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NUVO spoke with four Indiana game designers — two full-time and one parttime solo freelancers plus a multi-employee firm — who will all be showing their wares at Gen Con this year. This issue also includes a role-playing game designed specifically for NUVO, just in time for the convention! Want more? How about eight pages of Mass Ave Crit coverage in a handy pull-out section? You’re welcome.
What’s in a game? Hoosier game designers.....P.09 NUVO’s own RPG: The Deadline................P.14 MAC pull-out................................................M1
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Eat your hearts out, geeks! This week we stuffed as much Gen Con into the arts section as we could. We spoke with a cosplay designer, a sci-fi author and a sculptor. We also got to chat with a local comedian who is pushing the open-mic circuit to become a professional, despite his disability.
Transition and privilege.............................P.06
Cosplay.......................................................P.16 Sculptor.......................................................P.17 Comedy.......................................................P.19 SCREENS: Ed Johnson-Ott...........................................P.29
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THE INDIANA STATE FAIR Sure, the Fair has cows, pigs and sheep — but have you heard about Hoosier shrimp farmers, jousting and giant Lego sculptures?
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Caitlyn Jenner had the financial means for a complete and speedy transition, but not all transgender people are so lucky. NUVO’s Taylor Hurt looks at the privilege of transitioning, along with a price point breakdown of how much it costs to find one’s true self.
VOICES: Krull on Planned Parenthood.....................P.04 Hoppe on Sandra Bland.............................P.05 Sex Doc.......................................................P.35
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Last week, John Oliver’s report on food waste went viral. We wanted to see what we could do at home to reduce food waste, so we talked to the Indy Food Council’s Whitney Fields about it. We also have an update for folks in need in the wake of Double 8’s closing. Plus we hear from TwoDEEP’s Austin Elsbury.
Food waste.................................................P.32 Ask a Brewer..............................................P.32 Double 8 resources.....................................P.33
It’s party guide week in the music section: Seth Johnson chats up Rad Summer for the lowdown on their two-day anniversary shindig at the White Rabbit Cabaret this weekend. Elsewhere, TJ Jaeger sits down with lots of members of Warped Tour for a short ‘n’ sweet guide for newbies trying the tour for the first time. Plus: Interviews with Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, Rich Robinson and Complicated Animals.
Rad Summer..............................................P. 28 Earth, Wind & Fire/Chicago.......................P. 28 Warped.......................................................P. 29 Soundcheck................................................P. 32
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One of the outfits we interviewed for our Gen Con coverage, Megacon games, provided us the cover illustration, a work from the game MYTH by an artist who’s also one of the founders of Megacon, Keith Lowe.
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he latest dispute regarding Planned Parenthood illustrates much of what is wrong with American politics. For those who haven’t followed the story, an activist with a long history of opposing reproductive rights made several visits to Planned Parenthood offices. He filmed several of the exchanges he had with Planned Parenthood officials and then released highly (and, apparently, selectively) edited excerpts of the meetings that suggest the organization sells body parts of aborted fetuses. The release of the videos provoked fresh exertions of outrage among members of the perpetually outraged religious right. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence directed the state of Indiana to investigate Planned Parenthood. The state’s legislative leaders – who still are trying to soothe the bruised feelings of social conservatives angry about defeats in same-sex marriage battles – quickly fell into line. The message was clear: The state of Indiana will give Planned Parenthood a thor-
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limited government, but there’s little evidence he believes there are any limits on what he may do as governor. No, the most disturbing thing EDITORS@NUVO.NET about this episode is that it provides ough going over. still more evidence – as if more were John Krull is director of The fact that Planned Parenthood, Franklin College’s Pulliam needed – that we are led by people who like most large not-for-profits, underSchool of Journalism, host prefer a fight to a solution. goes an annual audit that likely would of “No Limits” WFYI 90.1 Polls reveal a broad consensus in reveal any thriving commercial trading Indianapolis and publisher this country regarding abortion – one of TheStatehouseFile.com. in body parts seems not to have octhat does not reflect the views of the curred to the deep thinkers in our state most strident activists on either side government. A quick look at the books of the debate. The overwhelming to deliberately distort the nature of the probably could save Hoosier investigamajority of Americans want abortions exchanges or would weigh whether the tors – and Hoosier taxpayers, who will to be safe, legal and far less common activist who recorded the videos misrepunderwrite this crusade – a lot of time than they are. resented himself and his intentions in and money. In a rational world, we would use order to get the meetings. Nor have our leaders committed that broad area of agreement as a themselves to anything resembling an place from which to craft policies that even-handed investigation – one that protect both women and children, that would study whether the They’re not nearly as satisfying to the balance rights and that achieve somevideos released faithful when one tries to make them fair. thing resembling justice. were edThe reality that the state’s leaders – But that’s not the world (nor the state) ited in ways including the state’s highest-ranking in which we live. designed No, we live in a world (and a state) in which our leaders strive to make the perfect the Mike Pence may say he believes in limited enemy of the good. If they can’t get an immaculate solution, government, but there’s little evidence they want no solution at all. state of Indiana will do he believes there are any limits on what he theThe equivalent of a show trial of Planned Parenthood. We’ll may do as governor. spend time, money, energy and attention that otherwise might be devoted to meeting other law enforcement official, the goverpressing needs. nor – aren’t above bending the legal This “investigation” will accomplish and political processes to serve rather nothing other than confirming the prejunarrow partisan ends isn’t the most dices of the most devout activists on distressing thing about this episode. both sides of the debate – and convincThis, after all, is the same governor ing just about everyone else, once again, who at least twice has been rapped on that almost no one in state government the knuckles by judges for acting as thinks about or speaks for them. though he could ignore court rulings. Just one more example of your state Mike Pence may say he believes in government at work. n
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Texas cop arresting Sandra Bland. Bland his story takes place on a sweaty was pulled over for improperly signaling summer night in a big American a lane change. The next thing you know, city. A black jazz musician, a the cop is bellowing in her face, threattrumpet player, was between sets at a ening to “light you up.” She winds up bedowntown jazz club. He was standing ing thrown to the ground and arrested. on the sidewalk, taking some air, when She was then taken to jail, where she was a white policeman came up and told later found dead in her cell. The police him to move on. “Move on, for what?” the musician re- there claim she hung herself. Did Bland do anything to deserve membered saying. “I’m working downstairs,” and he pointed to the jazz club’s anything more than a traffic ticket? marquee: “That’s my name up there.” Besides, that is, being black? Justice De“I don’t care where you work,” the cop partment statistics indicate that police told him. “If you don’t move on I’m goare 31 percent more likely to pull over a ing to arrest you.” black driver than a white driver; black A crowd began forming. That’s when drivers are also more often targeted for another cop, a detective, moved in, hit- minor traffic offenses than whites. ting the musician over the head, drawBlack citizens may not know these ing blood. The musician was cuffed statistics, but they undoubtedly know and taken to jail. the experience of “driving These days stories like this, complete while black” well enough to with video, make the news on a feel sick and tired when it regular basis. happens to them. Sick and Except this story happened in tired enough, surely, to 1959. The musician was Miles betray some attitude. UnDavis, and the city was New York. der the circumstances, Davis was playing at Birdland; that seems less like earlier that year he had belligerence than righcompleted recording his teous indignation. album, Kind of Blue. The proliferation You can find a of video cameras on picture of him our streets and with his head in our neighborbandaged, hoods reveals still wearing gulf between his bloodVideo cameras on our streets ablack and white splattered experience that and in our neighborhoods jacket (on the has been hidden Internet). reveal a gulf between black for generations. I bring this Black people story up not and white experience. have known this; because it white people is strange or haven’t needed — extraordinary, or wanted — to learn about it. but because it has become so grind“Now I would have expected this kind ingly familiar. of bullshit about resisting arrest and all And, sadly, because there was a back in St. Louis,” recalled Miles Davis. time — not that long ago — when a “But not here in New York City, which white person like me might have been is supposed to be the slickest, hippest tempted to wonder what it was that city in the world. But then, again, I was Miles Davis did to provoke the cops surrounded by white folks and I have who attacked him. learned that when that happens, if you’re I think of Miles Davis, circa 1959, when I see the recent dashcam video of a black, there is no justice. None.” n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 07.29.15 - 08.05.15 // VOICES 5
WHAT HAPPENED? Local foods to local tables effort A new Indiana Grown initiative is making locally grown foods more readily available to local consumers. Program manager David King says with more than 60,000 farms, Indiana is the 10th largest farming state in the country. But he says Hoosiers are not feeding themselves. The program is promoting Indiana products to residents, restaurants, markets and others. King says any of four different labels could appear on certain foods, including 100 percent Indiana, which means all ingredients must be produced in-state, and prepared in Indiana, for which 100 percent of the production must be completed in the state. King says there’s a greater awareness among consumers of where their food originates, and demand for local products is at an all-time high. He says with the Indiana Grown logo, shoppers will know their purchase is supporting agriculture in the state. Corn, soybeans, hogs, poultry and dairy products are Indiana’s top five commodities. Indiana Slips in Child Well-Being Report A new national snapshot of child well-being finds Indiana continuing to struggle with high rates of child poverty. According to the Anne E. Casey Foundation’s 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book, one in five children in the Hoosier State lives in poverty, and 12 percent live in ‘high poverty’ areas. The report looks at four specific categories: family and community, education, health and economic wellbeing. Overall, Indiana dropped five spots from last year, and now ranks 32nd nationally. Glenn Augustine, interim CEO for Indian Youth Institute, says there are bright spots in the report for Indiana, including a higher education ranking, a drop in the number of low birth weight babies and fewer children without health insurance. Indiana now ranks 25th for education - its best ranking to date. The state is also seeing improvements in the math performance of all students, and a shrinking gap in performance between white and Hispanic students. — INDIANA NEWS SERVICE Indiana’s NCLB waiver approved Federal officials have granted the state a threeyear waiver that frees Indiana schools from some of the requirements of the controversial No Child Left Behind Act. The approval comes about 18 months after federal officials had expressed some concerns about the way the state was monitoring troubled schools and implementing academic standards and evaluations. State Superintendent Glenda Ritz has been working with federal authorities since and she noted that the state’s Division of Outreach for School Improvement is now receiving federal recognition for its work. The approval means the Indiana Department of Education won’t have to apply for a waiver again until 2018. The waiver allows states to create alternative evaluation systems and gives schools more flexibility over the way they spend federal dollars. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE 6 NEWS // 07.29.15 - 08.05.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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“Trans people have a responsibility to understand themselves, accept themselves and then be active and be out.”
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acqueline Patterson is an Indiana native, executive director of the Indiana Transgender Alliance and a transgender woman. While her transition was far from easy, her specific situation granted her a smoother path than the one many other transgender people travel. “I knew from the time I was 5 years old,” says Patterson. “In those times you were either gay or sick in the head, you know? You just suppressed it. I did some cross-dressing when I was younger before finally accepting myself when I was 57 years old.” After a battle with cancer, Patterson decided that she didn’t want to die with regrets — she would transition to a woman. “I decided the morning after my surgery I needed to find out what I had to do with this difference that was plaguing me my whole life. It was kinda like it was there the whole time and I couldn’t get rid of it,” says Patterson. And like many transgender people, when Patterson’s family found out she was transitioning, they turned their backs on her. “I have three daughters and seven grandchildren and I’m not allowed to see any of them. And I’m not welcomed in my sister and my brother’s home. The only one that really sees me out of my family is my dad who’s 92,” says Patterson. “And I was married for the third time for about a year and a half before I started my transition and the wife I have now decided to stay with me and she’s been good to stay with me and walk the journey with me.” Fortunately Patterson’s job at Cummins provided her with benefits that allowed her to obtain the healthcare necessary for the counseling, hormone therapy, and surgery that came with transitioning. Her story is special — although she went through a lot of the personal and family struggles that many transgender people do, she still has the privilege of age and access that a lot of transgender people don’t. That privilege is often seen in mainstream media through people like Janet Mock, Chaz Bono, and most recently Caitlyn Jenner, who seemed to transition
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Jacqueline Patterson lived 57 years as a male before making her transition (inset).
overnight before coming out for her Vanity Fair cover. “That’s really the best way to do it,” says Patterson. “You plan for your date when you’re gonna go full time. Most of the time it’s governed by letters from doctors and things like that, but that’s what I did. At a certain time I went and had facial surgery [and] when I came back from facial surgery I came back full time as Jacqui Patterson at work.” But those healthcare benefits and privileges aren’t available to a lot of transgender people. Anthony Masseria, chair of the IUPUI LGBT Faculty and Staff Council, told a story of a woman who transitioned for over a decade. “The process is dependent upon that person’s timeline. It does have a lot to do with access to resources but it also has a lot to do with their personal journey, their personal need,” says Masseria. “I recently met one woman who has been
living full time as a woman for 15 years. Initially she relied on black market methods for hormone replacement therapy and now she’s sort of grown up, I suppose you could say. She has a professional job. She’s been able to finalize some parts of what people would traditionally consider a full transition, so her journey was almost 20 years.” There is a common thread of stories like these among transgender people, stories of trans-women getting silicone injected directly into their chests and transgender men and women obtaining hormone drugs on the black market. Joblessness and homelessness can lead to sex work. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 27.7 percent of transgender women live with the HIV virus and a staggering 73 percent of those women don’t know that they are even positive. Although the realities for the privileged don’t align with the realities of the poor and oppressed, both Patterson and Masseria agree that media visibility is a great thing for the community. “I think for any community who feels on the margins, for any community who is under-represented in mainstream society, it’s a wonderful thing when you can see yourself in the public,” says Masseria. “I think it’s a little less scary for people who are in the closet or either just generally gender non-conforming. I think it sends a message that ‘it’s okay not to conform to society’s ideas of gender,’ and definitely for people who desire to make the transition — that there are fabulously successful wonderful people out there who’ve made it. I think that’s S E E , PRIVIL EGE, O N PA GE 08
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THOUGHT BITE ARCHIVE Let’s see, in Iraq where we are helping al Qaeda recruit more and more terrorists, our president tells us we need to go on with the mistaken slaughter of young Americans because we are keeping the terrorists pinned down and unable to visit terror on other countries, including ours. Great! Now we know that the London and Amman bombings were just a bad dream. (Week of Nov. 23-30, 2005) — ANDY JACOBS JR.
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a good thing — any sort of visibility is good for the community.” With more media visibility comes misunderstanding and bigotry, so cisgender people have to be willing to advocate for transgender people when the time comes. “It has to start with the fundamental understanding that trans people — just as much as cisgender people or people in any other walk of life — have the right to identify as they wish and express themselves as they wish,” says Masseria. “I think [it’s about] doing as much as you can to seek to understand and keeping
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an eye out on your own behaviors. Trans people are people too — you don’t have to ask personal and invasive questions. Just get to know the person I think is the best thing to do. Do what you can to recognize your own privileges [and] recognize your own words that you use. And if you want — take that extra step confronting it head on when you see it going on in the world around you as well. There’s lots of ways to at least if not be an ally be a supporter of the community.” But Patterson has different advice for her transgender sisters and brothers on how to move forward in the name of acceptance and transparency.
The cost to transition Changing one’s gender identity is a costly affair. From the minor things like wardrobe and accessories to permanent gender reassignment surgery, the tab for transgender transitioning is not cheap. The World Professional Organization for Transgender Health lists the following procedures as “medically necessary” for a transgender person to complete a successful and permanent transition.
Pricing based on information from the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery. • • • •
P sychological counseling ............................................................... $1000 Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) ........................................... $1500 Associated Doctor visits .................................................................. $500 Certain facial plastic reconstruction as appropriate for a more feminine/masculine appearance. - Blepharoplasty (eyelids upper and lower) ............................. $6,700 - Blepharoplasty (upper or lower) ........................................... $4,400 - Rhinoplasty (nose) ................................................................ $7,500 - Rhinoplasty w/Septoplasty ................................................... $8,800 - Facelift (Rhytidoplasty) ....................................................... $10,600 - Mini Facelift .......................................................................... $7,800 - Liposuction of neck ............................................................... $2,600 - Chin augmentation ............................................................... $3,600 - Cheek augmentation ............................................................ $5,200 - Forehead/brow lift with brow bone reduction & hair line advance ............................................................... $6,200 - Thyroid cartilage reduction.................................................... $3,600 - Upper lip shortening.............................................................. $4,400 • Genital Reconstruction (also called Sex Reassignment Surgery) - Transgender women (vaginoplasty) .................... $17,000 - $19,750 - Transgender men (with penile implant) .............................. $21,250
For transgender women • P ermanent hair removal - Face ................. $250 - $650 - Chest ............... $150 - $450 - Buttocks .......... $250 - $400 • Breast augmentation (or prosthesis) ........... $8,200
For transgender men • B ilateral mastectomy and chest reconstruction $6000 - $8100 • A hysterectomy may also be medically necessary $7,000 - $12,000
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Male-to-Female $52,050 - $84,050
Female-to-Male $41,500 - $78,950
“Trans people have a responsibility to understand themselves, accept themselves and then be active and be out. That’s one thing,” says Patterson. “I think there’s always that safety factor when you’re coming out. You have to always be visible with that. I started the Indiana Transgender Wellness Alliance and that’s really pointed toward wellness of the emotional, physical and spiritual health of a transgender person. And I’m trying to advocate in all the different ways. I think we can legislate acceptance to a degree but I think we have to be out and visible and earn the respect and integrity that we seek, and that just takes being more open with people.” n
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In addition to our story about Indiana game designers, we’ve got a special Gen Con-issue treat in these pages: an original role-playing game created for NUVO. John Kennedy, Ryan Schoon and Bryan C.P. Steele — all of whom are profiled in our cover story — pitched in and built “The Deadline,” a game that lets you become a NUVO reporter. Your mission: investigate the supernatural. Gameplay instructions begin on page 14.
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ome will come in their best Batman duds, some will be utterly incognito, but this weekend somewhere between 50 and 60,000 gamers and fans will hit Indy for Gen Con 2015. Last year, according to Gen Con’s own stats, the convention generated a “weekend turnstile attendance of 184,699 and unique attendance of 56,614.” The folks in the Princess Leia bikinis and the Ghostbusters fatigues will garner lots of attention, but most of the attendees are coming to game play and role play, not cosplay. Gen Con (it’s a riff on “Geneva Convention,” since the gathering started in Geneva, Wisconsin) will be packed with gamers — and those gamers will want to purchase more games and meet the makers of those games. Many of those games, in ways large and small, are developed, built, scripted, designed and tested right here in Central Indiana. Games can be played with small, painted statuettes (or “miniatures”), cards, dice, rule books, playing pieces or any combination thereof, but they’ve all got one thing in common: creative minds build them. Some games are built from worlds that already exist, like the ones occupied by Conan the Barbarian or the Men in Black; others are created specifically for the universes their characters inhabit. In this week’s cover story we’ll profile four game developers in the arena of role-playing games or hobby games: one parttime freelancer, two full-time freelancers and a local company that’s grown from its founders’ basements to an office and warehouse in Noblesville. The individual developers we’ve featured have returned the favor — they’ve designed a slick little game JUST for NUVO readers which you can find on page 14.
A four-day badge runs 90 bucks, and attendees can sign up via the Gen Con website or buy ‘em at the venue. The four-day badge is a bargain — single day badges go for $55 — but there are “Family Fun” packages for as little as $35 each (Family Fun day is Sunday) and kids eight-and-under are admitted FREE as long as a ticketed grownup is with them. The convention’s loaded with special events, and once you’re registered, browsing the events is a pretty intuitive experience. They’re broken up into categories, whether your thing is LARPing, video gaming, trading cards or whatever. There’s even a category of “Spouse Activities” — which includes an “Intro to Sword Fighting” class. Great way to settle an argument, right? The main exhibit hall is — well, wow. Some vendors will have massive displays, some little startups will have dinky tables, and all manner of gamers and cosplayers can be found on the floor. There’s an art show, an author’s avenue, a Family Fun Pavillion and square footage set aside as “Training Grounds,” an intro-to-gaming universe designed especially for kids ages four to 12.
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KNOW YOUR TERMS: COSPLAY
Dressing up like a character; not necessarily playing a game in costume
D&D
Dungeons and Dragons, one of the most famous and widely played role-playing games.
GATEWAY GAMES
Simple games such as Dominion that often lead to more complex role-playing or worldbuilding games.
HOBBY GAMES
Usually table-top games that may or may not involve role-playing.
LARPing
Live-action role playing, playing a game in costume and mimicking the actions one’s character would undertake.
MINIATURES
Small statuettes often used in fantasy or tabletop war games, sometimes handpainted by hobbyists and players.
RPG
Role-playing games, a game in which players assume the role of a character.
TESTING
Playing a game while it’s being developed to make sure the rules work.
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Steele’s significant other didn’t understand his gig at first. “She ask me how my day was. I’d be frustrated: ‘I just can’t get the monsters right!’ She’d look at me like ‘What the hell are you talking about?’” Now, though, Bryan’s S.O. has been taking a stab at designing some artwork for a project Steele’s got in the works. Like many of his colleagues, Steele’s received an apology or two from his elders: “My mom told me she was sorry for what she’d said when I was a kid — she used to gripe that if I spent as much time on my homework as I did on Dungeons and Dragons, I’d actually have a future.” NOTABLE GAMES HE’S WORKED ON: Iron Kingdoms, Traveller, Shadowrun, RuneQuest
rtist and writer Bryan C.P. Steele (the “C” is for Carl, his granddad; the “P” for GAME IN DEVELOPMENT: Steele is busily worka beloved uncle named Patrick) has three ing on a self-published title. screens in his home office in Lafayette. One’s dedicated to a constant cinematic stream: FAVORITE CREATION: “My son,” he laughs. Steele needs a movie rolling in the backAlso: “My first professional publication, ground to work. It keeps him from getting Warmachine Prime. It was an upstart bogged down in a single detail when he’s miniatures game, a little thing, and now it’s designing a world or a character — the films spawned novels and everything. It’s amazing remind him to maintain a narrative arc. The that these characters I helped build live on process has a drawback: “There’s a fine line beyond me. I would love for my kids to see between homage and thievery — when I see something that I made 15 years from now. I’m the nugget of something I can use, I write really just a gamer who got lucky.” it down in a notebook and stash it away so I use it as the starting point for HIS MOST FRUSTRATING something original later.” PROJECT: When he was Steele’s been a gamer “I’D BE FRUSTRATED: working at Mongoose since he was seven, and now games, he was handed freelance development for ‘I JUST CAN’T GET THE a game world “that had the gaming universe is his MONSTERS RIGHT!’ been around for many living. He’ll be an “industry years,” something called insider” at this year’s Gen SHE’D LOOK AT ME LIKE Glorantha. Steele admits Con, a panelist and one of ‘WHAT THE HELL ARE that he only had a cursory many experts on the floor. knowledge of the world, His career first started to YOU TALKING ABOUT?’” and rushed the title. “I got really take off when the folks it done, but it wasn’t the running a miniatures-hobquality I wanted.” He also byist site called “CoolMinrecalls being startled by a critic: After a iOrNot.com” heard his voice on a podcast, panel discussion in which he discussed and wanted him to do voice-over work for his work on a role-playing game set in their site. the world of Conan the Barbarian, a fan “Then they found out I wrote, too,” calmly approached him, and after a few Steele laughs. pleasantries, turned on Steele. “He asked Although she had a basic knowledge of roleme, ‘HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO playing games (“Thanks, Big Bang Theory!”) [ROBERT E.] HOWARD’S WORK?’”
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ON THE FANS: Most of Bryan’s interactions with fans are much more complimentary, and he loves the interaction. “Panels, podcasts, name it — I never met a microphone I didn’t like.” Once, though, he had a chance encounter with two gents who didn’t realize who Steele was: “Back in ‘04, I was at a game store buying stuff, and I heard two people at a table arguing how to pronounce someone’s name in a game I’d worked on. I walked over and whispered: ‘It’s pronounced KAY-dor.’” The two players regarded Steel with disdain until the owner of the store piped in with, “You should listen to this guy, he wrote the book.” ON TESTING: Steele thinks he’s found the perfect
five-person formula for perfecting a title: two playing for fun, two playing to win, and “one guy whose job is to make sure your game does or doesn’t work. The notes you’ll get back tell you everything you’ll need to know.” A poor testing group is one that just wants to please the game’s creator: “The worst groups are yes men.”
FAVORITE GAME HE DIDN’T DESIGN: WarHammer
40,000 — “I’ve been playing that for almost 20 years.”
FAVORITE MOVIE: The Empire Strikes Back FAVORITE COMIC TITLE: “Currently, Aquaman.”
But it should be noted that Bryan has a quote from Superman — in Kryptonian script — tattooed on his forearm: “ALWAYS BELIEVE.”
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memory when it comes to the worlds he creates. “I was comforting a friend who thought the game she was working on was horrible. I told her about this terrible thing I’d come up with as a kid called the ‘Weredragon’ — what kid wouldn’t want to be a weredragon? — and I could remember every scary detail about where they lived, what they ate, you name it.”
NOTABLE GAMES HE’S WORKED ON: Apocalypse
JOHN KENNEDY
Prevention Inc., Part Time Gods, Mermaid Adventure, Wu Xing: The Ninja Crusade
GAME IN DEVELOPMENT: Pulsars — “They
protect the galaxy. Players get a suit that enchances your powers. If you can take on ten ohn Kennedy (yep, his dad was a fan of the men, the suit allows you to take on 1,000.” late President — he’s even got a sister named Caroline) is a line developer/fiction writer for FAVORITE CREATION: Elvis the Loch from Third Eye Games and his own line, Smug Pug Apocalypse Prevention Inc. “API features a Games. Kennedy was educated at Purdue after group of people who have to transferring from Marian: “I tried prevent the end of the world. engineering. I wasn’t any good Elvis the Loch is a fish-like at engineering. I tried psych. I “I TOLD HER ABOUT being who’s obsessed with wasn’t any good at psych. So I — he curls the fin on his majored in English and history.” THIS TERRIBLE THING Elvis head into a pompadour.” A self-described “lonely kid,” Kennedy stumbled across a I’D COME UP WITH AS HIS MOST FRUSTRATING battered copy of The Dungeon A KID CALLED THE PROJECT: “Ninja Werewolves. Master’s Guide, the Dungeons When I was a kid, I couldn’t and Dragons rule book, at his ‘WEREDRAGON’ — WHAT figure out why adults hated local library. Enthralled by the this idea. Now that I’m an KID WOULDN’T world he found therein, Kenadult, I get it. I also had a hand nedy kept checking the book WANT TO BE in a book called Shadownaout for two months, and before tions. We (Kennedy and his long, he was blowing all his lunch A WEREDRAGON?” co-author) loved it. Amazon, money on everything he could not so much.” find regarding fantasy role-play. John cooks up ideas during ON THE FANS: “There were a bunch of guys downtime: when he’s waiting in line at a who played the same characters in Wu Xing store or mowing the yard. “I’ll come up with through all of last year’s Gen Con. They had some monster and think, ‘Man, it would be a blast. We also had a nine-year-old girl who cool if this character was in that game’ and loved Mermaid Adventure so much she creby the time I’m done whatever, I’ll have the ated mermaid dolls for all the game creators.” thing fleshed out.” Kennedy’s got a hell of a
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ON TESTING: “People think you write
down a character and some rules and, boom! There’s a game. But you’ve got to play it — you’ll stumble across things that will break the game. For example, we were playing one game and got held up on whether a player could perform multiple actions in a single turn. We had to go back in and adjust the rules to make the thing playable.”
FAVORITE GAME HE DIDN’T DESIGN: Werewolf: the Apocalypse
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— plus, Schoon and Kennedy are both working on Pulsars: “It’s going to be a HUGE book, everything we’ve loved about sci-fi is going to be in that one book.”
CRIME NEVER SLEEPS ...
FAVORITE CREATION: Edara, a steampunk-
themed creation he self-published and built from the ground up.
WE DON’T, EITHER!
SO NEITHER CAN I!
HIS MOST FRUSTRATING PROJECT: This was
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hen Ryan Schoon was a kid, he stumbled across a library book that featured a version of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” a short story that featured a creature that was part man, part octopus, part dragon — and all nightmare. Schoon’s mom quickly snatched the book from Ryan’s young hands, realizing that Lovecraft wasn’t quite age-appropriate for the boy — but the fantasy bug had bitten Schoon already. Schoon soon dug into The Hobbit and Star Wars and Men in Black role play games, but as he aged he became a big fan of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. Although he’s got a day job in the ag universe, Schoon discovered a use for the creative writing degree he picked up at Ball State. While networking with other gamers at Gen Con one year, his friends encouraged him to take a stab at game development. Soon he found himself working on Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. — the same game another Indiana resident was working on. “I had no idea John Kennedy was working on API, too — and that the guy lived 15 minutes away from me.” Schoon — whose first work was, coincidentally, a Lovecraft RPG spoof called Call of Catthulhu — is a fan of world-building. “Some people are into constructing the mechanics of a world. But I always start with the question, ‘What’s it like to live in that world?’” It’s a question that the Hebron, Indiana native has been pondering since he first started imagining other cultures and creatures as a small child. The kid who designed role-playing games for his friends in elementary school is ready to drum up support for his most recent work at Gen Con 2015.
tough to answer for Ryan: “I’m VERY selective on what I work on since [as a freelancer with a day job] I’m short on time – I guess my biggest nightmare was API. I bit off way more than I could chew. It took twice as long as I’d thought but it was fun.”
ON THE FANS: “Fan response has been fantastic. I have 200 backers on Kickstarter; I had people asking for autographs at last year’s Gen Con … seeing your work alongside all these other famous books is great.” ON TESTING: “I haven’t had to run a lot,
luckily!” Schoon did have to test Edara, but he had help: a friend in Bloomington and the game’s co-author, who lives in Maryland. “It’s NEVER fun to hear what people don’t like — negative feedback is always a little closer to home.”
“I ALWAYS START WITH THE QUESTION, ‘WHAT’S IT LIKE TO LIVE IN THAT WORLD?’”
FAVORITE GAME HE DIDN’T DESIGN:
The old West End Games’ Star Wars RPG
FAVORITE MOVIE: Princess Bride
FAVORITE COMIC TITLE: Y: The Last Man
NOTABLE GAMES HE’S WORKED ON:
API, Dragon Age, Fragged Empire
GAMES IN DEVELOPMENT: A new
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FAVORITE CREATION: The gift that keeps on
giving: Mercs. “It’s this never-dying thing,” says Brian with a bit of wonder. The gents have even been presented with a flag flown over Afghanistan as a token of gratitude from U.S. troops who used their game to pass the time and keep their minds off the war.
n a small industrial park in Noblesville, you can find a group of guys sitting around a set of flat wooden tables, designing what THEIR MOST FRUSTRATING PROJECT: A dicemay well be the Next Big Hit at Gen Con game version of Mercs. “I don’t think we and beyond. A little over half a decade ago, understood the audience,” says Kenny. “It this group — Keith Lowe, Brian Shotton, wasn’t a game where the dice decided your Kenny Sims and Tom Mason — had no idea move, and that’s what dice players are into.” they’d be riding the wave of hobby games’ (In a word: luck.) popularity with their line of miniatures, most notable of which is a game called Mercs. ON THE FANS: Keith: “There are two priests Megacon’s origin story is serendipitous: from Kansas who played in our first tournaKeith ran into Tom at Indiana Wesleyan, and ment. They dress as vampire hunters. then Brian and Kenny met Keith when they People come up to them and say, ‘Cool were all working in some capacity at a firm costume! You’re Catholic called Brady Games. “We all priest vampire hunters!’ and brought our own talents to the they’ll say ‘The vampire table,” says Brian, the group’s “MY FOLKS COULDN’T hunter is the only part that’s “game mechanic.” The guys started peddling Mercs by TELL YOU WHAT I DO, a costume.’” playing a demo game at Gen BUT THEY’RE PRETTY ON TESTING: All of their testCon — guerilla style, in the is done in-house: Greg, common game area. IMPRESSED WHEN THEY ing an employee who handles Now they’re shipping SEE THE NUMBERS.” logistics and shipping, asboxes upon boxes of product sembles teams (that have from their warehouse — and included John Kennedy, see they’re worried that they’ll p. 11) that play the games soon run out of space. in addition to the testing undertaken by the The company that started as a labor of love core group. The first round of game testing is in Shotton’s basement soon began developing a usually done on a plain black-and-white game second game called Myth, a Kickstarter project surface with minimal design; the boards, that generated — wait for it — $926,00. miniatures and other pieces are refined as the Kenny’s grandparents have told him, “We’re game’s developed. so glad you didn’t listen when we told you to stop playing video games!” Although Kenny’s FAVORITE GAME THEY relatives might be confused as to exactly DIDN’T DESIGN: what kind of game development brings in his Brian: Twilight Struggle — “It’s a Cold - War paychecks, they know that Kenny’s making a game that’s just brilliant.” fine living. Same with Brian: “My folks couldn’t Kenny (picking a video game in tribute tell you what I do, but they’re pretty impressed to grandma and grandpa): Sid Meier’s when they see the numbers.” CIVILIZATION V Keith’s wife knows exactly what he does: Keith (picking up Kenny’s theme): Halo “She always telling me, ‘I can’t believe you get paid to sit around all day and draw FAVORITE MOVIE: people with guns!’” Keith: The Fifth Element Kenny: “Let’s go with the entire Resident NOTABLE GAMES THEY’VE WORKED ON: Evil franchise.” Mercs, Myth Brian: Jaws — “Far and away.” GAME IN DEVELOPMENT: There’s a cork board FAVORITE COMIC TITLE: in the Megacon office where titles are Brian: X-Men organized into categories: ALPHA, BETA, Keith: Wolverine PRODUCTION, SHIPPING. Some of the Brian: (Smiles, points to Superman T-shirt ALPHA and BETA titles are new iterations he’s wearing.) of Mercs and Myth.
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THE DEADLINE E IN L D A E D THE AN ORIGINAL, BEGINNER’S I NE L D A E HE D ADLINE T ROLE-PLAYING GAME E DE H T DESIGNED IFOR NUVO E N L D A E THE D INE L D A E D E TH ole-playing games come in many different shapes and sizes.
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Some are designed to tell epic tales of fighting monsters and saving kingdoms, while others are wacky adventures meant to be a silly way to pass the time. All role-playing games center around the players working together to tell a story of their own, often with one player taking on the role of guiding the game and telling the story while the players interact with the story and take on different roles like actors in a play. In The Deadline, players take on the roles of reporters who investigate the strange stories that rarely make it into the evening news. After a lead hits the “Stranger Indiana” desk at NUVO, they have to run down leads and find out the truth behind the bizarre rumors and see if stories of the supernatural are real or a hoax.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED • DICE
Role-Playing games often involve dice, and The Deadline will need one six-sided die (the same kind used in most common board games) for the players to roll when necessary.
• FRIENDS
The more you invite to play with, the more complex things become!
• EDITOR
One friend to play the Editor
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Gaming Lingo Explained To play a role-playing Game, you will need to construct your Character. This Character is going to be who you will be portraying in the story. In some games you are the brave warrior protecting your people, the inquisitive inspector trying to solve a mystery, or the captain of a starship exploring new worlds. In The Deadline, you take on the role of a reporter trying to find the facts behind supernatural stories. Your Editor gives you a lead for a story, and it is up to the Players to figure out what is going on. Though the game is played by the Players, there will need to be one person in charge of coming up with the story for them. This person will fill the story with riddles, clues, non-player characters, and occasionally bad guys for the Players to interact with. In The Deadline, this person is known as the Editor.
Crafting an Adventure (The Editor’s job) It is as simple as coming up with a story that you would tell your friends at a party, only in this case your friends can interact with the story. Start by coming up with a theme for your adventure, such as “The Ghoulish Ghost of Geist” or “March Madness And Monsters.” Then use this theme to come up with challenges and characters that your player may come into contact with throughout the story.
BY BRYAN C.P. STEELE, RYAN SCHOON AND JOHN KENNEDY Example: Kat wants to run an adventure for her group of friends and centers it around a crazy dream she had about a monstrous canine that prowled the neighborhood around her home. Drawing from that, she decides that the canine is the vengeful spirit of a dog trying to get revenge for its murdered master. She wants her players to investigate the story before meeting with the dog directly, so she comes up with several non-player characters or NPCs that her group may encounter as they hunt down leads in the neighborhood.
Let’s Make A Character! Making a Character for The Deadline is simple. First a Player must come up with a concept for their character that best fits the way they want to play. Players are encouraged to come up with players that best fit being a reporter, but they can flesh out their character to make them feel unique. Concepts should be simple enough that they can be expressed with a simple phrase, such as… • Fresh-out-of-college reporter with a heart of gold, • Veteran reporter seeking to win the Pulitzer, or • Reporter hoping to get their next big break.
Once a concept is chosen, Players are encouraged to write down a paragraph that explains who their character is and why they are working for NUVO. Once that is done, Players can start to build the mechanics of the character. You have three categories (a.k.a. Stats) that make up what your character is best at. These Stats are: • Strength, which determines how physically fit your character is and how well they can perform physical actions. • Social, which represents how well your character can talk to others and be smooth under pressure. • Smarts, which represents how intelligent your character is and how knowledgeable they are. You have 7 points to spread between these three Stats, with a minimum of 1 point being spent in each category. Characters are not just determined by their physical qualities but also by skills that they have acquired throughout their lives. Players must also think of five Skills that best reflect what their character can do. These are simple, one word descriptors for what best describes the skill. Examples include: • Running • Conversation • Fighting • Investigation • Historical knowledge • Singing Once each character has come up with their character, all they have to do is figure out a name and get ready for the adventure!
SAMPLE REPORTER
Amber S. Concept: Dedicated seeker of the truth Name:
Backstory:
Stats:
Amber has been dedicated to reporting the truth ever since she saw a ghost at the supermarket that no one else could see. The ghost kept pointing at a strange man who was shopping for kitchen supplies, and Amber knew she had to find out what the ghost wanted. Amber uncovered that the man had murdered his brother and buried the body in the backyard, hoping to inherit the brother’s money. Amber now seeks out strange leads in the city and hopes to protect the public from mysterious threats.
Strength 2 Social 3 Smarts 2 Skills:
How The Game Works The mechanics behind The Deadline are simple: when a Player attempts to do an action that the Editor has determined there is no guarantee that they will succeed, he assigns a Difficulty Number (DN) to the task. If a Player is trying to sneak past an officer guarding a crime scene, the DN may be an 8. If they are trying to find a lost business card hidden in a trash can, the DN may be a 4. The Player will then roll a six-sided die and add that number to the value of the Stat that best fits the challenge. If the challenge involves a task that fits under one of their Skills, they are allowed to reroll the die once if they do not succeed on the first try. To beat the challenge, the player will need to meet or exceed the Difficulty Number. Example: Brian wants to scale a fence in order to sneak into a junkyard that he has been asked to investigate by his editor. The fence is not very high but has barbed wire at the top, so the Editor gives it a DN of 8. Brian’s character is very athletic and has a Strength of 5, and has to roll a 3 or better on a six sided die to beat the challenge.
Fight! Sometimes, conflicts can only be resolved by physical confrontations. In these cases, fighting is handled like a skill challenge between those who are fighting. If a Player is fighting an element of the story and not another character, the Player rolls against the Editor to see who has the higher number and gets to go first. They then make a skill challenge against the opponent, and if they succeed they take away one point of Strength from their target. Once a target has lost their last point of Strength they are Knocked Out for the rest of the scene.
Getting Better As the Story Does Each story should have a beginning, a middle and an end. When the Editor comes up with a story for their players, the Editor should come up with something that would be fun for the Players to investigate while also playing to their strengths. A story that involves a lot of car chases and gunplay though the Players do not have the skills to solve the puzzle would not be a lot of fun. If the Players finish the story or if they do something that the Editor feels is particularly noteworthy then the Players are awarded an Experience Point. These Experience Points can be spent to increase a Stat or gain another Skill. Once the story is over, it’s time to see how the Players did. The Players have gotten the facts, and have faced down the otherworldly menace that was at the center of the story. Now they have to come up with a story that is fit to print! For fun, have the Players write up a small article that explains what happened throughout the course of the story, but remind them that the newspaper will not print anything wild or insane that they could not justify backing up. The Player that is able to best write the story as believably as possible gains an extra Experience Point.
Stop the Presses… It’s Time to Play! You now have everything you need to get started hunting down those juicy stories and making the headlines, but will your reporters survive to enjoy the fame? The only way to find out is to play!
YOUR OWN GAME CARD
CHARACTER REPORTER Name: Concept: Backstory:
Stats:
Skills:
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TINY CHAT A fantastic debut Local author, Hans Cummings, will be debuting his most recent novel at Gen Con. He is currently writing a fantasy series and and separate sci-fi series of young adult books. He commissioned local sculptor David Pancake (featured on page 17) to bring to life a character from his series. We caught up with him to discuss his pending title. NUVO: If you were to describe the series in a Tweet or less… HANS CUMMINGS: Two of the three are like Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts in space … They go off and their camping trips are on different planets instead of the national park. There was a galactic genocide like a generation ago. And he is starting to uncover that it wasn’t as black and white as the news media would have them believe. NUVO: What is the writing process like for a series versus a single piece of fiction? CUMMINGS: Usually I have an idea of where I want the series to go. I don’t necessarily always write it down. I have this mental block that if I write it down, I am locked into this. Even though pencils have erasers. … I have heard that there are two schools of thought on how to write a book. Some people plot it out meticulously and outline every plot point. Some people just have “this is where it starts and this is where it ends,“and just kind of wing it in between. NUVO: Any spoilers for the book you have coming out during Gen Con? CUMMINGS: The trilogy plot is different from the book plot. …The protagonist is a minotaur, because I write all of my stories from the viewpoint of the monsters. Not a lot of people do that. Everyone has all these knights and wizards and heroes. I thought ‘well, they are always going out and killing these monsters, so what are there lives like?’ So I wrote from their point of view. … Those were what the first two books were. … now our protagonist … has got to go back to the town where he was born to deal with mistakes he made when he was younger. So really the series is about responsibility. — EMILY TAYLOR Hans Cummings will have a booth in Authors’ Avenue at Gen Con
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or “SuperKayce,” a local designer and artist, cosplay (or costume play) is a way of life. Her actual name is Kayce Super. However, for cosplay persona, she goes by SuperKayce. “Cosplay has truly changed the person I thought I would be for the better,” says Super. This unique type of performance art, where the costumes and accessories represent a specific character or idea, has gained in popularity since the early ’90s, when costumed players first began to attend comic book conventions around the world showcasing their unique designs. For SuperKayce, who emerged on the cosplay scene in 2009, attending a Gen Con is a summer highlight, whether it is serving on a costuming panel, playing a new game or working a booth. It is also a chance to give back to the community that has given her self-confidence. SuperKayce’s creativity and handcrafted designs have inspired other cosplayers. This year she will serve as a judge and host on several panels, including “Costuming on a Budget,” “How to Start Cosplaying” and “Maskbuilding 101.” As a cosplay designer, she uses this creative outlet to “let out her inner child.” An operations manager for a local event company by day, SuperKayce uses pop culture and her favorite comic characters to inspire her fashion designs. Because each design can take up to 135 hours to complete, time management is a challenge. All the time and effort are worth it for SuperKayce, who believes cosplay helps her “be more creative and outgoing
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Kayce Super as Dawn Star (above) and Stephanie Brown Robin.
as well as confident and brave.” SuperKayce has gained opportunities as a result of her unique garb. Designing and crafting a costume is no easy task. Intricate and handmade designs take planning and dedication when creating a complete cosplay ensemble. Her designs use a mixture of ready-made and handcrafted materials. With with
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made accessories. Once a new design is complete, SuperKayce reveals it at conventions, on social media, or in a cosplay photo shoot. With more than 33 costumes to her credit, she definitely knows how to make an appealing creation. Super is also an avid “I’ve made more friends gamer, so another favorite cosplaying than I could ever part of Gen Con is playing demo games new to the imagined.” — SUPERKAYCE industry and competing in magic tournaments. “I’ve made more friends an array of supplies from cosplaying than I could ever imagined,” says Super. Spending time and effort on local craft stores at her design featuring a favorite character, fingertips, she goes to and meeting new people from different work on each pattern. backgrounds and areas of the country is She uses thermoplasa great way to have fun at conventions tic material to craft while being creative. a handmade mask and completes her ensemble with handS E E , COSPL A Y, O N PA GE 1 8
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Local sculptor breathes life into myth
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fter passing three roundabouts, a sea of suburban stitched homes and well manicured lawns, there is one house that stands out. It’s ordinary in every way from the street. In fact, you would never notice the dragon’s head knocker on the door or the small gargoyles along the front step unless you were walking right up to ring the bell. Inside, however, is a different story. Oils, acrylics, prints and sculptures (meant to look like the hunted heads of fantasy creatures) all tile the walls. Nearly every spare shelf is home to monsters and dragons of every kind. It’s a fantasy lover’s dream. It’s the home and live-in studio of David Lee Pancake, a Greenwood-based sculptor, who will be showing at Gen Con for the fifth year in a row. And yes, Pancake is really his last name. His German ancestors changed it from Pfannenkuchen several generations ago. As you can guess, it was not fun in elementary school. Like so many artists, his visual endeavors began at a young age. But for Pancake it meant so much more. His drawings and vidid colors would mean the difference between graduation and a downward spiraling educational current. Midway through his eighth grade year Pancake was only testing at a third-grade reading level. The following summer he was visiting a cousin when he stumbled across a comic book for the first time. Leafing through the kaleidoscopic pages fueled his desire to follow the dialog. Slowly he began to work his way through it. This was around the same time Kathy and David Lee Pancake >>
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that astronauts were setting foot on the moon, sparking his interest in space. He recalls going into a comic book store and asking for any titles that took place in out in the cosmos. The shop owner didn’t have any, but he did have a fantasy novel. He handed Pancake a cover that pictured a mouse holding a ray gun. The notion of no pictures wasn’t too thrilling, but he decided to take a crack at it anyway. By the end of the summer he read 33 books. That fall, his reading scores had jumped from that of a third-grader to a college freshman. The principal even made him retake a reading test in his office, just to prove he hadn’t cheated. Pancake began to furiously draw all of the characters that were captivating him. Pages weren’t enough; soon his drawings were overflowing onto his bedroom walls. His mother eventually gave up and let him cover the room in Captain America and any other character that came to mind. It wasn’t until years later, when he and his wife Kathy were running a small graphic design firm, that the possibilities of sculpture opened. He met an older woman named Jennie Roller, a fantasy sculptor. She invited him to tag along to Windy Con in Chicago where S E E , S C U L P T O R , O N P A GE 1 8 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 07.29.15 - 08.05.15 // VISUAL 17
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book covers or custom characters for fiction authors. Hans Cummings was one of those artists when he commissioned a praying mantis creature. Pancake even included the detail of an iPad in its hand. His artwork is not what you would see in a traditional gallery space. In fact, he sees that as an unfortunate division between worlds. “Look at how Marvel has dominated the movies,” says Pancake, sitting on his couch beneath a series of fellow fantasy artists’ paintings. He explains how pop culture has made geek culture mainstream over the years, and yet the artwork is still separated “If you do illustration or if you do fantastic art, fantasy art, that’s some how not the same as ... fine art. I don’t view it that
she was selling artwork. From then on, pages and walls couldn’t contain his mythical creatures. Though he still does paint, Pancake identifies as a sculptor more than anything. For him, the level of detail and reality he could achieve was intoxicating. Today, his dragon scales are all razor sharp, and the wingspan on his Gen Con feature alone is 11-and-a-half feet tall. His attention to detail was born from a level of artistic scrutiny that kicked into a whole other gear once he decided to pursue art full time. In 2003, he sold the graphic design business. And in 2005 he and Kathy moved to Indiana so he could be an art director for a furniture company. It was five years later, on Nov. 20, 2010, when he left the stability of a 401K and threw himself into his artwork. “Once you say ‘yes, I am a professional artist’ it’s a big step,” says Pancake. “But it’s a step that has to happen. Once you do it things unfold before you. You start treating yourself a little differently, the shows a little differently, the general public a little differently. … It’s very “Once you say ‘yes, I am a important to do it.” professional artist’ it’s a big step. He has had his fair share of struggles with going full But it’s a step that has to happen.” time. “You always get this push back, ‘you can’t make — DAVID LEE PANCAKE a living with art’ or ‘you can’t do this or that with art,’” says Pancake. But by the books he is doing very well. His sales way,” says Pancake. “I think there is way have doubled almost every year since 2010. more talent that you will see at Gen Con The secret, he says, is to “find your fan.” than you will see at [some] galleries … “They respond by telling you what Sometimes when you get into the fine art they want,” says Pancake. He makes a community they treat it very cut-throat habit of listening to requests and followand competitive. … This community, the ing through. Among the conferences he fantasy community, it’s not that way. … attends, Gen Con “has a different flavor It feels very good to sit around with these to it.” Large fantasy cons have allowed artists. You don’t feel like you are in comhim to sell out nearly all of his inventory, petition with them. You feel like you are in design pieces for cosplayers and even a community with them.” n
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As a well-known designer on the cosplay scene, SuperKayce already has a slew of fans. Some of her most rewarding experiences have been the interactions with her youngest fans who “want to talk about Toothless or Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon.” Her passion is undeniable when she meets a fellow cosplayer who shares her love for a character. For her, “that is one of best feelings in the world.” “Don’t worry about your size, race, 18 VISUAL // 07.29.15 - 08.05.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
gender, age, etc.,” says SuperKayce when I asked for her advice to newbies. “Don’t be afraid to start because everyone can cosplay!” While her imaginative costumes have given SuperKayce an avenue to help others be more creative, she has also earned several awards, including three individual competition awards for her handcrafted designs and a feature story on ProjectNerd.com. She’s currently working with a national cosplay magazine, where she’ll be featured in an upcoming issue. n
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Comedian Lucas Waterfill has CP and one of the funniest standup routines of the year
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he first time I saw him do standup at Comedy Mix Tape at Talbott Street, he appeared to have an entourage, fans hollering as soon as his name was announced. Lucas Waterfill rolled onto the stage in a wheelchair, handsome and confident, with another person in tow carrying a microphone. He proceeded with a hilarious bit about what he calls “crippled porn,” a rant about the low quality of its production value. “I have done standup with a headset and I prefer it,” Waterfill said before his set, “but I haven’t bought one yet.” So, the 24-year-old Plainfield native performs with a friend or fellow comedian sitting next to him, holding the microphone up to his mouth. Waterfill has SUBMITTED PHOTO cerebral palsy which prevents him from Lucas’ bit on “crippled porn” originated from watching a clip of comedian Chris Rock telling Jerry Seinfeld how Black porn was cheaper than white porn. holding his own microphone. “It’s not awkward having someone up continue. By the time he got to Plainfield there with me,” he said. “They don’t distract COMEDY 10@10 High School, he had the courage to be me. I sometimes talk shit about them.” the lead singer in a hardcore punk band. It appears Waterfill has been talking a lot After a while, he grew impatient waiting W H E N : J U L Y 30 , 1 0 P . M . of shit for quite some time. Born the secfor people to get the band and equipWHERE: COMEDYSPORTZ ond of four children to Mark and Melissa ment together for their next gig. Waterfill, a lawyer and a teacher, he said he T I C K E T S : $ 5 A T I N D Y C O M E D Y S P O R T Z . C O M “I was ... a bad singer anyway. I might learned early on how important it is to be as well do comedy.” able to talk to people and hold your own. only five years old. He remembers how Waterfill started regularly booking club “I grew up in a very sarcastic family, it felt when his preschool teachers and gigs a year and a half ago and is always and if you weren’t on top of it, you got aids were talking down to him. working on his material, mostly in his crapped on,” Waterfill said. “They were “I didn’t like it,” said Waterfill. “It didn’t head since his disability makes it difficult cutthroat. They didn’t baby me.” make sense to me. When you’re disabled, to type or write. He said, like any comediHe quickly pointed out that his family an, he has bombed before, but never lets you fight for the respect you get. You has been nothing but loving and supthe audience’s reaction discourage him. have to constantly prove to people that portive, and it’s their lack of sympathy “Because you’re the one up there. for his condition that They’re not up there, so even if you suck, did him a favor, teaching can they say?” him to defend himself. “I have done sets where I don’t mention what It appears this doesn’t happen often. His Waterfill learned how to “crippled porn” bit, for instance, had me spot when someone was my disability at all and I’ve done sets and everyone else in the room in stitches. pitying him and deflect it “I have done sets where I don’t menthat are all about my disability and the with his quick wit. tion my disability at all, and I’ve done “That’s a big part of my jokes are just as genuine ...” sets that are all about my disability, and day-to-day life — that the jokes are just as genuine, so I don’t condescension, and I — LUCAS WATERFILL think there’s a difference,” said Waterfill. would imagine that is the “It’s about human experience.” life of many disabled peoAlthough he graduated from high school ple,” said Waterfill. “You a six years ago, it appears he’s had plenty you’re with it.” realize you’re just as smart as, or maybe of that. Currently unemployed, the former Comedy gave him a way to voice his even smarter than, the average populaintern for U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly said opinion. His first foray into standup tion, so you either find humor in it or you he has considered a life in politics but sees came around age 12. He got one joke out get so angry that it eats you up. That used comedy as more accessible to him, so he of his mouth at a church youth group to be me, so I had to make a choice.” talent show before freezing up, unable to will pursue it for the time being. n He made that choice when he was
Phoenix Theatre’s Bryan Fonseca chosen as a director at Playwrights’ Workshop in D.C. It’s always satisfying when you see someone chock-full of talent recognized for their wisdom. Our own 2001 CVA winner, Bryan Fonseca, has been chosen to be part of a team of six directors in the 10th Annual MFA Playwrights’ Workshop in Bryan Fonseca Washington, D.C. What that really means is he is about to change one young playwright’s life. The week (July 25 to Aug. 2) includes 50 playwrights, directors and dramaturgs all collaborating to make six scripts into something marketable. The six young playwrights will be Matthew Capodicasa, Lindsey Ferrentino, Dominic Finocchiaro, Sylvia Khoury, Will Snider and Aurin Squire. Fonseca will be working with Sylvia Khoury. The workshop is in association with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, National New Play Network and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University. “They give the playwright this amazing team of artists on each play,” said Fonseca. “I have a team of people that are working with me on the development of this play with the playwright. This is an amazing program for a playwright.” It’s basically a development bootcamp for budding theater writers. A week of workshopping their script will, ideally, leave them with a smoothed-out version that is ready to send around the country in the hopes that it will be produced. This will be Fonseca’s second round in D.C. He previously went in 2010 when he worked with Sam Hunter, now a nationally recognized playwright based in Chicago. After Fonseca workshopped Hunter’s script, he felt so strongly about it that the play came to life in Indianapolis at the Phoenix in the production of Norway. At first the play was named Atlasing Sodom. Yeah, they changed that in the workshop. The play that Khoury will be workshopping is titled Against the Hillside. According to Fonseca, “This is a political piece in its own way.” The play was described in a press release as “an American drone pilot has a mysterious connection to the Pakistani housewife he is watching from thousands of miles away.” Really, it echoes the struggle of a soldier who feels the disconnect between himself and the people in his crosshairs. — EMILY TAYLOR
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Jeff Gordon readies for his final Brickyard.
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Kyle Busch — the gent in the Skittles firesuit — celebrates winning the 2015 Brickyard with his wife Samantha and baby Brexton Locke as somebody named “Gibbs” looks on approvingly.
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Jeff Gordon’s car shows some heavy wear and tear after he made contact with the wall.
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At right: Jeff Gordon fan Wendy Westphal signs the wall by Gordon’s pit before the Brickyard 400. Gordon, who’d won the Brickyard a record five times before Sunday’s race, was knocked out of contention after an incident on lap 50. The 2015 Brickyard was Gordon’s last — the former Pittsboro resident is retiring after this season.
fter breaking bones in a wreck at Daytona and missing 11 races of the 2015 NASCAR season, Kyle Busch is on a roll — most fans’ less-than-favorite driver is now dominating nearly every race he enters. Busch won both the 2015 edition of the Brickyard 400 and the Lilly Diabetes 250 this past weekend at Indy.
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Columbus native Tony Stewart in the No. 14 car is on the right heading through turn one at IMS, followed closely by Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (88). Stewart would finish 28th, Junior ended the day in 22nd.
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Blake Koch’s No. 8 Xfinity series NASCAR makes contact with the wall in turn one at IMS. Kyle Busch would win the Lily Diabetes 250, passing Ryan Blaney on the last lap in the undercard race on Saturday.
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he boiling August sun reflects off the hot parking lot asphalt, making me sweat through my already saltencrusted jersey. Dozens of bike racers surround me, all warming up on stationary rollers, loosening their legs and revving their biological engines. Our legs are in motion, but so are our minds — we’re all dreaming of crossing the finish line and becoming the 2014 Mass Ave Criterium champion. After a quick warm-up, it’s time to roll to the start line. I size up the other racers’ bikes and legs through my iridescent Oakley sunglasses as the officials check our numbers. This course is extra challenging with its tight corners and long finishing straightaway, but it suits me. I
breathe away the nerves and uncertainty that creeps into my brain and focus on what I’m about to do. Inside, I’m calm and amped at the same time. I’m alert and relaxed. I’m in my zone. I’m ready. And we’re off. So what’s it like being in the middle of a bike race? Racers pedal at speeds upwards of 25 miles an hour around a small, Downtown loop on Massachusetts Avenue. Vying for position in the large field, riders bump elbows and tap wheels, taking the corners hot and the straightaways hotter. It takes a whole lot of bike handling and confidence to follow a wheel inches in front of your own, and some quick maneuvering if that rider crashes. On top of all that, a rider’s awareness must extend to the state of the race itself – when are people tired? How am I feeling? Who has a good sprint? Who can
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take a long, hard ride alone? Where is the wind coming from? How many laps are left? Why does that guy have a hole in his pants? Chunkchunkchunk! I hear someone’s bike shift into a faster gear, and instinctually do the same as I see rider Chloe Dygert come shooting up the left side of the field. Oh crap, I think, we can’t let her go. Chloe gets a good distance away from the field, and I’m getting nervous. If we don’t catch her, she is definitely strong enough to win this thing alone. I know this and so does everyone else. Natural powerhouse that she is, her blue-and-white Team Twenty16 jersey is usually seen way up in front of the field. Off the bike, she’s a friend, but there’s no way I’m letting her get away. The rest of the field look around at each other, uncertain of whether to counter such an
early move, and then decidedly fall into a single paceline, trying to match her speed and tuck in behind our opponents, using them to break the wind in order to expend a little less effort. I hop on a wheel and join the chase. The chase is led by Sierra Siebenlist, a fellow Hoosier with some serious spark — and a flame that might just burn long enough to spoil Dygert’s attack. I see her red and black Scarlett Fire Racing Team jersey up ahead as we charge down the straightaway and feel confident this run won’t last long. Sure enough, as soon as we make connection with Dygert, Siebenlist’s teammate Beth Engwis attacks, sprinting away from the field and putting the pressure on us to chase her down. I ignore the burning in my legs and lungs and pick up the speed. Passing under the finishing ban-
call those spandex duds we wear), and run through the course to the wheel pit. Relief fills my stomach when I see our Marian University team mechanic Michael Kubancsek standing under the tent. He asks me if I’m OK, and I nod. Calmly but at lightning speed, he gives my bike a once-over, then brushes the dirt off my shoulder. He holds the bike by the saddle, and I get on. “Breathe,” he reminds me. I take a cleansing breath, letting all the stress and surprise from crashing escape. The field comes by and he gives me a giant shove. I’m back in. That was cutting it pretty close, because now the lap counter reads “8” — only eight more laps to go in the race. Had I crashed one lap later, I wouldn’t have been able to rejoin the race. I do my best to calm my jitters and refocus before the final massive rush to the finish line. Teams The pavement burns a hole begin to set up their leadouts; find each other and get through my spandex and scrapes they organized. The rider who can take a longer, stronger pull my backside raw. gets in front of the rider with a hot, snappy sprint and pulls them to where they need to be in the field to finish — right up front. give it up that easily, I match their speed Rounding the last corner, the racers and it makes me dizzy with effort. We are intentionally positioned for the final come tearing through the first corner at sprint. Bikes rocking, elbows knocking, a pace that feels a little hotter than any pain faces bared in all their glory — we’re of the previous laps. I hear the squeal of all pushing every last bit of power we last-minute braking in front of me and have left into our pedals as we drag race cut the corner a little sharp, immediately towards the finish line. Sierra lights it regretting it. Ohnoohnoohno, I cringe, trying to shift up again, putting some space between my weight to compensate for the amount herself and the rest of the field, shoving her wheel across the finish line and winmy bike is leaning into the turn. But it’s ning by a good margin. She throws her too late – my rear wheel slides out, and hands in the air in a celebratory salute as I hit the ground hip-first, sliding across the announcer shouts her name and the the pavement. The pavement burns a cheering, drunken fans clap and whistle. hole through my spandex and scrapes While she exalts in victory, the rest of us my backside raw. Nice. I come to a stop against the sponsor-covered fencing, and slow to a cruise, defeated, completely drained of all our energy. lay there stunned. The field passes and is Soon after, Sierra and the others take turning the corner up ahead. their places on the podium. Sweat drips For a split second I lay there unsure into my eyes as I watch them smile for what to do, and once it hits me I can rejoin the race, I burst into action. I jump the camera. I’m disappointed, but not discouraged. I gave it all I had, but it was up, ignoring the stinging pain and the someone else’s day. Next time, I tell myself. embarrassing hole in my kit (what we Who stands on the top step this year? Results will be posted shortly after the finish, but all they’ll list are names and numbers. They don’t tell the whole story. The fans lining the streets will be a part of the action and energy as they witness the sweat, the sacrifice, the speed, and the glory. n ner, the announcer rings the bell and announces a prime lap. Fifty bucks to the winner of the next lap! This is me, I think. Beth is up ahead, most likely stoked about her good timing, throwing everything she’s got into this lap. Slowly moving to the front of the pack, I set myself up to be the third rider through the last corner. When the line is in sight, I let it rip. I shift my bike into a faster gear and throw all my power into sprinting towards it. But Beth pours on the steam and hangs onto it by inches, scoring herself 50 dollars. Holy smokes, that hurt. I slow down and drop back into the pack of riders. Somebody up front decides to take advantage of the fact some of us just sprinted ourselves silly and hits the gas after we cross the line. Not willing to
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Racers in their natural habitat Crit bikers are broken down into different categories, or “cats” that reflect their level of skill and experience. The lower the number, the more skilled the racer. Here’s a quick guide to figure out who’s who.
Cat 5
Fans can typically identify the Cat 5 racer either by their black shorts (topped by a U.S. Postal or Garmin jersey), copious body hair or the reflectors on their bikes. Taking their cue from their Tour de France heroes, many of the Cat 5 riders will attempt a dramatic solo breakaway during the race, only to be mistakenly chased down by their own teammates.
Cat 4
Most Cat 4 riders have shed their fur, replacing it with a local team kit, usually Team Nebo Ridge. Don’t speak or move too suddenly or you’ll likely spook the Cat 4 racer, causing him to crash into the rider next to him. Afterward, the Cat 4 racer will berate the other rider for not holding his line. Brags about being sponsored to his friends; sponsorship extends to a free water bottle and 5 percent off major purchases.
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Marco Aledio
200+ career wins, 5x national criterium medalist. Member of “fastest lead out train in America.”
Adam Liebovitz
Going for the double (Indy Crit+MAC). Form is there, needs a little luck to capture MAC.
Aaron Beebe
Form is coming round after breaking both arms earlier in the year. Look for him to win solo.
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Cat 3 Leaner and marked by the scars of multiple Cat 4 crashes, the Cat 3 rider can often be found sidling up beside the Pro/1/2 riders before and after races, angling for a team invite. While watching the Cat 4 race, the Cat 3 will often roll his eyes or otherwise show obvious disdain for the riders he had been racing against just last month. Cat 2 Many Cat 2 riders have a shell-shocked look in their eyes; used to dominating the Cat 3, now they are desperately trying to hang on to back of the pack. When approaching a Cat 2 racer, keep any and all food items hidden; they are desperately trying to cut weight before their next category upgrade and are so delirious with hunger, they will likely devour your burrito along with the hand you were holding it in.
Cat 1/ Pro
Pro/Cat 1 riders can be found during pre-race warm-up laps riding no-handed and bitching about other local riders they suspect are doping. During the race, the Pro riders will go all out for food primes (extra prizes), as the money they earn from their domestic race team equals out to less than minimum wage.
Sarah Demerly
Pocket Rocket. Nickname is Killer. It is well-deserved.
Bri Clark
Ruthless attacker. And with age comes tactical smarts. Two-time Indy Crit Champion.
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Tom Cox
Jane Noone
Outspoken, two-time winner of MAC. Veins like angry nightcrawlers.
Third at IndyCrit 2015. A seasoned pro with a ton of endurance and can win in a sprint.
Harry Clark
Traverses seemingly impossible gaps using quantum physics to win races.
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Masters 40+
The 40+ racer has been looking forward to racing masters since he turned 37 years old, only to discover the older racers were still faster. Secretly relieved he’s getting beat by riders his own age instead of pimply-faced teenagers who still don’t have their driver’s license.
Masters 50+
Distinguished by the graying hair under their helmet and arms leathered by too many races with no sunscreen, these once-proud riders can be found in the middle of the pack, barking orders at younger riders to chase down the latest breakaway. Avoid one-on-one encounters with the Masters 50+ racer lest you have to listen to a 20-minute story about a 1996 breakaway with “that bastard” Steve Tilford. Secretly afraid Cialis will show up in post-race drug screening.
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Jeremy Wilson
Hot off winning the Indiana State Road Race and Omnium, Jerms is back.
Patrick Meyer
A strong finisher and always in the mix, look for him to be in the break and covering attacks.
Sierra Siebenlist
2012 and 2014 winner of MAC, 2014 Indiana state road race and criterium champion.
Beth Engwis
Recent graduate of Marian Univ. Cycling Program and experienced track sprinter.
Lily Peck
Local junior superstar of all disciplines, contender for juniors and women 3/4 races.
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Brice Brookshire
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Marian Med Student with mad watts. When the race gets hard, he does too!
Shera Smith
2nd MAC. Favored in a sprint or long breakaway. 1st Hyde Park and IndyCrit 2015.
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Chris Coslow
Mary Penta
Finished 3rd in 2014 while securing a teammate win.
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Ben Schmutte
All around skilled rider and race animator. 1st at Quad Cities and 2nd at Snake Alley this year.
Collegiate superstar. Will rip your legs off. 2015 Winona 1st, 2x 2015 TOAD winner.
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Ryan Knapp
Breakaway specialist. Cyclocross superstar. Better than you at everything.
Jacob Hoggard
Giant (literally) powerhouse. 1st Fat & Skinny Cat 3RR and 2nd Cat 3 State RR 2015.
Victor Popov
Russian pocket rocket. Track speedwork makes him a sprint threat! 1st Fat & Skinny Jrs Crit.
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CFO at O’Brien Automotive; started riding at 49 and racing at age 50.
Samantha Strong A proven triathlete. Solo off the front or a long sprint could favor her as well.
Miles Johnson
Miles is an opportunistic sprinter and has been on the podium before at Mass Ave.
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Kyle Perry
1st in State Criterium 2014, 1st Bloomington Road Race 2015, 3rd at Indy Crit 2013.
Chad Burdskilauskas
6 MAC podium finishes. 1 x 1st, 4 x 2nd. Getting old so this may be his last chance.
Has finished just off the podium twice and is the recent State Road Race bronze medalist.
Joe Laux
Should be at peak performance after just returning from a trip to the the French Alps.
John Schmitz
Coming off a win at the Fisher Crit and always has watts to spare.
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MAC in 2013, 14. May be le if it comes a close sprint.
Dustin Jones
Spencer Dell
5th MAC 2015 while starting winning break, 1st Long Run Park Circuit, 3rd at Marian Crit 2015.
Lewis Henrickson 1st at 2015 Carmel GP & 3rd at Mooresville Crit, he packs a fast finish.
Cody Woods
Calves as big as some people’s quads, former IN State RR Champ, 3rd Winona Lake RR 2015.
Kirk albers
He’s finished second twice, third, sixth twice, seventh, and 21st. Age and treachery could be the winning combo.
Jack McCann
1st Bloomington Crit and Spring Valley Road Race 2015, also has a number of top tens.
Zipp Factory Team
Doug Fagan
A year break, picked up where he left off with 2nd at State Fairgrounds Crit, 3rd at Fishers Crit.
dean peterson
Secret training at the Marian U Cycling Center may pay off at the MAC this year.
Ben Weaver
2015: 11 podiums, 5 wins. Mr. Versatility: drive a break and win or he can take a field sprint.
Mike Sherman
The Shermanator: Big engine, strong long finish. If he doesn’t drop you, try passing him.
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Men Pro 1/2 ROB: This is going to be yet another race stacked with talent. I’m disappointed Scott Baumer won’t be racing this year, as he’s still out with a broken collarbone. We’re teammates on the Shamrock Cycles cyclocross team, although there’s a pretty big talent discrepancy between the two of us; Scott might be faster, but unlike him, I can actually ride over sticks. RILEY: Josh Johnson is getting married the day before. Katie, his soon-to-be wife, will be there watching and cheering him on with that sparkly rock on her hand. He’s been riding so well for so long, I honestly can’t say how she’d take it if he didn’t do well. Jojo might have to pedal back to Ft. Wayne if he doesn’t bring home the bacon to his wife. ROB: For me, the race is secondary to the legendary social-media battle between Bissell-ABG-Giant Adam Leibovitz, the three-time winner of Indy Crit, and Texas Roadhouse’s Chad Burdzilauskas, who has come in second at Mass Ave for the last three years in a row. RILEY: Chad needs to do less training at the Triton Tap so he can break his second place streak and actually get in the finishing frame of Leibo’s GoPro video! Unfortunately for the Burd-man, I think Adam continues his winning ways, with Chad, Colton and Jojo giving him a run for his money. ROB: Texas Roadhouse’s Kyle Perry had a nice string of victories earlier this
season, and earned a top-10 placing at Indy Crit. I can see him on the podium, maybe even on the top step. The same goes for his teammate Colton Barrett, assuming he’s in town. If Chad doesn’t burn all of his matches helping his teammates, he can make the podium yet again. Adam’s almost definitely going to be in that mix. PREDICTIONS ROB: (Podium, in no particular order) Perry, Leibovitz, Barrett RILEY: (Podium, in no particular order) Leibovitz, Johnson, Burdzilauskas
men Masters 40+ men Masters 50+ ROB ANNIS: This is the race that typically has the fewest crashes, despite all the puddles of Ben Gay scattered across the course. Do you have a favorite in the race? RILEY MISSELL: I’m required to say Dean (Peterson, Riley’s Marian University coach). We have an obligatory Dean cheering section. We might even make t-shirts this year. ROB: Is that mandatory? Will he revoke your scholarship if you’re not there to cheer him on or if you don’t compliment his racing afterward?
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RILEY: Ha. He’s actually pretty humble about his racing. … I think he appreciates us being there and complimenting him afterwards, so I do, just to be on the safe side. ROB: I was going to pick Harry Clark for the 40+ podium, but he joked he was racing the single-speed category. Good luck on your new career at Jimmy John’s, Harry! Due to his lack of cut-off jean shorts and full arm sleeve of tattoos, I think he’s stuck in the master’s race, though. Either way, I’m picking his teammate Chris Richter for the win in the 40+ race.
PREDICTIONS ROB: 40+ Chris Richter, Team Heroes/ 50+ Jim Creamer, Team Heroes RILEY: 40+ Andrzej Banaszkiewicz, Bissell-ABG-Giant/ 50+ Dean Peterson, Zipp Factory Racing
Women Category 1/2/3 ROB: Riley, you’ll be racing in this field. How do you like your chances? RILEY: Thank goodness Bri Clark will be back, so we have some First Internet Bank ladies to follow around on the course! I personally have never beaten Sierra Siebenlist. She knows her strengths and uses them pretty well. I think I could beat her in a short sprint, but she usu-
ally likes to take a flyer on the last lap or so, and I’ve never actually jumped on her. I beat Bri in a windy crit, mostly by good timing. I haven’t seen either of them all summer, but they are both usually pretty strong, and I’m not exactly in tip-top shape, so I’ll have to be smart if I want to do it again. ROB: I heard Chloe Dygart won’t be racing this year. How is it competing against her? How do the dynamics of the race change when she’s not in the field? RILEY: The few races I’ve competed against her in the past year were like she wasn’t even there; she just went off the front alone, and there were only a few weak attempts to chase her down. Once, I honestly thought I got second, but then I remembered she finished about 5 minutes earlier! Without her, it’ll be a more even playing field, which makes for a more interesting, dynamic race in my opinion. More people can play because we aren’t just chasing.
PREDICTIONS ROB: Sierra Siebenlist, Scarlet Fire Racing RILEY: Bri Clark, First Internet Bank
Riley Missel is a 21-year-old student-cyclist at Marian University. She started racing when she joined the collegiate team. Robert Annis has written about cycling for Outside, National Geographic Traveler, Bicycling, Men’s Journal, Popular Mechanics, Bike, Midwest Living, Dirt Rag, Velo News and others.
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IMA Summer Nights: Major League r July 31, 7:15 p.m. This sports comedy is a little slow and scattershot, but then again, so is baseball. Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes and Tom Berenger star as the leaders of the motley team, the Cleveland Indians. Like the players, Major League is rough but ultimately charming. Before the outdoor screening of the film, viewers can make their own baseball card, test their love of the game with a trivia contest and unleash their fastball in a pitching booth. Wear your favorite team attire — the IMA will take a group photo of all the players. The characters are so damn sweet that you almost forget that the story is about mental illness. But maybe that’s the point.
FAMILY AFFECTION AND MENTAL ILLNESS A warm cast might push this story into a bipolar Wonder Years
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n Infinitely Polar Bear, a bipolar father OPENING: FRIDAY AT KEYSTONE ART takes care of his two daughters while RATED: R r their mother attends grad school. Writerdirector Maya Forbes knows what she’s talking about – the same thing happened to is elegant and relatable as mama Magher and her sister back in the ‘70s. In refergie. Daughters Amelie (Imogene Woloence to her screenplay she said, “I knew what I wanted to see: a film that was funny, darsky, Forbes’ daughter) and Faith sad, authentic and warm. Warmth was very (Ashley Aufderheide) serve as a juvenile important to me. I wanted to see a humane team strong enough to deal with their father’s limitations. film about the effects of mental illness on The problem is that the family is so a family. I wanted to see real, resilient chilcharming, attractive and progressive that dren. I wanted to see a movie about love the painful realities of manic-depression and the hard choices people have to make tend to come off instead as the quirks of every day.” Infinitely Polar Bear (the title comes from how one of the sisters mispronounced the term bipolar) is full of love and The cast is warm and appealing. challenging moments. The cast Maybe too appealing. is warm and appealing. Maybe too appealing. It’s important to remember that the film reflects Forbes’ enora non-conformist during the latter days mous affection for her family, because of the counterculture. We see Maggie Infinitely Polar Bear often suffers from gather the girls in the car to escape Cam, excessive adorableness. Papa Cam is who is experiencing a breakdown, but played by Mark Ruffalo (The Avengers, when Ruffalo bounds up to the car wearFoxcatcher), who is very good at making ing only a pair of red swim trunks, he extreme characters relatable. Zoe Saldana (Guardians of the Galaxy, Avatar) seems ... harmless. Why, you wonder, is
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the rest of the family getting so upset at this overeager puppy dog? The pain and the danger that can be a part of the disorder are shown in the film, but it’s folded in with so much whimsy that it becomes hard to remember that Cam is really and truly ill. The music doesn’t help – a solo trumpet or trombone underlines sad moments here and there, but you know that Mungo Jerry or some other musician of his ilk is lurking around the corner, ready to spring into action with an annoyingly peppy or earnest tune. Add in the home movie style montages and the bipolar disorder nearly gets lost in the blur. As much as I appreciate Mark Ruffalo, It should be noted that his acting here gets surprisingly big. Think Val Kilmer during his character’s wired streaks in Real Genius. There are even moments when he sounds a little Robin Williams-ish. Still, I enjoyed visiting with this family. I appreciate Ruffalo and Saldana. The daughters make a fun two-headed dragon. And there are little moments that stand out – like when one of the girls tells her mother that the kids in school say she isn’t really Black. Infinitely Polar Bear suffers from the same problems as many other movies dealing with mental illness. It’s essentially a bipolar Wonder Years. But a look back at writer-director Forbes’ goals for her film shows that she accomplished what she set out to do. n
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CONTINUING Southpaw t Jake Gyllenhaal plays boxer Billy “The Great” Hope, with Forest Whitaker as his trainer. Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson costar. Gylenhaal’s physical transition is impressive and his performance is powerful, as is Whitaker’s. The rest of the cast is strong and the film is intense. Don’t look for anything new or different, though, because the film sticks closely to the boxing movie formula. R, in wide release
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Vacation i All grown up with a wife (Christina Applegate) and two sons, Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) decides to recreate the cross-country vacation he took with his family many years ago. And with that the Vacation franchise is up and running again, complete with a cameo appearance from Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo. The jokes are mean and gross, no surprise there. Some of them are funny, though, and the relationship between the Griswold boys is entertaining. Basically, if you’re in the mood for rude and crude, have at it. Otherwise, don’t submit yourself to this cringe-fest. R, in wide release
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ate in the summer of 1971, the basement of Stanford University’s psychology building became a prison. A group of young men acted as inmates and guards in a role-playing research project that turned into a nightmare. This study is mentioned in just about every college psych book on Earth. The Stanford Prison Experiment brings it to sharp, cinematic life. The film chronicles the six long days of the experiment, which was supposed to last for two weeks. Within the first three days, the guards started torturing the prisoners, some of whom barricaded themselves in their cells or tried to escape. The simulated prison became all too real. This film is a gripping, unflinching look at what went wrong. Lesser hands could easily mold this story into melodrama. But writer Tim Talbott and director Kyle Patrick Alvarez fortunately don’t take too many artistic liberties. They don’t imagine how the prisoners and guards live and behave beyond the prison walls. The men are as mysterious to the viewers as they were to the psychologists who conducted the experiment. However, that’s not to say the characters aren’t complex. Each of the three lead actors adds an alluring layer of duality to their roles. Billy Crudup plays Dr. Philip Zimbardo as a sort of closeted mad scientist. You can feel him struggling to suppress his thirst for sensationalism beneath his aura of sophistication. In Crudup’s eyes, you can see Zimbardo juggling concern for his subjects with a nagging desire to see them squirm. Ezra Miller’s character, Prisoner 8612, is similarly dual-natured. He envelops the character 22 SCREENS // 07.29.15 - 08.05.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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in an air of ambiguity, making the audience question whether the prisoner wants to escape out of fear or a rebellious urge to rattle cages. Michael Angarano plays his enemy — an abusive guard nicknamed John Wayne. While terrorizing the prisoners, Angarano gives us the impression that Wayne is mystified by his own behavior, looking a bit surprised when he spews out insults — and when prisoners tolerate them. While its characters are murky, the film’s atmosphere is crystal clear. You can practically feel the heat of the prison’s fluorescent lights beating down on you. It’s a disturbingly drab setting — a khaki-colored abyss. If you’ve seen the footage of the prison from 1971, you’ll appreciate how the film recreates it with eerie accuracy. This is the movie I’ve been hoping for since I first learned about the experiment back in my high school sociology class. The story is as shocking now as it was then. This film is a darkly dazzling, eye-opening exploration of obedience and abuse. Sadly, the same abuse of power that occurred during this experiment 40 years ago still happens today. We saw it a few weeks ago when Texas trooper Brian Encinia brutalized and falsely arrested a young AfricanAmerican woman named Sandra Bland. The Stanford Prison Experiment is all too timely. This film puts its finger firmly on the pulse of America at the moment. It’s harrowing and hard to watch, but you won’t want to miss it. n
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ast week, a clip from former Daily Show contributor John Oliver’s new show Last Week Tonight was making the rounds on social media and various blogs. This time, Oliver teed up America’s staggering food waste. Turns out that Americans, in true American fashion, waste about $165 billion worth or enough to fill 730 football stadiums annually. At the same time 50 million Americans live in what are called food insecure households. So I called up NUVO friend and program manager on the Indy Food Council Whitney Fields to give me some tips on how we Hoosiers can reduce food waste in our own homes. “Think about your eating habits, and reflect on them. Think about eating more local food,” is a good place to start, says fields. As Oliver’s video points out, one of the psychological tricks of grocery stores is overstocking the shelves. We, in turn, buy more food than we normally would, and the store throws more away. Shopping at your local farmers market means you’ll get a smaller selection with a lot more in-season produce that has traveled much shorter distances than most of your grocery store foods. “Only buy things you know you’re going to cook and eat. If you buy something and you don’t know how to prepare it, that creates food waste in your home. “It’s really easy to compost in your
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own home. “If you don’t want to give up the space to make a compost pile, Earth Mama Compost is great. It’s so easy and no-hassle, it’s great.” Earth Mama is a monthly composting pickup service. They give you a bucket and a liner, you fill it with your food waste, and they pick it up and empty it, all for about ten bucks per month. You can also go to the store a little more often, if you have the time, though Fields acknowledges this isn’t possible for most people. However, getting out of the infrequent “stocking up” trips to the grocery store may help prevent food waste.
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Buy Local — Farmers markets produce less waste overall, and the food travels much shorter distances. The money stays in our local economy, and less greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere.
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Be Realistic — Only buy and cook things that you enjoy and will actually look forward to eating. Buy only what you really need, stick to a prepared list, and no impulse shopping. Shop more frequently (if you have time) — Buy what you need a few days at a time. You may be surprised at how little food
you actually need to sustain yourself on a healthy diet. Easy on the wallet, too. Compost what you throw out — Whether you do it through a professional like Earth Mama or do it yourself, composting turns food waste into carbon dioxide and plant nutrients instead of the greenhouse gas methane. Keeping your food waste out of landfills helps keep our planet a little cooler.
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“At first, if you’re used to going to the grocery store once a month, going twice a week might seem like a burden. But if you can make it part of your daily habit — ‘this day I’m going to the gym and this day I go to the grocery store’ — it’ll get easier,” says Fields. You can also save some food by taking the >>>
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<<< time to do a little meal planning and prep. “Set aside a half-day, like a Sunday, and prepare your meals for the week.” If you hate the idea of portioning out meals for the week, keep them in big containers and treat your fridge like a leftovers buffet. Being realistic about what you cook and eat means the end of the aspirational vegetable purchases. We’ve all done it: the rationale being that the obvious barrier stopping you from eating tons of broccoli and kale in the past is just not having enough of it around. If you’re trying to learn to eat healthier and prepare veggies better, spend some time reading cookbooks and prepare three good, cookbook-approved batches of food for yourself. Before you decide that it’s not enough food for the week, try filling your plate with less food at each meal and only go back for seconds until you’re full. Most important, though, is just keeping food out of landfills. “Food waste, when it’s put in a landfill, produces huge amounts of methane gas,” says Fields. The anaerobic bacteria (the ones that function in the oxygen-free environment created in landfills) break down the biomass and create the greenhouse gas as a by-product of the breakdown. Aerobic bacteria (the good, oxygenbreathing guys in your compost pile) break down this biomass into plant nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus and magnesium, and creates carbon dioxide instead of methane, which can be used by plants to make more oxygen. Bottom line? “Reduce your food waste, and compost whatever you do throw out.” That’s Fields’ recommendation for anyone who wants to know how they can help lower that number of football stadiums full of wasted food down into at least the 500s. n
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Easiest composting: Earth Mama composting service. It doesn’t get much easier than this, with a pickup service that takes your household food waste and turns it into the nutritious soil our urban gardens need. This is also a great solution for those of you living in highrises. Check out how to sign up at earthmamacompost.com.
Home composting 101: Want to know composting inside and out? We’ve tracked down a comprehensive guide to both hot and cool composting written by Purdue agronomists and landscape architects. It’s an easy-to-follow overview of how to start composting in your own home, with a variety of techniques based on how much time and space you have. Check it out at NUVO.net/food.
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Freezing — Use overripe fruit by cutting off brown spots, rough cutting it into chunks and popping it into the freezer. You can use it in smoothies, baked goods, preserves and dessert sauces.
oven and dry according to our chart on nuvo.net. Overripe fruit works well for drying because the high sugar content makes it more like a store-bought, sweetened product.
Drying — Slice your fruit into evenly-thick pieces, cutting off brown spots. Coat fruit in some lemon juice to keep it from browning. Put it on a cooling rack, on top of a cookie sheet, in a 150-degree
Cure your fruit — Place your dried fruit in an open jar and let the moisture evaporate. Shake it every day, then seal the top on the fourth day. Curing helps prevent molding and evens moisture.
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Freezing — The veggies that stand up best to freezing are high-fiber, and high-sugar veggies like corn, broccoli, carrots, peas, and things that don’t have a lot of water in their structure. Veggies like spinach, kale, green beans, and things with lots of water in them stand up better to freezing once they’re blanched. Set out one pot of boiling water and one bowl of ice water. Blanch the veggies in the boiling water for about a minute (they’ll turn bright green and the
leaves will wilt slightly) and then plunge them into the cold water to cool. Dry them off, bag ’em up and freeze them. Pickling — Pickling is a little bit more finicky than other preserving methods, so I’d highly suggest looking up veggiespecific directions on my favorite website for learning preserving, pickyourown.com. Plus, once you make your own pickles at home and get your spice blends going, you’ll never go back to those whack grocery pickles again.
FOOD BRIEF Double 8 Foods leaves huge hole in low-income food access The longtime chain, Double-8 foods, closed unexpectedly last week without warning residents of the neighborhoods they serve. In an already dire food access situation, many of our urban residents now find themselves without any access to basics like milk and bread. The MESH Coalition, a “managed emergency preparedness healthcare coalition,” is trying to help affected residents by releasing this list of the closed Double 8 groceries with nearby groceries and food pantries along with their corresponding bus routes. MESH encourages citizens with additional needs to call 2-1-1 to see what other resources may be available.
CLOSED DOUBLE 8: 3902 N. Illinois St. • Closest Grocery: Safeway, 5602 N. Illinois St. • IndyGo Bus Route: 28 • Nearest Food Pantry: Martin Luther King Community Center, 40 W. 40th St. CLOSED DOUBLE 8: 555 Fairfield Ave. • Closest Grocery: Kroger, 524 E. 16th St. • IndyGo Bus Route: 2 • Nearest Food Pantry: Mid-North Food Pantry, 3333 N. Meridian St.
CLOSED DOUBLE 8: 2947 N. Sherman Drive • Closest Grocery: Safeway, 2435 N. Sherman Drive • IndyGo Bus Route: 5 • Nearest Food Pantry: St. Vincent De Paul-Indianapolis Society, 3001 E. 30th St. CLOSED DOUBLE 8: 2907 N. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. St. • Closest Grocery: Safeway, 3008 W. Kessler Blvd. N. Drive • IndyGo Bus Route: 34 • Nearest Food Pantry: Promise Land Christian Community Church, 802 Edgemont Ave.
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WITH THEIR POWERS COMBINED … Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago share a certain amount of characteristics. Both were formed in Chicago in the late ‘60s. Both dominated the dial in the ‘70s. Both LOVE their horn sections. And both will play in Indianapolis Sunday – together. They’re taking to the stage in a joint headlining tour that features both bands in their own sets, plus an encore set together. The groups toured through Indy together in 2009 at Bankers Life. They put in kinetic performances, dominating the stage in a way that belied their years. This tour marks five times out for the co-headliners I spoke with Earth, Wind & Fire’s Verdine White and Chicago’s Robert Lamm about the tour. Here’s a snippet of those conversations. Lamm on touring with Earth, Wind & Fire: “[Philip Bailey, EWF singer said our tour] works so well because after all it’s really kind of the highlights of not only two bands that have very much in common, but sort of the highlights of that era of music, which seems to be timeless. ... The Chicago portion of the concert will be different than what we’ve played previously, and we will kind of rejigger some of the songs that we play together. We play a little bit in the beginning, and then we play a big finale at the end. The production, the lights and everything will be different. It will be even more spectacular than it was [on previous tours]. White on touring with Chicago, just before starting rehearsals: “I’m excited about the ideas, what everybody’s going to come up with, what we’re thinking about doing. … I think the tour is going to be fantastic, and I’m really looking forward to it.” — KATHERINE COPLEN Chicago and Earth Wind & Fire, Sunday, Aug. 2, 7:30 p.m. Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., $25 and up, all-ages
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en Jackson lights up dance floors around the city all week long, spinning at spots like Metro, White Rabbit Cabaret and Casba. When he’s not on the floor as DJ Action Jackson, he’s running Indy/Philly-based record label Rad Summer with pal Flufftronix, releasing music from much-loved locals like Oreo Jones, Party Lines, Sirius Blvck and more. But just like any other party-loving patron from Indy, Jackson has plenty of personal pro tips of his own to share with anyone who’s looking for a fun night out in the city. “Keep your phone charged, download the Uber app. And it’s legal to drink in the streets in Indy as long as you’re not publicly intoxicated,” Jackson shares. “Some great alternatives to chain fast food places to eat at after the bars let out are Olly’s, Peppy’s Grill, and Bacon Legs & Turntables. Another tip is Wednesday night karaoke at a hidden gem, Sam’s Silver Circle Bar.” This Thursday and Friday, partygoers can put Jackson’s words of late night wisdom to the test, before or after attending the two-day Rad Summer Anniversary Party at The White Rabbit Cabaret. Celebrating Rad Summer’s four-year anniversary as a label, the festivities will include one night of live acts and one night of DJs, with performances from numerous Rad Summer artists. Prior to the two-night banger, NUVO caught up with several artists on Jackson’s label, asking them to share a bit of their local party-going advice. NUVO: For someone who’s new to Indianapolis, what are some party tips you’d give when it comes to exploring the city’s nightlife? OREO JONES: If you’re brand new or about that “Netflix and chill” lifestyle, you may be a little lost when it comes to the nightlife here. No matter what anyone tells you, bring a road soda on your personal. It is totally legal for you to walk down the street sippin’ on a Mang-O-Rita. Beware of where you whiz unless you’re south of South Street. And if you’re trying to dance your heart out, follow Mild Cherry and Action Jackson. SHY GUY SAYS: Go where the music is good. There’s a different show almost every
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night in town, and if the music is good then chances are the people will be too. NUVO: If you had only one night left to spend in Indianapolis, what would be your party route? DJ LEMI VICE: I would start with all my favorite craft cocktail and dinner spots early in the night: Bakersfield, Libertine, Bluebeard and Thunderbird. Then depending on the day, I would just try to make my rounds to all the parties my friends would be DJing/hanging out at. Tiki Bob’s, Revel, and Blu Downtown are all spots that are always fun, and usually the tunes are being run by our DJ homies.
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JOHN STAMPS: I’d go start at Pure and eat that new tuna sandwich they’ve got with a side of potato salad. I would visit all the bars my friends work at, assuming they all forgot to request off work my last night in town. Then, I would text Sirius [Blvck], Oreo and Action to figure out the move for the evening. So I guess you should really be asking them this question. NUVO: What do you like most about this city’s nightlife scene right now? ANDY D: Some folks don’t realize Indy is a legit mid-sized city that’s really at the top of its game right now. Parties can be found most nights of the week. I lived in New York City for eight years, and all the good parties were on Wednesdays because the locals were priced out and crowded out of places on the weekends by the bridge-and-tunnelers. Indy doesn’t have the population and price crunch that megatropolises have, but we’re at this sweet spot where on any given night five things will be going on. ACTION JACKSON: I like the explosion of all the craft cocktail bars that have been springing up: Ball & Biscuit, Libertine, Thunderbird, etc. Also, Meridian Street clubs have become cool again after going through a bit of a slump for a while. They’ve all been booking better DJs and have invested in lighting, sound and décor. n
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Take care of yourself “Stay hydrated,” Hamm says. “I seriously see people getting carried out on stretchers every day. That’s no good!” Above all else, the number one risk at Warped Tour is passing out. While running from stage to stage, frantically searching for the next band, it’s easy to get caught up in the disarray and forget to take care of your body. Nick, Kyle, Andrew and Grey all implore you to stay hydrated. Luckily, you are allowed to bring in one sealed bottle of water, and there will be free fill-up stations. “Find out where those water stations are,” Vaught says. “The amount of people that are passing out this summer is insane. There’s kids everywhere passed out left and right.” Staying hydrated is step one, but don’t forget to eat. There will be multiple vendors selling those precious calories and nutrients throughout the day. Unfortunately, the food tends to be a bit pricey, so be sure to bring some extra cash. Keep in mind Warped Tour’s limited vegan options. The official Warped Tour rules allow you to bring in one small homemade snack, but that isn’t always enough to stay filled all day. “I’ve had several kids who are vegan come up to me and go, ‘Hey, what vendor should I go to?’” Gordon says. “Unfortunately, I just straight up do not have an answer for that. I don’t think it’s super vegan friendly out here. If you can smuggle in vegan snacks, that’s probably your best bet.” If you’re prone to sunburn, bring some sunscreen and find some shade. It’s a rare commodity under the hot sun at Klipsch. If you feel too hot, find some shade and take a break.
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Find out where stuff is No feeling is worse than realizing your favorite band is starting in five minutes and you have no idea where the Monster Stage is. Actually, it’s even worse when you have absolutely no clue where any stage is or when your favorite bands are scheduled. To fix that, enter The Wall. On that giant blowup board, the daily lineup schedule is displayed. Pull out your phone, take a picture, memorize it. If you’re afraid your phone will die – it’ll probably die – printout schedules are sold for two bucks. It’s probably the cheapest thing at the festival. Take the time to explore all of the tents. Nearly every band will have a merch tent, record labels will have their distros and there will be representatives from loads of groups. Pick your fancy! “For all of the negative press that Warped Tour gets, the cool thing about it is every facet of life is represented here,” Gordon says. “This is very much a microcosm. For all of the terrible shit here, there’s animal advocacy groups, there’s cancer advocacy groups, there’s advocacy groups for women’s rights and abused women. There’s a lot of positive stuff going here — you just have to open your eyes and look for it.”
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This year’s tour faced criticism due to their handling of Jake McElfresh acoustic act Front Porch Step’s inclusion. After reports that McElfresh was allegedly sexually harassing underage girls via sexts, social media and attendees were up in arms about his tour presence. Warped founder Kevin Lyman chose to remove McElfresh from the tour, but allowed him to play the Nashville date on July 1. The decision was met with backlash from fans, the press and even other artists on the tour. “Kevin thought that it would be okay, he S E E , WARP ED , O N P A GE 3 8 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 07.29.15 - 08.05.15 // MUSIC 29
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thought that would maybe help [McElfresh] do better,” Vaught says. “Personally, I don’t think that was the right way to go about it. If you’re getting in trouble for 14- and 15-year-old girls, I don’t think you should be playing a set in front of 14-year-old girls right now.” “You’re creating an unsafe space quite literally,” Gordon says. “You’re putting a person who has a tenuous mental health situation, at best, in a place not only with his victims but with his detractors. The opportunity for violence to occur was escalated to the nth degree.” A common critique is how vulgar a lot of the content is coming from the bands. Critics of the tour deem it an inappropriate environment for high school kids (and younger). Let your own judgment guide you. Your parents probably didn’t come with you — even though parents get into Warped Tour for free now — but it never hurts to pretend that they did. Embrace your freedom, but be smart about it. If a band is spewing hateful speech, don’t give them your ears. Don’t feel like you have to buy shirts covered in swear words because everybody else is. Don’t put yourself in a situation that makes you feel unsafe.
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Don’t See Attila There’s a reason I gave metalcore scenesters Attila their own special section. Both Gordon and Johnson name-dropped Attila as the epitome of a bad influence. The band is criticized for their overtly offensive songs and behavior, considering their fanbase is so young. Singer Chris Fronzak has frequently used hateful, bigoted speech at multiple Warped Tours over the years. “[Fronzak] already has the loudest voice in the world as an American, straight, white male,” Gordon says. “And the thing he’s choosing to do with that platform is endorse the use of words
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like ‘faggot’ or ‘bitch.’ That’s just whack to me, there’s no joke there.” “There’s 13, 14-year-old girls walking around with [Attila] shirts that say ‘Suck My Fuck,’” Johnson says. “I feel like that’s really inappropriate. I understand you’re trying to be vulgar or it might be a gimmick, but be a little respectful. What would that kid’s parents think about your band if they saw that shirt? I’m 28, if I had a shirt that said ‘Suck My Fuck’ and I wore it around my mom, she’d kick my ass and tell me to take it off.” Live your life the way you want to, but if you respect yourself, and if you want to avoid seeing a 25-year-old dude calling young girls “bitches,” I highly suggest skipping Attila’s set.
One of the best things you can do at Warped Tour is to stay open minded; you may surprise yourself. Every year, the Ernie Ball stage features some of the best local bands in each city. These bands promote endlessly and have worked their butts off to get onto this stage. The local bands performing today are The Wise Man’s Fear, The Brothers Grimm, Sirens, Chin Up, Kid and We Are Forever. In the likely event that you don’t know every single band playing Warped Tour, you will probably have some free time to explore. Each stage offers phenomenal musicians pouring their hearts out in the blistering heat, hoping they can please the fans and make some new ones. If you like what you hear, try to support the small bands before you support the band that can already afford a tour bus. “There’s bands on this tour that work hard every single day just to get maybe 10 people to watch them,” Hamm says. “I don’t think people realize that. They will leave the tour and still struggle the same way they did before.” Above all else, have fun. If you didn’t have fun at Warped Tour, you didn’t do it right. This is just a guideline, so remember that you don’t have to follow any of this advice. Go crazy, crowdsurf, mosh, sing until you puke. Do you. “Honestly, enjoy it,” Vaught says. “Come out here, have fun, do what you’re supposed to do.” n
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raigslist brought them together. Vocalist Mônica da Silva was seeking out a chance to start musically exploring her Brazilian roots. Guitarist Chad Alger was looking to collab on a Brazilian music project. Complicated Animals was born out of that connection, transforming bossa nova music into a style they've dubbed "indie nova." That indie nova sound is best experienced on the duo's brilliant 2011 LP Braslissima, released under Mônica da Silva's name. Braslissima oozes with mid'60s cool, merging the sound of London's Carnaby Street with Rio's Ipanema Beach. Tracks like "Aí Então" have all the markings of modern bossa nova classics, and compositions like "Maria Waits" invoke Nick Drake with a Brazilian lilt. They'll play at Union 50 next Wednesday. Before the show, I dialed up singer Mônica da Silva. NUVO: You coined the term “indie nova” to describe your sound. Break that down for us.
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DA SILVA: No we haven't played in Brazil yet. That's one thing I'm really wanting to do in the upcoming year. The music industry is different in Brazil. People don't buy a lot of music and they don't
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listen to it in the same way. There's a lot of downloading from torrent sites there. But people have loved our music there and we've had some attention from journalists.
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NUVO: I know you're touring a lot with this project. Have you been able to play in Brazil? Have your recordings gained any traction there?
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“We blend the old and new: modern production elements with a touch of vintage bossa nova.”
MÔNICA DA SILVA: People kept asking us to define our sound and it's not just bossa nova. When we started out we did describe our music as bossa nova, but people would come to the shows assuming we would be doing covers of the classic bossa nova songs. I love those songs, but we write our own stuff. Because I'm American and Brazilian the music shows both sides of me. I love indie music and Brazilian music. Our sound is a blend of both of those styles. We blend the old and new: modern production elements with a touch of vintage bossa nova.
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NUVO: There's been an intense focus on Brazil in the international media with last year's World Cup and the upcoming 2016 olympic games. Have any of this interest in Brazilian culture trickled down to the music?
DA SILVA: For sure it has brought a lot more focus onto Brazilian music. Last year during the World Cup we were contacted by the music director at ESPN and he licensed one of our songs for their World Cup coverage. He heard our music online and thought it was awesome. ... A lot of the people in the U.S. who do know about Brazilian music are older, because they were around during the time when Brazilian music came to the forefront with "The Girl From Ipanema." I think it helps our group that I'm Brazilian and American. We do a song in English and then we go to a Brazilian song. I think that helps us to expose the music to new audiences. It helps to open peoples ears and minds to the music. n
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Vans Warped Tour 11 a.m. Peep our cute guide for newbie attendees of the tour on page 29.
Kelly Clarkson 7 p.m. Super star and certified goddess Kelly Clarkson is definitely the best thing to come out of American Idol, and even though her new album Piece by Piece is lacking in the absolute stacks of bangers that typified her first few albums, she’s still kickin’ it hard. Pentatonix – also the winners of a big TV singing show, this one all accapella (fun!) – will open.
Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., prices vary, all-ages Buffalo Rodeo, Melody Inn, 21+ Jesse Wittman Trio, Sophie Faught and The Boyz, The Chatterbox, 21+ Farrelly/Markiwicz Jzz Quintet, Eagle Creek Park Marina, all-ages Dustin Kensure, The Rocketboys, Merriment, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages Civil Twlight, Cheerleader, Radio Radio, 21+ Eleni Mandell, Coutrney Marie Andrews, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Little TyBee, Melody Inn, 21+ The New Pacific, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Chad Mills, Salisbury, Union 50, 21+ Jammin’ in July, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, all-ages
Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., prices vary, 21+ DANCE Altered Thurzdaze Five-year Anniversary 9 p.m. Big daps to IndyMojo on the occasion of their weekly dance night’s fifth anniversary. They’re bringing out two stages for the party, with special guest HeRobust and Shy Guy Say, Expect reinforced sound and 3D projections. It’s gonna be lit. The Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., $6, 21+
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ACOUSTIC Rich Robinson 7 p.m. Here’s a portion of our interview with Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson before his Friday night acoustic show.
ROBINSON: Possibly. I think what’s happening is that people are waking up. All of that technology and entertainment is a huge distraction that sends people into a sleep-like state. They fall asleep at their own lives, they’re not living they’re lives. So when they go and they have a real experience and they see people actually playing music. I think a lot of people have forgot what a sincere moment is and so some people wake up and come to these shows and think “I need to preserve that.” So they’ll point a camera at the stage and film you. Instead of experiencing the show you’re going to capture something but by capturing that thing you’re missing the experience that you could have. Our bodies and our brains have the best computer and the best memory you could imagine but were not using it because we think we need to keep it on a little device. And so there are people that come and have that epiphany. There’s people that have always had that innate understanding of what human experience is and they’re the ones that come to the shows. The ones sitting at home playing video games not living life are the ones that are really missing out. So as they wake up and emerge and start listening to vinyl, realizing that there’s a whole world out there, they’re pleasantly surprised. — BRIAN WEISS
NUVO: The Ceaseless Sight follows the path of your musical journey over the past 25 years. How would you describe that journey? RICH ROBINSON: There’s a lot going on, you know? It’s 25 years and we played with our favorite musicians, had a lot of experience, traveled all over the world, had some fights, and joy and despair and everything in between. All of this adds to your musical filter. What happens is you go through all of these things and all that goes into a filter that you see the world through — and what comes out is through your music. Hopefully it’s sincere and unique at the same time.
NUVO: In 140 characters or less, pitch me your record. ROBINSON: I don’t do Twitter really but the thing about Twitter, like everything, especially with Internet and social media
The Warehouse, 254 E. 1st Ave. SW, $30 in advance, $35 at door, all-ages POP One Direction 7 p.m. Harry. Niall. Liam. Louis. These four young Brits possess a hold on the hearts and minds of young women across the globe that cannot be stated. Let’s just say that if one of them (Harry?) chose to endorse a presidential candidate, 2016 would get a lot more interesting. Luckily, we think they’re mostly worried about in-band drama, currently. (RIP Zayne; congrats on the possible new baby, Louis.) Lucas Oil Stadium, 500 S. Capitol Ave., prices vary, all-ages
STRINGS Time for Three 7 p.m. Indy’s favorite string trio (yep, that’s a thing) hits up the lawn at Mallow Run for an outdoor show. Expect a mix of originals, covers and mashups, plus plenty-o-wine. Mallow Run Winery, 6964 W. Whiteland Road (Bargersville), $15 in advance, $20 at doors, all-ages
one-woman show about Janis Joplin) in style with two nights of performances at the Cabaret at the Columbia Club. Cabaret at The Columbia Club, 121 Monument Circle, Ste. 516, $25-$55, 21+ Concert Against Humanity, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, all-ages Rad Summer Anniversary Party, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Timaya, Caribbean Village, all-ages
ALBUM RELEASE Mr. Clit and The Pink Cigarettes 9 p.m. Big news for fans of bombastic, wild punk rock: Mr. Clit and The Pink Cigarettes have a brand new 10” out on Hell Turn Records. They’ll celebrate the release of Wet-Willy this weekend at the Melody Inn, a totally perfect fit for them. Our fave? “Life’s a Drag Queen,” which also has an amazing music vid. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., 21+ POP Rodeo Ruby Love 9 p.m. Sad news from the local pop front: longtime punky pop band Rodeo Ruby Love is calling it quits as members go various ways and work on various projects. But they’ll celebrate their ten years as a band with a final show at The HiFi, with Mike Adams at His Honest Weight accompanying. In addition to the current lineup (Zack, Annie, Breezey, Kurt, Dillon, Ben, Steve) six former members will return to the stage during the show, which will cover a large swath of the band’s 10 years together. Can’t make the show? (It’s sold out.) Console yourself with their new B-sides, demos and rarities released on Bandcamp this week. The most recent songs were recorded in February and mixed just last week; those include “Leading Them On” and “Drain You” from The Pits sessions, plus a full-band version of “Elizabeth” from their 2010 release This Is Why We Don’t Have Nice Things. Find a link to these tracks and more on NUVO.net. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $10, 21+ SEND-OFFS Karen Irwin: A Piece of Her Heart: A Tribute to Janis Joplin 8 p.m. Send singer and lady-about-town Karen Irwin off to NYC (where she’ll take her
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SATURDAY ROCK Kid Rock, Foreigner 7 p.m. Anybody wanna take a guess on the number of Confederate flag bumper stickers that will pop up at this show? (Kid Rock’s people say he denounced the flag in 2011 after receiving an NAACP award but activists feel he should further distance himself from the flag.) Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., prices vary, all-ages CONTESTS Indiana Fingerstyle Guitar Competition 9 a.m. On the forth occasion of the Indiana Fingerstyle Guitar Competition, 50 acoustic players will compete for a grand prize – a $5500 OC Bear Guitar. Workshops and a pre-fest party on Friday night bookend the competition. Brown County Playhouse, 70 S. Van Buren (Bloomington), $17.50 - $32.50, all-ages
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SUNDAY ‘70S Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire 7 p.m. Check out our Tiny Chat with both bands on page 28. Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., price varies, all-ages
FOLK Old Crow Medicine Show, Sturgill Simpson 7 p.m. Old Crow Medicine Show is great (and thankfully for fans, they stop in Indy often), but the real prize on this bill is opener Sturgill Simpson, a psycho-billy country boy with a wacked out beauty of an album to share. Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park, 801 W. Washington St., prices vary, all-ages SURF Dick Dale 7 p.m. Here’s the story of how surf legend Dick Dale picked up guitar, as told by Dick Dale himself to us in a loooooong interview last year. (He returns Sunday to the Melody Inn.): “ I would go out picking swamp berries in Whitman, Massachusetts, where my grandma and grandpa lived, and one day my buddy and I were walking through the back swamp woods; it was like ‘Deliverance.’ We heard this noise and saw this old house. We stepped up on the porch and the front step collapsed. There was about five guys inside…and they were selling hollow-bodied guitars. And I said, “Wow, look at those guitars! How much?” And then he said “eight bucks.” At that time, I was working for five cents an hour at a bakery making bread. I says “Can I make payments?” and tried to get him down to 25 cents a
week. He says, “No, 50.” I had 50 cents, gave it to him, and then he gave me the guitar. On the last payment, he saw me on the street and grabbed me by feet and held me upside down and shook. And he shook out whatever money came out of my pants. It was enough for the last payment, and I got that guitar, and it was an Ethel guitar. And then I had to hold it upside down, backwards, the way I would make the chords. And then I started strumming country songs, Hank Williams stuff. “ Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 2131 E. 71st St., $35 in advance, $40 at doors, 21+ POP Motion City Soundtrack 7:30 p.m. After a successful first leg of their Commit This To Memory 10-year anniversary tour earlier this year, Motion City Soundtrack announced more dates. The band will perform their celebrated 2005 Mark Hoppusproduced sophomore record Commit This To Memory in its entirety as well as a selection of songs from their impressive sixteen-year five-album career. Commit This To Memory is the band’s highest selling and most streamed album to date and features the hit tracks “Everything Is Alright” and “Hold Me Down”. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. , $24.50, all-ages
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MONDAY Gears, I-Exist, Black Dali, Xiting The Systm, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Liz Pennock, Dr. Blues, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ Zella Day, The Hi-Fi, 21+
TUESDAY DRONE Circuit des Yeux, Toupee 9 p.m. Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr returns to Bloomington with her big new album In Plain Speech again, this time alongside Toupee. We chatted her up before the first time she hit up the Bishop about our favorite song on the album “Do the Dishes.” Here’s Fohr’s explanation of the track: “That song was a breakthrough point for me when I was writing the record, sonically. I knew what the whole ethos and message of the record was going to be, but I practiced a lot with my guitar and I was hitting a wall. ... So sonically, as an experiment for me, I put the guitar down and tried something different. I think
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Rich Robinson, Friday at The Warehouse ( Bloomington ) it worked out, and it got me through something. The [song] does have a feminist undertow — it basically embodies the values of sisterhood and it’s a message to other women to take a risk, and follow their passions deeply, and most importantly, to love themselves. “I’m in my mid-20s now, but when I was a teenager and growing up through my early 20s ... I feel like there is some message, where it was really hard to accept myself and have confidence. I’m angry not at the people and the things that happened to me that caused me this self doubt for years, but I’m more angry at myself for believing in this patriarchal message that I felt pinned down by, or specific people in my life that really affected me (and maybe didn’t intentionally). But it’s the way the structure is built. I really didn’t give myself enough credit for a really long time. I wish there was
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someone there to have told me how fantastic I was, or that if you have a dream, follow through with it, because anything’s possible. That’s the point of that song.” The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $6 in advance, $10 at doors, 18+ Swear and Shake, Creus Bright, The Hi-Fi, 21+ KingShifter, UP4DAZE, Archarus, Spirit Division, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Ska Revival, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Red Stone Souls, Melody Inn, 21+
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Parental pronouns? So, my girlfriend just told me that she wants to call me “Daddy” sometimes when we have sex, and she wants me to call her “baby” or “baby girl.” We’ve been together for about 5 months, and while I’m generally pretty open-minded about most sexual stuff, this is a little too much for me. On the other hand, not doing it makes me feel like I’m not totally satisfying her. What’s a guy to do? — Anonymous, from Tumblr
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DR. DEBBY HERBENICK & SARAH MURRELL okay to let her know (without shaming her) that she won’t be getting that from you. If you have an open relationship, she may be able to get it from someone else — it’s also okay not to meet every single one of a partner’s needs (most of us don’t feel horribly guilty if we don’t like all the movies or restaurants our partner is into). If you both want to be monogamous and this is super important to her, it may be a dealbreaker for one or both of you and that, too, is okay. That’s why people date and seek out their right “fit.”
Confessions of a thankful lover My gf says “thank you” after we have sex. I don’t know how to respond. Seems like there’s no douchier way to respond than “You’re welcome.” What should I say back to that? — Anonymous, from Tumblr
“Many people are not comfortable with age-play.” — DR.
SARAH: Okay, so I have a few hard limits on my sexuality. One of them is “unclean” body fluids (blood, urine, poop), and another is this particular brand of age play. This is not me judging those who like it, but it’s one of those things that I, too, cannot even pretend to be into for the sake of my partner’s pleasure. So my advice here would be to find out of not being able to engage with this is a dealbreaker for her. If it is and you’re really into each other, there may be a middle ground with a few simple swaps, like maybe keeping “baby girl” but doing away with the “Daddy” part and tell her if that’s part of her fantasy, she can imply that dynamic to the relationship in her head. Personally, I’d probably be too icked to stick around, but I was born in Southern Indiana and some of my ways can’t be changed. DR. D: I agree with Sarah in that what this comes down to is where and what your limits are. It’s totally okay to have limits in sex; most people do. And many people are not comfortable with age-play especially when it involves parent/child kinds of play (across many cultures, there are strong incest taboos). If this is where your limits are, it’s
SARAH: What the hell’s wrong with “You’re welcome”? You’ve done a fine job, apparently, so just take the compliment. If it feels a little too Regina George to just take the compliment, you can flip it around into a compliment to her. How D about, “Yours is my favorite pussy to smash, my darling” or “I see my future in your eyes when I see my dick in your mouth.” I’m just spit-balling here. The point is, your lady is trying to tell you that you satisfy her sexually, so respond appropriately. DR. D: “You’re welcome” is a fine reply. So is “I love you” (if you actually love her) or a kiss on the lips or head or hand or whatever part you’re around and want to smooch at the moment. Saying “thank you” to her is also fine. You just did something cool and fun and maybe even special together — why not pay a compliment?
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In her io9.com article on untranslatable words, Esther Inglis-Arkell defines the Chinese term wei-wu-wei as “conscious non-action ... a deliberate, and principled, decision to do nothing whatsoever, and to do it for a particular reason.” In my astrological opinion, the coming days would be a favorable time to explore and experiment with this approach. I think you will reap wondrous benefits if you slow down and rest in the embrace of a pregnant pause. The mysteries of silence and emptiness will be rich resources. Pisces
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Expiration dates loom. Fond adieus and last laughs and final hurrahs are on tap. Unfinished business is begging you to give it your smartest attention while there’s still time to finish it with elegance and grace. So here’s my advice for you, my on-the-verge friend: Don’t save any of your tricks, ingenuity, or enthusiasm for later. This is the later you’ve been saving them for. You are more ready than you realize to try what has always seemed improbable or inconceivable before now. Here’s my promise: If you handle these endings with righteous decisiveness, you will ensure bright beginnings in the weeks after your birthday. Virgo
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Every time you resist acting on your anger and instead restore yourself to calm, it gets easier,” writes psychologist Laura Markham in Psychology Today. In fact, neurologists claim that by using your willpower in this way, “you’re actually rewiring your brain.” And so the more you practice, the less likely it is that you will be addled by rage in the future. I see the coming weeks as an especially favorable time for you to do this work, Scorpio. Keeping a part of your anger alive is good, of course — sometimes you need its energy to motivate constructive change. But you would benefit from culling the excess. Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Much of the action in the world’s novels takes place inside buildings, according to author Robert Bringhurst. But characters in older Russian literature are an exception, he says. They are always out in the forests, traveling and rambling. In accordance with astrological omens, I suggest that you draw inspiration from the Russians’ example in the coming days. As often and as long as you can, put yourself in locations where the sky is overhead. Nature is the preferred setting, but even urban spots are good. Your luck, wisdom, and courage are likely to increase in direct proportion to how much time you spend outdoors. Sagittarius
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): French and Italian readers may have no problem with this horoscope. But Americans, Canadians, Brits, and Aussies might be offended, even grossed out. Why? Because my analysis of the astrological omens compels me to conclude that “moist” is a central theme for you right now. And research has shown that many speakers of the English language find the sound of the word “moist” equivalent to hearing fingernails scratching a chalkboard. If you are one of those people, I apologize. But the fact is, you will go astray unless you stay metaphorically moist. You need to cultivate an attitude that is damp but not sodden; dewy but not soggy; sensitive and responsive and lyrical, but not overwrought or weepy or histrionic. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Which signs of the zodiac are the most expert sleepers? Who best appreciates the healing power of slumber and feels the least shame about taking naps? Which of the twelve astrological tribes are most inclined to study the art of snoozing and use their knowledge to get the highest quality renewal from their time in bed? My usual answer to these questions would be Taurus and Cancer, but I’m hoping you Pisceans will vie for the top spot in the coming weeks. It’s a very favorable time for you to increase your mastery of this supreme form of self-care. Pisces
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