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Fishers-based Circle City Curling Club promotes unique winter sport

By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com Like many Americans, Lawrence resident Jeff Heck always looks forward to watching curling during the THINGS TO DO Winter Olympics. After watching the ice sport during the Turin 2006 Winter Games, Heck said he was fascinated and called USA Curling to inquire about starting a club in Fishers.

“Back then, stones were $1,000 apiece, and you needed 16 of them to be able to field two teams,” Heck said. “Also, you needed to find a place that would allow you to paint the houses on the ice and everything else that went with it.

“So, I said, ‘Thanks’ and went on with life.”

In 2007, Heck saw an ad promoting a learn-to-curl event at Pan Am Plaza in Indianapolis. He attended and became hooked.

Circle City Curling Club was founded in 2007

by Butler University and the former Indiana World Skating Academy. Heck became president in 2008 and served in the role until 2010. Then, he was president again in 2013 and 2015. He also has been the club’s treasurer, vice president, league commissioner and been a board member.

Now, he’s simply an active member.

“We are a 501c3 nonprofit, and our mission is to promote and build the sport locally,” Heck said. “Right now, we rent ice time from the Fuel Tank in Fishers. Ice time is hard to come by, so we are only able to curl one night a week, which for us is Friday nights from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.”

Because the Winter Games in Beijing start this month, Heck said the club has received a lot of attention and has had to adjust its Friday schedule.

“We have our league play for our membership from 6:30 to 8:30, then in the last two-hour slot we’ve been offering learn to curl, which are an introduction to the sport,” Heck said. “When you attend a (learn to curls event), you will get some off-ice instruction/history, followed by on-ice in-

Circle City Curling team member Jeff Heck throws a stone during a curling game. (Photo courtesy of Susan Fleck)

struction and game play.

“We provide all the necessary equipment.

Participants just need to dress for temps in the mid-40s and wear clean athletic shoes and flexible clothing.”

Heck said the club offers Fishers residents the opportunity to learn how to play an unfamiliar sport that also boosts the local economy.

“It offers local restaurants revenue because a big part of curling is something called ‘broomstacking,’” Heck said. “Basically, when we’re done playing, we go out for drinks and food at a local establishment. If we run two leagues in one night, that means 60 to 75 people spending money in the local community. Curling is a very, very social sport. It also offers the opportunity to bring national and regional curling events to town.”

Heck said he hopes the club can host Curling Night in America at some point.

“This is an event where major teams from around the world come to the U.S. and play for a week at a facility,” Heck said. “It’s usu-

ally done in the summer, filmed, then aired in the fall. The host city obviously would benefit from hotel stays, dining and the notoriety.”

Heck said the club’s players range in age from teenagers to players in their 80s. He said the sport is for everyone.

“If you have issues with your knees or just can’t bend down to deliver a stone, you can use a delivery stick,” Heck said. “You stand, walk forward, and push the stone, a lot like a shuffleboard delivery. We also have wheelchair delivery sticks as well. It’s open to everyone.”

Heck said the club’s main goal is to promote fun and possibly provide a club team an Olympic opportunity.

“Since we are a USA Curling member club, we are part of the Great Lakes Curling Association. Our members can assemble teams to play in regional USA Curling championships as well as national events,” Heck said.

“If four men or women assembled a team, or a man and woman for mixed doubles, and won the right tournaments, you can get to the Olympic Games from our club.”

Two years ago, Tyler George visited the Fishers club. George was a member of the USA men’s gold medal-winning 2018 Olympic curling team. He conducted a meet-andgreet with the public.

“It was such a great night. He brought the gold medal, posed for photos and chatted with those who came out,” Heck said.

Circle City Curling is working on opening a facility in Anderson where it offer curling seven days a week instead of only on Fridays.

“We found a space that is in our budget and will start construction and renovations soon,” Heck said. “It will be a three-sheet facility and will allow us to grow. We will not be locked into a particular night and time, meaning we can curl seven days a week, and hopefully we’ll grow the sport five times over. We’ll be able to offer high schools the opportunity to form teams and play, and also universities.

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Junior standout powers FHS girls swim team

By Rick Morwick rick@youarecurrent.com If experience counts for anything, and it often does at the IHSAA girls state swimming finals, JoJo Ramey has a lot to look forward to this postseason.

A podium finisher in multiple state meet appearances, the Fishers High School junior is ranked No. 1 in the state in the 500-yard freestyle and No. 3 in the 200 free heading into the Feb. 11-12 state finals at the IU Natatorium on the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis.

Barring a dramatic unforeseen circumstance, Ramey will not only reach the state finals, she’ll be a frontrunner for blue ribbons in her two individual events and two relays — the 400 freestyle and 200 medley.

The Tigers’ relays are ranked Nos. 4 and 5, respectively, and are major reasons why FHS is ranked No. 2 in the state team poll.

“I feel very confident in myself and my team,” said Ramey, a three-year varsity standout who will continue her career at the University of Florida. “We have been working extremely hard this season and we are looking forward to see how it pays off.

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Favorite movie: “Titanic” Interests outside of swimming: Boating, traveling, spending time with friends and family College plans: Will continue career at the University of Florida; undecided on major Favorite vacation destination: Turks and Caicos Islands “Our team culture is really good, and we are like a family.”

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Fishers High School junior JoJo Ramey is ranked No. 1 in the state in the 500-yard freestyle heading into the postseason. (Photo courtesy of Jon Ramey)

finished runners-up for the second consecutive time to national power Carmel at last year’s state meet and are again expected to make a strong showing.

“JoJo is a leader by example. She establishes a level of excellence in and out of

the pool for all others to emulate,” Fishers coach Joe Keller said. “She has earned the highest level of respect from both teammates and competitors because of her humility and sincere regard for others’ success.”

A lifelong swimmer, Ramey took her first swim lesson when she was 6 months old and has been training and competing — at a remarkably high level — ever since.

“JoJo may very well be the hardest-training athlete I have coached over 31 years,” Keller said. “She may be the most competitive as well. She loves to race.”

Heading into this season, Ramey had qualified for the state meet in eight events since her freshman year. Her best finish was runner-up in the 500 freestyle two years ago. Last year, she placed fourth in the 500 and 200 freestyles and was a member of the Tigers’ fifth-place 400 freestyle relay and seventh-place 200 medley relay.

“My goals heading into the postseason are to enjoy every moment with my team,” Ramey said. “Also, I am preparing for International Trials in April, where I hopefully will get the chance to travel with Team USA to World Juniors.”

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the HDSA Indiana chapter and Fishers resident. “The goal is to bring people together to continue to build a community in Indiana The Huntington’s Disease Society of to help support one another.”

America Indiana Chapter is hosting a bowlOndell has a personal connection to the ing fundraiser at 4 p.m. fight to Strike Out HD – her family EVENT March 5 at Woodland has a long history with HuntingBowl, 3421 E. 96th St., ton’s disease going back several Indianapolis. All proceeds from the generations. Her mother died from Strike Out HD will support HDSA’s the disease in 2002 and her sister is mission to improve the lives of symptomatic. those affected by Huntington’s dis“My sister is my inspiration for ease and their families. volunteering and raising funds,” Ondell Huntington’s disease is a fatal said Ondell said, who started volungenetic disease that affects nerve cells in teering with the Indiana chapter in 2020. the brain and is described as having ALS, Strike Out HD is one of the flagship Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disevents organized by HDSA’s volunteer-led ease all at once. There are approximately chapters and affiliates nationwide to rec41,000 symptomatic Americans and more ognize those who have made an impact in than 200,000 people at risk of inheriting the their community while inspiring others to disease. join the fight against HD. This is the third “A lot of people don’t know about Hunyear for the event. tington’s disease, and even families impactFor more, contact Ondell at indiana@ ed by HD don’t know other families impacthdsavolunteer.org. To donate or register, ed by HD,” said Jessica Ondell, president of visit INDIANA.HDSA.ORG/STRIKEOUTHD22.

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By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com Adam Daulton has turned one of his hobbies into a part-time job. Some might even say he’s turned it into a game.

Daulton, 38, designs board games — a virtual lifelong hobby for the Lawrence Township resident.

“I remember getting Risk from my parents when I was a kid,” Daulton said. “When I was 12 or so, I entered 4-H and did the doyou-own thing and made a board game and won the grand championship.”

Ten years ago, Daulton decided to design a game, Ninja Camp, to market to the public.

He created it on a print-on-demand website.

He raised money through Kickstarter, and the game came out in 2016. It was published

by Action Phase Games, which has since been bought by Indy Boards and Cards.

“And then after that, I sort of got hooked and I started a local design group that met once a month,” Daulton said.

Travis Chance, who co-owned Action Phase Games before it was purchased, said Daulton’s games are special.

“Adam is firstly one of the most genuine and kind people I’ve met, period. And yet somehow, he is one of the most competitive Chance gamers I’ve worked with,” Chance said. “He has the ability to make accessible games that allow for higher level strategies, which is a tough thing to accomplish as a designer. You can also tell he’s designing for people like himself with families.”

Chance is now a senior designer for CMON, which stands for Cool Mini or Not. He said it is the second-largest tabletop game publisher after Hasbro.

Since 2016, Daulton has fundraised for his games and had several professionally published. Outside of his hobby, Daulton works for the federal government in human resources, but his passion is playing and designing board games.

“I love that you can sit across from friends and family and have a real-time experience with them not in front of a screen,” Daulton said. “I remember showing my game Ninja Camp to a kid about 8 to 10

those types of things. It’s a lot of effort.”

Daulton has a blog accessible at boardgamegeek.com.

ON THE COVER: Several games Adam Daulton has designed have been published, including Ninja Camp and K’uh Nah. (Photo by Rachel Greenberg)

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Adam Daulton has designed several games that have been published. (Photo by Rachel Greenberg)

years old. This was my first time at (a) convention teaching people to play it, and he won and jumped up and yelled, ‘I’m the best ninja ever!’ with a big smile on his face.

“That is why I design, and that adds something special to this hobby within a hobby.”

Daulton uses an online tabletop simulator to create prototypes and test-play his games with other people from the region.

But he said it’s not the same experience as playing a traditional board game.

“You really miss something you do get from board games, sitting across and playing with wood, cardboard and plastic pieces as you laugh and joke and experience real people,” Daulton said.

As for his design process, Daulton said it depends on the game. For example, for his game Fall of the Mountain King, to be published later this year, he started with a theme. But he said every game publisher has changed the themes of his games.

Sometimes, Daulton said the creative process starts with creating the pieces.

“The big process is coming up with the idea,” he said. “I tend to write out an early draft of rules. It helps me think how a player’s turn takes place. Soon after that, I get some prototype made in physical form or on

the simulator. I play it myself, solo acting like the different players of the table and immediately find out what parts are broken, or this doesn’t work, or this is not fun.”

Daulton said his favorite game to play — which he did not design — is Blood Rage, where players are Vikings fighting wars in Ragnarok.

“It’s a battle-type game with lots of conflicts, but since you want to gain glory, you can often win the game even if you are losing the battles,” Daulton said. “That’s what really draws that one to me.”

On average, Daulton said it can take three to five years to create a game before it is published. His game K’uh Nah took less than two years, but his game Fall of the Mountain King took 6 1/2 years.

As for playing, his shortest game takes only 15 minutes to play, and his longest takes up to four hours.

Daulton and his wife, Krista, have three daughters. The family plays board games together on a regular basis.

Daulton looks forward to having his game Fall of the Mountain King published later this year.

“It’s my personal type of game that I really enjoy,” he said. “It’s a couple of hours long, deep strategy with some conflict,

Adam Daulton has two new games coming out this year. He often uses Kickstarter to fundraise for his prototypes before he completes the design and sends it to a publisher. Below is a list of his games.

Ninja Camp, published in 2016 by Action Phase Games: $41,353 on Kickstarter. Ninja Camp is a game where players compete as anamorphic animals learning ninja moves from the sensei.

K’uh Nah, published in 2019 by WizKids (direct to retail): Players build a pyramid of cards players push their luck to not get cards from the quarry in the center of the table. Players do this by placing jade tokens (kept secret in your hand) on one of the cards in the center or by taking a card in the center with all the jade tokens on it. Players who build the best pyramid usually win.

Fall of the Mountain King, to be published in May or June by Burnt Island Games: $356,263 on Kickstarter. This game is a longer game, more than two hours, where gnomes attack trolls in the mountain. Players compete to become the troll leader who unites the clans to escape the mountain.

Power Plants, to be published in November or December by Kids Table Board Gaming: $105,708 on Kickstarter. A tile-laying game, players grow a magical garden. When players place plant tiles in the garden, the tiles allow players to use move sprites to try and control the garden, and each tile gives a different power depending on what other tiles are around it.

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Commentary by Terry Anker The cliché goes that possession is nine-tenths of the law. Essentially, it reinforces the playground rule that whoever has — and can defend — the swing gets to keep it for all recess. Who “owned” it before and those waiting in line to use it after are at a distinct disadvantage to the one who is in the seat. Short of physical altercation where the stronger would displace the current holder, others dispossessed of the swing are left to appeal to a higher authority to resolve the dispute. “Teacher, Johnny won’t share the swing. He’s used it long enough. Make him share!”

As we matriculate from childhood in pursuit of something that looks like adult lives, we leave behind the short pants but carry along much of this deeply imbued sensibility of possession.

Our homes are our homes. Our businesses belong to us. Our communities are defined by us living there. As we move from the more tangible, the connection to custody becomes less clear. If a bank holds a mortgage on our homes, do we really own it? If a tax authority makes a claim against it, should they demand an interest?

If we found and build a business with our own cash and labor, it is ours. But what if the entrepreneur takes investors? Is it her company any longer? Can she raise her salary assured that she answers to no other? Nonprofits are often administered by leaders decades into the job but demand term limits to keep boards fresh. Healthy buy-in can rot into a confused sense of controlling ownership. If we are the fiduciaries, can they be the sole decision makers? Englishman J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, “It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious.” Still, if others have a legitimate interest, does the possessor necessarily prevail?

Terry Anker is an associate editor of Current Publishing, LLC. You may email him at terry@ youarecurrent.com.

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Commentary by Danielle Wilson

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Let’s get real. I’m not a perfect mother, but I do think I did a fairly decent job of co-raising our four mostly grown children. To my knowledge, no one has been incarcerated, therapy has been minimal and gainful employment is within reach for all. For whatever reason, though, my heirs truly enjoy harping on my shortcomings as a parent. No Mom of the Year here, apparently.

Their main complaint is that I failed to model a healthy way to deal with hard emotions, which is absolutely true. In the grand tradition of the English, I generally suppress my feelings until I can bawl like a baby in private. And because my little darlings never saw me cry, they don’t know how to appropriately express sadness or grief. Fair enough, but that is what trained psychologists are for. Get over it.

A newer jab, stemming primarily from my highly extraverted first daughter, is that I don’t attend to their needs as social beings. Basically, because I don’t shower her with hugs and back scratches and other physical signs of affection at every waking moment, I don’t love her. That seems a bit harsh, and in my defense, I’m an introvert who works full time with hundreds of often-dramatic teenagers. I don’t have it within me to snuggle a bottle of cabernet at the end of the day, let alone a chatty Cathy girlchild. No matter. In her opinion, it’s another strike against my would-be claim to maternal glory. Whatevs.

I’m not perfect. No parent is. But generally speaking, my kids turned out fine.

That’s got to be worth a Mother of the Month, right?

Peace out.

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plains everything. Everyone has most of those issues at your age — if they reach your age.”

I’m a lucky guy. I have three great physNow, back to Eva. She’s in charge of ical therapists. Anna, Bri and Don work on getting my pelvic floor back in shape, since my neck, shoulders and arm, those muscles were weakened because of a HUMOR and Eva helps me perform a surgery several years ago. Men might want certain to question Siri or exercise that I wrote Alexa about Kegeling.

I never have enough time to do all Every woman knows about in a column a these routines, so last night I tried what it is. few years ago. Now, I’m back for a second Eva’s a tiny thing, to do everything simultaneously round of treatment. but by just working while watching TV. I was stretching I’m glad it’s not liton me for a month, my my upper body, twisting my neck erally a round. It’s pelvic floor is getting from side to side and pulling up on back to its original embarrassing enough already, but I can’t an elastic band held under my foot condition. By comimagine someone parison, last winter — all while doing Kegels. ringing a bell when we it took three big men – DICK WOLFSIE finish. Ding, ding, ding! with a giant electric More on this later. sander to get our dinMy orthopedist had previously ordered an ing room floor back in good shape.

X-ray and an MRI on my shoulder for injuries I have exercises to do at home for my arm I received from a bad fall when I was out and shoulder, as well as doing my Kegel jogging a few months ago. These were just maneuvers. I never have enough time to do a few of the notes from the radiologist who all these routines, so last night I tried to do read my results: everything simultaneously while watching “The coracoid process is intact. The TV. I was stretching my upper body, twistcoracoclavicular ligaments are intact. The ing my neck from side to side and pulling up humeral head and bony glenoid are inon an elastic band held under my foot — all tact. The infraspinatus and teres minor are while doing Kegels. I must have looked odd intact. Visualized portions of the chest wall because Mary Ellen thought I was developappear grossly intact.” ing a terrible neuromuscular disorder.

I have never been considered a person Last week, Eva wasn’t around, so I asked with any tact, so this all came as good news. Anna a question about Kegels. Anna didn’t Now, here’s the bad news I read: Patient train for that specialty, and she told me, has edematous capsular thickening at the “Sorry, Dick, that’s a little over my head.”

IGHL and rotator interval most consistent “Then you are doing it all wrong,” I told her. with adhesive capsulitis. Supraspinatus tendinosis with a partial intrasubstance tear at the far anterior.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com A former English teacher, Brian Coon has had his students read “Of Mice and Men” dozens of times.

PLAY “Almost every year, I taught it to sophomores or juniors,” Coon said. “I was really attracted to this show.

This is one of my all-time favorite novels.”

The Westfield resident portrays George Milton in “Of Mice and Men” from Feb. 10 to 20 at the Basile Westfield Playhouse.

Coon is also the show’s lighting director. The show’s director, James Williams, approached Coon about being the lighting director.

“My only caveat was, I still would audition for it,” Coon said. “I like doing the lighting, but I didn’t want to miss out on the chance to possibly be in the show.”

George is the role he wanted, Coon said.

“The whole show is George and Lennie (Small),” he said.

The play is based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel about two migrant field workers, George Milton and Lennie Small. Small is a strong man who is mentally disabled and doesn’t know his own strength. The play is set in the U.S. during the Great Depression.

“Joe Wagner, who is playing Lennie, is fantastic,” Coon said.

Coon’s most recent performance was in “Going, Going, Gone” at the old Westfield Playhouse venue in 2019.

A Fishers resident, Wagner said he has a history with the character, although he has never played him before.

“In college, friends would make fun of me and call me Lennie sometimes because I was kind of uncoordinated and knocked things over all the time,” Wagner said.

“So (the role) was always in the back of my head. When I saw it come around, I thought I would give it a shot to see if it would work.”

Wagner said a lot of pressure comes with playing an iconic role. Lon Chaney Jr. played Lennie in the 1939 movie, and

“SHEAR MADNESS” “Kinky Boots” will run from Feb. 10 to March 27 at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre in Indianapolis. For more, visit beefandboards.com.

“THE BIG BANG” Actors Theatre of Indiana will present “The Big Bang,” a musical, through Feb. 20 at at the Studio Theater at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. For more, visit atistage.org.

“THE 39 STEPS” Civic Theatre’s production of “The 39 Steps” runs through Feb. 19 at The Tarkington at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. For more, civictheatre.org.

“MR. CONFIDENTIAL” Actors Theatre of Indiana Lab Series will present a reading of “Mr. Confidential,” a musical, at 2 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Studio Theater at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. For more, visit atistag.org.

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Joe Wagner, left, and Brian Coon appear in “Of Mice and Men” at Basile Westfield Playhouse.

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John Malkovich played the role in the 1992 remake.

“It’s such an interesting character because he is just so innocent and incredibly dangerous,” Wagner said. “He is trapped inside of a body he can’t control. That is really compelling to me because he does these sad and horrible things, but he almost has no control over how it happens or how anything looks.”

Wagner said his character pleads with George that they need to leave the ranch because he knows if they stay, he is going to get in trouble.

“Already he is not feeling right, so his instincts are correct,” Wagner said. “He is a tragic victim of circumstances.”

Wagner said he has seen a handful of different performances in movies and on YouTube.

“It was important to me to not speak

in a stereotypical, mentally handicapped voice,” he said. “It just wasn’t something that I was super interested in. I have an aunt who is special needs as well. They say multiple times he’s just like a child trapped in a man’s body. A child I can completely connect with.

“The language and lines help you out immensely. If you do the line the way it’s written, that is half the work for you.”

Williams, a Fishers resident, is directing his first show for Westfield Playhouse.

“This is my first time with this show,” he said. “I fell in love with it several years ago in high school when they still taught it. It’s been a bucket list for me. The role I would have loved to play is Lennie, but I feel I’m almost too old for it. I’ve seen several productions of it. I wanted my turn at it.”

For more, visit westfieldplayhouse.org.

“Piaf! The Show” will feature vocalist Nathalie Lhermitte in a program celebrating the career of French singer Edith Piaf at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. For more, visit thecenterpresents.org.

“THE BLACK DAHLIA” Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre will present “The Black Dahlia” Feb. 12 to 27 at the Academy of Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre, 329 Gradle Dr., Carmel. For more, visit gregoryhancockdancetheatre.org.

“THE GLASS MENAGERIE” The Hyperion Players will present its inaugural production with “The Glass Menagerie” Feb. 10 to 12 at Ivy Tech Hamilton County Auditorium, Noblesville. For more, visit hyperionplayers.com.

“OF MICE AND MEN” Main Street Productions will present “Of Mice and Men” from Feb. 10 to 20 at the Basile Westfield Playhouse. For more, visit westfieldplayhouse.org.

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Show pays tribute to Piaf

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com French vocalist Nathalie Lhermitte is a natural fit to perform as Edith Piaf.

“I heard the voice of Edith Piaf MUSIC at the age of 4,” Lhermitte said.

“It was a very strong, emotional shock. The meaning of the words of her songs did not reach me. I was too young, but the truth in her voice reached me in the heart.”

Lhermitte will perform in “Piaf! The Show” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

The production is inspired by the award-winning film “La Vie en Rose.” The show celebrates the life and career of legendary French nightclub singer Piaf through her most popular songs. Lhermitte will be accompanied by live musicians and historical images for a multimedia audience experience.

“It is true that the role of Edith Piaf has been in my comedian life for a long time,” Lhermitte said. “I joined this great team of Directo Productions for two years already, and in order to celebrate the 60 years of its dis-

French vocalist Nathalie Lhermitte will perform in “Piaf! The Show” Feb. 10 at the Palladium. (Photo courtesy of the Center for the Performing Arts)

appearance, the show has been expanded.”

Piaf died in 1963 at age 47. An autopsy wasn’t performed, but the suspected cause of death was liver failure attributed to liver cancer and cirrhosis.

“This show follows through the songs (that reflect) the spirit of the artist,” Lhermitte said. “Edith Piaf lived only for her songs. It was only natural for us that they live for her.”

The show, directed by French theater maverick Gil Marsalla, includes photos of Piaf and images of Parisian locations.

For more, visit thecenterpresents.org.

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Ballet INitiative to debut “INdy”

By Chris Bavender editorial@youarecurrent.com Ballet INitiative will present a world premiere performance of “INdy” at 7 p.m.

Feb. 12 at the Tobias Theatre at DANCE Newfields in Indianapolis. There will be only one performance.

The show is a collaboration of local composers, choreographers, dance companies, visual artists, and photographers to create a dance show showcasing the Indianapolis arts community.

“We wanted to have a performance celebrating the local Indianapolis arts community that has supported us ever since we started back in August 2020,” said Ola Tarnowski, marketing and public relations director for Ballet INitiative. “There was no better way in our eyes to do so other than giving the arts community complete artistic free range in a performance. We told our choreographers and composers they could create anything that inspires them, and us and our dancers will bring their ideas to life.

“Along the way, we felt it would be even better to include as many local artists of all different medias, (such as) musicians,

visual artists, photographers, other dance companies, to create an entire community of artists in one performance.”

Tarnowski said attendees will see lots of variety at the show.

“They’ll see all different styles of dance, from ballet and jazz to modern and contemporary,” Tarnowski said. “Along with our dancing, they’ll also see never-before-performed, brand new pieces created just for us, and (have) the ability to hear and see all different kinds of art in just one show — the art, the brand-new music compositions, the photography.

“Lastly, they’ll see our deep connection with each other and the love we have for not only our art form, but the art of the city we are so proud to call home.”

The performance will be Ballet INitiative’s debut at the Tobias Theatre.

“This is our first performance in a largescale theater as an organization,” Tarnowski said. “As we’ve grown in interest and support in the last 18 months, we are filled with hope as we enter the larger-performance scene of Indianapolis. We’re so proud and excited of all our artists’ hard work.

For more, visit balletinitiative.org.

‘Mr. Confidential’ reading set

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com

“It was outselling TV Guide and Time magazine at its height in the 1950s,” said Bernstein, who has worked in the television Samuel Garza Bernstein’s dream of bringand film industry most of his career. ing “Mr. Confidential” to the stage is taking The magazine centered on Hollywood, another step closer.

Broadway and Washington news MUSICAL Actors Theatre of but eventually became more about Indiana Lab Series Hollywood, Bernstein said. will present a reading of “Mr. Confi“All of the juicy stuff was all dential,” a musical, at 2 p.m. Feb. 12 true,” Bernstein said. “They never at the Studio Theater at the center lost a lawsuit. There were silly for the Performing Arts in Carmel. stories like Frank Sinatra is the Bernstein wrote the musical’s Tarzan of the boudoir because he Bernstein book and lyrics, adapted from eats Wheaties between lovemaking a 2007 nonfiction book he wrote about sessions. He did eat Wheaties and he did Confidential magazine and the family that eat them between having sex, so it was created it. David Snyder wrote the music. kind of true. What you get is the silliness The magazine was founded by Bob Harrison. of Wheaties are what powered his sexual Bernstein started developing the musical prowess is silly. If they said Gary Cooper in 2012. was having an affair with Anita Ekberg, he “All the things that are most unbelievable was having an affair with Anita Ekberg.” are completely true,” Bernstein said. “What Bernstein met ATI co-founder Don Farrell I’ve played around with is the timelines to and began talking to him about creating a put a narrative together. Let’s say I made show in 2019. Farrell will portray Harrison in Bob a little more of a romantic than perhaps the reading. There are 15 cast members. he was in life.”

For more, visit mrconfidentialmusical.

Bernstein said Confidential magazine was com. extremely popular back in its day.

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Today, continuing with places to go during Indiana winters, we will visit Aswan, Egypt, with an average high TRAVEL temperature in February of 77 degrees, with no rain.

Aswan, originally named Swenett, is located along the Nile River at the first (northern most) of its granite outcroppings known as “cataracts.” Because the cataracts made river travel further south difficult, Swenett defined ancient Egypt’s boundary with Nubia. Because of extensive granite deposits near the surface, Swenett’s granite quarries produced obelisks and enormous granite blocks that were transported hundreds of miles north on the Nile. Because Swenett lies very near the Tropic of Cancer, where the sun is directly overhead on the summer solstice, its location was important to ancient geographers.

Today, Aswan, with a population of about 350,000, is an important tourist destination.

Just south of the city is the 2-mile-long Aswan High Dam, erected with Russian support between 1960 and 1970 to control Nile flooding. The 230-foot-tall Lotus Tower near the dam commemorates Egyptian/Russian friendship. Nearby is a wonderfully preserved temple to Isis, originally built by the Greeks on the Island of Philae and moved to higher ground to escape the waters of Lake Nasser, created by the dam. Feluccas, graceful traditional boats propelled by both oars and sails, take visitors to the temple and other sites along the river, including Elephantine Island, reportedly once the site of a Jewish temple and now the site of a Nu-

There’s a 1995 episode of “Seinfeld” where Jerry, George and Kramer play basketball at the local health club with a guy named Jimmy. Not GRAMMAR GUY only does Jimmy sell special training shoes that supposedly increase your vertical leap, but he always refers to himself in the third person.

Because of Jimmy’s use of third-person, George invests in the specialty shoes and Elaine mistakenly agrees to go on a date with Jimmy. Hilarity ensues.

Believe it or not, there’s a term for someone who refers to himself in the third person: an illeist. At first glance, this sounds like a person who believes in a sick deity; I assure you this isn’t the case.

Illeism is the act of referring to yourself in the third person. Illeism is also known as “self-talk” or “self-naming.”

And, while you’re wondering, here’s the secret on when to use the hyphen: Write “third person” when the term is used as a noun and write “third-person” when using the term as a compound adjective.

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Feluccas sail on the Nile River.

Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan.

bian village. At night, Aswan’s famous spice market, which sells much more than spices, teems with visitors, who can engage horsedrawn carriages for trips around the city.

Many visitors come to Aswan on Nile River boats shuttling between Luxor and Aswan.

Guests can stay at the five-star Old Cataract Hotel, where Agatha Christie wrote part of “Death on the Nile,” sipping afternoon tea on a terrace overlooking the Nile.

Don Knebel is a local resident who works for Barnes & Thornburg LLP. For the full column visit donknebel. com. You may contact him at editorial@youarecurrent.com.

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We get the term “illeism” from the Latin word “ille,” which means “he” or “that man.” The word was first used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1809. The plural version of illeism is the term “nosism,” more commonly known as “the royal we.”

In Curtis’ research, Curtis has found three primary areas where illeism thrives: In Shakespeare, among professional athletes, and among politicians. If I had time to add a fourth category, it would be Elmo. But Curtis doesn’t have time to discuss Elmo.

Finally, illeism wouldn’t exist without politicians. In 1996, Bob Dole famously declared, “Make no mistake, Bob Dole is going to be the Republican nominee.”

Some say illeism sounds pretentious, and I tend to agree. For some reason, however, the elitist illeist are the ones who sound the silliest.

Curtis Honeycutt is a national award-winning, syndicated humor writer. Connect with him on Twitter (@curtishoneycutt) or at curtishoneycutt.com.

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