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OFFICE SPACE

Doug La Follette’s basement banishment.

6–11 NEWS

PARADIGM SHIFT

State focuses on trauma in mental health care.

B-O-L-O-G-N-A

Despite corporate layoffs, Oscar Mayer is hiring.

NEOLOGISM ALERT Michael Popke

Aaron R. Conklin

17 COVER STORY LIKE A LOT OF CHILDREN who grew up in the ’80s, Aaron Conklin spent plenty of time haunting arcades and clutching an Atari 2600 joystick in his living room. But it wasn’t just entertainment to him: “What always fascinated me was videogames’ potential to transform both the pop culture landscape and the way we think about education and how we learn things.” In the late 1990s, Conklin convinced then Isthmus supplements editor Bob Whitby the topic was rich for mining. Since then, he has covered two-plus console generations, penned a nationally syndicated column on games and closely chronicled the games industry in Madison.

In this week’s cover story, he provides an inside look at how local game developers are poised to make Madison a national hub for the industry.

VETERAN JOURNALIST Michael Popke writes a weekly sports column for Isthmus.

He also expertly covers music, books, recreation and just about anything else we throw at him.

This week he interviews the new director of the University of Wisconsin Press, previews Whitney Mann’s new R&B supergroup and pens a column on the start of high school football season. Popke runs Two Lakes Media Group, a freelance writing and editing company.

Forward Fest focuses on “parentpreneurs.”

12 OPINION

BLACK AND WHITE

Can Bernie Sanders unite social justice activists?

17 COVER STORY

FUTURE’S SO BRIGHT

Local game developers band together.

21 BOOKS

PUBLISH OR PERISH?

UW Press’ new director has big ideas.

23-28 FOOD & DRINK

PIER REVIEW

The Boathouse is a great urban getaway.

DOUBLE YOUR YUMMY

Yum Yum Fest 2015 will be bigger, better.

29 SPORTS

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Prep football preview.

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Forward!

Thurs., Aug. 20 through Thurs., Aug. 27, various times, locales Now in its sixth year, the Forward Festival offers plenty for entrepreneurs and tech geeks to see, and many events are free.

This year there’s a special focus on “parentpreneurs” (see story, page 9) and a related meet-up of local gaming companies (see cover story).

See forwardfest.org for complete schedule.

FIRST PEOPLE

Baa baa bazaar

Ho-Chunk revive Stand Rock Indian ceremonial.

REPTILE DYSFUNCTION

Sat. Aug. 22, Tip Top Tavern, 11 am-6 pm

Lizards, humans discuss meaning of life in Seascape.

A collection of crafty Madisonians gathers at the Tip Top Tavern patio for the inaugural Black Sheep Bazaar, offering homemade clothing, jewelry, tinctures, pottery, prints and even ouija boards. And 10% of the profits go to beleaguered Planned Parenthood.

33 MUSIC

THROWBACK

New supergroup Love High plays old-school R&B.

34 SCREENS RED CARD MEDIA, which owns Isthmus, won a 2015 Wisconsin Innovation Award for its College Athletic Meal Program app. With 170 nominees, Madison companies won big this year, snagging six of the 10 awards, which were announced Aug. 18.

Other local winners included the Bubbler at the Madison Public Library, StudyBlue, Exact Sciences, Alfalight Inc. and Ionic. Congratulations to all!

PLENTY OF ATTITUDE

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The Madison Radicals take on Japan’s aweinspiring Buzz Bullets in this not-to-be-missed battle for world domination. The usual vittles won’t be available for this game, but you can bring in your own food and beer (!). No glass, though.

Creation station Sat., Aug. 22, 4444 Robertson Rd., 10 am-6 pm

Community makerspace The Bodgery has moved and is throwing a shindig to celebrate the new digs. There’ll be “Make and Take” stations, food, carnival games and more.

Plus a whole lotta whiz-bang doohickies.

Dishing it out Sat., Aug. 22, Alliant Energy Center, 9 am-4 pm

If the words “Redwing,” “Roseville” and “McCoy” make your heart beat faster, the Wisconsin Pottery Association Show & Sale will certainly fill your hutch. Fifty dealers will be selling vintage and contemporary ceramics, from decorative figurines to dinnerware.

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In the “cubby hole” with Doug La Follette

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“I’m not happy,” Doug La Follette tells me, just after the handshake. He means it.

Wisconsin’s longtime secretary of state is raging against changes mandated in Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s budget. He’s been forced from his 4,000-square-foot digs on the Capitol Square to a windowless “cubby hole,” as he’s called it, in the basement of the Capitol. The new office, which formerly housed the state treasurer, is about 600 square feet, with an additional 300 square feet of storage space that La Follette dubs “the vault.”

The budget also trimmed two staff positions, leaving just one full-time and one part-time worker. The 75-year-old La Follette, a Democrat, is suing Walker, contending the changes make it impossible for his office to fulfill its duties. He’s hired a private attorney “out of my own pocket.”

Last week, two weeks after the relocation, I stop in unannounced. The part-time staffer, Patricia, sits at a desk in front, surrounded by files from the old office. The full-time staffer, Ann, sits a few feet back.

La Follette shows me boxes of unopened letters on the floor. We count eight of them.

“Nine,” Ann corrects. “There’s one over by my desk.”

Over time, most secretary of state duties have been stripped away. But it’s still the official repository of some government records.

And it’s still where people get apostilles — certificates required by foreign countries to affirm the authenticity of records that bear official stamps. These are used for everything from business transactions to foreign adoptions to shipping bodies to other countries for burial. (The latter get expedited “for obvious reasons,” La Follette says.)

One visitor who arrives to pick up an apostille confesses to not having heard of this certificate before. Patricia commiserates: “Nobody knows what it is until they need one.”

La Follette says his office annually issues 15,000 apostilles, or “one every seven minutes.” I ask Patricia how many she can do a day. “I hate that question,” she sighs, noting that some can be done simply and others can’t. “Some days 20. Some days 80.”

On this day, Patricia and Ann are calling requesters to say apostilles are now taking nine to 10 business days to process but can be prioritized on request. Just about everyone wants this. A handout from La Follette urges visitors “inconvenienced by the long delay in processing” to contact lawmakers and the press.

An aide to a Republican state lawmaker stops by to inquire about a constituent’s apostille request. “The legislators took away our staff people,” La Follette explains. “We’re far behind.” Later, when the aide returns with additional information needed to prioritize this request, La Follette gives the knife a full twist: “We’re glad to help you, taking time away from [helping] people ahead of you.”

Other work has languished. La Follette shows me a stack of papers from the

Wisconsin’s Secretary of State Doug La Follette has been moved into a 600-square-foot, windowless office in the basement of the Capitol.

governor’s office, lying between two ancient contraptions used to imprint the Great Seal of Wisconsin. These include the proclamation of May as “Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month” and papers authorizing the extradition of fugitives from other states. All need to be filed, as time permits. They date back to April, before the staff cuts and move.

La Follette takes me to “the vault,” a room down the hallway with an open door. There’s a sink and refrigerator for use by his staff, amid shelves filled with volumes of statutes and boxes of records: approved apostilles, military appointments, passed legislation from the prior session. La Follette sees a box containing state bargaining contracts. “I forgot we had those,” he says.

At a hearing on LaFollette’s lawsuit in Dane County court last Friday, Pam Rich, an expert in operations management, testified

that her multifaceted review showed the office needed nearly two more bodies to meet its workload. The state’s attorney sought to disallow this testimony, challenged the legal ability of La Follette and other plaintiffs to sue, and denied that the office had a constitutional duty to process apostilles.

“Whose duty is it to process apostilles, if not the secretary of state?” asked Circuit Court Judge Rhonda Lanford. There was no clear answer. She promised to review the record and issue a decision soon.

La Follette is hoping the court will conclude more staff is needed and restore the terminated positions. Absent this, he expects to keep falling farther and farther behind. “I see no way to avoid it,” he says. n Editor’s note: Circuit Court Judge Rhonda Lanford is the domestic partner of Isthmus editor Judith Davidoff.

DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE Tenure as Wisconsin secretary of state: 1975-1979, 1983-PRESENT Relationship to “Fighting Bob” La Follette: HE’S BEEN CALLED A “SECOND COUSIN, THREE TIMES REMOVED”; HIS GREATGRANDFATHER WAS AN UNCLE OF THE FAMED WISCONSIN GOVERNOR AND U.S. SENATOR. Other offices he’s sought, unsuccessfully: U.S. CONGRESS, 1970; LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, 1978; U.S. SENATE, 1988; GOVERNOR, 2012. (LA FOLLETTE WAS ALSO ELECTED TO THE STATE SENATE, SERVING A SINGLE TERM, 1973-75.)

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Cause and effect A Wisconsin push to promote trauma-informed care

BY ALLISON GEYER

Paula Buege’s life has been defined by trauma.

She grew up in a “chaotic” household with a mentally ill mother. She survived sexual abuse. She left home at age 16 and by her mid-20s was addicted to heroin.

Buege says her struggles were “outward manifestations” of the toxic stress she endured as a child — traumas that went unaddressed and unacknowledged until a caseworker at ARC House, an alcohol and drug abuse treatment center in Madison, became the first person to ask Buege an all-important question: “What happened to you?”

“Everyone else always asked, ‘what’s wrong with you?’” says Buege, now 52. “That was the first correlation that [my mental health issues] had something to do with what had happened to me growing up.”

Buege’s experience at ARC House goes back more than two decades, before the concepts of trauma sensitivity and traumainformed care became buzzwords within the mental health community. But in the last few years, the approach has gained momentum as agencies and organizations in Wisconsin and throughout the nation have shifted to embrace a treatment and recovery model that focuses on empathy and empowerment for trauma survivors.

Trauma-informed care rose to national prominence after the 1998 publication of the groundbreaking Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study by the Centers for Disease Control and health care giant Kaiser Permanente, says Sharyl Kato, director of The Rainbow Project Inc., a child and family counseling and resource clinic on Madison’s east side.

The study links instances of childhood traumas, like abuse and neglect, to significantly increased risks for an array of health, social and emotional problems later in life.

A point is assigned to each traumatic event, so the more trauma a person has ex-

perienced, the higher his or her ACE score.

It’s common to have some childhood trauma — nearly two-thirds of adults in the study had at least one instance. But as the ACE score increases, so does the likelihood of things like chronic illness, suicide, smoking, alcoholism, multiple marriages and obesity. Individuals with an ACE score of six or higher are expected to live 20 fewer years than those without trauma.

“When many things start piling up, it’s very scary,” Kato says. “It actually impacts brain development and neurobiology.”

But early interventions rooted in traumainformed care provide hope for ACE survivors, experts say.

In Wisconsin, the state Department of Health Services hired its first part-time trauma-informed care consultant in 2008 and later assembled an advisory committee that works to educate professionals who work with mental health clients on trauma-informed care and implement trauma-sensitive practices across systems.

“Trauma-informed care runs counter to the traditional medical model,” says Scott Webb, who was hired by DHS 11 months ago as a fulltime trauma-informed care coordinator.

Instead of assessing symptoms, reaching a diagnosis and implementing a treatment plan developed and dictated by “experts,” the trauma-informed approach views the client as the expert in his or her life, Webb says. The strengthbased approach empowers them to collaborate on their own treatment and wellness plan.

“We want to provide safety and permission to share their story and bear witness to their pain,” Webb says. “It really is a complete paradigm shift.”

Making the switch requires a total reevaluation of the way agencies deliver services, Webb says, from the mission and vision of the organization to the human resources policy to the design and physical layout of its office.

It takes organizations two to five years to make the shift to adopt the trauma-informed model, but they “never truly arrive,” Webb says.

“They’re always making improvements, finding metrics, constantly monitoring.”

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Webb envisions building statewide “systems of care” that allow clients receiving mental health treatment to move seamlessly from one provider to another. This would avoid “re-traumatization” and improve recovery outcomes as clients navigate the web of available support systems.

“The state of Wisconsin is really pushing [trauma-informed care] into all the agencies,” says Webb, who travels throughout the state training and educating key stakeholders.

There have been numerous early adopters in the state: the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Instruction have all taken steps to become trauma-informed, as have numerous county-level agencies, Native American tribes, schools, nonprofit organizations and hospitals.

First Lady Tonette Walker has recently become an advocate as well, partnering with DCF to form a committee to expand traumainformed care and establish Wisconsin as a “national leader” in the area.

“I think the trauma-informed approach is a good approach for any individual, whether they have a history of childhood trauma or not,”

says Sue Janty, behavioral services director at Meriter-UnityPoint Health. “It’s a more validating approach as opposed to a more punitive one.”

In the past 20 years, Janty has seen hospitals shift from using practices like leather restraints and seclusion rooms to a more soothing approach that helps patients identify and express their feelings and enhance selfcoping mechanisms. Her department uses tools like soft lighting and weighted blankets to create a sense of calm and security.

Trauma-informed care is already the basis of new staff orientation at Meriter, and in 2016 the hospital will expand the focus to include its emergency services department, Janty says.

The Department of Public Instruction is also expanding trauma training for Wisconsin educators, rolling out a multi-year professional development program for schools to become more trauma-informed, says Nic Dibble, an education consultant in school social work services. The program builds on the current model of “positive behavioral interventions and supports,” an evidence-based approach to reducing disciplinary incidents.

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“In Wisconsin schools, we’re seeing more kids presenting at younger ages with bigger behavioral challenges,” Dibble says. “Behavior is how they communicate, and rather than trying to correct that behavior, we really need to understand what’s behind that behavior.”

The court system is making a shift as well.

Dane County Circuit Court Judge Shelley Gaylord is one of a few local judges who have been trained in ACE scores and trauma-informed practices, but she says there’s “momentum” among those involved with the criminal justice system to embrace the concept. Nationally, between 75% and 93% of youth entering the juvenile justice system have experienced trauma, according to the Justice Policy Institute.

“It starts with a physical observation of what it’s like to come into the courthouse,” Gaylord says. In family and child welfare cases, the social worker on the case generally sits at the same table as the prosecution, whether it be the district attorney or a corporate counsel — a positioning Gaylord says can send the wrong message to the family.

“That makes it seem like the social worker is on [the prosecution’s] side,” Gaylord says. “Many clients and parents would voice that concern.” As an alternative, Gaylord pushes the tables together, putting the social worker in the middle.

Many proponents of trauma-informed care describe “bubbles” or “pockets” of awareness growing throughout Wisconsin as service providers receive training.

The most recent push has been to expand resources and training beyond child and family services to include more adult-centric service providers, such as drug and alcohol counselors, Webb says. Advocates are also exploring the role of cultural competency in trauma-informed care and looking at the impact of trauma that has been passed down through generations of a family.

“What I’m envisioning is that more and more counties will get it, embrace it, make the transformation and become part of a statewide conversation,” Webb says. “I don’t want this to be a best-kept secret.”

For Buege, facing the struggles of her past was the first step on a long journey to recovery. The road was difficult. After beating her heroin addiction, she nearly died when she overdosed on psychotropic medication twice within the same week. Worse, it happened when her three small children were in the house.

Buege knows she could have lost custody of her children. But her social worker, instead of taking a punitive approach, acknowledged Buege’s history of trauma and chose a trauma-informed approach, directing the family toward more supportive services and therapy.

“We kept working,” Buege says.

But trauma is often passed down through generations. Buege’s youngest son, Donovan, began to manifest behavior problems at an early age, getting kicked out of his first daycare program at 18 months and attempting suicide at age 4. He was later diagnosed with autism and bipolar disorder.

When he was an elementary student, his teachers attempted to control his behavior using seclusion and restraint. Buege says these punishments added to Donovan’s trauma. A daylong seclusion launched the 7-year-old into psychosis; doctors said he would never recover.

But instead of heeding recommendations to institutionalize her son, Buege urged Donovan’s doctors and teachers to acknowledge his trauma. Together, they developed a treatment plan that taught him self-regulation and interpersonal skills. “As we did that, his behaviors that were due to anxiety and dysregulation diminished really fast,” Buege says. Now 21, Donovan works as a peer mentor for troubled youth.

Buege’s experience advocating for her son launched her into a larger role lobbying for statewide education and mental health policy reform, and since 2008 she has done statewide trainings in trauma-informed care.

Now, she works as a family and consumer advocate at Community Partnerships, a local agency that provides mental health services.

“We’ve come a long way from the conversation starting 10 years ago,” Buege says.

“But as far as a statewide movement, we still have a long way to go.” n

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Help wanted Despite corporate layoffs, Oscar Mayer is adding workers

BY JAY RATH

Despite recent deep cuts to its corporate headquarters, Madison-based Oscar Mayer is adding positions to its production line, if only a few.

“We’re actually hiring” says Doug Leikness, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 538. So far only about a dozen have been brought on, but it’s an encouraging sign that meat processing will continue in Madison, even if corporate headquarters are eventually moved elsewhere.

On Aug. 12, Oscar Mayer’s parent company dropped a bombshell. The newly formed Kraft Heinz Co. announced that it is cutting 2,500 jobs in the United States and Canada.

The company employs 46,600 worldwide.

In what may prove to be only the first round of cuts expected through 2017, at least 165 white-collar jobs were axed at Madison’s corporate offices last week.

Oscar Mayer’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

Jim Aehl, who worked for Oscar Mayer from 1970 to 1995 and previously headed the company’s public relations department, was saddened to learn of the cuts.

“With the downsizing of the Madison operations, going from over 4,000 employees when I was there to about 1,000 with the most recent reductions, my immediate reaction is one of sadness that there now are fewer opportunities for people in Madison to earn their living at this fine meat company,” Aehl says. “[Oscar Mayer] still is a good-sized employer in town, and I can only hope that Heinz Kraft will continue to consider the plant as an important part of its total meat operations,” he says.

Mayor Paul Soglin pledged to work with the company, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and other agencies to place the laid-off workers in comparable positions.

“I am deeply concerned about the wellbeing of these employees and their families,” Soglin said in a statement.

Oscar Mayer is the largest manufacturer in Dane County.

Sales of just its premade Lunchable meals are estimated to earn $1 billion a year.

As Isthmus reported on June 25, there is cause for concern that Oscar Mayer’s corporate headquarters may be shifted elsewhere.

n MADISON MATRIX UW-Madison men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan tells the Appleton Post-Crescent he might not retire after the 2015-16 season after all.

GOP front-runner no longer?

Gov. Scott Walker takes a hit in the polls, while real estate mogul Donald Trump continues to surge.

Kraft Heinz lays off 165 workers at the Madison Oscar Mayer plant.

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The earnings report assured stockholders that “the Heinz brand and business will remain headquartered in Pittsburgh and the Kraft brand and business will remain headquartered in the Chicago area.”

According to the Associated Press, further cost-cutting measures were announced in a July 13 memo to Kraft Heinz employees.

Included among the “provisional measures” were requests to print on both sides of paper and reuse office supplies such as binders and file folders. n

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The Kraft Heinz Co. released secondquarter earnings two days before the announcement of layoffs. Kraft’s net revenues had dropped by 4.9% and Heinz’s results were mixed. According to the official statement, the new company expects it will “generate aggressive, run-rate cost savings of $1.5 billion by the end of 2017, inclusive of savings from productivity and cost savings initiatives contemplated prior to the merger.”

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Wednesday, Aug. 12 n Attorneys representing the family of Tony Robinson, the 19-yearold killed March 6 by Madison Police officer Matt Kenny, file a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Madison and Kenny.

Thursday, Aug. 13 n The Madison chapter of environmental group 350.org asks Dane County zoning officials to require Enbridge Energy pipeline company to establish a $25 million trust fund to cover cleanup costs for an oil spill, if one should occur, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.

A law slipped into the state budget prohibits insurance requirements, but it doesn’t say anything about trust funds. #loophole

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Russ Feingold tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he won’t renew a past campaign pledge to collect most of his donations from Wisconsin residents.

The longtime campaign finance reformer fears being “left behind” in a post-Citizens United world.

Monday, Aug. 17 n Gov. Scott Walker gets up on the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair and proves how “unintimidated” he is by facing down the protesters who have taken to following him around on campaign stops.

Tuesday, August 18 n Walker reveals his plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. His proposal provides tax credits based on age, while Obamacare is based on income. Maybe Walker is attempting to court the all-important wealthy millennial vote? n It’s always good to have a backup. Fitchburg City Council members announce plans for a resolution to allow Exact Sciences Corp. to build its corporate offices at a site near Highway 14 and Lacy Road if talks with the city of Madison fall through.

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Madisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual technology and entrepreneurship festival launches its sixth year on Thursday, Aug. 20. Its flagship event â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the daylong Forward Technology Conference on Tuesday, Aug. 25 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has come to the weary parentpreneurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rescue with free childcare (sign up when you register). The conference features two afternoon sessions devoted to the topic of parentpreneuring, including a talk

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Back by popular demand this year is Clash of the Tech Trivia Titans at the Coopers Tavern, where festival-goers flaunt their â&#x20AC;&#x153;knowledge of IT, biotech, hard sciences, the local startup community and tech-pop culture,â&#x20AC;? according to the website. Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contest â&#x20AC;&#x153;was a ton of fun, and will sell out again this year,â&#x20AC;? Younkle expects.

The festival this year will also sound the theme that â&#x20AC;&#x153;location matters,â&#x20AC;? with sessions devoted to attracting would-be business owners to Madison. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re attracting an important demographic for starting companies,â&#x20AC;? says Younkle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From 2000 to 2010, Madison gained 10,000 20- to 40-year-olds.â&#x20AC;?

And he points to global brands that operate out of Madison, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Zendesk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing well, but we can do much, much better,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope that the conversations and connections happening during the Forward Festival set the stage for our community to take another big step forward.â&#x20AC;? (See cover story, page 17, on efforts to advance the local gaming industry.)

Now in its sixth year, Forward Festival attracts more than 2,000 attendees to its 30plus events over eight days, ending on Aug. 27. Many events are free, though advanced registration is required. Day-of tickets are available for the Forward Tech Conference, Nexxpo, Pitch Night, and several other Forward Fest events. Go to forwardfest.org to be a part of what Younkle calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;a shining example of Madison doing something great, in a grassroots way thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authentically Madison.â&#x20AC;? n

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On a morning in early June, inside the humid primate house of the Henry Vilas Zoo, zookeeper Mary Schmidt bounces on her feet inside the orangutan pen, which contains a giant playground made of wooden tree trunks, rope ladders and a tire swing.

Though she appears to be alone, a small crowd of people watch her eagerly. Schmidt is wearing a bright orange vest that is covered in loose strips of fleece. When she faces the glass, visitors are able to see why she’s in there: Hanging onto her vest is a baby orangutan.

Appropriately, the crowd lets out an “Awwww!”

The baby’s name is Keju, which means “cheese” in Malay. She was born April 9 in the zoo. Schmidt is performing a training exercise to adapt her to a healthy lifestyle; it’s a behavior that would be expected of Keju’s mother Kawan, but there were complications after an otherwise smooth pregnancy.

“At some point, the baby was screaming, and Kawan decided that that was a very new, strange, and kind of scary experience for her, so she set the baby down and decided that she was not going to continue to care for it,” says deputy director Jeff Halter.

This type of rejection is common in firsttime mothers like Kawan.

“We’re in the process of training both mother and baby to do a select group of behaviors that would help get them reunited,” Halter says. “The goal would be to put them together, and mom and baby would fall back in love with each other and everything would go great. The reality is it takes a lot of coordinated training of both mother and baby in order to have all of the behaviors they would need to have in order to be successfully reunited.”

For Keju, the training involves clinging to her mother’s chest — as orangutans do for the first year of their lives — and lying on the ground by herself without crying. Staff are training Kawan in nipple manipulation and getting used to Keju.

Interpreting the scene for the crowd is conservation education curator Erin Flynn.

What they’re seeing is a “baby wellness check,” which is typically performed behind the scenes. However, the zookeepers perform the check publicly once a week.

Flynn says that Keju has “become really aware of things around her, so she’s actually tracking guests now.”

“It’s really important for the baby to be able to hang on and deal with changes in position just like Mom’s going to do when she’s with Mom,” Flynn says.

To get Keju used to clinging onto something, zookeepers keep the vest with her at all times. “Even when she’s sleeping, she’s holding onto that vest,” Flynn says.

Keju is not yet on display full-time for zoogoers, but on Wednesdays at 10 a.m., visitors can watch her get her wellness checkup.

The birth of Keju and the compelling story of mother-child attachment issues are bringing attention locally to the global threats faced by orangutans and how zoos have become a major part of conservation efforts.

Orangutans are an endangered species. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the population of Bornean orangutans has declined 50% in the last 60 years, and the Sumatran orangutan population has declined 80% in the last 75 years.

Their native habitats in Borneo and Sumatra are being further destroyed every year through the logging industry and the pet trade.

“Unfortunately, they’ll go out and kill the mother to get the baby and put it in the pet trade,” Halter says.

The orangutans at the Henry Vilas Zoo are Bornean.

Another form of habitat loss is due to the palm oil industry. Orangutans depend on oil palm forests for their homes.

Palm oil is found in a large number of products. “The problem is, it’s in everything,” says Flynn, “almost anything processed or that keeps.” Soaps and shampoos that produce suds usually include palm oil, too.

Zoo representatives want to let people know there are companies that have committed to using sustainably farmed palm oil. There are also apps and other sites that list products that use no, or sustainable, palm oil.

Henry Vilas Zoo director Ronda Schwetz is the field conservation guide for the Orangutan Species Survival Plan. “She brings zoo professionals [to Borneo], and they train people there in orangutan rehabilitation centers and, now, zoos,” Halter says.

Halter stresses that the zoo’s influence does not end at its gates. “Association of Zoos and Aquariums-accredited institutions are putting about $180 million a year toward conservation of species in the wild. So our scope is much larger than just an entertainment industry in your local city.”n

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whites — are becoming poorer.” Sanders tied police violence to the “violence of economic deprivation,” and he laid out a vision for a more just society.

It remains to be seen how much Sanders can do to unite black and white people concerned about justice.

Ruth Conniff is editor of The Progressive magazine.

In July, when Bernie Sanders drew 10,000 people to the Dane County Coliseum, it was the biggest turnout any presidential candidate had seen so far in the run-up to the 2016 elections.

Sanders has broken his own record several times since then.

Crowds of more than 25,000 greeted Sanders in Los Angeles and Portland, chanting and waving signs, turning the 73-year-old socialist senator from Vermont into a rock star.

Unlike Donald Trump, who is light on policy and big on ego, Sanders is an unlikely cult figure. His speeches are heavy on facts and tend toward the dire. “The middle class in this country has been disappearing for the last 40 years,” was one applause line in Madison.

But the crowds coming out to see him are moved to ecstatic appreciation by the fact that Sanders is telling them the truth.

Americans know that the middle class is shrinking, that college debt is crushing a generation of students, that we are being sold a bill of goods by candidates in both parties who equate Wall Street profits with the wellbeing of the nation.

“The American people are sick and tired of a political and economic system that benefits the wealthy and powerful,” Sanders says. “It’s grotesque that the top one-tenth of 1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%.”

Meanwhile, all 17 candidates in the Republican primary clown car are running on trickle-down economics. And Hillary Clinton, a former Walmart board member, has a mixed record on trade deals that have helped hollow out wages for American workers. She also continues to raise money from hedge fund managers.

Sanders, by contrast, is a breath of fresh air.

As he packs venues and picks up endorsements, including from National Nurses United

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and Friends of the Earth, he is also wrestling with the most significant barrier to building a big, progressive movement in this country: the challenge of bringing together white progressives and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Sanders received a lot of negative coverage for failing to respond to protesters who interrupted his speech to Netroots Nation in Phoenix last month, and he was muscled off the stage in Seattle by activists who said they represented Black Lives Matter.

But what’s notable is Sanders’ response.

He has given a series of speeches responding to the concerns of activists who have demanded justice for Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Michael Brown and other recent victims of police abuse.

He released a detailed program to deal with systemic racism.

He appointed, as his national spokesperson, Symone Sanders, an African Ameri-

can woman with a background in criminal justice and racial equity.

And he has been tying together his economic critique with the central issue of racism in America.

In a speech July 25 to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Baton Rouge, La., Sanders spoke directly to the Black Lives Matter movement. America, he said, must “simultaneously address the structural and institutional racism which exists in this country, while at the same time we vigorously attack the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality which is making the very rich much richer while everyone else — especially the African American community and working-class

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Here in Madison, as in Portland, Ore., and Burlington, Vt., white progressives who are inclined to support Sanders have lately had a rude awakening to the deep racial injustice in our communities, where we like to think of ourselves as generous, inclusive and forwardthinking.

Tony Robinson’s death in a police shooting only a couple of blocks from the Willy Street Co-op was a when-worlds-collide moment.

It prompted a lot of discussion about how Madison, frequently ranked one of the best places to live in America, is also among the worst places to raise an African American child.

If Sanders can find a way to bring together the broad and activated Black Lives Matter movement with the progressive movement for economic equality, it could be the start of something big.

The Republican Party has managed for decades to hold together a coalition of people whose interests are far less aligned.

And if tea partiers can gain enough traction to drive mainstream Republicans to the right, why shouldn’t Sanders, whose stands for universal health care, relief from college debt and a restoration of the middle class actually have majority support, make a lasting impact?

Whatever the outcome of the primary, his campaign is a good sign for progressives. n

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Nick Brown (via email)

that here. How can promoting isolation and reducing social support be a solution that will help downtown become a safer, healthier environment? Dear Mayor, you need to address the cause, the needs, not just the symptoms that you don’t like.

Cynthia Liu (via email)

Treat the causes of homelessness Regarding the removal of the stones from Philosopher’s Grove (“The Mayor vs. the Homeless,” 8/13/2015; “Philosopher’s Grove Sculpture Artist Says Goodbye with State Street Stories” and “When This Is Gone, We’ll Have Nowhere Else to Go,” Isthmus.com, 8/11/2015): Whether in ripped jeans or business attire, I have never been greeted with anything but smiles if my path leads me through Philosopher’s Grove. When we look at our fellow humans gathering, talking, spending time with friends in a space they have been drawn to because they lack the resources to hang out in a coffee shop or in the home they don’t have, what does it say when our policies proclaim: We have benches, but not for you. We want others to have a place to sit, but you sit too long. We want fellowship and shared ideas, but your fellowship, your community building, we can’t have

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I may not agree with the measures taken so far, but I do support Paul Soglin’s assertion that the folks living around and on the front porch of the City County Building are given far too much leeway in behavior and fundamentally don’t belong there. A woman who had been living there for two years was finally banned after found washing her underwear in the first-floor bubbler — think about that. The elevators and even a courtroom have been used as bathrooms, even though there are bathrooms available throughout the building. Ambulances are there multiple times a day for overdoses and alcohol/drug-related medical events.

As a city worker trained and encouraged to care about our customers/citizens, I’m appalled that I’m expected to simply walk by these seriously ill people daily, and I’m embarrassed for every customer/citizen that finds these conditions when they come downtown to do business. As I leave work in the evening, I’m ashamed to see the sadness gathering for the night on the city’s front porch.

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Breaking news In his latest column, “Time for a Wisconsin Public Newspaper” (8/13/2015), former Madison mayor Dave Cieslewicz discusses the decreasing size of locally focused print news sources, suggesting it is time for a publicly funded newspaper using a model similar to that of Wisconsin Public Radio, NPR or the BBC. While Mayor Dave notes several staffing expense cuts among multiple publishers with local products, he fails to mention revenue, or the lack thereof, as it relates to diminished readership.

Why would Madison, Dane County or the state of Wisconsin pursue public funding for a model that Cieslewicz himself suggests is broken in the free market? Although Cieslewicz criticizes blogs

Maybe putting public money into a dying medium isn’t the greatest idea? #justanobviousthought.

Jay Campbell (via Facebook) Isn’t this what WPR/NPR is, sort of? Minus the wasteful, expensive printing part.

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Stop and enjoy beautiful river views, or go about five miles north and visit Dr. Evermor’s Art Park – a weird, beautiful art installation in the town of Sumpter featuring sculptures made of scrap metal.

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BY AARON R. CONKLIN The annual Games + Learning + Society Conference took place

This year’s Games + Learning + Society Conference drew hundreds of academics and gamers to Madison, including legendary developer Brenda Romero.

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more than a month ago, but co-director Kurt Squire is still feeling giddy.

Maybe it was the standing ovation the event’s keynote speaker, legendary game developer Brenda Romero, got when she waxed poetic about the way forward for female game developers — and female game players — in the bombed-out wake of the ugly #Gamergate brouhaha that saw angry male gamers harassing female developers online. Maybe it was the several hundred academics and developers who converged on Madison to talk about their shared passion for games for learning.

Or maybe, just maybe, it’s the fact that the future of game development in Madison has never looked brighter than it does right now.

The question of whether Madison would become a national game development hub has been burbling for more than 15 years. Back in the early 2000s, it looked as though Madison would clone the success of Austin, Texas, with triple-A developers Raven Software and Human Head Studios leading the way. At the start of this decade, nimble local mobile developers like PerBlue (Parallel Kingdoms) and games for learning shops like Filament Games (iCivics) and Games Learning Society (GLS) — also one of the world’s oldest games-for-learning research programs, housed in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery — seemed poised to take the city to another level. But while each of those players remains a successful and vibrant part of the current local landscape, there’s still something missing. To put it bluntly, Madison still lacks a defined game “scene.”

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The catalyst to finally create one could be presence dried up last spring. Ex-Raven develcoming next week, when a significant and oper Aaron San Filippo, the co-owner of Flippfly, sizable part of Madison’s gaming commu- makers of the 3D flying game Race the Sun, has nity — potentially more than 25 companies, been running the Madison Indies group, an inlarge and small — comes together with GLS formal meetup of the city’s indie game developand reps from groups like the national Enter- ers. The Entertainment Software Association had tainment Software Association (the gaming approached Steinkuehler about the possibility industry’s Washington, D.C., lobbying arm) of creating some type of umbrella organization and Madison Region Economic Partnership in Madison, like a local version of HEVGA, to (MadREP) at a meetup that’s been staged to promote local collaboration and the scene as a take advantage of this year’s Forward Fes- whole. That’s a key first step, and one of the things tival, Madison’s annual tech and entrepre- helping to drive next week’s meeting. neurship conference (See story, page 9) .

But Squire and Steinkuehler know Madi “We want to get everyone in a room to talk son’s game-development future could benefit about everything that’s here — what are the from something that’s already in their wheelmarket opportunities?” says house: a formal video game deMichael Gay, MadREP’s senior sign program at UW. The GLS vice president of economic program has exploded over the development. “What we’re last five years to feature four full trying to do is build this clusprofessors, a director of game ter. It doesn’t exist — it hasn’t development and a business existed.” manager — and an annual wait The model Gay would like ing list of more than 200 students to see Madison’s gaming secfor its modest list of class offertor adopt is the same one deings. Madison College, Herzing ployed by Milwaukee’s Water University and Madison Media Council, a hugely successful Institute — MadREP’s Gay calls partnership between that city’s the latter a “quiet but important” business and higher educaplayer on the local game scene — Kurt Squire: “We pay a have healthy game-development tion constituencies that now real tax for being in degree programs and waiting includes more than 150 water the Midwest. But we lists of their own, but could also technology companies and like it here.” benefit from collaborating with has raised the national profile of UW-Milwaukee’s School of a program featuring the UW and Freshwater Sciences.

GLS’s cachet and national profile. Given the obvi What he’s talking about is making Madi- ous demand for training and the number of local son a center of gaming excellence. game companies eager to expand their employee “We have very big national players here,” rolls, the stars seem uniquely aligned. says Gay. “This is a very intriguing time to It won’t necessarily be easy. Steinkuehler have this discussion.” says they’d first have to finesse the UW’s level of comfort with hiring professors with profesAround the same time Gay was discovering, sional game-development experience instead through a MadREP-backed sector analysis of of Ph.D.s. (“I got tenure for papers I wrote, not information technology, that Madison was for things I built,” she explains.) The other marife with gaming companies that touched jor question is which department would house everything from cybersecurity to digital it—the School of Education? College of Letters health care, Constance Steinkuehler, GLS and Science? co-director and Squire’s spouse, was having “It’s not ‘Can we do it?’’’ she says. “It’s ‘What a different sort of personal epiphany. is it through?’”

For most of her academic career in game Squire agrees that there’s no time like the studies at UW-Madison, Steinkuehler has present. focused on national policy and the univer- “It’s time that we recognize that we might sity setting. She spent a year as President have a critical mass that can compete with the Barack Obama’s games czar and is cur- coasts,” says Squire. “All of us, all of the time, rently serving as the executive director of wonder, ‘should we move to a coast?’ Because the Higher Education Video Game Alliance we pay a real tax for being in the Midwest. But (HEVGA), a professional organization of we like it here. Maybe we could do things that videogame programs that includes 76 aca- would help each other.” demic game programs at universities across the country. The local game-development Squire cites a recent effort by the Dane County ecosystem simply hadn’t been a focus.

Arts Commission to bring Jordy Schell, a key But when faced with potential seismic creature animator on big-ticket Hollywood shifts in university culture wrought by Gov. franchises like Avatar and Star Wars, to MadiScott Walker’s $250 million cut to the UW son as an example. GLS and Madison’s Raven System, Steinkuehler and Squire found Software teamed up to keep him here for three themselves facing a choice. days, lecturing and visiting with budding game “We were like, look, we can leave because developers. of what the governor is doing, or we can dig “If we all banded together, we could create in and build here,” she says. “We did a lot of a scene that would get the 22-year-old who soul searching — but if there’s something wants to get into games and not leave Madimissing, we have to build it. We need a better son,” says Squire. “I’ve got that kid in my classes ecosystem. We have all the building blocks. right now. The kids are thinking, ‘I’m going to It seems like it’s never been coordinated.” graduate. I want to be a game developer, I need It’s not that people haven’t tried. Madison to leave.’ We need to say ‘No. Don’t leave. We has its own chapter of the International Game want you here.’ We need to find a place for him Developers Association, but its social media to work, a community.”

Constance Steinkuehler: “We have all the building blocks [to become a national hub for gaming]. It seems like it’s never been coordinated.”

Nick Heindl is one of those kids who would stay if he could.

Like a lot of undergrads these days, he just wanted to make games when he signed up for Squire’s Games, Learning and Society class.

It took the soon-to-be-fifth-year computer science major until his sophomore year to realize that game development was a legitimate career option. Once he did, he got to work, spending a summer working with the UW’s mobile games incubator and taking GLS classes. After being part of a student-based Game Jam event on campus co-sponsored by Raven Software two years ago, Heindl landed an interview for a summer internship with the Middleton developer.

He ended up making the difficult decision to pass on the hometown shop and intern instead at Amazon’s corporate headquarters in Seattle.

This spring, Heindl again found himself weighing summer internship offers — a second offer from Raven and one from Riot Games, the Los Angeles-based developers of the popular multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends. This time, he opted to take an internship with Raven, which he just finished.

“I actually got to work with games, and that was incredible” he says.

Having experienced life in a large city with a more defined and bustling game-development scene — in addition to Amazon, the Seattle area’s home to the corporate headquarters of both Microsoft and Nintendo — Heindl’s thinking he’ll need to head out of Madtown to pursue his post-graduation career dreams.

“One of the big problems with comp sci kids staying in Madison is that tech companies do a lot of their recruiting in October, but game companies aren’t always in position to do that,” says

Heindl. “I would like to stay in Madison. But if something were to happen with one of the companies here, where else do I go? There’s a big community, but it’s loose.”

Heindl shares Squire’s opinion that Madison’s gaming scene could benefit from collaboration.

“It’s totally here,” says Heindl. “It’s been here — it’s not some hidden thing. Maybe if we pass this to the UW, everything will come together.”

Forrest Woolworth, PerBlue’s chief operating officer, says the future of game development in Madison comes down to talent.

“If we can build a pipeline of talent — and we’ve done that here with tech and computer science — if we can establish that in games, that’s beneficial. That gives local companies a nice path to grow,” he says.

From several key perspectives, Madison remains as attractive as ever in terms of bringing in and retaining game-development talent.

Woolworth points to a couple of recent highprofile hires in which his company was able to lure talent from Seattle and San Francisco.

“The videogame industry thinks more highly of Madison as a videogame hub than Madison does itself,” he says.

The persistent obstacle isn’t Madison’s quality of living or a desire to collaborate, but something much more concrete: space.

What Squire would like to see is a space that pairs a UW academic games program with Madison’s for-profit development communities, a sort of natural mentorship ecosystem that could also provide a fast-track path to commercialization.

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The foundation for that may already be happening organically. A number of local game development companies are moving or poised to move into spaces near each other — Filament Games is ensconced in the renovated AT&T building on West Washington Avenue, while the Madison branch of the SEGA-owned shop Three Rings (Puzzle Pirates) is set to move in shortly. PerBlue and Sector 67, the collaborative tech development space, are scheduled to move into the still-in-construction Starting Block space on East Washington Avenue sometime in 2016. Other gamerelated companies could follow suit.

“Everyone says we want innovation — we want student startups and companies,” says Squire. “We want incubators and ac-

celerators, but we don’t have a strong tradition of those activities at UW and no real support for them. The university doesn’t have or can’t provide a big open space that allows that activity to happen. We could easily fill a building with grant and contract work, and classes with eager students who want to learn these skills. To some extent, we’re a victim of our own success.”

GLS has proved particularly adept at landing federal grants — more than $10 million so far to fuel research and games like Citizen Science, a PC offering that teaches players about the linkages in a local lake’s ecosystem. GLS also worked with the New York Hall of Science to create an interactive table that teaches users to build circuits, which then was adapted into a tool for medical school anatomy classes. Through a corporate partnership, they hope to generate more passive income for GLS and become independent from grant support.

A defined Madison game scene won’t develop overnight on the strength of one group discussion. As MadREP’s Gay is quick to point out, Milwaukee’s Water Council took seven long years of planning to come to fruition, but it’s clearly a key part of whatever ends up evolving. He’s hoping the effort will attract the attention and support of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) — the business and industry division, not the part that’s gotten a black eye for giving out bad loans — to fund an effort to take the sector analysis of game development in Madison and extrapolate it to other IT sectors in other parts of the state.

For her part, Steinkuehler is fine with focusing on formulating a Madison scene.

“I don’t want to have to go to the coasts to see what an indie game company is doing,” says Steinkuehler. “Having a lively ecosystem of big and tiny companies with discussion and critique will directly improve my work. There’s a window of opportunity here. We just have to talk it into being.” n

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A moody murder mystery set in Door County. And a verse translation of Sophocles’ greatest Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex. These five books were the top sellers for

the University of Wisconsin Press between July 2014 and June 2015.

“There’s breadth in that list,” says Dennis Lloyd, the new director of the press, who arrived in May after working at five other university presses, most recently the University Press of Florida. “What I like about it is it shows a range of successful books. I would worry if it were all the same type of book.”

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In the evening, from the far side of Lake Mendota, the glowing red sign at the Boathouse — the new incarnation of the Edgewater Hotel’s casual lakeside dining spot — beckons like the light at the end of Daisy’s dock. But should you be boatless, it’s almost as romantic to arrive via Wisconsin Avenue and head down the many steps to the lake level (they’re like something in Montmartre or San Francisco, these steps!) and snag a table outside, on the deck. There, just five minutes from the Capitol Square, sailboats bob on the waves, and old gents wearing mint green trousers and pink plaid belts order martinis straight up. It is a very boaty place, and as decent a replica for Cape Cod that Madison has yet come up with.

And if you are a sucker, as I am, for that version of an American summer, it’s hard not to like the Boathouse, where the view is all-important, the staff is helpful, and the company is mostly in a very good mood.

Since the Boathouse opened in late May, the menu has already been significantly revamped. It’s become a lot shorter, more focused on fish and seafood. This corresponds with the Midwesterner’s idea of eating fish or seafood while near a lake, even if the fish or seafood in question could not have possibly come from that lake. There’s no reason to expect clam chowder while snacking Mendota-side. Yet clam chowder often seems just the ticket, and will be at

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The sandwiches are all quite good. The crab cake is full of crab, not padded out with breading, and the remoulade has a welcome bit of kick. The excellent focaccia bun, though, overshadows the crab cake, just as it overshadows the fillets in the grilled perch sandwich. I’d recommend going the DIY open-face route with these and giving the top of your bun to your tablemate who ordered the Louis salad. Heavy with crab, it’s the better of the two salads (the other is an acceptable Caesar). The play of the kalamata olives against the homemade, highquality Louis dressing is very nice. The iceberg lettuce is fresh and crisp, though the salad could use some varied darker greens. That said, crab, which is mild even when eaten super fresh oceanside, is possibly not the wisest choice in the Midwest. There’s often no there there, in a culinary sense, with crab. It can turn into a ghost ingredient. But we’re doing okay here.

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The Grieg Club, a private social club, closed in July.

Altschul says that the new venue will carry on with the Tip Top’s mission of serving the very best to the neighborhood, but that it will have a “different dynamic and style.”

“We’re looking to create a neighborhood center, a platform for artistry,” says Altschul, who envisions everything from concerts to films, musical theater, comedy and gallery nights taking place there. “It’s gonna be funky as all hell,” Altschul says.

The Eken Park neighborhood is primarily residential, but is home to both the Tip Top and Dexter’s Pub. The closest entertainment venue was the Inferno, 1718 Commercial Ave., just a half-mile away, but it closed in May, due to redevelopment at the corner of North Sherman and Commercial Avenue.

“The Inferno hosted a vibrant artistic scene,” Altschul observes. “I admire what

Apollo [Marquez] created there, how strong the community tie was to that space. People felt safe to express themselves there; they were encouraged to do so.”

Altschul imagines a similarly supportive atmosphere at the new venue. Entertainment would be as important as the food and drink, in a “cabaret” style, in his current plans.

The Grieg Club building has about 2,500 square feet of “front of the house” space, a kitchen, but no stage and is currently set up “for banquets and functions,” says Altschul.

The Grieg Club, which was once a Willy Street mainstay at 1249 Williamson St. (a building designed by the Madison firm Claude and Starck as the Sixth Ward Library and now a city historic site), moved to the North Street location in 2000. Named after the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, the social club once had a choral function and had more recently hosted karaoke nights.

Right now, Altschul is “looking for input from the community,” and hopes the space will “evolve to be flexible and appealing.”

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Last September’s inaugural Yum Yum Fest, a picnic of adventuresome small plates and drinks created and served by members of the Madison Area Chefs Network (MACN), packed the east side’s Central Park. This year’s Yum Yum Fest will return to Central Park on Sunday, Aug. 23, with a few more restaurants —29, up from 25 — including

L’Etoile, Nostrano, Cento, Sardine, Merchant, Oliver’s Public House, the Coopers Tavern, the Great Dane, Osteria Papavero, Banzo, Liliana’s, Driftless Cafe of Spring Green and Salvatore’s Tomato Pies.

The chefs plan to shut down food service a little early this year so they can party with the guests.

“A lot of the kinks have been worked out,” says Jonny Hunter of Underground Food Collective. Also a principal member of MACN, Hunter has been busy putting the finishing touches on this year’s event.

Central Park was brand-new last year, and having a year’s worth of events there to look back on is key for Hunter and the MACN crew.

“From a logistic side we have it really dialed in,” says Hunter. “The amount of time saved because we know where everything is and who to work with is huge.”

All admission tickets this year are being sold at last year’s early bird rate of $10. Both the layout and performance schedule will be slightly different. But Lizzo, the Minneapolis hip-hop artist who played Yum Yum Fest 2014, will be back this year.

“After Lizzo’s set last year, we said that we were gonna just have an offer on the table for her to play the festival every year. Her energy and music fit the festival so well,” Hunter says.

“We thought that finishing the festival with her set and to stop serving food so we could all enjoy it would be a lot of fun.” So get your last bites before the beat drops on “Batches and Cookies.”

Though some booths still have to be built, the menus are all submitted, and Hunter is excited about many of the dishes planned. A couple of chefs will be using product from Sitka Salmon; Tory Miller will put local Driftless Provisions beef to use in bulgogi, and Forequarter will serve whitefish from Two Rivers, Wis. Layla’s Persian Food, Nostrano, L’Etoile, and Underground will be providing desserts.

Admission tickets are still available.

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The refreshing Hugh Laseter is named after one of the brothers who grew the largest watermelon ever, for a competition in 1925 (it was 136 pounds). A creation of bartender Lucas Endres, the drink sports a watermelon syrup combined with a cilantro tincture to amazing garden-y effect. The base is tequila with a touch of smoky mezcal, making for a cocktail that goes down fast while offering a lot of flavor.

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The Lion’s Tooth by bar manager Thor Messer is a study in subtlety. The cocktail is gin, Luxardo bitter liqueur (similar to Campari), honey and grapefruit juice. But the drink also mixes in a dandelion-infused white whiskey as well as a honeydew syrup. Would you notice these elements if you didn’t know they were there? Maybe not, except the concoction nails the slightly herbaceous and astringent dandelion aftertaste, giving the drink an extraordinary finish. It’s a cocktail you need to sip repeatedly to figure out what is going on — a glorious ode to summer, in a glass.

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“We want to support the local hop industry,” says Great Dane co-owner and brewmaster Rob LoBreglio, “and since hoppy beers are so popular, we wanted one in our initial canned offerings.”

Hopsconsin has been recast for the current canned market to be more sessionable than previous incarnations with the same name. Caramel maltiness is upfront. The more herbal Nugget hops seem to

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Though the much revered smoked whitefish sandwich isn’t currently on the menu at Underground Butcher, you can find a similar satisfaction at its sister restaurant with the smoked whitefish salad.

Soft on the outside, crunchy on the inside Sujeo, 10 N. Livingston St.

The pan-Asian spot has been tweaking its menu to good effect; recent additions include chicken skin bao, with cucumbers, Kewpie mayo and sweet chili sauce.

The cheesy ddeokbokki (rice cakes) with bandaged cheddar and Pleasant Ridge Reserve — and kimchi and hot, hot sauce — make a good argument for further Wisco-Korea collaborations.

arrive first; then Hopsconsin becomes more crisp with a light spicy-complexity in the overall flavor.

This beer should be a big hit for fall football tailgating; it’s flavorful and well balanced, with enough bitterness to go well with burgers and brats. I also like it as a companion for mildly spicy pizza.

Hopsconsin is a flavorful red ale with balance and body, hops that lend some sharpness, and a modestly spicy complexity. Its bitterness is not anywhere near the level of an IPA or even a robust pale ale. This is a pleasant and easy-drinking beer with great tailgating potential. It finishes at 5.9% ABV and around 40 IBUs and should be widely distributed throughout Wisconsin.

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Midwesterners, take note of the satisfaction found by topping a pizza with clams — here, with the added allure of roasted fennel, summery basil and plenty of cream and cheese.

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Wisconsin Brewing Company will join the Mallards’ executive chef Tristan Straub for a Spanish-themed four-course beer dinner to be held at the Duck Pond. Spicy Spanish local pork loin skewers will be paired with Patron Saint; grilled paella with Yankee Buzzard IPA; chicken mole with Chocolate Lab (Porter) and tres leches cake and fresh berry compote with Blister in the Sun. Tickets are $45 at MallardsBaseball.com or call 608-246-4277.

So much ice cream, so little time. We mean it; your cone’s starting to drip. Sundae Fundae will bring together ice cream, custard and frozen yogurt from local brands (Schoeps, Sassy Cow, Orange Leaf, Calliope, Java Cat, Michael’s and more) in a benefit at Olbrich Gardens for the Gardens and the Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center. $10/a sample from each vendor.

Tomato time Tuesday, Aug. 25, Tuesday Sept. 8, Tuesday Sept. 15, FEED Kitchens, 1219 Sherman Ave., Madison

The Dane County Farmers’ Market is offering a three-session Tomato Preservation Series. Sign up for the series ($89) or take the classes à la carte ($29/$39/$29, respectively). The first class is a tomato canning demo; the second is a hands-on workshop. The third class focuses on dehydration and freezing techniques.

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Contending forces Prep football is back, with new coaches, new concerns

BY MICHAEL POPKE

Earlier this month, Da Capo Press published the 25th Anniversary Edition of Friday Night Lights: A Team, a Town and a Dream, the controversial book by journalist H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger about the 1988 Permian High School football team in football-frenzied Odessa, Texas.

The book’s legacy includes a critically acclaimed movie, an endearing television series and a title that defines an American fall ritual.

Friday night lights return to the Madison area this week, with 43 games scheduled throughout Dane County and south central Wisconsin.

Up until early August, the opening night schedule included a 44th game: Dodgeland at Hustisford. But then Shannon Mueller, head coach of Hustisford High — a Trailways Conference school in Dodge County with fewer than 125 students — announced the cancellation of its 2015 varsity season, citing safety concerns over the fact that more than half of the Falcons would have been freshmen and sophomores.

Of the team’s five seniors, four had recently suffered concussions, had a shoulder injury or undergone surgery.

Schools in the Big Eight Conference needn’t worry about having enough players to field

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the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Division 1 level in 2014 and has won 28 straight games, plowed through the playoffs last fall — demolishing Madison West in the first round (56-20), and then shutting out Madison La Follette (34-0) before eventually crushing perennial powerhouse Arrowhead, 31-6, in the state title game at Camp Randall Stadium.

Division 2 teams in the Badger North and South conferences have a new statelevel rival from the Fox Valley, too, as reigning champion Menasha appears poised for another strong run.

But south central Wisconsin also boasts a small share of title contenders, including Waunakee — number 13 in the MaxPreps statewide preseason rankings — a team that won three of four state championships between 2009 and 2012 and came within one point of returning to Camp Randall last year.

Among the new faces on area sidelines this season will be Adam Smith, the former coach of the semi-pro Madison Mustangs, who takes over a Madison Memorial team that went 3-6 last season, and Oregon High School alum Dan Prahl, who recently was named head football coach at conference rival Stoughton. n

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A Ho-Chunk celebration in song and dance Historic Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial returns for a single performance

BY JAY RATH

Nostalgia for some, a fresh and unique art form for others, the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial returns to Wisconsin Dells for a single performance on Aug. 22.

From 1923 to 1988, generations of tourists enjoyed nightly presentations of authentic song and dance presented by the area’s first residents, the Ho-Chunk people.

“The original Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial took place at a natural amphitheater on the Wisconsin River,” says Melanie Tallmadge Sainz, director of the Little Eagle Arts Foundation, which is organizing the event.

Tallmadge Sainz is a former arts educator. Ho-Chunk herself, she’s steeped in the lore of the ceremonial. “My mother stopped dancing the summer that she was pregnant with me,” she recalls. “She had danced for like 30 years, every summer, before that.”

The new Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial Reawakened will be a fundraiser for the Little Eagle Arts Foundation, whose mission is to serve as an incubator for new and emerging Native artists. It will also benefit the Friends of the H.H. Bennett Studio.

Henry Hamilton Bennett was a pioneer photographer whose images portraying the Dells’ natural rock formations popularized the area as a tourist destination in the late 19th century. His studio, in downtown Wisconsin Dells, has been preserved as a museum by the Wisconsin Historical Society.

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The show re-creates a longtime tradition while increasing visibility for Native art forms.

“H.H. Bennett was particularly interested in Ho-Chunk culture, as expressed by the large number of photographs he took over many years of members of the Ho-Chunk community,” says Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin Historical Society Native American liaison. “Several of Bennett’s descendants were involved in producing the Stand

Rock Indian Ceremonial over several decades.”

“Reawakened” is a multimedia show, using Bennett’s images and presented at the Crystal Grand Music Theatre. Tallmadge Sainz calls the show an “intertribal experience.” In addition to Ho-Chunk, the performers — some them award winners at national powwow competitions — are members of

tribes including Apache, Ponca and the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwa. Director Lance Tallmadge served as emcee at the original Ceremonial for 15 years.

“Of course, the songs we’ll be using have been around for hundreds of years,” notes his sister, Tallmadge Sainz. “We as a Ho-Chunk people have always been in the hospitality business, since 500 A.D.” But, she adds, the performance incorporates contemporary influences, too.

The celebration will also include a Native arts marketplace. Visitors will be able to view demonstrations, meet artists and purchase authentic American Indian/First Nations art. Items featured will include traditional bead and porcupine quill art, basketry, leatherwork and woodcarving, along with contemporary drawing, painting, ceramics and jewelry.

Native food will be available.

The Little Eagle Foundation, named for Tallmadge Sainz’s father, aims to promote visibility and expand markets for Native American artists.

Another goal, says Tallmadge Sainz, is “to get people to recognize that we are still here in terms of our art. There might be fewer makers, but we are still doing it.

We want to address those folk art forms that are near extinction, and find the makers, teach classes and educate our youth about the process.”

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The University of Wisconsin Press, like its peers at other educational institutions, is a nonprofit operation. Originally founded to publish scholarly work that leads to tenure for professors, the press publishes books by authors at the UW and other universities — and it will continue to do so, even though the academic impact of these titles far outweighs their financial rewards.

“It is important for the UW Press to continue to publish quality scholarly works, because that is its primary mission,” says Stanley Payne, co-author of the publisher’s best-selling Franco: A Personal and Political Biography. Payne, a professor of history emeritus at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has worked with the press since 1971 and might well be its most-published author. “Everyone publishes novels, but the purpose of a university press is to bring out new research and cutting-edge scholarship, though that is admittedly limited by the need not to lose too much money.”

Funding for the press comes from the UW’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education. Despite a new two-year state budget that slashes $250 million from the UW System and removes tenure protections for UW professors, Lloyd feels confident the press is secure. He says its annual operating budget is around $3.6 million, with less than 10% of that derived from state funding. The majority comes from sales of books and subscriptions to journals, with a smaller contribution from various grants and subsidies.

And the press will see only a minimal reduction in state funding this year — $500 — as a result of the recently passed 2015-2017 budget, according to Petra Schroeder, the associate vice chancellor for administration.

“University presses have come a long way, and it’s obvious UWP is one of the leaders,” says Manhattan-based author Michael Carroll, whose press collection, Little Reef and Other Stories, won the 2015 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

“Many are surprised fiction is published at any university press, but the selection of titles [at UWP] is impressive.”

Lloyd plans to improve upon the press’ impressive list, as well as retain its strong relationship with writers.

“I’ve worked with eight different publishers over my career as an author, and UW was the most professional of all of them,” says Trebor Healey, a Los Angeles-based author who won multiple awards from the LGBT publishing community for his 2012 novel, A Horse Named Sorrow, depicting San Francisco in the 1980s and ’90s. “They have a discerning eye and a sense of what is important to chronicle, preserve and add to the wider historical and cultural context.”

In a move that may represent the future of publishing, UW Press recently partnered with Dust-to-Digital, a record label specializing in documenting the history of American popular music, to publish Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 by James Leary.

This mammoth multimedia project features five CDs of restored rare music, a documentary film and more than 430 pages of context and annotations. The project was copublished in late July in collaboration with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and the Association for Cultural Equity/Alan Lomax Archive.

“The future is good,” Lloyd says. “It’s not a future in which books are the center of everyone’s universe, but they are a part of what we do, how we communicate, how we share our knowledge, our culture, our research and our theories about the world.

And I’m thrilled to be a part of it.” n

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Lloyd takes that as a vote of confidence from university administration. “The office wants us to succeed.” But, he adds, “We don’t know what the second year will bring.”

One of the ways Lloyd sees opportunity for the Press is to develop a line of mysteries. This spring it published two high-profile titles in the genre: A Winsome Murder by longtime American Players Theatre actor James DeVita and Death at Gills Rock, the second title in Chicagobased novelist Patricia Skalka’s Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery series.

“By publishing creative fiction, the press not only entertains the public, but it also promotes reading and encourages lively conversations about books,” says Skalka, noting that the press’ mission is to contribute to a literate culture.

These newer developments complement the UW Press’ long-established authority in the publishing world, bolstered over the past year with reviews in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the London Review of Books.

“We’ve evolved, over the last 10 years or so, into an ambitious, creative, nationally — and in some cases, internationally — known publisher with a reputation for producing important books,” says UW Press executive editor Raphael Kadushin.

The press is perhaps most well known for publishing quality regional books covering Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest, classics such as David Mulroy’s bestselling Oedipus Rex translation, poetry, environmental and human rights titles, African and Slavic studies and LGBT books.

“We are considered one of the top LGBT publishers in the world, and we are probably the leading arts institution in town consistently producing important LGBT art,” Kadushin says.

He cites the award-winning “Living Out” series, which embraces the full range of the LGBT experience, as the only series in the world devoted to LGBT memoirs.

The press also publishes 11 peer-reviewed academic journals in the humanities, social sciences and medicine.

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Communing with reptiles

Interspecies chat: Nancy (Sarah Day) and the reptilian Sarah (Cristina Panfilio).

Seascape is heartbreaking and humorous

BY AMELIA COOK FONTELLA

At the start of American Players Theatre’s Seascape, life’s a beach. But Edward Albee’s classic play doesn’t stay a dreamy holiday for long. It evolves into an honest and, at times, humorous look at some of the most intimate conversations that happen between couples.

Nancy and Charlie are facing a new stage in their lives. Their children are grown and Charlie has retired. Seascape finds the couple on a beach vacation, contemplating how to fill their golden years.

Nancy (Sarah Day) has a lust for life; she’s ready to start checking adventures off her bucket list. Charlie (Jonathan Smoots), on the other hand, is eager to settle in and gather a bit of dust. This dichotomy is palpable from the moment the lights come up on Jeffrey Kmiec’s beautifully designed set in APT’s indoor Touchstone Theatre. Amid sand dunes tufted with grass, Charlie reclines on a blanket, next to the

remains of a picnic lunch. Nancy pours her energy into a watercolor painting of the very seascape they inhabit.

Within just a few minutes, the couple’s conversation devolves into a head-on discussion about their own mortality, alternately heartbreaking and humorous. Albee’s dialogue is consistently honest, poignant and witty.

The couple’s conversation is interrupted by the appearance of another twosome. Sarah (Cristina Panfilio) and Leslie (LaShawn Banks) are also visitors to the beach, but they’ve arrived from somewhere surprising: under the sea. Covered in scales, they walk on all fours and have long, reptilian tails. Devon Painter’s costumes are just right — dramatic enough to grab the audience’s attention without coming across as too goofy. Jessica Lanius’ choreography captures the movements of a reptile perfectly, and Panfilio and Banks have the stamina it takes for these physically demanding roles.

Evil machinations On opening night of Othello at American Players Theatre, actor James Ridge lost his grip on a prop dagger, and it went flying into the audience. Ridge, who plays Iago, retrieved it swiftly, not missing a beat. The improvisation provided evidence of the company’s professionalism and intensity.

Not that we need proof. APT’s actors are some of the nation’s finest, and they show their range in this production of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Othello, first performed in 1604, deals with issues still relevant four centuries later: racism, gender inequality, war, love and betrayal.

Othello (Chiké Johnson), the Moor, a general in the Venetian military, has just married a senator’s daughter, Desdemona (Laura Rook), in secret. In his service are the loyal and affable Cassio (Nate Burger) and the scheming and manipulative Iago. Jealous of Cassio’s rank and harboring seemingly irrational hatred for Othello, Iago sets in motion a plot to destroy them.

After being forced to defend their marriage in front of Desdemona’s outraged father (Brian Mani), everyone’s attention turns to a Turkish invasion of Cypress, where Iago’s foul plot becomes more brazen and leads to devastating violence.

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Mad Max than Shakespeare. I found myself obsessing about the way they contrasted with the more classic robes and gowns from designer Matthew J. LeFebvre.

Andrew Boyce’s set of curved copper tubes of varying heights surround a platform that hovers over flat, rectangular pools of water, resembling a sleek lobby in a contemporary art museum.

But when a traditional, heavy bed is pulled out, it breaks the spell.

Edward Albee won a Pulitzer for Seascape in 1975 and it’s no surprise. Inserting talking lizards into play that explores crucial, existential conversations is not an easy thing to pull off, but Albee did just that. And this production, at the direction of Laura Golden, does Albee’s work justice. The result is a show that’s both meaningful and mesmerizing. n

Director John Langs has led the cast to impressive heights, but some choices got my hackles up. When Iago and Othello prepare for practice with fencing foils, their warm-up routine is oddly modern and prescribed by a very current personal trainer.

Those distractions aside, Johnson’s Othello is a formidable presence on stage, initially radiating confidence and discipline. But as Othello responds to Iago’s constant lies and insinuations, we watch him spiral out of control. He shows tenderness and joy with his new bride, but as doubts take hold his body oozes rage, shame and desperation. And as Desdemona, Rook is lovely and slight but tougher than you’d imagine.

Ridge is vile as Iago, an unrivaled super-villain who warns, “I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear.” With his sharp features and tightly wound physicality we can almost see him forming his evil machinations — taut skin over muscle. n

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During a gig two years ago at the Shitty Barn in Spring Green, Whitney Mann made a major musical decision that could have long-term ramifications.

The Madison-based Americana artist recruited background singers and dressed her band in matching outfits to perform her folk-centric songs in an up-tempo style that paid homage to old-school rhythm and blues.

They played a new tune that night, too — “Big Mouth Baby,” a throwback to the kind of music Mann listened to as a kid when plundering her parents’ record collection. Think Ike and Tina Turner, Diana Ross & the Supremes, James Brown and Ray Charles.

“I wanted to do something a little more fun to perform,” says Mann, 31, who’s more accustomed to sitting down and playing an acoustic guitar than fronting a horns-fueled soul group. “I really wanted to change the direction of Whitney Mann, because I was so excited about it.”

Rather than abandon her solo career, though, Mann and several other well-known Madison area artists formed Love High — an eight-member “gathering of like-minded musicians who are interested in this type of music and excited to play it,” Mann says.

“After rehearsals, everyone is buzzing.”

The buzzing will reach a new level on Aug. 27, as Love High takes the stage at the East Side Club for its first performance.

The band will open for veteran singersongwriter Miles Nielsen (son of Cheap

Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen) as part of the venue’s Sunset Music Series.

On July 31, Love High issued a free single via Bandcamp. “The One You Dream Of (When You Dream of Falling in Love)” was recorded by Dan Probst at the Dojo rehearsal space and mixed and mastered by Landon Arkens at Blast House Studios. “We released it to get people excited for the show and to let them know what we sound like,” says Mann, adding that the band has written — but not recorded — about 10 other songs.

(The single will only be free until Aug. 26.)

“It had been a couple of years since I had been inspired to really take the reins with a project, in terms of being part of the main creative direction, so this collaboration opportunity was very refreshing,” says Adam Cargin, who helped Mann develop Love High and has played guitar in Madison’s Blueheels and in Milwaukee’s Trapper Schoepp & the Shades.

In addition to Mann on vocals and Cargin on guitar and percussion, Love High includes Arkens (bass), Ben Wolf (drums/ percussion), Nathan Tredinnick (sax/organ), Anna Vogelzang and Sara Tetzloff (backing vocals), Matthew Nafranowicz (Rhodes piano/organ), and Mark Saltzman and Bob Jacobson (trumpets).

Mann’s first child is due Oct. 8, which will likely bring her musical activities to a halt until sometime next year. But she plans to resume both her solo career and Love High. “It would be a shame to put all of this work into a band that only plays one show,” says Mann. “I would love for it to last.” n

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The fact that I’ve slotted a track by Compton, Calif.’s original gangsta rap supergroup, N.W.A., into my upcoming wedding playlist (alongside other sonic incendiaries such as Gil Scott-Heron and Nina Simone) speaks volumes about N.W.A.’s sustained cultural relevance and musical integrity. They took the fiery braggadocio of early-’80s east New York hip-hop, dialed it up to “11,” busted the knob off and then set it ablaze while flipping the bird to the LAPD and the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center). That’s some serious DIY punk rock. Justifiably running nearly two and a half hours, F. Gary Gray’s warts-and-all biopic, Straight Outta Compton, sizzles with the recalled and still-relevant rage of young black men repeatedly knocked down by a society that, to this day, favors old, rich white guys over everyone else.

There’s nothing old school at all about the themes explored in Straight Outta Compton, and the story of a poor but talented group of young black artists mismanaged by a paler shade of manager and the resulting internecine flash points are nothing new, either, but thanks to near-perfect casting, serious attention to period detail and the stillsimmering frustration (and rage) at the heart of the N.W.A. story, the movie is a fittingly gritty tribute to the rap group that launched a thousand imitators. (And compared to today’s mainstream, watery hip-hop, N.W.A. still gets your ears’ attention from beat one onward, kinda like aggravated assault.)

Screenwriters Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff have necessarily condensed the decade-plus story of N.W.A., their rocky relationship with manager/impresario/swin-

The biopic about ’80s rappers N.W.A. features near-perfect casting and attention to detail.

dler Jerry Heller (a terrific turn by the alwayswelcome Paul Giamatti) and their interplay with convicted felon turned grandiose Death Row Records head Suge Knight (R. Marcos Taylor), but still manage to tell the tale relatively accurately. They’ve even slipped in some outright comic moments, a palliative to what might have been an otherwise grim tale of rags to riches to the unexpected death, from AIDS, of founding member Eric “Eazy-E” Wright at age 31 in 1995.

As Eazy, Jason Mitchell (Broken City) perfectly captures the diminutive rapper’s street bravado and punchy style, Jheri curls and all.

Corey Hawkins’ Dr. Dre, the master producer behind the magic mixing board, is also spot-on, and O’Shea Jackson Jr.’s portrayal of his father, Ice Cube, is all fire and ice, not yet the lyrical mastermind he would later become, but still a force to be reckoned with. In a swift, throwaway scene that nevertheless foreshadows Cube’s

eventual multimedia domination, we see him writing the script for his cinematic debut Friday, which was helmed by Straight Outta Compton director Gray back in the day.

Recounting ’80s reality for the big screen, with a story as sprawling as N.W.A.’s, is bound to leave out some of the adrenalized excess that made the group superstars in the first place. There’s only so much you can cram into this already overstuffed true-life story without bogging things down in unnecessary expeditionary interludes, and Gray keeps those to a minimum, wisely following the dictum to show and not tell. Buoyed by a soundtrack that’ll have fortysomethings cracking open 40-ouncers and recalling a marginally simpler, if still chaotic, time in their lives, Straight Outta Compton’s bark is just as snarly-cool as its bite. Take that, Tipper Gore. n

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More often than not, at the core of really great comedy is pain. Standup comedian Tig Notaro is no exception to the rule. She was working as an actor on shows like The Sarah Silverman Program and Inside Amy Schumer before a bilateral breast cancer diagnosis in 2012. Her life came to a screeching halt as she wondered not about her next job but whether she would live or die. Notaro took the opportunity to share her experience through her standup in what is now a legendary set at the Largo. Her friend Louis C.K. posted audio of the show in 2012, and suddenly Tig became a huge figure in comedy. Her first special, Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted, premieres Aug. 22 (9 p.m.) on HBO. With a delivery style that is perfectly dry and sarcastic, Notaro seems relatively cool and unfazed by most things. She’s one of the most important individuals in comedy today, and if you call yourself a comedy nerd, you shouldn’t miss this one.

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The film list New releases Aloft: This drama proves to be far too literal at applying its chilly, remote setting to the story of a faith healer (Jennifer Connelly) and the estranged son (Cillian Murphy) trying to track her down.

American Ultra: Jesse Eisenberg uses his shaggy mane and mumbled dialogue to fine effect as a perpetually buzzed nebbish who suffers from crippling panic attacks and assorted neuroses.

No spoiler here: Turns out he’s an amnesiac, deep-cover experimental death machine for the CIA. Hitman: Agent 47: A genetically engineered assassin takes on a corporation hoping to make even better genetically engineered assassins.

The film bears only a passing resemblance to the hit video game that spawned it.

Lambert & Stamp: A documentary that reveals how two aspiring filmmakers wound up discovering, mentoring and co-managing English rock band the Who. No Escape: In their new overseas home, an American family is caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.

Saint Laurent: Biographical drama about Yves Saint Laurent’s life from 1967 to 1976, when the famed fashion designer was at the peak of his career.

Recent releases Infinitely Polar Bear: A manic-depressive father tries to take responsibility for his young daughters. The tone is more sentimental and lightly comedic than you might expect given how dire some of the events are. The biggest laughs owe to Mark Ruffalo, who is quite marvelous as this troubled man.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: Do we really need another movie version of an old television show?

Do we really need another spy movie? Finding a distinctive tone can go a long way toward shaking that sense of overkill, and director Guy Ritchie brings to this film a frisky refusal to take anything all that seriously.

Ricki and the Flash: Meryl Streep stars as a woman who left her family years earlier for a music career that never evolved beyond bar gigs.

She’s pulled back when her ex-husband calls with news that their daughter is reeling after being dumped by her husband. Director Jonathan Demme, writer Diablo Cody and a great group of actors make a familiar concept seem fresh.

More film events Abhyasam: A short about a freedom fighter whose aim is to build a good society. Filmmaker Sreeni Reddy will also discuss the film and his future projects. Ashman Library, Aug. 26, 7 pm.

Airplane!: An airliner crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don’t call him Shirley.

Memorial Union Terrace, Aug. 24, 9 pm.

The Rocketeer: A young pilot in the 1930s uses a jet-pack prototype to fight Nazis. Willy Street Park, Aug. 24, 7:45 pm.

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Family and Friends Thursday, Aug. 20, The Frequency, 6:30 pm

Indie-folk act Family and Friends formed in 2013 at the University of Georgia and quickly became a local favorite in the varied, accomplished Athens scene.

The feel-good septet are renowned for their double-drummer, energetic live shows and released their second EP, XOXO, in July. With Bright Kind.

Gone Wild: David McLimans Overture Center’s James Watrous Gallery, exhibited through Aug. 23

Beloved Madison-based artist, illustrator, sculptor and award-winning children’s book author David McLimans seemed to conquer the world before his untimely death in 2014 at age 66. His witty and sophisticated editorial illustrations graced the pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly and The Progressive. In addition to the books on display, a generous sampling of his buoyant collages of insects and animals, his found-object sculptures and his breathtaking editorial illustrations are showcased in this virtuosic exhibit.

J.J. Grey & Mofro Thursday, Aug. 20, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

There’s a reason this funked-out Southern swamp rock group sounds so authentic: The man behind it takes his rural roots seriously, spending his free time raising chickens on his Florida estate. Between the farm air and over a decade of touring, the group has earned a reputation as exciting, spontaneous performers you won’t want to miss. With Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers.

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1855 Saloon and Grill: Eric Joseph, free, 6 pm.

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

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Denim ‘n Leather, free, 6 pm.

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

Capital Brewery: Dan Law & the Mannish Boys, 6 pm.

Thursday, August 20, Broom Street Theater, 7:30 pm

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

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

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

Club Tavern, Middleton: Pat McCurdy, 9 pm.

Come Back In: Teddy Davenport, free, 5 pm.

Dublin Park, Cottage Grove: Mike & Jamie McCloskey, folk/rock/swing, free, 7 pm.

Edgewater Hotel: Bill Roberts Trio, free, 6 pm.

Essen Haus: The Midwesterners, free, 9 pm.

Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Just Merl, free, 6:30 pm.

Great Dane-Downtown: DJ Mike Carlson, free, 7 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Cajun Strangers, free, 6 pm; Les Cougars, Skibs Cat & the Rud, ‘50s sock hop, 9 pm.

Hody Bar and Grill, Middleton: Acoustic Alloy, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Michael Massey, 9 pm.

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Dessa Friday, Aug. 21, Live on King Street, 6 pm

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She may be the lone female member of Minneapolis hip-hop collective Doomtree, but that’s not all that makes Dessa stand out. She’s a skilled poet with a college degree in philosophy and has released more novels than she has solo albums. But that doesn’t take away from her skills as an MC; in fact, it just enhances them, making her one of the most unique and incendiary voices in a group stacked with them. With Astronautalis, F. Stokes, Marrow, DJ Nick Nice.

Thursday, Aug. 20, Brink Lounge, 7:30 pm

Knuckle Down Saloon: Blues Jam, free, 8 pm.

Liliana’s Restaurant: Ken Wheaton, 5:30 pm.

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Liquid (fka Segredo): EOTO, Beak Nasty, EDM, 9 pm.

Sun Prairie Sweet Corn Festival: Grounds open 6 pm on 8/20-21 (free admission) and 11:30 am, 8/22-23 ($1 admission), Angell Park, Sun Prairie, with carnival, all-ages entertainment. Thursday: Parade 6 pm (Main Street). Friday: Tractor pull 6 pm, 5th Gear 8 pm. Saturday: Craft fair 11:30 am-7 pm, Mr. Steve noon & 2 pm, Melodiya 1 pm, Bill Hill 3 pm, Prairie Kids Club 4 pm, Andina & Rich 5 pm, Left on Sunset 8 pm. Sunday: Craft fair 11:30 am-5 pm, TJ Howell noon & 2 pm, Monona Academy of Dance 1 pm, Kicks Unlimited 3 pm, Sun Prairie Chorus 4 pm, midget auto racing 7 pm. Sweet corn sold noon-7 pm, Saturday & Sunday only. www.sunprairiechamber.com. 837-4547.

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

Merchant: Derek Remnarace, free, 10 pm.

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Nau-Ti-Gal: Ron Denson, free, 5:30 pm.

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

Quaker Steak & Lube: DJs Capt’n Bob & Arlo, 5:30 pm.

Rennebohm Park: Capitol City Band, free, 7 pm.

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

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

UW Extension Pyle Center: All That Jazz, free, 4 pm.

Wando’s: DJ Drewski, 10 pm.

A dystopian world and a tautological twist on the concept of a noble birth rear their heads in this production depicting a diabolical political order. The citizens of an imaginary society are forced into a social contract of predestined fate, with no room for individuality; dissenting citizens are allocated to a pariah-like caste. When a brave new genderless citizen arrives, the mythic importance of biting the apple becomes clear. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 pm), Aug. 21-22. Through Sept. 5.

S PECI AL EV ENTS Forward Fest: Events for entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, hackers & professionals, 8/20-27, Madison area. Many events free. Schedule: forwardfest.org.

Be A Kid Again: Ages 21+ can enjoy exhibits, free train & carousel rides, games, obstacle course & bounce house, 5:30 pm, 8/20, Henry Vilas Zoo, cash bar, food carts. $25 ($20 adv). vilaszoo.org/beakidagain. 258-9490.

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Strong Spirits: Art By Three Women Thursday, Aug. 20, Madison Senior Center, 2-4 pm (reception)

Poet and painter Andrea Musher is joined

by Beverly Gordon and Diane Hughes in this exhibit of new work. Paintings include Musher’s buoyantly expressionist “John’s Catalpa Tree.” On display through Sept. 18.

Eight local raconteurs (Shannon Barry, Betty Diamond, Dana Pellebon, Stephanie “Smutty” Riedel, Karen Saari, Autumn Shiley, Sara Streich and Molly Vanderlin) talk about their cravings and desires, from chocolate to love, in this ninth installment of the popular story-share series. ALSO: Friday, Aug. 21, 8 pm.

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Jon Dore Thursday, Aug. 20, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

According to his Comedy Central bio, this Ottawa-born comic’s favorite hobby is “wasting people’s time.” We call his bluff.

Dore is an accomplished standup who has appeared as a correspondent on CTV’s Canadian Idol and on episodes of How I Met Your Mother and Inside Amy Schumer. With Simon Zais, John Egan. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), Aug. 21-22.

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

Book Sale: Fundraiser, 10 am-7 pm on 8/20-21 and 10 am-3 pm, 8/22, Literacy Network. 244-3911.

Mickey’s Tavern: Control, Oshwa, Neens, 10 pm.

Ryan Keith Johnson: Reading from “Blue Dragon Fantasy: Faded Memories & Short Stories,” his new book, 5 pm, 8/20, Frugal Muse Books. 833-8668.

F UNDRAISERS #HypeHarvest: YWeb Career Academy fundraiser, 7-10 pm, 8/20, Monona Terrace. $15 donation. RSVP: hypeharvest.com.

Monona Terrace Rooftop: Dane Dances, free, with Christopher Project (6-7:30 pm), V05 (8-9:30 pm).

Mr. Robert’s: Good Morning V, Fistful of Pistol, Autumn Reverie, free, 10 pm.

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

Parched Eagle: Treemo, Nick Brown, 8 pm.

Pooley’s: Daniel Anderson Trio, free, 7 pm.

Tempest Oyster Bar: Louka, free, 9:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Mario Sibaja, free, 10 pm.

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Tuvalu Coffeehouse: Taylor Davenport, free, 7 pm.

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

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: The Kissers, The Currach, Capitol Ceili, UW Dancers, free, 4 pm.

UW Old Music Hall: Madison Area Youth Chamber Orchestra, “Surprise,” with Jason Kutz, 7:30 pm.

Wando’s: DJ Drewski, 10 pm.

Wisconsin Brewing Company: Wifee & the Huzz Band, free, 6 pm.

Woof’s: DJ John Murges, 10 pm.

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Geek.Kon: Annual multi-genre fan convention, 8/2123, Marriott-West, Middleton, with special guests, music, gaming, panels, costumes, dealer hall. $35/ weekend adv. www.geekkon.net.

The Josh Harty Band Friday, Aug. 21, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm

Madison-based singer-songwriter Josh Harty has spent much of the last three years touring the U.S. and Europe. He is returning for a special show with his band, which includes drummer Chris Sasman, keyboardist Rusty Lee and bassist Christopher Plowman. With Christopher Paul Stelling, a New York City singer-songwriter who is enjoying national attention for his latest album, Labor Against Waste, and Plowman, who will pull double-duty by opening the show to celebrate the release of his new solo record, Different Grain.

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Club Tavern, Middleton: DJ Robbie G, 9 pm.

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

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

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

Come Back In: Extra Credit Music Class, free, 5 pm.

Crystal Corner: Hometown Sweethearts, 9:30 pm.

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Edgewater Hotel: Mark Croft, free, 6 pm.

Atwood Atelier Artists: “Beauty & the Beast,” portraits, 8/19-25, Yahara River Gallery (reception 5-9 pm, 8/21). 235-1961.

Essen Haus: Steve Meisner, polka, free, 8:30 pm.

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

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Friday, Aug. 21, Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall, 7:30 pm

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

Bandung: Jeff Alexander, The Oudist Colony, 9 pm.

Buck and Honey’s: Kevin Andrews, free, 6 pm.

Sept 17

Guys and Dolls This classic Broadway musical is a raucous game of luck and love. Nathan Detroit bets Sky Masterson that he won’t win the heart of Sarah Brown, a modest and moral young lady from the Save-a-Soul Mission, and Sky never backs down from a bet. A guy will do almost anything for the doll he loves. From Four Seasons Theatre. ALSO: Saturday (7:30 pm) and Sunday (2 pm), Aug. 22-23.

Alchemy Cafe: DJ Trichrome, reggae, free, 10 pm.

Brink Lounge: Smaff Jules, free, 6 pm; Jackie Bradley (CD release), 8 pm.

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The Frequency: The Civil Engineers, Trap Saturn, Level 5, 9 pm.

Great Dane-Hilldale: DJ Landology, 9 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Rock Star Gomeroke, 7 pm.

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

Ivory Room: Michael Massey, Vince Strong, Kevin Gale, dueling pianos, 8:30 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee House: Madison Classical Guitar Society Showcase, free, 7 pm.

Liquid (fka Segredo): DJ Britt, 10 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Dessa, Astronautalis, F.Stokes, Marrow, Live on King Street outdoor concert, free, 6 pm. See page 36; DJs Nick Nice, Brook, ‘80s vs. ‘90s Michael Jackson, 10 pm.

Craig Clifford: “Comprise,” 8/21-10/13, UW Memorial Union-Class of 1925 Gallery (reception 6-8 pm, 8/21). 262-7592.

Natasha Nicholson: “The Artist in Her Museum,” installation, 8/22-11/8, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA Nights reception 6-9 pm, 8/21, with music by Painted Caves, $10). 257-0158.

K I D S & FA MI LY Family Literacy Day: Supporting Families Together Association, free activities, music by David Landau, 10-11:30 am, 8/21, Sequoya Library. Bring children’s book donations. kelly@supportingfamiliestogether.org.

sat aug 22 MU SI C Alchemy Cafe: The Beat Chefs, free, 10 pm.

Ashman Library: White Birch Ensemble, free, 2 pm.

Avanti Italian Restaurant: Joe Scalissi, free, 7:30 pm.

Brink Lounge: Mike Massey, Francie Phelps, 8:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Jo-Z, 10 pm.

Claddagh Irish Pub: Killarney Blarney, free, 8 pm.

Come Back In: New Hiram Kings, free, 9 pm.

Crystal Corner: El Valiente, Universe Contest, 9:30 pm.

Edgewater Hotel-Boathouse: Mike & Jamie McCloskey, folk/rock/swing, free, 4 pm.

Essen Haus: Steve Meisner, polka, free, 8:30 pm.

The Frequency: Lords of the Trident, Sexy Ester, Automaton, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: DJs WhiteRabbit, Caustic, psych0tron, Siberia, Koob, club beats, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Anthony Cao, Vince Strong, Kevin Gale, dueling pianos, 8:30 pm.

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

Liquid (fka Segredo): DJ Nick Magic, EDM, 10 pm.

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

The Peek Show: Theatre Lila fundraiser featuring performances by Actors LAB 360 members, 7 pm, 8/22, Madison Opera Center. $25. RSVP: theatrelila.com.

S PECI AL E V ENTS Little Free Library Build Day: Volunteers sought for building, or use your bike to travel to sites & stock libraries, 10 am-1 pm, 8/22, Central Library; book donations welcome. mphanson@littlefreelibrary.org.

Explorium Grand Opening: Tours, hands-on science activities, guided hikes, 10 am-5 pm, 8/22, Horicon Marsh Education & Visitor Center. 920-387-7889.

Ducktoberfest: 2-6 pm, 8/22, Warner Park Duck Pond, beer tasting ($20), polka music, dachshund races. Free. www.mallardsbaseball.com. 246-4277.

KI D S & FAM ILY Ice Cream Social: Annual event with farm & creamery tours, ice cream, wagon rides, music & more, noon5 pm, 8/22, Sassy Cow Creamery, Columbus. Free.

837-7766.

Backpacks for Success: 100 Black Men of Madison’s annual picnic for elementary/middle school students, 10 am-noon, 8/22, Demetral Park, with free backpacks filled with school supplies, games, entertainment.

205-8572.

COME DY Monkey Business Institute: Improv: all ages, 5:30 pm; and 8 pm & 10:30 pm Saturdays, Glass Nickel-Atwood. $10-$6. monkeybusinessinstitute.com. 658-5153.

Mariner’s Inn: Bahama Bob, free, 6:30 pm.

Thu

Merchant: DJ Mike Carlson, free, 10:30 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: The Gentlemen’s Anti-Temperance League, Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, free, 10 pm.

Monroe Street Library: Lil Rev, “Fountain of Uke,” Ukulele history, songs & more, 3 pm.

Mother Fool’s: Open Mic with Angelica Engel, 8 pm.

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Nau-Ti-Gal: The Feralcats, free, 5:30 pm.

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The Midwest often gets pigeonholed as merely a hotbed for folk music, but these artists are defying the stereotype: The Milwaukee-based four-piece GGOOLLDD specializes in shimmering synth-pop, while Lizzo (pictured) makes fearless, fun and fantastic hip-hop in Minneapolis. Part of Yum Yum Fest. With DJ Lauren Franchi.

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Sundae Fundae: Ice cream festival, noon-5 pm, 8/23, Olbrich Gardens, with treats from local providers ($10 for one sample from each), entertainment, games, activities. Benefits Wil-Mar Center & Olbrich. www. mix1051fm.com.

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Celebrate South Madison: Annual event, 11 am-7 pm, 8/22, Madison Labor Temple, with music, kids’ activities, craft vendors, food. Free. www.southmadison.org.

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Pooley’s: Rascal Theory, free, 7 pm.

Token Creek Chamber Music Festival: Annual concert series, 8/22-30, Token Creek Festival Barn, DeForest. $30/concert (forum $20). Schedule and details at www.tokencreekfestival.org. 241-2525.

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The Frequency: Bobby Long, DuPont Brothers, 8:30 pm.

Monroe Street Library: Black Marigold, free, 7 pm.

Up North Pub: Gin Mill Hollow, free, 7 pm.

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Night Moves is a Minneapolis trio whose music pinballs between psychedelia, folk and country, and classic rock ’n’ roll.

Though they’ve only released one album, 2012’s Colored Emotions, a new record appears imminent; the band will perform a slew of new songs at this performance.

With Faux Fawn. Note: Peter Wolf Crier was originally scheduled to headline but canceled due to a scheduling conflict.

Alchemy Cafe: Jon Hoel Trio, jazz, free, 10 pm.

Monday, Aug. 24, High Noon Saloon, 7 pm

This lively party supports the Mutual Aid Network, an international effort to build a new economy based on cooperative principles. It’s part of a weeklong summit featuring visitors from visionary projects in Detroit, the UK, Sweden and Nigeria, among other places. International political pranksters the Yes Men! will be in attendance, screening a clip from their new film, along with Bayo Akomolafe of the International Alliance for Localization and music by Wendy Schneider, Stephanie Rearick and Cloud Cult’s Shawn Neary.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: 5 Minute Rule, free, 6 pm

James Vincent McMorrow

Come Back In: Whiskey, Water & Blues, free, 5 pm.

Tuesday, Aug. 25, Majestic Theatre, 8:30 pm

This Irish folk crooner found his music legs in 2010 with the release of his debut album, Early in the Morning, which garnered a top chart spot and platinum sales. McMorrow made an about-face last year with his sophomore album, exploring synthesizers and horns while continuing to elevate his trademark vocals. With Kevin Garrett.

Brink Lounge: Arboretum Music School Students, 6:30 pm.

Capital Brewery: Dave Larson Jazz Quintet, free, 6 pm.

High Noon Saloon: The Shabelles, 6 pm.

Edible Startup Summit: Conference for food business entrepreneurs, 8/24-26, Goodman Community Center. $49. RSVP: www.ediblestartup.com.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, piano, free, 9 pm.

High Noon Saloon: The Low Czars, 5:30 pm.

Otto’s: Gerri DiMaggio, free, 5:30 pm Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm.

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Daniel Romano Wednesday, Aug. 26, The Frequency, 8:30 pm

Daniel Romano is a Canadian, a baritone and a little bit country. In July, he released If I’ve Only One Time Askin’, an Americana album that follows his two previous, longlisted Polaris Music Prize records. If you’ve enjoyed the meteoric rise of Sturgill Simpson, you’re going to love Romano. With Christopher Gold.

Women’s Equality Day Celebration: Wisconsin Women’s Network annual fundraiser commemorating the 19th Amendment, 5-7 pm, 8/26, Concourse Hotel. $25 donation. 255-9809.

S PEC I A L I N T ERESTS Nerd Nite: Free social gathering/informal presentations, 8 pm, 8/26, High Noon Saloon. 268-1122.

K IDS & FA M I LY David Landau: Family concert, $3, 5:30 pm, 8/24, Glass Nickel Pizza-Atwood Ave. 245-0880.

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Miles Nielsen & the Rusted Hearts Thursday, Aug. 27, East Side Club, 5:30-9 pm

Musical talent runs in the Nielsen family. Most people know father Rick from his role as lead guitarist of Cheap Trick, but son Miles is quickly making a name for himself. With his band, the Rusted Hearts, Nielsen takes his father’s knack for pop rock and blends it with elements of folk and Americana, resulting in a warm, eclectic sound that’s all his own. With Love High (see page 33).

Thursday, Aug. 27, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Phillip Phillips Thursday, Aug. 27, Memorial Union Terrace, 7:30 pm

In 2012, Phillip Phillips missed his college graduation due to American Idol duties.

The no-show turned out to be a small price to pay, as the singer-songwriter won the competition’s 11th season. Though Phillips has since released two full-length records and toured with John Mayer and O.A.R., his most stellar accomplishment to date is “Home,” a track that’s sold over 5 million copies and become as unavoidable as one’s own home.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Vinyl Thunder, free, 6 pm.

For the last decade, twins Randy and Jason Sklar have been the face(s) of sports comedy. From their cult ESPN clip show Cheap Seats to their Sklarboro Country podcast on the Earwolf network, they’ve been making light of the often-ridiculous world of athletics. The best part? You don’t have to know a thing about sports to enjoy the Sklars’ offbeat, irreverent brand of humor. With Daniel Van Kirk.

ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), Aug. 28-29.

B O O KS Martha Bergland & Paul G. Hayes: Discussing “Studying Wisconsin: The Life of Increase Lapham,” their book, 5 pm, 8/27, 30 on the Square. www.top-ofstate.com.

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Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm.

Open Mic: Featured readers Marilyn Taylor & David Scheler, 7 pm, 8/27, The Depot, Edgerton; pre-poetry music by Joe Snare Vosen 6:30 pm. Donations benefit Sterling North Book & Film Festival. 242-7340.

The Frequency: Amberstein, The Elements, Left of Reason, 8:30 pm.

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Brink Lounge: Madison Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 pm.

Friends Meeting House: Annie Patterson & Peter Blood, Lou & Peter Berryman, Joe Jencks, 7 pm.

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Though this performance celebrates the release of Sweet Pea, a new record by Milwaukee’s recent darling, Soul Low, it also functions as a showcase for a number of Wisconsin bands on the rise: Madison’s jangling Modern Mod and psych-poppers Trophy Dad plus Milwaukee mainstays Surgeons in Heat.

High Noon Saloon: Roots Collective, free, 6 pm.

Ivory Room: Anthony Cao, Leslie Cao, 9 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, free, 5:30 pm; Tyranny Is Tyranny, Mad Anthony, Bron Sage, rock, free, 10 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Chunkhead, Forget Me Now, free, 10 pm.

Clips Beer & Film Tour: Annual New Belgium-themed outdoor short films screening & New Belgium beer, 7:30 pm, 8/27, Olin Park. Free admission; beer sales benefit Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin. www.facebook.com/events/100116980322746.

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Compositions in wood Mazomanie furniture maker Fabian Fischer looks for inspiration, harmony

BY AMELIA COOK FONTELLA

A few years ago, someone asked Fabian Fischer, “What would you do if you were to follow your dream?” He said, much to his own surprise, that he wanted to be a furniture maker. “That came from somewhere hidden,” he says, explaining that he’d only just begun working with wood at that time.

Today, Fischer, 31, is following that dream. Born in Germany, he moved to Wisconsin in 2013 with his wife, a Mazomanie native. He immediately opened a one-man workshop in Mazomanie where he builds furniture out of solid wood, using hand tools and traditional joinery techniques. The result are functional works of art with simple lines that highlight the natural beauty of the wood.

While he does have a small online shop and sells some wooden kitchen implements, Fischer primarily specializes

in custom work, especially chairs and stools. His clients come from all over, and he has shipped his work as far away as New York and Seattle. Each piece of furniture is thoughtfully and organically made, based on consultations with each customer. In addition to ironing out the logistical details of the project, Fischer will recommend a wood that “harmonizes with the interior” of each client’s home.

His biggest influence is the wood itself. “I love working with the material wood. It’s very inspiring to look at a log and see the grain and see what I can make of it,” Fischer says. “A lot of times the form is dictated by the figure of the selected wood and the irregularities in the growth.”

He “composes” each piece of furniture as he experiences and learns about the wood, much of which comes from a nearby farmer. “There may be unex-

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Bringing something special to the table Pegasus celebrates 35 years of gaming

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On August 30, 1980, Pegasus Games opened in an old house near State Street. The oldest dedicated tabletop gaming store in Wisconsin turns 35 at the end of this month. In celebration, there will be cake, limited-edition T-shirts and, of course, gaming the weekend of Aug. 29-30.

Three of the original five founders own the store today — Terry Aitken, Lory Aitken and Mark Anderson.

Pegasus moved to digs on State Street proper in 1984, a peak year for gaming and ur-geek culture in general. Lake Geneva’s TSR, of Dungeons & Dragons fame, released the role-playing games Marvel Super Heroes, Indiana Jones and

Conan that year, along with the first Dragonlance gaming module and crossover fantasy novel.

“Wisconsin is blessed with dozens of game designers, and we’ve worked with them from the start,” says Lory Aitken. She notes that folks from TSR have RSVP’d for the birthday celebration, along with John Mueller of card game King of the Jungle fame and Kane Klenko, who devised the real-time city-building game Mad City.

In 1991, “Pega-West” opened in the Market Square shopping center, where it remains today; the downtown location closed in 2001. But Pegasus, which still focuses on board, card and role playing games, must be doing something right in this era of iOS touchscreen games and PlayStation.

“There were times when we thought we might not make it,” says Aitken, who praises the store’s staff, “some of who refused raises at times because they knew we didn’t have the money.”

Game suppliers also helped — waiting, sometimes, for payment, according to Aitken.

Most of all, Aitken praises the store’s customers: “The community of gamers in the area is the backbone. They run most of the gaming events locally, and 40 to 80 people show up for game sessions in our second storefront, which is just full of tables and chairs for gaming.”

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39 Disc jockeys, slangily

44 Finish up

48 Beyond gung-ho 53 Sharp as ___ 54 Whet

19 Blue book composition

56 Peony part

20 Grow in status, perhaps

57 Cartoonish cry while standing on a chair

22 Pre-calculator calculator 23 Game full of zapping 28 Grass wetter

58 She released the albums “19” and “21”

29 Tethered

59 In the costume of

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1 Bit of dust 2 Flavoring for a French cordial 3 Gastropub supplies, maybe 4 Europe’s tallest active volcano 5 Sailor’s greeting 6 Oscar Wilde’s forte 7 “This American Life” radio host 8 Honest sort 9 Lingual bone that’s not attached to any other bone 10 Always, in music 11 Tentative offer 12 Junkyard dog’s warning 13 Chaotic mess 14 NAFTA part

21 Simpsons character that all members of metal band Okilly Dokilly look like 22 Take top billing 23 City SSE of Sacramento 24 “Author unknown” byline 25 It may be in a pinch 26 Machine at the gym 27 “V for Vendetta” actor Stephen 31 Line feeder 32 Peut-___ (maybe, in Marseilles) 33 Sound of an air leak 35 Venue for testing out new jokes, perhaps 36 Gamers’ D20s, e.g.

37 Blue Jays’ prov.

41 Capricious 42 Headquarters, for short 44 Like some communities 45 Maternally related 46 Sprayed via inhaler, perhaps 47 Letter after Oscar 48 Assortment behind the bartender 49 Succulent houseplant 50 Modem’s measurement unit 51 “___ possibility” 52 “Disco Duck” man Rick 55 End of the holidays?

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The boyfriend experience

BY DAN SAVAGE

I’m a woman in a straight relationship. I woke up this morning, and my BF wasn’t in bed with me. He felt ill in the middle of the night and went to sleep in the spare room — where he found a condom in its wrapper behind the nightstand.

Now my BF thinks I’m cheating on him.

I haven’t cheated on him and have no desire to. I have an IUD and we are monogamous, so we don’t use condoms.

But I used to keep condoms around to use on an old sex toy that I liked but was allergic to. That toy is long gone (I found out it was made of terrible materials and disposed of it), but I kept the condoms in case I met someone. That someone ended up being him — but by the time we met, I had an IUD. I explained all this to him, but he doesn’t believe me. We’ve lived together for two years and were just talking about buying a house and having kids.

Condom Resurfaces And Shatters Happiness

My boyfriend of six months tied me up for the first time a month ago. He didn’t know what he was doing, and I didn’t get turned on because it hurt. I got him two sessions with a professional bondage top as a gift. I was the “model,” and I was very turned on as the instructor walked my boyfriend through safe bondage techniques and positions. The guy was attractive, but not as attractive as my boyfriend. At one point I shuddered, and my boyfriend is convinced I had an orgasm. He says I cheated right in front of him, and now he wants to dump me. What do I do?

Helplessly Explaining My Predicament Call that attractive instructor, HEMP, and tell him you’re single now so you’ll be coming to that second session alone.

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My boyfriend of three years and I have an ongoing problem. His libido is much higher than mine, and at one point I wasn’t making enough of an effort to meet him in the middle. But now we have great sex on average four or five times per week, and I initiate about Your boyfriend should ask a third of that. (If it were himself — order him to ask completely up to him, we’d himself — which is the likelier probably have sex one or scenario: that his girlfriend two times a day.) This past scatters condoms around the week, I’ve been working house because she’s cheating crazy shifts for a work event on him? Or that his girlfriend, — 14-hour days with a 1.5like almost all sexually active CRAIG WINZER hour commute each way. adults who have used conI told him that I very likely would not have doms for birth control, disease prevention the energy to have sex. But when I got home and sex-toy safety, has a few loose conthe other day, knowing that I had to get up doms rattling around her living space? and leave again in less than seven hours, he That your boyfriend can’t accept your initiated sex and I refused. I was too tired. He perfectly reasonable explanation for that got very upset. Whenever I say no, he seems one stray condom, CRASH, has me wonto automatically categorize my refusal as dering if the recent talk about buying a house and having kids might be the actual evidence of laziness or selfishness. I’m not sure what to do at this point. I really want to issue. Is he looking for an excuse to dump you, and the stray condom is a convenient make this work.

Working Hard And Tired casus belli? Or is he really that jealous and insecure? If he doesn’t want to buy a Your boyfriend is inconsiderate — in the most house and have kids, then you obviously literal sense of the word. He has failed to take shouldn’t buy a house or have kids with into consideration that sex five times a week is him. But the same goes if he’s really this jealous and insecure. You don’t want to be a lot of sex, objectively speaking, particularly saddled with a partner who sees evidence in a long-term relationship. And your boyfriend failed — utterly failed—to take into considerof infidelity where none exists, CRASH, ation your current crushing workload when he because life is a parade of incidents and ephemera — an easily misinterpreted text attempted to initiate sex after you had worked/ commuted for 17 hours and had to get up in message from a male coworker, a stray seven hours and do it all over again. I suggest pair of underpants left behind by a boyyou get your boyfriend a Fleshlight, WHAT, for friend who predates him, a cute waiter/ barista/personal trainer who catches your those moments when you can’t be his human masturbatory aid, and stop feeling guilty about eye — that could potentially set him off. having sex “only” four or five times per week. n Everyone is entitled to moments of insecurity, of course, but you don’t want Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or find him to be with a man who melts down over on Twitter at @fakedansavage on Twitter. nothing.

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