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Tolerating Vice

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When vice flourished Downtown ::BY MATTHEW J. PRIGGE

here was probably a district of sin in Milwaukee before it even became a city. The earliest known references to such an area—an effort by the Common Council to take action against “houses of ill-fame”—date to 1850 and point to an area in modern-day Downtown, near the Milwaukee River. The fact that this area had become a political problem by 1850, as Milwaukee was in the midst of a transition from a rugged western outpost to a proper city, suggests that the district had most likely established itself during the early days of the village, as single, laboring men were drawn to the rapidly growing area.

Within a decade, this area would become popularly known as “River Street,” for the waterside road along which it was centered. The district was as much a working neighborhood as any in the city and was perhaps home to the only industry in Milwaukee that was managed primarily by women. And, while it was an industry patronized by men from all classes (including politicians and business leaders), its illicit nature did incite a spree of moral panicking that led to occasional raids and arrests— though jail terms appear to have been rare. In 1858, the Milwaukee Sentinel warned, “an army of these vice people have established themselves in this city.”

In the post-Civil War years, Milwaukee’s Downtown vice district expanded. The Eastown “River Street” district established its borders as Johnson Street (now Highland) on the north, Oneida Street (now Wells) on the south and Market Street to the east. Meanwhile, a new brothel district emerged just across the river along Wells Street and quickly became populated with dozens of lower-end houses that catered to the area’s workingmen.

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The first major efforts at eradicating this “social evil” from Downtown Milwaukee were made in the mid-1880s, by which point it was estimated by city officials that as many as 95 brothels were operating in the area without much trouble from the police. But the rhetoric of the reformers never quite matched their ability to enforce the law, and, by the end of the decade, Chief of Police John Janssen had decided it best to simply allow the trade to exist within its existing boundaries and enforce a form of unofficial police oversight to ensure that the occupants of what people were now calling “the Badlands” would behave themselves.

The result of this new policy was a part of the city in which prostitution was essentially legal and regulated by police—just as with any other commercial trade. This idea was not unique to Milwaukee; as many as 100 other large American cities had similar “segregated districts” around this time. Flamboyant David Rose, elected mayor in 1898, is often credited with making Milwaukee a wide-open town.

But in reality, Rose merely oversaw the growth of an already steady niche industry. He even added a few regulations of his own creation to the district, including restrictions on allowing prostitutes to ride with customers in open carriages on the city streets.

“The gaudy dress of the harlot,” Mayor Rose said, “is not a good thing to expose to the sunlight.”

In 1912, a reform-minded Socialist administration was swept into office, partially on a pledge to do away with the existing policy on the Badlands.

Their drive made for a big show but was only marginally successful, as a 1914 state investigation into conditions of vice in Wisconsin found that the Badlands brothels were operating nearly as openly as ever, and that houses of prostitution—their keepers now favoring bribery over cooperation with city officials—had spread to nearly all parts of the city.

During Prohibition and the Great Depression, it seemed that the city’s attention was drawn away from combating vice in Downtown. It was not until the U.S. entered World War II that the city would again focus on the district. But this time, it was as a matter of public health and national security: A soldier who contracted venereal disease could not join the war effort, and with houses of prostitution thought to be the primary source of such infections, cracking down on vice became part of the larger fight against tyranny.

Downtown Hot Spots In the post-war years, new forms of commercialized sex began to appear Downtown. Adult magazines and dirty novels could be found in bookstores and on newsstands, and a number of hotels and restaurants became known as hot spots for both male and female prostitutes. In 1960, the Princess Theater on north Third Street—one of the Milwaukee’s grandest movie houses when it opened in 1909—began to run adults-only programming full-time and, over the next several years, a handful of other Downtown theaters began to dabble with sex films. But the action in Downtown was still

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rather restrained; police raids kept the area on edge, and Milwaukee’s movie censor board trimmed every bit of nudity and each lurid embrace from films before they were permitted to play in the city.

In the late-’60s, the damn finally burst as a lawsuit by city theater operators stripped the censor board of its authority, opening the way for a wave of X-rated and hardcore films to overtake Downtown. Go-go bars, peep shows and dirty book stores could be found in all corners of the former Badlands—even along the once-regal shopping district along west Wisconsin Avenue. In addition to the locals who patronized this area, there was also a continuous stream of customers from the Union Depot on St. Paul Avenue (now the Intermodal Station), where conventioneers and sailors from the Great Lakes Naval Academy would arrive with money in their pockets and sin on their minds.

In the 1980s, the city finally got serious about rehabilitating Downtown, and a wave of new development—most notably the Shops at Grand Avenue Mall—finally chased away the last remnants of the old “Badlands” days. Slowly, the old spaces of the district were cleared away and rebuilt, with the neighborhood’s old masters of sin and vice nothing more than little-recalled memories.

The Fight against Strip Clubs Most of the brick-and-mortar remnants of the Downtown vice district were gone by the end of the ’80s, and the city has since seemed intent on keeping such establishments from ever returning. The most controversial aspect of this has been a near 20-year-long fight against a proposed strip club on Old World Third Street.

In the summer of 2000, the Velvet Room, an Old World Third Street nightclub, sought to gain the first strip club license issued to a Downtown establishment since Art’s Performing Center opened on Juneau Avenue in 1974. Mayor John Norquist and area business leaders opposed the idea, and the Milwaukee Common Council refused to grant the license.

The proposed location of the club, 730 N. Old World Third St., had long been in the midst of adults-only Downtown entertainment. For more than 25 years, the next-door Princess Theater ran adults-only films and was Downtown’s only hardcore porn movie theater from the mid-’70s until its closing in 1986. The theater was razed the same year, but an outline of the Princess’ roof can still be seen on the north-facing side of the building at 730 N. Old World Third St. Just to the north of the Princess sat the Brass Rail Tavern, a gogo bar which some speculate had connections to Milwaukee organized crime.

A Revival of Adult Entertainment Downtown?

In recent years, the strip club debate has again come to center on this location. Silk Exotic—with locations at 11400 W. Silver Spring Road as well as in both Madison and Juneau—has sought to expand into Downtown for years, the 730 N. Old World Third location being the subject of several applications for a strip club license from the city. A series of lawsuits by the prospective operators of a Downtown strip club resulted in nearly $1 million being paid out by the city and ultimately led to a settlement last May that granted the Silk group a strip club license for 730 N. Old World Third in exchange for dropping their on-going suits.

CHIEF OF POLICE JOHN JANSSEN HAD DECIDED IT BEST TO SIMPLY ALLOW THE TRADE TO EXIST WITHIN ITS EXISTING BOUNDARIES AND ENFORCE A FORM OF UNOFFICIAL POLICE OVERSIGHT TO ENSURE THAT THE OCCUPANTS OF WHAT PEOPLE WERE NOW CALLING “THE BADLANDS” WOULD BEHAVE THEMSELVES The week after the settlement, the city denied an application from the operators of The Ladybug Club, 618 N. Water St., to hold occasional burlesque shows and stripper reviews, but it seems that the road has been paved for the return of adult entertainment to Downtown Milwaukee. In late December, the owner of the building at 730 N. Old World Third applied for the city permits necessary for renovating the interior of the building. Neither the building owner nor Silk Exotic responded to requests for comment on the progress of the project.

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Converting County Parks into ‘Revenue Streams’?

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etro Milwaukee’s timehonored heritage of free and inclusively accessible parks is on the fast track to ending. Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele, also a part-time realestate developer, wants to relentlessly monetize and privatize parks, including through “innovative new revenue streams.” Plans are moving forward to collect enough money from paid parking, rentals, permits, fees, concessions, sponsorships and fines to ultimately eliminate all tax-levy support of park operations. Although Abele has not publicly admitted this goal, parks insiders say it has become common knowledge.

During a September forum hosted by Friends of South Shore Park, panelist and parks veteran Jim Goulee said he learned of the scheme to make parks completely selffunding by 2024 while meeting with parks staff last spring. Goulee recently retired as executive director of Park People and is now board president of Preserve Our Parks, an advocacy group. Another panelist, Laurie Muench, corroborated that she was told of the “100% self-funding” goal by then-Parks Director John Dargle Jr., while on a temporary assignment with Milwaukee County Parks.

Dargle first challenged their statements from the forum audience but reluctantly admitted that Abele does expect Milwaukee County Parks to generate ever more income, with “no upper limit” for that goal. After the meeting, Dargle said Abele originally wanted 75% of the 2018 parks budget to come from earned revenue (a 50% increase), and that they compromised on 62%. When asked about the 75% target, Abele spokesperson Melissa Baldauff did not deny it, responding in an email: “We definitely approached the 2018 budget process with an eye towards more partnerships and more innovation and adjusted accordingly as more information became available.”

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Latest Shake-up at the Parks Department

No reason was given for Dargle’s abrupt resignation on Thursday, Nov. 30, after four years on the job, but some insiders muse that maybe he was not shaking the parks’ trees for cash aggressively enough for Abele. That’s despite Dargle having increased parks’ revenue from 46% in 2016 to 50% last year (within a $40 million operating budget). The median for peer systems is 29% from earned revenue, according to parks reports.

On Wednesday, Dec. 20, Abele appointed County Administrator Jim Sullivan to head the Parks Department, pending Milwaukee County Board approval. An internal memo touted Sullivan’s prior experience with the department as a lifeguard in the 1980s, and he led the Child Support Department since 2011. Abele also announced he was appointing James Tarantino as the Parks Department’s chief of business services.

The county’s economic development director since 2015, Tarantino oversaw the handing over to the Milwaukee Bucks of 10 acres of prime Downtown land for $1, as well as the sale of the Lakefront Transit Center site (assessed at $9 million) for $500,000 to developer Rick Barrett for his Couture project. Despite overwhelming citizen objection, Tarantino has also been pushing plans to intensively develop a large portion of land impacting environmentally significant habitats within the County Grounds in Wauwatosa.

The Mission of Milwaukee’s Parks

Abele and other county officials repeatedly assert that fiscal challenges ordain that park visitors must pay directly to fund operations. Baldauff explained, “Paid parking will help sustain the parks in the long term, and if it also contributes to more families walking, riding their bikes, utilizing the trails or taking transit, we think those are positives for the community as well.” (Bus transit does not reach many county parks, including most lakefront parks.)

Goulee said, “Constantly charging citizens to use parks—including through parking fees— goes against our local parks founders’ commitment to creating parks and recreation with free and open access for all. This represents a departure from the very mission of our once-great county parks system.” Goulee added that there should be much more input from the whole community about how inherited public park assets are stewarded.

Other U.S. park systems also face fiscal challenges, however, no other U.S. urban system is attempting to operate solely with earned income—or even close to that goal, according to Peter Harnik, founder of the Trust for Public Land’s Center for City Park Excellence. That’s because publicly funded, free and open parks are proven economic drivers, including by increasing property values and promoting livability and public health. Instead, Abele appears to be inspired by Republican Gov. Scott Walker and public service-slashing state legislators. Since 2015, they have mandated that Wisconsin state parks function without any tax support. As a result, ever-rising fees to enter Wisconsin’s parks

are the highest in the Midwest.

Here’s what citizens can expect as Milwaukee County accelerates a pay-to-play model for parks.

Parking Meters in Many Parks About 2,500 spaces in 40-plus parks and parkways have been deemed “viable” locations for paid parking by an appointed advisory “Paid Parking Work Group.” The preliminary list includes most of the Milwaukee Lakefront and other popular parks, such as Brown Deer, Mitchell, Washington and Whitnall. Proposed rates would be up to $2 per hour (though Milwaukee County officials have floated rates up to $3.50 per hour) and enforced from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. at least six days a week. Free parking is being considered on holidays and one day weekly.

In an email, Baldauff wrote: “The paid parking program will…return needed revenue to [the Parks Department] from asphalt space that currently does not contribute to the upkeep of our green space.” She said it also “will contribute to greater turnover of vehicles in spaces…in highdemand areas.”

Citizens may speak about this parking-meter plan at the County Board’s Parks, Energy and Environment Committee hearing at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 23. A forum about paid parking will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 25 at the Gordon Park Pavilion, 2828 N. Humboldt Blvd.

Ever-higher User Fees Nearly all citizen-paid charges for park services and facilities increased in 2018. Goulee, who worked for Milwaukee County Parks for 33 years, retiring as a regional manager, said no studies have been done to evaluate how ever-rising and new fees might depress park usage—and thus collected income (to say nothing of public health). Such “price elasticity of demand” studies are standard good practice.

Double Hits on Citizens’ Wallets Most parks targeted for paid parking already impose user fees or permits for aquatics, dog parks, disc golf, golf, horticultural destinations, marinas, picnic areas and recreational centers.

Some host beer gardens and restaurants. Even “free” recreation—beaches, playgrounds, trails and summer concerts—could effectively cost $2 per hour for parking.

More Enforcement and Fines The 2018 budget calls for increasing citations and fines from 3,400 in 2016 to 4,500 (for things like parking after 10 p.m. and unpermitted activity). An additional “park ranger” is the Parks Department’s only new full-time position.

Less Access and Equity The Public Policy Forum documented disparities among Milwaukee County Parks by their locations in a 2002 report. This de-facto two-tier system of parks—for haves and have-nots—will be aggravated as more facilities require payment, including for parking. Abele touts “public-private partnerships.” However, when agreements are not rigorously monitored, vendors and leaseholders can effectively limit access and equity through prohibitive charges, policies and creeping encroachment. For example, Parks friend Debra Manske said Ferch’s Beachside Grille in Grant Park has increasingly restricted, to paying customers, public space near its concession.

‘Anything Goes’ in County Parks?

Several parks staff expressed concern that no

written criteria exist for private ventures allowed in parks, or how the public’s interests will be protected. Hence, are some of these recent developments simply the shape of things to come: Incongruous ads for a medical clinic recently began popping up in numerous parks.

A truck with a sponsor’s logo was a jarring presence at last fall’s China Lights at Boerner Botanical Garden.

A Parks Department survey asked if trail users would be willing to pay to access recreational trails.

A proposed beer garden in Pere Marquette Park would fell mature trees and privatize much of the riverfront park.

County on Fast Track to Paid Parking

The County’s Paid Parking Work Group lacks citizens representing “Park advocacy groups,” as mandated in a 2018 budget amendment. Although it includes Dawn St. George, the new executive director of Park People, that nonprofit’s board recently expressly prohibits most advocacy. Other committee members will include county staffers, Supervisor Marcelia Nicholson, Joe Bartolotta and Keith Trafton of Bartolotta Restaurant Group (which manages several establishments in Milwaukee parks) and Jeff Sherman, co-founder of OnMilwaukee.com. Scott Fisher, owner of Gift of Wings in Veterans Park, reportedly will join the committee. Laurel Maney and Gina Spang, Historic Water Tower Neighborhood officers, wrote to several supervisors in late November asking that the neighborhood advocacy group be represented on the committee. They said their request was never acknowledged.

County administrators intend to issue a “Request for Proposals” (RFP) soon, with the goal of launching a full-blown, privately-run operation as soon as Sunday, April 1.

Executing a countywide paid-parking operation will face challenges—not the least in terms of math. According to Sandra Rusch Walton, spokesperson for the City of Milwaukee’s Department of Public Works, the city has “approximately 7,200 metered parking spaces.” Revenue derived from meters in 2016 was nearly $4.9 million. That operation relies on internal staff and city owned and operated infrastructure.

In contrast with the city, Milwaukee County officials intend to hire a “turn-key operator” through competitive bidding. The approved 2018 budget anticipates nearly $1.7 million in net revenue from parking. However, citizens would need to pay up to 10 times that amount since the county would stand to pocket only 1015% as it does in other parks-vendor contracts.

In what scenario would citizens be willing and able to pay tens of millions of dollars a year to park in their own county parks?

A public-input meeting about paid parking in parks will be held on Tuesday, February 6, at 6 p.m. at the Domes Annex, 534 S. Layton Blvd.

For a complete list of the county parks affected by plans to install parking meters, read Virginia Small’s article at shepherdexpress. com.

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he Shepherd Express serves as a clearinghouse for all activities in the greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory, reactionary or authoritarian actions and policies of the Trump administration, as well as other activities by all those who seek to thwart social justice. We will publicize and promote actions, demonstrations, planning meetings, teach-ins, party-building meetings, drinking-discussion get-togethers and any other actions that are directed toward fighting back to preserve our liberal democratic system.

Thursday, Jan. 25

Philanthropy, Race and Community: Closing the Gaps in Milwaukee @ The Ambassador Hotel (2308 W. Wisconsin Ave.), 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

This panel features Darlene C. Russell of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Brenda Skelton of the Siebert Lutheran Foundation and Shannon Reed of the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County discussing how philanthropic leaders are working with the community to address employment, education, wealth and health gaps in Milwaukee.

Moms Demand Action Five Year Anniversary @ Izzy Hops Swig & Nosh (2311 N. Murray Ave.), 6-8 p.m.

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In this youth summit for awareness and prevention of human trafficking, there will be survivor-led and educational workshops, vendors for youth services, a short film on human trafficking and free food. The summit is open to girls and boys ages 10-17.

Voter and Civic Engagement Campaign @ Acción Ciudadana de Wisconsin (221 S. Second St.), 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Moms Demand Action formed in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in 2012. The Milwaukee chapter will commemorate their fifth anniversary in the back room of Izzy Hops Swig & Nosh.

Race & Place Community Dialogue and Storytelling @ Workshop Architects, Inc. (201 E. Pittsburgh Ave.), 6-8:30 p.m.

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ The corner of Brady St. and Farwell Ave., noon-1 p.m.

Race & Place is a part of Fellows & Facilitators, an interactive outreach performance Ex Fabula and The Zeidler Center for Public Discussion have partnered on. Participants will listen to Ex Fabula storytellers and engage in small group dialogues led by Zeidler Center facilitators.

Every Saturday from noon-1 p.m., concerned citizens join with Peace Action Wisconsin to protest war and “Stand for Peace.” Signs will be provided for those who need them. Protesters are encouraged to stick around for conversation and coffee afterward.

Standing Rock: Take Me From the River Screening @ Riverwest Public House (815 E. Locust Ave.), 6-10 p.m.

The Progression of Slavery @ Center Street Library (2727 W. Fond du Lac Ave.), 3:30-4:30 p.m.

In an effort to change the conversation around guns and protection, namely the widely-held belief that the best way to protect yourself against guns is to have a gun yourself, Jeri Bonavia, executive director of Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, will hold a session on the reality of guns and self-protection.

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dward A. Flynn arrived in Milwaukee 10 years ago promising modern police reforms in a department with a history of racial discrimination including a then-recent scandal over the brutal, racist beating and torture of an African American man who made the mistake of showing up with a white woman at a drunken house party of off-duty police officers.

Ed Flynn was an eloquent advocate for community policing, an idea that at its best encouraged officers to develop a respectful, working relationship with citizens in the neighborhoods they serve. It was absolutely the right idea. It’s just the opposite of police as an occupation army or police so fearful of their own citizens they shoot first and ask questions later.

The irony was that, in dealing with the public during a decade of confrontation, Chief Flynn appeared to appreciate the concept of the community a lot more than many of its actual members. But I still would argue that more dramatic,

important, positive changes took place in the Milwaukee Police Department during Flynn’s tenure than under any other police chief I’ve seen—and I’ve seen all of them since covering iron-fisted (and frankly racist) Police Chief Harold Breier in the late-’60s.

Few police chiefs anywhere escaped severe criticism in recent years as deadly encounters between police and unarmed black citizens gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement and long overdue protests from citizens of color who (imagine this) insist they be treated the same way in their communities by police as white citizens are in theirs.

To Flynn’s credit, one of his first media appearances as chief was on the interracial talk show I co-hosted with my partner, Cassandra, on 1290 AM, WMCS, which had a large African American audience. The callers’ angry concerns about policing were exactly what a new chief from out of town needed to hear. That’s why I was sorry we could never convince Flynn to return.

Flynn reacted similarly before Community Brainstorming—the freewheeling, monthly gathering in the black community where black leaders and ordinary folks grilled community officials. Flynn came off as extremely self-assured (to put it kindly) but with little patience for being challenged. In a media course on police training at the Milwaukee Police Academy, I learned police are trained to totally dominate any scene when they arrive. They’re taught if they fail to do so, they will lose control.

Positive Achievements I always thought Flynn’s superior attitude in public obscured many of his most positive achievements. Continued protests keep pressure on for change after deadly tragedies resulting from unequal treatment by police. But after an MPD officer shot and killed an unarmed, mentally ill African American man in a Downtown Milwaukee park, Flynn should have received more credit not only for firing the officer, but also for fully embracing body cameras and retraining all officers to de-escalate encounters with the mentally ill.

While Sheriff David Clarke promoted arming Milwaukee to shoot its own way to public safety, Flynn fought a sleazy suburban gun store that flooded city neighborhoods with crime guns endangering the lives of police and citizens. Flynn also opposed Clarke’s threats to immigrant communities, declaring police should protect and serve community residents, “and you can’t do that if you’re terrifying them and trying to round them up.”

Flynn was on the right side in his most public dispute with interfering local politicians. He defended his policy of discouraging high-speed chases of young car thieves that only increase the danger to the community, young offenders and to the police officers, themselves. Car crashes, in fact, traditionally kill more officers than guns do. Statistics show that 128 officers were killed in in the U.S. in 2017, with 44 by gunfire and 47 in vehicle accidents, the second-lowest death

toll in more than 50 years. A 15% reduction in traffic deaths from 2016 to 2017 was credited to departments across the country discouraging high-speed chases.

Sure, Flynn sometimes defended totally indefensible behavior by his officers. The worst example was Flynn’s initial dismissal as simply “overzealous” the humiliating, violent and completely illegal anal cavity searches of African Americans by police on the street for drugs. They were literally sexual assaults that never would be tolerated in white neighborhoods. After further investigation, however, Flynn fired the most sadistic offender who was convicted of felony assault and sentenced to three years in prison. Milwaukee reached a $5 million legal settlement with 74 African Americans subjected to the brutal, illegal searches.

That was ugly. But during the most confrontational time of protest against police practices since the 1960s, the Milwaukee Police Department kept moving forward—making positive changes under Flynn instead of throwing up stubborn resistance as it always had in the past.

The end is nowhere in sight when all citizens in the community will be treated equally by their police. It’s even more important the next chief keep building on the progress under Chief Flynn with a president and justice department that continually roll back advances in civil rights and police reform.

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en years ago, when Edward Flynn became Milwaukee’s 17th Chief of Police, our city’s largest department needed a leader who would bring our data systems into the computer age and who would put some real dents in the rank and file’s thin blue line, which protected the jobs of colleagues more than the health and civil rights of citizens like Frank Jude Jr. On those two fronts, Chief Flynn made progress. He replaced pushpins with spreadsheets and had monthly meetings where captains were forced to defend the details of deployment strategies on a district-by-district basis. As soon as it became clear (in 2012) that officers had once again violated the civil rights of our fellow citizens, he put out a loud call asking the public to come forward with more strip-search complaints. Then, in 2014, he fired an officer for fatally violating Dontre Hamilton’s civil rights.

Now that we are at the end of Flynn’s tenure, we should ask our next chief to continue his data-driven deployment philosophy and to keep holding our employees accountable when they violate the civil rights of our neighbors. But we should also be asking for so much more.

In 2018, both inside and outside City Hall, the department’s leadership has lost credibility. On the streets, everyone knows why. After a police officer fatally shot Sylville Smith in 2016, the chief told this city and the world that he had seen the body cam footage, and all we needed to know was Smith had a gun in his hand when shot. What he didn’t tell us was Smith was holding the gun by the barrel, not the trigger, for the first shot and had thrown it away for the second shot.

The chief has been no more forthcoming with his fellow city leaders. When the Common Council and the mayor attempted to establish independent oversight of the 911 system, he kicked a fellow city employee out of the building until we crafted specific legislation authorizing her presence. When the Fire and Police Commission gave him a direct order to change the MPD’s pursuit policy, he lawyered up before finally, reluctantly, obeying it.

Worst of all, when the Common Council asked to see a draft report from the U.S. Department of Justice about necessary reforms in Milwaukee, he refused. If a member of his own leadership team had not leaked that report to journalists, the public still would not know which changes the Barack Obama administration was recommending before Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions took over and attempted to cancel all such reform efforts.

At a minimum, our next chief needs to not play such games with the public and its elected leadership. But many of those deceitful games are symptomatic of a larger vein of American denial; one that is not unique to Milwaukee. The chief didn’t want to publicly confront the facts of the 2016 Sherman Park shooting, and that fit his own pattern in the wake of the 2014 shooting of Dontre Hamilton across the street from City Hall. He sat down for an interview with Blood on the Doorstep director Erik Ljung about Dontre’s death and insisted it had nothing to do with race and everything to do with mental illness.

He said this despite knowing that his officer knew Dontre was black when he shot him and couldn’t have known Dontre was schizophrenic until hours later. As the awardwinning documentary reveals, the department only discovered Dontre’s history of mental illness from his mother, while detaining her in a police car without revealing that her son was dead. In the days after the shooting, our police spread disinformation claiming Dontre had a criminal past. This was not true.

This deliberate and posthumous demonization of Dontre—a napping, black man who was awakened and shot dead by a white Milwaukee police officer—repeats a familiar pattern in the horrific history of our country’s racial violence.

Before any other qualification, our next police chief must acknowledge our common history of state-sanctioned racial violence. First the kidnapping, rape and torture that was routine from 1619 until 1865. Then sharecropping, segregation and lynching throughout the next century. Most recently, the so-called “drug war” and the mandatory minimum prison sentences associated with it have given Wisconsin the highest rate of black incarceration in the country—higher even than all the states of the Deep South.

When I privately confronted the chief about such disparities past and current he brushed me off and mocked the critique. His response”“Do you want us to start arresting white people even if the suspect description is black?” In a city inside our nation’s most racially segregated metropolitan region, our next police chief must know these facts, admit these facts and commit to working with all stakeholders to change them.

Alderman Nik Kovac represents the Third District on Milwaukee’s Common Council.

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(left and middle) Snack Boys (right) Sze Chuan

Snack bar, Sichuan and soul food kitchen top the list ::BY LACEY MUSZYNSKI

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ew restaurant openings slowed down around the New Year, but the ones that did open recently are notable. A new snack bar concept comes to busy Second Street, soul food is served up out of the back of a grocery store and traditional Sichuan food comes to West Allis.

Snack Boys

814 S. Second St. 414-509-5975 | $-$$ snackboysmke.com

A Toronto-style snack bar has opened in the space that formerly housed All Purpose Bar & Kitchen.

Snack Boys is an irreverent, fun-loving restaurant serving up a menu of snacks at all hours of the day.

It’s headed up by a powerhouse group of Milwaukee restaurant and bar owners: Mitch Ciohon of Gypsy Taco, John Revord of Boone & Crockett and Shay Linkus formerly of The Vanguard. The centerpiece of the remodeled space is a mural of a naked Burt Reynolds reclining on a bearskin rug, showing customers immediately that this is a place that doesn’t take itself too seriously. The menu will consist of around a dozen small snacks that will allow diners to order a couple or many to make a full meal. Options might include noodle soufflé, fried brussels sprouts, and items like fresh oysters from a small raw bar. A full bar will include draft cocktails, stir drinks, a wine menu with a focus on rosé and a frozen alcoholic slushie complete with sparkles.

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Shake N’ Bake American Soul Kitchen 3432 W. Silver Spring Drive 414-323-4900 | $-$$

A new Southern food spot has opened in the Thurston Woods neighborhood. Shake N’ Bake is a takeout-only restaurant located inside Hibo Foods on Silver Spring Drive. Owners Danicha Brown and Vishalla Davis learned to cook from family members and had hoped to open their own restaurant for years.

The daily menu features Soul food and American favorites. Appetizers include mozzarella sticks ($4.99), cheese fries ($4.99) and whole chicken wings ($2.99 for 3 pieces to $38.99 for 50 pieces). Catfish ($10.99) and porkchop dinners ($8.99), burgers ($2.99-$3.49), and breakfast items like chicken and waffles ($4.99) are available. On Sunday, a Soul food buffet is offered with a rotating menu of items like smothered pork chops, collard greens and yams for $10.99, including one meat, two sides and cornbread.

Sze Chuan

11102 W. National Ave. 414-885-0856 | $$ goszechuanrestaurant.com

A new Chinese restaurant has opened in West Allis. Chefs and owners of Sze Chuan, Sun Yin and Luo Shungui, are both from Chengdu in the Sichuan province of China. The full-service restaurant joins a strip mall that also houses a Chinese grocer and

bakery, making it a destination for Chinese in the city.

The menu is large and spans from Chinese-American favorites like crab rangoon ($5.95 for 6 pieces) to more traditional dishes like map tofu with ground pork ($10.95). Dry pot and stone pot dishes, which encompass stews and stir fries, include duck wing dry pot ($13.95) and squid dry pot ($15.95). Cumin pork knuckle ($13.95) and fish in chili bean sauce ($23.95) can be found on the Sichuan special section of the menu. Hot pots with spicy or herb broth are available a la carte ($8-$10 for the broth) or as an all-you-caneat option ($23.95). A full menu of meats such as homemade beef meatballs, seafood and vegetables can be ordered to cook in the boiling broth at the table. The flavor of the broth changes throughout the meal as diners add more items.

While openings slowed down around the New Year, many restaurants unfortunately closed. Hello Falafel in Bay View has closed but may pop up in the future in another form. The location will be used by the owners, who also own Odd Duck, as an event space. Quiote, a Mexican restaurant on Bluemound has closed, as well as Peking House Downtown. John’s Sandwich Shop in Wauwatosa is closed after 50plus years in business. Izumi’s on the East Side also closed and will be replaced by a second Kanpai location early this year.

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Chef and owner of Maxie’s, Blue’s Egg, and Story Hill BKC When chef and owner of Maxie’s, Blue’s Egg and Story Hill BKC, Joe Muench, finds time to go out to eat, he prefers international foods that are on budget. “I like to eat Asian food and Italian food and pizza. I try all the new ‘chef-y’ places, but you can only get there so often,” he says. Santino’s Little Italy for pizza is one go-to.

“We probably go there three or four times a month. I’ve probably had everything there and I don’t think there’s one bad thing on the menu. We always add anchovies to any pizza we get, whether it’s pepperoni, veggie or whatever.” When a hankering for Thai strikes, he heads to Kim’s Thai. He usually orders the Thai tea and fried calamari. “It’s the fried steak cut into strips, not tubes and tentacles.”

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Pepperpot Catering (4120 W. Capitol Drive) is probably the only Jamaican takeout-only place in town. Unlike some other takeout establishments in predominantly African American neighborhoods where the kitchen is in a backroom unseen by customers, patrons can see their orders prepared at Pepperpot. There’s something about witnessing meat being cut, cabbages going through a shredder and the other machinations it takes to make a meal that creates anticipation for the mouthwatering nourishment to come. The eatery isn’t skimpy when filling an order. A recent order of curried goat and jerk chicken (including one wing) with sides of beans and rice, steamed vegetables and complimentary, lengthwisesliced fried plantains ($16.99) could have fed three people with reasonably hearty appetites. The plantains can work as a dessert, or as a pleasant way to cut the lingeringly mellow heat of the curried goat and the peppery coating on the chicken. For patrons who may want to eat on premises, there are a few seats at the counter facing a window looking out at Capitol Drive. At my next Pepperpot visit, I’m going to try their jerk meat egg rolls. They look like something to look forward to. (Jamie Lee Rake)

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Buddy Squirrel Honors Company Tradition While Embracing the Future ::BY SHEILA JULSON

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hether it’s Fairy Food or Original Whipped Creme Eggs, most Milwaukeeans are familiar with Buddy Squirrel’s signature confections. The 102-year old candy company (which also operated under the name Quality Candy) continues to take pride in offering its long-time favorite chocolates, but COO Scott Repinski and his team are hard at work also catering to today’s taste buds.

“Buddy Squirrel is reinventing itself to be around for another 100 years,” Repinski said.

While the artisan-made Fairy Food (a chocolate covered sponge candy) and Original Whipped Creme Eggs—or “whips”—along with Pecan Tads, mint meltaways, cherry cordials, flavored popcorn, nuts and savory snacks have long been signature items and consistent sellers, new “healthier for you” items are being added. Those include The Chocolate Trader line of non-GMO, 70% cocoa bites in original dark chocolate, dark chocolate mint or dark chocolate with sea salt, all infused with olive oil; or dark chocolate clusters with dried berries.

Another newer product is the Stella & Lucy candy-coated chocolate bits, free from unhealthy additives and preservatives. “Clean M&Ms,” Repinski called them. The company aims to in-

troduce these to the market in fall.

Buddy Squirrel has its eye on the future, but it’s certainly not forgetting its past. Joseph and Lottie Helminiak founded Buddy Squirrel in 1916. They operated in a store on Mitchell Street for many years, and the company moved to its current 70,000-square-foot plant and retail kitchen store in St. Francis during the mid-1980s.

The newer Joseph & Lottie line pays homage to the company’s founders and brings their names to life, highlighting the signature products. The company’s original recipes haven’t changed.

For Valentine’s Day, Buddy Squirrel has some themed candy and heart-shaped boxes with chocolate assortments, but on the 15th of February, the whips come out—much to the delight of people who have fond memories of finding whips carefully nestled among the strands of artificial grass in their Easter baskets. Other chocolate companies make whips, but Buddy Squirrel’s whipped filing is especially light and fluffy, coated with rich, fresh milk or dark chocolate. This Easter, the whips will come in vanilla, chocolate, maple, raspberry and mint flavors. Repinski said they expect to produce about 40,000 pounds of whips by Easter. Other Easter specialties include novelty-molded eggs, bunnies and baskets.

Online shopping has drastically changed how businesses sell their product, so Buddy Squirrel is revamping its website and online order process, said Retail Operations Manager Jordan Gale. Along with the retail kitchen store, Buddy Squirrel has a presence at Southridge Mall and Brookfield Square, but they might scale back, particularly at the struggling Southridge. “Amazon has changed things quite a bit, so we’re really developing our web presence so customers can get the products they want,” Gale said. “We offer gift towers with popcorn or popular chocolates, bundled together in an aesthetically pleasing package.” Future efforts may include expanding the retail kitchen store to further emphasize the company’s culture.

Buddy Squirrel is in the process of a Safe Quality Foods (SQF) Institute audit. Once complete, it will allow the company to sell to larger stores. “We have a very impressive plan in place, and I believe we can get it done with the people around us. I could not be more proud of this team of employees,” Repinski said. “It’s The Dream Team. I have the tools to make this a great success story in Milwaukee.”

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aron Rodgers just missed half of his age 34 season due to a broken collarbone on his throwing side, and when he returned too early in an attempt to push the Green Bay Packers into the playoffs, he was terrible. His arm clearly had not fully recovered, and without his ability to throw downfield, he was picked off three times. One game of an injured Rodgers doesn’t tell us that much, but it does remind us that Rodgers is human, fallible and subject to the same symptoms of age as everyone else.

As Rodgers enters his age 35 season with two years remaining on his contract, there are some worrying signs about his future and about how he is likely to age. Rodgers is a phenomenal talent, and it’s not that unusual for all-time greats to excel into their 40s, but there are some facets of Aaron’s game that are not likely to age well, and if he cannot adjust to some new realities, it could spell trouble for Green Bay.

Rodgers vs. Bradford

Last season, I wrote a piece on what separated Aaron Rodgers from Sam Bradford. It wasn’t as simple as you may think, and in 2016, Bradford and Rodgers were statistically quite similar. The big differentiators between the two in terms of production were Rodgers’ scrambling on third down and passing in goal-to-go situations. Their pure passing statistics were extremely similar.

Sam Bradford isn’t exactly a bad quarterback, but this is disconcerting.

Rodgers used to be more special than this.

From 2009-2014, Rodgers never averaged under 7.8 yards per attempt, led the league in passer rating twice, led the league in interception percentage twice and led the league in Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt twice. In the 2011 season—which featured a receiving corps of Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb, Donald Driver and Jermichael Finley—Rodgers was absolutely deadly both inside and outside the pocket as he completely torched the league. Since 2014, Rodgers has still been very good, but he hasn’t been the downfield threat of his youth, and his fairly pedestrian raw numbers were bolstered, at least in 2016, by a bunch of very short touchdown passes.

Some of this change is the result in a drop in

wide receiver talent, especially in 2015 when Jordy Nelson was injured. Some of this is strategic, as shorter passes are less likely to be intercepted, but it’s worth noting that the rest of the league hasn’t seen the same dip in big plays.

Rodgers averaged 7.26 yards per attempt in 2016, 14th among qualified quarterbacks, while the Atlanta Falcons’ Matt Ryan led the league with 9.26.

Old Player Skills

If you look at the list of quarterbacks who remained successful into their 40s, you will mostly see immobile pocket passers like Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Kurt Warner and Brett Favre. There are a few mobile outliers like Rich Gannon, Randall Cunningham and Steve Young, but they peter out pretty quickly around age 37.

Over the last three seasons, athleticism has become an increasingly large component of Rodgers’ game. His ability to run and pick up key first downs is a high-leverage value addition that goes underrated by most people. His unparalleled ability to buy time in the pocket using his mobility is also a huge factor in the Packer of-

(RODGERS) UNPARALLELED ABILITY TO BUY TIME IN THE POCKET USING HIS MOBILITY IS ALSO A HUGE FACTOR IN THE PACKER OFFENSE GENERALLY— ESPECIALLY NEAR THE GOAL LINE fense generally—especially near the goal line.

There, his patience and ability to keep plays alive allows the Packers to convert touchdowns far above what an average team does. If Rodgers’ mobility were to decline substantially, it would immediately translate into more punts and more field goals at the expense of touchdowns.

For the past three years, the Packers have lacked talent at the offensive skill positions relative to the Super Bowl-era team, and Rodgers’ athleticism has made up for a lot of the difference. While the running back position is now solidified, the wide receivers are a Davante Adams injury away from being one of the worst units in professional football.

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Florentine Opera Goes Baroque HENRY PURCELL’S ‘DIDO AND AENEAS’ STAGED WITH PERIOD COSTUMES, INSTRUMENTS ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN f you don’t think you like opera, you just might like the double bill presented this weekend by the Florentine Opera Company. Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (1689) and John Blow’s Venus and Adonis (circa 1683) were two of the earliest English language operas. Their stories are understandable without reference to supertitles on the overhead screen. Both works are compact, clocking in at less than an hour each. They represent opera in a deliciously primitive state of development, pre-canonical to those who insist that opera began with Wolfgang Mozart.

The upcoming performance reprises the Florentine’s 2011 production of Venus and Adonis and Dido and Aeneas—except that back then, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra musicians performed the operas on contemporary instruments. This time the players will be conducted by an internationally esteemed figure in Baroque music, harpsichordist Jory Virikour, and will play Baroque guitars, violins, cellos and other period instruments.

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“They are different animals in terms of how they are strung—at a lower pitch,” the Florentine’s General Director William Florescu says of the Baroque instrumentation. “The lower pitch creates a warmer sound. There is less vibrato on the strings. The singers are asked to be less operatic.”

The double bill also allows for double casting in many roles.

Alisa Jordheim stars as both Venus and Belinda; Leroy Y. Davis as Adonis and Aeneas; Colleen Brooks as the Huntsman and the Sorceress; Randall Scotting as Cupid and Spirit; Rachel Blaustein as the Shepherdess and the Second Lady; Ashley Puenner as a Shepherd and the First Witch; and Edward Graves as a Shepherd and a Sailor. Only three of the night’s cast members play a single role: Sandra Piques Eddy as Dido, Brianne Sura as the Second Witch and Nathaniel Hill as a Shepherd.

Florescu is proud to note that three graduates of the Florentine’s Studio Artists Program and four present students are in the cast.

Purcell and his mentor, Blow, would feel comfortable in the performance’s setting, the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall in the Marcus Center, a room whose intimacy and acoustical warmth are similar to the concert halls they knew in 17th-century England.

Although Florentine Opera has toyed in the past with mounting centuries-old works in modern dress, for the Purcell-Blow production, scenery-lighting designer Noele Stollmack “designed a working backstage from a Baroque theater,” Florescu explains. “In the Baroque era, fascination with stage machinery began. We’ve recreated a thunder wheel—you’ll see a chorus member roll it across the stage.”

While costumes, furnishings, instruments and arrangements are as authentically Baroque as possible, Dani Kuepper of Danceworks injects a different flair into the dance scenes she choreographed. “She mixed Baroque dance with her own modern twist to create a beautiful hybrid—a nod to tradition with a modern sensibility,” Florescu says.

Surprised that dance would be significant in Baroque opera? Florescu explains that English composers of that era took their cue from the French, Florentine “who always had a dance component Opera in their stage work, whether they were ballet or not. And so many musical Dido and forms—like the minuet—are really Aenaes & dance forms. Both Blow and Purcell Venus and incorporated dance breaks—to use a Adonis modern term. Sometimes the dances Wilson are germane to the action. Sometimes Theater at they involve the entertainment the Vogel Hall characters are enjoying.”

Like operas—and soap operas—to Jan. 26-28 come, the Baroque works are love stories where boy meets girl or goddess meets guy, given the stories’ origins in Greek mythology and the influence of ancient theater on early opera composers. Florescu is proud of the Florentine Opera’s scope. Recent seasons have witnessed world premieres as well as the roots of opera in full costume dress.

“Baroque has been misjudged until recently as being unviable dramatically and musically for holding modern interest,” Florescu concludes. “They are very accessible. I would say that if your grandmother—or granddaughter—has never been to an opera, this is a painlessly engaging way to experience it.”

The Florentine Opera Company will perform Dido and Aeneas and Venus and Adonis, Jan. 26-28, in the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall, 123 E. State St. For tickets visit florentineopera.org.

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Vitaly: An Evening of Wonder @ South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center

Vitaly Beckman treats magic as a form of art. Born in the Soviet Union and based out of Vancouver, the magician specializes in bringing drawings and pictures to life—an act unique enough that one of his illusions stumped professional debunkers Penn and Teller on a 2016 episode of their show “Penn & Teller: Fool Us.”“I just create my own world Vitaly Beckman where art comes to life, pictures come to life, things float and people have things happen in their own hands in the audience,” Beckman told the Shepherd ahead of his appearance at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center. You can read the entire interview online at shepherdexpress.com.

Platinum Boys w/ Dusk and Zed Kenzo @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

Platinum Boys are leaving Milwaukee, but they’ll be back. On the heels of their latest EP of songs about good times and hard living, We Don’t Dance (Anymore), the local rock ’n’ rollers are heading to Europe for a tour, but first they’re playing this tour sendoff show, where they’ll be joined by Dusk, the country-leaning side project of Tenement songwriter Amos Pitsch, and boundary-blurring Milwaukee rapper Zed Kenzo.

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Todd Barry @ Underground Collective, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Sometimes the funniest comedians are also the most understated. With his everyman looks and slow, dry-as-toast delivery, Todd Barry has lent his unmistakable, sardonic voice to cartoons like “Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist” and “Home Movies,” in addition to playing a very lightly fictionalized version of himself on “Louie.” There’s nothing loud or pretentious about Barry’s stand-up act.

Instead, Barry relies on his quiet charm and good-natured leeriness, quipping back and forth with the audience and chuckling gently as if trying to contain his laughter when one of his retorts strikes him as particularly amusing.

His rapport with audiences is so natural that for this “Crowd Work” tour he’s abandoned scripted material together, instead dedicating entire sets to riffed interactions with his crowds.

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Midwest Death Rattle w/ Space Raft and Graham Hunt @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

Midwest Death Rattle cemented themselves as one of Milwaukee’s most ideas-rich rock bands on their 2016 album Post-Apocalypso, a dazzling circus of psychedelic rock, math rock, dream-pop and cabaret that tossed out one curveball after another. There isn’t another band is the city that sounds anything like them. The group has plans to put out two new EPs this year, the first of which, Square Wave, they’ll celebrate at this release show, featuring Milwaukee rockers Space Raft and Graham Hunt (of Midnight Reruns).

Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders w/ JP Cyr and the Midnightmen @ Kochanski’s, 9 p.m.

With his band The Shinebenders, Chicago songwriter Dan Whitaker pays homage to the glory days of country and honky-tonk, creating a hybrid of Western swing and rock ’n’ roll powered by tight guitar licks and chugging upright bass. The group released its most recent album, Anything You Wanted To, last fall. For this show, they’ll be joined by Milwaukee’s own honky-tonk fanatics JP Cyr and the Midnightmen, whose brand of rockabilly pits Cyr’s sturdy upright bass against some striking steel guitar.

2018 Wisconsin Day of Percussion @ Wisconsin Lutheran College, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

The Wisconsin Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society hosts this celebration of all things percussive at Wisconsin Lutheran College. It’s a day of performances, clinics and presentations featuring some of the Milwaukee area’s most prominent percussionists (among them jazz vibraphone master Mitch Shiner, keyboardist Cindy Terhune, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra timpani player Dean Borghesani and prolific jazz drummer Devin Drobka) and a huge lineup of local ensembles, including the Milwaukee Bucks Beats Drumline, the Wisconsin College All-Star Percussion Ensemble, Cream City Percussion Ensemble and the Percussion Ensemble of the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra. Percussionists of all ages and experience levels are welcome. All-day passes are $15 and available at the door.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 27 Børns w/ Charlotte Cardin and Mikky Ekko @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

Børns is the exotic stage name of Garrett Borns, a singer from the decidedly un-exotic hometown of Grand Haven, Mich. Maybe it’s because of his ordinary upbringing that his music conveys such a sense of fantasy. His glammy blend of soul and rock feels like it was piped in from a daydream, and it’s no coincidence that its aesthetic mirrors the retro-modern hybrid of Lana Del Rey. His 2015 debut album, Dopamine, was recorded with producer Emile Haynie, who worked on Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die and featured the euphoric single that put him on the map, “Electric Love.” On his just-released follow-up album, Blue Madonna, he offers an even more glamorous spin on the same sound, while recruiting Lana Del Rey herself for the opener: “God Save Our Young Blood.”

SUNDAY, JAN. 28 Milwaukee Brewers On Deck @ Wisconsin Center, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Brewers fans expecting the team’s rebuild to be long and painful were treated to a pleasant surprise last season, when the team outperformed just about everybody’s expectations, remaining in contention for the playoffs until the final week of the season. The possibility that 2018 will be the team’s year should lend an extra dose of excitement to their annual On Deck fan festival. Brewers legends Robin Yount, Gorman Thomas, Jim Gantner, Rollie Fingers and Cecil Cooper will be among those joining most of the team’s current lineup, coaching staff and broadcast team—including Ryan Braun, Jimmy Nelson, Eric Thames, Travis Shaw, Zach Davies, Craig Counsell and Bob Uecker—for a day of autographs, photo opportunities, panels, Q&A sessions, kid’s baseball clinics and games.

Bully w/ Fox Face @ Cactus Club, 7:30 p.m.

Grungy Nashville indie-rock trio Bully quickly sold out their scheduled show at Cactus Club earlier this month, which was moved to Anodyne Coffee in Walker’s Point to accommodate the demand. As an added bonus for that move, the band threw in this second show at Cactus Club with the fantastic Milwaukee punk band Fox Face opening. The downside, of course, is that, like the first announced show, this one also sold out quickly.

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Renaissance Tackles Human Trafficking in ‘Russian Transport’ ::BY SELENA MILEWSKI

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enaissance Theaterworks continues its 25th season with Erika Sheffer’s 2012 play, Russian Transport, a potent exploration of human trafficking told through an engrossing family drama. The script is awash with humor, intrigue and generally outstanding storytelling, making it all but impossible not to take a hard look at the very hard subject matter.

The Friday night preview effectively presented the story, which centers on a Russian immigrant couple living in Brooklyn with their two teenage children.

Family dynamics are contentious; the children bicker constantly, while the parents hold widely divergent perspectives on the ethics and personal valuation of wealth and the importance of their children speaking Russian. It isn’t until Uncle Boris arrives from Russia, however, that things really take a turn for the worse.

Under Laura Gordon’s direction, a fine ensemble of actors brings the story to life. April Paul shines in the role of 14-year-old Mira, as well as several young Russian girls being sent unknowingly into the world of sex trafficking. She gracefully differentiates her characters, delivers solid dialect work and creates compelling portraits of very young women confronting the darkest aspects of our society.

Max Pink plays Alex, her overstressed elder brother caught in the selfishness of youth, while simultaneously struggling under burdens no young person should bear. As their parents, Elizabeth Ledo and Reese Madigan are engaging sparring partners, each with viewpoints that, although perhaps unthinkable to a privileged American ear, become increasingly understandable as context develops. Mark Puchinsky’s Boris is rivetingly vile, the ultimate self-serving mydák (“asshole”) wrapped in the guise of a charming, well-traveled intellectual.

Production choices are strong throughout. Of particular note are the scenic and lighting designs by Jason Fassl. Most of the action takes place in an elegantly constructed interior of the family’s home. The space has an intensely lived-in feel, replete with the everyday objects and decorations of a rich family life in which beauty and betrayal constantly coexist. The lighting is understated and naturalistic with a few pointed breaks into artistic commentary on the subject matter.

The production overall, while chilling, is one every Milwaukeean should see.

Renaissance addresses the close-to-home topic of modern slavery with all the sensitivity and directness we have come to expect from this fine company.

Through Feb. 11 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit r-t-w.com.

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n 1933 folklorist John Lomax, collecting songs in the rural South on behalf of the Library of Congress, decamped at Angola Prison in Louisiana, where he recorded a remarkable singer called Lead Belly. Lomax returned a year later, petitioning the governor for a pardon. Having secured his release, Lomax brought Lead Belly to New York where he marketed the singer as a touchstone of black Southern authenticity to Manhattan’s radical chic.

In Black Pearl Sings! playwright Frank Higgins flips the genders of the real-life protagonists, telling a fiction both more and less complicated than the true story. Directed by Leda Hoffman, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s production is a moving and thoughtful two-woman musical play with a pair of remarkable actors playing women poles apart but brought together by music.

A familiar face in Wisconsin theater, Colleen Madden plays Library of Congress songcatcher, Susannah Mullally. It’s an actorly role performed with pinpoint detail as the occasionally imperious, slightly stiff Ivy Leaguer learns to loosen up and

First Stage’s ‘Edward Tulane’ is One Heroic Toy Bunny ::BY RUSS BICKERSTAFF

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irst Stage conjures a truly unique hero’s journey with its production of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Set during the Great Depression, the story concerns itself with the grand adventure of a toy rabbit as he gradually changes hands from one person to the next over the course of a great many years.

Edward the rabbit is a very proper-looking bunny

see beyond her preconceptions and professional aspirations. The imprisoned African American singer she encounters, Alberta “Pearl” Johnson, is given a force of nature performance by a veteran thespian but first-timer on Milwaukee stages, Lynette DuPree. DuPree isn’t merely an actor singing the blues but a first-rate blues and spiritual singer who is also an actor with tremendous emotional range, moving easily from astonishment to unbridled joy and despair.

Pearl studies the strange woman from up North who wants her to sing with narrow, suspicious eyes.

“What you get out of this?” she demands. Susannah explains that she’s on a mission to show that history is made by common folk and inscribed in their songs; a mission to save the old black ballads before they disappear. Pearl doesn’t care about none of that. She wants Susannah to help find her missing daughter—or she won’t sing.

Relations between Pearl and Susannah are often testy, fraught with misunderstandings across the wide chasm of bad history, but warmed by moments of mutual recognition and a growing sense of trust despite opposing worldviews. Pearl places her trust in God. Susannah pins her hope on academic advancement. And after arriving in Greenwich Village, pardon in hand, they continue to grapple with their roles as Susannah tries to prune Pearl to the expectations of the New York intelligentsia.

There are many parallels between Lead BellyLomax and Pearl-Susannah. Like Lomax, Susannah wants to dress her singer in degrading prison stripes for visual impact. However, Susannah is more socially conscious, less given to unreflective prejudice, than her real-life predecessor, and faces a challenge he never met: being a woman in a male society that—unlike today—didn’t bother to conceal its patronizing attitude toward professional women.

Through March 18 at Stackner Cabaret, 108 E. Wells St. For tickets visit milwaukeerep.com or call 414-224-9490.

toy who is quite incapable of movement aside from that which is imposed on him by a diverse cast of characters. The ever-engaging Matt Daniels stands alongside the toy rabbit and voices the bunny’s thoughts. Daniels is a delight, giving Edward a believable emotional evolution throughout the play.

Every member in the adult cast plays multiple roles and they all have at least one touching moment with Edward. Brian Keys is charming as a fisherman who has hauled in Edward as a gift for his wife. Kat Wodtke plays a rugged old woman who decides to use Edward as a scarecrow. Karen Estrada has countless clever moments including a very endearing series of scenes puppeteering a hobo’s dog.

Edward’s journey covers a wide range of different themes, but the center of the story can not be resolved until he learns how to love. It’s difficult to pull this off without coming across as a sweetsmelling mist of saccharine sentiment. Edward is an unlikely hero as fragile as he is. He’s imprisoned in a cuddly, little inarticulate body. Daniels’ portrayal of Edward’s bravery in the clutches of that fragility makes for memorable heroism.

Through Feb. 11 at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Todd Wehr Theater, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, visit firststage.org.

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he value of friendship is a tricky thing to bring across on stage. There are a million ways to focus on friendship that make its seem schmaltzy and hackneyed—even in musical theater and even in a children’s show... especially in a children’s musical. Director Tony Clements manages to make a story about the importance of friendship seem breathtakingly earnest and sincere in Marquette University’s production of A Year With Frog and Toad.

Nick Parrott is finely precise as the compassionate Frog.

Kevin Brauer brings a robustly endearing anxiety to the nervous, neurotic Toad. Brauer and Parrott have a palpable connection on stage that does much to keep things from getting too sentimental.

The musical is based on Arnold Lobel’s beloved children’s books whose illustrations set the two friendly amphibians in a kind of ambiguous early 20th century.

The show’s design includes just a hint of steampunk that matches quite well with the musical’s upbeat, jazzy early 20th-century sound. The costuming is more stylized than representational. Costume designer Erin Slattery Black finds a good balance between animal reference and visually appealing fashion.

The cast of animals is huge. There’s a turtle, a snail, a lizard a mouse and more. There’s enough activity in and around the rest of the animals to hold the attention of adults and kids alike. The casual, unspoken attraction between Frog and Mouse makes for one of several cute little bits of peripheral action that add to a fun show for all ages.

Through Jan. 28 at Helfaer Theatre, 1304 W. Clybourn St. For tickets, call 414-288-7504 or visit showclix.com/ events/marquettetheatre.

In Mel Brooks’ 1967 satirical comedic film, The Producers, Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom (memorably played by Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) are exhaustingly perusing scripts of plays to find a “sure-fire flop” for their money-making scheme. Bialystok picks up a script and begins to read: “Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.” He tosses the script onto the reject pile, uttering, “Nah, it’s too good!”

It’s a funny scene—even if you don’t get the fact that he’s referring to a real play: Metamorphosis, based on the 1915 novella Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka. As Theatre Gigante’s Isabelle Kralj (who has adapted the work for this production and is also serving as its director and choreographer) says, “I have been interested in staging Kafka’s Metamorphosis since high school! The absurdity of the story and Gregor Samsa’s calm acceptance of his transformation into a bug really intrigued me.” Intrigued? See this “poetic adaptation told through dance, music and text.”

(John Jahn) Jan. 25-28 at Kenilworth 508 Theatre, 1925 E. Kenilworth Place. For tickets, call 800-838-3006 or visit gigantemetamorphosis.brownpapertickets.com.

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Sunset Playhouse’s ‘Room Service’ Takes No Chances ::BY JOHN JAHN

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t’s the looks, double-takes, dialects, pratfalls and exaggerated ‘reality’ that make me groan,” says Michael Pocaro, director of Sunset Playhouse’s production of Room Service, about the legendary Marx Brothers comedy film adaptation of John Murray and Allen Boretz’s play.

While it is definitely enjoyable to witness the comedic art of a bygone era every so often, modern productions have to do something to keep up with the times and avoid looking and sounding like mere relics.

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ly in such a madcap venture as Room Service); the pratfalls and broad physical comedy have to be executed seamlessly.

While Sunset’s show does boast some strong acting chops, there were just a few too many dialogue stumbles and stiffly rendered physical actions to make it a fully enjoyable experience. What’s more, the gags, once knee-slappingly hilarious, I’m sure, just seem too dated to elicit more than a chuckle or two.

As a money-strapped play producer just moments away from personal disaster, Glenn Villa did about the best acting job of the cast. Kudos also to his long-suffering pals played

by Rafaello Frattura and Manny Lupian for filling out a trio of characters with good chemistry. Scott Korman also excelled in displaying the right amount of worry and anger as hotel manager Joseph Gribble. Lee Johnson II’s portrayal of playwright Lee Davis, however, was somewhat stiff—even for a character who’s decidedly uncomfortable with the shenanigans all about him. The Room Service I’d order would be a cast that clicks somewhat better and, perhaps, something to bring the work more into the present day.

Through Feb. 3 at Furlan Auditorium, 800 Elm Grove Road. For tickets visit sunsetplayhouse.com or call 262782-4430.

Written by Jeremy Paul and starring Randall Anderson in the title role and Jim Owczarski as his affable partnerin-crime-solving, Dr. Watson, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes is a tribute to the notable friendship of these two fictional characters created long ago by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As the show’s producers, Milwaukee Entertainment Group, explains, “Divided into two acts, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes chronicles [Holmes’ and Watson’s] friendship from the time of their first meeting in A Study in Scarlet to Holmes’ fake death in The Final Problem.”

The Secret of Sherlock Holmes’ second act explores a somewhat strained relationship between the two men in the wake of the fake news of Holmes’ death. As for the eponymous “secret,” there will, indeed, be a big reveal. (John Jahn) Jan. 26-Feb. 10 at the Brumder Mansion, 3046 W. Wisconsin Ave. For tickets, call 414-388-9104 or visit secretofsherlock. brownpapertickets.com.

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2018 Snowdance You’ve probably heard of Riverdance, Sundance or even Splashdance, but how about Snowdance? Wonder no longer; it’s the name of Racine’s 14th annual festival of original 10-minute comedy sketches. As Over Our Heads Players (OOHP) explains, “In the ultimate interactive experience, the audience votes on who should win the cash prize,” adding “It’s original comedy plus OOHP’s signature hijinks between plays.” Jan. 26-Feb. 25 at the Sixth Street Theatre, 318 Sixth St., Racine. For tickets, call 262-6326802 or visit overourheadplayers.org.

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“Saints and Heroes” The Festival City Symphony joins several other area arts groups that have been observing the 500th anniversary of the onset of the Protestant Reformation with their concert entitled “Saints and Heroes.” As the symphony’s spokesperson, Lindsay Schultz, explains: “Newly appointed Music Director Carter Simmons has put together a program that conveys the inspiring spirit and faith of its composers.” Works include Ludwig van Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Paul Hindemith’s Nobilissima Visione and, most apropos of all, Felix Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony. (John Jahn) Sunday, Jan. 28 at the Pabst Theater, 144 E. Wells St. For tickets, call 414-286-3663 or visit event.etix.com.

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by Niccolo Paganini, Trio for Three Flutes by Friedrich Kuhlau—as well as a Joseph Haydn string quartet and a wind quintet by Carl Nielsen. Sunday, Jan. 28 at North Shore Congregational Church, 7330 N. Santa Monica Blvd. For tickets, call 414-7504404 or visit concordorchestra.org.

Fine Arts Quartet’s Grand Finale The Fine Arts Quartet wraps up their 55th and, alas, final season of live music performance in Milwaukee with a weekend marathon of superb classical chamber music. Saturday, Jan. 27 features Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet in C Minor plus works by Johannes Brahms and Dmitri Shostakovich. Sunday, Jan. 28 sees a performance of Wolfgang Mozart’s String Quintet in G Minor and pieces by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and the ensemble’s very own violinist, Ralph Evans. Jan. 27-28 at the Helene Zelazo Center, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd. For tickets, call 414-229-4308 or visit uwm.edu/arts/event/fine-arts-quartet-final-season.

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[FILM CLIPS] I, Tonya R She was known in figure skating as “Trashy Tonya” before achieving infamy by proving the worst fears of the skating elite when she was implicated in an assault on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan. Based on “irony free, wildly contradictory” real-life interviews with Tonya Harding and her confederates, I, Tonya satirizes the truck stop subculture that gave rise to her destructive class envy and the idiocy of her family and friends. The film manages sympathy for Harding, pushed into skating by her abusive mother and pushed around by her abusive husband. Sharply written, brilliantly edited, funny and occasionally heartbreaking, I, Tonya is nicely photographed with superb acting all around, led by Margot Robbie has Harding, Sebastian Stan as her husband and Allison Jannye as her mother. (David Luhrssen)

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Daniel Day-Lewis is Outstanding in the Beautifully Strange ‘Phantom Thread’ ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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n Daniel Day-Lewis’ previous collabo- olds has constructed a carefully curated world ration with writer-director Paul Thomas with himself at the center, assisted by his forAnderson, There Will Be Blood, a crazed midably haughty sister Cyril Woodcock (Lesreference to milkshakes stuck in mind. ley Manville). His life is as well ordered as an In their new film together, Phantom HO scale model railroad, and if he occasionally Thread, Day-Lewis’ character goes on insanely shows need for companions, he seeks to hold about asparagus. Tossing a pinch of salt over his them distant. shoulder in his elegant dining room as if bidding “I’m a confirmed bachelor,” he tells Alma. himself good luck, Reynolds Woodcock (Day- “Marriage would make me deceitful,” he adds.

Lewis) tells off his companion, Alma (Vicky A man of many secrets, he delights in sewing obKrieps), in no uncertain terms. “I prefer my as- jects or messages inside the garments he weaves, paragus with oil and salt,” he yells, despite her invisible to the wearer and known only to him. evident pleasure in preparing a dish she thought It might seem that he speaks in the coded lanhe’d enjoy. And he goes on and on—about as- guage of the era’s gay men, yet he appears too paragus. reticent for intimacy of any sort. Alma becomes Phantom Thread is a strangely beautiful film frustrated and the plot follows the perverse and set in the aristocratic highlands of 1950s London dangerous channels of desire. fashion. Reynolds is a couturier to royalty and With his thoughtful smile and occasionally high society. Nothing produced in his house is devastated countenance, his imperious outprêt-à-porter. Each dress is as unique as a wear- bursts of anger when imperfection seeps into able sculpture, a mobile in Reynolds’ comfortably cushfabric tailored to fit the perioned existence, Day-Lewis sonality as well as the phyhas invested himself fully sique of the wearer. into what he asserts will be Phantom Thread But in ways unmeasurable, his final role.

Daniel Day-Lewis Reynolds is a tortured soul.

Like the character DayFor the furiously meticulous Lewis played in There Will Vicky Krieps fashion titan, work permeBe Blood, the oil prospector Directed by Paul ates every facet of his life past Daniel Plainview, Reynolds Thomas Anderson the point of obsession. He is a compulsive perfectionist, Rated R chats up Alma, a charmingly a driven and mysterious man awkward waitress whose happier handling the tools Continental accent betrays of his trade than relating to her as out of place, but their people. Phantom Thread is first date climaxes when he uses her as a man- tightly composed, furnished with a Merchant nequin for a dress he’s designing. “You have no Ivory eye for period detail and moved along breasts,” he mentions. The diffident girl begins by an achingly Romantic score composed by to apologize. Reynolds corrects her. “It’s my job Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. Many scenes to give you some—if I chose to.” are so quiet that every sound becomes acute as A hint of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo can be a knifepoint. One wonders if the obsessive men sensed in Reynolds’ compulsion to remake a played by Day-Lewis mirror the director’s own woman according to his specifications. Reyn- quest for cinematic perfection.

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The prototype for Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express, The Lady Vanishes (1938) was Alfred Hitchcock’s final film before leaving Great Britain for Hollywood. Margaret Lockwood stars as a worldly Englishwoman, traveling home across a painted backdrop of Central Europe, when her traveling companion disappears from a moving train—and no one admits to have seen her. An adventure leavened with heavy doses of comedy and antique charm, The Lady Vanishes features a cast of characters—eccentric, sinister and mysterious—confined aboard a train with no way out. (D.L.) Presented by Focus Film Society, 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 27, at 2648 N. Hackett Ave.

Maze Runner: The Death Cure PG-13 This third-and-final chapter of the dystopian YA series finds the young “Gladers” engaged in violent confrontations with soldiers, zombified humans and mechanized spiders. Having learned the WCKD Corporation is willfully sacrificing the Gladers in an attempt to cure a plague known as “The Flare,” most Gladers escape to freedom. However, to retrieve those of their friends still held captive, they must enter the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth.

Director Wes Ball elevates the story with brisk pacing while downplaying James Dashner’s sillier plot twists (in his original YA novel, The Death Cure). The result markedly improves upon the second installment, giving the series a send-off the fans can appreciate. (Lisa Miller)

[HOME MOVIES/OUT ON DIGITAL] n “Salvation: Season One”

An asteroid zooms toward Earth, 180 days from impact. The U.S. government suppresses the news as it scrambles for solutions. Meanwhile, a MIT student convinces Darius Tanz, the Elon Musk stand-in, of the impending disaster. Moving at a breathless pace, “Salvation” captures an apocalyptic mood of anxiety and distrust as well as the hope that science might offer a solution.

Will a private-public partnership, with a little help from a millennial sciencefiction author, save the world?

n Architects of Denial

In 1915, the Ottoman Turkish regime began a campaign of extermination against an ethnic minority, the Armenians. Even today, the Turkish government denies that genocide occurred. Abetting them in their lies are corrupt U.S. politicians, bribed with sex and money, according to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. Interviewed for this documentary, Julian Assange points out that denial of the Armenian Genocide has enabled governments from Nazi Germany through Sudan to imagine they can get away with murder.

n Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Endless Poetry

Director Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain) revisits the Chilean neighborhood of his childhood as a crew rolls up paper facades replicating the district’s appearance in the 1940s. In his Surrealistic recreation of formative scenes from his past, the streets are filled with mimes and Nazis on stilts.

His mother’s dialogue is sung operatically while his father hectors him about becoming a physician. Inspired by Federico García Lorca, Jodorowsky saves his life through poetry and art.

n The Whales of August

For old movie buffs, the casting is a treat. The Whales of August, the 1987 movie adaptation of David Berry’s play, features silent-era thespian Lillian Gish, 1940s star Bette Davis and Vincent Price in an uncharacteristic non-horror role.

All three actors were in their twilight, playing protagonists with November in their bones. The Whales of August wonders whether people can outlive their time while remaining committed to the only thing left beside memories: life itself.

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Photographing the American Road Trip ::BY TYLER FRIEDMAN

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Sophisticated Whimsy in MAM’s ‘Jaime Hayon: Technicolor’ ::BY KAT KNEEVERS

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rom Mark Twain’s Roughing It (1872) to Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) through last week when I took a sleepless 24-hour-train-ride from New York City back to Milwaukee: The allure of the road trip has long seduced the American imagination.

“The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip,” Jan. 26 through April 22 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, presents road trip photography as a genre unto itself. The exhibition collects more than 100 works by 18 photographers, dating from the late 1950s through the present day. The chronological presentation of the works allows viewers to see how the nation’s varied landscapes and accommodations for the American itinerant have developed over the past half century. Seedy scenes in elegant black-and-white from Robert Frank’s The Americans begin the exhibition and give way to color captures by William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld and other contemporary practitioners. There will be a talk with exhibiting artist Alec Soth on Thursday, March 15 and a panel of local luminaries on Thursday, March 29. Assistant Curator of Photography Ariel Pate will give a gallery talk on Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 1:30 p.m.

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ave you ever imagined that a giant green chicken could be a rocking chair? What is this sort of strange animal? Walking through the exhibition “Jaime Hayon: Technicolor” brings us into a place where design, art and craft merge in an alternate world of whimsy.

The show on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum presents this “crazy dream object,” as described by Madrid-born Hayon, along with a multitude of large glass and earthenware vases, tall luxurious tapestries, and drawings that give insight into this internationally renowned designer’s work.

Bright colors and fanciful faces are found throughout, as well as a sense of playful humor in the dozens of pieces. These are supplemented by instructive videos showing the process of glassblowing and tapestry weaving, emphasizing the roles that multiple people have in the making of these objects.

Yet, they begin with the artist’s imagination, revealed through the various sketches and drawings that accompany the finished works.

The drawings often have a freeform and intuitive feeling, exploring directions that are fully realized only through collaborations with other makers.

Of special note is the Afrikando series, commissioned by the Milwaukee Art Museum.

This group of large glass vases will become part of the permanent collection, and this exhibition is an apt opportunity to say hello to these works in a larger context. The pieces feature some of the characteristic mask-like details that are also found in his large tapestries. Viewers will detect shades of surrealism here, with the metamorphosis of one figure into another and elegant geometries recalling fellow Spanish artist, Joan Miró.

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“Adolph Rosenblatt: A Life In Sculpture” UW-Milwaukee, Union Art Gallery | 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.

notes that his art is “positive and full of joy— something that I believe we need a bit more of today, especially in our contemporary climate.” Have some fun, explore the pieces and by all means have a seat inside of the gigantic yellow Wabbit sculpture. Like a futuristic rabbit spaceship, it is there for kids and adults to climb inside, looking at art from an entirely different direction.

Through March 25 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive. (top) Jaime Hayon, digital rendering for Afrikando, 2017 PHOTO COURTESY OF HAYON STUDIO (above) Jaime Hayon, Green Chicken, 2008

When Adolph Rosenblatt died last February, Milwaukee lost one of its most distinctive artists and most beloved teachers. “Adolph Rosenblatt: A Life In Sculpture” takes a retrospective look at Rosenblatt’s oeuvre, from early paintings to recent explorations in wax, bronze and clay. Rosenblatt’s sculptures are admired for their engaging detail and celebration of the everyday joys of life in a community. An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Friday, Jan. 26, from 5-8 p.m., during which several members of the Rosenblatt family will be present. Works will be on view through Feb. 16.

“Conversations with Color: What Do You See? / Conversaciones de Color: ¿Qué Ves?” Inspiration Studios | 1500 S. 73rd St.

Art is serious business for Ernesto Atkinson, who recently opened an art therapy clinic in the Third Ward. “I have come to learn and understand that our first language is art,” says the Guatemalan artist, “I believe that art is embedded in us.” In “Conversations with Color: What Do You See? / Conversaciones de Color: ¿Qué Ves?,” Atkinson presents colorful paintings that recall modern masters like Pablo Picasso and Juan Miró. The exhibition will be on view Friday, Jan. 26, from 6-8 p.m. and during a closing reception on Sunday, Jan. 28, from 2-4 p.m.

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hat if the 19th-century secret network that made up the Underground Railroad had been an actual railroad car system, complete with human conductors and a sundry collection of trains that aided the escape of African American slaves to the free states in the North?

And what if the passengers aboard were able to choose their destination, selecting from ostensibly modern Southern cities like Charleston or the uneasy racial peace of Tennessee?

These are a few of the clever storylines that comprise the award-winning novel The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

Despite the many slave narratives that circulate in popular American culture, The Underground Railroad is an enlightening adventure tale centered around 14-year-old Cora, a smart and scrappy orphan whose unplanned escape from a Georgia plantation leads her on a dangerous and terrifying journey toward freedom.

This ingenious pre-Civil War portrayal is filled with dynamic, original characters who will pull at the heartstrings, and despite its dark topic, the book manages to remain both uplifting and prophetic as the author weaves together beautiful and terrifying reinterpretations of America’s shameful past.

Whitehead’s 2016 novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, along with receiving other accolades. UW-Milwaukee and Boswell Book Company welcome Whitehead to the UWM Union Ballroom at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 31. Admission to this ticketed event is $19 and includes a hardcover copy of The Underground Railroad.

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BOOK |HAPPENING Poetry Marathon Since 1994, Milwaukee’s Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E. Locust St.) has been hosting an annual daylong poetry extravaganza, and this Saturday, Jan. 27, performers and patrons of the arts will join together for their annual “Poetry Marathon and Benefit.” Among the dozens of poets and writers who will be performing live at Woodland Pattern (from 11a.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday), the bookstore will feature a reading by current Milwaukee poet laureate Roberto Harrison at 6 p.m., and the 2015-2016 Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Kimberly Blaeser, will read during the 7 p.m. hour. Sign up to pledge your support or view the full line-up of artists at woodlandpattern.org.

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Join us for our Milwaukee Coffee Connection Thursday, February 8 8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

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e’ve dipped our toes in the 2018 pool, folks, and things are moving along as February steps into sight. How are you doing on your resolutions? Well, I have a new one for you! Why not step outside your comfort zone and check out an event, venue, restaurant or social club you haven’t explored yet. Not only is doing so a great way to mix up a ho-hum work week, expand your social circle and have a little fun, but it also helps support Wisconsin businesses.

See my social calendar and promise yourself to check out something new and different each week! Take in a show, visit an unfamiliar bar or party at a hot spot you haven’t had time to enjoy yet. You’ll find these opportunities and more below.

I’ll be back next week with additional happenings (as well as advice for the lovelorn), but until then, I’ll see you out and about this week!

::RUTHIE’SSOCALCALENDAR Jan. 25: “Ru Paul’s Drag Race: All Stars” Viewing Party at This Is It (418 E. Wells St.): Don’t have the LOGO Network? Want to watch “All Stars” with friends over cocktails? Just want to get out of the house on Thursday? Join the team at one of Cream City’s favorite LGBT bars at 7 p.m. for a night of Ru, drink specials and fun.

Jan. 26: TGIF at Woody’s (1579 S. Second St.): The gang from Milwaukee’s LGBT Community Center kicks off the weekend at one of the city’s top sports bars. Join the 5:30-7:30 p.m. happy hour, meet some new people and thank God it’s Friday!

Jan. 26: “MJ Live at the Pabst Theater” (144 E. Wells St.): Relive the energy and excitement of Michael Jackson during this tribute, featuring all the song, moves and costumes you’d expect from the King of Pop. Tickets for the 8 p.m. concert can be found at pabsttheater.org.

Jan. 26-28: Mr. Chicago Leather 2018 Weekend at various locations throughout Illinois: Head south for a weekend of leather and fetish bliss. From the welcoming cocktail party on Friday to the Fetish Flea Market and the actual Mr. Chicago Leather competition on Saturday to the Cigar Social and Leather Showtunes on Sunday, this weekend of L/L “bonding” promises something for everyone. See touchechicago.com for weekend details, registration, ticket packages and more.

Jan. 27: Roll Train at The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 N. Market St.): Exercising on roller skates? Roll Train is a new workout routine that’s sweeping the nation, and now you can try it at this pay-what-you-can introduction. Bring your skates (or rent a pair) for the 1:30-2:30 p.m. class.

Jan. 27: Mr. Wisconsin Club 2018 Pageant at Club Icon (6305 120th Ave., Kenosha): Mr. Club Bar titleholders compete

in this best-of-best contest to name the state’s top show boy. A $5 cover gets you into the 9 p.m. pageant, which includes interview, club wear, talent and formal wear competitions.

Jan. 27: Femme Leather at D.I.X. Milwaukee (739 S. First St.): Celebrate the colorful side of kink with this change-of-pace leather party. The no-cover event starts at 10 p.m. and features the wonderfully alternative drag artists Niko and Imp Queen in addition to local performers.

Jan. 28: Drag Storytime at Riverwest Public House Cooperative (815 E. Locust St.): This popular free family event is back for a second season of diversity, creativity and education. Join drag icon Tempest Heat-Stratton as she reads a story to the kids and gets silly with them during a balloon dance party. Fun for the whole family, this 11 a.m. to noon event offers a healthy nod to love, respect and acceptance.

Jan. 29-Jan. 30: Elton John: Rocket Man! at Sunset Playhouse (800 Elm Grove Road): Applaud the music of Sir Elton during this show loaded with his most memorable hits, moments and memories. Featuring a cast of seven, the toetapping tribute offers three productions. Visit sunsetplayhouse. com for show times and tickets, which start at $18.

Jan. 30: Star Wars Trivia at Mary’s BeerCade (734 S. Fifth St.): Grab a sci-fi buddy and hit up the bar at Hamburger Mary’s for a trivia night that’s out of this world! Show which side of the force you live on during the free 7 p.m. game. (Teams must consist of two or more people.) Drink specials, food, free video games and more make for a cosmic Tuesday night.

Want to share an event with Ruthie? Need her advice on a situation? Email DearRuthie@Shepex.com.

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Thanking the Women in Our Lives ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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ast weekend’s nationwide Women’s March was reassuring. It was a fine way to greet the morning after the Republican government shutdown, a year after the inauguration of the current regime, and a year after the first Women’s March in Washington, D.C. It included women of all ages and colors.

700,000 marched in Los Angeles, 150,000 each in Philadelphia and Sacramento. There was a history-making gathering of 120,000 in Austin while San Francisco counted 200,000 and Chicago, 300,000. I saw a photo of marchers braving -16 degree weather (wind chill -40) north of the Arctic Circle in Utqiagvik, Alaska. Here in Milwaukee and other Wisconsin cities, media reported several thousand. And, it wasn’t only women. There were men as well.

And I saw signs representing Black Lives Matter. In Indianapolis, rainbow flags lead the march. Rainbow signs were present here in Milwaukee, too. FORGE, Women’s Voices Milwaukee and Diverse & Resilient were present as well as politician JoCasta Zamarripa and some of my favorite lesbians.

In all, one can safely say, millions marched not only for women’s equality but, in mutual support, for freedom and love for all and against hate and division. They marched not only for women’s rights but also for immigration, inclusion, LGBTQ rights, voting rights and social justice.

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Greek play, Lysistrata? Or that Eugène Delacroix painting, Liberty Leading the People? Or our own Statue of Liberty? Gay men owe them as well. During her AIDS Walk Opening Ceremony remarks, actress and Honorary Chair Jane Lynch, mentioned the role women, especially lesbians, played in the fight against HIV/ AIDS during the first years when government complacency allowed the infection to spread without any organized intervention. Locally, many women, lesbian and straight, served as emotional support volunteers, health care providers and fundraisers. The pandemic’s tragedy was mitigated by initiating a historic momentum that brought the LGBTQ community together. We should never forget the critical role women played then and should recognize and join it now.

It is clear to these millions of marchers, as it should be to us all, that for all the Republican antics and distractions, the future of our rights is in the hands of this regime’s judicial appointment. The results of the 2018 election could provide the obstacle to put a halt to it. To this end, more women and minorities are running for office than ever before.

In other recent news of woman power, thanks to a law suit filed earlier this month, after receiving an “undesirable” discharge from the Air Force in 1955 during the McCarthy Lavender Scare, now 90-year-old Helen Grace James has been issued an Honorable Discharge.

Speaking of veterans, Iraq War veteran and Purple Heart recipient (she lost both legs in combat) Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth chastised the president’s attempt to politicize support of the military calling out his five-deferment draft dodging with the epithet “Cadet Bone Spurs.”

And just two weeks ago, AIDS research activist Mathilde Krim died at 91. Together with Elizabeth Taylor she founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research, receiving the Presidential Medal for Freedom for her “extraordinary compassion and commitment.”

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TWIN BROTHER’S SECOND COMING Sean Raasch sings of betrayal and recalibrated dreams on his potent new album ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI Twin Brother

n November, Sean Raasch shared a Facebook post announcing the end of Twin Brother, the band he’d fronted since 2013. Then, just a few weeks later, he announced plans for a new Twin Brother album. That may sound like a reversal, but his November announcement was true in a literal sense: Twin Brother is, as he wrote in November, no longer a band. He’s recast the group as a true solo project.

“I knew that I would continue playing music in some way, shape or form, most likely on my own,” Raasch said of his plans following the group’s breakup. “But I didn’t know what moniker it would be under, if I would go by my own name or keep Twin Brother. I originally wanted to go by my own name. But I put in a lot of hard work and did some of the best work of my life under the Twin Brother name, so I decided to keep it.”

Raasch said he wrestled with that decision for months, but ultimately decided the change of scenery alone was fresh start enough.

Though Raasch had always primarily written folk songs, Twin Brother had dressed them up with rich, soulful arrangements that seemed to expand with each release—the group’s most recent EP, 2017’s Alone in Austin, had been its most colorful yet, announcing itself with boisterous, Tex-Mex horns. The new Twin Brother album, Rightfully So, though, does away with all of that flair. It’s pointedly naked, the work of a man, a guitar and little else aside from some occasional keyboard accents. Raasch even recorded the songs himself, stepping into the producer role for the first time.

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Raasch says. “All the songs are kind of relatively in the same key, and I didn’t have to worry about that.

I wanted to record something with a consistent mood, because that’s the tip I’ve been on lately.”

Raasch says that as good as the previous, sixpiece iteration of Twin Brother was, at times it could feel like their music was jumping all over the place.

“This isn’t how I’m used to playing music,” he “Speaking personally, I don’t go to a band because said. “I’ve been playing in a band since I was 16. they can do a reggae song and then a country song Just being on my own now, even though it’s Twin and then whatever song,” he said. “I go to a songwritBrother, feels like a door is closing, even if I’ll still leave it a little open in the future. I just felt the need er for this one emotion that I want right now.”

The solo setup hasn’t slowed to stand on my own feet. Throughout Raasch’s songwriting any. He said my music career, I’ve had other fanhe expects to release at least one tastic musicians come in and make more album this year. He does admit, the songs better and add their tastes Twin Brother though, that he’s learned to let go of to them and make them more sparkly and shiny, and it was time for me to any ambitions he previously had of Club Garibaldi trust myself.” making a career out of music. “I don’t Saturday, Raasch says he wrote these songs have expectations for it anymore,” he Jan. 27, 8 p.m. almost immediately after disbanding said. “I’m just making music because Tonic Tavern the group, and many of them find I have to in order to be who I am. I Wednesday, Raasch licking wounds and processdon’t expect to be some famous guy. ing betrayal—particularly the album’s Feb. 7, 8 p.m.

I don’t expect to have a career. I just stark centerpiece, “Lips on Your Heart,” expect to keep making music.” and its achy closer, “You Can’t Lock it Twin Brother will play Saturday, Jan. Away.” They’re songs that were writ27, at Club Garibaldi with Old Earth, ten to be left bare, Raasch says.

Lady Cannon and Camp Sugar at 8 p.m. Twin Brother “Not having a band allowed me to do what I will host an album release show on Wednesday, Feb. want as far as having multiple songs with the same chords, since there was nobody else to answer to,” 7, at Tonic Tavern at 8 p.m.

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::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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t’s not enough to just slap a bunch of Milwaukee bands on a bill and call it a special event anymore. The city’s concert calendar is crowded with so many annual festivals and fundraisers that they can’t help but bleed together, which makes the events that go the extra distance that much more appreciated. One of them is Milwaukee Record’s annual Local Coverage concert—a fundraiser that challenges its participating bands to do a good deal more than just show up. Each is assigned to perform a short set covering one of the other artists on the bill through a draft system that guarantees some unlikely pairings.

Beyond the obvious fun factor of seeing musicians pushed beyond their comfort zones, the event is first and foremost a celebration of the Milwaukee songbook, since nothing contextualizes a song quite like hearing somebody else perform it. Without fail, all eight acts on Friday’s show at Turner Hall Ballroom, this year benefiting the Milwaukee Women’s Center, managed to connect with the material they inherited.

Jaill’s Vincent Kircher opened the night with several scaled-back reinterpretations of songs from B~Free’s 2016 album Ode 2 a Luv Affair, and his untrained warble cut a sharp contrast to the sophisticated phrasing of the originals. He didn’t attempt to match her vocal gravitas, but he found the emotion in each song, highlighting the anguish in an especially bluesy take on “No More.”

Though it buys them a lot of good will, the Girls Rock MKE alums in Negative/ Positive don’t coast on the novelty of their youth. The teen trio has impeccable rock ’n’ roll instincts, which they put on display during a buoyant, feel-good set that accentuated the hookiness of Space Raft’s blustery power-pop. NO/NO, meanwhile, found plenty of common ground covering Negative/Positive. Both bands write perceptive songs about social dynamics, and NO/NO singer Cat Ries commented about how deeply she related to their songs, even in adulthood —you don’t have to be in high school to understand the frustration of jeans without pockets. The band also paid tribute to late

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Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan with a cover of Negative/Positive’s “So-Called Friend” styled after The Cranberries’ wistful dream-pop.

The night was filled with surprises. It turns out that when Space Raft covers NO/NO, the result sounds an awful lot like Rush. Their set was massive and marvelous. Listening Party reinvented De La Buena’s Latin jazz as rustic Americana, while Lex Allen and his band mined some unexpected rootsiness from Whiskey of the Damned’s Celtic rock, and B~Free led suave renditions of Lex Allen’s hits as the crowd sang along with “Cream and Sugar” and “This is Our Year.”

The night ended eventfully with perhaps the most elaborate and virtuosic makeover in Local Coverage’s history as De La Buena’s nine-piece ensemble put their spin on Jaill— using the indie-rock band’s wobbly melodies as a jumping-off point for twisty, percussive Afro-Cuban instrumentals. Their dynamic calland-response take on “The Stroller,” the stern opener from Jaill’s 2010 Sub Pop debut That’s How We Burn, felt more meaningful than just a cover. Back in 2010, Jaill was a cult band enjoying some fluke notoriety as the first Milwaukee band in ages to sign with a label of some note.

And De La Buena was, as they are now, a massappeal live draw, fixtures at the kind of outdoor festivals that bands like Jaill used to be shut out from. The two groups lived in the same city, yet seemed to occupy entirely different worlds. After Friday’s show, the distance between them no longer seems nearly so vast.

The Hungry Williams Recreate New Orleans in Milwaukee

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Milwaukee Bands Found Common Ground at Local Coverage

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MUSIC::CONCERTREVIEW

Lex Allen performs at Local Coverage

::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

ew Orleans was always unique among American cities. The place where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico was also where Frenchmen, Spaniards and Africans encountered Anglos. It’s a place where cultures and civilizations converged. Jazz was born there, and by the 1950s, New Orleans was also the source of a distinctive stream of R&B, a tributary that fed the gathering current of rock and roll but with a uniquely steady rhythm that rolled with the muggy insistence of the big river on a hot Louisiana night.

Milwaukee’s exponents of Crescent City R&B, The Hungry Williams, take their name from one of that city’s first-call drummers from the late-1950s. Charles “Hungry” Williams laid the beat behind a raft of esteemed recordings that emerged from Cosimo Matassa’s studio in the French Quarter. He was distinctive for adding a cowbell to his kit, making beats percussion redolent of Caribbean hoodoo.

“Playing this music has been on the back of my mind for 20 years,” says The Hungry Williams’ drummer, John Carr. He’s played in a variety of bands, including the ’80s alternative rock of Blue in the Face and the ’90s swing of The Swingin’ Cools. Along the way, he met vocalist Keli Gonzalez in Big Nick and the Cydecos—purveyors of that more familiar but by now touristy Louisiana music called zydeco. Their shared love of New Orleans R&B led them two years ago to form The Hungry Williams with veteran local musicians Mike Sieger (bass), Joe Vent (guitar) and Jack Stewart (keyboards). A floating crew of horn players usually accompanies the band live.

“I knew Paul Cebar would get it right away,” Carr says of his band’s name. But in today’s post-everything world, the average music fan knows little about the band’s roots or the classic tunes they perform. “We joke that we could play all these The Hungry songs and tell people they’re ours,” Gonzalez says. “But this Williams music is important to know! I feel like I want to be an educator!” Each member of The Hungry Williams is a songwriter. w/ The Best The band also performs a few numbers by Semi-Twang’s John Westerns Sieger.

Anodyne Coffee Whether or not their 70-year-old genre is familiar to the Roasters general public of 2018, the easygoing exuberance is infectious.

Sat., Jan. 26 “It’s pure fun,” Carr says. “I want people to dance—to motivate you to move but not too aggressively.”

The Hungry Williams are planning to go into the recording studio soon, albeit the studio will probably be Carr’s house.

“It’s amazing what you can do with a laptop,” he says, but adds, “I prefer the old school: everybody in a room playing together—the energy, the magic when everyone is playing together in the moment.” With digital technology plus vintage microphones, The Hungry Williams might just recreate some of the magic from the old Cosimo Matassa studio.

“Part of the charm is having a few mistakes; they add to the sound,” Gonzalez says.

Given the high caliber of the band members, she explains that a few off-notes will spoil nothing and add to the music’s sense of being alive. “We want it to be a party, fun—and never a forced fun.”

The Hungry Williams and The Best Westerns perform on Jan. 26 at the Anodyne Coffee Walker’s Point Roastery, 224 W. Bruce St.

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WORD FIND This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 31 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Beach Culture Solution: 31 Letters

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The pawpaw is a tasty fruit that blends the flavors of mango, banana and melon. But you rarely find it in grocery stores. One reason is that the fruit ripens very fast after being picked. Another is that the pollination process is complicated. In response to these issues, a plant scientist named Neal Peterson has been trying to breed the pawpaw to be more commercially viable. Because of his work, cultivated crops have finally begun showing up at some farmers markets. I’d like to see you undertake metaphorically similar labors in 2018, Aquarius. I think you’ll have good luck at developing rough potentials into more mature forms of expression. You’ll have skill at turning unruly raw materials into more useful resources. Now is a great time to begin.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): An iceberg is a huge chunk of ice that has cracked away from a glacier and drifted off into the open sea. Only 9% of it is visible above the waterline. The underwater part, which is most of the iceberg, is basically invisible. You can’t know much about it just by looking at the top. This is an apt metaphor for life itself. Most everyone and everything we encounter is 91% mysterious or hidden or inaccessible to our conscious understanding. That’s the weird news, Pisces. The good news is that during the next three weeks you will have an unprecedented ability to get better acquainted with the other 91% of anything or anyone you choose to explore.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Anders Haugen competed for the U.S. as a ski jumper in the 1924 Winter Olympics. Although he was an accomplished athlete who had previously set a world record for distance, he won no medals at the games.

But wait! Fifty years later, a sports historian discovered that there had a been a scoring mistake back in 1924. In fact, Haugen had done well enough to win the bronze medal. The mistake was rectified, and he finally got his long-postponed award. I foresee a comparable development happening in your life, Aries.

Recognition or appreciation you deserved to have received some time ago will finally come your way.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1899, Sobhuza II became King of Swaziland even though he was less than five months old.

He kept his job for the next 82 years, and along the way managed to play an important role when his nation gained independence from the colonial rule of the United Kingdom. These days you may feel a bit like Sobhuza did when he was still in diapers, Taurus: not sufficiently prepared or mature for the greater responsibilities that are coming your way. But just as he received competent help in his early years from his uncle and grandmother, I suspect you’ll receive the support you’ll need to ripen.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In my ideal world, dancing and singing wouldn’t be luxuries practiced primarily by professionals. They would be regular occurrences in our daily routines.

We’d dance and sing whenever we needed a break from the numbing trance. We’d whirl and hum to pass the time. We would greet each other with an interpretative movement and a little tune. In schools, dance and song would be a standard part of the curriculum—as important as math and history. That’s my utopian dream, Gemini. What’s yours? In accordance with the astrological omens, I urge you to identify the soul medicine you’d love to incorporate into your everyday regimen. Then go ahead and incorporate it!

It’s time for you to get more aggressive about creating the world you want to live in.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Psychology pioneer Carl Jung believed that most of our big problems can never be fully solved.

And that’s actually a good thing. Working on them keeps us lively, in a state of constant transformation.

It ensures we don’t stagnate. I generally agree with Jung’s high opinion of our problems. We should indeed be grateful for the way they impel us to grow.

However, I think that’s irrelevant for you right now.

Why? Because you have an unprecedented opportunity to solve and graduate from a major long-running problem. So no, don’t be grateful for it. Get rid of it.

Say goodbye to it forever.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Between now and March 21, you will be invited, encouraged

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and pushed to deepen your understanding of intimate relationships. You will have the chance to learn much, much more about how to create the kind of togetherness that both comforts and inspires you.

Will you take advantage of this eight-week opportunity? I hope so. You may imagine that you have more pressing matters to attend to. But the fact is that cultivating your relationship skills would transform you in ways that would best serve those other pressing matters.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In December, mass protests broke out in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. Why? The economy had been gradually worsening. Inflation was slowly but surely exacting a toll. Unemployment was increasing. But one of the immediate triggers for the uprising was a 40% hike in the price of eggs. It focused the Iranian people’s collective angst and galvanized a dramatic response. I’m predicting a comparable sequence in your personal future, Virgo. A specific irritant will emerge, motivating you to stop putting up with trends that have been subtly bothering you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the late 1980s, Budweiser used a Bull Terrier to promote its Bud Light beer in commercials. The dog, who became mega-famous, was presented as a rich macho party animal named Spuds MacKenzie. The ad campaign was successful, boosting sales 20%.

But the truth was that the actor playing Spuds was a female dog whose owners called her Evie. To earn money, the poor creature, who was born under the sign of Libra, was forced to assume a false identity. To honor Evie’s memory, and in alignment with current astrological omens, I urge you human Libras to strip away any layers of false identity you’ve been pressured to acquire. Be your Real Self—to the max.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The giant panda is a bear native to China. In the wild, its diet is 99% bamboo. But bamboo is not an energy-rich food, which means the creature has to compensate by consuming 20 to 30 pounds of the stuff every day. Because it’s so busy gathering its sustenance, the panda doesn’t have time to do much socializing. I mention this, Scorpio, because I want to offer up the panda as your anti-power animal for the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should have a diversified approach to getting your needs met—not just in regards to food, but in every other way as well. Variety is not just the spice of life; it’s the essence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re the star of the “movie” that endlessly unfolds in your imagination. There may be a number of other lead actors and actresses, but few if any have your luster and stature. You also have a supporting cast, as well as a full complement of extras. To generate all the adventure you need, your story needs a lot of dramatis personae. In the coming weeks, I suggest that you be alert for certain minor characters who are primed to start playing a bigger role in your narrative.

Consider the possibility of inviting them to say and do more to advance the plot.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Thirty-five miles per hour is typically the highest speed attained by the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. That’s not very fast. On the other hand, each ship’s engine generates 190 megawatts, enough to provide the energy needs of 140,000 houses, and can go more than 20 years without refueling. If you don’t mind, I’m going to compare you to one of those aircraft carriers during the next four weeks. You may not be moving fast, but you will have maximum stamina and power.

Homework: Imagine that you’re still alive in 2090.

What’s your life like? Testify at freewillastrology.com.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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inda Jean Fahn, 69, of Goodyear, Ariz., finally succumbed to a frustration many wives suffer.

On Dec. 30, as her husband sat on the toilet, she barged in and “shot two bullets at the wall above his head to make him listen,” she told Goodyear police when they were called to the scene. Fahn said her husband “would have had to be 10 feet tall to be hit by the bullets,” as ABC15 in Phoenix reported. However, police officers estimated the bullets struck about seven inches over the man’s head as he ducked. She was charged with aggravated assault.

Blood Sausage to the Rescue!

Chris McCabe, 70, of Totnes, England, escaped a frigid death thanks to his own quick thinking on Dec. 15. McCabe owns a butcher shop, and he had entered the walk-in freezer behind the shop when the door slammed behind him. Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be a problem, as a release button inside the freezer can open the door. But the button was frozen solid.

So McCabe looked around the freezer and saw the shop’s last “black pudding,” or blood sausage, which he used as a battering ram to unstick the button. “They are a big, long stick that you can just about get your hand around,” McCabe told The Mirror. “I used it like the police use battering rams to break door locks in. Black pudding saved my life, without a doubt.” He believes he would have died within 30 minutes in the -4 degree temperature had the blood sausage battering ram not worked.

Fighting Fire with…Ice?

One of Quebec City, Canada’s iconic tourist attractions is its ice hotel, the 45-room Hotel de Glace. But on Jan. 9, the hotel’s unlikeliest disaster—a fire—broke out in one of the guest rooms, the CBC reported. Manager Jacques Desbois admitted that, “When I received the phone call, they had to repeat twice that there was a fire in the ice hotel.” Predictably, the flames did not spread and caused little damage to the structure, although smoke spread throughout the hotel and residents were evacuated. “In a room made out of ice and snow, there are few clues to look at,” Desbois said. Each room has candles, and the hotel is considering the possibility that one of them caused the fire.

Family Values vs.

Family Valuables

Alyce Davenport, 30, and Diron Conyers, 27, of Southbridge, Mass., couldn’t make

it to the funeral of Audra Johnson, Davenport’s mother, on Jan. 5 because they were busy stealing a safe from Johnson’s home.

Southbridge police started searching for the pair after the decedent’s boyfriend discovered her safe was missing, reported The Worcester Telegram and Gazette. When police stopped Davenport the next day, they found her deceased mother’s safe in the trunk of the car she was driving (also registered to Johnson) and seized it. Davenport and Conyers were arrested at a Sturbridge motel, where officers found jewelry, keys, cellphones and other items formerly belonging to Audra Johnson.

Pest Control Gone Wrong

An unnamed man tried an unconventional method to kill a wolf spider in his Redding, Calif., apartment on Jan. 7. He set it afire with a torch lighter. Unfortunately, the burning spider ran onto a mattress and caught it on fire.

Residents were able to put out the mattress fire, but not before the flames had reached nearby drapes, a flag collection and a closet, reported the Redding Record Searchlight.

When a garden hose failed to douse the growing blaze, firefighters were called—preventing it from spreading to other apartments. The blaze caused about $11,000 in damage.

Just Horsing Around?

Daniel Bennett, 18, of Irvington, Ala., was charged in Mobile County with bestiality after “engaging in sexual contact with an animal, to wit: a horse.” The horse’s owner, Francine Janes, and her husband became suspicious when their dogs started barking on the evening of Jan. 4. They found Bennett, dressed in a trench coat and carrying burglar’s tools, hiding in one of their barn stalls, Janes told WPMI-TV. Bennett told Janes “he wanted to pet (Polly) the horse,” but he admitted to sheriff’s investigators he had instead sexually molested Polly. Janes said she suspects Bennett had visited Polly “seven, maybe 10 times,” because “toilet paper had been left; items had been turned over, and that’s as far as I want to go.”

Plan Z From Outer Space?

Troy, Mich., police received two calls early on Jan. 10, both leading them to the Zion Church. One call was from the church, reporting vandalism caused by gunfire. The other was from the alleged shooter, who told police the church was, in fact, “an alien spaceship.”

Surveillance video shows the unnamed shooter, 40, driving up to the church around 5 a.m. and firing shots into the doors. “He was talking very strangely about how the Zion Church is an alien spaceship for reptiles,” Troy Police Capt. Bob Redmond told WJBK-TV in Detroit. Police were assessing the shooter’s mental health to determine whether charges would be filed. © 2018 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION J A N U A R Y 2 5 , 2 0 1 8 | 53

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â&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;a? So listen, no hard-provoking, thought-throbbing essay on the schmutz of our times this week, no sir. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back to the Uptowner tavern/charm school situated at the corner of Hysteric Center Street and Humboldt for more political campaign planning with my so-called brain trust. Come along if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like, but you buy the first round. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s get going.

Julius: All Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m saying is maybe Trumpel-thinskin talks and acts like a fockstick â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got syphilis from one of those siliconed porn stars.

Ray: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard the reason Trump wants a government shutdown is he thinks that means he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to sit in his office for workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like a kid getting a snow day from school.

Emil: So the wife wants me to go out and get either a dog or a gun for the home security deterrence.

Herbie: Go for the gun, Emil. Low maintenance. Plus, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re white and a focking idiot. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking the Republicans might even pay guys like you to have a gun.

Little Jimmy Iodine: And with a dog, when a stranger comes to the house, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if Fido might bark and scare the person off, or instead perform a quick crotch-sniff and go straight to the leghumping welcome.

Ernie: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d sure like to know who the first knucklehead was who had the focking stupid bright idea of taking an otherwise productive animal from out there in the wild and, instead, keep it in his hovel or yurt and call it a pet, where its job would be to do abso-focking-lutely nothing.

Herbie: Anthropologistically, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say it would be some kind of king or liege lord suffering from the effects of too many generations of royal inbreeding and too much time on his hands.

Julius: Animals belong either in the woods or on a menu, but not in my living room going nuts trying to get at something that rolled

or crawled under the sofa. Like Artie says, until the free enterprise system can put a house-pet on the market that can operate a microwave, flush a toilet and clean a handgun, you can forget about me having something with four legs in my apartment besides a coffee table or, god willing, twin 21-year-old blonde pole dancers, what the fock.

Ray: And speaking of focking idiotâ&#x20AC;Ś Little Jimmy Iodine: Hey, Artie!

Over here. Put a load on your keister.

Art: Hey, gents. What do you hear, what do you know.

Ernie: I know the wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all upset since she thought she read on the internet that the astronomers have discovered that the stars have shifted alignment, and so everything you thought you knew about the science of astrology is bullshit.

Emil: You got to be jerking my beefaroni. Astrology is bullshit?

Ernie: All I know is that she thought she was a Virgo and now sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leo. Herbie: It happens. Do we ever really know who we are? I knew a guy married to a nice gal named Lenore, cooked and cleaned to beat the band.

She got a little bored with the domestic life, took a night course at a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s college. Next thing you know, she cleaned out the bank account, took a trip to Sweden, and when she returned Lenore was now Leon.

Ray: So heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s married to a guy now?

Herbie: Yeah, but he says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no big deal. She likes football a lot

more than she used to. And because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still married, sex remains a non-issue and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never, ever a domestic dispute about whether the goddamn toilet seat is up or down.

They seem happy.

Little Jimmy: Cripes, our astronomers must be working overtime these days â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause the other week I heard they discovered another new planet out there in space somewheres, and that this one might actually be able to have some life on it, maybe even like ours.

Julius: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about time. We all know that someday our sun is going to go kaput and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to move somewhere else on another planet. So far weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve only been to the moonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a place that looks just like Nevada minus the gambling and legalized prostitution. Who in their focking right mind would want to live there?

Herbie: OK. OK. OK. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keep cool heads about moving to a new planet. Obviously, us Americans need to get their first and get things organized, especially if this new planet is just like Earth. Like, what are we going to do about the people in North Korea who try to survive on one bowl of porridge per year? If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to want to live in â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Las Vegasâ&#x20AC;? and get in on those daily all-you-can-eat breakfast buffets for $4.95â&#x20AC;&#x201D;think again.

(Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting late and I know you got to go, but thanks for letting us bend your ear, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.)

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