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Upheaval in store for ‘very vulnerable people’ Walker’s budget could mean deep cuts for the elderly and disabled

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eb Tonstad hasn’t slept much since reading on Facebook the changes Gov. Scott Walker has proposed for the state support she and her 23-year-old son, Adam, have relied on since he reached adulthood.

“It’s a redesign of the long-term care system as we know it today,” she says. “If any of the services we rely on get cut, that impacts my ability to work, because Adam lives at home.”

Among the latest in a string of policy bombshells to rock Wisconsin since Walker introduced his 2015-17 biennium budget last month, the governor’s vague reimagining of the state’s long-term care system has elderly residents and parents like Tonstad fearing the worst.

Little is known about how the new system would work, but the few details discerned thus far, if approved by the Legislature, would likely have far-reaching implications for the more than 57,000 residents currently in the system and the more than 3,000 people it employs.

Walker’s budget would eliminate the state’s progressive IRIS (Include, Respect, I Self-Direct) program, which gives 11,000 elderly and disabled residents control over a budget to purchase services and support specific to their needs.

Additionally, it would transform Family Care — an integrated network of long-term care support established in the mid-1990s with bipartisan support — from a communitybased program to one many expect will be run by for-profit out-of-state insurance companies.

“We think the two changes combined will really change the face of how long-term support is provided to the elderly and people with disabilities throughout the state — and not for the better,” says Lisa Pugh, public policy director for Disability Rights Wisconsin. “There’s going to be a lot of upheaval for a lot of very vulnerable people.”

The system overhaul would be life changing for Dane County residents in particular, being one of eight counties that has built its own long-term care system independent of Family Care.

“What the budget does is force Dane County into the system, but it’s a system that we really don’t know much about,” says Pugh. “This budget proposal is a game changer. We have a really great system, so to propose overhauling it and turning it on its head doesn’t make any sense.”

Many unknowns

Changes to the system are already under way, even though the budget is still working its way through the Legislature.

The Department of Health Services, for example, is restructuring the Long-Term Care Advisory Council, established to provide guidance on policy matters as well as oversight of programs like IRIS and Family Care.

In a March 2 letter, Brian Shoup, the de4 partment’s long-term care administrator,

states that the reconfigured council will now only focus on programming for people with dementia, increasing employment of people with disabilities, and keeping disabled residents safe in their communities.

Shoup, through the department’s spokeswoman, declined to comment.

Members of the 25-member council of mostly caregivers and advocates also declined to comment on the record, but were stunned by the letter, which was obtained by Isthmus.

Answers for why Walker wants to overhaul the state’s long-term care system, built up over 25 years, are as elusive as the details of what’s in store for those who will be affected by it.

“That’s the scary part,” says Donna Kinnick, whose 45-year-old son, Jonathan, has been involved in the service system for two decades. “We don’t even know why this is happening or what is happening exactly.”

Kinnick spent most of her career with the county’s Department of Health and Human Services, overseeing programs for children with developmental disabilities. Now retired, she is a board member of LOV-Dane (Living Our Visions), a grassroots group that promotes community-centered living for disabled residents like her son, who has autistic features.

She says Jon has flourished under the current system, living independently while receiving half the care today that he did 20 years ago when he moved into his own apartment.

“He’s really proud of what he’s accomplished,” she says. “Once he had someone check on him four to five times a day.

Now it’s three to four times a week.”

Jonathan also receives vocational support at his part-time job doing clerical work for the Department of Corrections.

Although he lives on his own, he still needs assistance with money management, grocery shopping and medical needs. Kinnick is concerned he’ll have less support under a privatized system.

“What I worry about with losing the IRIS option is Jon becoming just part of a big corporation or something instead of having a case manager who is really looking out for him.”

Deb Tonstad shares this concern, though the changes would likely hit her family harder. Her son, Adam, who has the intellectual abilities of a 2-year-old, receives 90 minutes of personal care at breakfast and lunch, and another three hours in the evening.

In between, he receives the vocational support necessary for him to run AdamCan Recycling, an aluminum collection operation serving 56 businesses in the Madison and Stoughton areas.

“Oh my, gosh,” Tonstad says. “If he does not have vocational support, he will not be able to provide this service to his community.”

More worrisome is how the overhaul will

Pugh isn’t sure what will happen to the remaining three. “The questions for the remaining ones are: Do they have the capacity to operate statewide, and do they have the risk reserves set aside to include new, acute and primary care, and do they have the infrastructure in place to be up and running by 2017?” she says.

Pugh and others worry this would open the state’s Family Care program to be run by an out-of-state HMO, like Humana. The fear is an HMO would dictate the type of care and support a person receives since the integrated, self-directed approach of the current system isn’t a model used by for-profit insurers.

“We’re worried about having some kind of fixed rate based on some kind of assessment instead of on Jon’s individual needs,” Kinnick says.

The proposal would also lift competitive bid requirements for Department of Health Services’ contracts with managed care organizations, while removing legislative oversight of those contracts.

Rep. Melissa Sargent (D-Madison) says the proposal is very short sighted and will short-change Dane County, which has invested heavily in its homegrown system by bringing longterm care under its control.

County Executive Joe Parisi is urging lawmakers to delay action. “Before moving forward with this proposal, I ask that the Legislature slow down and TODD HUBLER talk to the people who are running the program, as well as the many vulneraffect Adam’s network of doctors and careable citizens that will be affected by the givers, whom the Tonstads trust like family. changes,” says Parisi.

“These people are coming in and out of Sargent, a former Dane County board my home all day long,” she says. member, says the state is unlikely to priori Since learning of the proposed changes, tize independent living on the level Dane Pugh has spoken with numerous fearful County has. residents, including one worried she will “Folks won’t have the same choices they lose her cancer doctor. have now,” she says. “It’ll be more like an “We have been given such little infor- HMO, where you have specific choices availmation we’re not sure that people won’t be able.” forced, for instance, to switch their doctors,” The dissolution of the state’s locally she says. “No one is providing any assur- managed care organizations would also put ances.” more than 3,000 people out of work.

“Gov. Walker has made a habit of sayToo much, too soon ing job creation and economic prosperity Under Walker’s plan, the managed care orare important to him, but isn’t doing things ganizations that operate Family Care would to bring those numbers forward,” says Sarbe required to be licensed and regulated as gent. “Many things in this budget are not insurance companies. fiscal, they are not going to save us money, A budget analysis published by the Sur- but are policy matters and are extreme.” vival Coalition of Wisconsin Disability Or- If approved by the Legislature, the ganizations, which advocates for more than changes would take effect on Jan. 1, 2017, 40 groups around the state, finds that of Wis- giving families less than two years to adjust consin’s eight managed care organizations, to a system that doesn’t yet exist. four would be dissolved since the long-term No one expects it will be a smooth transicare districts they serve would also be elimi- tion. Pugh notes that the state is taking nine nated. months to roll out the current Family Care And there is uncertainty about Milwauprogram in seven new counties this year, yet kee County, which runs Family Care in eight Walker is proposing to bring all 72 counties counties, because it isn’t clear whether the into an entirely overhauled system within Office of the Commissioner of Insurance 22 months. can regulate a county.

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Federal ethanol mandates get a nod of support from Gov. Scott Walker at the Iowa Ag Summit last weekend.

Members of the Wisconsin Assembly settle in for a marathon 20-hour session on the socalled right-to-work legislation. They later pass the controversial anti-union bill Friday morning.

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Madison Police officer Matt Kenny shoots and kills Tony Robinson, an unarmed biracial teen who allegedly punched him in the head.

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Activists mobilize to protest Robinson’s death, marching from the Dane County jail to the site

UW-Madison is added to a list of 101 schools being investigated for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints.

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National media descend on the city, with television crews setting up at the Spirit gas station on Williamson Street and waiting to see if Madison would become the next Ferguson, Mo.

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Wisconsin’s ‘right-to-work’ battle ends with a whimper as Gov. Scott Walker signs the anti-union bill into law.

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The “Bitcoin Baron” claims responsibility for a cyberattack — in retaliation for Robinson’s

Robinson’s friends and family gather for a can-

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a weekend of peaceful protests.

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MONDAY, MARCH 9

Madison reels after police officer Matt Kenny shoots and kills unarmed biracial teen Tony Robinson.

Hundreds of Madison-area students walk out

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s protesters converged on the Capitol, and Wisconsin became a so-called right-to-work state, I was sitting across the table from Progressive magazine staff and their union representative from Chicago, negotiating cost-of-living raises, job descriptions and the details of restructuring in our tiny, century-old magazine.

For years, I sat on the labor side of these negotiations. Now I am management during a time of massive, unsettling change for our state, our industry and our workplace.

Frankly, I need an oppositional negotiation with our tiny staff like I need a hole in the head. But I don’t have a choice. We are a union shop. Plus, we are The Progressive. If we can’t work with our union, who can?

As union members carrying signs streamed past the windows of our conference room, I thought about the general antipathy to unions Gov. Scott Walker has tapped so successfully with his “divide and conquer” politics.

Anyone who has ever felt impatient with rules and bureaucracy can relate to the message the Republicans are selling: motivated individuals can get things done more efficiently without being weighed down by a lumbering institutional process.

“Freedom” from institutional constraint has its strong appeal.

On both the management and labor sides of the table I’ve felt that itchiness. Reaching an agreement can be exhausting, frustrating, downright maddening sometimes.

There is a clash of interests, and an agonizing process of reconciliation and agreement.

But just as criminal defense attorneys are necessary in a healthy society to protect all of our rights, unions are necessary to keep bosses honest and to protect due process and fundamental democracy.

It just so happens that the UAW local The Progressive’s employees belong to is also the local that represents legal aide workers all over the United States.

DAVID MICHAEL MILLER

Back when I was a union member, I attended the union’s annual convention in Las Vegas with my husband, a public defender.

Labor organizers and public interest lawyers are close kin. When I spoke at that convention I described my family feeling for the attorneys, legal aide staff and social workers and the union we all belonged to. I talked about seeing my husband’s clients run up to him on the street and give him a hug, thanking him for representing them. Even if they lost in court, being treated with respect in a system that too often seemed stacked against them was immensely meaningful. Getting their day in court, being heard, feeling that there was some dispassionate justice, that they were not just victims of arbitrary power, meant everything.

The values my husband and his colleagues in the public defenders office represent are exactly the values threatened by Walker’s attack on unions: That everyone

deserves an advocate, and that powerful interests should have to answer to some sort of organized force that defends the powerless, no matter how outrageous that may seem to the people who are accustomed to calling the shots.

I have a strong affinity for smart-ass lawyers and labor organizers who represent the little guy, as do many journalists.

There is a certain outrageous glee I recog-

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nize in the eyes of these advocates sticking up for their clients that I used to see shining in the eyes of the late Progressive editor Erwin Knoll, who delighted in standing up to the big shots (most famously in the H-bomb case, when The Progressive made the federal government give up its effort to forbid publication of supposedly classified information on making the atomic bomb).

Erwin also kept a copy of Nixon’s “enemies list” with his name on it proudly displayed on the wall.

This liberating attitude is the flip side of the freedom the Republicans and their corporate backers are appealing to when they talk about busting unions and cutting taxes and regulation. Theirs is the freedom of the powerful to have even more power.

The antipathy to unions is related to the antipathy to government the Republicans also cultivate.

Taking a short-cut around democratic institutions may be appealing in the short run, but in the long run, it spells disaster.

Right-to-work states have lower wages and lousy working conditions.

As in marriage — a relationship built on good faith and compromise — unions require us to work harder to understand other people’s interests, and what is best for the group. That is sometimes hard. But, in the long run, it makes life better.u RUTH CONNIFF IS EDITOR OF THE PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE.

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#TonyRobinson Loved by family and friends, a Madison teen takes on symbolic significance in death

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he moment Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny drew his gun and fatally shot Tony Robinson in the early evening hours of Friday, March 6, the incident was destined to become national news.

As squad cars blocked off the 1100 block of Williamson Street, neighborhood residents began to cluster in doorways illuminated by flashing red and blue lights. The officers who guarded the perimeter looked grim.

“It was a shooting,” the guy behind the counter at Star Liquor said Friday night. He said he heard it was a cop who pulled the trigger, adding that the deceased might be a young, black male.

The crowd on Williamson Street grew as details emerged confirming the clerk’s story: Robinson, a 19-year-old graduate of Sun Prairie High School, had been unarmed when Kenny forced his way into an apartment and shot him multiple times after a reported “altercation.” Robinson was biracial, although

police originally identified him as black.

It was those key factors that made Robinson’s story explosive. With his death, he became the latest example of what many see as a chilling pattern of police using deadly force against young, unarmed black males. He shared the same fate as Dontre Hamilton, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Michael Brown and numerous others killed by police in recent years, prompting outrage and calls for reform.

Within hours, dozens of protesters arrived on the scene, holding signs and chanting “black lives matter.” As news of the shooting spread via social media, national news outlets pounced on the story. By Saturday morning, the Willy Street neighborhood was swarming with reporters and television crews poised to document the aftermath.

On everyone’s mind was a question: Would Madison become the next Ferguson, Missouri?

‘NOW A HASHTAG’ For Robinson’s friends, his death carries the same sense of injustice many felt about the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. At protests on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, teens from schools across the city drew the comparison.

“When I heard about Ferguson, I thought: ‘What if we lived there?’ And now we do,” said 17-year-old Jordan Ches-

Above left, the porch of 1125 Williamson St., where Robinson was killed. Above right, friends grieve his death on Saturday.

The relatively calm protest had moments of tension, with demonstrators screaming at the police who stood in a line on the sidewalk in front of the house. But organizers redirected the crowd’s energy through songs and chants.

“There are some in the extreme who have clearly to me taken a very radical perspective on the role of police in this matter,” Koval tells Isthmus. “[They] chose to use hurtful language to my officers.”

But even though most demonstrators have been civil to police and there have been no riots, like in other cities, there’s an overwhelming sense among the protesters is that the police are to blame for killing Robinson.

Maria Hamilton, the mother of Dontre Hamilton, a schizophrenic man who was shot 14 times by police in Milwaukee, was among those who addressed protesters Saturday.

“Dontre didn’t deserve to die. Tony didn’t deserve to die,” she told the crowd. “They’re taking and killing our future.”

At a vigil on Sunday night in front of the house where Robinson was killed, his anguished friends remembered him. Jack Spaulding, one of Robinson’s best friends, sobbed under scrutiny of TV cameras and before several hundred silent protesters.

“I don’t feel safe walking down the street any more. I never will,” he said. “The fact that the police took Tony from us is totally fucked up.”

COMING TOGETHER

HOW YOU BUILD A MOVEMENT In recent years, Madison has been gripped by a “real sense of crisis” surrounding the issue of racial disparity in the community as well as nationwide, says Will Jones, a professor of history at UW-Madison who specializes in civil rights movements.

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Madison students mobilized on Monday, with hundreds of middle and high school students walking out of class and gathering for a rally at the Capitol. UW-Madison students joined them in the Rotunda, where adults formed a protective circle around the young demonstrators.

“We want to be heard,” said Kayla Haynes, a 17-year-old East High School student. “It’s beautiful how everybody came together.”

The songs, chants, signs and banners repeated the messages from similar protests over the weekend, calling for an end

to police killing of young black males and consequences for the officer who pulled the trigger.

“If we get justice, maybe [the killing] will stop,” said Iyanna Snowton, a 17-yearold East High School student.

Krystyn Jones, a 14-year-old Memorial High School student added: “It’s just happening too much.”

Those attending the protest called the youth demonstration powerful and inspiring, but Monday’s protest was also underscored by deep grief over the loss of a peer whose circle of friends extended to multiple local schools. Robinson was a graduate of Sun Prairie High School, but had previously attended Georgia O’Keefe Middle School, in the neighborhood where he died.

Many of the protesters wore black to symbolize their loss.

“It’s hard for me not to cry,” said Siron Offord, a 16-year-old East High School student. “But I have to keep smiling.”

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“Nothing like this should happen in a city like [Madison].”

Even Madison Police Chief Mike Koval acknowledged the striking similarities between the two incidents. But in the days that followed the shooting, it was the emerging contrasts that became more noteworthy.

Unlike the Ferguson police chief, Koval rushed to the scene of the shooting Friday night and spent close to an hour talking and praying with Robinson’s family. He released the name of the officer who killed the teen the day after the shooting. He apologized to the family and the city’s African American community, asking for their eventual forgiveness.

Robinson’s uncle, Turin Carter, said he appreciates law enforcement and trusts officials to handle the investigation “with integrity.” But forgiveness may take time.

At a news conference Monday in front of Robinson’s home, Carter called for reform in the “universal problems with law enforcement,” emphasizing the “systematic targeting of young black males.”

“It’s surreal to realize that my nephew is now a hashtag,” Carter said.

Robinson’s family also urged protesters to be peaceful. The demonstrations — facilitated with the support of Madison police — have so far occurred without incident.

While Ferguson protesters set fires, Madison protesters preferred blazing rhetoric.

The day after the shooting, hundreds met at the YWCA Empowerment Center on Madison’s south side before marching from the Dane County Sheriff ’s office to the site of the Robinson’s death.

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months, clashing with local law enforcement over a proposal to spend $8 million on renovations for the Dane County Jail. Coalition members penned an open letter to Koval in January, demanding the release of prisoners locked up for “crimes of poverty” and a reduced police presence in Madison’s predominantly African American neighborhoods, saying that racial profiling is to blame for the incarceration disparity.

African Americans are nearly 11 times more likely to be arrested than whites in Madison, researcher Erika Nelson told PolitiFact.

Jones says the presence of these advocacy groups helped mobilize protesters almost immediately following Robinson’s death.

“We’re certainly in a moment where people are very aware and really organized to respond,” he says.

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Investigating the investigators 2014 law has changed how Wisconsin handles police killings

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n November 2004, police pulled over 21-year-old Michael Bell in front of his house in Kenosha. Officers yanked Bell from his SUV, out of the view of the squad car’s dash cam, and in the minutes that followed, shot him in the head, killing him, while his mother and sister watched.

His father, Michael Bell, was understandably devastated. He hoped that the subsequent investigation would uncover what happened to his son. But he quickly became alarmed by the process, as the Kenosha Police Department investigated its own officers.

“I expected it to be a proper investigation, what I was used to in the military,” says Bell, a former U.S. Air Force pilot.

“Within 48 hours, before the toxicology report had come back, before the autopsy report, before all the witnesses had been interviewed, they came up with a conclusion that it was justified.”

“I was appalled,” Bell adds. “I thought, ‘What am I missing here?’”

The killing put Bell on a crusade to change the way police are investigated. In 2010, Bell won a $1.75 million settlement against Kenosha. And his efforts helped secure the passage of statewide legislation 12 requiring independent investigations of

officer killings. Championed by Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison) and Rep. Garey Bies (RSister Bay), it was signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker on April 23, 2014.

The law mandates that police officers who kill someone be investigated by a team led by at least two investigators from an outside agency.

While Taylor is pleased the bill passed, she says that the early efforts weren’t what she hoped for. A week after passage, a Milwaukee police officer shot Dontre Hamilton 14 times, killing him in Red Arrow Park.

The officer, Christopher Manney, was later fired for violating department policy. But he was not charged with a crime.

Taylor found that investigation inadequate. “It is very obvious if you look at that report, the vast bulk was from the Milwaukee Police Department,” she says. “But to be fair, the law had just passed.”

“Now they’ve had time to put procedures in place,” Taylor adds.

The investigation of Tony Robinson’s shooting death by officer Matt Kenny is being led by the state’s Division of Criminal Investigation. Few details have been disclosed.

Attorney General Brad Schimel released a statement Monday, saying “I want the public to be aware that the Wisconsin Department of Justice is expeditiously working to

complete the investigation.

Because officer-involved incidents involve considerable resources, we have assigned teams of agents from the DOJ Division of Criminal Investigation offices around the state to work on this case.”

Since the law passed, Bell says at least 11 people have been killed by police in Wisconsin — six white, five people of color. He maintains a database of police killings nationally at killedbypolice.net.

In Wisconsin, officers are investigated in four ways: by an inquest jury, a police department, a police and fire commission or a district attorney. Bell has searched state records going back to 1885 and has been unable to find any homicides by police ruled unjustified by any of the first three methods. District attorneys have found three police shootings unjustified.

Taylor says the way police have traditionally been investigated is fraught with problems, because the officers have “relationships with people who they are investigating.” Bell says that officers have up to 48 hours to give a statement and often are allowed to review evidence and get legal counsel.

Taylor, Bell and others had pushed for not

into national prominence following the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin, who was killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Subsequent deaths have fueled the movement further.

“I wouldn’t say that what we’re seeing is the emergence of a new civil rights movement yet,” Jones said. “But this is how you build a movement. And I think this movement is heading in that direction.”u

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Groups like Young, Gifted and Black Coalition and the Justified Anger Coalition came together following the protests last year in Ferguson and the 2013 bombshell “Race to Equity” report that showed African Americans in Madison have significantly higher levels of incarceration, worse school performance and higher levels of poverty than their white neighbors.

YGB has been particularly vocal in recent

just an independent investigation, but an independent board to review those investigations. That measure was removed from the bill, but Taylor continues to push for it.

The Madison Police Department has assigned investigators to assist the state in its investigation, says Lt. Cory Nelson, who heads MPD’s professional standards and internal affairs unit. Nelson is doing a separate review of the incident “to see if policy was followed.” But he says he won’t make a determination — and Kenny will remain on administrative leave — until the state completes its investigation.

Taylor is confident the state will do a thorough job. When Robinson was killed, Taylor happened to be at the gas station across the street — she crouched in her car and heard the gun shots. Investigators have already interviewed her.

“It looks like they are doing what they need to do, and we need to give them some space,” she says. “Frankly the press puts a lot of pressure into what are the answers. I would rather [investigators] take the time to do the investigation thoroughly and completely. We have to give it that time.”u

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The Royko Maurers still question whether their friend Paulie Heenan had to die. formation that we are subjected to over our lifetimes. By the time we are teens, most of us view black males as scary and inherently violent, and the lives of black males less valuable than those of others. That would explain why an officer might have a quicker trigger finger when dealing with a black male in a stressful and potentially dangerous situation.”

Koval agrees that “everyone has an unconscious bias,” but says what is key is how that bias manifests itself.

“And in the case of the use of a deadly force, if in fact that was the overriding factor that led to this decision, then clearly the liability for the department is heavy,” says Koval referring to the Robinson shooting.

“But I don’t believe that anybody can comment based on the fact that nobody knows the various facts, only DCI [the Division of Criminal Investigation] does. I do not believe that my department has issues of rogue cops or systemic, pervasive racism.”

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Nevertheless, some activists have called the Robinson shooting a “murder,” claiming Kenny used unnecessary force. The rush to judgment might sting, but rank-and-file officers are not fooled, says Koval.

“I think you’d have to be naïve to think that the officers who daily strap on a bulletproof vest and take a pledge to offer selfless service to total strangers would be co-opted

into this characterization of us being murderers. Obviously we have sought out this profession because we want to help others.”

Koval says most protesters have been respectful of police, but some have not.

“Some of the missives and pejoratives and even threats that have been directed at them over protracted periods of times is really disconcerting,” he says. “Frankly, some of the most insidious stuff has been directed at my African American officers.”

The executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, which is representing Kenny, says these attacks do take a toll.

“No officer wants to hear that,” says Jim Palmer. “But they do respect Madison’s activist culture and [citizens’] right to speak out and pose legitimate questions.”

Palmer urges people not to render judgment until more facts are known. He says he has faith in the new process for investigating fatal shootings, which now calls for an outside agency to handle the probe.

“At end of the day, when there is an investigative report that the public can evaluate, that’s the time and the foundation upon which to really engage in meaningful dialogue about how this department serves its community,” says Palmer.

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he shooting death of Tony Robinson, trained that if they shoot, they should shoot an unarmed biracial teenager, has to kill,” he says. “That is the problem.” drawn references not only to Fergu Sparer says he does not want to leave son, Mo., where unarmed black teenager officers defenseless, but would like to see Michael Brown was fatally shot by a poMadison come up with new, creative trainlice officer in August, but to another police ing that would “put the highest possible shooting in Madison in the fall of 2012. In value on never killing someone.” If, he adds, that incident, Paulie Heenan, a 30-year-old “that means carrying more powerful clubs white musician, was fatally shot by Stephen to whack people with, instead of pulling out Heimsness, who was subsequently fired a gun, then let’s do that.” from the force for other reasons.

The officer shooting death of Heenan lit a fire under his friends Amelia and Nathan ‘LOTS OF ALTERNATIVES’ Royko Maurer, who have since been on a Officer guidelines for use of deadly force mission to change the police department’s can be found in the police department’s policy on the use of deadly force. The marpolicy manual under chapter 6-100. Cheri ried couple even took the police department’s Maples, a former Madison police captain nine-week citizen academy program this fall who criticized Heimsness for drawing his to better understand how and why police ofgun when approaching the crime scene, ficers do what they do. points out that the policy recognizes a le “I’m biased, but I’m going to work as gal and moral obligation to use force wisely hard as I can to not have a bias,” says Ame- and judiciously. lia, who lobbied hard to get Heimsness fired “You should always use the minimum from his job. “I wanted to learn their peramount of force required,” says Maples, spective about what they do for their jobs.” who wants to make clear she knows nothing During one of the sessions, Amelia asked about the Robinson shooting and is speaka police officer to share one time an officer ing in general terms. “That doesn’t mean used deadly force that was considered ex- deadly force wouldn’t be the minimum level cessive. Amelia says the officer refused. you’d start with in certain situations. But “Instead, he gave me an example of where when using force you can always go up the an officer should have used deadly force, but ladder, but you can’t go down.” didn’t.”

The non-deadly force policy, in chapter The response stunned her. “You don’t 6-200, lists these options, starting with a simhave an example of excessive force? Really? ple police presence and amping up to compliYou are screaming bias now.” ance holds, control devices like pepper spray She struggles to understand how some- and Tasers, and intermediate weapons. times officers can “talk Police Chief Mike down” someone behaving Koval says the department erratically, while at other trains officers in all these times the incident ends options. “Some people with deadly force. “Why think we are rooted in do reactions span from this sort of toe-to-toe conone end of the spectrum frontation, when in fact we to the other, and why is it work on movement, cover legal to do so?” and distance all the time The ACLU-Wisconsin as training modalities.” this week also questioned Koval says the departthe Madison Police Dement’s policy is reviewed partment’s policy on use each year, but has not of force. Noting that Robchanged since the death inson is the third officerof Heenan. But, he adds, CAROLYN FATH shooting victim in the “when you’re dealing with Koval: ‘I do not believe that something as precious as last 10 months, executive director Chris Ahmuty my department has issues life, more time and attenof rogue cops or systemic, declared that “Madison tion is always being spent pervasive racism.’ has a problem that cannot in training at looking at be ignored.” critical incidents.”

“Whatever this problem’s causes may Because of the recent high-profile shootbe, the Madison Police Department needs ings of unarmed young black men nationto take all steps possible to reduce the likeli- wide, and because black men are disprohood of excessive use of force incidents and portionately present in the criminal justice other types of misconduct, including biased system, some people have charged that Robpolicing,” Ahmuty added. inson’s shooting is racially based.

Another critic is Madison attorney Stan Davis, a local African American David Sparer, who lives in the Marquette lawyer, doesn’t go that far, but does say that neighborhood where both Heenan and Rob- the “largest contributing factor” to the spate inson were shot. “It seems [Madison police] of shootings nationwide “are the biases that are trained to use their gun too often, and we all have because of the images and in-

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A heavy toll Shootings often traumatize police officers

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Yahnke, a Madison police officer, and officer Shane Pueschner had just killed Gregory Velasquez on March 9, 2004, after the man threatened several small children and adults at the Red Caboose Day Care Center with two meat cleavers.

A fellow officer and friend was attempting to lead him away from the scene, when Yahnke resisted. “I didn’t want to go. I said, ‘No this is my mess. I shot the guy,’” Yahnke remembers. “I felt some need to stay there and answer questions. I felt this flash of resentment and anger, and I shook her arm off and said, ‘No leave me alone, I can deal with this.’”

The fellow officer insisted, and Yahnke relented. In a squad car, he called his wife.

“I was thinking ‘How am I going to break this to my wife, my mom?’ My mom had always had misgivings about me being a cop,” he remembers. “I just sat there and tried to absorb the enormity of what I had just done. Shane and I have committed a homicide, a justifiable homicide, but we had taken a life.”

The Red Caboose shooting — at least in the immediate aftermath — was much less ambiguous than last Friday’s killing of Tony Robinson by officer Matt Kenny.

But Yahnke’s experience offers insight into what officers deal with after taking a life.

Isthmus recorded an interview with Yahnke two years ago, but his comments resonate today. He confirmed Tuesday he was comfortable sharing his experiences.

After the 2004 shooting, Yahnke was taken to the station, where he was photographed in uniform. His gun was taken from him to be examined and tested. Then he was issued a new one.

“The thinking there is a cop without a gun really isn’t a cop,” he says. “You’re sort of neutered, in disgrace almost.”

He was then taken to a room at Inn on the Park to decompress. Although Yahnke was with another officer, he was warned not to talk about the shooting — anything he said about it would have to be reported.

Waiting in the hotel room was agony for him.

“I wanted to talk. I wanted to get out and get this on the record. That what we’d done was justifiable,” he says. “To have done anything less would have been an abdication of our moral and legal responsibility to those kids and the day care staff. We had to deal with the threat.”

Yahnke adds: “I wanted to scream that to people. This was a righteous shoot. He gave us no recourse.”

Yahnke was indeed exonerated and was back at work a week later.

The support the Madison Police De-

‘All of the officers that responded that night are doing as well as can be expected.’ ­— Capt. Kristen Roman

partment provides to officers involved in critical incidents — which includes shootings, but also injuries, violent confrontations and other trauma — has changed considerably since the 2004 Red Caboose shooting, says Capt. Kristen Roman, who oversees the department’s “aftercare” process.

“Historically, in first-responder professions, there’s a culture that inhibits officers and firefighters from seeking help,” she says. “The culture has shifted over the years.”

Today, every officer on the force has selected a fellow officer to be his or her “critical incident partner.” When a critical

incident happens, that person is called in to offer support and act as a go-between to other people offering support or requesting information. “Everybody wants to reach out, and it can be a bit overwhelming for that officer,” Roman says.

Trauma counselors are immediately made available to officers. Department policy also mandates follow-up sessions with a trauma counselor at intervals for up to five years.

Officers directly involved in a critical incident are mandated to take at least a week and a half off, Roman says. However, in cases where there’s an investigation — like with the Robinson shooting — officers are often on leave for much longer.

Leave is also available to other officers, she says. Trauma often has a “ripple effect.”

“There’s an impact that takes place throughout the organization,” she says. “Officers involved in past critical incidents can experience a reemergence of stress.”

Roman says officers other than Kenny have been given leave for last Friday’s shooting, although she did not know how many.

Asked how Kenny himself is doing, Roman says: “All of the officers that responded that night are doing as well as can be expected. They are getting a lot of departmental support and from people in our community.”

Years later, Yahnke still vividly remembers details from his own shooting. He admits that even justified killings take a heavy toll on police. Many can’t cope, leave the force, some drink heavily, a few kill themselves.

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A MAN’S WORLD

Tim Irvin as Chief Justice Edwin G. Ryan and Deborah Hearst as Lavinia Goodell.

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avinia Goodell played a key role in Wisconsin history, yet many people have never heard of her. The extraordinary Janesville resident not only advocated for temperance, woman’s suffrage, prison reform and abolitionist causes, but in 1879 she became the first woman licensed to practice law in the state.

Now Goodell is the subject of a new play by local playwright Betty Diamond, produced by the Madison Theatre Guild and opening March 19 at the Bartell Theater.

Lavinia followed an unusual path to the stage: It was commissioned by the Wisconsin Law Foundation and developed with the help of state Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson. This is not the first foray into theater for the founLavinia dation or for Justice Madison Theatre Abrahamson. In Guild, Bartell Theater, 1998, during the state March 19-21 sesquicentennial, the court system collaborated on a play that dramatized one of Wisconsin’s most historic legal cases, a 19th century challenge to the Fugitive Slave Act. Abrahamson became acquainted with Diamond when she directed that project. “That was an instance of bringing together people who worked for the judicial system to create a teaching tool about the legal system,” Abrahamson says. “At the time we thought that was such a good experience, maybe we could do it again.”

Years later, Abrahamson ran into Diamond at a concert and mentioned the idea of staging a play about another legal milestone. “The obvious other story was about Lavinia Goodell,” says Abrahamson. “She 16 happened to be a woman, pursuing the

A commissioned play spotlights the extraordinary career of Lavinia Goodell, the first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin

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profession of law, but I think it’s every person’s story. It’s about anyone who wants to do something, but they encounter barriers, artificial or not, and then overcome them.”

Diamond confesses that she had never heard of Goodell when approached to pen the drama, so she did a lot of research. She studied Goodell’s diary and family letters and read articles and books on 19th century legal and social issues.

The resulting play, Lavinia, moves between 1880 and 1855, when Goodell was still living with her family in New York and working as an assistant editor for the newspaper run by her father, the prominent abolitionist William Goodell, and for Harper’s Bazaar. She considered studying law, but was discouraged by her mother and sister because it was such a radical idea.

She eventually moved to Janesville, where she studied law on her own. The play intersperses scenes from Goodell’s early law career in Janesville, her mother’s progressive mental illness and her own battle with ovarian cancer. Tragically, Goodell died at age 40, less than a year after she won the right to argue cases before the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Diamond says Goodell has such a rich story it was sometimes difficult to narrow the play’s scope. But because the project was commissioned by legal groups, she chose to focus on the legal challenges that Goodell faced, first fighting to practice law in Rock County and then arguing for the right to present cases before the state Supreme Court. “And Justice Ryan — there could be a whole play about him,” says Diamond, referring to Justice Edward G. Ryan, the judge who initially denied Goodell’s suit on the basis of her sex.

In his 1875 decision, Justice Ryan stated that “womanhood is moulded for gentler and better things” than legal matters, and women should not be permitted to “mix professionally in all the nastiness of the world which finds its way into courts of justice.” Nature, he added, “has tempered woman as little for the juridical conflicts of the court room, as for the physical conflicts of the battlefield.”

The play resonates with Abrahamson, who, in 1976, became the first woman to serve on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and is now the longest-sitting justice in state history. “As a woman, there were

many doors that were still not open when I started to practice law,” she says. “I couldn’t get past the receptionists at law firms in New York. They simply said they wouldn’t hire a woman.”

But when asked her opinion on Justice Ryan and his decision, which seems almost comical to modern readers, she demurs. “He was a very bright, able lawyer, and a very important figure in Wisconsin history,” says Abrahamson. “There’s a bust of him in the foyer of the courtroom at the Capitol. Every time I come in, I nod to him. I’m not sure if he’s nodding back at me, but I hope so.”

Abrahamson says she is looking forward to seeing Goodell’s struggle dramatized on the stage. “Law can change people’s minds and actions,” says Abrahamson. “Lavinia Goodell’s story is one that has to be told.”

Lavinia received funding from the Wisconsin Humanities Council. Dena Wortzel, the agency’s director, says the play includes strong historical scholarship and embodies the council’s mission. “It encourages audiences to ask their own questions about women’s lives and work, about what it means to fight for something you believe in, and about our debts to those who came before us,” she says. “This is how we love to see the humanities put to work.”

After each Madison performance there will be audience talkbacks led by women in the legal profession, including UW law professor Linda Greene. Lavinia will also be presented at the Janesville Performing Arts Center and UW-Marathon County in Wausau. In May, Diamond will travel to Superior to direct a reading of the play at the Douglas County Historical Society.u

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People’s painters The couple known as ChanShatz uses an unconventional process to create murals

By Alexandra Newman

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he arresting floor-to-ceiling murals spanning the upstairs gallery walls of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art are the works of artists Eric Chan and Heather Shatz, who create art under the collective name ChanShatz.

Their exhibit, Eric and Heather ChanSchatz: 22nd Century, runs through May 17.

For the past 15 years, the New York-based artists have facilitated conversations in communities around the world, including with miners in Somerset, Pa., for the coal mining project and protesters in Cairo, Egypt, for “Revolution.” They aim to create community dialogue, which then inspires their work.

The couple moved to Madison in July 2014 and have spent the last eight months gathering ideas from Madison residents to create art that ties our city to global concerns. The MMoCA residency is the artists’ longest to date.

They distribute “selection sheets” at the museum and in mailed surveys, asking participants questions related to such issues as education, homelessness and the environment. Contributors are also asked to choose among geometric figures, color schemes and words they feel best represent the topic. The artists use the sheets to shape their paintings.

For the MMoCA exhibit, ChanSchatz also expanded seven smaller works into large-scale murals that represent past proj-

War is one of the enormous murals Chan and Shatz created after soliciting ideas from the public. ect themes: war, coal mining, education, millennials, revolution, human trafficking and language. And the result is astonishing.

Bold, bright colors and expansive geometric patterns explode from the walls of the gallery, inviting viewers to stand before them with a mix of awe and reverence.

While working on their “Revolution” project in Cairo in 2011, the artists learned about the demonstrations against Gov. Scott

Walker’s anti-union bill in Madison. “The other projects led to Madison,” Chan says, and MMoCA offered the couple an opportunity to deepen their work. The artists say they were “surprised and impressed by the reception of the community.”

And the creative process continues. As visitors approach the gallery, rows and rows of white tables line the center of the gallery space, featuring more than 60 selection

sheets created for the Madison installation.

Visitors are invited to fill them out, and the artists say they expect to create another a painting using this synergistic process.

In addition, ChanShatz plans to incorporate the selection sheets into a limitededition Madison: A Cooperative Almanac.

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MUSIC

Great vibes

It was love at first strike for vibraphonist Tamburr.

Christian Tamburr brings vibraphone magic to Madison

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Concertgoers should expect a combination of standards and material from Voyage, which includes Tamburr’s jazzy takes on pop/rock tunes by the likes of the Police, Genesis and Oasis. Tamburr says he enjoys pop music, especially from the ’80s.

But there’s another reason he is inclined to jazzify pop tunes: audience engagement.

“People forget that the so-called Great American Songbook was the pop music of the ’30s and ’40s,” says Tamburr. “But at some point we stopped taking the music of pop culture and bringing it into a more im-

provisatory setting. If you want to intrigue a younger audience and get them excited about hearing live music, it helps to play something they’re familiar with and can relate to.”

When he’s not busy touring with his ensemble or penning original music for film, television or magic shows, Tamburr enjoys working with young musicians, under the auspices of an arts residency at the Florida Institute of Technology.

“Young musicians are so busy just learning their instrument and trying to make music, they don’t often get the opportunity to get a glimpse at what they’re working toward,” says Tamburr. “I like to show them what it means to be a professional musician, and try to inspire them, whether they’re aiming at becoming professionals or just 17 keeping music in their lives.”u

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hristian Tamburr was an eighthgrade drummer when his band teacher suggested he give the vibraphone a try. It seemed like a good fit; after all, Tamburr was already a decent percussionist and pianist. Teacher was right, as it turned out. For Tamburr, it was love at first mallet strike.

“I loved the combination of rhythm and harmony together, and the vibes were this unique instrument that nobody else played,” Tamburr recalls. “It’s a beautiful instrument with a unique sound, and you get to produce this individual voice within the ensemble, where there are a zillion trumpet players but just one of you.”

Twenty years later, Tamburr is an internationally renowned vibraphonist and pianist, dubbed Outstanding Solo Jazz Performer by Downbeat magazine. He’s toured all over the world with his jazz combo, played alongside big-time stars

like Dave Brubeck and Michael Feinstein, performed private concerts for basketball god Michael Jordan and composed original music for such top Vegas acts as magicians Penn and Teller. His latest album, Voyage, has spent time in the Top 10 of the jazz sales charts.

Tamburr will play a concert March 15 at the Brink Lounge as part of the Madison Music Collective’s Christian Tamburr “Spring Jazz on a Brink Lounge, Sunday, Sunday” series. The March 15, 1 pm show marks Tamburr’s first Madison performance, although he has played elsewhere in Wisconsin, including several Summerfest appearances.

Rather than bring his own group to town, Tamburr will be backed by local talent, namely the Johannes Wallman Trio, featuring UW-Madison Jazz Studies director Wallman on piano, John Christensen on bass and percussionist Keith Leinert. Wallman and Tamburr know each other from when they both lived on the West Coast.

MUSIC

Octogenarian innovator School of Music festival to honor composer George Crumb

By Sandy Tabachnick

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lassical concerts don’t often honor living composers, but the UW-Madison School of Music will pay tribute to George Crumb, a cutting-edge composer who is still writing music at age 85.

On March 20-23, guest artists, faculty members and students will present a series of concerts featuring Crumb’s compositions to celebrate his significant contributions. Works

by Laura Schwendinger, Sebastian Currier, Augusta Read Thomas and many other composers influenced by Crumb will be part of the festivities, in addition to master classes.

Susan Cook, professor of musicology and director of the School of Music, says Crumb’s music expanded the very notion of the concert: “He was enormously important from the 1970s on for providing a musical alternative that offered distinctive sound colors, set the surrealist poetry of [Federico García] Lorca to music and provided audiences with accessible programmatic and evocative titles.”

Laura Schwendinger, professor of composition and faculty sponsor for the festival, says she can’t imagine contemporary American music without Crumb. “His music is beautiful, evocative, cutting edge, with a mesmerizing sound world,” she says.

Creating new sound worlds is hard work, and in a phone interview from his home in Pennsylvania, Crumb told Isthmus that composing hasn’t gotten any easier. “But when musicians enjoy performing my music, it makes the pain and agony worthwhile,” he says.

The festival begins with a concert from the Chicago-based new music group, Lake-

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shore Rush, performing Crumb’s Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale). Flutist Erin Murphy and clarinetist Laura McLaughlin, both UW-Madison alums, co-founded the group in 2014. In Vox Balaenae the flutist sings while she plays, the pianist plays the strings as well as the keys, and the cellist plays glissandos to replicate the sounds of sea life.

“When the New York ensemble commissioned the piece, they sent me an underwater recording of a humpback whale and asked if I could do something with it,” says Crumb. “I didn’t use the recording in the composition, but it was a starting point. I found the sounds through instrumental choices and extensions.”

In accordance with Crumb’s performance notes, the players will also wear masks. Murphy says the notes indicate that: “Each of the three players should wear a black half-mask throughout the performance of the work. The masks, by effacing a sense of human projection, will symbolize the powerful impersonal forces of nature.”

The UW Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Schwendinger, will present a concert featuring the Pro Arte Quartet’s Parry Karp in Crumb’s Sonata for Solo Cello (1955), and saxophonist Steve Carmichael in Quest, a larger work from 1994.

The New York-based Nunc was founded by star violinist Miranda Cuckson, hailed

by The New York Times as “prodigiously talented.” Nunc will perform Eleven Echoes of Autumn, which Crumb says helped define his style. “It was a breakthrough piece for me,” he says. “It’s hard to perform, but when it works, it’s very nice.”

Another critically acclaimed group, Due East, will perform all four books of Crumb’s Madrigals, settings of texts by the Spanish poet and playwright García Lorca.

For this multimedia presentation, video will display García Lorca’s Spanish text with English translations.

In addition to his groundbreaking music, Crumb is also known for creating beautifully handwritten scores. “He is meticulous in his writing and gives copious directions,” says Gregory Beyer, a member of Due East.

“He takes good care of his performers.”

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UW-Madison School of Music George Crumb Festival Lakeshore Rush Friday, March 20, 8 pm Music Hall UW Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, featuring cellist Parry Karp, with percussion ensemble Clocks in Motion Saturday, March 21, 7:30 pm, Music Hall Nunc, featuring Miranda Cuckson Sunday, March 22, 7:30 pm, Mills Hall Due East Monday, March 23, 8 pm, Morphy Hall

All events are open to the public, several are free. Tickets available at Wisconsin Union Box Office and at the door. More information at music.wisc.edu/george-crumb.

Isthmus predicts this show will sell out soon.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Majestic Theatre, March 21 Just four months after the 1995 death of their mentor, friend and producer, Eazy-E, this Cleveland hip-hop group released its iconic memorial E. 1999 record. The album sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Now, 20 years later, the five original members will perform their groundbreaking record in its entirety — a not-to-be-missed event for fans of classic hiphop and R&B. A second Majestic show has been added after the first sold out.

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Some of the hardest-working musicians in town.

Sinister Resonance releases experimental and melodic album They Said… inister Resonance got its name from a piece by the convention-busting 20th century composer Henry Cowell, so it’s not surprising that this Madison-based quartet eschews genre labels. And like Cowell, the group sometimes uses instruments in ways the owner’s manual didn’t cover.

The band celebrates the release of its Summit Records CD They Said... with a show at the High Noon Saloon on March 16, sharing the bill with Nuggernaut and Fringe Character.

Sinister Resonance is led by UW trombone professor Mark Hetzler. His bandmates include some of the hardest-working musicians in town — pianist Vince Fuh, bassist Nick Moran and percussion18 ist Todd Hammes — who collectively have

Miranda Cuckson performs with Nunc.

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In addition to the song they named thems e l ve s a f t e r a n d Sinister Resonance the text-based title High Noon Saloon, track, the CD inMonday, March 16, cludes two original 8:30 pm compositions by Hetzler, one by Hammes and covers of material by the likes of Nels Cline (who was named 82nd greatest guitarist of all

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Small-town band hits the big time Alabama Shakes explores new territory in Sound & Color

By Riley Beggin

comfortable the whole time we were there.

But it was an honor to be nominated.

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labama Shakes used small-town inspiration to leap to big-league stages, and now the quartet is using that momentum to evolve its sound. The roots-rock group from Athens, Ala., rose to fame in 2012 after the release of their debut album, Boys & Girls. Propelled by the masterly pipes of frontwoman Brittany Howard, the record went gold in an era of low record sales and brought the group three Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist. After touring extensively, the group retreated to Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studio to record a second album, Sound & Color, set to release on April 21.

Sound & Color still features many of the Janis Joplin-esque howls and smoky guitar riffs fans have come to expect from the Shakes, but listeners should expect more exploratory material Alabama Shakes in the new album. The Overture Hall, record features genreTuesday, March 17, bending tracks as var7:30 pm ied as R&B ballads and garage rock jams. In anticipation of a March 17 concert at Overture Hall, Isthmus caught up with bassist Heath Fogg to discuss the new album, the challenges of touring and how to survive “music’s biggest night.”

What was the process behind putting together Sound & Color?

The success that we got from Boys & Girls gave us the opportunity to be in the studio for longer periods of time, to flesh out any ideas that we could come up with and explore any sort of avenue we wanted. I don’t think there was any concept for the record, but all of us wanted to experiment and really grow as a band. We’ve known for a long time that this record was going to be different from Boys & Girls, but we didn’t know in what way, so

Anything we need to know about the Grammys that we don’t already know?

My only advice is to make sure and eat before you get in there. I was starving the whole time. I didn’t have a chance to eat before we went, because we were rushed around before. It was in the Staples Center, which has fast-food joints inside the building, so there was a McDonald’s, and I could smell it the whole time.

What are some of the challenges you face on the road?

Recently [it is] playing these new songs in environments where there’s a lot of attention on us. It’s a challenge to perform them because they seem so fresh. We just finished the record. On the other hand, a little pressure is good.

Heath Fogg (far right) says Alabama Shakes wanted to experiment.

What are you most excited about?

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it was fun seeing it all come together. Each day there was something new and exciting.

What drove you to include a wider variety of styles in this album?

We’ve all been listening to so many different things and growing because of it. But also some of the same influences are always with us. I think if we’d had the resources we have now when we made Boys & Girls, it probably would have been more similar to this.

There’s a lot of the same influences, they’re just separated more drastically — this is the album of extremes. You have songs that are pretty hard-driving R&B songs, songs that are just rock ’n’ roll songs and things that are more ambiguous and harder to define.

We weren’t trying to tastefully merge all the

genres. If a song needed to go in a certain direction we just did that and didn’t question it too much.

Since the release of Boys & Girls you’ve been nominated for three Grammys and played stages like Saturday Night Live, Bonnaroo and Glastonbury. Do you feel comfortable with that level of fame?

I’m used to it in ways. I’m on guard more now, when before I was more naïve. Now, I always expect there to be a camera around, and cameras make me nervous. So I have to mentally prepare myself. We’ve really been thankful for the opportunities we’ve had.

At the same time some of those situations — like the Grammys in particular — don’t seem like our kind of scene. I just was un-

We love this record, and we’re really interested to see what other people think about it. We’re taking some big steps and trying to play mostly new material. I think that may be shocking for some fans who just want to come hear Boys & Girls, but hopefully everyone is going to be open minded.

What would you say to someone who’s thinking about coming to your upcoming show in Madison?

I hope that people come curious. I hope they come wanting to experience something they haven’t before, because that’s something we’re shooting for each night. I also hope they’re understanding and patient, because we’re growing and learning as a live act each time we play. We’ve made it a point to start fresh and try something new. I hope everyone’s open to that.u

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From Russia with angst The masterful Leviathan lives up to its name

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ladimir Putin’s Russia — brutal, carnivorous, delusional, but monstrously well-evolved for crushing both spirits and lives large and small — is taken to task in this excoriating portrait of the state’s omnivorous hunger for control in a far-flung northern fishing community on the Barents Sea. The Russian Federation’s 2015 Academy Award entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category (it lost to Poland’s Ida) lives up to its title and then some.

Director Andrey Zvyagintsev (2003’s The Return) paints on a giant canvas but chooses to focus on the travails of one fragile family: father Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov), his wife Lilya (Elena Liadova) and his rebellious son Roma (Sergey Pokhodaev) from a previous marriage. Kolya works as a mechanic and odd-jobber when he’s not sousing himself blind with cheap vodka, while Lilya spends her days at the local fishing cannery. Roma, who resents Lilya’s presence, reluctantly attends what passes for the local school but prefers hanging out in an abandoned church drinking beer with his friends. The family’s already meager existence is threatened further by the unctuous, porcine local mayor (Roman Madianov), who covets Kolya’s parcel of land and has embroiled him in an eminent domain lawsuit. The arrival of Dmitri (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), a Moscow-based attorney and old army buddy retained by Kolya to help him fight city hall, at first appears to provide potential legal recourse, but ends up only complicating matters.

In Zvyagintsev’s rightfully jaundiced view, there’s really no such thing as justice for a common man such as Kolya, or even the more sober (barely) and better-educated Dmitri. The entire game is rigged against the individual; power makes might makes

The filmmaker finds humor amid the bleak reality of Putin’s homeland.

women whom they conright, and the only cold comfort apLeviathan Sundance sider mere “insects” (as parent in Leviathan is the omnipresa drunken Mayor Vadim ent vodka and the occasional graptells an equally vodka-impaired pling of sex, violent or otherwise. (Lilya’s Kolya). Leviathan takes no prisultimate position in the grand scheme of oners, either. The Greek Orthothings is, if anything, the most hopeless dox church is shown to be utterly and dispiriting of all.)

Working with his longtime cinematog- complicit in the crimes of the state, both large and small. rapher Mikhail Krichman and frequent You may ask why you should co-screenwriter Oleg Negin, Zvyagintsev’s film is an epic in miniature, and a howl- subject yourself to such a gruelingly bleak narrative. Well, for ingly despondent masterpiece at that. The one thing, Zvyagintsev has a film employs the harshly photogenic landscape (craggy outcroppings, vertiginous wonderful sense of fatalistic hucliffs, Stalinist-era apartment buildings — mor. There’s a grimly funny seall of this overhung with a sky the color quence mid-film wherein Kolya’s family and friends spend a day of cyanosis) and an intimate knowledge of in the wild, windy countryside, the myriad ways minor martinets can become masters of relatively decent men and slamming down liter after liter of — what else? — vodka while target-shooting, with rifles and a Kalashnikov, at framed photographs of their previous Soviet political bosses. Bang! There goes Stalin.

Ka-pow! Do svidaniya, Brezhnev.

Rat-a-tat-tat! Later, Lenin. (Putin is spared with a wry aside, bePresents cause he is historically — and, one In Collaboration with assumes, literally — too near.)

The film also has moments of revelatory beauty, as when Roma, fleeing the emotional chaos in his father’s home, hides out amid the solitude of the tidal pools, and perches on a boulder beside the colossal, weathered skeleton of a whale. (Metaphors abound.)

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Princess charmless Live-action Cinderella lacks all the elements that made the animated classic soar

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he war for Hollywood’s soul is lost. It was lost a long time ago.

Critics and audiences have griped for more than 20 years as sequels, remakes and franchise extensions proliferated, Cinderella and today the g lobal industry AMC Star, Cinema is more dependent than ever on Cafe, Eastgate, familiar properties, familiar tiPoint, Sundance tles, familiar characters. When a live-action Cinderella emerges under the Disney banner, there’s no point pounding our fists and asking why.

In theory, it’s not a terrible notion that director Kenneth Branagh’s version would be an earnest, straightforward retelling of the fairy tale. The screenplay is a bright, cheery interpretation, built around plucky Cinderella’s determination to follow her mother’s deathbed advice to “have courage and be kind.”

Fidelity isn’t inherently a problematic approach.

The problem with this version is that it is faithful only to certain things at the expense of the things that would have brought the whole enterprise to life.

This version is just about the humans: about Cinderella (Lily James) and her first meeting in the woods with a fellow who calls himself Kit (Richard Madden) but is in fact the crown prince; about Kit trying to convince his father, the king (Derek Jacobi), that he should be allowed to marry for love; about the courtship at the ball. It’s almost entirely a nice, slow-build romance between two very nice people.

It is, therefore, almost entirely a huge bore. Those who remember Disney’s animated Cinderella will recall that the amount of screen time actually devoted to the human characters is relatively small; the focus is on Cinderella’s animal friends, like mice Jacques and Gus, trying to help her out. And when the focus is on the human characters, it’s often accompanied by the lovely songs like “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes,” “So This Is Love” and “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo.” CGI versions of the mice make brief appearances here — not that anyone would be eager to see a more prominent role for CGI mice — and the songs are entirely absent. In short, somebody thought it was a good idea to re-create a version of Disney’s Cinderella lacking everything that gave it its charm.

We get a brief glimpse of what’s wrong with the film when Helena Bonham Carter shows up as Cinderella’s fairy godmother, goofing her way through prosthetic teeth to do the obligatory pumpkin-into-car riage and fancy-ballgown thing.

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American Sniper: Bradley Cooper stars as Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in the latest film from director Clint Eastwood. As a portrait of post-traumatic stress that never allows the end of the war truly to be the end of the war, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarkably potent. (S.R.) Chappie: A police drone, designed to learn and feel, must fight back against forces planning to take him down.

Cinderella:Â Reviewed this issue.

Citizenfour:Â Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill travel to Hong Kong to meet whistleblower Edward Snowden. This is one of the finest and most disturbing political documentaries to hit screens in several years. (M.S.) Union South Marquee, March 18, 7 pm.

The Dead Man and Being Happy:Â A dying hit man escapes the hospital to finish one last job. Cinematheque, March 14, 7 pm.

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Divergent: A young woman (Shailene Woodley) in a dystopian society discovers a plot to destroy a vulnerable group of outcasts. This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a first-rate production, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad in a way that makes the crowd giggle, with a fun â&#x20AC;&#x153;hot for teacherâ&#x20AC;? subplot to boot. (K.J.) Do You Believe: From the makers of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Not Dead, the story of a pastor moved to display his faith through action.

The Drop Box:Â Focus on the Family screening of documentary about a pastor in South Korea who sets up a â&#x20AC;&#x153;mailboxâ&#x20AC;? for unwanted babies.

The DUFF:Â Mae Whitman stars as a nerdy senior who discovers that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the â&#x20AC;&#x153;designated ugly fat friendâ&#x20AC;? within her clique and enlists a longtime friend to help change her image. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never a doubt where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; either as a romance or as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;be yourselfâ&#x20AC;? homily â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but sometimes all it takes is finding it hard not to smile at the character whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taking you there. (S.R.) Emerging Women of Burma:Â Documentary emphasizing the importance of educating women through the stories of seven female leaders and the positive impact they have had in their communities in Burma.

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Eroica:Â A pair of blackly comic stories of Poland during World War II. Cinematheque, March 13, 7 pm.

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Fifty Shades of Grey:Â The first film installment adapted from the self-published BDSM trilogy in which a literature studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life changes forever when she meets a handsome yet tormented billionaire. It offers some potent female empowerment and a great breakout performance by Dakota Johnson, but not enough to make up for its tedious plotting. (S.R.) Focus:Â Will Smith plays a con artist whose schemes are compromised by the reappearance of a woman from his past (Margot Robbie). While the film has a bouncy playfulness, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s missing for long stretches, as directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra keep their focus on a romance that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really working. (S.R).

The Gunman:Â A military contractor (Sean Penn) with post-traumatic stress disorder must clear his name.

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies: The best thing about finally reaching the third and last chapter of Peter Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ponderously epic eight-hour adaptation of the rather brief and chipper novel is that we may be assured that once the DVD hits next year, some intrepid fan is going to whittle the whole thing down into a breezy 105-minute phantom edit, like it should have been in the first place. (M.J.) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1: Reluctant hero Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) finds herself on the brink of a civil war in the third and penultimate installment of the Hunger Games series. This film adds mouth-watering context to the dystopian teenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tale, and watching Katniss get angry is exhilarating. (M.J.) Inherent Vice: Director Paul Thomas Anderson follows the misadventures of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Docâ&#x20AC;? Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix), a private investigator living in the squalid splendor of Gordita Beach, Calif., circa 1970. Both hilarious and kind of tragic, it will leave you giggling helplessly at the exact same stuff that might have you crying once the high wears off. (S.R.) Insurgent: Tris Pryor (Shailene Woodley) returns to continue fighting against an alliance trying to destroy society in this Divergent sequel.

Into the Woods:Â Stephen Sondheim and James Lapineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musical combining fairy tale characters Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), the Wolf (Johnny Depp) and others touches on the moralizing aspect of the tales but is mostly a framework for the songs. Director Rob Marshallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film is at its best when he retains aspects of the stage version rather than relying on CGI effects. (S.R.) Jupiter Ascending:Â Lana and Andy Wachowski, fabulators of the Matrix trilogy, helm an old-fashioned space opera about a young woman on Earth (Mila Kunis) who is swept up into an interstellar tyrantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s web. It works far better as a thinly veiled critique of consumptive capitalism than it does as a femmeempowerment manifesto. (M.S.) Kingsman: The Secret Service:Â A broad takeoff on the James Bond films of yore, this action comedy gets a lot of mileage from casting Colin Firth as Harry Hart, a secret service agent in the Roger Moore mold who wears bespoke suits and has at his disposal an arsenal of nifty, convertible weapons. (M.B.) Kung Fu Hustle:Â Sing wants to join the Axe Gang, but must survive the secret kung fu masters of slumland.

Union South Marquee, March 13, 11:30 pm.

The Lazarus Effect:Â Documentary director David Gelb makes a foray into fiction with this supernatural thriller about a serum that brings clinically dead patients back to life. Will it actually confront the tension between faith and science head-on? Perish â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and then fail to resurrect â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the thought. (S.R.) Leviathan:Â Reviewed this issue.

McFarland, USA: Despite heavy sports-underdog clichĂŠs, this drama starring Kevin Costner as the coach of an all-Latino high school track team taps into a lot of modern realities. (M.S.) Metropolitan Opera Live: La Donna Del Lago: Experience the ninth season of The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Operaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Peabody and Emmy Awardwinning series, with a simulcast of Rossiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adaptation of Sir Walter Scott. Eastgate and Point, March 14 (11:55 am) and March 18 (6:30 pm).

Minnie and Moskowitz:Â Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassell are the titular odd couple in this comedy/ drama from writer/director John Cassavetes.

Chazen Museum of Art, March 15, 2 pm.

Mr. Turner:Â Director Mike Leigh delivers a fascinating, period-rich portrait of the latter years of the painter J.M.W. Turner. Timothy Spallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance is in a league of its own as the actor inhabits the body of this artist. (M.B.) Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb:Â Nice effects work, a relatively swift-moving narrative, sweet performances and a well-worn premise prove inspiring, and not deadening, in this third installment of American Museum of Natural History attractions coming to life after dark. All-star casts more often turn into a series of dud performances, but it is gratifying how many of them offer fine turns here. (L.B.) Paddington:Â This adaptation of author Michael Bondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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Paddington Bear books is contemporary in tone but steadfastly true to its source material. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hugely entertaining, with less-than-subtle nods to current sociopolitical views on everything from immigration policy and xenophobia to what it means to be family. (M.S.) The Principle:Â A challenge to the foundation of modern scientific thought.

Road House:Â Get on the Swayze train via this starring vehicle in which he is a bouncer in an out of control bar. Central Library, March 19, 6:30 pm.

Run All Night:Â A hitman (Liam Neeson) must protect his estranged family from a former boss.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel:Â In a sequel to the 2012 sleeper hit, hotelier Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel) ponders an expansion while the now-resident regulars face various relationship dilemmas. It moseys along for two overstuffed hours, hoping you think the charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rote fumblings are endearing. It is love, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neither exciting nor new. (S.R).

Selma:Â This riveting drama focuses on Martin Luther Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1965 efforts, with colleagues and allies, to secure voting rights for Southern blacks. By showing all the struggle, negotiation, strategizing, self-doubt, mistakes and intelligence that went into winning a single crucial philosophical battle, it inspires not with a tale of victory but with an instruction manual for how to get there. (S.R.) The Seven Year Itch:Â One of Marilyn Monroeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quintessential roles, as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;dumb blondeâ&#x20AC;? upstairs who keeps fueling the raging fantasies of a Manhattan husband (Tom Ewell) whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been left on the prowl.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water:Â Arriving a full decade after its big-screen predecessor, this follow-up feels like a loose assembly of three episodes involving end times, time travel and superheroics, all improbably framed by the above-water misdeeds of dastardly pirate Burger Beard. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to hold a lack of narrative ambition against any toon so eager to lob bit after bit of psychedelic surrealism at its audience. (W.G.) Still Alice:Â Based on the 2007 novel by Lisa Genova, Julianne Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powerful Oscar-nominated performance as a professor stricken with Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s carries the story a long way, but not past the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s misguided focus on her inexorable decline. (S.R.) Taken 3:Â Framed for the murder of his ex-wife, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills demonstrates a very familiar set of skills as his good name is taken for a change. Liam Neesonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own set of skills merits his recent career renaissance, but he deserves a better showcase than this cacophonous assembly of something resembling excitement. (W.G.) Unfinished Business:Â A seemingly routine overseas business trip goes comically awry for a small business owner (Vince Vaughn) and his compatriots.

The Use of a Magazine Rack:Â A job interview becomes an intimate dialogue between two women in this film accomplished in one shot. Cinematheque, March 14, 8:45 pm.

Walkover:Â Writer/director Jerzy Skolimowski also stars in this story of a factory worker/boxer.

Cinematheque, March 14, 8:45 pm.

What We Do in the Shadows:Â Vampires of modest means is the conceit of this uproariously funny mockumentary from writers and directors Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, who understand that the qualities we associate with scary movie vampires â&#x20AC;&#x201D; solemnity, vanity, obsession with control â&#x20AC;&#x201D; make excellent comedy fodder. (K.B.) Why Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t You Play in Hell?:Â A film crew vs. a yazuka clan. Union South Marquee, March 14, 11 pm.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 12 Altan Memorial Union Play Circle, 7 and 9:30 pm

This legendary traditional Irish band is one of the genre’s most influential acts. Formed in the 1980s by the late flutist Frankie Kennedy and his wife, Mairead Mi Mhaonaigh, the group released its 12th studio album, The Widening Gyre, last month. The early performance is sold out, but as of press time, tickets remained available for the 9:30 show.

Blackberry Smoke Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

This hard-shredding country rock quintet has a lot to celebrate after 14 successful years on the road, including the recent release of a back-to-basics fourth album, Holding All the Roses. Treat yourself to their well-worked stage rhythms and rollicking vibe, which incorporates everything from gospel to bluegrass to outlaw country. With Temperance Movement, Leon Virgil Bowers.

trancing musical storytelling of multi-instrumentalist, poet and composer Stelth Ulvang, the gorgeous vocals and parlor guitar of PHOX’s Monica Martin and classically oriented pianist Stephanie Rearick’s otherworldly blend of beats, keys, trumpet and voice.

Jamila Woods

Touring to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their fan-adored album Betty, this sold-out performance will feature alt-metal act Helmet playing the record in its entirety. As a bonus, the band will also play a second set consisting of choice cuts from their long-spanning discography and perhaps new tracks from a work in progress.

PICK OF THE WEEK Line Breaks Festival THURSDAY, MARCH 12. Performances at Overture Center’s Promenade Hall (through March 17), art exhibition at UW’s Education Building (through March 27) and panel discussions at UW’s Red Gym (March 14-16, noon-2 pm)

John Statz Crystal Corner Bar, 9:30 pm

This singer/songwriter and former Madison resident now lives in Colorado and just released a new album, Tulsa, a mix of Americana and folk that includes a hushed country cover of Radiohead’s “Motion Picture Soundtrack.” With Kelsey Sprague, Evan Murdock & the Imperfect Strangers.

Line Breaks Festival begins where activism and art meet. Showcasing productions and exhibitions created, developed and performed by UW-Madison First Wave students, the performances put UW’s students of color front and center.

The festival includes talkbacks by the artists, panel discussions and a headline performance by poet and vocalist Jamila Woods.

Explore identity and experience the world through the lens of hip-hop and spoken word.

For more information, visit linebreaks.wisc.edu.

Dan Bitney, LeRoy Bach, Anton Hatwich and Selina Trepp Mickey’s Tavern, 10:30 pm

Madisonians may remember Bitney from the halcyon days of the late ’90s when his funk band Booty Froot caused many body parts to quiver. Bitney went on to form Tortoise and Istotope 217 and now joins ex-Wilco guitarist Bach and veteran bass improviser Hatwich for one-of-a-kind electronic grooves. With Spectralina, an audiovisual performance project formed by Bitney and Trepp.

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This rapper has hair like a glam rocker and refuses to call his fans anything but friends.

The acronym he goes by stands for “Movement on Dreams, Stand Under None,” and his unceasing positivity has served as the foundation for his six mixtapes, three EPs and a soon-to-bereleased debut album. With Blackbear, KR, Dillon Cooper.

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High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm

This award-winning folk singer carved out her niche early, transitioning from mainstream recording to the women’s music genre in the early ’80s. After training as one of L.A.’s first female sound engineers, she built her own label, Tomboy Girl Records, in order to exert artistic control over her six acoustic releases and help other female artists do the same.

This past week, British alt-rockers Swervedriver released I Wasn’t Born to Lose You, their fifth record and first in 17 years. The influential fourpiece disbanded in 1998 but reunited 10 years later to resume pushing the boundaries of the shoegaze genre. They have since made appearances at numerous festivals and late-night talk shows. With Gateway Drugs.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13

Memorial Union Rathskeller, 9 pm

Jake Armerding is an acoustic folk artist who’s recently moved to the Midwest after spending the majority of his career on the East Coast. This free performance will feature the multi-instrumentalist pairing up with percussionist Alexander Young to create a sound that Armerding describes as “Mozart through a loop pedal.”

Helmet High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

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Memorial Union Shannon Hall, 8 pm

Founded 40 years ago, the Kronos Quartet has broken boundaries for string quartets while recording an astonishing 43 studio albums, two compilations, five soundtracks and live performances with the likes of Paul McCartney, David Bowie and Noam Chomsky.

Stelth Ulvang (of the Lumineers) Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse, 8 pm

There’s nothing quite like the intimacy of strangers. Expect just that with this captivating bill, which features the en-

Mat Kearney

This duo mixes a punk attitude with a slab of your favorite smoky sauce to create fun, carefree garage rock. Though the band burst onto the scene with their wild self-titled debut in 2004, they’d been relatively quiet as of late. Last month, they released Bad News Boys, their first record since 2009’s Invisible Girl. With Milk Lines, Cowboy Winter.

MONDAY, MARCH 16 Sinister Resonance High Noon Saloon, 8:30 pm

Yes, this Madison-based quartet has pedigree to spare (just check out the members’ music degrees and other projects, which include everything from Madison Symphony to the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra). But the group proves that educated doesn’t equal expected by combining rock, jazz, electronic and classical inspirations into a texturebased exploration of sound (see page 17).

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, Orpheum Theater, 7:30 pm

TUESDAY, MARCH 17

At some point in the last decade, Mat Kearney went from a guy writing songs and crashing on couches to a singer-songwriter who’s had five Top 20 hits on the Adult Top 40 chart. Like most great American songwriters, Kearney doesn’t limit his music to one sound but has nevertheless cranked out consistently catchy tunes his entire career. With Parachute, Judah & the Lion.

Alabama Shakes Overture Hall, 7:30 pm

This rock band’s upcoming new album features many of the Janis Joplin-esque howls and smoky guitar riffs their fans have come to expect, but some exploratory material as well (see page 17).

With Promised Land Sound.

Filligar High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

This L.A.-based rock band is releasing a new album, Keepsakes of the Interior, next month and has also kept busy serving as cultural ambassadors as part of the U.S. Arts Envoys, a program that allowed them to travel to Ghana, Azerbaijan, Kuwait Venice, where they recorded a song in a gondola garage. With Catch Kid.

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Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

On the surface, moe. is your typical jam band: Their songs are long and their boundaries seem limitless.

But they are arguably one of the most exciting, improvisational acts of the last 25 years, and one of the lucky few to have sponsored their own cruise.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 14, Majestic Theatre, 7 pm

Bartell Theatre, 7:30 pm. ALSO: Friday (7:30 pm) and Saturday (2 & 7:30 pm), March 20-21

Raunchy. That’s one of the better ways to describe this New York City artist and singer, whose rollicking act includes elements of cabaret, comedy and dirty-minded fun. Best known for her crowd-pleasing stand-up (featured on Inside Amy Schumer) and flamboyantly skimpy wardrobe, this is one show you won’t want to miss — unless, of course, you blush easily.

In 1876, the self-taught crusading lawyer Lavinia Goodell was denied admission to the bar of the Wisconsin Supreme Court because she was a woman.

Local playwright Betty Diamond has penned a biographical drama on Goodell’s extraordinary battle for equality (see page 16). One weekend only.

Jimkata The Frequency, 8 pm

Not unlike LCD Soundsystem and MGMT, Jimkata excels at making dance music grounded in good ol’ fashioned rock ’n’ roll. Since hitting it big with their fan-funded Die Digital three years ago, the trio have been traveling the nation and playing new songs they hope to record and release this fall. With Oh My Love.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 Concert to Benefit Brittany Sperberg UW Mills Hall, 7:30 pm

Brittany Sperberg, a talented trombone student, was stricken in December with a mysterious infection.

She is being treated at the Mayo Clinic, and to help Sperberg’s family deal with medical expenses, her musical colleagues are pulling together an all-star event featuring many groups Sperberg has performed in: UW Wind Ensemble; the UW Jazz Orchestra; the Low Brass Ensemble; the Horn Heads, a funk horn band founded by Sperberg; and the Badger Brass.

Cursive High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Over the past 20 years, this Omaha-based emo band has made some of the most concept-laden and lyrically heavy music in a genre that’s essentially defined by those parameters. This tour reunites the band with a cellist and finds them pulling heavily from their 2003 opus, The Ugly Organ.

With See Through Dresses.

Rich Vos Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), March 20-21

More than anything, stand-up comedian Rich Vos is a master at working a crowd. Aside from being the first white comic to perform on Def Comedy Jam, he finished third on season one of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, wrote jokes for the Chris Rock when he hosted the Academy Awards and has released two Comedy Central specials. With Nick Lynch.

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MUSIC u CLUBS THURSDAY, MAR. 12 1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove: Eric Joseph, free, 6 pm.

Alchemy Cafe: Killarney Blarney & the Paddy Wagon, Irish, free, 10 pm.

The Bayou: Johnny Chimes, piano, free, 5:30 pm.

Brink Lounge: Antique Nouveau, soul/jazz, free, 8 pm.

Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: The New Pioneers, bluegrass, $10, 7 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm.

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

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

Club Tavern, Middleton: Madpolecats, 9 pm.

Crescendo Espresso Bar: Seasaw, Elks Teeth & Rabbits Feet, $5, 7 pm.

Essen Haus: WheelHouse, free, 9 pm.

The Frequency: Pirates Canoe, SheShe, Karen Wheelock, $5 ($8 ages 18+), 8 pm.

Froth House: The Tinder Box, Tim Coughlin Jr., 7 pm.

Great Dane-Downtown: DJs Vilas Park Sniper, 10 pm.

Harmony Bar: Nick Matthews, $5 donation, 5:30 pm.

Hody Bar and Grill, Middleton: Philly Cheese, classic rock, free, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Jim Ripp, $2, 9 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Blues Jam with Tate & the 008 Band, donations, 8 pm.

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

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

Majestic Theatre: Blackberry Smoke, Temperance Movement, Leon Virgil Bowers, $25, 8 pm.

Merchant: Derek Ramnarace, free, 10 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, French swing/Hawaiian slack key, free, 5:30 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Radish, free, 10 pm.

Segredo: DJ Jean Le Duke, free, 10 pm.

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

Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, free, 9 pm.

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Alchemy Cafe: Nuggernaut, funk/jazz, free, 10 pm.

Badger Bowl: Whiplash, 9:15 pm.

The Bayou: DJ Chamo, Latin, free, 10 pm.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: DJ Edge, 9 pm.

Brink Lounge: Tret Fure, Madison Folk Music Society concert, $17 ($15 adv.; bring nonperishable food donations), 7 pm; Kyle Henderson, $5, 9 pm.

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

Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: Bill Camplin, $8, 8 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Nathan Gerlach, jazz, free, 5:30 pm; DJs CZR, Lovecraft, Wyatt Agard, Golden Donna, 9 pm.

Chief’s Tavern: Shari Davis & the Hot Damn Blues Band, free, 8 pm.

Claddagh, Middleton: Killarney Blarney, free, 8 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Josh Becker, 9 pm.

Crandall’s: DJ Danny One, salsa/bachata, $5, 10 pm.

Crescendo Espresso Bar: Ben Ferris Quintet, jazz, $5, 7 pm.

Delaney’s: Bob Kerwin & Doug Brown, jazz, free, 6 pm.

Essen Haus: Gary Beal Band, free, 8:30 pm.

Fisher King Winery, Mount Horeb: Tom Kastle, free, 6:30 pm.

Five Nightclub: DJ Tim Walters, 9 pm.

The Fountain: Richard Shaten, piano, free, 7:30 pm.

The Frequency: Sweetalk, Good Morning V, The Mood Manual, $5 ($8 ages 18+), 9 pm.

Great Dane-Hilldale: DJ Audiomaxx, free, 9 pm.

Harmony Bar: The Last Revel, $5, 10 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Swervedriver, Gateway Drugs, $17 ($15 adv.), 9:30 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Primitive Culture, free, 9 pm.

Inferno: Thira, Breech, War of Abaddon, Squid Hammer, New Society of Anarchists, Samyaza, Stux, Murdercore, Ultrea, The Unnecessary Gunpoint Lecture, $13 ($10 adv.), 7 pm.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Eben Seaman, Mike Massey, $5, 8 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Rev. Raven & the Chain 28 Smokin’ Altar Boys with Westside Andy, 9 pm.

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Gallery Talk: Waterways SUNDAY, MARCH 15, Overture Center’s James Watrous Gallery, 1:30-4 pm

Join artists John Miller and Marsha MacDonald in an informal discussion of their exhibition titled Waterways. Miller is an avid boatman who creates realistic, watery landscapes, and McDonald is a painter, photographer and filmmaker who devotes her attention to the ever-shifting waves and ripples in our lakes, oceans and rivers. The exhibition runs until May 10.

Legends Sports Bar: Cool Front with Jon French, 9 pm.

Liliana’s: Hanson Family Jazz Band, free, 6:30 pm.

Locker Room: Saturday Morning Cartel, free, 9 pm.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Jim Erickson, Laurie Lang & Sally De Broux, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Phun, Phish tribute, $5, 9 pm.

Merchant: DJ Nick Nice, free, 10:30 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Lucid Prophecy, Order of the Jackal, free, 10 pm.

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

Northside Family Restaurant: Richard Hassler, piano, free, 5 pm.

Red Rock Saloon: Nick Lynch Band, 10 pm.

Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: Soggy Prairie Boys, 8:30 pm.

Stoughton Opera House: Del McCoury Band, bluegrass, $40, 7:30 pm.

Tempest Oyster Bar: Lesser Lakes Trio, free, 9:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: The Lurk Hards, Soda Garocki, free, 9:30 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Zac Matthews Band, 9 pm.

True Coffee Roasters, Fitchburg: Alex Carlson, Mike & Jen Farley, Kayla Selvaag, $8 ($6 adv.), 8 pm.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse, Verona: The Northern Hooks, free, 7 pm.

Up North Pub: Just Merl, free, 8 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Der Rathskeller: Mod Sun, Blackbear, KR, Dillon Cooper, free, 9 pm.

VFW Post 7591-Cottage Grove Road: Kristi B, free, 7:30 pm.

Wil-Mar Center: Marty Feldhake, Wild Hog in the Woods concert, $3, 8 pm.

SATURDAY, MAR. 14 Alchemy Cafe: No Name String Band, free, 10 pm.

Badger Bowl: Falcon, 9:15 pm.

Brink Lounge: Undercover, classic rock, 9 pm.

Buck and Honey’s, Sun Prairie: Nine Thirty Standard, blues/country/rock, free, 7 pm.

Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: Sam Llanas, $20 adv., 8:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Colorao, 10 pm.

Carp’s Landing, Lake Mills: Ol’ Style Skratch, free, 9 pm.

Chocolaterian Cafe: Tom Klein with Mal-O-Dua, Mark Kunkel, gypsy swing, free, 7 pm.

Claddagh, Middleton: Ron Denson, free, 8 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: The Retro Specz, 9 pm.

Cold Fusion, Middleton: Retrobus, free, 10 pm.

Come Back In: Deep Pool, free, 9 pm.

Crescendo Espresso Bar: Beth Kille, Hannah Busse, $8, 8 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: John Statz, Kelsey Sprague, Evan Murdock & the Imperfect Strangers, 9:30 pm.

Essen Haus: Gary Beal Band, free, 8:30 pm.

Fisher King Winery, Mount Horeb: The Mascot Theory, folk rock, free, 6:30 pm.

Frequency: The Laohu, Awkward Terrible, The Runaway Five, Danimal Cannon, $10 (ages 18+), 9 pm.

Froth House: Irish Jam, free, noon.

Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Mud Music, 7:30 pm.

Harmony Bar: Roots Collective, $6, 9:45 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Circus Fires, Township, Weathered, $6, 6 pm; Cosmic Railroad, Newport Jam, $7 (ages 18+), 10 pm.

Hody Bar and Grill, Middleton: Killer Cars, free, 9 pm.

Inferno: GSAFE Benefit with Knuckel Drager, Fistful of Pistol, Droids Attack, Ylab, 8 pm.

Ivory Room: Eben Seaman, Trey Grimm, Leslie Cao, $5, 8 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Rockin’ Johnny Burgin, 9 pm.

Lazy Oaf Lounge: Unity, 10 pm.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Widdicombe & Dan Barker, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Jim Erickson, Laurie Lang & Jan Wheaton, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

Majestic Theatre: DJs Nick Nice, Mike Carlson, ‘80s vs. ‘90s, $5, 9 pm.

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

Mexico Lindo: Jamarek Sound DJs, reggae, $5, 10 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Dan Bitney, LeRoy Bach, Anton Hatwich & Selina Trepp, Spectralina, free, 10 pm.

Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse: Stelth Ulvang, Monica Martin, Stephanie Rearick, $8, 8 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Timeline, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Zukas, free, 10 pm.

Nau-Ti-Gal: The Scrubbers, 8 pm.

Northside Family Restaurant: Richard Hassler, 6 pm.

RH Landmark Saloon, Jefferson: Bluegrass Jam, 3 pm.

Segredo: Lookas & Gawtbass, $15 ($20 ages 18+), 10 pm.

Spring Green General Store: Bluegrass Jam, 1:30 pm.

Tempest Oyster Bar: Mal-O-Dua, free, 9:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Miguel McQuade Trio, free, 9:30 pm.

Tofflers, New Glarus: Mark Croft, free, 9 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Back 40 Band, 9 pm.

True Coffee Roasters, Fitchburg: War Poets, Oh My Love, Dillon Hassler, $8 ($6 adv.), 8 pm.

Tuvalu Coffee, Verona: Greg Thornburg, free, 7 pm.

Tyranena Brewing Company, Lake Mills: North Country Drifters, country/swing, 7 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Rathskeller: Jake Armerding, free, 9 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Fredric March Play Circle: Turquoise Jeep, free, 8:30 pm.

VFW Post 1318-Lakeside St.: Rockbottom, free, 7 pm.

SUNDAY, MAR. 15 Brink Lounge: Christian Tamburr with the Johannes Wallmann Trio, jazz, $18 ($15 adv.), 1 pm.

Brocach-Square: McFadden’s Fancy, Irish, 4:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: The Sessions, rock, 4 pm; Los Chechos, 8 pm.

Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Scotty & the Treble Makers, free, 4 pm.

The Fountain: All-Ages Jazz Jam with Eric Koppa, Paul Muench, John Schaffer, Rand Moore, 4 pm.

Frequency: Sam Outlaw, $10 ($8 adv.; ages 18+), 8 pm.

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

Great Dane-Downtown: The Kissers, Irish, 2 pm.

Harmony Bar: Woody ‘n the G Strings, Pat Ferguson, Bruzer, $7 donation, 5 pm.

High Noon Saloon: The King Khan & BBQ Show, Milk Lines, Cowboy Winter, $15 (ages 18+), 8 pm.

Inferno: DJ Siberia, “Dr. Who” themed fetish night, $12 ($9 w/costume), 9 pm.

Java Cat: Jeff Larsen, fingerstyle guitar, free, 1 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee House: Michael Gruber, 9 am.

Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen, free, 10:30 am.

Maduro: DJ Nick Nice, free, 10 pm.

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

Natt Spil: DJ Prince of Ravens, free, 10 pm.

Sand Trap Bar and Grill, Edgerton: Country Jam with JR’s Jammers, free, 3 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Open Mic, free, 9 pm.

MONDAY, MAR. 16 Alchemy Cafe: DJ Samroc, free, 10 pm.

Amy’s Cafe: Open Mic, free, 9 pm.

Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: WheelHouse, free, 4 pm; Bluegrass Jam, 6:30 pm.

Frequency: Courtney Yasmineh, The Complication, $5 ($8 ages 18+), 8:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Sinister Resonance (CD release), Nuggernaut, Fringe Character, $10 (ages 18+), 8:30 pm.

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THE GUIDE u For a complete, searchable list of events check Isthmus.com Malt House: Oak Street Ramblers, free, 7:30 pm.

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

Natt Spil: DJ Ted Offensive, free, 10 pm.

Up North Pub: Teddy Davenport, free, 8 pm.

TUESDAY, MAR. 17 Alchemy Cafe: Ted Keys Trio, free, 10 pm.

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

Brocach-Square: Open Mic w/Andy Richard, 8:30 pm.

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

Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Fuzzy Side Up, free, 2 pm; Gaelic Fury, free, 6 pm.

Come Back In: WheelHouse, Deep Pool, free, 5 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: David Hecht & Who Dat, 9 pm.

Essen Haus: Tallymoore, free, 8 pm.

Free House Pub, Middleton: The Westerlies, 7:30 pm.

The Frequency: Jimkata, $10 (ages 18+), 8 pm.

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

Harmony Bar: The Currach, $5, 7 pm.

High Noon Saloon: The Kissers, Cashel Dennehy Irish Dancers, $6 ($12/family), 5:30 pm; The Kissers, Mal-O-Dua, $10, 8 pm.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, free, 8 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: Onadare, free, 7:30 pm.

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

Merchant: Andy Haker & Snot-Nosed Gypsy Leprechauns, free, 11:30 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Wangzoom, free, 10 pm.

Overture Center-Overture Hall: Alabama Shakes, Promised Land Sound, $42.50-$39.50, 7:30 pm.

Spring Green General Store: Shari Sarazin, noon.

Up North Pub: Rev. Eddie Danger, free, 8 pm.

Wil-Mar Center: Bluegrass Jam, $5 donation, 7 pm.

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

Club Tavern, Middleton: Pat McCurdy, 9 pm.

Essen Haus: The Midwesterners, free, 9 pm.

The Frequency: Red Rose, Null Device, Endless Blue, $5 ($8 ages 18+), 10 pm.

Great Dane-Downtown: DJ Mike Carlson, 10 pm.

Harmony Bar: Backroom Harmony Band with Andy Moore, $7 donation, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Cursive, Dylan Rand Band, See Through Dresses, $17 ($15 adv.; ages 18+), 8 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Cross Town Drive, free, 9 pm.

Inferno: DJs Spade One, Super Ego, Boombox Saints, Diva D, Stickee Fingazz, Chuck Torris, Techsmith, $3, 9 pm.

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

Alchemy Cafe: 2nd Strings, bluegrass, free, 10 pm.

Barrymore Theatre: moe, $30, 8 pm.

Brink Lounge: Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, blues, free, 8 pm.

Brocach-Monroe St: Gypsy Swing Open Jam, 8:30 pm.

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

Cardinal Bar: DJs Brook, Siberia, fetish night, $5, 9 pm.

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

Frequency: Aaron Kamm & the One Drops, Perspective Heights, Hot by Ziggy, $5 ($8 ages 18+), 10 pm.

Genna’s Lounge: Open Mic, free, 9 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Filligar, Catch Kid, rock, $12 ($10 adv.; ages 18+), 8 pm.

Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, free, 8 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Bluegrass Jam with Ad Hoc String Band, free, 8 pm.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 5:30 pm.

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

Malt House: Don’t Spook the Horse, free, 7:30 pm.

Monona Terrace: All That Jazz Big Band, free, 5:30 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Gary David & the Enthusiasts, free, 8 pm; Double Dubbs, Chaos Revolution Theory, free, 10 pm.

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

Orpheum Theater: Mat Kearney, Parachute, Judah & the Lion, $30 ($27.50 adv.), 7:30 pm.

Segredo: DJ BigKu, free, 10 pm.

Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Der Rathskeller: Open Mic with Ben Cameron, free, 8 pm.

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

THURSDAY, MAR. 19 1855 Saloon, Cottage Grove: Eric Joseph, free, 6 pm.

Alchemy Cafe: Double Dubbs, free, 10 pm.

The Bayou: Johnny Chimes, piano, free, 5:30 pm.

Brink Lounge: Alison Margaret, jazz, free, 8 pm.

Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: The Wrong Omar, $8, 8 pm.

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

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

Tavi Gevinson TUESDAY, MARCH 17, Memorial Union Shannon Hall, 7:30 pm

Tavi Gevinson came into the public eye as a fashion blogger when she was only 12 years old. At 15, she switched her focus to feminist pop culture by founding Rookie magazine, a publication written by and for progressive teen girls. Now 18, she continues to run Rookie, has acted in a play opposite Michael Cera and gives inspiring lectures for organizations like TED and the Wisconsin Union Directorate.

Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, Michael Massey, $2, 9 pm.

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

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

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

Merchant: Gin Mill Hollow, free, 10 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: DJ Evan Woodward, free, 10 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: One Strong Army, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: DJs Dr. Lobster, Rob Sandheim, free, 10 pm.

Segredo: DJ Jean Le Duke, free, 10 pm.

Tofflers, New Glarus: The Jimmys, free, 8 pm.

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

Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, free, 9 pm.

MORE MUSIC Tremper High School Wind Ensemble: Wisconsin Music Educators Association concert, noon, 3/12, Capitol Rotunda. Free. 850-3566.

UW Faculty Concert: Kostas Tiliakos, oboe, 7:30 pm, 3/12, Humanities Bldg-Morphy Hall. Free. 263-5615.

Altan: Irish concert, 7 pm (sold out) & 9:30 pm, 3/12, UW Memorial Union-Play Circle. $29. 265-2787.

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THE GUIDE u For a complete, searchable list of events check Isthmus.com Cuba City Middle School Choir: WMEA concert, noon, 3/13, Capitol Rotunda. Free. 850-3566.

Marco Grieco: Piano concert, 7:30 pm, 3/13, Farley’s House of Pianos. $35. 271-2626.

Noon Musicale: J. Adam Shelton, tenor, Rayna Slavova, piano, 12:15 pm, 3/13, First Unitarian Society Auditorium. Free. 233-9774.

The Pines: 7:30 pm, 3/13, Mineral Point Opera House. $15. 987-3501.

RSVP for Voices of Spring: Madison Symphony Orchestra Concert Organ 10th anniversary celebration, 6 pm, 3/21, Overture Center-Overture Hall, with music by Samuel Hutchison, dinner. $125.

RSVP by 3/13: madisonsymphony.org. 257-3734.

Oakwood Chamber Players: “Replay!” with guest harpist Linda Warren, 7 pm on 3/14 and 1:30 pm, 3/15, Oakwood Village-University Woods Center for Arts & Education. $20. 230-4316.

Bethel University Choir: Sacred concert, 7 pm, 3/14, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church-Raymond Rd. Free/donations. 271-6633.

Bill & Bobbie Malone: Country, 7 pm, 3/14, Spring Prairie Lutheran Church-Prairie Coffeehouse, DeForest. Free. 770-2990.

UW Faculty Concert: Parry Karp, violoncello, Frances Karp & Christopher Karp, piano, 8 pm, 3/14, Humanities Building-Mills Hall. Free. 263-5615.

Choro de La pra Ca: Brazilian trio, 4 pm, 3/14, UW Humanities Building-Morphy Hall. Free. 263-5615.

Kronos Quartet: Chamber concert, 8 pm, 3/14, UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall. $44-$28. 265-2787.

Jon Langford: House concert & art exhibit, 5 pm, 3/15, 1326 MacArthur Rd. (3/14 sold out) $15 donation. righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com. 358-9453.

Hymn Sing: 3 pm, 3/15, Asbury United Methodist Church. Free; all welcome. 836-6532.

Madison Youth Choirs: Debut of new intergenerational choir, 1 pm, 3/15, Capitol Lakes-Grand Hall.

Free. 238-7464.

Madison Sacred Harp Singers: Shape-note singing (a cappella choral folk music form; all invited to sing), 3 pm, 3/15, Grace Episcopal Church. 255-8001.

Longfellow Middle School 8th Grade Concert Band: WMEA concert, noon, 3/19, Capitol. Free. 850-3566.

Take the King, Red Velvet Rope, Blossom Punch, Flash Drive: Free concert by teen bands, 6 pm, 3/19, Middleton Library. 827-7403.

UW Symphony Strings: 7:30 pm, 3/19, UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall. Free. 263-5615.

SPECIAL EVENTS

The Magic Flute FRIDAY, MARCH 13, UW Music Hall, 7:30 pm. ALSO: Saturday (7:30 pm), Sunday (3 pm) and Tuesday (7:30 pm), March 14-17.

More than 80 performers are involved in the UW Opera’s staging of the Mozart classic. The Magic Flute is the second production directed by interim opera director David Ronis, who earned accolades at Queens College before bringing his innovative staging and casting ideas to Madison. The costumes and scenic designs combine pan-Asian, Victorian and surrealistic elements, and the cast swaps roles at different performances.

Trisis: 2 pm, 3/15, Olbrich Gardens-Evjue Commons. $1 donation. 246-4550.

Faculty Recital: Chris Collins, Julie Stalheim, Amber Bruns & Leo Van Asten duet with students, 2 pm, 3/15, Rhapsody Arts Center, Verona. Free. 848-2045.

Grinnell College Singers: Works by Tallis, Rachmaninoff, Handel, Lassus and Whitacre, 7:30 pm, 3/16, First Congregational United Church of Christ. $15. 233-9751.

UW Jazz Ensembles: With guest artist Christian Tamburr, 7:30 pm, 3/16, Humanities Building-Morphy Hall. Free (also, jazz master class by Tamburr, 12:30 pm). 263-5615.

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

Alash Ensemble: Tuvan throat singers, 7:30 pm, 3/17, Folklore Village, Dodgeville. $7. 924-4000.

Organ Recital: By Bruce Bengtson, noon Wednesdays, 1/21-5/13, Luther Memorial Church. Free.

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

Concert for Brittany Sperberg: Medical benefit for ailing student trombonist, 7:30 pm, 3/18, UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall, with Wind Ensemble, Jazz Orchestra, Low Brass Ensemble, Horn Heads & Badger Brass. $10 donation. 263-5615.

MACN Week: Madison Area Chefs Network participants mash-up of menus & kitchens, through 3/15, various locations; concludes with a small plates dinner fundraiser for Second Harvest Foodbank, 5 pm, 3/15, Sardine ($75; isthmustickets.com). Info: macnweek.com.

312 Day Tap Invasion: Ebola Survivor Corps fundraiser, 5-9 pm, 3/12, Blue Moon Bar & Grill, featuring 10 Goose Island brews (kegs tapped at 11 am), silent auction, games. Free admission. ebolasurvivorcorps.org.

UW Fashion Week: MODA magazine runway show, 8 pm, 3/13, Union South-Varsity Hall, with designs by students & area designers. facebook.com/modamadison.

Canoecopia: Annual canoe/kayak/paddlesport expo, 4-9 pm on 3/13, 9 am-6 pm on 3/14 and 10 am-5 pm, 3/15 (note corrected dates), Alliant Center, with exhibitors, vendors & speakers. $15/day ($25 pass; free ages 17 & under). canoecopia.com. 223-9300.

Bike-o-Rama: Annual bicycle expo, noon-9 pm on 3/13, 8 am-9 pm on 3/14 and 10 am-6 pm, 3/15, Alliant Energy Center, with vendors, bike stunt shows

by Jeff Lenosky 4:30, 6:30 & 8:30 on 3/13, 2, 4:30 & 7 pm 3/14 and 12:45, 2:30 & 5 pm, 3/15.

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Magic Variety Show: 8 pm, 3/13, Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse. $5. 259-1030.

Starkbierfest: Strong/sour beers from 14 breweries, noon-4 pm, 3/14, Capital Brewery, Middleton, plus music by Red Hot Horn Dawgs. $30 ($25 adv.). 826-1092.

Good Hops Beer & Wine Tasting: Middleton Baseball & Softball Commission youth program fundraiser, 4-8 pm, 3/14, Holiday Inn-West, with silent auction, raffle, food. $50 ($40 with food donation to Middleton Outreach Ministry). www.mbscwi.org. 957-3868.

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Ghana Independence Celebration: Ghana Association of Madison annual event, 7:30 pm-midnight, 3/14, Eagle Heights Community Center, with music, food. $15. www.ghamanet.com.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade: Annual procession, 1:30 pm, 3/15, around the Capitol Square. Other events include: Irish flag ceremony, noon, Capitol Rotunda; Irish contests at corner of Wisconsin & Mifflin 1 pm. www.stpatsmadison.org. 843-0602.

St. Patrick’s Eve: Annual Celtic Cultural Center/ Celtic Music Assn. benefit, 3-7 pm, 3/15, Brink Lounge, with Harpers, Kilkenny, Trinity & Cashel Dennehy Irish dancers, The Currach $5. 661-8599.

Family Frozen Fete: Wisconsin Literacy 30th anniversary celebration, 3-6 pm, 3/15, McKee Farms Park, Fitchburg, with “Frozen” sing-along, author Rob Shindler discussing “Hotdogs & Hamburgers: Unlocking Life’s Potential by Inspiring Literacy at Any Age,” bonfire with the Fitchburg Fire Dept., broomball & games. Free. 257-1655.

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Madison College Performing Arts’ “Romeo & Juliet”: Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy, 7:30 pm on 3/13-14 and 2 pm, 3/15, Madison College-Truax Campus, Mitby Theatre. $15. 246-6479.

Edgewood High School’s “Mary Poppins”: Disney musical, 7 pm on 3/13-14 & 20-21 and 2 pm, 3/15 & 22, Edgewood High School-Sister Kathleen O’Connell Auditorium; Sing-along performance 1 pm, 3/21 ($5 donation). $12. 257-1023.

Bill Blagg: Magic show, 8 pm, 3/13, Overture CenterCapitol Theater. $32-$22. 258-4141.

Children’s Theater of Madison & Theatre LILA’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Shakespeare adaptation for ages 8 & up, through 3/29, Overture CenterPlayhouse, at 2:30 & 7 pm Saturdays and 2:30 pm Sundays. $33 ($22 ages 12 & under). 255-4141.

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by Danica Dena, El Nino Manuel, Gori, Juan Tomas Martinez, La Azucena, Juan Carlos Diaz Velez, 7 pm, 3/15, Lakeside Street Coffee House. $30. 250-0369.

Madison Theatre Guild’s “Lavinia”: In 1876, Lavinia Goodell is denied admission to the Wisconsin Bar due to her gender, 7:30 pm on 3/19-20 and 2 & 7:30 pm, 3/21, Bartell Theatre-Evjue Stage. $20. 661-9696.

COMEDY Robert Kelly, Jimmy Meritt, Russ Williamson: 8 pm on 3/12 and 8 & 10:30 pm, 3/13-14, Comedy Club on State. $15-$10. 256-0099.

Atlas Improv Company: Pregnancy Helpline benefit show, 7 pm, 3/12, Brink Lounge ($12; www.pregnancyhelpline.net); 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.

Bridget Everett: 7 pm, 3/14, Majestic Theatre. $15.

255-0901.

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

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

Jimmy McHue, Mike Preston, Dan Hopkins: 8 pm, 3/19, Watertower Chop House, Sun Prairie. $13 ($10 adv.). 318-1858.

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Line Breaks: UW Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives annual free spoken word/hip-hop conference, with performances 6:30 pm on 3/12-14 & 16-17 and 2 pm, 3/15, Overture Center-Promenade Hall; panel discussions noon, 3/14-16, Red Gym. Schedule: linebreaks.wisc.edu. 890-1006.

Socrates Cafe: “What is a Righteous Government?” topic, 7 pm, 3/12; “Who Really Controls the Traffic Flow over the Internet?” topic, 7 pm, 3/19, Michelangelo’s Coffee Shop. 257-8869.

Madison History Round Table: Talk about Civil Warera surgical instruments by Steven Oreck, 7:15 pm, 3/12, Radisson. Free. 274-9342.

Memoir Writing: Class by Sarah White for ages 14 & up, 6 pm Thursdays, 3/12-4/30, South Madison Library. RSVP: 266-6395.

“In Every Generation They Wish to Destroy Us”: Anti-Semitism & Anti-Israelism as Factors in Jewish Identity: Lecture by Emory University Prof.

Deborah Lipstadt, 7 pm, 3/12, UW Hillel. 256-8351.

Madison Encounters in Bozkow: English Language Teaching and Learning Experiences in Lower Silesia during Summer 2014: UW CREECA lecture

by Gina & Eric Lewandowski, 4 pm, 3/12, Ingraham Hall-Room 206. 262-3379.

Quan Barry: Discussing “She Weeps Each Time You’re Born,” her new novel, 6 pm, 3/12, UW Memorial Library-Room 460. www.library.wisc.edu/friends.

Global Color: Textiles, Dyes and Colors in the Interwoven Globe, 16th-18th Centuries: UW Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection annual Ruth Ketterer Harris lecture, by Metropolitan Museum of Art senior research scholar Elena Phipps, 6 pm, 3/12, UW Nancy Nicholas Hall-Room 2235. 262-1162.

The Trempealeau Archaeology Project: An Update on Research into an Early Cahokian Colony: Charles E. Brown Archaeological Society lecture by Robert Boszhardt, 7 pm, 3/12, Wisconsin Historical Society. Free. 264-6494.

Melissa Falcon Field: Discussing “What Burns Away,” her novel, 7 pm, 3/13, Central Library. 266-6300.

Lauren Oliver: Discussing her YA novels via Skype, 1:30 pm, 3/13, Middleton-Cross Plains Area Performing Arts Center, Middleton High School. 827-7402.

Kate Corcoran & Bobbi Zehner: Discussing “Under a Shared Umbrella,” new book, 7 pm, 3/13, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Life Writing & Colonial Southeast Asia: New Perspectives on Biography, Archival Traces & Ethnographic Texts: UW Center for Southeast Asian Studies lecture by Oxford University research fellow Lorraine Paterson, noon, 3/13, Ingraham HallRoom 206. 263-1755.

UW Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Series: “Environmental Governance and the New Amazonian Frontier in Sao Felix do Xingu,” by Marianne Schmink, 3:30 pm, 3/13, UW Science Hall-Room 180. 262-2138.

Poetry Out Loud State Finals: Annual competition by 10 high school regional champs, 12:30 pm, 3/14, Chazen Museum of Art, with emcee Jim Fleming, readings by judges Andrea Musher, Fabu, George Tzougros, Colleen Madden. Free. jmpmartindale@gmail.com.

Poetry & Pi(e): Readings celebrating the math standby, hosted by former state Poets Laureate Marilyn Taylor & Bruce Dethlefsen, 5 pm, 3/14, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. $35 benefits Wisconsin Academy. RSVP: 263-1692.

Winter Festival of Poetry: “Up Spring the Lilacs” theme, readings by Eileen Rosensteel, Ron Czerwien, CX Dillhunt, Jody Curley, Lisa Marie Brodsky, Bobbie Krinsky, 2 pm, 3/15, The Fountain. 242-7340.

Playwrights Ink: Local writers read & discuss inprocess work (new members welcome), 7 pm, 3/16, UW-Extension Lowell Center. 274-1767.

Let’s Get Lost! Finding Inspiration in the Stacks: Poetry writing class, 6:30 pm Tuesdays, 3/10-24, Central Library. 266-6300.

Rex Owens: Discussing “Murphy’s Troubles,” his novel, 7 pm, 3/17, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Politics, Development and Cultura Popular in Sao Luiz, Maranhao, Brazil: UW Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies lecture by Brendan Loula, noon, 3/17, Ingraham Hall-Room 206. 262-2811.

Tavi Gevinson: Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series with the writer and actress, 7:30 pm, 3/17, UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall (Wisconsin Union Theater). Free. 265-2787.

Homophobia in Africa: Perspectives from Uganda: UW Human Rights Program Fish-Harnack Lecture

by Frank Mugisha, 4 pm, 3/17, UW-Extension Pyle Center-AT&T Room. sumudu.atapattu@wisc.edu.

History Sandwiched In: Brown-bag lunch program, “Exposed!: Harley-Davidson’s Lost Photographs 1915-1916,” by Amy Gnadt, 12:15 pm, 3/17, Wisconsin Historical Museum. $2 donation. 264-6555.

Socrates Cafe #2: 7 pm Wednesdays, Steepery Tea. 251-6901.

David Whitehurst: Discussing “Tree Stand Murders,” his new book, 5 pm, 3/18, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Africa at Noon: UW African Studies lecture series, “Human Dimensions of Zoonotic Disease Transmission in Western Uganda,” by Sarah Paige, noon, 3/18, Ingraham Hall-Room 206. Free. 262-2380.

UW Arts Institute Community Conversations: Talk

by Yid Vicious & Forward! Marching Band members, 6:30 pm, 3/18, Red Gym-On Wisconsin Room.

262-9934.

Las Comadres Book Club: Discussing “Rise Up & Shine!” by Cristina Sarelegui, 6:30 pm, 3/19, Central Library. aesparza608@gmail.com.

World Records/Vernaculars of the Global Midwest: Buildings & Landscapes, Languages, Music & Song: UW Mayrent Institute conference, 3/19-20, UW Education Bldg.-Room 159; also, “Global Sounds & Jack Pine Savages: World Music Wisconsin-Style” plenary lecture by James Leary, 7:30 pm, 3/19, University Club; and concert, 7 pm, 3/20, University Club. Free. RSVP: mayrentinstitute.wisc.edu. 890-4818.

Open Mic: Middleton Action Team spoken word/music event, with music by Malcom Shabazz City High School old time fiddle class, speakers including Eric Finch & Karen McKim, 6 pm, 3/19, Craftsman Table and Tap, Middleton. 836-8577.

A Lager Landscape: The Cultural Economy of Beer in the Great Southwest: UW Department of Art History lecture by Paula Lupkin, 3 pm, 3/19, UW Elvehjem Building-Room L150. 401-862-4484.

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RSVP for Constraints: UW Graduate Association of French & Italian Students symposium, 3/20-21, Union South; keynote “An Ode to Constraints: Savoring the Act of Translation of Structured Verse” by Indiana University-Bloomington Professor Douglas Hofstadter 4 pm, 3/20. Free. RSVP by 3/19: www.eventbrite.com/e/douglas-hofstadterregistration-15580407418.

Justin Bigos, Hannah Gamble, Kyle McCord, Rich Smith: Poetry reading, 7:30 pm, 3/19, Central Library. 266-6300.

The Life of a Scout Sniper in Iraq: Lecture by 1st Sgt. Timothy La Sage, 7 pm, 3/19, Wisconsin Veterans Museum. 267-1799.

ART Fresh Hot Press: Print club fundraiser, 10 am-5 pm, 3/12-13, UW Humanities Building-2nd floor. 262-1660.

David O. Williams: Paintings, 3/5-4/30, The Gallery at Yahara Bay (reception 5-10 pm, 3/12). 275-1050.

UW Design Studies Graduate Students Showcase: 3/12-26, UW Nancy Nicholas Hall-Ruth Davis Design Gallery (reception 4:30-6 pm, 3/12). 262-8815.

Rhea Vedro: “Peregrination,” through 4/18, Gallery Marzen (reception 5-8 pm, 3/13). 709-1453.

Vicky Liu: Paintings, through 3/31, Hatch Art House (reception 6-9 pm, 3/13). 237-2775.

Sarah FitzSimons, Marsha McDonald, John Miller: “Waterways,” paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, 3/10-5/10, Overture Center-James Watrous Gallery of the Wisconsin Academy (artist talks 1:30-3:30 pm, 3/15; World Water Day celebration reception, 1-4 pm, 3/22; RSVP: wisconsinacademy.org). 265-2500.

Mike Anderson: Photographs, through 4/30, UW-Extension Lowell Center. 256-2621.

Elizabeth K. Winters: “Anthropomorphic Furniture Series,” through 3/31, Yellow Rose Gallery (anniversary reception 6 pm-midnight, 3/19, with music, refreshments). www.artonstate.com.

Line Breaks Art Show: UW First Wave student works, through 3/27, Education Building. linebreaks.wisc.edu. 890-1006.

Nancy Welch, Judith Landsman: Mixed media 3D assemblages, through 4/30, Capitol Lakes-Atrium & Henry Street galleries. 283-2003.

Laurie Ruck: “Cat’s Paw Glass,” jewelry, through 4/4, UW Hospital & Clinics-C5/2 & E5/2 Cases. 263-5992.

Alexander Harris: “Wildlife,” through 4/1, UW Health Sciences Learning Center. 263-5992.

Susan Sullivan: “Susan’s Memory Gardens,” photographs, through 5/29, UW Hospital & ClinicsCarbone Center Waiting Room. 263-5992.

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Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle: Screening segments of “The Loving Story,” documentary, 7 pm, 3/12; segments of “Freedom Riders” documentary, 7 pm, 3/19, Verona Library, with discussion by Madison College Professor Jonathan Pollack. RSVP: 845-7180.

Broken Dart Players Submissions: Premises/ info from local residents sought through 3/13 for “My Life is a Sitcom” production, to be written by Rob Matsushita, Karen Saari, Sunny Schomaker & Andrew Rohn. Guidelines: www.facebook.com/ brokendartplayers.

Madison Arts Commission Grant Writing Assistance: 11 am-1 pm, 3/13, Central Library. Info: www.cityofmadison.com/mac. 261-9134.

Film Wisconsin Boot Camp: Training for professional & entry-level film crew members, 8:30 am4:30 pm, 3/14, Madison Media Institute; networking 5-8 pm, Knuckle Down Saloon. $49. RSVP: film-wi-boot-camp-5.eventbrite.com.

Whad’Ya Know?: Live radio broadcast with author Richard Price, host Michael Feldman, 9:30 am, 3/14, Monona Terrace. $10. 262-2201.

White Elephant Sale: Annual fundraiser featuring photography-related and other items, noon-4 pm, 3/14, PhotoMidwest. www.photomidwest.org.

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Women in Film Wisconsin: Meet independent filmmakers, 2 pm, 3/15, High Noon Saloon. $5. 268-1122.

Draw Madison: Sketching group, 1 pm, 3/15, Wisconsin Aviation. 221-9618.

Wisconsin Film Festival Sneak Peek: Trailers, Q&A with organizers, 6:30 pm, 3/16, Verona Library (8457180); 6:30 pm, 3/17, Oregon Library (835-6268).

Madfilm Meetup: Madison Film Forum meets to view “Leviathan” (2014), 7 pm, 3/17, Sundance Cinemas 608; post-screening discussion. Screening $12. www.madfilm.org.

Make Music Madison Registration: Performers and venues sought for annual outdoor event (set for 6/21), through 5/8: makemusicmadison.org.

RSVP for Overture’s Rising Stars: Annual talent search program welcomes auditions by ages 6 & up, 3/28-8/8, at various locations (all bands audition on 7/18). RSVP: overturecenter.org/risingstars. 258-4177.

GOVERNMENT Mark Pocan Town Hall Meeting: Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives event, 7 pm, 3/12, Mount Horeb Community Center. 845-7312.

DNR Public Hearing: Discussing amendments to fisheries administrative code, 2 pm, 3/16, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bldg. (GEF 2)Room 413. 266-0828.

Madison Common Council: 6:30 pm, 3/17, City-County Building-Room 201. 266-4071.

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Contemporary Issues in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: UW Students for Justice in Palestine lecture by Norman Finkelstein, 7 pm, 3/12, Educational Sciences Building-Room 204. 317-7071.

Solidarity Sing-Along: Noon Mondays-Fridays, Capitol Rotunda or State Street corner. 312-8134.

Renovate the Dane County Jail? Yay or Nay?: Community debate, 7 pm, 3/12, UW Elvehjem Building-Room L160, with Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, UW Professor Emeritus Doug Kramer, Young, Gifted & Black representative M. Adams, MOSES volunteer Nino Rodriguez. www.facebook. com/events/1419717778322935.

Alder & Mayoral Candidate Forum: With 14th District candidates Sheri Carter & John Strasser, mayoral candidates Paul Soglin & Scott Resnick, 6 pm, 3/12, Urban League of Greater Madison. 729-1200.

Solidarity Sing-Along: Noon Mondays-Fridays, Capitol Rotunda or State Street corner. 312-8134.

Where Should the Birds Fly: UW Students for Justice in Palestine documentary screening (2012), with director Fida Qishta, 6:30 pm, 3/13, UW Memorial Union. 317-7071.

Progressive Roundtable: “Wisconsin’s Budget Debacle: Is Higher Education on the Chopping Block?”

The Madison Institute panel discussion, 9:30 am, 3/14, Central Library. Free. 438-4178.

Rachel Corrie Commemoration: Annual MadisonRafah Sister City Project event, 7 pm, 3/15, First United Methodist Church, with screening of “Where Should the Birds Fly” documentary (2012), talk by director Fida Qishta, dessert. Free/donations.

RSVP: www.madisonrafah.org. 238-1974.

Peace Vigil: Noon Mondays, outside Madison Municipal Building. mbspeace1@charter.net.

Techno Activism Third Mondays: Meetup for those interested in problems of surveillance/censorship, 7 pm, 3/16, Sector 67. 535-9503.

Radicals & Progressives Meet & Eat: 5:30 pm, 3/17, Northside Family Restaurant. 284-9082.

Madison Action for Mining Alternatives: 6:30 pm, 3/18, State Street Center. Fourth Floor. carl@wnpj.org. 250-9240.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Forum: Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives event with attorney Katherine Polich & Wisconsin Democracy Campaign founder Mike McCabe, 7 pm, 3/19, Mount Horeb Community Center. 845-7312.

Mayoral Candidates Forum: Neighborhood associations-sponsored debate between incumbent Paul Soglin & challenger Scott Resnick, 6:30 pm, 3/19, Barrymore Theatre, with live broadcast on WORTFM & webcast at isthmus.com. Bring nonperishable food & warm clothing items for donation. 251-5627.

Rally to Support Trafficked Youth To Find a Safe Harbor: Lutheran Office for Public Policy in Wisconsin event, 9:30 am, 3/19, St. John’s Lutheran Church. RSVP: goo.gl/forms/W6xZPUdDa5.

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Middleton Comprehensive Plan: 7 pm, 3/12, Sauk Trail Elementary School; 11:45 am, 3/18, Wisconsin Bank & Trust, 8420 Mineral Point Rd.; 7 pm, 3/18, VFW Post 821. 6821-8370.

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance: For individuals, by appointment, 1-4 pm Mondays & Thursdays, 1/264/13, Lakeview Library (246-4547); 9 am-1 pm, 3/14, Central Library (266-6300); for seniors, low-income or disabled individuals, 9 am-3 pm Saturdays and noon-6 pm Mondays & Wednesdays, 1/28-4/15, Villager Shopping Center-Dilley Tax Center (224-3722).

Community Immigration Law Center: Free walk-in legal clinic for immigrants, 2-5 pm, 3/13, Christ Presbyterian Church. 257-4845.

Justified Anger: Talk by Project Manager Tori Pettaway on how Madison is failing its African American community, 2 pm, 3/14, Sequoya Library. 266-6385.

John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize Award Dinner: Family Farm Defenders event, 5-9 pm, 3/15, UW-Extension Pyle Center, with keynote by author Marty Strange. $50. RSVP: familyfarmdefenders.org. 260-0900.

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RSVP for Tree Pruning Basics: Free Urban Tree Alliance class, noon, 3/14, Lakeview Library. RSVP by 3/12: 556-5331.

RSVP for Olbrich Gardens Classes: A Healthy Lawn for a Healthy Community: 6:30 pm, 3/19 ($15; RSVP by 3/12); Pruning Pointers: 9 am, 3/22 ($45; RSVP by 3/12); Fruit Tree Grafting: 1 pm, 3/21 ($31; RSVP by 3/12); Gardening for Pollinators: 6:30 pm, 3/23 ($15; RSVP by 3/16); A Focus on Foliage in the Shadier Garden: 6:30 pm, 3/25 ($15; RSVP by 3/18); Hydroponics 101: 6:30 pm, 3/26 ($15; RSVP by 3/19); All About Willow: 10 am, 3/28 ($15. RSVP by 3/19); Rustic Willow Trellis Workshop : 1 pm, 3/28 ($162; RSVP by 3/19).

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Ice Age Trail Alliance-Dane County Work Day: Brush clearing, 9 am, 3/14, Cross Plains Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, 8107 Old Sauk Pass Rd. nattrails@aol.com. 249-2421.

Southern Wisconsin Trout Unlimited Work Day: Stream bank brush clearing, 9 am-noon, 3/14, along County Hwy. H south of Mount Horeb. RSVP: jim.hess@tds.net.

UW Arboretum Volunteer Work Day: Core area & Curtis Prairie, 9 am-noon, 3/14, Visitor Center. Canceled if precipitation/below 10 degrees. 265-5214.

UW Arboretum Night Walk: “Skydance” topic, 6:30 pm, 3/14, Visitor Center. 263-7888.

UW Arboretum Walk: “Looking for the Green” topic, 1 pm, 3/15, Visitor Center. 263-7888.

Bird/Nature Walk: “Castle Creek Awakes” topic, all ages welcome, 1:30 pm, 3/15, Warner Park shelter.

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Wisconsin Green Building Alliance Tour: 3:30 pm, 3/16, Lake Mills Elementary School. $20. RSVP: wgba.shuttlepod.org. 414-224-9422.

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Hilldale Farmers’ Market: 8:30 am-1:30 pm Saturdays, Atrium. 238-6640.

Northside Farmers’ Market: 10 am-1 pm, 3/15, Northside Town Center. 695-0946.

Plant Dane! Program: Native plants available at discounted cost to homeowners, municipalities, schools & nonprofits, with orders accepted through 3/16: www.myfairlakes.com. 224-3746.

Native Plant Sale Pre-Orders: UW Arboretum invites orders through 3/27 for their annual fundraiser; plant pick-up 5/7. Forms: uwarboretum.org/foa.

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Unlock the Dream: Informational tour, 5:30 pm, 3/19, Habitat for Humanity, 1014 Fiedler Ln. #29.

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DANCING Thursday Afternoon Dance: All ages, with the Senior Showcase Band, 1-3 pm Thursdays, Madison Senior Center. $2. 266-6581.

Madison Smooth Steppers: Lessons/dancing, 6:30-8 pm Thursdays, VFW Post 1318-Lakeside Street. Free/donations. 359-5602.

Wisconsin Tango Social: With DJ Joe Yang, 7-10 pm, 3/14, Cardinal Bar. $3. 622-7697.

Madison West Coast Swing Club: Open dance, 8-10:30 pm, 3/14, Tempo Dance Studio. $14 includes 7 pm workshop. 213-1108.

Ecstatic Dance: Freeform movement, 11 am-12:30 pm Sundays and 7:30-8:45 pm Wednesdays, Main Street Yoga. Donations. 347-5466.

International Folk Dancing: 8-10:30 pm Sundays; and 8:30-11 pm Wednesdays (lessons 7:30 pm), The Crossing. Free/donations. 241-3655.

Contact Improvisation Jam: Beginners welcome, 4-6 pm Sundays, Main Street Yoga. $5. 239-1263.

Madison Scottish Country Dancers: Beginner instruction 7 pm; intermediate 8 pm; request dancing 9 pm Sundays, Wil-Mar Center. Free. 233-2956.

Sunday Dance Party: DJ Tim, 7:15-10 pm, 3/15, Doubledays, Cottage Grove. $8 (lesson 6:30 pm). sundaydanceparty.com. 712-5483.

Dairyland Cowboys & Cowgirls: Open dance, 7-10 pm Mondays, Five Nightclub. Free (lessons 6 pm). www.dcandc.org. 255-9131.

English Country Dancing: Dances taught, no partner needed, 7:30 pm, 3/16, Wil-Mar Center. Donations.

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Contra Dance Co-op: 7:45-9:45 pm Tuesdays, Gates of Heaven. $5. 238-3394.

Salsa/Tango Party: 9-11 pm Tuesdays, Brink Lounge.

Free. 622-7697.

Madison Tango Society Practica: Open dancing, 7-8:30 pm Tuesdays, State Street Center (3rd floor). Free/donations. 238-2039.

Jumptown Swing Dance: Ages 18+, 9-11:30 pm Wednesdays, Brink Lounge. $5. jumptownswing. com. 661-8599.

Madison West Coast Swing Club: Open dance, 8-9:30 pm Wednesdays, Badger Bowl. $5 (intermediate lesson 7:30 pm). 213-1108.

SPORTS WIAA State High School Girls Basketball Tournament: 3/12-14, Resch Center, Green Bay. $10/session. 715-344-8580.

UW Men’s Hockey: vs. Ohio State, 7 pm on 3/13 and 6 pm, 3/14, Kohl Center. $24/$20. 262-1440.

US Speedskating Short Track Age Class Nationals: 3/13-15, Verona Ice Arena. www.teamusa.org/ US-Speedskating. 845-7465.

Milwaukee Bucks: vs. San Antonio, 7 pm, 3/18, Bradley Center. $903-$11. 255-4646.

WIAA State High School Boys Basketball Tournament: Tip-off party 11 am, sessions 1:35 & 6:35 pm on 3/19; 9:05 am, 1:35 & 6:35 pm on 3/20; 3-point challenge 9 am, championships 11:05 am & 6:35 pm, 3/21, Kohl Center. $12/session. 715-344-8580.

RECREATION Achilles Track Club: Run/walk promoting personal achievement for people of all disabilities, 5:45 pm Thursdays, Westgate Mall. Free. 828-9700.

Group Runs: 5:30 pm Thursdays (designed for women), Mondays & Tuesdays, from Movin’ Shoes.

Free. 251-0125.

MSCR Softball Registration: Madison SchoolCommunity Recreation leagues (ages 16+), sign up through 3/13 at www.mscr.org, or 3/10-13 at MSCRHoyt, 3802 Regent St. 204-3024.

KIDS’ STUFF Toddlers in Motion: Interactive play for ages 4 & under, 9:30 or 10:35 am Thursdays, 3/12-4/9, South Madison Library. 266-6395.

Madison Children’s Museum: Pi Day: Math themed activities, 9:26 am-5 pm, 3/14 ($3.14 admission); Frontier Survival Skills: “Juliette Kinzie: Frontier Storyteller” author Kathe Crowley Conn, fur tradeera reenactors, 1-3 pm, 3/14; Knit Together: Ages 9 & up, 1 pm, 3/15. 256-6445.

Button Making: Drop-in project for grades K-5, 1:30-3 pm, 3/13, Meadowridge Library. 288-6160.

Pop-up Puppet Theatre: All ages, 1:30 pm, 3/13, Sequoya Library. RSVP: 266-6385.

Madison Public Schools: No school, 3/13; Early release for middle/high schoolers, 3/16 & 23; Early release elementary schools, no afternoon early childhood/4K, 3/19. 663-1879.

Family Fun Night: “Games Animals Play,” in Spanish & English, 6:30 pm, 3/13, South Madison Library.

266-6395.

Family Fun Night: Fitness & art classes, games & gym activities for all ages, 5:30-8:30 pm, 3/13, Warner Park Community Rec. Center. $5/family. 245-3690.

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

St. Patty’s Day Crafts: Drop-in, 10 am-1 pm, 3/14, DreamBank. 286-3150.

R.E.A.D. to a Dog: Reading Education Assistance Dog visit, 2 pm, 3/14, Lakeview Library. 246-4547.

One World, One Sound: Drum circle with Elmore Lawson, 10:30 am, 3/14, Lakeview Library. 246-4547.

Kids in the Rotunda: Trinity Irish Dance, 9:30 & 11 am and 1 pm, 3/14, Overture Center-Rotunda Stage; activities 9 am-4 pm, Central Library. Free. 258-4141.

LEGO Club: 2 pm, 3/14, South Madison Library (2666395); 4 pm, 3/16, Hawthorne Library (246-4548); 6:30 pm, 3/16, Ashman Library (824-1780); 4 pm, 3/17, Lakeview Library (246-4547); 3 pm, 3/19, Monroe Street Library (266-6390).

Little Learners: Ages 0-4, 9:15 or 10:45 am Mondays, 2/9-5/11, Central Library. 266-6300.

Crafternoon: Grades K-5, 2:30 pm, 3/16, Sequoya Library. RSVP: 266-6385.

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All About the Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas: Free Madison Audubon talk, 7 pm, 3/17, Capitol Lakes.

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Badger Bioneers: Free Sustain Dane screening of highlights from the 2014 conference, 6 pm, 3/18, Aldo Leopold Nature Center, Monona. RSVP: 819-0689.

Green Thursdays: “A Fierce Green Fire,” documentary screening, 6:30 pm, 3/19, Mount Horeb Library. Free. 437-5021.

Wisconsin Film Festival Children’s Sneak Peek MONDAY, MARCH 16, 3 pm, Central Library

This year’s Wisconsin Film Festival has added a new series, “Big Screens, Little Folks,” just for kids.So bring your budding cinephiles to this free preview of short WFF films and trailers.

Toddlers in Motion: Ages 4 & under, 10 am Tuesdays, 3/3-31, Central Library. 266-6300.

RSVP for Toddler Story & Stroll: Series featuring stories by Dianna Pulley Aston, 10 am Tuesdays, 3/24-4/7, Olbrich Gardens. $9. RSVP one week prior: 246-4550.

Toddler Dance Party: Ages 2 & up, 10:30 am, 3/17, Lakeview Library. 246-4547.

Crafternoon: Grades K-5, 4 pm, 3/17, Meadowridge Library. 288-6160.

Wonderworks: STEM-themed play & books for preschoolers, 10:15 & 11 am Wednesdays, 3/11-18, Lakeview Library. 246-4547.

Lil’ Badger Consignment Sale: Kids’ clothes/gear consignment sale, 4-8 pm on 3/19 (new parent presale; RSVP), 8 am-8 am on 3/20 and 10 am-2 pm, 3/21, Monona Community Center. Free admission; a portion of proceeds benefits Monona Parks & Rec Youth Scholarship Fund. Consignment info: www.lilbadgerconsignmentsale.com.

Cycle for Sight: Indoor stationary bike ride benefit for UW McPherson Eye Research Institute, 8 amnoon, 3/14, UW SERF, UW Natatorium & Princeton Club-West. $10 (pledges also encouraged). RSVP: cycleforsight.wisc.edu. 265-0690.

Dairyland Walkers: 5K guided walk, 2 pm, 3/14, St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Middleton. $4 includes pie. 249-5139.

Shamrock Shuffle: 5K/10K run & 2-mile walk to benefit Boys & Girls Club of Dane County, 10 am, 3/15, from State Street (registration 10 am-4 pm, 3/14, Orpheum; no day-of registration); post race party at State Street Brats. $35. shamrock-shuffle.squarespace.com.

Ultra-Light Backpacking Demo: Free talk, 6 pm, 3/16, Fontana Sports-West. 833-9191.

Fun Run: 3-5 miles, 6 pm Tuesdays, from Endurance House-Middleton (836-9084); or 6:30 pm Tuesdays, Endurance House-East (441-9084).

East Side Running Group: 6:15 pm Tuesdays, from Catalyst Active Store. Free. 819-6433.

Group Run/Walk: 2-5 miles, 5:45 pm Wednesdays, from Fleet Feet Sports, Middleton. Free. 833-9999.

Skate with the Madison Capitols: 5-7 pm, 3/18, Edgewater Hotel skating rink, with skill challenges, autographs & photos, prizes. $6 skating fee. 535-8257.

Backpacking Basics/How to Set Up Camp: Free class, 6 pm, 3/18, Fontana-Downtown. 257-5043.

Trail Running Basics: Free talk, 6:30 pm, 3/19, REI. RSVP: 833-6680.

LGBT Gay & Gray: Senior discussion group, 1 pm, 3/12, Madison Senior Center. 266-6581.

Meetings at OutReach: Rainbow Connection: Social group for LGBTQ people who have experienced mental challenges, 4 pm, 3/12; Alianza Latina: Social/educational group for LGBTQ Latino/a youth & allies grades 7-12, 7 pm, 3/12; Transgender Social/ Support Group: 7 pm, 3/13 OutThere: Ages 18-24 social group, 5 pm, 3/15; LGBTQ Al Anon: Support for family/friends of alcoholics, 5:30 pm Tuesdays; LGBTQ Narcotics Anonymous: 7 pm, 3/17; Folk Music Sing-a-Long Group: 2 pm, 3/18. 255-8582.

Pozitive Lite: Support group for HIV-positive men who have sex with men, 5:30 pm, 3/13, AIDS Network. 316-8623.

PFLAG: Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays meeting, discussing Alliance of Allies, 2 pm, 3/15, Friends Meeting House. 848-2333.

Retired Older Lesbians (ROLLers) Lunch: Noon, 3/17, Elie’s Family Restaurant. 770-3997.

Have You Lost Faith in Faith: OutReach group, 1 pm, 3/19, Coffee Gallerie. 255-8582.

SENIORS AARP Tax Assistance: For individuals, by appointment, 1-4:30 pm Tuesdays, through 4/14, Pinney Library (224-7100); 12:30-4 pm Wednesdays, through 4/8, Sequoya Library (266-6385).

GOOD WORKS Iron Chef Cook-off: Annual Tenant Resource Center fundraiser with celebrity chefs, 5-7 pm, 3/13, Brink Lounge. Donations benefits Housing Crisis Fund. www.tenantresourcecenter.org. 257-0143.

Breakfast Fundraiser: 7:30-11 am, 3/14, American Legion-Dempsey Road. $6.50/$5.50. 241-7588.

Street Pulse Volunteer Meeting: Homeless cooperative newspaper, 3:30 pm Sundays, Capitol Centre. madstreetpulse@gmail.com. 492-1294.

A ‘do for DAIS: Participating salons contribute to Domestic Abuse Intervention Services emergency shelter, 3/15-21; locations: abuseintervention.org.

338-1045

Savory Sunday: Volunteers sought to cook food for the homeless, 11 am Sundays, Lutheran Campus Center; serving, 2 pm, Capitol; clean-up, 3:30 pm, LCC. www.savorysunday.org. 233-6967.

Agrace Volunteer Training: Orientation session (ages 14+), 5 pm, 3/19, Agrace Hospice & Palliative Care. RSVP: 327-7163.

SPECIAL INTERESTS Buying a Home as a Veteran: Free seminar designed for military veterans, 6 pm, 3/12, Dryhooch, 106 Williamson St.-Suite 2. 729-4058.

Take Control of Your Financial Future: Master Five Money Questions: Free Edward Jones financial presentation designed for women, 6 pm, 3/12, Esquire Club. RSVP: 249-0622.

RSVP for Let’s Create Wearable Art: Class, 1-5 pm, 3/21, Olbrich Gardens. $81. RSVP by 3/12: 246-4550.

Construct-U Training: Orientation session for YWCA series, 1:30 pm on 3/12, 1 pm on 3/17 and 10 am, 3/19, YWCA Empowerment Center; 10 am, 3/18, Salvation Army Community Center. RSVP: 257-1436.

Fantasy Baseball Spring Training: Free talk, 6:30 pm, 3/13, Hawthorne Library. 246-4548.

Library Laboratory: Games, art projects & cooking demos for grades 3-12, 6 pm, 3/13, Lakeview Library. 246-4547.

Speechcraft for Leaders & Speakers: Eastside Toastmasters Club series, 9 am Saturdays, 3/144/25, Bruker AXS Inc., Fitchburg. $20. RSVP: 1366. toastmastersclubs.org. 276-3096.

LetsKeepBuilding Networking Mixer: Presentations by local business/community builders, 8 pm, 3/14, 100state, plus music, refreshments. Free. www.letskeepbuilding.com. 718-285-2778.

Green Whimsy Consignment Sale: Scrapbooking/ craft supplies, 10 am-3 pm, 3/14-15, Comfort Inn & Suites, DeForest. Free admission. 620-5205.

Polish Egg Decorating: Drop-in workshop for all ages, 10 am-1 pm, 3/14, Pinney Library. RSVP: 224-7100.

Being an Ally to Trans Folks: Madison Free Skool workshop, 3:30 pm, 3/14, Rainbow Bookstore/Infoshop. 257-6050.

Vendor Fair: Home goods & crafts, 1-5 pm, 3/14, Ten Pin Alley, Fitchburg. Free admission. 347-8506.

The Spiritual Laws of Life: Eckankar series discussing Harold Klemp’s book, 4 pm Sundays, 3/8-4/19, 8502 Old Sauk Rd. Free. Schedule: www.meetup. com/the-spiritual-experiences-group-of-madisonwi. 417-0611.

Screen Printing: Workshop by Craig Grabhorn, 1:30 pm, 3/15, Central Library. 266-6300.

Ireland: Food, Drink & Travel: Free talk by tour guides Phil & Carolyn Ryan, 7:30 pm, 3/16, Brocach Irish Pub-Square. 888-220-7711.

Sunshine Wheat for Sunshine Week: Launch party for Society of Professional Journalists-Madison collaborative beer, 6-9 pm, 3/16, Next Door Brewery, with talk by head brewer Bryan Kreiter, raffle. Free; all welcome. spjmadison.com.

What Can WWBIC Do for You?: Free orientation, 6 pm, 3/16, Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation. RSVP: 257-5450.

Chasing the Ghost Particle: Astronomy program, 6:30 pm on 3/17 and 6:30 & 7:45 pm, 3/18, Memorial High School Planetarium. $2.50. 204-3021.

Strengthsfinders: Free personal development workshop, 9 am, 3/17, DreamBank. 286-3150.

Badger Kennel Club: Talk by “Final Thoughts From A Dying Zen Dog” author Rich Kaye, 7 pm, 3/19, Badger Kennel Club Training Center, DeForest.

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Hu, a Love Song to God: Eckankar chanting, 7:30 pm, 3/19, Goodman Community Center. Free. 238-5650.

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ith a strong March sun bringing a sense of renewal to our city, the timing was perfect for breaking bread with the circle of insiders who make fine dining in Madison happen. The Monday morning brunch, led by Daniel Bonanno of A Pig in a Fur Coat and Francesco Mangano of Osteria Papavero, was the first event in MACN Week, a celebration of culinary creativity from the Madison Area Chefs Network, which runs through March 15.

The idea to have 32 local chefs swap restaurants and team up in unexpected ways has kind of a Justice League of America premise, and the first brunch certainly set the tone for all-star lineups, with superheroes and sidekicks switching it up. Weeklong specials, a wine-oriented dinner, a Jewish deli menu, Friday night fish fry, a pie and pasta dinner, a five-course vegetarian creole dinner, a taco challenge and even a fermentation menu are all part of MACN week.

The brunch at A Pig in a Fur Coat began to fill up as the 11 a.m. kick-off approached. Considering who the chefs were, I ordered the crispy pork head. Bonanno and Mangano’s crew cooked a pig’s head until the flesh fell off, formed neatly seared rectangles

of the meat and then topped it off with an egg. The yolk, when broken, oozed over the pork and herbed potatoes sprinkled with salsa verde. Lightly toasted bread from nearby Madison Sourdough Company perfected the almost-too-rich plate, which I devoured nevertheless.

A venison schnitzel dish with red onion and cherry tomato also looked good, as did the seafood salumi combo of cured opah, citrus lox, smoked trout and preserved sardines.

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Fox’s heritage farm provided all the evening’s pork, and most other ingredients were sourced locally.

The chefs decided to serve the seven-course meal “Italian family style,” with staff placing the dishes on the table and patrons serving themselves. Each table sat six to 10 people, so every table was breaking bread and engaging in lively conversations with a new “family.”

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hefs from Madison College took over Heritage Tavern’s small kitchen Monday night to produce a 1950s-style Italian-American meal, complete with candles in wicker wine bottles, red checkered tablecloths and Dean Martin music.

This MACN Week event was the brainchild of Dan Fox, chef/ owner of Heritage Tavern, and Joe Gaglio, co-owner of Gotham Bagels and a member of the culinary faculty at Madison College.

Four to eight kitchen staff members usually work in Heritage Tavern’s cozy kitchen, but Monday the space was loaded with 12 eager first-year culinary students.

Both chefs agree the evening was a collaborative effort, not only between the two of them, but also among the students, who each provided touches. “Dan would give me some amazing chops, and I would give him a great sauce; everyone had their fingers in

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529 University Ave. • Madison, WI www.vintagemadison.com

FOOD & DRINK The first course was Wagyu beef and Mangalitsa pork meatballs in a tart tomato sauce. The acidic tomato sauce cut through the fattiness of the meatballs and provided an excellent counterpoint. The second course had multiple parts, including a bowl of roasted piquillo peppers with a sharp cheese, Provolone or Gruyere, and a touch of Wisconsin honey. One patron declared the peppers the best dish of the night.

Next came salads and pasta, including fluffy potato gnocchi with Ligurian pesto, and a huge platter of pork with rosemary crusted bone-in pork chops; fried coppa, pork shoulder aged like a prosciutto; medallions of fried headcheese directly from

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Fox’s Heritage menu; and a truffled white Biroldo sausage, reminiscent of a Southernstyle boudin blanc.

After the meal, Gaglio and Fox brought the student chefs into the dining room to thank them for their hard work, creativity and devotion to a great meal. “These are really some great chefs,” Fox said later. “I may just have to hire some of them.”u

Revisiting a Madison icon Fusion flavors make a comeback with Restaurant Magnus reboot

By Allison Geyer

I Your March Madness Headquarters!

GO BIG RED!

n the days leading up to the much-anticipated Restaurant Magnus reboot, the phone at Nostrano was ringing off the hook with questions about what signature items would be on the menu.

“Will you guys do the ahi pok’e tuna?” callers asked. “How about the xinxim?

Please say you’re bringing back the ‘Dirty Banana’ martini.”

Former Magnus chefs Tim and Elizabeth Dahl, Shinji Muramoto and Joey Dunscombe delivered those favorites and more at the Wednesday night Madison Area Chefs Network event, taking diners on a journey back through time to the 1990s, when fusion cuisine was all the rage.

All four chefs have since moved on to different ventures: The Dahls found success with farm-to-table Italian fare at Nostrano; Muramoto has built a veritable Asian-fusion and sushi empire; and Dunscombe has perfected the concept of “elevated pub food” at the Weary Traveler.

But revisiting their Magnus roots is something the group has “always wanted to do,” says Tim Dahl.

Diners have their choice of three options for appetizers, main course and dessert.

The Tuesday and Wednesday night dinners sold out quickly, so Nostrano is offering the menu again on Thursday due to popular demand.

With a friend in tow, I was able to sample two-thirds of the offerings: shrimp and scallop ceviche and ahi pok’e tuna salad for starters, elk strip loin and xinxim (prawns, chorizo verde and churrasco chicken in coconut broth) for the main course, and the caramel flan and chocolate bombe for dessert.

Swapping out Nostrano’s typical French Malbec for an Argentinian version is a fun departure for the restaurant, and the surprisingly earthy New World wine proved a perfect companion to the lean, flavorful elk strip loin served with hearts of palm, chayote squash, oyster mushrooms and Okinawan sweet potato.

It was hard to tell who was enjoying Tuesday night’s debut more — the diners who savored the adventurous fusion flavors or the restaurant staff who created and served the dishes.

“Shinji’s in the kitchen smiling like a little kid,” our server says gleefully. “He’s usually so serious.”u

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Thai Cuisine

Twice the Thai!

Online Ordering Available! sabaithong.com Dine in • Carry Out Delivery • Catering

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2840 University Ave. 238-3100 6802 Odana Rd. 828-9565 Open 7 days a week

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Deep, dark stout Guinness’ version of stout — a light-bodied, dry Irish style — is often the first that comes to mind around St. Patrick’s Day. But there are oatmeal and milk stouts, too — richer in flavor, heavier in body, and strong enough for a little warmth in the late winter to early spring season. This year I’ll be toasting St. Paddy with O’so Sweet Lady, a milk stout.

Sweet Lady evolved from the homebrew recipes of O’so head brewer James Vokoun. It’s made with lots of roasted and chocolate malts, which give it a dark color and semi-sweet hints of toasted chocolate and coffee. It’s intended to be heavybodied yet approachable at 5.7% ABV and just 36 IBUs. Its smooth, soft body reflects the large amount of lactose added to the brew kettle to lend body and mouthfeel.

“We let the malts and the milk sugar do the talking,” says brewery owner Marc Buttera.

This stout has so much body and smooth mouthfeel, saying that it’s rich in flavor hardly seems enough. It pairs well with buttery cheeses; for a special treat, try it with semi-sweet or mint chocolate.

Sweet Lady Stout is sold in six-packs for around $9. For the remainder of the season (at least through March) it can also be found on tap in a few of Madison’s more expansive taphouses.

— Robin Shepard Sweet Lady Stout from O’so Brewing osobrewing.com Full review: Isthmus.com/beer

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$4.50 pints Guinness $3 shots Tullamore Dew, Powers, and Hell-Cat Maggie $4 shots of Jameson $5 Irish Car Bombs $12 Corned Beef & Cabbage...until it’s gone!

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425 N. Frances St. • 256-3186

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Nourish the body, treat the soul 611 North Sherman Ave. in Lakewood Plaza

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JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF DINING AND IMBIBING DEVOTED TO OUR GLUTEN-FREE FRIENDS. EXECUTIVE CHEF ERIC BENEDICT WILL PREPARE FIVE CUSTOM GLUTEN-FREE COURSES, EACH PAIRED WITH A GLUTEN-FREE BEVERAGE $60 PER PERSON, PLUS TAX

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FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO PURCHASE A TICKET, PLEASE CALL JACS DINING & TAPHOUSE @ 608-441-5444

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Stone House

Wisconsin Wine & Cheese Dinner

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Stable Grill

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Wisconsin Beer & Bacon Dinner

Includes 2 oz. wine taste with each course

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Raclettes

Bacon & Gruyere Fritters

Fisher King Gentle Sin

New Glarus Spotted Cow

Bacon-Wrapped BeerBrined Pork Chop

Veal Wollersheim Pinot Noir – or –

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Oscar’s Chocolate Stout Items available a la carte as well.

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MACN POTLUCK A FUNDRAISER FOR SECOND HARVEST SUNDAY, MARCH 15 • 5PM - 8PM SARDINE 617 Williamson St.

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Kellogg’s Cereal

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Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts

Selected 12 Ct. Varieties (Excludes 8 + 4 Ct. Bonus Packs)

Come wind down and mingle with the chefs at Sardine.

Each participating restaurant will be preparing a dish to pass. Talk about your favorite events from the week, try to steal some recipes and take some time to relax after a long week. There will be samples of the winning beer from the Isthmus Beer & Cheese Festival, I’sPA, and Shramsberg wine.

Space is limited. Tickets $75, available at isthmustickets.com Merchant Heritage Tavern Great Dane Forequarter Graze L’Etoile Sujeo Layla’s Gotham Bagels Salvatore’s Tomato Pies 43 North Sushi Muramoto

Marigold Kitchen Sardine Gates & Brovi Gib’s Nostrano Harvest Natt Spil Grampa’s Pizzeria A Pig in a Fur Coat Johnny Delmonico’s Osteria Papavero Banzo Weary Traveler

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The 18th Annual

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St. Patrick s Day Parade Sunday, March 15 • 1:30 PM Capitol Square, Madison, WI

Music, Dance and a Family Celebration Time Event 10:00 am 11th Annual Shamrock Shuffle begins at Overture Center

Noon The Dane County Shamrock Club Irish Flag Raising in the Capitol Rotunda

1:00 pm Contests held at the corner of Wisconsin & Mifflin

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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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REAL ESTATE SERVICES

HouseReward.com We sell homes for as little as a 4% commission or MLS flat fee as low as $289! Lori Morrissey, Attorney/Broker at 608-381-4804.

UNFURNISHED APTS. FOR RENT Studio/Efficiency $495.00 Heat/Utilities, off street parking included. Laundry available, on bus line Available 4/1/2015 (608) 230-5613 Isthmus in your inbox: Sign up for email alerts, including Movie Times, and Ticket Giveaways. Isthmus.com

FURNISHED APTS. E. Washington. Partially furnished 1 bdrm, heat included, deck, finished floors, 650 sq ft. On busline. Must see! $700 mo. Avail Now! 608-2415859 or 608-906-5001 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.

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

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REINVENTING THE HOME

Matching people and property for over 20 years. Achieve your goals! Free consult.

Andy Stebnitz 608-692-8866 www.andystebnitz.com Restaino & Associates Realtors

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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ROOMS/ROOMMATES

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Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates.com! (AAN CAN) GOOD INTENTIONS Looking for a mature, considerate gay male roommate. New to town, handsome, masculine 48 year old man with standard poodle.

Low rent, parking space, bus stop across apartment, bus # 40. No smoking, no drugs.

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space avail. today. 1,926 sq. ft. ready for build out. Below 500 student residents, next to Camp Randall, potential for outdoor seating, recently remodeled. Perfect for retail or restaurant! $21.00/SF NNN. Call SBA Mngmt. at Madison’s Twitter source news, 608-255-7100 forfordetails.

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Happenings HAPPENINGS & EVENTS

WELLIFE Mind Body Spirit EXPO March 21-22 Sheraton Hotel over 40 unique intutive arts/crafts exhibits, readers, speakers. Information: 256-0080 www.wellife.org URGENT- NOTICE IF you currently live or lived at the Nantucket Apartments, West Madison in the past 4 years and experienced issues related to snow and ice removal or at anytime you fell because of those conditions and kept you from leaving your dwelling until proper maintenance was completed, Please contact me at warriorus56@hotmail.com ASAP.

HAPPENINGS & EVENTS

The Wisconsin Vintage Guitar Show will Be Sunday March 22nd from 10am-5pm at Madison Turners Hall 3001 S. Stoughton Rd. BUY, SELL, TRADE, BROWSE! All Guitars, basses,banjos, and mandolins are welcome! Admission is $6, $5 if you bring a guitar to show or sell, $4 for kids. More information at 920-467-4762 or wisconsinvintage guitarshow.com

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39 Reacted to a laser light show 44 OK to show, like a news clip 46 2001 Penn/Pfeiffer/ Fanning movie 48 1990s arcade game with real players 50 Ready to swing 52 Snow, in Paris 53 Mounts, as a gem 54 Expectorated 55 Motley ___ 56 Make the staff larger 57 Piper and Phoebeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister, on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Charmedâ&#x20AC;?

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ISTHMUS GENERAL EMPLOYMENT

HEALTH CARE

TEACHERS AT RED CABOOSE! â&#x20AC;˘ Float Teacher â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Toddler/Preschool â&#x20AC;˘ After-School Teacher â&#x20AC;˘ Substitute Teacher â&#x20AC;˘ Camp Counselor - Summer For information and applications: 256-1566, admin@redcaboosedaycare.org, www.redcabooseschoolage.org or www.redcaboosedaycare.org AA.EOE

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Start your humanitarian career! Change the lives of others while creating a sustainable future. 1, 6, 9, 18 month programs available. Apply today! OneWorldCenter.org 269-591-0518 info@oneworldcenter.org

PROFESSIONAL/ TECHNICAL AVIATION Grads work with JetBlue, Boeing, NASA and others â&#x20AC;&#x201C; start here with hands on training for FAA certification.

Financial aid if qualified. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN) University of Wisconsin-Madison Human Resource Assistant This position is responsible for human resources functions including, but not limited to unclassified, classified, graduate student, postdoctoral and student hourly recruitment, hiring and processing. This is a complex position requiring detailed tasks to be performed efficiently and often simultaneously.

View full position description and how to apply: http://go.wisc.edu/976939 UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

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

Miss Danu WORLD CLASS MASSAGE * FEEL GREAT IN ONE HOUR! * Short Notice * Nice 48 Price* 8AM-7PM * 608-255-0345

MASSAGE/BODYWORK

Swedish Massage For Men, providing immediate Stress, Tension and Pain Relief. Seven days a week by appt.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 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!

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PREGNANT? THINKING OF ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. Void in Illinois/New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN)

MISC. SERVICES AUTO INSURANCE STARTING AT $25/ MONTH! Call 855977-9537 (AAN CAN)

MUSICAL GEAR Guitar for sale. 1988 Fender Stratocaster, American made/ sunburst. Near mint condition, $1100.00 Brian 608-509-6346

MUSICIANS EXCHANGE

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

WANT TO BUY CASH FOR CARS: Any Car/ Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-4203808 cash4car.com (AAN CAN)

Jobs

Live-in, overnight caregiver needed. $45/night, free rent and free utilities. 7 days/ week 10 pm to 7am. Every other Saturday and Sunday off. Experience necessary.

Any questions, please call David at 608-215-7619.

WEEKEND SUPPORT WORKER Do you have weekends free and would like to earn extra money working with adults with developmental disabilities? Options In Community Living has many shift available, for example: Sat + Sun 6am-2pm or 2-8pm; short shifts; longer weekends such as: Fri 5-10pm, Sat 9am-2pm + 5-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm + 5-9pm. Duties, locations in Madison, and shifts all vary.

Contact Kate Krueger for details on how you can make a difference! Most start at $11.47/hr. Call (608) 2491585, or for more information and to download an application, check out our website: www.optionsmadison.com Options is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Active male quad on Madisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s West Side is looking for a CNA/Attendant. AM and PM hours and errands available. Experience preferred, but will train. Car required. Call (608) 616-2078

RETAIL SALES Studio Jewelers is looking for a permanent sales team member for a minimum of 24 hours per week. If you are a people person who loves beautiful things and you enjoy retail, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk! Call Hanna at 257-2627.

DRIVERS

RECENTLY RETIRED & LOOKING FOR EXTRA INCOME?

Isthmus needs a delivery driver one day per week Thursday. This job requires an easy-going, physically fit individual with an eye for detail and a good driving record. Your vehicle must be a van, pick-up truck with a cap, or large SUV in good running order with up-todate insurance. The route takes up to 3 hours to deliver. Base pay is $42 including mileage allowance.

Please contact Circulation Manager via email: tomd@isthmus.com No phone calls please.

Isthmus is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

VOLUNTEERS UNITED WAY Volunteer Center Call 246-4380 or visit www.volunteeryourtime.org to learn about these and other opportunities MSCR puts a twist on the traditional Easter egg hunt for 5th-8th graders by having them search for eggs- in the DARK! With only a flashlight to guide them, over 100 youth will hunt for 1,500 eggs on March 27th. Volunteers are needed to serve as parking lot attendants, assist with check-in and prize distribution and organize and supervise hunters.

Wisconsin Historical Museum Information Desk volunteers meet, greet, and orient visitors. Providing Madison hospitality at its best, volunteers also answer a wide range of questions regarding downtown Madison and the Capitol Square. While staffing the Information Desk, volunteers have the opportunity to meet tourists from around the world.

United Way 2-1-1 is seeking new volunteers to staff our telephone lines, answering questions about resources available in the service area.

Training is provided. If you are looking for an opportunity to learn more about community resources and would like to assist people in finding ways to get and give help, United Way 2-1-1 may be the place for you!

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When I was 15, I had a three-month-long sexual relationship with a 32-year-old woman.

She was a friend of the family, and my parents were going through a divorce. I stayed with her for the summer, and she initiated a sexual relationship. Looking back, I can see that she had been grooming me. We used to have conversations online and via email that were very inappropriate considering our age difference.

The relationship ended when I went home, but she remained flirty. As a 15-year-old, I had a hard time sorting out my feelings for her, but we remained in contact. Now we speak sporadically, and it’s usually just small talk. Soon after, I met a girl my own age and we started dating.

Twenty years later, we are happily married and have two wonderful children. Our sex life is active and fulfilling. The only problem is my wife is very proud of the fact that we were each other’s “first and only” sex partners. When we first slept together at 16, I couldn’t admit that she wasn’t my first, and I didn’t want to get the older woman in trouble. I don’t want to hurt my wife by revealing the truth. Can I keep this secret to myself?

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You could point out to your dad that monogamy didn’t protect him from hurt — Mom cheated on Dad, Dad got hurt — and then quickly add that being monogamish doesn’t make you immune to hurt. If your partner were to violate the terms of your monogamish relationship, then you

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are monogamish. He immediately went into a screed about the affair my mother had and how being open means I’m setting myself up for hurt. He suggested he couldn’t support the marriage unless we were monogamous. He’s coming from a place of love, but I need advice on how to let him see that marriage doesn’t always equal monogamy.

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Like you, TRUTH, I lost my virginity to an older woman at age 15. My first was closer to me in age (20s, not 30s) than your first — the woman who preyed on you — and I never felt like she took advantage of me. If anything, I was taking advantage of her, as our sexual relationship helped me sort out my shit. (I could get through sex with a girl, yes, but I had to think about guys the whole time. I resolved to cut out the middlewoman and have sex with guys instead.)

Over the years, well-meaning people have tried to convince me that I was damaged by this experience, but I never felt that way.

Based on your letter, TRUTH, it doesn’t sound like you were damaged or traumatized by this relationship. You quickly figured out that what she had done to/with you was squicky and inappropriate; the fact that she didn’t leave you damaged or traumatized doesn’t make what she did okay. But it sounds like your only issue — it’s the only issue you raise — is whether you can continue to allow your wife to think she was your “first and only.”

You can.

Unless you need to unburden yourself to the wife for your own sanity, TRUTH, or you think there’s a chance she could discover the truth on her own, don’t let one marital ideal — you should be able to tell each other everything — obscure an equally important if less obviously virtuous marital ideal: You don’t have to tell each other everything. Protecting your spouse from the truth, allowing your spouse to have their illusions, is often the more loving choice. While there are deceptions that aren’t okay — crushing student-loan debt, a second family hidden in another city, you are Dinesh D’Souza — some deceptions are harmless. Allowing your wife to continue to believe that she was your “first and only” falls squarely into the harmless camp.

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avid and Carol Severson own 12 boats. This weekend, they will drive three hours from their home in Malden, Ill., to the Alliant Energy Center and probably buy another one.

That’s the kind of effect Canoecopia, considered the world’s largest paddlesport expo, has on people.

“I always go home with a boat,” says Carol Severson, whose daughter attended the UW-Madison.

Hearing that pleases Darren Bush, the self-proclaimed “chief paddling evangelist” and force behind Canoecopia, which takes place March 13-15 at the Alliant Energy Center. But selling product isn’t the primary focus.

“Education is what drives this,” says Bush. “It really is an educational event with a sales component.”

Bush owns Rutabaga Paddlesports, which launched Canoecopia in the late 1970s or early 1980s. No one really knows exactly when, but Bush can be credited with transforming the event in the mid-1990s.

In the early days, outdoor enthusiasts would gather at the old Dane County Forum before it was replaced by the Exhibition Hall in 1995. From there, the event grew, eventually selling out all of the available floor space and holding seminars and presentations in the second-level meeting rooms. Events even spill over into the nearby Clarion Suites, where the indoor pool is used for product demonstrations.

Wenonah Canoe, a manufacturer based in Winona, Minn., has been involved with Canoecopia since its humble beginnings.

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early-season canoe sales,” remembers company vice president Bill Kueper. “Over the years, the event continued to progress and adapt to market needs. It’s become far more than just a retail event.”

Bush estimates that 20,000 people will attend Canoecopia this year, which will feature 200 exhibitors of kayaks, canoes, outdoor equipment and clothing spread across 250,000 square feet, plus more than 90 speakers presenting on more than 110 topics.

Highlights of the weekend’s festivities include a presentation by Kevin Callan, author of a popular series of paddling guides and frequent radio and TV guest. Callan, his wife, their 9-year-old daughter and the family dog spent 12 days canoeing around Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario — proving that paddling can, indeed, be a family activity.

Paddling filmmakers Mark and Merri Morrall, on the other hand, will draw upon their years of navigating Wisconsin waters.

“Most people who come to Canoecopia paddle close to home and can relate to stories like that better than someone who went to the Arctic Circle and ate nothing but crackers and yak meat,” Bush says. “The Morralls are not professional paddlers. They’re just a couple that likes to paddle.”

Another couple presenting will be National Geographic’s 2014 Adventurers of the Year, Dave and Amy Freeman. They spent 100 days canoeing from Ely, Minn., to Washington, D.C., last fall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act and to encourage protection of the 1.1 million-acre Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

The Freemans’ canoe was adorned with

signatures petitioning the U.S. government to protect the Boundary Waters watershed, an area threatened by extensive exploration for additional sulfide-ore mining sites.

“People can expect to learn a lot,” says Bush, a former statistician with the state of Wisconsin who began working full-time at Rutabaga in 1995, purchasing the store in 2002. “It’s nice when people buy things, but when you educate them, they’re more likely to use what they have. I want to see canoes on top of cars or in the water.

I don’t want people to keep a canoe in their garage.”

Bush, Kueper and other longtime attendees stress that Canoecopia isn’t just about canoes. It’s about kayaks, stand-up paddling, camping, fishing, fitness and the environment.

Plus, Canoecopia’s threepronged mission — education and inspiration; exposure to guides, outfitters and schools; and charitable giving to Second Harvest Foodbank and the Josh Kestelman Scholarship Fund to help teach kids to paddle — make the event worthwhile for non-paddlers, too.

A camp cooking competition and fashion show that will focus on layering (and looking good while doing it) are also part of the weekend.

Of course, products will be for sale, and at season-low prices.

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Adventurers and activists Dave and Amy Freeman will be among the many presenters at Canoecopia. what prompts people to travel from near and far to attend Canoecopia.

“In 1997, I drove from Minneapolis to Madison with my 7-year-old son for a weekend at Canoecopia,” says Lou Dzierzak, who still lives in the Twin Cities. “On the way home he said, ‘That was fun. Can we go again next year?’ This year will be our 18th consecutive year making that fatherand-son trip.”

“Going to Canoecopia is almost like a huge paddling family reunion,” adds Peter Strand, who lives in Eau Claire and has been attending the event for more than a decade. “I see friends, actual family and some of my extended paddling family.”u

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‘It’s like NASCAR on ice’

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n January, when I attended a Madison Capitols game at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the most memorable skating of the evening occurred between the first and second periods. That’s when Verona native and 2002 Winter Olympics 500-meter speed skating gold medalist Casey FitzRandolph put on a demonstration that left me wanting more.

I’m in luck, and so is anyone else who appreciates the elegant yet arduous sport that has been a Wisconsin tradition for decades. The Verona Ice Arena will host US Speedskating’s Short Track Age Class Nationals and American Cup Final March 12-15.

Age Class Nationals is the grassroots national championship for skaters from 7 years old to over 70, and more than 300 skaters (including some from Wisconsin) are expected to participate on Verona’s Olympicsize ice sheet.

The American Cup Final is designated for the top men and women in a race series, which includes three competitions. These athletes compete in the high-performance category (a separate division of competition within the Age Class Nationals) and could eventually achieve the same kind of international success as FitzRandolph and other Wisconsin speed skaters such as Eric and Beth Heiden, Dan Jansen and Chris Witty.

“We have a long history of speed skating,” says Jamie Patrick, vice president of the Madison Area Sports Commission, who reminded me that the Madison Speed Skating Club has sent somebody to the Olympics every year since 1972, including FitzRandolph three times.

In fact, club president and head coach Tom Riley, along with youth coach Bob Neville, helped the commission secure the bid with US Speedskating to host the upcoming championships.

Factor in Milwaukee’s Pettit National Ice Center, established almost 25 years ago as an official U.S. Olympic training site, and Wisconsin has more speed skating cachet than most states.

The Age Class Nationals and American Cup Final will be the first major speed skating event that Madison has hosted for a long time, and it’s free (the arena is at 451 E. Verona Ave. in Verona.)

Patrick says he hopes the competition returns to the city every year. “Any time you bring an event to town with a national flavor, it reenergizes the sport,” he adds.

“Short track speed skating is like NASCAR on ice. You never know when somebody’s going to wipe out.”

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