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[Editor’s note: While we are aware that there are in fact three candidates for U.S. Senate in Indiana, the focus of this piece is on Republican Todd Young. The assumption is made that based on his past Senate history, Democrat Evan Bayh would certainly act on nominations. And Lucy Brenton is a Libertarian; as a party, they believe in the strict adherence to the U.S. Constitution, which dictates the Supreme Court nomination process.]
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have plenty of friends who are Republicans. But as some may have guessed, many of my Republican friends are embarrassed by their presidential nominee. I feel their pain. So what’s a smart and logical, yet loyal Republican voter to do? Among my friends who still plan to vote for Donald Trump, it is common for them to say their main reason is to “protect the court.” This means that the one thing they want from Trump, and apparently trust him to do successfully, is to nominate quality members to our highest court. Sort of, that is. Many of my conservative friends claim to subscribe to either a “strict constructionist” approach to judicial review, or more appropriately the “original intent” perspective of our founding document. The late Justice Antonin Scalia and current Justice Clarence Thomas get labeled as constructionists, though Scalia took issue with that word. The reason for this reference is that the original intent of the appointment process
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was specifically to limit, if not eliminate, politics from the judicial branch. Additionally, the lifetime appointments were specifically designed for that purpose, so that the court could act on principles of law without fear of repercussion when the result may be unpopular or antipartisan. The court first convened on Feb. 2, 1790. From 1789 through 1970, the average tenure of a Supreme Court justice was just under 15 years. Since then, the average amount of time served is just over 26 years. On average, a president appoints 2.6 justices during his or her (I love writing that) term. President Jimmy Carter is the only president to not make an appointment to the court in the last 147 years. President Andrew Johnson never got his chance either. The modern trend is expected to continue. So are my reluctant Trump supporters right? Should we cast our votes in a couple of weeks with the assembly of the bench in mind? To some extent, the answer is yes. But only with regard to appointing capable and quality justices. Too many voters think that
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With the general election now days away, one can only wonder if Mike Pence is asking himself if this crazy roller coaster ride he embarked on in July has been worth it. And the answer to his own question is YES. Trump resurrected a dying political career. Pence’s future was doomed as his re-election as governor was doomed and DESPAIR-O-METER RATING: MELLOW his career would not have survived the loss. Now, regardless of next Tuesday’s outcome, Pence has a future as his party’s leader within or outside of the White House. Well played Mikey, well played. 6 VOICES // 11.02.16 - 11.09.16 // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
a justice appointed by Trump will be an unconditional crusader for pro-gun and pro-life policies. And my point here today is that this assumption is made in error. First, jurists are not policy makers. Even those who are described as “activists” do not get to legislate freely as if they were elected to Congress. They issue decisions based on the matters brought before them. And circumstances change. People change. Even Supreme Court justices’ minds change. Justice Thomas is celebrating his 25th anniversary on the court this week, and he has been committed to his “original intent” approach for that entire quarter century. But Justice Anthony Kennedy preceded Thomas on the court, and he has continued to famously evolve during his time. Kennedy, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, wrote the landmark majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, making same-sex marriage legal in America. Chief Justice John Roberts, appointed by President George W. Bush, wrote not one, but two majority opinions upholding aspects of the Affordable Care Act. Judging by the stakes put on the judicial appointment process in this election season, this sort of thing would seem almost treasonous to today’s GOP. But it isn’t. Conservative judges and liberal judges alike, who are historically worthy of appointment to the high court, are usually thinkers. Thinking people, who are not beholden to partisanship, are usually
prone to decisions that make sense, at least constitutionally speaking. In November, we are not voting for Scalia’s replacement. We are voting to elect a president and a U.S. senator who will have constitutional responsibilities to uphold in the appointment process. Those are two very different things. What has occurred in the Senate since Scalia’s passing is dissapointing. As a people, we generally look down on walkouts, shutdowns, filibusters, and blockades. I never trusted Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, when he said the next president should fill the vacancy. He clearly announced that with the thought that the next president would be the GOP’s guy, and not the Democrats’ woman. I believed before McConnell’s Feb. 14 blockade announcement that Hillary Clinton would be the next president. It was predictable. And a Madame President would be an equally undesirable scenario for McConnell and an identical result for America: a continued blockade by the Senate. That is unless control of the Senate changes also. Bluntly, Congressman Todd Young should be required to disclose his intentions regarding this matter before Election Day. He is running for the U.S Senate, and that body is required to provide “advice and consent” on nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court. Does Young believe the Senate should act on nominations or not? This is the job for which he is running. He either wants the job or he doesn’t. n
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A mobile art exhibit tells the stories of bus riders SKIP MCKINNEY FACULTY OF THE YEAR AWARD
Editor’s note: NUVO’s publisher Kevin McKinney is the son of Arlene “Skip” McKinney and was one of the deciding family judges for the award. The sixth annual Skip McKinney Faculty of the Year Award has been given to Indianapolis Art Center teacher Ben Johnson, who oversees the glass department. The award includes $20,000 and a solo art show in the fall of 2017. The McKinney family gives the award in honor of Arlene “Skip” McKinney, who used to take classes at the Art Center. Finalists were interviewed by the family and chosen based on their artwork, teaching and community building. “I was shocked, stunned, it was amazing,” says Johnson, recalling the award unveiling on Friday, Oct. 28. “This would have been my third time up for the award.” But that hasn’t discouraged him from applying. According to Johnson the application process has rewards within itself. “It helps you reflect on yourself, your community and what you do for the Art Center and how much of a family it is here,” says Johnson. The Art Center has played a large part in Johnson’s artistic career. He took his first glass class at the Center 16 years ago. Today, in addition to running the studio, Johnson teaches a sheet glass class (for all levels) and advanced classes. Johnson first attended IUPUI for business before moving to Herron, which had no glass program. Soon after Johnson transferred to Kent State where he was able to study glassblowing. “It’s really a material that we find, and the normal person comes into contact with in their everyday life,” says Johnson. “Glass is all around us. There are some amazing things done with glass, that are industrial, that we take for granted. I really want to show people that it’s limitless.” And that is part of Johnson’s goal with the $20,000 award. The three goals he stated in the application were to: spend more time with family, continuing education and make professional quality glasswork himself. Four other teachers were finalists for the fellowship: Robert Reiberg, Debbie Kirby, Dan Fifer and Bianca Dudeck-Mandity. They will receive $1,000 each. — EMILY TAYLOR
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very day, thousands of citizens get on and off IndyGo buses, simply going about their day-to-day lives. But in addition to whatever personal belongings they may have on them, each and every one of these riders also carries a story, encompassing who they are and why they happen to call Indianapolis home. This concept is ultimately at the heart of a mobile Spirit & Place Festival exhibit titled Moving Stories, which will feature stories from community members sharing what defines Indy as their collective home. From Nov. 5 - 13, these personal anecdotes will be shared through images and quotes on bus routes, at the Transit Center and on social media, allowing the public to connect with them. Having long been an advocate of community engagement, Marian University Writing Center director Mark Latta initially approached IndyGo with the idea for this project after having several personal interactions of his own on the bus. “Engaging in dialogue allowed me to see the bus as a site of culture, and that people could gather onto the bus and share information and talk about their day and talk about their frustrations,” he says. “And then, they would leave, and they would carry those stories with them.” With this in mind, he assembled a group of about 40 volunteers, with the help of IndyGo, who would be given the task of riding buses and collecting stories from various strangers that they interacted with. Before heading out onto the buses Latta gave each of the volunteers some pointers in sparking up conversation. According to IndyGo communications specialist Allison Potteiger, who has also played a big part in making Moving Stories come to life, Latta encouraged volunteers to start out with questions like: “How long have you been living in Indianapolis?” and “Where are you headed today?” From here, they would hopefully then be able to dive into deeper questions like “Why do you consider Indy to be your home?” and “How does mass transit play a role in that?” “Having these conversations at the
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Transit Center and on the buses was very interesting because you had this short timeframe to have a conversation,” says Potteiger. “And because time was of the essence, really interesting stories and perspectives came out that probably wouldn’t normally have happened if you would’ve set up an interview.” As a result of this approach, family and community were two common topics that often emerged in these conversations, which came as quite a surprise to Potteiger. “I expected people to say, ‘I like to go to the library because I like to check out books,’ but you kind of got a glimpse into people’s lives and got to know them a little bit just by their answers,” she says. In particular, Latta cites a conversation he had with a father who responded to his question of “What does home mean?” “For him, home meant being a father to his daughter,” says Latta. “He replied, ‘I wanted to be a father to my daughter. I wanted to break the chain and say it stops with me. So I moved here. I stepped up and did what a father does.’”
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Through Moving Stories, Indy residents will be able to read anecdotes like the one above all over town. According to Latta and Potteiger, there will be about 15 stories on display at the Transit Center, with photos accompanying each. Additionally, stories can be seen on the backs of certain buses (where ads typically are displayed), on placards inside of certain buses and on social media, giving everyone a chance to check them out. “You wouldn’t think about it unless you worked in transit, but our buses change every day because it’s literally based on mileage,” Potteiger says. “So the stories will likely be on just about every route [at some point].” In reflecting on the potential impact of Moving Stories, Latta is hopeful that the exhibit can put more of a human face to public transportation, especially considering the city’s future plans. “Public transportation is really about moving people where they want to go and where they need to go,” he says. This being said, both he and Potteiger would like to see the project eventually evolve into something more in the future. “This has really opened up the doors of what we can do and how we can get to know our riders better,” Potteiger concludes. “I truly hope this is something that morphs into something more, but we’ll see at this point. We’ve gotta get through this hurdle first.” n
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ndiana Repertory Theatre producer Janet Allen’s enthusiasm is contagious, especially when it comes to the upcoming bicentennial extravaganza Finding Home — a play written by 29 Indiana writers. “Many years ago, we began commissioning and producing plays that were in some way related to Indiana — be it history, setting, or Indiana writers, for only a few examples. We knew the bicentennial would soon be on the horizon and so we wanted a truly special, memorable event,” says Allen. “Finding Home is the culmination of numerous collaborations and interactions with others — and while we wanted to do something theatrically, we knew how much work it was going to be — so we really went for it,” says Allen. “We knew asking only one writer would be a folly, so we approached 50 writers and Finding Home showcases at least 30 of those talented, unique voices.” The writers themselves are not necessarily playwrights either, according to Allen. They are creative writers, poets, journalists, historians, academics, to name just a few types — so it is this “rich soup of folks” Allen says, that forms the foundation of this anthology and brings in something for everyone. “While the writing is a large part of this show, the music is also a major component,” says Allen. Actor and musician Tim Grimm, along with his Family Band, is part of the nightly highenergy-boost, live-performance aspect of Finding Home. Grimm’s brand of whimsy, folksy Americana in the vein of Woody Guthrie includes 12 songs. “It’s not just biographies, but there is a political base and social commentary to Grimm’s work, too,” Allen says. Grimm’s musical topics run the gamut from sweet corn and Ernie Pyle to The Fall Creek Massacre and Indianapolis 500. It’s variety like this that is the secret ingredient to Finding Home. Allen and others are quite pleased with this. As is
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Finding Home’s curator James Still, who was on the front lines of the production, helping the IRT find their way through the anthology. “James helped us sequence this multilayered quilt, showed how pieces connected, how threads were woven through and how contrast was also apparent,” Allen says. Finding Home actually has two versions showing at the IRT — the blue production and the gold production. Each version tells different stories and 70 percent of the show is unique to that production. Viewers don’t have to see them in sequence, each is a self-contained storyline. “This isn’t sanitized Indiana history, nor is this just an encyclopedia of facts,” says Allen. “We asked writers to respond to burning questions of Indiana culture, heritage and history, and we got it. For
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example, certain pieces are race-based and even discuss the Klan history and presence. We wanted strong viewpoints from our writers in order to provoke real conversations, so real people can have real discussions. We don’t stop there, either. We talk about placement, displacement, immigration, culture, preservation and decimation of natural resources.” The writers took well-known icons and gave them new life, looked at them from a fresh angle; and still other writers took pieces of the unknown and turned them into revelations. “We didn’t tell our writers how to write about the topics they chose,” says Allen. “For example, writer Tom Horan took on the Indianapolis 500 arena and decided to write about Janet Guthrie — the first female driver. Characters, conversation starters and deep reflection is the name of the game during and after Finding Home.” According to Allen, much of Finding Home is a “joyous celebration and other parts are truly hard-hitting insights” meant to surprise and provoke critical thought and responses. n NUVO // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // 11.02.16 - 11.09.16 // BOOKS 9
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DO WE REALLY SUPPORT LOCAL? I just finished eating a great lunch at a locally owned restaurant in a prominent and popular area of the city. I walked through the door and was promptly greeted by the man behind the counter with a friendly “Hello.” I waved a greeting and looked up at the menu which consisted of dozens of options including sandwiches, salads and even fresh seafood. I was having a bit of trouble deciding what to get when the man asked if I had been in before. I let him know it was my first time and he was quick to walk me through the menu, make suggestions and let me know the specials of the day. I decided to go for a shrimp sub. He took my payment and headed back to the kitchen to prepare my food. I took a seat. About five minutes later he walked out and sat a huge sub in front of me full of shrimp, cheese, lettuce, mushrooms, peppers, onions and other veggie toppings. It was warm and the bread had a nice crunch. The meal, which cost me $8, was too much for me to even finish and it was freaking delicious. Not the be-all-end-all of meals, but a good, quality meal. While I was eating, he came over to make sure I was enjoying the meal. I let him know it was wonderful. When I left he thanked me and said he hoped I would come back soon. I told him I would for sure. And I will. As I walked through the door I had a wave of sadness wash over me, because the entire time I was enjoying my time at this meal, I was the only person in the restaurant. At noon, in Broad Ripple, on a weekday. I looked next door at the chain Mexican restaurant and it was packed. I walked down to the chain coffee shop and it was packed. I drove by the other chain Mexican joint, and it was packed. The chain noodle spot on the corner had a full parking lot. And yet, I had just had a great, inexpensive meal at a place that is new and locally owned by, I’m guessing, the guy who helped me, cooked for me, served me and thanked me. Why does this happen? I see a local person doing all of the right things, being friendly, cooking fresh food (instead of slopping out toppings that have been sitting in a vat all day), giving customers discounts if they come in in their Halloween costumes, offering lunch specials, letting customers know he is happy to have them in his establishment. And yet people crowd into these places that are owned by huge corporations that see nothing but dollar signs. Sure, the place I went to today maybe took a bit longer than the average meal. But that’s fine when the finished product is tasty. I just can’t begin to understand why this happens. Why we, as consumers, choose to go to places that don’t care about us at all. Why we support places time and time again that are of lower quality. When are we going to start truly supporting local and making Indianapolis a place where chains no longer want to open? I guess we’ve started, but it needs to happen quicker before we lose quality local establishments.
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riton is increasing its brewing capacity to meet its growing distribution within Indiana and to expand distribution into Kentucky and Ohio along with broadening its neighborhood service base. The “official release” from the State of Indiana reads: “Triton Brewing Company, a traditional community-based production brewery, announced plans today [Oct. 16] to grow its brewing and distribution operations in Indiana. The company, which recently celebrated its five-year anniversary, has increased its production nearly tenfold since 2011, and its beer is now available in more than 1,500 local and national retailers statewide. Triton Brewing Company, which has brewed more than 1,100 batches representing 128 of its brands since 2011, will invest $435,000 over the next three years at its Indianapolis
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facility near Fort Benjamin Harrison…” David Waldman, chief of Triton operations, emailed: “Basically, the State of Indiana made some training dollars and tax incentives available to us as we expand and add jobs. This expansion will include adding additional equipment, a kitchen at the brewery and staff to support this growth. The expansion will help us to provide a greater level of service to our patrons and our partners in the State of Indiana and to begin to develop distribution outside of the state in Kentucky and eventually Ohio.” Here are Waldman’s replies to NUVO’s specific queries about the excitement and challenges ahead:
products can be found statewide in Indiana. Our distribution partners, World Class Beverages/Monarch and Indiana Beverage have done an impressive job helping us “cast our net” in Indiana. Indiana Beverage [distribution of Triton beers] is up around 19% in the north end of the state [since beginning of 2016]. About 60% of our product is package. Bottles and cans have found their way into the small retailers, groceries and the big box stores. Bottles are still the biggest part of our package sales, but cans are gaining popularity in the market. We put different brands in bottles and cans, with the exception of the Rail Splitter IPA. The flagship goes in both bottles and cans.
NUVO: Are there particular regions within Indiana you are targeting for expansion?
NUVO: Why are Triton brews “warm shelf” safe for sale in grocery stories, etc?
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tion of reasons why Triton Brewing products are safe on the “warm shelf.” First, we use our laboratory work to ensure that only the highest quality product leaves the brewery. This laboratory work ensures that the product will have the best shelf life possible. Triton Brewing has instituted a “best by” date on the labels for all of our package to ensure that we know when the product is best. We prefer that consumers enjoy the product on or before that date so that the quality and freshness are at the peak levels and the beer is less than 90 days old. Our distributors agree to destroy package after 90 days as a final layer of quality control. We take this very, very seriously and regularly audit our package dates and assist our distributors in maintaining the high level of expectation.
WALDMAN: There will be some floor displays around this fall/winter at various retailers. These placements are done on a case by case basis (excuse the pun).
NUVO: Are you planning special sale kiosks featuring Triton to set Triton apart from “lost on shelf space”?
NUVO: Will you target specific brands for expansion?
NUVO: Where do you hope to expand? WALDMAN: Currently we are only in the state of Indiana. We are focusing initially on Kentucky and then Ohio. Each state has its own set of laws related to craft beer and its own collection of distributors. Making the move out of state requires gaining a basic knowledge of the laws related to our product in that particular state and finding a distribution partner that “jives well” with our culture and philosophy. Choosing the right partner to move your product can be the difference between success and and failure in a market.
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We believe that in addition to exceptional beer, our patrons deserve an exceptional experience. We strive to exceed all expectations from our patrons. — DAVID WALDMAN
WALDMAN: Every market is a little different. In some neighborhoods, cans are king. In other neighborhoods it’s bottles only. Different brands play well in different areas, too. Through discussions with our distribution partners we tailor the brands to the market. This is part of the nuance that you negotiate when you expand your footprint and look at new markets.
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NUVO: What kind of food will you feature at the Fort Ben production site? What will be the Broad Ripple Tap Room’s role in expansion plans? Will food trucks still pull up? WALDMAN: Developing a kitchen seems to be the natural progression of things. We are developing the menu as we speak. With housing construction going on all around the brewery, it makes sense that we add to the services we provide and the kitchen is the next step. During the development and budgeting stage we are looking at a simple, fresh and diverse menu. Pairing the food with the beer is essential, as is cooking with it. We will also have kids options to further enhance the familyfriendly aspect of what we do. At the brewery in Lawrence we have indoor seating for 70. When the weather is nice, we gain another 30 seats in the beer garden. We will never forget our relationship with the food trucks and we hope to book them for special events, etc. … Triton Tap is very much its own “beast.” In many ways it is a laboratory that we can try new things. The lessons that we learn and the expansion will inevitably have an impact
on our Broad Ripple location. The significance of that impact is yet to be revealed. NUVO: What sets Triton brews apart from other craft beers? What has been the driving force for a growing loyal patronage base for Triton? WALDMAN: Quality and consistency have been our “watch words” since we started. This drives everything that we do. From tempering the water that we use to produce our product to how the product fares on the shelf, our unyielding focus on the quality and consistency over the life of product is essential to who we are. This combined with more than 30 years of commercial brewing and packaging experience in a company that is just celebrating our fifth anniversary gives Triton Brewing Company a unique position in our markets. NUVO: What has been your business model to best serve? WALDMAN: We believe that in addition to exceptional beer, our patrons deserve an exceptional experience. We strive to exceed all expectations from our patrons. We are blessed to be living our dream and we want to share those blessings with our consumers and communities. Educating our staff, at all levels, about the products and processes has also been a considerable benefit. Ultimately it is about the quality and consistency of the product, but service and presentation are also critically important. n
WHY SHOULD YOU VOTE ON TUESDAY? NUVO’S GUIDE TO ELECTION DAY BY NUVO EDITORS ALL PHOTOS BY MARK A. LEE
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lection Day is November 8. We’ll say that again, for posterity. Election. Day. Is. November. 8. After the 2014 midterm elections, Indiana was awarded a dubious badge of honor: lowest voter turnout in the nation. Only 28 percent of Hoosiers turned out to vote; 43 percent of state House and Senate races were uncontested. Just a guess: Next Tuesday isn’t going to be like that. In fact, election officials have warned that there are so many expected absentee ballots that results may take more than a day to count. We’ll be real with you. It’s been an exhausting, seemingly interminable, exciting, demoralizing, troubling elec-
tion cycle. Starting with the primaries, Indiana played a role on a national scale. Bernie Sanders scored a surprising victory here. Donald Trump claimed victory over Ted Cruz, who dropped out shortly after. Then Governor Mike Pence was announced as Trump’s running mate, which caused a seat-filling scramble. Add in Evan Bayh’s surprising re-entry into the Senate race after Coats’ announced retirement, and you’ve got quite a big year for the Hoosier state. After all the craziness, we wanted to simplify our election coverage as much as possible for Marion County voters. In this year’s election guide, we outlined both questions on the ballot,
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then identified 12 key races in the state, and broke down the candidates’ positions on core issues very simply. Threaded throughout our coverage, you’ll see a photo essay by Mark A. Lee featuring Hoosiers personifying issues that have defined this election cycle. See more of those shots on NUVO.net. Hillary vs. The Donald has claimed much of the attention in 2016’s dramatic Russian-hack-filled race. But there are many, many local elections at stake that will impact life in Central Indiana just as much as the presidency. NUVO’s Editorial Board encourages you to get informed, wake up early and go vote on Tuesday.
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• SHOULD INDIANA ALTER ITS CONSTITUTION FOR HUNTERS? PG 14 • NUVO’S GUIDE TO THE ISSUES PG 16 • WHAT’S AT STAKE IN THE TRANSIT REFERENDUM? PG 18 • THE RACE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL PG 20 • SUPERINTENDENT IMPACTS HOOSIER KIDS PG 21 • TODD YOUNG SHOULD COMMENT ON SUPREME COURT PG 6 ON NUVO.NET • MAKE SURE YOUR WRITE-IN VOTE COUNTS • READ UP ON STRAIGHT-TICKET VOTING CHANGE • HOOSIER VOTER FRAUD INVESTIGATED • WHERE AND WHEN TO EARLY VOTE
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DOES THE INDIANA CONSTITUTION NEED AMENDING? PUBLIC QUESTION 1 ALTERS STATE CONSTITUTION FOR HUNTING AND FISHING BY LORI LOVELY • NEWS@NUVO.NET Jerryd Shoup is a local musician.
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ublic Question 1, the Indiana Right to Hunt and Fish Amendment, will be on the ballot on November 8. If it passes, an amendment would be added to the Indiana Bill of Rights, guaranteeing citizens the constitutional right to hunt, fish and trap animals, subject to regulations promoting wildlife conservation and management. Public hunting and fishing would be the preferred method of wildlife management under the amendment. “The language seems innocuous,” observes Erin Huang, state director of the Humane Society. “It seems legitimate … but everybody already has the right to hunt. Do we need to be doing that for something we’re not having a problem with?” It’s a symbolic preventive measure against a future ban on hunting, believes Tim Maloney, senior policy director for the Hoosier Environmental Council. “It’s a theoretical concern. No states have prohibited hunting and there is no evidence of shutting down hunting or fishing. It’s far-fetched to think that hunting and fishing are in danger and need efforts to protect them.” Huang says the National Rifle Association, which has spearheaded the effort to “forever preserve” the right to hunt and fish for 20 years, is spreading unsubstantiated fear that their rights are under attack in order to pass this amendment.
“It’s a threat that doesn’t exist.” “The wording of the measure is very deceptive and leads people to believe that hunting rights are being challenged, which is not the case at all,” says Joel Kerr, executive director of Indiana Animal Rights Alliance. Supporters of the amendment feel otherwise. In a statement, Catherine Mortensen, spokesperson for the NRA, said: “Groups like PETA and the Humane Society were going after these laws, sort of in an incremental way. Hunting and fishing and harvesting of wildlife are part of the American fabric. We do feel it’s increasingly under attack by well-organized, well-funded anti-hunting groups.” Because it is already legal to hunt and fish, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals co-founder and president, Ingrid Newkirk considers the attempt to change the Constitution a “sign of recognition that the public is sick of the cruelty they see and the cavalier attitude some fishers and hunters have to wildlife, including a disregard for basic conservation laws and those who uphold wildlife regulations.” She says that as the animal rights movement grows stronger, hunters and fishers fear a ban, but “if it’s in the Constitution, it is a right, not a privilege.” That makes it harder to take away. It could also cause problems later by opening the door to costly lawsuits
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against the state against any and all hunting restrictions and limitations, such as deer season. “The problem is, it invites lawsuits,” Huang says. “It invites problems; people will challenge limits and restrictions, so the state will spend money on defense.” Any right demands a much greater burden of proof by the government to regulate. The amendment would “limit the ability of the state to protect the lives of endangered species and non-game animals and make it harder for the DNR to do their job,” Maloney foresees. It also “ties the wildlife officials’ hands,” Huang believes, because the amendment proposes to make hunting the preferred method of wildlife control. This would give hunting precedence ahead of non-lethal forms of wildlife management — such as relocation, fencing and contraception — and may interfere in future efforts to find new ways to manage wildlife. The amendment may also limit the ability of local municipalities to pass their own laws to protect wildlife in their area as they see fit. “It ties their hands in being creative to humanely manage wildlife.” However, according to Phil Bloom, director of communications for the Department of Natural Resources, a “unique clause” in the proposed legislation renders the amendment subject to the laws of the General Assembly — spe-
cifically, Indiana Code 14, Natural and Cultural Resources. “It would have no impact on how we handle wildlife,” he insists. “It doesn’t change our statutory authority.” Therefore, he concludes, the DNR has no position on the amendment. If it passes, we may not see changes, Maloney speculates, “but you never know what the courts will do. Wildlife hasn’t suffered as a result, but it could happen. There could be court challenges.” It goes without saying that the animal welfare community is opposed to Question 1. The Humane Society spoke out against this legislation. The Hoosier Environmental Council testified against it. Kerr worries that it could strip the rights of local residents to use non-lethal methods of wildlife management or of municipalities to pass wildlife management ordinances different from those passed by the General Assembly. “Rather than providing rights, this amendment will take away rights of local communities to make their own decisions about wildlife management.” Among the concerns raised is the belief that hunting and fishing don’t rise to the level of a right (like speech). “They are already protected by the law,” Maloney reiterates. “It’s inappropriate to seek protection for them. It trivializes the importance of rights when you introduce things like this.”
Calling the amendment “completely unnecessary,” Kerr hypothesizes that “the only reason it’s on the ballot is because our legislators did a favor for the NRA and animal agriculture lobbyists.” Several of Indiana’s legislators are NRA members, Maloney says. “Many don’t feel [the amendment is] needed, but they don’t want to be seen as not supporting hunting and fishing. It’s seen as a symbolic act by legislators who are not fervent gun supporters but believe in traditional hunting and fishing.” He says this legislation has been “talked about for 10-20 years,” but only recently gained momentum, thanks in part to support from the NRA and Protect the Harvest, a group dedicated to assisting “in the fight for the rights of America’s farmers, ranchers, animal owners and sportsmen/sportswomen,” which he says lobbied for the legislation. Maloney also accuses founder Forrest Lucas of making significant campaign contributions to Indiana legislators in an attempt to influence them on the issue. Powerful oil tycoon Lucas is also involved in pushing his agenda in Massachusetts; according to a Boston newspaper report, he has spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat proposals aimed at banning puppy mills, restricting hunting and curtailing farming practices.” Most recently, he is helping fund an “11th-hour effort to defeat a ballot question that would ban the use of cage confinement for farm animals.” In order to place a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on the ballot in Indiana, it must be passed by a simple
majority of the members elected to each of the two chambers over two legislative sessions. In 2005, both the state House and Senate passed measures to change the constitution to include the right to hunt and fish. But it failed in 2007. It was revived two years ago when the canned hunting battle reached a climax. The bid was approved in 2015 and then again in March 2016, earning a place on the ballot this fall. Hunting and fishing in Indiana constitute an almost-$1 billionper-year industry and support more than 14,000 jobs. This is one of the top ten deer-hunting states in the nation. Indiana isn’t alone in considering legislation. Kansas will have a similar amendment on its ballot this year. Nineteen other states already have constitutional provisions providing for the right to hunt and fish, with Vermont becoming the first back in 1777. (The other eighteen adopted amendments since 1996.) Californian and Rhode Island have constitutional amendments guaranteeing the right to fish, but not to hunt. Florida and New Hampshire have statutes that proclaim a right to hunt and fish, but neither has a constitutional amendment stating that. While states seem to be adopting these provisions one by one, Huang says the Humane Society continues to make people aware of what it means to amend the constitution and what this particular amendment could mean for wildlife. It’s a matter of how much research people do and how deeply they think about it, she believes. “Remember, the Right to Farm didn’t pass.”
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his election cycle, NUVO chose 12 key races in the state to follow, identified issues important to NUVO readers and plotted the candidates’ positions on a grid. We chose the races for a variety of reasons: because of their level of impact for all Hoosiers; because of controversial seats and figures; and because of proximity to Marion County. Candidates’ positions were gleaned from a combination of survey responses to NUVO, interviews given during the election cycle, published platforms, speeches, voting records, debate performances and other public statements. In some cases, questions do not apply to each candidate, or their positions could not be found. In those instances we’ve left positions blank. In many instances, a candidate’s opinion on a given issue is nuanced. Our grid attempts to simplify their positions as much as possible to provide the highest utility for voters. Two races — Attorney General and State Superintendent — are profiled separately on pages 20 and 21. We hope you’ll take this issue with you into the ballot box when you’re making your choices for public office this Tuesday. Find more election resources online at NUVO.net, including information on which write-in candidates will be counted.
WOMEN’S RIGHTS Since Pence introduced a bill to defund federal funding for Planned Parenthood in Congress in 2011, women’s access to reproductive healthcare has been under attack in Indiana. The signing of HEA1337 heralded the passing of the most restrictive abortion bill in the nation, partially because the bill included a provision for interring miscarried and aborted fetuses and outlawed abortion for a host of reasons. HEA1337 was ruled unconstitutional in June by Judge
Tanya Walton Pratt. Issues of equal pay still impact Hoosier women, who make up more than two-thirds of minimum-wage workers and make, on average, 76 cents to the dollar compared to Hoosier men, which puts Indiana in the 20 worst states in the nation for pay equality, according to the American Association of University Women. Senate Bill 85, a fair pay in employment bill, authored by Senator Jean Breaux, did not receive a hearing during the last legislative session.
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ENVIRONMENT It’s hard to deny the scientific research about climate change and the devastating effects global warming is having on our planet. It’s not an issue that one state or even one country alone can tackle and defeat. But research does show that every little bit helps. Lessening our dependence on fossil fuels, investing in alternative power sources (i.e., wind, solar, etc.) and protecting land, water and air are all essential ideals for the betterment of society. Unfortunately, there are still a select group of people that believe climate change is a fabricated crisis.
POVERTY Poverty is a societal problem affecting Hoosiers and people around the country. Poverty has many arms in the forms of homelessness, hunger, low wages, unemployment and many more. An increase in the minimum wage — whether at the state or federal levels — would be a start in the right direction, but isn’t the only answer. An increase in the federal minimum wage was a crucial part of Bernie Sanders’ platform during the Democratic primary.
IMMIGRATION After Trump’s incendiary “build a wall that Mexico pays for” entry into the presidential race in 2015, the topic of immigration has become a cornerstone of public conversation — and especially in the Hoosier state. Mike Pence’s staunch opposition to the settlement of Syrian refugees in Indiana took the state to high levels of federal court, where Pence’s attempts to block resettlement were shut down. Indiana is home to over 300,000 immigrants, including over 150 resettled Syrian refugees. The Migration Policy Institute estimates 29 percent of immigrants living in Indiana are undocumented.
LGBTQ ISSUES After the massive public outcry to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2015, the question of protections for LGBTQ Hoosiers has received increased attention. During the last legislative session, Senate Republicans killed a measure that would afford equal protection against discrimination for reasons of gender identity and sexual orientation. Indiana is one of five states without hate crime protections for LGBTQ Hoosiers. The Governor’s Office trumpeted Indiana’s high employment statistics as a major component of Pence’s re-election campaign — something that current GOP nominee Eric Holcomb has maintained as a plank in the platform. But many in Indianapolis, including a coalition of Republicans, highlighted the adverse effects of RFRA on the growth of highsalaried jobs in Indiana, and high-profile companies and conventions, including Salesforce, Gen Con and Angie’s List, spoke out against the bill.
PUBLIC HEALTH There is perhaps no crisis as acute as the Hoosier state’s growing number of deaths from opioid overdoses. More than 1,000 Hoosiers overdose yearly, and costs associated with drug overdose fatalities top 1.4 billion dollars. After an outbreak of HIV in Southern Indiana in 2015 — the largest in the state’s history, due in part to the closure of Planned Parenthoods in the region — clean needle exchanges were approved. These programs are still controversial, especially among GOP leaders. (For example, State Attorney General candidate Curtis Hill opposes clean needle exchanges.) Compliance with Obamacare and legalization of medical marijuana continue to be issues of debate in the state and federal legislatures. And we argue gun control is a public health issue as well, since someone is killed with a gun every 12 hours in Indiana, putting the state among the top 20 in the nation for gun deaths per capita, according to the most recent National Center for Health statistics.
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TO FUND OR NOT TO FUND MASS TRANSIT IN INDY PUBLIC QUESTION 2 DEALS WITH INDYGO FUNDING BY AMBER STEARNS • ASTEARNS@NUVO.NET
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n Nov. 8 Marion County voters will find a question on the ballot regarding the funding of mass transit in the city. The question verbatim reads as follows: Shall Marion County have the ability to impose a county economic development income tax rate, not to exceed a rate of 0.25%, to pay for improving or establishing public transportation service in the county through a public transportation project that will create a connected network of buses and rapid transit lines; increase service frequency; extend operational hours; and implement three new rapid transit lines? What does that mean exactly? The basic ask of the question is whether or not the City-County Council should create a small income tax specifically designed to fund a public transportation plan for the county. The proposed tax rate translates to 25 cents deducted and allocated from every $100 earned to pay for the public transportation initiative, specifically an overhaul of the current IndyGo bus system. Currently IndyGo, which runs the public bus service in the city, operates on a $70 million budget. The budget is funded through federal assistance from a few agencies, a portion of state sales taxes, a portion of Marion County prop-
erty taxes and passenger fares. The proposed mass transit plan could be accomplished without the tax increase, but it would take several years to save the money needed to finance the plan. The proposed tax would raise the money instantly to provide for the expanded bus service and ensure a dedicated revenue stream to sustain any future transit needs.
THE PLAN One major component of the Mass Transit Plan seeks to invest in the current IndyGo system by increasing the frequency of service along certain bus routes in the city. Currently Indy services most stops every 30 minutes or one an hour. Some stops even take longer than an hour, leaving passengers waiting for up to 90 minutes. The transit plan seeks to increase some services to 15 minutes between buses and have more 30-minute lines. The proposed rapid transit lines — the Red, Blue and Purple lines — would operate with a frequency of every 10 minutes, putting as much rapid in “rapid transit” as possible. The plan also calls for all bus lines to operate for longer dedicated hours. Currently, lines vary between when they begin for the day and when they shut down for the night. The plan calls for streamlining schedules so that all buses
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on all lines are running on the same start and finish Monday through Friday and on the weekends.
THE ARGUMENTS The question on the ballot asks Marion County residents if they would approve of an additional income tax that would create a dedicated revenue stream to fund public transportation in the city. Transportation officials have already studied the immediate and long-term needs of the city and developed a plan. Therefore, the question includes some of the generalizations about the plan to address public transportation — a bus network that includes an increase in service frequency and extended operations hours as well as three new rapid transit lines. Those who are for the proposal vary in backgrounds and reasons why they support the measure. The lack and infrequency of public transportation in Indianapolis affects many different groups of people and issues. Transportation is an issue linked to economic growth, housing, employment and health and safety. Economic development officials agree with studies that show how access to employment factors into a company’s decision to locate in an area. Social justice advocates point to employment access on behalf of the employee. Unreliable
transportation to a job can prevent an unemployed individual from taking a job they know they won’t be able to get to. Millennials are wanting more opportunities to live close to where employment as well as lifestyle amenities are close by, especially those concerned with reducing their own personal carbon footprint on the world. The U.S. Center for Disease Control found that people who utilize public transportation get more exercise simply by walking to and from stops and destinations. And fewer cars on the roads mean fewer vehicle accidents resulting in personal injury or damage, according to the National Safety Council. “From a business perspective increased transit service or frequent reliable transit service would mean people are able to better access the job sites, better able to access educational opportunities to get credentials — to get certification degrees to earn higher incomes,” says Mark Fisher, Indy Chamber’s Vice President of Government Relations and Policy Development. “It means people have better access to healthy, vibrant lifestyles, access to health food, which in the long run impacts healthcare costs and employer-paid healthcare costs.” There are those who are opposed to the Mass Transit Plan. Arguments against the plan cite the lack of ridership within the existing bus service, the perceived “antiquated” nature of bus
services as opposed to more modern transportation initiatives like Uber and the inevitable tax increase. Lee Lange is a leader in the opposition movement trying to encourage people to vote against the measure. He argues that the transit plan relies on a “a quaint 1940s solution to a 21st Century opportunity.” “When Uber and Lyft — the transportation innovation leaders of today — are initiating revolutions in transit technology and business models in other communities, Indianapolis once again looks in the rear-view mirror,” Lange writes in a press release. “Instead Indianapolis leaders, IndyGo planners and taxpayers should be anticipating the flood of change that will occur over the next few years — not building permanent bus lanes down the middle of major city thoroughfares, which will be rendered obsolete.” Lange argues that the expanded bus proposal is an inflexible model that will be too costly for taxpayers to maintain. He also argues that the proposed Red Line — the rapid transit line traveling north-south through Marion County — will destroy property, specifically in the MeridianKessler neighborhood. The Red Line project is proposed to be funded by federal transportation dollars, but Lange says that isn’t guaranteed without congressional approval, which hasn’t happened yet.
THE VOTE Ultimately the vote on the question is not the final word. Unlike referendums for tax increases for school districts (like the one Washington Township voters will see Election Day), the final vote on Question 2 is not the final say on the issue. The vote is merely a way for the City-County Council to gauge public interest and opinion on the subject. The tax increase cannot become a reality without a council vote. And it’s not like this plan has come out of nowhere quickly. Public transportation has been an issue in Indianapolis for decades. In 2003, the Bart Peterson administration put together a blue ribbon task force to explore ways to address public transportation in the city. In 2009 the conversation become regional, with government and community leaders deciding to tackle best investment strategies, and in 2010 that task force determined the place to start was with IndyGo, the Metropolitan Planning Organization and the Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority. After a decade of task forces and discussions, years of assessments and studies and months of public meetings and outreach, the time has come for Marion County to stand up and decide the future of public transportation in Indianapolis.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL TWO NORTHERN INDIANA MEN BATTLE TO BE INDIANA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL BY AMBER STEARNS
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o what is the office of Attorney General and what does it do? That is a question that a lot of Hoosiers simply cannot answer. After all, it typically isn’t a very high profile office. But it is an elected position by statute in the state of Indiana and it’s a job that has received increased attention over the last few years. Two men from Northern Indiana are seeking the state’s highest legal office and are both very different in their approach to the office. Democrat Lorenzo Arredondo is a retired judge from Lake County. The legacy of his service to the bench is enshrined at the former Lake County Courthouse, which was renamed the Judge Lorenzo Arredondo Justice Center. His career is decorated with association appointments and the establishment of several progressive programs for the Lake County court systems such as the Domestic Relations Counseling Bureau, a family division of the court and a children’s room for kids to play safely while their parents or guardians are in court proceedings. Gov. Mitch Daniels awarded Arredondo a Sagamore of the Wabash. Having already had a very decorated and honored career, Arrendondo says his quest for the attorney general’s office is not to launch a future political career, but rather to bring the office back to where he thinks it should be. He says the attorney general is supposed to be the “people’s lawyer” working as an advocate for the people of Indiana. Arredondo says he will not waste his time or taxpayers’ money on lawsuits that are “undefendable,” yet cost millions in attorneys’ fees. Instead he says he will focus on those that affect the people the most, such as scams, frauds
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and other things that concern Hoosiers like the heroin and meth problem that is plaguing the state. Arredondo does not believe incarceration will solve the drug epidemic, but rather treatment and rehabilitation. And he says the way his office can impact that path is by increasing education and licensing medical providers, educators and the public in general. Republican Curtis Hill has been the Elkhart County prosecutor since 2002 and began his career in the office as a deputy prosecuting attorney. He is most noted for the prosecution and conviction of the “Elkhart 4” — five teenage boys who attempted to rob a house only to be shot at by the homeowner who hit and killed one of the teens. The remaining four were charged and convicted on felony murder charges. The Indiana Supreme Court overturned those convictions, a decision Hill says he respects but disagrees with. While Hill agrees that the position of attorney general is as the “people’s attorney,” his interpretation of that is to protect the citizens of Indiana from federal government overreach. Hill says he will challenge any federal mandate he feels is excessive, citing examples like the Clean Water Act, gun control initiatives and other issues that have come from the Obama administration. And when it comes to drug offenses and the drug epidemic plaguing the state, Hill says he believes in mandatory sentencing and having sentences served to their full extent. He stated during a candidate forum that he does not support the needle exchange program that was implemented in the wake of the HIV and Hepatitis C epidemic in Southern Indiana and has stated that he believes the state’s “heroin problem starts at the marijuana problem” and does not support the legalization of marijuana.
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emocrat incumbent Glenda Ritz and Republican challenger Jennifer McCormick want the same things, with a few varying ideas of how to get there. Both would like to see pre-kindergarten education available to every Hoosier family that wants it. Ritz would like it sooner than later while McCormick would like to make sure it doesn’t overburden school districts too soon. And both would like to see less time spent on standardized testing and more time for students in the classroom learning. Both have proposals for that standardized testing to take less than 1 percent of total classroom time per year. Ritz has proposed the elimination of the IREAD-3 — a reading assessment administered in the third grade — to allow reading assessments incorporated into other comprehensive and shorter tests. McCormick admitted she supported dumping the IREAD-3 if reading assessments were done in other tests. So if the two candidates agree so much
on the direction of education in Indiana, where do they differ? Politics. McCormick has called Ritz’s leadership into question throughout the election season based on the ongoing conflicts Ritz has had with the Pence administration. That conflict began when Ritz defeated former Superintendent Tony Bennett, preventing a Republican state office sweep from accompanying the supermajority in the General Assembly. McCormick has beaten the drum stating she is an educator, not a politician to try and draw distinction between herself and her opponent. Ritz has worked this campaign to remind voters that she also started out as an educator running for office to effect change and was thrust into “politics” to defend her office by the opposing party. If you take the politics away, both women stand for the same goals with only slightly different versions of how to achieve them. It’s the politics of this election cycle that creates the harsh divide between these two candidates. n
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REVIEW LEPPARD RETURNS TO ISO CLASSICAL SERIES PODIUM Raymond Leppard is 89. He has been the ISO’s conductor laureate since 2001 when he retired after serving 14 years as the orchestra’s music director. After being invited to return to conduct one of the orchestra’s classical concerts, Leppard spent months choosing a program as apropos to his nature as possible. What emerged was three Mozart works from three of the Salzburg master’s genres, Cockaigne (overture) Op. 40 (“In London Town”) by Sir Edward Elgar and — for added measure — three songs by Elgar’s contemporary, Henri Duparc (1843-1933). Soprano Rachele Gilmore joined the orchestra for the Duparc and one of the SUBMITTED PHOTO Mozart selections. Just before Leppard’s opening the program with the overture to Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), he was assisted onstage to the podium by two players where he sat and conducted on a high stool. The Figaro overture rates as one of Mozart’s most famous short pieces, not to mention that it is one of his three greatest overtures. Though adopting a measured tempo, Leppard, true to form, observed all the phrase breaks subtly enough to avoid any choppiness. His control of the dynamic nuances was nearly perfect. Gilmore, Leppard and the orchestra then collaborated in Mozart’s most famous motet Exultate Jubilate, K. 165, written when he was 18 and usually regarded as his finest work up to that time. Our soprano delivered a rich, well-controlled, evenly centered voice, in her lower and middle ranges. In her tessitura and coloratura ranges she evinced a slight warbling on sustained notes. Her vocalism continued in that manner in the Duparc songs: “L’Invitation au Voyage, Au Pays ou se fait la guerre” and “Phidylé.” Before conducting Cockaigne, Leppard spoke to the audience, telling us that the term represents a district in London and is related to the word “Cockney.” Elgar’s overture contains much discursive writing which I find difficult to latch onto. Written in 1900, just a year after his more famous “Enigma Variations,” Elgar takes many notes to decide that we are hearing a wistful valedictory. Perhaps to appreciate Cockaigne to the fullest would have required my being born and raised . . . in Cockney?? — TOM ALDRIDGE Up next: Gil Shaham plays Beethoven, Nov. 3-5, various times, $18-$90, indianapolissymphony.org
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ince 2009, Know No Stranger (KNS) has tried their hand at all sorts of zany projects — from elaborate puppet presentations to no-holds-barred variety shows. But never in their years of creative fun has the Indianapolis performing arts collective put together a musical, until now. On Nov. 4 and Nov. 5, the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s performing artist-inresidence will present Heck Above Deck — an original musical idea that they’ve had in their pocket for just about two years now. Set to music that they wrote themselves, the show’s plot takes place on an intergalactic space liner and features aliens, swordplay and more. “This cruise liner is called The Apogee’s Kiss, and it’s advertised as an adventure cruise, so there are these wealthy people who want to experience some kind of adventure but then go back to their cabins and be comfy and cozy,” explains Know No Stranger member Brandon Schaaf, who wrote the music for Heck Above Deck along with fellow KNS members Rachel Leigh and Matt Helfrich. “Basically what happens is the ship is hijacked by a pirate, and all the cruise guests roll with it, thinking that it’s part of the experience. So the story moves on from there and tells the story of this hijacking through the perspective of an incessantly optimistic orphaned teenage linen boy on the ship.” In the early stages of conceiving the show, all the members of Know No
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Stranger sat down and discussed what their version of a musical would look like, while touching on what they like and don’t like about musical numbers in movies and theater. “The types of musicals that I tend to get excited about or become a big fan of are the ones that subvert the traditions of musical theater,” says Know No Stranger member Ryan Felton, who wrote the script and all the lyrics for the songs in the show. “So I’m a big fan of Little Shop of Horrors, Book of Mormon, Avenue Q, Hamilton and stuff. When you sit down, you might be expecting a certain experience, and the production turns it on its head.” From this initial discussion, the members began sorting through more specifics, like characters, plotline and point of view. “In my head, it was like, ‘We’re making a movie,’ and it was hard for me to grasp,” says KNS member Emily Gable, who primarily worked on building the puppets for Heck Above Deck. “And then through slowly creating this and seeing rehearsals and seeing it all come together, I realized we are doing it our way. The way that helped me look at it is not calling it a musical but calling it our spoof on a musical.” Considering that Know No Stranger is an all-encompassing performing arts
collective, some members of the group are much more musically inclined than others. Nevertheless, everyone has managed to work with the skills that they have to make things work. “Maybe not all of us are top-tier singers, but we have characters that lend themselves very well to being character-y in their delivery of a song, where it doesn’t have to be a really crystal clear, beautiful voice,” says KNS member Jake Watson. “I mean, it’ll be in key, but the fun of it is more important than everyone being really great singers.” Also unlike past shows, the KNS crew has been challenged with making longstanding set designs for this 90-minute production. “For this show, it’s been really fun to experiment and branch out from what we’re used to, but we’re experimenting and branching out with traditional theatre, which is kind of funny,” says Schaaf, adding that Know No Stranger has consulted with fellow theater groups in the Indy area like Phoenix Theatre and Carmel’s Civic Theatre. “It’s been really fun to see how they problem-solve, and they’ve been super gracious in letting us put our own twist on it.” Heck Above Deck marks the first time Know No Stranger has worked with a director (Michael Hosp), as well as the first time the performing arts group ever casted outside of its own group. “We definitely have cast a wider net of associates, friends and collaborators, which is really cool because Know No Stranger has always been a collaborative endeavor,” Felton says. n
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ou know what they say: The third time’s the charm. That saying couldn’t be more true for the Indy Eleven. In its third season of existence, the Indy men's pro soccer team The Eleven have reached new heights, including winning the North American Soccer League’s (NASL) Spring Season title and the first trophy in club history. That title also earned them a spot in The Championship, the club’s first appearance in NASL’s postseason competition. On Nov. 5, Indy Eleven will take the field against FC Edmonton in the championship semifinal, a team they’ve faced three times in 2016, splitting the fall season home and home matches while playing to a draw in the spring match. When the Eleven step onto the pitch for the club’s first postseason match, they’ll know exactly the kind of team they’re facing. “They’ve established — stylistically — what the priority of their game is, which is to not give up goals and then look for that one opportunity to get one themselves,” Indy Eleven head coach Tim Hankinson said. With only 21 goals allowed in 32 matches, Edmonton has conceded the fewest goals in the NASL this season. And Hankinson said they expect Edmonton to play like they have throughout the entire 2016 season — extremely defensive. “The reason they’ve given up so few goals is because they get all 11 players into their own half and it makes it very difficult for you to break that down. They’re a team whose coach expressed a few weeks ago that if you don’t play hard defense and work hard you’ll never play for Edmonton.” While Edmonton puts most of their focus on defense, Indy has a more balanced attack. The Eleven slotted away 51 goals during the regular season while only allowing 33; that 18 goal differential was second-best to league-leading New York. Edmonton’s defensive strategy, known as “parking the bus,” makes scoring the first goal of the match even more important than usual.
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“It’s vital. It dictates the entire match. It takes a defensive team out of their game plan,” said Hankinson. If Edmonton strikes first, it makes it all but impossible to break down their stiff defensive squad. The field shortens, passing is tougher and openings inside the 18 yard box become few and far between. But, if the Eleven can record the first goal, it forces Edmonton to break from their game plan, attack often and look to equalize — a way of playing they’re not accustomed to. This openness makes their defense susceptible to counter attacks, which Hankinson said will be the key if they get an early lead. Hankinson said the squad has talked about how to start big games. Their game plan is to focus on clean passing, making sure not to give the ball away in risky spots and to win 50/50 balls. They’ll use that foundation to set the tone for the match, putting the right pieces into place quickly so that they can take advantage of opportunities for bigger plays later on.
“It’s about playmaking at the attacking side but also the defensive side. Players have got to be ready to step up and make the right plays,” Hankinson said. The Eleven have definitely made the key plays at home this year. In fact, they’ve been unbeatable at home, finishing the regular season campaign with a 13-3-0 record at The Mike. “I think the home record looks great because our guys get excited to play there. It’s an energized, fun atmosphere that is created with the fanfare in combination with grit that our team shows when they play there.” Chalk one up for the Brickyard Battalion. The Eleven supporters group has been monumental in creating a raucous atmosphere. “[The Brickyard Battalion] has been massive for the team. I think those fans keep the players going for 90 minutes. Even if we’re down the Brickyard Battalion help us get back into the game,” Indy Eleven midfielder Don Smart said in a conversation with NUVO. While both teams hope to advance in regular time, there’s always the possibility that a penalty shootout will determine who advances in a winnertake-all format. Indy has some experience in that department, losing 4-3 in penalties against MLS side Chicago Fire in the U.S Open Cup back in June. Coach Hankinson said the team has been working on penalty kicks during practice for the past two weeks to make sure players are prepared if the situation is to arise. He’s even had each captain choose their ideal five penalty takers and put them in the order they would take them. The close connection between coaching staff and players is something the Eleven have prided themselves on this season. But Hankinson’s key to advancing to the championship final is simple. “Believe.” n
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11 WITH THE ELEVEN, IN BRIEF We teamed up with the Indy Eleven for a laidback player profile series “11 with the Eleven.” Here’s an excerpt from our chat with Carmel native and Indy Eleven midfielder Daniel Keller. Find the entire conversation and many other interviews online at NUVO.net. NUVO: How does it feel to play professionally in what is essentially your hometown? DANIEL KELLER: It feels great. Getting to play in front of my family and friends every home game is a huge blessing. I’m originally from Carmel and it’s a 30-minute commute to Carroll Stadium and I have such supportive friends and family that they always try to make it to the game. After a game I play — or not play — I’ll get texts from a bunch of people saying “Congrats on the win.” That kind of support goes a long way. NUVO: What would you say is one hidden gem around the Indy area? KELLER: I’m not quite sure it’s hidden but there’s a lot of nice parks. I think the greatest resource our city has is the Monon Trail. We have really easy access to it so on an off day I might run a few miles. Most of it is covered by shade and some of the landmarks you pass by are really cool. People are normally really friendly. It’s cool because it used to be a railroad and they converted it to a trail for people to bike and run NUVO: If you could switch shoes with any athlete, any sport, who would it be? KELLER: That’s an easy choice for me. I really appreciate everything Andrew Luck does for the Indianapolis Colts. I appreciate the kind of athlete he is and most importantly I appreciate the kind of person he is off the field. Growing up I was a huge Colts fan and still am. The way Luck carries himself on and off the field, win or loss, is admirable. He’s one of the sharpest guys in the game and I can really respect that. Being a college graduate myself, I like to see that in other athletes. — BRIAN WEISS
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Inferno y Inferno is a dumb popcorn movie disguised as a smart mystery. It’s packed with historical insights and religious iconography, but it ultimately leaves you feeling empty. This is the third film in the Robert Langdon series, preceded by The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. The hero of Dan Brown’s bestselling books, Langdon (Tom Hanks) is a lot like Indiana Jones — an academic who’s constantly swept up in adventures that take him across the globe.
Inferno finds the Harvard symbologist outrunning authorities all over Europe. After he wakes up with a head wound in a Florence hospital, a young doctor (Felicity Jones) helps him escape shady government agents in pursuit of a deadly virus with which Langdon is connected. That’s the gist of the convoluted plot.
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When Langdon and the doctor aren’t running around lavish locales, they’re unraveling the mystery through clues in European history and artwork — a trail of breadcrumbs from the billionaire geneticist responsible for the virus. The film has some imaginative sequences, such as a foot chase across the beams above the ceiling of the Palazzo Vecchio, the town hall of Florence. However, keep in mind that this is directed by Ron Howard, who masterfully recreated the claustrophobia of a spacecraft in Apollo 13. In other words, he’s achieved far more immersive feats of escapism.
Inferno is utterly forgettable. It’s one of Hanks’ and Howard’s worst films — a hollow piece of entertainment from two men who usually deliver films full of heart. The blend of history and mystery is the reason why people gobble up these books and movies. Like broccoli covered with cheese, they trick you into thinking they’re good for you. In reality, this series is pure junk food. You’ll occasionally admire the pulpy imagination of it, but you’ll put the books down or leave the theater feeling like you’ve wasted your time … or maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have fun. Maybe you’ll feel transported. That’s the magic of movies. There’s something for everyone. — SAM WATERMEIER Rated PG-13, In Wide Release
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n WWII a horrific battle is fought on Hacksaw Ridge, a strip of land on the top of a 100-foot cliff on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The battle begins about an hour into the 131-minute film. The first hour is spent meeting the central characters. Key among them is Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), the first conscientious objector to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. The film is based closely on his true story. This is one of those films where knowing how it ends makes it better. What you need to know is this: Desmond Doss, a pleasant young man who refuses to pick up a weapon because the Bible says “Thou Shall Not Kill,” saved 75 men on Hacksaw Ridge. After his unit had withdrawn from the ridge along with the other U.S. troops, he continued to search the battlefield, finding wounded men, looping a rope around each of their bodies and lowering them, one at a time, down the cliff to friendly hands. He dodged enemy soldiers while on his mission of mercy, repeatedly asking God to help him rescue “just one more.” The film is directed by Mel Gibson, who dealt with violence and sacrifice in films like Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ. If you want to read about
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Gibson’s infamous personal problems, go online and Google his name, because I’ll only be addressing the movie in this essay. Gibson’s work here is as far from subtle as one can get without looping all the way around the world and bumping into it from the other side. The Doss family lives in Virginia, in a wholesome all-American town near the Blue Ridge Mountains. We meet Desmond’s father, Tom (Hugo Weaving), a WWI vet turned abusive drunk, and his mother, Bertha (Rachel Griffiths), who serves as the stabilizing factor for Desmond and his brother, Hal (Nathaniel Buzolic). In Lynchburg, Desmond meets and falls for a nurse named Dorothy (Teresa Palmer), announcing that she will someday be his wife. To his father’s great disappointment, Desmond enlists shortly after his brother does. We meet his fellow soldiers, most given colorful nicknames by his tough-as-nails commanding officer, Sgt. Howell (Vince Vaughn, barking one-liners like R. Lee Ermey on Open Mic Night at the Chuckle Hut).
All hell breaks loose when weapons training begins and Desmond refuses to touch a gun. Sgt. Howell and his boss, Captain Glover (Sam Worthington) do their damnedest to chase him out, but Desmond is as hardheaded as they are. He wants to be in the fighting unit, serving as a medic on the front lines like the other soldiers. Desmond’s childhood moves into pure melodrama. His romantic overtures towards Dorothy are corny. The whole “getting to know the unit” section of the film plays like a parody of similar scenes in other war movies. I winced more than once, but I also smiled, because Garfield uses his big, goofy, sincere smile to sell the cheese. He makes the first hour of the film work, and when the story moves to the battlefield, he makes the nightmarish transition work. With this film, Mel Gibson takes the grim, hyperviolent visuals of modern war movies and wraps them in the clichés of the old-fashioned war movies we see on TV. It pays off because Garfield is so genuine, and part of the reason he is so genuine is because he’s playing a real man. You’ll get to see and hear the real Desmond Doss at the end of the movie and good luck keeping a dry eye when you do. n
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he Avett Brothers have been on quite a musical journey of evolving their sound over the past decade, going from a trio playing acoustic guitar, banjo and stand-up bass to what is now a seven-member lineup that can build considerably on the group’s scrappy, stripped-back acoustic beginnings. The big shift came with the 2009 album, I and Love and You. Produced by Rick Rubin, it found the Avett Brothers retaining their acoustic foundation, but broadened their instrumental and stylistic reach to the point that the group could no longer be considered simply folk or acoustic. The next two albums, 2012’s The Carpenter and 2014’s Magpie and the Dandelion, continued down that path. And now, Seth Avett, who started the group with his older brother, Scott, in 2000, feels the new Avett Brothers album, True Sadness, represents another leap forward for the group. “This one’s a major one in terms of me reframing what I think the Avett Brothers sound like,” Avett said of True Sadness in a recent phone interview. “You know, it’s a funny thing. For an artist, they really love to be surprised by some thing they’re making that doesn’t sound like them. Whereas a lot of times the listener is like ‘I don’t want to hear, like if I want to hear calypso, I’m going to listen to a calypso artist. I don’t go to the Avett Brothers to hear calypso music.’ And I get that. But I hope, what I feel like is happening is we are opening ourselves up further, further and further in the aesthetics, to have no boundaries while hopefully staying heavily rooted in what makes us us, which is by and large some version of storytelling, I think.” True Sadness, which was released in June, is the most sonically adventurous, most instrumentally diverse — and arguably the most stylistically varied — album yet from the group. Recorded with the current seven-member touring band (bassist/fiddle player Bob Crawford, drummer Mike Marsh, keyboardist Paul Defiglia, cellist Joe Kwon and fiddle player Tania Elizabeth), the songs touch on a myriad of styles. There’s stomping pop delivered with
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bass, drum and a ragged choir on the first single, “Ain’t No Man.” “You Are Mine” takes jangly folk-rock and gives it a jolt with a big, fuzzed-up bass line and sprinkles of keyboard. “Fisher Road” is a gentle and pretty finger-picked acoustic ballad. “There Is A Sea” sounds like it was written for an epic western or seafaring movie soundtrack with its lush, swelling strings and expansive melody. “Satan” adds some psychedelia to its rowdy, twangy rock sound. Like the previous three albums, True Sadness was produced by Rubin, whose work with the likes of Johnny Cash, Slayer, Tom Petty and ZZ Top, to name a few, has made him one of music’s most respected producers. The friendship and familiarity that has developed between Rubin and the band
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ith the release of his latest project Nxghtcrawlr Sirius Blvck has cemented his position as one of the most important and brilliantly creative artists working in Indianapolis. Since issuing his full-length solo debut Smoke in the Trees in 2012, Sirius Blvck has amassed a discography of unparalleled merit in Indianapolis hip-hop. Nxghtcrawlr builds on Blvck’s past victories while moving into bold new territory. Nxghtcrawlr is cinematic in its scope and ambience. Blvck’s longtime musical collaborator Bones of Ghosts has produced a stunning set of darkly ambient compositions that provide a note-perfect foundation for Blvck’s introspective meditations on life. Bones’ intoxicating soundscapes achieve an orchestral quality while staying firmly rooted in the deep bass and hard-hitting beats so crucial to hip-hop tradition. Lyrically Blvck remains a hip-hop outlier, eschewing the tired themes of materialism, violence and misogyny that bog down so much radio rap. Instead Blvck focuses his oratory on grappling with the existential angst and depression that life too often throws down in our paths. Conversely Blvck never neglects to celebrate the small victories of life and the simple joys found in the camaraderie of friendship. As evidenced on previous releases like Year of the Snvke and Light in the Attic, Blvck’s words stretch beyond mere lyric into the realm of poetry, while the tone of his delivery continues to unleash a wild and magic energy. In this critic’s opinion Nxghtcrawlr is the most fully realized hip-hop album to ever emerge from the Indianapolis scene, and it should be celebrated with unapologetic intensity. I caught up with Sirus Blvck on the eve of Nxghtcrawlr’s Halloween release date. NUVO: Nxghtcrawlr is a hard album to digest quickly. There are 13 tracks on the record, and every single track is excellent. I couldn’t skip ahead to the highlights because every track commands attention, and every track is essential to the flow of Nxghtcrawlr. I never had the urge to fast forward while listening — in fact, I found myself rewinding several times because some of the hooks are so addictive that I wanted to hear them again and again! I think it’s a totally brilliant record from every angle. The lyrics and the production are exceptional. So huge congrats on this album. Are you happy with how it turned out?
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SIRIUS BLVCK: I'm immensely happy with it. Bones and I put in a lot of work in for this record. This is the first record where I didn't instantly go with my gut. Nine times out of ten when I'm writing and I'm in the zone, when the pen hits the paper [snaps finger] I know that's it. I don't second-guess it. This is the first album where I was second-guessing what I was putting down. But I came to realize it wasn't me second-guessing myself, it was more-so me not settling and wanting it to be better. I rewrote and revised, and rewrote and revised for the first time ever on a record. I think it paid off, because we came out with some of the best stuff we've ever done together. NUVO: When we were talking before the interview you mentioned to me that Bones kind of challenged you with the production he created for this record. You said the beats he was sending you were different from any of the work you'd done together before. SIRIUS BLVCK: Yeah, when Bones sent me some of the instrumentals I was unsure about a few of them because they were so different from anything I'd ever heard before. It kind of threw me off at first. Not in a bad way, but it was new. We had kind of developed a good outline together from the first three records, but we threw everything out the window with a lot of these tracks. Bones just said, "Trust me. This is what we need to do. If you do this it's going to be something fresh." So I trusted him, and it came out good. n
KYLE LONG >> Kyle Long broadcasts weekly on WFYI 90.1 FM Wednesdays at 9 p.m.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I am in awe of your headfirst, charge-forward, no-distractions approach. In fact, I aspire to incorporate more of the Aries-style directness into my own repertoire. But I also love it when, on rare occasions, you flirt with a more strategic perspective. It amuses me to see you experimenting with the power of secrets. Your wisdom often grows at an expedited rate when you get caught up in a web of intrigue that exposes you to dark joys and melodramatic lessons. During times like these, you feel fine about not having everything figured out, about not knowing the most straightforward route to your destination. You allow the riddles and enigmas to ferment as you bask in the voluptuous ambiance of the Great Mystery. Now is such a time. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I am pleased to inform you that at least 30 percent of what you think you know about love and lust is too prosaic. Probably too narrow and constrained, as well. But here’s the good news: As soon as you agree to relinquish the dull certainty of that 30+ percent, you will open yourself to a surge of fresh teachings. And soon, I expect, dewy throbs and hot flows will awaken in all the erotic parts of your body, including your heart and brain and soul. If you’re brave enough to respond, generous lessons in intimacy will keep you entertained for weeks. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Over the last two decades, well-meaning Westerners have donated a profusion of clothes to low-income folks in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Kind and magnanimous, right? Yes, but their largesse has had an unintended consequence: the demise of the textile industry in those African countries. With this as a cautionary tale, I’m asking you to take inventory of your own acts of benevolence and charity. Are they having effects that you approve of? If not completely, how could you adjust the way you give your gifts and bestow your blessings? CANCER (June 21-July 22): Is it possible that you might flourish as a topdog after all the work you’ve put in as an underdog? Can you wean yourself from the worried fantasy that you’ve got endless dues to pay, and then harness your imagination to expand your confidence and build your clout? I believe you can. And in the coming weeks I will unleash a flood of prayers to the Goddess of Holy Reversals, asking her to assist you. Now please repeat after me: “I am a creative force of nature. I am a strong song of liberation. I am a wise animal with direct access to my primal intelligence.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The next two weeks could be smooth, peaceful, and bland. Is that the experience you want? Mild satisfactions, sweet boredom, and slow progress? There’s nothing wrong with any of that. Please feel free to loll and loaf as you explore the healing charms of laziness. Grant yourself permission to avoid conflict and cultivate sunny self-protectiveness. This is one of those times when silence and stasis are among the best gifts you can give yourself. Welcome the rejuvenating power of emptiness! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s time to replace banged-up, dried-out old obsessions with ripe, juicy fascinations. It’s your duty to phase out numbing traditions and deadening habits so as to make room for exciting new rituals, customs, and sacraments. Can you summon the electric willpower to shed influences that are technically “correct” but lacking in soulfulness? I think you can. Do you love yourself enough to forswear pretty but meaningless titillations? I think you do. Now get out there and do the hard work necessary to bring more serious fun into your life. Homework: Write an essay titled “What I Can Do to Be More Playful.”
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Over the course of his or her life, the average British person says “Sorry” on over 90,000 occasions. The typical Libran Brit probably utters routine apologies upwards of 120,000 times. Libras from other countries may not reach that heady level, but many do specialize in excessive politeness. (I should know, as I have three planets in Libra in my natal chart.) But in accordance with the astrological indicators, I am authorizing you to be a bit less courteous and solicitous than usual in the next two weeks. Don’t go overboard, of course. But allowing yourself some breathing room like this will help you get more rigorous access to your authentic, idiosyncratic, soulful urges — which will be very tonic. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Until 2007, Scotland’s official slogan was “Scotland, the Best Small Country in the World.” Deciding that wasn’t sufficiently upbeat, the government spent $187,000 on a campaign to come up with something better. “Home of Golf” and “Home of Europe’s Fastest Growing Life Sciences Community” were among the proposed phrases that were rejected. The ultimate choice: “Welcome to Scotland.” I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because you’re in a favorable phase to rebrand yourself. But I hope you will be more daring and imaginative than Scotland. How about “Smolderingly Alarmingly Brilliant”? Or maybe “Safely Risky and Unpredictably Wise” or “Home of the Best Secrets Ever”? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I cheer you on as you attend to your difficult but holy duties. I send you my love as you summon the wisdom and resourcefulness you need to weather the gorgeous storm. Here are clues that might be useful: Whether you are partially or totally victorious will depend as much on the attitude you hold in your heart as on your outward behavior. Be grateful, never resentful, for the interesting challenges. Love your struggles for the new capacities they are building in you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming weeks constitute the harvest phase of your personal cycle. That means you have the pleasure of gathering in the ripe rewards that you have been cultivating since your last birthday. But you also have the responsibility to answer and correct for any carelessness you have allowed to affect your efforts during the previous eleven months. Don’t worry, dear. My sense is that the goodies and successes far outnumber and overshadow the questionable decisions and failures. You have ample reasons to celebrate. But I hope you won’t get so caught up in your rightful exaltation that you’ll neglect the therapeutic atonements. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Like England and Spain, the Netherlands has a royal family, including a king, queen, prince, and princesses. They’re an egalitarian bunch. The young ones attend public schools, and the previous queen’s birthday is celebrated with a nation-wide flea market. The king’s crown is attractive but quite economical. Its pearls are fake, and other “jewels” are made of glass, colored foil, and fish scales. In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose that you create a regal but earthy headpiece for yourself. It’s high time for you to elevate your self-worth in an amusing and artful way. What fun and funky materials will you use in your homemade crown? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her book, *A Natural History of the Senses,* Diane Ackerman reports on the eccentric methods that professional writers have used to galvanize their creative process. Poet Amy Lowell relaxed into her work day by puffing on Manila cigars. Novelist Colette plucked fleas from her cat. T. S. Eliot’s poetry thrived when he had a head cold. Novelist George Sand liked to jump out of bed after making love and immediately begin writing. Novelist William Gass, who is still among the living, wanders around outside taking photos of “rusty, derelict, overlooked, downtrodden” places. As for D. H. Lawrence: climbing mulberry trees naked energized his genius. What about you, Pisces? Now is an excellent time to draw intensely on your reliable sources of inspiration — as well as to seek new ones
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