 70s & 80s. Traveling to the IMA from the Museum of the City of New York, City as Canvas features more than 100 works from the iconic Martin Wong Collection, regarded as one of the greatest collections of early graffiti art. Running from October 7 to January 28, 2018, the exhibition will also feature an Indiana-themed portion, highlighting locally based artists like Vasquez, FAB Crew, Malcolm Mobutu Smith and more. Before trying his hand at graffiti — or what he refers to as style writing — Vázquez had to find a mentor to learn from. “Back then, we didn’t have the technology that’s available nowadays where people can post their projects,” he says. “We learned from older graffiti and style writers.” After coming up under his mentor Anthony “A-ONE” Clark, it was time for Vasquez to pick a tag name and start practicing. At this JOJO // PHOTO YOUR MOM point, he was onlyBY12-years-old. “Our parents knew that we were doing
stuff, but they didn’t really know how deep it was,” Vázquez says. “They were like, ‘Oh, that’s not my kid,’ even though they saw us sketching at home.” Part of what’s considered the fifth generation of New York City graffiti artists, Vasquez followed several other style movements that had already come before him. “You had the wild style in ’76-’77,” he says. “And then in the early ‘80s, it was the computer rock styles of letters that were so complex. Unless you were a writer, you couldn’t
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ent — it was more like style writing.” Now a 2017 Scholar In Residence at the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, everything’s coming full circle as Vasquez is taking on a research project to further study the roots of style writing. “I think the guards of the art world may not want to fully recognize that a bunch of kids from marginalized neighborhoods created this art form,” Vázquez says. “It was not just one or two kids. It was tens of thousands of kids in the city saying, ‘We are collectively going to participate and put our energy into this.’” With City as Canvas, the Indianapolis Museum of Art is hoping to “put the movement in context and make clear that these artists were essentially kids at the time,” explains IMA curatorial assistant Elisabeth Smith. “It was about visibility, trying to carve out an identity, and wanting to see their name LADY PINK, THE DEATH OF GRAFFITI // across the city,” she says. “It read it. And sometimes, writers would not was as simple as that at the beginning.” even know what was going on.” With the exhibit’s many interactive Over time, the city would become more elements (including a virtual graffiti wall), and more strict about graffiti, eventually she hopes that museumgoers will be able making it a felony offense. After a close to personally connect with the New York call with the law, Vázquez decided to shift City movement too. his artistic focus, pursuing graphic design “The exhibition itself is really going to work for a while before eventually taking invite our guests to interact with the matethe fine arts path. rial in new ways,” Smith concludes. “We’re “Graphic design was great, but fine arts really taking this exhibition as an opportuwas tugging on my heart,” he says. “You’re nity to experiment, play around and take expressing rather than creating for a clisome risks.” N
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sophical, but always thoughtful. For example, Daignault describes Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, near the Mexico border in Arizona as an “eerie, quiet and peaceful DMZ in the middle of an ongoing war zone, much like the organ pipe cactus itself, which stands as a stalwart oasis for birds and butterflies amidst an arid ocean of death.” Daignault also quotes Toni Morrison: “At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” For anyone who can’t make this journey, Daignault skillfully captures these scenes. But it’s with the knowledge, as she states in her manuscript, that some of these places have already forever changed, including one of her favorite stops in central Washington that was destroyed by a forest fire. N
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t was refreshing to leave the social media bubble, where millions of travel photos are posted daily, to get lost in the entire wall of 360 small paintings that make up Cynthia Daignault’s “Light Atlas” at Herron School of Art & Design. Each painting represents one degree of the rough circle Daignault made while driving around the United States for five months in 2014, stopping about every 27 miles for a total of 10,000 miles. There is no key to explain each individual painting’s location, but some of the images are more obvious than others: California redwoods, vineyards in Sonoma, Southwestern landscapes, city skylines (including Los Angeles and New York City, two cities where the artist typically works), orange groves, seascapes, and mountains. There are also various angles and images of views that could be Anytown, U.S.A.: railroad tracks and train cars; cow pastures; farm houses; cemeteries; American flags; and at least one rainbow. There are no obvious depictions of people in the images, emphasizing the solitude. Daignault chose to avoid major highways to have time to stop and sketch and photograph the landscape every 27 miles or so, and the paintings were completed in her studio. The exhibit at Herron is the first time all 360 paintings have been displayed together. While taking it all in on a gallery bench, you can check out the packets of text supplied by Daignault to get a sense of her thoughts on her journey traveling solo around the country in a pickup truck, documenting it all in paint. The text is sometimes narrative, sometimes philo-
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f you’re driving along 16th St. between the Monon Trail and Andrew J. Brown Ave. over the next week on Indy’s Near Northside and see some unusual structures along the road, don’t pinch yourself to see if you’re dreaming. Those structures — plus some in the middle of the road too — are part of a free outdoor theater extravaganza set for 10 a.m to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 7 that imagines what this community, with more than its share of vacant lots and buildings, could be. Call it an attempt at revitalization — or pre-vitalization. “The idea is to create an ideal Saturday,” says Bonnie Mill, artistic director of the Sapphire Theater, which is directing much of the programming during PreEnact Indy. “The neighborhood and the community and the organizations have come up with this plan of things that people would love to have.” The structure at the intersection of 16th St. and Yandes, the DREAM Cultural Community Center, will be a showcase for said things. It includes a temporary overarching façade and an outdoor stage built on a vacant lot and will host many PreEnact Indy activities on Oct. 7, including dance, music and theater performances. The DREAM Cultural Community Center takes inspiration from the past. From 1916 to the 1960s, a theater called the Dream Theater had served the nearby Brightwood community. “We wanted to create a place where the community could come together and socialize,” says Sapphire Theater Producing Director David Orr, who designed it, as well as other PreEnactment structures. “Not just a theater.” While the adjacent Middle of the Road Café will also serve as a community gathering place for PreEnact Indy, there is also an ulterior motive, according to Orr. “The Middle of the Road Café was about slowing down the traffic,” he says. “We heard about when the interstate [I-65] came in, it really hurt the neighborhood. And so, the way the interstate divided the neighborhood,we’re cutting right through 16th st. and taking it back for the pedestrians and the neighborhood from the cars.”
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Traffic on 16th St. will still be reduced to two lanes during PreEnact Indy’s programming and there will be orange-colored barriers up to protect pedestrians. Meanwhile the DREAM Cultural Community Center will be abuzz with activity. “The Asante Children’s Theater is kicking it off with a two-hour program that their kids are already involved in,” says Mill. “So instead of going to Asante, they’re coming here and doing it here. There’s other educational organizations: Arts for Learning is bringing programs; and there’s a Kwanzaa choir that’s going to perform... There’s seats for people to sit and watch and enjoy. The seats inside are going to be exercise balls; so it’s very inviting, it’s very multigenerational. That’s one way we have pre-enacted what this neighborhood wants and needs and we’re going to program it all day.” Essentially the entire three blocks of Andrew J. Brown to the Monon Trail will be a stage. The day’s programming involves 13 professional theater groups and a dozen or so venues, from the Dunbar Library to the IPS Building to the True Victory Church, not counting temporary stages. Local businesses will also be involved; from Tinker Coffee Co. to the Hat Kings retail store to the new restaurant Festiva operated by Peter George and Thomas Main. In order to honor the prominent role churches play in these neighborhoods, Harrison Center artist Quincy Owens was commissioned to create installations on Indianapolis Power & Light poles, electrically lit installations that recall stained glass windows, with each installation honoring a particular church. On Saturday, you’ll be able to hear Mayor Hogsett and Congressman André Carson speak at Beckwith Commons (a stage named after neighborhood resident Frank Beckwith, the first African-American to run for president), take in a gospel choir performance by Indianapolis Choral Artisans, get some grub at Brother Nature Market or Festiva, test your financial fitness at the IPS Building, take a table at the Middle of the Road Cafe and watch a parade. The list of activities, many of them highly interactive, goes on and on.
NUVO.NET/STAGE PreEnact Indy was envisioned — and produced — by the Harrison Center for the Arts. Its evolution can be traced back to the Harrison Center’s opening in 2000, according to Executive Director Joanna Beatty Taft. “When the Harrison Center first started, we didn’t have a healthy neighborhood at 16th and Delaware [where the Harrison Center is located],” says Taft. “We had a lot of vacancy. There were no businesses along 16th Street. And so Mayor Peterson’s cultural development initiative... gave us an invitation and permission to get involved in community development. That was a real turning point for me because before I was trying to be good and neat and careful and keep all of our art inside the building. But finally I got permission to actually go out and bring cultural solutions to community problems. “For a long time we focused on our neighborhood at 16th and Delaware. We started a high school [Herron High School in the former Herron School of Art & Design building] and worked along that corridor.” Then the Harrison Center started working farther afield. The nonprofit arts organization began various projects at 38th and Illinois under the auspices of the Great Places 2020 initiative led by the City of Indianapolis and various nonprofit partners – an initiative to improve livability and walkability in six selected areas in Marion County. “Through that work we thought initially that we were supposed to go in and create vitality,” says Taft. “But the longer I worked there the more I realized that in a neighborhood that is gentrifying or a neighborhood that’s changing, long-term residents can often feel scared or nervous... We all want to be remembered. We all want to be known and loved. And so I realized that arts had a very important role in elevating those long-term businesses and those long-term residents so that their story was known in the community and when new people move into the community they will be invited into that story, not see the neighborhood as a clean slate.” A project that embodies this idea of inclusivity is the Harrison Center-produced “Barbershop is a Blessing” video for the long-standing Cheatham & Moore Barbershop at 3828 N. Illinois St.
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“We had a hip-hop gospel artist [Nabile Ince] come in who was a very appropriate artist, an art form for that barbershop,” says Taft. “And we’ve had 40,000 views already for that video. It really struck a chord in that community. So our work at 38th and Illinois helped us learn a lot about the importance of art not just to add vitality but to also elevate history and connect people.” Adding vitality and elevating history and connecting people are what Taft wants to see, but she doesn’t want to see neighborhood revitalization lead to gentrification where development takes place at the expense of longterm residents, forcing them to move. “I haven’t seen a model in the United States where the market doesn’t take over and everyone feels included, right?” says Taft. “So what if we could use theater to kind of show us what it looks like?” The theater-heavy component of PreEnact Indy’s programming certainly seems like a new model for community revitalization, at least at first glance. But it’s not entirely without precedent. There have been numerous projects organized by the Better Block Foundation, originating in Dallas Texas, which inspired initiatives in Indianapolis along Shelby St. and Washington St. in 2013 by Big Car Collective. (During these three one-day placemaking demonstrations, Big Car temporarily redesigned blocks, and populated them with pop-up cafes and art galleries.)
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A sense of urgency comes across in talking with Taft. “The Monon16 neighborhood will not be recognizable in two years: there are so many vacant lots right now that in two years it will be completely built on. The neighborhood’s going to change like that,” Taft says, snapping her fingers. And the question, to which no one really knows the answer to at this point, is if and how gentrification will adversely affect this neighborhood. One PreEnact Indy activity that will address gentrification head-on is a community conversation on inclusive revitalization with Democratic City County Councilor Vop Osili at Beckwith Commons, scheduled for 2 p.m. at PreEnact Indy. Osili is a proponent of Indiana State House Bill 1056, currently in study committee, that would provide tax relief for
longtime residents in areas under threat of gentrification. A question for Osili might be whether he thinks initiatives like PreEnact Indy can succeed in building inclusive communities independent of legislation. “I believe that efforts like PreEnact Indy help people better understand and appreciate the human and social differences which make for a community’s cultural richness and diversity,” says Osili. “These efforts are of a more social nature and help with preserving and celebrating the social characteristics of a community which make that community attractive.” However, the issue of gentrification addressed in the bill is economic, he says. It concerns under-resourced, poorer neighborhoods beginning to experience rapid reinvestment. In such circumstances, longtime homeowners often find it difficult to pay increased property taxes, based on higher assessments of property value. “It is this ability of a longtime homeowner to afford to remain in the family homestead, in the face of rapid neighborhood reinvestment, that HB1056 addresses,” says Osili. “And while both efforts, social and economic, are very important in the preservation of the character of a neighborhood, slowing the process of gentrification would be unachievable without the financial ability of that longtime homeowner to remain in the family homestead.” N
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Blade Runner 2049 will have you looking for hugs
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ttention androids, robots, replicants, and any other self-aware beings with artificial intelligence: You are real and you have a soul. Lots of humans argue about what the soul really is, with some maintaining that it isn’t even real. You can join in the debate, because you passed the test. You asked the questions. Any being capable of asking the questions and caring about the answers is real and has a soul. Congratulations. Welcome to the jungle. Blade Runner 2049 looks at robots yearning for recognition, while trying to find their place in a world swarming with nutty, inconsistent, violent humans. There are other issues too, but this is at the heart of most of the film. Ryan Gosling stars in Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s futuristic 1982 creation, along with Jared Leto, Robin Wright and the star of the original, Harrison Ford.
I think Gosling was selected because, despite his formidable body, he looks like a sad boy. A sad boy who could kick your ass, mind you, but a sad boy nonetheless. WHAT // Blade Runner (2017) SHOWING // In wide release (R) ED SAYS // e
Gosling plays an artificial life form named LAPD Officer K. His girlfriend is Joi (Ana de Armas), a self-aware hologram. Isn’t that cool? At one point K participates in a three-way with the hologram and a human. This seemed like the perfect time for Gosling to peel off his shirt and give the audience a peek at his meaty pecs, but no – Villeneuve discreetly cuts away. Irritating. Take solace in the knowledge that the movie includes a great deal of violence, presented vividly. The cast includes a lot of talented new
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faces along with the curiously ineffectual Jared Leto. The main attraction, of course, is Harrison Ford, reprising his role as Rick Deckard, the sullen bad-ass from the original. He remains a formidable screen presence, demonstrating why he is a movie star. Ford may be 75 years old, but when he punches an attacker, it still draws a healthy “THWACK!” I believe his real-life punch would make the same sound. About the plot: Everybody wants something. Several parties try to get it. Somebody does. About the tone: If people aren’t seething or shouting, they’re moping. My gosh, this is a melancholy epic. I’m not complaining. But it would serve their patrons well if movie theater owners station ushers at the exits to give everybody big hugs as they leave the theater. About the look and sound: There’s more color than you would expect in a noirish
film, but the production establishes and maintains an air of menace, aided by a predominantly industrial score by Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch. I had intended to elaborate on the cinematography, but I think it’s better for you to go in without knowing too much about what you’re going to see. And do consider seeing the film. It’s based on the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and deals with what constitutes a person, and where artificial intelligence will fit in the scheme of things. Other movies have dealt with the subject, from Steven Spielberg’s clunky, but fascinating A.I. Artificial Intelligence to Spike Jonze’s rich, touching Her. There’s more to be said, and both Blade Runner films create a distinct world and people it, so to speak, with characters you won’t soon forget. N
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uring this weekend’s Fountain Square Music Festival, the strobing, synchronized lights might just be as engaging as the music. “We’re actually putting the audience inside the show,” says Owen Thomas, the creative director for Fountain Square Music Festival. “So down the frontage space of Virginia Avenue, there will be multifaceted lighting implements all the way down the street,” continues Thomas. “And the audience will actually step inside Virginia Avenue and be completely surrounded by light. “It will be a very overwhelming sensory experience; usually you go into a show and you stand in a crowd in the dark and you watch a band perform on the stage in the light.” There will still be a traditional stage on Virginia Avenue for “the nucleus” stage, says Thomas, that bands will perform on while the immersive light show will surround the audience. “Everybody will be able to see the band play and the visibility will be excellent; they’ll just be surrounded by the light show.” The set up will require quite a bit of preparation. “There will be autonomous lighting towers stretching down the street of Virginia Avenue on either side of the street,” Thomas explains. “And each of those towers will have three lighting fixtures. There will be 60 high-powered lighting fixtures running down Virginia Ave. “[These are] very kinetic, very powerful lights that have the patterns and colors and strobing and shape and rhythmic. It’s all there. I think people will really be blown away by how many different iterations of the nucleus there are.” In addition to the nucleus stage, there will also be four club stages: The Hi-Fi, White Rabbit Cabaret, Square Cat Vinyl
WHY?’S YONI WOLF EXPLORES HIS HOMETOWN Boundary-pushing artists who experiment with sound and form aren’t an oddity for Indy’s Joyful Noise Recordings – they’re actually the norm for the no-longer-little label. But even on a roster full of esoteric noisemakers, Why?’s Yoni Wolf stands out. His enveloping sing-song patter and ultra-complex wordplay make his records a must-listen for indie rap fans looking to break through genre conventions. “I have a propensity toward phrasing,” he says when asked about his writing conventions. “I think I’m good at it, and I enjoy it, coming up with how something is phrased ARTIST RENDERING OF NUCLEUS STAGE
EVENT // Fountain Square Music Festival WHEN // October 6 - 7, times vary WHERE // Various locations TICKETS // $49 - $99, some 21+, some all-ages
and Pioneer. Fountain Square Music Fest has taken place in a variety of different forms in the last four years, including an all indoor multi-venue fest, an outdoor street fest, and various forms in between. This year’s headliners include Phantogram, Bishop Briggs and Dr. Dog. A few dozen locals, including Clint Breeze and the Groove, Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, Shiny Penny, Ghost Gun Summer, Brandon Whyde, Manners, Please and Busman’s Holiday will also take the stage. Thomas, 38, who has his studio in Fountain Square and works in nearby Fletcher Place, was involved in the festival last year, although not immersed in it. “It was primarily on an identity level,” he
said. “My company did some design work and rebranding work. And then this year we jumped in with both feet to be an intrinsic part of the festival’s identity and growth.” In addition to being creative director for the FSMF, he is also the principal creative director for ABSORB, which describes itself on its website as a “modern creative house” specializing in “digital design, progressive digital filmmaking, and immersive live experience.” “What we’re doing is putting the light around both audience and performer,” says Thomas. “And really the training ground for all this was just being in a band myself and learning how to do it all myself. And now we’re really fortunate to be able to build custom environments like the festival, immersive environments for bands’ tours, unique television performances, award show performances that try to bring audiences inside these spaces as much as possible, not just make them spectators of it.” N
over music. That I think is part of what I really enjoy about music,” Yoni said. Before his group hits the stage for their 4:20 slot at FSMF’s Nucleus Main Stage on Saturday, Yoni chatted with NUVO about moving back to his hometown of Cincinnati from the West Coast. “It’s a good town. I still miss California sometimes; you can’t beat the natural beauty out there, and the sort of openness that it has. It’s nice to come back to Cincinnati as well. I’ve got family here. I’m working on, right now, a travel show of sorts that is based on my podcast [The Wandering Wolf]. “The first episode, the pilot, is a Cincinnati episode. I’ve actually been thinking about Cincinnati a lot recently, going around, interviewing people for that, and meeting new people. That’s been really great and informative, to see what else is going on here that I didn’t really know about. You fall into your little nook, and my nook is usually just my house. It’s easy to forget there’s other stuff going on right around you. So [filming that] has really helped a lot.” — KATHERINE COPLEN
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DOOMED AND STONED FESTIVAL RETURNS The heavy metal festival started off as a fairly local event last year, and quickly developed a following thanks to social media BY BREANNA COOPER // BCOOPER@NUVO.NET
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or its second year, the Doomed and Stoned Festival heads to a new location, Indiana City Brewing Co., to celebrate heavy metal, specifically the psychedelic-stoner subgenre. From Oct. 6-7, the brewery will house bands from around the country. After the launch of the website of the same name, which reviews albums and interviews metal bands, founder and event organizer Melissa Collins found a tightknit community in the Midwest metal scene, and added bands from across the United States for two days filled with live music, art and lots of beer. Since last year’s fest was held at the nowclosed Fifth Quarter Lounge, Collins was in need of a new venue when she started planning this year’s fest. Luckily, Indiana City Brewing fit the bill. After expanding the space’s stage area in the spring of 2016, the local brewery could accommodate bigger events and bands, something that they have wanted to do from the start. “We started hosting metal bands here shortly after we opened, and it’s something that built from our support for the local scene,” Indiana City Brewing owner Ray Kamstra said. “Beer is our art, and it’s been a part of our business model to support local artists,” he says. “People see breweries as a great community place that is accepting with local artists, maybe more so than other venues.” Festival-goers will have a wide variety of beers to choose from, including seasonal beers like Death by Pumpkin, which incorporates 180 pounds of mashed pumpkins, cinnamon, nutmeg and whole Madagascar vanilla beans into the single batch that’s made per year. While no new brews will be made to
EVENT // Doomed and Stoned Festival WHEN // October 6 - 7, times vary WHERE // Indiana City Brewing TICKETS //$25 - $45, 21+
commemorate the festival, Indiana City Brewing offers a limited release every week. “I’m not sure exactly what we have on the calendar, but there will definitely be something new available,” Kamstra said. Along with beer and food provided by Citizen Hash and Bacon Station!, the twoday festival will feature a lineup of local and national bands. As the festivities begin, the Dallas-based doom band Wo Fat will headline on Friday. Guitarist and vocalist Kent Stump balances time writing, playing and touring with the band with being the co-owner of Crystal Clear Sound, a recording studio in Dallas. While a scheduling conflict kept the band from coming to Doomed and Stone’s first year, Stump is looking forward to seeing how the Indy festival compares to others that they have played in the past. “Festivals are awesome, I love playing them. We’ve been lucky enough to play some really important festivals, especially some related to heavy, underground music like we play. We’ve done a number of them in Europe, and they’re always really fun,” Stump said. “From a band perspective, it brings bands together. We get to play with a
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bunch of other cool bands that we’re usually fans of, or we become fans of if we haven’t seen them before. We make friends with other bands, and with fans, as well. Because of festivals, we’ve made lasting friendships with a lot of people. They’re a great thing that really help to drive the scene.” At the festival, audiences will be able to buy a copy of Live JuJu, Wo Fat’s live album from their 2014 set at the Freak Valley Festival. Of the 15 bands on the lineup, local musician Steve Janiak is in two of them. As a vocalist and guitarist in both Devil To Pay and Apostle of Solitude, a scheduling conflict kept both bands from performing last year. “We were unable to play last year because Apostle of Solitude was headed to Europe at the time. I play in both bands, so if I’m not available, neither band can do the show. This year, we told her we really wanted to play, so know Apostle of Solitude and Devil to Pay are both on the lineup.” Luckily for Janiak, festival goers will be able to catch Devil To Pay on Friday, and Apostle of Solitude on Saturday. “I’ve done that before, playing back to back in two bands, and it’s a lot more energy expenditure than I would prefer. I’d rather play one set and relax a bit and see some bands,” he says. As Collins went about organizing this year’s event, she was surprised at the reach her event had, much of which she believes is thanks to social media and a strong group effort.
“We even talked to a band from Sweden, and we really tried to make it work, but that immigration stuff is just way over my head,” she says. “The fact that we’ve got bands coming from Seattle and Portland speaks a lot for the event itself and the underground community. Other bands on the fest include R’yleh, Swamp Ritual, Book of Wyrms, Season of Arrows, Disenchanter, Ape Machine, Un, Wo Fat, Potslammer, Black Tar Prophet, Freedom Hawk, Year of the Cobra, Fister, Geezer, Earthride and Acid Witch. “I pretty much handle communicating with the bands and promoting aspect,” she says. “I am friends with two guys named Drew and Jordan Smith; they’re great guys and are involved in local metal bands, including Archarus and Potslammer. They handle equipment, time slots, all that stuff. This is a group effort. There is no way I could do this alone.” Visual art is another aspect of the Doomed and Stoned Festival, which is one of the only changes to the program from last year. Brad Moore, who is known throughout the metal scene for designing album art for bands such as Morpheus Descend and Argus, is this year’s artist vendor. “His work is just a very old school traditional doom style of art,” Collins said. “He’s going to be there with his art, and I think a lot of it will be for sale. I’m sure a lot of old-schoolers will be really familiar with his work.” With a limited number of passes left still available for the festival, Collins is hoping for a sold-out venue. “I think that would be any promoter’s goal,” Collins said. “I just want everyone to come and have a good time and support the bands.” N
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ver the course of 15 years, the Dallas-based psychedelic doom band Wo Fat has put out five studio albums and a live album, and played festivals throughout the United States and Europe. And now, they’ll be returning to Indianapolis, where they played last summer, to headline the first day of the Doomed and Stoned Fest. Lead singer and guitarist Kent Stump spoke with NUVO about the festival, album art and the Texas music scene. BREANNA COOPER: You work at Crystal Clear Sound (recording studio in Texas). How do you balance being a headlining act in festivals as well as working the studio? KENT STUMP: It’s definitely a bit of a balancing act. Myself and the drummer, Michael (Walter) own the studio, and it’s our main livelihood. And so, because of that, it’s hard for us to be away for very long and still keep the business up. We try to be very strategic about shows that we play and try to do shows like this one, I think it’ll be really cool. We do limited touring, we have to find the balance between doing the band and working in the studio. There’s also a great benefit to having a studio, because we can record our own albums and work kind of on our own schedule. BREANNA: How does being a sound engineer impact your ability to jam in the studio? Are you always on the lookout for something that sounds off, or are you able to tune that out when you’re playing live? KENT: That’s a hard process, because I’m wearing multiple hats, trying to perform the music as well as produce and be aware of things sonically from an engineer’s standpoint. I think it helps me in a lot of ways in the sense that a lot of our songs have sections that are pretty open ended
and improvisational. When we record, we don’t really know how those are going to come out until we actually do them. Being an engineer and knowing the capabilities, I can have a vision of how we can edit things down if we need to, or change things depending on how the jam turns out. It helps me to know the technical side of things when it comes to what we can do.
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KYLE LONG is a longtime NUVO columnist and host of WFYI’s A Cultural Manifesto.
WHEN DEATH PROVOKES MUSICAL PROTEST BY KYLE LONG // KLONG@NUVO.NET
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hirty years ago, on September 24, 1987, a 16-year-old Indianapolis resident named Michael Taylor was shot in the head while handcuffed with his hands behind his back in an Indianapolis Police Department patrol car. The police called Taylor’s death a suicide, yet a 1996 civil suit refuted that claim, and ordered the city of Indianapolis to pay Taylor’s mother $4.3 million. The death of Michael Taylor sparked widespread outrage and protest in Indianapolis. One of those voices of protest belonged to John Loflin. In 1990 Loflin co-wrote, and recorded the song “Who Killed Michael Taylor?” with the Indianapolis-based band Reggaenomix. John Loflin came of age in Fountain Square during the 1950s, listening to the country music and folk songs that dominated his white working class neighborhood. By the 1980s, Loflin had branched out from his country roots and began performing with Quasar, a group widely acknowledged as Indianapolis’ first reggae band. Quasar attained significant notoriety in the Midwest, but eventually split up, with several key members moving on to form Reggaenomix. In observance of the 30th anniversary of Michael Taylor’s death, I’m sharing this excerpt of my interview with Loflin, as he describes his motivation for composing “Who Killed Michael Taylor?” KYLE: I want to focus on a song you contributed to the group, and I think this is perhaps the biggest achievement in your musical career. In 1990 Reggaenomix released a cassette-only EP titled Rave, Reggae, Roots, Reality. That EP included a song you co-wrote with Tim Johnson called “Who Killed Michael Taylor?” Give us a little background on the Taylor case, and how you first heard about the incident. JOHN LOFLIN: Sure, and this year marks the 30th anniversary of what I’m calling
a murder. I was teaching at that time up at the Arlington Skill Center. I worked for Clark College. I think it was it was a Thursday, and the news came out that Michael Taylor, who was handcuffed in the backseat of a police car, shot himself with a .32 that the police implied at that time was in his shoe. People were shocked at that. Then The [Indianapolis] Recorder came out with a picture in the paper showing Michael Taylor standing by the police car down there where Virginia, South Street, Fletcher and Shelby Street all come together. At that time Taylor had on a tank top, and shorts, and sneakers with socks. The Recorder published this picture of him and you could see that he didn’t have a .32 in his shoe. They even had a blown up picture of what he was wearing. Even the fact that they took this picture was unusual. I think everybody had the same reaction when The Recorder came out with that photo, “Why is there a picture of Taylor standing by a police car? Why did you take a picture of this guy standing by a police car?” I’ve never seen anything like that. So this happened around the time of the Circle City Classic as well, so there was a lot of people in town. There had also been several police shootings leading up to that time, but nothing ever happened to the police – even after the James Grimes shooting in November of 1981. I also wrote a poem about James Grimes, who was basically killed by the police over a parking ticket. But this Michael Taylor incident was too much. Protesters marched with a coffin and put it on the steps of the police station, whose door at that time was on Alabama Street. The police were very concerned with the big crowds gathering. It was even covered by Dan Rather on the CBS News. Eventually there was a police investigation. The FBI came in, and it came out in the wash that Michael Taylor had killed himself. So that simmered for a long time, and there were still more police shootings after that, but nothing
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ever happened. Really, we didn’t find out the details of the case until nine years later in 1996 when the Taylor family took this to court. They took it to a civil trial, and a jury of six white people said we don’t know who killed him, but he didn’t kill himself. They awarded the family 4.3 million dollars. Even though police said they searched him more than twice, and only found a cigarette lighter and a screwdriver, which was used to steal cars back then — they didn’t find a gun. The city lost that case. KYLE: Right, so let me frame this. It’s 1990, about three years have passed since the death of Michael Taylor. The civil trial hadn’t happened yet, and there are conflicting stories circulating about what happened to Michael Taylor. The police investigation concluded it was a suicide, but you, and many others in the community don’t buy that story. You’re in the band Reggaenomix at this time, and you decide to write a song about the case. What moved you to write that song? JOHN: The obvious fact that he didn’t kill himself. And also, to recognize the
humanity of everybody involved. KYLE: I’m curious how your bandmates reacted to the idea of recording this song. JOHN: They were along in the process of me writing it. I remember we were nervous when we first performed it at the Kilimanjaro Club on College Avenue. We were nervous about performing it publicly, because no one wanted to talk about the obvious fact that Michael Taylor didn’t shoot himself in the head with a .32 that was hidden in a shoe. I remember me and Tim were nervous, because Tim had family members who were in the police department. KYLE: Do you remember how the crowd responded during that first performance? JOHN: No, I don’t remember. But I imagine it was probably quiet, because this was all still new. There was some authenticity in this, a moment in time when you take your art and make it public. The audience could have thrown stuff, walked out, or any number of things. But we had that courage, if you will, to share our art. I think the crowd liked it obviously, because the song later got great reviews. N
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ARTIST // Protomartyr ALBUM // Relatives in Descent LABEL // Domino
ARTIST // Kamasi Washington ALBUM // Harmony of Difference LABEL // Young Turks
THURSDAY // 10.5
THUR.-SAT. // 10.5-7
FRI.-SAT. // 10.6-7
FRI.-SAT. // 10.6-7
SUNDAY // 10.8
SUNDAY // 10.8
MONDAY // 10.9
Joshua Bell with the ISO 11 a.m., Hilbert Circle Theatre, all-ages
Garth Brooks World Tour With Trisha Yearwood times vary, Bankers Life Fieldhouse, all-ages
Indiana Renaissance Faire October 6 - 8
Fountain Square Music Fest October 6 - 7
The Lone Bellow, Mt. Joy 7 p.m., Old National Centre, all-ages
Superjoint, Devildriver, King Parrot, Cane Hill, Child Bite 7 p.m., The Vogue, 21+
Esme Patterson 8 p.m. The Hi-Fi, 21+
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Bishop Briggs, Dr. Dog
Soulful Brooklyn three-
In a show this weekend,
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Bell will perform Bruch’s
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and Phantogram headline
piece The Lone Bellow has
Phil Anselmo’s Superjoint
Steady’s Craig Finn last
Scottish Fantasy (conduced
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this year’s FSMF, for which
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available. There’s lots of
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the antics of Australia’s
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be more the casual-sym-
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Kids, Richard Edwards, Lily
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and you’ve got yourself one
and head to Ruoff Home
and Madeleine, Why? and
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hell of nasty show.
this weekend-long fest.
WEDNESDAY // 10.4 Stephen Kellogg, Emily Hearn, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Soul Under the Influence Showcase, Fountain Square Brewing Co., 21+ The Funk Quarter, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Van Gordon Martin, Melody Inn, 21+ Perturbator, The Secrecy, Summon the Destroy, Taps Live, 21+
THURSDAY // 10.5 Warr3n, Fyah Flame, TMC, Misfit Music, Lady Tee, FPH, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Eliza Neals and The Narcotics, The Rathskeller, 21+ HoneyHoney, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Mike Gordon, The Vogue, 21+ Boz Scaggs, Old National Centre, all-ages Kalya Scintilla, Mousetrap, 21+ Boz Scaggs, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, all-ages
Conexion, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Hail Sagan, Melody Inn, 21+ Metaphonic Workshop, State Street Pub, 21+ Japanese Breakfast, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ The Shake-Ups Play The Beatles, Radio Radio, 21+
FRIDAY // 10.6 Soul Street, The District Tap, 21+ Rob Dixon, Eskenazi, all-ages Full Moon FloomBoom, Cat Head Press, all-ages Hillbilly Happy Hour, Melody Inn, 21+ Lollipop Factory, Snakeskin Cowboy, Vinyl Shrine, Melody Inn, 21+ The Shakeups and Frank Dean Celebrate The Beatles, Radio Radio, 21+ Theory of a Deadman, Old National Centre, all-ages Wild Adriatic, Fountain Square Music Center, 21+ Trippin’ Billies, The Vogue, 21+ The Simon and
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Garfunkel Story, Emens Auditorium, all-ages Dave Stryker Organ Quartet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ The Why Store, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ The Young Band, Coal Yard Coffee, all-ages
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SATURDAY // 10.7 The Hit Men, Franklin Performing Arts Center, all-ages Aaron Lewis, Hoosier Park Racing and Casino, all-ages High South, The Rathskeller, 21+
The Wondrous World of John Williams, The Palladium, 21+ Sin: Ergy Saturdays, Cadillac Ranch, 21+ Sixteen Candles, The Vogue, 21+
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Smoking Popes, Tiger Sex, The Run Up, Melody Inn, 21+ September Sky, Pragmatic, Radio Radio, 21+ Conrank: The Big Smoke Fall Tour, Mousetrap, 21+ Joshua Bell with The ISO, Hilbert Circle Theatre, all-ages
SUNDAY // 10.8 Social Repose, Emerson Theater, all-ages Coyote Man, 11th Plague, Dot Connector, Replaced by Robots, Melody Inn, 21+ Everett Greene, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ The Babe Rainbow, Maybird, Square Cat Vinyl, all-ages Zeke, Against the Grain, The Mound Builders, Hatesong, Carnahan Hall, all-ages
MONDAY // 10.9
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You wouldn’t expect a five-year-old child to paint a facsimile of Picasso’s Guernica or sing Puccini’s opera, La Boheme. Similarly, you shouldn’t fault your companions and you for not being perfect masters of the art of intimate relationships. In fact, most of us are amateurs. We may have taken countless classes in math, science, literature, and history, but have never had a single lesson from teachers whose area of expertise is the hard work required to create a healthy partnership. I mention this, Aries, because the next seven weeks will be an excellent time for you to remedy this deficiency. Homework assignments: What can you do to build your emotional intelligence? How can you learn more about the art of creating vigorous togetherness? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slow down and create a wealth of spacious serenity. Use an unhurried, step-by-step approach to soothe yourself. With a glint in your eye and a lilt in your voice, say sweet things to yourself. In a spirit of play and amusement, pet and pamper yourself as you would a beloved animal. Can you handle that much self-love, Taurus? I think you can. It’s high time for you to be a genius of relaxation, attending tenderly to all the little details that make you feel at ease and in love with the world. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “If an angel were to tell us something of his philosophies, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13.” So said the German scientist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799). Now maybe you don’t believe in the existence of angels, and so you imagine his idea doesn’t apply to you. But I’m here to tell you that an influence equivalent to an angel will soon appear in your vicinity. Maybe it’ll be a numinous figure in your dreams, or a charismatic person you admire, or a vivid memory resurrected in an unexpected form, or a bright fantasy springing to life. And that “angel” will present a proposition that sounds like 2 x 2 = 13. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Unless you have an off-road vehicle, you can’t drive directly from North America to South America. The Pan-American Highway stretches from Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina — a distance of about 19,000 miles — except for a 100-mile patch of swampy rainforest in Panama. I’d like to call your attention to a comparable break in continuity that affects your own inner terrain, Cancerian -- a grey area where two important areas of your life remain unlinked. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to close the gap. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Based in Korea, Samsung is a world leader in selling smartphones and other information technology. But it didn’t start out that way. In its original form, back in 1938, it primarily sold noodles and dried fish. By 1954, it had expanded into wool manufacturing. More than three decades after its launch as a company, it further diversified, adding electronics to its repertoire. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the next ten months should be an excellent time for you to do the equivalent of branching out from noodles and dried fish to electronics. And the coming six weeks will be quite favorable for formulating your plans and planting your seeds. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In my opinion, you’re not quite ready to launch full-tilt into the rebuilding phase. You still have a bit more work to do on tearing down the old stuff that’s in the way of where the new stuff will go. So I recommend that you put an “Under Construction” sign outside your door, preferably with flashing yellow lights. This should provide you with protection from those who don’t understand the complexity of the process you’re engaged in.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re a good candidate for the following roles: 1. a skeptical optimist who is both discerning and open-minded; 2. a robust truth-teller who specializes in interesting truths; 3. a charming extremist who’s capable of solving stubborn riddles; 4. a smooth operator who keeps everyone calm even as you initiate big changes; 5. an enlightened game-player who reforms or avoids games that abuse beauty’s power. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Actress and author Carrie Fisher wrote three autobiographies. Speed skating Olympics star Apolo Anton Ohno published his autobiography at age 20. The rascal occultist Aleister Crowley produced an “autohagiography.” To understand that odd term, keep in mind that “hagiography” is an account of the life of a saint, so adding “auto” means it’s the biography of a saint penned by the saint himself. I’m bringing up these fun facts in hope of encouraging you to ruminate at length on your life story. If you don’t have time to write a whole book, please take a few hours to remember in detail the gloriously twisty path you have trod from birth until now. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the best way to heal what needs to be healed is to steep yourself in a detailed meditation on the history of your mysterious destiny. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you go to the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Germany, you will see a jug of wine that was bottled in 1687. In accordance with astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest that you find a metaphorical version of this vintage beverage — and then metaphorically drink it! In my opinion, it’s time for you to partake of a pleasure that has been patiently waiting for you to enjoy it. The moment is ripe for you to try an experience you’ve postponed, to call in favors that have been owed to you, to finally do fun things you’ve been saving for the right occasion. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If a late-night TV talk show called and asked me to be a guest, I’d say no. If People magazine wanted to do a story on me, I’d decline. What good is fame like that? It might briefly puff up my ego, but it wouldn’t enhance my ability to create useful oracles for you. The notoriety that would come my way might even distract me from doing what I love to do. So I prefer to remain an anonymous celebrity, as I am now, addressing your deep self with my deep self. My messages are more valuable to you if I remain an enigmatic ally instead of just another cartoony media personality. By the way, I suspect you’ll soon face a comparable question. Your choice will be between what’s flashy and what’s authentic; between feeding your ego and feeding your soul. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A Canadian guy named Harold Hackett likes to put messages in bottles that he throws out into the Atlantic Ocean from his home on Prince Edward island. Since he started in 1996, he has dispatched over 5,000 missives into the unknown, asking the strangers who might find them to write back to him. To his delight, he has received more than 3,000 responses from as far away as Russia, Scotland, and West Africa. I suspect that if you launch a comparable mission sometime soon, Aquarius, your success rate wouldn’t be quite that high, but still good. What long-range inquiries or invitations might you send out in the direction of the frontier? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Intensify” is one of your words of power these days. So are “fortify,” “reinforce,” and “buttress.” Anything you do to intensify your devotion and focus will be rewarded by an intensification of life’s gifts to you. As you take steps to fortify your sense of security and stability, you will activate dormant reserves of resilience. If you reinforce your connections with reliable allies, you will set in motion forces that will ultimately bring you help you didn’t even know you needed. If you buttress the bridge that links your past and future, you will ensure that your old way of making magic will energize your new way.
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