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::NEWS&VIEWS FEATURES | POLLS | TAKING LIBERTIES | ISSUE OF THE WEEK

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Christopher De’Bose, age 17

What Do MPS Students Want? ::BY NYESHA STONE

Politicians and pundits are in the business of proposing and commenting on public education in Milwaukee. Rather than go to them, we asked UW-Milwaukee journalism major Nyesha Stone, a recent graduate of Rufus King International School, to find out what Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) students are thinking. She surveyed some students who are currently enrolled in MPS for their thoughts on the schools they attend and the value of education. e all know the saying “more money, more problems,” but is this always true? It can’t be, because there are thousands of students who could benefit from some more cash—not in their pockets, but in their school systems. The point was made at a recent town hall meeting about Wisconsin’s education budget with State Rep. David Bowen (D-Milwaukee): Milwaukee Public Schools needs more money.

Every Wisconsin school district has a maximum amount (revenue limit) they can spend on each student. During the meeting, attendees were shown data that breaks down how much each school district can spend on their students. MPS’ limit is $10,261 per student while Whitefish Bay can spend $11,248; Brown Deer $11,626; and Fox Point $13,577. The state decides how much school districts can spend based mainly on the value of that district’s property taxes. By doing this, certain students are receiving a lot less because of where their school sits. But it doesn’t just stop there.

Ninety percent of Wisconsin’s African Americans live within six counties. Within those six counties, students in largely black school districts have lower spending limits than students in predominately white districts. Are these African American students deemed less worthy? Are children from the inner city receiving less of an education, even if they are doing as well or even better than suburban students?

To see how this funding disparity affects the inner city, students from the Lynde & Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School shared their thoughts on MPS as well as Wisconsin’s school system overall.

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His position is small forward; he’s the basketball team captain and was mentioned in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

De’Bose is making a name for himself in a positive way, but because he goes to Bradley Tech he can be categorized as a “bad” student because of his school’s bad reputation.

“We can’t expunge our history; all we can do is keep going forward,” De’Bose said.

He believes if Milwaukee created more technical schools, it would benefit not only the students, but the entire city. Many contractors look for workers at Bradley Tech because their students are learning a trade. Technical schools are conduits to the workforce.

De’Bose loves his school, but he does wish he could change and add a few things to the MPS system. A big brother/sister program would make a student’s life easier since not everyone has someone at home they can depend on, said De’Bose.

“We need someone to be there for us,” De’Bose said.

He would also like to bring the schools together for a community service session to bond with each other instead of rivaling. Just like the suburban schools, De’Bose wants more training and preparation before taking the ACT. They’re only given about 45 minutes of practice, and then the students are left on their own to study.

Despite the things MPS may be lacking, De’Bose beat the system. He has a full-ride scholarship to Bryant & Stratton College where they’ll also be paying for his shoulder surgery.

Once he’s healed, he’ll be playing on their basketball team.

He wants to go to school to become a medical assistant.

De’Bose has received the Student of the Month Award so many times, he’s no longer eligible to win. It’s his goal to give Bradley Tech a new reputation. “I want to get us known,” De’Bose said, “known as something instead of nothing.”

Nola-Simone Blockton, age 17

She has her hands in everything since she “doesn’t like being bored.” Blockton rarely has time to herself because she’s working hard to go places her mother never went.

She’s in the National Honor Society and works with multiple organizations—Pathways Milwaukee, Young Entrepreneur Scholars, Sister Pride, College Corners, and the list continues.

Blockton spent three years in private school, and she can proudly say, “MPS is better,” because she’s able to be more involved with her community. It may have been a better fit for Blockton, but she does see the differences between MPS and the previous schools she’s attended.

If it were possible, Blockton would have MPS purchase newer textbooks to keep up with the richer districts. “Stop dummying down the school system,” she said.

When Blockton entered MPS, she was already ahead of most of her classmates. In private school, the middle schoolers are learning algebra 2, which isn’t taught to MPS students until high school. As she spent more time in MPS, she thought to herself, “This is stuff I have been learning.”

MPS doesn’t take its time making sure each and every student understands the curriculum before moving them on to the next grade, said Blockton. She would like MPS to stop the process of just passing people because it only harms the student.

By the time such students reach high school, they’re behind, and to be further behind students who are already behind compared to other districts is only creating a wider education gap.

“Because of how the system is, we’re always going to have a disadvantage,” she said.

School is Blockton’s biggest motivator, but how can something that isn’t fully benefiting her motivate her? Because she

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knows if she just gives up, she’ll end up as a statistic. Blockton doesn’t want much from MPS— just the same resources other Wisconsin school districts receive. As she puts it, she’s producing quality work and staying on top everything, so why is she receiving less?

Jary Barnette, age 17

Through a program at his school, Barnette was able to watch a plaza being built from the ground up. He has more knowledge of how to build things than most youth his age.

His advice for MPS: “For every five students, hire a tutor.” He says this because students tend to get the work and just do it—even if they’re not sure if they’re doing it correctly. They need guidance.

Barnette is a part of a generation where technology is becoming more important by the day.

To “stay caught up with the world,” Barnette suggest MPS loan its students software because not everyone can afford to buy their own.

He believes inner city kids don’t pay attention to nature enough, and he wants to change this, and he believes it starts with the school system.

He would like for farming classes to be introduced into the curriculum along with other life skills, such as how to do taxes.

He calls himself a “creative person,” so no wonder he wants a variety of classes. Thankfully, his school has provided him with that option, even if it’s not to the extent he wants. Barnette has taken classes in engineering, Photoshop and web design class, and he’s ready to learn more.

Barnette likes to spend his time helping others, whether putting together a school dance or helping a student study—he does it all.

He doesn’t just blame the school system for inner city students’ troubles in education. “It starts at home,” Barnette said. “It’s up to parents to teach at home … studying needs to continue at home.”

Barnette compares being an MPS student to being an ant. Students are forced to be workers, yet they don’t always benefit from their work.

To combat this, students should be taught how to promote themselves, he said. Students should start thinking of themselves as businesses, but first they need to learn how to run one.

Aside from his school, Barnette is a patient care assistant at United Health Care. He’s a helper all around, and he’s hoping someone will help MPS one day.

Shawn Bierstedt, age 16

He’s the youngest of the bunch and the quietest, but he has an opinion, too. When Bierstedt first heard of his school, there was one thing he kept hearing: There are fights every day, but he says this isn’t a true statement.

“It’s way different than what people say,” Bierstedt said. “Yeah, you get fights … one or two every three months.”

He started off high school wanting to be a biotech, but after taking a bunch of classes he

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decided to go another route. Bierstedt took a trip to see the Bucks Arena being built, and after that he knew what he wanted to do with his life—become an engineer.

Bierstedt has been a part of Marquette’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)—Upward Bound (UB) for a year. This is a program for low-income, first-generation students; Marquette helps prepare these students for college, so they’re able to complete college efficiently.

He likes attending his high school because the students “are technically working.” They’re taught a trade, and use that trade throughout their school year. By the time Bradley Tech students graduate, they’ll be able to find a good paying job with their newly learned trade.

Bierstedt doesn’t like how the media focuses on the color of a child’s skin, instead of worrying about the education that child is receiving.

He feels MPS gets a bad name because of the race of the students who attend MPS. He says he wants an equal education system because all children deserve to have a good education, no matter where they come from.

He’s sick of tests that do nothing for him— WKCE, Wisconsin Forward Exam and more.

He doesn’t understand why he must take a test to prove his intelligence. He gets an A in the class and can answer the teacher’s questions, but when it comes to a test he freezes up. He gets anxiety, and why should those who are already doing well in a class be forced to prove themselves even more?

He wants to learn about everyday topics such as laws, stocks and investments. He doesn’t think it’s fair MPS students are only taught math, reading and the basics, while richer school districts have it all.

What Does This All Mean?

These four students are only a small number of MPS students who are excelling and beating the odds. They have issues at home, and within their school system, but they keep going. MPS students aren’t asking for much—they’re asking to be treated as equals and not criminals. Every day, those four students must walk through security scanners. Do suburban students do this, too? The answer is no, because when there’s a high percentage of people of color, specifically African Americans, many people immediately assume there’s going to be trouble.

These students aren’t troublemakers or criminals, they’re just children who want a better education. They have a lot of odds they must face just because of where they come from, and education shouldn’t be another barrier for them.

They need an escape from the real world they live in, and that’s what education is supposed to provide them.

If this was your child, wouldn’t you want them to have better, too?

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Milwaukee Responds to the Opioid Epidemic

With rising death rates, physicians and clinics struggle to keep up ::BY AMY STONE

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wish I could sleep longer but if I don’t get there by 5, a bunch of people will line up ahead of me and I won’t get out of the place for more than an hour,” says Tom Skidmore as he wraps a hooded sweatshirt around his lean torso and dashes out the door. It’s 4:30 a.m. and Skidmore is heading to the River Shore Comprehensive Treatment Center.

Located in a small Riverwest industrial park, River Shore is one of three state-certified facilities within Milwaukee County that treats people addicted to heroin and other opioids.

At the center, Skidmore (not his real name) will touch base with his counselor and receive a dose plus a two-week take-home supply of methadone.

Methadone is one of several medicationassisted treatment (MAT) drugs used to treat opioid addiction. It works by blocking the craving for and euphoric effects of opioids, including heroin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, codeine and fentanyl. Many addicts and their families as well as treatment providers welcome MAT, describing it as a much-needed tool in the fight against an ever-escalating disease. From coast to coast and nearly everywhere in between, opioid addiction is claiming lives, devastating families and weakening communities. It is often labeled an epidemic, a word choice backed up by Milwaukee and national statistics.

Milwaukee Health Officials Tackle the Epidemic

In Milwaukee, a newly formed City-County Heroin, Opioid, and Cocaine Task Force, led by city of Milwaukee Health Commissioner Bevan Baker, is tackling the epidemic head on. Task force member Ald. Michael J. Murphy sponsored the legislation creating the task force, which includes representatives from the Milwaukee Common Council; the Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services, Behavioral Health Division, Office of Emergency Management, and Medical Examiner’s Office; the Medical College of Wisconsin; and the city of St. Francis.

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increasing MAT capacity is one of them.

The reason? MAT works and capacity within Milwaukee County falls well below the current need.

According to the National Institute of Drug Addiction (NIDA), for people with opioid use disorder, medication-assisted treatment, when paired with counseling and other support services, is highly effective. Selahattin Kurter, a Milwaukee-area psychiatrist who treats opiate addicts with buprenorphine (another form of MAT) says “Medication-assisted treatment stops addiction in its tracks. It allows us [treatment providers] to engage the whole person, psychologically and physically.” Without such treatment, engagement is difficult. “Heroin,” he says, “hijacks the brain.”

Most researchers and treatment providers agree that opioid addiction is a brain disease, not a lapse of willpower or a moral failing. The braindisease model is not necessarily well understood by the public, however, in part because it’s complex. According to the NIDA, over time repeated opioid use changes the brain’s reward and executive functioning centers, and these changes can prove difficult to reverse.

Mary-Anne Kowol, a physician and assistant professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, also treats patients with addictions. She says prolonged use of heroin and other opioids changes the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that regulates stress levels. Opioids reduce stress and the brain retains a memory of what that stress reduction, or relief, feels like. When people experience high levels of stress, anxiety or emotional pain, those memories can trigger relapse; they remember that using allows them to escape the anxiety and pain, Kowol explained.

Heroin and other opiates also produce profound degrees of tolerance and physical dependence.

Tolerance means more and more of a drug is needed to produce the same effect; physical dependence means the body has acclimated to the presence of the drug. When it’s withdrawn the user experiences extreme discomfort including such symptoms as restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea and vomiting.

While withdrawal symptoms usually subside in about a week, they can continue for months.

When the Drug is More Important than Life Over prolonged opiate use, tolerance plus physical dependence often adds up to addiction, a chronic relapsing disorder of varying degrees characterized, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), “by a strong desire for opioids, inability to control or reduce use, continued use despite interference with major obligations or social functioning, use of larger amounts over time, development of tolerance, and spending a great deal of time to obtain and use opioids.” As Kurter puts it, “Users begin to believe that the drug is more important than anything, than job, family and even themselves.”

“At my worst,” Skidmore recalls, “I did care that my addiction had led to losses—I had given up my job, lost some friends and damaged the trust of my family—but I still didn’t want to stop.

And to think that it all started with prescription painkillers.”

According to a March 2016 report prepared by then Milwaukee Common Council President Michael J. Murphy’s office, in Milwaukee County: n Deaths due to heroin increased 495% between 2005 and 2014. n Between 2012 and 2015, 888 residents died from opiate overdoses, twice the number that died from traffic accidents during the same period.

Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office data show that: n 343 Milwaukee County residents died from drug-related deaths in 2016, a 48% increase from 2015 when 231 people died from the same cause. n Heroin caused 148 of the 2016 deaths, an increase of 35% from 2015. Fentanyl caused 97 of the deaths, a 223% increase from 2015.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in 2015: n 52,404 Americans died from drug overdoses, an 11% increase from 2014. Of these deaths, 33,091 were opiate-related. By contrast, fewer Americans (37,757) died from car crashes or gun deaths (36,252) the same year

Skidmore’s story, which isn’t a lot different than that of many other heroin addicts, attests to the insidious power of prescription painkillers.

In fact, according to SAMHSA, in 2014 an estimated 1.9 million people had an opioid use disorder related to their use.

In his early 20s, following major surgery associated with a chronic illness, Skidmore took physician-prescribed oxycontin—a powerful opioid—to relieve pain. The pain subsided, his prescription ran out and he recovered. But the surgery didn’t work as intended. Throughout the next 10 years he underwent more surgeries— about 20 in total—and, again, doctors prescribed opioids to relieve post-surgical pain. When the pain pills ran out, Skidmore wanted more. “I wasn’t experiencing ongoing physical pain,” he says, “but the pills eased my stress, all my worries about trying to cope with a chronic illness.” When he couldn’t get the pills from doctors, Skidmore bought them on the street.

After a while, the usual dose stopped working. “I was building up a tolerance,” Skidmore says, “so I started buying more…and more. Before long, I couldn’t afford them.

Using heroin—a less expensive substitute— was almost preordained.” Within two years of starting heroin use Skidmore had developed a serious, life-threatening addiction for which he eventually sought—and stuck with—MAT. Opponents of MAT argue that it simply replaces one addiction with another and, therefore, isn’t effective. The evidence indicates otherwise, and the real problem, according to John Schneider, Chief Medical Officer for the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division, is a lack of MAT.

The Treatment Gap Using epidemiological data, Schneider estimates there are roughly 45,000 Milwaukee County residents addicted to opioids. The SAMHSA website lists 117 physicians in Milwaukee County authorized to treat opioid dependency with buprenorphine on an outpatient basis. “Not all of the 45,000 have serious disorders or even want treatment,” says Schneider, “but if you estimate that half, or 22,500 people, need and want treatment, and divide that number among the 117 physicians, each physician should be treating 192 patients.” Physicians are allowed by law to treat only 30 patients annually unless they apply for and receive a special waiver to treat up

to 100. According to Schneider, many physicians don’t apply for the waivers. On average if each physician were treating 45 patients annually, the gap would be huge: 22,500 people with opioid use disorders minus a treatment capacity of 5,265 means 17,235 people are left with no access to physician-provided treatment. In light of the acute need, Schneider hopes more physicians will seek the waivers.

The state-certified treatment centers close some of that gap and state Sen. Lena C. Taylor (D-Milwaukee) appreciates that the Wisconsin Assembly recently passed a bill creating two to three additional centers in underserved areas of Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker has signaled he will sign the bill as well as several others addressing Wisconsin’s opioid epidemic. One potential problem noted by Taylor is that there’s no guarantee any of the new centers will be placed in Milwaukee. “The [addiction] issue has been in our community for a very long time and you can’t say you’re legitimately addressing it if you leave out a place that has been pushing for help and assistance for some time,” she said.

Taylor also criticized Walker for refusing to accept a federally funded expansion of the state’s Medicaid program. “Other states—including red states—have found that expansion has played a key part in helping them fight this [opioid] epidemic,” she said.

Wisconsin recently received $7.6 million in federal dollars to help fight the epidemic, and in response to the state’s request for proposals, the city of Milwaukee is submitting one. The dollars can be used for a variety of purposes including treatment expansion. Task force chair Baker said he hopes the state will consider “demographics on the ground” as funding decisions are made.

By February 2018, task force members will have formulated evidence-based recommendations for addressing the epidemic and will forward them to the Milwaukee Common Council for consideration and possible action. As task force members continue their deliberations, they will welcome and consider community input. A meeting for that sole purpose will likely be scheduled this summer.

The next regular task force meeting will take place Thursday June 16, 2017 at 9 a.m., room 301B Milwaukee City Hall, where members of the public can make brief comments following the conclusion of task force business.

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

Saturday, June 10

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ Corner of Port Washington Road and Silver Spring Drive, noon-1 p.m.

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.

Sunday, June 11

Transforming Justice @ Plymouth Church Milwaukee (2717 E. Hampshire Ave.), 10:30 a.m.-noon

“The policing and imprisonment of people of color has become a central component of struggles over racism and inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and across the nation,” says this event’s Facebook page. A team of UW-Milwaukee trans-disciplinary scholars and students will present a video and discussion on the perspectives of young people from marginalized neighborhoods in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee Rally for Unity and Pride @ U.S. Federal Court House (517 E. Wisconsin Ave.), 11-11:45 a.m.

The LGBTQ Resource Center at Marquette University, Milwaukee LGBT Community Center and Diverse & Resilient, Cream City Foundation and PrideFest Milwaukee are hosting a rally in solidarity with “The Equality March for Unity and Pride” in Washington D.C., and sister marches and rallies around the country. The event aims to “support, uplift and bring attention to those in our communities who are targeted due to immigration status, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, skin color, religion and disability.”

Milwaukee Area Science Advocates Kickoff Event @ Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. (224 W. Bruce St.), 4-7:30 p.m.

This kickoff event will feature live music from King Courteen, food trucks, science demonstrations and a panel of speakers including: Dr. Mark D. Schwartz, distinguished professor of climatology at UW-Milwaukee; Melissa Tashjian, founder at Compost Crusader; Hillary Olson, vice president of audience and community engagement at Milwaukee Public Museum; Dr. Thalia M. Williams, community engagement coordinator at Zilber School of Public Health, UWM.

Protest at Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner Town Hall @ Brookfield City Clerk of Court (2100 N. Calhoun Road, Brookfield), 6-8 p.m.

Indivisible Tosa is organizing a protest outside of Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner’s town hall calling on him to hold Donald Trump accountable for his attacks on our democracy.

Wednesday, June 14

Refuel the Resistance @ Bounce Milwaukee (2801 S. Fifth Court), 5-8 p.m.

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. Together, we can fight to minimize the damage that this administration has planned for our great country.

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The NRA Versus Gun Safety ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

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ive years ago, Republican legislators were suddenly thrown into a panic to pass a new wave of gun laws across the country.

The cause of all that panic was a truly horrific event.

Shortly before Christmas in Newtown, Conn., a troubled young man who never should have had a deadly weapon massacred 20 beautiful 6and 7-year-old elementary school children along with six school staff members. That heart-breaking national tragedy had a powerful, emotional impact on most decent Americans—which, of course, was what Republicans and their campaign supporters at the National Rifle Association (NRA) were in such a panic about.

The NRA was terrified the massive slaughter of sweet, innocent children would put tremendous pressure on politicians to pass universal background checks to keep guns out of hands of dangerous people and possibly even ban civilian possession of military assault weapons designed solely to kill human beings in large numbers.

But not to worry. The NRA could still count on Republicans to fend off sensible gun regulations. In the year after Newtown, Republican legislators around the country obediently passed laws weakening gun regulations even further and repeatedly defeated universal background checks.

Wisconsin Republicans, under Gov. Scott Walker, had done their part for the NRA the year before Newtown to flood city streets with guns when it became one of the last states in the nation to allow citizens to secretly carry concealed deadly weapons. But if you think the NRA is done having Wisconsin Republicans perform stupid pet tricks, you’re wrong.

The next absurd step the NRA wants legislators in Madison to take is incredibly dangerous for gun owners themselves as well as anyone within shooting range.

Get this. It’s to eliminate any screening, licensing or training at all for anyone carrying and using concealed weapons in Wisconsin. The 328,820 citizens known to be carrying weapons of mass destruction on Wisconsin streets would no longer need a permit or any training in how to use those deadly weapons to blow away anyone SHEPHERD EXPRESS

who frightens them.

How exactly does not knowing how to safely operate a deadly weapon benefit a gun owner or anyone unfortunate enough to be in his or her vicinity? It clearly doesn’t.

Deer hunters often boast about receiving 10 hours of gun safety education to receive a hunting license in Wisconsin. It’s long been recognized as a basic requirement for a responsible hunter. And deer hunting is a piece of cake compared to killing another person. The deer are never armed or even very scary.

There’s always been something highly suspicious about the strong objection by the NRA and other supporters of concealed carry toward properly training people how to safely use personal handguns. After all, people acquire those deadly weapons for the express purpose of protecting themselves and their families in times of extreme terror.

We should assume everyone in that situation is an amateur at shooting and killing other people. Anyone who’s shot so many other people it’s become old hat probably shouldn’t receive a permit. Oh, wait. The NRA wants to eliminate screening and permits.

Loading Which End of the Gun? But if the idea is to protect yourself or your loved ones, wouldn’t it help to know which end of the gun the bullets come out of?

The biggest controversy former Republican Atty. Gen. J. B. Van Hollen stirred up in 2011 after his party passed concealed carry was when he tried to require four hours of training with an actual gun to receive a permit.

Republican legislators reviewing administrative rules immediately threw out that lengthy safety training as too onerous. The requirement was reduced to pretty much any training providing tips on gun safety whether it included actually handling a gun or not. Now Republican state Sen. David Craig of the Town (R-Vernon) and state Rep. Mary Felzkowski (R-Irma) are pushing the NRA’s effort to end even that minimal training.

The NRA still boasts about training more than a million gun owners every year in gun safety.

But today the concealed carry link on its website seems to be devoted primarily to hustling hefty insurance coverage in case you happen to murder someone you shouldn’t.

The truth is the NRA doesn’t really care about the safety of gun owners anymore. The organization appears to have become a front for gun manufacturers whose only concern is selling more guns. Gun manufacturers don’t really care whether the gun purchasers swelling their profits are homicidal, suicidal or crazier than an outhouse rat.

Once people have been scared into buying guns, let them figure out how to use the things without hurting themselves. The ridiculous fantasy people have of heroically saving the day by shooting all the bad guys isn’t going to happen anyway.

Guns have never improved anyone on either end of them and now even the NRA has given up on trying to protect gun owners from themselves.

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National Rightwing Groups are Directing Our State Legislature Again

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nother attack on our democracy is swirling around the state capitol these days and that is a bill promoted by the right-wing, corporate-funded national group, ALEC, to add Wisconsin to the group of states calling for a constitutional convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to mandate a balanced budget. They need 34 states to call for the constitutional convention and currently there are 29 signed on, all states with legislatures dominated by Republicans.

There are a number of problems with this idea, and there are very good reasons why America has had only one constitutional convention. That was in 1787, and it was chaired

by George Washington. If we have a constitutional convention, you can’t limit the potential changes to one topic. Everything is on the table, especially the Bill of Rights and its First Amendment. Free speech, freedom of the press, right to assemble and a woman’s right to reproductive choice are among the list of items the right wing wants to change.

Even if you make the unrealistic assumption that the constitutional convention would stay limited to a balanced budget amendment, that in itself would be a disaster. If the federal government had a balanced budget amendment, we would find ourselves in a depression—not just a recession but a depression—in the next decade or two. We basically have a version of a free market economy, and free market economies have business cycles. Since entrepreneurs and businesses make individual choices and invest heavily in a growing economy, they eventually produce far more than people or businesses are willing to buy.

This overproduction causes layoffs and laid-off people buy fewer goods and services and the economy begins to spiral downward. There are basically two ways to end this downward spiral: either have the economy hit bottom, go into a deep depression and eventually begin to start growing again by itself which can take years and years; or have the federal government step in and deficit spend. Once the economy has recovered and is generating a surplus, the government can pay down the debt.

Guaranteeing Another Great Depression

In the 1930s, we learned how to manage the business cycle and have not had a depression since then. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal helped to lessen the Great Depression but it was only when we entered World War II and had massive government spending that we fully recovered. For about four decades after the end of the Depression, there was pretty much agreement across the political spectrum on the fact that the government plays a necessary role in managing the flow of the economy to prevent another depression. Unfortunately, things changed in the Reagan years when the right wing ideologues were in control.

Despite our learning how to manage our economy, there are those wealthy special interest groups that choose to ignore what we have learned and push for austerity, so they could have lower taxes. There are enough of their well-funded legislators who basically do not understand how a complex economy works, but are happy to listen to those who fund their campaigns.

For those who are overly concerned about the deficit, the solution is straight forward: fair taxation, and that means that the wealthy pay their fair share. The problem arises because whenever the Republicans get in power the first thing they want to do is cut taxes for the wealthy and a little for the rest of us, whether the country has a surplus or a deficit. The last time we saw a surplus was toward the end of the Clinton administration. The reason we had a surplus under Clinton was that he raised taxes on the wealthy and at the same time he created an environment for growth that saw 23 million new jobs created during his eight years. Then, the Bush administration came into office and we had massive tax cuts for the wealthy and two unfunded wars. So, if we want to lower the deficit we know what to do, and that is to raise taxes on the wealthy. Raising taxes on the wealthy has very little impact on economic growth because they will spend what they want to spend whether they pay a little more in taxes or not.

In the end, this idea of a balanced budget amendment is ridiculous and it is sad to see all of these state legislators falling in line and supporting an idea that will create a depression and severely hurt their constituents. Any honest Ph.D. economist, meaning one who is not on the payroll or a consultant for some special interest group, understands that a balanced budget amendment is a recipe for disaster.

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Progressive Politics on Talk Radio

OFF THE CUFF WITH ‘DEVIL’S ADVOCATE’ MIKE CRUTE ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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ong ago, talk radio wasn’t synonymous with right-wing diatribes. Restoring balance on the airwaves (and via podcasts) motivates Mike Crute’s recent purchase of WRRD 1510 AM as a medium for his talk show, “The Devil’s Advocates,” with co-host Dominic Salvia.

Why do you call it “Devil’s Advocates”?

We envisioned a show with passionate political debate among ideologically different hosts and guests. We launched in Madison in the midst of the Scott Walker recall in early spring 2012. Dominic and I have a similar a sense of humor, a 25-year history as former college roommates, and the shared philosophy that the arguments are never personal, only politics.

I bought WRRD 1510 AM, in response to IHeart Media, our former host station and local production partner in Madison, giving us a 10-day notice that they were flipping the successful Progressive Mic 92.1 FM format to music, on the day Donald Trump was elected president.

Our show had already signed a national syndication contract, effective Jan. 2, 2017. We had loyal local Wisconsin audience we could no longer reach and an obligation to produce, but no studio to produce our new national show.

We launched “The Devil’s Advocates” with no Wisconsin affiliate in a rental studio for the first month of our syndication.

When we only played in Madison, we always led “The Devil’s Advocates” show with Wisconsin politics. Now we do two hours of

Trump for 18 markets with a mix of other relevant national politics between 3-5 p.m.

CT. We then do a Wisconsin “happy hour” beginning at 5, focusing on Wisconsin callers and politics.

As a station owner, I am able to allow others to expand upon my vision as well. Earl Ingram Jr. hosts our morning show between 6-8 a.m. weekdays. Earl does more Milwaukee-centric politics, long-form interviews, and has insights into the African American community that I do not.

What else are you airing?

We have the nationally syndicated, progressive favorites—Stephanie Miller Show 8-11 a.m. and the Thom Hartmann Show 11 a.m.-2 p.m. I am also hosting “Wisconsin News Hour,” afternoons between 2-3 p.m., doing more Wisconsin-centric politics and interviews as a lead-in to “The Devil’s Advocates.”

What’s your goal?

My goal for the station is commercial success. This is a business, and I have everything I own at risk or collateralized to pull off the financing. My family is taking a huge risk. I need some local businesses to take a leap of faith with me and become sponsors.

My ultimate goal is to change the politics in the state of Wisconsin. That starts by appealing to a broader segment of audience, finding appeal with more than just the political left, influencing politically independent Wisconsinites by presenting facts first, not partisanship. You will know if we are succeeding if Republican turnout in Waukesha County declines 5-10% in 2018.

Do you sense a hunger for what you’re doing?

WRRD 1510 AM is Wisconsin’s only independent radio voice. WISN, WTMJ pander to political conservatives in southeastern Wisconsin, propping up Scott Walker and Donald Trump with their support. The vast majority of Wisconsinites do not support Trump and many see that Walker’s policies favor his wealthy campaign contributors over the rest of us.

WRRD is about trying to change the future of Wisconsin and America; this is my contribution. Please join us in the resistance. WRRD is Wisconsin’s Resistance Radio.

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ou can be the envy of Patrick Bateman who could never get a reservation at the fictitious Dorsia, the restaurant from the movie American Psycho from which a new Milwaukee restaurant got its name. The owners of Cataldo’s recently opened Dorsia as a thoroughly modern Italian restaurant, a place with lots of energy, creativity and an effortless cool hipster vibe. Even though the space gives off a nightclub feel, it’s comfortable and welcoming for all to dine.

The modern décor of sleek lines of black and gold with soft purple lighting accents, flat-screen TVs above the bar for sports fans and upbeat music all seem to fit with the pulse of Brady Street. The food is executed with finesse, and the thoughtful approach to old-school Italian recipes meshes well with the space’s modern twists and artwork.

The menu’s antipasti section runs from hot and cold selections such as the popular meatball ($10) and the traditional arancini ($7) to scallop and hamachi crudo ($15). The one big meatball is made from Wisconsin beef mixed with Berkshire pork and veal, served in a pomodoro with some sliced baguette. The crudo is presented beautifully, and the combination of flavors combined with the heirloom peppers and cucumber results in a light and fresh dish that you’ll want to eat all summer long. The beautifully juxtaposed boards of

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Dorsia Chop ($14). The hazelnut-crusted goat cheese It’s rare that all the desserts on a menu make is warm and crunchy; added to it are shaved fennel, one swoon, but this lineup is sure to please. The apple gaufrettes and a combination of three greens, ricotta cheesecake is light and airy and served including watercress for that peppery bite paired with berry compote and candied with tangy Dijon vinaigrette. The pine nuts ($7). The salted caramel crow jewel is the sous vide egg yolk, budino was more cake crumbles perfectly done to create a luxurious then pudding and is served in a mouth feel.

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Beer, Food, History at Brewhouse Inn and Jackson’s Pub ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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he former site of the Pabst Brewery is in the news again as plans are unveiled for new condos and apartments. Already anchoring development in that city within a city—a district of turreted Teutonic castles and imposing crenellated strongholds—is the Brewhouse Inn and Suites along with its restaurant and bar, Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub, 1203 N. 10th St. The Brewhouse Inn boasts impressive, one-

of-a-kind suites carved out of the fortress-like brewery. Dominating the lobby and public spaces are giant copper brewing kettles where workmen once labored with hops and grains alongside beautiful countertops made from crushed beer bottles and tables fashioned from repurposed plank floorboards. Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub, formerly a warehouse where wheat and barely were stored, provides room service for guests and catering for events at the Brewhouse.

Although tucked away inside the Pabst district, Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub attracts a lively crowd for lunch, dinner and drinks.

Housed under 20-foot ceilings and with a patio attached, its inventive bar menu includes a variety of soups and attractively served salads, appetizers, sandwiches and wraps. The portions can be described as “old Milwaukee” and are geared toward a city with a big appetite. Appetizers include a giant hot pretzel served warm with horseradish and hot cheese dipping sauces and dusted with salt. It’s large enough to feed a family.

Not surprisingly, given the building’s past, the Pub sells Pabst Blue Ribbon in cans, bottles and on tap. But they also serve Leinenkugel, Miller, Lakefront and other tap beers plus an enviable list of 60 bottled craft beers. Although it seems heretical to refuse a beer in such a setting, wine and cocktails are also served.

While the Brewhouse Inn and Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub are full of history, they aren’t museums. The old brewery buildings have been put to new uses in a rapidly developing destination zone at the edge of Downtown.

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Johnson was inspired to start Cream City Farms while he was pursuing his master’s degree in urban planning. He was the co-founder of the Cream City Gardens educational project at the Guest House shelter. In 2013, he planned to start farming on land near Amaranth Bakery, but it was discovered that that land needed remediation. Johnson then approached UW-County Extension and ECO’S HOME GR/OWN in search of vacant city land for his farm, and the 30th Street site proved ideal.

Through an Environmental Protection Agency grant, the property was cleaned up and covered with two feet of fresh topsoil. Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District, Reflo, GZA Inc. and Veolia partnered to design and install storm water management measures such as bioswales and a 40,000-gallon underground cistern, its

pump powered by a solar panel provided through Milwaukee Shines. Veolia wants to develop expertise with cisterns in farming and garden operations, Johnson said, so they granted money for a software application that monitors weather conditions and water levels in the cistern.

Arts@Large decorated the fence around Cream City Farms. A grant through Strong Neighborhoods covered the fence materials.

After some setbacks in 2015, Johnson completed his first full growing season last year. “Because I’m in the early stages of my farming, I’m casting a wide net,” he said. “I’m working with as many vegetable varieties as I can to find out what will work well for this site and for the palates of my customers.”

Johnson grows seedlings at Capitol Drive Greenhouse and Schultes Greenhouse. So far, weather this year has been cooperative and everything is on schedule for this season. In late April, he planted beets, radishes and leafy greens. He specializes in unique cherry tomatoes varieties.

Swiss chard grows well, and Johnson said it’s becoming a customer favorite. “I’m still a big spinach fan. Swiss chard is similar, but it has a wider variety of flavor profiles,” he said.

Zephyr zucchini is another favorite Johnson will bring back this year. This slender, yellow squash with green tips is firm, with a slightly sweet and nutty flavor. Last year, he partnered also with Joe Muench of Black Shoe Hospitality restaurants to supply cauliflower greens—a part of the vegetable that contains vitamins A and C, as well as antioxidants. Johnson will offer those again this year.

Cream City Farms also has a quarter-acre site near Timmerman Airport. Johnson hopes to soon hire part-time employees. He wants to expand Cream City Farms and acquire the recently foreclosed building just south of the 30th Street farm to use for an aquaponics operation.

He received a grant through the Sustainable Agriculture Research Association division of the United States Department of Agriculture for a two-year case study on soil and composting to develop an understanding of its economic impact on farmers.

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ith Chase Anderson’s recent near no-hit gem against the Diamondbacks, I got to thinking about the greatest pitching performances in Brewers history. Using Bill James’ game score metric as a guide (a pitcher starts with 50 points and makes additions or deductions to the score based on strikeouts, earned/unearned runs, walks allowed, hits allowed and outs recorded), Anderson’s outing barely cracks the top-100 games a Brewer has ever pitched. Ben Sheets’ 18-strikeout game against the Braves in 2004 tops the list.

But this exercise also got me thinking about the other end of that list: the worst games a

Brewers pitcher has ever recorded. According to game score, the Brewers have indeed been a party to one of the ugliest starts ever. On August 14, 1977, young Milwaukee hurler Bill Travers recorded the lowest game score total in team history while suffering through one of the worst starts by a Major League pitcher since the 1930s.

Travers’ dud came at the back end of a doubleheader between the moribund Brewers and the equally inept Cleveland Indians. In the first game, the Indians pounded the Crew 124, hanging eight runs on starter Jim Slaton in just four and one-third innings. In the nightcap, it seemed like Travers would have just as short an outing when the Indians scored five

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Travers was in just this fourth start since he returned from an elbow injury that had sidelined him for two months. He had been an AllStar the year before and was putting together another solid season when the elbow issue emerged. The team had eased him back in the rotation, and his Sunday start in Cleveland was the first time he had pitched on four days’ rest since his return. One might have assumed that manager Alex Grammas would treat the talented young pitcher carefully at the tail end of a season that was already lost. One would have been incorrect in that assumption.

After a 1-2-3 third, Travers allowed four more hits and two runs in the fourth to make it 9-1 Cleveland. Then, Travers seemed to settle down. He scattered two hits over the next three innings, but no one in the park that night (except for Grammas) quite understood why the 24-year-old kept coming back out to the mound. Nearing 150 pitches on the night, Grammas sent Travers back out for the eighth.

“I can’t believe you’re still out here,” Cleveland centerfielder Paul Dade told Travers during the break between innings. All Travers could do was shrug; Grammas hadn’t said a word to him during the game.

The eighth inning was the ugliest. Clearly gassed, Travers allowed two singles to open the frame before striking out Bill Melton.

He walked the next two, pushing the score to 10-3 and then gave up a two-run double to Dade. It was only then—after 16 hits and 12 earned runs—that Grammas placed a call to the bullpen. When Bob McClure began to throw, Travers felt a weird rush of adrenaline.

Despite the beating, he bore down and struck out Charlie Spikes. “As long as I had gone that far, I really wanted to finish the game,” Travers said afterward. “Why not go all the way?”

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The next batter, catcher Ray Fosse, laced a single that score two more to make it 143. But it was still not enough for Grammas.

It was not until the next batter, Frank Duffy, doubled (with Fosse pulling up at third base as not to run up the score) that Grammas pulled Travers. The sparse crowd in Cleveland booed the Milwaukee manager heartily, partially for his abuse of a young pitcher and partially for ending the novelty of such a brutal outing. As Travers left the mound, however, the crowd broke into a loud ovation, to which the wornout pitcher responded with a tip of his cap.

After the game, Grammas claimed he had left Travers in so long as a way of preserving his bullpen but also gave an indication that the outing was some kind of punishment.

“He knows why he was out there,” Grammas said. “If he doesn’t, he’s not paying attention.”

Grammas later denied that the move was payback of any kind.

Travers was the first pitcher in 30 years to allow at least 14 earned runs, and the first since 1949 to allow 18 or more hits. He also set Brewers records for hits and runs allowed that still stand to this day. The outing caused his ERA to spike from 3.45 to 4.69.

Although Grammas was roundly criticized for his treatment of Travers, the pitcher was quick to forgive. After a few days of brooding, Travers told the press that it was all in the past and he was ready to make his next start. The lefty struggled through the rest of the 1977 season but was a steady part of the Brewers’ rotation during the winning seasons of ’79 and ’80. Travers left as a free agent before the Brewers playoff runs of ’81 and ’82.

He signed a four-year pact with the California Angels but managed only 11 starts with his new team because of arm injuries.

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MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE AND DANCEWORKS PRESENT ‘HANDEL’S BESTIARY’ ::BY JOHN JAHN here had been a number of failed attempts to establish Italian opera in London before George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) arrived there in 1710. But, when audiences began hearing Handel’s works in this genre, a British love affair with Italian opera (and with Handel, himself) began to flower. From his prolific quill flowed a steady stream of castrati- and prima donna-filled Baroque operas and oratorios. It is those splendiferous works that bring Milwaukee Opera Theatre (MOT) and Danceworks Performance Company (DPC) together at Lynden Sculpture Garden for the outdoor dance-music event, “Handel’s Bestiary.”

Though he’s generally thought of as a composer of sacred music (The Messiah at once springs to mind), Handel was, in reality, a man of the theater. By 1742, the German-born genius had written more than 40 operas; it is mainly these, plus many oratorios (which he regarded as operas sans costumes and stage action), that made Handel one of his adoptive England’s most celebrated men. There’s so much to be gleaned from this vast repertoire of glorious music—as Milwaukee Opera Theatre’s Artistic Director Jill Anna Ponasik certainly discovered.

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“Working at the sculpture gardens allowed us to think big… Forty acres!” she exclaims. “For ‘Handel’s Bestiary,’ we’ve assembled a cast of 70 intergenerational dancers, 20 singers and instrumentalists and one choir. It’s fairly epic in scale and allows us to luxuriate in the talent that surrounds us.”

This will be MOT’s fourth collaboration with DPC, and Ponasik is excited about the impending reunion at the chosen venue—Lynden Sculpture Garden—a beautiful locale she describes as “a sprawling park that features 50 sculptures from the Peg and Harry Bradley collection,” adding, “It’s a gorgeous site, and it is so much fun to sing there.

Something special happens when we perform outside, and it’s not just that sometimes birds and frogs join in the music making. The artists are a little freer and less formal, and the connection forged with the audience feels natural and unforced.”

The “bestiary” aspect of this concert joins Lynden Sculpture Garden’s actual flora and fauna with Handel’s animalcentered arias. “One of our goals is to bring the gardens to life with ‘animals.’ There will be a series of 12 arias and accompanying dances at the center of it all. But, there will also be some sneaky, secret performances tucked here and there for those who discover them,” Ponasik explains. This won’t be a concert for the sedentary, passive listener: Preconcert picnicking is encouraged, and attendees stroll the gardens as the music plays and the animals, both human and non-human, sing, dance and frolic about.

The arias on the program are those sung by animal and insect characters in a dozen of Handel’s works—from elephant to bee and from lion to turtledove. One example of this will be Diane Lane signing (as a frog) “Their land brought forth frogs” from Handel’s biblical oratorio, Israel in Egypt.

Milwaukee It stems from Part Two of the Opera work—amid an ancient Egypt Theatre & beset by plagues.

Danceworks Another comes from Handel’s 29th opera for the “Handel’s London stage, Alcina (1735), the Bestiary” plot of which revolves around June 16 & 17, the eponymous sorceress who 7 p.m. lures would-be paramours to her enchanted island, there to Lynden enslave them as rocks, trees Sculpture and wild beasts. The finale of Garden Act Three finds a tiger (aka Ruggiero) venting his defiance in the aria, “Sta nell’Ircana pietrosa tana” (“In Her Rocky Lair”). Eventually, the curtain comes down with Alcina stripped of her magical powers and vanquished, her ex-lovers returned to their normal forms.

These are but two examples of the vividly drawn characters with which Handel enlivened his operas and oratorios. This concert features further excerpts from his Julius Caesar, Theodora, Floridante, Judas Maccabaeus and other works, sung by Diane Lane, Kathy Pyeatt, Sarah Richardson, Nathan Wesselowski, Cecilia Davis and others. Several instrumentalists will accompany the vocalists, playing violins, violas, cellos and horns.

7 p.m., June 16 and 17, Lynden Sculpture Garden, 2145 W. Brown Deer Road, River Hills. For tickets, call 414-277-8480 ext.

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Florentine Opera at the Lake @ Colectivo Lakefront, 7 p.m.

There aren’t many art forms that seem less accessible to mass audiences than opera, which has a reputation for stodginess that dates back literally centuries. Each year, though, the Florentine Opera Company makes the case that opera isn’t just for the monocle-adorned elite with its free concert series as various Colectivo locations, including four at Colectivo’s Lakefront café. Expect to hear a variety of arias and ensemble pieces.

FRIDAY, JUNE 9 PrideFest @ Henry Maier Festival Park

From the incredible sense of community and colorful fashion to shiver-inducing live performances, there are many reasons to love PrideFest. For its 30th anniversary, this year’s celebration of LGBTQ Milwaukee will be bigger, louder and prouder than ever before. The bands Betty Who, 10,000 Maniacs and Har Mar Superstar are just a few of many acts lined up—though much of the action happens at the dance stage, where an array of DJs and drag performers keep the party going late into the night. The festival kicks off at 3 p.m. on Friday following a mile-long Pride Parade at 2 p.m. (Through Sunday, June 11.)

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TUESDAY,JUNE 13 R. Ring w/ Dorth Nakota @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

If Kelley Deal’s time with The Breeders (alongside her famous twin sister, Kim Deal of The Pixies) was her musical coming of age, her new stripped-down project R. Ring is her graduation.

Deal formed R. Ring with Mike Montgomery of the post-rock band Ampline in 2011, and has since released only a small (but promising) trail of singles. More is on the way, though: This year, the duo will release their debut full-length album, Ignite The Rest. It’ll be Deal’s first major work since The Breeders released their final album, Mountain Battles, in 2008.

Portugal. The Man w/ Electric Guest @ The Pabst Theater, 8 p.m.

Alternative rock band Portugal. The Man haven’t put out an album since 2013, but with the release date set for June 16 for their long-awaited new album, Woodstock, their fans won’t need to wait much longer; the interim is even shorter for those who catch the band at this stop of their latest tour, where the group will surely share some sneak peeks. The Alaskan quintet’s live performances can be pretty hit or miss, with what seems like mostly misses of late as their material has gradually trended more and more dreary. But, who knows? Maybe Woodstock’s impending release will give them enough fuel to blow up the stage again. That the album features production from the Beastie Boys’ Mike D and a guest spot from Pharcyde rapper Fat Lip bodes well for those hoping for more of a party this time around.

Rockerbox Motofest @ Road America

Once again, motorsports enthusiasts from around the country congregate in unassuming Plymouth, Wisc., for the American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association’s 14th annual installment of the Rockerbox Motofest. Aside from the highly anticipated ride-in motorcycle show, race circuits and countless vendors for all things motorcycling, the event will feature live music, zip-lining and disc golf.

Bring camping supplies if you’re the kind of rider who would rather not spring for a hotel or Airbnb. (Through Sunday, June 11.)

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Southside Bicycle Day @ Clarke Square, noon-4 p.m.

It’s hard to imagine childhood without a bicycle. That’s why each year the local company Rebel Wipes sponsors Southside Bicycle Day. The event closes down a good chunk of streets between Layton Boulevard and Cesar Chavez Drive between National and Greenfield Avenues, giving cyclists a car-free route to ride. The main attraction, though, is the bike giveaway. The organization will be giving away a whopping 1,000 bicycles to kids.

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Jamestown Revival w/ Colter Wall @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

When the Texas duo Jamestown Revival play music, they do more than just fill your ears with heartfelt Americana: They transport you to a back porch gathering somewhere in the South at dusk, where a dry warmth brushes your skin as you laugh and throw back beers with friends. Their songs have a comforting, confessional quality to them that feel more like an intimate conversation between the band and their listeners than a one-way performance.

Their 2016 release, The Education Of A Wandering Man, is filled with harmonic country-rock ideal for just such a get-together, or alternatively, a congenial night at Shank Hall.

Milwaukee Night Market @ Wisconsin Avenue

NEWaukee’s popular night markets are back for another year. Once a month through September, the organization closes off West Wisconsin Avenue between Second and Fourth Streets and fills every crevice with vendors, music, live art, crafts projects, family entertainment and food trucks. If you’ve ever wanted to see a really gigantic Summerfest poster, this is your chance. During the market, a 55-foot-tall image of a new poster for the festival’s 50th edition from BlackPaint Studios will be projected against a building. Signed prints of that poster will be available for purchase, along with a ton of other art.

Rhiannon Giddens @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

Rhiannon Giddens has produced Grammy Award-winning music as the frontwoman of folk outfit the Carolina Chocolate Drops, yet she continues to reach new levels of nuance and self-awareness with her solo effort. The singer-songwriter certainly has the credentials to wow: She’s trained in opera and is skilled in a variety of instruments— fiddle and banjo among them. Giddens is currently touring in support of Freedom Highway, which explores themes of African American identity in both historical and contemporary contexts.

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Chastity Belt are an all-women, feminist punk band from Washington. It’s easy, then, to simply label them riot grrrls, and they are in some ways reflective of that movement, but Chastity Belt are too multifaceted to be pigeonholed into one scene. The band’s first two albums were brazen, playful and untroubled, exploring topics like sex and drugs with shameless, youthful confidence. On their third album, I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone, however, growing older has ironically led the band to insecurities akin to a second puberty. The newfound vulnerability becomes them and should make their live performance that much more potent.

River Rhythms: Willy Porter and Carmen Nickerson @ Pere Marquette Park, 6:30 p.m.

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Another one of the summer’s big outdoor music series kicks off this week.

The Westown Association kicks off a summer of Wednesday night concerts at the Pere Marquette Park pavilion with this show from one of the area’s most renowned songwriters, Willy Porter. He’ll perform with his go-to collaborator of late, Carmen Nickerson, a beguiling vocalist who has sung with him on NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion” and who co-wrote their joint 2016 album, Bonfire to Ash.

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Many tend to put William Shakespeare on such a lofty, polished pedestal that they can’t possibly imagine him bowing to popular tastes. But that is what he did with Titus Andronicus, by all accounts his most violent work. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though! In fact, it’s rather titillating to read how Off the Wall Theatre describes some of the characters in this play: the “ravaged and mutilated daughter,” “a sensual, sexual man-monster,” “two sadistic, morally twisted sons.” You get the idea. Dale Gutzman directs and stars as the eponymous Roman army general.

June 14-25, Off the Wall Theatre, 127 E. Wells St. For tickets, call 414484-8874 or visit zivacat.com/offthewalltheatre.

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American Players Theatre Opens an Ambitious Season ::BY JOHN JAHN

Nestled amid the meadowlands and forests of southwestern Wisconsin near Frank Lloyd Wright’s sprawling studio-home, Taliesin, is a 1,088-seat outdoor amphitheater and a 201-seat indoor theater. This scenic, hilly 110-acre location is where the American Players Theatre does its work. It all kicks off this month: An ambitious nine-play season that runs through October.

Opening June 10 is William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by John Langs. This play, quite aptly, is the first to appear in APT’s newly renovated Hill Theatre; it’s the same play that opened their very first season in 1980. Directed by David Frank, Georges Feydeau’s farcical A Flea in Her Hair opens June 16. The Unexpected Man by Yasmina Reza, a play that shows the playwright’s innate sense of human behavior, opens June 17. Directed by James Devita, Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac opens June 23. Finally, June 27 is the first show of The Maids by Jean Genet—intriguingly described by APT as “mesmerizing and provocative; even terrifying at times.”

American Players Theatre is located at 5950 Golf Course Road in Spring Green. For tickets to any of their productions, visit tickets.americanplayers.org or call 608-588-2361.

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If you don’t mind travelling a bit for your theatrical experience, three venues easily within day-trip range offer some exciting and interesting shows this month. SummerStage of Delafield (W329 N846 County Highway C) presents a dramatized adaptation of Louisa Alcott’s classic novel Little Women, June 8-24. In Door County, Fish Creek boasts two companies with new productions. The Peninsula Players (4351 Peninsula Players Road) present The Actuary, June 13-July 2—a world premiere comedy-drama by Steven Peterson.

And Northern Sky Theater (10169 Shore Road) presents four lighthearted shows that all open this month: Oklahoma in Wisconsin (June 14-Aug. 25); Doctor! Doctor! (June 19-Aug. 24); Victory Farm (June 20-Aug. 26); and Lumberjacks in Love (June 15-Aug. 24).

For SummerStage tickets, call 262-337-1560 or visit summerstageofdelafield.org. For Peninsula Players tickets, visit tickets.peninsulaplayers.com. For Northern Sky tickets, call 920-854-6117 or visit northernskytheater.com/tickets.

Comedy of Errors

“Doing Shakespeare the way it was meant to be done: drunken and vastly unprepared.” That’s how Boozy Bard Productions describes their vision (perhaps a blurry one) of performing plays of William Shakespeare. This month, they take on The Bard’s Comedy of Errors, which is perfectly suited to Boozy’s idiosyncratic vision. It’s both his tersest as well as most farcical work, replete with such sit-com fare as mistaken identity, slapstick humor, puns and wordplay.

June 12-14, Boozy Bard Productions, Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery, 901 W. Juneau Ave. For tickets and more information, visit facebook.com/boozybard and click the “Shakespeare Raw: Comedy of Errors” link.

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Welcome to ’60s Laugh & Laughter in Waukesha Civic’s ‘Barefoot in the Park’ ::BY HANNAH KLAPPERICH-MUELLER

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tiny New York City apartment, a newlywed couple and a host of crazy neighbors complete the recipe for comedy in this long-time favorite by Neil Simon, first performed in 1963. Apart from the occasional comment or reference, Simon’s script holds up to the 54 years it weathered, containing enough one-two punches to leave an audience stunned, then rolling with laughter, in the hands of the right actors. Waukesha Civic Theatre’s production boasts a well-rounded and balanced cast, quick and lively, that hit their stride in the second act, capturing the speed and wit of the dialogue.

When Corie (Katie Lynne Krueger) and Paul (Benjamin Johnson) move into their new apartment after a six-day honeymoon, Corie is determined to infuse the same level of romance into their fifthfloor walkup—a detail that gets a lot of stage time, and gets funnier with age. Her beloved, practical Paul is less than thrilled with the lack of bathtub, hole in the skylight, and their flirtatious upstairs neighbor, Victor Velasco (Rick Richter). Corie’s love of spontaneity sends the couple on a wild evening adventure with the goal of a love connection for her widowed mother, and the potential for unresolvable differences between the young lovers.

Costumes and scenic elements, designed by Darcy Devins and Michael Talaska, respectively, do an admirable job of enhancing the storytelling, despite an unfortunate wig that dulls Krueger’s natural charm. During intermission, the stage transforms remarkably, believably underscoring shocked and impressed comments from Corie’s mother about her daughter’s decorating skill.

Donna L. Lobacz delivers a standout performance as Corie’s mother and self-professed ordinary housewife. She deftly navigates the physical comedy of her character, providing many of the play’s largest laughs. Richter as Velasco and Lloyd Munsen as the Telephone Man find warmth and sincerity in their characters, infusing a sense of love and care, which contributes greatly to the success of the production.

Through June 18 at Waukesha Civic Theatre, 264 W. Main Street, Waukesha. For tickets, call 262-547-0708 or visit waukeshacivictheatre.org.

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gatha Christie’s 1939 mystery And Then There Were None is a delightfully episodic little crime drama. Sunset Playhouse revisits the classic tale in three acts with two intermissions. At the beginning of the show, the 10 characters arrive at a spacious island estate tastefully rendered for the stage by scenic designer Nick Korneski. In the course of the drama, members of the ensemble are killed off one by one until the big climactic ending. Director Carol Dolphin has found a nice pacing for the show, allowing various members of the ensemble some rather sharp moments.

Of particular note in the cast is Michael Pocaro as retired judge Sir Lawrence Wargrave. A piercing intellect in a traditional murder mystery can feel tedious in the wrong hands. Pocaro deftly navigates the role in a calmly charismatic performance. It’s also nice to see a couple of new faces in a Sunset cast. James Boylan makes his debut as a roguish soldier of fortune who seems quite comfortable at the estate. Boylan’s leading male charm is matched by Caitlin Elftman in her Sunset debut as secretary Vera Claythorne. Claythorne may be one of the more levelheaded intellects in the cast, but Christie doesn’t give her much to do in the twists of the plot. Thankfully Elftman is able to keep the character quite interesting without upstaging the rest of the ensemble.

Through Jun. 18 at Sunset Playhouse’s Furlan Auditorium, 800 Elm Grove Road, Elm Grove.

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Challenging Guest Artists Featured at Present Music Season Finale ::BY RICK WALTERS

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resent Music returned to the Wherehouse for its season closer Friday evening with two performances, one at 6 p.m. (which I attended), the second at 9. The concert was curated by guest music director Cory Smythe, who is also a composer and a wonderful pianist.

The featured guest artist was saxophonist/composer Steve Lehman, heard in his Laamb and Dub, which both blur the lines between composition and improvisation, with an attractive natural inclination to jazz sounds. Lehman is a master of his instrument, displaying every technique imaginable. Lehman’s string quartet Nos Revi Nella captured relentless nervous energy.

Smythe had a premiere with his composition Reenactment, notable for its inventive use of a detuned guitar combined with piano to approximate the sound of “an upright in an old saloon,” to borrow from the program note. The sound was fascinating, though I’m not sure I got the composer’s stated intent of a “tightly-wound ghost story.”

The concert was not long, with just more than an hour of music, but was challenging to the ear. The first five pieces gave listeners no break from edgy sounds. This part of the program felt a bit conceptual and needed more contrasts. Then came Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 6L of 1971, for piano and sax, slow and moody, using colorful Messiaen-like harmonies, beautifully played by Lehman and Smythe.

Except for the Thanksgiving concert, it’s rare to encounter earnest, open emotion in a Present Music concert. That came in spades with Ben Johnston’s String Quartet No. 4, a set of variations on “Amazing Grace,” well played by Naha Greenholtz, Eric Segnitz, Maria Ritzenthaler and Adrien Zitoun. Each time I hear this piece it deepens in impact.

Johnston creates a style of Americana that somehow gets out of the shadow of Aaron Copland. The final grand statement of this soulful tune brought tears.

In the harbor area by the lake, the Wherehouse is an interesting performance space.

The large room with a high ceiling is acoustically friendly. I realized how rare daylight is in classical concerts with a stage placed in front of a wall of windows.

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Nicole Teague-Howell and Davit Hovhannisyan in ‘Mirror Mirror’

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here’s so much to say about Michael Pink majestic Mirror Mirror, now that it’s complete. I’ll start by noting that every moment is clearly the collaborative creation of director/choreographer Pink, composer Philip Feeney, lighting designer David Grill, scenic and costume designer Todd Edward Ivins, the Milwaukee Ballet dancers, technicians and orchestra with conductor Andrews Sill. The opening night performances by Nicole Teague-Howell as Snow White, Marize Fumero as her nemesis Claudia and Davit Hovhannisyan as her boyfriend, Gustav, were beyond outstanding.

Any serious reservations I had at this ballet’s premiere three years ago are gone. I do worry a bit that unless audiences read the program notes in advance they’ll find the narrative perplexing. It’s not the Snow White story we grew up on. Even for ballet, the style is high non-realism: symbolist, surrealist, almost classically avant-garde and yet wholly original.

Feeney’s overture sets a chilling mood. The severed top of a tempting apple, its chopped underside fang-like, fills the upper half of the Uihlein Hall stage. An eerie apple tree appears. A woman sleeps beneath. The first move is by a demon in its branches. It drops a mirror into her lap. The passage of time is marked by dancers in white with streaming white banners. Soon the woman and her husband hold a baby.

Moments later, she’s a playful child embraced by her community. Moments later, the satanic element enters this Eden in the form of a raven-headed creature with demons holding mocking black banners, tools to murder the child’s mother. The raven fascinates the husband (a moving Arionel Vargas), then transforms into a woman, inflaming his desire. The raven is Claudia. Pink’s extreme choreography and Fumero’s jawdropping flexibility underline her mythic nature. She’s a goddess of vanity. She covets the mirror. She’ll remake Eden in her image. The child is Snow White, who resists.

Who’s the fairest of them all? This ballet speaks of moral beauty, not physical; goodness means care for the well being of others, evil means self-obsession. Powerful Claudia, increasingly alone, becomes the mirror’s victim. What moved me most by the end was Snow White’s character as presented by Teague-Howell with untiring grace and feeling. Pink and Feeney close the story not with true love’s kiss but with the joyous reunion of father and daughter and a formerly outcast community of folks who refused to mirror Claudia. It’s a necessary optimistic ending.

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s the first female superhero and an archetype of strong women, Wonder Woman crossed boundaries in 1941 when she debuted on the pages of a comic book. She’s still pushing forward in 2017. Wonder Woman is the first blockbuster-slated superhero movie helmed by a woman, and director Patty Jenkins lets the armor-breasted warrior get her jabs at male chauvinism after leaving the isle of the Amazons and landing in what passes as civilization.

The Wonder Woman movie serves as the origin story for a character in the DC universe we will almost certainly get to know better in the months and years to come. Wonder Woman, aka Diana Prince (Gal Gadot), was raised among the Amazons on a Greek island that serves as their training ground. Her protective mother, Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), molded Diana from clay, and Zeus breathed life into her—or so she says. Family secrets hover at the edges of Diana’s happy life as she learns combat skills. In Greek mythology, the Amazons cut off one of their breasts to better hurl spears at their enemies.

The contemporary iteration dispenses with the amputation. Here, Diana, scantily clad in the warm Mediterranean sunshine, learns that brute strength is less important than mindful agility fortified by practice.

She puts her skills to use at last when she saves Capt. Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) after his plane crashes offshore. It’s World War I, and he’s an American spy attached to British intelligence. He’s onto something big. Evil German Gen. Erich Ludendorff (Danny Huston) has set up a lab-factory in Germany’s ally, Turkey, where a mad scientist with a prosthetic face, Dr. Maru (Elena Anaya), is developing a chemical weapon more terrible than anything yet deployed. A German warship pursues Steve to the island, and the Amazons go to battle to repel the invaders. Bullets from the landing party fell SHEPHERD EXPRESS

some of the women, but their swordplay and archery wins the day. Against her mother’s wishes, Diana leaves the isle with Steve, determined to end what her new friend naively calls (parroting Woodrow Wilson) “the war to end all wars.”

One can take Wonder Woman to task for many things: plot holes big enough to sail a ship through; gross historical inaccuracies; seen-itbefore special effects. But the acting lifts the movie above its deficient storyboard. Gadot is marvelously expressive—not in the acrobatics of combat but in the more intimate moments.

Her eyes tell stories. Pulling the half-dead Steve from the sea, she scrutinizes him with tender curiosity. Later, anger flares at the prejudice she encounters in sooty London, and compassion fills her as she sees the results of mechanized warfare. Amid the pyrotechnics are many sideways glances at the suffering and devastation.

Although she sallies forth with sword and shield—and nifty bracelets that Wonder deflect bullets—DiWoman ana is a naïve idealist who believes that Gal Gadot Ares, god of war, is Chris Pine behind the mayhem.

Directed by Slay him and the Patty Jenkins world turns into a Rated PG-13 garden—or so she imagines.

Wonder Woman is leavened by humor. Although grateful for saving his life, Steve thinks at first that he’s got one nutty dame on his hands, especially when she informs him that “men are essential for procreation, but when it comes to pleasure, they are unnecessary.” She’s read all the works of ancient Greece but had never seen a man or modern technology. Steve’s watch puzzles her. “You let that little thing tell you what to do?” she asks, reasonably enough.

The scene at a London shop where Steve brings her to find suitable clothes is hilarious. The fashions for women from a century ago give little leeway for sprinting, jumping or swordplay.

Naturally, despite the superfluousness of men, erotic interest and romantic love stirs in their breasts. Defiantly determined to bring the war to a close before Dr. Maru’s poison can be dispensed on the battlefield, Diana leads Steve and a merry crew of mercenaries (a Scotsman, an Arab and a Native American) across No Man’s Land into German-occupied Belgium for the final battle of the gods. There are twists that shouldn’t be spoiled in a review. Suffice to say: Diana emerges wiser on the human condition and with plenty of plot strands for her next movie, Justice League, ‘Wonder Woman’ due in November.

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Director Trey Edward Shults thrusts viewers into a situation without explanation, but enough facts become clear as the story moves on. Two families, strangers to each other, join together in a remote forest house. Boarded up and nailed down, the place is fortified against carriers of an unknown deadly virus that seems to have ended civilization. With artful use of darkness and long, spooky tracking shots, Shults maintains an atmosphere of sharply felt anxiety, danger, distrust and even sexual tension. It Comes at Night is a spellbinding tale of family and survival.

(David Luhrssen)

Megan Leavey PG-13

Having found her life’s purpose as a soldier in Iraq, Megan (Kate Mara) is the handler of bombsniffing German shepherd, Rex. They make a formidable team, until the pair are injured by an IED and separated by the Marines. While struggling to recover, Megan realizes she needs Rex, and because he is incapable of working with anyone else, he needs her. Discharged from the Marines due to her injuries, Megan embarks on a difficult and relentless campaign to adopt Rex despite military policy to the contrary. A heartfelt story that avoids becoming overly sentimental, the film successfully illustrates the strength of humancanine friendships. (Lisa Miller)

The Mummy PG-13

Archeologists Nick (Tom Cruise) and Jenny (Annabelle Wallis) are ferrying the mummy of Egyptian Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella) when their plane crashes spectacularly. Both survive, and Nick, now endowed with super strength, learns that the vengeful princess’ spirit has cursed his soul and bound Nick’s fate to hers. He fights to retain his humanity and to protect the world from the havoc unleashed upon mankind by the resurrected princess and her army of minions. Once a cheeky franchise starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, this intensely serious reboot boasts stunning special effects, but is the action, already repetitive over the course of a mere two-minute trailer, enough to hold audiences transfixed? (L.M.)

UPAF Honors Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy (1900-1967), who starred alongside Katherine Hepburn in Woman of the Year and Adam’s Rib, was born in Milwaukee and grew up in Bay View.

To honor his local roots, the United Performing Arts Fund will conclude its 50th anniversary campaign to raise money for Milwaukee arts groups with a tribute to the star. Veteran Milwaukee actor James Pickering will perform Tracy’s closing speech from his final film: a plea for racial understanding from Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967). The closing celebration for UPAF’s fund drive will include complimentary beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres. (D.L.) 5:30 p.m., June 14, Northern Lights Theatre at Potawatomi Hotel and Casino. Admission is $10.

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The Arab characters were painted with yellow ochre makeup, palm trees were constructed of wood and canvas and the oasis was manufactured and trucked to the back lot. The Sheik (1921) became Rudolph Valentino’s most memorable movie, trading on lacquered Orientalism and a vision of dangerous male sexuality unbridled by civilization, Western or otherwise. The film promised sinful thrills, a glimpse into the harem, but was more notable for extended scenes of the eventually thwarted rape of a reckless English woman seeking adventure under the desert son.

Valentino stared as the absolute lord of a Bedouin clan. Opposites attract—the dark tribal chieftain and the wan Englishwoman, who becomes the object of kidnapping by a rapacious rival sheik. Arabs don’t fare well in this film’s portrayal, especially when a surprise surfaces at the climax: Valentino’s sheik is actually English and Spanish. Box-office success led to the 1926 sequel, Valentino’s final film.

The Who: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 2004

Cards on the table: I thought The Who should have disbanded after Keith Moon’s death—and I don’t think I was entirely wrong. Post-Moon albums sound pretty slight in contrast with The Who’s accomplishments during their first decade together. However, a live set, a Blu-ray (or DVD) plus two CDs, showed The Who in 2004 as still energetic, proficient and entirely credible as performers. The show includes “I Can’t Explain” and other hits from across their career.

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In the opening segment of this horror anthology, Jovanka Vuckovic’s “The Box,” a boy asks to look inside a box on a stranger’s lap. His face darkens; he never touches food again. Chilling in its quietly mounting anxiety and unanswered questions, “The Box” measures the distances that widen between mother and son, eventually between husband and wife. The four novella-length films comprising XX are by female directors, evidence that women are advancing into formerly male strongholds.

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“They don’t realize that there is a hotbed of interesting things going on.”“A State of Fashion,” comprised of four exhibitions opening June 11 at MOWA, presents a more revealing picture of the history and state of the art of fashion in Wisconsin.

In 1972, a cache of historic clothing was discovered in an attic in Marshfield, Wisc., containing everything from haute couture dresses to mourning veils. The exquisite garments once worn by six generations of the Roddis family, some of which predate the Civil War, are presented in “The Roddis Collection: American Style and Spirit.”

“Florence Eiseman: Designing Childhood for the American Century” is a complete retrospective of the children’s clothing line favored by fashion luminaries such as the Kennedys and Princess Grace of Monaco through contemporary taste makers like Beyoncé and the Obamas.

“The exhibition ties in with changing views of children in the late-20th century,” says Winters. “Eiseman was the first to create clothing designed specifically for the child’s body.

Up until that point, the end of World War II, kids clothes had just been miniature adult clothes.”

Two more exhibitions round out “A State of Fashion.”

“Contemporary Threads: Wisconsin Fashion” shows selections from 10 present-day Wisconsin designers, including four alumnae of “Project Runway” and one of Lady Gaga’s designers. “Daniel Arnold: A Paparazzo for Strangers” is the first solo show for the Milwaukee native and Instagram phenom who has garnered critical praise for his New York street photography.

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The Monument Square Art Festival overtakes Downtown Racine once again on Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11. The annual festival features all the trappings of a community-minded, family friendly arts event. Dozens of artists from far and wide will be showing and selling their wares. Live music will fill the air along with the smells of various food vendors. Artists will compete for $1,000 in the Great Lakes Chalk Art Competition.

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“Milwaukee Blacksmith” premiered on the History Channel in August 2016.

The series follows the Knapps, whose family owned and operated business, Milwaukee Blacksmith, is dedicated to the ancient art of manipulating hot metal.

In celebration of the U.S. Open—taking place at the Erin Hills golf course—the Knapps have wrought a 10-foot replica of the course’s clover logo. The sculpture will be installed in the U.S. Open’s welcome area: a perfect photo-op and representation of contemporary Milwaukee craftsmanship.

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ark O’Connell’s first book is a biography of a larger-thanlife astronomer, professor and pioneer of the field known as “Ufology”—J. Allen Hynek. O’Connell, who lives in Fort Atkinson, Wis., has several things in common with his subject. He’s a professor (he teaches a screenwriting class at DePaul University), a Midwesterner (Hynek was born and raised in Chicago) and an individual long fascinated with reports of visitors from other worlds. O’Connell utilized this interest to write several scripts—including episodes of “Star Trek: the Next Generation” and “Deep Space Nine”—and gained real world insight by being a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network, the largest UFO research organization in the world.

Hynek, bespectacled with a neatly trimmed goatee, a pipe and what his son described as “astro-beatnik” loud neckties, was introduced to what were then known as “flying saucers” in 1948. He at first dismissed these reports as “sheer nonsense” and a “psychological postwar craze,” but was intrigued when, that same year, the Air Force approached him. Hynek was working as the director of the observatory at Ohio State University and was asked to be a consultant for Project Sign—a study of reports of sightings of UFOs and aerial phenomenon.

Hynek went on to be a consultant for follow-up studies Project Grudge and Project Blue Book. Over the years, he would go on to travel the world examining cases and interviewing hundreds of UFO witnesses.

“Mr. UFO” would become one of the most familiar experts on the subject, often appearing on television programs and writing his own articles and books on the subject. His first book, 1972’s The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, was the basis for Steven Spielberg’s 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the title based on Hynek’s classification system for UFO encounters.

O’Connell does a wonderful job bringing Hynek’s career to life in an informative but engaging style. We learn about his life as an astronomer, details on his UFO case studies and his running feud with Carl Sagan.

Despite helping found the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, Sagan was a critic who dismissed much of the field of UFO research as “pseudoscience.” Sagan disagreed with Hynek regarding the validity of UFO sightings so greatly that the two eventually had a staged debate at a futurism conference in 1975.

Hynek died in 1986. As O’Connell states in his author’s note prefacing the book, Hynek’s story is one that deserves to be written in the stars instead of stuffed in a filing cabinet in a basement, where O’Connell found much research material for this book.

O’Connell’s book is a good step to making that happen.

Mark O’Connell will discuss J. Allen Hynek at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 14, at Boswell Book Co., 2559 N. Downer Ave.

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usband-and-wife duo Joey and Holly Baird like to talk about getting their hands dirty.

They are the hosts of “The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener” radio show, where at 9 a.m. every Saturday morning between March and October, listeners can tune in to WNOV 860 AM or 106.5 FM for advice about gardening. From growing the food to canning it, the Bairds are there every step of the way. But the radio show is only the most recent of their efforts to educate the masses.

In 2010 they began filming gardening videos and putting them on YouTube. The videos were not an instant success. But the Bairds kept at it, and eventually gardeners from across the country began to pay attention. They claim nearly 10,000 subscribers for their YouTube channel and they post roughly nine videos per week.

They cover a wide range of topics in both the videos and the radio show, even inviting other gardeners on as guests. Off the Cuff sat down with Joey to discuss things further.

What was your goal when you began the Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener?

The goal was to inform people that you don’t have to have a small farm in order to grow

something to eat. You can have a stoop, patio, porch or deck, and you can apply the information we provide, either on a small scale or a very large scale. It’s universal. A lot of our listeners live in the city so they don’t have the space Holly and I do, but they can still grow their own food. We want to help those people.

What are your goals for the future?

We would like to be known as the common gardener. People can come to us, and we can be a source of information that they trust. We want to have a solid reputation for trustworthy information related to gardeners, canners and even novice gardeners, so they know they can come to us if they have an issue. It’s a reputation that you can’t buy.

Are your gardening motivations more environmental or economic?

A little bit of both. We tell people the more you grow the less you have to buy, and you’re also doing a service to the earth because you’re not buying packaged things or things that have been shipped from other parts of the world. People understand that and they want to be healthier—that’s the ultimate goal of why they grow food, but they see that they can grow a little bit and save money, eat healthier and be a little nicer to the earth.

Who can become a gardener?

Anybody can garden who wants to garden.

Anybody can garden, but they need to want to garden. When we first began, our main demographic was 45-65-year-old women; now we are seeing more Millennials wanting to learn because they’re having children, and they’re concerned with what they’re kids are eating.

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A LOOK BACK AT THE LOCUST STREET FESTIVALS OF YESTERYEAR 41 years on, the Rive rwest festival retains its distinct character ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI ilwaukee’s East Side Housing Action Committee was formed in the early ’70s to advocate for tenants’ rights, but the group’s most lasting legacy was its role in saving Locust Street. In the mid ’70s, the city was pushing a plan to widen Locust Street between Holton and Humboldt and turn it into a boulevard—a move that would have bulldozed 15 businesses and uprooted dozens of families and residents. Led by the Housing Action Committee , neighbors fought those plans tooth and nail, and they won. Instead of being converted into a glorified expressway to the East Side, that previously neglected stretch of Locust was repaired and revitalized, its potholes filled and its crumbling curbs rebuilt, and the neighborhood celebrated with a party that would become a tradition.

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Of course, these days when people think of the Locust Street Festival, they’re more likely to think about music and revelry than they are the near miss that almost decimated the neighborhood decades ago. Now in its 41st year, the Locust Street Festival has grown into one of the city’s largest, most arts-rich neighborhood festivals. Over the years, similar celebrations have sprung up around the city, each colored by the character of its neighborhood, and all of them worth checking out at least once, but none are packed quite as densely with bands, vendors and culture as Locust Street.

“Originally the event was quite small,” explains Linda Maslow, who has been the festival’s coordinator for the last 11 years. “It started out with one stage, and then everybody gradually got on board, so each year it’s just kind of gotten bigger and bigger.

This year, there are 35 bands on six stages.”

This year’s festival on Sunday, June 11, will once again kick off with a 1.8-mile beer run or walk at 11:30 a.m. Attendees can sign up that same morning from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Along with music from bands including Paper Holland, The Tritonics, Soul Low, Foreign Goods, The Atomic Spins, Faux Fiction, Antler House, Zed Kenzo, Whips and Calliope, other attractions include a children’s area, Tai Chi exhibitions, a drum circle from the Milwaukee Public Theatre and a typewriter advice tent from artist Anja Notanja at the Woodland Pattern Book Center.

Linneman’s Riverwest Inn owner Jim Linneman organized the festival in the late ’80s and early ’90s and still designs its brochure. While chatting about the event, he flipped through a program from 1991 that illustrates just how much and how little the festival has changed. The beer run kicked off at the same time, and festival perennial Sigmund Snopek performed, as he will again this year. But back then, the Uptowner hosted a daylong chess tournament, and the Milwaukee Fire Department presented a Sesame Street fire safety show for kids. Meanwhile, McGruff the Crime Dog handed out high-fives at the Children’s Amusement Area, where there were also elephant and llama rides (it’s hard to imagine there being room for an elephant on Locust Street these days).

Almost as shocking as the Locust Street elephant was the amount of time Festival some bands used to perform.

Sunday, June 11 There was only one headliner listed at the stage for the Golden Locust Street Nugget (where the Riverwest between Holton Public House resides): Those X& Humboldt Cleavers, and they played from 1-6 p.m. Bands in general used to play a lot longer sets back then than they do now, Linneman says.

“Nowadays, bands do 45 minutes, an hour tops,” he explains, “but back in those days, a lot of times the minimum was two 45-minute sets of all original material.”

Yet, even as the number of bands on the lineup swelled over the years and the event continued to attract more and more visitors from outside of Riverwest, the festival never lost its defining character.

“The festival grew out of community groups and civic pride, and that’s why it remains the great hippie festival that it’s always been, because many of those counterculture progressives continue to call Riverwest home,” Linneman says. “There’s always been a bastion of community spirit here, and that’s why the festival remains so colorful.”

For this year’s Locust Street Festival lineup, visit locuststreetfestival.org.

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here are a lot of advantages to recording your own band. If you’re fairly skilled at it, you can end up with a professional-sounding album at a fraction of the price that even a modest studio would charge, while retaining complete control over how your recordings sound. That last bit, though, can be a blessing and a curse, Sin Bad’s Ben Woyak explains.

“That freedom can be a prison,” the singer and guitarist says. “If you’re going to a private studio and paying somebody $50 an hour, it’s a lot easier because those financial and time constraints force you to make decisions a lot faster.”

He’s speaking from experience. Sin Bad just released their full-length debut album nearly three full years after recording it, and they blame that delay in part on all those decisions.

“The album went through two full mixes,” Woyak explains. “I’ve probably heard the record a thousand times now, considering how much time we spent on the actual mixing process, so eventually the whole thing just got put on the back burner. Eventually we just had to say, ‘Enough is enough, we have to make this happen.’”

That sounds dangerously close to the recipe for an overworked album, but anybody fearing some sort of over-long, overreaching modernday Pet Sounds from the band can rest easy. The group’s self-titled debut stays true to the spirit of the group’s first demos. It’s a brisk, melodic, entirely unpretentious punk record.

Woyak probably speaks for the rest of the band when he says that, at this point in their lives, their muses are pretty well cemented. “I’ve evolved as a musician over the years, but at the same time my influences have been pretty similar since I started playing in Milwaukee bands back in 2001,” Woyak says. “I’ve always worked from that melodic, fast, loud and a little raw sort of sound. I grew up listening to metal and gradu-

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ated and fell in love with ’80s melodic punk, like Hüsker Dü and The Replacements, and those bands still kind of shape what we do.”

It’s rare to find a band in any genre whose tastes are quite this in sync. Woyak splits singing and songwriting duties with bassist Audrey Pennings—they’d both played together in a previous group, Rich People—and their songs are so aligned with each other’s that it’s almost surprising they didn’t come from the same pen. Both sing about social anxiety, misunderstandings and other discomforts that make daily life just that much more awkward. Meanwhile, drummer Joe Kirschling, of Celebrated Workingman, keeps the tempos relentlessly fast. Even the slowest songs absolutely trot.

When discussing the band, Woyak strategically dances around a term that, for many listeners, might be the first that comes to mind: pop-punk.

That term is riddled with unflattering connotations.

“It’s not that I’m against that term,” Woyak says. “I don’t feel offended when people call us a pop-punk band, because we do have a lot of those aspects in our sound, but I certainly don’t think of us that way. In general, Audrey and I both write lyrics based on our personal experiences, and we don’t have any interest in the sort of lyrics that people often associate with the pop-punk genre—either lyrics that are dumb for dumb’s sake, or lyrics that seem as if they’re written to speak to adolescence.”

Just because the sound is often associated with youth, Woyak says, doesn’t mean the songs themselves have to be about youth. “Simple, short, melodic songs have been a mainstay of good pop music since pop music was created, and long before the term pop-punk was coined,” he explains. “So I don’t think there’s any requirement that music like this has to be written for adolescence. There are plenty of adults that still listen to punk music, and this kind of melodic punk music, and who appreciate lyrical content that’s above the standards of what is usually called pop-punk these days. This music doesn’t have to be immature.”

Sin Bad’s debut album is streaming now at sinxbad.bandcamp.com. The band will perform at Club Garibaldi on Sunday, June 11 at 3:15 p.m. as part of this week’s annual PRF BBQ festival.

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Norah Jones w/ The Candles @ The Riverside Theater JUNE 2, 2017::BY JAMIE LEE RAKE

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f versatility defines Norah Jones’ 15 years as a solo recording act, composure is as apt a descriptor as any for her at her performance Friday at the Riverside Theater.

Moving from the instrument with which she found her initial fame, piano, to organ and guitar during the course of her 19-song performance, she didn’t look to be breaking a sweat. Neither did she display much in the way of exertion, as her soft, sometimes strident singing blurred the genre boundaries between jazz, folk, country, R&B and pop. That kind of organic stylistic path-finding puts her on a short list of commercially successful, critically lauded American musical gadabouts, at the top of which is arguably Ray Charles.

Of course, when Charles was coming up, there was no such thing as an adult album alternative radio format, nor the concomitant branding and imaging of lifestyle sold around it. Nor did he float from one style to another over the course of one album as Jones regularly does. By dint of millions in sales and her vagabond muse, Jones epitomizes the breadth and urbanity of the AAA milieu. Jones’ album of last year, Day Breaks, harkens to her 2002 breakthrough, Come Away With Me, in its gently being all over the place.

Fairly gently, anyway. Beneath the serene vocals of the title track lies a bit of trip-hop melodic abstraction giving an edge to her languid melancholy. “Flipside,” best heard apart from its heavy-handed video, simmers with a propulsively funky souljazz fire. The political morphs into the spiritual on “Peace.” As one of her numbers where she pared her down her accompanists to a stand-up bassist and drummer, it allowed her to indulge in the sort ivory tickling that set off her embrace from VH1 and, soon enough, the culture at large.

In her minimal chatting between songs, Jones sounded grateful to be back in Milwaukee and referred to the Riverside as a second home of sorts. Perhaps she wasn’t in a loquacious mood, but the enigmatic imagery and narrative behind some of her songs, such as the Tom Waits-redolent “Sinkin’ Soon” and “Tragedy,” would have benefited from some contextualizing spiel. Compensating a bit for that absence was the relative warmth of her two encores, presented with her strumming an acoustic guitar with her bandmates surrounding in a familial image that might have mirrored numerous scenarios from the pre-’70s “Grand Ole Opry.”

Jones’ band was at least partially comprised of some of her opening act, New York City band The Candles. Interestingly, that band performed three of their eight songs with an incomplete lineup, as members of the quartet joined singer Josh Lattanzi on stage over the course of subsequent tunes. Though positioned as Americana by some writers, their sentimentality and tunefulness could also be heard as a kind of unplugged power pop, with Gin Blossoms being a kind of template or parallel. The way they ramped up their presence may have contributed to a certain lack of engagement, but by the time they finished, they had built up enough energy for a longer set to have been a welcome prospect.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 9

Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Anodyne Coffee Walker’s Point Roastery & Cafe, Holy Sheboygan! album release w/Ruth BDR Ginsburg & Ali Lubbad (of Painted Caves) Cactus Club, Tim Kasher (Cursive, The Good Life) w/ Shoot Down the Moon, John Bradley & Campdogzz Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Brian, Starr, & Ben w/Mr. Mark Hembree Caroline’s Jazz Club, Tribute to the Late Don Lewis w/ Sam Belton Quintet Chic Underground Lounge, The Kal Bergendahl Project (KBP) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Down Stares w/Wendigo (8pm); DJ: era & The Nile (10pm) Club Garibaldi, Gorguts w/Defeated Sanity, Exist, Cyanosis & 40 oz. Fist Company Brewing, Twin Brother w/King Washington & Devil Met Contention County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Frank’s Power Plant, The Krank Daddies w/Crazy Rocket Fuel & Electric Adventure Henry Maier Festival Park, PrideFest Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Johannes Wallmann Quartet (8pm), Late Night Session: Nickel and Rose (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Jeff Hoste Lakefront Brewery Beer Hall, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Marlavous Marla’s 60th B-day Bash w/members of The Greatest Hits, The Velvet Underground Project, Blue Valentine, Mud River Lee Bluegrass Orchestra, Velvet Whip & more Lucky Chance, Jude and The Dudes Mamie’s, The Blues Disciples Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Rainy Day Crush w/Sidecar Milwaukee Ale House, Jonny T-Bird & the MPs Pabst Theater, Old Crow Medicine Show Packing House, Barbara Stephan Group (6:30pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Jake Williams (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Our House (9pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Shank Hall, Bent Knee w/District 97 Smitty’s On The Edge (Mequon), Matt MF Tyner Steaming Cup (Waukesha), The Ricochettes (6:30pm) Tenth Street Theatre, Milwaukee Rock Theatre presents: Green Day’s “American Idiot” The Bay Restaurant, Karen Cameron Trio The Landing at Hoyt Park, Kirk Tatnall solo (5pm) Up & Under Pub, VB Jeebies w/Frutiger Von Trier, Peter Roller/Steve Cohen Band

SATURDAY, JUNE 10

Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Bootz Saloon, Stephan Neal Cactus Club, Dave King Trucking Company w/Hanging Hearts CD release show Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Katie Scullin All Acoustic Band Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band w/James Sodke, Larry Tresp, Neil Davis, Aaron Gardner & Dave “Smitty” Smith Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: The Thousand Year Olde Eggs w/Bagsong (8pm); DJ: Mil-Dew Jays (10pm) Club Garibaldi, PRF BBQ (1pm) Colectivo Coffee On Prospect, Sean Rowe Company Brewing, Match Stick w/Offsite, and Bo & Airo Cue Club of Wisconsin (Waukesha), KIng of Clubs Frank’s Power Plant, Redline Messiah w/Size 5’s, Scratch 45 & Mud Dog Great Lakes Distillery, Jude and 2 Dudes Henry Maier Festival Park, PrideFest Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jazz Estate, Eric Schoor Quartet (8pm), Late Night Session: Late Night Session: Nathan Pflughoeft Trio (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Jeff Hoste Lucky Chance, Aces High w/Cyanide Son Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Metal For Mental Illness w/ multiple bands Milwaukee Ale House, Lukyn Skywyrd Milwaukee Boat Line Dock, Concert Cruise: Maple Road Blues Band Pabst Theater, Cody Jinks w/Ward Davis Packing House, Rhonda Begos w/Warren Wiegratz, Peter Mac, Dwayne Williams & Brian Dale (6:30pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: The Twintones Racine Theatre Guild, Rocky LaPorte And Friends Rave / Eagles Club, Lucky Boys Confusion w/The Dayrollers & The Ethan Keller Group (all-ages, 8pm) Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Voices for Awareness: Well-Known Strangers, Bascom Hill & Josh Krug Shank Hall, Terrapin Flyer Silver Creek Brewpub (Cedarburg), Matt MF Tyner & Rolf Wessel Duo Suhmer’s Saloon (Eagle), Lemmings Remorse Tenth Street Theatre, Milwaukee Rock Theatre presents: Green Day’s “American Idiot” The Brass Tap, Chris Brandenburg & the Bluetones The Metal Grill (Cudahy), H1Z1 w/NSOA, Ratbatspider & Bad Bread (ages 18-plus, 9pm) The Rock Sports Complex, Summer Concert Series in Umbrella Bar: King Solomon Trinity Three Irish Pubs, Superfly w/DJ Zovo Up & Under Pub, Neocaveman

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Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Bill Miller Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: CHIEF (8pm); DJ: Sheppy (10pm) Club Garibaldi, PRF BBQ (1pm) Estabrook Biergarten (Estabrook Park), The Freistadt Alte Kameraden Band (12pm) Henry Maier Festival Park, PrideFest Klinger’s East, Locust Street Festival: Sigmund Snopek’s Beer Show (11am), The Tritonics (2:30pm), Matt Hendricks (4pm), Dr. Chow’s Love Medicine (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Locust Street Festival: Xposed 4Heads (1pm), Klaus Nomi’s Homies (2:15pm), Rocket Paloma (3:30pm), Paper Holland (4:45pm), Funk Summit Bass Team (6pm), The Young Revelators (7:15pm); Inside Stage: Chris Haise Band (2pm), The Atomic Spins (3:15pm), Faux Fiction (4:30pm), Klaus Nomi’s Homies (6pm) Locust Street Festival, Lakefront Brewery Stage: Lovanova (12:30pm), Signal Daddy (1:45pm), The Bang Bang (3pm), Pridefest Hip-Hop Showcase (4:15pm), Calliope (5:45pm), Whips (7pm); Wisconsin Veteran’s Stage: Extra Crispy Brass Band (11am), Brewtown Beat (1pm), Copper Box (3:30pm), Antler House (6pm) Marx Pioneer Inn (Muskego), Tomm Lehnigk w/Red Deacon & Gary Fiedler (3pm) Pabst Theater, Festival del Mariachi (4pm) Purple Door Ice Cream, Polish Moon Polka Trio (12pm) Riverwest Public House, Locust Street Festival: Sex Scenes (12pm), Powerwagon (1pm), Vincent VanGreat (2pm), Moon Rats (3pm), Dogs in Ecstasy (4pm), Zed Kenzo (5pm), Soul Low (6pm), Foreign Goods (7pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic

Scotty’s Bar & Pizza, Country Music w/Bill Spaulding & Friends (4pm) Tenth Street Theatre, Milwaukee Rock Theatre presents: Green Day’s “American Idiot” The Tracks, Locust Street Festival: Tweed Funk (11:30am), Katzsass (2:30pm), Chicken Wire Empire (5:30pm) Thiensville Village Park, Lions Fest Car Show w/Floor It! (11am) Turner Hall Ballroom, The SteelDrivers w/Evergreen Grass Von Trier, On the Patio: Robin Pluer (4pm)

MONDAY, JUNE 12

Italian Community Center, Jeff Lebarge Swing Explosion w/Pete Sorce (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Mark Davis Trio Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Sarah Moore (7:3010:30pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John Up & Under Pub, Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers Open Mic

TUESDAY, JUNE 13

Cactus Club, R. Ring (Kelley Deal of The Breeders) w/ Dorth Nakota Chill On the Hill (Humboldt Park), Driveway Thriftdwellers w/Derek Pritzl and the Gamble, & Derek Sallmann (6pm) Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Italian Community Center, Dennis Gruenling w/The Nick Moss Band (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Guitarist Doug MacDonald Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Stokes Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Jim Yorgan Sextet Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm) Pabst Theater, Portugal. The Man w/Electric Guest Parkside 23, Andrew Gelles (6pm) Red Dot Wauwatosa, Bobby Bare Jr. Shank Hall, Jamestown Revival w/Colter Wall The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session The Metal Grill (Cudahy), In Death w/Repaid in Blood, Bury the Rod, Casket Robbery, Morta Skuld & The Unnecessary Gunpoint Lecture Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich Turner Hall Ballroom, Rhiannon Giddens

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14

Art Bar, John McDonough Cactus Club, Chastity Belt w/Sneaks & Varsity Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Peter Mulvey w/Bill Camplin & Sista Strings Caroline’s Jazz Club, Harvey Westmoreland w/Knee Deep Blues Jam Conway’s Smokin’ Bar & Grill, Open Jam w/Big Wisconsin Johnson District 14 Brewery & Pub, Wednesday Open Mic Hart Park, Tosa Tonight: The Mike Benign Compulsion (6pm), The Novelists (7pm) Hot Water Wherehouse, The Ricochettes Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Noodle Jam (6pm) Jazz Estate, Record Session: “The Very Best Of Diana Krall” w/Olivia Gonzales Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/ feature Scott Summers (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miramar Theatre, Stage Right Pub: Acoustic Anarchy Moose Lodge 49, Larry Lynne Solo Morton’s (Cedarburg), Bill Stone Band (6:30pm) Nomad World Pub, Locals Only Packing House, Carmen Nickerson & Kostia Efimov (6pm) Paulie’s Field Trip, Humpday Jam w/Dave Wacker & Mitch Cooper Pere Marquette Park, River Rhythms: Willy Porter & Carmen Nickerson (6:30pm) Pewaukee Lakefront Park, Waterfront Wednesdays: Burgundy Ties (6pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Wednesday Night Live w/Josh Becker (5:30pm) Siebken’s Resort (Elkhart Lake), Joe Kadlec Zeidler Union Square, Westown Farmers’ Market: Brecken Miles (11:45am)

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “When I grow up, I’m not sure what I want to be.” Have you ever heard that thought bouncing around your mind, Gemini? Or how about this one: “Since I can’t decide what I want to be, I’ll just be everything.”

If you have been tempted to swear allegiance to either of those perspectives, I suggest it’s time to update your relationship with them. A certain amount of ambivalence about commitment and receptivity to myriad possibilities will always be appropriate for you. But if you hope to fully claim your birthright, if you long to ripen into your authentic self, you’ll have to become ever-more definitive and specific about what you want to be and do.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a Cancerian myself, I’ve had days when I’ve stayed in bed from morning to nightfall, confessing my fears to my imaginary friends and eating an entire cheesecake. As an astrologer, I’ve noticed that these blue patches seem more likely to occur during the weeks before my birthday each year. If you go through a similar blip any time soon, here’s what I recommend: Don’t feel guilty about it. Don’t resist it. Instead, embrace it fully. If you feel lazy and depressed, get REALLY lazy and depressed. Literally hide under the covers with your headphones on and feel sorry for yourself for as many hours as it takes to exhaust the gloom and emerge renewed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the early days of the internet, “sticky” was a term applied to websites that were good at drawing readers back again and again. To possess this quality, a content provider had to have a knack for offering text and images that web surfers felt an instinctive yearning to bond with. I’m reanimating this term so I can use it to describe you. Even if you don’t have a website, you now have a soulful adhesiveness that arouses people’s urge to merge. Be discerning about how you use this stuff. You may be stickier than you realize!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Ancient Mayans used chili and magnolia and vanilla to prepare exotic chocolate drinks from cacao beans. The beverage was sacred and prestigious to them. It was a centerpiece of cultural identity and an accessory in religious rituals. In some locales, people were rewarded for producing delectable chocolate with just the right kind and amount of froth. I suspect, Virgo, that you will soon be asked to do the equivalent of demonstrating your personal power by whipping up the best possible chocolate froth. And according to my reading of the astrological omens, the chances are good you’ll succeed.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do you have your visa for the wild side? Have you packed your bag of tricks? I hope you’ll bring gifts to dispense, just in case you’ll need to procure favors in the outlying areas where the rules are a bit loose. It might also be a good idea to take along a skeleton key and a snake bite kit. You won’t necessarily need them, but I suspect you’ll be offered magic cookies and secret shortcuts, and it would be a shame to have to turn them down simply because you’re unprepared for the unexpected.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re like a prince or princess who has been turned into a frog by the spell of a fairytale villain.

This situation has gone on for a while. In the early going, you retained a vivid awareness that you had been transformed. But the memory of your origins has faded, and you’re no longer working so diligently to find a way to change back into your royal form. Frankly, I’m concerned. This horoscope is meant to remind you of your mission. Don’t give up! Don’t lose hope!

And take extra good care of your frog-self, please.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): People might have ideas about you that are at odds with how you understand yourself. For example, someone might imagine that you have been talking trash about them—even though you haven’t been. Someone else may describe a memory they have about you, and you know it’s a distorted version of what actually happened. Don’t be surprised if you hear even more outlandish tales, too, like how you’re stalking Taylor Swift or conspiring with the One World Government to force all citizens to eat kale every day.

I’m here to advise you to firmly reject all of these skewed projections. For the immediate future, it’s cru-

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cial to stand up for your right to define yourself—to be the final authority on what’s true about you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “God doesn’t play dice with the universe,” said Albert Einstein. In response, another Nobel Prizewinning physicist, Niels Bohr, said to Einstein, “Stop telling God what to do.” I urge you to be more like Bohr than Einstein in the coming weeks, Capricorn.

As much as possible, avoid giving instructions to anyone, including God, and resist the temptation to offer advice. In fact, I recommend that you abstain from passing judgment, demanding perfection and trying to compel the world to adapt itself to your definitions. Instead, love and accept everything and everyone exactly as they are right now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Lysistrata is a satire by ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It takes place during the war between Athens and Sparta. The heroine convinces a contingent of women to withhold sexual privileges from the soldiers until they stop fighting. “I will wear my most seductive dresses to inflame my husband’s ardor,” says one, “but I will never yield to his desires. I won’t raise my legs towards the ceiling. I will not take up the position of the Lioness on a Cheese Grater.” Regardless of your gender, Aquarius, your next assignment is twofold: 1. Don’t be like the women in the play. Give your favors with discerning generosity. 2.

Experiment with colorful approaches to pleasure like the Lioness with a Cheese Grater, the Butterfly Riding the Lizard, the Fox Romancing the River, and any others you can dream up.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Take your seasick pills. The waves will sometimes be higher than your boat. Although I don’t think you’ll capsize, the ride may be wobbly. And unless you have waterproof clothes, it’s probably best to just get naked. You WILL get drenched. By the way, don’t even fantasize about heading back to shore prematurely. You have good reasons to be sailing through the rough waters. There’s a special “fish” out there that you need to catch. If you snag it, it will feed you for months—maybe longer.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you chose me as your relationship guide, I’d counsel you and your closest ally to be generous with each other; to look for the best in each other and praise each other’s beauty and strength. If you asked me to help foster your collaborative zeal, I’d encourage you to build a shrine in honor of your bond—an altar that would invoke the blessings of deities, nature spirits and the ancestors. If you hired me to advise you on how to keep the fires burning and the juices flowing between you two, I’d urge you to never compare your relationship to any other, but rather celebrate the fact that it’s unlike any other in the history of the planet.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Milky Way Galaxy contains more than 100 billion stars.

If they were shared equally, every person on Earth could have dominion over at least 14. I mention this because you’re in a phase when it makes sense for you to claim your 14. Yes, I’m being playful, but I’m also quite serious. According to my analysis of the upcoming weeks, you will benefit from envisaging big, imaginative dreams about the riches that could be available to you in the future. How much money do you want? How much love can you express? How thoroughly at home in the world could you feel? How many warm rains would you like to dance beneath?

How much creativity do you need to keep reinventing your life? Be extravagant as you fantasize.

Homework: Even if you don’t send it, write a letter to the person you admire most. Share it with me at freewillastrology.com.

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

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f high-schoolers seem stressed by active lifestyles and competitive pressures, and consequently fail to sleep the recommended nine to 10 hours a day, it must be a good idea for the federal government to give grants (including to Las Cruces High School in New Mexico) to purchase comfy, $14,000 “nap pods” that drive out the racket with soft music, for 20 minutes a shot during those frenzied classroom days. A May NPR report based on Las Cruces’ experience quoted favorable reviews by students, backed by a doctor and a nurse practitioner who pointed to research showing that adequate sleep “can” boost memory and attention and thus “can” improve school performance (and therefore must be a great use of federal education dollars).

Unclear on the Concept

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam argues that his “hands are tied” by “federal food laws” and that fresh, “all-natural” milk with the cream skimmed off the top cannot be sold in Florida as “milk” (or “skim milk”) but must be labeled “imitation milk”—unless the “allnatural” milk adds (artificial) vitamin A to the product. A family farm in the state’s panhandle (Ocheesee Creamery) decided to challenge the law, and Putnam, who recently announced his candidacy for governor, said he would try to resolve the issue soon.

sellers’ clown-related items (dolls, miniatures, porcelain statues, paintings).

The Continuing Crisis

You Mean Jethro and Abby, Too? In contrast to the exciting work of the TV series (near the top of broadcast ratings for the last decade), real agents in the Naval Criminal Investigative Service have labored over computer screens eight to 10 hours a day for two months now, employing their facial-recognition software—just to scour websites to identify victims of nude-photo postings of military personnel that came to light earlier this year. “[Y]ou get pretty burned out,” said the NCIS director. A simple word search of “uniformed military nude” got nearly 80 million hits, according to a May Associated Press dispatch from the Quantico Marine base, where the 20 investigators labor side by side.

Oops!

In May, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley apparently mindlessly signed the proclamation designating a special day for the late Trepierre “Tre” Hummons (submitted by his grieving father, to honor the son’s “sacrifice”). Tre Hummons was killed in 2015 by a police officer—but only after Tre had just shot and killed another Cincinnati police officer. © 2017 CHUCK SHEPHERD

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(1) It recently became necessary for Candace Frazee and Steve Lubanski to acquire a bigger home in the Los Angeles area because their 33,000 “bunny”-related items (stuffed bunnies, antique bunnies, bunny paintings, bunny dinnerware, etc.) needed more space. (2) The world’s only museum devoted to the “house cat” allows self-guided tours in Sylva, N.C., where curator Harold Sims displays 10,000 artifacts including a genuine petrified cat (with whiskers!) pulled from a 16th-century English chimney. (3) Brantford, Ontario, real estate agent Kyle Jansink, speaking for unidentified sellers, said he accepted the challenge of selling the meticulously maintained home “as is”—still packed with the

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Company!!!� Ba-ding! ++++++++++++++++++++++ I know a married couple who both lost their jobs at this broom factory Up North there, and were having a hard time finding new jobs ’cause our Republican state sucks for jobs.

And to boot, the couple’s mounting credit card debt required some immediate income. The wife suggested that she could whore herself out, but her husband

was less than thrilled about that idea.

But financial necessities along with a less-than-swinging economy got the best of her, and she went behind her husband’s back to go whoring.

One night, she came back with a huge wad of cash and came clean to her husband about how she had earned it, adding that desperate times required desperate measures. Sure, he was upset, but curious as to how much she made. “I made $398.10,� she said. “Who the heck paid ten cents?� the husband asked. “Everybody,� she said.

Ba-ding! ++++++++++++++++++ So I’m at this wedding ’cause you know, it’s June. The guy and gal are standing at the altar, about to get pronounced by the pastor, when the bride-to-be looks at her soon-to-be groom and sees that the knucklehead has a set of golf clubs with him. “What in the world are you doing with those golf clubs in church?� she says. “Well,� he says, “this isn’t going to take all afternoon, is it?� Ba-ding! ++++++++++++++++++++++ OK, I’m back. So, as I was going to say, if you listen to the Speaker of the Crapola Paul Ryan yammer about the Republican tax-cut budget and their health-care notion that includes everything you’d want except health care, you’d have to believe

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And speaking of poor, sick and elderly, I see myself covering that trifecta right around the corner, you bet. But I’m not worried, no sir, ’cause I’m thinking of cooking up a brand-new religion for the

people of the world to rally ’round, and soon I’d be a rich guy who didn’t have to pay taxes. I could live with that, and it’s something I’ve been working on whenever I got some spare time, what the fock.

But I’ll tell you’s, dreaming up a religion out of the clear thin blue air is no piece of focking cake. First thing with a religion before you can start collecting money is you got to have a handbook that’s got all kinds of rules, routines and dogma—not to mention dictums—that people need to memorize ’cause you just can’t have people making stuff up as they go along or before you know it they’ll be at each other’s throats.

And yes, the dictums. You got to have good dictums and they goddamn better be set in stone from the get-go, and you know what? You just don’t come up with a bunch of dictums overnight. Dictums are a bitch. I spent all last week considering dictums and I’m still a day late and dollar short on dictums for my religion.

I did come up with three, though: Good deeds; kind words; let a smile be your umbrella. But if that is to be the holy trinity of my own religion, I may as well consider myself already excommuni-fockingcated. What a world.

Perhaps to perform a miracle would be wise, pronto. And so shall I visit the Uptowner tavern/ charm school and change a recently donated Hamilton sawbuck into bourbon. God bless America, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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