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In the latest installment of To Hell and Back: A NUVO series, Theresa Roasdo digs into questions and allegations surrounding psychologist Marc Zackheim, known to the students as “Doctor Z” and his role in disturbing scenarios at New Horizons Youth Ministries. Plus, an Indy transgender teen lays out why the “Pay-to-Pee” bill is both ridiculous and insulting.
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ov. Mike Pence, like Mitch Daniels before him, likes to brag on how great Indiana’s economy is doing. He talks about the jobs and new businesses and, to hear him, you’d think it was happy days are here again in the Hoosier state. It’s funny, though. If you travel outside Indianapolis and its suburban counties, where the building never seems to stop, it appears things haven’t changed that much. According to the National Association of Counties, that’s because the Great Recession is still hanging on in most Indiana counties. The NAC used data gathered by Moody’s Analytics to see how the nation’s 3,069 counties were doing compared to where they stood before the 2008 recession. They looked at things like employment levels, economic output and median home prices. And when they looked at Indiana, they found that most of the state’s counties are still lagging behind where they were seven years ago, when the recession began.
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though Mitch Daniels had achieved the Republicans’ holy grail of a balanced state budget, he would never keep his most ambitious campaign promise and succeed at raising Hoosier incomes. This failure remains the catch-22 of Indiana economics. Gov. Pence can brag about jobs, but those jobs don’t pay truly middle-class wages. People are working, but they’re not making as much, which means that the state isn’t bringing in as much as it should in taxes. Without those taxes, state services and infrastructure suffer. The increasingly deplorable condition of our roads and bridges can serve here as Exhibit A. Pence and the Republican majorities in the Statehouse would have us believe that the fact most Indiana counties have yet to reach pre-2008 economic levels is due somehow to federal government overreach, that if Indiana was left to its own devices — cutting taxes, dismantling state services, and getting rid of regulations — everything would be swell. But that’s always been the Indiana way. When The state’s political bosses keep a high school drop-out could earn good money acting as if the same, low-rent in a factory job making windshield wipers, it approach will produce a new result. seemed to work. Those days ended decades ago. Yet the state’s political bosses keep acting as if the Although Gov. Pence is correct when same, low-rent approach will produce a he says the statewide unemployment new result. rate is currently lower than the national Imagine if instead of bragging about average, employment in most Indiana counties is still not where it was in 2007. low-wage jobs, the governor could Only seven Indiana counties — Clark, boast about our educational system, the extent to which Indiana was weanElkhart, Gibson, LaGrange, Marshall, ing itself from coal in favor of sustainSteuben and Vanderburgh — have gotable energy technologies, the impact ten back to pre-recession levels for all on public health of our clean air and indicators tracked by the NAC. water, and our 21st Century transportaIt is worth recalling that while Indition infrastructure. ana was showing signs of renewed ecoThis would be a different place. And nomic life before the Great Recession, our economy would show it. n it was hardly experiencing a boom. Al6 VOICES // 01.27.16 - 02.03.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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[EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a speech delivered by August Mugele at the “Four Words and a Comma” rally held Saturday, Jan. 23. While the rally was designed to draw attention to the pending LGBT civil rights legislation, August, a 17-year-old transgender boy, wanted to bring attention to SB 35, a bill requiring people to use single sex restrooms, locker rooms and shower rooms according to one’s anatomical make-up in public schools.]
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wish I could say that I’m happy to be here, but it actually really sucks that we all have to meet up like this to try and stop some shitty bill that shouldn’t even have been thought into existence in the first place, but whatever – it’s here and now we have to deal with it. My name is August. I’m a seventeen year old boy, I spend a lot of time with my animals, and I like to watch action movies. I’m also transgender. That’s a pretty big part of who I am; isn’t gender always a pretty big part of who anyone is? Being trans isn’t the easiest; as I’m sure so many people here know or have friends who tell them. But this “Pay to Pee” Bill — really? I’m just trying to take a leak here and you really want to fine me five thousand dollars because you don’t like the bathroom I’m using? I’d like to fine your horrible personality, but that would just be petty, kind of like this bill. To break it down, here’s what Senate Bill 35 means: if you’re trans and you find yourself needing to use the public facilities, that’s illegal now. You can face up to five thousand dollars in fines or up to a year in jail. That’s the second part of the bill; the first part makes it so that trans students — that’s kids and teenagers like me — are forced to use bathrooms and locker rooms that they are uncomfortable using. Why exactly? Apparently, it’s preventative — conservatives are concerned that transgender people will attack cisgender people in the bathroom. Kind of them to worry, isn’t it? There’s this huge fear of us “preying” on innocent people in the bathrooms, as though we have an
AUGUST MUGELE EDITORS@NUVO.NET August Mugele is a 17-year-old transgender boy who lives in Indianapolis.
don’t belong. I wonder if Senator Tomes could imagine this sort of fear: trying to decide between the men’s room, the one he would like to use but knows is illegal, and women’s room, where he would never look like he belonged and would have to enter with discretion. There’s something much more unsettling about the image of a man entering the woman’s restroom than a trans woman in a woman’s restroom… it’s exactly what conservatives hope to avoid, yet it’s also the reality of this bill. That’s the worst part about this for me — that every time I would use the bathrooms at school, I would have to walk into the girls’ room. The girls know that I’m not one of them; I’m out at my school, so they know I don’t belong there. I would be intruding on a private space for them. A lot of them would be curious as to why the hell I, a guy, would even be there. And anyone who saw me enter the bathroom would immediately know something intimate and personal about me. They would know that I’m “not like the other guys.” I could go on and on about why this bill is problematic, but here’s the main problem with it: it’s an excuse for ignorance. It doesn’t solve any problem,
agenda of ruining people’s day by making them a little uncomfortable for five to ten minutes. I don’t know about you guys, but the most urgent thought in my mind when I book it for the toilets is my bladder. It’s not about scaring people. This might sound weird, but it’s literally just about having a safe place to relieve myself. A lot of us remember Mike Huckabee’s infamous quote on trans bathroom rights: “Now, I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE. I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’” And the funny thing is that whenever this is brought up, it’s always an argument from cis-men — men who say they would use the bathrooms to spy on This might sound weird, but it’s women or girls. Here’s something interestliterally just about having a safe ing that maybe hasn’t occurred to you: TRANS WOMplace to relieve myself. EN ARE NOT MEN. WOMEN ARE NOT MEN. Women don’t want to go to girls’ bathrooms simply because there’s no problem that to spy on other women; they want to use exists. Do you know how much statistical the facilities, fix their makeup, or take a evidence there is to back up these claims break from a stressful situation… that’s of sexual violence? According to the what bathrooms are for. I certainly don’t Transgender Law Center, that would be want to use the men’s room at my school exactly zero. The director of communicajust to get a peek at the other boys. In tions at the National Center for Transfact, I often try to avoid the bathrooms, gender equality said that they have “not and that’s because people like Senaheard of a single instance of a transgentor James Tomes, who authored SB 35, der person harassing a non-transgender have caused enough anxiety and drama person in a public restroom.” Source over the bathroom issue that I’m scared after source, no matter where you look, to go. I’m scared that someone’s going to police my appearance and tell me I
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my female friends need a moment, they go to bathrooms in packs, a phenomenon I’m sure isn’t unfamiliar to most will yield no evidence of this huge conof you. When the boys at some schools servative fear. And even more than that, finish a basketball or soccer game, they in school’s where they allow transgender change together in the locker room and students to use the bathroom of their celebrate their win – these are atmochoosing, the vast majority has experienced no problems with boys attempting spheres of bonding. Sometimes at my school, kids even rush to the bathroom to claim “transness” as an excuse to spy on girls. So thankfully Mike Huckabee, so after the last bell to change out of their uniforms and chat with one another thoughtfully concerned for us, has noththrough the stalls. Should I be left out of ing to worry about. that? Should I be denied and excluded So if all that is true, if there is no evifrom my friends because of the gender dence of exactly what this bill is trying I was mistakenly assigned at birth? A lot to prevent, then why on earth does it has changed in the past seventeen years, exist? And even if there were a few cases of harassment, you would really sacrifice let me tell you. If you’re so interested in protecting the comfort and well-being (especially the comfort of students, why don’t you where trans women are concerned) of start with my comfort? I’ll bet you get far approximately 700,000 Americans just on the off chance? The only reason, then, more complaints of distress and anxiety from trans students than non-trans students when it comes to using bathrooms “It’s an excuse for ignorance. It doesn’t and locker rooms. We don’t need protection solve any problem, simply because against trans people there’s no problem that exists.” – we need protection for trans people. I deserve to be able that I could think of for this bill to exist is to talk with my friends in the changing rooms. I deserve to feel comfortable and to generate a fear of trans people in the secure when I need to relieve myself. I public. deserve to have my privacy respected Conservatives claim to want to keep when it comes to people knowing people safe and comfortable in baththe status of my chromosomes or my rooms. I guess that doesn’t include trans genitals when it comes to time to walk people. What about my safety, Senator through one door or the other. Tomes? What about the comfort of all The government has the duty to prothe kids like me? High schoolers and tect its citizens — if it’s not too much to middle schoolers and little kids shouldn’t ask, I’d like to feel safe in my own high be scared to go to the bathroom. Don’t school’s bathroom. I’d like to be treated forget to protect all of your citizens. like a normal boy, which is what I am. It’s Where I go to school, and I bet where not about harassment — take it from me, a lot of people go to school, the bathtake it from any trans person you ask: we room isn’t only someplace for relieving really just need to pee. n yourself, it’s a place to socialize. When
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Before-and after-school care coverage under consideration Members of the Senate Monday debated whether the state government should pay for before-and after-school care. Senate Bill 251 would create the Indiana Out of School Time Learning Fund to pay for before and after school programs that are operated through the schools. The Department of Education would be in charge of the fund. The fund would consist of appropriations, gifts, fees deposited in the fund by law, and grants. Sen. Scott Schneider, R-Indianapolis, proposed amending the bill Monday to remove “the term appropriations and fees deposited in the fund by law.” Schneider does not want the state to be responsible for contributing funding to the programs. “We have to ask ourselves a question within the process – is this what we wanna do? Is this another line item that’s gonna put pressure on the budget or should we continue to allow the federal and local levels to fund this?” said Schneider. The amendment failed and the bill passed on second reading.
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Marc “Doctor Z” Zackheim was a psychologist associated with New Horizons Youth Ministries. He was also associated with fraud scandals and the bizzare Anthony Godby Johnson story. B Y TH ER ESA R O SA D O EDITORS@NU VO . N ET
[EDITOR’S NOTE: In this installment of To Hell and Back: A NUVO series, Theresa Rosado profiles the actions and connections of Dr. Marc Zackheim, a psychologist who worked with the staff and students of New Horizons Youth Ministries.]
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hroughout the ’80s and ’90s, children of New Horizons met with a man they called Doctor Z. They described Doctor Z — whose legal name was Marc Zackheim — as if he were a horrid monster from a fairy tale: a large man with drooping jaws, long arms, a pointy nose and beady eyes that walked with a stoop. “Everyone was deathly afraid to talk to him as they would say he was very, very creepy,” says a former Escuela Caribe student. Other students describe being touched by Doctor Z. “He would always stand behind me and rub my shoulders and he always asked me about masturbation, how often I did it. When, where and how.” Boys at Zackheim’s group home in Plymouth, Indiana made jokes about him when he visited, feeling uncomfortable with how he touched them. With the absence of testimonies from New Horizons and other facilities where Zackheim counseled, he fought molestation charges and won an acquittal in 2006, based on a story given as a testimony. However Zackheim’s stories caught up with him — tales unwoven
ring Robin Williams. Significant evidence had developed indicating Tony’s story was a hoax. Numerous famous people corresponded with Tony who inspired them and initiated conversations by phone or by email. Vicki claimed that Tony was stricken with AIDS and syphilis, his health was so frail and death so imminent that he could have no visitors without threatening his immune system. But an expert voice analysis on recordings “Everyone was deathly afraid to talk of Vicki and Anthony indicated they were the to him as they would say he was very, same person. No records confirmed Tony’s exisvery creepy.” tence. Numerous medical records were absent, as — A FORMER ESCUELA CARIBE STUDENT well as the alleged doctors and nurses that treated him for life threatening ailments. Photos allegedly of Anthony questions about the story’s authenticity used on the book jacket were actually of and Tony’s existence began to surface. a child named Steve Tarabkija, taken by Screenwriter and producer Armistead Vicki Johnson while working at a school Maupin accepted galleys from Anthony before Tony existed. and formed a lengthy friendship with Marc Zackheim stated he had met him over the phone. Maupin and other Vicki through correspondence with Tony. celebrities wrote blurbs for Tony’s book, In a strange move for a mother who deeply inspired by his story. As the years confessed to love her son so deeply, Vicki passed Maupin grew to feel very close claimed she left her adoptive son with to Tony but was prevented from seeing another caretaker in New Jersey in 1998 him. Maupin grew doubtful of Tony’s before moving to Illinois and marrying existence. Maupin published the novel Night Listener in the year 2000, consider- Zackheim. Tony stopped communicating with anyone after that. ing the book a semi-autobiographical account of his experience with Tony. In 2006 Night Listener became a movie starby documents and contradicting statements created by him and his wife Vicki. Vicki Johnson Zackheim concocted one of those tales. She was best known as the adoptive mother of Anthony Godby Johnson. Anthony Godby Johnson is the pen name of the 1993 bestselling book A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy’s Triumphant Story. The book was originally sold as an autobiographical memoir, but
School Choice advocates rallied at Statehouse The chant “My school, my choice” echoed in the halls of the Statehouse Monday as supporters kicked off National School Choice Week. Supporters said their goal is to celebrate educational opportunity in Indiana, and to call on legislators to make it easier for parents to choose where to send their kids to school. Monday’s rally coincides with National School Choice Week. The Institute for Quality Education said the week is expected to be the county’s largest-ever celebration of opportunity in education with more than 16,000 events being held across the country. During the rally, Gov. Mike Pence said he wants every child in Indiana to attend the best school for them and wants every student to have the opportunity to have unlimited potential in every community in the state. Indiana is the largest and fastest growing educational voucher program in the United States, according to Pence. Proposal to provide more teacher pay A proposed program could provide additional pay to educators who demonstrate effective instruction in the classroom and take on a leadership role. The Career Pathways and Mentorship Program, proposed under House Bill 1005, would provide experienced educators with extra pay in exchange for mentoring new teachers. The goal is to help new teachers “set a greater foundation for them to learn and ultimately be more effective in the classroom,” according to Rep. Dale DeVon, R-Granger. One group advocating for the legislation is TAP: System for Teacher and Student Advancement. The TAP program provides career advancement, professional development opportunities, accountability and a performancebased compensation system for teachers based on student achievement and performance in the classroom. Committee members amended the bill make it possible to implement TAP or a program similar to TAP. The bill passed through the House Education Committee, 11-2. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE
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THOUGHT BITE ARCHIVE Time machine. Indiana now has a state Senate candidate whose “Christian-RIght” platform includes the primitive and demonstrably un-Christian penalty of “public flogging,” but he says he uses no violence to discipline his children. Fits the neocon pattern: War for others, but no draft to even out the pain. (Week of May 17-24, 2006) — ANDY JACOBS JR.
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tion. He told me to take my pants down and he played with my genitals for a Zackheim had hopes of leaving the few seconds. He told me to pull up my U.S. after being acquitted on charges of pants and we talked on the way back practicing medicine without a license to the unit. No nurse, no parents (were and sexual battery in Indiana in 2006. He present). Just him and I.” Not a single proposed a bid for a group home with girl reported receiving a physical from Guam’s Department of Mental Health. In Zackheim. an interview with a Guam news broadZackheim denied the claims, but said cast, Zackheim said that his experience he did physical assessments of the boys with troubled teens along with raising in the presence of a nurse after a youth his stepson, Anthony Godby Johnson, who had lived there fell ill and died durhave been successful. “He certainly has ing 2002. Zackheim was charged with been a wonderful guide to what can practicing medicine without a license be done if the right things happen,” he and three misdemeanor charges of described. “He’s an amazing kid. But battery for fondling the genitals of his he’s not a kid. He’s twenty-seven years clients. He was acquitted of all charges old.” In a following interview with KUAM in 2006. News, Zackheim states that Anthony Zackheim found himself in court Johnson is 30 years old. When KUAM again, facing numerous federal charges pressed Zackheim on the inconsistencies of health care fraud after his acquitof his statements, he diverted questions tal in 2006. It was about his relationship with Anthony 2009 and President Godby Johnson and his trial for mediand CEO of New cal fraud and molestation in Indiana. Horizons Youth “While in a position of trust, Dr. Zackheim stated that he thought it was Ministries Charles best to refrain from answering these Zackheim used his patients – all of whom Redwine pleaded in questions until the bid was announced. a letter to a federal were minors – for financial gain.” Zackheim had claimed a role in raising judge on behalf of Tony, forgetting Vicki’s claim that she left the psychologist — U.S. ATTORNEY DAVID CAPP him with a caretaker before moving to that contractually Illinois. Supposedly born in 1978, Tony worked for him. ”I would have been 20 years old by the am saddened to see time Marc Zackheim married Vicki — this travesty of inyears of my administration.” well beyond the teen years during which justice from trusted staff who apparently Tim Blossom wrote, “I have known Zackheim had inadvertently claimed he did not have the same heart for youth (Zackheim) for well over 20 years. My raised him. this man has.” father, Rev. Gordon C. Blossom, the The aforementioned trial and acquittal Zackheim played a dubious role in founder of New Horizons Youth Miniscame from the examination of stateadmitting and treating students at New tries, recognized his strength of characments from New Horizons alumni and a Horizons. Zackheim counseled students ter and devotion to children in need of 2004 Indiana State Police investigation. at New Horizons, played a significant his special abilities.” Blossom looked up Several of the boys from the Plymouth role in admittance and escorted nuto Zackheim as well, writing, “Marc was facility alleged that Zackheim had them merous children to Escuela Caribe. An my professional mentor and equal.” remove clothes and touched their genialumnus wrote Zackheim “would come In the second trial, Zackheim was talia while performing examinations. down to interview people and take large convicted of health care fraud and A 1995 account of a New Horizons’ groups back with him. Then waves of sentenced to federal prison. However alumnus states that while at the Koala new students would show up. He would Zackheim died of a heart attack before Center in Plymouth, Zackheim “fondled take at first about two to three then serving his sentence. A few months later, my genitals in a dark office when I was once he took like six or seven.” Charles the Indiana Department of Child Ser13 years old. We went off of the unit to an Redwine documented his relationship vices revoked New Horizons’ license. office down the hall and talked for a few between Zackheim in a letter given to In a memorandum U.S. Attorney minutes. He asked me about girls and if a federal judge. “I have professionally David Capp wrote, “While in a posiI had any homosexual experiences while known Marc for over twenty years. He tion of trust, Dr. Zackheim used his at Indiana Boys’ School. He told me he visited our campus in the Dominican Re- patients – all of whom were minors – for needed to perform a physical examinapublic where I was director and immedifinancial gain. Dr. Zackheim fabricated ately became our unpaid various diagnoses and attached these consultant, visiting our false diagnoses to the medical records campus regularly. He was of his juvenile patients. Dr. Zackheim’s “He told me he needed to perform a therapeutically involved fraudulent designs placed these young with our difficult-to-man- individuals in danger of several future physical examination. He told me to age and disordered youth. harmful consequences due to inaccurate Marc’s vast training and patient medical records.” n take my pants down and he played insight was invaluable to with my genitals for a few seconds.” me personally in the early
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INDIANA’S GOVERNMENT LEAVES THE FILM INDUSTRY ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR BY EMILY TAYLOR • ETAYLOR@NUVO.NET
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achary Spicer and Paul Shoulberg stood in the middle of a former catering space in Bloomington just last week examining the various projects that were underway all around them. The director of photography was scouting shots. An artistic director was wrapping up the finishing touches on a large wooden confessional that would later be a part of the movie set. And lighting crews were clicking through tests before the shoot got started on Monday. It was the set of their newest production The Good Catholic, and Indiana doesn’t want them to make it. Spicer, the producer of the film and Shoulberg, the writer and director do have their work cut out for them. Both graduated from Indiana University — Spicer for undergrad and Shoulberg from grad school — some time ago. Since then they have been either in New York or L.A. doing what they love — making movies. Spicer was an actor and Shoulberg a writer. Spicer made films when he SUBMITTED PHOTO was growing up in Indiana, but making Zachary Spicer, producer and actor also owns Pigasus, one on this scale was not something that a production company named from a Steinbeck quote: he had ever done. “Pigasus is a lumbering soul who is striving to fly with not “We want to do this right — we should enough wingspan but plenty of intention.” do it ourselves,” says Spicer. “So I set about learning how to produce a movie.” from Indiana,” says Spicer. “We really do They, fortunately, knew a lot of people want to see this change.” in the film industry by the time they set The change that Spicer refers to is one out to make The Good Catholic. But the that governs the lives of many Indiana production led them to some interesting filmmakers. In fact 2011 was the last questions. Because it was a full-length time that there was a tax incentive in feature movie, both men knew the price Indiana (15 percent). It ended because tag that would come with it; between of a lack of use, likely because it was not hiring crews to work on lights, set, competitive enough to be compared to costumes and design to the expensive neighbors like Kentucky (a 30-35 precameras and equipment that they would cent tax credit) or Illinois (30 percent). have to rent, it wasn’t going to be cheap. The story is set in a small college town and much of the script refers to a local “We are doing it because it means so basketball team. It had IU written all over it. The much to us and because we all come problem was that financially almost anywhere from Indiana,” says Spicer. “We else in the country made more sense than Indiana. really do want to see this change.” Spicer explains how right now they are taking — ZACHARY SPICER a huge financial hit just by turning the set lights on Monday morning. “[With a tax cut] You are automatically “In every single aspect it would have seeing a return on your money before made more sense for us to film this in you have even sold a single ticket,” says say Bloomington-Normal Illinois,” says Spicer. He explains that when they go to Spicer. investors asking for a million dollars, for Had they decided to shoot in Illinois, example, they are able to promise that a they would have been able to give 30 percent of anything spent while shooting percent of every single dollar they spent will immediately be handed back over to back to their investors the moment production wrapped due the filmmaking the investors. A safe bet on return means looser wallets from private investors, production tax incentive. Indiana is one tackling the main problem with making of the few states that does not offer a tax films — the almighty dollar. break for feature films shot in the state. Their passion for the state and seeing “We are doing it because it means so the film industry here find its sea legs is much to us and because we all come
what motivated Spicer to start his production company Pigasus — an almost all IU grad-run film production company with plans to make three feature films (all with increasing budgets) over the next three years in Indiana. Though they were formed in New York, they are based here. Their mission statement is short and sweet: “To bring great film back to Indiana.” “It has been far too long for Hoosiers, Rudy and Breaking Away for great movies to take place here and actually be filmed here,” says Spicer. Three-fourths of their budget is being spent in Indiana and 80 percent of their investors for The Good Catholic reside in the state. That tax credit would pour money back into the Hoosier economy fast and sustainably. “I knew if a couple of Indiana boys started walking around and asking people in town for favors because we were gong to be making a movie here, I knew people were going to open their arms to us,” says Spicer. “I know the people down here.” He explains that their budget could likely be twice what it is if it wasn’t for local people going out of their way to help make the movie. For example, Grant Street Inn giving them discounts on lodging for the crew and local restaurants donating lunches. (When we spoke food donated from Quaff On was being set up for the crew.) “I knew from early on that was going to happen because that’s what Indiana people are,” says Spicer. The hospitality of Hoosiers is what has kept several filmmakers working in the state. And they are faced with a troubling dichotomy between a lack institutional backing and the swell of homegrown support that is so innate for many of us.
INDUSTRY TRENCHES Zack Parker, the director of Proxy and a Richmond-based filmmaker with four feature notches on his belt, has likewise been able to use the hometown hospitality to his advantage, but it’s not always enough. “I built up an awareness of myself in my community so those are favors I am able to pull,” says Parker. “For that reason I don’t think I could have made these films at this price anywhere else. But you get to a certain budget range and it becomes almost financially irresponsible to shoot movies in Indiana because there is no tax incentive. So why would I not go to Illinois where I can get 30 percent back on what I spend there?” S E E , I N D I A N A F I L M S , O N P A GE 14
TOP 5 FILMS MADE IN INDIANA 1. HOOSIERS Few films are more Hoosier-centric than this one. First, it’s written by a Bloomington boy/ IU alumnus, Angelo Pizzo. The director, David Anspaugh, is also an IU grad. What’s more, the film revolves around a smalltown Indiana high school basketball team. (Hoosiers is loosely inspired by the Milan High School team that won the 1954 state championship.) The classic sports drama was shot all across the state. Locations include Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler, Memorial Gymnasium in Lebanon and Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis. 2. RUDY Another collaboration between Pizzo and Anspaugh — and an inspirational sports story to boot! Shot mostly in South Bend, Rudy follows a young man as he chases his dream of playing football at the University of Notre Dame. Released in 1993, this was the first movie to be shot on the Notre Dame campus since the 1940 film Knute Rockney, All American. 3. E IGHT MEN OUT So many sports movies were shot here! Much of this baseball drama was shot at the old Bush Stadium in Indianapolis, but parts were filmed in Evansville as well. Starring John Cusack, Charlie Sheen and a bunch of Hoosier extras, the film tells of the “Black Sox Scandal,” in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox intentionally lost the 1919 World Series as part of a deal with some high-stakes gamblers. 4. A MERICAN TEEN A tender slice of high school life in Warsaw, this sweet little documentary won the Best Documentary Director award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. It’s not exactly earth-shattering in terms of what it reveals about teenagers, but it’s an engaging documentary portrait nonetheless. The film sheds light on “a rebel, a jock, a princess, a heartthrob and a geek.” 5. NATURAL BORN KILLERS Oliver Stone’s best film, Natural Born Killers is a sizzling satire of sensationalist news and the age of Court TV. The courtroom scenes — in which Woody Harrelson’s character is tried for multiple murders — were shot at Hammond City Court. — SAM WATERMEIER
Oh Tarantino, you slay sir.
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INDIANA FILMS, FROM PAGE 13 Just to give a small taste of the kind of capital Parker brings with each production, while shooting Proxy he spent 30-40 thousand dollars on hotel rooms alone in Indiana. He added that his next film (being made later this year) will be shot in Chicago where he can send the crew home to sleep in their own beds at night. As far as state incentives or tax breaks, Parker has yet to find any substantial support. Parker also spent time looking for grants from arts agencies around the state and found little that would provide the kind of backing he would need. To be fair, filmmaking can have a much higher profit margin at his level than other artists who are also searching for that kind of grant money. Regardless of the level of support that does exist in the state, the fact that a feature filmmaker cannot find it easily speaks to a marketing issue in the Indiana film community.
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Filmmaker Catherine Crouch was recognized for her movie Gendercator by the Indianapolis LGBT festival.
“You have to have stages, you have to have actors, you have to have equipment rental opportunities … I know that is difficult everywhere.” — CATHERINE CROUCH
Zack Parker moved back to Indiana 10 years ago and has made 4 features since.
Some have seen the small community as an easy point of access — Catherine Crouch for example. Crouch, based in Indiana, has been making everything from music videos to features to documentaries (her most recent project has taken 20 years to film) for years. Her budgets have touched everywhere from $1,000 to upwards of $3 million. “There is more support because there are so few of us,” says Crouch. She usually turns to the Indiana Film Network when she is looking for a crew. The things missing here, she adds, are not native to Indiana. “I think that you are missing a critical mass and that’s true of all cities our size,” says Crouch. “You have to have stages, you have to have actors, you have to have equipment rental opportunities … I know that is difficult everywhere.” For her the tax breaks are not a factor. “Only to the point of producing a narrative feature film,” says Crouch. “I don’t think I would ever pick a place because it’s cheap — I don’t think I’m at that point. You know, to go to Toronto because you’re going to get 25 percent cash back. What’s more important is what it looks like to me.”
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Like Parker and Spicer, she is able to use the homecourt advantage while shooting. “People are not jaded about it,” says Crouch. “People are willing to do things like let you shoot around areas, their houses … They are excited about it, which doesn’t happen in big cities.” Crouch did add that she only knows a few people in the state who have been able to move into filmmaking full time. “There is a lack of it being a career here,” says Joshua Hull, a filmmaker who also works at Scaret Lane Brewing for his day job. Hull’s first film Beverly Lane received positive reviews as did his slasher comedy Chopping Block. Most recently a holiday comedy called Bethlehem that he worked on won Best Feature Film at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards. “Everyone has day jobs. I work at a brewery during the day,” says Hull. “… The grips and the gaffers and all these people who live in Indiana, all have day jobs … There have been multiple occasions where, trying to crew up my films and I’m trying to use people from around here and they can’t do it because they have day jobs. They can’t get out of work. That’s the realistic viewpoint of where we are as a community.”
His qualms, like Parker, are often to do with a lack of local support. “We make feature films here too,” says Hull. Why can’t the general public get excited about films being made by people here?” Hull, who admitted he was a little jaded by the struggles in the Hoosier film industry at the moment, added that what we expect from the film community is often limited to
Josh Hull working on set. Josh also has a sleeve that is movie themed.
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TOP 10 ACTORS YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE FROM HERE: JAMES DEAN Born in Marion and raised on a farm in Fairmount, this Hoosier is a silver screen legend. Before dying at the tender age of 24, he starred in three of the greatest films ever made — East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. Dean was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination.
ADAM DRIVER Driver grew up in Mishawaka, acting in high school and later attending the University of Indianapolis. Now you know him as the latest villain in the Star Wars series — and the most tragic member of the Dark Side since Darth Vader.
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JENNA FISCHER Born in Fort Wayne, you know her as Pam from The Office. She’s also starred in a few solid films, including Blades of Glory, Walk Hard, Solitary Man and Hall Pass.
BRENDAN FRASER Probably best known for the Mummy movies, this Indy-born actor has been in a bunch of high-profile films, including Gods and Monsters and Crash, which won the 2005 Oscar for Best Picture. And later this year he will be in Behind the Curtain at Night.
DOUG JONES An Indianapolis native and a Ball State grad, Jones is usually caked in creature makeup and known for his roles in Guillermo Del Toro’s Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth. He was also in Crimson Peak.
GREG KINNEAR Born in Logansport, Kinnear is one of our finest actors — an underrated one, really. He’s delivered memorable performances in a slew of terrific films, including As Good as It Gets, You’ve Got Mail, Nurse Betty, The Matador and Little Miss Sunshine.
STEVE MCQUEEN Born in Beech Grove, McQueen overcame a troubled youth spent in reform schools and turned into THE matinee idol of the ’60s. His filmography is an embarrassment of riches — The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, the list goes on.
INSIDE INDIANA’S FORMER 15 PERCENT TAX CREDIT FOR FILMMAKERS • You had to spend at least $100,000 if you were making (1) a feature length film, including a short feature; (2) an independent or studio production; (3) a documentary; or (4) a television series, program, or feature. • Assuming the credit was 15% for all taxpayers that claimed it, the resulting media production expenditures totaled approximately $1.1 million from 2008 to 2011. • The total tax credits could not exceed $5 million in a fiscal year.
short productions and not the kind of sustained effort it takes to have an entertainment empire. “There is a filmmaking here, but it’s a filmmaking community that is alright with just settling,” says Hull. “I say that because we are not pushy. You are happy to go out and shoot the 48 Hour Film Festival … that’s awesome to be passionate about, but put that passion into a feature film … There is such this idea of just make short films or little web series.”
• The minimum required expenditure to qualify for the credit was $50,000 • In 2008, there were 415 filers claiming credits • In 2009, there were 92 filers claiming credits • In 2010, there were 194 filers claiming credits • In 2011, there were 42 filers claiming credits
*All stats are from Indiana Income Tax Credit Study compiled by Legislative Services Agency in September 2012.
LAYING THE GROUNDWORK
In December of 2015, Titled Fil Indy, a two-year, $300,000 initiative created by Visit Indy, the Indy Chamber, the Central Indiana Community Foundation and the city of Indianapolis may be the first step in bringing a flourishing film industry to Indiana. The project is based in Indianapolis and meant to feed the $300,000 into TV commercials and movies that would all be shot in the city. The estimated impact is in the ballpark $6 million in benefits. “It’s a filmmaking community that economic The initiative is not alone. Film Indiana, though a small is alright with just settling.” two-person office, has been — JOSHUA HULL in place for several years and serves as a resource for directors and producers who wish to shoot in Indiana. Erin Schneider, the director of Film Indiana, While programs like the 48 Hour spends her time connecting filmmakers to Film Fest are less intended for large private crews, finding locations to shoot scale filmmakers, the buzz that it creand striving to be a one-stop-shop for new ates in comparison to features is often cinematic undertakings. She sees the addiwaning. It’s the hope of people like Jon tion of categories for Hoosier-made films Vickers, director of IU Cinema, that a in festivals like Heartland and Indy Film grant that was created last year will be Fest as a barometer for positive change. the kickstarter we need. S E E , IN DIANA F I L M S , O N P A GE 1 6
DEAN NORRIS You would recognize this guy as Walter White’s abrasive brother-in-law in Breaking Bad. The South Bend native also appears in Terminator 2, Little Miss Sunshine and The Counselor, to name a few fantastic films.
BETSY PALMER This is probably a bigger deal to hardcore horror fanatics, but this lady played Jason Voorhees’ mother in the original Friday the 13th. And if you’re a true horror fan, you know that she is the real villain of that classic horror flick.
SYDNEY POLLACK Born in Lafayette, Pollack is known more for his fantastic directorial efforts, including such classics as The Way We Were, Tootsie, Absence of Malice and Out of Africa. But he also turned in great performances
in films like Husbands and Wives, Michael Clayton and Stanley Kubrick’s swan song Eyes Wide Shut. n — SAM WATERMEIER
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Indiana is one of 14 states without a tax incentive for filmmakers. Here is what our neighbors have. ILLINOIS 30%, +15% for a resident, Transferable Tax Credit
KENTUCKY 30% or 35% Refundable Tax Credit
INDIANA FILMS, FROM PAGE 15
OHIO 25% Local Spend & NR Labor, 35% Resident Labor Refundable Tax Credit
way for a tax bill with roots. “I think my eyes were opened with this study and with the introduction She also tries to encourage filmmakers of this new office. I think it was such a from out of state to look at the whole smart step,” says Vickers. “And us waiting picture before turning down Indiana another year is also a smart step — to let based on no tax cut. this infrastructure grow before we get our “We don’t have a traditional tax incendoors knocked on with productions saytive for motion picture,” says Schneider. ing that they want to come … once that is “But what I urge people that call and ask in place having a tax bill to be able to supthat question to evaluate their budget port the industry that’s here and the labor … the cost of making a film in Indiana that’s here and attract new and build will be far less than making it in a state upon that base is critical; otherwise those where that happens often.” productions aren’t going to come here. To compare the actual weight of the “It can open up a lot of opportunities cost-benefit is entirely dependent on not only with IU but will Ball State and each film, budget and scope. other programs that have media producWhile artists like Spicer and Shoulberg tion around the state,” says Vickers. “And are calling cuts and cues to spark change to be able to offer more jobs in the state in Indiana, people like Vickers have their so not everyone feels the need to flock to sights locked on the legislative battle. the coasts is great for all of us.” Vickers, along with a small team of IU The economic impact is really felt current and retired faculty, state Reprewhen productions like The Fault in Our sentative Matt Pierce, a Hollywood filmStars ($14 million to make) that are set maker based in Indiana and two graduate in Indiana shoot in Pennsylvania due to a tax credit. “That’s a multi-million dollar film,” says Spicer. “… I don’t un“It’s aimed at supporting the derstand what the reasoning is from a state’s position to be able production that is already taking to say, ‘well, it’s just not worth it place in Indianapolis.” to us.’ I don’t understand what it is they are trying to protect by — VICKERS not allowing the entertainment industry to create that type of revenue and employment here.” The frustration is easily felt students are busy putting together a bill by those who love to shoot here. After that would reinstate Indiana’s tax incenall, you can be lining up a shot downtive. The teeth on this one is a higher tax town one morning then building a set break if a filmmaker uses only Indiana for a country shot later the same day. labor, not just shoot here. Vickers feels Scott Schirmer, a horror filmmaker in that this is the defining difference that Bloomington known for his movie Found, could pose this bill for success. sees Indiana as his best option when it Though the bill was ready before the comes to locations and local help. deadline for 2016, the team decided to “Indiana is also kind of like a goldmine wait until 2017 (a budget year) before for locations,” says Schirmer. “There are presenting. so many cool locations in Indiana. You “This will allow the group to use all of can really manage to create something 2016 to build advocacy around the bill that kids in Los Angeles can’t do. They before presenting,” says Vickers. “We are trapped in an urban environment.” crafted what we thought would be a reaThe people and setting of Indiana are sonable and valuable bill that could get all primed and ready to bear the evolution through legislation here in Indiana. of an entertainment industry even if the “It’s aimed at supporting the producinfrastructure is only just now taking seed. tion that is already taking place in IndiaSpicer puts it well: “Indiana is a filmnapolis,” says Vickers. maker’s dream.” n He sees Titled Film Indy as paving the 16 COVER STORY // 01.27.16 - 02.03.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
HOOSIERS IN HOLLYWOOD WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE IN INDIANA AND WORK ON FEATURE FILMS IN L.A.
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BY TJ JA E G E R ARTS@NUV O . N ET
enne Lee, an Indiana-native, travels all around the world as an art department coordinator for major Hollywood films. Working on films such as The Dark Knight, Public Enemies and the upcoming Star Trek Beyond, Lee has been in the business for 13 years and has worked on dozens of films. NUVO asked her about her experiences in the film industry and where she thinks Indiana fits into the grand scheme of movie magic. NUVO: What is the day-to-day like at your job? JENNE LEE: In simplest terms, my job as a coordinator is to take care of the little things so the creative people can be busy being creative. I manage the department budget, take care of the time cards, liaise with other departments, manage my bosses’ schedules in regards to meetings and appointments and make sure everyone is fed and happy.
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NUVO: Why do you choose to travel back and forth? LEE: I think the best lessons learned in life are gained by traveling. The people you meet, the new perspectives you gain and the new foods you try. I’m serious about that one. You learn so much about people by what they eat. Living as a local for a few months is my most favorite thing of all. Every time I go on location, the first things I do are get a library card and go grocery shopping. NUVO: Do you have any prior experience dealing with Indiana’s film industry? Either good or bad? LEE: The thing about filming in Indiana, when people find out you’re shooting a movie, there’s an enthusiasm that comes out. In Chicago or LA, sometimes it’s
more of a “whatever” attitude since they see it all the time. It’s a great feeling. One night when we were shooting in Goshen, we were shooting at a bar late night. All the lights were set up outside, and it looked pretty impressive. Tons of people came out to see. One kid was there with his family and friends and he asked me to sign his skateboard. I kept telling him that I was no one important, but he didn’t care. I still wonder if he has that board. NUVO: What do you think would need to happen for you to do the same kind of work in Indiana? LEE: Tax incentive. Unfortunately, it always comes down to money. Look at Atlanta. There’s so much work that there’s not enough crew. A friend of mine said they’re so desperate for local crew that they went to Home Depot and asked the guys who hang around the front looking for work if they wanted to work on a movie. After tax incentive, my next thing is logistics. If we had a film infrastructure here: rental houses for lighting and camera SUBMITTED PHOTO equipment, prop houses, etc., that would help everyone. Indiana businesses make money; the show gets more of a rebate back; everyone’s happy. If someone built a proper sound stage here — and I mean proper — they could shoot more than just location work. NUVO: Is there anything else you would like to add? LEE: Indiana is beautiful. I’ve been all over this state and I’m still surprised by what I see. Movies that take place in Indiana should be shot here. Instead, they shoot elsewhere or only a tiny bit in Indiana. Even movies that don’t take place in Indiana could be shot here. They do it all the time with other tax incentive states. New Orleans played as outside San Francisco for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Indiana could do the same. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 01.27.16 - 02.03.16 // COVER STORY 17
PROXY
BEST OF INDIE INDY
The opening film in Bloomington’s 2014 Diabolique International Film Festival, this is a disturbing thriller full of twists and turns. Shot in writer-director Zack Parker’s hometown of Richmond, Proxy revolves around a troubled young woman who finds herself tangled in the lives of two grieving, vengeful parents. Reminiscent of Rosemary’s Baby and Don’t Look Now, this film is a frightening funhouse reflection of parenthood.
SUBMERGE: NI’RE REBORN
An official selection at several local film festivals — including last year’s Gen Con — this is a spiffy little sci-fi adventure. Writer-director Demetrius Witherspoon came up with the idea for the film after seeing a homeless woman on 38th Street. She inspired him to create the film’s heroine — a pregnant, penniless young woman who is transported to a dystopian world, where she emerges as a fierce warrior named Ni’re. The film makes surreal settings out of familiar Indy locations. The installation of “ancient ruins” at Holliday Park creates a retro-futuristic feel. And with its Romanesque pillars and pavilion, Coxhall Gardens in Carmel makes a fitting lair for Ni’re’s nemesis Queen Rain. Submerge: Ni’re Reborn is a charming B-movie. For more info, visit dventertainmentpictures.com.
Available on Blu-ray and DVD as well as Amazon Video, Google Play, iTunes and YouTube.
Proxy
HUMANEXUS
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An exhilarating short film, Humanexus takes a 12-minute freefall through the history of human communication. Stunning animated sequences illustrate the invention and impact of print, radio, film, television, the internet, etc. It’s a cinematic journey from cave drawings to Facebook feeds. Humanexus is a collaboration between IU information visualization professor Katy Börner; animator Ying-Fang Shen, a former IU School of Fine Arts associate; and Norbert Herber, an IU Department of Telecommunications senior lecturer and sound artist and musician. The film has been an official selection at over 100 film festivals around the world, including the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Available on YouTube and cns.iu.edu/humanexus.html.
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BETHLEHEM
Proxy
This crude yet comforting comedy premiered to a packed house at the Strand Theater in Shelbyville earlier this winter. Written by Hoosier natives Joshua Hull and Michael Malone (the director/star), Bethlehem is a laugh riot revolving around a family
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Local director Joshua Hull’s best film, The Impersonators follows a ragtag group of party rental superheroes tasked to lift the spirits of a crimeridden town. Shot all over Indiana, it’s a confident, charming action comedy. It premiered to a sold-out crowd at the Hamilton 16 in Noblesville a couple years ago. — SAM WATERMEIER Bethlehem
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ould you and your significant other — if you were artists — be able to work collaboratively together on a work of art? Or would you show your work as individuals? And, if professional jealousy reared its ugly head during the collaboration, would you be able to keep it in check? One or two of these questions might just pop into your head during the exhibition Follow Your Heart at the Harrison Center for the Arts (HCA) opening Feb. 5. In this exhibition, featuring five artist couples working in all kinds of media, you’ll see some couples collaborating on their pieces, some showing their work as individuals. “We’ve done shows before where we chose work from artists who were couples,” says HCA curator Kyle Ragsdale. “But we’ve never done it where couples were the main theme of the show. I just think it’s really interesting in a couple’s relationship how [having] a partner influences the work or informs the other person’s work or doesn’t necessarily or how you compare the two people.” Quincy and Nikki Owens chose to collaborate. Their sculptural pieces, using woven bamboo as a medium, were inspired by a residency that he recently
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completed in Delhi, India, organized by HCA fellow Stefan Eicher. Quincy describes the sculptures as “woven, floating forms.” (Quincy is an HCA artist and Nikki is the HCA Events Coordinator.) “Our first instinct,” says Quincy, “was that we should do this together.” Another couple collaborating at Follow Your Heart are Megan and Corey Jefferson. Megan is the grant writer for the Indy-based nonprofit Department of Public Words and Corey is a ceramics instructor at Herron School of Art and Design. Megan’s paintings depict seascapes and Corey’s sculptures resemble boats. And the exhibition will have three of Megan’s spare landscape paintings with Corey’s sculptures popping out
of them like seafaring imagery on a 3D movie screen. The Jeffersons have collaborated with their art before on certain projects. “Corey and I worked for a mural on Winthrop Avenue [in Indianapolis], on TCC Software Solutions,” says Megan. “And the end of the building kept getting hit with graffiti.” They were asked by Holly and Dave Combs, the founders of the Department of Public Words, to assist with the building. The mural was designed to keep people from tagging the building, and the four of them worked together to complete the mural. But according to Corey, it isn’t often when they get to work together. “So that’s kind of the reason we jumped on it [the exhibition],” he says. “I’ve done a lot of nuts and bolts of Megan’s painting framing, building stretchers, and Megan inspires some of my color choices too because she’s just such a smart colorist.” Not all of the couples involved in this exhibition, however, are collaborating on their submitted work. And not all of them live in the Circle City. Gala and Zack Bent, who left Indianapolis in 2006 to live in Seattle, are sending their individual works to Indy from Seattle to show in the exhibition. “Gala does primarily paintings (gouache) and detailed graphite drawings,” says Bent. “We’re just showing a collection of work that we’ve been doing recently. So I have these sculptures that I’ve been working on, and I’ve put them into this site that I’ve been photographing; it’s [the site of] a forest fire from a couple of years ago.” Zack takes digital photos of his white geometric sculptures in the middle of the burnt forest. “It’s an intuitive process setting them up and seeing what happens behind the camera,” says Zack. “Those are the prints that I’m sending. Then we’re sending a
Local artists and chefs getting ready for the Souper Bowl Jan. 30, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Going downtown it’s easy to see the impact of Super Bowl XLVI: from the revitalization of Georgia Street to the expansion of the convention center, the game’s effect on the city lingered long after the departure of football fans. Souper Bowls, a fundraiser for Second Helpings, is one part of that legacy. Local chefs will gather to compete for “a trophy and bragging rights” while local artists will be selling hand crafted bowls. As the name suggests, the focus of the food is on warm, soothing dishes that take the edge off winter cold. January also happens to be National Soup Month. Souper Bowls is held the weekend before the Super Bowl and generates around $6,000 for Second Helpings. The funds help pay for Second Helpings’ meal delivery program and their culinary job training program. Last year, second Helpings provided 955,869 meals to people through 80 different social services. Each day, Second Helpings prepares and delivers 4,000 meals. Betsy Whitman, communications manager for Second Helpings, describes the event as a good way to introduce the public to Second Helpings. Many of the people who attend Souper Bowls have never set foot in the building and it shows them what the organization is all about. It’s a low-cost event and attendees can try soup several times, the better to make their final decisions. If they find themselves particularly taken with a dish, they can even get some to go for $5 a portion. There’s also an auction of bowls designed by local artists as another means of raising funds. It’s another way of showcasing the talent of Indy residents. Some artists remain anonymous while others sign their name. Cathy Kravitz is one of the artists who donated a piece this year. Kravitz has worked with pottery for over 30 years, her back isn’t strong enough to use a wheel, so she builds her pieces by hand. Kravitz was previously aware of the event but it wasn’t until attending an open house at Second Helpings that she got involved with the event. Helping to feed the hungry was what appealed to Kravitz about participating in the event. “Clay talks to me a lot and tells me what shape and what to color it. I always glaze in whimsical colors. People know my work pretty much everywhere in the city,” said Kravitz. — ANDREW CROWLEY Second Helpings, The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Center, 1121Southeastern Ave., $10, secondhelpings.org
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couple of Gala’s drawings. Her reference material is usually the natural world. They’re a strange mix of illustration and painting that have these references to the natural world… that are a little bit more fantastic and imaginative.” If there are any downsides to working side by side as professional artists and soulmates, Zack fails to mention it. “We decided that it would be better to just send some of our individual works and let whatever potential resonance be-
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ear eight of Winterfest is here. We were able to catch up with a few of the brewers to get a sneak preview of what they will be pouring. String your pretzel necklaces (bonus points if you can fit a pizza on there) and godspeed.
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“What are you bringing?” “If I told you that I would have to kill you.” Drew Fox is not revealing 18th Street Brewing’s surprise brew. “Something very cool I would rather not share at this time; pay special attention to Sour Note,” he advises. “We have some cool stuff to showcase from our sour brewing project, and our Stouts.” “We keep being asked what special beers we plan to bring. Given our focus is to make only fun beers that constantly rotate every day is like a beer festival at Deviate.” Greg Ortwein and Mike Orkey, are equally mum, but promise, “they will be fun offerings that will deviate from the norm.”
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Sun King isn’t yet ready to announce lineup and tapping schedule, “But here are a few things that you can highlight,” offers Beth Belange, “Bourbon Barrel Timmie, Velvet Fog, Afternoon Delight, Cherry Busey, When Doves Pie.”
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During the VIP hour, TwoDEEP will be tapping Camp Hope Smoked Porter. “This beer gave us a chance to experiment with unique kilned malts,” says Lizzie Hineman. “Camp Hope is a fullbodied robust smoked porter brewed with applewood smoked malt. We’re excited to share this beer — just remember though, don’t put Twinkies on your pizza!” TwoDEEP will highlight its malt focus with They’ve Gone to PLAID! Scotch Ale, Jolly Old Stout, Helluvadortfest German Lager house favorites, KnightStick Cream Ale, Red Sunday Irish Red Ale, Brickhouse Roasted Amber, and Lake IPA. “Follow @twodeepbrewing for updates on our Winterfest booth location, tappings and other brewing shenanigans!” advises Hineman.
“When BIG (Brewers of Indiana Guild) started Winterfest in 2009, I think it was the logical progression of the festivals for the Guild. Interest in craft brewing and, at the time, big beers in particular were coming to the forefront of the brewing industry. I think all the board members viewed the addition of Winterfest as the obvious direction for our first festival expansion. With hoppy beers being the primary focus of the Indiana Microbrewers Festival in the summer, big beers worked well as a winter theme. The Fairgrounds came into play for a number of reasons: We had been working with Pat Berger and folks on the Indiana State Fair Commission to allow beer sales at the IN State Fair, so the fairgrounds were on our minds. What sealed the deal was simply the accommodations that the facility offered — plenty of space, parking and easy load-in and out for the brewers. I was an advocate of hosting the event completely outdoors; however, the rest of the board was not so enthusiastic. As such, we created the outdoor beer garden for cask beers and space for a couple of breweries to set up. Lafayette Brewing has been outside every year we’ve had that option. There’s been a few joiners over the years: Crown and a couple others have been out in the beer garden. Most of the cask beers that brewers send are higher gravity brews that help fight the winter chill.” — RITA KOHN
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Triton is bringing Sanitarium [limited edition], Tripple, Dubbel, Hator & more, promises Jon Lang.
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release beers including our newest—a big, earthy barleywine we call Citizen’s Right,” says Erin Stevens. “Fan favorites will also make an appearance, including Double Uddercut Double Milk Stout, Red Collar Imperial Amber, Dock 7 IPA and Double Tribute Double Pale Ale. “Another surprise may pop up for a few lucky folks; you’ll just have to wait and see,” says Erin Stevens.
“Black Acre will be bringing a bunch of fun beers including Gatekeeper Belgian Golden Strong Ale aged in New Day Meadery’s Imperial Magpie barrels, Beard Tax, our Russian Imperial Stout, Noxious Beast, our Double Rye IPA, and The Quickening, our Scotch ale,” says Justin Miller.
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EXPECTATIONS, FROM PAGE 21 toasty. Teddy Bear Kisses, Carpet burn (oyster stout with chilis and chocolate), Stoaked (Belgian Quad), Syrupticious (Maple Breakfast Stout). On Cask: Spiced Strong Ale with winter spices (cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice), orange zest, chocolate, and vanilla. 7.5% ABV. Of course some sours — you’ll have to wait and see,” says Emily Hines.
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Chris Knott at FLIX completely lifts the veil: “For VIP hour we will be tapping the FoBAB Bronze medal winning Barrel Aged Chillaxed Mild. The Barton Bourbon barrel adds unique flavors of vanilla and charred oak to compliment the nutty, toffee malt flavors of the base beer and low ABV. At 4:30, we will tap Druish Princess Belgian Quad — Bold and complex, yet soft and elegant. This quadrupel boasts rich malt flavors of bread, raisins, and dates with the characteristic fruity/peppery flavors from the Belgian yeast. 9.2% ABV. 35 IBU Hail Skroob Russian Imperial Stout will be on full time — This beast of a beer contains a thick body and rich flavors of chocolate, coffee, caramel, and dark fruit. May the Schwartz be with you… you’ll need it. 8.4% ABV. 55 IBU English Gentleman (English IPA) will be on full time — Traditional spicy, grassy, floral hop character is balanced beautifully by the bready, nutty English malt flavor.”
CHILLY WATER
Chilly Water is bringing it’s 2015 Indiana Brewers’ Competition Bronze Medal Pilsner, IPA, Saison, Belgian Dubbel, Doppelbock. “We saved some of our pumpkin ale to share and we will have a special tapping of our Batch 100, a Strong Scotch at 13% ABV,” confirms Skip DuVall. 22 FOOD // 01.27.16 - 02.03.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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Steve Mazylewski says Crown Brewing will be bringing “The Dude” White Russian Java Porter, Grand Poobah Imperial Stout, a barrel aged Raspberry Sour Winter Warlock, a couple of IPAs, something else barrel aged, and a few other beers. “This year for the Winterfest Bloomington Brewing is taking eight beers,” says Mark Cady. Four you already know of: Ruby Bloom Amber 6.0% ABV, 11 IBU; Rooftop IPA 7.4% ABV, 80 IBU; 10-Speed Hoppy Wheat 5.2% ABV, 27 IBU; Java Porter 5.2% ABV, 21 IBU For our second jockey box we are bringing 4 special beers to dazzle the senses: Krampus Imperial Black IPA 9.1% ABV, 116 IBU; Bourbon Barrel Aged 10-Speed Hoppy Wheat 6.2% ABV, 27 IBU; Swashbuckler Oatmeal Stout 6.8% ABV, 37 IBU; Simcoe Kid IPA — an all Simcoe hopped IPA 7.2% ABV, 68 IBU
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The Kokomo brewery is bringing two standards: MILF-n-Honey Wheat and The Kokomonster. The other two beers will be the Wild Cherry Wheat and the Lil Sumpin’ Wheat IPA, according to brewer John Templet.
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Mad Anthony will pour Hopsquatch II, Ruby Raspberry Wheat, Auburn Lager, Good Karma IPA, Snow Plowed Winter Ale, Jonesing for Java Porter and O.C.B.
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eyond the Craft Beer, there’s crafting of fun. Valerie Green shares Flat 12’s lead into “costuming.” Flat12 was one of the first breweries to bring a costumed beer theme to Indiana festivals. It’s typically a tradition at established festivals, and every year we’ve challenged ourselves to keep it fresh and original while tying it back to a special beer lineup. “The Flat12 team works hard and plays hard,” says Green. “Our brewers spend a lot of time cooped up in the back of a “Our friends at Black Acre are dark, cold, brewery doing some taking it to the next level.” strenuous work to bring beer to the masses, so when they get — VALERIE GREEN, FLAT 12 a chance to get out in front of people, they like to have fun. Winterfest is a big family reunion for all of us, a place where we can Mad Scientist brewers featuring beers have fun with other breweries, catch brewed with experimental hops. up with industry friends, interact with Green will only give this hint at their other craft beer lovers, and talk about costumes: “Phone a friend and Come what we do. on Down! Survey says.. you won’t want “We love to see more of our brewery to miss it. And that’s our final answer.” friends participating and coming up Justin Miller reveals the Black Acre with their own original themes. Our crew is dressing up as Waynes and friends at Black Acre are taking it to Garths from the movie Wayne’s World the next level with their concepts. They this year. n brought a really cool Top Gun theme
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Of all the quotable quotes in Becoming Dr. Ruth: An Unexpected Journey, the one that sticks clearly in my mind is “How can we know who we are if we can’t remember who we were?” Not only is this the best ever motivator for journaling, but it also sums up the raison d’etre of the show. The name “Dr. Ruth” became synonymous with sex in the 1980s and remains so today. But who is this little woman with the funny accent who became the authority on sex and sexuality? Karola Ruth Siegel was born in 1928 in Frankfurt to a Jewish Orthodox family. After her father was taken to a labor camp, her mother and grandmother placed her on a Kindertransport train to Switzerland at age 10. She never saw her family again. From there her journey to stardom took many strange turns across three continents, from joining the Haganah (the Jewish paramilitary organization), studying at the Sorbonne, and finally traveling to America in 1956. By the time the play is set in 1997, Dr. Ruth Westheimer has a PhD, three children, four grandchildren, and two ex-husbands. She knows four languages and has recently become a widow. The one-woman show — directed by Ed Mobley and performed by Diann Ryan, who reprises her role from last May at Theatre on the Square — is set in Dr. Ruth’s Washington Heights apartment. She is packing to move across town, and as she picks up memorabilia, she engages the audience directly with stories of her past. Ryan plays up Dr. Ruth’s cheerful, unthreatening, grandmotherly side, though the more serious no-nonsense approach Dr. Ruth is known for when discussing sexual issues is missing. Nonetheless, she maintains her momentum (and accent) throughout the show, and captures the pain of long-ago but not forgotten memories. Ryan is at her best when recounting Dr. Ruth’s tragic early life and her failed relationships. While much of Dr. Ruth’s biography can be found online, hearing it told in such an intimate setting makes it even more fascinating, and in the end, character and audience are left with hope for what the future will bring. — LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON Coming up next Dial M for Murder, Feb. 26-March 16, epilogueplayers.org
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hen the Indianapolis Opera and The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra join forces this weekend, the music will be more familiar to patrons than the principal performers. Opera’s Rising Stars will feature four artists who are just beginning to make their mark in the opera world, achieving acclaim through artist competitions around the country. Yet, out of the soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone schedule to perform, it is the tenor who provides the most intriguing insight for the future of opera in America and around the world. Yi Li is a native of Jinan, the capital of the Shandong province in eastern China. The city is considered a major economic, administrative and transportation hub for Northern China thanks
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ments of study — the country is known producing world famous pianists, violinists and cellists. However at the age of 8, Yi Li went a different direction from the norm and began his western classical music training on the clarinet. And while his musical training found its foundation in wind instruments, Li says the inspiration to use his voice came from more personal influences. “I was surrounded by my father’s voice and his singing everyday, so he influenced me to start singing, and eventually turn it into a career,” says Li. At age 19, Li began his vocal training at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music and eventually earned “I was surrounded by my father’s bachelors and master of music degrees. But once voice and his singing everyday, so he decided opera would be his chosen career, that he influenced me to start singing, led him out of his and eventually turn it into a career.” path native country and to the University of Cincinnati’s — YI LI, TENOR Conservatory of Music ( CCM) to fine tune his craft. Although western music — more specifically to a railway system that was developed western classical opera — is studied and through German influences at the turn celebrated in China, the opportunity for of the 20th Century. The study of westprofessional work and performance is ern classical music is fairly common very limited. All but one of the country’s in China and is encouraged among the great opera performance halls was built children of the country’s more affluent only within the last 15 years. citizens. Classical piano and string inSince receiving his artist diploma struments are the most common instru- from CCM, Li has become a rising star
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on the emerging artist competition circuit. His growing list of honors includes the 2014 Grand Final Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; a finalist at Operalia: The World Opera Competition; Winner of the Sullivan Musical Foundation Award; China’s representative at the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition; 3rd Prize at the Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition; Finalist in the 49th International Singing
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piece, such a minor flaw can and should Competition of Toulouse; and Winner of be forgiven based on the performer’s muthe Grand Prize in Opera Columbus Irma sicality. Mastering the diction of western M. Cooper Vocal Competition. languages has to be difficult for the native To be a world-renowned opera singer Mandarin speaker. In his words, “I find in this day and age is no easy feat. To English to be the most challenging.” be a world-renowned lyric tenor is even So with a growing career in an intense harder. The bar is set incredibly high medium, what is Li’s eventual goal? thanks to the talents of Luciano Pava“In 10 years I want to be regarded as rotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras the best Asian tenor of our time,” says Li. and others. Pavarotti, Domingo and “I hope to have the opportunity to debut Carreras not only entertained the world in world famous opera theaters, such as with the quality of their talents, they also popularized the genre. They are the gold standard for operatic tenors of our time — it makes sense that they To be a world-renowned opera would be the inspirations for Li as well. singer in this day and age is no easy One can hear that infeat. To be a world-renowned lyric spiration in Li’s work. One example is a peformance tenor is even harder. of “Pourquoi me Reveiller” from Werther by French composer Jules Massenet found on YouTube. Li’s La Scala [the world famous opera house tonality and expression is very similar in Milan, Italy] and Covent Garden [the to Domingo and illustrates the potential Royal Opera House in London].” career in front of him. One review of Li’s Yi Li is just at the beginning of his caperformance notes “his smooth lift to reer. There currently is no bar set for the the top of his voice.” It’s a quality that best Asian tenor of our time. If his current makes the performance appear effortsuccess and momentum is any indication less and sound unstrained to the listener. of the future, Li could very well achieve Domingo had it and Li is perfecting his his goal and so much more. n craft in similar fashion. While the same critic hears “rough French diction” in the
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Verdi Caro nome from Rigoletto, performed by Sydney Mansacola, soprano Massenet Pourquoi me reveille from Werther, performed by Yi Li, tenor Tchaikovsky Waltz from Eugene Onegin, performed by Indianapolis Opera Chorus Mozart Il core vi dono from Cosi fan Tutte, performed by Margaret Mezzacappa, mezzo-soprano and Reginald Smith Jr., baritone Verdi Stride la vampa from Il Trovatore, performed by Margaret Mezzacappa, mezzo-soprano
Puccini Che gelida manina from La Bohème, performed by Yi Li, tenor Gounod O nuit divine (Balcony Scene) from Romeo and Juliette, performed by Sydney Mansacola, soprano and Yi Li, tenor
Bizet Toreador Song from Carmen, performed by Indianapolis Opera Chorus, Reginald Smith Jr., baritone
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VISITING WRITER LECTURE AT BUTLER UNIVERSITY Let’s be real — we’ve all had sexual fantasies of our rugged, bear-thighed UPS deliverymen. There’s no shame in admitting you constantly imagine one day he runs to your doorstep to give you his package. For novelist Roxane Gay, this erotic fantasy is how she introduced herself to us at a reading at the William L. Schrott Center at Butler University, and it is just one of the many intellectual and hilarious life rants found in her book that reiterates why she is a self-proclaimed Bad Feminist. Currently a professor at Purdue University, she recognizes that although it’s 2016, she is probably the first Black professor that most of her students have had. Roxane Gay is definitely not afraid to speak her mind when discussing topics like women’s rights in the workplace, or racism in beauty pageants. When she graced us with her presence this past Tuesday, I had no idea what to expect. She sat down, started coughing in our faces through the mic and said, “This is how it’s going to be all night. Get used to it.” Right then and there, I knew the answer — we’re only human, and there’s only so much we can do. She held nothing back, and delivered a serving of sugar-free reality to all of us in attendance. An audience member asked about when the appropriate time is to start saying, “Fuck off, you’re wrong.” to people who are ignorant about the injustices and issues that feminists fight every day. Gay’s response was, “I have business cards that I hand out that say just that, “Fuck off, you’re wrong”. You can’t educate people who don’t want to be educated, it’s like saving someone who doesn’t want to be saved.” Bad Feminist is a hysterical criticism of the different ways that we allow popular culture to dictate our lives without questioning “Why?” Whether it’s living the daily struggle of striving to be as popular as Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley High, or realizing you and your brother are the only two Black kids in school, there’s something to be said for the social constructs that we choose to let shape us. Gay’s commentary on the complexities and setbacks of being a feminist is one of the most raw, forward ways of thinking I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. Gay doesn’t sugar-coat anything, and says, “I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.” She hasn’t let down the feminist sisterhood while she’s secretly seducing her mailman, she’s reminding us that sometimes, you mess up, but at least you gave it a shot. — PAIGE WATSON
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born, my husband (novelist and short story writer Jim Quinn) and I took turns watching her and giving each other time to write. I’m lucky that he works at home. It was more a matter of learning the emotional changes and rhythms of motherhood and adjusting to them, writing with them, writing into them. That’s not easy, but overall it’s a positive change. NUVO: You have received, among several other awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship. Can you discuss that experience and what it did for your art?
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things, coming back to the writing, but spending time in the study no matter what. That can be really hard to do with teaching and other commitments. I try to write a little every day, in any case. That doesn’t necessarily mean I finish much or that I’m always or even often inspired. But it’s like concert pianists practicing: they have to practice in order to do
DAISY FRIED: The director of the MFA program, Hilene Flanzbaum, invited me. I taught a twoweek intensive course for the program last summer and “I have to keep my poetry muscles had a wonderful time: excellent students, great hosts, worked out so when inspiration pleasant town. The upcoming visit is sort of Part B of that strikes I’m ready for it.” commitment. I’m happy to be coming back! — DAISY FRIED NUVO: Speak a bit about your writing process. For instance, what sort of environment is best for you to write in? How did your practice change once you had a daughter? FRIED: The ideal situation for me would be to write — or at least be in my study — each morning, four or five days a week. It means being in there, having something underway, getting distracted, doing other
well when performing. I have to keep my poetry muscles worked out so when inspiration strikes I’m ready for it. My daughter is nine now and is in school. So she is only a distraction in that she’s something I need and want to pay attention to and that takes emotional and physical energy. She also provides great material for poems. When she was
FRIED: What awards like the Guggenheim get you — besides prestige, which is a fine thing! — is time. Time off making money from things other than writing, time for reverie (extremely important to poets), time to look around you. Time, obviously, to write. I finished my first book on one fellowship, and my second one on another. When the Guggenheim came, I was struggling with my third book and had a newborn baby. To say it’s hard to write and be a first-time mother at the same time is an understatement; the Guggenheim made it possible for me to be home with the baby and support our family and to write under less pressure, and without the added commitment of teaching, which is how I make money in general. It also meant we got to travel — we spent two months in Rome and two in Paris — and those things feed my writing: perspective, experience, subject matter. What I worked on when I was on the Guggenheim eventually went into my third book of poems (2013’s Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice). NUVO: Who are some of your literary influences? FRIED: It’s so hard to pinpoint literary influences; everything I read and everything I do that’s not reading influences my work. What I really want is to write poems with the breadth, detail and intensity of the Neapolitan novels of the amazing Elena Ferrante. I tend to write in the persona(e) of myself, and to write about my life, however obliquely and fictionally, in order to describe realities of contemporary America. n
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The Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. (Bloomington), $50 for a festival pass, $10 for individual screenings, bloomingtonpride.org Mustang Jan. 30, 7 p.m. In a small Turkish village, a family home turns into a prison when five sisters are caught playing with local boys. Their grandmother takes them out of school and punishes them for what she considers an inappropriate encounter with the boys. The plot thickens when the girls slowly start to fight for their freedom. Mustang is racking up all sorts of accolades, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th St. (Bloomington), $6 for the public, $3 for students, cinema. indiana.edu Groundhog Day Feb. 2. IU Cinema is showing the classic comedy Groundhog Day for free. Better yet, to mirror the movie’s time warp, it is screening the film all day long! Showings start at the crack of dawn and repeat every 105 minutes until 11:30 p.m. That means you could watch Groundhog Day 11 times in a row! The great thing about this film is that it only grows funnier every time you see it. IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th St. (Bloomington), FREE, cinema.indiana.edu
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We’ll know in a week or so, when the locals get a chance to compare history with cinema. One thing’s for sure: The men in the movie certainly watch their language. No surprise – the movie opens with the Disney logo, including the castle. But never mind, the men do their best to make up for their cleaned-up speech with lots of growling and hollering. Our two leading men are Coast Guard coxswain Bernie Webber (Chris Pine) and tanker engineer Raymond Sybert (Casey Affleck). Both fellows reflect the “Greatest Generation” vibe conto the time period. Some scenes work perfectly ... while nected Sybert remains a man of few words, while Webber other scenes, like the headlight gets both a backstory (he business, are simply embarrassing. once led a failed rescue mission) and a love interest – plucky Miriam (Holliday Grainger), the your car lights on … like the girl!” aforementioned woman who discovered It’s only fair to admit that I’m a sucker light. for movies like The Finest Hours. Rescues On the fateful February night a at sea, New England accents, maritime nor’easter shears two separate oil tankclichés … what’s not to love? The film ers in half. The confusion over the twin is based on the book, The Finest Hours: disasters results in one receiving the The True Story of the Coast Guard’s Most lion’s share of the rescue efforts. With the Daring Sea Rescue, by Michael J. Tougias more experienced men already gone, the and Casey Sherman. How much of the new Coast Guard commanding officer, true story is reflected in Scott Silver, Paul Daniel Cluff (Eric Bana, trying hard) Tamasy and Eric Johnson’s screenplay? orders Webber to lead a crew to attempt
a rescue of the second boat. Webber’s crew includes actors Kyle Gallner, John Magaro and the chameleon-like Ben Foster, who at some points in the film passes a striking resemblance to Popeye. Sybert’s boatmates include a number of swell character actors, including Abe Benrubi, who makes the most of his time (he even gets to work in a show tune). Nice to see Abe again. Director Craig Gillespie (Million Dollar Arm) is all over the place in the adventure tale. Some scenes work perfectly, like the one that follows a crucial command as it is passed from man to man (if you ever played the game “Telephone” you’ll be extra nervous), while other scenes, like the headlight business, are simply embarrassing. The effects are uneven. The action scenes work as long as you don’t look too closely. You hear warnings of deadly hypothermia bandied about the sinking ship while the Coast Guard men boating through the same waters don’t even look uncomfortable. Some of the computergenerated ocean scenes are stunning – meanwhile the snow on the windshields of the cars looks like insulation … or mashed potato buds. What makes the film so gripping is the unlikeliness of the crucial situation. The freighter makes a desperate move that shouldn’t work. The Coast Guard team stabs repeatedly into the dark seas without real direction. This couldn’t possibly succeed, but … The men in The Finest Hour make mistakes. The director of the film does so too. In the end it worked for me, but then I’m a sucker for this stuff. n
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irty Grandpa tries to be a comedy SHOWING: IN WIDE RELEASE of discomfort. The viewers are supRATED: R y posed to wince and squirm as the titular character says and does one lewd thing after another. The problem is that around a more “wholesome” screen icon the protagonist is Robert De Niro. letting loose. Jeff Bridges and Michael The setup is promising. After his Douglas were both in the running for wife dies, De Niro’s character (aptly the role. Either one would have been named Dick) guilt-trips his grandson a much better choice for the part. This Jason (Zac Efron) into driving him from film certainly won’t wreck De Niro, but it Georgia to Boca Raton — the trip he and his wife took every year during Great comedy catches people off guard. their marriage. Little does Jason It pulls the rug out from under their feet know, Dick doesn’t and leaves them gasping for air. Dirty actually want to drive down memGrandpa does neither. ory lane. His dear grandpa takes a detour to Daytona Beach in the midst of spring break with the goal of bedding as many young women as he can. Of course, Jason — an uptight, preppy lawyer on the verge of marriage — strongly disapproves. The revelation of the grandpa’s plan and the tension it causes between the men is genuinely funny stuff. “You’re like the Terminator, sent from the future to cock-block me,” Dick tells his buff grandson, whose abs almost rip through all of his yuppie clothes. An all-American boy with a head for business and a bod for sin, Jason seems like a parody of Efron. And to some degree, Dick is a parody of De Niro’s classic onscreen persona — in the sense that every other word out of his mouth is a profanity. Therein lies the problem. The humor hinges upon the “surprise” that the sweet grandpa is actually a foul-mouthed fiend. But it’s hardly surprising to hear De Niro drop F-bombs. Therefore, it’s not really edgy or funny either. With the exception of a few detours into gentler territory, De Niro has spent his whole career playing tough guys — men who spew vitriol and beat their naysayers to bloody pulps. His character in this film isn’t much different — less violent but a lot cruder. Dirty Grandpa might have been funnier if it revolved
definitely won’t help him either. Great comedy catches people off guard. It pulls the rug out from under their feet and leaves them gasping for air. Dirty Grandpa does neither. That’s not to say it’s completely without funny moments, but they’re too few and far between. If you want bold, dark, daring comedy, go back to De Niro’s youth — specifically to the 1982 gem, The King of Comedy, in which De Niro stars opposite comic legend Jerry Lewis. That’s a shining example of a truly great comedy — the kind that splits your sides and leaves you shivering at the troubling ideas underneath the punchlines. The King of Comedy will stay with you. Dirty Grandpa will fade from your memory as soon as you leave the theater. n
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Manning is now 3-1 vs. Tom Brady/Bill Belichick in AFC Championship games. Manning has won the last three matchups with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line against Tom Brady. If Brady and Belichick had been able to vanquish Manning, the Patriots record in Super Bowls would be incredible, but because Manning was just a little too good at all the right moments, no one is going to confuse them with the Steelers of the 1970s or the 49ers of the 1980s.
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playoff record. Not a bad legacy for a postseason choke artist.
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Super Bowl 50 (or L) is a historic milestone deserving of a compelling narrative. The last thing anyone wanted was a Super Bowl with Jay Cutler and Blake Bortles or the other 15 to17 QBs in the NFL who are their equivalents. Manning is a regal name in the NFL, and Newton is the young, talented, and brash embodiment of the next gen of NFL leaders. Forget the #1 offense of the Panthers vs. the number one defense of the Broncos — this is a matchup of generations and great QBs.
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Manning vs. Newton will be a passing of the torch between generations of quarterbacks. Cam Newton was just 8 years old when Manning was drafted by the Colts, and now he will have the opportunity to take from Manning what he covets most. Granted, these quarterbacks will never be on the field at the same time, but the Manning vs. Newton subplot will be the driving marketing force behind the hype for Super Bowl 50.
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A win in the Super Bowl would give Manning a winning record in the playoffs. Being a postseason loser
Not so fast: Manning has shown an uncanny ability to do just enough to put points on the board for an Broncos offense overshadowed by the tenacity and ferocity of its defense. He’s a game manager now, but a great one. In the AFC Championship win against the New England Patriots, Manning threw two touchdown passes with no picks while Tom Brady dealt two picks with no TDs. That was the difference in the game. Here are the 10 reasons to be fascinated by Manning in this Super Bowl:
has been the image that has dogged Manning throughout his career. In 15 trips to the postseason, Manning’s Colts and Broncos have lost in the first round nine times. Because the Broncos have won their first two playoff games this season, Manning’s postseason record is an even 13-13.
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Going out on top is the only way to go. Manning will almost certainly move on to the next phase of his life after this game. Watching Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath, Ken Stabler, and dozens of other quarterbacks limp off the field as their skills and abilities faded to ordinary has been terribly sad. If Manning can find a little more magic and win his second Super Bowl over the Carolina Panthers, he could accomplish something very few in any sport have ever experienced — exiting as a champion.
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Manning will be the first QB in NFL history to lead two franchises to two Super Bowls. Craig Morton and Kurt Warner have piloted different franchises to Super Bowls, but no one until now has ever done it twice for two teams. For all the smarts the Colts showed in allowing Manning to roll to Denver clearing the deck for Andrew Luck, Manning has had
two more trips to the Super Bowl than Luck to this point in their shared era.
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Indy saw Manning become a man. When the Colts drafted Manning in 1998, he was a confident and eager boy with dreams of becoming the NFL’s best, and that is exactly what he did. I remember Manning dancing backstage at the Rod Stewart concert that celebrated the opening of the Emmis building downtown. His dancing was as awkward as you might guess, but as a quarterback, he was on the brink of the consistent greatness for which he will be remembered.
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Peyton Manning will be the oldest quarterback to start a Super Bowl. Manning is an old, broken-down warrior who loves football enough to make people believe he has one more great three hours of football in him. He’ll be a month and a half short of turning 40 when Super Bowl L is played. If Manning has any sense, this will be his last rodeo, and what a rodeo it might be. Manning will be 39 years and 320 days old, shattering the previous record of John Elway, who was 38 years, 217 days when he became the oldest QB to start a Super Bowl — at the end of Manning’s rookie season. n
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remember so well seeing Babes In Toyland’s “Bruise Violet” music video as a young kid in the ’90s. Vocals marinated in gasoline over stabs of guitar distortion, the music left its mark, as did the image of riotous ladies playing for a moshing throng of women at some kind of Gotham City circus — CBGB's. Rock’n’roll’s first bite. I bought their record Fontanelle, one of my very first CDs, with my allowance money, and I started saving up to buy a pawnshop guitar. It was many years before I got one and even more before I learned
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how to play it, but I’m not sure that I would be playing music now if it weren’t for Babes in Toyland and all the riot grrrl bands that I discovered next. So, I was more than ecstatic when my band Thee Tsunamis was asked to open for Babes in Toyland at the HI-FI, and I was downright giddy when Lori Barbero, the drummer for Babes In Toyland, agreed to an interview. BETSY SHEPHERD: When did you first get into rock’n’roll music? LORI BARBERO: I went to high school in New York, and that was in the ’70s. I saw Patti Smith at CBGB's on New Year’s Eve in 1977 when I was 17 years old. I saw the New York Dolls and the Heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders.
BETSY: Did witnessing the rise of the New York punk scene make you want to play music?
It’s hard watching the Dumpster fire that is Flint’s current poisonous water crisis. Hard isn’t actually a strong enough word. What’s happening in Flint is infuriating, ridiculous and shameful. But instead of channeling all of that negativity into refreshing your favorite news service to see which culpable official is resigning next — last week it was EPA administrator Susan Hedman — plan on clearing your schedule for February 6, shlepping to Costco and stocking up on some cases of water, then heading to Fountain Square Brewery. Veseria’s Kyle Perkon spearheaded the organization of BeneFlint on Feb. 6 at the Brewery. BeneFlint is a day-long local music showcase to drum up donations of water and funds for the people of Flint. His band will play alongside Audiodacity, Moxxie, Tied To Tigers, Prowlers & The Prey, Charlie Ballantine Trio, Minute Details and Sugar Moon Rabbit. Landon Keller, Branch Gordon, Megan Hopkins and Jeff Byrd are booked for acoustic sets; Amanda Keller, Miranda Thomas, Corey Hodges and Mallory Hodgkin will do live painting. Cosmic Chrome Cafe will be slangin’ food from their truck, Sam Ash will jump in to provide sound; DOItIndy Radio Hour hosts MP Cavalier and Scott Tolin will broadcast live all day, and all manner of other creative types will jump in to provide posters, T-shirts and more. Festivities will technically kick off the day before with a First Friday pre-party at Fountain Square Brewery, featuring a set by Emily Myren. So far 2016 has totally sucked, news-wise. Let’s make next week a better one. News of shows like this will set that course. Let’s fill all of Fountain Square Brewery with enough bottled water to sink the foundation a couple inches. (Okay, maybe not. But you get what I’m saying.) While you’re at it, call Michigan’s Governor Synder and demand answers. His number is 517-373-3400. — KATHERINE COPLEN Beneflint Fountain Square Brewery, 1301 Barth Feb. 6, 2 p.m. $5 for United Way of Genesee, or a case or gallon of bottled water
LORI: Yes. I really loved music and wanted to play music and be a part of it. The thing was I talked about it for many years but I didn’t pick up drumsticks until I was 26 years old. That’s the age that most musicians retire and get married and have kids. At 26, I self-taught myself drums playing with Kat [Bjelland of Babes in Toyland]. BETSY: What was that learning curve like? LORI: I had never played the drums before and sometimes I think if I would have drummed with someone else, maybe I wouldn’t have been able to play so well with Kat. That’s what’s really valid for our band. As of this year, Kat and I have been playing together for 30 years. S E E , T O Y L A N D , O N P A GE 3 8
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BETSY: I read somewhere that you toured for 10 months out of the year. Is that right?
BETSY: I just finished Kim Gordon’s memoir Girl In a Band. In it, Kim recalls how reporters would frequently ask her, “What’s it like being a girl in a band?” as if there was something antithetical to being female and being in a rock’n’roll band. Did you come across similar attitudes?
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LORI: Yes, and they still ask me and I’m like, “Next question, please.” I’m a musician just like my male counterpart. We’re a band, we just happen to be female. And we do the exact same thing as a male band. We work just as hard. We probably work even harder because, for some reason, in this world women have to work twice as hard to get a fraction of the praise men do when they’re doing the same work. BETSY: You blew up in ’92 with your second album, Fontanelle. I really love that record, and it’s got this emblematic album art from the feminist photographer Cindy Sherman.
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BETSY: That’s incredible! Babes in Toyland went on a European tour with Sonic Youth in 1990. What was that experience like?
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LORI: Yes, I do. We are not mainstream music. But that wasn’t what our goal was. Kat and I just got together and started playing music and this is what it ended up being. If you would have told me 29 years ago that I would be touring around the world and playing with my favorite bands of all time — Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Nirvana, the Melvins, Iggy Pop, the Ramones, Elvis Costello — I just would’ve laughed and said “Yeah, in your dreams.” We just did what we enjoyed doing, and we worked really hard. We rehearsed seven nights a week until our first shows. We just got together and played music in my basement, and then one thing led to another.
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LORI: Yeah, she’s one of my idols. In our video to “Bruise Violet,” which was filmed at CBGBs, Kat has a doppelganger. The doppelganger is Cindy!
BETSY: Wow! I didn’t know that. I see a lot of dovetailing between her art and your music. The cover of Fontanelle has this creepy babydoll imagery, which Nirvana later copied on In Utero and Hole copied on Live Through This. How did you feel about that? LORI: I think it’s great. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. BETSY: Do you have any advice for aspiring musicians? LORI: Do what you want to do and work really hard at it. The worst that can happen is that it won’t work out, but you aren’t going to know unless you try. And success isn’t fame and fortune; it’s doing what you want to do in your life, because life is short. Babes in Toyland is successful, not because we have lots of money — we don’t — it’s because we’ve been able to do what we love. n
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NUVO: Do you use any of the Nord’s piano patches? CHANDY: I haven’t gotten it exactly what I wanted it to sound like, so I default to the Rhodes setting. For what we do it’s a little more high energy than just a basic piano sound. NUVO: What’s your drum setup? DANI GRAF: It’s awesome! It’s so dope. My drums are Pearl, I’ll never play anything else. It’s a 5pc Vision series. It’s birch wood with standard sizes. I only use one of my toms. I use the smaller 10” tom and the 16” floor tom. The snare is the Pearl Sensitone. I hated the snare until I put on an Evans HD Dry. All my other drums are Remo’s. I use a lot of bass on one foot, heel-toe technique, and the Pearl Demonator pedal is really responsive. NUVO: What are your cymbals? GRAF: A 20” Paiste 2000, that’s my ride. I love it; it’s just old enough to really sound good. I have a Zildjian 16” A Custom Rezo crash. I use the 14” Rezo hi-hats. Those are the fucking bomb. They’ve got little half moon indents on the bottom; it gives you a nice crisp smack. I’m jazz trained and use my left foot, to add sound or keep time, in every single song. It’s the most versatile, artistic hi-hat I’ve heard. NUVO: Tambourine was a staple of Motown; do you use one on your kit?
GRAF: We have a person in our band who plays tambourine. On the songs she doesn’t she plays trumpet, tuba, cowbell… she literally has a tambourine solo. NUVO: Is that Laura, the “Wall of Sound?” What else does she add to the music? MCCONAHAY: Euphonium. CHANDY: Concertina. GRAF: Backup vocals, percussion, wood blocks. She takes care of all that and she does it really well. NUVO: Who else sings in the band? CHANDY: Curtis, Laura, Jes and I do. We’re the vocalists. NUVO: Jes, what do you want to add about The Vallures sound? JES FRANCO: I want to pay soul homage. I want [our music] to sound like a record that is in your memory. NUVO: Are you picky about microphones? FRANCO: I want a Shure 55SH, but I’ll play with a 58 mic, I’ll play with no mic. All I need is the will and that’s it. n See thebluebird.ws for updates on Bloomington’s Battle of The Bands
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he genesis of this interview started with a conversation I had with Jessica Hemesath. She's best known in Indianapolis music circles as half of the duo Shame Thugs and more recently as DJ Littletown. Hemesath spins frequently for rapper Drayco McCoy. I told her that I wanted to spin one of Drayco's tracks on my Wednesday evening radio show for WFYI, but I couldn't find one song in his catalogue that was suitable for airplay. That's not an entirely unusual scenario within the context of rap music. But 21-year-old Drayco's case is unique, as the young MC has amassed a massive body of work to select from, recording in excess of 100 songs on over a dozen albums and mixtapes — and each track is laced with a profuse amount of profane language that would quickly get a radio station's FCC license revoked. Hemesath mentioned that a lot of false assumptions are pinned on Drayco's character due to his propensity for sexual, violent or drug-filled language in his lyrics. (It's worth noting this is an ongoing topic in the discussion of rap on a global scale.) She suggested it might be interesting if I interviewed Drayco on this subject. I agreed and the conversation below was the result. NUVO: This is a real basic question. When I was a kid I listened to rap music, and it was all one genre then. It all was just labeled simply as rap music. Now rap is broken down into dozens of subgenres. How do you describe the work you create? You have a unique sound. Do you attach a label to it? DRAYCO: Nah, I don't like the term hiphop. I feel like that's real old. I guess you can just say rap. It's real underground cloud rap, kind of experimental. Whatever anyone wants to call it they can call it. I don't like labels. I call it punk rap because I like my shows to be real crazy. It's a big punk scene with all the friends I hang out with. I like the energy of it. I go to the shows and it feels so good. There's a band called the F.Y.C.'s that's like my favorite in the world. Other than that I don't listen to music much, because I've been so consumed in my own. NUVO: Right, as much music as you're making it doesn't really leave you time for leisure listening. As I mentioned you've made 13 albums in the last couple years. That's a lot of lyrics you've written. Can you talk about some of the themes or subjects you address in your songs?
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DRAYCO: [laughs] Man, nobody wants to hear about that! Look I'm a highly… [pauses] It's vulgar. It's crazy. I've never met nobody, even pastors, that didn't have something crazy going through their head. But a lot of people don't address that stuff. They think it will make people uncomfortable or nervous or something. But me, I don't really care. So much more is relatable than people would think. I have a song called "All I Do Is Pray", I was at a show a couple weeks ago and this dude comes up and he was like, "Dude, you just had all these 666 guys in here with their hands up praying." I got a song called "Too Much Sway" where the lyrics are just so bad. But I got all the feminists singing along to that stuff.
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change who I am because it makes some people uncomfortable. That's why people like it. "That Drayco, he just don't care about nothing." But that's a result of a lot of things. I've been through a lot. I feel like it's okay to not be afraid of who you are. It made her uncomfortable at first. [points to DJ Little Town] We were walking around and she was like, "At first I was really taken aback." I'm like, "Why? I'm a good guy." At the end of the day if you're a good person, people will understand. I care about the people and I care about how I look. not going to be out “I’m not the most comfortable person I'm there acting crazy and doing really crazy stuff. to be around in the first place.” That's not my thing.
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[Editor's note: Drayco is referring to the chorus of "Too Much Sway" which begins with the line "Oh my god, all I want to do is fuck her face."] It's self-expression. I say whatever is on my mind at all times. NUVO: One thing I've always found unacceptable in American popular culture is that rappers are held to a different standard for their work than other types of artists. For example Quentin Tarantino or Martin Scorsese depict loads of violence, drug use, and sexuality in their films and they're seldom held personally accountable for the art they create in the same way rappers are. How do you view that? DRAYCO: That's how I explain it to my mom. She's like, "How are you rapping about this, this and this?" I'm like, "You used to read Stephen King books and you watched Kill Bill. There's some crazy stuff in there." It's expression, it's storytelling, it's art. The stuff that I talk about happens. Some people relate to it completely. I'm just one of those people that's not afraid to say what everybody is thinking. That's why so many people like it. I want people to understand who I am, or why I am who I am. Right now I feel people have accepted that I'm not fittin' to
NUVO: Why do you think there's still an issue in our culture when it comes to holding rappers to a different standard as artists? DRAYCO: I don't want to be that guy, but I think it's a racial thing. You know how many of these same people are fans of Eminem? That man's got songs about raping people and killing his mama. That boy's crazy. She [points to DJ Little Town] asks me, "Why do you tell people you want to be a doctor?" All right, how many people would take me seriously if I said rap is my life? You know what I mean? Being the person I am, I have to have goals. I'm 6-foot-5, I have dreads and I sometimes speak with an accent. You know what I mean? I'm not the most comfortable person to be around in the first place. So I would understand why people would be extra taken aback when I drop a mixtape called Prolly Going To Hell or Hold My Whole Dick. I've got cassettes that say that. Eminem or Machine Gun Kelly can say whatever they want and they don't have to face that. That's just what it is. n
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Taurus
Aries
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In June 1942, the U.S. Navy crushed Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway. It was a turning point that was crucial to America’s ultimate victory over Japan in World War II. Libra
One military historian called it “the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.” This milestone occurred just six months after Japan’s devastating attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. To compare your life to these two events may be bombastic, but I’m in a bombastic mood as I contemplate your exciting possibilities. I predict that in the second half of 2016, you’ll claim a victory that will make up for a loss or defeat you endured during the last few months of 2015. And right now is when you can lay the groundwork for that future triumph. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Playwright Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) had a lot of friends, and they often came to visit him uninvited. He found it hard to simply tell them to go away and leave him alone. And yet he hated to be interrupted while he was working. His solution was to get naked and write for long hours while in his bathroom, usually soaking in the bathtub. His intrusive friends rarely had the nerve to insist on socializing. In this way, Rostand found the peace he needed to create his masterpiece Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as numerous other plays. I suggest you consider a comparable gambit, Scorpio. You need to carve out some quality alone time. Scorpio
Libra
Taurus
Aries
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.” The preceding reminiscence belongs to a character in Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner. I bring it up in hopes that you will do the opposite: Say the words that need to be said. Articulate what you’re burning to reveal. Speak the truths that will send your life on a course that’s in closer alignment with your pure intentions.g detours that result from your delight in experimentation. Sagittarius
Gemini
Scorpio
Libra
Taurus
Aries
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to some traditional astrologers, you Capricorns are vigilant to avoid loss. Old horoscope books suggest that you may take elaborate measures to avoid endangering what you have accumulated. To ensure that you will never run out of what you need, you may even ration your output and limit your self-expression. This behavior is rooted in the belief that you should conserve your strength by withholding or even hiding your power. While there may be big grains of truth in this conventional view of you Capricorns, I think it’s only part of the story. In the coming weeks, for instance, I bet you will wield your clout with unabashed authority. You won’t save yourself for later; you’ll engage in no strategic self-suppression. Instead, you will be expansive and unbridled as you do whatever’s required to carry out the important foundation work that needs to be done. Capricorn
Sagittarius
Cancer
Gemini
Scorpio
Libra
Taurus
Aries
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It seems that the whole time you’re living this life, you’re thinking about a different one instead,” wrote Latvian novelist Inga Abele in her novel High Tide. Have you ever been guilty of that, Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the coming months will bring you excellent opportunities to graduate forever from this habit. Not all at once, but gradually and incrementally, you can shed the idea that you should be doing something other than what you’re doing. You can get the hang of what it’s like to thoroughly accept and embrace the life you are actually living. And now is an excellent time to get started in earnest on this project. Aquarius
Capricorn
Sagittarius
Leo
Cancer
Gemini
Scorpio
Libra
Taurus
Aries
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales,” says a character in Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. In other words, these marvelous birds, which sing sublimely and have long been invoked by poets to symbolize lyrical beauty, need actual physical sustenance. They can’t eat dreamy stories. Having acknowledged that practical fact, however, I will suggest that right now you require dreamy stories and rambling fantasies and imaginary explorations almost as much as you need your daily bread. Your soul’s hunger has reached epic proportions. It’s time to gorge. Pisces
Virgo
Aquarius
Capricorn
Sagittarius
Leo
Cancer
Gemini
Scorpio
Libra
Taurus
Aries
Homework: What could you do to free your imagination from its bondage? Read “Liberate Your Imagination”: http://bit.ly/Liberate Aries
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