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ON THE COVER: Theresa Weaver-Basye, Sioux City Public Museum Curator of Education, stands in an exhibit
detailing the history of Black Iowa women who were active in the suffrage movement. “Towards a Universal Suffrage: African American Women in Iowa and the Vote for All” is one of the museum’s offerings for February, which is Black History Month. Photo by Tim Hynds, The Weekender
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BUSINESS &
ECONOMICS
MARCH 3 Next Up BookCLUB, Sioux
City. Discover how to have
your VOICE be heard, gain respect and learn the skills required to be Next Up in your industry. Join certified ActionCOACH Carter Krei for Siouxland’s Next Up BookCLUB!. 1-712-317-7360. 8-9 a.m.
DANCE
FEBRUARY 21 Free couples pattern dancing
class, The Don’s Sports
Bar & Grill, 801 W. 13th St., S. Sioux City. Join Boots & Buckles Dance Club at The Don’s in South Sioux every Sunday starting at 1 p.m. for free couples pattern dancing classes. 712-204-4500. 1-4 p.m.
FEBRUARY 24 Free Line Dance Classes, 801
W. 13th St., 801 W. 13th St., S. Sioux City. Line Dance class for beginners to intermediate level. 7122044500. 10-11 a.m.
FEBRUARY 28 Free couples pattern dancing
class, The Don’s Sports
Bar & Grill, 801 W. 13th St., S. Sioux City. Join Boots & Buckles Dance Club at The Don’s in South Sioux every Sunday starting at 1 p.m. for free couples pattern dancing classes. 712-204-4500. 1-4 p.m.
MARCH 3
Free Line Dance Classes, 801
W. 13th St., 801 W. 13th St., S. Sioux City. Line Dance class for beginners to intermediate level. 7122044500. 10-11 a.m.
MARCH 7
Free couples pattern dancing class, The Don’s Sports
Bar & Grill, 801 W. 13th St., S. Sioux City. Join Boots & Buckles Dance Club at The Don’s in South Sioux every Sunday starting at 1 p.m. for free couples pattern dancing classes. 712-204-4500. 1-4 p.m.
MARCH 10 Free Line Dance Classes, 801
W. 13th St., 801 W. 13th St., S. Sioux City. Line Dance class for beginners to intermediate level. 7122044500. 10-11 a.m.
MARCH 14
Free couples pattern dancing class, The Don’s Sports
Bar & Grill, 801 W. 13th St., S. Sioux City. Join Boots & Buckles Dance Club at The Don’s in South Sioux every Sunday starting at 1 p.m. for free couples pattern dancing classes. 712-204-4500. 1-4 p.m.
MARCH 17 Free Line Dance Classes, 801
W. 13th St., 801 W. 13th St., S. Sioux City. Line Dance class for beginners to intermediate level. 7122044500. 10-11 a.m.
EDUCATION
&TRAINING
MARCH 12
Ross Medical Education Open House, 4600 Stone Ave., 4600
Stone Ave., Sioux City. Come speak with our counselors and get started in your new career right away. Make 2021 your year!. 7122747250. 12-5 p.m.
GIG
FEBRUARY 23 Acoustix Entertainment, The
Marquee, 1225 Fourth St., Sioux City. Join DJ Diablo for a night of premium karaoke entertainment. Karaoke starts at 9 p.m. every Tuesday night at The Marquee. 1225 Fourth
Street. 712-560-4288. 9 p.m.- Feb. 24, 2 a.m.
MARCH 2
Acoustix Entertainment, The
Marquee, 1225 Fourth St., Sioux City. Join DJ Diablo for a night of premium karaoke entertainment. Karaoke starts at 9 p.m. every Tuesday night at The Marquee. 1225 Fourth Street. 712-560-4288. 9 p.m.- March 3, 2 a.m.
MARCH 9
Acoustix Entertainment, The
Marquee, 1225 Fourth St., Sioux City. Join DJ Diablo for a night of premium karaoke entertainment. Karaoke starts at 9 p.m. every Tuesday night at The Marquee. 1225 Fourth Street. 712-560-4288. 9 p.m.- March 10, 2 a.m.
MARCH 16 Acoustix Entertainment, The
Marquee, 1225 Fourth St., Sioux City. Join DJ Diablo for a night of premium karaoke entertainment. Karaoke starts at 9 p.m. every Tuesday night at The Marquee. 1225 Fourth Street. 712-560-4288. 9 p.m.- March 17, 2 a.m.
LOCAL
COMMUNITY
FEBRUARY 18 Board Game Night, Brightside
Cafe, 525 Fourth St., Sioux City. For a $5 cover charge you can access our ever-growing board game library. Pizza and grilled paninis are served along with snack foods like chips and muffins. 712-224-7827. 5 p.m.- Feb. 21, 12 a.m. $5.
Take your time. Anger won’t solve problems or satisfy your needs. Listen attentively, and go about your business. The less fuss you make this year, the more you will accomplish. Discipline and hard work will pay off, and kindness and compassion will fetch the same in return. Don’t give up; get moving.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) –
Adjust to inevitable changes, and carry on with business. The more you wallow over things you cannot control, the less you’ll accomplish. Pour your energy into ideas and plans.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20):
Align yourself with people who share common interests and beliefs. Discuss your plans and take heed of the input you receive. A chance to make a positive pro-fessional or financial change looks promising.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Pay
attention to what everyone is doing. Connect with people who have something to offer or share. Set up interviews or meetings. Don’t give in to uncertainty. Ask questions and be direct.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) –
Confusion will set if you are faced with a task you don’t enjoy or aren’t prepared to handle effi-ciently. Be honest regarding your
capabilities; ask for assistance if necessary.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) –
You’ll attract jealous competitors. Take a secretive approach regard-ing what you know and what you plan to do. Leave no room for error or criticism. Self-improvement is favored.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) –
Don’t count on others or trust what you hear. Follow a path that offers insight into something you want to try. Focus on getting ahead. Put more time and energy into doing something you enjoy.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Refuse
to let emotional differences stand between you and what you are try-ing to do. Look for new opportuni-ties that will allow you to sidestep any obstacle. Tread carefully when it comes to romance.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) –
You’ll pick up information if you
are receptive to others. Don’t share personal information with peers or colleagues. Someone will offer exaggerated details. Get what you want in writing.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Keep
your money in a safe place. Avoid joint ventures or overspending. When it comes to money, a tight-fisted attitude is your safest bet. Keep healthy via diet and exercise. Romance is favored.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) –
Get problems out in the open. You cannot fix something if you ignore what’s happening. Be honest about your feelings and plans. Happiness will come from doing what’s right.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)
– Put your cash to work for you; don’t squander it on something you don’t need. Stick to a plan that will help you be the best you can be. Focus on health, fitness and moderation.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) –
Make changes that will bring you closer to the people you love. Don’t feel obligated to pay for oth-ers’ mistakes. Offer facts, sugges-tions and emotional support.
ADVICE
All Night Yawn
I’m a 32-year-old woman with a pattern of getting into relationships and then not wanting to have sex. I’m really into sex when the relationship’s new. But about a year in, I stop wanting to have sex, even when the emotional part of the relationship is good. Why does this happen, and is it preventable?
--Dismayed Over time, everything gets old. Even men and women who are into the freakiest sex eventually look over at their partner all, “Ugh. Not another night of the same old-same old in the sex dungeon.”
Where men and women tend to differ is in their motivation for having sex once they’re in a relationship. There’s an assumption that, in relationships, women’s sexual desire will work just like men’s – that is, rise up out of nowhere (like teenage boys’ inappropriate erections). Sexual medicine specialist Rosemary
Basson, M.D., finds that this “spontaneous hunger” to have sex is a thing for women in the initial dating stage and for some women in relationships, especially if they and their partner are apart for a few weeks.
But many women in long-term romantic partnerships stop having the physical craving to get it on – the urge for sexual “release.” However, they might still be motivated to have sex for other reasons, like to feel close to their partner. Unfortunately, like you, they and their partners often assume their sexual desire is dead and gone. But Basson explains that a woman’s desire is probably
arousable, meaning triggerable. (It just needs waking up.)
In practical terms, if a woman who wants to want sex starts making out with her partner, she’s likely to get turned on. This becomes the springboard to her feeling that physical urge to have sex. However... this assumes she was seriously attracted to him to begin with and didn’t just succumb to advice to be “open-minded” about a great guy she found sexually meh. Initially, excitement over what’s new (new guy!) is often mistaken for the excitement of finding somebody hot. However, if actual attraction wasn’t there at the start, there’ll be nothing to revive once the early sexual disbelief – “How do you even do that? Are you double-jointed? In Cirque du Soleil?” – erodes into “Cirque du So Tired Of This.”
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EUGENIA LAST
ANSWERS FOR ALL YOUR WOES
Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave.
SCIENCE
ADVICE
GODDESS
AMY ALKON
Stop in this Lent Season for our Delicious Seafood Buffet on Friday & Saturday Evenings!
Hot in Herre?
With apologies to Nelly but Northwestern College’s workshop adaptation of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Sweat,” will be heating up Orange City’s DeWitt Theatre Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday.Dynamic duo!
Do you enjoy soothing harmonies from a duo who know how to croon? Perhaps Joe & Tay will be your new acoustic faves. They’ll be keeping things mellow at the Marquee, 1225 Fourth St., at 9 p.m. Saturday.
Mask Up!
Who know face mask would become a fashion statement, yet alone a canvas for artists? Artsy face coverings may also help raise money for Vangarde Arts’ upcoming programming. Check out the artistic masks for the nonprofit’s Maskuerade fundraiser at Vangardarts.com. If you see something you like, attend an auction from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday at 416 Pierce St.
Slide on snow
... on purpose!
Yeah, we’re all sick of driving on snow. Why not tube your way across the white stuff. Sioux City’s Cone Park offers 35 acres of frozen fun. Go to sioux-city.org for times and ticket info.
Songs with style!
Singer Amy Ellsworth has been involved with area bands for nearly 30 years. She’ll be singing “Songs Everyone Knows,” as a special Betty Strong Encounter Center livestream show at 2 p.m. Sunday at Siouxcitylcic.com.
Experience
nature ... inside!
Seeing “20 Artists, 20 Parks” – featuring art inspired by Iowa’s many state parks, now through May 9, at the Sioux City Art Center, 225 Nebraska St.
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JESSE BROTHERS, THE WEEKENDER
Natalie Whitmore, 5, rides down the hill on an inner tube at Cone Park in Sioux City .
Mary Anne Redding, Sioux City Art Center curator, talks about the art center’s new exhibit, “20 Artists, 20 Parks.” Of local interest is the work Carol Faber, a former Sioux Cityan, whose Stone State Park-inspired art is part of the show.
TIM HYNDS, THE WEEKENDER
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MOVIES
Thursday, Feb. 18 - Wednesday, Feb. 24
SHOWTIMES
LOCAL THEATERSPromenade 14
924 Fourth St 712 277 8300 Minari 4:10 6:50 Judas and The Black Messiah 4:10 7:15 The World to Come4:40 7:05 Land 4:10 6:30 Little Fish 4:00 7:00 The Marksman 4:00 Wonder Woman 1984 4:05 6:20 Monster Hunter 6:50 News of the World
4:00 7:10
Promising Young Woman 6:35 The Croods: A New Age 4:00 6:50 The War with Grandpa 4:15 6:40 Abominable 4:20 50 First Dates 4:05 6:35 www.acxcinemas.com
AMC Southern
Hills 12
4400 Sergeant Rd 712-276-3062The Croods: A New Age 4:45 6:15 Hidden Figures 4:15 Judas and The Black Messiah 4:00 7:15
7:45
Land 4:00 7:00 The Little Things
4:30 7:30 The Marksman 5:15 8:00 Monster Hunter 4:30 7:45 Nomadland 4:30 7:15 Wonder Woman 1984 4:15 6:305 www.amctheatres.com NEAR BY THEATERS
Royal Cinema
33 Central Ave SW., Le Mars, Iowa 712-564-1778The Croods: A New Age 6:45
Wonder Woman 1984
6:30
Judas and The Black Messiah 7:05 www.acxcinemas.com
Pioneer 3
Theater
110 S 11th St, Nebraska City, NE 402-873-6487Judas and The Black Messiah 7:00 The War with Grandpa 6:30 The Notebook 6:45
Legacy 3 Theater
712 W Sheridan Ave, Shenandoah, IA 712-246-2245 www.acxcinemas.com See website forshow-times
Main Street 7
866 E 23rd St, Fremont, NE 402-727-8986 www.acxcinemas.com See website forshow-times
Majestic Theatre
310 Main St, Wayne, NE 402-833-1833 www.majesticonmain. org See website forshow-times
Coyote Twin
10 E Main St, Vermillion, SD 605-624-3331 vermilliontheaters. com See website forshow-times
Holland Plaza
Theatre
717 8th St SE Orange City, IA 712-737-8866Judas and the Black Messiah 7:15 Minari 7:20 The Croods: A New Age 7:15 Fatale 7:25 50 First Dates 7:30 krullcinemas.com
Main St. 3
401 9th St, Sheldon, Iowa 712-342-2344The War with Grandpa 7:00 The Little Things
7:15
Judas and The Black Messiah 7:30
krullcinemas.com
‘THE
MAURITANIAN’
(Rated R for violence including a sexual assault, and language ) Based on the NY Times best-sell-ing memoir
“Guantánamo Diary” by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, this is the true story of Slahi’s fight for freedom after being
detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years.
‘NOMADLAND’
(Rated R for some full nudity) After losing everything in the
Great Recession, a woman embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
‘BLITHE SPIRIT’
(Rated PG-13 for suggestive ref-erences and some drug material) A spiritualist
medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer’s block but acci-dentally sum-mons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which
leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
‘BODY BROKERS’
(Rated R for strong drug con-tent, pervasive language and
some sexual content) Brought to Los Angeles for treat-ment, a recovering junkie soon learns that the rehab center is not about helping people, but a
cover for a multi-billion-dollar fraud operation that enlists addicts to recruit other addicts.
‘SILK ROAD’
(Rated R for pervasive lan-guage, and drug content) Philosophical twenty-some-thing Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells narcotics, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes under-cover to bring him down
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COMMUNITY
BY EARL HORLYK Walking through an exhibit, Sioux City Public Museum education curator Theresa Weaver-Basye discussed the roles Gertrude Rush, Sue M. Wilson Brown, Helen Downey and Vivian B. Smith played in Iowa’s history.
Little-known today and not well-recognized during their lifetimes, Rush, Wilson Brown, Downey and Smith fought for and succeeded in securing a woman’s right to vote.
“During a time when women as well as African-Americans lacked power, these African-American women became advocates for the suffrage movement in addition to the civil rights movement,” Weaver-Basye explained. “Since 2020 marked the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment (guaranteeing women the right to vote), it is important to remember the story of these great Iowans.”
An exhibit that is a collaboration with the Iowa Department of Human Rights’ Office on the Status of Women, the Central Iowa Community Museum and Iowa State University’s Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, “Towards a Universal Suffrage: African American Women in Iowa and the Vote for All” doesn’t just detail the women’s suffrage movement in the early part of the 20th century, Weaver-Basye added.
“It also speaks of the systematic discrimination that Blacks were experiencing in many parts of America,” she said.
The rise of hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the lynching of African-Americans were surprisingly common in the 1910s
and 1920s.
“Southern Blacks moved to Iowa to escape all of that,” Weaver-Basye explained. “A move up north allowed them to carve out a portion of the American Dream.
With plenty of meatpacking plants, Iowa saw a sizable influx of Blacks during the first half of the 20th century.
This phenomenon will be examined during a special History at High Noon presentation, “Endless Possibilities,” that will be available at SiouxCityMuseum.org/history-at-high-noon, beginning Thursday.
The program, presented by the African-American Museum of Iowa, traces the lives of Iowa’s
first African-Americans, the desegregation of Iowa schools and the election of President Barack Obama.
Both the exhibit as well as the History at High Noon program is part of the Sioux City Public Museum’s recognition of February as being Black History Month.
In fact, such programming isn’t limited to February.
“Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America,” by historian Patrick Phillip about the racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1912, will be part of the Museum’s online book group discussion in March.
Filmmaker Jim Tillman,
a former Sioux Cityan, will remember his grandfather in “The Story of George Arthur Daniels: From Forsyth County, Georgia, to Sioux City, Iowa,” in April.
“Jim’s grandfather was a young survivor of the violence,” Weaver-Basye said. “He delved into that past through an oral history with his family.”
Often time, this is the only way history can be preserved.
That’s because the story of George Arthur Daniels isn’t likely to be recounted in any history book. Plus the activities of the African-American women in Iowa Suffrage Movement weren’t chronicled in contemporary newspapers.
“All of this history would be lost if it wasn’t for the work of dedicated individuals,” Weaver-Basye said.
This included Tillman, who has created “28 Days: Moments in Black History,” which celebrates the lives of individual member of Sioux City’s African-African community. These posts are being shared on the Museum’s Facebook page (Facebook.com/Siouxcitymuseum) through the month of February.
Such recognition of the African American community is important, Weaver-Basye said.
“Black history is American history as well as local history,” she said. “It reflects who we are where we came from.”
(No longer) Hidden Figures
Sioux City Public
Museum examines
the role of
African-Americans in
Iowa history
TIM HYNDS, THE WEEKENDER
Jim Tillman, of Sioux Falls, stands with a plaque recounting the history of African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux at the Sioux City Public Museum. Tillman, a Sioux City native, is holding a sketchbook of drawings of his grandfather that were made when he lived in the South Bottoms and worked at Armour. Tillman is working with the museum on expanding the space dedicated to Sioux City’s African-American residents.
BY EARL HORLYK
ORANGE CITY, Iowa – Race, class and multiculturalism aren’t the first things that come to mind when one thinks of Northwestern College, a private Christian liberal arts college in conservative Sioux County.
But after the May 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, theater professor Robert Hubbard wanted to understand how race and class could still create conflict during tough economic times.
Initially introducing students to “Sweat” – a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Lynn Nottage – as a reading exercise following the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017, Hubbard felt the piece was even more relevant in the age of Black Lives Matter.
This was why he decided
performances that will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Northwestern’s DeWitt Theatre Arts Center.
Set in Reading, Pennsylvania, during the Great Recession of 2008, “Sweat” focuses on the tensions between friends who worked in the same steel mill.
When the friends were making middle-class salaries, things were fine. When the economic impact of trade agreements eventually shuttered the steel mills, the relationship of the friends eroded.
“Everything falls apart for them in both their friendships and their lives,” Hubbard explained. “The racist views kept under the surface come to a head and the sense of anger results in terrible, senseless violence.”
If “Sweat’s” subject matter sounded a bit edgy for a small
you’re right. This is the reason that the Northwestern theater department wanted to tackle it.
“We often lament the lack of cultural diversity in our productions but we firmly believe that theater should represent the global body of Christ,” Hubbard explained.
Too often, such productions would portray Christ’s body as white, European and male. Not only were such depictions inadequate and limited, they reflected an unfortunate lack of diversity which existed on liberal arts campuses, especially in rural areas.
“Northwestern has some diversity,” Hubbard said, “but it isn’t always reflected in our productions.”
This was why the theater department worked in
Development when it came to recruiting a multicultural cast for “Sweat.”
To that end, Hubbard recruited members of his theater department as well as from the college’s Red Raiders sports teams.
And instead of a staging a full-fledge production, Northwestern’s “Sweat” will use a Reader’s Theater format.
“We did this for two reasons,” Hubbard said. “First, it allowed for a shortened rehearsal time since some of our actors were incredibly busy with athletics. Secondly, a Reader’s Theater kept everyone safe during COVID times.”
By that, he means actors will be at a safe distance from one another. The audience will be limited in size and also seated at a safe distance.
shows, Hubbard said this focus on Nottage’s words will stimulate the audience’s imagination.
“In a traditional play, you’re seeing the character through the eyes of an actor,” he said. “In Reader’s Theater, the audience sees the character as an extension of themselves.”
Which, Hubbard said, is a great way to experience a play as funny, complex and powerful as “Sweat.”
It will also, hopefully, shed light on subjects that still divide many Americans.
“Sadly, race and class conflict is out there,” Hubbard said. “Perhaps, ‘Sweat” will help shape a further dialogue.”
Even better, it may also bring a greater cultural diversity to Northwestern’s theater productions.
“If ‘Sweat’ is any indication, we
Blood, ‘Sweat’ & Tears
PROVIDED
LEFT: Featuring nine actors, Northwestern College’s Reader’s Theater production of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Sweat” will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Orange City’s DeWitt Theatre Arts Center. RIGHT: With “Sweat,” actors like Sofia Schaeffer and Rebekah Phifer were required to wear masks during rehearsals.
A wild turn by a witness
Wait! We just want to talk to you!
Police efforts to talk with a witness to a west side shooting took a wild turn last week, after she led officers on a chase that ended with her arrest on drug possession charges.
Tara Martin, 34, of Sioux City, was booked into the Woodbury County Jail Feb. 10 on charges of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, possession of marijuana and eluding. Her bond was set at $10,000.
Police officers responding to a shooting at 1:51 a.m. Feb. 10 in the 1400 block of Myrtle Street attempted to make contact with Martin, who had been parked near the house where the shooting took place.
According to court documents, Martin fled in her car, leading officers on a chase that proceeded into Plymouth County and back into Sioux City, where the car was stopped
at Hamilton Boulevard and Eton Court. Officers observed a plastic baggie containing methamphetamine on the passenger seat of the car. A passenger in the car later told police that Martin had thrown a bag containing methamphetamine, baggies and a digital scale out of the car by a bridge in the 1500 block of Hamilton Boulevard, the complaint said.
Officers searched the bridge and found a bag containing 6.58 grams of meth and 2.62 grams of marijuana.
Alejandro Lapointe, 20, of Sioux City, faces charges of assault while participating in a felony, willful injury, going armed with intent and being a felon in possession of a weapon in connection with the shooting, in which another man was shot in the calf. Police said the shooting was the result of a verbal altercation.
Across
1 It’s happening now 6 Controversial reading 10 Circumstance partner 14 Brain center associated with speech
16 ‘60s pop singer Sands 17 Borders of old, e.g. 18 First name in jazz 19 Abbr. on an invoice 20 Tech boss
21 Relating to the arrangement of atoms in space
23 Mealtime alert 26 Magic competition? 27 Give rise to 28 Rap’s “Puffy” Combs 29 Head of Parliament? 30 ‘40s-’50s paranoia 32 Bud’s bud 33 Judge in stripes 36 Anago or unagi 37 “__ that been done?” 39 2019 Uber landmark, briefly 40 Brought under control 43 Soup sometimes served with banh mi
44 Eastern brew 45 Bass-baritone Simon 48 “Time to move on” 50 Co-star of Cox and Kudrow 52 “No worries”
53 Behave
54 Co-star of Ethan in “Gattaca” 55 Without rocks
56 Mexican fare
60 “Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died” writer Bombeck
61 Latin American fare 62 Enervates
63 Certain farm, or one of its resi-dents
64 Pesto ingredient
Down
1 Arafat’s successor 2 Ads, e.g.
3 Pull from the ground, in Plymouth 4 Disgusted remark
5 Much of “Deck the Halls” 6 “The Python Years” diarist 7 Janis’ comics mate 8 Casual brand 9 Milky Way cousin 10 Crony of Captain Bildad, in “Moby-Dick”
11 Construction sight 12 Quick getaway for newlyweds 13 Hipster’s “Later”
15 Vote to support
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