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Hundreds gathered in downtown Indy Saturday night to protest the election of Donald Trump.
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he Bible says it best, in Galatians 6:7 (KJV): “For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” The election of Republican Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States has yielded little but fury. Demonstrators upset about this elevation to the world’s most powerful office have taken to the streets in cities across America to protest. Some of Trump’s more unsavory supporters have seen his triumph as license to come out of the shadows with racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic statements and graffiti. Trump’s surrogates and apologists have responded the tumult by calling for calm. They say the supporters of defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should accept the election’s results and move on. They say this even though Republicans in general and their candidate in particular resolutely and notoriously refused to accept not just Barack Obama’s two elections to the presidency but also his legitimacy as an American. These surrogates also say it is Clinton’s and Obama’s responsibility “to set the tone” for the country. They’re wrong about that. Hillary Clinton may have claimed more popular votes than Trump did, but she didn’t win the election. Barack
Obama wasn’t even on the ballot. Neither one of them was elected to be the next leader of the free world. Donald Trump was. It’s his job to set the tone. It’s his responsibility to lead now. In the days leading up to and after the election, many of Trump’s spokespeople lamented how “offensive” Clinton’s comment was in labeling half of the Republican’s supporters as being part of a “basket of deplorables.” They said it was wrong to demean other Americans in this way. It’s a fair criticism. It’s worth noting, though, that Clinton never said she wanted to arrest those people. She never said she wanted to
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If he means it, he could start by accepting the responsibility of his office. He could set an example. He could reassure the more than 50 percent of the American electorate that didn’t vote for him that he will be their president, too. He could say that some of the things he said in the heat of It’s his responsibility to lead now. the campaign were wrong. He could apologize for his more offensive comments. ban them from the country. She never Most important, he could reassure evsaid she wanted to build a wall to keep eryone in this country that no one who them out. And she never said she has not violated the law or threatened wanted to punch them in the face for this nation, regardless of where they showing up at her rallies. were born or how they pray, need fear But President-elect Trump did. either prosecution or persecution. Trump has said that he wants to In other words, he could lead. bring our profoundly fractured Thus far, though, it seems he has country together.
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chosen to go in a different direction. Instead of signaling that he has heard the fears and concerns of his fellow citizens, Trump tweeted: “Now professional protestors, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!” Perhaps, but his response misses the point. The moment Donald Trump was elected president, this story stopped being about him. Now, it’s about the country. It’s about us as a nation. He, as president-elect, can understand and accept that. Or he can continue to demonize people who disagree with him. He can continue to blame others for not offering the leadership that it is his responsibility to provide. He can continue to divide the nation rather than unite it. That approach has carried him to the White House. But it won’t make him a successful president. Anger will only produce more anger. Division will only produce more division. Fury and intolerance will only be met with more fury and intolerance. The Bible speaks to that, too — in Hosea: “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” n
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our founder, owner and publisher Kevin McKinney. Twenty-seven years ago, Kevin envisioned a more beautiful, fun, just Indianapolis. We want you to know, beyond doubt, that we are still here. Still free. Still fighting. — KATHERINE COPLEN, EDITOR AMBER STEARNS, NEWS EDITOR BRIAN WEISS, ENGAGEMENT EDITOR CAVAN MCGINSIE, FOOD EDITOR EMILY TAYLOR, ARTS EDITOR JOEY SMITH, MULTIMEDIA MANAGER
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HOOSIER POLICE SENT TO STANDING ROCK Indiana provides personnel resources in pipeline standoff
The Indiana Dept. of Homeland Security sent 37 Indiana officers to North Dakota to assist with security in Standing Rock.
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undreds of Native Americans, politicians, celebrities and environmental activists have traveled to the Peace Garden State as a show of strength and support for the movement to prevent the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) from proceeding on its planned route near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation and under the Missouri River near Cannonball, North Dakota. More than 300 Indian nations and 21 city and county governments have joined the opposition to the pipeline. A similar number of law enforcement personnel have also journeyed to the same destination, but on the other side of a very big dividing line. That includes 37 officers from Indiana. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department requested assistance in policing the protests against the pipeline. According to the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) — a mutual aid agreement between all 50 states — participating states can send assistance on a volunteer basis. “A requesting state asks for resources (people, equipment, etc.) based on their needs,” says Indiana Department of Homeland Security Public Information Officer Bruce Gordon. “Agencies in other states with those resources are able to respond to a request, but there is no obligation or order to participate.” When Indiana receives a request, Gordon says it is the agency’s practice to offer resources, if those resources are
In the last week of October, more than 300 police officers in riot gear, eight ATVs, five armored vehicles, two helicopters and numerous military-grade Humvees arrived at the frontline camp just east of Highway 1806. Anticipating a long fight, the North Dakota emergency commission approved an additional $4 million loan to pay for additional law enforcement. The state of North Dakota is paying expenses for bringing in law enforcement help. “North While we, as a state, have been fortunate Dakota will reto not need out-of-state assistance imburse Indiana for costs that are recently, we know that we may need related to the deployment,” assistance from other states someday, Gordon reports. However, so we work to build those relationships. North Dakota — BRUCE GORDON, isn’t reimbursing all expenses. The INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY state doesn’t pay for replacement officers filling in at home for those absent. Nor does the to share law enforcement forces during state cover mileage on squad cars, per emergencies. While intended for natural diem or overtime. disasters, it has been used twice for proThat contributed to the Dane County tests: once in the summer of 2015 during the demonstrations in Baltimore and now (Wisconsin) Sheriff’s decision not to replace officers at the end of their on the Standing Rock Reservation. one-week commitment in October. The Ohio sent 37 highway patrol officers to primary reason was that, after talking “assist with security.” Indiana also sent 37 with “a wide cross-section of the comofficers, as well as their duty vehicles and munity who all share the opinion that equipment, according to the Homeland Security PIO, with the mission to “provide our deputies should not be involved in this situation,” Sheriff Dave Mahoney support to North Dakota.” available. “When a request is received, IDHS offers the opportunity to agencies that then let IDHS know if they have resources to provide. While we, as a state, have been fortunate to not need out-of-state assistance recently, we know that we may need assistance from other states someday, so we work to build those relationships.” This law was passed by the Clinton administration in 1996 and allows states
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decided to end participation, according to the Bismarck Tribune. The planned rotation of three teams of deputies was canceled. Ten deputies and three supervisors of the Dane County Special Events Team plus a group of 43 Wisconsin officers were scheduled to provide support at the construction site of the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline. The Wisconsin State Patrol, which sent 17 people, also ended deployment early, said Patricia Mayers, DOT spokesperson. Likewise, Rock County’s five officers, and two of four sent from St. Croix County came home. Indiana’s 37 officers and equipment were expected to return home November 7. IDHS has not confirmed if that actually occurred. Complaints that a militarized police force has been brought in to protect corporate interests (the pipeline project is private, not a federal project) against peaceful, unarmed protesters, has drawn interest from other agencies. As a result of the militarized police action, Amnesty International announced it is sending observers to North Dakota, and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is sending a representative to the site. In addition, the American Civil Liberties Union is reportedly looking into the Morton County Sheriff’s Department for use of excessive force, denying Indigenous people’s right to pray, escalation of tension through police militarization, unlawful arrests and unlawful practices of apprehension. n
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few months ago, President-elect Donald Trump identified Forrest Lucas as a possible consideration for Secretary of the Interior — a position that is responsible for protecting the nation’s natural land resources. What is it exactly that makes Lucas qualified for this position? That is a very good question. Forrest Lucas is founder of Lucas Oil Products (a manufacturer of lubricants and fuel and oil additives), sponsor of the Touring Pro Division of the Professional Bull Riders, Inc. and several national cow and horse events and owner of tracks located in California, Missouri and Indianapolis, as well as the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series. Lucas created Protect the Harvest, an innocuous-sounding group with its own super PAC that animals rights activists consider the most aggressive and best-funded anti-animal advocacy group. Established in 2010 with an initial investment of more than $600,000, Protect the Harvest targets policy makers and activists who stand up for animal rights, welfare and protections. And Protect the Harvest’s biggest target is the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Protect the Harvest claims that the HSUS is an “attack group determined to end the consumption of meat, threaten consumer access to affordable food, eliminate hunting, outlaw rodeos and circuses and even ban animal ownership (including pets) altogether.” Lucas has called HSUS a radical group attempting to pass laws and regulations that would restrict the rights and freedoms of farmers and sportsmen. In response, the HSUS says that Protect the Harvest has “fought nearly every common-sense animal welfare law in recent years” and claims the attacks on HSUS are Lucas’ way of maintaining the status quo for big agribusiness and abusive industries. In a pointed dig, the HSUS goes on to assert that “Protect the Harvest apparently means protecting puppy mills, factory farms and cruelty to companion animals.” Citing an estimated personal net worth of $300 million and annual company revenue of $150 million, Humane Society Legislative Fund president
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Mike Markarian calls Lucas “perhaps the biggest pro-animal-abuse money man in America.” In 2010, Lucas spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to bankroll the opposition to Proposition B in Missouri, in which voters approved to set common-sense standards for the care of dogs in large-scale commercial breeding operations. According to Barnett, of the $700,000 donated to fight Prop B, $400,000 came from Lucas. In 2013, Protect the Harvest lobbied against a local ordinance in Harrison County, Indiana, to promote the spaying and neutering of pets and help reduce pet overpopulation, and in Crawford County, Indiana, to require adequate shelter for dogs and cats that would protect them from the elements. Most recently, Lucas has thrown his support behind Question 1 on the Indiana ballot, the Right to Hunt and Fish amendment. It was his fight in Missouri against Prop B that sparked his idea for initiating a proactive defense against animal rights groups in order to be better prepared to fight legislation that offered any kind of rights or protections to animals. “When I saw during that time that almost nobody else is fighting these
guys — that almost everyone is scared of them. I said, ‘We are going to go on the offense. We need a name. We need a website. We need an organization,’” said Lucas in an interview with Today’s Farmer magazine. The HSUS works with family farmers who use humane and sustainable animal welfare practices and who speak out against inhumane factory farm abuses such as the extreme confinement of animals in crates and cages where they can barely move an inch for their entire lives.
But Lucas, who considers concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) a “rural way of life,” says “leftist organizations” such as HSUS and PETA lie about animal rights, calling them extremists and terrorists. “I have yet to see anything come from them that was not a lie,” he told Quarter Horse News. “They’ve got everybody scared to death. When they come out and scare somebody into something that they wouldn’t normally do, that’s being terrorized.” n
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INCHES FROM A CHAMPIONSHIP After a successful season and a narrow c hampionship loss, what’s next for Indy Eleven?
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ndy Eleven midfielder Brad Ring stood on the field, hands on his hips, disappointment on his face. He watched on as the New York Cosmos were awarded the Soccer Bowl Trophy, given to the champions of the North American Soccer League (NASL). The Eleven and Cosmos had just battled for 120 minutes, and then some, with the Cosmos prevailing 4-2 in penalty kicks to claim the 2016 NASL Championship. It was the team's third championship in four seasons and second in a row.
"Two or three inches the other way on Don Smart’s shot and I think you’re speaking to the NASL Champion tonight. That’s football,” Indy Eleven captain Colin Falvey said in a postgame press conference. For the Eleven, it was a heartbreaking way to end a spectacular season. Indianapolis' professional soccer team achieved numerous milestones in 2016 — a spring season championship, an undefeated home season, their first winning season and their first playoff victory — all of which I’ll touch on in the following pages. “We took a team from the bottom of the league in the first two years to the top of the league. It’s been a tremen-
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dous year for us,” Indy Eleven head coach Tim Hankinson said. But anytime you fail to succeed at the task at hand, it hurts. “A tough pill to swallow. I wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy. I’m absolutely gutted right now,” said Falvey. The emotion was raw. Falvey had just lost his second championship match in as many years — having transferred from 2015 runner-up Ottawa in the offseason. “It’s only extra motivation for me. We’ll bounce back,” said Falvey. “I won’t stop 'til I get my hands on that trophy.” That determination is what got the Eleven to the Championship Final in
the first place. It’s what allowed them to have the successful season that they did. “They came to work every day. They battled hard every day. They competed every day,” said Hankinson. “Our team has the biggest heart in the league.” As Ring walked off the pitch, having just lost arguably the biggest match of his professional career, he spotted a young fan donning an Eleven jersey. Ring stopped, took the jersey off his back and handed it to the fan. Like Hankinson said, the biggest heart in the league.
Libyan international Éamon Zayed was signed to provide a much-needed After underwhelming back-to-back goal-scoring threat. seasons, the Eleven brought in HanBut the list doesn’t stop there. Justin kinson to lead the squad for 2016. He’s Braun, Siniša UbiparipoviĆ. Nicki the definition of a seasoned veteran, Paterson and Jair Reinoso all joined having coached in the collegiate ranks, the squad before the start of the spring NASL, MLS, Jamaica, Iceland, Guateseason. mala and several other countries. His While expectations weren’t through experience — and the roof, the team the experienced had one goal in players he brought mind: win a champiin — would be key onship. in turning the team They got off to a around. slow start to their “We were a young spring campaign, team the first two drawing the first two years, and it’s hard matches against the to compete on the Tampa Bay Rowdies professional level and Ottawa Fury with such a young FC, respectively. The team,” said Ring. first true test of the That was about to season came in the change. Hankinson next match, at home and the front ofagainst the Cosmos. fice quickly started The two clubs — COLIN FALVEY, retooling the roster, were closely INDY ELEVEN CAPTAIN bringing in veterans matched through at more than one the first 89 minutes position. Jon Busch of play, a Niko Kranreplaced Kristian Nicht at goalkeeper, jcar penalty in the 59th minute being the soon-to-be captain Falvey and the only thing separating them. The onetime Defender of the Year award outcome looked bleak, but the Eleven winner Nemanja Vukovic were brought would get a penalty of their own in the in to provide a stout backline and 90th, Éamon Zayed slotting away for
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Indy Eleven's Don Smart battles for the ball during the Championship Final.
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LEFT: Indy Eleven goalkeeper Jon Busch makes a save. RIGHT: Justin Braun fends off a Cosmos player in a fight for the ball.
the equalizer. That’s when the unthinkable happened. With mere seconds left in the match, and the referee looking for any reason to blow the final whistle, Zayed put the ball in the back of the net, giving the Eleven the first punch in what would turn out to be a four-round title fight. It was a win that set the table for an unprecedented run for the club. They’d go 2-4-0 in the next six matches, putting themselves in position to not only finish the spring season undefeated but also win the Spring Season Championship and their first trophy in club history. Going into the final match of the spring season against the Carolina RailHawks — shout-out to the Brickyard Battalion and their “what the hell is a RailHawk chant” — the Eleven needed a miracle. At least a 4-1 victory and some help, in order to finish atop the table. Eamon Zayed got the scoring started early, notching the first goal of the match in the 16th minute. Justin Braun netted a goal late in the first half to give the Eleven a 2-1 lead and all the momentum headed into the break. The second half belonged to Zayed, who scored his second and third goals
of the match to propel the Eleven to victory and the miracle result they needed. What followed was a massive celebration, and rightfully so, as the club had just captured its first piece of hardware. (Fort Lauderdale would have had to defeat FC Edmonton 6-0 on the road, a match they lost 2-1.) The floodgates broke in the Brickyard Battalion and members stormed the field, celebratory chants ringing from end to end. Peter Wilt — Indy Eleven’s first President — was seen shedding — BRAD RING, tears, and he wasn’t the only one. As champions, the Eleven were now guaranteed a spot in The Championship — NASL’s postseason tournament. So how does a team get motivated to play a grueling 20-game fall season knowing that they’ve already locked up
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a spot in the postseason? “One of things that I challenged them with after winning the spring title was that the work [the players] do in the fall is really going to decide who makes the starting lineup,” Hankinson said in a conversation prior to the Championship Semifinal. “That’s high motivation for players because they want to be a part of that game.” That motivation kept the squad on their toes throughout the fall season. They faltered on the road a few times, but stayed strong at home, finishing the MIDFIELDER season without a loss at Michael Carroll Stadium. A combined season record of 15-10-7 earned them 55 points, a vast improvement from their point total of 33 in 2015. Hankinson was rewarded for his team’s spectacular campaign by being
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named the 2016 NASL Coach of the Year. Unsurprisingly, he gave credit to everyone from the front office to the medical staff. Records aside, the match the team had been waiting for since they defeated Carolina in the spring was looming. On Nov. 5, the Eleven would host FC Edmonton in their first-ever playoff match. The hype for the game was real. The city was rallying around the Eleven and they were ready to show their fans they were ready to take a big step forward. Almost 10,000 people packed into Michael Carroll Stadium to witness history, and the Eleven did not disappoint. Siniša UbiparipoviĆ’s secondhalf wonder goal was all the Eleven needed to fend off a feisty FC Edmonton squad. They had earned a spot in the Championship Final … and you just read how that went. Despite the loss in the final, the team wasn’t selling their season short. “I think we took a massive step forward as a club. What we were able to accomplish on the field was amazing and something that will set a standard for years to come,” said Ring. But at the end of the day, Ring summed it up perfectly: “Championships are everything.”
THE SEARCH FOR A NEW VENUE The Indy Eleven have called Michael A. Carroll Stadium – The Mike – home for their first three years, but it’s no secret they’re on the search for a bigger and better stadium to play their matches in. Carroll Stadium, a multipurpose stadium located on the campus of IUPUI, only has a capacity of 10,524. Indy Eleven owner Ersal Odezmir has gone on record since day one that to be a successful club, they need to play in a venue with a professional soccer design in mind. While Carroll Stadium is multipurpose, its focus is a track and field design. “Without a proper venue it is going to be very difficult to be sustainable and provide the experience that we want for our fans as we continue to grow the organization,” said Odezmir. Odezmir went on to say that the renovations to the stadium have been fine, but that their focus will continue to be on getting legislation passed for a new stadium. Carroll Stadium was renovated before the start of Eleven’s inaugural season in 2014. During the 2014 season, the Eleven attracted more than 10,000 fans to each of their games. Despite struggling on the field, the hype
of a new professional team in town helped them become the first club in the history of American soccer to sell every single ticket during its inaugural season. The Eleven have averaged more than 8,000 fans in each of their three seasons, coming in at a league high 8,396 in 2016, well above the league average of 4,575. Given the team’s success in attracting large crowds, Rep. Todd Houston authored House Bill 1273 on Jan. 13, 2015. In short, the bill would have used tax money collected at Carroll Stadium to fund $20 million in renovations. Several different versions of the bill passed both the Senate and the House but it ultimately died when it failed to pass out of a Senate conference committee on the last day of the legislative session. “We just couldn’t get all the parties on the same page,” Houston told The Indianapolis Star. “Everybody was acting in good faith, willing to get something done. But it wasn’t going to work out this session.” Houston authored a similar bill — House Bill 1108 — during the 2016 legislative session but withdrew the bill on the same day. While Odezmir wouldn’t give specifics on what the front office’s plans are for the 2017 legislative session, he
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When your boss asks if you want to go to New York City to cover a Championship Final, you don’t say no. The Brickyard Battalion — Indy’s grassroots support group — was offering a bus trip to give diehard fans the chance to watch their team battle for a championship. $100 got you a seat on the bus and a ticket to the game, a steal for fans looking to cheer their team on in person. I was able to snag a seat on the bus, get a media credential request approved and book a hotel room all while not saying something ridiculously stupid to dash my chances — gold star for me. Here’s how it went down. It’s 8:15 a.m on a bright and sunny Saturday morning in Indianapolis; a charter bus full of crazed soccer fans rolls out of an IUPUI parking lot, and the journey begins. If you trust Google Maps, the trip was supposed to take just over 11 hours. (We'll see, I remember thinking.) Our first pit stop was a scheduled stop in Columbus to pick up the last of our crew, a few fans who attended Friday night’s World Cup qualifier against Mexico — we won’t talk about the result of that match. The Battalion stopped at Target — why we were there for 45 minutes is beyond me — where I got a pretzel and buckled up for what was bound to be a long day. Fast forward 10(ish) hours and we’re on the outskirts of New York City. Due to a bridge closure, we’re taking a detour right through the heart of the city. Now I’m not complaining, because we got to see Times Square at night and some other rad sights, but it did delay us to the point that we arrived at our hotel in Queens at 11:15. I’ll do the math for you real quick: that’s a 15-hour bus ride. Check in and hit the hay, right? (Imagine my best Donald Trump impression here.) Wrong. A few other party animals and myself decide that we deserve a beverage after being cooped up in a bus for what seemed like a week. We grab an Uber and hit a local spot called The Flamingo. Cool place, terrible beer selection. Time to press our luck at the casino. Roulette is our game of choice, and betting on Indy Eleven players turns out to be a good strategy because we all walk out with more money than we came with. Wait, it’s four o’clock, and where did the time
go? Commence sleep. Morning: It’s game day, y’all. The match is set to kick off at 7 p.m. so we’ve got some time to kill. Time to be a tourist and hit the city. So, like any good New Yorker, we purchase our MetroCards and hop on the subway. It’s 60 degrees and sunny in the middle of November and we’re not crazy so we take a stroll through Central Park first. After yours truly takes way too many pictures, we begin to make our way to Times Square. On our way, we stop at Trump Tower — HOLY BATMAN THE SECURITY — and I show it how America feels right now in the form of a middle finger. We’ve been wandering for days at this point and it’s well past lunchtime so we stop at a little tavern in Times Square. Hot take alert: Times Square isn’t all it's hyped up to be. Anyways, I order a Brooklyn seasonal, which was quite delicious, and Irish french fries. Afterwards, as I’m waiting on a few friends to grab slices of pizza, I get caught by a struggle rapper. He personally signs his mixtape for me and says I should definitely review his tunes. … And unfortunately I left it on the subway ride home, so please accept my apologies from afar, Bank B. We head back to the hotel as it’s time to start getting ready for the match. When we arrive, the pregame has already started. Faces are being painted, shots are being taken, the Brickyard Battalion is assembling. As we make our way to Belson Stadium on the campus of St. John’s University, excitement levels increase tenfold; the bus is raucous. Chants break out. We’re ready. Once we arrive I head to the media center to find where I’ll be sitting, which turns out to be a makeshift tent — hoorah. The rest of the crew takes their place behind the west goal. They stand the entire match. They cheer the entire match. They stay until the final player has walked off the pitch. They prove again why they’re the best supporters in the league. The result wasn’t what they had wished for but they showed their true colors — loyal fans. The journey is almost over. Only thing left is another 12-hour bus ride home. As I finish writing this, it’s 7 a.m and we’re rolling through Ohio. I think I’ll hone my inner bear and go into hibernation now.
didn’t shy away from reiterating the importance of a professional venue. “Going forward [we] will continue to make sure that we have a venue that is respectable and that is going to help continue to grow the sport in Indiana,” said Ozdemir.
THE FUTURE OF THE NASL This time last year, the NASL was making a case as a strong second-tier league behind the mighty MLS. Puerto Rico FC, owned by New York Knick Carmelo Anthony, and Miami FC were to join the league, giving it a robust 12 teams. One year later, its future is on the ropes. Toward the end of the fall season, teams began leaving hints of departing the league. And those hints led to actions. Minnesota United FC has joined the MLS, Ottawa Fury FC and the Tampa Bay Rowdies jumped ship to the third-tier United Soccer League (USL) and Rayo OKC and the Fort Lauderdale Strikers are in limbo on whether or not they will return next year.
At a press conference last week, NASL Commissioner Bill Peterson said he was unsure of how many teams would be in the league at the beginning of the 2017 season. The lone bright spot amidst the darkness is that the San Fransisco Deltas will join the league in the spring. What does all this moving and shaking mean for the future of the Indy Eleven? That’s hard to say. Ozdemir released a statement in late October that said, in part, “that the team was excited to participate in the 2017 NASL campaign, planning for which is well underway.” Shortly after, the team began offering season ticket packages on their website, reassuring faithful fans that the team would indeed be returning to the NASL for the 2017 season. While the future of the NASL is far from certain, the Indy Eleven have no plans of folding anytime soon. All you have to do is look at one of their scarves to know that. “Indy Forever.” n
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Tim Hankinson and Justin Braun celebrate after defeating FC Edmonton in the Championship Semifinal.
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I first encountered Marna Shopoff’s work in 2010 at the Herron School of Art and Design Undergraduate Exhibition. I was captivated by her painting “Transcendental Cityscape” which, as I wrote in my review, depicted “a Warsaw Ghetto-like urban purgatory — in muted colors.” In subsequent work, Shopoff continued to use buildings as her subjects, such as in 2012’s “The Bathtub” where she depicts the excavated underbelly of the World Trade Center in the 9/11 aftermath, after the rubble had been cleared. But the painting uses this subject only as a starting point to explore color and light and geometry. By this time, she was going in an increasingly abstract direction. Her exhibit Shifting Perspectives at Gallery 924 shows her shifting just about as far as she can get from architectural subject matter into the realm of Hard-edge painting meets Op art. Looking at the magenta-heavy “Ascent” (oil and ink on canvas) is like looking into a prism. You see ribbons of bright color folding up one on top of the other — 3D effects that she achieves with layering and glazing techniques. She knows how colors interact colorwheel-wise and otherwise. But more importantly — and more intuitively — she knows how human beings respond to color and light emotionally. “Transversing Space” is a painting that seems like an ecstatic emotional response to sensory overload: There’s sense of movement and geometric patterns of color flying everywhere at the speed of light. But there are also smaller, quieter moments to be had in this exhibition (in smaller frames). “Glass Ceiling” is one of these smaller paintings. The geometric patterns in the composition you might just as easily term representational as abstract. Such distinctions often go out the window in her work. After all, it’s not so much the glass we see but the light streaming through it. Once a year or so, I get to explore the Magnificent Mile in Chicago. It’s something I wish I could do way more often. The beams of sunlight shooting down between concrete and glass to touch my skin lead me occasionally to a certain heightened awareness, if not transcendence. Shopoff’s paintings, for me embody, this kind of feeling. — DAN GROSSMAN At Gallery 924 through Nov. 23
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arl Pope, who was born and raised in Indianapolis, came back to the city to live in 2008. So his exhibition Mari Evans at Tube Factory artspace — based on his appreciation of the Indy-based writer, educator and poet — could be seen as a homecoming of sorts. Pope first encountered the writing of Mari Evans, a towering figure in the Black Arts Movement, while growing up. The central display in this exhibition, printed on a large vinyl banner, is entitled “A Reading of Clarity of Concept.” It consists of quotations from Mari Evans’ aforementioned book in an overlapping variety of fonts. “As an adolescent I experienced Mari Evans, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.,” said Pope. “Indianapolis was the kind of place where you could walk somewhere, especially in the summertime, and see Muhammad Ali or Bill Cosby. … I’ve seen these people on the street in Indianapolis. So that social consciousness came to me through my experience in the black community in the '60s and '70s.” After moving back to Indy, Pope took a hiatus from socially engaged art projects (such as The Mind of Cleveland, conceived in 2008 when he was a joint visiting fellow at The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Institute of Art). But then last year, he jumped back into the art world. “I got a residency in at the Montavo Art Center in Saratoga, California,” said Pope. “At that residency program I met Gary Hongo, who is a Japanese American poet who was really good friends with [the late Indianapolis-based poet] Etheridge Knight. When he learned I was from Indianapolis, he started talking about Etheridge for an hour.” This conversation made him reconsider his Indianapolis upbringing. Not too long after, Jim Walker and Shauta Marsh of Big Car Collaborative gave him a copy of Mari Evans’ book of essays Clarity of
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Concept to read. Plans for this exhibition started to fall into place. “When I opened up this book everything started to flood back in immediately,” said Pope. “I was transported. And in a strange sort of way the missing pieces of the puzzle came together in this exhibition, in reading this book about the very basic foundations of my work as a socially engaged artist.” Clarity as Concept includes essays about Evans’ own experiences since she was a young child, living in Indianapolis and her time teaching. But for Pope, the meaning of Evans’ words goes beyond the unique experiences of African Americans. “I think there’s more than just African Americans in that place of the untouchables, the ninety-nine percent. She’s talking to African Americans, but she’s talking to so many people right now.” Across from the banner display is a collection of books in distinct piles. Among these books is Egyptian Book of the Dead.
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Another is a Jewish prayer book from Ethiopia, written in Amharic. There are books by Black authors who wrote for white characters, such as Andre Dumas. There are books of African history. And, of course, there are works by Mari Evans. “What’s interesting in the collection is that Mari’s work is in several different veins,” said Pope. “So if you look at the book collection, the books of literary criticism are from Mari and the poetry as well as her children’s books. She’s doing much more than writing poetry; she’s a really important literary critic who actually galvanized the genre of Black female writers.” Also on view is a collection of photographic portraits of African American figures in the exhibition from Indianapolis-based photographers Linda Evans and William Rasdale. There are also photographs from the Indianapolis Historical Society. “One of the things I pick up from her is that she uses the word ethos; the sort of creative environment in which we live, which signifies forces that are beyond dramatic characters’ thoughts and feelings,” said Pope. “So I think that she uses that idea that there are forces at play that are beyond our will even to deal with.” n
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n November 17, comedian Brian Regan is making his way to Indianapolis to perform at the Old National Centre. Anyone who’s ever had the opportunity to watch Regan on stage knows he is one of the most unique comedians you’ll ever come across. When Regan calls me, I have to admit I’m feeling slightly giddy. He is one of the first comedians I remember truly making me laugh. When I tell him I’m just getting to work after a long night at the office on Election Night, he starts right in with a light joke: “Didya like binge watch a show last night?” This simple joke shows how his mind works: he isn’t one for mundane, “How ya doin’?” conversation; he enjoys comedy and laughter and it just kind of rolls naturally out of him. It isn’t something he plans on. He tells me this when explaining his childhood. “I don’t think we thought about [comedy in our household], but we did like to laugh. Everybody was funny. My mom and dad are funny. My brothers and sisters are funny. You know we’d watch things on TV and make wisecracks, we’d make fun of each other. But it was always loving … and I like that.” It’s easy to see this style of comedy purvey through his act. Read an article about his act and there is a word you will see over and over again — clean. “[The clean act] is not really even a big decision of mine. It’s just how I do comedy. The clean thing is always a bigger thing for other people than it is for me. It’s like, some people look for a way to describe it and they don’t necessarily know a way to describe it, so they describe it as clean. “If you were to walk through a museum and look at paintings most of those paintings are clean, but people don’t describe them as clean, even though they are. So, I guess it is clean, but that’s not really the point of it. “Some people think that is the point of it, but that’s not the point of it as far as I’m concerned.” According to Regan, the point is simple: “I don’t mean to sound flippant, but you know, I like to make people laugh
with unique comedic perspective. I hate to sound like I’m ever patting myself on the back or like I’m giving myself a compliment, but it is a murky quest. “Laughter, yes, that’s part of it, but I want good quality laughs, and I don’t like getting laughs out of easy things, I like getting them out of things that are unique and original. Hopefully sometimes I’m successful at it.” Regan’s style of comedy has also been denoted as observational, but for him that isn’t what sets him apart — it isn’t what defines his comedy. “I think everybody in life is observational,” he tells me, “I mean, you go through life and you have your senses and you’re going to experience things through your senses. So I think my comedy is going to be about the things I see, hear and experience. “But I also try to mix it up and try to throw some absurd things in there. I was always a big fan of Steve Martin and you know, most of his comedy was absurd. While most of George Carlin’s comedy was about real things. I like to be a real, plausible person on stage, but I like to have some hiccups in there. I like there to be an occasional off-the-wall curveball and keep an audience on its toes, and go, ‘Where’s he coming from next?’” For a veteran of the comedy circuit like Regan, there are always going to be fan-favorite jokes and he is happy to indulge his fans. But for him, he says his favorite part of stand-up comes from testing new jokes. “The newer the joke the more fun the laugh. You know, because, I like all the laughs. I don’t mind getting a laugh off an older joke too, but I prefer newer bits. Because you don’t know how to say them yet. “When you happen upon a series of words that seems to convey your thought more concisely, it’s fun. And you go, ‘Oh man, boom, that’s how you say that.’ And so it’s fun. “You have this big block of an idea and you keep chipping away at it until you fine-tune it and it’s fun to massage a joke night after night until it gets closer and closer to perfection. And yet, it’s never going to be perfect,” he says with an easy laugh, “you know, you just get closer and closer, but you never quite get there.” n
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e A capacity Basile Theater in the Indiana History Center witnessed a totally professional ensemble — from the word “go.” When the Israeli-based Jerusalem String Quartet — first violinist Alexander Pavlovsky, second violinist Sergei Bresler, violist Ori Kam and cellist Kyril Zlotnikov — began with Haydn’s Quartet in D, Op. 64 No. 5 (“Lark”), there was no lack of precision as there often is when a Haydn Quartet is the opener. This is the Jerusalem’s second visit here, having appeared in 2014. Indeed, the Haydn was played with the balance and precision usually heard in the featured quartet, in this case Beethoven’s Quartet No. 7 in F, Op. 59 No. 1 (“Rasumovsky”). In between those two, we heard the Quartet No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 50, of Prokofiev. Haydn’s “Lark” quartet is one of six he wrote in 1790, appearing shortly before his first trip to London. Beautiful is an apt description for this one. All four movements shone like burnished copper, with equal contributions by composer and performers. The Prokofiev, which had its world premiere in Washington D.C. in 1931, is the first of two in the genre, neither one of which is especially popular. Its three movements have a tonal center but with wide-ranging harmonies conveying a sense of “wrong notes” scattered among the phrases. Nonetheless, its excellent playing provided a few quivers for my gut. Beethoven’s Op. 59 No.1 is the first of three quartets dedicated to Count Rasumovsky and the first of five comprising his so-called “middle” period of quartet writing. It has its counterpart in his “Eroica” symphony: longest quartet written to that point, greatly expanded first movement sonata form with an extended development. Its third movement, marked Adagio molto e mesto, comes close to forecasting Romantic writing. The Jerusalem players wove their way through the movements until, suddenly, Bresler’s bow tip broke halfway through the fourth movement. The music stopped while Bresler went backstage to effect a replacement. A resumption of playing a bit before they left off was done with aplomb. In deference to those quartets which can play with their vibratos in perfect sync, the Jerusalem either does not or cannot. What makes it more audible in their case is that all four members play with a rich, well-controlled vibrato — all at slightly different speeds. Consider this caveat to be a mild one. — TOM ALDRIDGE
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y Shut In is decadently wrapped junk food. It’s a pulpy B-movie in A-list packaging. The film stars Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts and two rising young stars — Jacob Tremblay (Room) and Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things). The film is well-acted and not without some hearty scares. Like junk food, it gets the job done and pleases you temporarily but leaves you feeling empty in the long run. Watts plays Mary Portman, a child psychologist working out of her secluded home in the hills of Maine. She essentially traps herself in the house to take care of her 18-year-old stepson, Stephen (Heaton), who was left paralyzed by a car accident that killed his father. Mary finds herself deep in mourning, unable to recognize her son. “I lost him,” she says. “Now he’s just a body that I bathe and clothe and feed.” When a little boy named Tom (Tremblay) comes into her office, Mary is flooded with memories of her former life with Stephen. Tom arrives like a second chance for her to raise a child. But after staying with her one wintry night, he goes missing and spooky things start happening to Mary. That’s all you really need to know. The film builds to a twist and a breathless third act in which Mary’s house becomes a prison dripping with dread. Of course, she was already confined by grief and guilt, but the film never delves deep into her despair or the larger pain of parenthood. Instead, Shut In ultimately aims for surface-level thrills and chills. A psychological thriller should make a maze of your mind and leave you tossing and turning long after you’ve seen the film. Shut In is too contained. It lightly pokes and prods at your psyche for two hours, and then its dark subject matter fades from your mind as the end credits roll and the lights go up in the theater. — SAM WATERMEIER
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utside her high school on a sunny day, Nadine spots her brother Darian walking nearby with some classmates. “Look at that stupid shirt my brother’s wearing,” Nadine tells her best friend Krista. “It screams: I have a body complex worse than a girl’s.” She pauses for a fraction of a second, then notes with outrage, “You can see his nipples!” Nadine is upset over her brother’s perfectly ordinary shirt because she is perpetually annoyed at her brother. He was the golden child when they were kids and now he’s a polite, popular, good-looking athlete. How obnoxious is that? While Darian breezes through life, Nadine suffers. Loudly. We hear about life from her perspective — her funny, caustic, often annoying perspective. In fact, Nadine’s teenage trauma-filled life is as ordinary as her brother’s shirt, but she would flip out if you told her so. Like The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Juno and so many others, The Edge of Seventeen finds the entertainment value in teenage angst. Writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig (this is her first turn as director) keeps the focus tightly on Nadine and just a few others. Hailee Steinfeld heads the spot-on cast. Many of the film’s best exchanges come between Nadine and her history teacher/reluctant mentor Mr. Bruner.
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Woody Harrelson plays the low-key educator with considerable skill. Mr. Bruner cares, but goes to great lengths to avoid revealing that fact. When Nadine presents a suicide note to him (“I thought an adult should know”) he critiques her sentence structure. The veteran actor modulates his near-monotone just enough to keep him on the sympathetic side. Nadine’s best friend is Krista (Haley Lu Richardson), who avoids second banana blandness by displaying a strong backbone and a sense of decency that holds up well when under attack. Perfect brother Darian is played by Blake Jenner (Everybody Wants Some!), who is also good at playing positive without getting annoying. Nadine would disagree. She is shocked beyond belief when Krista and Darian become a couple. How dare they! With her best friend banished from her life, Nadine realizes she has no allies. She can’t talk to Mom (Kyra Sedgwick, in a well-layered performance); things haven’t been right with her since Nadine’s dad died of a heart attack. She can only babble to Mr. Bruner so long before he shoos her away. But wait … a classmate named Erwin (Hayden Szeto, quite likeable) wants to spend time with her. He’s clearly got a crush on Nadine, but she doesn’t notice. Her attentions have turned to Nick (Alexander Calvert), this really sexy guy who works at Petland. Complications ensue, causing Nadine’s life to become even
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more dramatic. How much pain can one person take? The trick for writers of coming-ofage stories is sounding authentic. Juno failed. I loved that film and its charismatic lead character, but she never sounded like a real kid; she always sounded like a very clever screenwriter in the body of a teen. The Edge of Seventeen feels closer to genuine. There are pauses, welcome pauses, because sometimes real people don’t have a killer quote on the tip of their lips every single moment of the day. Writer-director Fremon Craig maintains a certain sense of reserve with most of the characters, which allows Nadine more room to use the world as a stage while seeming genuine. Mostly. Of course, there’s only so much reality a person can take, and it’s fun watching larger-than-life characters chew up the landscape more colorfully than most of us could manage. The Edge of Seventeen is sexually frank. It’s funny, involving and touching in nice doses. Plus it stars Hailee Steinfeld and features our longtime pal Woody Harrelson. Kelly Fremon Craig has made a dandy directorial debut. n
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n the summer of 1997, in downtown Indianapolis, the hottest party in the city was happening — the grand opening of Planet Hollywood. Local filmmaker Ryan Penington was just a teenager, totally awestruck by the stars surrounding him. Penington got the daunting task of bussing Bruce Willis’ table. In the flurry of fame, he bumped into comedian Chris Farley, who was posing for a picture with a group of Colts cheerleaders. After smacking one on the ass, Farley put the blame on Penington, who was standing timidly behind the towering icon of comedy. Penington could hardly recog-
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going.” his big breakthrough Penington’s in Hollywood — “the persistence paid only place where off. After filming you can die from and a year and a hope,” he says. half of editing, the Played by IU finished product alumnus and comefound a great deal dian Sandy Danto, of success. Just Charlie McStean is last month, it won a comic with all the Best Feature at the problems of John Diamond in the Belushi and Chris Rough Film FestiFarley but with only val. The festival’s a fraction of the co-founder and talent. After binging artistic director, on pizza, booze and Mark Schwab, cocaine, he stumbles praised the film’s into The Ha-Ha Hole timeless quality. and dies a little bit “This could’ve every night on stage. come out of 1977. As a wise waitress It’s gritty-looking, there tells him, he’s there’s grain in much funnier when it,” Schwab said he outruns his dein an episode of mons and reveals his the podcast Celtrue self. Written by luloid Dreams. As Nick Snowden, it’s a he says, the film biting satire that digs fittingly looks into the dark heart washed-up and of Hollywood. faded, mirroring The film is shot the condition of entirely in Los Angeits titular charles, but it’s imbued acter. with the spirit that “The whole Penington formed thing takes place as a filmmaker in in this strange sort Indianapolis in the of time bubble,” early 2000s. In 2001, Penington says. Penington co-foundIndy filmmaker Ryan Penington “Charlie wants ed the Film Comto live in another mune, a collective of era. He wants to be a Belushi or a Farley. five indie filmmakers, which the prestiHe wants to exist in the golden age of gious publication MovieMaker Magazine comedy. So the whole film feels like described as the reason Indianapolis received an honorable mention on its list a surreal dream of a time gone by. It’s bathed in a druggy haze of nostalgia.” of the top 10 cities for independent film. The film brings back Penington’s own Penington brought the same “punkmemories of seeking success in Los Anrock approach” to Funny Fat Guy that geles and drowning in desperate dreams. he brought to his projects in Indy. After But now that this deeply personal pasgoing through casting changes, losing producing partners and jumping sion project is done, it’s pushing him through financial hoops, he went back to toward a brighter future. basics — directing, shooting and editing Before it hits the festival circuit across the film himself. And when he couldn’t the country in the months to come, book a comedy club for the film’s central Funny Fat Guy is playing at Flix Brewscenes, he built one himself. Penington house. (A Q&A with Penington will take befriended the owner of a bar near his place after the screening.) apartment, convinced the guy to let After years of hard work and guerilla him shoot at the place, put up a sign for filmmaking, everything is coming full The Ha-Ha Hole on the wall and let the circle back to Indy, where Penington makeshift movie magic unfold. bumped into those big stars when he “I was determined, man. I wasn’t going was just a teen dreaming of making a to give up,” Penington says. “For a long splash on the big screen. time, things were going wrong with this “This is a story I’ve wanted to tell for project. People dropped out. Unfortuso many years. It’s a labor of love,” Pennately, one of the original actors died. It ington says. “And I’m eager to get it out was really rough. But I just had to keep into the world.” n
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automatically jumped out at me including the squid ink pasta, dry aged ribeye and bone marrow. The place was perfectly decorated with plenty of green neon lights, cobwebs, a model town and even a floral “wallpaper” with the word “mauve” spray-painted on it.
Upon stepping into this eerie new world we were promptly greeted by our guide for the evening — Jesse Lee in his guide hat — and given the option of tasting some of the specialty cocktails for the evening; at $9 a pop I decided to go for the I Myself am Strange & Unusual: a strong and welcoming beginning to the evening consisting of demerara rum, cocchi rosa, campari and salt. Looking around the room I was happy to see nearly all of the guests had come dressed up, many people taking notes from the film and wearing their best black and white pinstripes or black lace galore. However, we also were two seats away from ketchup and mustard — they probably have those in the Burton-verse. Our cues for each meal came from the film itself. The first dish, an amuse bouche and cocktail entitled The Perfect Vacation, coincided with the opening scene wherein the loving couple, the Maitlands, played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, take off on their “perfect vacation” that is abruptly cut short by an accident involving a dog and bridge. The cocktail was a simple daiquiri shooter
Evansville-based Tin Man Brewing is set to pull into Kokomo’s Historic Train Depot in late November. After following Tin Man’s progress to Kokomo since early summer, this is happy news. I’ve been following the Train Depot story for two years, since the City of Kokomo purchased the much-neglected building with the intention of restoring it. Built around 1910, the Kokomo Depot has been part of the state’s rich railroading history, the most colorful aspect being The Nickel Plate Road lines snaking every which way around Indiana. The Depot, had been central to Kokomo’s civic and commercial life until railroading generally went into decline nationwide. Now the Depot is part of Kokomo’s Industrial Heritage Trail, which has attracted housing development, restaurants and specialty shops. Here’s NUVO’s email interview with owner/ brewer Nick Davidson. NUVO: Why did you choose to move to Kokomo? NICK DAVIDSON: The Kokomo opportunity happened at the perfect time. We had been looking for ways to better get our product to central and northern Indiana and had planned on a satellite brewery from some time. Kokomo had been actively looking for ways to grow its downtown and the two goals just aligned at the exact right time. It became clear that we had to do this. NUVO: What do you plan to do with the roughly 5,000-square-foot space? NICK: We have everything basically laid out already for the brewery. We’re working on the tasting room layout right now. The main goal, though, is to keep the same basic look of what we worked so hard to create here in Evansville. The building that houses our original brewery is over 100 years old, and when we started designing the original tasting room we always operated off of the notion that we were creating a mad scientist’s laboratory. We wanted it to look used and worked in, because what’s the point of having an over-100-year-old building if you cover everything up and it looks like a piece of contemporary architecture? We have that same mantra going into the design of the Kokomo space. NUVO: Will you unveil any new beers in Kokomo? Or will you have the same lineup as in Evansville? NICK: We have a new recipe for Kokomo in development right now that we will brew at the Kokomo location. We will of course have our core lineup available in Kokomo, but we also want to use the new brewery to experiment and do some unique beers as well. — RITA KOHN
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1 with a fried plantain and it was the perfect taste to show where the menu would be taking us. As the film went along we were presented with dishes mere minutes before each cue in the movie let us know it was time to eat. This was far and away the most impressive aspect of the evening. Having been to many dinners like this — and also having worked dinners like this — we were blown away by the kitchen’s ability to present hot, delicious, unique and fully plated dishes on such a schedule. I tip my bat carousel hat to the chefs Kristen York and Lindsey Wheeler and (solo bartender for the evening) Josh Gonzales for pulling this off; it truly was the most “magical” aspect of the evening. The dishes themselves were works of art, some of which surpassed the Burton masterpiece on the screen, notably the dish entitled My Little Accident, which was a simple yet perfectly executed bone marrow with beet salad and crostinis. The fact that we got to use the bone as a luge for the next cocktail (an Old Fashioned) — pulling in some of the savory, salty goodness — was just a tasty bonus. Another bonus to this dinner is the addition of vegan options for the evening. When we arrived we were given a “totem” denoting that my girlfriend is vegan and the servers were able to let us know which dishes had replacements that met her dietary needs. This was much appreciated as at most food events she is left to enjoy only the alcoholic options of the evening. This time she was able to not only enjoy all of the cocktails, but also two larger dishes and a dessert. In fact, her replacement option of BBQ jackfruit was one of my favorite bites of
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the night and truly shone light on the incredible abilities of the chefs in creating dishes that most anyone can enjoy. A signature aspect of any great cult film is generally the quotablity, as well as the inclusion of memorable scenes. In Beetlejuice the standout scene comes at the dinner party and is accompanied by the classic Harry Belafonte tune “Banana Boat Song (Day-O).” Now that we all had a few cocktails in us, as soon as the Maitlands began using their ghostly presences to make the Deetz family and their dinner guests dance around in one of the funniest scenes in cinema, the crowd in Thunderbird joined in in dancing and singing, leading to possibly the most memorable point of any dinner I’ve attended in Indianapolis.
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For dessert we were gifted with a few options, but the dark chocolate truffle with Pop Rocks in it was delicious and nostalgia-inducing all at the same time. I don’t think I’ve had Pop Rocks since watching Urban Legend when I was eleven — I can’t die like little Mikey from the Life cereal commercials. As the film came to an end and “DayO” came back on, everyone joined back in with singing and dancing. And then with the fade-to-black the audience came together in applause for everyone involved. The servers were on top of everything, the food and drinks on point, the film was as great as always. Gonzales and team thanked everyone and let us in on the next film to come in the series, which will be happening some-
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lackSUMMER’Snight is the second album in a trilogy by soul artist Maxwell. And it arrived more than seven years after the first album in the series, BLACKsummer’snight. That’s about par for the course for Maxwell who, over his 20-year recording career, has released five studio albums. Part of the reason Maxwell doesn’t crank out albums every other year is he feels — in order to bring the proper amount of passion and understanding to his songs — he needs to live some life away from music. “It’s like, have I lived enough to be able to fully capitalize on the song creatively?” Maxwell said during a recent phone interview. “I look at someone like Mary J. Blige” — his co-headliner on his current tour — “as a very good example in terms of someone who has always made her life reflect the songs and the theme and [the way] she performs to people. And so that’s how my approach is.” During the course of making blackSUMMER’Snight, Maxwell went through some significant losses, including the deaths of his grandmother and a cousin in his 30s. Those two losses informed some of the songs on the new album. But perhaps the biggest life experience for the 43-year-old singer-songwriter, born as Gerald Maxwell Rivera, was reaching his 40th birthday. “I feel, in turning 40, that was probably the biggest part of the delay,” Maxwell said of the gap between albums. “I can tell you that just being 40 ... You really understand everything that you didn’t understand before. You see what played into everything, what made you feel what you felt, why you were the way you were, why you viewed relationships the way you viewed them, how you idealized them and romanticized them, how you were pessimistic about them, why you were optimistic. All of those things came into play.” Both BLACKsummer’snight and blackSUMMER’Snight have thoughtfully explored love and relationships. That’s no surprise for an artist who, with the arrival of his critically acclaimed 1996 debut album, Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite, began creating some of the era’s most
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sensual yet intelligent songs about love — and has no doubt provided a romance soundtrack for many of his fans. His simmering, soulful and richly melodic music and his lyrics clearly struck a chord. Although it had a slow build commercially, Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite established him as a force, eventually topping one million copies sold and helping to shape the neo-soul movement of the late ’90s. His next two albums, Embrya (1998) and Now (2001), also went platinum (with the latter release becoming Maxwell’s first No. 1 album), solidifying his standing as one of modern soul’s leading artists. It took eight years after that, though, before Maxwell resurfaced with BLACKsummer’snight. But once again, the album was a major commercial and critical success, going platinum, spawning a chart-topping hit single in “Pretty Wings” and winning two Grammy awards. Maxwell said even though it took years to bring his latest album to fruition, he went into blackSUMMER’Snight with some clear thematic ideas and a central musical goal for the album. “My basic concern, alongside working
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with [producing and songwriting partners] Hod David and Stuart Matthewman, who have their own take and their own approach, is, you know, how different can we make things sound from the last thing?” Maxwell said. “Even though it’s my voice and it’s my writing and we do have a sensibility that of course is what it is, I always like to push forward sonically with the kinds of instruments that we use, with the kinds of ways that we approach it.” To that end, blackSUMMER’Snight finds Maxwell mixing things up just a bit musically. His core sound remains very much intact, but along with the expected rich ballads, a few songs (“All The Ways Love Can Feel,” “The Fall” and “Hostage”) bump up the tempos a little and groove a bit more. Sonically, the music is more forwardlooking, with modern synthetic touches mixed in with the familiar classic soul roots that have always shone brightly on Maxwell’s albums. The result is an album that feels both modern and human. Maxwell plans to continue keeping music as a central part of his life. And he’s already talking about delivering the third album in the trilogy, blacksummer’sNIGHT, much sooner than the first two. “I already have it pretty much done,” he said of the next album. “We’re really going to release that very soon. We’re not going to release it in two months, you know what I mean, but it won’t be a seven-year hiatus. I will not be 50 years old releasing NIGHT, just to let you know. We have a full-scale world tour happening that will be like a two-year thing. So in the process of touring and promoting SUMMER’S we will release NIGHT and then move on, because I have this whole other idea that I have cooking right now that I’m so excited about.” n
Okay, babies. We all know how this week has gone. After I stopped stress-eating Tostitos and pulled myself out of my obsessive news-reading spiral long enough to pop open my email, I saw a lovely gift from one Ms. Kirsten Eamon-Shine. Yes, the email said. It is time. Tonic Ball time. Here are some things about Tonic Ball — the gigantic local-bands-cover-massive-bands fundraiser for Second Helpings — all of which surprised and delighted me when I reminded myself of them this morning. 1. It is this Friday. (WHAT?!) 2. It is the 15th Anniversary Edition. (Aww.) 3. All artists covered have been covered at Tonic Ball before. (Cool, ‘cause I love ‘em all.) 4. This year’s Tonic Ball is expected to gross over $125,000 for Second Helpings, which, by the way, just served its 10,000,000th meal. (Tonic’s first year raised $4,600, for comparison.) (!) Around 80 bands will take the stage at five venues this year. (Coordinating that many musicians is a god-feat.) Not enough facts? Need a fun fact? Matt Gutwein, CEO of Eskenazi Hospital, will play bassoon on the Beatles stage along with ISO musicians to play “Let It Be” together. Here is a not-fun fact: Tonic Ball is sold out. But if you already nabbed a ticket (or if you can beg, borrow or steal your way into one — or maybe win a pair from NUVO?) you’ll see those 80-or-so bands cover Prince, David Bowie, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. — KATHERINE COPLEN Tonic Ball features: Prince covers at The Hi-Fi: David Bowie covers at White Rabbit Cabaret The Grateful Dead covers at Pioneer: The Beatles covers at Fountain Square Theatre: The Rolling Stones covers at Radio Radio: Friday, November18 times vary, sold out, most 21+
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he 1975’s recently released their second album, I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It, marked the second time the band had reached No. 1 on the album chart in the band’s home country of the United Kingdom. It also became the group’s first chart-topping album in the United States upon its late-February release. But singer and guitarist Matt Healy said his feelings about the achievement were very different from what he felt when the group’s self-titled debut reached number one in the United Kingdom upon its release in September 2013. “The first record retrospectively I’ve realized, when we were building up to the chance that it was going to be number one, I was so anxious about it and I cared so much about it, I’ve realized, because it was very wrapped up in me becoming known as well,” he said in a recent phone interview. “At the time, I didn’t realize it, but now I realize the desire for that album to do so well, the first one, was definitely imbued with my desire to be known and have people know who I am. “On this record, I had to get myself to a place where I really didn’t care,” Healy said. “I know that sounds maybe like a cliché or maybe not even true, but I had to get to a place where I was doing it because I just loved doing it, and I wasn’t scared of what people were going to say and I wasn’t scared of what people were going to think … It was a different experience because it was about the album. It wasn’t my ego. It wasn’t about me. It was about this thing that I’d made doing so well.” That sort of sense of satisfaction is something Healy said he always felt he would one day get to experience. That sense of self-belief, he said, was a big factor in The 1975 persevering through the long slog to stardom — a path that started in 2002 at an uncommonly young age and continued for the better part of a decade without yielding much in the way of results. The group began when Healy, drummer George Daniel, guitarist Adam Hann and bassist Ross MacDonald — all students at Wimslow High School
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in Wimslow, a town in Cheshire, England — got together to play as part of a series of shows organized for local teenagers. The band starting out playing punk covers but soon moved on to writing originals, determined to make a name for themselves. “I think it feels like a bit of story to me now because I wasn’t particularly naïve or like big in the room or arrogant or walking around like I was Jim Morrison when I was 16, but I suppose in my head I kind of was because I wasn’t really in doubt that it was going to happen,” Healy said. “We were 13 when we started this band,” he said. “We grew up together, and we fucked up together and all of our social groups were based around the band. We were a band, like a band of people, like bound together. And that stands for something. I think when you have that and you put so much love into it, it’s not something that you just let go. It’s something that kinds of defines who you are. So no matter how many times we were being told no, we just knew in our hearts that this was it. This was
what we were going to do. I think that it’s about belief, isn’t it? And we just started convincing people. People just started believing us. And now we’re here.” What might have held The 1975 back, of course, was simply that the group needed a few years to find their sound. Healy admits that the music that preceded the group’s first EP, 2012’s Facedown, was more obvious in its influences and hadn’t developed into something unique to the band. “We didn’t have the conviction that we have now because that’s what defines our music,” he said. Healy said the band has featured a number of songs from I Like It… in its shows to promote the album, and that could well be the case when The 1975 plays in Indianapolis. He said the songs from the group’s four EPs may also figure prominently in the show. “My heart lies a lot in the EPs, and it’s not to take anything away from the first album,” Healy said. “I think after two years of touring that [first] album, and the EPs never really, I supposed, we never really toured them the way we did the first album. Now, our shows are about engaging and it being real and it being live, and I suppose that I really believe in this set. So even if you come to the show and you don’t know as many songs as you would do if it was just the first album, it’s still a more believable show.” n
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n 1967 a gifted young New Orleans musician named Mac Rebennack found himself in Los Angeles, California, struggling to make ends meet as a record company A&R man. He was 26 years old but already a veteran of the music business. Before leaving New Orleans in 1965, Rebennack had recorded some highly regarded singles under his own name while contributing songs and session work to legendary early rock and roll sides for labels like Specialty, Ace, Ric and Ron. In California Rebennack was an in-demand session player for hit-makers like Sonny Bono and Phil Spector, but he’d failed to establish his own unique identity as a musical force to be reckoned with. But 1967 would be the year that everything came together for Rebennack, who rechristened himself with the identity of a mid-19th century New Orleans root doctor know as Dr. John. Working under the name Dr. John, Rebennack developed a funky, stretched-out take on New Orleans voodoo music that struck a chord with the psychedelic generation and propelled Rebennack to widespread underground notoriety. What became an all-encompassing NOLA sound hit its peak in 1973 as Rebennack landed a hit record with the irresistibly funky “Right Place Wrong Time.” Today Dr. John is a six-time Grammy Award-winning musician and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer who embodies the essence of New Orleans music for millions of fans across the globe. I caught up with Dr. John in advance of his November 19 date at The Palladium with Nicholas Payton. NUVO: I want to start off with a leftfield question for you. The paper I write for, NUVO, is based in Indianapolis. There was a great blues singer and pianist here in Indy named Leroy Carr. His best-known recording was an arrangement of “How Long Blues,” a record he cut in Indianapolis with guitarist Scrapper Blackwell in 1928 for the Vocalion label. You’ve performed a couple takes on this song. In 1996 you laid down a version of the tune with Eric Clapton that seems to draw heavily from the 1928 Carr and Blackwell version, and in 2003 you recorded a version with Pete Jolly and Henry Gray for the Piano Blues volume of Martin Scorsese’s documentary series Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues. I’m curious if you were influenced by Leroy Carr’s take on this tune?
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DR. JOHN: No, I tried to listen to Leroy Carr’s version but I couldn’t get a good disc of it. NUVO: Do you recall if you ever played on Indiana Avenue? That was kind of like our Beale Street; lots of great jazz and blues players came up on the Avenue. DR. JOHN: Yes, I’ve heard of that. I have a great memory of working the Chitlin’ Circuit. I remember being in Indianapolis during the days of the Chitlin’ Circuit, but I don’t remember exactly where I was. NUVO: Your current tour is in support of Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch, an album you recorded in tribute to Louis Armstrong. I heard the inspiration for this album came from a dream where the spirit of Louis Armstrong visited you and told you to cut a record of his music in your own style. DR. JOHN: That’s correct. NUVO: Had you ever thought about recording an album of Armstrong’s music prior to this vision? DR. JOHN: No, I had not thought of it. I had no idea in my head or on my brain that I would do something like this. NUVO: That’s such a fantastic origin story for a record. I’m curious what was going through your head when you woke up the next day after having this dream.
NUVO: Did Louis Armstrong ever come back into your dreams to give you a review of the finished album? DR. JOHN: No, but I would be grateful to see him one day in the celestial lounge to see how he took that record. NUVO: What kind of guy was Louis Armstrong to meet? Do you remember what you and Louis talked about? DR. JOHN: Oh listen, Louis Armstrong was a gas to meet! I remember that in Joe Glaser’s office he had this picture of Louis in Bucktown and I wanted to know if he’d passed thorough my pa’s shop that was in Bucktown too. [NOTE: Rebbenack’s father owned and operated a combination record shop and appliance store in the New Orleans neighborhood of Bucktown.] But Louis Armstrong was laughing so hard about Ralph Schultz’s Fresh Hardware store. He couldn’t get out of laughing about that. But I could understand that. Ralph could marry you and divorce you. He could do anything. [NOTE: Fresh Hardware was a Bucktown hangout for a colorful cast of New Orleans characters, and in addition to peddling standard hardware store staples, the eccentric Schultz was known for catering to a wide range of his customer’s needs.] n
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Andra Day 8 p.m. The queen Andra Day performed at the DNC just after a moving speech by Mothers of the Movement. We cried; you cried; we all clamored for more Andra Day. This show features Chloe x Halle as support.
Renee King, Megan Simonton 10 p.m. Two delicious Indy vocalists hit the stage for a night of neo-soul at the Kitchen. Take note: this is a later show. Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $10, 21+ Night Moves, Metro, 21+ Jim Snidero Quartet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Annie and Rod Capps Band, The Propylaeum, all-ages Snow Tha Product, Emerson Theater, all-ages Glostik Willym, Ekoostik Hookah, Jaik Willis, The Vogue, 21+
SATURDAY R&B Maxwell, Mary J. Blige 7 p.m. This King and Queen of Hearts tour date deserves the massive venue it’s been booked at. Bankers LIfe Fieldhouse, 125 S. Pennsylvania St., prices vary, all-ages LEGENDS John Prine 8 p.m. The legendary Prine returns to the Midwest for a show in the beautiful Murat with his new album For Better, Or Worse. The 2016 release features all manner
FOLK John Paul White 9 p.m. One half of the Civil Wars — who broke up after four Grammy wins in 2014 — comes to the Hi-Fi for a solo show. Both have moved on to solo projects, with White’s Beulah the most recent release between the two. On the fence about heading out to this show? If you dug the Civil Wars, you’ll dig this, too. It’s cut of the same sonic mold. The Hi-Fi, 1043 VIrginia Ave. Ste 4., $15 advance, $18 door, 21+
Cam, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ The Queers, Some Kind of Nightmare, TrashCan, Dangerbird, Melody Inn, 21+
SUNDAY Carl Broemel, Dave Simonett 8 p.m. Two dudes from two hyperpopular bands break out solo for this show. Dave Simonett is a member of Minnesota bluegrass band Trampled by Turtles. Carl Broemel is the Indy-nativeturned-Kentucky-mainstay in My Morning Jacket (although he now lives in Nashville). Broemel’s latest is a solo album called 4th of July, recorded with Richard Medek and Teddy Morgan at Creative Workshop. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave. Ste. 4, $15 advance, $17 door, 21+ Barb Wire Dolls, The Lickers, Smokes, Melody Inn, 21+ Rob Dixon and the Tucker Brothers, Marrow, 21+ Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+ Dynamite, Mass Ave Pub, 21+
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Purple One have ranged from teeny punk club memorials, all the way up to this big rendition at the Hilbert Circle Theatre. Prince deserves them all. Hilbert Circle Theatre, 45 Monument CIrcle, prices vary, all-ages ROCK Dirtbike, BBQT, Mystery Action 10 p.m. Have you been to the State Street Pub yet? You should. And this show is the perfect place to start. State Street Pub, 243 N. State Ave., $5, 21+ The Appleseed Cast, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Tacular Tuesday, State Street Pub, 21+ Take That! Tuesday, Coaches, 21+
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23RD PARTIES Turkey Bash 2016 8 p.m. Get your local on with Brother O’ Brother, Native Shadows and Bullet Points as your Turkey Day pregame. Sinking Ship II, 4825 E. 96th St., $5, 21+
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is a 97 percent chance that you will NOT engage in the following activities within the next 30 days: naked skydiving, tightrope walking between two skyscrapers, getting drunk on a mountaintop, taking ayahuasca with Peruvian shamans in a remote rural hut, or dancing ecstatically in a muddy pit of snakes. However, I suspect that you will be involved in almost equally exotic exploits — although less risky ones — that will require you to summon more pluck and improvisational skill than you knew you had. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): *The Onion,* my favorite news source, reported that “It’s perfectly natural for people to fantasize about sandwiches other than the one currently in their hands.” You shouldn’t feel shame, the article said, if you’re enjoying a hoagie but suddenly feel an inexplicable yearning for a BLT or pastrami on rye. While I appreciate this reassuring counsel, I don’t think it applies to you in the coming weeks. In my opinion, you have a sacred duty to be unwaveringly faithful, both in your imagination and your actual behavior -- as much for your own sake as for others’. I advise you to cultivate an up-to-date affection for and commitment to what you actually have, and not indulge in obsessive fantasies about “what ifs.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I hesitate to deliver the contents of this horoscope without a disclaimer. Unless you are an extremely ethical person with a vivid streak of empathy, you might be prone to abuse the information I’m about to present. So please ignore it unless you can responsibly employ the concepts of benevolent mischief and tricky blessings and cathartic shenanigans. Ready? Here’s your oracle: *Now is a favorable time for grayer truths, wilder leaps of the imagination, more useful bullshit, funnier enigmas, and more outlandish stories seasoned with crazy wisdom.* CANCER (June 21-July 22): Kavachi is an underwater volcano in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. It erupts periodically, and in general makes the surrounding water so hot and acidic that human divers must avoid it. And yet some hardy species live there, including crabs, jellyfish, stingrays, and sharks. What adaptations and strategies enable them to thrive in such an extreme environment? Scientists don’t know. I’m going to draw a comparison between you and the resourceful creatures living near Kavachi. In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll flourish in circumstances that normal people might find daunting. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Seventeenth-century British people used the now-obsolete word “firktytoodle.” It meant “cuddling and snuggling accompanied by leisurely experiments in smooching, fondling, licking, and sweet dirty talk.” The coming weeks will be prime time for you to carry out extensive experiments in this activity. But here’s an interesting question: Will the near future also be a favorable phase for record levels of orgasmic release? The answer: maybe, but IF AND ONLY if you pursue firkytoodle as an end in itself; IF AND ONLY IF you relish the teasing and playing as if they were ultimate rewards, and don’t relegate them to being merely preliminary acts for pleasures that are supposedly bigger and better. P.S. These same principles apply not just to your intimate connections, but to everything else in your life, as well. Enjoying the journey is as important as reaching a destination. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s an experiment worth trying: Reach back into the past to find a remedy for what’s bugging you now. In other words, seek out on an old, perhaps even partially forgotten influence to resolve a current dilemma that has resisted your efforts to master it. This is one time when it may make good sense to temporarily resurrect a lost dream. You could energize your future by drawing inspiration from possibilities that might have been but never were.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): By the time he died at the age of 87 in 1983, free thinker Buckminster Fuller had licensed his inventions to more than 100 companies. But along the way, he often had to be patient as he waited for the world to be ready for his visionary creations. He was ahead of his time, dreaming up things that would be needed before anyone knew they’d be needed. I encourage you to be like him in the coming weeks, Libra. Try to anticipate the future. Generate possibilities that people are not yet ripe to accept, but will eventually be ready to embrace. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Does the word “revolution” have any useful meaning? Or has it been invoked by so many fanatics with such melodramatic agendas that it has lost its value? In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest we give it another chance. I think it deserves a cozy spot in your life during the next few months. As for what exactly that entails, let’s call on author Rebecca Solnit for inspiration. She says, “I still think the [real] revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “We all have ghosts inside us, and it’s better when they speak than when they don’t,” wrote author Siri Hustvedt. The good news, Sagittarius, is that in recent weeks your personal ghosts have been discoursing at length. They have offered their interpretation of your life’s central mysteries and have provided twists on old stories you thought you had all figured out. The bad news is that they don’t seem to want to shut up. Also, less than 25% of what they have been asserting is actually true or useful. But here’s the fantastic news: Those ghosts have delivered everything you need to know for now, and will obey if you tell them to take an extended vacation. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the film *Bruce Almighty,* Morgan Freeman plays the role of God, and Capricorn actor Jim Carrey is a frustrated reporter named Bruce Nolan. After Nolan bemoans his rocky fate and blames it on God’s ineptitude, the Supreme Being reaches out by phone. (His number is 716-776-2323.) A series of conversations and negotiations ensues, leading Nolan on roller-coaster adventures that ultimately result in a mostly happy ending. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Capricorns will have an unusually high chance of making fruitful contact with a Higher Power or Illuminating Source in the coming weeks. I doubt that 716-776-2323 is the right contact information. But if you trust your intuition, I bet you’ll make the connection. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some spiders are both construction workers and artists. The webs they spin are not just strong and functional, but also feature decorative elements called “stabilimenta.” These may be as simple as zigzags or as complex as spiral whorls. Biologists say the stabilimenta draw prey to specific locations, help the spider hide, and render the overall stability of the web more robust. As you enter the web-building phase of your cycle, Aquarius, I suggest that you include your own version of attractive stabilimenta. Your purpose, of course, is not to catch prey, but to bolster your network and invigorate your support system. Be artful as well as practical. (Thanks to Mother Nature Network’s Jaymi Heimbuch for info on stabilimenta.) PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Aren’t there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?” asked Piscean author David Foster Wallace. I propose that we make that one of your two keynotes during the next four weeks. Here’s a second keynote: As you become more and more skilled at not fueling the parts of yourself that are better left unfed, you will have a growing knack for identifying the parts of yourself that should be well-fed. Feed them with care and artistry!
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