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WHAT IS ART?

For one Army vet, art is a life-saver.

6-13 NEWS

MIGHT MAKES RIGHT

GOP revamps campaign finance, scraps GAB.

SLOW FOOD MOVEMENT

Plans to turn Garver Feed Mill into artisan food production facility hit snags.

14 TECH SARAH WITMAN 23 FOOD & DRINK

JENNIFER LEAVER 18 COVER STORY WHILE LIVING IN New York, Jennifer Leaver worked as a graphic designer and retoucher at a few ad agencies. “Everything gets retouched,” says the graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. “It’s kind of like painting.” Since relocating to Madison three years ago, she has been able to pour more of her energy into her own art. In January, she exhibited her portraits of bartenders at Mickey’s Tavern at, where else, Mickey’s Tavern. This week, with a tip of the hat to Norman Rockwell, she illustrates the cover story, inside and out.

ON THE COVER Clockwise from top: Jonny Hunter, Tory Miller, Dave Heide, Barbara Wright, Gilbert Altschul, Tami Lax and Kipp Thomas (plus one lucky dinner guest).

SARAH WITMAN DOESN’T hunt, but her grandfather did and was a butcher to boot. So she has some interest in how food is sourced, she says. In her first story for Isthmus, the science writer looks at how the DNR is trying to make hunters out of urbanites concerned about local, sustainable food.

CODEFEST

MadHacks is a hackathon success story.

16 OPINION

WHEN PIGS FLY

Oscar Mayer’s departure is just business as usual.

18 COVER STORY

You spin me right round, baby

CHEF’S CHOICE

Culinary rock stars share Thanksgiving recipes.

23-30 FOOD & DRINK

Sat., Nov. 14, High Noon Saloon, noon-4 pm

GOOD WILL HUNTING

Will locavores save Wisconsin’s hunting tradition?

ON A ROLL

Sushi is the star at Takara 88.

31 SPORTS

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

WORT-FM is throwing another Record Riot, with the station and other vendors selling records — any format on a plastic or shellac disc is fair game — to raise funds for the community radio station.

Enjoy a beverage while perusing stacks of bargain-priced wax and listening to tunes spun by WORT DJs..

UW’s freshman b-ball class shows promise.

Hello in there

32 BOOKS

POETRY MAN

Thurs., Nov. 12, Madison Central Library, 6:30 pm

“Indispensable” Ron Wallace retires from UW.

Community Cinema/Indie Lens Pop-Up premieres Autism in Love, a stereotype-shattering film featuring four adults on the autism spectrum pursuing love and romance.

A discussion follows.

33 MUSIC

BLURRED LINES

Sunspot mixes paranormal, pop culture.

DAVE CIESLEWICZ

34 DANCE

16 OPINION

DARING MOVES

SOME OF YOU STILL refer to him as Mayor Dave. Others go for Citizen Dave, the name of his popular blog, which Isthmus has proudly hosted on its website since 2011. Dave Cieslewicz also contributes regularly to our opinion pages in print. This week he provides fresh perspective on the defection of Oscar Mayer.

Kanopy revives 1936 classic, “Lynchtown.”

36 SCREENS

“ALL THINGS MUST PASS”

The life and death of Tower Records.

44 EMPHASIS

LUCKY DOG

Online shop’s pet-centric apparel supports animal rescues, shelters.

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Find out who bears the blame for the Syrian refugee crisis — and what can be done to help.

Discuss the past and future of the Middle East with David Williams of the Peregrine Forum and Amitabh Pal, managing editor of The Progressive.

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Join the denizens of this eclectic neighborhood for an open-forbusiness bash celebrating the end of the interminable construction. Entertainment options include music, food and beer samples, assorted freebies, a Lego building contest, even pet photo ops with Santa.

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Veteran Tom Hasting struggled for years with homelessness and health issues, but has a fresh start thanks to a job at MMoCA.

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With salt-and-pepper hair parted on one side, black chunky glasses, a dark sport coat and a warm grin, Tom Hasting looks the part of a benignly watchful gallery attendant at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. But there was a time, just a few years ago, when he wanted to be invisible.

In his early 50s, his weight hovering near 400 pounds, Hasting worked the night shift at a group home not far from his hometown of Rockford, Ill. During his shift he’d sneak in a shower, maybe do some laundry. At 7 a.m. he’d get into his “home� — a Mitsubishi pickup truck — and drive to an inconspicuous parking spot outside a big-box store where he could sleep. “I used to love it when it would snow, because the snow would cover [my truck’s] windows and no one could see me,� he says.

Hasting, an Army veteran, has struggled for decades with post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from a childhood incident that he declines to discuss.

As a teenager, Hasting was a varsity baseball player and Eagle Scout. And he was an artist. His dream life was to play for the Chicago Cubs and paint at the Art Institute of Chicago.

But after high school, Hasting turned down academic scholarships to two Big Ten universities and opted for “the safe route� of a job at a print shop.

He married young, had two kids and worked in the printing business for much of

his 20s and 30s. He also spent two years in the early 1980s as a military police officer for the Army at Fort Sheridan, just north of Chicago.

But a slow spiral of weight gain and untreated mental issues caught up with him. He went through a divorce, and later lost much of the feeling in both feet from diabetes. From about 2008 until 2013, he was homeless, which he tried to keep secret. “I was about as down as I could possibly be,� he says. One source of pride was that he never turned to drugs or alcohol.

Eventually Hasting found a place to live after a television ad led him to a transitional housing program in Janesville. While there, he traveled to Madison’s VA Hospital for counseling and diabetes treatment. He liked it here, and discovered another VA program could help with rent. He “took a leap of faith� and moved to an efficiency apartment five blocks off the Capitol Square. “I’m an east-sider now!� Hasting says. “I live on the isthmus!�

His health was improving, but Hasting wanted a job in his new city. After learning about his interest in art, staff at the VA put him in touch with MMoCA. He was hired part-time in December 2013 through the VA’s Compensated Work Therapy program.

Now 57, Hasting can’t work full-time because of the pain and numbness in his feet. But he logs about 25 hours a week and last spring was promoted to shift supervisor.

Hours of standing around in silent galleries can make the time drag, but Hasting says he

enjoys chatting with patrons and takes seriously his role of protecting artists’ work.

The new job “has given me back my dignity,� he says, and rekindled his love of art. “It’s like a free art education working here,� he says. “I’ve turned into a sponge.

Any time there’s a lecture, I’m there.�

For years, he says, he just wanted to get through each day. Now he has goals. His weight — which peaked at 450 pounds — is down to 260, and he wants to get to 200.

He regrets giving up art as a young adult but has the bug to sketch and paint. “One day, I’m going to [show my art] in here,� he says. “That’s a goal I have. And I mean it. I’m back to where it’s like, ‘Okay, let’s give it one last good ride.’� n Number of veterans hired at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in the last seven years: NINE Years that MMoCA’s director of public operations, Mary Kolar, served in the Navy: 28 The unemployment rate for veterans in 2014: 5.3% Unemployment rate in 2013: 6.6% Month the Department of Veterans Affairs gave MMoCA a “Veteran Industries Employer Award� for its efforts to hire vets: AUGUST

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Last Friday night, as the state Senate weighed bills to revamp the state’s campaign finance law and dismantle the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board, Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling (D-La Crosse) noted some recent editorial headlines on the topic. They included: “GAB, campaign finance bills take state in the wrong direction”, “Legislature hinders residents’ ability to follow the money” and “GOP seeks to ram through laws undoing Wisconsin’s good government tradition.”

Shilling mused that her Republican colleagues had done a rather poor job of winning support. But, of course, that didn’t matter. At the end of the day (and into the next), the bills passed. Democratic amendments to address perceived problems were clubbed to death one after another, like baby seals.

“I get it,” said Sen. Chris Larson (D-Milwaukee), during this process. “You have the votes. You can do whatever the heck you want.

It doesn’t make it right.”

Jay Heck of the nonpartisan reform group Common Cause in Wisconsin, in a press release, called the process regarding these bills “among the most abusive, disrespectful, secretive and despicable in the history of the Wisconsin Legislature.”

Most of the key decisions were made behind closed doors, in Republican caucus sessions. The Senate took up the bills in an extraordinary session, rather than in last week’s scheduled floor period, which let lawmakers limit discussion and expedite passage. Details of GOP amendments were not unveiled until late Friday afternoon, shortly before the votes.

The session stretched into the wee hours of Saturday morning, tempers flaring on both sides.

Because the Senate versions differ from what the Assembly had earlier passed, the bills will return to that body to be rubber-stamped on Nov. 16. But their impact on the state will be debated for years to come.

“Someday somebody is going to sit in these seats and say, ‘What the hell were they thinking?’” predicted Sen. Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee).

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The new campaign finance bill will open the door to unlimited spending on state political campaigns. It will leave so-called issue ad groups with no fundraising or spending disclosure requirements. It will allow candidate campaigns to coordinate with these groups. It will let wealthy donors give as much as they want to political parties and campaign committees controlled by legislative leaders, who can then dole out money to candidates. It will end the requirement that donors of significant sums disclose their place of employment.

The old law’s declaration of purpose held that “our democratic system of government can be maintained only if the electorate is informed.”

It said “excessive spending on campaigns for public office jeopardizes the integrity of elections.” And it found a compelling state interest in “designing a system for fully disclosing con-

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Protesters outside the Senate chambers hours before Republicans defiantly pushed through controversial legislation.

tributions and disbursements made on behalf of every candidate for public office, and in placing reasonable limitations on such activities.”

All of this language is gone. The new bill opens with a directive to impose “the least possible restraint on persons whose activities do not directly affect the elective process” — i.e., issue ad groups, which stop just barely short of expressly telling people how to vote.

The bill’s greenlighting of coordination with outside groups follows the Wisconsin’s Supreme Court’s ruling this summer that this is not illegal.

Heck calls this an “outlier decision that’s going to be appealed” and could be overturned; no federal court has reached this conclusion. The change means candidates can simply direct donations above the legal limit to outside groups and then help plan how these are spent.

Senate Democrats, seeking an amendment to require disclosure of funding sources for thirdparty groups, noted that even the U.S. Supreme Court, in its infamous Citizens United decision that opened the floodgates to so-called independent spending, encouraged making outside groups disclose the source of their funds.

“The public has an interest in knowing who is speaking about a candidate shortly before an election,” the court wrote. “Disclosure permits citizens and shareholders to react to the speech

of corporate entities in a proper way. This transparency enables the electorate to make informed decisions and give proper weight to different speakers and messages.”

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) argued that there was no way Wisconsin could require disclosure without being challenged in the courts. The amendment was defeated on a party-line vote, 18 to 14.

A similar fruitless debate played out over language to remove the requirement that donors of more than $200 disclose where they work. This exemption was added to the bill on the day it passed the Assembly

by Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester), with no public hearing. Early reports indicated that the Senate was planning to strike this change but that did not happen.

GOP lawmakers said this disclosure rule might make people afraid to contribute, thus chilling their freedom of speech. Sen. Carpenter responded by quoting conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: “Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed.”

Sen. Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield) derided this, citing what he claimed was another,

unfairly overlooked quote by Scalia: “The more money in politics, the better.” This may be overlooked because it’s a fabrication. Scalia’s actual quote: “Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech the better.”

The amendment was defeated on a partyline vote. The bill as a whole passed 17-15 at midnight, with one Republican, Sen. Rob Cowles of Green Bay, voting no. He said he objected to more money in politics and eliminating disclosure of donors’ employees.

The second bill, which passed at 2:24 a.m.

Saturday, splits the Government Accountability Board into two commissions; one would oversee elections, the other state laws governing ethics, campaign spending and lobbying. Both would be overseen by partisan political appointees — half Democratic, half Republican — but the ethics commission, per a Senate amendment, would include two former judges. The current GAB is governed entirely by former judges.

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BY ALLISON GEYER

Nearly seven months after Madison officials approved a plan to convert the crumbling Garver Feed Mill into an artisan food production facility, lease negotiations between the city and the Chicagobased developer have yet to be settled.

Baum Development has not set a tentative closing date for the property and has yet to obtain the necessary historic and new market tax credits to finance the redevelopment, says David Baum, company president.

“We thought we would have everything done with the city sooner,” says David Baum, president of Baum Development.

“But it’s been a little more complicated.”

At least one city official is questioning whether the company can secure the financing it needs to do the project, which includes a food production facility and up to 50 “microlodges,” to be used as hotel lodgings, studios or offices.

Ald. David Ahrens, whose district abuts Garver, says the delay is cause for concern.

“Delays are costly,” Ahrens says. “And Garver is not getting any younger.”

Other challenges — stringent historic preservation requirements that must be met to qualify for tax credits; environmental issues including contaminated soils on the project site; and the Garver building’s dilapidated condition — further muddle the redevelopment effort.

“It’s a complex project with a lot of moving parts,” Baum says. “That said, we’re making progress on all fronts.”

After sitting vacant for years, the Garver Feed Mill is in rough shape, making reuse a challenge.

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the negotiations have been progressing and that no news is good news.”

Ahrens, who was the sole member on the development committee to vote against the Baum proposal in March, worries the delay is a sign that the developer cannot deliver what it promised. “I don’t expect these things to be worked out in [weeks or months],” he says. “But at some point, we’ve got to stop being strung along.”

As negotiations continue, elements of the project are moving forward.

Baum has partnered with Madison College to have students in the construction training program build up to 50 “microlodges” that will sit in clusters of five to eight on the 4.2-acre lot north of the Garver building known as the North Plat.

Those microlodges, which will be a mix of designs and range from 150 to 170 square feet, will serve as visitor lodging or as longterm rentals as studio or office space. Baum has enlisted Chicago-based hotel operator Aparium, which manages the Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee and the new Charmant Hotel in La Crosse, to run the microlodges.

The team includes two architecture firms, including Kubala Washatko of the Milwaukee area, which designed the Milwaukee Public Market and has converted other historic sites into sustainably redeveloped buildings. Other partners include Bachmann Construction of Madison and “a team of attorneys” to help the developer navigate the maze of rezoning regulations and environmental concerns.

On Nov. 4, workers began to “winterize” the Garver building — a process which involves adding structural supports to the masonry walls and capping exposed bricks to keep out moisture and prevent further damage from freezing and thawing.

A number of local food producers have expressed interest in moving operations into the Garver facility. Baum says arrangements with tenants are “becoming more formalized.”

“Before we had letters of interest, and we’re converting them into letters of intent,” he says. “We have more interest than we have space — that’s a great situation.”

As construction ramps up, Baum says his focus is on meeting the needs of the artisan food producers while maintaining the historic character of the Garver facility — the latter being necessary to qualify for tax credits.

Baum says he’s confident the tax credits will come through and that his team has been to “multiple tax credit conferences” talking to buyers and lenders. He believes that the Garver project is a good candidate, due to the historic nature of the building, the environmental impact of the project and the aspect of collaboration with local artisans.

“We have a history of taking these kinds of buildings and getting financing,” he says, “But when you’re marrying multiple kinds of tax credits along with a lender, equity and tenants, there’s an art to that as well.”

Ahrens frets that the tax credits “might not be a slam-dunk” and notes that new market tax credits are more often awarded to projects that make improvements in “distressed areas,” such as a supermarket in a poor neighborhood.

“I’m not saying they can’t get it,” he says.

But if the financing doesn’t come together, Ahrens says he wouldn’t be opposed to revisiting the project with another developer.

He favored a proposal from Alternative Continuum of Care to build senior housing at the site, which was selected by the development panel as a second choice.

“As I’ve said before, we have at least one other really viable proposal,” Ahrens says. n

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When the Baum Development team won city approval in April, it was reported that the proposed food production facility could open as soon as November 2016.

Now, Baum anticipates construction will begin sometime in 2016, with possible completion in 2017.

“We want to do it obviously as soon as possible, but what we want is to come up with the best project possible,” Baum says. “[Garver] really is a special place.”

Ald. Marsha Rummel, whose district includes Garver, says lease negotiations with the developer are nearly complete, but the final agreement is “not ready for introduction to Common Council until more details are resolved.”

The project’s timeline has not caused concern among residents living in the east-side neighborhood, says Jason Tish, a member of the Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara Neighborhood Association’s preservation and development committee. Neighborhood residents strongly pushed for the city to choose the Baum proposal during the selection process.

“It’s been quiet for quite a few months,” he says. “We have all been assuming that

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A happening hackathon MadHacks focuses on drawing novices into the mix

BY NATHAN J. COMP

Austin Hartzheim seems unfazed by the expectations he inherited following the success of April’s MadHacks 2015. The event attracted roughly 300 college students from around the country for 24 nonstop hours of toying and tinkering with technologies during the first sanctioned hackathon hosted by UW-Madison students.

Tapped to oversee the production of next year’s event, tentatively scheduled to be held in the fall, Hartzheim has plenty of time to flesh out the details.

But the near flawless roll-out of April’s hackathon — 10 months after its founders dreamed it up over a few beers — has set a high bar for MadHacks 2016.

“Preparations are going pretty well so far,” says the 20-year-old computer science major.

Then, without a hint of irony, he adds, “The biggest thing is that we’re still looking for a venue.”

Student hackathons are a spinoff of the professional-level hackathons first organized more than 15 years ago, attracting a wide range of specialists and hobbyists. Attendees are enticed by the sense of community around the events, the intense competition that drives them, or simply the opportunity for creative expression through technology most wouldn’t otherwise have access to.

Most hackathons are organized around solving a specific problem or improving upon existing products. The hackers — a term used in an exploratory context rather than a criminal one — compete in teams that are given tools and mentoring by sponsors, which range from local start-ups to major players like Microsoft and Dell.

The competitions typically last 24 to 48 hours.

The popularity of student hackathons, where competition can be as fierce as that at

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Some 300 students participated in the first MadHacks event, held in April.

the professional levels, has exploded over the last three years. In 2013, between 10 and 15 student hackathons were held nationally. This year that number will exceed 150, says Jon Gottfried, co-founder of Major League Hacking, which sanctions student hackathons, including MadHacks.

“A hackathon is very empowering,” says Gottfried, a former computer programmer who used to compete in professional hackathons.

Giving students access to technologies they could never afford and mentors they would never cross paths with creates an environment for them to flourish, he says.

What sets MadHacks apart from other student hackathons is an emphasis on welcoming first-time hackers and novices, says

MadHacks co-founder and spokeswoman Katie Anderson.

“We’re not as focused on the competition aspects of it as other hackathons,” she says. “We want to give you unrestricted access to mentors and technology so you can create whatever you want.”

The idea stemmed from the image of hackers as mad scientists who, given free rein to create or innovate, would produce some surprising results.

It turned out to be a winning approach.

Buoyed by the surge in popularity of student hackathons, MadHacks outgrew the University Research Park venue before its inaugural event in April even commenced.

With plans to double the size of the next hackathon from 300 to 600 hackers,

the hackathon will require a much larger venue.

Anderson says the event will grow 12 hours, to 36, adding that MadHacks will continue nurturing those with less experience while fostering greater inclusivity of women and minorities.

A larger event will require more sponsors than the 17 that signed on for this year’s hackathon, which included Microsoft and Epic.

Among the benefits of being sanctioned by Major League Hacking is the group provides material support.

In many ways, sponsors are key to the success of any hackathon. More than having a logo stamped onto promotional materials, Gottfried says sponsors are required to provide something of value.

As part of its sponsorship agreement with Major League Hacking, for example, Dell loans out laptops to hackers in League-sanctioned hackathons.

Anderson says sponsorship benefits local tech companies. After hackers are trained to use their platforms or software they’re more likely to continue using them as they move into careers.

As for the hackers’ experience, MadHacks 2015 appears to be among the standouts, at least for one first-time hacker. When a coding forum asked people to share their first hackathon experience, an Apple employee who attended the April MadHacks offered only positive feedback.

Mehul Kar wrote that he joined a random hackathon team when the friend who invited him no-showed.

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Scott Walker’s job strategy is a failure But that’s not why Oscar Mayer is leaving Wisconsin

BY DAVE CIESLEWICZ Dave Cieslewicz is the former mayor of Madison.

He blogs as Citizen Dave at Isthmus.com.

Their bologna has a first name. It’s S-U-P-P-L-Y. Their bologna has a second name. It’s S-I-D-E. Accusations are flying over who is responsible for losing Oscar Mayer. Gov. Scott Walker has set himself up for most of the blame because he’s the guy who put “open for business” on our state welcoming signs at our borders; he’s the guy whose signature photo op has him in shirtsleeves, hardhat and plastic glasses touring a manufacturing plant; and he’s the guy who has cut taxes and services and gutted regulation in the name of creating jobs.

It hasn’t worked. Wisconsin ranks last in the Midwest and is in the bottom half of all states in creating new private-sector jobs. After five years, the governor can’t blame the previous administration any more. If lower taxes, less regulation and a pro-business attitude were all it took to keep and grow businesses here, it should be working by now.

Instead, the last 1,000 jobs at Oscar Mayer will either vanish or be moved to New York, Iowa or Illinois. None of these are especially low-tax, low-regulation states. In fact, New York has the highest taxes in the nation.

The truth seems to be that the old Madison plant was doomed, not by any of the things that supply-siders like to point to, but by the simple configuration of the building. The multistory plant was inefficient compared to sleek, sprawling facilities in other places.

It is true that Wisconsin seemed to do little compared to other states to keep Oscar Mayer here, but it doesn’t appear that anything state or local officials could have offered would have made a difference.

There are two lessons that might come from all this.

The first is that public financial incentives are dangerous and ill-conceived. The state of Iowa and local governments are giving Kraft Heinz almost $15 million for the privilege of cutting their workforce in Davenport from 1,400 to 475 jobs. That’s right. They’re giving

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the company public money to reduce their workforce there by two-thirds.

In Columbia, Mo., Kraft Heinz is modernizing a plant in a way that will increase production but reduce employment from 500 to 350 workers — with the help of a 75% property tax reduction over 10 years.

And while Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is crowing about landing some frontoffice jobs in his city, Kraft Heinz is just consolidating operations in Chicago, at a net loss of jobs for that metro region as a whole.

The goal of merging operations is not simply to eliminate duplication. Kraft Heinz’s market is shrinking as consumers move away from processed foods like hot dogs and lunchmeats. Sales of packaged cereals and soda are down 25% since 2000, while sales of fresh prepared foods are up 30% just since 2009.

So for governments to invest heavily in a declining industry is politically tempting but probably a really bad bet. Sure, Wisconsin and local economic development lead-

ers could have been more on the ball, but to what end?

Which brings me to my second point, which is that “economic development” is mostly just snake oil anyway. To listen to Gov. Walker, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. tell the story, it’s all about tax rates, regulation, public subsidies and that most amorphous of concepts, “the business climate.”

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But economic development isn’t about any of these things. Businesses make location decisions, just as Kraft Heinz did for Oscar Mayer, based on their own internal logic. They go to places where the facilities are the most efficient, where workers have the needed skills and where the logistics of moving people and goods is easiest and least expensive. Taxes, regulation, handouts and cheerleading play little part.

Wisconsin needs to go back to what it’s good at. Why are Silicon Valley and Boston hubs of the high-tech economy? California and Massachusetts are not known for their low taxes and light regulation. But they have Stanford and MIT. In that light, how smart was it to cut the venerable UW by $250 million? Is that balanced out by all those “open for business signs”? I don’t think so.

The answer going forward is to get enough revenue through taxes to rebuild an excellent preschool to postgraduate educational system with a technical college system that can properly retrain line workers at places like Oscar Mayer; to invest in transportation and other infrastructure; and to protect our signature resources — the state’s land, water and air.

In short, we have to become once again a state that believes fervently in making investments in public resources and in people.

The current state administration, abetted by its big-business lobby, is moving in just precisely the wrong direction on every front. They didn’t lose Oscar Mayer, but they sure do have a way with bologna. n

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Voting do’s and don’ts Joe Tarr’s article on getting special student IDs to ensure UW students can vote was very interesting (“Poll Position,” 10/29/2015).

There is another option that is neither mentioned nor explored. During my entire collegiate career I voted in every election by absentee ballot from my home town. I personally felt that it was more appropriate for me to vote in an area and regarding issues that had an impact on my family and life rather than voting in a city that I was going to be leaving in a couple of years.

I realize that the unspoken motive here is the preference to pack votes from a younger and presumably liberal contingent, but it should be pointed out that a choice to not vote in Madison does not equate to a deprivation of rights. Of course, in view of what some have suggested, it should also be pointed out that voting both absentee and locally is both illegal and in bad taste.

Dave Marohl, Sun Prairie (via email)

Downtown oasis I was heartened by your story on the “Hallowed Ground” that was once St. Raphael’s Cathedral (Snapshot, 10/22/2015). This profile of devout Catholic Jean Lochner is a sincere reminder of the connection that people have to the land and its history.

I only wish that your profiler had asked Miss Lochner or the Madison Diocese about continuing the space for community purpos-

es. With fewer families downtown who need daily Masses, our community should heed the bold message of the new pope and preserve an oasis for meditation, recreation and healing in the center of the city, while helping those least fortunate among us who will be forced to sleep outside in the coming winter.

Jackson Foote (via email) Judith Davidoff’s insight into a life obviously traumatized by the destruction of her church by an arsonist 10 years ago probably hits a familiar note to all lifetime members of St. Raphael’s Cathedral. When I drive down Fairchild Street, I never fail to look over that grassy knoll and wonder, will this ever get resolved?

Peter Clark (via email)

Shot down Marc Savlov’s review of Our Brand Is Crisis (“Hired Guns,” 10/29/2015) was as bad as the movie itself; it didn’t get around to naming the movie until the last sentence, at which point who cared, anyhow?

Tom Duff (via email)

Correction In last week’s paper, a story on the slowdown in Wisconsin’s craft breweries incorrectly calculated the number of gallons and pints in a barrel of beer. They are 31 and 248, respectively. Jasmine Brey’s name was misspelled in the photo accompanying an article on Ma & Pop Catering.

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Barbara Wright, former owner of Monroe Street’s The Dardanelles and now chef at the Holy Wisdom Monastery, recalls long-ago Thanksgivings at her house: While her grandmother cooked the feast, “wound-up kids and groggy parents” ended up at the bowling alley, “which was, surprisingly, open and often full of people on Thanksgiving,” Wright says. “Bad bowling happened, snacks were consumed along with beer and Bloody Marys,” before they all returned to “a mile-long table and food ready to serve.” Losing bowlers did the dishes.

These days on Thanksgiving, Wright offers her services as cook to friends or relatives each year. “I want to serve all of the people I love home-grown foods from classic holiday traditions. Planning this feast in my mind is a pleasure I enjoy every fall.”

Wright speaks of organic turkey, grass-fed standing rib roast, butternut squash, old-fashioned bread dressing, wild mushroom gravy, roast tenderloin with red wine reduction and rosemary. “It’s never more clear to me than at the holidays that food is our most intimate connection to our world.

It is how I show my love for my children and my brothers and sisters and their offspring.”

Wright says that in the last few years she’s had the best holiday meals at her sister’s house on Madison’s east side. “We plan the meal together.

I make the meat, the non-meat, some dessert, and she makes great dishes to complement it all.

Others make and bring whatever they choose to contribute. There’s no pressure or expectations.”

After dinner, family members catch up during the cleanup. “And then the board games begin.”

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For Dave Heide, owner and executive chef of Liliana’s, Thanksgiving is all about comfort food, but not the kind that you might expect to find here in the Midwest. On Thanksgiving mornings you can find Heide in the kitchen dicing onions, peppers and sausage for a batch of jambalaya.

Heide’s parents met in New Orleans and honeymooned there; one year his Uncle Chris, a lover of jazz and Cajun food, wanted to make something that would remind them all of the Big Easy. “When I was 7 years old, he brought me into the kitchen and handed me a cleaver,” Heide says. “It felt like it weighed 150 pounds.”

The tradition stuck. Heide’s first job in the morning at his grandmother’s house in Kenosha was to cut up the andouille sausage that would join onions, peppers, celery, tomatoes, tasso ham and seasonings in a skillet.

Heide’s family still enjoys the customary Thanksgiving meal at noon; jambalaya is served later in the day. “Everyone in my family knows the jambalaya is coming,” Heide says, “so they hold back at lunch.”

— ERICA KRUG

Dave Heide’s Jambalaya 2 cups diced red onion 1 cup diced red pepper 1 cup diced green pepper 1 cup diced celery 2 quarts diced tomatoes (fresh or canned) 1/4 cup minced garlic 1 stick butter 2 rings of andouille sausage, sliced into discs 1 small tasso-style ham (Heide gets his locally from Delta Dream), diced 1/4 cup blackened seasoning (available at Liliana’s) 1/2 cup Crystal hot sauce sautéed bacon (Heide uses Nueske’s), shrimp and andouille sausage for garnish salt and pepper cooked rice Melt butter in a skillet. Add onions and cook until translucent. Add peppers and celery and blackened seasoning and cook until the vegetables are soft.

Add sausage and ham, then tomatoes and hot sauce. Let simmer for 30 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. If you wish, garnish with Nueske’s bacon, shrimp and more andouille sausage that have been sautéed in oil. Serve over rice.

Butternut Squash and Stuffing Casserole 1 medium butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cut in 1-inch cubes 1 1/2 cup melted butter 2 cups grated asiago cheese 4 cups gluten-free bread, cut in 1-inch cubes and toasted a bit 2 cups vegetable broth 1 medium onion (1/2 cup) 2 cups diced celery 1 tablespoon each of fresh parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (yep, same as the song) salt and pepper to taste Boil squash until soft. Place in 13-by-9 pan. Drizzle with a little melted butter. Top with grated cheese. Place half the toasted bread in a big bowl. In a skillet, sauté onion and celery in a little melted butter till glassy. Add herbs and sauté for a minute more. Add vegetables to bread in the bowl and mix. Add vegetable broth little by little until mixture is moist; lightly toss. Add the rest of the bread and toss again but don’t let it get mushy.

Add stuffing on top of cheese and squash in pan. Press gently down on stuffing to affix to cheese and bake for 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven until nicely golden and a little crunchy.

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MIDNIGHT RAMBLER Kipp Thomas works Thanksgiving. “For the last 15 years, I’ve deep-fried turkeys for customers,” says the man behind the beloved restaurant North American Rotisserie. Last year he deep-fried turkeys for 63 customers in his new kitchen at Pooley’s, 5441 High Crossing Blvd.

He starts at midnight. Friends who know he’s there, working, drop by in the wee hours to shoot the breeze. “It’s a lot of fun.

That’s become a tradition,” says Thomas.

He does 20-pound. birds, three at a time. Customers pick them up at the restaurant from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., based on “their family dinner times,” says Thomas.

Thomas advises that “if you have someone who’ll deep-fry a turkey for you, have them do it. It’s quite a trick.” He’s seen too many DIY-ers run into trouble with the technique. “It took me a few years to master it.” He’ll cook a few sides, too, corn bread stuffing and his legendary mac ’n’ cheese.

At 2 p.m., after the last of the birds have been picked up, Thomas goes home, “takes a shower and I veg out.” No further Thanksgiving doings. He confesses that his mom is disappointed that he doesn’t make it to Milwaukee for the family dinner, but vows that he “makes up for it at Christmas.”

— LINDA FALKENSTEIN

Kipp’s Cornbread Stuffing 6 cups crumbled cornbread 1/2 cup chopped celery 1/2 cup chopped yellow onion 1 can chicken broth (14-16 ounces) 2 eggs, beaten 1 cup heavy cream 1/2 teaspoon black pepper or to taste 1/2 tablespoon garlic powder 1 1/2 teaspoons sage or to taste Sauté celery and onion in butter or olive oil until softened. Cool.

Crumble baked cornbread into a large bowl. In another bowl combine eggs, heavy cream, sage, pepper, garlic powder, celery, onion and chicken broth. Add this to cornbread crumbles, mix well using your hands and place in greased baking dish (spray with PAM).

Cover with plastic wrap and then aluminum foil. Bake covered at 350 degrees about 3040 minutes; uncover and bake until top is golden brown, about 15-20 more minutes.

The last thing Gilbert Altschul of Grampa’s Pizzeria wants to do on Thanksgiving is be in the kitchen. “I usually take the day off and let my mom cook,” says Altschul.

So while Altschul’s mom prepares the turkeys — one in the oven and one on the grill — Altschul kicks back and devours the hors d’oeuvre that he has been bringing to the gathering for the last couple of years: deviled eggs.

Altschul admits that for most of his life he thought deviled eggs were “terrible,” but blames hanging out with his friend Dan Fox for his change of heart. Fox, owner and executive chef of Heritage Tavern, always has assorted deviled eggs on the Heritage bar menu, and Altschul says eating those eggs inspired him to make his own.

Adding salty capers and earthy truffles, Altschul likes to make a classed-up version for the Thanksgiving get-together at his mom’s house in Monroe, Wis. He recommends pairing the eggs with Thai chiles — he likes to pop one in his mouth after each egg he eats. But he includes a warning — keep the chiles away from the younger folks. “My 9-year-old niece ate one the first year I brought them, and it was bad,” Altschul says with a hint of a smile.

— ERICA KRUG

Gilbert Altschul’s Deviled Eggs 1 dozen eggs 2 garlic cloves 1/2 cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice salt and pepper 2 tablespoons chopped capers 1/4 cup chopped fresh chives, reserve 1 tablespoon for garnish 2 tablespoons chopped truffles or truffle oil 1 tablespoon paprika, more for garnish 1 tablespoon thyme Place the eggs in a pot with a lid and cover with cold water. Bring the eggs to a boil, then turn off the heat and leave the eggs covered for eight minutes. Next cool the eggs quickly by pouring in ice water. Peel the eggs, cut them in half, and remove the yolks.

Press the yolks through a fine mesh screen (like a ricer) and set aside. Make a garlic aioli by mashing garlic cloves and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a small bowl until a paste forms. Whisk in cup mayonnaise, olive oil and fresh lemon juice. Season to taste with coarse salt and pepper. Whip the egg yolks and aioli using a stand mixer. Next add chopped capers, fresh truffles, paprika, chives and thyme to the egg yolk and aioli filling. Using a pastry bag (or a quart-sized plastic bag), pipe the filling back into the halved eggs. Garnish with paprika and chives.

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Expect a traditional meal if you find yourself at Tami Lax’s Thanksgiving table — except the turkey is a heritage breed, the pie is filled with apples that have been picked from 100-year-old trees on the family’s orchard, and the stuffing is made with homemade duck confit. Lax, owner and chef of Harvest and co-owner of The Old Fashioned, takes her ingredients very seriously.

She also forages many of the ingredients herself from her family’s cabin in Crivitz, which is where she was headed when interviewed for this article. The land has been in her family since her grandfather bought the property in 1939. Lax goes there to gather herbs and wild mushrooms — hen of the woods and chicken of the woods — for the duck confit stuffing that she says her family talks about all year. “Everybody devours that stuffing,” Lax says.

— ERICA KRUG

Tami Lax’s Duck Confit Stuffing Step one 5 pounds duck legs 3 pounds duck fat 8 tablespoons kosher salt 10 crushed cloves of garlic 3 tablespoons fresh thyme 3 tablespoons fresh rosemary 3 tablespoons fresh sage 1 tablespoons coarsely ground black pepper

Sprinkle 4 tablespoons of kosher salt evenly on a cookie sheet or similar pan.

Lay out the duck legs in single layer with skin side up. Evenly sprinkle the remaining salt, garlic, herbs and pepper over the top of the legs. Cover with bag or wrap.

Refrigerate for 2-3 days.

Preheat the oven tot 180 degrees.

Rinse the duck legs in cold running water to remove all visible herbs, garlic, salt and pepper. Place the duck legs tight up against one another in a roasting pan.

Melt the duck fat and pour over the legs, being sure that all legs are submerged in the fat. Cook in oven until the duck is tender and beginning to fall off the bone, approximately 6 hours.

Pull from oven and allow to stand at room temperature for a half-hour before cleaning. Drain fat from legs, pull the meat, discard the skin and bones. Store the fat in an air-tight container in your freezer. Set duck aside while preparing the rest of the dish.

Step two 10 cups cubed bread, dried at room temperature for 3 days 2 pounds sliced cremini mushrooms, or mushrooms of choice 3 sliced shallots 1 large sliced onion 3 sliced leeks 3 stems sliced celery 4 tablespoons chopped sage 1 tablespoons chopped thyme 1 teaspoon chopped rosemary 6 cups chicken stock olive oil salt and pepper Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. In large sauté pan, heat olive oil to medium-low heat. Sauté shallots, onion, leek and celery until translucent. Add mushrooms and herbs, salt and pepper to taste. Cook down the mushrooms until liquid starts to evaporate. Remove from heat.

Using a large mixing bowl, combine bread, duck confit and onion/mushroom mixture. Salt and pepper to taste.

Place into large oven-proof cooking dish and pour in chicken stock. Bake, covered, in oven for 30 minutes, uncovered for an additional 30 minutes. Serve as side dish or main course.

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Tory Miller is known for his ability to knit together Wisconsin ingredients, French presentation, and Asian influences in his Madison restaurants (L’Etoile, Graze, Sujeo and Estrellón), but when it comes to Thanksgiving, his Racine childhood shows.

There are a lot of traditional dishes on his Thanksgiving menu.

“Brined turkey, sausage and giblet stuffing — sometimes I use cornbread — squash, mashed potatoes with root veggies, sweet-and-sour red cabbage,” says Miller. His German grandmother made that cabbage dish every year, and he says “it might still be my favorite thing on our table.”

“And gravy. Lots of gravy.”

Miller calls Thanksgiving a chef’s favorite for home cooking, pointing out that the pies his wife makes have translated directly into the popular hickory nut bourbon pie at Graze.

The priority he places on seasonality in his professional kitchens is reflected in the way he chooses vegetables at Thanksgiving. “I love the concept of green bean casserole, but green beans are not usually in season here at Thanksgiving, so I use Brussels sprouts instead. Homemade cream of mushroom soup — with bacon — and fried shallots make it pretty special.”

— KYLE NABILCY

Brussels sprout casserole Cream of mushroom soup “base” 2 cups cleaned, diced shiitake mushrooms 1 stalk celery, diced 1 cup minced onion 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1/2 cup bacon, diced (if you can, buy slab bacon, but pre-sliced works fine) 1/2 cup Sauvignon Blanc 1 cup mushroom stock 1 cup heavy cream 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves salt and pepper Heat your soup pot on medium. Add bacon and render the fat slowly. Cook until crispy. Add the onion and celery and cook for 5 minutes. Add the mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 2 minutes. Add the thyme and butter. When the butter is melted, add the flour and stir to incorporate.

Slowly add the wine, a little at a time, and stir each time to avoid lumping. Cook for 3-5 minutes to allow the alcohol to cook off. Add the stock and bring to a boil and reduce the liquid by half. Add the cream and simmer for 15 minutes. Adjust seasoning and set aside. This step can be done up to five days in advance

For the shallots 2 cups thinly sliced shallots (onions are fine) buttermilk to cover 1 cup flour 1 cup cornstarch 1 tablespoon smoked sweet paprika 1 teaspoon kosher salt pinch sugar oil for deep frying Heat oil to 325 degrees. Soak shallots in the buttermilk up to one day in advance, or at least an hour. Mix the dry ingredients. Drain the shallots and dredge in the flour and fry to golden brown.

Drain on a rack if possible or paper towel.

For the Brussels sprouts 2 pounds Brussels sprouts, cleaned, cut in half 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil sea salt Drizzle sprouts with oil and salt and place on a baking tray. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

Bake for 20 minutes or until tender but not mushy; they will brown a bit. Remove and cool.

This can be done a day in advance as well.

Final prep Mix the cooked Brussels sprouts with the mushroom soup. Place into a buttered casserole dish.

Place in 375 degree oven for 15 minutes or until heated through. Top with the shallots and serve.

HARD PROMISES

“For me,” Jonny Hunter says, “Thanksgiving is about cooking a delicious turkey. The problem is that turkey is notoriously hard to cook correctly.”

Hunter, a principal player at the Underground Food Collective and Forequarter, reveals a cornucopia of handy turkey tips — choose a smaller bird; dry-brine with plenty of salt, and airdry; start at a lower temperature and finish high. “Cook it at 225 until the bird is at around 130 degrees, then bring up the temperature to 450 degrees to crisp the skin. Check the thighs to see if they are cooked to 160.” He emphasizes that this should always be done with a thermometer, not by touch.

From his partner’s family tradition, dating back to the early ’70s, Hunter shares a riff on English steamed pudding.

“It is a wonderful mix of savory, tart and sweet,” he says. “The pudding itself is not sweet, so don’t even bother if you’re not gonna make the hard sauce.”

— KYLE NABILCY

1971 English Pudding 1/2 cup boiling water 1/2 cup molasses 1 1/2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoons baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup cranberries Mix the boiling water and molasses. In a separate bowl, mix 1 cup flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add the molasses mixture to the dry ingredients.

In yet another bowl, mix the cranberries and 1/2 cup flour. Add to the batter. Put in a 1-pound coffee can. Tie wax paper over the top with string. Place in a large pot with water and steam for 2 1/2 hours.

Serve with hard sauce.

Hard sauce 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup whipping cream 1 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon vanilla Mix ingredients in a small saucepan and heat over low or medium heat until hot.

Serve hot over the steamed pudding.

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George Reistad (right) and his cousin Erik Reistad bow hunting in Waupaca County last month.

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their own food as one of the main reasons they wanted to hunt,” says Reistad, who works at an advocacy group for sustainable agriculture.

John Rodstrom, who also graduated from the DNR course, says eating locally is important to him, but acknowledges it’s difficult to pull off on a grad student budget. “For me, obtaining meat was definitely a motivator to take the course,” says Rodstrom, a graduate student at the UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology. “I enjoy having the satisfaction of harvesting my own meat, and I really like the flavor of venison. The fact that it’s very lean and from a local source is a secondary benefit.”

Reistad and Rodstrom are part of a new crop of Wisconsin hunters, wooed to the outdoors by state officials determined to keep the long tradition of hunting alive in Wisconsin. Among those targeted by the DNR are urban locavores who are interested in sustainability, local food sourcing and eating off the land.

The number of hunters statewide has been on the decline for more than a decade.

The DNR sold 609,779 deer hunting licenses for last year’s gun season, nearly 13% fewer than even a decade and a half ago. The 1990

gun season saw nearly 700,000 licensed hunters participate.

Fewer hunters means the deer population can get out of control. It also threatens a vital source of funding for state conservation programs. Resident hunting and fishing permits are by far the biggest source of revenue for fish and wildlife management, above timber sales and tribal gaming. Some licenses — such as wild turkey, pheasant, waterfowl, trout and freshwater salmon — also require the purchase of a separate stamp that directly funds habitat restoration projects, education, research and equipment purchases.

A 2010 study conducted by the UWMadison’s Applied Population Laboratory, at the request of the DNR, found that fewer men between the ages of 25 and 44 — historically the largest demographic of Wisconsin deer hunters — were hunting than ever before. The study projected the number of male gun hunters to drop to 400,000 or fewer by 2030. A slight increase in female hunters, especially younger ones, has not yet made up for this sizable gap.

Keith Warnke, hunting and shooting sports coordinator for the DNR, says becoming a hunter is a process. “I may be interested in golf, or I might take a lesson, but it would take repeated exposures, a continuum of experiences, for me to consider myself a golfer,” says Warnke.

Since 2012, Warnke has led the “Learn to Hunt for Food” class. The four-week course includes classroom instruction in hunting history and ethics, firearm safety, deer biology and behavior, scouting and field dressing — as well as hands-on practice at a shooting range, a venison cooking demo, a butchering workshop and a guided hunt.

His colleague Kelly Maynard, who also teaches the course, has a master’s degree from UW in agroecology, which is the study of food production and its impact on the environment. Maynard took one of Warnke’s very first “Hunting for Sustainability” courses in 2012, when there were fewer than 20 students. Now the course has grown so popular that both 20-person sessions fill up within a few weeks, and there’s a long waiting list.

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George Reistad lives in the Williamson Street area, where foodies have it pretty good. But there are some gaps.

“You can’t buy wild venison in retail markets,” says Reistad.

Reistad has recently taken up hunting as a way to secure locally sourced meat. “It’s really cool to be able to get your own food that way. You clean it, harvest it, butcher it — and if you get 25-50 pounds of meat, you can feed yourself for the whole season.”

Reistad didn’t grow up in a hunting family or culture. “To be perfectly candid, as a black guy from Milwaukee I didn’t know many people who hunted growing up.” He does have relatives up north who hunt, though.

Reistad found his own way to hunting through a free Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources class called “Learn to Hunt for Food” (originally offered as “Hunting for Sustainability” through Madison College).

He says he found the class diverse, at least in terms of age and gender, if not in racial makeup. There was a common thread among students, though. “A lot of people cited the fact that they would be sourcing

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The first impression is of curves. Curves are carved into the window frames, built into archways and worked into doors at the third Takara restaurant, Middleton’s Takara 88. Its centerpiece is a round table under an enormous circular drop ceiling. This gorgeous room, designed by Aro Eberle Architects, offers a variety of seating areas: private tables in alcoves, a banquet room for large groups and a spacious outdoor patio. The choice is easy, though: I always sit at the sushi bar and watch the chefs.

There can be delays in orders from the sushi bar if it’s very busy, but that’s the nature of an exacting art form. The chefs stay calm even in the teeth of a mad lunchtime rush, slicing fatty tuna and drizzling mirin reductions on shimmering ruby-red fish flesh.

The servers seems to speak little English, but this turns out not to be much a problem; they know the menu and glide in and out taking orders, whisking plates away and placing piping-hot green tea unobtrusively on the table.

The far west side has taken to Takara 88 for suit-and-tie power lunches and intimate tête-à-têtes. Battered and deep-fried oysters arrive on a bed of lettuce with a ramekin of ponzu sauce for dipping. These little guys are addictive and get gobbled. The “sushi

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The $9 lunchtime udon is another solid deal. An immense bowl of thick noodles and aromatic soup is set beside a tray of tempura shrimp (or grilled chicken), sweet potatoes, mushrooms and small carafe of soy. However, the grilled hibachi steak (you can also order chicken or shrimp, and maybe should) lunch is disappointing: cubed steak and white rice with a bland assortment of mushrooms and peppers, wanting soy sauce.

At dinner, green tea, sake or a cold bottle of Sapporo with a bowl of miso soup is the right way to start. Kumamoto live oysters, bluefin tuna belly (toro) and sea urchin (uni), all available by the piece, are authoritative starters.

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Pearl Street Brewery of La Crosse has just released Linalool IPA, a new beer that’s memorable not just for its assertive taste, but for the unusual Wisconsin hops that help create it.

Paul Stang and his father discovered the wild hop plant while building a road through a wooded section of their farm near Madison in 2007. Fortunately, Stang is an avid homebrewer, and his father, Eldon Stang, is a retired UW-Madison horticulture professor. They knew what they had found — to some extent. The Stangs began cultivating the hops.

“In 2007 we started with 11 plants,” says Stang. Eldon Stang passed away in 2013, but Paul has carried on, and this year he harvested about an acre of what he’s named Northern Discovery hops. Next year he expects to have about three acres mature enough to pick.

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Northern Discovery hops have some of the same citrus tones you find in other hops, along with hints of apricot and orange. What’s different is the unusually high amount of linalool, the compound that lends hops their bitterness.

This wild strain boasts over two times what most other hops have.

Pearl Street Brewery owner and brewmaster Joe Katchever met up with Stang through the Wisconsin Hop Exchange, a cooperative that helps growers process hops and find buyers.

Katchever was itching to brew a beer with Northern Discovery. A few of his experimental brews included a hoppy lager and a pale ale, but he believed those needed more hops. With this IPA, earthy-resiny flavors blend nicely with hints of orange, pear and apricot; it finishes at 6.5% ABV and about 65 IBUS. It’s more tropical and juicy than many sharp dry IPAs. Katchever believes the high amount of linalool allows this IPA to age well.

Aging hoppy beers is difficult, because hops are at their most flavorful in beer when they’re fresh. However, in test batches, such floral qualities as lilac and pear emerge as this beer matures.

Getting the amount of Northern Discovery hops needed to make the beer year-round is still a limiting factor. However, it’s likely this batch of Linalool will be available through the winter.

The plan commission in the village of Cottage Grove has given the go-ahead for a Mr. Brews taphouse at 425 West Oak St., a building formerly home to Valvoline Instant Oil Change. The Cottage Grove location will have two patios and about 2,000 square feet of dining space. Mr. Brews started in Weston, Wis., and now has seven locations, including two in Madison, one each in Verona and Waunakee, and one in Monona that opened just two weeks ago.

Ownership changes for Furthermore and Esser’s Furthermore Beer and Esser’s Cross Plains Brewery are now co-owned by the Sand Creek Brewing Company of Black River Falls. “We purchased the brands, and now it’s a full partnership for the next couple of years,” says Sand Creek’s Jim Wiesender. Aran Madden of Furthermore and Wayne and Larry Esser of the Cross Plains Brewery will be co-owners and stay involved in marketing and sales of their respective products.

Sand Creek is already familiar with both companies, having produced their beers under contract.

The ownership change should help both Furthermore and Cross Plains be more consistent in holding tap accounts and shelf space. n

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George Reistad butchers a deer during a DNR class.

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She and Warnke have built up contacts at the Wisconsin Local Food Network and area farmers’ markets, and advertise through the UW’s Environmental Studies Student Association listserv and the Willy Street Co-op newsletter. The course’s popularity does not entirely surprise Warnke.

“There’s is a lot of interest in this,” he says. “This class gives skills and knowledge to people who wouldn’t have any other opportunity of gaining it.”

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Although Eanes didn’t kill an animal during the course’s guided hunt, he practiced butchering with the others. “There’s something to participating in the whole process that’s unlike anything else. I have slaughtered rabbits and chickens before, and it can be pretty intense to take the life of something.

I think it’s a good thing that it’s that intense — it’s not something you want to do all the time, and it makes you more mindful.” n

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It’s Maestro Dobel Diamante tequila with Cointreau The fourth Pasqual’s location opened late this summer in a 12,000-square-foot space along East Washington that had been empty for nearly a decade. Tex-Mex items and a short “street food” menu with tasty and inexpensive tacos are accompanied by margaritas, of course. Everything from blood orange to cucumber. But there is also a list of cocktails — and even “Private Barrel Cocktails” — based on a number of tequila brands that Pasqual’s orders barrels from directly.

Among the first group, the Cactus Crush is a mix of Pisco 100 (the Peruvian cousin to brandy) and pineapple, orange, pomegranate and cranberry. If that sounds sweet, it is, but still pairs mightily with carnitas.

Private barreling originally caught on among whiskey retailers, but tequila isn’t far behind in offering programs for restaurants wanting to sell something unique.

Pasqual’s has squirreled away barrels from Milagro, El Mayor and Maestro Dobel for a list of four sippers that includes a tequila Old Fashioned (delicious).

The most straightforward is the Diamond — private barrel Maestro Dobel Diamante shaken with Cointreau. It’s a riff on the White Lady cocktail (usually gin and Cointreau); tequila instead makes for a complex drink that’s smoky but refreshing. Served up, it’s a martini lover’s perfect segue to tequila.

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Wild Alaskan seafood is the star of this pairing dinner, with fish from Sitka Salmon Shares and beers from Wisconsin Brewing Company; the five-course meal will be prepared by Forequarter. Grilled sockeye salmon, sweet and sour sablefish and oil-poached Coho salmon are among the entrees. At WBC, 1079 American Way, Verona. Tickets ($85) via eventbrite.com.

Four-course beer pairing dinner at the Avenue Club, 1128 E. Washington Ave., featuring scallops, pork belly, roasted chicken and apple galette, and beers from Une Annee, Deschutes, MobCraft and more; vegetarian and gluten-free options available. Proceeds benefit Second Harvest Foodbank.

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While the expectations of many Badgers basketball fans are justifiably lower than they were last year at this time — we miss you already, Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker — the University of Wisconsin men’s team is pumped to tip off its 2015 nonconference schedule Nov. 13 against Western Illinois at the Kohl Center. The Badgers will do so with a trio of juniors who gained invaluable experience during Wisconsin’s thrilling back-to-back Final Four runs the past two seasons.

Heading into his 15th year as Badgers head coach, Bo Ryan will look to 6-foot-8 forward Nigel Hayes for leadership on and off the court. There was talk of him bolting to the NBA, remember? “I’m nowhere near good enough to do anything but come back,” Hayes told reporters after the devastating 68-63 loss to Duke in the NCAA Championship Game last April.

Now that’s he’s back, he needs to help fill the void left by the departures of not only Kaminsky, Dekker and Duje Dukan to the NBA but also Josh Gasser and Traevon Jackson.

Hayes averages 10.1 points and 6.2 rebounds per game, and he scored 16 points during a 101-46 drubbing of UW-River Falls in an exhibition game at the Kohl Center last week.

Look for big things from guards Bronson Koenig and Zak Showalter, too. Koenig learned a lot when he stepped in last January after Jackson broke his right foot and started the Badgers’ final 24 games, shooting 44.2% from the threepoint line during that time. Showalter shined off the bench, especially during UW’s 79-72 win over North Carolina in the Sweet 16. Even junior forward Vitto Brown, who saw hardly any postseason action, will likely play several minutes per game this season.

That leaves a slew of sophomores and, especially, freshmen. Among the newbies to watch are 6-foot-9 redshirt freshman forward Ethan Happ from Milan, Ill. He practiced against Kaminsky every day last season and is the only 2014 recruit on scholarship. He played headsup, aggressive ball while scoring 16 points against UW-River Falls.

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When Ron Wallace accepted a teaching position in the University of Wisconsin’s English department in 1972, he got some practical advice from Frank Miller, a family friend and professor at Washington University School of Law. “Frank told me, ‘Go there and make yourself indispensable,’” Wallace remembers.

“And that’s what I tried to do.”

Few terms work as well as “indispensable” when describing the impact Wallace — co-director of UW’s program in creative writing, Halls-Bascom Professor of English and Felix Pollak Professor of Poetry — has made on the university. He founded the UW undergraduate program in creative writing in 1978, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing (post-MFA fellowships) and University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series, both in 1985. He also co-founded the MFA program in creative writing in 2002.

Along the way, Wallace, 70, wrote almost two dozen books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction and criticism. Meanwhile the honors poured in — including three distinguished teaching awards and the Associated Writers and Writing Programs’ George Garrett Award for outstanding community service in literature.

On Dec. 31, Wallace will retire from the university he helped transform over the course of 43 years.

He plans to write “the great poems of my old age” while he and his wife, Peg, split time between their Madison home and a farmhouse in Bear Valley. But he won’t be leaving the UW behind (nor will the UW be filling his position). Wallace expects to retain an office in the English department, where he will volunteer consulting services and read student applications.

A reception for Wallace will take place Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. He will read from his two new collections of accessible poetry, For Dear Life and You Can’t Be Serious. Both feature what he calls “haiku sonnets,” a new form he created, which he says places “the contemporary sonnet in conversation with the classical haiku.”

Jesse Lee Kercheval says it was a profound experience working with Ron Wallace. “I could write a page for every day I have worked with [him],” says Kercheval, one of his English department colleagues. “And since he was director of creative writing when I was hired at Wisconsin in 1987, I think that would be a 72,000-page book.”

Wallace arrived in Madison in 1972 on a one-year visiting appointment to teach creative writing. The year before he’d wrapped up his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.

In 1973, Wallace was given a more permanent position at UW-Madison. By 1982,

Wallace will read new works at his retirement reception on Nov. 19 at the Pyle Center.

“I love the times he’s knocked on my he was a full professor, teaching poetry and ficdoor, student manuscript in hand, big tion workshops, plus courses in 19th- and 20thgrin on his face, to tell me that a mutual century literature. student of ours has written a stunning “Before all that, I sold underwear,” Wallace poem or a moving short story,” says Judith says with a dry sense of humor that makes you Claire Mitchell, director of the UW’s MFA wonder whether he’s fibbing. (When asked for program in creative writing. “How can stuclarification, he confirms he did, indeed, work in dents not love and work their hardest for a a St. Louis department store.) teacher like that?”

He also wrote poems on the side — a talent It is in that spirit that the English dehe discovered as a 13-year-old when a teacher partment plans to establish an annual handed out mimeographed pages of Emily $1,000 prize in Wallace’s name to be Dickinson poems. “I read them and thought, awarded to one undergraduate writer of a ‘There’s power and mystery here. I need to do senior poetry thesis. what’s she’s doing,’” Wallace says. “There’s no “I hope I’m remembered,” Wallace says, money in poetry, so you don’t need to write to again with a hint of that dry humor. an audience or write something you think will Don’t worry, Ron. You will be. n sell. You just write what you feel. And sometimes, when no other language works — like after 9/11 or at a Rounded With a Sleep funeral — people turn to poetry.” after Issa Today, thanks in large part to Wallace’s efforts over four My two-year-old granddaughter won’t go to bed. Life, decades, Wisconsin is the only she thinks, is too good to sleep away, so, suddenly, she is university in the country to offer loquacious. Things that had held no interest all day—a creative writing at the underwooden block, a plastic doll, a piece of lint, a dewdrop, graduate, graduate and postare now worthy of her full attention. Oh, yes, graduate levels. she is much too busy to attend to her mother, and I But Wallace is quick to give am but a small annoyance, an impediment. I am credit to colleagues and students of little consequence. Bedtime? She’s not convinced. who helped build the program And so we sit back and let her regale us. Life over the years. Renowned alums is something she knows a lot about. She is include Anthony Doerr, winner talking on and on to herself, she is a stream, a of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction flow, an ocean of talk, and we are but a dewdrop. for 2014’s All the Light We Cannot It’s late. We know this is going to have to end, and See; David Clewell, an English we’re going to have to convince her. And yet, and yet. professor at Webster University and former poet laureate of MisNote: This is an example of one of Wallace’s haiku sonnets, in souri; and Lauren Groff, author of which the last words of each line, read vertically top to bottom, the novel Fates and Furies, a 2015 form a haiku by the Japanese poet Issa. Reprinted with permission from For Dear Life (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015).

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Embracing the weirdness Sunspot’s digital pioneers shine through the decades peer-to-peer file-sharing system wreaked havoc on the music business, but it worked to Sunspot’s advantage, says Jaeger, the band’s bass player. People halfway around the world who would never attend a gig in Madison were able to hear Sunspot’s music.

Some became serious fans, even sending band members gifts from overseas.

Rock essentially vacated the Top 40 after grunge flamed out by the late 1990s.

Surrounded by Lilith Fair-style artists, Limp Bizkit imitators and awkward ska and swing resurgences, Sunspot managed to keep shining well into the new millennium, outlasting many of their peers — both locally and around the country.

One reason for that longevity is the fact that band members have always treated Sunspot like a business. For two of them, Sunspot is essentially a full-time gig. And because the band doesn’t fit nicely into one specific genre, it never had to live up to the expectations of a fickle audience.

The band members, all now 38 years old, are not ashamed to admit that their musical influences range from Queen and Iron Maiden to Brad Paisley and Weezer to Green Day and Social Distortion.

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“We’ve been working together for so many years that when we go to write and record, we have the process down and can focus more on the creativity. We’re like brothers and sisters.”

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When Mike Huberty, Ben Jaeger and Wendy Lynn Staats met as freshmen in 1996 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they formed a band they eventually called Sunspot. The trio began making epic-sounding power pop and never stopped.

The music is sunny on one side and dark on the other. Quirky songs ripe with metaphors blur the lines between the paranormal and pop culture, finding inspiration from the likes of sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke and occultist Aleister Crowley.

“We wanted to play in front of thousands of people and make it big,” says Huberty, who sings lead vocals and plays bass. “We never thought of the songs as quirky, really. We kind of figured that out later: Why doesn’t anybody else have songs about werewolves?”

Sunspot soon learned to embrace its charming weirdness, and almost two decades later, the band members are making some of the best music of their career.

New album Weirdest Hits is an aptly titled compilation of songs culled from Sunspot’s popular paranormal podcast, “See You On the Other Side.” Each week’s episode is punctuated with a Sunspot song. Originally released in the form of several EPs, these songs are now available on Weirdest Hits.

Ghosts, aliens and ancient prophecies populate the album, which also includes three new songs: “Mother of Time,” “Don’t Shoot First” and “Messiah Complex” — a sing-along thrill ride about aliens, early Christianity and survival.

Power pop meets paranormal: Sunspot at the Majestic, Sept. 29.

Sunspot knows all about surviving.

The trio embraced digital technology long before many other bands of their era, resulting in an international fan base. Talking about the old days with Sunspot is like taking a crash course in the history of the Internet.

First, there was the band’s vintage GeoCities website with psychedelic colors and RealAudio song samples in 1997. By 2000, members of Sunspot were personally sending emails to fans and inviting them to upcoming gigs. They also

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frequented Yahoo Chat, a free online chat room service that allowed participants to play songs for each other live on the Internet and then comment on them.

From 2005 to 2014, the band recorded about 250 podcasts from a touring van, and in 2012, Sunspot hosted Google Hangouts on a regular basis.

Then there were the letters they wrote at the turn of the millennium to members of Congress, urging their support of Napster. The pioneering

Musical homecoming UW’s alumni deliver a wondrous array of compositions

BY JAY RATH

Kevin Ernste William Rhoads

Jeffrey Stadelman

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out, combining the natural resonance and reverberation of two gongs with electronic playback. Ernste’s “Numina” made an explicit altar of Finn’s harp, making visual and musical references to the Vatican’s inability to prevent priests from abusing children.

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The second free concert, on Nov. 6, featured works for wind ensemble. The UW’s professor Stephen Dembski should be congratulated for helping to organize the composers’ visits. Hopefully, Madison audiences can look forward to similar events in the future. n

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When we attend concerts to hear live music, we bring our eyes as well as our ears.

More than that, we bring our minds, ready for attentive and challenging listening.

On Nov. 6-7 the University of WisconsinMadison School of Music offered a rare treat for all the senses: a homecoming of celebrated alumni composers. They presented exciting work, some of it postmodern, some of it emphasizing novel, symbolic staging and motion — along with a few world premieres.

The composers are Kevin Ernste, professor of composition at Cornell University; Paula Matthusen, assistant professor of music at Wesleyan University; Jeffrey Stadelman, associate professor of music composition at the State University of New York at Buffalo; William Rhoads, on staff of the

Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York City; and Andrew Rindfleisch, professor of composition at Cleveland State University.

On Thursday, Nov. 5, the first of two Madison concerts included chamber music performed by the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, members of the Wingra Woodwind Quintet and several others, notably harpist Lauren Finn.

The concert opened with Rindfleisch’s “In the Zone,” a bright, entertaining and clever take on Renaissance musical form, very suggestive of Charles Ives.

The premieres were Rhoads’ “Nothing Personal” and Stadelman’s “Enticements.” The first was a rich exploration of tonality and timbre, a salute to his teachers. The second was a canon based on a Schoenberg motif, approaching the idea of music as sculpture.

For sheer wonder, Matthusen’s “of whole movements and migrations” easily stood

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“This is my message to you” Dance concert tackles homophobia in West Indian culture

BY KATIE REISER

“I always expect a lot from my audiences,” says Christopher Walker, the Jamaica-born associate professor of dance at UW-Madison. His upcoming concert is no exception.

In FACING Home: Love & Redemption, Walker asks audiences to contrast the homophobia that is deep-seated in Jamaican culture with the sunny and loving vibe of the country’s main music export, reggae.

The contemporary dance concert is a collaboration with longtime friend and fellow Jamaican Kevin Ormsby, a Toronto-based choreographer and founder of KasheDance.

After launching in Madison Nov. 19-21, the show will tour to other locations in the Midwest, Toronto and the Caribbean.

In FACING Home, Walker and Ormsby use the music of Bob Marley to explore themes of love, redemption and hope, exposing the paradox of Marley’s hugely popular songs preaching justice while oppression in Jamaica — in particular against gays and lesbians — is still such a reality.

The new works had their genesis in Walker’s project FACING Home: A Phobia,

Pierre Clark (left) and Kevin Ormsby in “Cooya! Mans an’ mans.”

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which premiered in New York City in 2013. That project examined the exodus of LGBT people from countries where living “out” is not safe.

“Many gay men and women can’t participate and have access like everyone else due to their sexual orientation and are forced to move

elsewhere to self-actualize and develop,” says Walker, whose own story involves exodus.

Walker says he would not have been able to live openly with his partner in Jamaica: “I would have had to spend half the day just figuring out how to survive.”

Walker is nervous about bringing the production to the Cayman Islands and Jamaica, “scared as fuck,” in fact, about the March 2016 performance at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies. Incidents of violent gay-bashing have been reported there, including one captured on video where 2,000 people attacked a man after a rumor spread that he had made advances toward a student in a restroom. But Walker is hopeful that the performance will generate conversation about the stigmas of homosexuality and rally the LGBT community.

He’s also feeling positive about the progress made in the quest for acceptance and equality in Madison. Walker married his longtime partner last spring, and he serves on the board of the Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools (GSAFE).

FACING Home will play at Lathrop Hall’s Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space. The Nov. 19 performance is geared toward high school and college students and will feature a talkback session.

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Exploring difficult terrain Kanopy Dance Company revives a classic

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Kanopy Dance’s upcoming revival of Charles Weidman’s 1936 dance masterwork, “Lynchtown,” is an important concert for those looking to understand the evolution of modern art forms.

Weidman, like Martha Graham, was part of a wave of dance innovation, breaking away from ballet and looking to folk and even ballroom movement to formulate an entirely new medium: modern dance. And he used dance to comment on social phenomena, such as mob mentality.

Although it was based on an incident Weidman witnessed as a child, “Lynchtown” is far from being a museum piece. “Sadly enough, it’s very relevant today in its content, and in its sense of mass violence, mass hysteria,” says Kanopy co-artistic director Lisa Thurrell.

“Lynchtown,” has been restaged before, with varied success. The original was never filmed, says Thurrell. “Keeping these works alive is a pretty crucial and fascinating process.”

Fortunately, Kanopy was able to bring in Weidman associates Deb Carr and Samantha Geracht Myers. “So much of it is the handing down from one person to the next,” says Thurrell. “We’re getting a very direct lineage.”

Sierra Kay Powell in “Lynchtown.”

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“Lynchtown” is the headliner for Kanopy’s Juxtaposed!, a concert of contrasts featuring Chicago-based Winifred Haun & Dancers. It also includes Thurrell’s poetrybased “Come Months, Come Away”; “Promise,” based on John Steinbeck’s East of Eden; and a Robert Cleary original titled “This Is Not America.”

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Cosmic perfection Forward Theater’s Silent Sky inspires passion and wonder

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It’s complicated: Rosy Bayuk (from left), Laura Varela, Judy Kimball and Isabella Virrueta.

Messy humans The Clean House looks at life’s challenging moments When The Clean House begins, Lane, a repressed doctor, lives in an immaculate house with stark white walls and leather couch, one potted plant perfectly positioned on a windowsill. By the end, her perfect home is littered with wadded-up paper, halfeaten apples, turmeric, potting soil and a large yew tree.

Sarah Ruhl’s quirky Pulitzer finalist, presented by Madison Theatre Guild through Nov. 21 at the Bartell Theatre, uses “clean” as a metaphor for sterile relationships, a need for control and misplaced priorities.

In her opening monologue, Lane (Rosy Bayuk) announces that going to medical school exempts her from having to clean her own house. Her sister, Virginia (Judy

Kimball), explains that cleaning provides her a sense of accomplishment, and Matilde (Isabella Virrueta), Lane’s Brazilian cleaning lady, has more important work to do: She is trying to create the world’s perfect joke.

Lane’s husband Charles (Edric Johnson), a surgeon, falls in love with Ana (Laura Varela), a terminally ill Argentinean patient, who quickly inserts herself as part of the family. In the midst of the unraveling, characters reach out in unexpected ways to find compassion for one another.

The production could have been more effective if it was, well, messier, but Madison Theatre Guild should be commended for taking on such a challenging play, encouraging audiences to pursue laughter instead of order.

— GWENDOLYN RICE

It’s not often that all the elements of a perfect show cluster together like stars in a constellation.

Forward Theater Company’s production of Silent Sky, which runs through Nov. 22 at the Overture Center, has it all. Its delicate script has crisp dialogue, humor and emotion to boot. It takes place on a stage twinkling with starlight and features a winsome cast.

Written by Lauren Gunderson, Silent Sky is based on the true story of unsung hero Henrietta Swan Leavitt (Clare Arena Haden), an educated woman in pre-suffrage Massachusetts (Wisconsin, in this version).

She is recruited by Harvard’s astronomy department to work as a “computer,” studying and cataloging the stars — not even allowed to touch the coveted telescope.

Along the way to her great discovery — figuring out the relationship between variable star brightness and the lengths of their pulses, a finding that would inform all of modern astronomy — Leavitt falls for her employer, Peter (a poignant, lovestruck Michael Huftile); makes lifelong friends with co-workers Annie (Colleen Madden) and

Clare Arena Haden lights up the stage as Henrietta.

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Willamina (Carrie Hitchcock); and shares a powerful bond with her sister Margaret (played by Liz Cassarino).

Haden’s Henrietta has a smile that lights the room as brightly as the stars she loves.

On my way back to my car, an older couple rode up in the garage elevator with me.

Clasping his theater program, the man said to his wife, “Let’s go look at the stars!” Silent Sky inspires that kind of passion and wonder.

— LAURA JONES

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“No music, no life” All Things Must Pass follows the rise and fall of Tower Records

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

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Nostalgic yet informative, the documentary All Things Must Pass by actorturned-director Colin Hanks presents a lively history of the rise and fall of Tower Records. At once a celebratory history and cautionary tale, the film is steeped in the cultural legacy of our recent past. Record stores rode the crest of the baby boomers’ love affair with music and the explosion of vinyl, only to find their business plans and brick-and-mortar footprints challenged by the digital revolution in music delivery.

Hanks is fortunate to have at the heart of his documentary the irrepressible Russ Solomon, founder of Tower Records. The octogenarian’s recollections are supplemented with those of key employees and a wealth of well-chosen archival photos.

At the heart of the story is the ethos that guided Solomon and his devoted staff as Tower Records grew from a single store in Sacramento, Calif., to a worldwide enterprise. Music devotees were turned into knowledgeable employees, while the business’ growth was underwritten by the young consumers of the 1960s and ’70s for whom music had become personal and meaningful. The stores served as much as social hub as retail outlet. “No music, no life” was the chain’s motto.

The company’s rise and fall is part and parcel of its era. Once the Sacramento outlet expanded to open a store on L.A.’s Sunset Strip, within spitting distance of all the record companies’ headquarters, Tower Records grew to iconic status. Elton John, in one of the crucial non-employee interviews (David Geffen, Bruce Springs-

The company grew to iconic status after opening a store on L.A.’s Sunset Strip.

teen and Dave Grohl are some of the others), would ritualistically come in every Tuesday morning and walk all the aisles with a list of planned purchases, while his limo driver followed with a container to hold them all. The fantastic heyday of the store and its rapid expansion throughout the U.S. and into Japan (where the company still thrives) is a giddy ride made only more wistful by the death throes of the chain’s excruciating final years and ultimate dissolution in 2006.

Solomon’s skills as a raconteur, the employees’ unabashed love for their work and the constant stream of rock music playing in the background advance the film into something much more than a talking-heads documentary.

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Occasionally repetitive, the film is nevertheless full of little moments like Springsteen’s poetic description of the stores as the place where “your dreams met the

listener” or a shot of the budgetary line entry for “handtruck fuel” (code name for cocaine). All Things Must Pass is a rock doc keeper. n

Carey Mulligan plays a radicalized working mother.

Misbehaving women Suffragette is a one-dimensional look at activists in Britain

BY SCOTT RENSHAW

How does one treat a movie that seems made to be taken seriously as drama, but really only succeeds as melodrama? Set in 1912 East London, Suffragette wraps real historical characters around the tale of Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), a young laundress, wife and mother who improbably finds herself joining with a freshly radicalized faction of the British women’s suffrage movement.

And a brutal existence it is: police beatings, jailings, losing custody of her son, harass-

ment by her employer and surveillance by a veteran inspector (Brendan Gleeson).

Indeed, the story’s primary purpose seems to be chronicling in detail how awful it was to be at the forefront of this cause, and how horrible all the men (and women) standing in their way were. It works, for a while, on that visceral level of watching other people suffer for rights that are now taken for granted, but that’s really all it can manage. It’s all about the powerful emotional response to being on the right side of history. n

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The 33: Drama based on the real-life incident in which 33 workers at a Chilean mine were trapped after a massive rock blocked the only exit, inspiring rescue efforts that drew international attention.

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Labyrinth of Lies: Tale of fighting German institutional attempts to cover up Nazi war crimes post-World War II. Love the Coopers: Four generations get together for annual Christmas Eve celebration, and things go awry.

Recent releases The Peanuts Movie: For those who faithfully read the beloved comic strip, this tribute will comfort like a blue security blanket, bringing back memories of lovable loser Charlie Brown and his gang.

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Spectre: The newest James Bond film fails to deliver past a thrilling opening sequence. It feels trite and tired, which is a particular disappointment for a series that had, until now, avoided that trap.

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The Best of John and Faith Hubley: Collection of nine independent short films from 1956 to 1970. Chazen, Nov. 15, 2 pm.

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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution: Documentary about the militant civil rights fighters. Union South Marquee, Nov. 15, 5:30 pm.

Cemetery of Splendour: A mysterious sleeping sickness among soldiers connects them to volunteers and a psychic trying to help them communicate. MMoCA, Nov. 18, 7 pm.

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Dude Bro Party Massacre III: Comic take on ’80s slasher flicks. Union South Marquee, Nov. 13, 11:30 pm.

Exposed: Nastassja Kinski stars as a Wisconsin farm girl who escapes to New York City for romance and danger. Union South Marquee, Nov. 16, 7 pm.

Goodnight Mommy: Twin brothers suspect their mother, hidden by bandages, is not who she says she is. Union South Marquee, Nov. 14, 11:30 pm.

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Jafar Panahi’s Taxi: The director (banned from making films in Iran) poses as a cab driver, picking up fares in the streets of Tehran, talking about morality and movies. Union South Marquee, Nov. 13, 5 pm.

Jane B. par Agnes V.: The everyday life of Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg and Charlotte Gainsbourg as interpreted fantastically by director Agnes Varda. Cinematheque, Nov. 14, 7 pm.

Le petit amour (aka Kung-Fu Master): A divorcee (Jane Birkin) falls for a 14-year-old boy. Cinematheque, Nov. 14, 9 pm.

The Look of Silence: Documentary follows a family who survives genocide in Indonesia. Central Library, Nov. 14, 1 pm.

Mighty Uke: Documentary about the return of the ukulele to popular awareness. Ashman Library, Nov. 13, 6:45 pm.

The Second Mother: The arrival of a live-in housekeeper’s estranged daughter challenges class barriers. Union South Marquee, Nov. 14, 6:30 pm.

Tu Dors Nicole: A peaceful summer is interrupted by the arrival of a garage band recording an album. Union South Marquee, Nov. 15, 3:30 pm.

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Mitski Wednesday, Nov. 18, The Frequency, 8:30 pm Few artists write pop songs with the vulnerability of Mitski. On her recent album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, the Brooklyn musician rips through a half-hour’s worth of cutting, punky tunes, throwing visceral shrieks on top of bubblegum hooks and showcasing her brutal, yet personal, lyrics. With Palehound, PWR BTTM.

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Thursday, Nov. 12, High Noon Saloon, 8:30 pm

Sweden doesn’t exactly have a reputation as a hip-hop hotbed, but these Nordic sons are seeking to change that. Combining swing and jazz influences with rap, Movits! is one of the genre’s most inventive acts, winning fans such as Stephen Colbert, who invited them to play on The Colbert Report in 2009. With Chicago’s Sidewalk Chalk.

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Four Seasons Cabaret Thursday, Nov. 12, Memorial Union Play Circle, 7 pm

Passafire Thursday, Nov. 12, The Frequency, 9 pm

Since forming in 2003 by students at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgiabased reggae rockers Passafire have toured relentlessly, playing shows with the likes of 311, Michael Franti and the Wailers. “What keeps it fun and exciting is the people we meet and the places we get to see,” says singer Ted Browne. With Lionize, TUGG. Babe’s Restaurant: Robert J, Americana, 6:30 pm.

Barrymore Theatre: Gogol Bordello, gypsy punk, 8 pm.

Bos Meadery: Hoot n’ Annie, string band, free, 6 pm.

Brink Lounge: Mike Massey & Francie Phelps, 7 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm.

Essen Haus: WheelHouse, free, 9 pm.

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Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Jim Ripp, pianos, 9 pm.

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Kiki’s House: Sam Baker, Carrie Elkin, house concert (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com), 8 pm.

Majestic Theatre: The Travelin’ McCourys, Andy Thorn & Drew Emmitt, Old Salt Union, 8:30 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Compact Deluxe, free, 10 pm.

Overture Center-Capitol Theater: Jason Isbell, Elizabeth Cook, Americana, 7:30 pm.

Overture Center-Lobby: Annabel Lee, free, 6 pm.

The Red Zone: Acideon, Sean Paul, Lane Alexander, Jorge the Ogre, electronic, 9 pm.

Stoughton Village Players Theater: Stoughton Chamber Singers, “Gershwin & Friends,” 7 pm. Also: 7 pm, 11/13.

Rory Scovel Thursday, Nov. 12, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Described as “a storyteller, philosopher and absurdist,” Rory Scovel is one of the most original voices in contemporary comedy. He starred on the TBS sitcom Ground Floor and has appeared everywhere from Bonnaroo to Bumbershoot, bringing his off-kilter routine with him. His last album was recorded at Jack White’s Third Man Records and is available exclusively on vinyl. With Ian Erickson. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), Nov. 13-14.

Four Seasons Theatre brings professionalism and pizazz to all its productions, and the company’s cabaret nights give musical stars a chance to shine. Amy L. Welk is a veteran performer who has appeared in eight Four Seasons productions, including Anne of Green Gables. She brings her gorgeous voice and love of musicals to the intimate Play Circle for a memorable night.

This eclectic multi-instrumentalist was a “hired gun” musician for many prominent recording artists of the 1970s, including Bob Dylan, the Eagles, Willie Nelson, Ringo Starr and Carly Simon.

Silent Sky: Forward Theater Company, 11/5-22, Overture Center-Playhouse, at 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 & 7:30 pm Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays, and 7:30 pm, 11/17; pre-show talks Thurs. & Sun. $45-$37. 258-4141.

Big Expectations: 8 pm, 11/12-14, Broom Street Theater. $11. 244-8338.

The Game of Love and Chance: 10/30-11/22, American Players Theatre, Spring Green. $74-$45. 588-2361.

Jim Leary: Discussing “Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946,” 6:30 pm, 11/12, UW Memorial Library. 265-2505.

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WALL Reading Series: Poetry by Angela Voras-Hills, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Lisa Vihos, Rebecca Dunham, Rita Mae Reese, Sean Karns, Wendy Vardaman, 7 pm, 11/12, Artists & Literature Laboratory. allgallery.org.

Friday, Nov. 13, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm

The Clean House: Madison Theatre Guild production, 11/6-21, Bartell Theatre, at 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays (2 pm on 11/21) and 2 pm, 11/15. $20. 661-9696.

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That’s What She Said: Head Noise: Original stories by local raconteurs, 7:30 pm on 11/12 and 8 pm, 11/13, Brink Lounge. $15. 358-9609.

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Richard Haas: “The Madison Project,” presentation drawings for murals, 11/13-1/10, Chazen Museum of Art (artist lecture 5:30 pm & reception 6:30-8 pm, 11/12, with music by Ben Ferris Trio). 263-2246.

SP ECTATOR SP ORTS UW Wrestling: vs. UW-Whitewater, 7 pm, 11/12, Field House. $5. 262-1440.

Night Moves Friday, Nov. 13, Union South–The Sett, 9 pm

This Minneapolis trio’s music pinballs between psychedelia, folk and country, and 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 Jack and the Coax.

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Friday, Nov. 13, Overture Hall, 8 pm

Holiday Fantasy in Lights: Drive-through display with animated light sculptures, dusk to dawn, 11/141/3, Olin Park. Donations appreciated upon exit. fantasyinlights.com. 239-7888.

Madison Opera presents La Bohème, Puccini’s classic account of the tribulations of two young couples living la vie bohème in the Latin quarter of 1830s Paris. A tragic love story that has been moving audiences for more than a century, it is set to a famously lush score. ALSO: Sunday, Nov. 15, 2:30 pm.

Pepper Friday, Nov. 13, High Noon Saloon, 9 pm

These Kailua-Kona natives have spent the past two decades perfecting their reggae/ punk/dub hybrid sound, which has earned them a growing global fan base and a couple of headlining slots on the Vans Warped Tour. With Ballyhoo!, Katastro.

Juxtaposed!

Friday, Nov. 13, Overture Center’s Promenade Hall, 7:30 pm

Before Martha Graham created her own technique and company, she performed and studied with modern dance pioneers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. Kanopy Dance Company goes back to these roots by presenting Weidman’s 1936 “Lynchtown.”

Chicago-based company Winifred Haun & Dancers will also perform excerpts from “Promise,” inspired by Steinbeck’s East of Eden. See page 34. ALSO: Saturday (5 & 8 pm) and Sunday (2:30 pm), Nov. 14-15.

The Crucible Friday, Nov. 13, Edgewood College’s Diane Ballweg Theatre, 7:30 pm

Iji Friday, Nov. 13, Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm

Seattle’s Iji makes chilled out, groove-oriented music: technicolor pop songs highlighted by funky guitars, whispered vocals and swells of horns. Part late-night lounge and part sunny beach, Iji is touring behind its recent release, Whatever Will Happen.

With Trophy Dad, Style and new local outfit Tippy (featuring members of Christian Dior and We Should Have Been DJs).

Brink Lounge: Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, 8 pm.

Capitol Lakes-Grand Hall: Arbor Ensemble, free, 7 pm.

Cardinal: Nathan Gerlach, 5:30 pm; Greta Thorn, 9 pm.

The Frequency: The American Dead, Help Desk, I Am Dragon, Not Dead Yet, 10 pm.

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

Ivory Room: Taras Nahirniak, Andrew Rohn, 8 pm.

Johnson Public House: Ben Ferris Quintet, Nighttime Quartet, jazz, 4 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Ryan McGrath Band, 9 pm.

Edgewood College presents Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, an allegory of the McCarthyism of the 1950s based on the Salem witch trials. The play’s themes — mob mentality, personal freedom and identity — still resonate deeply with today’s audiences. ALSO: Saturday and Thursday (7:30 pm), Nov. 14 & 19. Through Nov. 21.

ART E XHIBITS & EV ENTS Sally Hutchison, Andrew Rubin, Barbara Walton: Paintings, 11/13-12/18, Edgewood College-The Stream Gallery (lecture by Walton 4 pm and reception 5-7:30 pm, 11/13). 663-3252.

Primordia: Prints, sketches & research materials for Gregory Vershbow’s “The Alchemist’s Tree,” through 12/30, UW Elvehjem Building-Kohler Art Library (reception 5-7 pm, 11/13). 262-3193.

sat nov 14 MUS I C

Majestic: Elephant Revival, Giving Tree Band, 9 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Hired Rivals, Sons of Kong, free, 10 pm.

Overture-Capitol Theater: MadHatters, 7:30 pm.

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Inspired in equal parts by ragtime blues, John Steinbeck and the mighty Mississippi River, this St. Louis native plays American roots music with joyful abandon. With Margo & the Price Tags.

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

Brink Lounge: The Moon Gypsies, rock, 8:30 pm.

Buck & Honey’s, Sun Prairie: David Hecht, 6:30 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Vinyl Thunder, rock, 9 pm.

Come Back In: Bill Roberts Combo, free, 9 pm.

Frequency: The Cutouts, The Locals, Jaems Murphy’s Vedic Eden, 7 pm; Bright Light Social Hour, SWIMM, 11 pm.

Grace Episcopal Church: Madison Music Makers, noon.

Great Dane-Hilldale: The Beat Chefs, 9 pm.

Harmony Bar: The Grasshoppers, jam rock, 9:45 pm.

Lazy Oaf Lounge: Unity, free, 10 pm.

Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Stan Godfriaux, 6:30 pm.

Liquid: Nightmre, 10 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Willy Porter, Phat Phunktion, UW Carbone Cancer Center benefit, 8 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: The Drain (CD release), The Moguls, German Art Students, free, 10 pm.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church: Leonard Sorkin International Institute of Chamber Music, 3 pm.

Tempest Oyster Bar: Igneous, 9:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Jon Hoel Trio, jazz, free, 10 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Thirsty Jones, 9 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras, 1:30 & 4 pm (also: 1:30 pm, 11/15); UW Madrigal Singers, “Not in Front of the Children,” mature audiences, free, 8 pm.

SP ECIAL EV ENTS An Evening at Maria’s: Pop-up venue, 6 pm, 11/14, 1444 E. Washington Ave. (Art In Gallery space), with music by Oedipus Tex, Negative Example, spoken word, ARTworking artists. $10-$5. facebook.com/ events/1612828668977510.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Soh-Hyun Park Altino, violin, UW School of Music concert, 8 pm.

Wil-Mar Center: John Duggleby & Dave Hopper, 8 pm.

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Following its inaugural production at Broom Street Theater in January, StageQ is remounting Finding Human, Madison playwright Dan Myers’ candid production about the realities of prison life.

Recommended for mature audiences only. ALSO: Saturday and Thursday (8 pm), Nov. 14 & 19. Through Nov. 28.

Fringe Character Saturday, Nov. 14, Crystal Corner Bar, 9:30pm

Madison’s Fringe Character describes itself as a “nuelectrosoulhop” band, combining the freshest elements of electronic, soul and hip-hop into a high-energy, groove-based act that showcases 10 live musicians. Sporting two emcees, a wind section and live electronics, Fringe Character cranks out hook-laden tunes you’ll be humming after you leave the show.

With Madison Afrobeat masters Immigré.

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Bos Meadery: Ruth B8r Ginsberg, free, 6 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Tani Diakite & Afrofunkstars, 10 pm.

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Badger Bowl: Charm School Rejects, 9:15 pm.

Tempest Oyster Bar: Tony Barba Trio, free, 9:30 pm.

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Jeff Alexander, Simone Silva: Photographs/paintings, 11/14-1/1, Bandung (reception 8 pm, 11/14). 255-6910.

Babe’s Restaurant: Rod Ellenbecker, 7:30 pm.

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The Red Zone: Hemlock, Falling From Fiction, Blackmarket Democracy, Chaosophy, 8 pm.

Winter Art Fair off the Square: Wisconsin Alliance of Artists & Craftspeople showcase, 9 am-5 pm on 11/14 and 10 am-4 pm, 11/15, Monona Terrace. $3 admission (free ages under 12). artcraftwis.org.

Cirque Mechanics Saturday, Nov. 14, Capitol Theater, 8 pm

Acrobatics, clowning and bicycles make up the heart of Cirque Mechanics’ Pedal Punk. Enter the weird and wonderful world of a bicycle mechanic who creates magical machines. This steampunk-inspired show is modern circus at its best. ALSO: Sunday, Nov. 15, 3 pm.

The Chainsmokers Sunday, Nov. 15, Liquid, 9 pm

This New York City-based electronic dance DJ duo returns to Madison after an appearance at this year’s Revelry Festival.

Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall are rich in millennial cultural capital, thanks to dancefloor hits like “#SELFIE,” which boasts over 380 million YouTube views. With Matoma, Shaun Frank, Louis the Child.

Drive-By Truckers Sunday, Nov. 15, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

Formed in 1996 by longtime collaborators Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, Southern rock juggernaut Drive-By Truckers have enjoyed two decades as one of the most fiercely beloved bands in the world, uniting fans of country, alternative rock and punk alike, thanks in no small part to their near-constant touring schedule. With Dexateens.

Sage Francis Sunday, Nov. 15, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

A lifelong poet who snuck out of his parents’ Rhode Island home at age 12 to participate in rap battles, Sage Francis is widely (and rightly) considered one of his generation’s finest lyricists. Since forming his label Strange Famous in 1996, the emcee has made six studio albums and eight mixtapes full of politically charged, poignant hip-hop. His most recent, Copper Gone, was released in 2014. With B. Dolan.

Edgewood College-St. Joseph Chapel: Edgewood College Jazz Ensemble, Luke House benefit, 2:30 pm.

The Frequency: Altered Perceptions, Sleep Signals, A Tragedy at Hand, 8 pm.

Harmony Bar: Cajun Strangers, 7 pm.

Heritage Congregational Church: Cindy Bacon Hammer, David Newman, classical, 3 pm.

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Big City Rhythm & Blues Magazine Awards: 4 pm, 11/15, Knuckle Down Saloon, with performers including Paul Filipowicz, Bryan Lee, Jim Liban, Reverend Raven, The Jimmys, more. $20. 222-7800.

Joelle Charbonneau: Discussing “Need,” her YA thriller, 6:30 pm, 11/17, Sequoya Library. 266-6385.

A RT EX H I B I TS & E VE N TS The Crafty Fair: Annual indie artist showcase, 10 am-4 pm, 11/15, Goodman Community Center.

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Sexy Ester’s Vinyl Release Party Monday, Nov. 16, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Sexy Ester’s self-titled LP has been pressed to vinyl and is coming to a turntable near you. Pick up a copy at this unorthodox release show, where four handpicked local bands will perform Sexy Ester covers along with their own material. We’ll certainly miss the live energy of frontwoman Lyndsey Evans and company, but Sexy Esther trusts this eclectic bill of Skizzwhores, Lazydeadpoet, Gods in the Chrysalis and Sheshe — and so do we.

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Jerry Apps: Discussing Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir,” with journalist Doug Moe, 7 pm, 11/17, HotelRED. 283-9332.

Peace Corps Story Slam: True tales from abroad, 7-9 pm, 11/17, Argus Bar & Grille. $5 (free with 2 cans for food pantry). 658-5537.

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Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers Wednesday, Nov. 18, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Even those who have never heard of Roger Clyne have heard him play guitar as bandleader for the Refreshments, the group that provided the riff-tastic theme to TV’s King of the Hill.

Since the late ’90s, Clyne’s been playing in Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, a pop-rock outfit with Southwestern influences. With Birdcloud.

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

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Tom Carter is a member of cult psych band Charalambides, has two additional duos and now he’s incorporating visuals into his solo sets. He forms walls of sound with the electric guitar, playing heavy, drone-filled music that is both meditative and abrasive, enveloping listeners with slow-building long-form explorations.

With Conjuror, Patrick Best & Taralie Peterson.

Glen Hansard

When indie-centric folk music took to the world stage in the mid-2000s, Canada’s Great Lake Swimmers had already churned out a pair of albums before signing with record label Nettwerk in 2007. Playing subtle, acoustic tunes anchored by songwriter Tony Dekker, Great Lake Swimmers reflect on the natural environment on this year’s A Forest of Arms, which was partially recorded in the Tyendinaga Caves. With Building on Buildings.

Thursday, Nov. 19, Orpheum Theater, 7:30 pm

Bos Meadery: Stillhouse Six, free, 6 pm.

Glen Hansard’s booming voice and emotionally riveting songs have won audiences over in a variety of settings: He was the frontman for Irish alt legends the Frames, the lead actor in the critically acclaimed film Once and a singer-songwriter for the movie’s real-life spin-off band, the Swell Season.

After releasing a solo record in 2012 and putting out an EP of Jason Molina tunes earlier this year, Hansard is touring on his new LP Didn’t He Ramble. With Aoife O’Donovan.

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

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Club Tavern, Middleton: Pat McCurdy, free, 9 pm.

The Frequency: Yung Saint, J Capone, A Profit, Evolusion, DJ Pain 1, hip-hop, 10 pm.

Harmony Bar: Backroom Harmony Band, Craig Baumann, Americana, 8 pm.

Mickey’s: Mal-O-Dua, 5:30 pm; DJ Evan Woodward, 10 pm.

The Red Zone: City of the Weak, Young Medicine, Hired Rivals, Almost Nothing, rock, 8 pm.

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

Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Robert J, free, 6 pm.

Heritage Tavern: Goody Two Shoes, free, 8:30 pm.

Opus Lounge: Tyler Preston, folk/blues, free, 9 pm.

Unity of Madison: Ari-John White-Wolf, Red Dragon TV fundraiser (for mobile studio), 7 pm.

UW Gordon Dining & Events Center: Colleges Against Cancer/UW Relay for Life benefit concert with Fundamentally Sound, UW Hypnotiq, Tangled Up in Blue, more, 6:30 pm.

S POKE N WO RD Tellabration: Storytelling concerts: For young children, 4 pm; for families, 6 pm; for teens & adults, 7:30 pm, 11/18, Monona Public Library. Free. RSVP: mononalibrary.org. 216-7456.

Trans Monologues: Annual LGBT Campus Center spoken word/storytelling event, 6 pm, 11/18, Central Library (performers RSVP by 11/12: go.wisc. edu/02q3xn). Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil follows at 8 pm, Capitol Square. 265-3344.

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Brink Lounge: Daniel Anderson Trio, free, 8 pm.

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

The Frequency: The Jimmy K Show, podcast recording with The American Dead, free, 7 pm; Oil Boom, 10 pm.

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Jeff Daniels + the Ben Daniels Band Thursday, Nov. 19, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm

When Jeff Daniels isn’t amassing Tony and Emmy nominations, the actor is making blues-inflected folk music that The New York Times says evokes “a transcendental picture of American wanderlust.” Here he’ll be joined by his musician son for a family affair that shouldn’t be missed.

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With a MAMA already under his belt (for his 2013 head trip Wavey Daze), Madison-based producer Sidney Johnson, aka Midas Bison, is already making an impression. TRIOS, his most recent album, is simultaneously spastic and relaxed, turning chillwave on its mellow head. With Madison emcee Leet Moteef.

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Puppy love Pet-centric shop supports rescues, shelters

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Alissa Gander, the creative force behind Peace.Love.Paws., and her two rescue dogs.

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Alissa Gander grew up in the hospitality business — her parents, Todd and Shari Nelson, own the Kalahari Resorts in Wisconsin Dells and two other locations. So she learned early on the skills required to keep customers happy and business buzzing.

And those experiences managing the Dells’ Kalahari waterpark and learning every aspect of the business have helped Gander turn her new online apparel and gift company for pet lovers, Peace. Love. Paws. (peacelovepawsco.com), into an award-winning business.

Gander recently was named a 2015 Pet Industry Woman of the Year Award finalist in the “Solopreneur” category by the Women in the Pet Industry Network; 25 finalists in five categories were selected from an entry pool of more than 400 women.

Gander, 28, graduated from Edgewood College with a degree in business. She has previously owned and operated the Noble Hound Animal Hospital and Pet Resort in Baraboo.

Peace. Love. Paws. launched in November 2014 with a dog-centric inventory of T-shirts and hoodies. Gander also sells totebags, greeting cards, jewelry and scarves.

Among the top sellers is the “True Love” tee, featuring the image of a smiling woman and her happy dog rubbing noses; it was inspired by Gander’s own relationship with Bogey, a black Lab/pit bull mix and one of two shelter dogs she owns with her husband, Bob, and their two young boys. Their other dog is Izzy, a rat terrier/Chihuahua mix.

Helping rescue organizations (including the Dane County Humane Society) raise money is a central tenet of Peace. Love.

Paws. Some months the site donates 100% of the profits from a designated product to a specific organization. Gander also is involved in such charitable events as Puppy Up! Madison, which raises awareness of canine cancer.

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Do-it-yourself greenery, for good The aisles at the big-box stores are lined with plastic light-up penguins and inflatable elves, but you can take part in the spirit of the season without adding another piece of debris to your basement (off-season, of course). Peace wreaths from the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice will get you in touch with the real sentiment behind the season. First off, you make your own (with guidance at one of four scheduled workshops). You use materials that make you feel good: fragrant locally collected greens, cones, berries and dried flowers. Lastly, proceeds from the workshops (suggested dona-

tion $50-$100 per person) go to support the Wisconsin Network for Peace & Justice. All materials are supplied, and there’s enough to make two peace-sign-shaped wreaths.

Register for the workshops at least a week in advance via janetparker8@gmail. com or 608-250-9240. The four are: Nov. 27, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; Nov. 29, 1-4 p.m., Dec. 4, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and Dec. 6, 1-4 p.m., all held at the Tiny Houses Village, 304 N. Third St. No time? A few extra wreaths will be made for sale ($75), but request by Nov. 26.

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Ending with soft or spy “Hercules” character who got her own show 18 Locale of Universal Studios Japan 19 Slight advantage 20 “Please have a solid weave, rope!” wish?

23 On the upswing 25 L1k3 t415 t3xt 26 He announced he wouldn’t run in 2016 27 “In medias ___” 29 It’s never been done before

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33 Levy for being stealthy?

35 “I couldn’t care less!”

36 “This ___ ripoff!”

37 Menzel of “Wicked” 39 Miles ___ gallon 40 Flood-prone areas 43 Clothes that don’t need people?

46 New Jersey county 47 “Your post is the best of all,” online 48 “World’s busiest airport” 49 “What ___can I say?”

51 Pitchman’s pitches 53 Dock where everything happens so fast?

57 Dunkable dessert 58 Knock for ___ 59 Caldecott Medal winner ___ Jack Keats 63 50-50 share

64 “Talking in Your Sleep” singer Crystal 65 Pond hopper 66 “Frozen” snowman 67 Word after “going twice...”

68 “Sorry I broke your priceless Ming vase” DOWN

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Ear buildup Approval from a fútbol fan Harry’s friend at Hogwarts Jordan River’s outlet 2011 NCAA champs Ph.D. candidate, e.g.

Bacon quantity Yahoos Get overly concerned Countess’s title “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” coverers ___ Overkill

12 Oboe mouthpiece 15 Ben’s role in “Pearl Harbor” 21 Sty squeal 22 Certain mortgage, informally 23 Some hair conditioners 24 Archetypes 26 Record following?

28 Be 30 Invalidate a law 31 Paints without care 32 ___ Haute, Indiana 34 “’___ the season to be jolly” 35 ___ Harbour, FL 38 Survey results between stories 41 Seeing red 42 Auto shaft 44 Pate de ___ gras 45 Cabbie’s question 47 Guys 50 Hitch in a plan 52 Brought (in), as music 53 Area below Greenwich Village 54 Mountain range between Europe and Asia 55 Boxer Oscar___ Hoya 56 Duncan toy 60 Frenzied situation 61 Kanye’s forte (other than self-promotion) 62 Super Bowl highlights?

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I’m a hetero guy in need of advice. Back in college, I met this girl. Suffice it to say she was into me, but I had some shit to work through. So we ended up being a missed connection, romantically. Despite that, we still became fast friends. I’m less awkward now, in large part because our friendship changed my life. We each married other people, and everything worked out great. Except I still love her. I think about her often, want to share things about my life with her, find myself wanting to rely on her when things are tough.

I don’t know what to do with it. On one hand, she means an awful lot to me — she is the kind of friend that comes along once in a lifetime — and I know that I mean a lot to her. So this is a relationship worth protecting, even as asymmetrical as it is. On the other hand, these feelings are starting to seem kind of pathetic. We are barely part of each other’s lives anymore — do I even have a right to feel the way I do? I see three options, each of which is shit. (1) Keep my feelings to myself and endure/enjoy a painful but deeply meaningful friendship. (2) Disappear, either abruptly or gradually, with no explanation.

Or (3) damn the torpedoes and bare my soul, which might painfully explode the relationship. After years of option 1, I am strongly leaning toward option 3 — just blowing shit wide open and dealing with whatever happens.

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“The Road You Didn’t Take” from Follies and “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music. (You might be a little too fragile for “Too Many Mornings” and “Losing My Mind,” both from Follies.) Listen over and over again — until you know the lyrics of all three songs by heart. Discuss what these songs mean with your new gay friend. Then you’ll know what to do.

I usually like your advice, Dan, but I was dismayed when both you and Peter Staley got it wrong in your response to STATUS, the woman who was preparing to divorce her HIV+ husband after the revelation of another affair (10/29/2015). You both seemed to think she was trying to get her husband sent to prison. I think she was trying to avoid that outcome! She wants her husband to tell the truth in therapy, but she’s concerned doing so will land him in prison. Here’s something else you both missed: When someone tells a therapist what they have already done, the reporting requirements are far less stringent than when a patient tells what they plan on doing. If a therapist believes a patient is likely to harm themselves or others in the future, the therapist may have to act. Patient confidentiality carries a lot of weight when it comes to past actions.

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You’re going to need a gay dude to act on the advice I’m about to give you — and not just any gay dude, NGAA, but the kind of gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals. And not just any gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals, but the kind of Broadway-musical-obsessed gay dude who has good taste. (Look through his record collection: If Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is in there and Mame isn’t, he does not have good taste.)

Okay, here’s my advice: Listen to the original Broadway cast recordings of Company, Follies and A Little Night Music — music and lyrics, in all three cases, by Stephen Sondheim (peace be upon him). Yes, you can get all three recordings on iTunes, NGAA, but you need to listen to them on vinyl, and you need to discuss these shows, and three songs in particular, with someone who already knows them by heart. Hence the need for a gay dude with good taste in Broadway musicals and an extensive collection of original Broadway cast recordings — on vinyl. As any Broadway-musicalobsessed gay man will tell you: Epiphanies, insights, and breakthroughs come most reliably in moments of silence, i.e., when you have to flip the record over.

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