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ASKTHEEXPERTS:: ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) IS NOT EXCLUSIVE TO CHILDREN Dear Dr. Behrens,

MEET JACOB M. BEHRENS, MD

Dear Curious Employee,

Does ADHD affects adults too?

Dear Concerned Wife,

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The answer is YES. It is estimated that ADHD affects roughly 4.5% or 10.5 million adults in the U.S. About 60% of children with ADHD continue to have symptoms well into adulthood. It is the most inheritable of psychiatric conditions, but symptoms in childhood may have been overlooked or masked by strict routines, schedules or structure. While children with hyperactive symptoms tend to get noticed and diagnosed, those with the inattention symptoms often slip through the cracks. Given that non-hyperactive/disruptive ADHD symptoms were not commonly looked for in the past, many adults today may have made it through their school years without being noticed despite ongoing internal struggles. Exercise (also one of the treatments for ADHD), scheduled physical activity and sports often present throughout earlier school years may have masked the severity of underlying symptoms. In the end, ADHD can affect people of all ages and appropriate evaluation may lead to life-changing treatments regardless of age.

-Dr. Behrens

Dear Dr. Behrens, Can my job be affected by ADHD?

ADHD can affect your job performance in a number of ways. A 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) study found that adults with ADHD are more likely to change jobs and perform poorly. On average, these adults earn $5,000-$10,000 less annually than their peers without ADHD as well as lose 22 days of productivity per year.

Furthermore, adults with ADHD are 18 times more likely to be disciplined at work for “behavioral problems” and 60% more likely to lose their job. Unfortunately, 85% of adults simply do not know they have ADHD. The economic consequences are widespread, costing the U.S. economy $87-$138 billion per year in lost wages and productivity (U.S. economic impact study, 2012).

Untreated adult ADHD may also affect the personal lives and healthcare costs of these individuals.

Repercussions include increased: a) drug, alcohol and tobacco use; b) risk of obesity; c) risk for depression and anxiety; d) risk of accidental deaths; and e) risk of traffic violations and accidents. Ultimately, untreated adult ADHD affects the quality of lives and takes a significant toll on our economy.

That said, ADHD shouldn’t be seen as a detriment as it has many potential gifts; it can be a blessing that, with fine tuning, an individual can gain control over and realize his/ her potential.

Dr. Behrens is a board certified psychiatrist and fellow of the American Psychiatric Association passionate about exploring the unique gifts of ADHD. He serves as faculty at the University of Wisconsin and Medical College of Wisconsin. As the CEO of Envision ADHD in Downtown Milwaukee, he specializes in the advanced testing, evaluation and treatment of ADHD in adults utilizing technology to aid in accurate diagnosis and convenient follow-up care.

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LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE OR GET TREATMENT Dear Dr. Murphy, I’ve read and enjoyed your column, now a question. Four of my teeth have some grooves near the gum-line from excessively harsh brushing or a hard toothbrush—before I knew any better and also switched to a Sonicare brush.

I am going on 70 years old and have moved several times, which caused me to have to switch dentists. The issue is often brought up once, but never again. The latest dentist suggested that I have the areas filled. I know even though they have never caused any sensitivity that the grooves could deepen and cause issues. Are there any risks to doing it now, and what do you think about waiting until there is some sensitivity? Since the process will initially involve removing some more tooth material to shape the place and roughen the surface for better adhesion, could that process in itself be as or more risky than waiting until some sensitivity develops? I’ve developed sensitivity after other work I’ve had done—a real annoyance. My philosophy is to leave well enough alone, but I can’t tell if the grooves are deeper. My question for you is when do I fix this potential problem? What would you do if it were your teeth? Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

-Gordon

Dear Gordon, The areas you are describing are called abfractions or abrasions. It is the loss of tooth structure near the gumline, that is NOT caused by a cavity. Often they have a “notched” appearance and can sometimes be sensitive to cold or sweet. You are correct, in that it is possible that past aggressive tooth brushing may have caused these areas to form. Other causes can include clenching and/or grinding your teeth, an acidic diet, an uneven bite, eating disorders or esophageal reflux disease. In some situations, a combination of these contributes to damaging the tooth.

The method of treatment depends on a variety of factors.

And, honestly, dentists have differing opinions on when, how and why to restore these types of lesions. In some cases, the shape of the “notch” can make it difficult to keep the tooth clean and filling material is added to smooth the tooth and prevent decay from starting. If the tooth is sensitive, adding filling material can also help reduce discomfort that may be felt with cold or sweet. Filling material can also help to prevent the loss of additional tooth structure if it seems that the areas are worsening.

However, you are also correct in observing that sometimes teeth can become more sensitive after dental work is completed. It is possible that the process of filling

the tooth could result in discomfort.

From what you have described of your situation, I would ask your dentist some additional questions. Is it possible that the area is so deep it could be approaching the nerve inside the tooth? If so, it should likely be filled. Since this is a new dentist, you might also see if he or she is willing to document the areas by taking photos, measurements or models of the teeth. This would allow you more certainty that no additional tooth structure is being lost. And, assuming the areas are stable, you might decide to never fill them.

As a general rule, I agree with your “leave well enough alone” philosophy. However, there are some areas in dentistry where simple fixes now can prevent larger problems later on. Your dentist should be able to tell you if this is one of those situations.

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DRIVING IS SAFER THAN EVER FEWER DEATHS, FEWER COLLISIONS THANKS TO NEW AUTOMOBILE TECHNOLOGY

::BY SUSAN HARPT GRIMES

t’s been a little more than 100 years since Ford’s Model T began to roll off the assembly line. In that time, cars have become safer and safer. Back when the fastest automobile could only reach speeds of 40 miles per hour, often sharing the road with horse-drawn vehicles, safety was not necessarily among the most important features of a car. Eventually, manufacturers began to realize that it might be a good idea to add some safety devices like turn signals, windshield wipers and seat belts. It hasn’t even been 50 years since the government stepped in and required seatbelts or 30 years since frontal air bags were mandated.

Times have certainly changed. According to Tom Dulaney, general service manager at David Hobbs Honda and 31-year car industry veteran, “The overall quality of the vehicles have improved significantly over time. It’s all so much better—everything from airbags all around the inside to the way that the brakes work. Plus, there are cameras

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in all the cars now. If you want to switch lanes, back up or even park, there are cameras that can see everywhere around a car.”

Today, we are driving faster and with more potential distractions than ever before, yet fatal collision rates over the past few decades are, overall, trending down. Every new car model year seems to roll out improved safety features, and consumers expect their vehicles to protect them from worse and worse scenarios on the road. This is true for imported as well as domestic cars. Joe Reina, President of Reina International Auto/Vespa Milwaukee says, “Import car makers were always ahead for safety technology, however in the past 10 years, American manufacturers have had greater affiliation with import auto makers and now share most of the same technology.” If you’re driving a car that is five or more years old, however, here are some of the safety features and crash prevention systems that you may be missing.

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LANE DEPARTURE WARNING AND LANE KEEP ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS

Both lane departure warning (LDW) and lane keep assistance systems (LKAS) work to keep you safe at highway speeds by alerting you if you begin to drift into another lane.

LDW systems will notify drivers with a vibration or sound, while LKAS will actually adjust your steering wheel to make the car stay in its lane. Because these systems rely on cameras to identify well-marked lanes, both LDW and LKAS are only as good as the quality of the road and may be affected by weather conditions, like rain or snow.

FORWARD COLLISION WARNING SYSTEMS

Using cameras, radar or laser beams to scan the road in front of a moving car, forward collision warning systems work to detect objects ahead and alert the driver to take action. Some systems are already advanced enough to invoke an auto-braking or autonomous braking.

Unlike anti-lock braking, which requires a driver to physically step on the brakes, autobraking will activate as soon as the system recognizes that the driver isn’t stopping for whatever hazard is ahead in the road.

BLIND SPOT DETECTION SYSTEMS

All drivers know that their blind spot is a danger zone when changing lanes. When driving a car with a blind spot detection system, a vibration or tone will sound to warn you if you start to change lanes while another vehicle is in your blind spot. “It’s really nice to know if you’re clear to get over,” says Dulaney. “It can be really hard to see sometimes, especially on the right.” Some cars on the road today even include an intervention feature, which, like LKAS, will physically keep a driver from moving over if there is someone in their blind spot.

ADAPTIVE HEADLIGHTS

Adaptive headlights operate based on speed and direction, adjusting the beam of light as much as 15 degrees in either direction. These new headlights can actually pivot as the car goes around a curve or corner allowing drivers a much better view of what they are turning into and reducing the headlights’ glare for oncoming drivers. This is a big improvement over traditional headlights, which only beam on straight ahead.

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FATIGUE WARNING SYSTEMS

A vehicle equipped with a fatigue warning system monitors a driver’s blink rate and duration. If it detects the blinks are getting longer and slower, the system will warn the driver with a physical or audio alert. Often this system will work with a LKAS to make sure the vehicle doesn’t drift into another lane before the driver can react.

PEDESTRIAN DETECTION

Some of the same technology behind the forward collision warning systems is applied for pedestrian detection. For instance, if a pedestrian is detected in the road ahead, the system alerts the driver. If the driver doesn’t react quickly enough, the vehicle may actively apply the brakes. These systems tend to work best at slow speeds—which ties in well with where one would expect to find a pedestrian in the road.

Most of these safety features are receiving positive reviews from drivers, and plans to include at least some level of these newer safe technology elements in an increasing number of new vehicles from all makers across the spectrum.

So, what’s the next advancement in safety drivers may look forward to in the future?

“Self-driving cars,” says Dulaney. “There will absolutely be models with that technology available in the next couple of years.”

Currently, Volvo is doing tests with autopilot cars in Sweden, and Lexus is looking to have a model ready for consumers in 2020, along with other manufacturers ready to follow suit shortly. Technology leaders, like Apple and Google, are also working to get in on this trend and developing self-driving technologies of their own. “It’s coming,” confirms Dulaney, “It’s all about safety, these days.”

Many people still seem uncomfortable with the idea of turning over control entirely to the computer in their car, yet once consumers begin to see the benefits, their concerns will likely disappear. Reina suggests, “Manufacturers will come up with self-driving cars, but a lot of people enjoy driving their vehicles and won’t want to give over control.” Consider that many of the most dangerous driving behaviors, like driving while texting or driving after too many drinks, could be nullified by a self-driving car. Perfect driving technique executed by a computer, coupled with the evergrowing implementation of safety features which many of the latest model cars already include, could put an end to car crashes and car-related fatalities. “It will be pretty interesting to see what happens with cars in the next 20 years,” concludes Dulaney.

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The Cost of Mental Health in Wisconsin Schools Legislature takes small steps to address growing problems of trauma, bullying, broken homes ::BY ELIZABETH ELVING

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cott Walker’s 2017-19 budget proposal includes a $6.5 million spending increase for school mental health services.

The money, originally requested by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) in November, would go toward employing more school social workers, supporting collaborations with community health providers and training school staff.

The need for these services is well documented and dire. An estimated one in five U.S. children has a diagnosable mental health condition. The 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that more than half of Wisconsin students’ mental health had not been good on at least one of the past 30 days, and 13% had seriously considered suicide. According to the DPI, 80% of students with mental health needs do not get professional help.

“We couldn’t afford to wait any longer. We wanted to push the conversation forward, and felt like it was the right time,” says DPI spokesperson Tom McCarthy. “We had seen the legislature and the governor paying attention to this issue and we knew that we had a strong case that schools are an active partner in making sure that all kids are mentally healthy.”

The issue of youth mental health is not new to Wisconsin lawmakers, but progress toward reform has often stalled. Former state representative and psychiatric nurse Sandy Pasch describes a pattern of “one step forward and five steps backward.”

“There have been glimmers of hope, but still huge unwillingness to deal with the major issues related to mental illness,” she says.

This latest glimmer is currently being reviewed by the Joint Finance Committee and would go into effect in July. If approved, spending would aim to expand access to care while improving the climate of school mental health.

As it stands, scarce resources make it difficult for many schools to meet immediate needs, let alone pursue long-term goals. For the educators and advocates facing these challenges every day, the $6.5 million is not a solution, but could be a step.

THE IMPACT OF ACCESS

Mental illness can affect anyone, but not everyone can count on getting the care they need.

When costs or logistics rule out traditional therapy, families rely on schools to bridge the gap.

“School-based mental health has really come to the forefront in recent years,” says Julie Incitti, president and legislative chair of the Wisconsin School Social Workers Association. “When there aren’t enough clinics in the community or enough providers, schools can be a great way for students to access those services, and I think legislators are recognizing that.”

School social workers are employed in all Milwaukee Public Schools and in many other Wisconsin districts. They apply a systems approach to mental health care, connecting families and schools, along with interrelated agencies like juvenile justice or child protective services when needed.

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Judith Kullas Shine, president of the American Council for School Social Work, explains that these providers are often licensed both clinically and by the education department. This background helps them understand mental health in conjunction with other challenges kids face.

“We’ve seen an increase in the number of kids who experience trauma from bullying, divorce, poverty, even parental military deployment,” says Shine. “So there is outreach to make sure that more kids get the help they need to be functioning, successful human beings.”

Collaborations with community providers can also help overcome barriers to care. United Way’s PATH (Providing Access to Healing) for Students program achieves this through partnerships between school districts and a consortium of mental health agencies.

Through PATH, therapists spend a set amount of time providing in-school counseling for students. Time is typically assigned to a district based on the percentage of its students who qualify for free and reduced meals, and the district determines how the time will be allotted in each school. Sessions take place over study periods or during a mix of different class times, to minimize scheduling disruptions. This convenience breeds consistency, which is essential for treating mental health.

“When you have kids going to a clinic for therapy, maybe they’ll miss an appointment, maybe parents weren’t able to get them to an appointment that day,” says United Way Fox Cities Program Officer Mary Wisnet. “When appointments are in school, we have much more consistency in that follow through.”

First piloted in 2008, PATH is now offered in 30 schools across 10 districts. Surveys have shown that 72% of students experienced reduced symptoms and 44% improved academically after going through the program. A 2012 cost-benefit analysis conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison also found that PATH increased productivity and reduced expenses associated with things like medical costs and behavioral problems, with an average net benefit of $49,000 per student per year.

LIMITS TO EXPANSION

Producing measurable results has helped school-based mental health expand its reach. But a lack of dedicated funding often stymies further growth.

The money for school social work positions typically comes from the general school district funds, or the special education budget. “If a school district understands the value of the role,

“When you have kids going to a clinic for therapy, maybe they’ll miss an appointment, maybe parents weren’t able to get them to an appointment that day,” says United Way Fox Cities Program Officer Mary Wisnet.

“When appointments are in school, we have much more consistency in that follow through.”

they can advocate to have a school social work position and prioritize it above other positions,” Incitti says. “But funding is ultimately what’s driving many of those decisions.”

The National Association of Social Workers recommends one professional be employed for every 250 students. Incitti says she doesn’t know of any school that hits that mark. Data from the DPI in 2012 put Wisconsin’s ratio at 1 to 1,050.

With the PATH program, services are billed through insurance when possible. As many of the kids they work with are underinsured, this accounts for about half of their funding. “When the family can’t afford to meet those high deductibles and copays, that’s when philanthropy kicks in,” explains Wisnet. PATH is largely supported by the United Way, with help from grants.

In addition to expanding services, additional funding would make it easier to comprehensively improve the school environment. A common model for this is known as Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). Based on a three-tiered framework, PBIS encompasses lessons and coping skills for all students, additional screening and support for individuals, and more extensive therapy or behavioral intervention when needed. “Ideally, we’d want to see that kind of service level in all schools,” says Wisnet.

A NEED FOR A GREATER CHANGE

The proposed funding is an optimistic development for school mental health, but it’s clear that not all districts would feel the boost in finances.

“With the amount of money we’re talking about here, we understand that it’s not enough to get everywhere in the state,” McCarthy says.

“Our hope is that it’s enough to begin in some areas, to see some exciting, different approaches that we could then expand statewide.”

While school-based mental health programs may seem poised for success, there are still underlying challenges to contend with. After all, they exist at the intersection of healthcare and education: two industries threatened by the current political climate.

Walker’s refusal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act hindered access to adequate healthcare, and put more pressure on schools to fill in the gaps. Pasch argues that Medicaid expansion would be a more effective response to the care shortages, although she acknowledges the chances of that happening right now are “pretty slim.”

Pasch also questions how much of an impact the funding would have in schools reeling from budget cuts and the effects of Act 10. “We still have school districts struggling to put books in the library. I don’t think they’re going to put a primary focus on mental health,” she says. “I’m glad the money’s there, but it’s putting frosting on a lopsided cake.”

Whether or not the proposed increase signals a true shift in priorities, it’s clear that Wisconsin students are still a long way from getting the level of care they need.

“There’s so much work out there to do,” Shine says. “We need everybody to be working on behalf of kids.”

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::SAVINGOURDEMOCRACY ( APRIL 27 - MAY 3, 2017 ) ach week, the Shepherd Express publicizes and promotes activities that peacefully push back against the discriminatory and reactionary actions and policies of the Trump administration. Here are some of this week’s greater Milwaukee area meetings, gatherings and demonstrations devoted to preserving our liberal democratic system.

Thursday, April 27

Stand Against Racism, 5:30-7:30 p.m., YWCA Southeast Wisconsin (1915 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive)

Stand Against Racism is a campaign of the YWCA that intends to “build community among those who work for racial justice and to raise awareness about the negative impact of institutional and structural racism in our communities.” This year’s theme is “Women of Color Leading Change.”

The Big No Conference, Through April 29, UW-Milwaukee Curtin Hall 175 (3243 N. Downer Ave.)

“The Big No” conference explores the importance of naysaying throughout history.

Featured speakers include poet and activist Joshua Clover, philosophers François Laruelle and Katerina Kolozova, poet and playwright Ariana Reines and Frank B. Wilderson III, the leading figure in Afro-Pessimist thought. This event is free and open to the public.

Support the Fair Elections Project,5-7 p.m., Good City Brewing (2108 N. Farwell Ave.)

The Wisconsin Fair Elections Project is hosting a fundraiser this Thursday at Good City Brewing to “support our critical work to end partisan gerrymandering.” All contributions will be accepted.

Friday, April 28

League of Progressive Seniors Action Planning Meeting, noon-1:30 p.m., Milwaukee Area Labor Council AFL-CIO (633 S. Hawley Road)

The League of Progressive Seniors, a group of senior activists committed to social and economic justice, is holding an action-planning meeting. The meeting will focus on the group’s priorities, their target and building political muscle.

Saturday, April 29

People’s Climate Rally, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Escuela Verde Milwaukee (3628 W. Pierce St.)

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a film festival, food and music. The rally and march will be from 1-2 p.m.

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace, noon-1 p.m., Corner of Kinnickinnic Ave. and Russell Ave.

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

Monday, May 1

Meet Amy Goldstein, Author of Janesville: An American Story, 7 p.m., Boswell Book Company (2559 N. Downer Ave.)

Community Advocates Public Policy Institute and Boswell Book Company will welcome Goldstein to Boswell to read from and answer questions about Janesville. The event will begin at 7 p.m. and Goldstein’s book will be available for sale. This event is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, May 3

Town Hall for Fair Election Maps, 5:45-8 p.m., Wauwatosa Public Library, Firefly Room (7635 W. North Ave.) Wisconsin’s voting maps are so skewed that a federal court ordered lawmakers to redraw them. But instead of complying, certain lawmakers are spending taxpayer money to defend the unconstitutional maps. What can you do? Come find out in this town hall meeting. Experts will speak on gerrymandering and share specific actions we can take to stop it.

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.

To submit to this column, please send a brief description of your action, including date and time, to savingourdemocracy@shepex.com.

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Trump’s Biggest Lie about Jobs ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

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t’s not really a compliment to Wisconsin that Donald Trump would return to the state to repeat the biggest lie of his presidency.

I know. I know. When the nation’s president is a pathological liar who utters provable falsehoods pretty much every time he opens his mouth, how can any one of his lies be singled out as the biggest?

But it can certainly be argued the single, most effective lie that convinced desperate, white, working-class Americans to vote for a self-absorbed billionaire looking down on them from a gold tower was his promise to return jobs to closed-down factories, reopen abandoned mines and magically bring dying small towns back to life.

So, there was Trump in Kenosha last week swearing once again America’s white working class was about to have untold riches showered down upon them under a fabulous, new Trump era of “Buy American, Hire American.”

The problem is we all know Trump has never

believed in that idea nor has he ever done it. It was way back in 2012 when late-night talk show host David Letterman first confronted Trump over having his clothing line manufactured by cheap labor abroad, which continues for Trump products including those marketed by his daughter that the president attacks American stores for not carrying.

When Letterman displayed Trump labels from China and Bangladesh, Trump’s explanation was: “Good. We employ people in Bangladesh.

They have to work, too.” All Trump’s talk about requiring U.S. steel to be used in this country doesn’t apply to Trump hotels, which are regularly built with cheaper foreign steel. Business Insider also reports “Buy American” is a totally alien concept inside rooms chock-full of foreign goods—ice buckets from Thailand, headboards from China, slippers from Hong Kong and shower gel from Italy.

Despite Trump’s attacks on immigrants to feed the racial and religious bigotry of some supporters, rest assured Trump hotels employ the same low-wage, immigrant housekeeping staffs as other American hotels. The Washington Post reports that since 2013 Trump properties, including Mar-a-Lago, Trump Vineyards and Trump National Golf Club, have applied to fill more than 500 positions with foreign workers under the H-2A guest-worker visa program. In total, those jobs earned almost $1 million a month in salary.

OK, you can’t believe anything Trump says, and he doesn’t seem to have any idea how to

get legislation passed anyway. But Republicans controlling both houses of Congress will overwhelmingly support “Buy American” and “Hire American” legislation, won’t they?

Republicans Don’t Really Support ‘Buy America’ If you believe that—and a lot of frustrated white working class Trump voters foolishly did—you haven’t been paying attention to the Republican Party in recent years.

“Buy American” and “Hire American” legislation is pro-worker legislation. Pro-worker legislation is primarily supported by labor unions and Democrats. Republicans, on the other hand, are primarily concerned with increasing the profits of their wealthy, corporate campaign contributors. One of the best ways for American companies to do that is the same way the Trump organization does, by relying on cheap foreign labor and foreign goods.

Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin has fought Republican opposition to “Buy American” legislation for years, including from fellow Wisconsinites Sen. Ron Johnson and House Speaker Paul Ryan. The biggest controversy Trump stirred among Republicans during his Kenosha visit was endorsing Baldwin’s current “Buy American” bill to require the use of U.S. steel and iron in government water projects.

Even worse in the eyes of many Republicans than increasing costs for U.S. companies was endorsing a cause championed by Baldwin, a

progressive Democrat up for re-election in 2018.

Baldwin is smart enough to know Trump’s words mean next to nothing. “His support is very welcome,” Baldwin said, “but it has to be followed up with action.” That includes pressuring Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans to support “Buy American” legislation.

There’s no evidence in his own business practices or anything he’s done as president that Trump actually supports American workers. The only real piece of legislation he’s supported, the Republican health care bill, would have destroyed coverage for 24 million Americans and increased health care costs for millions of older workers who voted for him.

What politicians in both parties are watching to see is how long Trump can continue kicking the white working class voters who supported him in the teeth before they realize they’re being played for fools. When all those shuttered factories don’t reopen and coal mining doesn’t flourish again like it did in the 19th century, will Trump’s bitter, forgotten, left-behind white voters losing jobs and retraining programs under massive Republican budget cuts realize they’ve been lied to?

Will they turn on Trump? Or will they be perfectly happy with a blowhard president “telling it like is” by lying loudly to them about great jobs that never happen and a dumb, multibilliondollar wall to save them from rampaging, drugcrazed hordes of Mexican rapists?

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Whatever we build today will be with us for the next 20 or 25 years, so if we want to be competitive as a convention city, we need capacity.

We certainly believe that Milwaukee seems to have gotten a new burst of energy in Downtown construction projects and new hotels have opened in the area over the past several years. Like almost everything else, Milwaukee convention business is in some very serious competition with other tier-three major U.S. cities like Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Denver, Portland, Ore., etc. Milwaukee is a great city that is not particularly good at marketing itself, but nonetheless has all of the necessary components that make for a “cool 21st-century city.” Fortunately, the world may finally be discovering that. The travel publication Condé Nast Traveler, for example, has just listed Milwaukee as one of the “6 U.S. Cities to Watch in 2017.”

We need to capitalize on this “discovery of Milwaukee” and take advantage of more tourism and more conventions. For that we need a modern and larger convention center and more hotel space.

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The big question for the Wisconsin Center District board was whether we need a new feasibility study to determine our need for a new convention center and, if so, how large it should be in order to be competitive with cities in our tier. Despite the fact that there have been other studies done in the past supporting a new and larger convention center, we support State Department of Administration Secretary and chair of the Wisconsin Center District, Scott Neitzel, who is arguing that we need a new feasibility study. Neitzel is a very bright and experienced manager and wants to see a detailed feasibility study that is fact based and data driven if we are going to spend about a quarter of a billion dollars building a new convention center. Market forces are continually shifting and we need to utilize the best and most recent data available. The feasibility study will cost about $60,000 and take a few months to complete, but we think that additional time and money is well worth it. Having some understanding of the current market conditions, we are confident that a well-executed feasibility study will produce a result that supports a new and larger facility. If we proceed in this systematic, data-driven approach we also believe it will build more support for the project that will cost some serious money.

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FILLING THE NEEDS OF FORGOTTEN YOUTH Off the Cuff with Courage MKE’s Brad Schlaikowski ::KEITH SCHUBERT

n the past, Brad Schlaikowski and husband, Nick, have been active in fundraising for PathFinders and the Aids Resource Center of Wisconsin. More recently they have upped their efforts by starting Courage MKE, a non-profit whose mission is to raise funds and awareness for LGBTQ+ youth to ensure they have the skills, tools and resources needed to grow into successful leaders throughout the community.

Their end goal, however, is to open a shelter for LGBTQ+ youth. On any given night in Milwaukee, there are around 500 homeless youth on the streets with 40% identifying as LGBTQ+. Since its inception in 2015, Courage MKE has raised 35% of the money needed to open this shelter, including $40,000 at their most recent annual fundraiser in November.

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What motivated you to start courage MKE? Well, me and my husband Nick became foster parents in 2014. We had two teenagers who came to live with us who identified as LGBTQ+, and that opened our eyes to the need for a shelter for specifically LGBTQ+ teens. One of the girls came to us after six hours of driving around with a Child Protective Services (CPS) officer. How terrible is that? She’s in a stranger’s car, she doesn’t have a supportive family, she’s probably scared out of her mind and she’s hearing the conversation of the social working saying they can’t find a house for her, partly because she identifies as LGBTQ+.

Another girl, who was 17 when she came to us, had been living on the streets and couch surfing for two years before she got to us. The worst part is that she had been turned away from resources…

We don’t want anyone to feel unwanted while driving around in a CPS officer’s car or turned away from resources because of how they identify. This shelter will make sure experiences like those don’t happen in the future.

What will Courage look like a couple of years down the line?

We want to open it on the South Side because right now all the shelters are on the North Side. If you get kicked out of your house for coming out of the closet, and you’re on the South Side, you may not have any money or anywhere to go. How are those kids supposed to get to the North Side with no money and no resources? So, we think the shelter will be the most beneficial on the South Side.

But the shelter is just the foundation for what we want to do. We want to create a place for homeless LGBTQ+ to come and build their community and family. A place for them to come and learn life skills and how to live independently, how to manage their budget and things like that.

We will have counselors available for the youth, tutors and things like that. For example, I have a friend at a staffing agency who wants to come in and teach the kids how to create a proper résumé and do mock interviews with them, so when they turn 18, they are equipped properly for the real world.

What can people do to help?

First of all, admit that this is a problem. A lot of people don’t realize how many kids are on the street each night and how many of those kids identify as LGBTQ+, so the first step is for everyone to recognize that this is a problem. Admitting there is a problem and spreading awareness is the first thing.

Second, donate. We have raised $70,000 of the $200,000 needed to open the shelter. The suggested donation on our website is $10. We’ve had one large private donor, but other than that most donations have been under $100, so donate whatever you can. It doesn’t have to be money either. Even if it’s a pair of socks we will take it. Once we open the shelter, we will need furniture, bed sheets, lamps anything people have that we could use in our house would be great.

Lastly, volunteer. We need volunteers now, and we will need even more when the shelter opens.

To learn more about Courage MKE, visit their Facebook page, facebook.com/CourageMke/, or their website couragemke.org.

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New This Month in Milwaukee Dining

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A Scandinavian tap house, burger joint and even more new breweries joined the Milwaukee restaurant and bar scene this past month.

Plus, a landmark German restaurant closes its doors.

Crafty Cow

2675 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. | 808-0481 craftycowwi.com | $-$$

A Milwaukee outpost of the Oconomowoc burger spot Crafty Cow has opened in Bay View. Located in one side of Bumstead Provisions—both restaurants are owned and operated by the same team of owners—Crafty Cow specializes in Twin Cities-style cheesestuffed burgers called Jucy Lucys. The original Lucy ($8) is stuffed with American cheese, or you can choose from any number of variations, like the Twice Baked ($9) stuffed with white cheddar and bacon, then topped with ranch chips, bacon sour cream and caramelized onions. A portion of the menu dubbed The Great Milwaukee Project features collaboration burgers between local businesses and restaurants with proceeds going to local charities. The Southsider ($12.50), stuffed with honey goat cheese and topped with gin-pickled red onions, mushroom ragout and thick pork belly, is a collaboration between five local restaurants plus Milwaukee Record that benefits Milwaukee Community Gardens.

Valhalla

1111 N. Old World Third St. | 249-3046 valhallamke.com | $

Owned by the same folks as the Wisconsin Cheese Mart, Valhalla is a Scandinavian restaurant that also bills itself as a Nordic tap house. Guests can order from a

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small menu of snacks and sandwiches surrounded by décor of shields, helmets and paintings of very imposing looking Nordic men. Salads and pickles make up most of the snacks, but Swedish meatballs ($8) served on dumpling egg noodles also make an appearance.

Smørebrød, a type of open-faced Danish sandwich, comes in six varieties, such as the skagenröra shrimp salad ($6) with creamy dill dressing. Lefse, a tortilla-like potato flatbread, is served as a platter ($8) with cinnamon sugar butter, lignonberries, honey and Nutella.

Five kinds of aquavit, a liqueur made with caraway or dill, are available as a flight or in various cocktails, like the Lokitini ($9), which is shaken with lime. Beer, mead and ciders are available from Sweden, Iceland and Denmark, along with local favorites.

Broken Bat Brewing Co. 231 E. Buffalo St. | 316-9197 brokenbatbrewery.com | $

Childhood friends Tim Pauly and Dan McElwee have opened a baseball-themed brewery and sports bar in the Third Ward. The space, located on the lower level, is bright and lined with Cream City brick, TVs and a few curated sports memorabilia items. The restrooms, on the other hand, are all decked out in baseball cards in the men’s room or photos of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the ladies’. As for brews, IPAs are going to be their bread and butter, though other styles and seasonals will pop up from time to time.

Straight Chedd Apricot IPA is brewed with apricots for a slightly sweet finish. Double Play IPA is an 8% double IPA brewed with Skyrocket and Cascade hops. Mint Condition Porter, fermented and served with fresh mint leaves, and Climb the Wall Farmhouse Ale with orange peel are available on the non-IPA front.

Westallion Brewing Company 1825 S. 72nd St. | 578-7998 westallionbrewing.com | $

In development since 2015, Westallion is the first brewery to open in West Allis. The beers of Erik and Kim Dorfner have been available on tap in some bars for a while now, but the brewery’s tasting room facility has only just opened. Erik has previous brewing experience, working a number of positions at Lakefront Brewery, but it was his dream to open his own brewery. Beers are named for famous West Allis residents and local events. Western Days Vienna Lager is the brewery’s flagship beer, named after a defunct annual event with parades and rodeos, and is aggressively malted. Mustang APA is heavy on Citra hops and named after the mascot of the closed West Milwaukee High School that Liberace attended. Olympic gold medal speed skater Dan Jansen even inspired the Lillehammer Gold Kölsch-style ale.

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250 High St., Brookfield | 262-784-4938 belaircantina.com | $$

BelAir Cantina has opened in The Corners of Brookfield, a mixed-use development anchored by Von Maur. This is the fifth location of the Tex-Mex restaurants in the area, with a sixth planned for Madison later this year. All locations serve up burritos, margaritas, fajitas and tacos in a variety of Mexican and international flavors.

In closings this month, Jerusalem Pastries in Greenfield and Karl Ratzsch have closed. Karl Ratzsch, a Downtown landmark for decades, survived less than a year after reopening under award-winning restaurateur Thomas Hauck. It will be greatly missed.

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his summer, as in every season since Major League Baseball returned to Milwaukee, George Webb predicts the Brewers will win 12 straight games. And if the crew fulfills the prophesy, Webb promises free burgers. The last time the Brewers hit 12 straight, in 1987, Webb kept its pledge. According to corporate records, 170,000 burgers were served in celebration.

Webb became a Milwaukee institution soon after opening its first outlet in 1948, Downtown on the corner of Ogden and Van Buren. Even after McDonald’s began to spread its network across the nation and other heavily capitalized national burger chains invaded Milwaukee, Webb held on and grew while maintaining a pre-war vision of American fast food. Webb is more Edward Hopper Nighthawks than Ronald McDonald or Colonel Sanders.

“Yes, George Webb was an actual person and the founder of the company,” says Ryan Stamm, vice president of George Webb Restaurants. The local chain’s connection to Milwaukee baseball began with the fandom of its founder, who died in 1957 while attending the Milwaukee Braves’ spring training in Florida.

As Milwaukee holds its breath for those 12 straight wins, Webb is still serving hamburgers 24 hours a day, seven days a week in 25 locations around greater Milwaukee. Webb began as a “hamburger parlor” with counter service only. Later, square footage was added to accommodate booths and tables along with a larger menu complete with breakfast any time of day.

Yet, circa 1948 comfort food continues to dominate the menu. One of the halfdozen burgers, called “The 1948,” is simplicity itself—a beef patty topped with lettuce and tomato and tucked into a bun. A “Wisconsin egg burger” features bacon, an egg and American cheese. Alternatives to the burgers include a fish sandwich, a fish fry every day and a shrimp platter. In an enduring diner touch, slices of pie are available for dessert—if you’re not in the mood for a Sprecher root beer float.

Take-out is an option, including “burgers in a bag” with seven hamburgers or cheeseburgers to go.

According to Stamm, the founder’s wife, Evelyn, developed many of the recipes— an assertion supported by signboards offering “Mrs. Webb’s soup & chili.” Seven soups of the day were available at a recent visit and a quart of soup to go sets the customer back $7.

Given all those sevens, numerology seems almost as big as baseball at Webb. And speaking of numbers, what’s with two clocks on the wall of each location? “The truth is only George knows,” Stamm says. Apparently, he took the secret to his grave.

Milwaukee was a city in search of a bargain when Webb opened in 1948 and our reputation for frugality continues. Although prices have risen since the days of the 19-cent burger, the priciest thing on Webb’s current menu is a bag of seven cheeseburgers for $12. “While our menu has changed to offer salads and healthier options, we still stay true to who we are,” Stamm says.

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Slow Pokes Coconut Milk Kefir ::BY SHEILA JULSON

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athleen McGlone, owner of Slow Pokes Local Food (1229 12th Ave., Grafton) store and café, was a pioneer in providing food for people with eating restrictions when she opened in 2006. As someone who suffered from health issues in the past, she wanted to provide nutrient-dense whole foods specific to vegetarian, gluten-free and paleo diets. However, her slow batch, dairy-free coconut milk kefir—a fermented drink rich in probiotics—has become a signature product that she’s been making since 2009.

Ideal for those with dairy allergies and sensitivities, the coconut milk kefir has numerous gut health benefits: colonizing the intestines with good bacteria, aiding in digestion, strengthening the immune system and more.

The coconut milk kefir is rich and hearty, more so than dairy-based kefir. It can be consumed straight, but it’s excellent in smoothies, on fruits and desserts, or with granola. “We ferment it down to only one gram of sugar and 130 calories per serving,” McGlone noted.

There was a glitch in kefir production this past spring, said McGlone, causing her to temporarily stop making it and transition from the SHEPHERD EXPRESS

wild fermentation starter she previously used to a more reliable commercial starter culture.

It took some trial and error to find a starter that met her standards, and as of March she had maple-flavored coconut milk kefir available again at the store. She plans to bring back the plain, lemon and cherry flavors, as well as the savory green onion and garlic, which is ideal as a salad dressing base. She may hold off with the blueberry and pumpkin flavors previously offered, as those require a more tedious fermentation process.

Slow Pokes coconut milk kefir was available at outlets including Beans & Barley, Riverwest Co-op and Good Harvest Market, and McGlone hopes to get back into wholesale production soon. “Beans & Barley is one of first places that carried it, and I hope to get it back there first,” she said.

Although Slow Pokes has become known for the coconut milk kefir, the store also sells other Wisconsin-made probiotic products such as Little Red Hen & Company kombucha and sauerkraut. Prepared foods for purchase include bone broth soups, which are collagen-rich to heal gut lining; paleo, vegan and gluten-free scratch-made bakery; salads; and wraps. McGlone said that for many years she held classes, workshops and meet-the-farmer events to help educate Ozaukee County about food allergies and nutritious food.

Unfortunately, making real food can be a long, slow and expensive process, and McGlone recently has had to put her building up for sale. She said that in the decade-plus that she’s been in business, she’s seen the interest in healthy and natural foods grow—which she said is good because people are more interested in real foods—but smaller businesses such as hers struggle against the competition.

But the coconut milk kefir will stay, and McGlone is focusing on getting the kefir production back to full capacity. Regardless of what happens with the store, her passion for nutritious food will never wane. “Everything that’s real is a little more expensive, but you have to pay for good food; otherwise, you’ll be paying for medicine instead,” she said.

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he Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame will add three new members on Saturday, April 29 in a ceremony at the UWMilwaukee Panther Arena. This year’s inductees are long-time Green Bay Packer Charles Woodson, Heisman Trophy winner and former Wisconsin Badger Ron Dayne and three-time Women’s British Open champion Sherri Steinhauer.

Former Milwaukee Brewers President and CEO and Major League Baseball Commissioner Emeritus Bud Selig will also be honored with the Hall of Fame’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame was created in 1951 to honor athletic achievement by state natives or by members of state teams. The Hall currently has 137 members, including area natives Al Simmons, Bob Uecker and Harvey Kuenn. The Hall of Fame’s members are honored with bronze plaques along the “Walk of Fame” on Fourth Street outside of the Panther Arena.

Charles Woodson will join a long list of Packers in the Hall, including former teammate Donald Driver, who will host this Saturday’s ceremony. Woodson played seven seasons with the Packers, during which he was named to two All-Pro teams, won the ’09 NFL Defense Player of the Year Award and was a key member of the Super Bowl XLV championship team. After the Packers cut ties with Woodson following the 2012 season, he returned to the Oakland Raiders for the final three seasons of his career. Woodson is considered to be a prime candidate for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame when he becomes eligible in 2021.

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HONORING A BADGER, HONORING A WOMAN Ron Dayne is one of the most honored football players in Wisconsin Badgers history. The Badgers starting running back for four years, Dayne set an NCAA Division 1 record (since broken) for most all-time career rushing yards and recorded a pair of 2,000 yard seasons. He led the Badgers to back-to-back Rose Bowl titles in 1999 and 2000, winning MVP honors in each game. In 1999, he became the second Badger ever to win the Heisman Trophy.

The following year, Dayne was taken 11th overall in the NFL Draft by the New York Giants. He had an eight-year NFL career, appearing with the Giants, Denver Broncos and Houston Texans. Since his retirement, he has been inducted into both the College Football and Rose Bowl halls of fame.

Sherri Steinhauer will be just the seventh woman inducted into the Hall. Born in Madison, Wis., Steinhauer joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour in

1986. She won eight tournaments as a member of the Tour, including the 1992 du Maurier Classic and the Women’s British Open in 1998, 1999 and 2006. Steinhauer joined the Legends Tour in 2009 and has since won two more tournaments, including the 2009 Legends Championship.

In ’14, Steinhauer opened a museum of her golf memorabilia in the south Catskills of New York. She earned more than $6 million during her career.

The induction ceremony is open to the public, and half of the ticket proceeds will go to Special Olympics Wisconsin, the MACC Fund and Make-a-Wish Wisconsin. Tickets range from $21 to $80 and include a Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame bobblehead doll. VIP tickets are also available. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit wihalloffame.com. Tickets are also available at the Milwaukee Theatre box office or by calling 1-800-745-3000.

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‘Hearken To My Voice’ ARTS CONVERGE AT MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY’S JOAN OF ARC CHAPEL ::BY JOE MICHOLIC

he story of Joan of Arc is one of faith and trust in yourself and your beliefs to carry you through battles physical and social. Joan heard voices in her head that she believed were of divine origin. She was certain it was God’s will that she should lead the French army in battle against the invading English. She overcame outrageous obstacles to do just that and led the French to numerous victories. In the end, she was captured and burned at the stake as a heretic because of her strong faith that God, in fact, had chosen her for this heroic task.

A team of faculty at Marquette University has been awarded the 2016-2017 Way Klingler Teaching Enhancement Award, a grant designed to support high-impact educational practices that engage students in interactive learning. The faculty team includes choreographer Catey Ott Thompson, costume designer Connie Petersen, English teacher Sarah Wadsworth, art historian Lynne Shumow, composer Mark Konewko and theologian Susan Mountin. The inter-curricular project involves four Marquette University classes: Ballet II, Composition and Choreography, Advanced Costume Technology and English Capstone. The teachers have devoted the entire spring semester to creating a multidisciplinary public performance with their students to be presented outdoors at stations surrounding the Joan of Arc Chapel on the Marquette University Campus. The title is Hearken to my Voice: Iron. Fire. Breath. Performances are at 5:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, April 28-29 and 1 p.m., Sunday, April 30.

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“The students walked into the semester thinking they signed up for Ballet II or Advanced Costume Technology and all of a sudden the ballet class is up in the conference room watching Joan of Arc videos or at the Haggerty Art Museum seeing paintings or attending lectures about medieval weaponry,” said Ott Thompson, producer of the project and instructor of Ballet II and Composition and Choreography.

To be truly inspired by something a person must learn as much as they can about the subject. The students involved in the project have been doing just that. The entire project follows an educational philosophy called the “4-R embodied learning process.” The “R’s” are “research, reflect, re-act and resonate.” In line with this approach, students have spent a large amount of time researching Joan of Arc’s life and times, and absorbing the visual art, plays and other writings it has inspired, and then using that information and the emotions it arouses to create their own poetry, theater, music and dance works. They’ve been writing journals every day to reflect on what they’re learning, as well as reacting to (or re-enacting) what they’ve been exposed to in their research in daily rehearsals. As for resonation, many of the students even attended a session involving Ignatian contemplations and the creative visualization of St. Joan’s life, led by Sr. Anne Arabome of Marquette University’s Faber Center.

Lack of enthusiasm is not an issue for the creative team.

Their passion not only for learning the story of Joan of Arc, but for teaching and creating in general is obvious in the way they speak about the project from the point of view of their different disciplines. Whether it is dance, clothing design, visual art, music or writing, each has found a strong personal connection to Joan’s story.

Ott Thompson draws inspiration from the stories of the saint’s trials and tribulations. “I feel the concept of believing in your own metaphors—believing in both your own connection to the collective unconscious and your own creative tangential thinking—has been the basis of my choreography for almost 20 years. I think it’s just finding that inner artist voice and trying to understand and live with it in a way that is inspiring to you and others.”

Marquette As part of the project, MarTheatre, quette Music Director Mark Dance Konewko composed a new & Music time strike for Marquette’s carillon bells, called “Joan of Deptartments Arc.” The time strike is played Hearken to to mark every 15 minutes in my Voice: Iron. an hour. Each quarter hour Fire. Breath. has its own special melody. It is only the third time in MarApril 28-30 quette University history that Joan of Arc the tune of the bells has been Chapel, Marquette changed.

University The Joan of Arc Chapel was built in the early 15th century in France. It arrived at Marquette 51 years ago and it’s that anniversary that inspired the team to devise the semester-long project. The final performance will include several dance works, choral music, a theatrical monologue, spoken word performance, a bonfire and even horticultural art—symbolically colored tulips will be in bloom at the site if nature cooperates. The performances are free to the public.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 27 Arte Para Todos @ multiple venues

Even in a city brimming with ambitious festivals, the annual Arte Para Todos (Art For Everyone) fundraiser is a head-turner: nearly 100 acts playing at 25 venues spread across five neighborhoods and four days—all to raise money for youth arts education.

In its first two years, the festival has raised nearly $40,000 for Milwaukee Public School arts programs, and this year’s absolutely massive lineup ensures another great haul.

The festival kicks off with an opening night in Walker’s Point featuring performances from Tigernite, Siren, NO/NO, Tontine Ensemble, Rusty Pelicans, Klassik and more at venues including Anodyne Coffee, The Var Gallery, Gibraltar and The Local. From there, the schedule doesn’t slow any: Friday night’s Bay View showcases include acts like Strangelander, Sista Strings, Painted Caves, Soul Love, Mortgage Freeman, Zed Kenzo and Surgeons in Heat, while a dozen venues across Riverwest and Harambee will host shows on Saturday night, before closing shows at The Jazz Estate and the Back Room at Colectivo wrap things up on Sunday night. Tickets are cheap: A $20 pass gets you admission to all four nights of shows while an individual day pass is just $13. For more information visit arteparatodos.me.

Marc Maron @ The Pabst Theater, 7 p.m.

Marc Maron has had a long and distinguished comedy career: appearing on Comedy Central countless times, hosting the channel’s “Short Attention Span Theater,” performing regularly on other late-night staples and enjoying the hard-earned respect of many of his contemporaries. But it wasn’t until he began podcasting in ’09, after being laid off from a tumultuous gig at Air America, that his name began to spread outside of diehard comedy circles. A sometimes uncomfortably intimate mix of interviews and personal reflection, “WTF with Marc Maron” is one of the top-rated and most influential comedy podcasts of its time—and the model for the countless podcasts that other comedians now launch weekly; even former President Barack Obama appeared on it. That podcast was also the springboard for “Maron,” his autobiographical TV series for IFC. For this live appearance, though, Maron will return to his stand-up roots.

FRIDAY, APRIL 28 Zach Pietrini w/ Doghouse Flowers @ Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee Americana singer Zach Pietrini has never shied away from dark territory (he used to call his backing band The Broken Bones), but on his latest album, Holding Onto Ghosts, he embraces the darkness even more overtly. It’s filled with tales of loneliness, despair and regret that cast the ghostly spell promised by its title. He’ll celebrate the belated vinyl release of that record at this show, which he’ll share with Milwaukee roots-rock veterans Doghouse Flowers.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 29 Peter Mulvey w/ Sista Strings @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee native Peter Mulvey has found a huge fan in the form of folk legend Ani DiFranco, who has praised his ability to “play some badass guitar, sing to touch your heart and write a song that will knock you down.” She’s not just talking the talk, either: She walks the walk by producing Mulvey’s latest album, Are You Listening, at her New Orleans studio and releasing it through her Righteous Babe label. The record tackles a bevy of subjects, including police violence, human kindness and the ways the modern world chips away at our attention spans. Mulvey will share this local release show with the Milwaukee classicalsoul fusion duo Sista Strings.

The xx w/ Sampha @ The Rave, 8 p.m.

How about that: The xx finally made an album that sounds better loud. After two gorgeous, glorious albums of intimate, R&B-inflected indie-rock that played like whispered conversations between lovers, the British trio cranked up the volume a bit on their third and latest album, I See You. It’s a gambit that could have destroyed the fragile chemistry of the group’s first two records, but it paid off : The music retains its dreaminess, while producer Jamie xx, a rising solo star in his own right, is given more freedom than ever to leave his mark. For this tour, they’ll be joined by another British artist with a gift for conveying room-silencing vulnerability: Sampha, a Drake collaborator who released his debut album, Process, this winter on the Young Turks label.

Tobin Sprout @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

To most casual Guided By Voices fans, the insanely prolific indie rock group is synonymous with founder Robert Pollard, who continues to lead the group (they just released a new double album, August by Cake, this month). It’s not uncommon to hear more loyal fans argue, however, that the true talent of the group was guitarist Tobin Sprout, a secondary frontman of sorts who contributed some truly great songs to the group’s heyday records in the early-to-mid ’90s, including “Islands (She Talks In Rainbows)” and “Awful Bliss.” Sprout is sitting out the latest Guided By Voices reunion, but this winter he released a new solo album on Burger Records, The Universe And Me. It’s his first in seven years, and its Beatles-y melodies should please GBV fans who always preferred the group’s more tuneful tracks to the chaotic stuff. Those looking to check out Sprout’s old ’90s solo records are in luck, too.

Burger Records will be re-releasing those soon.

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Meet the funniest girl in Room Nine! Junie B. is on the case in this hilarious new kindergarten adventure.

A play by Allison Gregory Adapted from the books series by Barbara Park Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. www.playscripts.com Based on the books Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook and Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren by Barbara Park

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SUNDAY, APRIL 30 Aimee Mann w/ Jonathan Coulton @ The Pabst Theater, 8 p.m.

Aimee Mann had already enjoyed a career’s worth of critical adoration before her 1999 soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia put her in the public eye, garnering her nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and three Grammys. If Mann was eager to capitalize on that attention, she sure didn’t show it. The albums that followed were mostly low-key and literate; wonderfully refined but hardly the type of music that does blockbuster business. There were some exceptions. On her lively 2008 album @#%&*! Smilers, she played up the easygoing, ’70s-FM poppiness that’s always been inherent in her songs, and on 2012’s Charmer, she nodded to her long-downplayed new-wave roots, adorning her catchy tunes with bright synthesizers. Her latest album, Mental Illness, however, returns her to the somber songs she does best. She’s called it her “saddest, slowest and most acoustic” album yet, which is saying something.

TUESDAY, MAY 2 Kinky Freidman @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

Singer, novelist, satirist and would-be politician Richard “Kinky” Friedman doesn’t like to limit himself when it comes to his career options. After playing music with his first band, King Arthur and the Carrots, at the University of Texas at Austin, Friedman served two years in the Peace Corps, where he met his road manager, Dylan Ferrero. Since then, he has refined his sardonic country rock as a solo act and with various backing band lineups, producing controversial numbers like “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore” and comedic songs such as “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed.” After a lull in his music career, Friedman took up writing and running for office, placing fourth in the 2006 Texas gubernatorial race. But these days, he’s back on the road again.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 Desiigner w/ 16YROLD @ The Rave, 8 p.m.

If there’s a song you probably never need to hear again, it’s “Panda,” Desiigner’s breakout smash. The track seemed to sit on top of the rap and pop charts forever. It was one of those songs almost too successful for its own good, as inescapable last year as jokes about Donald Trump’s hair and Hillary Clinton’s emails, but it remains to be seen whether the 19-year-old, Kanye West-signed rapper will be able to repeat its success. Desiigner saw some traction with his follow-up single, a surrealist space odyssey called “Timmy Turner,” but so far for no other track from his forthcoming debut album, The Life of Desiigner, has stuck to the charts, and the album still doesn’t have a release date. Attendees at this show can decide for themselves whether he’s a one-hit wonder or if he has real staying power.

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laywright Allison Gregory adapted Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook! from a popular book series by Barbara Park. Gregory recently reflected on her work thusly: “What’s so engaging and joyful about these stories and Junie B. herself: her scrappy resourcefulness, her unbridled sense of right and wrong, her bull-in-a-china-shop zest and imagination. Barbara Park got Junie B. so right because, well, she was Junie B., and luckily, I get to keep telling her stories.”

Adult professional and young up-and-coming actors take on the roles in this First Stage production of Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook!—a story whereby a kindergarten-age girl, through a series of lost-and-found events, discovers whether or not the age-old adage “finders keepers” really is a correct way to look at things. James Fletcher—who is the founder and artistic director of Bunny Gumbo Theater Co. and who has been involved with First Stage for some 17 years as a director, teacher, fight choreographer and actor—directs this production.

April 28-June 4, Todd Wehr Theater at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414-273-7206 or visit firststage.org.

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A parody of escapist Roaring Twenties’ musical comedies, Bob Martin and Don McKellar’s Tony Award-winning play, The Drowsy Chaperone, involves such time-honored plot devices as dream sequences, mistaken identities and a deus ex machina. Directed by Matt Zembrowski, staged and choreographed by Mary McLellan and with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, Waukesha Civic Theatre hosts this “charming and bombastic” musical within a comedy.

April 28-May 14 at the Margaret Brate Bryant Civic Theatre, 264 W. Main St., Waukesha. For tickets, call 262-547-0708 or visit waukeshacivictheatre.org.

On the Spectrum

The “spectrum” of this show’s title refers to the autism spectrum. Quasimondo Milwaukee Physical Theatre presents On the Spectrum, written and performed by its own ensemble member, Thom J. Cauley. This piece, which premiered at last year’s inaugural Milwaukee Fringe Festival, is described by Quasimondo as an “intimate solo show [using] physical acting and personal experience to tell the inner monologue of a young boy with an unidentified learning disability.”

May 5-14, Milwaukee Cooperative at the Shops of Grand Avenue, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. For tickets, visit quasimondo.org/on-the-spectrum.html.

Arcadia and Alchemy

The age-old theater exhortation “The Show Must Go On!” is surely in the minds and on the lips of many UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts faculty and students these days: There was a major fire recently in UWM’s Mainstage Theatre building, destroying set pieces and costumes and filling the place with sooty smokiness. Even so, Arcadia—Tom Stoppard’s celebrated play, retains its original run dates but moves to the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Stiemke Studio, 108 W. Wells St. Meanwhile, Springdances: Alchemy, which features new choreographic works by UWM Dance faculty, will be presented in the Kenilworth Square East Gallery, 2155 N. Prospect Ave. Arcadia runs May 3-7; for tickets call 414-224-9490 or visit milwaukeerep.com.

Springdances: Alchemy runs April 27-May 1; for tickets call 414-229-4308 or visit uwm.edu/arts/box-office/tickets.

Express Yourself Milwaukee presents what they describe as “an inspiring, family-friendly event featuring dance, music, spoken word and visual arts.”

SOUL is Express Yourself Milwaukee’s culminating event for their professional artists and young apprentices. As the performance company’s Founder and Executive Director Lori Vance explains: “The young people and adult artists who have worked on SOUL have created for Milwaukee an energetic, immersive experience that will surprise audiences with its creative comingling of artistic forms.”

6:30 p.m., Thursday, May 4, Milwaukee Theatre, 500 W. Kilbourn Ave. This event is free and open to the general public.

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Devised and directed by Posy Knight, Kirk Thomsen and Joelle Worm (all of whom are also cast members), this physical performance piece looks at “being wrong, making mistakes [and] failing over and over” as “the definition of being alive.” After all, humanity’s greatest achievements only occur after many letdowns. Through a variety of Treteau vignettes (a theatrical form unearthing innovative creativity and revealing that performance can be achieved without extraneous elements), Cooperative Performance Milwaukee’s aLL wRoNg examines the possibilities of the unknown.

April 28-29, Danceworks, 1661 N. Water St.; May 4, Best Place, 901 W. Juneau Ave.; May 5, Charles Allis Museum, 1801 N. Prospect Ave. For tickets call 414-277-8480 or visit cooperformke.com.

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Friday, April 28, Woman’s Club of Wisconsin, 813 E. Kilbourn Ave. For tickets, call 414-962-3055 or visit pianoarts.org.

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In Tandem’s ‘Carnival’ a Delightful ThreeRing Circus ::BY HARRY CHERKINIAN

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n Tandem Theatre has hit the big time under the Big Top with its comical, charming production of the musical Carnival. The lesser-known show opened last weekend and will delight audiences smart enough to grab tickets while they can. It’s In Tandem’s biggest production to date, with a cast of 15 actors, four-piece musical team and a delightful carnival set and atmosphere that extends out into the lobby. (Play the roulette wheel. It’s a guaranteed winner and the popcorn is free!)

Under the detailed direction of Managing Director Jane Flieller, the show captures the excitement and energy of this popular form of mass entertainment while exploring the behind-the-scenes machinations of its assorted characters.

Set outside Paris, France, in the ’20s, Carnival focuses on the innocent, wide-eyed orphan, Lili (Susan Wiedmeyer), who grows up quickly when she joins the circus and immediately falls under the spell of Marco the magician (Steve Koehler), whose sleight-of-hand tricks pale in comparison to his womanizing ways. In the meantime, his extremely jealous female assistant, Rosalie (Beth Mulkerron), is constantly trying to catch him in the act while the show must somehow still go on. Throw in a couple of hand puppeteers (Nathan Marinan and J. Keegan Siebken), who eventually bring Lili into their act, and the stage is set for all sorts of madcap fun—as well as inevitable heartbreak. Life is literally a three-ring circus—both in and outside the Big Top. The cast excels every step of the way, and it’s refreshing to see In Tandem grow and succeed in taking on a show of this size in its intimate space. Choreographer Karl Miller maximizes the talents of the ensemble, pulling off some challenging moves in close quarters, while Kathy Smith’s vibrant, flashy costumes add to the spectacle, blending into the circus atmosphere. Kudos to actors Marinan and Siebken, whose mastery and clever voicing of multiple hand puppets were just as fun to watch as the live actors. This Carnival really does have something for everyone.

Through May 14 at Tenth Street Theatre, 628 N.10th St. For tickets, call 414-2711371 or visit intandemtheatre.org.

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heatre Gigante’s exploration of life begins by talking about death.

Several members of the cast connect with the audience, explaining that they can all be experts on the subject of living and dying. Originally written by Mark Anderson as a monologue for one, Isabelle Kralj adapted and directed the piece for a group of performers, attempting to infuse diversity with young and old, male and female. The piece has become an extended, experimental prose poem spoken and sung by a chorus of 10 voices.

Theatre Gigante took Alverno’s sprawling Pitman Theatre and condensed it, placing the audience onstage with the performers in a cozy, focused use of space. The minimal, clean stage serves the cast well, with just enough chairs and microphones to give them total command of the room. The actors spend 80 minutes exploring different modes of moving through the space as they describe how humans move through life. Everyday objects—a bicycle, badminton racquets, flashlights—become tools to measure both the strangeness and mediocrity of living.

The cast members are masterful in their movement; perfectly in sync, they go from embodying a group therapy session to Sir Isaac Newton’s cradle to the night sky. It is a philosophy class at the circus.

Frank Pahl’s original songs and strings, helped along by Kat Grunert and Jordan Mackin’s lovely voices and cellist Ben Yela, add a folky, quirky charm that infuses the piece with warmth and a sense of down-to-earth humanity that is not found in the detached, clinical speech delivered by the actors.

The piece is billed as “a refreshing and hopeful look at the world,” though it is shot through with strains of pessimism and loneliness. Theatre Gigante’s composite of movement, song and speech endeavors to provide a platform to engage in a conversation about “you-ness” and tackle no less than the meaning of life.

Through April 29 at Alverno College’s Pitman Theatre, 3431 South 39th St. For tickets call 800-838-3006 or visit giganteway.brownpapertickets.com.

PostApocalypse Simpsons in Luminous Theatre’s ‘Mr. Burns’

Carrington exudes a restless need to think about something else, so everyone assembled gets lost in the trivia of an old episode of “The Simpsons.” Act two moves inside. Years after the apocalypse, many have died and many basic amenities are still lacking, but we’ve got a very elaborate touring theater circuit. We’re Americans. We need to be entertained and distracted.

Infrastructure can wait.

Dylan Bolin and Hannah Ripp-Dieter are impressively organic as actors rehearsing a stage adaptation of “The Simpsons” episode from act one. With no products to advertise, staged commercials take the form of Ripp-Dieter playing a stunningly beautiful woman acting out a flimsy narrative. Her commercial character is returning home from a day at work and simply talking about products that existed before the war. This is advertising in a world without products: a fantasy of the mundane.

The final act remains inside. It’s 75 years later, and old “Simpsons” narratives mix with the mutated history of civilization surviving the apocalypse in a pseudo-religious pageant featuring a charmingly mytho-heroic Rachael Zientek as Bart Simpson squaring-off against the staggeringly precise, Silver Age comic book-style villainy of Jordan Gwiazdowski in the role of a devil named Mr. Burns.

Through May 8 at the Goat Palace, 3740 N. Fratney St. in Riverwest. For more information, visit luminoustheatre.com.

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eda Hoffman directs Luminous Theatre’s post-apocalyptic comedy, Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play in the Goat Palace, a warehouse space in Riverwest. In act one, actors and audience huddle outside around a fire.

Playwright Anne Washburn provides little formal explanation: There was a pandemic. A lot of death. Nuclear power plants broke down. There was radiation.

Everyone reacts to stress differently. Kelly Doherty plays with haunting exhaustion; James

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n Sunset Playhouse’s light comedy of friendship, The Dixie Swim Club, women who became friends while swimming in school periodically meet up to relax and swim in solitude at an idyllic beach cottage in North Carolina.

The script feels like it was written while binging on “The Golden Girls” after a night of watching Steel Magnolias. As derivative as it may seem on the surface, the charming cast under the direction of Dustin J. Martin finds genuine heart at its center. The cleverness of the script lies not in the premise or the dialogue. The playwrights grab a group of comically contrasting characters, throw them together and allow the cast to work.

The Sunset cast does an entertaining job with it. On one end of the spectrum, a charming Maureen Chobanoff and a variety of wigs play a vivacious personality that fully embraces the passionate drama of life. On the other end, there’s Linda Wirth, comically abrasive and tough as granite, as a lawyer trying to blow off steam outside of the courtroom.

We see the cast of five through four scenes. Each scene is set a number of years after the one that came before it. The sharp, all-woman ensemble finesses the challenges posed by the passage of time. Each scene feels distinct, though some of the comedy here lies in the fact that some things just don’t change. By the end, we’re left with a satisfying comic picture of long-term friendship that makes for a fun night at the theater.

Through May 7 at Furlan Auditorium, 800 Elm Grove Road. For tickets call 262782-4430 or visit sunsetplayhouse.com.

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n epic on a scale reminiscent of are left to implication. What George shows are Dr. Zhivago, The Promise is a the berserker mobs raging in the streets, chanting love story wrapped in the twisted racist epithets as they smash shop windows and threads of history. It’s the kind of attack people for looking different; the long files movie Hollywood used to make of men, women and children being marched to more often and has seldom made as powerfully their death in the desert; the slave labor of ableand effectively in recent years. The Promise is bodied men on a railroad line built under the sua love story, an emotional quadrangle against pervision of Turkey’s German allies. If it seems a events from the World War I era less familiar bit like any number of Holocaust movies, it’s beto the general public than Zhivago’s Bolshevik cause the Armenian Genocide closely resembles Revolution, the Armenian Genocide. the Shoah. The parallels are striking.

The protagonist, Mikael (Oscar Isaac), is an While the main characters are fictional or apothecary’s son in a provincial Turkish town on composites, The Promise incorporates several the eve of World War I. He is Armenian, one of historical figures. U.S. ambassador Henry Morseveral minority groups living with growing eth- genthau (James Cromwell) is shown in an angry nic tensions in the Turkish Empire. He dreams of meeting with Turkey’s Interior Minister Talaat studying medicine in the capital, Constantinople, Pasha (Aaron Neil), perhaps the most evil among and finds the tuition money through betrothal to the architects of the genocide; and Komitas VartMaral (Angela Sarafyan), a nice village girl with abed (Shnork Sargsyan), the Armenian composa dowry in an economic marital arrangement er-priest-musicologist, is seen performing a concommon in traditional societies. “We will grow cert chilling in its otherworldly intensity. After to love each other,” she says. the time depicted in The Promise, Morgenthau But the human heart is more unpredictable wrote about the genocide, Talaat was assassinatthan war and politics. Once in Constantinople, ed in Berlin by a child of genocide victims and he meets Ana (Charlotte Le Komitas survived torture and Bon), a worldly Armenian artimprisonment but never wrote ist from Paris. They begin to another note of music. fall in love—but she is the lover A more austere filmmakThe Promise of Chris (Christian Bale), the er than George might have Oscar Isaac American AP correspondent avoided melodrama, yet tears Charlotte Le Bon in Turkey. And Mikael made a are inescapable as destruction Directed by promise of marriage that must be sweeps away the lives of so Terry George kept for his and Maral’s families. many individuals. George and Rated PG-13 The Promise holds together co-writer Robin Swicord acthe emotional tangle of their lives curately represent the time and in the face of growing calamity. place and avoid anachronisms.

Credit Isaac’s deeply felt perforLikewise, the soundtrack by mance as the story’s center of gravity, as well as System of a Down’s Serj Tankian and SoundLe Bon’s more subtle emotional responses. Bale garden’s Chris Connell, which draws from tradiplays an otherwise swaggering man willing to be tional Armenian music. cuckolded for love. Sarafyan’s performance can “Our revenge will be to survive,” Ana tells be easily overlooked but epitomizes the place of Mikael, and while many of The Promise’s chara woman in a patriarchal society with few choic- acters perish, some make their way out of the es and much faith. open grave their homeland had become. The Oscar-winning writer-director Terry George mass murdering tyrants of the last century— (Hotel Rwanda) came to The Promise knowing from Talaat to Pol Pot—slaughtered millions in how to dramatize mass murder. The politics be- one twisted scheme after another to create new hind the Armenian Genocide, in which the Turk- worlds on the ashes of the old. In every case, surish regime killed 1.5 million of its Armenian vivors bore witness to tell true stories that should subjects under the guise of war zone evacuations, never be forgotten.

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Adapted from Dave Eggers’ 2013 novel, this sci-fi thriller echoes George Orwell’s 1984. Mae (Emma Watson) is recruited by a fictionalized Internet conglomerate called The Circle. As a willing user of SeeChange, The Circle’s wearable camera technology that broadcasts her life to millions of followers, she rises through Circle’s ranks. Tom Hanks portrays Bailey—one of the company’s “three wise men” and Mae’s mentor. Ellar Coltran appears as an ordinary guy who learns that getting off the grid is dangerous to your health, while John Boyega plays a mysterious Circle employee. Though critics lamented Mae’s paper-thin character in Eggers’ book, casting Watson and Hanks in the lead roles is intriguing. (Lisa Miller)

How to Be a Latin Lover PG-13 After 25 years married to a wealthy widow, Latin gigolo Maximo (Eugenio Derbez) has grown flabby and lazy before she throws him out in favor of a younger man. Forced to toe the line after moving in with his sister, Sara (Salma Hayek), a single mother, Maximo helps out by caring for his little nephew, Hugo. While taking the lad to school, the washed-up gigolo spots a wealthy widow (Raquel Welch) who inspires him to ply his old trade—minus the youthful good looks that once made him a hot commodity. Chuckles give way to learning a host of life lessons, leaving little Hugo to charm both viewers and his reluctant uncle, alike. (L.M.)

Sleight R Street magician Bo (Jacob Latimore) delights crowds by levitating small metal objects using a hidden electromagnetic device he invented. In order to make ends meet while raising his orphaned baby sister, Bo also works for drug dealer Angelo (Dulé Hill)—until Bo draws the line because Angelo orders him to beat up a coworker. After Angelo threatens to kill everyone Bo cares for, the magician is surprised to discover that he possesses real hidden powers.

Unfolding as a drama before taking the leap into superhero territory, the film’s organic transition is an unexpected pleasure. (L.M.)

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“Hawaii Five-0: The Complete Series”

One of the longest-running cop shows is out as a 72-DVD set. “Hawaii Five-0” (19681980) lacked the memorable characters of “Columbo” and “Kojak,” but boasted the lush scenery and exotic milieu of Honolulu. Not for a moment did the producers allow the viewers to forget that this was time zones away from the U.S. mainland.

Each week brought trouble in paradise, usually involving murder committed by everyone from Hawaiian mobsters to Communist Chinese agents. Although the white guys were clearly in charge, “Hawaii Five-0” couldn’t help but acknowledge the state’s multi-ethnic society. The indefatigable chief detective, Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord), had the personality of an adding machine as he pursued the culprits with by-the-book efficiency. One of the show’s intriguing points was that the masterminds of mayhem sometimes slipped from his grasp.

“Five-0” boasted one of the best-edited TV openings—a quick composition of faces and places that set the pace.

Saving Banksy

“This’ll look nice when it’s framed” taunted a Banksy inscription painted on a wall. The documentary Saving Banksy is driven by art collector Brian Greif’s efforts to painstakingly remove one of Banksy’s notorious painted rats and donate it to a museum. The film touches on the deliberate impermanence of the anonymous British street artist’s works, which are usually vandalized by taggers or painted over by building owners unless dealers remove them to sell on eBay.

An Art That Nature Makes

The aesthetic descendent of those Romanticera artists drawn to painting ruins, photographer Rosamond Purcell is fascinated with the weird beauty of decay. She is shown at work, in this documentary by Molly Bernstein, scouring junkyards and the detritus of natural history museums, photographing the carefully catalogued skulls of phrenology and collecting artifacts that display the relentless power of nature and decomposition. Example: the thrown-away book transformed into a squirrel’s nest. Errol Morris is among the interviewees.

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‘Middle Child: Photographs’ Questions Binary Identity ::BY TYLER FRIEDMAN

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South Asia as Seen in Villa Terrace’s ‘Ornate/ Activate’ Exhibit ::BY KAT KNEEVERS

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umsa/Hamsa caught the corner of my eye as it slipped in and out of view through an open door. It loomed large, dark and imposing, but ethereal. When I finally got to it, nearing the end of the exhibition “Ornate/Activate” at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, I realized that the airiness of the piece came from its intricate metal, curving into patterns like lace. There was something familiar in the repeated forms, and with a closer look the patterns coalesce into hands and fingers SHEPHERD EXPRESS

and eyes: The shape of an ancient protective talisman.

It is more than that. Artist Priyanka Dasgupta, working with Chad Marshall, created this piece to reference this talisman known as the hamsa, and to reflect the architectural form of the jaali, a type of latticework that provides separation between spaces while offering seclusion and privacy. For all of its decorative qualities, it is wrought with inherent layers of implication and symbol. These same qualities run through many of the works in this exhibition.

It is something of an encore, as “Ornate/Activate” was first presented in 2015 at Shirin Gallery in New York. The exhibition was organized by the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) and is locally co-organized by Milwaukee-based artist Nirmal Raja and SAWCC Representative Monica Jahan Bose, both of whom are exhibiting artists.

The dozens of works shown highlight artistic approaches that are contemporary but clearly draw from cultural histories. The use of abstract design and patterns is especially prevalent in references to architectural forms, as well as the aesthetics of Buddhism and Islam. There is sharp irony in a number of pieces, such Asha Ganpat’s tidy letterpress prints in the Decorous Violence series. Implements for pain and fragile parts of the body are shown in neat lines and swathed by decoration. They simultaneously represent and abstract the reality of their understated narratives.

Through photographs, video installations, textiles and drawings, many of these artists explore familial and personal identity and offer observations about the world at large that open new avenues of consideration via cultural traditions.

Through May 14 at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, 2220 N. Terrace Ave. A special program including film screenings, an artist talk and performance by artist Udita Upadhyaya will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 30.

or transgender people, there is a prevailing narrative that success entails trading one binary identity for another to pass as the opposite sex,” says Alex Orellana, third-year MFA student in the UW-Madison Art Department. “Despite not wanting to transition, I have my own health reasons to take hormones, and the effects of that process led me to create this body of work. The medicine makes me increasingly androgynous, and I want to share the experience of how that affects my social interactions.”

“Middle Child: Photographs” (April 28-June 25 at the Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave., Madison, Wis.) is a series of selfportraits that finds Orellana adopting hairstyles, clothes, postures and mannerisms that read either masculine or feminine. The exhibition lends itself to timely reflections on the adequacy of gender binaries and the assumptions that are made on the basis of outer appearance.

Orellana, who was awarded the 2017 Chazen Museum Prize for Outstanding MFA Student, will give a lecture on Friday, May 5, at noon in Chazen Auditorium entitled “Gendered Physiognomies: Deconstructing Masculine and Feminine Appearances.”

Alex Orellana, Self as Self, archival inkjet print, 24 x 16 in., 2016

Woodland Indian Arts Festival Haggerty Museum of Art | 530 N. 13th St.

In conjunction with “Look How Far We’ve Come!: Jeffrey Gibson” and “Lakota Voices: Collection Highlights from The Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School,” the Marquette University Haggerty Museum of Art is hosting the Woodland Indian Arts Festival on Saturday, April 29, noon-4:30 p.m. The free, family friendly festival features three musical performances by performers from the Menominee Nation and the Lake Superior Chippewa. There will be a hands-on workshop about the symbolic use of beads in wampum belt design at 12:30 p.m. and another hands-on workshop will be offered on the Oneida tradition of telling stories through pinch pots at 3:30 p.m.

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Attention all offspring! Don’t forget that Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 14.

Eight local, independent, female artists have got your back with handmade gifts guaranteed to make mom’s day. Wares for sale include small-batch cookies and granola, super-strong, super-small magnets upcycled from everyday things and garden art crafted from vintage glass, china and silver plate. The 2nd Annual Tosa Pop Up Shop takes place on Saturday, April 29, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Little Red Store in Wauwatosa.

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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE GREAT LAKES

(W.W. NORTON), BY DAN EGAN One of the world’s natural wonders, the Great Lakes are a giant reservoir of fresh water capable of tsunami-high waves. As Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Egan relates in The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, those inland seas contain one of every five gallons of surface fresh water on Earth. The Clean Water Act (1972) stanched the industrial pollution of the lakes, yet failed to halt contamination from ocean-going ships introducing “noxious species” that are “inexorably unstitching a delicate ecological web.” Native fish stocks declined and algae proliferated. However, Egan finds positive signs, including the ability of surviving native fish to adapt to changing environments. Given the economic underperformance of the St. Lawrence Seaway linking the lakes to the Atlantic, Egan proposes closing this doorway to invasive species and tightening environmental rules—ideas that will find tough going in the current political climate. (David Luhrssen)

The Salvager: The Life of Captain Tom Reid on the Great Lakes

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BY MARY FRANCES DONER Kenosha writer Michael Schumacher has become Wisconsin’s foremost historian of the Great Lakes.

While researching November’s Fury, his account of the 1913 inland hurricane that swept across the lakes, he came upon an obscure, long out-ofprint title by Midwest author Mary Frances Doner (1893-1985)—a biography of an intrepid early 20th-century figure, a pioneer of Great Lakes’ maritime salvaging. As Schumacher readily admits in his forward to the new edition of Doner’s chronicle, “the details kept the book from becoming dull.” Doner was gifted with the talent of bringing scenes vividly to life as she describes salvager Tom Reid, working in the cold and changeable depths with primitive gear but a problem solver’s imagination. (David Luhrssen) SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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Poet Georgia Lundeen Magical Verse at Art*Bar ::BY JENNI HERRICK

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oets choose their words extremely carefully, and sometimes a minimalist approach is best. In Georgia Lundeen’s collection, spare, the vivid imagery and mystical wordplay are both powerful and understated, creating a contemporary work that is dreamy and deeply expressive.

Lundeen’s book is divided into four chapters: "birth," "feed," "sleep" and "wake." Each chapter consists of 10 poems filled with a regular rhythmic style and fairytale-like feelings, despite the author writing about heavy topics. Fear, violence and loss are all central themes in this debut collection, as the poet explores the human mind, spiritual realms and our physical universe. spare is a magical collection of verse that will fill readers’ souls and inspire their minds.

Lundeen is a young Minnesota poet whose debut collection, spare, is being published by Milwaukee’s Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. Lundeen will at the Art*Bar (722 E. Burleigh St.) from 3-5 p.m. on Saturday, April 29 for a book signing and reading.

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BOOK |PREVIEW Elizabeth Strout 11 a.m., Friday, May 5 Wisconsin Club, 900 W. Wisconsin Ave.

The Friends of Milwaukee Public Library, together with Boswell Book Co. and The Wisconsin Club, will host their annual literary luncheon on Friday, May 5. This year’s event will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge, The Burgess Boys, My Name is Lucy Barton), who will speak on her new book, Anything is Possible, a compelling story about small-town middle America, as told through the intimate lives of two sisters, a school janitor and a famous author. Register to attend at mpl.org/litlunch.

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::UPCOMINGEVENTS April 27: Pridefest Performer Showcase & Fundraiser at Riviera Maya (2258 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.): Do you enjoy the Womnz Spot Lounge and Café at Pridefest? Then, help make it a reality once again in 2017 with a donation. Swing by this 6 to 9 p.m. show and enjoy a sneak peek from some of this year’s performers as well as complimentary appetizers, discounted margaritas and more!

April 27: ‘Magic Men Live’ at the Riverside Theater (116 W. Wisconsin Ave.): Take it off! Take it off! One of the country’s hottest male strip reviews shimmies into Brew City with this one-night show. Striking, sexy and even a little silly, this adults-only sausage party is sure to liven up your week. The doors open at 7 p.m. for the 8 p.m. show, with tickets ranging in price from $20 to $50. See pabsttheater.org for more.

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Paint the Town Red… Or Your Toe Nails Dear Ruthie,

I married my best friend right after same-sex marriage became legal in Wisconsin. It’s now been a few years and things were going great until my husband started painting his toenails. He’s been painting them a really bright red for about five months now. He said that it made him happy, particularly in the cold fall and winter months.

Now that summer is around the corner, he says he has no plans on stopping as he really likes how the nail polish makes his feet look. It’s sort of freaking me out. In fact, I hate it. It’s gross and weird and a turnoff. I told him so, but he says he’s going to keep it up; sandal season or not.

What should I do?

Thanks, Seeing Red

Dear Little Red,

Can’t get past your hubby’s tootsies, huh? Well, get over it! It’s not like he’s got three extra toes, horse hooves or seven-inch nails. Give it a break and let him do as he pleases. After all, you already told him how you feel, and I’m guessing you’ve got some grooming habits he’s not too fond of himself. Who knows? He might even tire of the red-hot foot fashion and eventually call it quits himself. In the meantime, make light of it all, show him you love him and paint your own toenails for a few laughs you guys can share!

April 29: Beard & Moustache Competition at Uptowner (1032 E. Center St.): From Freestyle Facial and Partial Beard to Whiskerina and Best Mustache, there’s a category for every facial-hair fan at this fifth annual contest. Participation is free (as is spectating) and the prizes are plentiful, but arrive by 2 p.m. to register for the 4 p.m. competition.

April 29: We Love the Gayties Party at Woof’s (114 King St., Madison): Can’t get enough of the ’80s? Grab your best neon T-shirt, fingerless gloves and parachute pants and head to Madison for the ultimate ’80s bash. DJXX-Xander plays your favorite pop music and videos from the decade from 4 p.m. to bar close.

April 29: Mark Doty: Community & Connection at Park East Hotel (916 E. State St.): Join the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center and the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets as they welcome one of the country’s most-acclaimed writers to Cream City. Poet Mark Doty offers this special reading at 7 p.m. There is a $10 door charge; $5 for students.

April 30: Bubbles & Beauties at Karma (600 E. Ogden): Join me in the Sutra Lounge for this 6 p.m. drag show. Local favorite Nova D’Vine hosts a bevy of beauties (and me) during the glitzy revue that’s sure to end your weekend on a glamorous note. Enjoy discounts on appetizers, shots and champagne buckets starting at 5 p.m.

April 30: Bombshells Take Over Tonic at The Tonic Tavern (2335 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.): In the mood for a little tassel twirling? Join the Brew City Bombshells for a Sunday night you’ll never forget! The nocover show puts the city’s best burlesque on display at 9:30 p.m.

May 2: Testing Tuesday at This Is It (418 E. Wells St.): Take control of your health by getting tested for HIV and STDs. Free rapid-results tests are being performed from 9-11 p.m. at this Cathedral Square hot spot. You’ll also find free safe-sex kits, info on PEP and PrEP and more.

Call 414-897-5645 for information.

Want to share an event with Ruthie? Need her advice on a situation?

Email DearRuthie@Shepex.com. Be sure to follow her Facebook (Ruthie Keester) and Twitter (@DearRuthie).

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How Not to Empower Hatred

OUTING AND SHAMING ON SOCIAL MEDIA (AND ELSEWHERE) ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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few weeks ago I was at a friend’s watching that popular reality show, “Survivor.” The premise is that typical template of challenges, alliances, Shakespearean intrigue, strategic maneuvering and votes to evict competitors. The incentive is to slog through it all for the $1 million prize. Now in its 34th season (two runs per year), the show maintains high audience numbers by its careful casting of diverse personalities. There’s someone for every viewer’s vicarious thrill and LGBT players have been featured since the game’s launch. A gay guy won the first season.

So, as we watched the episode draw to a close with the “tribal council” to remove an unlucky player, Jeff, a gay contestant (one of three), in a desperate strategy to survive, outed his trans competitor, Zeke. By revealing Zeke’s “secret” Jeff hoped to prove his rival was untrustworthy and thus save himself. It backfired. He was immediately and unanimously evicted.

For the viewing audience of more than 7 million, the lesson learned had multiple levels.

Trans-acceptance, of course, was one but there was also the simple understanding that a trans-

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person may or not be recognizable and, ultimately, it doesn’t matter anyway. Most viewers no doubt found themselves sympathizing with the betrayed trans guy.

Meanwhile, back in Cream City, there was another outing of sorts, a public shaming. It seems a would-be suitor propositioned a wellknown community personality on a popular dating website and was rebuffed. One might think the rejected guy would simply move on.

But no, in fury befitting a woman scorned, the man, who is white, launched a barrage of racial slurs and insults against his object of failed affection, a mixed white and Latino guy. At one point the white guy writes, “we don’t do ethnic in west bend (sic). We are building a wall for a reason. Go home.” Our victim responded with a disarming, “I am home,” explaining he was born at Saint Francis Hospital to a white woman and, besides, Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. Still, the other guy persisted, saying Puerto Rico should be “radiated” (as in with a nuclear bomb) and, after more name calling including the gay slur f-word, ranted “hope your (sic) the next murder posted on here.”

Our undaunted friend then posted a screen shot of the entire conversation on social media.

Like body or slut shaming, we debate the efficacy of such public defamation. However, unlike outing for some nefarious purpose, here one can easily argue a moral imperative. The ugliness this individual decided to unnecessarily unleash reveals our fatal flaw.

Armchair psychology might call it gay selfloathing. But, there’s more to it. The instigating rebuff not only insulted the white guy’s masculinity but, even more so, his privileged racial dominance, the latter a last bastion of the white working class. His outburst restated all the familiar paranoid catchphrases of fear-based racism. It is, at least in part, the rationale for LGBTs voting against their own interests in the last election. Today, whether a result of our country’s newly empowered hate or of the insecure belief that belittling others makes us superior, we have a problem. Calling it out is not only a prerogative of the offended but an obligation.

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Guerilla Ghost Goes For the Jugular Guerilla Ghost Goes For the Jugular Guerilla Ghost Goes For the Jugular Guerilla Ghost Goes For the Jugular

Guerilla Ghost Go For the Jugular ere’s the origins of Guerilla Ghost in a nutshell: Two hardcore kids, a black rapper named Bad Graphics Ghost (aka Chuck Jones) and a white producer named Tron Jovi (aka Martin Defatte), meet for the first time, hit it off instantly and form a group with the goal of making antagonistic hip-hop. If that sounds a bit like Run the Jewels, there’s a funny story about that.

The Milwaukee duo’s debut single, the politically charged “Make AmeriKKKa Great Again,” started as a solo venture for Jones. “The original version I recorded for my solo material, but it was actually over a Run the Jewels beat,” he explains. “We took the better instrumental parts of the song—kind of kept my cadence, my rhythm and BPM the same—and Martin constructed a beat over his lunch hour. The following day, he came over and we laid the entire song down.”

The duo’s ability to work quickly together comes from a friendship and partnership that was forged immediately upon a series of events that resemble kismet. The duo first crossed paths when Jones’s old band, Importer/Exporter, opened for Defatte’s band, Volunteer. Defatte and Jones exchanged pleasantries after the show, but nothing really came of it.

Then, last summer, Defatte got back into producing when Volunteer was on hiatus.

“I really wanted to do hip-hop again,” recalls Defatte. “I produced a lot when I lived in Racine, but I didn’t have any local support at the time.”

Their paths crossed again during the Beet Street Harvest Festival last October.

Volunteer had a booth at the event, and when Jones came over to buy a T-shirt for his birthday, they exchanged contact information. “I reached out and sent him my

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demos,” says Defatte. “Maybe a week later he came over, and we recorded our first song.” They clicked right away as a duo. “After that one night, I knew we vibed as personalities, like playing off of one another,” Defatte says. Jones agrees. “It’s kind of cliché, but we’re almost to the point where we’re completing each other’s sentences,” he points out. “It’s really weird.”

Weird or not, that efficiency has allowed Guerilla Ghost to write, record and release two singles and a six-song EP in just a few months. The pair of singles, the aforementioned “Make AmeriKKKa Great Again” and “Tomi Lahren Better Shut Her Mouth…,” have an obvious political bent to them, but the EP isn’t so overtly political. Instead, Jones came at this project from somewhat of an extreme perspective.

“The basic idea was, if this was the last recording I ever did as a musician, what would I leave the world?”

As it turns out, what he’d leave is a work called Suicide Notes of the 21st Century.

Featuring grating, Death Grips-esque audio terrorism courtesy of Defatte, the EP finds Jones at his most unfiltered. “It was no holds barred for me,” he says of the material. “There’s no tip-toeing or pussy-footing around here.”

While politics is mentioned in Suicide Notes, it isn’t simply a political manifesto from two working-class guys. “I guess we’re probably giving people a false impression with the first two singles,” concedes Jones. That doesn’t mean, though, that Guerilla Ghost wouldn’t explore politics more directly in the future. “We’ll probably get back to that—you know, fuck with politics a bit,” says Defatte. “Everybody is so angry; we’re angry.” Jones then jumps in: “We just did a cover of ‘Sound of Da Police’

by KRS-One, so we’re still in that vein.”

Defatte concurs, having grown up on hardcore punk. “Honestly, I draw a lot of influence from independent, DIY music,” he states. “Hearing Dead Kennedys’ Bedtime for Democracy, if you listen to those lyrics, that’s one of the most fucked up political things you could hear when you’re like 13.”

Guerilla Ghost’s Suicide Notes of the 21st Century is streaming at guerrillaghost. bandcamp.com.

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Direct Hit! w/ The Living Statues and Midwives APRIL 22, 2017

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n the more idealistic end of punk rock, all-ages shows are something of a central concept. After all, when it comes to spreading the DIY gospel, what more receptive audience could there be than our nation’s disaffected youth? Unfortunately for anyone who might want to put one on, however, they’re also an enormous pain in the ass, thanks to a morass of regulations and economic issues that are far too complicated to get into here.

But suffice it so say that our musically inclined youth mostly end up shut out of anything interesting; sure, a teenager can go to any theater in the city and see a mid-to-big-name band, but when it comes to anything independent or underground, they’re more or less out of luck, except on rare occasions like this one.

If there was a peculiar air about the Cactus Club upon arriving for this particular bill, it was more than just the bright afternoon sunshine streaming through the windows. Without any bottles, tap handles or signage behind the bar, the space felt strangely empty and sterile, as if prohibition had just passed. Thankfully for the show’s thirstier patrons though, this is Milwaukee, where you’re never more than a stone’s throw from a certified purveyor of the high life, but obviously most people were there for the music, which began with Midwives. A blistering local outfit with a freeroaming frontman and a welcome metallic edge, the band initially had few people to play to, but they soon began to trickle in rather quickly, and the abrasive, quasi-confrontational sound worked all the better for it.

The crowd that gradually filled the club’s back room was a fascinating mix. About half of them, at times more, seemed like they’d be in danger of being carded on any ordinary night, while the remainder were old enough to be their parents, and in some cases that’s exactly what they were (shout out to the dad dispensing ear plugs to his sizable flock of small children). Whatever the demographics, though, people generally seemed to dig The Living Statues, who sport an accessibly retro sound that borrows a few licks from the golden age of garage rock, adds a dose of power pop and then rounds out any rough edges with a marketable modern rock sheen. The results are on the slick side, but generally the songwriting was there to back it up.

The headliners, Direct Hit!, with another 21-and-up performance yet ahead of them, already had a busy schedule, considering they were also in the spotlight for being the featured artists of WMSE’s annual Record Store Day release, which had lined the shelves, on the most profitable day of the year, only hours before. Regardless, they still had plenty of energy, as befitting any pop-punk group. In addition to big hooks and big choruses, the band was aided for the first few songs by a small horn section, which mercifully strayed away from any thirdwave ska sounds, instead adding an oddly Springsteen-esque punch to the proceedings. After the horn section departed, the tunes were no less anthemic, much to the delight of the passionate, T-shirt sporting teenage fans that finally got another chance to see them.

Singer Jerry Grillo Looks Back on 25 Years in Jazz ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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erry Grillo’s dream of becoming a jazz singer was long deferred. He played in high school and college musicals, did a few shows after moving to Milwaukee in the late ’60s and sang in pop cover bands through the ’70s. None of it was exactly what he wanted to do. After a while, Grillo abandoned music and focused on teaching at John Marshall High School. However, in the last years before retiring from MPS, Grillo finally reinvented himself in his spare time as a serious jazz vocalist.

Next week Grillo marks the 25th anniversary of his debut album, This Funny World, with a performance and a remastered reissue of the recording.

Grillo cites vocalist Jackie Allen for inspiring him to realize the dream after hearing her sing at the Wyndham Hotel. “I was blown away by her—nobody was doing what she was doing here,” he says. “I knew I had to go to her.” And he did, signing up for her voice lessons at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. She became his mentor and encouraged him to record This Funny World. “She hooked me up with the musicians and the recording studio. She gave me one of her songs.”

Allen’s “I Chase the Sun” is the lone number on This Funny World not drawn from the Great American Songbook. Singing in low-key almost conversational tones, Grillo focused on interpreting the songs of Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and other writers from the pre-rock era.

“I had heard these songs by other artists,” he says, speaking about the choice of material. “Jackie taught me how to construct a set in a night club and I followed suit on the album by varying the tempo— not too many ballads. I love ballads but they can bring the energy level down.”

Most of Grillo’s reference points came from female, not male, jazz singers. “Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan,” he ticks off the names. “Tony Bennett is the male singer who is closest to evoking that lyrical sensibility—interpreting the songs on an emotional and a Jerry musical level.”

In the quarter century since This Funny World, Grillo Grillo released eight other recordings including colTuesday, laborations with the Lynne Arriale Trio and the Nick May 2, Contorno Orchestra and with such esteemed local 7:30 p.m. instrumentalists as Kirk Tatnall and Barry Velleman. For Transfer his 25th anniversary showcase at Transfer Pizzeria, one Pizzeria of his consistent performance venues for the past decade, Grillo will perform with keyboardist Neal Charles, guitarist Bill Martin and drummer Omar. He hopes Transfer’s owner Russell Rossetto will sit in on trombone along with other guest players. Grillo promises “a complimentary champagne toast, and everyone will receive a copy of the album.”

Several people involved in the original release of This Funny World have gone on to success. Allen was signed to Blue Note records and is now on the music faculty at Doane College in Nebraska. The Milwaukee artist responsible for the cover’s funky drawings, Chrisanne Robertson, has been exhibited in galleries and has received commissions for her work.

“Bringing out the lyrical content is what I like to do,” Grillo says. “I’ve always loved the romantic emotion of the Great American Songbook.”

Jerry Grill performs 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 2 at Transfer Pizzeria, 101 W. Mitchell St.

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This irritant achieved commercial saturation with the 2015 Justin Bieber single “Sorry,” and it heightened the sense that Bieber wasn’t sincerely apologizing. Now, it ejaculates across “HEAT,” the opening track of the first Thrillers album, Break Free, as if it’s a would-be Casanova who’s gotten all his guidance from video porn.

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Pearson and Pearson’s vocals are the most noticeably human elements, usually because, in the slow moan of loneliness on “Lipstick on the Mirror” or the modernityshellacked R&B classicism of “Strangers,” their lack of harmonic perfection grants something real to clichéd words about love and sex.

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MONDAY, MAY 1 Cactus Club, Serengeti & Ceschi w/Chisme, Safari Al, and Randal Bravery Colectivo Coffee On Prospect, MilMag Live!

Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Noodle Jam (6pm) Jazz Estate, Jazz Estate Jam Session w/Mitch Shiner Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Ed Westein (7:30-10:30pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John Shank Hall, Sam Outlaw w/Michaela Anne Up & Under Pub, Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers Open Mic

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TERM OF ENDEARMENT

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PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Kaidoku”

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

At The Zoo Solution: 23 Letters

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Extinct Feed Frog Geese Giraffe Gorilla Hippo Horse Hyena Impala Koala Leopard Lion

Orangutan Otter Parrot Peacock Rabbit Reptile Rhinoceros Rodent Snake Specialist Tiger Water Weasel

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): I have misgivings when I witness bears riding bicycles or tigers dancing on their hind legs or Aries people wielding diplomatic phrases and making careful compromises at committee meetings. While I am impressed by the disciplined expression of primal power, I worry for the soul of the creature that is behaving with such civilized restraint. So here’s my advice for you in the coming weeks: Take advantage of opportunities to make deals and forge win-win situations. But also keep a part of your fiery heart untamed. Don’t let people think they’ve got you all figured out.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “One of the advantages of being disorderly,” said author A. A. Milne, “is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” I wouldn’t normally offer this idea as advice to a methodical dynamo like you, but my interpretation of the astrological omens compels me to override my personal theories about what you need. I must suggest that you consider experimenting with jaunty, rambunctious behavior in the coming days, even if it generates some disorder. The potential reward? Exciting discoveries, of course.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to my reading of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to take a break from the magic you have been weaving since your birthday in 2016.

That’s why I’m suggesting that you go on a brief sabbatical. Allow your deep mind to fully integrate the lessons you’ve been learning and the transformations you have undergone over the past 11 months.

In a few weeks, you’ll be ready to resume where you left off. For now, though, you require breathing room.

Your spiritual batteries need time to recharge. The hard work you’ve done should be balanced by an extended regimen of relaxed playtime.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Apparently, a lot of kids in the UK don’t like to eat vegetables. In response, food researchers in that country marketed a variety of exotic variations designed to appeal to their palate. The new dishes included chocolate-flavored carrots, pizza-flavored corn and cheese-and-onion-flavored cauliflower. I don’t recommend that you get quite so extreme in trying to broaden your own appeal, Cancerian, but see if you can at least reach out to your potential constituency with a new wrinkle or fresh twist. Be imaginative as you expand the range of what your colleagues and clientele have to choose from.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In speaking about the arduous quest to become one’s authentic self, writer Thomas Merton used the example of poets who aspire to be original, but end up being imitative. “Many poets … never succeed in being themselves,” he said. “They never get around to being the particular poet they are intended to be

by God. They never become the person or artist who is called for by all of the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet. They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else’s experiences or write somebody else’s poems.” I happen to believe that this is a problem for non-poets, as well. Many of us never succeed in becoming ourselves. Luckily for you, Leo, in the coming weeks and months you will have an unprecedented chance to become more of who you really are. To expedite the process, work on dissolving any attraction you might have to acting like someone other than yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): On numerous occasions, French acrobat Charles Blondin walked across a tightrope that spanned the gorge near Niagara Falls. His cable was three and a quarter inches in diameter, 1,100 feet long, and 160 feet above the Niagara River. Once, he made the entire crossing by doing back flips and somersaults.

Another time, he carried a small stove on his back, stopped midway to cook an omelet, and ate the meal before finishing. Now would be an excellent time for you to carry out your personal equivalent of his feats, Virgo. What daring actions have you never tried before even though you’ve been sufficiently trained or educated to perform them well?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Ready for some subterranean journeys? They may not involve literal explorations of deep caverns

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and ancient tunnels and underground streams. You may not stumble upon lost treasure and forgotten artifacts and valuable ruins. But then again, you might.

At the very least, you will encounter metaphorical versions of some of the above. What mysteries would you love to solve? What secrets would be fun to uncover? What shadows would you be excited to illuminate?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Why would you guzzle mind-clouding moonshine when you will eventually get a chance to sip a heart-reviving tonic? Why spoil your appetite by loading up on non-nutritious hors d’oeuvres when a healthy feast will be available sooner than you imagine? I advise you to suppress your compulsion for immediate gratification. It may seem impossible for you to summon such heroic patience, but I know you can.

And in the long run, you’ll be happy if you do.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “You’ll always be my favorite what if.” Many years ago, I heard that phrase whispered in my ear. It came from the mouth of a wonderful-but-impossible woman. We had just decided that it was not a good plan, as we had previously fantasized, to run away and get married at Angkor Wat in Cambodia and then spend the next decade being tour guides who led travelers on exotic getaways to the world’s sacred sites. “You’ll always be my favorite what if” was a poignant but liberating moment. It allowed us to move on with our lives and pursue other dreams that were more realistic and productive. I invite you to consider triggering a liberation like that sometime soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’d love to see you increase the number of people, places and experiences you love, as well as the wise intensity with which you love them. From an astrological perspective, now is an excellent time to upgrade your appreciation and adoration for the whole world and everything in it. To get you in the mood, I’ll call your attention to some unfamiliar forms of ardor you may want to pursue: ceraunophilia, an attraction to thunder and lightning; cymophilia, a fascination with waves and waviness; chorophilia, a passion for dancing; asymmetrophilia, a zeal for asymmetrical things; sapiophilia, an erotic enchantment with intelligence.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You could go online and buy an antique Gothic throne or a psychedelic hippie couch to spruce up your living room. For your bathroom, you could get a Japanese “wonder toilet,” complete with a heated seat, automated bidet and white noise generator.

Here’s another good idea: You could build a sacred crazy altar in your bedroom where you will conduct rituals of playful liberation. Or how about this? Acquire a kit that enables you to create spontaneous poetry on your refrigerator door using tiny magnets with evocative words written on them. Can you think of other ideas to revitalize your home environment?

It’s high time you did so.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Among America’s 50 states, Texas has the thirdhighest rate of teenage pregnancies. Uncoincidentally, sex education in Texas is steeped in ignorance. Most of its high schools offer no teaching about contraception other than to advise students to avoid sex. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you can’t afford to be as deprived of the truth as those kids. Even more than usual, you need accurate information that’s tailored to your precise needs, not fake news or ideological delusions or self-serving propaganda.

Make sure you gather insight and wisdom from the very best sources. That’s how you’ll avoid behavior that’s irrelevant to your life goals. That’s how you’ll attract experiences that serve your highest good.

Homework: What’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever done? Testify! Go to realastrology.com and click on “Email Rob.” 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.

NEWS OF THE WEIRD

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obotic models of living organisms are useful to scientists, who can study the effects of stimuli without risk to actual people. Northwestern University researchers announced in March that its “EVATAR” (laboratory model of the “female reproductive system”) has reached a milestone: its first menstrual period. The “ovary,” using mouse tissue, had produced hormones that stimulated the system (uterus, cervix, vagina, fallopian tubes, liver) for 28 days, reaching the predictable result. Chief researcher Teresa Woodruff said she imagines eventually growing a model from tissue provided by the patient undergoing treatment.

RECURRING THEMES (AND UPDATES ON PREVIOUS CHARACTERS)

Epic Smugglers: In February, federal customs agents seized 22 pounds of illegal animal meat (in a wide array) at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Among the tasty items were raw chicken, pig and cow meat, brains, hearts, heads, tongues and feet—in addition to (wrote a reporter) “other body parts” (if there even are any other edible parts). In a typical day nationwide, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seizes about 4,600 smuggled plant or animal products.

Over the years, News of the Weird has covered the long-standing campaign by animal-rights activists to bestow “human” rights upon animals (begun, of course, with intelligent orangutans and gorillas). In March, the New Zealand parliament gave human rights to a river—the Whanganui, long revered by the country’s indigenous Māori. (One Māori and one civil servant were appointed as the river’s representatives.) Within a week, activists in India, scouring court rulings, found two of that country’s waterways deserved similar status—the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, which were then so designated by judges in Uttarakhand state. (The Ganges’ “rights” seem hollow since an estimated one billion gallons of waste still enters it every day despite its being a holy bathing spot for Hindus.)

Ewwww! Luu Cong Huyen, 58, in Yen Giao, Vietnam, is the most recent to attract reporters’ attention with disturbingly long fingernails. A March odditycentral.com report, with cringe-inducing photos, failed to disclose their precise length, but Huyen said he has not clipped them since a 2013 report on VietnamNet revealed that each measured up to 19.7 inches.

Huyen explained (inadequately) that his nail obsession started merely as a hobby and that he is not yet over it. (The Guinness Book record is not exactly within fingertip reach: 73.5 inches per nail, by Shridhar Chillal of India.)

UPDATES

For more than a decade, an “editor” has been roaming the streets at night in Bristol, England, “correcting” violations of standard grammar, lately being described as “The Apostrophiser” since much of his work involves adjusting (or often obliterating) that punctuation mark. On April 3, the BBC at last portrayed the vigilante in action, in a “ride-along” documentary that featured him using the special marking and climbing tools that facilitate his work. His first mission, in 2003, involved a government sign “Monday’s to Friday’s” (“ridiculous,” he said), and he recalled an even more cloying store sign—“Amys Nail’s”—as “so loud and in your face.”)

New York City health officials have convinced most ultra-Orthodox Jewish “mohels” to perform their ritual circumcisions with sterile tools and gauze, but still, according to a March New York Post report, a few holdouts insist on the old-fashioned way of removing the blood from an incision—by sucking it up with their mouths (and thus potentially passing along herpes). Some local temples are so protective of their customs that they refuse to name the “offending” mohels (who are not licensed medical professionals), thus limiting parents’ ability to choose safe practitioners. © 2016 CHUCK SHEPHERD

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? Listen, as the poet from out of St. Louis, Eliot what’s-his-name, once said, “April is the cruellest month.” To which I say: No shit, Sherlock. Best for me is to lay low and ride out the rest of the month; so I called the office and told them I wouldn’t be coming in to whip out an essay this week ’cause the voices told me to stay home and clean my guns instead. Take your time and then some, they said.

Since I don’t have any guns, I figured my day was clear. The focking voices then told me to head over by my favorite open-daily 23-hours and 59-minutes restaurant for a relaxing breakfast ala caffeine du jour, seeing as how it’s a tad early for a nice cocktail over by the Uptowner tavern cum charm school. Come along if you want but you leave the tip. Let’s get going.

Bea: Hey there, Artie, nice to see you. What’s your pleasure?

Art: How ’bout a nice cup of the blackest, thickest and cheapest cup of whatever you’re calling plain-old American coffee today. Coffee with a gravitational force of its own, thank you kindly.

Bea: One cup of “Black Hole” coming right up, Artie. So what do you hear, what do you know.

Art: I hear there’s a lot of dough in the private prison racket these days. They could make a movie—Field of Cons. A guy clears his backyard, puts up Century

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fence all ’round it, gets a Doberman and all of a sudden Al Capone comes waltzing out the unattached garage and says to the guy, “Build a prison and they will come, capisce?”

Bea: Lordy, I almost forgot. Here. I got you a card—for Earth Day. It’s belated, ’cause I haven’t seen you for a while.

Art: Jeez louise, since when are you supposed to exchange cards for Earth Day? I tell you, Bea, the greeting card industry has got to be stopped before it’s too late. What’s their industry slogan again— “Deforestation is just another way of saying ‘Thinking of You’”?

Bea: I’m told not one single twig went into the making of this card and envelope, Artie. It’s composed of some kind of all-natural multi-purpose recyclable high-tech product. They also make a brand of walking shoes from the same material.

Art: Oh yeah, I bought a pair of those babies once.

Walking home from the store was a religious experience. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. They recycled themselves back to Mother Earth before I even got halfway home.

Bea: You do believe in the value of recycling, don’t you Artie?

Art: Are you kidding, Bea? Cripes, as a would-be essayist, that’s the bread and butter of my beeswax.

So who exactly told you this card is made of some allnatural high-tech schmutz?

Bea: The people at the Earth Day convention I went to the other week.

Art: I went to one of those once years ago. Some of those people need to do more research for their literature, like this pamphlet I got called “Facts You Should Know About Wildlife.” It had this fact and that fact, but they forgot the most important fact.

Bea: Which fact is that, Artie?

Art: “Best served at 350-400 degrees for 45 minutes to an hour or until tender.” No Bea, I can’t celebrate any Earth Day until it becomes an official bona fide holiday, one where you get a paid day off from work so’s you can go visit relatives and drink their beer all day.

Bea: Aren’t you going to open the card, Artie?

Art: Abso-focking-lutely, Bea. Let’s see here…

Good lord! Look at this cover.

Bea: It’s a bonobo chimpanzee.

Art: And is this chimp doing what I think he’s doing to the guy wearing the lab coat around his ankles and bent over the examining table?

Bea: Seems to be, Artie.

Art: Serves him right. Monkeys and chimps aren’t meant to be stuck full of electrodes and needles in a laboratory somewheres. They’re meant to wear bellboy outfits and roller skates at the circus

so’s to entertain the Homo sapien. Bea, read the note inside you wrote, would you? I recently lost my reading glasses during the twists and turns of a bar bet.

Bea: “Dear Artie, don’t forget to cultivate your garden in this, the best of all possible worlds.

Signed, Bea.” Art: The best of all possible worlds? Now I’m really depressed. But let me be candid, Bea—without you in it, this world would sure be a lot worse, I kid you not. But I got to run, so thanks for the coffee and for letting me bend your ear there, Bea—utiful.

See you next time.

Bea: My pleasure, Artie. Always nice getting talked at by you. Take care.

(Okey-dokey, off to the Uptowner. If I see you there, then you buy me one ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.)

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