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Plaintiffs in I-94 Suit Say Highway Project is ‘Racist in its Consequences’ ::BY JABRIL FARAJ

laintiffs who recently filed a federal suit against the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to stop a proposed $1 billion expansion of I-94 said state and federal decisionmakers used misleading statements and faulty estimates to support a project they claim will harm minority communities by increasing pollution levels and restricting access to jobs.

“Our complaint does not say that the decisions made with regard to this project are intentionally racially discriminatory,” said Dennis Grzezinski, an attorney for the plaintiffs. “We do say that the results of agency decisions on this project, and a whole series of projects that have preceded it, have [had] terribly disproportionately adverse impacts on minority individuals and communities. So, to that extent, the project, or the decision, is racist in its consequences.”

The project, which has been in the works since 2014, would rebuild and expand 3.5 miles of highway from 16th Street to 70th Street. It would address congestion, safety concerns and the “deteriorated condition” of the freeway, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), by adding lanes and changing the placement of exits and on-ramps.

But representatives of the Milwaukee NAACP and John Muir Chapter of the Sierra Club, who are co-plaintiffs in the case, NAACP v. Ross, claim WisDOT violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by ignoring more affordable alternatives that included expanding public transportation. The complaint documents public pledges by WisDOT to expand transit, which plaintiffs claim the agency has failed to uphold, while skirting federal requirements. Milwaukee Inner-City Congregations Allied for Hope (MICAH) is also a plaintiff in the suit.

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WisDOT and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), which is also listed as a defendant, declined to comment for this story, citing department policies regarding pending litigation.

In 2000, the Campaign for a Sustainable Milwaukee sued WisDOT and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, on behalf of seven individuals and 12 organizations. The suit alleged Thompson and WisDOT “conspired to use federal funds in a manner that adversely impacts complainants and other similarly-situated minority residents in the City of Milwaukee who are dependent upon public transportation for the necessities of life.”

The resulting settlement included a pledge

by WisDOT that it would assist the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) in an effort to improve public transit “to enable transit dependent residents of Milwaukee to better access areas of job growth.”

In 2013, MICAH and the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin sued then-WisDOT head Mark Gottlieb, challenging a project to reconstruct the Zoo Interchange for reasons similar to the recent suit. That suit was settled in 2014 when the state agreed to spend $13.5 million to improve transit services, including the creation of three new bus routes that helped increase access to business centers in Wauwatosa, Brookfield and Menomonee Falls. That funding will run out by the time construction would be slated to start on the East-West expansion.

The NAACP suit claims that WisDOT, FHWA and the U.S. Department of Transportation are in violation of these agreements, as well as the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires an agency to produce an adequate analysis of a project’s environmental impact while thoroughly considering any alternatives.

“So, that’s why the suits are continuously being filed,” said Fred Royal, president of the Milwaukee NAACP. “Because the Department of Transportation, both federal and state, are not living up to what they agreed.”

“There are many, many layers to this,” said Sierra Club John Muir Chapter President Bill Davis. “There certainly is a race element to it that I think you can’t ignore.”

Segregation and Poverty

While Wisconsin’s unemployment rate currently stands at 3.9%—an entire point better than before the nationwide economic recession—the rate for Wisconsin’s African Americans is a staggering 19.9%, the highest in the nation, according to a 2015 Economic Policy Institute report. Milwaukee’s poverty rate of 29% is skewed by its populations of color—39.9% of African Americans and 31.8% of Hispanics live in poverty, compared to 14.8% of whites, a number that is on par with the national average.

The complaint points to segregation as a factor that exacerbates these inequities, noting

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that, though just more than half of Milwaukee’s population is white, more than 90% of the surrounding counties—Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington—are white. Plaintiffs said the project will not provide African Americans and Latinos, who make up a majority of the study area’s population, better access to employment opportunities in outlying areas, to which access is limited for those utilizing public transit.

According to a June 2005 study from the Employment and Training Institute at UW-Milwaukee, the most recent data available, only 45% of African American and Hispanic voting-age adults in Milwaukee County had a valid driver’s license. Among whites, that number was 73%.

The study also noted that 23% of Wisconsin residents over 65 did not have a driver’s license, and that whether an individual had a driver’s license or not was more important than a high school diploma when it came to determining self-sufficiency.

According to data from the most recent American Community Survey, 19.2% of Milwaukee households do not own a car.

VISION 2050, a transportation plan released early this year by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, recommends a “significant improvement to and expansion of public transit.” According to the commission, the vision, which includes commuter rail, ride sharing and drastically expanded bus service, would decrease vehicle congestion, reduce carbon emissions, improve access to jobs and save more than $100 million a year in transit costs.

Eve Smith, an African American Milwaukee resident and member of the NAACP-Milwaukee Branch Executive Board does not own a car and rides the bus just about every day; she estimated she spends upwards of 25 hours a week on public transit. She said fluctuations in service not only affect her, personally, but people in “a variety of situations,” noting that convenient public transit access is “crucial” for those who do not have the means—financial or otherwise—to get around without it.

“What about the people you see that’s [in]

wheelchairs? What about the people we see that’s on the cane? What about the people that I see on the bus, who get on the bus who only have one leg?” she said. “What about the mother who may have ... five or six children?”

Sherry Meeriwether, 65, who walks with a cane between bus stops as she transfers at 27th Street and Wisconsin Avenue, said she would prefer to have a car but can’t afford one. Meeriwether, who is retired but works part-time for a cleaning company, rides public transit three or four times a week. She doesn’t know many people in the area so carpooling isn’t an option for her. She said, “This is the only transportation I got.”

MCTS ridership has steadily declined since 2000, a trend that bucks the direction of public transit nationally. Officials with MCTS have said funding cuts and fare increases have added to the decline. Revenue also decreased after the County Board authorized free rides for seniors and individuals with disabilities in 2015.

In 2008, Milwaukee County voters narrowly approved a referendum to create a 1% sales tax that would have provided dedicated funding for public transit. The tax was not approved by the state legislature.

In an unexpected move, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker did not include funding for the I-94 expansion in his 2017 budget.

Davis said he doesn’t know whether funding for public transit in Milwaukee County will increase without a settlement similar to that in the Zoo Interchange case, but noted it will take investment to improve service.

He added that the Sierra Club is advocating that resources currently slated for highway projects across the state be directed to public transit.

Davis said, “I think, if you do that, there would be significant [public transit] funding available ... not just for Milwaukee but for other parts of the state, as well.”

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UWM Astrophysicists Open New Windows on the Universe ::BY MARY SUSSMAN

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n the wild and violent world of outer space, it is nothing unusual for black holes to collide, supernovae to collapse or for two neutron stars to coalesce. When these catastrophic events occur, vast amounts of energy are released in the form of gravitational waves. These waves ripple through the fabric of space-time at the speed of light, eventually reaching earth in a much-diminished intensity, sometimes billions of years later.

Scientists at UW-Milwaukee’s (UWM) Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics are at the heart of data collection and analysis for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). LIGO made headlines back in 2015 when it went live because in short order its supersensitive instruments managed to detect gravitational waves from pairs of coalescing black holes. Astrophysicists around the world were surprised and delighted when LIGO recorded its first “chirp” from such

a coalescence.

LIGO is providing a new window on the universe, and UWM scientists are playing an active role in collecting, processing and analyzing the data the LIGO equipment is capturing. This data will likely lead to a better understanding of the universe’s mysteries, vastness and the powerful events that shape it.

Of the 1,000-plus scientists working collaboratively on LIGO around the world, 40 or so are currently affiliated with UWM or can trace their heritage to UWM. Though the UWM scientists are studying events that occurred billions of years ago in distant reaches of the universe, they work right here in Milwaukee’s backyard.

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Scientists have been trying to figure out a way to measure gravitational waves for generations.

Though Einstein predicted them 100 years ago as a theoretical likelihood, there was no empirical way to measure them until now.

LIGO is a realization of that dream. The LIGO interferometers, located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana, superimpose two or more sources of light, creating an interference pattern, which can then be measured and studied. Einstein predicted gravitational waves in the General Theory of Relativity back in 1916, but until now it was impossible to gather empirical evidence about them. Now, however, precise measurements, as small as 1/10,000 the width of a proton, are possible. LIGO’s two L-shaped interferometers, with 2.5 mile-long supersensitive antenna arms that sense invisible gravitational waves facilitate such measurements.

Efforts to create a device to measure gravitational waves began in the 1950s. “We’ve been essentially four generations of scientists since the conception of the idea. It has taken a long time to get here and a lot of tenacity and continued focus by everybody,” says Patrick Brady, director of UWM’s Center for Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics.

Scientists at the UWM Center got into the LIGO collaboration on the ground floor when UWM became a charter member of the collaboration in 1997. Jolien Creighton, Professor of Physics at the Center for Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics, has been active in LIGO since the beginning.

An expert in black holes and theoretical physics, Creighton is excited about LIGO’s promise.

“We can never see two black holes colliding, except through gravitational waves,” he says.

“Because they’re black, they don’t emit any light. This is the most extreme environment the universe provides to study theories of general relativity. Gravitational waves give us information about the universe that we can’t get in other ways. It’s looking at a different kind of environment that is not accessible through optical or electromagnetic observations.”

Gravitational powerhouses that swallow and trap particles and light, black holes form when massive stars collapse. Sometimes, black holes collide and swallow each other, creating a massive amount of energy in the process, and an even larger black hole with even greater gravitational pull. But despite their massive size and power, until very recently, no one could observe them.

All that changed when the LIGO interferometers became operational in September 2015.

Since then, LIGO has detected two separate coalescences of binary black holes. Though these coalescences occurred billions years ago, the gravitational waves engendered by these events are still cascading through the universe.

The LIGO interferometers detect the weak gravitational waves associated with the coalescence of binary black holes. A tiny little chirp that lasts only one-quarter of a second is the only evidence of those gravitational waves. Behind that short chirp, however, is a mass of data that astrophysicists can analyze to get a better picture of the dynamics of these cataclysmic events.

Brady likens it to being a bird watcher who goes out into the woods. Often, bird watchers

hear birdcalls before actually spotting the birds.

“By the nature of the bird call, you can tell what sort of bird it might be, a cardinal or a goldfinch,” Brady says. With LIGO, “the chirp signal that we hear—just the specific way it goes ‘whoop’—tells us about the object that is out in the universe.”

Creighton says that extraneous noise in the raw data collected by the interferometers obscures the chirping sounds related to the gravitational waves. LIGO scientists have had to create algorithms and software programs that efficiently filter out the extraneous noise so that the allimportant “chirps” from the gravitational waves can be isolated.

“The signals tend to be buried, so there’s a lot of filtering of the noise to extract the exact signals,” Creighton explains. “The [raw] data kind of sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Just kind of loud noise. If you imagine that someone is chirping outside somewhere in the distance, you’re never going to hear it if you’re standing right next to your vacuum cleaner. But if you were to record the [chirping] sound and then actively try to find those individual bird chirps in that data, you can extract it.”

Creighton is optimistic about what now can be discovered about black holes, collapsing supernovae or coalescing neutron stars. Different events will produce different signals. “We want to infer what kind of thing made those waves and what its properties are,” he says. Creighton hopes to discover how those black holes were moving, what their masses were, how much they were spinning, and how far away they were when the gravitational waves were produced. He wants to learn more about the dynamics when two black holes smash into each other. As a theoretician he believes this new data may provide strong tests of the theory of general relativity and yield much information about astrophysics and the early universe.

The LIGO collaboration requires a powerful computer infrastructure to handle the massive amounts of data coming its way through the interferometers. “The LIGO problem from a practical perspective is the needle in a haystack,” says Thomas Downes, LIGO data center manager at the UWM Center for Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics. Data from the LIGO interferometers streams in 24/7, 365 days per year. “The instrument is taking data all the time. Interesting things in space happen every so often. We need to make sure that every time something interesting happens that we actually find it,” Downes says.

The Center houses close to $2 million worth of computer equipment, and its processors account for about 20% of LIGO’s total computing requirements. In 2011, the Center received a $9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the LIGO Data Grid, which analyzes data from a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors.

Keeping the computers running in optimal condition is an important way of realizing the actual value of the LIGO instrument. “There’s a lot of time, money and intellectual effort that went into building the instrument. If you don’t get the computing side right, then you make all that useless,” Downes says.

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Speaking Your Truth to Power, 6-7:30 p.m., OmTownYogis (1841 N. Prospect Ave.) The Wisconsin biennial budget is currently being crafted by the Joint Finance Committee. During the month of April, the committee will be taking input on the budget from Wisconsin citizens. Each participant in this workshop will produce their own concise and effectively written message advocating a position or concern. This workshop is free, with donations appreciated.

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Solidarity: A Benefit for Refugees, 8-11 p.m., Riverwest Public House (815 E. Locust St.) This benefit show, featuring performances from Painted Caves, Marielle Allschwang & The Visitations, and special guest speakers Kelly Todd and Jeremy Auit, raises funds for refugees in Syria as well as those living in Milwaukee. The cover is $5 and further donations will be accepted. All proceeds go to the Lutheran Social Services: Refugee Resettlement and Diaconia Connections.

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Refuel the Resistance, 5-8 p.m., Bounce Milwaukee (2801 S. Fifth Court) Every Wednesday, Bounce Milwaukee offers a space to organize, as well as a free drink to anyone who brings evidence of resistance in the past week, including protest signs, an email to an elected official or a selfie at the capital.

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Chief Ed Flynn and the Future of Constitutional Policing ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

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ow more than ever, it will be up to local police chiefs like Milwaukee’s Ed Flynn to make sure their officers are enforcing the law in accordance with the U.S. Constitution. That means treating everyone equally under the law, something citizens in black neighborhoods and even many in white neighborhoods know really hasn’t been historically true in America.

Many community activists probably shudder to think about Flynn policing himself. Flynn can come across with an arrogant air of superiority even when he’s adopted such positive police reforms as body cameras and department-wide training in mental health intervention.

But Donald Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions clearly wants to end all federal oversight and civil rights enforcement of local police reforms by the U.S. Justice Department.

This comes as absolutely no surprise. This is the same Jeff Sessions whose 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship was withdrawn by President Reagan after the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected him because of his shabby history of opposing civil rights.

One of Sessions’ first actions as attorney general is ordering a review of every consent decree reached between the Justice Department’s civil rights division and local police departments.

Those agreements were to correct widespread, systemic police patterns and practices in training and supervision that resulted in unconstitutional stops, searches and arrests and disproportionate use of excessive and deadly force against black and Latino residents.

We all know what led to those agreements.

The series of unjustified deadly incidents between police and unarmed citizens since Ferguson, Mo., differed from those occurring year after year beforehand for as long as we can remember only because videos of the later incidents made all of us witnesses.

The dirty little secret about the ugly, racist culture Sessions wants to perpetuate is that it’s dangerous for both police and the community.

Just last week, Sessions tried unsuccessfully in Baltimore to delay a federal judge’s appointment of an independent monitor to oversee department reforms of unconstitutional police practices—practices, which a scathing Justice report said unnecessarily endangered both officers and civilians.

Sessions’ Intervention ‘A Punch in the Gut’

Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis called Sessions’ attempt to delay the agreement “a punch in the gut.” He said reform “will make the Baltimore police department better both with the crime fight and our community relationships.”

Ed Flynn came to town in 2008 extolling the value of community policing. Police who know and are known in the community aren’t automatically considered the enemy. And those officers don’t fear everyone they encounter based on skin color, leading to deadly overreactions.

However, Flynn sometimes seems to like the idea of community a lot more than many of its individual members, especially those who challenge him. To Flynn’s credit, one of his first extended media appearances as chief was on the morning radio show my partner Cassandra and I co-hosted on 1290 WMCS-AM, which had a strong following in the African American community.

Cassandra and I asked tough, but certainly respectful questions. Some of the callers may not have been quite as respectful, but their concerns about policing were exactly what a new chief from out of town needed to hear.

But we could never get Flynn to come on again after that.

Flynn occasionally appears at Community Brainstorming, a monthly gathering to discuss issues in the black community. He seems most comfortable dominating the room with his selfassured rhetoric. Less so when he’s challenged with questions he feels he’s already addressed

quite admirably. You can almost see his eyes glaze over after a while.

Flynn’s somewhat prickly public interactions obscure commendable department reforms including body cameras and retraining.

The family of Dontre Hamilton, the mentally ill man shot and killed in a Downtown park, understandably believe the officer should have been prosecuted, but Flynn did fire that officer.

Flynn also deserves credit for rejecting the idea of harassing immigrants as Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is eager to do.

Flynn said the core mission of his department “is to protect and serve the residents of our community. And you can’t do that if you’re terrifying them and trying to round them up.”

Milwaukee is not one of more than a dozen departments nationally with consent decrees to end unconstitutional police practices that Sessions now wants to second-guess. More than a year ago in the wake of the Hamilton case, however, Flynn requested a review by the Justice Department’s civil rights division of his department’s practices, agreeing to voluntarily implement any recommended reforms.

The results of that yearlong investigation may never see the light of day now. If civil rights enforcement evaporates under Trump and Sessions, it will be up to local officials everywhere including Flynn, Mayor Tom Barrett and the Milwaukee Common Council to continue department reforms to assure equal treatment at the hands of police.

Community safety, police safety and now the future of constitutional policing in America itself depend upon it.

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or years the Shepherd Express has been critical of the dubious management decisions of our energy utility, the regulated monopoly We Energies, for both its high utility rates and for having some of the highest-paid executives in the state. Even other business executives who manage real businesses that have competitors and have to compete in the marketplace for customers, criticize We Energies privately.

Almost any business owner will tell you that producing goods or services is the easier part of the business compared to selling the products or services in the marketplace. As a regulated monopoly, a utility only has to produce the energy; they have no significant competitors within their defined service area and the state Public Service Commission (PSC) sets their rates to provide an allowable return on its assets, which is currently more than 10%.

Is the Power Company Just Another Utility?

A power company is virtually identical to a municipal utility like the Milwaukee Water Works. One provides energy the other provides water, both are necessary and both have virtually no real competition. You can’t shower in bottled water.

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panies, and they provide the needed energy to their customers usually at lower costs. Furthermore, the municipally owned power companies are accountable to their customers, who are essentially the owners, and not to a group of wealthy outside investors looking only to maximize their profits. Vital services that utilities provide should be primarily driven by serving the needs of the residents and businesses in their service area rather than simply by the profit motive.

How Our Electric Power Rates Got Out of Control

Three decades ago, residents and businesses in the Shepherd’s seven-county Milwaukee distribution area had the lowest electric utility rates in the Midwest and among the lowest in the nation. These low rates were because the CEO of the electric power company at that time, Charlie McNeer, cared about the fact that if our rates go up, our area would be less competitive for new business development and we would lose jobs. He was right, and he developed a number of successful policies at the utility to enable him to hold down the rates. Then he retired and it all began to change.

Starting under Gov. Tommy Thompson, the governor’s appointments to the board of the Public Service Commission, created a PSC that became a very compliant regulator. Instead of being the watchdog for the customers, the PSC began to approve almost every request, in some cases modified, from the utility, and things began to change until we now have the highest electric rates in the Midwest. Our power rates have increased at a record pace over the past 15 years because the utility kept go-

ing to the Public Service Commission looking for rate hikes to pay for their overbuilding of power plants and for providing their shareholders with a very, very handsome rate of return.

The commissioners of the PSC are appointed for sixyear terms by the governor. If the state legislature had to vote on the rate requests and the governor had to sign off on them, we would not have these exorbitant rates. The main force pushing back against the power companies before the PSC has been the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) and some of the individual businesses that consume large quantities of energy. CUB has done a very good job with its limited resources. Now a new group of some of Wisconsin’s leading businesses including MillerCoors has formed, the Initiative for Competitive Energy, Inc. (ICE) that will now also be coming before the PSC to argue for “policy decisions that encourage stronger economic growth through lower electric prices.”

Coincidentally, We Energies has now proposed a rate freeze through 2019. After years and years of rate increases, many believe that We Energies is just trying to lock in their victories before the PSC and the public begin to take a serious look at the exorbitant utility rates and how We Energies spends our ratepayers’ dollars.

Even the very conservative Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce is supporting the rate freeze, which, in essence, appears finally to be their admission that things have gotten out of control. However, the new ICE and CUB are saying that perhaps a rate freeze is not the answer, but rather a rate rollback is needed. This scrutiny of the energy rates is long overdue.

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ocated in the new Kinn MKE guesthouse in Bay View, Kindred is a warm space to get together for innovative cocktails and modern twists on classic food.

Kindred is the perfect fit on the ground level of this boutique micro hotel, melting in with the character and charm of the old brick building housing it. Low lighting, warm reclaimed wood and little hidden banquettes of cozy dining areas all surround a table that expands to the length of the room and seats about 20 guests. Kindred is a place where you can dine alone and still feel like part of a family or meet new friends while dining at the communal table or in the intimate bar area. The velvety, almost Moroccan feel is everything I loved about the owner’s former restaurant, Firefly, and the food complements everything warm and earthy about the space. The chef’s natural approach to food and locally sourced ingredients shine through in each creative and flavorful dish.

The wine list has a nice variety by the glass and by the bottle, including some exceptional “on reserve” choices along with a good selection of beer.

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executed with a good balance of sweet and salty made with bulleit bourbon, fresh lime, demerara from figs and feta cheese topped with local sprouts. syrup, bitters and blackberry. We couldn’t help but Kindred’s gnocchi uses parsnips in their little order a few of these innovative and playful cocktails dumplings, sautéed in a brown butter with shaves to see which of these vixens tempted us the most. of Parmesan cheese and topped with sage panko All were adorned with the finest ingredients. crumbles. The gnocchi themselves had good flavor The menu is broken down into three sections and the ingredients paired beautifully, but I found starting with the many options under the heading the gnocchi to be a little heavy and not the little “Gather.” These not-so-small plates are perfect for cloud pillows that I admire about the potato variety. sharing and have many options for vegetarians like In the “Dine” section of larger plates the Black the wood ear mushroom spread ($7) simmered in Angus burger ($13) tops the list of musts. It’s served a creamy sherry sauce and topped with toasted with Wisconsin aged cheddar, pickled chilies, and pistachios for a light crunch. This is served with tobacco onions on a brioche roll. The stout-braised a salted pretzel roll that’s grilled to add a little short ribs ($21) over a manchego polenta and the smokiness to the overall taste. It seems like such striped bass ($23) with a simple dish, but was white asparagus and red composed from layers of miso brown butter sauce complex flavors masterfully are delicious options for a prepared. The lemongrass Kindred heartier fare. mussels ($13) were served in 2535 S. Kinnickinnic Ave, The last section is called a ginger-laced coconut broth Bay View, Indulge—and you must! rich in flavor. The mussels The cinnamon sugar crullers had a warm heat from the 414-446-3640 | $$$ ($7) with a coffee crème ginger and bird’s eye chilies kindredonkk.com anglaise finish the meal on a and sweetness not only Handicapped access: Yes (rear) sugary high note, especially from the tender jewels in the CC, FB, SB, RS, GF, V when paired with the lovely shell, but from the heirloom Hours: Tu-Sa 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., quinto do vallado 10-year carrots. The duck confit 5-10 p.m. port ($12). flatbread ($13) was also

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hocolate lovers can rejoice as Milwaukee’s base of artisan chocolatiers continues to grow.

Yet Red Elephant Chocolate (333 N. Broadway) strives to take chocolate to a whole new level with their Third Ward chocolate café, living up to their motto, “A chocolate experience you’ll never forget.”

The idea of a chocolate café is relatively new in the United States. Red Elephant Chocolate owner Richard Koenings is a lawyer and businessman who led a group of investors that took over failing Quality Candy (known today as Buddy Squirrel). The venture piqued Koenings’ interest in chocolates, and he has since become well versed in the history of the cocoa bean and the science behind premium chocolate production. His knowledgeable staff also shares his passion for chocolate and can answer any questions from customers. “A chocolate café takes a commonly loved and appreciated product and puts that product into a café-style, sit-down setting for people to socialize around chocolate,” Koenings said.

The café’s main display case features an artistic array of house-made, handcrafted chocolates. Most look jewel-like with delicate swirls of color—almost too pretty to eat. Yet it’s easy to

move past the beauty and sink your teeth right in.

The color accents are suggestive of the flavors— green for mint melt-aways, red for raspberry, etc.

Other chocolate delights include peanut butter balls and sea salt caramels made with real brown sugar. All are available in milk or dark chocolate.

There are also sports-themed chocolates, solid chocolates and pops molded into the café’s elephant logo, chocolate bars, and chocolate-covered pretzel rods. They also take custom orders.

An additional case offers gourmet cake by the slice, made by an outside source per the chocolatier’s specifications. Chocolate-covered cookies, cake bites in flavors such as carrot cake, ice cream, malts and shakes round out the selection.

Koenings notes the stretch between Christmas and Mother’s Day is known as “high holy days” for chocolatiers. The café offers holiday-themed chocolates, and Easter brings truffles designed to look like speckled eggs with flavors including coconut with a mild, true flavor. The milk shake truffle has a silky ganache filling like a real malted milk shake. Strawberry and cheesecake flavors round out the Easter truffle line. Red Elephant Chocolate also offers the rare theobroma chocolate, which is vegan and has no additives.

It is sold by the piece and is available in the holiday assortments.

The café offers coffee drinks and hot cocoa made with 100% real chocolate. Their hot chocolate mix is also sold in to-go containers. Unique to Red Elephant is the cocoa bean tea, available in “pearl” from Africa or “gold” from South America. Like coffee, the cocoa bean tea brews the ground bean and generates health benefits of pure cocoa such as antioxidants and flavonoids into a beverage. A light aroma of cocoa gently wafts from the drink, which has the look and color of tea. It’s caffeine-free but contains a mild stimulant, theobromine; however, it’s neither addictive nor disruptive to the digestive tract.

The café also sells elephant-related merchandise, including trinkets and books about elephants. The elephant is a nostalgic nod toward the days when Milwaukee hosted the Ringling Bros. Circus Parade. The elephant is also a very intelligent, social and matriarchal creature. Red represents the color of two of the most important chocolate days: Christmas and Valentine’s Day. For more information call 414-431-5509 or visit redelephantchocolate.com.

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::BY MATTHEW J. PRIGGE he Free Agent Reentry Draft is a mostly forgotten relic from the earliest days of freedom for Major League Baseball players. Between 1976 and 1980, an early November “draft” of free agent players determined which clubs could negotiate with which players. Teams chose in the reverse order of their win-loss records and were permitted to “draft” any player that had declared themselves as a free agent. A player could be drafted by as many as 13 teams (half the league) and teams were allowed up to 12 draft picks. The draft was a device designed to prevent rich teams from hoarding all the most expensive players and, indirectly, to keep down player salaries.

This weird period of the free agent draft was a time when the young Brewers franchise was surprisingly aggressive in the market. The first-ever draft was held following the 1976 season. The prize of that year was Orioles slugger Reggie Jackson, who ended up with the Yankees. But just below Jackson’s level was Oakland A’s third baseman Sal Bando. The Brewers tagged Bando with their first pick and also put claims on his Oakland teammates Gene Tenace and Joe Rudi, as well as Don Baylor, Gary Matthews and Bobby Grich.

The Brewers set their sights on Bando and Tenace as their main targets but narrowly lost

out on Tenace to the Padres. Moving on, Bud Selig met personally with Bando’s lawyer to work out a deal. “Moneywise, the Brewers are highly positive,” Bando’s lawyer said after the meeting. “However, the fact that the Brewers have not performed at the high level Sal has been playing with has to be a negative factor.” Selig’s persistence, and a $1.4 million offer over five years, turned Bando around and sent a minor shock across the baseball world. “I don’t think we worked this hard getting the franchise,” Selig joked after the signing.

In 1977, after their second-straight 95loss season, the Brewers again pulled a coup

with their top pick. Drafting the Twins’ Larry Hisle—as well as Lyman Bostock, Oscar Gamble and Goose Gossage—the Brewers made another hard play at a top free agent.

The team actually invited Hisle to Milwaukee before the draft, and the slugger was very impressed with the city and organization.

Despite higher-dollar offers elsewhere, Hisle chose Milwaukee and inked a $2 million, sixyear contract. The Brewers also made a strong play for Bostock, a 26-year-old outfielder with a career .318 batting average. Bostock ultimately signed with the California Angels and was tragically shot to death with a week remaining in the 1978 season.

The addition of Hisle was vital to the Brewers’ emergence as a contender in ’78. Their high-powered offense led them to 93 wins, but the club was somewhat thin in the starting rotation. The Brewers went heavy on pitch-

ing in that year’s draft, picking Tommy John, Larry Gura, Elias Sosa, Wilbur Wood and others. They went hard after John and Sosa, but couldn’t land either. They did manage to sign Jim Slaton, a right-hander who was with the Brewers from 1971 to 1977. The team had dealt Slaton to Detroit for young outfielder Ben Oglivie after the pitcher had declared he was sick of playing for a losing club. The Crew’s turn-around, and the $1.1 million over five years they offered him, changed his mind on matters.

The 1979 free agent class was topped by the Angels’ Nolan Ryan. The Brewers drafted Ryan and said they were serious about signing him, but Ryan wanted to play in Texas and never seriously considered Milwaukee. His name did surface, however, in trade rumors during the home stretch of the 1982 season, when the Brewers were looking to add a starting pitcher. The Brewers did swap with Houston, but got Don Sutton instead.

Speaking of Don Sutton, he was the Brewers’ final first round reentry pick, with the Crew tabbing him in 1980. They liked Sutton, but after spending big in three of the preceding four years, couldn’t afford to bid for him.

The Brewers did add former Blue Jays third baseman Roy Howell who went on to spend four undistinguished years in Milwaukee as a part-time player. After the 1981 mid-season players strike, the reentry draft was scrapped.

The Brewers did not sign another major league free agent until they inked Dave Parker after the 1989 season.

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MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE’S FAST-PACED PRODUCTION OF ‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’ ::BY KEITH SCHUBERT

olly Rhode knew from an early age that she wanted to be in the performing arts. Her acting career started out of jealousy for her cousin Tim. “My parents took me to see a community play that my aunt was in, and my cousin was in it too, so I said, wait a minute? Kids can be in these too?” she recalls. Soon after that, at the age of 10, she made her acting debut in the Falls Patio Players production of Jack and the Beanstalk. Now, as an actress and director, she is one of the busiest theater artists in Milwaukee.

Rhode’s current project is directing the new Milwaukee Chamber Theatre production of Great Expectations, a play adapted by Milwaukee’s Gale Childs Daly from the novel by Charles Dickens. The theatrical aesthetic of Childs Daly’s adaptation of the famous epic coming-of-age story is well suited for Rhode, she said. “I love story theater adaptations. I’m always interested in creating theatrical solutions so when you come to the show, it’s a unique experience, and I have the opportunity to do that here,” she explained.

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In Dickens’ tale, Pip, a lonely orphan in search of his place in the world, meets characters across the spectrum of 19thcentury London society. As a child, he’s kind to a desperate convict and that favor winds up changing his life in surprising ways. The story suggests that in a world that seems haphazard, moral choices do matter.

With only six actors to play more than 30 characters, the cast is busy for the entire show. They are switching back and forth from character to narrator, changing clothes, doing different voices; there isn’t even time for them to leave the stage in between scenes. It might seem overwhelming at first but it’s not, Rhode said. “This particular company is so talented. It’s a luxury. They’re so gifted that it’s not confusing; they make it easy to connect all the pieces of the puzzle as the story unfolds.”

Actor Josh Krause makes his Milwaukee Chamber Theatre debut as Pip. Jonathan Gillard Daly, Karen Estrada, Chiké Johnson, Deborah Staples and Zach Thomas Woods will play all the other characters. Violinist Andrew Crowe will provide onstage accompaniment.

The script’s fast pace is what makes a play this broad in scope possible, according to Rhode. “The momentum of it just keeps rolling. Doing it creatively makes it a lot more fun than if we had a cast of 40 actors,” she said.

Even Lisa Schlenker’s set design, based on Dickens’ writer’s study, is minimal. It consists of a few coat racks, bookshelves, a desk and a couple of chairs, and the play relies more on the actors to set the scene than on the physical scenery. Rhode said she likes this approach because it couldn’t be done this way in any medium but theater.

Childs Daly’s adaptation was first produced in 1993 at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts (PCPA) Theaterfest in Santa Monica, Calif. It was recently produced in Chicago at the Strawdog Theatre, but this will be the first professional production of the play in Milwaukee. Rhode noted how much of a luxury it was to have Daly on hand.

“I’ve known her for a long time and you rarely have this much access to your playwright, so even just being able to go get coffee with her or being able to call her has been extremely helpful.”

Milwaukee What Rhode stressed about this Chamber play is its uniqueness and theatricalTheatere ity. “A cinematic adaptation would Great never be this way; you would never experience the story this way in Expectations another medium. It’s a uniquely April 13-30 theatrical telling of the story that is Cabot Theatre very immediate and incredibly fun to watch unfold,” she said.

Aside from its theatricality, Rhode highlighted themes of the adaptation that are still relevant today: specifically, the word “great” and how her interpretation of that word has changed over the past six months. “I have started to look at everything through a different lens over the past few months, so I had to ask myself what does it mean to be great? I think things like compassion, empathy, forgiveness and generosity make us great, and those are all critical themes in the play,” she explained, adding, “There’s a lot in this play that I wish wasn’t relevant anymore, but it is. So I am trying to double down on the themes that I think make us great.”

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Gucci Mane w/ Playboi Carti and Dreezy @ The Rave, 8 p.m.

Everybody loves a good comeback story, and last year Gucci Mane had the one to beat. After a years-long spiral of drug abuse and criminal behavior, the wildly influential Atlanta rapper returned from a long prison sentence sober, slimmer and infinitely happier, and he wasted no time returning to his usual frenzied recording schedule. He released three full length records in a matter of months, all of them solid to great—his new life as a self-identified “recovering drug addict” seems to have reinvigorated him creatively—as well as an EP with rising star Lil Uzi Vert. The eventful year also saw him lend a verse to one of last year’s biggest rap hits, Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles,” perform a viral Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, and appear on “The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon” with 2 Chainz. He certainly seems to be making the most of his resurgence: This fall he’s set to release a book, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane.

GGOOLLDD w/ Tart @ Cactus Club, 8 p.m.

Fronted in dramatic, Stevie Nicks fashion by singer Margaret Butler, the Milwaukee electro-rock group GGOOLLDD were carrying themselves like stars from their very first shows. No other Milwaukee band seems quite so glamorous right now, but the group has the songs to back up their image, too. Their $TANDARD$ and For The Night EPs paired beautifully wistful sentiments with rafter-scaling electronics and pulsating beats, and their latest single, “Undercovers,” is one of their catchiest yet. To promote it the group has spent much of the last couple of months touring the country, but they’ll squeeze in a home town show with this bill, which they’ll share with the thrashy, neo-riot grrrl Detroit group Tart.

FRIDAY, APRIL 14

James McCartney w/ Luxi @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

Before you ask, yes, James McCartney is indeed the son of Paul McCartney. Given that lineage, then, it was probably inevitable that he’d turn to music. He spent his early years on the road with parents Paul and Linda, and later performed on a few of his father’s solo records. Sir Paul returned the favor by lending some piano, guitar and drums to James’ first album, 2013’s Me, but James’ most recent record seems designed to distance himself a bit from his dad’s shadow. Produced by Steve Albini, in full In Utero form, last year’s The Blackberry Train is a heavy, walloping rock record in the spirit of Nirvana and The Pixies. Paul doesn’t cameo this time around, but the record does feature at least one artist with some ties to the Fab Four: fellow Beatles offspring Dhani Harrison. Milwaukee electro-pop singer/producer Luxi will open this show.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 14

STS9 w/ Jaw Gems @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

To say the Atlanta jamtronica band STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) were ahead of the curve is a gigantic understatement. They were one of the first jam groups to predict the rise of electronic music as a massive live draw—way back in the late ’90s, long before jam bands and superstar DJs were routinely sharing festival lineups together. Over the years they’ve stretched their sounds in all manner of directions, flirting with hip-hop, dub reggae and post-rock, while touring with a blindingly majestic light show that, much like STS9’s music, is largely improvised.

Eric Church @ BMO Bradley Center, 8 p.m.

Country singer Eric Church carries himself like a rock star in concert—the guy is a fan of pyrotechnics— but in the studio he’s a far more complex creature. Without straying too far from commercial country radio’s norms, his records have flirted with honky tonk and outlaw country (Merle Haggard guested on his blockbuster 2006 debut Sinners Like Me), as well as rustic folk music.

His latest record, 2015’s Mr. Misunderstood, may be his greatest commercial gambit yet, a record that looks as much to the mellow, low-key sounds of modern alt-country and Americana as it does to country radio. The record features guest appearances from blues singer Susan Tedeschi and Rhiannon Giddens of the old-time country band Eric Church Carolina Chocolate Drops.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 14

Wonder Uncovered @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

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Radio Milwaukee DJ Tarik Moody and De La Buena’s David Wake lead a massive cast of Milwaukee musicians, singers, rappers and artists through a reinterpretation of one of the greatest soul albums of all time at this latest installment of the Uncovered Series. Among the more than two dozen performers who will help them go deep on Stevie Wonder’s 1976 magnum opus Songs in the Key of Life are D’Amato, Siren, Thane, Q The Sun, Mark Waldoch, Amanda Huff, Carlos Adames, Alida LaCrosse and Running Rebels, who will join a lineup of musicians nearly as large as the one that Wonder recorded the album with.

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 Howard Levy w/ Chris Seibold @ Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, 8 p.m.

When most people think of the harmonica, they understandably think of the blues, but that’s not the only genre the instrument lends itself to. As a co-founder of The Flecktones along with Béla Fleck, multi-instrumentalist Howard Levy has spent decades demonstrating how versatile the harp can be, applying it to play jazz, Latin and world music, while debuting new playing techniques that have allowed for a fuller harmonic range. At this show, Levy will be joined by another musician interested in pushing the boundaries of his instrument: Chris Seibold, a guitarist who spent years performing in Garrison Keillor’s traveling show.

Refugee Benefit Concert w/ Painted Caves and Marielle Allschwang @ Riverwest Public House, 8 p.m.

Too often in this country refugees are depicted as numbers on a page, or a political hot potato, rather than as actual people in need, but as this month’s horrifying chemical attack in Syria made clear, U.S. policies can have life or death implications for people displaced by war or persecution. Perhaps now more than ever it’s important for Americans to make it clear that refugees are welcome here, and the acts on this benefit concert at the Riverwest Public House hope to send that message loud and clear. Proceeds from this fundraiser, which will feature performances from the worldly Milwaukee rock band Painted Caves and singersongwriter Marielle Allschwang, will support resettlement work from Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, as well as Diaconia Connections, an organization aiding refugees in Syria. The cover is just a $5 cash donation, though attendees are encouraged to donate more.

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Milwaukee Rep Lab Focuses on Emerging Playwrights

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::BY JOHN JAHN

he seventh annual Rep Lab of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater continues the company’s tradition of presenting short plays by its Emerging Professional Residents (EPRs). The 2017 installment, taking place over five days, features 10 plays that are variously directed, acted and produced by current or past Rep EPRs. The plays are, for the most part, contemporary (no William Shakespeare here). One of them, Devised Piece, has been crafted from scratch by the Emerging Professional Residents themselves.

The remaining nine short plays on the roster are Bedfellows, The Coyote Stratagem, The Blizzard, Opening, Alien Monster Bowling League, Heavy Cream, Pigskin, Life and Goat. All told, there are eight EPR cast members who each assume four different roles in the plays. Other EPR members populate the production staff—costume design and construction, lighting design, stage management and so forth.

Rep Lab, something of a theater student’s version of boot camp, is a great way to see local young talent both on and behind stage and to visualize what the future of our area’s professional theater companies might look and sound like.

April 13-17, Stiemke Studio, 108 E. Wells St. For tickets, call 414-224-9490 or visit milwaukeerep.com.

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Great Expectations Charles Dickens penned this, what would become his penultimate finished novel, as a weekly serial in the early 1860s. So many years later, Great Expectations is still regarded as one of the finest of his 15 novels, standing shoulder to shoulder with his classics Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities. The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents Great Expectations in a striking 1993 adaptation by playwright, director, actor and teacher Gale Childs Daly. Great Expectations contains a 30-character roster, but less than half that number of MCT actors will challengingly fulfill those many roles. Interestingly, though Daly’s version of Great Expectations has been seen around the U.S., it hasn’t appeared on stage in her native state, Wisconsin, until now.

April 13-30, Cabot Theatre of the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway. For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit milwaukechambertheatre.com.

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William Shakespeare’s plays cover the gamut of human emotion in such a realistic and thoroughly relatable way that they will live forever. We’ve all experienced jealousy, for example. Perhaps the ultimate expression of that corrosive emotion is found in his tragedy, Othello, which is also something of a treatise on love, betrayal, revenge and racism. The element of faith—in the sense of that held between romantic partners—is likewise central to his comedy Much Ado About Nothing, interwoven into a plot filled with mistaken identities, court politics and themes of love, shame and honor. Presented on a rotating schedule by the staff and students of UW-Milwaukee’s Theatre Department, both plays will be performed by five actors assuming all 18 roles.

April 12-23, Kenilworth Five-O-Eight, 1925 E. Kenilworth Place. For tickets, call 414229-4308 or visit arts.uwm.edu/tickets.

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MILWAUKEE BALLET’S DANCE THAT ARGUES WITH DESPAIR ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

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a Sylphide was born 180 years ago in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sans Pleurer (Without Crying) was born last weekend in Milwaukee. They share a longing for a better world and an aching fear that it’s forever out of reach.

It’s easier to write about La Sylphide, a work of much historical interest that was wondrously staged and performed by Milwaukee Ballet. It’s easy to note its quaintness, loveliness and sincerity—“Wasn’t it beautiful?” was the comment from many audience members as we left the hall—and to heap well-deserved praise on the dancers, especially (on opening night) Luz San Miguel as the sublime title character and Rachel Malehorn as her antithesis, a spiteful witch.

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Next Act’s ‘Bloomsday’ Discovers the Beauty of Looking Back ::BY EVAN CASEY

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ast mistakes and regrets are carefully analyzed and explored in Next Act Theatre’s production of Steven Dietz’s Bloomsday. Directed by Joseph Hanreddy, Bloomsday is an emotional rollercoaster—humorous and relatable to everyone with past regrets. Set in both the present and past in Dublin, Ireland, this play SHEPHERD EXPRESS

In fact, August Bournonville’s 1836 ballet, the oldest still widely performed with its original choreography, is bleak in outlook. Its protagonist, a dreamer who aspires to live in a peaceful, graceful fairyland, an elevated state drenched in all we call beauty, is punished and forever barred from ordinary joys; the grotesque is his fate. La Sylphide exemplifies the crushed idealism of Europeans in the early 19th century during decades of failed democratic revolutions and Napoleonic megalomania. “We know what’s possible,” Romantics cried. “Look at America! But we can’t reach it here.”

In Sans Pleurer, the finest work to date by Milwaukee Ballet’s young resident choreographer Timothy O’Donnell, nine men (who may represent one man’s struggle) express in extraordinary dancing a great ache for self-revelation and intimacy with other men. Though it ends in an image of suicide (or murder)—the result of the failure to admit emotions for fear of appearing effeminate—and the consequent embrace of an armored stance (symbolized here by suit coats) which men are taught to demand of themselves and of other men. Loneliness, shame, desire and mania are represented in thrilling sequences with Garrett Glassman, Barry Molina and Alexander Negron superb in prominent roles. By providing such a bold onstage example of male vulnerability, this courageous, hopeful work asks for a cultural revolution.

In La Sylphide, too, what’s onstage argues with the despairing narrative. Bournonville exploited the possibilities of point shoes (which were new in his day) to astonish audiences and bolster belief in human achievement. The sylphs move serenely on the tips of their toes, their skeletons and muscles uplifted, as if floating above the floor. It’s familiar in ballet now, but in the Milwaukee Ballet performance it was astonishing all over again.

keeps the audience on its toes while leaving everyone with something to think about.

The play opens with a young girl named Caithleen (Jordan Watson) and an older man named Robert (Norman Moses). It quickly becomes apparent that not only does Robert know almost everything about Caithleen, but he also might even care about her deeply. However, Caithleen has never met this man, and it is here where the confusion (and the fun) kicks in. A similar occurrence between Robbie (Kyle Curry) and Cait (Carrie Hitchcock) leads the audience to believe that there may be some strange time travel plot at hand. Make of it what you will, but we eventually learn that one specific moment 35 years earlier has led some past mistakes to resurface in present day Dublin.

All four actors do an amazing job of keeping the audience fascinated and mesmerized by the unique plot, all while Dietz mixes in well-timed humor and historical analysis throughout the performance. The beauty of Bloomsday is in the wonderfully insightful dialogue between characters. Not only does this play discuss past love and regret, but also how mistakes and hardships can affect others in the process.

Through April 30 at Next Act Theatre, 255 S. Water St. For tickets visit nextact.org.

Renaissance Theatreworks’ ‘The Violet Hour’ PHOTO BY BY ROSS E. ZENTNER

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The Magical Realism of Renaissance Theaterworks’ ‘The Violet Hour’

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::BY SELENA MILEWSKI

ichard Greenberg’s The Violet Hour graces the stage of Renaissance Theaterworks with a profound yet playful exploration of 20th-century history, the power structures of relationships and the nature of time itself. The story tracks John Pace Seavering, a young publisher finding his feet in 1919 with a difficult choice before him: Given his very limited funds, should he publish the memoir of his secret lover, black jazz singer Jessie Brewster, or the sprawling novel of his college friend, Denny? Both relationships hang in the balance. Enter a device that tells the future.

Although it at first seems nothing short of a deus ex machina, John and his feisty, downtrodden employee Gidger must grapple with the realization that knowing the future does not necessarily yield useful guidance in the present.

The formidable strength of Greenberg’s writing lies in its fast pace, plethora of witty aphorisms, knowledge of American history and layered comedy. Although scene shifts are sometimes abrupt and the details of the story’s ending are difficult to track, one never loses interest in how John and Gidger will navigate their increasingly complex reality. The obscurity of Greenberg’s conclusion may, in fact, reflect the deconstruction of time and the tremendous strain of the human mind to comprehend it.

Exceedingly fine performances from all actors under Suzan Fete’s direction help ensure our ongoing investment. As Seavering, Neil Brookshire is a bit mature for the role, but his gravitas fits well a character frequently described as more staid than the rest of his set. Milwaukee favorite David Flores is an unstoppable force as Gidger, who delivers many of the script’s funniest lines with perfect timing and incredulity. Flores also does a nice job balancing the buffoonish side of the role with the real pathos that underlies a sympathetic character wanting only to be remembered and spoken to with respect. Marti Gobel’s Jessie Brewster conveys a remarkable gamut of feeling and experience. As she has done many times before, Gobel demonstrates her ability to juggle a character’s complex backstory with the needs of her present, treating the audience to that rare view of an actor who has done all the preparatory work but is nonetheless wholeheartedly in the moment from curtain to curtain.

As Denis, Nicholas Harazin is a bundle of nervous energy oscillating between idealism and despair. As his heiress fiancé, Rosamund, Cara Johnston compellingly portrays the way many women sought power within the patriarchal setting: through seduction, both literal and figurative. Johnston is interesting for her portrayal of mental health issues as well; as the story develops we learn that she is a woman of tremendous strength nevertheless poised on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Production elements are subtle and understated, aptly creating ambiance and a sense of period without over-narrating at any point. Of particular note is the New York cityscape beyond the window of Seavering’s office; in Steve Barnes’ scenic design, this element is the only one that is somewhat abstract. The city looks just the slightest bit fuzzy and dreamlike—especially when Noele Stollmack’s lighting plot places it in the titular “violet hour” before dusk—aptly supporting the magical realism that increasingly defines the story.

Through April 30 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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MILWAUKEE MUSLIM FILM FESTIVAL CHALLENGES STEREOTYPES ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

Music & lyrics by Bob Merrill Book by Michael Stewart Based on material by Helen Deutsch

April 21 - May 14, 2017 In this romantic musical, young, naïve Lili comes to the carnival for work where she falls for Marco, the charming magician who wants to make her his latest conquest, not realizing she has enchanted the lonely and bitter puppeteer, Paul.

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ith headlines full of conflict, “alternative facts” going viral and shrill political rhetoric in the air, stories that move us to pause, reflect and learn about our world are as important ever. Hearing other people’s stories is one way toward glimpsing reality through the fog of ignorance and lies, and no storytelling medium is more accessible than movies.

Beginning next week, the Third Annual Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival, held at four venues around the city, will screen six films focused on Muslim life and history.

“The current political environment motivated us to look at films with certain themes,” says Janan Najeeb, president of the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, the group responsible for organizing the festival. Refugees and displacement—whether in Syria, Palestine or New York—is the subject or backdrop for several of this year’s films. Four of the six titles dramatize or document contemporary situations. Two look back on historical events.

“Prince Among Slaves is about an African Muslim Third Annual prince brought as a slave Milwaukee to America,” Najeeb says.

“Over 30 percent of slaves Muslim Film brought to the Americas were Festival of Muslim heritage. Many April 17 - May 7 people think we’re newcomMultiple Venues ers but that’s not historically correct. Muslims helped build America.”

The other historical film, Sultan and the Saint, depicts the legendary encounter in Egypt between the Muslim military hero Saladin, who defeated the Roman Catholic Crusaders, and St. Francis of Assisi, the humane Catholic saint.

Each screening will be followed by a panel discussion or talkback with the audience. “The festival has an educational and an artistic component,” Najeeb says. “For the Muslim community, the festival brings a kind of pride.

It’s one of the only citywide Muslim film festivals in the country. It’s an opportunity to show films on issues of importance to the Muslim community to the broader community in Milwaukee.”

Salam Neighbor (documentary)

7 p.m., April 17, UWM Union Cinema

American filmmakers Zach Ingrasci and Chris Temple capture life at a U.N. camp for Syrian refugees.

3000 Nights (contemporary fiction) 7 p.m., April 19, Oriental Theatre 7 p.m., April 28, Times Cinema

A female Palestinian teacher is imprisoned by Israeli authorities in this film by director Mai Masri.

Sultan and the Saint (historical fiction)

7 p.m., April 26, Cardinal Stritch University Jeremy Irons narrates this Crusader-era story; Alexander McPherson stars as St. Francis of Assisi.

Prince Among Slaves (documentary) 7 p.m., May 1, UWM Union Cinema

Mos Def narrates this account by indie filmmaker Andrea Kalin on an African Muslim ruler captured and sold into slavery.

Men in the Arena (documentary) 7 p.m., May 3, Times Cinema 7 p.m., May 4, Oriental Theatre

For two Somali teenagers, playing soccer on the world stage is their only ticket out a warwracked country.

Refugee Kids (documentary)

3 p.m., May 7, UWM Union Cinema

Iraqi, Egyptian and West African children find shelter in a New York City summer camp for refugees.

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The Fate of the Furious PG-13 This eighth “Furious” chapter continues to feature car chases on steroids. This time the action is revved by an unwelcome division in the ranks after cyber-villain Cipher (Charlize Theron) coerces Dom (Vin Diesel) into working against his own crew. Cipher remotely controls scores of computerized cars to attack Dom’s drivers—wife, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), along with trusted associates Luke (Dwayne Johnson), Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej (Ludacris). Jason Statham appears as talented criminal Deckard Shaw, joining Dom’s crew after covert-ops boss, Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell), orchestrates Shaw’s prison break. A chase across Russia’s ice-covered wasteland brings together cars, tanks, torpedoes and submarines. What’s not to like? (Lisa Miller)

Ghost in the Shell PG-13 Set in the near future, bionic prosthetics save the life of Major (Scarlett Johansson) following a devastating accident. Subsequently, Major’s benefactors order her to hunt down and neutralize hundreds of hackers who are infiltrating electronically enhanced human brains.

Major is grateful and throws herself into the work, until she is informed that, rather than saving her life, the authorities have stolen it. She promises to exact revenge and become her own person once again. Adapted from the Japanese Manga series, Johansson frequently wears a nude Lycra bodysuit that leaves little to the imagination. (L.M.)

Spark: A Space Tail PG Teenage monkey Spark (voice of Jace Norman) grew up under the rule of evil General Zhong (Alan C. Peterson). Along with his friends Vix the fox (Jessica Biel) and Chunk the warthog (Rob deLeeuw), Spark dreams of ousting Zhong from their planet Bana. When the trio learns Zhong means to rule the universe using the Kracken, they decide to get to the Kracken first.

Premiering in 2016, at the Toronto Animation Arts Festival, the film receives its U.S. release nearly one year later. Little information is available, however, the trailer reveals equally plastic animation and dialogue. (L.M.)

[HOME MOVIES/OUT ON DIGITAL] A Kind of Murder

The cloud of suspicion darkens over his head: Walter (Patrick Wilson) wishes his demented wife (Jessica Biel) was dead—and then she is in this film adapted from a Patricia Highstreet novel. The lies he tells to cover his guilty feelings ensnare him in the trap laid by an obsessive homicide detective.

Although the dialogue flirts with anachronism, A Kind of Murder maintains a wintry noir mood and recreates the look of “Mad Men”-era New York.

Daughters of the Dust

The Gullah people, concentrated on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina, are most familiar as the protagonists of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess. They are also central to writer-director Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust (1991). Set in 1902, Daughters is a visually poetic, theatrically written evocation of life among a black community that, in its isolation from the mainland, preserved many African influences and developed a distinct culture and dialect.

Phaedra

After fleeing America in the McCarthy era, film noir director Jules Dassin worked in Europe. His Phaedra (1962) is a canny modern adaptation of the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides. Set largely in Greece, it stars Melina Mercouri in the seductive title role and Anthony Perkins as the stepson with whom she falls in love. An exploration of power—erotic as well as economic—Phaedra overcomes its modest budget through astute cinematography and location shooting.

Blast-Off

Technology fails again and again in Blast-Off (1967). Spoofing Jules Verne and satirizing Victorian notions of progress through science, Blast-Off follows a bungling international effort to send a man to the moon in a capsule fired from a giant canon. Burl Ives turns in a fine performance as P.T. Barnum, depicted as a huckster on the run who cons his way into the scheme. Blast-Off (aka Those Fantastic Flying Fools) also stars Terry-Thomas as a British swindler.

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here is a new gallery in Milwaukee, but its history actually goes a long way back. Frank Juarez has been active in the arts scene in Milwaukee, as well as Sheboygan, for more than a decade.

Juarez’s eponymously named gallery has opened on the sixth floor of the Marshall Building, inside of Material Studios.

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find workspace and a collaborative atmosphere. This is especially fitting for Juarez, as the sense of exchange and artistic support is something inherent to his ideals as a gallery owner.

The five artists in the inaugural show at Frank Juarez Gallery all have established relationships with the gallery, and have largely self-curated the works on view. However, there is a distinctly streamlined and strong aesthetic in the exhibition. Abstract and figurative pieces are present, but if there is one element that stands out as bringing the varied pieces together, it is their unique senses of texture and technique.

If you follow the Milwaukee art scene, you are likely familiar with Melissa Dorn Richards, who is a painter as well as a tireless arts advocate. She often works in series, producing brightly hued paintings that sample and clarify objects of daily life. Mops are a subject she has explored, and her new pieces on this subject take the ordinary scrubber into territory where it is pulled to such a point that it is hard to discern any overt references to a mop. This is not a problem in the least, as her handling of paint and color break away into open-ended compositions, like one where white impasto paint serves as a background while neat red rectangles float downward.

Tony Conrad’s work is also abstract, as well as wedded to technique. His delicate paintings are the amalgamation of repetitiously drawn lines, often following linear or geometric forms with a tight cohesiveness that comes together out of innumerable distinct strokes. It is a metaphor that is reflected by all of these artists, and even the gallery itself.

Through May 6 at Frank Juarez Gallery, 207 E. Buffalo St., sixth floor. For more on this show, see the video feature on shepherdexpress.com.

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Devorah Heitner Helps Kids Survive in the Digital World

::UPCOMINGEVENTS April 15: April Showers at Woof’s (114 King St., Madison): Hit Mad City this weekend and party with the boys of the capitol’s Levi/leather bar. Wear your favorite fetish gear (keep it street legal, guys) and come ready for a bit of man-to-man fun. The party starts at 8 p.m. and runs to bar close.

::BY JENNI HERRICK

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nlike previous generations, today’s kids are digital natives, having grown up with mobile devices, computers and the internet. Most children in the United States get their first smartphone around age 10, and according to research published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, kids ages 8-18 now spend an average of 10 hours and 45 minutes a day, seven days a week, with media. That translates into 75 hours and 15 minutes per week, nearly twice as many hours as their parents put into their full-time jobs.

Alarming new research about the effects of technology on kids’ sociability, emotional connectedness and mental health have caused many parents and educators to wonder if an over-reliance on digital communication is doing more harm than good. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers kids huge opportunities, and that by positive mentoring and monitoring, we can help all kids succeed in our collective digital future. In her book, Screenwise: Helping Kids Survive (and Thrive) in the Digital World, Heitner argues that technology can be an overwhelming force for good in children’s lives. Her insightful book serves as a practical guide to understanding what it is like for children to grow up completely immersed in technology and offers quick ideas to supplement and positively direct kids’ digital savvy.

Heitner is an educational consultant who focuses on helping schools foster responsible digital citizenship. She received her doctorate degree in media/technology and society from Northwestern University, where she has also taught. Heitner will speak about Screenwise at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, April 17 at University School of Milwaukee. This free event is co-sponsored by Boswell Book Co.

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When Your Gut Talks, Listen!

Dear Ruthie,

As a gay man, I find it deprecating when my female boss calls me names like “honey” and “sugar” and even “tootsie.”

I’m not kidding. Fucking tootsie! I know she’s trying to be funny or lighthearted or whatever, but I hate it. Is this harassment?

What Do You Think, Frustrated Frank Dear Sugar Buns,

Stop your complaining, and sit your cute little keester down. Mama’s going to make it all better, baby doll. Now shut your pretty-boy lips and have a listen, hot stuff.

Do I think your boss is harassing you? It doesn’t matter.

What does matter is that you’re feeling harassed or “deprecated,” to use your term. That said, you need to tell her or talk to someone from your Human Resources department ASAP. Okay, honey? (Sorry. I can’t stop myself!)

Dear Ruthie,

I recently lost my job due to downsizing. At about the same time, I met a guy and we started dating. I got a decent severance package, so right now money is not an issue; however, it seems to be an issue for my new boyfriend.

He regularly makes jabs about my unemployment when we’re out with friends. He even made a few cracks to waiters about his “need” to pay the bill because I can’t. I told him this pisses me off, and he laughs it off saying it’s a joke. I think we’re over it, then he does it again! Am I overreacting?

Feeling Lost, Thom

Dear Tommy Boy,

What a fucker! Dump that chump because he clearly doesn’t care about the things that hurt you. You gave him a chance and he continued the behavior so move on. This should be a time to focus on you and to discover what you want and what makes you happy. Clearly, this guy isn’t it!

April 15: Absolute Femme at D.I.X. Milwaukee (739 S. First St.): It’s a Midwest celebration of drag at this Walker’s Point hot spot with a night of performers from Tulsa, Chicago and Milwaukee. Dance the night away with stud muffin DJ Chomper, toss back a few Absolute cocktails and enjoy drink specials at the 10 p.m. party.

Find your femme fantasy at the no-cover event.

April 16: Easter Brunch at Milwaukee Art Museum (700 N. Art Museum Drive): Make it an Easter to remember! Give your spring celebration an artsy-fartsy twist with this delicious change-of-pace buffet. Savor dozens of Easter edibles divided among numerous stations between 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Tickets run $15 to $65, and can be found at mam.org.

April 16: Easter Bingo at Fluid (819 S. Second St.): Join Sr. Madison Brooks for a stern yet sassy bingo showdown that promises to brighten up your Easter Sunday.

Enjoy several rounds of free bingo fun from 4-8 p.m., and you might win booze, T-shirts, booze and other great prizes, including booze!

April 18: Testing Tuesday at Riverwest Public House (815 E. Locust St.): Happy “National Transgender HIV Testing Day!” Yes…it’s a thing. Shut up. Free HIV tests and STD screenings, as well as information on PREP and support groups are available from 9-11 p.m. Call 414-8975645 with questions or concerns.

April 19: Gender Identity & Expression Listening Session at Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 N. Market St.): Come learn about transgender and nonbinary concerns and goals. The City of Milwaukee Equal Rights Commission hosts the 5:30-7 p.m. event and is anxious for you to join the conversation or simply sit back and learn more about issues facing others in our community.

Want to share an event with Ruthie? Need her advice on a situation? Email DearRuthie@Shepex.com. Be sure to follow her Facebook (Dear Ruthie) and Twitter (@DearRuthie).

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Professional Sports and the LGBT Cause ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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wo decades ago I co-chaired the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin’s Make-A-Promise gala fundraiser and chaired its auction committee. The challenge was in convincing straight businesses to donate to what was perceived as a gay cause and, even worse, one that dealt with AIDS. Appealing to their business sense rather than their emotions when soliciting donors, I dropped the names of the event’s major corporate sponsors to help overcome their reluctance. In other words, rather than rely on their compassion to help a bunch of dying gay guys, I pitched promoting their business among respected corporations and other businesses. Not surprisingly, the strategy worked and many enthusiastically joined the boys on the bandwagon.

We also targeted professional sports franchises in hopes of getting, if not a sponsorship, then at least an auction item. And we did. I recall receiving a Green Bay Packer football with facsimile autographs. We were overjoyed—if for no other reason than our mission having been acknowledged by an organization we presumed would prefer not to be associated with LGBTs. And besides, now we had another powerful lever in soliciting other donations.

Today, the Packers’ organization is a member of the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Citing the “value of an inclusive fan experience,” it joined a year ago as the Chamber’s 470th member. The Milwaukee Admirals are members, too, as are the Milwaukee Bucks. In fact, the Chamber recently celebrated a “Pride Night” with the Bucks.

Actually, beginning in 1991 with Bud and Sue Selig of the Milwaukee Brewers, professional sports personalities have served

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as honorary chairs of ARCW’s AIDS Walk.

They include Bucks’ Coach Mike Dunleavy and “Magic” Johnson, (who was diagnosed with HIV in 1991). More recently, GB Packer Clay Matthews and Brewer Ryan Braun held the honor. Last year Braun even offered a $25,000 matching pledge.

Professional sports teams have advanced the LGBT fight for equality throughout the country. They’ve flexed their muscles in the political arena as well. In 2016, both North Carolina’s and Indiana’s anti-LGBT legislation came under pressure by various sports entities. Several host annual Gay Days. Under the rubric “Hockey is for Everyone,” the National Hockey Association now sells Rainbow Pride jerseys for all its teams.

It shouldn’t be surprising that they have an acute sense of social justice. The NBA, for example, is 75% black and about 25% foreign born. And they are vocal. For obvious reasons, several of the Super Bowl-winning New England Patriots boycotted the traditional White House visit. An NBAer, Amar’e Stoudemire, was fined $50,000 in 2012 for using a gay slur. Just more than a month ago he again insulted the community with homophobic statements. Now playing in LGBT friendly Israel, he quickly recanted. One can only imagine his change of heart came from above…from “corporate.”

It’s a two-way street, of course. There’s an avid LGBT fan base that can’t be ignored.

Back in the day, I joined a fundraising contingent of SSBL volunteers working a concession stand at Miller Park. They loved us.

For one thing, a dozen or so gays working together meant a veritable well-lubed machine, and all for the sport (and a free sausage, of course).

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Brian Wilson Revisits ‘Pet Sounds’ for One of the Final Times ::BY JOSHUA MILLER

rian Wilson has fond memories of the first time he played music from Pet Sounds in Milwaukee. The date was May 14, 1966, and Wilson and The Beach Boys were in town at the Milwaukee Arena (the current UW-Milwaukee Panthers Arena), only a couple of days before the release of the seminal album. For many, it was the first chance to hear songs like “Sloop John B.”“I just remember I was feeling really good,” says Wilson during a recent phone interview. “I was smiling and laughing and having a good time.” It was the first of numerous times Wilson has played those songs in Milwaukee over the years, including the time The Beach Boys became the first headliner at the Marcus Amphitheater. Wilson also says he was good friends with Milwaukee native Jack Rieley—record producer and former Beach Boys manager. “Milwaukee is a nice town,” Wilson says.

More than 50 years later, Brian Wilson is back in Milwaukee to reintroduce Pet Sounds. While it won’t be with his legendary band, Wilson is bringing along some familiar faces. Beach Boys’ members Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin are joining Wilson for a tour dubbed “Pet Sounds: The Final Performances.”“People seem to like Pet Sounds quite a bit,” says Wilson. “I get a lot of good reaction from the audiences.”

Last year, Wilson and his band started touring the album in full (plus other favorite Beach Boys and solo material), in celebration of the album’s 50th anniversary. “It makes me feel proud because Pet Sounds was made in 1966, and in 2017 people still like Pet Sounds,” says Wilson.

Wilson says he’s very impressed with the tight chemistry he has with Jardine and Chaplin. “I think we still harmonize really good,” he says. “The band members are very good singers and harmonize really good. It’s a pleasure to work with them both.”

Of Jardine, who was also featured on the original recording of Pet Sounds, Wilson says, “Nowadays [our chemistry is] a little better because we’ve had a lot of practice. We have 50 years of practice so we can sing as good as we did back when Pet Sounds was first recorded.”He’s also very impressed with Jardine’s son

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Matt, who is in the band. “Al Jardine’s son Matt Jardine sings ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ and ‘Don’t Worry Baby’ and gets a big standing ovation,” Wilson says. “Every single concert he gets a big standing ovation. I cannot believe it. I can’t believe it.”

The creation of Pet Sounds is something Wilson will always cherish. The album resulted from him taking time off from the Beach Boys’ busy touring schedule to focus on writing new music.

“I told the boys, ‘Boys, I’m going to stop touring and go home and write some really good songs,” he says.

“And they were like ‘No, Brian, no! Don’t go home.’ I said ‘Guys, I’ve got to go home and write some songs.’

So I went home and wrote Pet Sounds.”

But he wasn’t about to retread on past successes.

Instead of the surf and car tunes, Wilson challenged himself to write a different kind of song. “I told my engineer [Chuck Britz], ‘Chuck, I want to do something different now,’” he recalls. “So I called Tony Asher up and he came over to my house and we wrote ‘God Only Knows’ in an hour and a half. All it took was an hour and a half.” With Asher, Wilson found a like-minded person with whom he could easily co-write songs.

“I liked working with Tony Asher because he was a very creative person,” says Wilson. “He writes very creative lyrics. Like ‘God Only Knows’ is a beautiful love song. I’m talking beautiful, beautiful love song.” When

Wilson reconvened with the Beach Boys to record the album, he admits that he felt nervous at first. “I felt nervous just before Pet Sounds got going and on ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ I started feeling better,” he says.

The sonic influence of Pet Sounds has permeated all areas of music, including pop and psychedelic rock.

The album featured recording techniques unique to Beach Boys songs, including the “Wall of Sound” recording technique. While Chuck Berry didn’t have an influence on Pet Sounds, Wilson wrote the Beach Boys’ hit “Surfin’ USA” because he liked Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen.” He was sad to hear of Berry’s death earlier this year.

If Wilson had to offer advice to an up-and-coming songwriter, he’d tell them not to do drugs and finish their songs. “I tell them not to take drugs, for one, and if you’re going to write a song finish the song,” he says.

“Don’t stop halfway through.

Finish the damn song. I always tell people that. A lot of people write a third of a song Brian and that’s all they’ve got. But Wilson when I write a song I write a whole song.”

Wednesday, After this tour, Wilson plans April 19, to record a new album at 8 p.m. some point. “We’re going to Riverside record a rock ’n’ roll album,” Theater he says. “I’m going to make a rock ’n’ roll album that’s going to make people clap and yell and feel good. I’ll make a tribute to the great singers of the ’50s and ’60s.” Wilson hopes to leave Milwaukee with the feeling he had on March 14, 1966. He hopes audiences feel that way, too. “I plan to make the Milwaukee audience happy,” says Wilson, “and make them feel good with good music.”

At the Riverside Theater on Wednesday, April 19 at 8 p.m.

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Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives w/ Kelsey Waldon @ The Rave APRIL 7, 2017 ::BY JAMIE LEE RAKE

Red Stuff Shoot From The Hip on ‘Woodfaces’

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hile they’ve been around in one form or another for nearly a decade, Red Stuff has always occupied a rather low-key position in the overall Milwaukee music scene. As it turns out, there’s a good reason for that. Whereas other acts are eager to cultivate an online following or court a lucrative recording contract, Red Stuff, led by the husbandand-wife team of Tom and Kelly Wanderer, is more content to go with the flow, a tendency that comes through loud and clear on their latest release, Woodfaces, which, while entirely improvised, shows a remarkable dedication to their particular craft.

“We started doing music immediately pretty much, with no idea of what it should sound like or where it should go,” says Tom, explaining the couple’s unique creative chemistry, “We weren’t going for anything in particular; the idea was just to get together and make music and that’s still pretty much the way it works.” The approach had so far resulted in a psychedelic, subtly dub-wise take on early ’60s guitar instrumentals, well-documented on a handful of lovingly produced records; yet, even if they already had a rather freewheeling style, Woodfaces’ off-the-cuff nature still represents something of a departure.

Recorded during a single one-hour practice session and comprised of material completely composed on the spot, Woodfaces finds the trio, including longtime member Steve Tiber on drums, spontaneously exploring new sonic territory, much to the surprise of the members themselves. “We had a hard time even realizing it was us, listening to it after the fact, because we had all just made it up in real time,” says Tom, still somewhat incredulous. “And when it was done, it was like, ‘Whoa what did we just do?’ It’ messy, but it just had this quality that we thought was worth exploring.”

Beyond feeling a little like they’d captured lightning in a bottle, the serendipitous project also provided some much-needed perspective on another they’d been struggling with: a long-in-the-works and then stalled studio album. “I feel better about it than ever before, we’ve made up some new stuff, revisited some old stuff; it made a lot more things seem possible,” says Tom, explaining how refreshing it was to take a step back from their creative frustration, even temporarily. “To hear ourselves in a way we’ve never sounded before, I think that idea has really reenergized the material we were working on before.”

Despite obviously being less rehearsed, and perhaps a little more ephemeral, than their previous releases, that hasn’t stopped Red Stuff from treating Woodfaces with all the care and attention they’ve devoted to the others, which is to say a lot. “With all of our records, we’ve physically constructed each one,” says Kelly, which means designing and screen-printing every album cover and insert for this initial run of 300 numbered LPs, and at no small expense. “We know that releasing our record is not a money-making venture,” says Tom, laughing. “I just love being able to hold it in my hand.”

But even if Woodfaces (or the subsequent studio album) is unlikely to rake in the big bucks for the couple’s ad hoc Skell Records imprint, Tom—who’s also known for his popular Thursday afternoon program on WMSE—and Kelly both seem more than happy to pursue making music not as a career but as a labor of love, a (hopefully) self-sustaining outlet for their shared musical passion. In the cutthroat world of the music industry, that kind of hobbyist approach is hardly the recommended way to get ahead, but as Red Stuff demonstrates, it can result in some all-around beautiful records.

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here may be music venues in Milwaukee better resembling a honky tonk than The Rave’s bar venue. Any consideration of atmosphere, however, was rendered moot, however, Friday night when Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives hit the tavern’s stage.

Even during his mid ’80s-late ’90s tenure as a commercial country radio hit maker, when he unironically sported a colossal, spiky pompadour mullet and Nudie-styled suits with surfeits of rhinestones and appliques enough to make Porter Wagoner or Webb Pierce look like models of sartorial restraint by comparison, Stuart was an anomaly bordering on the anachronistic. Chops extending back to his teen years playing in Lester Flatt’s Nashville Grass bluegrass band, and later gigs with Johnny Cash, a rich baritone voice, and gifts for writing and choosing catchy material backed his flash appeal with experience and substance.

Stuart and his band’s Rave Bar date found them promoting their latest thematically unified, sonically expansive album, Way Out West. Many of Stuart’s big singles of yore didn’t make the set list. Fortunately, Way Out’s template of exploring the sometimes psychedelic outworking of country aesthetics from the other side of the Mississippi River makes for as fine an introduction to Stuart as a newbie may want.

And if it’s not strictly the sort of traditional country that brought Stuart to prominence, it connects some dots other artist may miss. “Whole Lotta Highway (With A Million Miles To Go)” is the kind of truckers’ tale Red Simpson could have made his own, and the album’s spoken word title cut takes cues from Gram Parsons at his trippiest. The collection’s Western rubric gives the opportunity to convincingly include instrumentals in the modes of Dick Dale’s surf music and Link Wray’s proto-metal rockabilly.

Stuart and his Superlatives visited Texas, too, as they assayed one of the prettiest of murder ballads, Marty Robbins’ “El Paso,” just as they played the same song for the Country Music Hall of Fame induction for guitarist Grady Martin. They performed Lefty Frizzell’s “Long Black Veil” in conjunction with Stuart’s recounting of how he and country singer wife Connie Smith visited Merle Haggard to gift him one of Frizzell’s guitars.

The night’s headliner was also a generous bandleader, allowing vocal solo turns for his mates spirited as his own on the aforementioned numbers and radio biggies “Tempted” and the Travis Tritt hit on which he originally guested, “The Whiskey Ain’t Workin’.” He even allowed those sharing the stage with him to dress more colorfully than his solid black motif.

Stuart arguably deserves a bigger platform and more success than he has had, but he appeared excited and content to play for a saloon full of what appeared to be mostly committed followers of his work. Other country performers of similar stature would do well to follow Stuart’s graceful and gracious lead.

Kelsey Waldon may be one such artist to follow that lead. The singersongwriter from Monkey’s Eyebrow, Ky., enthused about being in Wisconsin for her first time and opening for Stuart in a wide-eyed, almost “aw shucks!” sincerity. That winsomeness contrasted against her original songs of loneliness and assertive independence and The Gosdin Brothers “There Must Be A Someone” she made her own. The skillful steel guitarist vied with her for most memorable aspect of her 11-song set, but her willingness to sign a poster for a young fan and enlist all her band to do likewise endeared her to those of us at the lip of the stage. Even if country radio remains aloof to traditional female singers, that’s the sort of kindness that makes careers.

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Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Noodle Jam (6pm) Jazz Estate, Latin Jazz Jam Session w/Cecilo Negron Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Joe Kielbasa & The Missing Links Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Ed Block (7:30-10pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John The Metal Grill (Cudahy), Weedeater w/Gravedirt & Primitive Man Up & Under Pub, Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers Open Mic

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Mentoring Hope for Young Artists

Off The Cuff with Jenny Miller and Karl von Rabenau of Lake Arts Project ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER ake Arts Project debuted in spring 2014 with Aurora’s Dream. First, a visual art class at Arrowhead High School in Hartford envisioned Sleeping Beauty’s dreams in colorful pastels.

Then Lake Art Project’s founders, Jennifer Miller and Karl von Rabenau of the Milwaukee Ballet School and Academy, invited professional choreographers to respond to the students’ artworks with dances for their ballet students. Then professional dancers from Milwaukee Ballet, Nomadic Limbs and the Catey Ott Dance Collective agreed to perform alongside the students in a concert accompanied by an exhibition of the visual art that inspired the dances. Since then, student writers, composers and musicians from Nicolet High School and Homestead High School have become collaborators and the list of professional mentors has grown. On Sunday, April 23, Lake Arts Project will present its third multidisciplinary performance, Mentoring Hope, at Danceworks Studio Theatre, 1661 N. Water St. I asked Miller and Von Rabenau, retired Milwaukee Ballet dancers who married in 2003, about their brain child.

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What inspired Lake Arts Project?

KVR: The anchor is the Milwaukee Ballet School and Academy. I’m now in my 14th year of teaching and every year you throw out questions like, “Hey, have you guys ever seen Mikhail Baryshnikov or Margot Fonteyn?” And fewer and fewer hands would rise. Then, “Do you know who Michelangelo is? Who Bach is?” Nobody has a clue. So Jen and I were like, “Wow, how can we assist with this?” The idea was to bring kids from the visual art field, the musical art field and movement together to look at what each does. We sent letters to some local high schools and Arrowhead was the first to respond. This year we’re working with Nicolet for the second time. We were put in contact with a student from Homestead...

JM: I was meeting with a dance student and her mother, who was like, “Oh my gosh, my son would love that!” And Philip Zuccaro came in the next day and introduced himself. He’s a senior at Homestead and he composes music for the plays there.

Within 24 hours he had a couple of compositions for us. He’s done maybe four now. We’ll try to incorporate everything but two have definitely been chosen by a choreographer…

KVR: And he talked to his creative writing teacher at Homestead, and her class wrote poetry along the theme of our project.

So it’s Homestead poets instead of Arrowhead painters?

KVR: Yes. We asked the poets, “Mentoring hope, what does that mean to you?” We opened it to them, saying you can participate in the final production in any manner you want, just printing your poetry in our program or, if you want to record yourself saying it or participate physically in the performance with your poetry, you’re more than welcome to do that. Then it’s up to the choreographers to make that happen.

And you have collaborators from Kansas City; Valley Academy of Arts in Neenah, Wis.; UW-Madison and UWM; Milwaukee Ballet and its orchestra…

JM: And Jake Polancich and Ryan Meisel who are seasoned musical improvisers. When a student dancer comes onstage and improvises, it’s as if they take their hand with their music. I never thought that young students would be willing to take that risk.

It was never my strong suit. I can kind of do it now because I feel I have nothing to lose. There are so many companies, especially in Europe, where that’s part of your audition process now. They want contemporary style.

Why “Mentoring Hope”?

KVR: We feel that’s necessary today.

JM: It’s the mentoring of hope for the future, for the future of the arts, for the future of art students. Sometimes when we ask high school students for their artwork or poetry, it’s very dark.

KVR: I think when you’re young, things can seem overwhelming. But negative reinforcement on any level, whether it’s reprimanding your child or fighting a war, is going to have a negative effect. So how do we focus on what’s good? How do we manifest that in ourselves so we can manifest it in the world? That’s a tall task. If we can help people figure out something positive in their life to bring forward and out to the world, I think we will do a wonderful thing for them and for their future and for all of our futures.

Performances are at 1 and 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 23 at Danceworks Studio Theatre, 1661 N. Water St. For more information visit lakeartsproject.com.

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PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Greater-Than Sudoku”

For this “Greater-Than Sudoku” I’m not giving you ANY numbers to start off with!

Adjoining squares in the grid’s 3x3 boxes have a greater-than sign (>) telling you which of the two numbers in those squares is larger. Fill in every square with a number from 1-9 using the greater-than signs as a guide. When you’re done, as in a normal Sudoku, every row, column, and 3x3 box will contain the numbers 1-9 exactly one time. (Solving hint: try to look for the 1’s and 9’s in each box first, then move on to the 2’s and 8’s, and so on). psychosudoku@gmail.com

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66. Brands 67. Verona’s river 70. Clear 71. Namely (Lat.): 2 wds.

72. Pitches 74. Cut of meat 75. Confined 76. A root vegetable 79. Solemnity 80. Cutter of gems 81. Tuned in 83. Complaint 84. Very small amount 87. Kind of knot 88. Sign on a door 89. Fishes 90. Farm denizen 92. Blazing 93. Bell sound 94. Dies — 95. Loam 96. Painter’s subject 97. Sufficiently, formerly 98. Former 99. Type style: Abbr.

100. Valuable deposit 101. Alley 102. Diamonds 106. Radio operator

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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 26 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Destination NSW Solution: 26 Letters

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ACROSS 1. Wheels for baby 5. Zagreb native 10. The Mamas and the — 15. Like a doily 19. Ameliorate 20. Theater audience 21. A camelid 22. City on the river Yamuna 23. Saharan 24. — Park, Colorado 25. Red dye 26. Rove 27. Start of a quip by anonymous: 7 wds.

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65. Inlet 66. Where Casablanca is: Fr. 68. Survey 69. Alphabet type 73. — ale

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4. SSA program 5. 80’s sitcom 6. — the Riveter 7. Ins and — 8. Lost 9. Important legal action: 2 wds.

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before visiting Sicily for the first time, American poet Billy Collins learned to speak Italian. In his poem “By a Swimming Pool Outside Siracusa,” he describes how the new language is changing his perspective.

If he were thinking in English, he might say that the gin he’s drinking while sitting alone in the evening light “has softened my mood.” But the newly Italianized part of his mind would prefer to say that the gin “has allowed my thoughts to traverse my brain with greater gentleness” and “has extended permission to my mind to feel a friendship with the vast sky.” Your assignment in the coming week, Aries, is to Italianize your view of the world. Infuse your thoughts with expansive lyricism and voluptuous relaxation. If you’re Italian, celebrate and amplify your Italianness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s closing time. You have finished toiling in the shadow of an old sacred cow. You’ve climaxed your relationship with ill-fitting ideas that you borrowed from mediocre and inappropriate teachers once upon a time. And you can finally give up your quest for a supposed Holy Grail that never actually existed in the first place. It’s time to move on to the next chapter of your life story, Taurus! You have been authorized to graduate from any influence, attachment and attraction that wouldn’t serve your greater good in the future. Does this mean you’ll soon be ready to embrace more freedom than you have in years? I’m betting on it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The heaviest butterfly on the planet is the female Queen Victoria Birdwing. It tips the scales at two grams. The female Queen Alexandra Birdwing is the butterfly with the longest wingspan: more than 12 inches. These two creatures remind me of you these days. Like them, you’re freakishly beautiful. You’re a marvelous and somewhat vertiginous spectacle. The tasks you’re working on are graceful and elegant, yet also big and weighty. Because of your intensity, you may not look flight-worthy, but you’re actually quite aerodynamic. In fact, your sorties are dazzling and influential. Though your acrobatic zigzags seem improbable, they’re effective.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Picasso had mixed feelings about his fellow painter Marc Chagall, who was born under the sign of Cancer. “I’m not crazy about his roosters and donkeys and flying violinists, and all the folklore,” Picasso said, referring to the subject matter of Chagall’s compositions. But he also felt that Chagall was one of the only painters “who understands what color really is,” adding, “There’s never been anybody since Renoir who has the feeling for light that Chagall has.” I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will be the recipient of mixed messages like these. Praise and disapproval may come your way. Recognition and neglect.

Kudos and apathy. Please don’t dwell on the criticism and downplay the applause. In fact, do the reverse!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Go Tell It on the Mountain” is the title of an old gospel song, and now it’s the metaphorical theme of your horoscope. I advise you to climb a tall peak—even if it’s just a magic mountain in your imagination—and deliver the spicy monologue that has been marinating within you. It would be great if you could gather a sympathetic audience for your revelations, but that’s not mandatory to achieve the necessary catharsis. You simply need to be gazing at the big picture as you declare your big, ripe truths.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you were a snake, it would be a fine time to molt your skin. If you were a river, it would be a perfect moment to overflow your banks in a spring flood. If you were an office worker, it would be an excellent phase to trade in your claustrophobic cubicle for a spacious new niche. In other words, Virgo, you’re primed to outgrow at least one of your containers.

The boundaries you knew you would have to transgress some day are finally ready to be transgressed.

Even now, your attention span is expanding and your imagination is stretching.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For over a century, the Ringsaker Lutheran Church in Buxton, N.D., hosted rites of passage, including 362 baptisms, 50 marriages, and 97 funerals. It closed in 2002, a victim of the area’s shrinking population. I in-

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vite you to consider the possibility that this can serve as a useful metaphor for you, Libra. Is there a place that has been a sanctuary for you, but has begun to lose its magic? Is there a traditional power spot from which the power has been ebbing? Has a holy refuge evolved into a mundane hangout? If so, mourn for a while, then go in search of a vibrant replacement.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most people throw away lemon rinds, walnut shells and pomegranate skins. But some resourceful types find uses for these apparent wastes. Lemon rind can serve as a deodorizer, cleaner and skin tonic, as well as a zesty ingredient in recipes. Ground-up walnut shells work well in facial scrubs and pet bedding. When made into a powder, pomegranate peels have a variety of applications for skin care. I suggest you look for metaphorically similar things, Scorpio.

You’re typically inclined to dismiss the surfaces and discard the packaging and ignore the outer layers, but I urge you to consider the possibility that right now they may have value.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re growing too fast, but that’s fine as long as you don’t make people around you feel they’re moving too slowly. You know too much, but that won’t be a problem as long as you don’t act snooty. And you’re almost too attractive for your own good, but that won’t hurt you as long as you overflow with spontaneous generosity. What I’m trying to convey, Sagittarius, is that your excesses are likely to be more beautiful than chaotic, more fertile than confusing. And that should provide you with plenty of slack when dealing with cautious folks who are a bit rattled by your lust for life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Until recently, scientists believed the number of trees on the planet was about 400 billion.

But research published in the journal Nature says that’s wrong. There are actually three trillion trees on earth—almost eight times more than was previously thought. In a similar way, I suspect you have also underestimated certain resources that are personally available to you, Capricorn. Now is a good time to correct your undervaluation. Summon the audacity to recognize the potential abundance you have at your disposal. Then make plans to tap into it with a greater sense of purpose.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The poet John Keats identified a quality he called “negative capability.” He defined it as the power to calmly accept “uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” I would extend the meaning to include three other things not to be irritably reached for: artificial clarity, premature resolution and simplistic answers.

Now is an excellent time to learn more about this fine art, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you ready for a riddle that’s more enjoyable than the kind you’re used to? I’m not sure if you are.

You may be too jaded to embrace this unusual gift.

You could assume it’s another one of the crazy-making cosmic jokes that have sometimes tormented you in the past. But I hope that doesn’t happen. I hope you’ll welcome the riddle in the liberating spirit in which it’s offered. If you do, you’ll be pleasantly surprised as it teases you in ways you didn’t know you wanted to be teased. You’ll feel a delightful itch or a soothing burn in your secret self, like a funny-bone feeling that titillates your immortal soul. P.S.: To take full advantage of the blessed riddle, you may have to expand your understanding of what’s good for you.

Test this hypothesis: The answer to a pressing question will come within 72 hours after you do a ritual in which you ask for clarity.

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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amuel West announced in April that his Museum of Failure will open in Helsingborg, Sweden, in June, to commemorate innovation missteps that might serve as inspiration for future successes. Among the initial exhibits: coffee-infused Coca-Cola; the Bic “For Her” pen (because women’s handwriting needs are surely unique); the Twitter Peek (a 2009 device that does nothing except send and receive tweets—and with a screen only 25 characters wide); and Harley-Davidson’s 1990s line of colognes (in retrospect as appealing, said West, as “oil and gas fumes”).

Government in Action In May, a new restaurant-disclosure regulation mandated by the Affordable Care Act is scheduled to kick in, requiring eateries (except small chains and independents) to post calorie counts for all menu items including “variations”—which a Domino’s Pizza executive said meant, for his company, “34 million” calorie listings. The executive called the regulation, for the pizza industry, “a 20th-century approach to a 21st-century question,” since for many establishments, orders increasingly arrive online or by phone.

Redneck Chronicles New for Valentine’s Day from the sayitwithbeef.com company: a bouquet of beef jerky slices, formed to resemble a dozen fullpetaled roses ($59). Also available: daisies.

Chief selling point: Flowers die quickly, but jerky is forever.

Pretentions Hipsters on the Rise: (1) The Columbia Room bar in Washington, D.C., recently introduced the “In Search of Time Past” cocktail— splashed with a tincture of old, musty books.

Management vacuum-sealed pages with grapeseed oil, then “fat-washed” them with a “neutral high-proof” spirit, and added a vintage sherry, mushroom cordial and eucalyptus.

(2) The California reggae rock band Slightly Stoopid recently produced a vinyl record that was “smokable,” according to Billboard magazine—using a “super resinous variety of hashish” mastered at the Los Angeles studio Capsule Labs. The first two versions’ sound quality disappointed and were apparently quickly smoked, but a third is in production.

The telephone “area” code in the tony

English city of Bath (01225) is different than that of adjacent Radstock (01761) and probably better explained by landline telephone infrastructure than a legal boundary. However, a Bath councilwoman said in April that she is dealing with complaints by 10 new residents who paid high-end prices for their homes only to find that they came with the 01761 code.

Admitted one Bath resident, “I do consider my phone number to be part of my identity.”

Weird Science Magnificent Evolvers: (1) Human populations in Chile’s Atacama desert have apparently developed a tolerance for arsenic 100 times as powerful as the World Health Organization’s maximum safe level (according to recent research by University of Chile scientists). (2) While 80% of Americans age 45 or older have calcium-cluttered blood veins (atherosclerosis), about 80% of Bolivian Tsimane hunter-gatherers in the Amazon have clean veins, according to an March report in The Lancet. (Keys for having “the healthiest hearts in the world”: walk a lot and eat monkey, wild pig and piranha.)

Awesome: (1) University of Basel biologists writing in the journal Science of Nature in March calculated that the global population of spiders consumes at least 400 million tons of prey yearly—about as much, by weight, as the total of meat and fish consumed by all humans. (2) University of Utah researchers trained surveillance cameras on dead animals in a local desert to study scavenger behavior and were apparently astonished to witness the disappearances of two bait cows. Over the course of five days, according to the biologists’ recent journal article, two different badgers, working around the clock for days, had dug adjacent holes and completely buried the cows (for storage and/or to keep the carcasses from competitors).

Timeless Sayings in the News A tanker truck overturned on a Los Angeles freeway on April 4, spilling its contents, injuring seven and inconveniencing hundreds (with at least a few surely tearful, since the tanker was hauling milk). And, at a Parks Canada station restroom in Banff, Alberta, on April 1, visitors found, inexplicably, three black bear cubs inside (although they were not reported to have “used” the facilities, it is still safe to assume that bears relieve themselves “in the woods”). © 2017 CHUCK SHEPHERD A P R I L 1 3 , 2 0 1 7 | 33

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So the springtime is here to stay, I hear. We’ll see about that. I’ll tell you, mine own two personal signs that spring is truly here are when the first member of the Brewers’ mound crew blows out his soupbone and parks his butt on the DL for the rest of the season/ career, and when I blow off writing my essay for the issue of the good Shepherd that appears right before Easter Sunday because more pressing for me than slapping a boatload of palaver together is hooking up with the fellas over by the Uptowner tavern/ charm school majestically crammed onto the corner of wistfully hysteric Humboldt Boulevard and the fabled Center Street—where today is always at least a day before tomorrow, and yesterday may gosh darn well be today.

But before I go, what with the Passover and Easter family get-togethers that may be on your docket, here’s a little story you might want to bring and share: So a priest and a rabbi are seatmates flying the friendly skies. The priest opens the conversation by saying, “I know that in your religion, you are not supposed to eat pork, but have you ever tasted it?”

And the rabbi says, “I must tell you the truth. Yes I have, on the odd occasion.”

It was now the rabbi’s turn. “Your religion, Father, I know that you are to be celibate, but...”

Interrupting, the priest said, “I know what you’re going to ask, Rabbi. Alas, I have succumbed, once or twice.” There was silence. And the rabbi said, “Better than pork, am I right?” Ba-ding!

OK, got to go. Come along if you’d like, but you buy the first round. Let’s get going.

Julius: Any you’s guys know if any local radio stations play 24-hour continuous Easter music this time of year?

Ernie: Good focking question ’cause I believe Easter ought to be a way bigger holiday than Christmas. What’s such the big deal with Christmas? For christ sakes, a lot of really important guys get born all the time, but how many guys actually rise from the dead? Now that’s something to write home about, ain’a?

Little Jimmy Iodine: Jeez, off the top of my

head, I can only think of two other guys who got up from the dead—Richard Nixon in 1968 and that John Travolta actor after he made the “Pulp whatcha-call-it.”

Emil: Easter will never be bigger than the Christmas because every year they dick with the goddamn date it’s supposed to be on. Is that because Easter comes in spring and the Pope likes to check the weather forecast in the Farmers’ Almanac first before he chooses the exact date to make sure the people have a nice day for their Easter parade?

Julius: You talk like a sausage, Emil.

Emil: Baloney.

Herbie: You focking bunch of nitwits. We go through this every year. How many times I got to tell you’s the exact date when Christ became resurrected has nothing to do when Easter comes.

Easter comes the first Sunday after the full moon, also known as the paschal moon, that comes after the vernal equinox. Now, if the paschal moon—deduced from a system of golden numbers and epacts and does not necessarily coincide with the astronomical full moon—occurs on a Sunday, Easter day is the succeeding Sunday. Thus, unless you’re a focking idiot, you know that Easter can fall anywheres between March 22 and April 25.

Ray: Thank you, Mr. Bri-focking-ttanica. What the fock, I never heard Sister talk meshuggah like that when she explained the Easter to us. But I tell you, when it comes to religion and they try to figure a date by using bullshit like full moons, equinoxes and golden numbers, it makes a guy feel like instead of going to the Pick ’N Pocket for the Easter ham, he ought to go buy a whole pig somewheres and slaughter it right there on his front lawn for the sacrifice. And maybe a couple of goats to boot.

Little Jimmy: Hey, Artie! Over here. Put a load on your keister.

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

Emil: I hear Easter falls on a Sunday this year.

Herbie: The other day on the bus, this guy sitting next to me asked if I’ve accepted Jesus Christ as my lord and savior. I said I could accept Jesus as a son of a god—the son of a god who never flushed a toilet or picked up a bar tab. Sure, god knows everything, but do you think he ever had to remember where his focking car keys were? I think not. But how ’bout a daughter of god? I can and will only accept Marilyn Monroe as my saviour-ess. Now there’s a Second Coming I could get behind, so to speaketh.

(Hey, it’s getting late and I know you got to go, but thanks for letting us bend your ear, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.)

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