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f he were that kind of guy, Jon Peacock would have every right to say “I told you so.”

But the director of the Wisconsin Budget Project is typically restrained when making note of the recent news that state revenue collections have fallen hundreds of millions of dollars short of predictions.

Peacock says what makes the state’s new budget challenge “so disappointing” is that it could have been avoided had state officials responded more prudently to projections of revenue growth last fall and earlier this year.

Rather than set aside any funds for an “adequate budget cushion,” Peacock says, Gov. Scott Walker and state lawmakers rushed to use it all on “election-year tax cuts.”

“This is a classic case of legislators counting their chickens before they’ve hatched,” says Peacock. “In election years, they are so anxious to use every cent of potential growth for tax cuts that they often jump the gun.”

It was just about 11 months ago that Walker unveiled his plan to deliver property tax relief by using a projected $100 million surplus to increase aid to schools over the next two years. Property owners did not receive a refund, but the governor promised savings of up to $680 to the typical homeowner over four years. Later analysis found the typical homeowner would save $13 in 2014 and $20 in 2015.

In his executive order calling for a special session of the Legislature to consider his proposal, Walker attributed the surplus to Wisconsin’s “growing economy and new job creation” as well as “leadership and prudent fiscal management” in state government. These “fiscal facts,” Walker concluded, “afford an opportunity to provide much-needed property tax relief to Wisconsin families, seniors and small businesses.”

Peacock, at the time, urged caution.

“The biggest thing that contributes to structural deficits is building up a substantial surplus and then using it quickly for permanent new tax cuts or spending,” Peacock told Isthmus.

“Where does that leave you in the next biennium? It leaves you with a hole.”

Peacock was not the only one suggesting a tax cut could cause trouble in the not too distant future.

The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimated the structural deficit in the 2015-17 biennium would be $725 million if Walker’s property tax relief plan were approved.

And Todd Berry, president of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, even suggested the whole scheme was politically motivated, noting that Walker’s hastily called special session meant that the tax cut would make it into December’s property tax bills. December, Berry told Wisconsin Public Radio at the time, “is the operative month because that’s when prop-

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erty tax bills come out, and those are the last property tax bills before the [gubernatorial] election.”

But few lawmakers on either side of the aisle could resist the siren call of the tax cut. The Joint Finance Committee approved it unanimously, and it passed both houses of the Legislature easily.

In mid-January, there were signs of even bigger revenue growth down the line, with the Legislative Fiscal Bureau projecting an additional $911.9 million coming into the state’s coffers.

Again, Peacock suggested in his blog that lawmakers and the governor “start by putting the state’s fiscal house in better order by reducing debt and filling holes in current budget commitments” rather than issuing tax cuts. Peacock floated a couple of ideas, including using the increased revenue to pay down state debt or plugging the $93 million hole in the state’s Medicaid budget.

But once again Walker proposed tax cuts.

That round included a combined income tax and property tax cut package and changes in income tax withholding rates. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau projected in February that the cuts would result in a $972 million reduction in the general fund balance, but lawmakers nevertheless approved the package in mid-March.

When asked to comment on the wisdom of the governor’s tax-relief measures in light of the revenue shortfall, Walker spokeswoman Laurel Patrick said only that the governor’s administration would “continue to manage the Wisconsin taxpayers’ money well and keep the state’s fiscal house in order.”

“Our state will end the fiscal year with a significant positive fund balance, and we will finish the biennium with a balanced

budget,” Patrick wrote in an email. “The total revenue collections are less than 2% lower than estimates.”

That 2% shortfall amounts to $281.2 million in tax revenue, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, which noted in its Aug. 28 report that $13.95 billion in tax revenue had been collected through June 30, the end of the fiscal year.

The largest shortfall came in the areas of corporate income and franchise tax (-9.2%) and individual income (-2.5%). Cigarette and beer taxes came in lower than expected, down .3% and .4%, respectively, but liquor and wine drinkers did their part to keep the economy rolling, with tax revenue from these products exceeding estimates by 2.7%.

Peacock says the shortfall now sets up a “substantial jump” in the state’s structural deficit and will likely usher in another round of painful budget cuts. The Fiscal Bureau most recently estimated in May that the state would face a structural deficit of $659 million in 2015-2017. Structural deficits result from a gap between future revenue and future spending.

Walker’s pledge through his spokeswoman to achieve a balanced budget is a given since he and lawmakers are constitutionally bound to deliver a balanced budget by the end of a biennium. The question is how it will be achieved. Choices include spending cuts, delaying costs and/or increasing taxes, says Peacock.

“I don’t expect Walker and the Legislature to raise taxes, and I don’t expect a miraculous jump in tax revenue that eliminates the budget deficit,” he says. “Thus, I expect the Walker administration to use some combination of spending cuts and short-term gimmicks to get the budget in balance.”u jdavidoff@isthmus.com

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Demand for student apartments waning Yet the market for young professionals remains strong

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rom Les Orosz’s point of view, you’d be crazy to break ground on another student apartment project in Madison right now.

“Quite frankly, the Hub is adding 1,000 bedrooms downtown,” says Orosz, a developer who built one of Madison’s first high-end student apartment buildings, the Embassy, at 505 University Ave. “It would be pretty reckless right now for someone else to build another 12-story student tower.”

In the past few years, Madison has seen a remarkable spike in apartment construction, much of it geared toward students.

This fall, three projects marketed toward UW-Madison students opened for residents: City View, at 313 N. Frances St.; Park Place Luxury Apartments, 212 N. Bassett St.; and Varsity Quarters, 1423 Monroe St. The Varsity Corners project came down to the wire, as workers raced to finish construction in time. Julie Ledger, vice president and general manager of Opus Development Company, which built the project, says despite these delays, the building is getting renters.

“Our project has been leasing quite well, even considering not getting in the ground right away,” she says. Ledger says the new buildings will ease the demand for student housing.

“It’s certainly going to impact the market next year, significantly,” Ledger says. “But we gauge and monitor our competition pretty closely, and all of the big buildings appear to be 100% or close.”

Scott Faust, who developed City View and Park Place, says his projects are renting well, though perhaps not as fast as expected.

“The newer buildings, I think because the rents are higher, are moving a little slower,” he says. “But we’re 90% leased at this time.”

One project that is likely to have an even bigger effect on the student market is the Hub on Campus Madison, a 12-story luxury building on State Street that includes a pool and other amenities. It is expected that young professionals, as well as students, will live there.

“The Hub will get full, but it will release more and more of the student housing [to

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other markets],” Orosz says. “If [UW-Madison] enrollment holds steady, you should be done seeing more student housing.”

Mayor Paul Soglin expects the boom in construction to continue. He notes that back in 2011, the city had an apartment vacancy rate of about 1.5%, which is extremely low. The vacancy rate is now around 2.5% to 3%, he says.

An optimal vacancy rate would be about 5% to 6%, according to Soglin.

“Once we hit 4.5%, we could still absorb over 1,200 new units per year and be in equilibrium,” he says.

Orosz expects to see more apartment housing of other types, with the market for young professionals still strong.

He had hoped to break ground on a project in the 400 block of West Johnson Street by now, but has delayed it over complications with parking.

Although there is some overlap in the student and professional markets, Orosz defines student projects as ones that include units with three or four bedrooms.

“What defines student housing is a large number of beds,” he says. “That and parking.

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Still in great demand are apartments that the working poor can afford, especially downtown. Last week, Soglin proposed a $20 million program to build 750 to 1,000 affordable units over the next five years.

Ald. Mike Verveer praises the mayor’s plan but expects affordable housing to remain scarce downtown. “A big reason for that is the high cost of land downtown,” he says.

Despite the boom in luxury housing, older houses in traditional neighborhoods continue to appeal to students.

“Hundred-year-old houses that are something of an endangered species — those have been very solid in renting,” says Verveer. “The notion of being able to live in a house and have a porch is still attractive to a lot of students. Not every student is interested in living in a high-rise.”

Verveer and others would like to see some of the older housing stock renovated and converted back into single-family homes or owner-occupied duplexes.

The Common Council recently changed its “small cap tax incremental tax financing” program, increasing the amount of money homeowners can get for renovating older homes in the Mansion Hill, Greenbush and Vilas neighborhoods, says Ald. Ledell Zellers.

Now, people can get up to $100,000 forgivable loans from the city for renovating a three-unit house, provided the owner lives there. They can get up to $90,000 for a duplex and $80,000 for a single-unit home in these neighborhoods.

“There’s a lot of people who would enter one of these beautiful old houses, love a lot about it, see the potential, but then just freeze and not know where to start,” Zellers says. So the program was also changed to allow a developer to do the bulk of the renovation and resell it to someone who will live there.

Zellers, who has renovated a home in Mansion Hill, is hopeful it will encourage other families to do the same. But she’s not expecting a flood of families pouring into her neighborhood.

Says Zellers: “The reality is, if we got three I’d be thrilled.”u jtarr@isthmus.com

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Because apartments for professionals require more parking, it drives up the cost of construction, Orosz says. “Madison being an isthmus and the water table being high, it’s very difficult to build these buildings and get adequate parking,” he says.

His proposal for West Johnson Street attempts to deal with this issue by using a robotic “rack and rail” system, where cars drive onto a bay and are then stored underground with a computerized mechanical system. This requires much less space than self-parking garages.

“The beauty is you don’t need a drive aisle. You pretty much double the capacity for parking in the same area,” Orosz says. “We would have only got 75 spots [with a traditional ramp], but we’re getting 150 spaces.”

The computer also has a memory that, over time, allows it to know which residents use their cars when, leading to faster retrieval times. The system will be one of the first in the Midwest, and Orosz expects they will become common here.

“It’s valet parking, quite frankly,” he says. “What it’s going to do is make different sites, especially in Madison, feasible for development. It will alleviate some of the parking issues.”

Orosz is also shrinking the size of his units slightly, in order to make them more affordable while still including the amenities. He hopes to have the unnamed development on West Johnson Street up in 2016.

Brad Binkowski, one of the owners of Urban Land Interests, agrees that the market for non-student housing remains strong. ULI has built luxury apartments, like Seven27 and Tobacco Lofts, in the Bassett neighborhood.

“For what we do, there’s a really strong market. We were four months late on Seven27 because of a wet spring. We leased that building to 100% within four months of opening, and it’s 100% still,” Binkowski says of the project, which opened last year. “I see the market here growing and continuing to grow.”

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FORTUNES UP Madison pledges $20 million for affordable housing in the next five years...

Madison’s biodigester plan hits a budget clog.

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WEEK IN REVIEW THURSDAY, AUG. 28 n The Oregon Village Board alleges that re-

cently retired Police Chief Doug Pettit withheld information about police calls to Union Sports Club, where he worked off-duty security. Board members say if they had known, they would have revoked the club’s liquor license earlier than they did. Oh well. n Raya H. Hansen, 33, is charged with child neglect and reckless homicide in the February 2013 death of her 18-month-old daughter.

Hansen was pushing the baby in an adult wheelchair on East Washington Avenue when the chair was struck by a van. Police say Hansen was too intoxicated to care.

FRIDAY, AUG. 29 n Former Dane County Sheriff’s deputy Andy Steele, 39, is charged with first-degree murder in the August 23 gunshot deaths of his wife and sister-in-law in Fitchburgh.

SATURDAY, AUG. 30 n Darren L. Goodwan, 25, is shot and killed on West Badger Road in the early morning hours. The suspect turns himself in in Colorado after hopping a bus to Denver. n A Vilas Park lifeguard orders a man to remove his unleashed dog from the beach after it charges a small boy. The dog then attacks the lifeguard, who pepper-sprays it. The dog’s owner then allegedly assaults the lifeguard before leaving the park. Urban wildlife!

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he race for Wisconsin attorney gen- connected the crime to a different man, one eral is getting less attention than with a record of sexual assault. the gubernatorial race, particularly Now Frey has to put his life together afas the Democrats have a candidate ter having almost two decades stolen away other than Tom “Are you sure no one else by the state. Frey’s life wasn’t the only one wants to run?” Barrett this time. ruined by this conviction; the man who left To try and discredit Democratic attorney his DNA at the scene later assaulted two general candidate Susan Happ, conservative more girls. media outlets have been running with the The original prosecutor in Frey’s case, message that she defended some bad people former Winnebago County Deputy District while she was a defense attorney.

Which is sort of the job of a defense attorney. To me, it is like running an attack ad against a chef that says: “This guy cooks food for a lot of people. Sometimes he prepares hundreds of dinners in a single night!”

While sounding silly, it makes tactical sense. Attacking Happ’s defense attorney record plays up the old adage that Democrats are soft on crime and Republicans are tough on crime. It’s the latest move in a 30-year war where the two parties push Attorney Vince Biskupic, had another case for tougher and tougher penalties in a game overturned when it was revealed he used of incarceration brinkmanship. It plays on testimony from an unreliable jailhouse ideas that people who commit a crime are in witness and withheld important evidence some way different from the average popula- from the defense. Biskupic later ran for tion and that they all deserve to be locked Wisconsin attorney general on a toughaway without argument. on-crime platform. Because when you say That line of thinking has had conse- you are tough on crime, you never have to quences. Since 2011, Wisconsin has spent include the asterisk: *May occasionally jail more on prisons than universities. Thirteen innocent people. percent of our working-age black men are in prison, the highest rate in the nation.

In light of these shameful scenes u Abdelhakim Afifi trends, Happ’s experience as both a defense attorney and a county district attorney shouldn’t be a hindrance — it should be a point of pride. This state desperately needs an attorney general who understands that there is more to justice than jailing.

Of course, Happ isn’t arguing any of these points; she isn’t stupid. She knows tough-on-crime is what the voters want.

“As the district attorney of Jefferson County, I’ve worked with Democrats and Republicans to prosecute offenders, protect our families and keep our communities safe.” That’s the first sentence on her website.

I’m glad that Happ would drop Wisconsin’s inane defense of our gay marriage ban. I’m happy she doesn’t like Act 10 and voter ID. On those issues alone, she comes across as light years better than Republican candidate Brad Schimel.

But it is 2014, and the liberal candidate for the office of the state’s top cop can’t even touch the idea of sentencing reform. That’s our problem as voters — we keep demanding to lock people up.

If Happ is elected, I want her to take substantive stances on issues beyond the usual range of hot buttons for middle-class white people. I want her to act based not on talking points but on the nuanced, pragmatic judgment she has used as both a prosecutor and as a defender.

I hope Susan Happ acts more like the Susan Happ in those conservative attack pieces.u

Republicans are attacking Happ’s record as a defense attorney.

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ways have a tough time running for office, which is a shame, because we need good defense attorneys to make our justice system run. Our adversarial system is set up so that even the person who looks the guiltiest has an advocate.

Taking away a person’s freedom is one of the greatest powers our government has. It is a truly awesome responsibility. A vigorous defense is how we maintain confidence that we aren’t wrongfully convicting people.

And wrongful convictions do happen in Wisconsin. Joseph Frey was released in 2013 after his 1994 rape conviction in Winnebago County was overturned. Frey had been convicted on spotty eyewitness testimony, and Oshkosh police had destroyed important evidence before the trial. The Wisconsin Innocence Project, a project of the UW Law School, ran a DNA test that

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Majestic Theatre, Sept. 12-13 Sexytronica, anyone? This lustful Tennessee duo are evidence that Nashville is much more than a country music capital. Vice says their electro-pop turns concert halls into “discofueled brothels,” so expect their two-night engagement to be a celebration of excess fueled by ’70s-inspired funk vibes, club-style dance beats and a come-hither stage presence Prince would adore.

Bonobo

Majestic Theatre, Sept. 18 It’ll be hard to choose between a Segredo appearance by bass-music sensation 12th Planet and a Majestic show by English DJ Bonobo on Sept. 18. If pressed, we’ll choose the underdog, who returns to Madison to drum up excitement for The North Borders Tour: Live, a DVD and live album recorded over the last year and a half.

Intricate bass lines are his specialty, so don’t be surprised if both your brain and your ears get a workout as he ventures through downtempo, acid jazz and glo-fi territory. For more electronic music in a somewhat similar vein, catch ODESZA and their addictive track “Say My Name” at the Majestic on Oct. 11.

The Black Lips with the King Khan & BBQ Show

High Noon Saloon, Sept. 18 Legend has it that blood, urine and saliva have found their way into numerous Black Lips shows over the years. Maybe even some nudity. But bodily-fluids geysers don’t bring in crowds as consistently as the Lips’ inventive, invigorating garage rock, which was shined up by the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney on the LP Underneath the Rainbow. Perhaps even more chaotic is the King Khan & BBQ Show’s marriage of doo-wop and punk.

Spoon with EMA

Orpheum Theatre, Sept. 18 Consistency isn’t flashy, but it wins championships. Take Spoon, for example. The Austin, Texas, outfit rarely slam-dunk their music in anyone’s face. Instead they win over naysayers by never, ever putting out a clunker. Four years after Transference came this year’s excellent They Want My Soul, a record as impeccable, accomplished and confident as anything the band has done. “Do You” and minimal stomper “Knock Knock Knock” ought to sound fantastic live. EMA will open with nuanced noise-rock from her excellent new album, The Future’s Void.

The War on Drugs with Califone

Majestic Theatre, Sept. 20 Melancholy chooglers the War on Drugs channeled doubt and sadness into their deeply satisfying 2014 album Lost in the Dream. Adam Granduciel’s croon can get quite mournful, but it always bubbles up through syncopated rippers like “An Ocean in Between the Waves” and “Red Eyes.” Judging by the astounding performance of the latter the band gave on The Late Show with David Letterman, the new music’s atmosphere and pounding rhythms should translate fully in live shows. Califone are along for the ride, supporting their 2013 album, Stitches.

Lake Street Dive

Majestic Theatre, Sept. 23 Though this band take their name from a Minneapolis street brimming with scruffy bars, they met in Boston while attending the New England Conservatory of Music. Beatlemania is evident in the bandmates’ modern melange of pop, soul and jazz, which took top honors in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest several years ago, yet their impressive showmanship suggests that they’re equally obsessed with ’60s Motown stars. At this gig the group will dive into their recent Bad Self Portraits, which highlights their ample skills on piano, guitar and brass while showing off frontwoman Rachael Price’s mighty pipes.

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Justin Townes Earle

Barrymore Theatre, Sept. 24 Named after the legendary Townes Van Zandt and sired by outlaw country hero Steve Earle, this artist has some big boots to fill. He’s done a remarkable job so far, using music by Woody Guthrie and Kurt Cobain to work through the aftermath of a long and torturous drug addiction.

Heart-wrenching songs like “Someday You’ll Be Forgiven for This” illustrate his gift for writing simple yet powerful lyrics.

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Panda Bear

Majestic Theatre, Sept. 27 Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox has built an enviable solo career through this act, in which his experimental tendencies take the form of dub, psych-pop and ambient music. His 2007 album, Person Pitch, landed on numerous critics’ best-of-the-2000s lists, but he gave much of the credit to more than 100 other acts who’ve inspired him, including Ghostface Killah and Cyndi Lauper. Though this concert will likely focus on an in-the-works album tentatively titled Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, it would be a travesty for him to skip “Bro’s,” the 2007 track that said a million words with just a few, including “Hey man, what’s your problem?/ Don’t you know that I don’t belong to you?” It picked up where Weezer’s 1994 classic “Undone (The Sweater Song)” left off, giving the nerdsversus-bros battle new vitality — and adorable owl hoots — in the 21st century.

Elephant Revival

Majestic Theatre, Sept. 28 These Freakfest alums know how to entertain a huge crowd, and that’s good since they’re bound to draw one. Indie rock, reggae and bluegrass mingle in their sound, which also features Celtic fiddling and a smattering of hip-hop beats. Jam band fans will find plenty to like here, as will roots music enthusiasts and anyone who appreciates the collective punch of five talented multi-instrumentalists.

Rubblebucket

High Noon Saloon, Sept. 28 The electric guitar isn’t just for wailing and shredding; it’s also a tool for making listeners dance like maniacs. The instrument joins saxophones, trombones and a Moog synthesizer in this band, whose body-moving grooves range from trippy to hyper to downright weird.

il sogno del marinaio featuring Mike Watt

High Noon Saloon, Sept. 29 Punk legend Watt cut his teeth in the Minutemen and fIREHOSE throughout the ’80s and early ’90s. More recently, he’s been playing bass in the reunited Stooges and working on il sogno del marinaio, a collaboration with Italian friends Andrea Belfi and Stefano Pilia. The concert should be a night of sprawling rock songs with a heavy dose of bass guitar and a bit of spoken word. It’ll make you wonder if Watt’s the same guy who recorded terse punk tracks like “PissBottle Man.”

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Frequency, Sept. 29 This act’s debut LP, Love’s Crushing Diamond, explores the transcendent side of modern folk with orchestral instruments and hypnotic vocal harmonies. It should sound stellar in the Frequency’s intimate performance space. ➙

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Majestic Theatre, Sept. 26 A founding member of hip-hop group Black Hippy — along with Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q — this rapper swings by Madison to support his latest solo release, These Days..., most of which was recorded in Mac Miller’s home studio.

High Noon Saloon, Sept. 26 This Swedish group have been mixing live hip-hop with big-band horns and a gradually increasing amount of EDM for the past seven years. Bonus: The O’My’s, an excellent rock ’n’ soul group from Chicago, open the show.

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Majestic Theatre, Sept. 25 Though this English producer is usually described as a trance and house artist, his punk roots sometimes poke through in his DJ sets, which have landed him on DJ Magazine’s top-100 list for the past five years. This tour shines the spotlight on his second studio album, Drive, but might also include “Concrete,” a super-popular 2012 single recorded with fellow DJ Christina Novelli.

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Barrymore Theatre, Oct. 1 Joey Bada$$ scanned as a gifted MC and a ’90s hip-hop archivist on his terrific 2012 mixtape, 1999. East Coast rap disciples found lots to like thanks to Chuck Stranger’s production and beats culled from visionaries like J Dilla and MF DOOM. In the time since, Bada$$ has seen the tragic death of friend and collaborator Capital STEEZ, and he’s been toiling on a long-awaited debut album, B4.DA.$$. He’s touring in support of this album, which should drop before the end of the year, so he’ll have a ton of new material for his high-energy live show. Folks interested in the hip-hop movement Bada$$ helped launch should go see Flatbush Zombies & the Underachievers at the Majestic Theatre on Oct. 18, while those seeking other rappers with blingedout names should check out Ty Dolla $ign at the High Noon Saloon on Nov. 11.

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Segredo, Oct. 2 England’s duke of dubstep visits Madison for a bass-blasting bash that’ll draw EDM enthusiasts, headbangers with a soft spot for dance music, and ravers looking for any kind of high they can muster. Get ready to cuss up a storm if he plays “Cockney Thug,” and feel free to share nearly any type of joyful noise during the ever-popular “Woo Boost.” Consider carbo-loading before the show, because you may be in motion all night long.

Old Crow Medicine Show

Overture Hall, Oct. 3 Overture Hall’s seats are pretty comfy, but you’re not likely to sit in them for long at this ass-kicking Americana show, which should turn the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s home stage into the site of a down-and-dirty hootenanny. The band attack their banjos, basses and fiddles with a combination of aggression and adrenaline, bringing to mind the hardrocking ’90s acts they cite as influences, including Guns N’ Roses. For even more old-time string-band fun, see the deliciously talented Carolina Chocolate Drops at Stoughton Opera House on Sept. 25 or 26.

Radical Something

UW Union South Sett, Oct. 3 This trio merge rock ’n’ roll with hip-hop, but not in a Kid Rock sort of way. Instead they use Californian music traditions, from hippie folk to beach-ready reggae, as the glue. But that’s just the beginning of the Cali connection. In addition to meeting at the University of California-Berkeley, the bandmates chose Beverly Hills, 90210 star Shannen Doherty to direct the video for their recent single “Pure.”

Home Free

Barrymore Theatre, Oct. 4 Even if you’re more of a dance-club hoedown fan — think Pitbull and Kesha’s megahit “Timber,” complete with rapped-out square-dance calls — you may find something to love at a concert featuring this country a cappella group. They won NBC’s The Sing-Off thanks to support from two ’90s stars: Jewel and Boyz II Men’s Shawn Stockman. The beatboxing in their “Ring of Fire” cover hints at hip-hop-worthy rhythmic skills, and their vocal harmonies sizzle.

of Montreal

Majestic Theatre, Oct. 5 Influenced by Kinks-style psychedelic pop, as well as Afrobeat, glam rock and the works of Talking Heads, this band found just the right formula to join R.E.M. as eternal rulers of the Athens, Ga., scene. Though their songs often push the envelope stylistically, they usually incorporate melodies that beg for audience sing-alongs. This tactic has made them the stuff of legends at festivals and events like the Majestic’s big Halloween bash.

Shovels & Rope

Barrymore Theatre, Oct. 5 This husband-and-wife duo put an especially likable spin on folk and country, funneling their feelings for each other into foot-stomping twang-rock and shimmering ballads. That love seems to be contagious, sending the pair to a bigger venue every few times they visit Madison. See if their new album, Swimmin’ Time, makes a splash live.

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Majestic Theatre, Oct. 8 This hip-hop duo started building a fan base in the Bay Area in 1996. Featuring boom-bap rhythms that recall early ’90s innovators like KRS-One, much of their material has evolved nicely with the times, and their album Shadowboxing landed on one of SF Weekly’s bestof-2012 lists. At this show, they’re likely to focus on a new EP, Libations.

J Mascis

High Noon Saloon, Oct. 10 With long gray locks and a disarming smile (his father was a dentist, after all), the singer and songwriter from ’90s noise-rock band Dinosaur Jr. is an unmistakable presence. His guitar playing has been mentioned on SPIN’s best-of-the-best list, and his use of feedback and distortion had a huge impact on the altrock scene two decades ago. The High Noon’s Sept. 25 Sebadoh show featuring Dinosaur Jr. bassist Lou Barlow is also a must-see event for fans of ’90s lo-fi.

Surfer Blood with We Are Scientists

UW Union South Sett, Oct. 10 The breakout act of the 2009 CMJ Music Marathon, Surfer Blood have made waves with their surfy indie rock over the past four years.

In addition to playing songs from their wellcharting sophomore album, Pythons, they may throw in a cover of a song by former tourmates the Pixies (Orpheum Theatre, Oct. 12), such as the rendition of “Gigantic” they performed for The Onion’s “AV Undercover” series. They’ll be joined by We Are Scientists, whose latest release, TV en Français, features an appealing amalgam of pop, post-punk and shoegaze.

Grieves & K.Flay

High Noon Saloon, Oct. 12 Seattle-based rapper Grieves sounds a bit like Atmosphere and is signed to Rhymesayers, the Twin Cities label cofounded by Atmosphere member Slug. His bouncy, backpack-y emo rap features flows that would’ve fit right in on

a Lyricist Lounge record. San Francisco-based rapper K.Flay, dubbed an “Honorary Beastie Girl”

by Rolling Stone, has opened for Snoop Dogg and worked with the Prodigy’s Liam Howlett.

lishment and tear it up on stage is an inspiration, and something we ought to see more of in the music industry. Help her celebrate the release of her 18th solo studio album, Allergic to Water.

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The Glitch Mob

Orpheum Theatre, Oct. 12 Blasting “Monkey Gone to Heaven” in dorm rooms was a rite of passage among ’90s indie kids. This moody anthem about environmental destruction is just one reason the band’s album Doolittle is an all-time favorite among critics.

The band’s current lineup doesn’t include bassist Kim Deal of Breeders fame, but their 2014 reunion tour revolves around a new record whose title track, “Indie Cindy,” is almost as explosive as classics like “There Goes My Gun.”

Timeflies

Orpheum Theatre, Oct. 13 Timeflies’ singer and producer got acquainted in a funk band at Tufts University, then began adding elements of electro and dubstep when they formed a duo. In addition to scoring hits with tracks like 2013’s “I Choose U,” they’re known for their popular Timeflies Tuesday YouTube series, which has featured remixes of Lorde’s “Royals” and “Let it Go” from Disney’s Frozen.

Beats Antique

Orpheum Theatre, Oct. 15 Beats Antique don’t just give concerts; they stage multifaceted happenings that incorporate tribal dance and performance art, as well as performances of electronic world music. Middle Eastern bellydance melodies and hip-hop beats often flavor the band’s sonic stew, which is especially fresh on the new album A Thousand Faces: Act II.

Delta Spirit

Barrymore Theatre, Oct. 15 This quintet create folk-laced rock that’s pretty timeless; plus, it’s easy to imagine them sharing a stage with ’90s alt-country stars like Whiskeytown. At this show, they’ll play material from Into the Wide, an album that drops on Sept. 9.

The Preatures

Frequency, Oct. 16 This Aussie rock group found their groove when they unveiled a more rhythmic, dance-friendly sound a few years ago. Translucent stage outfits and steamy vocals — especially those in the 2013 single “Is This How You Feel?” — give them as much sex appeal as C+C Music Factory had in 1991. As that band advised in “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now),” “Let the music take control, let the rhythm move you.”

Baauer with Boyz Noize

Barrymore Theatre, Oct. 17 Yes, DiFranco’s a perennial favorite among college feminists and folks who still can’t stop talking about Lilith Fair, but she has something to offer the rest of us as well. Seeing such an empowered female performer challenge the estab-

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Majestic Theatre, Oct. 19 See how much French you can remember from high school while shaking your derriere to the electronic dance pop of Yelle. The European band crafts soundtracks for completely crazy nights of partying, such as the appropriately titled “Completement Fou” and the 2006 earworm “Je Veux Te Voir.”

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Rodrigo y Gabriela

Orpheum Theatre, Oct. 22 Armed with acoustic guitars and dazzling technical skills, this Mexican duo often record classical works but rip into heavy metal and nuevo flamenco during live shows. Their new album, 9 Dead Alive, is more of a rock record than their previous efforts, and each track is dedicated to someone who has passed away but whose work or ideals still resonate in the present day. For more acoustic-duo awesomeness, head to a folkblues concert by sibling group Angus & Julia Stone at the Majestic on Oct. 17.

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Dum Dum Girls

High Noon Saloon, Oct. 23 This L.A.-based act pulled a coup by getting Richard Gottehrer to produce their first album, 2010’s I Will Be. Having cowritten ’60s hits like “My Boyfriend’s Back,” he understood the girlgroup sound they sought, and having worked with Blondie and the Go-Go’s, he appreciated their desire to play with conventions, for instance by wrapping sweet pop hooks in vaguely menacing fuzz. He Gets Me High, their 2011 EP of lo-fi dreampop, captures the warm and hazy feeling of infatuation on opening track “Wrong Feels Right” and closes with a haunting cover of the Smiths’ “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out.” The band’s 2014 album, Too True, is equally lovely but considerably creepier, earning comparisons to Siouxsie & the Banshees.

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Ani DiFranco

Orpheum Theatre, Oct. 19 This California DJ trio makes an accessible brand of EDM that often features female guest vocalists delivering giant hooks. The music is reminiscent of Big Beat (think ’90s trailblazers the Crystal Method) if the Ecstasy driving the original sound were soaked in epinephrine before being dropped.

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Segredo, Oct. 16 The artist responsible for “Harlem Shake,” the 2012 song that spawned one of the most contagious Internet memes of 2013, brings his bangin’ bass tracks to downtown Madison. See if newer singles like “Higher” are poised to be viral sensations. He’ll be joined by German EDM producer Boyz Noize, who’s known for techno and electrohouse remixes of songs by Depeche Mode, the Faint and ’90s club kings the Chemical Brothers.

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Mastodon

Orpheum Theatre, Oct. 23 Mastodon have metal riffs so massive that every other review of their latest record, Once More ’Round the Sun, uses the cringe-worthy descriptor “mammoth.” But a mammoth is only 1/20th the weight of a blue whale, and these are definitely blue-whale-size riffs.

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Dirty Heads

Barrymore Theatre, Oct. 25 This group blends ska-punk, an ultimate ’90s fad, with Sublime-style reggae-rock and ultramodern hip-hop beats. Their new album, Sounds of Change, broke into the Billboard top 10 in July, but their set should also include off-the-beaten-path material like their cover of Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida.”

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We Were Promised Jetpacks with the Twilight Sad

Majestic Theatre, Oct. 25 Two groups of Scottish rockers visit Madison together, bolstered by testimonials from Frightened Rabbit, a more famous group of tuneful Scotsmen. Jetpacks’ music sometimes reads as emo, while the Twilight Sad use post-punk guitar to pierce dense walls of feedback that sound like the ones shoegazers built in the ’90s. For more beautiful, angular post-punk guitar, be sure to catch Drowners’ Sept. 28 show at the Frequency, where they’ll give listeners a taste of their self-titled debut.

Cedric Gervais

Segredo, Oct. 30 Gervais’ remix of Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness” has amassed 77 million plays on Spotify, a whopping 60 million more than Aretha Franklin’s “Respect.” But that’s just one reason to pay attention to the French-born, Miami-based DJ’: His track “Molly” has caused controversy between Deadmau5 and Madonna, with the former accusing the latter of supporting drug use. No matter which side you’re on, the spat provides many Halloween costume options for Gervais’ Oct. 30 gig.

(Consult the “Molly” video for some racy ideas.)

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Madison World Music Festival

Memorial Union and Williamson Street, Sept. 12-13 Technically this celebration of international music spills into other parts of the Memorial Union — and even onto Willy Street — but the Play Circle is one of its performance spaces. More than a dozen acts will visit, including flamenco music and dance troupe EviscerArt (Play Circle, Sept. 12), Trinidad’s Calypso Rose and Kobo Town (Memorial Union, Sept. 12), Taiwanese traditionalists A Moving Sound (Memorial Union, Sept.

13), Hungarian strumming sensation Söndörgő (Willy Street, Sept. 13) and Argentine singer La Yegros (Willy Street, Sept. 13). Mezcla, a group from Cuba, wrap up the fest (Memorial Union, Sept. 13) with their jawdropping mix of rumba, souk, nueva trova, rock, blues and rap.

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Wisconsin Union Theater’s recently finished facelift took more than two years, but now the university’s Langdon Street theater is back, complete with a spruced-up Play Circle and spiffy Shannon Hall, which has better lighting, acoustics and seating than the old main room.

Here are a few of the most exciting music events coming to these two spaces this fall.

Shannon Hall, Sept. 18 Decorated composer and bassist Michael League brings his fusion band to Madison for the Isthmus Jazz Series, in between gigs with the likes of Erykah Badu and Justin Timberlake. The group won a Grammy earlier this year, so they should be more energetic than ever as they perform material from their new album, We Like It Here.

Kongos

Shannon Hall, Sept. 21 These South African siblings scored their first big hit in the States last year with “Come with Me Now,” a single off their new album, Lunatic. Even if Spotify has completely erased your desire to listen to traditional radio, you may have heard their catchy, guitar-driven rock in the movie The Expendables 3.

Don McLean with Judy Collins

Shannon Hall, Oct. 4 These hippie-era folkies are touring together this year. Collins has transformed pop songs (“Both Sides Now”), show tunes (“Send in the Clowns”) and traditional spirituals (“Amazing Grace”) into works of art with her lovely voice and distinctive delivery. In addition to singing the classic “American Pie,” McLean has inspired recordings by pop megastars like George Michael.

The Mosaic Project

Shannon Hall, Nov. 8 The brainchild of drummer and former Arsenio Hall Show bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington, this multigenerational act presents an eclectic mix of female jazz perspectives in a show filled with virtuoso performances. For this concert, Carrington will bring along pianist Geri Allen, vocalists Lizz Wright and Gretchen Parlato, and trumpeter Ingrid Jensen.

Horse Feathers

Play Circle, Nov. 19 This crowd-pleasing band visit from Portland, Ore., with their fourth Kill Rock Stars LP, So It Is with Us. With roots in the American folk tradition and the world of indie rock, their sound is easy to love and hard to forget. In other words, this is a concert you can enjoy with even the fussiest of friends.

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Majestic Theatre, Nov. 3 Born in Portugal and based in Portland, Ore., this producer fuses appealing elements of West Coast indie pop and the European dancemusic tradition. He’s turned rock songs by Tokyo Police Club (Majestic Theatre, Nov. 5) into lush soundscapes and made charming tunes like the Shins’ “Sleeping Lessons” even dreamier. This show’s a chance to experience the magic of his original compositions.

Morgan Page

Segredo, Nov. 8 This DJ and producer hopped on the road to prog-house stardom early, interning at a German record label while he was still in grade school. His recent remix of Icona Pop’s “Just Another Night” has a Robyn-esque quality, and the key progressions in “Against the World,” a collaboration with Michael S., are definitely rave-worthy.

Brother Ali

High Noon Saloon, Nov. 13 Rhymesayers artist Brother Ali makes hiphop in the Public Enemy tradition: pull-nopunches political discussion with driving beats. By naming his tour “Home Away from Home,” the Madison-born, Minneapolis-based rapper should draw locals eager to remind him that Mad City is his true stomping grounds.

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Barrymore Theatre, Nov. 16 After becoming a slam-poetry champ in the Bay Area, this artist transformed himself into a successful rapper and YouTube sensation.

With mind-boggling rhymes and mile-aminute delivery, he’s a joy to watch no matter what he calls his craft, and he’s got tons of great material to draw from, including his chart-climbing 2014 album All You Can Do. In addition to throwing shade at Miley Cyrus, the record has tracks ranging from

the hilarious “My First Stalker” to the introspective “Tears to Diamonds,” which examines his own struggles with mental illness while questioning the amount of power Big Pharma wields.

Barrymore Theatre, Nov. 17 A living legend of the ukulele, this nimble-fingered Hawaiian puts amateurs like Zooey Deschanel to shame. His cover of the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” was one of YouTube’s first viral sensations back in 2006, and his version of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” is simply breathtaking. He’s also a master of Hawaiian folk and surf music, which he shows off on the soundtrack to the Japanese film Hula Girls.

RL Grime

Majestic Theatre, Nov. 19 This producer’s combination of trap and bass music is a force to be reckoned with in the L.A. EDM scene. His EP with rising rapper Problem set iTunes’ dance and hip-hop charts on fire recently.

Run the Jewels

Majestic Theatre, Nov. 21 Rappers El-P and Killer Mike team up once again for a tour, this time to promote the forthcoming album Run the Jewels 2. El-P says it will be a darker record than its predecessor, but expect huge beats, powerful delivery and all sorts of crazy flourishes.

Har Mar Superstar & the Pizza Underground

High Noon Saloon, Nov. 30 Har Mar Superstar won’t rest until he’s sweated out every last R&B demon haunting his stout, frequently semi-nude body. He’s recorded five albums and toured with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Strokes and Sia. Now he can add Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) from Home Alone to his list of colleagues.

If it seems weird that Culkin is fronting a pizzathemed Velvet Underground tribute band — and a bit inconsiderate considering Lou Reed’s recent death — just consider the pivotal role plain cheese pizza played in his most enduring film.

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Orpheum Theatre, Dec. 9 This master of moombahton — a hybrid of house and reggaeton — gets crowds to sing and dance like there’s no tomorrow. The L.A.-based DJ packed the Majestic a little while back, and now he’s got a bigger venue for his explosive live show, which tends to feature provocative visual projections, lots of f-bombs and frenzied booty shaking. Though he’s been releasing EPs and attracting celeb DJs like Diplo for several years, 2014 marks the release of his first LP, Money Sucks, Friends Rule. Now that’s cause for celebration.u

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High Noon Saloon, Dec. 5 Actor turned musician Alejandro RoseGarcia studied one-man band Bob Log III as he readied this solo act, which combines gritty vocals with impressive guitar chops and the pulse of a kick drum made from a suitcase. Log seems like the inspiration for many of his clever shifts between fast and slow, but Jeff Buckley comes to mind when Rose-Garcia lowers his voice to a whisper while exploring his upper registers, then swoops into a deep croon or pierces hearts with a shout. It’s a wild, emotional ride worth experiencing in person.

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High Noon Saloon, Sept. 5 Crystal Corner Bar, Sept. 27 Equal parts grit and glee, this garage band’s new EP, Girl Trouble, is their best work yet.

With driving drums, bliss-inducing guitars and super-soulful vocals, the single “Watch Out” is a wonderfully wild specimen and the perfect fall anthem for local rock fans.

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High Noon Saloon, Sept. 18 This show is just five days after the psychedelic garage-punk duo’s last concert supporting Nobunny in Australia and New Zealand.

Let’s hope that any jet lag has worn off and that the Foster’s Beer hasn’t caused them to go bluegrass.

Tyranny Is Tyranny

Mickey’s Tavern, Sept. 11 What does it sound like when a stoner and a bunch of warring androids walk into a Japanese gambling hall in the Upper Midwest? Bizarro rock supergroup the Garza, of course. Grab your earplugs for this one since Mickey’s can get obscenely loud.

Mr. Robert’s, Sept. 26 Looking for a less-than-obvious way to show your support for Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky? Flail about to Tyranny Is Tyranny’s anarchic post-noise while meditating upon lyrics like “Our souls vacant and torn/Self-worth measured by progress.... Work, breathe, dream, die/Your saviors lie.”

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Vanishing Kids

Mickey’s Tavern, Sept. 15 This scrappy punk duo have been known to use a drum kit made of parts salvaged from the trash. Snappy tracks like “Salt” and “Apple Core” reflect the pair’s playful personalities while showing off their enduring love of fuzz.

High Noon Saloon, Sept. 29 Propelled by Spirit Vision, their latest album of dark, keyboard-driven prog, Vanishing Kids are a can’t-miss opener for Mike Watt and the epic rock songs of his band il sogno del marinaio.

The Al Gore Rhythm Method

Segredo, Sept. 12 Made up of Madison DJ PatrickAwesome and Milwaukee DJ Red’s Life, this beats-obsessed pair build their tracks on a foundation of moombahton and trap, then spike them with house, glitch and world influences. The duo have been charting in various genres on beatport.com and are signed to Sex Cult, the record label founded by the popular EDM act Designer Drugs.

Tani Diakite & the Afrofunkstars

Overture Hall Lobby, Nov. 20 This group’s music revolves around Diakite’s charismatic personality and his kamele n’goni, a gourd-harp that’s a staple of traditional Malian music. Intricate polyrhythms, provided by percussionists Paddy Cassidy, Mamadou Diallo and Djam Vivie, are another key element. Hear the group for free at Overture Center’s November installment of MadCity Sessions, a series that also features local talent like folk rockers Beth Kille (Sept. 25) and the Mascot Theory (Oct. 23).

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High Noon Saloon, Sept. 5 The Midwest Beat share a Milwaukee and Madison lineage, so our home turf gets a release show for the upcoming full-length Free of Being.

It’ll be the first release — aside from a singles comp and a scattering of 7-inches — since 2011’s party album Gone Not Lost. Treating the threeminute mark like an electric fence, the band trim all the fat from their nubile jangle pop and fill in the spaces with sugar, so it’s a bit of a surprise to hear “High Life,” a beer-blurred bartime ballad that Johnny Paycheck would proudly play in the jukebox. But as the band pointed out to Urban Milwaukee, having Tim Schweiger on bass has made it easier for them to explore country and folk in addition to their typically hyperactive paisley pop. Openers Fire Retarded, Sugar Stems and Cowboy Winter should bring lots of energy to the show, too.

High Noon Saloon, Sept. 11 A consistently solid songwriter and tireless tourer, Vogelzang makes Madison proud year after year. She’ll share catchy folk- and chamber-pop like “Canary,” a yearning 2012 tune laced with cello and banjo, at the Bubble Music Festival.

Modern Mod

Frequency, Sept. 22 Fronted by skillful singer Emily Massey — daughter of Mike Massey, the composer of Madison Ballet’s Dracula score — this trio of high schoolers have tons of talent and the stage presence of a much more seasoned act, despite claiming that their favorite place to make music is the basement. Their debut album, Tunnels, was a hit on several college radio stations, and with good reason: Tracks like “Papercuts” teem with bright guitar solos, melodies fit for a Jenny Lewis record, and drums that invite hand claps from the audience.

Count This Penny

Live on King Street, Sept. 19 Veterans of public radio programs like A Prairie Home Companion, this local act have spot-on songwriting instincts, versatile voices and a knack for putting out slick recordings. Pitchman, their 2012 album of Americana and folkpop, was one of the final projects Madison’s Smart Studios completed before closing.

The Wells Division

Frequency, Oct. 26 Finely textured folk-rock is this band’s specialty.

To guitars and drums they add brass, keys and accordion, all topped off with Joan Herzing’s lithe vocals. They’ll open for Austin, Texas, altrockers Alpha Rev at this show.

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Mr. Robert’s, Sept. 6 High Noon Saloon, Sept. 11 Frequency, Sept. 17 After playing the Bubble Music Festival on Sept. 11, this indie-pop group open for dark and lovely singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield on Sept. 17. Released in July, their album XXXXXXX brims with sparkling instrumentals and warm, clear vocals from Hannah Luree, who sounds a bit like Dia Frampton on the spritely yet soothing track “White Diamonds.”

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Go play outside Madison has figured out how to throw impressive outdoor concerts in recent years, thanks in part to many years of neighborhood festivals. Here are four gigs to enjoy in the fresh air before the temperatures get frosty.

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UW Memorial Union Terrace, Sept. 6 Consequence of Sound has called this New York group’s sound “the Cure meets T. Rex...with dark keyboards” and “surf rock written by Joy Division,” both of which are fine descriptions of the brooding, ’80s-inspired synth-pop on the EPs Tired Hearts and You & I.

Nellie Wilson

High Noon Saloon Summer Patio Series, Sept. 11 On Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m., the High Noon’s patio serves as an outdoor stage while visitors enjoy happy-hour specials from the bar. The music is free, and so is the sunshine. This performance stars sassy country songbird Nellie Wilson, but you can also catch blues and rock artist Kyle Henderson (Sept. 18) and the Sparetime Bluegrass Band (Sept. 25) before the series concludes.

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East Side Club, Sept. 13 One of Madison’s zaniest disco bands hits the East Side Club’s lakeside tiki bar before it closes for the season. Toast the group’s theatrics with a tropical drink as you boogie to the beat.

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Live on King Street, Sept. 19 The Majestic Theatre’s free outdoor concert series wraps up with a show by fun-loving folk band the Head & the Heart, noise-pop group Bare Mutants, Americana act Count This Penny and DJ Nick Nice. The farewell to summer continues inside the venue with a performance by veteran soul band Lee Fields & the Expressions.

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Frequency, Oct. 15 With a name that invokes the icy Berlin school of electronic music, Building on Buildings rebuke that cold imagery with a warm, dense sound. The voices of Erin Fuller and Connie Ward sleepily collide over layered guitars on “Wheel,” the sumptuous first single off their upcoming full-length. The band have been hard at work finishing the record at Justin Vernon’s April Base studio in Eau Claire. Fuller says they recently wrapped up final mixing and are readying the songs for mastering. In the meantime, fans will have to hit the band’s live shows for a fix of that sweet slowcore dive into oblivion.

Catch the band quick, as Fuller says they’re feeling a bit “wanderlust-y.”

cool & hypnotic Elks Teeth & Rabbits Feet

Frequency, Sept. 4 Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse, Sept. 6 This local project is a showcase for Leah Brooke’s intoxicating voice, which lends a film-noir vibe to the haunting “Abalone Shells” and the bluesy “Sadhappy.” Her songs should sound especially beautiful in cozy venues like the Frequency and Mother Fool’s.

Soundless

High Noon Saloon, Sept. 14 This local band call their songs “post-carnival music.” It’s a fitting descriptor for the chilling tango-rock of “Leave Me Alone” and the menacing yet frolicsome harmonies of “Funeral March.” Both tunes appear on the excellent 2014 album Atoms.

hilarious Lords of the Trident

Frequency, Sept. 20 On their website, this group claim they’re “the most METAL band on Earth.” We’d consider them the most fun metal band in town, or pretty darn close, since they consistently get the crowd to participate in their live show’s antics. They’re also Madison’s representatives in the 2014 BandSwap musicexchange program, which takes them to Colorado to show how great our local scene is. Their Sept. 20 show is part of a BandSwap showcase featuring last year’s reps, retro rock rebels Sexy Ester.

Masked Intruder

Majestic Theatre, Nov. 18 Don’t step into a dark alleyway near the Majestic on Nov. 18.

When you’re near mask-wearing kleptomaniacs with lyrics like “I got a knife, it’s a switchblade/I think it’s time for me to get paid,” you have to watch your back. Sure, these guys are pop-punk sweethearts, and you’ll love the upbeat music that earned them a record deal with Fat Wreck Chords, but anything’s possible when they open for over-the-top rockers Foxy Shazam.

Jolly Bob’s, Tuesdays and Saturdays Agard helms the Saturday-night House of Love party with DJ Lovecraft, exploring house music old and new with guest DJs, including legends like Jesse Saunders. He’s also a creative curator of disco, downtempo and electro tunes, a masterful mixer and one of Madison’s most knowledgeable electronicmusic historians.

DJ Kayla Kush

High Noon Saloon, Sept. 10 Brink Lounge, Sept. 13 Dragonfly Lounge, Sept. 27, Oct. 4 and Nov. 1 The host of WSUM’s popular “U DUB” program is also an award-winning reggae DJ. Though legends like Bob Marley have shaped her listening habits, she excels at introducing the masses to newer dub, reggae and fusion artists, and presenting choice cuts by talented touring acts like Groundation (Majestic Theatre, Sept. 6). Be sure to check out Mad Roots, her new monthly event at Dragonfly Lounge with DJ Vilas Park Sniper. It’s a great opportunity to learn about reggae’s latest incarnations and dance any way you’d like in a chilledout party atmosphere.

Annabel Lee

Inferno, Sept. 20 The winner of numerous Madison Area Music Awards, this local singer is a force of nature on stage, belting out dance tunes like she’s already an international star. Featuring synths and other electronics, ditties like “Pray” and “Supernova Girl” bear the mark of Madonna, Cathy Dennis and other pop artists of yore, as well as newer hitmakers like Florence & the Machine.

Venus in Furs

Crystal Corner Bar, Oct. 18 This band’s fast-paced surf-punk is perfect for dancing, and their lyrics are both entertaining and socially conscious. Of course, there are some silly-fun ditties, too, like the lovable mall-retail tune “Macys Stacey.”

fearless Meghan Rose

Brink Lounge, Sept. 6 This singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and all-around hell-raiser recently launched a full-time music career after leaving the corporate world. You can find her in the bands Damsel Trash (Crystal Corner Bar, Sept. 6) and Little Red Wolf; making music for OUT!Cast Theatre and Are We Delicious? Ensemble Theatre; and coaching bands at Girls Rock Camp. Her solo sets contain some of her newest material, whose inspiration stems from bold musical theater numbers and rock groups led by other fearless females.

DJ Pain 1 with Sole

Frequency, Sept. 14 Local hip-hop DJ Pain 1 has produced for the likes of Gucci Mane and 50 Cent, and his star seems to be rising even farther. Recently he and Sole, the Denver-based rapper who founded Anticon Records, released a collaborative record titled Death Drive. It’s a remarkable pairing of Pain 1’s trap wizardry with Sole’s ballsy political statements, two things that wouldn’t typically go together. Tracks like “Baghdad Shake” will challenge you to pump your fists while shaking your ass.u

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Missing the humor Area library seeks lost issues of The Onion and other funny ephemera

By Bob Jacobson

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he University of Wisconsin library wants your old Onions. And your Octopuses (Octopi?). And whatever other campus-humor-related memorabilia you have stashed in the attic.

Long before The Onion made its debut in 1988, Madison had The Octopus, which first appeared in 1919, and before that, The Sphinx.

The UW library has some copies of those old humor mags, but the missing issues far outnumber those in the holdings. Sadly, early issues of The Onion are in danger of being similarly lost to history. David Null, director of University Archives, and Ben Strand, development director for campus libraries at the University of Wisconsin Foundation, are trying to prevent that from happening.

To that end, they’ve partnered with the UW Parent Program to put together Our Funny University, a panel presentation featuring Scott Dikkers, a founding editor of The Onion; and Jim Mallon, who was elected president of the Wisconsin Student Association on the Pail and Shovel Party ticket. Pail and Shovel achieved notoriety in the late 1970s through such large-scale pranks as filling Bascom Hill with hundreds of plastic pink flamingos and placing a replica of the Statue of Liberty — at least her torch hand and the upper half of her head — on frozen Lake Mendota. Mallon went on to become one of the creators of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Our Funny University, part of the official Parents’ Weekend agenda, takes place Sept. 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.

One purpose of the event is to put the call out to the university community and beyond to hand over historical bits of campus humor to the Archives. The other purpose is to encourage students to be brave, make connections with like-minded peers, and get involved in campus activities. You never know if that wacky project you start in your dorm room will be the next Onion.

The UW Library System’s interest in campus humor got a big boost in 2008 when John Dobbertin, a former editor of the University of Michigan’s humor magazine The Gargoyle, donated to UW what may be the biggest collection of college humor magazines in the country. Decades after first amassing a big pile of Gargoyles, Dobbertin decided to start collecting magazines from other campuses.

“The result,” Dobbertin explains, “was a collection of more than 1,000 college humor magazines...and a wife asking when I would ‘do something’ with them.”

That “something” turned out to be making them a gift to UW. Since most of Dobbertin’s mags have nothing to do with Madison or UW, they reside in the UW Memorial Library Special Collections Department.

Materials connected to the UW campus, such as Onion and Octopus issues, live in the UW Archives.

After the arrival of the Dobbertin collection, Strand started looking to see what else the university had in the way of college humor, especially from Madison. It turned out not to be all that much. So he and Null started reaching out to people they thought might be able to help locate what was out there before it’s too late.

“Scott Dikkers has been great, helping us reconnect with a bunch of early Onion founders,” Strand says. “But these were college kids, and they didn’t tend to keep stuff.”

Another Onion founder, Tim Keck, had a lot of Onion artifacts but lost the whole lot in a house fire years ago.

The Archives are looking for campus humor items of all sorts, not just magazines.

“We’re interested in event posters, photographs of pranks, all sorts of artifacts,” says Null. The challenge, he says, is that “a lot of that stuff is very ephemeral, so it doesn’t tend to get saved.”

Null worries that with The Onion closing in on 30 years, the clock is ticking on the survival of those missing early issues.

That brings a sense of urgency to the project.

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ritics have dutifully fallen in line for Cinemax’s The Knick, an arty period hospital drama that makes its points with buckets of blood. I recommend a more enjoyable period hospital drama: Breathless on Masterpiece Mystery!

(Sunday, 8 p.m., PBS). It’s set in early 1960s London and, like Mad Men, explores the era’s social codes. In this week’s episode, a surgeon harboring a dangerous secret (Jack Davenport) woos a virtuous nurse (Catherine Steadman), while his wife (Natasha Little) comports with a sinister inspector (Iain Glen) who threatens to destroy her family. Other characters struggle with life and love in a time when abortion is illegal but the sexual revolution is revving up.

Where The Knick is intentionally ugly, Breathless is elegant. The stylists have fun with the lacquered hairdos, and the costume department goes nuts with the pearls and white gloves. The British actors do what they do best: imply tumultuous emotion with little more than a raised eyebrow.

It’s amazing how much more some filmmakers can communicate with a raised eyebrow than others can with buckets of blood.

The Chair Saturday, 10 pm (Starz)

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From the executive producer of Project Greenlight, this reality series offers a glimpse at the working methods of two young first-time film directors. Shane is an Internet star who cavorts on YouTube in a blond wig; Anna is a graduate of NYU’s screenwriting program with roots in the indie-film scene. Both are at once confident they can make a great movie and plagued by insecurities. In other words, the classic personality type for a film director.

“It feels like such a cruel joke when all your dreams come true and you feel like you’re going to puke the entire time,” says Anna, nicely encapsulating an artist’s deep-seated fear of success.

The Chair presents both Anna and Shane with the same script and chronicles what each one does with it; actor Zachary Quinto serves as mentor to both. The director who makes the best 20 film (as determined by viewer votes) gets

Explosive activism Night Moves follows two eco-terrorists plotting to blow up a dam

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Reckless Sunday, 9 pm (CBS)

I’ve been enjoying this sexy soap opera about rival lawyers in Charleston, S.C. Jamie (Anna Wood) is a hottie from the North who dresses in tight red skirts; Roy (Cam Gigandet) is a hunk from the South who, one imagines, spends more time at the gym than he does at the law library.

In this week’s episode, they prepare for their big trial: Jamie representing a cop who has sued the police department in a case involving sex and corruption; Roy representing the other side.

Don’t expect much in the way of a legal debate when these two encounter one another on the eve of jury selection. Instead, Roy propositions Jamie, speaking of their upcoming courtroom date as if it were a sexual act. “We can either do it tonight in private or we do it tomorrow in court,” he says, leering. Jamie turns him down while one-upping his double entendre. “I’m coming at you with everything I’ve got,” she says. “I just hope you’ll still respect me in the morning.”

This might be the first trial in TV history that requires contraceptives.

Love Prison Monday, 9 pm (A&E)

This new reality series finds people who know each other only from online dating, then puts them in a “love prison” (a house on a deserted island) for a week with nothing to do other than relate to each other.

That would make for fascinating drama if the couples themselves were fascinating — say, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, or Bill and Hillary Clinton. In the pilot, unfortunately, we’re stuck with Billy and Jeanne. He’s a shallow New York guy with an annoying sense of humor; she’s a shallow California gal with the annoying habit of shrieking at Billy’s jokes. These two are trapped together in the house, and we’re trapped with them as they trade banalities about “commitment” and “trust.”

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ight Moves is probably the only suspenseful thriller you’ll see this year in which someone explains what a CSA box is.

The remarks on community-supported agriculture come at a fraught moment, one of several. Eco-terrorists Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) and Dena (Dakota Fanning) have just blown up a dam, and they are stopped at a roadblock.

A police officer asks to search their pickup truck, and we wonder Night Moves whether she will find evi4070 UW Vilas dence relating to the large Hall, Friday, Sept. 5, 7 pm amount of fertilizer they and their friend Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard) have used to commit the crime. But no, the cop finds a container full of root vegetables and greens. It’s for home delivery, the Eisenberg character explains.

Eisenberg plays an organic farmer in Night Moves, an engrossing film directed and cowritten by Kelly Reichardt. She made the indie Western Meek’s Cutoff and the forlorn, dog-themed melodrama Wendy and Lucy, one of my favorite films. Night Moves resembles heist movies like The Killing and Rififi, in which elaborate crimes are planned in painstaking detail, then carried out. Throw in a dash of Portlandia, and you’ve got Night Moves.

Set in Oregon, Night Moves covers some of the same ground as that satiric television series, which spoofs the not un-Madison-like

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The Identical asks what might have happened if the King’s twin had lived

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lvis Presley’s legacy weighs heavily on The Identical, even though he is only mentioned once. Rather than obtaining the rights to make a proper biopic, the filmmakers imagine what The Identical might happen if the rock AMC Star, ’n’ roll legend’s stillborn Eastgate, Point twin brother survived and went on to achieve fame as a professional Elvis impersonator.

We begin in the 1930s as the strain of the Great Depression prompts poor William and Helen Hemsley (Brian Geraghty, Amanda

Eisenberg knows how to play a tense neurotic. manners and mores of the Pacific Northwest.

We see New Age crystals, farmers’ markets, hippie hairstyles, communal living. We watch as casually dressed young people debate the merits of a lefty polemical documentary.

We also watch as organic farmers debate the merits of blowing up one dam versus several dams, and the exchange may make you wonder what Reichardt is trying to say about the sustainable food effort. I doubt she’s arguing that it will inevitably give rise to largescale violence. But the sustainability movement is committed to change, and we know all too well that across the ideological spectrum, movements like that can inspire extremists.

One such extremist is Josh, another of the tense neurotics Eisenberg is making a career of playing. The film centers on Josh, but other than a brief speech about the plight of the salmon, we don’t hear much from him about his motivations. Reichardt chooses understatement, and it’s a good choice. She chooses understatement throughout, and brings a low-key, documentary fascination to the scenes in which the crime is prepared.

The friends buy a speedboat, con an agricultural supplier into selling them fertilizer, prepare the explosives with a mixer identical to the one Josh uses on his farm.

Another understated moment: the destruction of the dam. The explosion registers only as a muffled boom off in the distance. Given an indie budget, this is probably the best solution. It would be handled rather differently in a Michael Bay movie.u

Crew) to surrender one of their twin newborns to the reluctant care of Reverend Reece Wade (Ray Liotta) and his wife (Ashley Judd), who are unable to conceive. Jump ahead to the ’50s, and young Ryan Wade (Blake Rayne) finds himself in the grip of honky-tonk temptation as he draws constant comparisons to rising star Drexel Hemsley (also Rayne), much to the reverend’s dismay.

If Rayne weren’t such a blank slate, it might not matter that first-time director Dustin Marcellino and co-producers Jerry and Yochanan Marcellino (music industry veterans responsible for the film’s bland songs) couldn’t decide which kind of movie they were making: an unauthorized tribute to Elvis, the umpteenth cautionary tale about the perils of stardom, or an old-fashioned melodrama about clashing fathers and sons.

Instead, the film skirts along each thread much as it skims through each decade of the era, changing haircuts with every montage and placing more emphasis on the SixDay War of 1967 than either World War II or the Vietnam conflict. In short, the filmmakers’ muddled intentions show, making The Identical a folly unworthy of the King.u

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As Above, So Below: In this horror flick, a pair of archaeologists (Ben Feldman, Perdita Weeks) search for a lost treasure in the catacombs below Paris. Since the characters are greeted by some supremely strange occurrences early on, the rest of the film seems disappointingly tame. (W.G.) Begin Again: A troubled record exec (Mark Ruffalo) meets a budding singer-songwriter (Keira Knightley) at an open mic and sets out to turn her into a star. The story is similar to the plot of writerdirector John Carney’s indie hit Once, but it’s not as focused or charming. (S.R.) Boyhood: Filmed in small bursts over the course of 12 years, Richard Linklater’s movie depicts the gradual development of a boy’s self-identity. Unlike many other coming-of-age stories, this masterwork focuses on the many daily experiences that shape who we are rather than framing one big event as a turning point. (M.B.) Calvary: A small-town Irish priest (Brendan Gleeson) must figure out which of his parishioners plans to murder him. This is a darkly hilarious and deeply thoughtful update on the Passion Play. (J.K.) Cantinflas: Óscar Jaenada plays a famous Mexican comedy star who came from humble beginnings and eventually made a mark on Hollywood.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Thrust into the 21st century from the 1940s, the Marvel hero (Chris Evans) must figure out the present while battling a Soviet agent from the past. This gripping adventure is also a wonderfully scathing critique of modern surveillance. (M.J.) Chef: An unemployed chef (Jon Favreau) launches a food truck while trying to repair rifts in his family.

This is a return to form for Favreau, who imbues the film with genuine emotion. (M.B.) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: The human survivors of a viral epidemic (Jason Clarke, Keri Russell) meet a band of highly evolved apes. Director Matt Reeves knows how to eke pathos from CGI and heartbreak from teen vampires, so he’s perfect for this story about the beasts that lie within. (M.B.) Dolphin Tale 2: The staff of a marine hospital must find a companion for the dolphin they worked so hard to save.

The Expendables 3: The mercenaries from The Expendables 2 (Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger) rescue a pal from danger and hunt for a ruthless warlord. The writing is lazy, and the special effects are unremarkable. (M.J.) The Fault in Our Stars: Cancer looms over a teen couple’s (Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort) relationship in this drama based on John Green’s gorgeous novel. This is a gentle love story rather than an anthemic romance, one that shows what a privilege it is to love someone. (K.J.) Fort McCoy: Rural Wisconsinites interact with Nazi POWs interred at the titular Army base.

Ghostbusters: In this 1984 comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, a team of unemployed scientists discover a gateway to another dimension when they form a ghost-slaying business.

The Giver: Based on Lois Lowry’s influential YA novel, this film follows a teen (Brenton Thwaites) chosen to hold the memories of a dystopian society that’s eliminated all conflict. The story’s premise is interesting, but the movie begins to get lost as it pushes toward a wobbly climax. (M.B.) Guardians of the Galaxy: In this film about the gang of Marvel superheroes, a pilot in outer space (Chris Pratt) forms an alliance with a group of misfits that includes an alien assassin (Zoe Saldana), a tree-like humanoid (voiced by Vin Diesel) and a genetically engineered raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper).

Many comic-book movies are action blockbusters with sprinkles of comic relief, but director James Gunn has created an enjoyable comedy that happens to feature comic-book characters. (S.R.) How to Train Your Dragon 2: In this computeranimated adventure, a young Viking (voiced by Jay Baruchel) and his fire-breathing friend must stop a warlord (voiced by Djimon Hounsou) who plans to subjugate all people by taking control of all dragons. One of the film’s central ideas -- that there are different ways to be a leader -- is daring for an animated feature, and satisfying as well. (S.R.) The Hundred-Foot Journey: An Indian man (Manish Dayal) clashes with the proprietor of a celebrated French restaurant (Helen Mirren). This is a savory treat peppered with wisecracking one-liners, sunny aphorisms and Lasse Hallström’s sun-flare framing of pretty people and landscapes. (K.J.) The Identical: Reviewed this issue.

If I Stay: A talented young woman’s (Chloë Grace Moretz) life hangs in the balance after a car wreck.

Into the Storm: A town tries to document a slew of devastating tornadoes. There’s an array of welldeveloped characters, including Richard Armitage as the high school’s assistant principal and the magnificent storms themselves. (L.B.) Jersey Boys: In 1960s New Jersey, a group of childhood friends and small-time criminals (John Lloyd Young, Vincent Piazza, Michael Lomenda) form the chart-topping pop act the Four Seasons. With overly broad characterizations and too much melodrama, this big-screen version of the Broadway musical feels overwrought. (S.R.) Last Holiday: A man with a terminal illness (Alec Guinness) decides to blow his savings on a lavish vacation at a seaside resort.

The Lavender Hill Mob: An unassuming bank worker (Alec Guinness) tries to steal a shipment of gold by turning it into miniature Eiffel Tower statues and sending them to France.

The Lego Movie: An ordinary-looking minifigure from Lego Land tries to foil a villain seeking to glue the universe together. Filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller play with the concept of a blockbuster as they build an unexpected story of heroism. (S.R.) Let’s Be Cops: A pair of friends (Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr.) get pulled into an underworld of mobsters when they dress up as police officers for a costume party. The leads have chemistry, but the plot is stale and predictable. (W.G.) Lucy: A woman in Taiwan (Scarlett Johansson) acquires superpowers when she’s forced to work as a drug mule for the Mafia. This is a daring joy ride, even though it leaves confusion in its wake. (L.B.) Magic in the Moonlight: In 1920s France, a famous illusionist (Colin Firth) tries to prove that a young spiritualist (Emma Stone) is a fraud. The plot is frothy but not very funny, and writer-director Woody Allen recycles a philosophical argument he’s used far too many times. (S.R.) Maleficent: This live-action fantasy shows how a pure-hearted fairy (Angelina Jolie) became the villain from Disney’s 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty. Jolie is splendid in the title role, but she can’t rescue the film from its spindly plot. (M.J.) A Most Wanted Man: Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the leader of a German spy group in this thriller adapted from John Le Carré’s 2008 novel. Director Anton Corbijn knows the threat of harm can jangle the nerves more than onscreen brutality, and Hoffman’s performance is nuanced and moving. (K.J.) Night Moves: Reviewed this issue.

The November Man: In this adaptation of Bill Granger’s novel There Are No Spies, a former CIA agent (Pierce Brosnan) emerges from retirement for a mission that requires him to protect a valuable witness (Olga Kurylenko). Brosnan gives a fine performance, showing his character’s thought processes as well as his slick spy moves. (M.B.) Planes: Fire & Rescue: A plucky air racer with a damaged engine (voiced by Dane Cook) trains to be an aerial firefighter in this spin-off of Disney’s Planes. The animation is stunning, but the plot is just too mundane. (L.B.) The Purge: Anarchy: A group of strangers band together to survive a government-sanctioned night of lawlessness. It’s refreshing to see a reliable character actor like Frank Grillo get the spotlight as the film’s Punisher-like vigilante. (W.G.) Sin City: A Dame to Kill For: Co-directors Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez return for a second tour through the world of Miller’s hard-boiled graphic novels. Visually this film is a thrill, but the mix of prequel and sequel material gets confusing and the throwback sexism disappoints. (M.B.) Tammy: A woman (Melissa McCarthy) takes a road trip with her foulmouthed, booze-guzzling grandma (Susan Sarandon) after losing her job and discovering her husband’s affair. Sarandon is a treat, but the title character is poorly written and doesn’t make good use of McCarthy’s talents. (K.J.) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The titular heroes take on 21st-century villains. Director Jonathan Liebesman keeps the pace brisk, but the tone feels more appropriate for a glorified toy commercial like G.I. Joe. (W.G.) Under the Skin: Scarlett Johansson morphs into an unknowable alien seductress for Jonathan Glazer’s near-wordless film. This is the most idiosyncratic science-fiction movie to hit theaters in years. (M.S.) When the Game Stands Tall: The story of Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel), coach of a record-shattering high school football team. Caviezel comes off as vaguely sociopathic, and weak characterization makes it hard to tell the teammates apart. (K.J.)

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 4 Quilt Expo Alliant Energy Center Exhibition Hall, 9 am-6 pm. Also Friday (9 am-6 pm) & Saturday (9 am-5 pm), Sept. 5 & 6

Wisconsin Public Television’s annual quilt extravaganza features an exhibit, presentations, classes and vendors. In other words, fabric heaven.

Snake on the Lake Music Fest UW Union South Sett, 6 pm

WSUM, the UW’s student radio station, kicks off the semester with a ginormous concert featuring genre-bending acts from Madison and beyond.

Saint Pepsi, Deastro, Golden Donna, Julian Lynch, White Mystery and Frankie Teardrop are all on the bill, but there may be a few surprises as well.

Jeremiah Nelson Tip Top Tavern, 9:30 pm

tion, directed by Callen Harty. Tobias K. Davis’ play follows a transgender man who forges a relationship with his therapist, who has a transgender child.

Tyler Preston & the King Street Band Brink Lounge, 8:30 pm

With an appealing mix of pop, country, bluegrass and folk, Preston, an Alaska native, has found a home and a following in Madison. This release party will celebrate his new album, Changes.

David Gerald UW Memorial Union Terrace, 9:30 pm

This Detroit-based artist first picked up a guitar at age 16, after becoming enamored of Prince’s skill on the instrument, but he ultimately focused on soulful blues rather than sexy R&B. His album Hell and Back includes a heartfelt cover of B.B. King’s “The Thrill Is Gone” and heartrending originals like the title track.

Nelson’s latest EP, Whittier, shows off his lyrical abilities and sweet, pure country-pop vocals on tunes like “Truckers in Drag” and “Heart and Soul.”

SATURDAY, SEPT. 6

FRIDAY, SEPT. 5

Celebrate Latin American culture by dancing to music by acts like Mariachi Juvenil Sin Fronteras and Boliviamanta. There will also be a dunk tank and food from Café Costa Rica, La Taguara and more.

Capital City Theatre Benefit with Johnny Rogers Band

Fiesta Hispana Centro Hispano, 10 am-6 pm

Majestic Theatre, 7 pm

In wine-bottle speak, Rogers’ blend of rock, pop and jazz is big and complex, and occasionally jammy. He and his band should draw lots of fans to the Majestic for this benefit for a new local theater company.

Standards of Care Bartell Theatre, 8 pm. Also Saturday, Sept. 6, 8 pm.

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UW Badgers vs. Western Illinois Leathernecks Camp Randall Stadium, 11 am. Badger Bash Tailgate: Union South, 8:30 am

Get an early start to your game-day celebrations at the Badger Bash tailgate party, complete with grilled food, music by Northern Hooks, a sequinbedecked Mike Leckrone leading the entire UW Marching Band, and, of course, an appearance by

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, Segredo, 9 pm

The Dig

Atlanta producers Daniel Disaster and Pete Heartless perform together in an electronic dance duo heavily influenced by Southern rap and hardcore. Choice words from the pair: “We’re only interested in making music you can fight or strip to.”

This group’s last LP, Midnight Flowers, was a standout among 2012’s offerings thanks to haunting opener “Red Rose in the Cold Winter Ground,” in which drums pull off several sneak attacks, and “Break the Silence,” which pairs aching verses with a soft bass line and well-placed falsetto notes.

Buckingham U. Badger himself. No ticket? No problem. The jumbotron will be set up in the Union South plaza before, during and after the game. Go Bucky!

Elks Teeth & Rabbits Feet

UW Memorial Union Terrace, 9:30 pm

House of Love with DJs Lady D, Lovecraft & Wyatt Agard Jolly Bob’s, 10 pm

Two local DJs continue their House of Love series with special guest Lady D, who’s been the resident DJ at numerous high-profile Chicago clubs.

Mother Fool’s Coffee House, 8 pm

Sirens don’t just live in the ocean. Leah Brooke, voice of this local act, hypnotizes listeners with dark, dreamy songs. You’ll want a hot cocoa after chillinducing tunes like “Silver Pins.” With Allison Merten.

Groundation Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

Formed in the jazz department at California’s Sonoma State University, this roots reggae band have performed on six continents.

The Kickstand Band Mr. Robert’s, 10 pm

Squeeze every ounce of enjoyment out of your weekends before fall’s chill sets in. With Beach Boys-style vocal harmonies and a blend of surf and punk, this Detroit band’s EP Summer Means Fun is a sunny soundtrack for a last hurrah. With Heavy Looks and Oh, My Love.

Waveless

Yum Yum Fest

Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm

Central Park, 3-8 pm

This Minneapolis band present an evening of post-punk that ranges from moody to refreshingly creepy. With Toast and Christian Dior.

This brand-new event organized by the Madison Area Chef Network is also a benefit the Madison Parks Foundation. Thirty chefs from 24 local restaurants, including Daniel Bonanno (A Pig in a Fur Coat), Tory Miller (L’Etoile, Graze, Sujeo), Daniel Fox (Heritage Tavern) and Jonny Hunter (Underground Food Collective, Forequarter), to namedrop a few, come together to tickle your tastebuds. Musical acts to accompany this culinary extravaganza include Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, Orgone, Lizzo and Four Fists featuring P.O.S. and Astronautilus.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 Ironman Wisconsin Monona Terrace, 7 am. Race expo: ThursdaySaturday (9 am-5 pm), Sunday (7-10:30 am) & Monday (7:30 am-3 pm), Sept. 4-8. IronKids fun run: Saturday, Sept. 6, Capitol Square, 8:30 am

While it’s too late to participate in this grueling 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike race and 26.2-mile run (darn!), it remains one of Madison’s primo spectator sports, and you don’t even need to break a sweat.

Monona Terrace is ground zero for people-watching.

Capital K9s Dog Paddle Goodman Pool, 10 am-4 pm

This splash fest for dogs benefits the Madison Police Department’s canine unit. With contests and prizes galore, it’s bound to be a tailwagging good time.

Joey’s Song Benefit with the Know-It-All Boyfriends Majestic Theatre, 7 pm

Butch Vig and Duke Erikson from Garbage team up with buddy Freedy Johnston to cover rock songs from the ’60s and ’70s in the Know-It-All Boyfriends. The concert’s a fundraiser for a local charity dedicated to fighting epilepsy. With Chaser.

Fall II Rise

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10 Elhanan Borenstein

Frequency, 8:30 pm

This band moved here from Puerto Rico and excel at both metal guitar riffs and powerful rock vocals.

With SkyAcre and the Begowatts.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 9

Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 7 pm

In a free lecture, the University of Washington professor invites you to “Meet Your Inner Microbial Zoo,” in other words, the 100 trillion microbial cells that make up the human anatomy.

Lee “El Dub” Walsh

Tenement with Your Pest Band and Sanhose

High Noon Saloon, 7 pm

Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm

Two punk acts from Japan stop by for a show with Madison’s Tenement, who funnel just the right amount of pop and fuzz into “Stupid Werld,” a track

The electronic reggae artist performs guitar, vocals, bass and keyboards live, adds a bit of beatboxing, and weaves everything together in loops. With Red Rose, Perspective Heights and DJ Kayla Kush.

Chick Singer Night featuring Joey Broyles

Tayyib Ali SUNDAY, SEPT. 7, Inferno, 9 pm

RYAN JAY

from 2011’s Napalm Dream, and “Wouldn’t Let You Go,” a tune from a 2013 split with Screaming Females.

This 21-year-old rapper from Philly has opened for Wiz Khalifa and Mod Sun. Check out his 2011 song “Keystone State of Mind,” which is also the title of his Midwest Mixup tour. With Michael Medall, Cory Park and Play Fair Cypher.

Trampled by Turtles FRIDAY, SEPT. 5, Overture Hall, 8 pm

The popular Duluth, Minn., act just performed on The Late Show with David Letterman and debuted their latest album, Wild Animals, last month. Here’s hoping the bluegrass-influenced “Come Back Home,” from the new release, is on the set list. With Hurray for the Riff Raff.

Beth Kille, Rebecca Nebula-Stanley, Kaia Elizabeth, Madison Malone, Emma Grace and Irene Keenan Jr.

The Mercury Tree Wisco, 9 pm

The Mars Volta are one of this prog group’s favorite bands, and it shows in their fascination with effects pedals. With Myrmidons and Mr. Jackson.

Wick-It the Instigator, NiT GriT

Brink Lounge, 8 pm

Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

Chick Singer Night typically focuses on female vocalists, but this week it’s also highlighting Joey Broyles, a local artist who challenges the community to examine the way it thinks about gender. He just released Future Pop Revolution, a fun, thoughtful debut with traces of Lady Gaga and RuPaul. With

Edited by Mr. & Mrs. Brangelina

This EDM producer’s Soundcloud page has received more than 7 million plays, and he’s been tapped to work on Microsoft commercials. He’ll be joined by California bass blaster NiT GriT.

MEMORIAL UNION WEST WING GRAND RE-OPENING! Explore the new west wing – Wheelhouse Studios, Outdoor UW, Wisconsin Union Theater and more! Featuring special performances by the aerial dance group BANDALOOP and Madison World Music Festival. Free food and family fun. Details at union.wisc.edu/west wing

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Badger Bowl: Tani Diakite, free, 7:30 pm.

The Bayou: Johnny Chimes, New Orleans piano, free, 5:30 pm; DJ Foshizzle Stickers, free, 8 pm.

Blair Street BBQ: DJ Fabulust, R&B/jazz, $10, 9 pm.

Brink Lounge: Newport Jam, free, 8 pm.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: NFusion, free, 6 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Jo-Z, Latin, 10 pm.

Christy’s Landing: Open Mike with Shelley Faith, 8 pm.

Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Kilkenny, free, 6 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Bing Bong, 9 pm.

Essen Haus: The Midwesterners, free, 9 pm.

Free House Pub, Middleton: The Westerlies, Irish, free (on the patio), 7:30 pm.

The Frequency: Elks Teeth & Rabbits Feet, Without Return, The New Red Moons, $5 ($8 ages 18+), 9 pm.

Froth House: Owls, Foxes & Sebastian, Aimee Wetenkamp, 7 pm.

Granite City Food: David Hecht, free (on patio), 6 pm.

Great Dane-Downtown: Mike Carlson, Nick Nice, 7 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Sweet & Manly, free (patio), 6 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Zak Shaffer, free, 9 pm.

Inferno: DJ Boyfrrriend, host Lili Luxe, queer dance party, $5, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Jim Ripp, $3, 9 pm.

Jolly Bob’s: DJs Amos, Brook, free, 10 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Tate’s Blues Jam, 8 pm.

Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Ken Wheaton, guitar, 5:30 pm.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Jim Erickson, jazz, 6 pm.

Merchant: Johnny Chimes & Gatur Bait, free, 9:30 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Phil Kegley Band, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Foundation, free, 10 pm.

Otto’s: Michael Hanson Jazz Group with Dave Hanson & John Widdicombe, free, 5:30 pm.

Segredo: Heroes & Villains, $35 (ages 18+), 9 pm.

Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub: Blue Spruce, 7 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Jeremiah Nelson, free, 9:30 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Frank James & Bobby Briggs, country, free, 8 pm.

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1855 Saloon, Cottage Grove: David Hecht, 7 pm.

Badger Bowl: Red Light Saint, Amberstein, 9:15 pm.

The Bayou: DJs Jogre the Ogre, Acideon, free, 10 pm.

Brink Lounge: Gypsy Lumberjacks, $5, 8 pm; Tyler Preston & the King Street Band (CD release), $10, 8:30 pm.

Brocach-Square: The Currach, Irish, free, 5:30 pm.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: Four Wheel Drive, 6 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Tony Castaneda Latin Jazz Band, free, 5:30 pm; DJs D’Lirious, David Muhammad, 9 pm.

Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Ian Gould, free, 8 pm.

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Essen Haus: David Austin Band, free, 8:30 pm.

Fisher King Winery, Mount Horeb: Thomas Burns & Steve Malin, free, 6:30 pm.

Five Nightclub: DJ Tim Walters, 9 pm.

The Fountain: Richard Shaten, piano, free, 8 pm.

Frequency: Keon Andre, 6 pm; Full Vinyl Treatment, Stare Across, Attalla, Sir! No Sir, $5, 9 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Rock Star Gomeroke, $7, 5 pm; The Midwest Beat (LP release), Fire Retarded, Sugar Stems, Cowboy Winter, $7, 9:30 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Universal Sound, free, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Jim Ripp, Peter Hernet, $5, 8 pm.

Jolly Bob’s: DJ Fernando, Latin, free, 10 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Charlie Brooks & the Way It Is, soul, $6, 9 pm.

Liliana’s Rand Moore Quartet, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

Locker Room: The Dead Sea Squirrels, free, 9 pm.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, New Orleans piano, free, 6:30 pm.

Majestic: Capital City Theatre benefit with Johnny Rogers Band, $30, 7 pm; DJs Nick Nice, Mike Carlson, ‘80s vs. ‘90s Michael Jackson, $5 (ages 18+), 9 pm.

Merchant: DJ Vilas Park Sniper, free, 10:30 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Sky Road Fly, Sons of Atom, The Rotten Tommys, free, 10 pm.

Mother Fool’s: Traditonal Frequency, folk, $6, 8 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Patchwork Monkey, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Vilas Park Sniper, free, 10 pm.

Overture Center-Overture Hall: Trampled by Turtles, Hurray for the Riff Raff, $32 ($28 adv.), 8 pm.

Plan B: DJ Shawna, host Tina She, queer dance party, $5 ($10 ages 18+), 9 pm.

Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: Back 40, 8:30 pm.

Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub: LeeDing Zeros, 7 pm.

Tempest: Alison Margaret Trio, jazz, free, 9:30 pm.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse, Verona: Madison Songwriters’ Guild Showcase/Open Mike with Amanda Pool, Katie Burns, John Duggleby, donations, 7:30 pm.

Up North Pub: Prognosis Negative, 8 pm.

Wisconsin Brewing Company, Verona: Cliff Frederiksen, 5 pm.

Saturday, SEP. 6 Art in the Barn, Fitchburg: Haiti Allies Benefit with Willy Porter, Ida Jo, with art sale, $25, 7:30 pm.

Badger Bowl: Denim ‘n Leather, 9:15 pm.

Bandung: Mideast by Midwest Salsa, free (includes lesson), 9 pm.

The Bayou: DJ Slava S-Sick, free, 10 pm.

Brink Lounge: Crunk Witch, Owls Foxes & Sebastian, Meghan Rose, $5, 9 pm.

Capital Brewery: No Name String Band, free, 6 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Rumba, 10 pm.

Come Back In: Chris Kohn & the Two Ton Heavy Thing, free, 9 pm.

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The Midwest Beat bring their twangy, garage-y sound to the High Noon to celebrate a brand-new LP, Free of Being. It should please fans of the band’s early work and just about anyone who likes a rock tune with catchy pop hooks. Milwaukee’s excellent Sugar Stems pile on the power-pop as well. With Fire Retarded and Cowboy Winter.

Crystal Corner Bar: Damsel Trash, German Art Students, Red Tape Diaries, 9:30 pm.

Double S BBQ, Cambridge: New Hiram Kings, honky tonk, free, 8 pm.

Electric Earth Cafe: Granite (CD release), After the Rain, rock, free/donations, 7:30 pm.

Essen Haus: David Austin Band, free, 8:30 pm.

Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Brian McLaughlin, 8:30 pm.

Hemingway Cigar Bar & Lounge, Fitchburg: Cool Front with Jon French, blues/rock, 8 pm.

Harmony Bar: The Mustache, $7, 9:45 pm.

Hody Bar and Grill, Middleton: Whiplash, free, 9 pm.

Inferno: DJs WhiteRabbit, Mike Carlson, $12 ($7 dressed to kill), 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Jim Ripp, Peter Hernet, $5, 8 pm.

Jolly Bob’s: DJs Lady D, Lovecraft, Wyatt Agard, house, $5, 10 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Deb Callahan, $7, 9 pm.

Lakeside Bar & Grill, Poynette: Chameleon, noon.

Lazy Oaf Lounge: Saturday Morning Cartel, 10 pm.

Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Dan Barker, 6:30 pm.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, 6:30 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Groundation, 77 Jefferson, DJ Trichrome, $15, 9 pm.

Merchant: DJ Phil Money, free, 10:30 pm.

Mickey’s: Waveless, Toast, Christian Dior, free, 10 pm.

Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse: Elks Teeth & Rabbits Feet, Allison Merten, folk rock, $6, 8 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: The Kickstand Band, Heavy Looks, Oh My Love, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Wangzoom, free, 10 pm.

Paoli Schoolhouse: Mike McCloskey, free, 6 pm.

Patrick’s Grill, McFarland: James Rolland Band, 7 pm.

Red Barn, Evansville: Don Peachey Band, 6:30 pm.

Benefiting Gilda's Club Madison TUESday, September 16th, 4:30-7:30pm (Fashion Show at 5:30) Tickets are $15 & include Fashion Show (MC’d by WISC-TV3’s Michelle Li)!

Sprecher’s Restaurant: The Retro Specz, 7:30 pm.

Tempest Don’t Spook the Horse, free, 9:30 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners: Drive By Night, 9 pm.

Tuvalu Coffee, Verona: The McDougals, free, 6:30 pm.

Tyranena Brewing, Lake Mills: Portageurs, 7 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: The Dig, free, 9:30 pm.

Sunday, SEP. 7 Brocach-Square: West Wind, Irish, free, 5 pm.

Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Michael Alexander & David George, 5 pm.

Coliseum Bar: River City 6, Madison Jazz Society concert, $25 (free ages 18 & under), 1 pm.

The Fountain: All-Ages Jazz Jam, donations, 4 pm.

The Frequency: Matt Flinner Trio, $17 ($15 adv.; ages 18+), 6 pm; Fall II Rise, SkyAcre, The Begowatts, $5 ($8 ages 18+), 8:30 pm.

Funk’s Pub, Fitchburg: Mudroom’s Open Jam, 8 pm.

Inferno: Tayyib Ali, Michael Medall, Cory Park, Play Fair Cypher, 9 pm.

Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Ken Wheaton, jazz, 10:30 am.

Maduro: DJ Nick Nice, free, 10 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Joey’s Song Benefit with Know-It-All Boyfriends, Chaser, $23 donation ($20 adv.), 7 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Open Mike, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Landology, free, 10 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Open Mike with Tyler Preston, 9 pm.

Monday, SEP. 8 Alchemy Cafe: DJ Samrock, free, 10 pm.

Claddagh, Middleton: Bluegrass Jam, 6:30 pm.

Malt House: The Kissers, Irish, free, 7:30 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: The Viper & His Famous Orchestra, free (on the patio), 5:30 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Open Jam w/Buzz, Matt & Gary, 9:30 pm.

Extra added attractions include music by DJ Nick Nice, swag bag, photo booth, refreshments, Agrace Thrift Store Pop-Up, door prizes & MORE!

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Natt Spil: DJ Whodie Guthrie, free, 10 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Sam Ness, free, 9:30 pm.

Up North Pub: Silos, 8 pm.

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Tuesday, SEP. 9 Alchemy Cafe: Ted Keys Trio, free, 10 pm.

Brink Lounge: John the Conqueror, free, 8:30 pm.

Bristled Boar Saloon and Grill, Middleton: Blues Jam with The Shake Daddys, free, 7:30 pm.

Brocach Irish Pub-Square: Open Mike, free, 8:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: New Breed Jazz Jam, free, 9 pm.

Come Back In: WheelHouse, free, 5 pm.

Essen Haus: Brian Erickson, free, 6:30 pm.

Froth House: Open Mike with Dana Perry, free, 7 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Cork ‘n Bottle String Band, bluegrass, $5, 6 pm; Rock Star Gomeroke, $6, 9 pm.

Indie Coffee: Bluegrass jam with Christopher Powers, $5 donation, 7 pm.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, free, 9 pm.

Jolly Bob’s: DJ Wyatt Agard, free, 10 pm.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Vitale, Marilyn Fisher & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 5:30 pm.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, free, 6 pm.

Malt House: Jim Schwall, free, 7:30 pm.

Mason Lounge: Five Points Jazz Collective, free, 9 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Tenement, Your Pest Band, Sanhose, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Lauren Franchi, free, 10 pm.

Up North Pub: Lefty Joe, free, 9 pm.

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1855 Saloon, Cottage Grove: Ken Wheaton, 6 pm.

Alchemy Cafe: Open Mike, free, 10 pm.

Brink Lounge: Beth Kille, Rebecca Nebula-Stanley, Kaia Elizabeth, Madison Malone, Emma Grace, w/ special Irene Keenan Jr., Joey Broyles, $8, 8 pm. guest Brocach-Monroe St: Gypsy Swing WHITNEY Open Jam, 7:30 pm.

MANN Brocach Irish Pub-Square: Irish Open Jam, free, 8 pm.

Buck and Honey’s, Sun Prairie: Nine Thirty Standard, free, 6:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Nick Nice, free ($5 ages 18+), 9 pm.

Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: WheelHouse, 6 pm.

Essen Haus: Brian Erickson, free, 6:30 pm.

The Frequency: Mandolin Orange,EDITION Leif Vollebekk, $15 ($13 adv.; ages 18+), 9 pm.

Genna’s Lounge: Open Mike, free, 9 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Lee “El Dub” Walsh, Red Rose, Perspective Heights, DJ Kayla Kush, $10 (ages 18+), 7 pm.

HotelRED-The Wise: Patrick Ferguson, free, 6 pm.

Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, free, 10 pm. w/ 77 JEFFERSON Liliana’s: Cliff Frederiksen & Ken Kuehl, free, 5:30 pm.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, free, 6 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Wick-It the Instigator, Nit Grit, $15, 9 pm.

Monona Terrace Rooftop: Copper Box, free, 5:30 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Amos Smith, free, 10 pm.

Quaker Steak & Lube, Middleton: DJ Robbie G, 5:30 pm.

Up North Pub: MoonHouse, 6 pm.

VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Jerry Stueber, free, 6 pm.

Willy Street Pub/The Wisco: The Mercury Tree, Myrmidons, Mr. Jackson, $3, 9 pm.

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UW Choral Union Auditions: Community members, 6-8 pm, 9/4, UW Humanities Bldg. $20 participation fee. 263-1891.

Madison Classical Guitar Society Showcase: With open mike, 7 pm, 9/5, Lakeside Street Coffee House. Free. 441-7599.

UW Faculty Concert Series: Stephanie Jutt, flute, Elena Abend & Christopher Taylor, piano, 8 pm, 9/6, UW Humanities Building-Morphy Hall. Free. 263-9485.

Down from the Hills: Free folk concert, 1 pm, 9/7, Eplegaarden Orchard, Fitchburg. 845-5966.

Hymn Sing: Rural Musicians Forum sing-along led by Art & Lorraine Carlson & Nita Enge, 2 pm, 9/7, Wyoming Valley School Cultural Arts Center, Spring Green. Free/donations. 588-5851.

Choral Arts Society Chorale: Invites new singers to rehearsal, 7 pm, 9/8, First United Methodist Church. Tryouts free; $50/$45 membership dues.

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RSVP for Madison Symphony Orchestra Season Opening Gala: Annual MSO League dinner, 6 pm, 9/12, Concourse Hotel, with music by The Hunt Quartet, John Demain Award presentation. $145.

RSVP by 9/8: 257-3734.

Yahara River Chorus: Barbershop group designed for women rehearsals, 7 pm Tuesdays, Peace Lutheran Church, Waunakee. 415-5023.

Organ Recital: By Bruce Bengtson, noon Wednesdays, 9/3-12/17, Luther Memorial Church. Free.

Repertoire: www.luthermem.org. 258-3160.

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Quilt Expo: Annual Wisconsin Public Television event, 9 am-6 pm on 9/4-5 and 9 am-5 pm, 9/6, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall, with displays, vendors, quilt contest & exhibit, lectures. $9/day ($17 weekend). wiquiltexpo.com. 866-297-6545.

RSVP for Good Food Garden Party: Community GroundWorks benefit dinner with locally-sourced dishes, 4 pm, 9/13, Troy Gardens, plus music by Triple Lindy Band. $125. RSVP by 9/4: communitygroundworks.org. 240-0409.

Multicultural Student Center Orientation & Reception: 5:30 pm, 9/5, UW Union South, with academic/ support service resource fair 5:30-6:30 pm, student performance showcase 6:30-8:30 pm, multicultural organization fair 8:30-10 pm, dance 10:30 pm. Free; all welcome. 262-4503.

Rhumba 4 Rainbow: Annual Rainbow Project fundraiser, 7 pm-midnight, 9/5, UW Union South-Varsity Hall, with Extra Mile recognitions, music by Grupo Candela, World Salsa Congress performances, salsa contest, silent auction & food. $45 ($40 adv.).

RSVP: www.rhumba4rainbow.org. 255-7356.

First Saturdays: Art, music & family activities, 10 amnoon, 9/6, Main Street, Stoughton. 877-9035.

Sauk Prairie Harley-Davidson 35th Anniversary Party: 11 am, 9/6, 836 Phillips Blvd., Sauk City, with bike show 11 am-2 pm (registration 10 am), pig roast 11 am, music by John Masino Band 2 pm, pin-up girl contest 5:30 pm (registration 3 pm). 643-3735.

Mandolin Orange Wednesday, Sept. 10, Frequency, 9 pm

Hailing from Chapel Hill, N.C., this duo take their cues from Appalachian roots music as well as rock and blues, intertwining lyrics about love, loss and faith. With Leif Vollebekk.

Workers’ Rights Center Fundraiser: Salsa dancing & lessons, food & drinks, 7:30 pm-midnight, 9/6, Wil-Mar Center. $8 ($5 adv.). 255-0376.

Yum Yum Fest: Madison Area Chef Network showcase to benefit Madison Parks Foundation, 3-8 pm, 9/7, Central Park, with dishes by 30+ area chefs, music

by Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, Orgone, Lizzo, Four Fists. $15 admission; food/drinks extra. yum2fest.com.

Capital K9s Dog Paddle: Annual Madison Police Department canine unit benefit, 10 am-4 pm, 9/7, Goodman Pool, with dog contests in the pool, prizes. $20/dog ($15 adv.; $10 humans without dog).

RSVP: www.capitalk9s.org. 514-1618.

RSVP for Friends of Wisdom Prairie Kickoff Celebration: Autumnal equinox dinner, 5:30 pm, 9/23, Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton, with speaker Randy Hoffman on monastery land restoration. $25. RSVP by 9/9: benedictinewomen.org. 836-1631 ext. 123.

RSVP for Unleashed & Uncorked: Dane County Humane Society fundraiser, 7-10 pm, 9/12, Lake Farm County Park-Lussier Family Heritage Center, with wine tasting, art sale, music, bonfire, food. $40. RSVP by 9/10: www.giveshelter.org. 838-0413 ext. 185.

Fairs & Festivals Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival: 9/5-7, Jefferson Fair Park, with, sheep & fleece shows, vendors, workshops & demos, kids’ activities. $7/day, $12/ weekend (free ages 8 & under; extra cost for some workshops). www.wisconsinsheepandwoolfestival. com. 920-623-3536.

Pardeeville Watermelon Festival: Annual event, 10 am, 9/6, Chandler Park, Pardeeville, with art fair, kids’ activities, music, carving, eating & seedspitting contests. Free admission. www.pardeevillewatermelonfestival.com,.

Fiesta Hispana: Annual celebration of Latino culture, 10 am-6 pm, 9/6, Centro Hispano, with kids’ activities, food, entertainment by DJ Sonido, Mariachi Juvenil Sin Fronteras, Boliviamanta, Garra Felina, Danztrad, Tierra Libre, Michelle Maria, Carmen & Paolita, Ballet Folklorico de Maria Diaz. Free admission. micentro.org. 255-3018.

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Belly Dancing: 8 & 9:30 pm Fridays & Saturdays, Mediterranean Hookah Lounge. Free. 251-7733.

Artists for the Al’s “Fishwrap”: Original comedy about a small town newspaper by Ben Bromley, 7 pm on 9/5-6 & 12-13, 2 pm on 9/7 and 1 pm, 9/14, Al. Ringling Theatre, Baraboo. $14. 356-8864.

comedy Atlas Improv Co: 8 & 10 pm Fridays & Saturdays, 609 E. Washington Ave. $8 ($5 kids). 259-9999.

Monkey Business Institute: Improv, 8 pm Saturdays, Glass Nickel-Atwood. $10 (all-ages show 5:30 pm, $6). 658-5153.

Open Mike: 9 pm Mondays, Argus Bar. Free. 256-4141.

Open Mike: 9 pm Wednesdays, Comedy Club on State. $2. 256-0099.

words Poetry Open Mike: 7 pm, 9/4, Central Library.

Workshop 6:30 pm. 266-6350.

Socrates Cafe: Philosophy dialogue group, topic chosen at meeting, 7 pm, 9/4, Michelangelo’s. 257-8869.

CREECA Fall Roundtable: Informal faculty presentations, 4 pm, 9/4, UW Ingraham Hall-Room 206.

262-3379.

Madison Storytellers: “Stories About Getting Unstuck,” listen to or share stories about escapes, 8 pm, 9/5, Central Library. Free. 266-6300.

First Friday, First Person: Memoir writing feedback group, 11 am, 9/5, Pinney Library. 224-7100.

Monsters of Poetry: Readings by Kara Candito, Holly Amos, Jeffrey Allen, Mark Jay Brewin, 7:30 pm, 9/5, Dragonfly Lounge. $3 donation. monstersofpoetry.tumblr.com.

Feeding the Mega-City in Wartime: Manila 1944-45: Starvation & Flight: UW Center for Southeast Asian Studies lecture by Professor Emeritus Daniel Doeppers, noon, 9/5, Ingraham Hall-Room 206. 263-1755.

Friends of the Hawthorne Library Info Booth: 11 am2 pm Saturdays, 9/6-27, Hawthorne Library. 246-4548.

Sue Massey: Signing “Letter from the Heart: The Real Story Behind the Iconic Photograph,” her memoir, noon, 9/6, Barnes & Noble-West Towne. 827-0809.

Pundamonium: Slam-style pun contest, 7 pm, 9/8, High Noon Saloon. $6. 268-1122.

Madison History Round Table: “50th Anniversary of the 1964 Freedom Summer Project,” by Michael Edmonds, 7:15 pm, 9/11, Radisson. Free (optional dinner 6 pm, $20; RSVP by 9/8: 274-0996). 274-9342.

UW Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Mosse Lectures: Given by University of CaliforniaLos Angeles Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein: “Ottoman Jews, European Protection & the Ambiguities of Extraterritoriality in the 20th Century,” 4 pm, 9/9; “’The Fears of the Present Time’: The Balkan Wars, Portugal & the International Rush on the Jews of Salonica,” 4 pm, 9/10; “Citizens of a Fictional Nation: Ottoman-born Jews in France & Britain during the First World War,” 4 pm, 9/11, Elvehjem Building-Room L140. 265-4763.

Community Writing Assistance: 4:30-7:30 pm Tuesdays, 9/9-12/9, South Madison Library. Free.

RSVP: 266-6395.

Who Wrote Shakespeare?: Shakepeare Oxford Fellowship conference, 9/11-14, Overture Center, with speakers, film screenings. $90-$40/day ($225/weekend).

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Milwaukee’s Porter will bring his folk-inflected guitar picking and storytelling talents to this benefit for a Madison-based Haitian relief organization. The event also includes a Haitian art sale. With Ida Jo. Ironman Wisconsin: Triathlon, 7 am, 9/7, starting with with swim in Lake Monona (by Monona Terrace), bikes returning to Monona Terrace (race leaders approx. noon) & run finish on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (approx. 3:30 pm). Also: Race expo 9/4-8, Monona Terrace; IronKids fun run 8:30 am, 9/6, Capitol Square (registration 7:30 am, $15); awards ceremony 9:30 am, 9/8, Monona Terrace. ironmanwisconsin.com. 813-868-5940.

Madison 56ers Fall Invitational: Annual youth soccer tournament, 5-8 pm on 9/5, 8 am-7 pm on 9/6 and 8 am-6 pm, 9/7, Reddan Soccer Complex, Verona. Spectators welcome; free admission. www.madison56ers.org. 273-1956.

UW Cross Country: 5 pm, 9/5, UW Zimmer Championship Course. 262-1440.

Power Up Badgers Pre-Game: Free tailgate party/ open house, 9-11 am, 9/6, Wisconsin Energy Institute, 1552 University Ave. RSVP: energy.wisc.edu.

UW Football: vs. Western Illinois, 11 am, 9/6, Camp Randall Stadium. Badger Bash tailgate with UW Marching Band, Northern Hooks 8:30 am, Union South. $45. 262-1440.

art Suzanne Rose: “Night Vision,” photographs, noon4 pm Sundays, 9/7-28, Center for Photography at Madison (reception 7 pm, 9/4). 287-1182.

The Human Condition: The Stephen & Pamela Hootkin Collection of Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture: 9/5-11/30, Chazen Museum of Art (talk by Garth Clark & Mark Del Vecchio 5:30 pm & reception 6:308:30 pm, 9/4, with music by Sotavento). 263-2246.

Central Library: Jayne Reid Jackson, Katrina Schaag, Kemper Smith, Nathan Fritz, 9/5-10/30, first & second floors (Night Light reception 8-11 pm, 9/5, with Madison Storytellers, refreshments); Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Portfolio, 9/5-19, third floor. 266-6300.

Eric Peterson: “Art Manifest,” paintings, 2-8 pm Thursdays, 9/11-25, Art Hub (reception 6-9 pm, 9/5). 284-8277.

Helen Klebesadel, Kelty Carew, Danny Torres: 9/611/3, Opera House Art Gallery, Mount Horeb (reception 2:30-5 pm, 9/6). 609-4990.

Latino Art Fair: Free Latino Chamber of Commerce event, 5-8 pm, 9/10, Central Library, with entertainment, raffle, wine & cheese tasting. 712-3522.

3150 Studio Artists: “Women Inspiring Women,” mixed media & fabric works, through 9/29, Verona Library. 845-7180.

arts notices Hour of the Wolf: Film screening (1968), 6:30 pm, 9/4, Central Library. 266-6300.

Anime Club: “Problem Children are Coming from Another World” screening, 6:45 pm, 9/5, Ashman Library. RSVP: 824-1780.

Art Break: Free art-making spaces/supplies, 9 am6 pm, 9/5, Central Library. 266-6300.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Free film screening (2014), 6 pm, 9/5, Pinney Library. 224-7100.

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Volunteer Docents: Training session, 1-3:30 pm Tuesdays, 9/2312/16. $25 materials fee; must be a MMoCA member.

Info/RSVP by 9/5: sheri@mmoca.org. 257-0158.

Matsuri: Japanese Festival: Workshops, lectures & activities, 9 am-5 pm, 9/5-7, Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, Mineral Point, with free kids’ projects 9 am-3 pm Sat.-Sun. Workshops $55-$5 (RSVP: www.shakeragalley.com). 987-3292.

Draw: Madison: Sketching group, 1 pm, 9/7, Burrows Park. 221-9618.

Cartooning in the Digital Age: Workshop for teens/ adults, 2 pm, 9/7, Central Library. RSVP: 266-6300.

StageQ Auditions: For December production “Christmas with the Crawfords,” 7 pm, 9/8-9, 148 E. Wilson St. stageqartisticdirector@stageq.com.

Madison Blues Society: Meeting, 6 pm, 9/8, Argus Bar Grille. All welcome. 241-1018.

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Film screening (2012), 2 pm, 9/8, Ashman Library. 824-1780.

Community Cinema: “Women in Comedy,” PBS “Makers” documentary & discussion with comedian Stacey Kulow, 6:30 pm, 9/9, Central Library. 266-6300.

PlayTime Productions Auditions: For musical production by grades 3-12, “The Snow Queen,” 4:30-7 pm, 9/9, Monona Library. No audition fee. 437-4217.

Story & Film Development: Free workshop for grades 6-12, 6 pm, 9/10, Central Library. 266-6300.

Taste of Wisconsin Local Food Student Art Contest: REAP Food Group invites submissions from grades K-12 through 9/10. reapfoodgroup.org. 310-7836.

dancing Dances of Universal Peace: 7-9 pm, 9/5, Gates of Heaven. $10 donation. 338-0709.

Westport Squares: Mainstream, 7:30-10 pm, 9/5, Maple Bluff Community Center. $5 donation. 244-1185.

Madison Tango Society Milonga: Open dance with DJ Doug Reuhl, 7:30-11:30 pm, 9/6, Grace Episcopal Church. $17. 238-2039.

Dance ‘n Dine: Tom Brusky Band, 1-5 pm, 9/7, Turner Hall of Monroe. $10. 325-3461.

Sunday Dance Party: Marcy & the Highlights, 7:15-10 pm, 9/7, VFW Post 1318-Lakeside St. $10 (lesson 6:30 pm). sundaydanceparty.com. 712-5483.

RSVP for Tap Classes: For ages 8 & up, series begin 9/3-8, TAPIT/New Works. $169/$162 per series.

RSVP: info@tapitneworks.org. 244-2938.

FOOT-Loose: Friends of Olin-Turville open dance with Prairie Bayou Cajun Band, 6-8 pm, 9/9, Olin Park Pavilion. Free. 239-4299.

Government Public Meetings Dane County Board of Supervisors: Meeting, 7 pm, 9/4, City-County Building-Room 201. 266-5758.

Madison Board of Estimates: Discussing Capital Budget, 4:30 pm, 9/8, Madison Municipal Bldg-Room 260 (continues 4:30 pm, 9/9, if needed). 266-4601.

Dane County Board of Supervisors: Public hearing on 2014 budget (except DHS), 6 pm, 9/10, City-County Building-Room 201; Department of Human Services budget, 6 pm, 9/11, Alliant Energy Center. 266-5758.

DNR Public Hearing: On boat rules & regulations, 10 am, 9/10, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Service Center, Fitchburg. 228-9352.

Politics Mary Burke Coordinated Campaign Office Grand Opening: 4:30-7:30 pm, 9/4, 6719 Frank Lloyd Wright Ave., Middleton, with guest speakers including attorney general candidate Susan Happ. Free. 772-7243.

Madison Action for Mining Alternatives: 6:30 pm, 9/4, State Street Center-Fourth Floor. 250-9240.

RSVP for Madison Civics Club: Lunch program, “Healing the Heart of Democracy,” by author Parker Palmer, 11 am, 9/13, Monona Terrace. $35. RSVP by 9/5: www.madisoncivicsclub.org. 333-4345.

28th Amendment National Roadshow: Conference on getting money out of politics, 10 am-1 pm, 9/6, UW Union South-The Marquee, with keynotes by John Nichols & Lisa Graves; screening of “Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes” documentary at 2 pm. $5 donation. 28amend-movi.nationbuilder.com/madison.

Solidarity with Ferguson, Justice in Dane: Rally against racial disparities (with a focus on law enforcement), 3:30 pm, 9/7, Penn Park. www.facebook.com/events/1448791938742139.

Madison NORML: 7 pm, 9/8, Wil-Mar Ctr. 301-5665.

United Nations Association-Dane County: Meeting, with talk on the UN Food & Agriculture Organization by Greg Garbinsky, 7 pm, 9/9, Central LibraryRoom 301. Free; all welcome. 225-4921.

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General Notices Community Corral: Meet & greet with Madison Police Mounted Patrol officers & horses, 5-6 pm, 9/4, Veterans Memorial Park. www.madisonmounted.org.

Madison Police Department Community Forum: 6 pm, 9/4, Lapham Elementary School. 266-4022.

Free Document Shredding: 8-10 am, 9/6, Dane County Credit Union, 709 Struck St. Bring food donations for Community Action Coalition. 256-5665.

Joining Forces for Families: Info on assistance programs for basic needs, 2-4:30 pm Mondays, 9/812/8, South Madison Library. 261-9764.

Agenda For Change Conversations: United Way invites input from Spanish speaking residents on safety, education & health topics, 5:30-7:30 pm, 9/9, Centro Hispano. RSVP: unitedwaydanecounty.org. 246-4350.

Job Fair: 10 am-3 pm, 9/10, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall. Free. www.danejobs.com. 242-4900.

Economic Strategy Symposium: City of Madison discussion, 8 am-noon, 9/10, Monona Terrace. RSVP: cityofmadison.com/economicstrategy. 267-1968.

Veterans Law Center: Free civil legal services/info, 11 am-1 pm, 9/11, City-County Building. 890-3754.

RECREATION Try the Y: Free classes & open swim/gym for ages 16+ (ymcadanecounty.org), through 9/7, at YMCA-East (221-1571), West (276-6606), Sun Prairie (837-8221).

Bike Maintenance Basics: Free talk, 5:30 or 7:15 pm, 9/4, REI. RSVP: 833-6680.

Family Geocaching: Orienteering & GPS hunt, 1-4 pm, 9/6, Aldo Leopold Nature Center’s Black Earth Campus. $8 ($29 per family). RSVP: aldoleopoldnaturecenter.org. 221-0404.

Kicks Unlimited Customer Appreciation Day: Free demos, obstacle courses, karate games, 11 am-3 pm, 9/6, 601 S. Bird St., Sun Prairie. 834-9992.

Nordic Walking: Free class, 10 am, 9/9, Fontana Sports-Downtown. RSVP: 662-9706.

Nordic Walkabout: With Leki instructor Judith Hutchinson, 9 am, 9/10, Lake Farm County Park-Lussier Family Heritage Center. Free. RSVP: 662-9706.

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RSVP for Edible Landscape Plants: From Garden to Kitchen: Class, 6:30 pm, 9/11, Olbrich Gardens. $15. RSVP by 9/4: 246-4550.

Crowley Station Community Garden Grand Opening Party: 5 pm, 9/7, 201 S. Hancock St., with yoga for gardeners 5 pm ($5 benefits the garden), potluck 6:15 pm (bring dish to pass). Rain date 9/14. 262-325-5268.

RSVP for Forest Gardens: Class, 6:30 pm, 9/16, Olbrich Gardens. $15. RSVP by 9/9: 246-4550.

Ash Tree ID & Emerald Ash Borer Walkabout: Free Community GroundWorks & Urban Tree Alliance class, 6 pm, 9/10, Troy Gardens. RSVP: 240-0409 ext. 8846.

RSVP for Night Garden Walk: Guided, 7:30 pm, 9/19, Olbrich Gardens. $15. RSVP by 9/11: 246-4550.

ENVIRONMENT Sierra Club Evening Hike: 6:30 pm, 9/4, Ice Age Junction (meet at Hwy. PD south side parking lot). kmulb@charter.net. 256-0565.

Green Thursdays: “Gasland 2” documentary screening, 6:30 pm, 9/4, Fitchburg Library (729-1760); 7 pm, 9/4, Willy Street Co-op-West, Middleton (821-8343).

The History & Ecology of Horicon Marsh: Talk by Bill Volkert, 6:30 pm, 9/4, Sun Prairie Library. 825-0702.

UW Arboretum Volunteer Work Day: Wingra oak savanna, 9 am-noon, 9/6, meet at Arbor Drive parking lot. Canceled if rain. 265-5214.

UW Arboretum Night Walk: 7:30 pm, 9/6, Visitor Center. 263-7888.

Ice Age Trail-Lodi Valley Chapter: Hike, 7:30 pm, 9/7, meet at Robertson trailhead on Riddle/Springfield Road, Lodi; Gibraltar Rock trail maintenance work day, 1 pm, 9/9, meet at Hwy. V parking lot (billpatti@charter.net. 843-3926).

Wisconsin’s Changing Environment: Short videos & discussion, 10:30 am, 9/7, First United Methodist Church. 256-9061.

UW Arboretum Walk: Curtis Prairie, 1 pm, 9/7, Visitor Center. 263-7888.

Ice Age Trail-Dane County Chapter Hike: 6 pm, 9/8, Indian Lake County Park. dpjenkins@tds.net. 836-8879.

Southern Wisconsin Trout Unlimited: Meeting, with talk “Finding & Catching More River Smallies” by Bill Schultz, 6 pm, 9/9, Coliseum Bar. www.swtu.org.

RSVP for Sustainability Session: Sustain Dane talk on water stewardship, 8:30 am, 9/16, Goodman Community Center. $10. RSVP by 9/9: 819-0689.

Green Tuesdays: “If a Tree Falls” documentary screening, 6:30 pm, 9/9, Monona Library. 663-2459.

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Agrace Volunteer Training: Orientation (ages 14+), 5 pm, 9/9, Agrace Hospice & Palliative Care. 327-7163.

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Special Interests RSVP for Housing Information Network Training: Free workshop for people with disabilities, 1 pm, 9/18, Access to Independence. RSVP by 9/4: tracym@accesstoind.org. 242-8484 ext. 227.

Madison Marketing Cocktail Hour: Free networking social, 5:30 pm, 9/4, Brink Lounge. RSVP: 825-7972.

Dane County Area Genealogical Society: Meeting, with talk on Wisconsin Historical Society’s new website, 7 pm, 9/4, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-Regent. 273-0211.

Sunset Hills Walking Tour: With Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, 6 pm, 9/4, from Hoyt Park lot. $10 includes drink at Froth House. 441-8864.

Fair Trade Fashion Show: With Mata Traders founders, 6 pm, 9/4, SERRV-State Street. Free. 251-2370.

Literacy Network 101: Tour & discussion of programs, noon, 9/5, 1118 S. Park St. RSVP: 244-3911.

PolyOut: Polyamory discussion group, 7 pm, 9/5, OutReach-Gateway Mall. 255-8582.

Church Women United: Meeting (all welcome) with talk on graduating from ARC by Felicia Jones, 9 am, 9/5, St. Joseph Catholic Church. 238-7903.

Job Boot Camp: Greater Madison Area Society For Human Resource Management event for job seekers, 8:30 am-noon, 9/5, Urban League, with workshops, resume reviews, mock interviews, keynote by Boys & Girls Club of Dane County CEO Michael Johnson.

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Universal Love Song to God: Eckankar chanting, 7:30 pm, 9/5, 5610 Medical Circle, Suite 25 (enter back door). Free. 238-5650.

Madison Area Crochet Guild: Meeting, 2 pm, 9/6, Fitchburg Library. 770-5966.

Mansion Hill West Walking Tour: With Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, 11 am, 9/6, from Plaza Tavern. $10 includes drink. 441-8864.

Humanist Union: Potluck (bring a dish to pass), with talk by Ingrid Laas on Foundation Beyond Belief’s “Humanism at Work” conference, 11:45 am, 9/7, Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society. Free. 273-8775.

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Daughters of the American Revolution-John Bell Chapter: Lunch meeting, 11:30 am, 9/12, Maple Bluff Country Club, with talk by FBI investigator Amy Asher. $15. RSVP by 9/8: secretary.johnbell@gmail.com.

9/11 Never Forget: Traveling exhibit, 1-7 pm, 9/8, Verona Library, with artifacts, videos. Free. 845-7180.

Skills in Computers & Literacy for Employment: Literacy Network class for adults, 5:30 pm Tuesdays, 9/912/16, Hawthorne Library; or 10:15 am Wednesdays, 9/10-12/17, South Madison Library. RSVP: 244-3911.

Veterans Meetup: With Wisconsin 4 Vets, 7 pm, 9/9, Michelangelo’s Coffee Shop. Free. 957-2850.

Reflections on Charitable Planning Two Years after the American Taxpayer Relief Act: Madison Community Foundation seminar by Kirk Hoopingarner, 1:30-5 pm, 9/9, Monona Terrace. $30. RSVP: www.madisoncommunityfoundation.org. 232-1763.

Make Your Money Talk: Free workshop, 6 pm Tuesdays, 9/9-30, Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corp. RSVP for series: 257-5450.

Exploring Entrepreneurship: Free Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corp. workshop, 9:30 am, 9/10, Dane County Job Center. RSVP: 242-4900.

Getting into College: Understanding the SAT/ACT & College Admissions Process: Free talk, 6 pm, 9/10, Hawthorne Library. 246-4548.

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Plus, 400 pounds of canned pumpkin help provide a creamy mouthfeel.

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The 2014 version of Sasquash is a little too assertive for me because there’s not enough beer complement, given the background of the porter’s own roasted chocolate malts. The grilled-burnt flavors and lingering spices overshadow the porter, reminding me more of spicy holiday brews that appear around Christmas. I suggest it as an after-

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SAMPLES Recently reviewed Hong Kong Station 1441 Regent St. Filling bowls of legit cart-style noodles start at $4 any time of day. Choose from 10 noodle varieties and three broth choices, plus 21 possible additions to the bowls for $1 each.

Whole barbecue ducks and sides of crisped, tender honey barbecue pork hang above the counter on hooks; both are available for $6.50 per pound.

Either can be ordered for on-site dining but seem to be mostly purchased for takeout.

The duck is fine, but the pork is nearly transcendent: slightly crisped and caramelized on the outside, yet tender on the interior, chopped into bite-sized, toothy strips and hunks. Playing to the shop’s strong suit is the excellent Singapore Chow Mei Fun, a heap of thin rice noodles flavored with curry; chock-full of peppers, bean sprouts and shrimp; and studded with the honey barbecue pork.

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Open Kabul Restaurant 540 State St., second floor, 608-256-6322.

Relocated from its former site across the street, Kabul is once again serving Afghani and Mediterranean cuisine.

Sujeo 10 N. Livingston St., 608-630-9400.

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Heartland Farm helps animals that help kids The Verona-based nonprofit changes the lives of children through animal-assisted therapy

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ily the potbellied pig arrived at Heartland Farm Sanctuary blind, lethargic and too overweight to walk. The children of Heartland’s summer day camp program took it upon themselves to put the curl back in her tail. Campers visited Lily every day, sitting in her stall on folding chairs and reading stories to her. By the end of the summer, Lily was the poster pig for health and vitality, thanks in part to her young friends.

And Lily was helping the kids just as much.

Heartland Farm Sanctuary near Verona is a safe haven for animals and people alike. Founded in 2009, the organization takes in homeless farm animals, from geese to goats and everything in between, and now cares for more than 80 animals.

Founder and executive director Dana Barre strongly believes in the power of animal therapy. Barre, who holds a master’s degree in counseling, fostered Heartland’s programs, which span from intensive therapy to simply spending time with the animals.

A 1994 study called “Cow as co-therapist:

Utilization of farm animals as therapeutic aides with children in residential treatment” sums up the benefits: “Respondents indicated that they spoke to the animals without fear that what they said would be repeated; that they visited the animals to feel better when they felt sad or angry; and that they learned about nurturing and caring for other living things.”

“Animal-assisted intervention is a very new field,” says Barre, “and Heartland strives to add to the emerging body of knowledge by becoming a research center for the humananimal bond and its benefits for both people and animals.”

Winnie the pig, one of Heartland’s rescues, enjoys a snack.

Through all its programming, Heartland focuses on helping children who have faced trauma, abuse and other painful experiences. The farm welcomes many school groups and volunteers. In 2013, over 1,700 children were served through barn visits, summer camps and community outreach programs.

Heartland Farm Sanctuary founder Dana Barre: On the leading edge of the new field of animal-assisted intervention.

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heartlandfarmsanctuary.org info@heartlandfarmsanctuary.org Heartland’s fall programs, including Barn Time, a weekly program for youth and young adults with disabilities, start in September.

There are also weekly group sessions for families affected by trauma led by licensed therapists. Group or individual visits can be scheduled by calling 608-219-1172.

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These include Barn Time, a program that pairs youths living with disabilities with students from the UW School of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education to engage in activities and education at Heartland’s barn; and Farm on Wheels, in which trained individuals take animals on outings to schools, nursing homes and private events.

Sarah Strike is mother to 6-year-old Molly, who has Down syndrome and autism. Molly participated in Barn Time’s pilot program, which started last September, attending after school for six weeks.

“I was searching for a program for Molly that wasn’t highly structured but at the same time was supportive,” says Strike. “When this came along, I knew it would be fantastic for her.”

Strike says that Molly “instantly took to her UW partner, who supported her and helped her accomplish activities such as grooming and feeding the animals, participating in education, singing songs and making crafts.” Strike also liked that “everything was at Molly’s own pace and was what she was comfortable participating in.”

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Articles Calendar Resources Newsletter She saw a clear improvement in Molly’s social skills from participating. “After Barn Time, Molly would talk about the animals nonstop. I could tell just by looking at her that she had a fantastic time.”

Camp Heartland is another program

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Mama Madison

What to feed the baby?

I have a lot of questions about what to put on my eight-month-old twins’ plates — and, if I’m honest, a deep and abiding fear of putting the wrong thing there. Did I start them on solid foods at the right time? What’s the deal with baby-led weaning — how much self-feeding should they be doing? At what age should I give them potential allergens like shellfish or nut products? Should I take the anti-anxiety medication I’m going to need with my meals, or with theirs?

The main problem is that you’ll get different information depending on where you’re looking and who is talking to you. The pediatrician’s office says to start solid foods after six months to ward off ear infections as well as choking hazards, but reviewing the most recent scientific literature suggests that between four and six months is the safest window to minimize Junior’s chances of developing food allergies.

If I don’t give my kids enough textures and flavors to experiment with now, some of the literature says they’ll refuse to eat anything but beige-colored paste as toddlers. (The rest of the literature says no matter what I give them now, they’ll refuse to eat anything but beige-colored paste as toddlers.)

Rationally, I know that all of these choices can be handled with a liberal dollop of common sense, at least as long as that common sense isn’t doled out with a side of peanut butter pancakes.

— AIMEE OGDEN AIMEE OGDEN WRITES REGULARLY FOR THE MAMA MADISON BLOG AT ISTHMUSPARENTS.COM.

the pig was only six weeks old when she fell out of a livestock transport truck and tumbled onto the Interstate south of Madison.

When children interact with Heartland’s animals for the first time, they are often shy and apprehensive. But, Stokes says, “by day three, the kids and animals are old friends.”

The children’s nervousness mirrors the anxiety Heartland witnesses in new animals that have just arrived. Lily the pig was rescued from a life of neglect in which she was forced to eat snow as a source of water. When she came to the farm, naturally, she was jittery. But as she began to trust the children and other caretakers, she relaxed, eased into affection, and enjoyed her new life.

It seems that animals and humans aren’t that different after all. ◆

for children that centers on just having fun. It’s a summer day camp for children ages 7-12 who help with chores and learn about the animals.

Sunshine Stokes, director of Camp Heartland and an elementary school teacher, stresses the idea that “Animals provide an unconditional acceptance that is powerful and comforting. It can be very healing to spend time in an environment where animals are able to give and receive love.”

Moreover, says Stokes, when children give back, by providing services that are essential to the well-being of the animals, “they experience a strong sense of self-worth and self-esteem.”

It’s no wonder that children are drawn to Heartland. On 25 acres of pasture, the scene resembles something right out of a Disney movie. Goats and sheep frolic side by side, geese and ducks play together in baby pools, and a friendly turkey named Baby welcomes visitors at the door of the barn.

The farm animals at Heartland aid young visitors in a variety of ways. They provide opportunities to express feelings in a nonverbal manner; offer comfort; decrease anxiety; build self-confidence; teach empathy; encourage nurturing; and help children to feel important and needed.

Although having contact with any animal can be valuable, Heartland is unique in that each animal has gone through something difficult. Frosty the pygmy goat lost the tips of his ears to frostbite. Juniper Heartland’s Sunshine Stokes: the goose was found as an orphan duck- ‘Animals provide an ling on the streets of Milwaukee. Winnie unconditional acceptance.’

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Come see why Wingra School is a great place to learn.

Schedule your visit today! wingraschool.org | (608) 238-2525

independent art center on Madison’s eastside.

Offering weeklong visual arts classes for kids, art parties, workshops for adults, family fun weeks, and much more.

StartiNg iN September: Storytime Art for Pre-Schoolers, After-School Art on early release Mondays for MMSD, Cultural Art Classes for Home Schoolers on Wednesday, and many Fall one day workshops for everyone.

Bare KnucKle arts

1949 Winnebago St. • 608-852-1394 • Madison, WI 53704 bareknucklearts@gmail.com www.bareknucklearts.com

Kids’ Stuff

IsthmusParents.com Calendar Madison Public Schools: First day of school for early childhood & afternoon 4K, 9/4; Early release for middle/high schoolers, Mondays 9/8-11/3. 663-1879.

Casey Day: Stories & music, 9 am Saturdays, Froth House. Free. 231-0100.

Madison Children’s Museum: Family Stories: Free Wisconsin Historical Museum outdoor show & tell exhibit, 10 am-noon, 9/6; Windows of Worlds: Create art with wooden picture frames (for public installation at Edgewood College), 1-3 pm, 9/6; IronKid Challenge: Triathlonstyle activities, 1 pm, 9/7; All About Animals: Visit Rooftop critters, 10:30 am Tuesdays, 9/9-12/16; Pioneer Pastimes: Games, 11 am Tuesdays, 9/9-12/16; Gadget Gurus: 1 pm Wednesdays, 9/10-11/26; Cantajuego: Bilingual playgroup, 10 am Wednesdays, 9/10-12/17. Closed 9/4-5. Free with $8 admission. 256-6445.

Saturday Science: “Healthy from Head to Toe,” exploration stations & activities, 10 am, 9/6, UW Discovery Building. Free.

316-4382.

Kindermusik: Free demo classes: 21 months & under, 9:15 am on 9/7 & 17 or 11:15 am, 9/14; 1.5 to 3.5 years, 10:15 am, 9/7, 14 & 17; ages 3-5, 9:15 am, 9/14; 4 to 6 years, 12:15 pm, 9/14, Westwood Christian Church. RSVP: kindermusikwithdebbie@ gmail.com. 274-6635.

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LEGO Club: 6:30 pm, 9/8, Ashman Library (824-1780); 3:30 pm, 9/8, Pinney Library (224-7100).

David Landau: Family concert, 5:30 pm, 9/8, Glass Nickel Pizza-Atwood Ave. $3.

245-0880.

Crafternoon: Projects for grades K-5, 3:30 pm, 9/8, Hawthorne Library. 246-4548.

WonderWorks: STEM-related activities for ages 3-5, 10 am Mondays, 9/8-29, Sequoya Library (RSVP for series: 266-6385); 10:30 am or 1:30 pm Wednesdays, 9/10-10/1, Ashman Library (RSVP for series: 824-1780.

Toddler Story & Stroll: Lois Ehlert stories,”ages 2-4, 10 am Tuesdays, 9/9-23, Olbrich Gardens. $9. RSVP one week prior: 246-4550.

Toddler Art: 10:30 am Tuesdays, 9/9-23, Hawthorne Library. 246-4548.

Zany Zoo Animal Fun: Decorate

Lil’ Badger Consignment Sale: Kids’

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Raspberries, grapes.

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Ve Got Da Big Juicy HONEYCRISP. Ve Got Da Freshest Apple Cider.

Carmel Apples, Apples for pies and sauce. Heirloom Apples.

Family Farm Fun On Da Weekends

Hayrides, olde tyme music.

Grandparents day Sun, Sept 7. Special fun and treats for grandparents and grandkids

2227 Fitchburg Rd. Fitchburg

Located just 15 minutes south of Madison

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Here’s where to turn when she says “I’m bored”

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clothes/gear consignment sale, 4-8 pm on 9/11 (new parent pre-sale; RSVP), 9 am-8 pm on 9/12 and 10 am-2 pm, 9/13, Monona Community Center. Free admission; a portion of proceeds benefits Monona Parks & Rec Youth Scholarship Fund. Consignors RSVP: www.lilbadgerconsignmentsale.com.

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HOMES FOR SALE

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All real estate advertised is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, or status as a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking; or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. Isthmus will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are on an equal opportunity basis.

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4233 Kenwood Street. Beautiful paths through native plants, all filled with birds and butterflies, council ring w/fire bowl. Inviting home with loads of charm, bright living space, hardwood flrs, 3 brs on main, 1 full + 2 half ba, 4th br with fp and fam rm in walk-out ll, wood burner in lr, Quiet, near Warner Pk, Cherokee Marsh. SRM: $194,900$204,900. MLS1724882.

Mary Binkley, Realtor 608-576-3300 MBinkley@StarkHomes.com

UNFURNISHED APTS.

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MADISON - 1217 Meadow Sweet Dr. Valley Ridge Subdivision. Secluded backyard on park, 2 story, 2137 SF, 4BR, 2.5BA, frpl FR, 9’ ceiling, 6 panel doors, main level laundry, SS appliances, exposed LL for future build & bath, 2 car gar, fruit trees. MLS# 1724240 $375,000.

Kathy Tanis (608) 469-5954.

Bunbury & Associates.

Marina Condominiums 137 E. Wilson, unit 1212. Exquisite two bedroom plus den. Views of Capitol and Lake Monona.

Open kitchen living area. Two parking spaces plus storage.

Call 608-692-5177.

Come and check out our fabulous inventory and reinvent your home!

608-441-0077

540 W. Washington Ave • Madison, WI 53703 608.441.0077 • www.iconiinteriors.com

OPEN HOUSES 2409 SOMMERS MADISON, WISCONSIN

MADISON - 326 East Hill Parkway #9. Spacious 1902 SF end-unit townhouse w/ private entry, 2 bd +loft, 2.5 ba, main-level laundry, fireplace, all appliances, 2 parking spaces, heated storage.

MLS#1708262 $175,500.

Kathy Tanis (608) 469-5954 Bunbury & Associates “It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”

— G. H. Hardy

SITES AND LOTS Wooded Lot For Sale on Marsh Miller Lake, Chippewa County, West Central WI (715) 249-3479.

THE SURF Lake Mendota / Downtown / Campus Adult Gated Community on Lake Mendota! Beautiful one bedrooms with quality finishes: Brazilian Granite, cherry or dark maple kitchen cabinets and floors throughout, stainless steel appliances, panel interior doors, ceramic tile bath, your own balcony and more! Enjoy the best view Madison has to offer; lake/ sunset or city lights! Rent includes your heat, electric, water, internet, cable T.V. and quality furnishings if desired. ($1,250 - $1,500) Call Mary at 608-213-6908 or email at surf@surfandsurfside.com

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Marina Condominiums, 137 E. Wilson St. unit 510 & 511.

Two units combined! Panoramic views of Lake Monona off two balconies. Large kitchen with entertaining area.

Red birch cabinetry. Curved fireplace. Walk-in laundry plus much more! Call 608-692-5177.

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HOMES FOR RENT DODGEVILLE AREA. 2 bdrm. $700 plus utilities OR 1 bdrm $500 plus utilities in one of 3 earth homes. Wood heat. campbelljudith13@gmail.com 608-574-1266

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608-663-9926

534 W. Washington Ave • Madison, WI 53703 608.663.9926 • www.iconiinteriors.com

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Every inch of this home, interior and exterior, has been scrupulously tended by current (25 years!) owners!

Back yard has lovely deck, a proliferation of perennials, no grass to mow, custom chicken coop, garden shed; amazingly private for this neighborhood!

First floor: gorgeous Cook’s Kitchen, with all amenities, new south-facing Family Room with Wood Burning Fireplace.

Parlor, Living, Formal Dining, full Bath. Second floor: Lovely new Master, Seven skylights, two (or three) other bedrooms, full bath, ‘flex’ space for studios/offices?

Easy to show: grab your Buyer Agent OR call Pat Whyte, 608-513-2200.

REINVENTING THE HOME

OPEN HOUSE Sept. 7th. 11:00 to 2:00. Spring Green, 3 bdrm., 3 bath, Post & Beam Custom home. Updated kitchen. All appliances. Skylights. Hardwood floors. stone & cedar exterior, Secluded 40 acre wooded estate just minutes from APT, Taliesin and WI River. Panoramic views. Attached 2-car.

Sue Pforr, First Weber Group 608-574-2721

REINVENTING THE HOME

MADISON - 5305 Regent St. Hill Farms Neighborhood!

Charming one story home with 3 spacious bedrooms, attached two car garage, huge fenced back yard and partially finished basement, two beautiful fireplaces, and hardwood floors. On bus line, close to parks, easy access to shops, UW, and hospitals.​ MLS# 1726320. $224,900.

Nicole Bunbury Sjowall (608) 354-2551 Bunbury & Associates Realtors.

Randolph N8239 Hwy. 73 Open Sunday, 1-3. Move in ready!! Stunning Victorian home on nearly 4 acres in park like setting. Enjoy complete privacy and beautiful views! Home has been restored and remodeled. Newer addition has large family room and attached 3-car garage. A must see! Directions: 151 to Randolph Exit 73, pass through Randolph – house is 1.8 miles north of Randolph on left.

Britta Wunderlich-Herr 608-220-1778 $399,000.

MLS#1724513

BRAND NEW & OPENING SEPT 2014 IN MIDDLETON 1 and 2 bdrms starting at $995. Upscale kitchens w/ granite countertops & stainless steel appliances. Exclusive golf course views, walk-in closets, heated underground parking, onsite Fitness Center, Internet Café, Clubhouse and more! Pet Friendly!

Call today! 608-228-0190 Email: info@ParagonPlaceProperties.com ParagonPlaceProperties.com

UNFURNISHED APTS. WILLY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD – 410 S Livingston Street. 2 Bedroom, 2.5 Bathroom. Spacious & unique condo with new & original hardwood floors on main level. Kitchen has maple cabinets, granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances and gas fireplace.

Master bedroom & bath with walk-in closet & private loft.

Great outdoor space privately fenced in. Washer/dryer & 2 parking spaces included.

Available NOW! $2,500/mo.

Call 241.4449 or visit our website at www.birwood.net Near Arborgate. Two Bedroom in quiet four unit. Free heat, water and parking. $700 per month. Call Dave 320-1029.

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FURNISHED APTS. SHORT-TERM RENTALS Luxury furnished apt with resort hotel services, everything incl in rent. “All you need is your toothbrush.” 1, 2, 3 bdrms from $350+/wk or $1395+/ mo. Countryside Apartments.

608-271-0101, open daily! countrysidemadison.com

ROOMS/ROOMMATES

“This became a credo of mine... attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”

— Bette Davis

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ISTHMUS general employment

Jobs

Volunteers

RETAIL SALES Studio Jewelers is seeking two new team members, one part time and one full time.

Both are permanent positions. Jewelry experience preferred but we will train the right person. Call 257-2627 to arrange for an interview.

Africa, Brazil Work/Study!

Change the lives of others and create a sustainable future. 1, 6, 9, 18 month programs available. Apply now! www.OneWorldCenter.org 269.591.0518 info@OneWorldCenter.org (AAN CAN)

Professional/ Technical AIRLINE CAREERS begin here – Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN)

Ecommerce Sales Coordinator

position at nonprofit SERRV in downtown Madison. Responsible for web content, marketing, sales, tracking and analysis. 3+ years rel exp min. Visit serrv.org/jobs for a full description and application instructions.

UNITED WAY Volunteer Center Call 246-4380 or visit www.volunteeryourtime.org to learn about these and other opportunities The West Madison Senior Coalition is looking for office volunteers for MondayFriday, Noon-4pm. Duties include: greet and assist visitors, answer phones, route calls to appropriate staff, and take reservations for programs. We are also seeking home chore volunteers and monthly newsletter mailing volunteers.

Neighborhood House Community Center is looking for volunteers to help flyer the neighborhoods surrounding the community center. We need help getting the word out about all of the great programs and events we have to offer! The routes are all within walking distance of Neighborhood House.

Schumacher Farm Park’s historic granary is getting a new roof. We need help with tearing off the old one and putting on the new. Need to have experience with roofing. Tools and equipment would be useful. We have some equipment such as scaffolding and 2 harnesses.

Isthmus Marketplace is Online at Isthmus.com.

CHECK IT OUT. Isthmus Marketplace is a searchable online list of businesses and organizations serving our community. There’s more than 750 listed so far, and we’re adding more every day!

Services & Sales

general employment

general employment

Independent Living Specialist/Grassroots Organizer: Access to Independence is Requirements: First-hand seeking the right candidate experience with disability, a to work in a dual role as Bachelor’s degree in Human an IL Specialist and Grass- Services or other related roots Organizer. This full field preferred, or a combinatime position will satisfy the tion of education and experiresponsibilities of an IL Spe- ence in providing support to cialist, including: Provide persons with disabilities; coverage for information demonstrated leadership and referral contacts; man- ab-ility; knowledge of comage a caseload of consum- munity resources and ability ers with active goals; pro- to develop networks. Experience is required with public vide services such as advo- relations and presentations, cacy, skills training, benefits and providing training assistance, assistive tech- through a curriculum. Cannology and youth transition, didate must have an insured among a number of other vehicle and valid driver’s duties and obligations. The license or ability to arrange chosen candidate will also own transportation. Computcontinue the development er competency is required in of the agency’s grassroots Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, advocacy network, which as well as competency in usincludes: Reaching out ing social networking tools. to members of the local Excellent written and oral disability community; dis- communication skills and semination of information strong time management and alerts to the network; skills are a must. Bi-lingual providing advocacy training in Spanish or ASL preferred to local groups; and involvePeople with disabilities ment of a variety of systems and minorities are advocacy activities. encouraged to apply.

Submit cover letter and resume by close of business on September 12th, 2014 to: Dee Barnard @ deeb@accesstoind.org Or by mail to Access to Independence 3810 Milwaukee Street, Madison WI 53714

Isthmus Event Internships Isthmus is looking for outgoing individuals to put creative ideas to work at the hippest alternative newspaper in all the land.

Gain solid resumé experience helping to promote Isthmus products, coordinating volunteer efforts, and assisting in the production of thrilling Isthmus events.

Requires good writing and speaking skills and a spirited interest in marketing. Access to a car is a bonus.

Interested? Send your details to Janell Palmer, Events Director 101 King Street, Madison, WI 53703. Email jpalmer@isthmus.com

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musicians exchange

Pets for Sale

CHECK OUT THE FOUNDRY FOR MUSIC LESSONS & REHEARSAL STUDIOS & THE NEW BLAST HOUSE STUDIO FOR RECORDING! 608-270-2660 madisonmusicfoundry.com

September 7th. 2014 Madison, WI 301 Cottage Grove Road 10am till 2pm $2 admission/person.

(608) 290-3139

Happenings happenings & events

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Introduction to Zen Training The International Zen Dojo of Wisconsin is offering two demonstrations and discussions on Zen and the martial arts.

Sun, Sept. 14, 7-8:30 PM repeated on Wed, Sept. 17, 7:30-9 PM 301 S. Bedford St, Suite 219.

Visit our website: www.Wisconsinzen.org or see us on Facebook: Facebook.com/wisconsinzen.

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garage sales Estate/Garage Sale, Fri. Sept. 5 8am-5pm and Sat. Sept. 6 8am-3pm 5321 Manitowoc Pkwy, Madison, 53711.

Fabulous sale includes huge collection of Christmas decorations-plus books, records, household items too numerous to mention, women’s clothes and much more. You don’t want to miss this one!

Appliances/ Furniture

15% OFF EVERYTHING!!

NEW and VINTAGE MIDcentury MODERN Furniture and Atomic Stuff 11-5 Friday-Saturday-Sunday 1021 S. Park St. 608-251-5255

Want to Buy CASH FOR CARS: Any Car/ Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN)

Trucks/Vans/ Trailers

For Sale: 2000 Volkswagen Eurovan Westfalia Weekender MV by original owners. RARE. Well maintained, good condition, Techno Blue Weekender with VR6 engine. ONLY 108,000 miles on it, less than 30,000 on new automatic transmission. 7 seats, and sleeps four in comfort in pop-top bed and backbench folds down into bed. Includes refrigerator box under back passenger seat, 6 disc CD changer, fold down table, original curtains, and rear hatch bug netting. VW dealer serviced with many new parts and Michelin tires. Very clean and only for $18,500 Please call John @ 608-320-9240 or email at: jwjhoya@yahoo.com

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Massage/Bodywork

Massage/Bodywork

Immediate Stress, Tension and Pain Relief for MEN 7 days a week by appt. — same day appointments available. Contact Steve, CMT at: ph/text 608.277.9789 or acupleasur@aol.com. Gift certificates available for any reason or season @ ABC Massage Studio!

Larry P. Edwards RPh, LBT Nationally & State Certified #4745-046 Massage Therapist and Body Worker Madison, WI

CATCH Healthy Habits FALL Volunteers Needed!

CATCH Healthy Habits, is an evidence-based, nationally recognized physical activity and nutrition program proven to increase healthy behaviors in children along with a positive impact on the adult volunteers!

New programs begin SOON!

WORLD CLASS MASSAGE Miss Danu * FEEL GREAT IN ONE HOUR! * Short Notice * Nice Price * 8AM-7PM * 608-255-0345

Body & Soul

MASSAGE & REIKI KEN-ADI OR SALLY RING! Reiki Classes-October. Excellent Hypnosis Available. Stop Smoking, Lose Weight, and More! 608-256-0080 www.wellife.org

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB, Allied Location—

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Sep. 29—Nov. 10

Adult Services Adult Talk

Training session on Sep. 15th from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm at the Madison Senior Center.

All materials, supplies and training are provided with ongoing program support throughout.

Contact: Laurie Bibo, Program Coordinator 608-267-8673 or lbibo@cityofmadison.com www.CATCHHealthyHabits.org

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ACROSS 1 “Unleaded” 6 Frontiersman Crockett 10 Kills, in gangster lingo 14 Hello, in Hilo 15 “Milk’s Favorite Cookie” 16 Waisted opportunity?

17 Request before smoking a potato?

19 Failure to be nominated 20 Of course 21 Benjamin Hoff’s “The ___ of Pooh” 22 ... --- …, decoded 24 ___ out a living 25 Huascaran is its highest point 26 Secretive sort?

28 Departure and arrival, e.g.

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32 College in New Rochelle, N.Y. 33 Ballet company 34 So as to break the rules 38 Call out 39 Nose in the air 40 Samosa vegetable 41 Gossip peddler 44 Canary relative 46 “___ No Sunshine” (1971 hit) 47 Ocean-going vessel 49 Deli staple 52 Night, in Paris 53 Eggs officio?

54 “Achtung Baby” co-producer Brian 55 Halt 56 Balneotherapy venue 59 Fallon followed him 61 Drought-stricken waterways?

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Missouri monument Cast forth The O behind OWN Flower support Weight lifters’ units Far from macho

DOWN 1 TV host Carson 2 “Night” memoirist Wiesel 3 Gear teeth 4 “That hits the spot” 5 Prepares to be eaten 6 Query to an interrupter 7 “Scratch behind my ear?” sound 8 Vice follow-up 9 Plan with a lot of fluctuation 10 Cries of surprise

11 “So, when’s the wake scheduled, hmm?” for instance?

12 Stroke of luck 13 Fencing weapon 18 “227” role 23 Obstacle to a city planner’s vision?

25 Warner of coaching fame 27 ___ big hurry 28 Bankbook abbr.

29 “Sleepless in Seattle” director Ephron 30 Start using an old scale?

31 Casino draw 35 Places for romantic getaways 36 “Return of the Jedi” princess 37 Pull hard 39 Enjoy, as a shade tree 42 Pot’s top 43 In years past 44 Big name in ‘80s hair metal 45 “Mangia!”

48 Dad’s sister 49 Bubbly drinks 50 Bald-faced 51 Mellifluous Mel 56 Formal opening 57 After-school orgs.

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Dear Tell All: I’ve been dating a guy for about a half-year and considered him a promising boyfriend.

He’s been an ardent sexual partner, too, so things were going well in the bedroom.

That was a welcome change for me.

But recently he’s sprung a surprise that’s making me uneasy. He wants to worship my feet.

It started innocently enough, with him asking me to wear pantyhose and my highest-heel shoes on the mattress. But once that got normalized, he began requesting that I pose my feet in various ways, which I won’t describe here. Then there were all sorts of things he wants me to do to him with my feet. It’s starting to seem perverted to me.

What really put me off is when this little world of make believe threatened to invade our real life. Rather than doing something fun on a recent weekend night, he suggested we go to West Towne so he could watch me try on spike-heeled shoes. I said no to that one. I also said no when he asked if I would dangle my shoe from my toes in a restaurant while he watched.

He immediately backs down when I reject ideas like this. But these uncomfortable interactions are starting to cause tension in our relationship.

I’ve gone along with some of his requests as a favor to him. But I’m getting grossed out by all this attention to my feet. I’m starting to feel more like a collection of body parts than a person.

Fallen Arches

Dear Arches: Let me get this straight.

Your boyfriend wants to worship you, and you have a problem with that? If you’re seriously grossed out by a foot fetish, I can understand backing away from the guy. But have you even entertained the possibility that it might be mutually enjoyable rather than just a favor you’re doing for him? Try getting into the “make believe,” as you call it. Try having fun with his requests rather than holding your nose. I’d hate to see you break up a promising relationship over a mere spike-heeled shoe.u IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT LIFE OR LOVE IN MADISON? WRITE TELL ALL, 101 KING ST., MADISON, WI 53703. OR EMAIL TELLALL@ISTHMUS.COM.

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“Tug-of-war is a good sport to teach Considering that the United States Am- Fans filled the temporary bleachers and communication and respect for each other, ateur Tug-of-War Association (USATOWA) stood three deep along barricades surround- just like rowing,” says Tiny Langeveld, the consists of clubs rooted in the Upper Mid- ing a grass pulling surface quickly worn by sport’s international representative for the west (including ones in Oregon and Mount incredibly fit but not overly large men, women Netherlands, who has spent nearly twoVernon), it’s tough to imagine the U.S. play- and teens wearing steel-heeled boots and short thirds of her life involved in tug-of-war. “But ing a major role in that Olympic movement. shorts. (Don’t worry, conservationists: The city when you do this for the first time, you dis Yet make no mistake: These champion- will assess TWIF a grass-restoration fee.) cover muscles you didn’t know you have.” ships — featuring club and national teams ESPN cameras captured the action from — Michael Popke

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