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The Legacy of Milwaukee County Parks HOW FORWARD-THINKING PUBLIC POLICY AND GOOD DESIGN BEAUTIFIED OUR COMMUNITY

::BY VIRGINIA SMALL // ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY ne hallmark of Milwaukee County’s distinctive parks is that they reflect the native landscape. Preserving waterways and woodlands as public spaces also has been positive for the region’s overall ecology. Charles B. Whitnall is often credited with promoting this naturalistic approach, specifically with his 1923 countywide parks-and-parkways plan. Nonetheless, others advanced such concepts before he did.

Milwaukee can add another name to its roster of trailblazing environmentalists and landscape designers. A comprehensive new book, Warren H. Manning: Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner, includes a chapter about the Massachusetts native’s contributions to Milwaukee parks. Manning (1860-1938) first came here with Frederick Law Olmsted, who was designing three parks, starting around 1892. Olmsted, considered the father of American parks, was approaching retirement; Manning, nearly 40 years his junior, was his knowledgeable planting-design supervisor. Like Olmsted, Manning also eventually managed a far-flung national practice and exerted major influence on the growing professions of landscape architecture and urban planning.

After Manning launched his own firm in 1896, he designed a dozen Milwaukee projects, including for the city’s nascent parks commission, the Downer Women’s College (now part of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and the Pabst Family estate. During two decades, he worked on more than 60 Wisconsin projects. Despite all that, Manning has little name recognition here. In any case, few landscape designers become household names. Their legacies are often blurred by neglect or nature’s vagaries, or even erased by bulldozers. That was the fate of Manning’s most celebrated Milwaukee contribution—the Sunken Garden that graced Mitchell Park for eight decades until its removal in the mid-1980s.

Manning started working as a boy in the renowned nursery owned by his father, Jacob Warren Manning, in Reading, Mass. He joined Olmsted’s firm in 1888 and his expertise quickly made him a valued team member who reported directly to Olmsted, according to Robin Karson, one of the book’s editors.

In the chapter on Milwaukee’s parks, William Grundmann wrote, “While the Olmsted firm outlined the original park system in broad strokes, it was Manning who filled in the details.”

Surviving legacies include stands of venerable trees in Lake and Washington parks.

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The First Environmental Planner

Manning played a major role in planning the National Parks System and was one of 11 founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects, which first met in New York in 1899. Karson writes that he was also “the first environmental planner” in the U.S. and developed concepts that were the underpinnings of what’s now known Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Karson says Manning was a pioneer in two principal areas: resource-based design and planning, and communitybased participatory design. Also, like Olmsted, Manning envisioned how his landscapes would evolve far into the future. As adviser to Milwaukee’s Park Commission, Manning was the bridge between Olmsted—whose design concepts informed the city’s early parks—and Whitnall, who built upon those foundations as the father of Milwaukee County Parks.

The book does not say whether Manning knew Whitnall.

However, both were steeped in horticulture from childhood and took ecological approaches to landscape design when Victorian formalism was still the rage. Manning’s consultation on public projects in Milwaukee concluded as the early designed parks were being completed, around 1905. He worked on 1,600 projects throughout the U.S., from modest gardens to large estates to entire cities. He also mentored many young landscape architects, including Dan Kiley, who designed gardens for the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Milwaukee Art Museum.

This book (illustrated beautifully with vintage and contemporary photographs) traces the evolution of American landscape design through the work of a visionary who helped shaped ideas as well as terrain. Notably, just in the years Manning worked for Olmsted, he also supervised final plantings for the Chicago World’s Fair, helped envision what became the incomparable Biltmore Estate near Asheville, N.C., and mediated thorny planting-design dilemmas along Boston’s Muddy River.

Warren Manning’s Milwaukee Parks Legacy EAST SIDE Lake Park

Located along a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan from North Avenue to Kenwood Boulevard and bordering Lincoln Memorial Drive. Parking is available in lots accessed

by Newberry Boulevard and Lake Park Road, and along adjacent streets.

A crown jewel of Milwaukee County Parks, Lake Park’s meandering pathways and scenic vistas showcase Frederick Law Olmsted design principles. However, Warren Manning was the planting designer and oversaw the park’s development for Olmsted’s firm. Many trees in the 138-acre park date back to its origins. Lake Park’s ravines embody what Manning and others called “wild gardens”— landscapes designed with a naturalistic aesthetic, including plants native to an area. They afford an escape from urban bustle.

Milwaukee County Parks continues to emphasize the planting and protection of native species in the park. Volunteers from Lake Park Friends remove invasive buckthorn, burdock and garlic mustard; their ongoing efforts are a key reason the park’s natural areas remain ecologically healthy.

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Located between Lake Drive and Oakland Avenue, two blocks south of Locust Avenue.

Although Manning’s role in Newberry Boulevard’s development is unclear, this linear greenway was planned by Olmsted as a graceful link between Lake Park and what was originally called River Park (now Riverside). Newberry was meant to extend the park experience and enhance property values.

Riverside Park

Located along the Milwaukee River’s east bank and bordered by Oakland and Bartlett avenues and Park and Locust streets; intersected by the Oak Leaf Trail. Parking available in lots at the western end of Park Avenue and along adjacent streets.

Much of Riverside Park has been sliced and diced, making Olmsted’s original design less apparent. The main exception is the woodland west of the Oak Leaf Trail, and it’s likely that Manning’s planting contributions remain evident. The Urban Ecology Center (UEC) has been restoring this forest by replacing invasive species with native plants. The woodland also leads to the riverfront, which is also being re-established. Originally called River Park, the still-clean river was a popular site for swimming and picnicking.

And consider this historic link, Karson writes that Manning introduced the concept of “Community Days,” in which volunteers collectively planted a public landscape, often within a day or two. UEC likewise took that approach, albeit over a longer period, in planting the Rotary Centennial Arboretum, a “wild garden” extension of Riverside.

SOUTH SIDE Mitchell Park

Bordered by Layton Boulevard, Pierce Street and the Menomonee Valley. Parking is available near Layton Boulevard entrance. Additional bicycle and pedestrian access offered via a Hank Aaron State Trail spur or Pierce Street.

Mitchell Park may be Manning’s most definitive local design legacy, because he oversaw the entire project.

His Sunken Garden, one of Milwaukee’s most celebrated landscape designs, was completed in 1904 to complement the park’s original 1898 Victorian glasshouse. It featured elegant, colorful, formal plantings surrounding a 360-footlong by 82-foot-wide “water mirror.” The garden in what was nicknamed Flower Park was removed due to Milwaukee County Parks’ budgetary cutbacks.

Outlines of the garden’s structure remain—stairways, stone walls and mature trees. There has been talk of installing permanent sports fields in this area, which would further remove traces of this masterwork, foreclosing options to create more horticultural ties with “the Domes,” the park’s current glasshouses. Photographic displays of the 61-acre park’s early days are displayed in the lagoon pavilion, next to public restrooms.

The Manning-designed lagoon remains the park’s main natural area, although the edges are riddled with litter.

Anglers still use the pond and shaded picnic areas on the park’s north side are popular. A hillside amphitheater faces a brick performing stage. Other parts of Mitchell have been carved up for Journey House’s Packers Field, a playground area, and baseball diamond.

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Kosciuszko Park

Bordered by South Seventh and South 10th streets, Lincoln Avenue and Becher Street. Parking is available in a lot west of Seventh Street and on adjacent streets.

Kosciuszko was among Milwaukee’s first seven parks developed after its Board of Park Commissioners was formed in 1889. The 24-acre parcel boasted rolling terrain with oak and maple trees, which were retained.

Commissioners hired Manning in 1903 to survey and revamp the park when it was expanded to its current 34 acres. He designed an expanded lagoon for boating and ice skating, as well as additional walks, lawn areas and plantings. Visible while traversing the Lincoln Avenue business corridor, the lagoon attracts flocks of birds and anglers.

This much-used park serves many functions in one of Milwaukee’s densest neighborhoods. Pathways invite strolling and pastoral settings are ideal for picnics. Elementary school students from St. Josaphat Parish School use the playground for recess. People gather on benches near the park’s namesake statue and seasonally at the Pelican Cove Family Water Park. One drawback is that due to privatized major buildings with exclusive access, the primary public restrooms are portable toilets.

Bonus Side Trip: Humboldt Park (bordering Howell and Oklahoma Avenues in Bay View) was developed at the same time as Kosciuszko and Mitchell parks, but without a professional designer. Grundmann wrote in a footnote: “Although there is no documentation that Manning worked on Humboldt Park, a purple beech tree, uncommon in southeastern Wisconsin but a signature in many Manning projects, suggests he advised on the abundant tree plantings there.” Trees for Mitchell Park were also grown in Humboldt.

WEST SIDE

Washington Park

Bordered by Lloyd Street, Lisbon Avenue, North 40th Street, Vliet Street and Highway 41. Parking is available in lots off 40th and Lloyd streets and Washington Boulevard.

Washington Park was designed by Olmsted as a regional destination around 1892. It was developed after have been cleared for farming. Thus, about 4,000 trees were planted within the first few years, presumably specified and overseen by Manning.

Although Washington Park’s outer areas have been given over to other uses—including a freeway dating to 1962—the 135-acre park’s center retains a seven-acre lagoon, wooded hills, and winding pathways—all Olmsted signatures. Summer concerts are hosted at the Art Deco bandshell and picnics areas are popular. Milwaukee County Parks enlisted Milwaukee-based Quorum Architects in 2000 to develop a revitalization plan based on original designs and community input. The county’s funding challenges pushed much of the plan to a back burner. Nonetheless, the Urban Ecology Center, which has leased the pavilion since 2007, community residents and others continue working with the county to activate the park and restore its glory.

To view maps of all of Milwaukee County’s parks, visit county.milwaukee.gov.

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Community-Driven Urban Design Lawrence Witzling and the changing face of Milwaukee ::BY MATTHEW J. PRIGGE

of the former Allen-Bradley factory at the corner of West Greenfield Avenue and South First Street. “[At one time], the factory, transit, housing, retail … were all integrated.” Witzling said.

“The bars across the street were also part of the houses across the street. I think that’s a kind of reindustrialization process that Milwaukee could and should embrace.”

Removing the Park East Freeway

More recently, Witzling was a part of the team that secured the removal of the Park East N THE LATE 1950s, freeways dominated the vision of what Downtown Milwaukee Freeway, a move that opened up huge swaths would look like 60 years into the future. A steel-and-concrete ring would surround of the north end of the Downtown for developthe area and connect to major traffic arteries that pumped suburban workers into ment. “We all knew that once that freeway came a city that had been largely divested of its residential population. The lake and rivdown, it would completely change not just the ers, of questionable value in the post-industrial era, would be disconnected from perceived opportunity for the land underneath it, the city, with the great spaces of parkland along the waterfront accessible primarily by but the neighborhoods around it,” Witzling said. highway exit ramps. This separation would be offset by the creation of artificial greensThe removal of the freeway also created a greater paces, some built atop underground parking structures that would fill lots vacated by the linkage between the Brady Street neighborhood removal of unsightly former industrial buildings or underused and dated public halls like and the nightlife of Water Street. Expansions and the Pabst Theater. improvements to the Riverwalk have connected This frightful scenario might have come to fruition if not for the efforts of forward-thinkthese areas to the rapidly developing Walker’s ing urban planners like Lawrence Witzling. Recently, Witzling was honored for his lifetime Point area. And, Witzling hopes, further developof work as the 2017 recipient of the American Planning Association’s prestigious National ment will link that to the vast possibilities of the Planning Excellence Award for Planning Pioneers. city’s little-utilized Inner Harbor.

Although he has overseen major projects all across the nation, Witzling’s greatest impact Witzling has hardly worked alone in these has been in Milwaukee. He arrived in the city in 1972 as a graduate of Cornell University. many projects. He was quick to cite the guidance He chose Milwaukee because he wanted to be in a “nitty-gritty working-class city” to conand help of others and stressed that urban plantrast with his Manhattan upbringing and small-town college days. ning is very much a team endeavor. In the offices of the GRAEF architecture and planning firm, which merged with Witzling’s Planning and Design Institute in 2008, Reimagining Witzling can point out several of his Milwaukee’s Lakefront former students now among his colAs a member of UW-Milwaukee’s School of leagues and clients.

Architecture and Urban Planning (SARUP), WitWitzling has also had an enormous zling first got involved in civic matters with the impact on UWM’s SARUP, where he East Side Housing Coalition (ESHAC) and their taught for 40 years. “As a young facfight against the widening of Locust Street. The ulty member, I broadened my underexperience taught him how to sell communitystanding of urban design tremendousdriven ideas to the city and how to maneuver in ly by teaching undergraduate studios local politics. Soon after, he became involved in that Larry coordinated,” said SARUP the planning that led to the creation of O’Donnell professor James Wasley. “Larry’s Park on the lakefront. The park had an enormous contribution to both the School of impact on the public perception of the lakefront.

Architecture and Urban Planning and “At the time,” Witlzing said, “it was transformato the City’s ongoing redevelopment tional. Because it changed everybody’s attitude have been invaluable.” about the lakefront. They looked at the lakefront It was the optimism of planners and all of a sudden realized, ‘This could be a relike Witzling and their undying belief ally incredible place.’” in the importance of the American One of the most difficult aspects of planning, city that helped to save Milwaukee according to Witzling, is getting people to be from the future that the late 1950s able to “visualize change.” This was a major obprojected. Looking forward, Witzling stacle in redeveloping the Menomonee Valley, is confident that the rush of Millenone of his most impactful projects. In the 1970s, nials to urban areas is not a fad and the Valley was highly visible, but rarely visited. that recent developments, like the During the rebuilding of the 16th Street viaduct, city streetcar line, will drive Milwauthe bridge was designed to ramp down into the kee’s development over the next halfValley, greatly improving access to the area and century.

Lawrence Witzling helping passersby to engage with the land in a Continuing the push forward will way they could not before. not be easy, Witzling said, but he “He is the consummate urban planner,” Said maintains his faith in Milwaukee.

Michael W. Hatch, a partner at Foley & Lardner “I see the city as always having had Witzling’s mixed-use vision for the Valley was long-time board president of the Menomonee a part of his larger philosophy of connecting the enormous eternal conflict and still managing to Valley Partners. “He has always been able to areas in which people live, work and play to min- do great things,” he said. “So when you hear peooffer creative suggestions, effectively assimi- imize the reliance on automobiles and parking. ple say that you can’t get anything done because late large volumes of information, and produce In explaining this, he cites a minor Milwaukee of all the adversarial stuff, I don’t buy it. If you thoughtful, interesting, effective and successful landmark that often goes unnoticed—the hand- do good planning and good thinking you can find plans. Milwaukee is a better place because of all some stone bus stop bench built into the corner your way in and around all of that.” that Larry has done here.”

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Thursday, June 15

No More Guns Vigil @ Brew City Shooters Supply (2339 S. 43rd St.), noon-1 p.m.

Casa Maria Catholic Worker is organizing a demonstration outside of Brew City Shooters Supply. The organization hopes to stop the proliferation of guns, especially those being sold through private sellers with no background checks.

Health Care for All Co-op 60-Day Kickoff @ Unity Church (1717 N. 73rd St.), 6:30 p.m.

Citizens Action of Wisconsin, along with a number of partner organizations, will launch their 60-day drive to “talk to hundreds of Southeast Wisconsin residents about this concept known as the Citizen Action ‘Healthcare for All’ Organizing Cooperative—a memberowned organization made up of health consumers, medical professionals and small business owners.”

Saturday, June 17

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ Corner of St. Paul Avenue and Water Street, 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.

Laughing Liberally @ ComedySportz Milwaukee (420 S. First St.), 8 p.m.

Laughing Liberally Milwaukee is a progressive political comedy show hosted by comedian, satirist and talk radio host Matthew Filipowicz. This month’s performers include: Brian Green, Kaitlyn Grissom, Ton Johnson, Marissa Lange, Patrick Tomlinson, Vickie Lynn and The Accountants of Homeland Security. The show will also feature an interview with a guest from Voces De La Frontera.

Wednesday, June 21

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.

HamBingo Planned Parenthood Fundraiser @ Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.), 7-9 p.m.

HamBingo is a weekly charity event held at Hamburger Mary’s. This week, the featured charity is Planned Parenthood. This is a fun way to support the women’s health non-profit.

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CORRECTION: In last week’s article, “Milwaukee Responds to the Opioid Epidemic,” the day of the week for the next City-County Heroin, Opioid, and Cocaine Task Force meeting was incorrectly listed. The meeting will take place on Friday, June 16 at 9 a.m. in Milwaukee City Hall, Room 301-B on the third floor.

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Our Constantly Lying Liar of a President ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

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he most shocking moment in last week’s dramatic, political TV reality show wasn’t any startling new revelation Americans learned for the first time about the corrupt cartoon character who currently occupies the presidency.

Just the opposite. It was the reiteration of a very well known fact about Donald Trump that pretty much everyone knows by now: that our president is a fundamentally dishonest individual who can be expected to tell the nation a steady stream of lies.

Everyone watching the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Democrat or Republican, understood exactly why fired FBI Director James Comey began writing detailed memos about his private meetings with Trump immediately after their first encounter. Comey said because of his gut feeling about “the person that I was interacting with … I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting and so I thought it was really important to document.”

Comey started writing on a laptop in his car after every meeting with Trump. Those memos and descriptions, which Comey shared each time with senior FBI leadership, detail Trump’s pressure on Comey to rein in the FBI investigation into Trump’s campaign and administration.

Trump said he expected “loyalty” from his FBI director. He explicitly tried to shut down the investigation into fired National Security Advisor Michael Flynn for lying about contacts with Russians. Comey quoted Trump saying: “I hope you can see your way clear into letting this go, letting Flynn go. He is a good guy.”

When Comey didn’t halt the independent FBI investigation, Trump fired him. Trump told a television interviewer the Russia investigation was the reason: “I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.”

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total lack of public honesty has been meticulously documented.

Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee of The Washington Post run what is perhaps journalism’s most reliable political fact-checking operation. After the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency, Kessler and Lee published a stunning running tally of every false or misleading statement made by the president.

The total number of false or misleading claims Trump made in 100 days was 492, an average of nearly five lies a day. Trump made it through only 10 days without telling a single lie. On six of those days, it was because Trump was golfing and said nothing at all publicly. There were five days on which Trump lied 20 or more times, including his 100th day in office bragging about completely fraudulent achievements.

Comey certainly is not above criticism as FBI director. Many believe he deserved to be fired for violating Justice Department policy against taking actions that could influence an election by unnecessarily announcing 11 days before the national election the FBI was reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mails.

Comey’s poor judgment helped elect Trump. But the notoriously lying Trump’s accusation that Comey committed perjury under oath defies belief. It requires someone to believe not just that Comey’s a liar, but that he’s also possibly insane. That would be the only explanation for Comey, who had no idea Trump would ever fire him, to begin writing fraudulent accounts containing fictional details and made-up quotes from Trump after every private meeting with the president. He then would have to tell those elaborate lies to other senior FBI officials after each meeting.

Sorry, but the only administration official ever suspected of being so pathologically unable to distinguish between reality and his own lies is the president himself. But even Republicans who are well aware of the president’s basic dishonesty and untruthfulness remain determined to ride Trump’s corrupt administration as long as they possibly can for whatever they can get out of it.

Comey said Trump’s not-so-subtle attempts to pressure him “rings in my ear as kind of, ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’” The allusion to the famous 12th-century hit England’s King Henry II put out on Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was totally lost on Republicans.

Republicans recognize their president as a more modern sort of Godfather. When Comey woke up with a severed horse’s head in his bed, House Speaker Paul Ryan was right there to defend the president’s unorthodox approach. “The president’s new at this,” Ryan said. “He’s new at government.” A bloody horse’s head might not follow past protocols between the FBI and the president, Ryan was saying, but Trump was elected to do things differently.

Republican politicians have been shamelessly lying for a long time. Trump just makes it much more obvious.

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ith Donald Trump promoting a “tax reform” that would result in an enormous redistribution of tax burden from the super wealthy and corporations to the rest of us, you have to question how this can happen in a democracy. The Founding Fathers, many of them wealthy landowners, feared that with a democracy, the poor and landless would pass laws to redistribute land or pass confiscatory tax policies to deprive the one-percenters of that time of their wealth and privilege. This fear that envy and resentment toward the wealthy would lead to the majority turning against the one or two percenters caused the founders to limit voting to white male property owners. Over time, through great struggle and various constitutional amendments, things slowly changed until virtually all adult citizens were eligible to vote except when blocked in some states by racist laws and practices. Today, we are again seeing efforts to limit voting in places like Wisconsin with voter ID laws and other practices, but that is a whole other issue.

The Fears Didn’t Materialize The amazing thing is how the fear of the wealthy founding fathers that the unwashed masses would rise up and democratically take from the wealthy has never really materialized. Instead, the opposite has happened. The

poor and middle classes often vote for candidates who work against their economic selfinterest. They elect people like Scott Walker or George W. Bush who dramatically cut taxes for the wealthy and give pathetically small tax breaks to the rest of us, the 90 or 95 percent. They also cut back on things the average person needs, such as public education. We had a great example of this in our last election when some of the most financially disadvantaged individuals voted for a guy who disproportionally stacked his administration with Goldman Sachs veterans.

Trump wants to give massive tax breaks to the very wealthy and drastically cut back Medicaid and other programs that are keeping many of his voters and their family members alive. How does this happen?

How is this Possible In a Democracy?

The answers are many and complex, but we can list a few. There is too much right-wing and corporate money in elections, a glut that was recently expanded by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Right-wing media, especially talk radio and Fox News, has been effective in playing fast and loose with the truth and has either kept the public ill-informed or fostered great cynicism, which discourages people from voting. Our education system has had its funding severely cut back, which makes teaching more difficult for even the most dedicated teachers trying to manage a classroom and teach critical thinking. Our American culture does not value education enough, but rather puts too much emphasis on making money by any means. Our heroes are not the great scientists but highly paid CEOs, actors and sports figures. Much of main-

stream media has replaced its mission to pursue the truth, hold the powerful accountable and expose wrongdoing with a mission of making as much money as possible and protecting and defending the corporate interests of their advertisers, including the climate-denying propagandists.

In the realm of public policy, right-wing special interests have manufactured perverse economic theories like supply-side economics and the cult of austerity to justify cutting taxes for the wealthy with the discredited fantasy that it will produce prosperity and jobs for the rest of us. A number of European countries championed austerity over the past several years only to find, once again, austerity kept Europe from experiencing robust growth. Then, there are the politicians eager to serve their wealth masters. Congressman Paul Ryan, a right-wing ideologue on economic policy, is a classic example of a puppy dog for the wealthy. His policy ideas would make his rich contributors much richer, while cutting Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, public education and other programs for the average person and driving America into an economic downturn.

Light at the End of This Tunnel So where is the light at the end of the tunnel? The answer is in the fears of the Founding Fathers that the majority could actually vote to elect people who will fight for a fair tax system and curb the disproportion power of the wealthy.

Those actions would truly “Make American Great Again.” Sometimes, you have to hit rock bottom to begin to take control of your life or, in this case, your country’s life. In 2008, the right wing started to call Barack Obama a socialist. Many Millennials began to wonder about this socialist stuff and began to Google socialism, only to find that social democracy—like that present in some Scandinavian countries— sounded pretty good to them. It put some fairness and social justice values at least on par with

economic growth. They enthusiastically voted for Obama and he handily won the presidency.

In 2016, a candidate proudly owned the label of a Democratic Socialist and generated true excitement and enthusiasm within the Democratic primary contests. Bernie Sanders lost the nomination and, unfortunately, Hillary Clinton lost the election. Now, with Trump’s victory, which many view as hitting absolute rock bottom, Americans who were casual about our democracy now realize that they can no longer take our country and its values for granted. Since the election, many people have gotten much more engaged in understanding the issues and involved in the political process and have continued to stay involved.

The Light Goes Beyond Our Shores Across the pond in the United Kingdom, a similar shift occurred. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was viewed as a disaster for the Labour Party when he was elected his party’s leader because he was viewed as a socialist to the left of Sanders. He proved his critics wrong by significantly increasing his party’s seats in last week’s parliamentary elections. Millennials also played a very big part in Labour’s victory.

Americans, and especially Millennials, are slowly waking up to the fact that elections have real consequences. They are now beginning to work harder to take back their country from wealthy special interest groups and demagogues who lie their way into the White House. And we want to give a special shout out to the Millennials who are our future. Despite all the articles out there, especially in the business press, complaining about their work ethic, they have a strong moral compass when it comes to social justice and creating a more just society. Positive change is coming. We at the Shepherd Express are very optimistic.

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You Say Trump’s Paris Climate Agreement Stance Damaged America’s Standing Last week we asked whether Donald Trump damaged America’s standing in the world by pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. You said. n He damaged it a little: 7% n He damaged it severely: 68% n He did not damage it at all: 25%

What Do You Say? Do you believe that the House and the Senate’s investigative committees and special counsel Robert Mueller will get to the bottom of Russia’s interference in the U.S. presidential election? n Yes n No Vote online at shepherdexpress.com. We’ll publish the results of this poll in next week’s issue.

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onsidering the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s (NAMI) estimate that one in five adults experiences mental illness in their lifetime, it’s still somewhat baffling that individuals with mental illness and their families face large amounts of discrimination. Originally founded as a means to unify and support family members of those with mental illness, NAMI has transitioned into the largest grassroots mental health organization in the nation with chapters in all 50 states. Providing education, support and advocacy, NAMI Greater Milwaukee offers peer support groups, family support groups and relevant classes as it continues to fight for those affected by mental illness. Off the Cuff recently spoke with NAMI Greater Milwaukee Executive Director Peter Hoeffel about the state of Milwaukee County’s public mental health system, the opioid crisis and the stigma surrounding mental illness.

What do you think of the current state of the public mental health system in Milwaukee County?

It faces many challenges. For the longest time, the funding has been put into acute services, including hospitalization, and that’s funding that could be more appropriately used in community mental health services to keep people out of the hospital. We’ve been stuck in a historical, outdated system of providing care to someone after they’ve already become very ill. Milwaukee County is really trying to get out of that, but it’s been going on for so long that it’s very hard to undo the system. Services are going to inpatient care and crisis care rather than to the community where people can stay well and healthy.

Can you explain mental health parity?

Health insurance companies used to be able to cap the level of mental health care they would provide, so parity means to make it equal to any other health condition. There was a federal law passed on health parity requiring that if a health insurance policy covers mental health they have to cover it at the same level as any other health condition. The problem with that right now, with perhaps the undoing of the Affordable Care Act, is that it may be stripped away.

So that’s a big concern. People should be heavily involved with contacting their representatives to make sure that mental health parity stays because if the Affordable Care Act is undone, repealed, replaced, we could go back to the situation where health insurance companies put a cap on mental health services.

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What are your thoughts on the opioid crisis? What needs to happen policy wise?

From my perspective, it’s always been a crisis. I’ve always believed the policy should be treatment and not incarceration. For the longest time people have been punished for their addiction.

Now it’s finally getting the attention it deserves. To be controversial, you know, when it was affecting people from minority communities or people with lower incomes, people were just fine with putting them in prison. Now that it’s affecting white suburban communities, people are taking notice and want to make sure that the treatment is there.

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Has the stigma of mental illness increased or decreased in recent years?

The stigma has definitely decreased in recent years. And it’s been through efforts by organizations like ours, Mental Health America, other organizations and agencies, and the individuals that live with mental health diagnoses that have had the courage to come out and talk about it. What we’ve found is, the more that people are willing to talk about their diagnosis, the more the stigma is reduced. There are many people who live wonderful, productive lives with mental illness but are often afraid to come out, and rightfully so, because of discrimination. Now more people that have depression and bipolar disorder are willing to talk about it and share their stories about doing well, because it seems that the only information people get is when someone is not doing well.

We find that people sharing their stories about doing well and living in recovery goes a long way to reducing stigma, and there’s been a lot of efforts in the last five years to do that.

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In a time when we are enamored with small plates for sharing and the newest trends, it’s good to step back and remember the places that give us time-honored dining tradition with style and deliver on all the expectations of a good steakhouse. Mr. B’s has outstanding service from the knowledgeable staff on menu and wine, a warm and casual interior of dark wood, low lighting and hint of Italian heritage from the green-andwhite checkered tablecloths. It’s a welcome throwback.

The menu has the classic steakhouse fare and a variety of offerings in every category. For starters, we had to indulge in Bartolotta’s signature fried calamari: tender, lightly coated rings in a delicate, crisp batter, sprinkled with fried mint and a delightful marinara sauce ($10.95). The shellfish bisque ($11.95) was as velvety as Johnny Mathis’ voice and delivered on high flavor and aroma notes from the hint of curry and sweet wine that balanced the shellfish. There are

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potato and a sauce, and for a small charge you can up several salads on the menu including Bartolotta’s clasthe ante with a steak topping of anything from blue sic Caesar salad ($9.75), BLT Wedge ($11.95) and the Italian panzanella ($10.95): all nice portions for sharing cheese to lump crab with Béarnaise sauce. Not in the mood for steak? Mr. B’s offers a nice variety of seafood, and made with only the freshest ingredients. such as crab cakes, king crab legs, scallops, halibut and Mr. B’s steaks are uniquely cooked in a wood-fired salmon ($15-53), or you can pair some of these with a oven and seasoned with only salt and pepper for a juicy, tender steak with a perfectly charred crust. There steak in Mr. B’s combos to get the best of land and sea. are classic steaks and chops on the menu. Also offered There are also some traditional menu items like the classic burger ($13.50), barbecue ribs ($27.95), wood are specials that are “what you see is what you get” roasted chicken ($23.75) and, of course, a pasta dish as the cart is wheeled to your table and each steak is of rigatoni with mozzarella and eggplant in a tomatoexplained, including, in some cases, where it is from, basil sauce ($19.95). what it was fed, grade and aging process. The temperThe dessert menu includes classics like rich and atures are true to the guide descriptors on the menu creamy New York-style cheesecake ($7.95); “The Big B,” and cooked to perfection. an over-the-top brownie sundae The 20-ounce prime bone-in ri($9.95); and, on special, a strawbeye ($59.95) and 14-ounce cenberry rhubarb crumble ($7.95), ter cut bone-in filet ($49.95) have a great combination of tart and optimal flavor from the bone and Mr. B’s Steakhouse sweet. The menu also offers a wood roasting and we paired 18380 W. Capitol Drive cheese plate, dessert martinis it with the special that night of 262-790-7005 | $$$$ and ice cream drinks, along with browned butter, roasted morels. mrbssteakhouse.com a nice variety of dessert wines The seasonality and freshness of and after-dinner spirits. I would the morels with the beefy steak Handicap access: Yes be remiss not to mention the outwas heaven. We also couldn’t CC, FB, OD, RS, GF standing wine list. As the warm pass on the haystack onion rings, Hours: weather approaches, make sure a perfect accouterment with a M-Th 5:30-9 p.m., you take advantage of one of the steak and offered as a starter F 5:30-10 p.m., best restaurant patios in the city, on the menu ($8.25). All of the complete with a huge fireplace. steaks come with your choice of Sa 5-10 p.m., Su 5-8 p.m.

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he Wisconsin Brewers Guild and Draft magazine will again team up for the 2017 Wisconsin Beer Lovers Festival on Saturday, June 17, from 1-5 p.m. at Bayshore Town Center. Attendees can enjoy pairings of beer and food from more than 40 Wisconsin craft brewers and approximately 30 restaurants. Vendors will also be on hand selling beer-themed swag, art, snacks and more.

Draft magazine President Trevor Cravens said there would be lots of new brewers at this year’s event, including some that have opened in Milwaukee recently, like Good City Brewing and City Lights Brewing Co. There will also be many returning favorites. “There are a lot of new breweries, and I think that’s representative of the beer scene in Milwaukee; it really has picked up, even within the last year.

We’re certainly glad to see their participation.”

Cravens said most of today’s growth in the craft beer industry is coming from brew pubs. “They’re making their own beer and serving it within their own four walls within their own city, which ties in with local communities,” he said, harkening back to the days of Milwaukee’s corner taps, but with a new twist; brewers are making their beer, versus serving commercially produced product. “There are close to 5,000 breweries in the country right now, which is actually more than we had during Prohibition.”

The Wisconsin Beer Lovers Festival is a rare opportunity for Milwaukeeans to sample beers they normally wouldn’t get to try unless they travel throughout Wisconsin. Cravens said brewers such as South Shore Brewery, located nearly eight hours away in Ashland, are making the trip to be part of the fun and camaraderie among brewers.

Because the festival is a partnership with the Wisconsin Brewers Guild, the brew master or someone from the brewery will actually be

present to pour the beer, so attendees can speak with a person who’s very knowledgeable.

New restaurants this year include Green Bay-based Stuff Your Face Hole gourmet snacks and Chicago-based Maple Leaf Farms offering duck meat. SURG Restaurant Group will have a presence, and, as of late May, Cravens said they were still adding breweries and restaurants.

The Wisconsin Brewers Guild’s mission is to build upon Wisconsin’s brewing heritage through production, marketing and sales of quality craft beers. The group lobbies and promotes on behalf of small and independent brewers. They started the Beer Lovers Festival eight years ago, and for the last seven years, Draft has assisted in helping to promote and grow the event. Cravens credited the city of Glendale—the host city since the festival’s beginnings—as a wonderful and supportive partner.

An assortment of ticket packages starting at $25 includes the food lover’s ticket, which is ideal for designated drivers, allowing them to sample food but not including beer. Advanced general admission is $45 and includes all the food and beer samples plus a souvenir glass.

The VIP ticket runs $75 and offers additional benefits of early entry: a private seating area at Hōm Wood Fired Grill and a souvenir bag.

Hotel packages are available for out-of-town guests.

New this year is a partnership with Camp Bar to offer shuttle service to and from the event. For $10 (not including admission to the event), customers will receive a round-trip ride from Camp Bar locations in the Third Ward or Shorewood with an early check-in, plus a pint of Lakefront beer and a slice of pizza from Camp Bar and all the popcorn you can eat.

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he unlikely success of the Brewers this season has been in large part the result of big contributions from players new to Milwaukee. While the impact of rookies like Lewis Brinson, Josh Hader and Brett Phillips will likely determine if the Crew remains a contender, the play of off-season pickups like Eric Thames, Travis Shaw, Eric Sogard and Jett Bandy has been vital to the team’s hot start. Looking back through franchise history, 2017 will likely rank as one of the greatest for Brew Crew newcomers. Let’s take a look at some other seasons in which first-time Brewers came up big.

1972: It was the first blockbuster trade in franchise history that brought a little life to the otherwise forgettable 1972 season. In exchange for star outfielder Tommy Harper and pitchers Lew Krausse and Marty Pattin, the Brewers acquired former Cy Young Award-winner Jim Lonborg and Gold Glove first baseman George Scott. Scott anchored the lineup for the young Brewers team, slugging 20 homers with slick defense play. Lonborg was the staff ace, winning 14 games with a 2.83 ERA and a team-leading 143 strikeouts. The newcomers were also the respective team leaders in position player and pitcher WAR. 1978: The first winning season in franchise history

would not have been possible without the contributions of some key newcomers, including one (technically) on his second tour with the Crew. Front and center in ’78 was prize free agent acquisition Larry Hisle, who belted 34 homers with a .285/.374/.533 slash line on his way to a third place finish in AL MVP voting. Ben Oglivie was acquired in a trade from the Tigers in December and quickly established himself as a star in Milwaukee, batting .303 with an OBP of .370 and 18 homers. Paul Molitor wasn’t even expecting to be on the big league team, let alone a catalyst of one of the league’s most potent offenses. The rookie batted .273 with 30 steals and contributed as a plus

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defender at three positions. Including Gorman Thomas on this list is a bit of a cheat, as he had already played parts of four years in Milwaukee and his 1977 “trade” to the Rangers (he was sold back to the Brewers before ever appearing with Texas) was only to satisfy an outstanding playerto-be-named that Milwaukee owed Texas. Still, Thomas broke out in ’78, smashing 32 homers as the team’s everyday centerfielder.

Blockbuster Swap 1981: If the Brewers ever made an off-season splash, it was after the 1980 season. In a blockbuster swap with St. Louis, the Crew acquired Rollie Fingers, Ted Simmons and Pete Vuckovich. Simmons’ Milwaukee debut was rather low-key; he batted just .216 with a .262 OBP, but did hit 14 homers. But Fingers and Vuke pumped new life into a weak pitching staff: Vuckovich emerged as the team’s ace, and Fingers was otherworldly in the ’pen—registering a 1.04 ERA over 78 innings in the strike-shortened season. Fingers won the AL’s MVP and Cy Young awards and helped the Brewers to their first-ever postseason berth.

1992: No one expected the Brewers to do much in ’92, and their offseason consisted mostly of bargain-bin pickups. Scott Fletcher was coming off a terrible year with the White Sox and didn’t sign with the Brewers until the beginning of spring training. Fletcher rebooted his career in ’92, batting .275 with slick defense at second base and shortstop. Kevin Seitzer was cut by the Royals at the end of spring training and caught on with Milwaukee the day before the season opened. Fletcher and Seitzer would combine for 6.6 WAR with Milwaukee. Two rookies also had a major impact that year: Pat Listach, who emerged from obscurity to win the AL Rookie of the Year Award, and Cal Eldred, who won 11 times in 14 starts and recorded a 1.79 ERA over 100 innings. The rag-tag Crew won 92 games and finished second to the eventual World Champion Blue Jays.

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t’s an unusual sight for power walkers at the Grand Avenue Mall—a group of people in protective gear thrusting and parrying at each other with plastic swords. The Milwaukee Swordplay Academy is in the Milwaukee Cooperative, a collection of entrepreneurs that share space in a storefront above TJ Maxx. The corridor is now mostly abandoned storefronts, and the academy is the liveliest thing going on at this end of the mall. In a corner of the shared space, academy founder Karl Jacobs has set up a small office with a collection of plastic training swords hanging on the wall. Students begin to show up. There are about five instructors and five students on this night who will practice grappling, tumbling and combat with a dagger.

“OK guys, it’s a dagger night again, so grab a dagger and a gorget,” an instructor calls out. Each student grabs a replica of an actual dagger from medieval times and a gorget, which looks like a leather studded bib, designed to help you keep from getting your head cut off.

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Jacobs is one of the head instructors here, and he says his love of sword fighting goes back to absorbing stories like Arthurian legends and the adventures of the Three Musketeers when he was young. And the romance of the sword hasn’t diminished over the years—look no further than “Game of Thrones,” which revolves around the art of sword fighting.

Jacobs eventually found a way to follow his swashbuckling fantasies when he joined the Chicago Swordplay Guild about 10 years ago, who train in what are known as “Historical European” or “Western martial arts.” There is a training scale where you earn titles like “provost” and “scholar,” somewhat like the color belt system you find in Eastern martial arts. Swordsmen and swordswomen (Jacobs prefers the gender-neutral “swordspeople” or “fencers”) compete at events around the country. Jacobs and a partner eventually founded a Milwaukee branch of the Chicago guild but decided to take things in a different direction.

“I thought it was time to do things a little more formal, professionally rather than just training out of our bag wherever we could get space,” Jacobs explains.

The academy currently offers Introduction to Italian Longsword and Introduction to Rapier classes, which meet twice a week for four weeks and run $100. After that, students can continue to learn on two different tracks— one that follows medieval combat and one that teaches Renaissance style. Unarmed combat, dagger, spear, arming sword, and sword and buckler are also options for further study as students progress through the ranks.

What kind of students does the academy draw? “Game of Thrones” fanatics?

“I think there are some people who come into it from pop culture, but some come from more of an interest in history, or an interest in European martial arts,” Jacobs says. “We get people from all kinds of different backgrounds in this Western martial arts community. We have doctors, lawyers, fitness instructors and professors of linguistics who have helped find books and helped with translating them.”

Swinging a sword around might sound dangerous, even if it is just a plastic facsimile (the swords have just enough heft to make you feel powerful), but Jacobs says safety is a high priority for the academy.

“What we do is less dangerous than a high school football game. We are very concerned about our training partners’ safety,” Jacobs says. “One joke we say is, ‘If you break your training partner, you don’t get a new one.’ It’s our responsibility to be sure what we’re doing is as safe as we can make it while at the same time making it martially valid.”

Most students enter the academy with no prior swordplay experience, so Jacobs and his colleague, AJ von Tauffkirchen, encourage interested people to give it a swing.

“A willingness to learn is really all you need,” says von Tauffkirchen. “It’s excellent exercise; it’s a very good mental discipline—like any of the martial arts, you have to learn to control yourself.”

“You just need enthusiasm and an ability to walk and chew gum at the same time,” Jacobs adds.

The Milwaukee Swordplay Academy is on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and you can email mkesword@gmail. com for more information as well.

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::THISWEEKINMILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE THURSDAY, JUNE 15 Adam Greuel and Sarah Vos @ Anodyne Coffee Walker’s Point Roastery & Cafe, 8 p.m.

If you’re thinking these names sound vaguely familiar, you’re onto something: Adam Greuel plays guitar/drobo for the bluegrass group Horseshoes And Hand Grenades while Sarah Vos fronts the folk duo Dead Horses. These Milwaukee-based artists have more in common than horse references and local roots, though. This shared show will highlight songs from both their similarly themed discographies. The two have played together a few times before, sharing well-received, acoustic Americana through intricate harmonies that unite the tales of their separate journeys through the American landscape.

FRIDAY, JUNE 16 HartFest @ Hart Park, Wauwatosa, 5 p.m.

Each year the family friendly HartFest attracts around 10,000 people to Downtown Wauwatosa in support of area community organizations. Between the half marathon, a full-blown dog festival (FidoFest) that brings out canines in droves, skateboard demos, martial arts demos and live music (including performances from festival mainstays Pat McCurdy and The LoveMoneys), it’s going to be a very busy two days. (Also Saturday, June 17.)

Lakefront Festival of Art @ Milwaukee Art Museum

This three-day, outdoor fundraising event for the Milwaukee Art Museum is consistently named one of the best art festivals in the country, and for good reason. Lakefront Festival of Art has had 54 years to earn its premier standing. The showcase will feature artwork from more than 170 artists who were carefully selected from thousands of national applicants. The artwork, which includes fiber, paintings, metalwork, jewelry, ceramics and more will be available for on-site purchase in case you see something you can’t leave the festival without. (Through Sunday, June 18.)

FRIDAY, JUNE 16

Ozuna @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

Ozuna is the stage name of 25-year-old Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Jan Carlos Ozuna Rosado. Just years after posting his first videos on YouTube, his anthemic, reggaeton-inspired musical works have become huge Latin American radio hits and international streaming sensations. Following breakout songs like “Dile Que Tu Me Quieres,” he was recognized with a nomination at the 2017 Billboard Latin Music Awards in the “New Artist of the Year” category. Now he’s looking beyond Latin America with a string of gigs in the U.S., the U.K., Switzerland and Italy.

IndependenceFirst Handcycling Classic @ multiple locations

Wisconsin’s annual Tour of America’s Dairyland introduces a new event this year: The IndependenceFirst Handcycling Classic. The races will feature more than two dozen top handcyclists, including a five-time Hawaii Ironman World Champion and members of the Paralyzed Veterans of America Racing Team. The 30-minute handcycling races will take place near the end of each day’s events, just before the tour’s day-ending men’s professional races, at 5:10 p.m. on Friday, June 16 at Church Street in East Troy; 6:25 p.m. at Beech Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Grafton on Saturday, June 17; and at 5:40 p.m. at Main Street in Waukesha on Sunday, June 18. For the complete schedule of Tour of America’s Dairlyland’s many races and events, visit tourofamericasdairyland.com.

Polish Fest @ Summerfest Grounds

No city does a “World’s Largest” festival like Milwaukee does, and we’re at it again with Polish Fest, the first of the city’s big annual ethnic festivals at the Summerfest grounds.

Each year the festival features traditional Polish fashion, toys, home goods, folk art, history lessons, ludicrous amounts of polka and some of the best sausages you’ll eat all summer.

(Through Sunday, June 18).

SATURDAY, JUNE 17

Maxwell w/ Ledisi @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

With his 1996 debut Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite, Maxwell helped establish mellow, groove-based neo-soul as a commercially viable alternative to the more dance-based R&B of the time, but after his 2001 album, Now, he willfully retreated from the spotlight for some extended downtime. It took eight years before he returned in top form on 2009’s BLACKsummers’night, an elegant, utterly gorgeous record that swiftly returned the singer to the airwaves and earned him a pair of Grammys.

Amazingly, his follow-up album blackSUMMER’Snight (it’s the second in a planned trilogy) took another seven years for the singer to deliver, but damn if it wasn’t worth the wait. It was another deliriously lush collection of introspective soul that landed him his third Grammy, for Maxwell the single “Lake By The Ocean.”

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SATURDAY, JUNE 17 Good City Fest @ Good City Brewing, 10 a.m.

In the last few years so many new craft and microbreweries have sprung up around the city that only the most dedicated local beer enthusiast could possibly keep track of them all. Good City Brewing, however, has the distinction of being the first new brewery to stake out a home on Milwaukee’s East Side. To celebrate its one-year anniversary, the brewer presents this celebration in its drinking and dining area and back parking lot. Outdoor music starts at 2 p.m. with a lineup that includes The Quilz, Twin Brother, Sat. Nite Duets, Platinum Boys, Klassik and Fever Marlene.

MONDAY, JUNE 19

Juneteenth Day @ Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, 10 a.m.

News traveled slow in the 1800s. Though Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, some slaves in Texas didn’t learn of their freedom until two and a half years later, on June 19, 1865. Each year Milwaukee commemorates that date with one of the largest Juneteenth celebrations in the world, a big, family friendly blowout on Dr. Martin Luther King Drive between Burleigh and Center that brings thousands of people onto the streets to enjoy live music, games and some of the best barbecue in the city. This year, the festival celebrates a milestone: the 25th anniversary of its Miss Juneteenth Pageant. As always, the day will kick off with a parade down West Atkinson Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21 Robyn Hitchcock @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 8 p.m.

Robyn Hitchcock has been making underrated music since his days fronting the neopsychedelia band The Soft Boys back in the ’70s, so it’s unlikely he’ll experience a big commercial breakthrough this late in his career, now that he’s comfortably in his mid-60s.

Even if only critics and longtime die-hard fans seem to be listening, though, Hitchcock has continued making some truly wonderful albums, including his latest self-titled record.

Produced in Nashville by Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs, it features guest harmony vocals from a few of Hitchock’s many longtime admirers, including Grant Lee Phillips, Gillian Welch, Emma Swift and Wilco’s Pat Sansone.

Wilco w/ Kacy & Clayton @ Riverside Theater, 7:30 p.m.

Wilco playing a show on Father’s Day is so wildly appropriate it’s hard to handle. Taking your dad to see some dad rock on his special day—what more could he ask for? Just remember that frontman Jeff Tweedy dislikes the term dad rock, even though he created one of the great masterpieces of that genre with Wilco’s Steely Dan-mellow 2007 album Sky Blue Sky. Over their 10-album run the band has bounced back and forth from alt-country to symphonic pop and experimental rock, before settling into a pleasantly low-key groove on recent albums like Star Wars and Schmilco. The only thing that could make this Father’s Day performance more memorable is if Tweedy brings his son, drummer Spencer Tweedy, along (the two are in their own band together, just called Tweedy).

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essellate (verb): to form into a mosaic. “Tessellate 2017” (noun): a free festival of new performances commissioned by The Battery Factory, a rebirth of NYC’s Holderness’ Theatre Company by founding artistic director Rebecca Holderness, who moved here a decade ago to join UW-Milwaukee’s theater faculty. Battery Factory projects include the veterans’ Shakespeare company Feast of Crispian, “pop-up performances” such as the 2014 Drama at the Depot in South Milwaukee and last year’s 20FOR20, in which 20 diverse community artists spent 20 hours together over three days to create a performance from nothing. Exile emerged as a theme, so this year The Battery Factory commissioned four works about exile, freely interpreted, to tessellate.

“We’re interested in supporting artists who want to make something different and also want to be in process,” Holderness says. “What’s unique is that we gave people money to do this. We’re hoping that each step can gather enough support and interest to go another step. The support we garner this year will tell us what we can do next year. We’re

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not trying to build an empire. We’re just trying to keep people working.”

The festival starts on Thursday, June 22, with an open rehearsal at 7 p.m. Two are short works: Joelle Worm’s dance theater piece about a Holocaust survivor in an immigration camp after Word War II and Nabra Nelson’s play about her Egyptian family’s forced exile in the 1970s.

Two are slightly longer: Oni Dance Company’s multimedia look at how memories shape movements and Holderness’ language and movement juxtaposition with actress Angela Ianonne based on Irish playwright Honor Molloy’s And In My Heart, about rebel love and politics. Performances are at 7 p.m., June 23 and 24. Twenty teenage artists complete the mosaic at 3 p.m., June 25 with 20UNDER20. It’s all free at Studio 508 in UWM’s Kenilworth Square East. Visit thebatteryfactory.org for more information.

Beautiful —The Carole King Musical The Marcus Center’s Molly Sommerhalder describes this show as a “story of four songwriters, their friendship and the hit songs they created,” and an “inspiring, true story of Carole King’s remarkable rise to stardom—along with her close relationships with songwriters Gerry Goffin, Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann.” Julia Knitel plays the eponymous singer-songwriter in this Marcus production—as she has done now for two years on stages across the country. King has written or cowritten 118 songs that have made Billboard’s Hot 100; her breakthrough album, Tapestry, crowned U.S. album charts for 15 weeks after its 1971 debut. (John Jahn) June 20-25, Uihlein Hall of the Marcus Center, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414-273-7206 or visit marcuscenter.org.

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Opera’s Greatest Hits

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Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood will resound with some of the greatest arias in opera in the Florentine Opera Company’s “Opera’s Greatest Hits” concert, featuring their Summer Quartet: soprano Rachel Blaustein, mezzo-soprano Jessica Blau, tenor Thomas Leighton and baritone Leroy Y. Davis.

They’ll be accompanied on this musical journey through opera’s long history of show-stopping arias by pianist Ruben Piirainen. (John Jahn) June 16 and 17 at the Wayne and Kristine Lueders Opera Center, 926 E. Burleigh St. For tickets, call 414-291-5700 ext. 224 or visit florentineopera.org.

Rachel Barton Pine Returns!

No, we’re not playing a game of “Which one doesn’t belong?” That is how the Wisconsin Philharmonic labels its upcoming “Winds of the Philharmonic” concert—ensconced in the verdant hills of Kettle Moraine State Forest. “We are excited to be performing for the first time at SummerStage of Delafield,” says Charles Grosz of the Wisconsin Philharmonic.

“The Philharmonic is committed to expanding our audiences, and this wonderful outdoor venue is a perfect opportunity to spend time with the family, celebrate Fathers’ Day and hear some great music.” Regarding the music—the orchestra’s winds will perform Wolfgang Mozart’s Serenade, K. 375, as well as works by Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Malcolm Arnold and others. This event also offers free beer tasting for dads and free hot dogs for children. (John Jahn) June 18 at SummerStage of Delafield, W329 N846 County Highway C. For tickets, call 262-547-1858 or visit wisphil. org/summerstage-of-delafield.

“Rachel and I are performing four of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord [BWV 1014-1019],” says Great Lakes Baroque’s Artistic Director (and harpsichordist) Jory Vinikour. “We will be recording the entire cycle of six sonatas in September for Cedille Records.” This concert gives the audience a preview of that upcoming recording when Rachel Barton Pine and Jory Vinikour perform Bach’s B Minor, G Major, F Minor and E Major sonatas—compositions likely from his last years in Cöthen (1720-1723). (John Jahn) June 16 at North Shore Congregational Church, 7330 North Santa Monica Blvd., Fox Point.

For tickets, visit greatlakesbaroque.org.

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A Tango Journey “Argentine Tango is so much more than the sexualized glitz and glamor seen on stage and screen,” observes Tango 21 Dance Theater’s Sarah Robertson. “It is an art form with a proud history from its South American roots with a rich tapestry of poetic lyrics and classical music.”

This splendid blend can be enjoyed by Milwaukee-area residents as Robertson’s Chicago-based troupe brings its expertise to our neck of the woods. She fascinatingly depicts Tango 21’s own make-up thus: “A diverse group of people with artists including the great-grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright, an SVP at a large bank, a professional ballet dancer, an opera singer and people who just love to dance tango.” (John Jahn) June 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Next Act Theatre, 255 S. Water St. For tickets, call 414-278-0765 or visit nextact.org.

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‘Nesting Dolls’ by Cooperative Performance Milwaukee

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ooperative Performance Milwaukee presents a program of seven short narratives that make for a generally fun and novel evening of programming. The show opens with a couple of abstract pieces. Stephen F. Murray’s Nesting Dolls features a non-verbal Hesper Juhnke making a journey of discovery through refuse. Once the trash has been cleared away, two dancers emerge from grassy green turf. Posy Knight and Kirk Thomsen’s Grass is Greener is wistful balletic movement through echoes of loss.

Things then become grounded in realism, comparatively speaking, in a Bill Jackson drama. Selena Milewski plays someone accusing her fiancée of immortality. The sharp sophistication of that piece gives way to lighthearted sitcom humor involving Amie Lynn Losi and Bill Molitor as a pair of comically liberal parents horrifying their wiser and worldly liberal daughter.

After intermission, Zach Schorsch delivers a dance/singing/spoken word piece that is as clear and apparently comprehensive a distillation of one person’s life as a short dramatic presentation could be. There’s a piece by Lillian Schley involving a member of the clergy and his atheist fiancée that is saved from murky theological tedium by genuine chemistry and charisma between actors Anna Murray and Matthew M. Collie. The show ends with a superhero drama by Matthew Konkle in which Zoe Schwartz charmingly plays a former hero forced to spend the rest of her life alone with an altruistic colleague played by Pam Scheferman who refuses to give up even though the world has essentially ended. Though the staggeringly brilliant potential of the premise never quite materializes, Schwartz and Scheferman’s rapport makes for an enjoyable end to the program.

Through June 17 at the Underground Collaborative, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. For tickets, visit cooperformke.com.

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47 Meters Down PG-13

Two sisters (Mandy Moore and Claire Holt), vacationing in Mexico, hire a guide (Matthew Modine) to take them cage-diving among the great whites. Intended as a bonding, memorable experience, the dive takes a sinister turn after the cage-cable breaks, and the girls plummet 47 meters to the ocean bottom. With limited oxygen and several large great whites patrolling nearby, the girls attempt to summon their courage and wits in order to survive.

Numerous harrowing moments, bolstered by realistic hungry sharks, make this an edge-ofyour-seat nightmare. Don’t choke on the popcorn. (Lisa Miller)

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Wondering About Rachel Weisz as ‘My Cousin Rachel’ ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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id she? Didn’t she? Who is to blame?” Philip asks himself as My Cousin Rachel begins. The latest film adaptation of a story by Daphne du Maurier (whose writings gave rise to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca and The Birds) concerns doubt gone seriously wrong. Du Maurier the author wasn’t persuaded by the allure of happy endings. Uncertainty and the inscrutability at the heart of existence wind through her writings and into her conclusions.

Think of the ending of The Birds: hundreds of predatory seagulls suddenly calm, eying the humans, who carefully retreat through their ranks, as if in a sudden gesture of inexplicable tolerance. Will they attack again?

My Cousin Rachel is set in a favorite du Maurier haunt, 19th-century Cornwall, whose rough green country is edged in cliffs and sand. Philip (Sam Claflin) will inherit a red brick manor with a yard full of scratching chickens. Loyal servants bent with age attend him, their future master once he turns 25. The story is propulsive in early scenes as Philip and his godfather-guardian read letters sent from faraway Italy by cousin Ambrose, whom Philip holds dear in flashes of childhood memory. The missives tell of happiness, especially concerning Ambrose’s wife, their distant cousin. Rachel is described as radiant, good, kind—until the messages darken with SHEPHERD EXPRESS

paranoia. Ambrose is suddenly afraid of his wife and surrounded by sinister Italians; he doesn’t trust his doctor; he dies.

Rachel endeavors to visit Philip, the cousin she never met. He girds himself for the encounter with roiling hatred. Although a death certificate and detailed postmortem show that Ambrose perished from a brain tumor that evidently disordered his mind, Philip is unconvinced of Rachel’s innocence in the matter—until he is convinced, and then he’s not…

Perhaps if Rachel (Rachel Weisz) wasn’t so beautiful outdoors under her lacey black widow’s veil, and yet so commonsensical and considerate when in the manor house, Philip might have remained adamant in his suspicion.

But although fast approaching 25, he’s known little of women and is a boy emotionally, not a man. He becomes infatuated with her to the edge of madness and sulks when her attentions turn away. He refuses to listen to rumors of Rachel’s sexually adventurous past and then follows her to town to spy on her. He sees her with her flamboyant Italian friend— but what is it that she sees? Perception can be a dimension of distorted images framed by expectations.

The truth might be larger than Philip’s field of vision.

My Cousin Director Roger Rachel Michell makes good contrast with Rachel Weisz light and darkness, Sam Claflin the bright daylight Directed by of Cornwall and the Roger Michell nocturnal interior Rated PG-13 of the manor where Philip and Rachel come to know each other in pale candlelight. She feeds him bitter tea according to her own recipe and, like Ambrose, he begins to feel ill. His hallucinations are sharply filmed, but raise more unanswered questions in a world of mixed and unclear motives. Is Rachel emotionally calculating or simply projecting her love for Ambrose onto Philip, whom he resembles? Is she a fortune hunter or a woman determined to free herself from society’s strictures? A killer who decides not to kill? “Did she? Didn’t she?”

When contemplating the death of 25-year-old rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur, we learn he was shaped on the mean streets of Oakland, Calif. He worked as a roadie, backup dancer and emcee before finally taking audiences by storm as a rapper. While his legacy continues to grow, will this film examine the stains? In 1991, Shakur’s gun was fired by a member of his entourage, accidentally killing a 6-year-old boy. In 1993 and 1994, he pled guilty to assaults and, in a separate incident, was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse, serving a nine-month jail sentence. In 1996, he brutally beat the rival who ultimately shot and killed him. This film stars Demetrius Shipp Jr. as Shakur. He is the rapper’s doppelganger, and this, along with the actor’s solid performance, should please Shakur fans. (L.M.)

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Five college gal pals (Scarlett Johansson, Zoë Kravitz, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell and Ilana Glazer) reunite in Miami after 10 years for the no-holds-barred, private bachelorette party of their last unmarried member. The women engage and accidentally kill a male stripper at their rented beach house—then spend the remainder of the film attempting to cover up the killing. The film’s trailer reveals the odd casting of the friends (Bell and McKinnon excepted) as they embody total craziness and do the heavy-lifting, laugh-wise. Were the genders reversed, feminists would pitch a fit. In the interest of equality, shouldn’t what’s bad for the goose be equally bad for the gander? (L.M.)

[HOME MOVIES/OUT ON DIGITAL] I Am Heath Ledger

According to Heath Ledger’s dad, movie stardom was always on his mind.

The Australian was already on TV at age 17 and surfaced in an American indie film in 1999. Mentored by Mel Gibson (The Patriot, 2000), Ledger brought physicality, empathy and self-doubt to a succession of roles, culminating in his unforgettable turn as The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. This documentary is compounded from home video, snapshots and interviews with family and friends.

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Hugh Jackman was two years away from sprouting titanium claws and wolverine facial hair in the X-Men franchise when he starred in Oklahoma! The Royal National Theatre’s 1998 production, directed by British theater veteran Trevor Nunn, was filmed as if it was a movie, giving Blu-ray viewers perspectives impossible from even the best seats. Jackman attacked the familiar Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein numbers with zest and looks comfortable on stage amid the painted scenery.

The World of Henry Orient

Two lonely girls at an exclusive school discover each other and “go adventuring” in The World of Henry Orient. The cinematography in this 1964 comedy by director George Roy Hill is exhilarating and captures the gossamer joy of adolescence as the cameras track their romps through Central Park and city streets in a gorgeous Manhattan autumn. Peter Sellers stars as an arrogant concert pianist whose affair with a married woman they continually manage to disrupt.

Marjorie Morningstar

Rising star Natalie Wood stars in this 1958 Technicolor production as an 18-year-old ingénue resisting pressure from mother and boyfriend to get married. She stumbles into acting under the tutelage of a dancer-director-choreographer played by veteran Gene Kelly. Wood is endearing, as is Ed Wynn playing her wisdom-dispensing uncle, but Kelly infuses the screenplay with heart and soul. Marjorie Morningstar was directed by Hollywood veteran Irving Rapper (Now, Voyager) from Herman Wouk’s novel.

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Claire Stigliani: Facets of Fantasy at Tory Folliard ::BY KAT KNEEVERS

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ven when at her most real, Claire Stigliani’s art lives in a sort of dream world. She draws, paints and sculpts works that are inherently autobiographical, but their poetic quality gives them a touch of otherworldliness. Even if the subject of a piece is the “Real Housewives” TV franchise, Stigliani’s aesthetic pixie dust offers a patina of charm.

With previous showings at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and Dean Jensen Gallery, Stigliani’s work may not be unfamiliar. However, there are plenty of new pieces in her current show at Tory Folliard Gallery, “Dream Within a Dream.” The title is spot-on, particularly as the exhibition wraps itself around various reference points. The more you look at each work, the more you will recognize.

The centerpiece in the gallery is a multipart sculpture which is almost diorama-like in its diminutive details. One part shows the artist in her bedroom, lounging and sketching while watching videos on a computer screen. Around her are familiar detritus: art supplies, coffee cups, books and magazines.

In other segments of the sculpture, there is a

garden, fairytale bedroom and a pink bathtub in which a black leather-clad woman is bound with ropes that loop gracefully over a nearby easel (this is Stigliani’s personal metaphor for drawing). There is also a lovely grisaille maquette of Titania and Bottom from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

All of these characters appear in the drawings on the walls. Through the nearly two dozen pieces on view, themes are reiterated and reinterpreted. The drawings of the aforementioned “Real Housewives” characters are one of the images on the computer screen that the artist draws in the sculpture, and the finished works are on the walls. There are also drawings of the artist’s room, and Stigliani’s self-portrait appears in a tiny picture in the model fairytale bedroom.

Opposites shift in Stigliani’s work as a whole. Fantasy and fairytales merge with reality, combining to become a tangible vision while still touching the world of imagination.

“Dream Within a Dream” escapes from reality by cleverly twisting its embrace.

Through June 30 at Tory Folliard Gallery, 233 N. Milwaukee St. For an online video interview with the artist, visit the Art Review section at shepherdexpress.com.

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Racine Art Museum Unveils Three Summer Exhibitions ::BY TYLER FRIEDMAN

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hree summer exhibitions opening June 18 at the Racine Art Museum reinforce the institution’s reputation as one of the nation’s preeminent institutions dedicated to elevating traditional crafts such as quilting and pottery to the status of fine art.

“Small Gifts from Big Donors—Part 2” is the second installment of the museum’s yearlong thanksgiving to the patrons whose gifts of more than 9,000 pieces have cemented RAM’s standing. “Collection Focus: Renie Breskin Adams” presents four decades worth of scenes stitched from fabric, cotton thread and wool thread then brightly colored with dyes, crayon and acrylic paint. The exhibition of more than 30 works marks RAM’s establishment of an archive for this distinctive contemporary artist. Wife-and-husband team of Susan Shie and James Acord combine fabric, thread, paint, text and found objects to create quilts that defy stereotypes. “Shie and Acord: Recent Acquisitions” is a delightful romp through small and largescale works treating atypical themes like fortune tellers and anthropomorphized animals.

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Adolph Rosenblatt (1933-2017) sculpted deeply humanistic scenes of people engaged in everyday activities such as dining at lunch counters, sitting in a theater balcony and lounging in saunas. Rosenblatt was also a beloved teacher at UW-Milwaukee who inspired generations of students to develop their own inimitable voices. “Moments and Markers: An Adolph Rosenblatt Retrospective” celebrates the artist’s indelible legacy through his paintings, drawings, bronze-cast works, ceramic figures, sculptural tableaus and largescale installations. The exhibition runs June 16 through Aug. 27.

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BY MARTIN VAN CREVELD The title More on War alludes to the two classics in its field, Carl von Clausewitz’s On War and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, whose maxims served as polestars. However, neither predecessor was much concerned with the economics of war, nor could they have envisioned aircraft and submarines, much less nuclear warheads. A historian with ties to the Israeli military, Martin Van Creveld sets out to rethink the theory of waging war in the present day, perhaps an unpleasant but necessary task in a world that has withstood the best efforts by Utopians to impose peace. Focused on essentials and elegantly concise, More on War is more philosophical than tactical, its understanding of human nature applicable to the workplace as well as the battlefield. (David Luhrssen)

Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State (W.W. NORTON), BY ALI SOUFAN

Osama bin Laden emerges from the pages of Anatomy of Terror as a strategic thinker, albeit blinded by preconceptions of his enemy, the United States, whose determined vengeance for 9/11 he underestimated. The bestselling author, a Lebanese-born former counterintelligence operative for the FBI, writes in swift journalistic strokes about the leading figures of Al Qaeda and its more militant offshoot, ISIS. “Radical Islam” isn’t monolithic, Soufan insists. He identifies several strains of Islamist fundamentalism at work and in conflict with each other. U.S. military intervention is sometimes necessary to thwart terrorists, he finds, but terrorism won’t recede despite battlefield victories unless viable counter-narratives take hold among disenchanted Muslims susceptible to extremist ideology. “Millions of Muslims around the world believe the West is deliberately suppressing their religion and stifling political change,” he concludes—beliefs only reinforced by the U.S. invasion of Iraq and conditions at Guantanamo. ISIS and Al Qaeda “imprison potential recruits in ideological echo chambers,” he writes. Alas, members of our government, from several administrations, have also spent their careers in echo chambers. (David Luhrssen) 28 | J U N E 1 5 , 2 0 1 7

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Louis V. Clark III on ‘How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century’ ::BY JENNI HERRICK

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embers of the Oneida tribe moved west to Wisconsin in the early 1820s and have continually struggled to maintain their ancestral lands and rich cultural traditions.

Today, the Oneida Nation in the Green Bay area includes a lush land base of more than 6,000 acres, the recent addition of a tribal school and increased economic opportunities, due in large part to the tribe’s invention of the state’s first modern lottery in 1988. Of its nearly 21,000 members, about 50% live or grew up on the reservation, including novelist and poet Louis V. Clark III, the author of the new book How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century, published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.

In this witty and insightful essay collection, the author explores his life’s journey and reflects on some of the most important aspects of his Native American heritage. How to be an Indian illustrates the very real trials and challenges facing people on reservations as well as celebrates the profound joys found in immersing oneself in mankind’s traditions and lessons from the past. A beautiful blend of prose, poetry and storytelling, Clark’s enthralling narrative shares a lyrical understanding of an individual’s place in the world and explores issues from first love to the world of work, and highlights unique Wisconsin traditions. The author creatively moves from discussing the connectivity of human beings to one another and their natural environment, to exploring the importance of releasing our inner demons to unleash a hopeful future.

Clark is a tribal elder, proud grandfather and published poet. He will discuss How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century at Milwaukee Public Library’s Loos Room (733 N. Eighth St.) at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 19.

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::UPCOMINGEVENTS June 14: Opening Night of Titus Andronicus at Off the Wall Theatre (127 E. Wells St.): The seldom-performed yet highly anticipated drama shocks the city during a 10-night run at this edgy black box theater. Madness reins during William Shakespeare’s shocking tale of family, war, love and insanity under the skillful direction of Dale Gutzman. Not for the weak of heart, the controversial play runs through June 25. See zivacat.com/offthewalltheatre for curtain times, performance dates and tickets.

June 15, 16 and 17: Filth Fest V (various locations): Milwaukee’s queer and trans punk fest is back with live music, workshops, art shows and discussion groups throughout the city. The three-day celebration puts LGBTQ issues front and center with a portion of the proceeds going to Trans Assistance Project (TAP). See Filth Fest Milwaukee on Facebook or tweet @filthfestmke for a schedule of events.

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Dear Ruthie, Here’s one for you. I found out that my partner of six years has been messaging a porn star.

I knew he had a crush on this actor for a long time, but I was surprised to discover that the two have been sexting behind my back. I was mad and hurt when I found the messages on my partner’s phone. I know the porn star lives across the country, but this feels like cheating. I’m not sure what to do next. I’m getting angrier and sadder by the day. What do you think?

—Hurt and Lonely Dear H&L, Why I oughta…slap that phone outta your hand! Nothing good comes from letting your fingers do the walking through your honey’s phone.

Ever. Now that you’ve let the genie out of the bottle, you must face the music, darlin’! (And by “music” I mean that weird techno bom-chicabaw-wow music you hear in porn films.)

Start by telling your porn-loving horn dog that you looked through his phone, apologize and explain why you felt the need to do so. You’re going to have to pay the piper on this one, sugar.

Next, let your guy know how this messaging is making you feel. If you’re truly hurt and lonely, then that needs to be addressed. The porn star needs to hit the road. Give him my email, and tell him to Twitter his taint in my direction instead.

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June 16: Holistic Care of LGBTQ+ Veterans at UW-Milwaukee Student Union (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.): Part of Milwaukee’s VA Mental Health Care Summit, this 8 a.m.-4 p.m. workshop highlights suicide prevention, addiction issues, diverse care networks and other issues facing today’s LGBTQ+ veterans. See mkevamentalhealthsummitlgbtqvets.eventbrite.com for additional information and registration to the free event.

June 16: Opening Night of ‘Butterfly Confessions’ at UW-Milwaukee Recital Hall, Music Building 175 (2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.): This new stage play tackles issues of love, adversity and HIV/AIDS concerning African American women. Produced by MPower Theater, created by Yetta Young and directed by Catina Cole, the heartwarming production begins at 7 p.m., runs through June 17 and includes an $18 door charge.

June 17: Inaugural Curd Fest at Drink Wisconsinbly Pub (135 E. National Ave.): PrideFest is done, Summerfest isn’t here yet, and Irish Fest is way off. Celebrate with Curd Fest! It’s cheese-curd a go-go during this 10 a.m.-8 p.m. street party. See raceroster.com (search Drink Wisconsinbly) for more on the 5K Curd Run, the cheese curd eating competition, cheese curd tastings and more.

June 17: Mary’s Market Day at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.): Shop till you drop and eat till you plop at this kitschy burger joint! Explore the outdoor spaces of Hamburger Mary’s where vendors sell everything from soaps and jewelry to clothing and art. Enjoy their Market Day on the third Saturday of each month through October; a percentage of the sales benefit a local charity. Check out the fun 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

June 17: Honey LaBronx at Five Nightclub (5 Applegate Court, Madison): Hello, Honey! It’s so nice to have you back where you belong! Wisconsin’s very own vegan drag queen returns home with this 6:30 p.m. comedy show. A suggested $20 donation gets you into the evening with the comedy queen who knows her way around a meatless kitchen. Proceeds benefit Heartland Farm Sanctuary and Wisconsin WildCare.

June 21: Summer Solstice Night at Uncle Ned’s Consignment Liquidation and Estate Sales (1412 S. 73rd St.): More than 35 antiques, crafts and collectibles vendors invade this South Side resale shop for a night of deals and steals. You’ll also find food, beverages, tarot card reading, yoga and more during the 5-9 p.m. shopa-thon. After all, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure!

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The Rainbow Dilemma or The Case of the Vexed Vexillologist ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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ilwaukee’s Pride weekend is now a memory. Complementing the weather, it was a hot one. PrideFest, the Pride Parade, an Equality Rally, street parties and all the rest made it memorable.

There was a Pride surprise, too. No, it wasn’t a presidential LGBTQ Pride Month Declaration (although I reposted President Barack Obama’s from ’16 on social media as a buck-up, all-is-not-lost reminder of the way we were).

It was, instead, the hoisting of a new Rainbow Flag. It happened in Philadelphia, as here in Milwaukee, and across the country for that matter, LGBTQ people of color have been sidelined. In an effort to restore their inclusion, Philadelphia’s LGBTQ leaders devised a remedy. To underscore its community diversity, they added black and brown stripes representing people of color to the traditional six of the Rainbow Flag. Unfortunately, although well intended, I believe the altered emblem is a poorly contrived BandAid for a deeper problem that requires more than a feel-good solution. Besides, the now top-heavy design destroys the context of the flag’s original intent.

When Gilbert Baker (1951-2017) designed the Rainbow Flag in 1978, he chose

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the rainbow colors to define the attributes of the nascent LGBTQ movement for equality. Red, orange and yellow represented life, healing and sunlight; green, blue and violet symbolized nature, serenity and spirit. These were universal values beyond the confines of ethnicity, race or gender. Besides, he was no doubt aware of the Brotherhood Flag that represents the races of man with its red, white, yellow, brown and black stripes.

To serve people of color, I might opt for another variant of the more than two dozen flags currently in use by LGBTQ community subgroups; these are to the Rainbow Flag as our state flags are to the stars and stripes. Through color combinations and design elements, each identifies the subgroup’s intrinsic nature. For example, the Bisexual Pride flag uses three horizontal stripes. The top is pink and the bottom is blue with the middle a convergence of the two, making purple. Most flags are traditionally arranged horizontal stripes.

A POC Pride flag could use broad black and brown stripes at the top and bottom of the field with six narrow rainbow stripes through the center. Or, better yet, it could use cultural references—like textile designs, many of which have their own symbolic meanings—as a vertical bar at the hoist end. That bar could make up the first quarter or third of the field with the remainder consisting of rainbow stripes. An African American Pride flag could display a classic Ghanaian Kente, Afro-Caribbean or traditional quilt pattern.

The design could vary according to the locale or culture of the local community. A New Orleans flag could use a Cajun design, while a Cuban one might well suit people of color in Miami. Hmong appliqué, Chinese brocade or Sioux beadwork could all serve to declare cultural heritage.

Aside from preserving both the aesthetic and purpose of the original Rainbow Flag, these variations, like those for Bisexual Pride, Leather Pride and all the rest, would signify an identity within the LGBTQ coalition and more suitably present our diversity.

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Queen Tut

Claims Her Throne ::BY LAUREN KEENE

or one reason or another, some Milwaukee creatives remain buried in the underground depths of the city’s music scene. It’s easy for local musicians to be overshadowed by the city’s more established artists, especially during Milwaukee’s current hip-hop renaissance. With Milwaukee-based rappers garnering national attention regularly, it can be intimidating to break into a community full of so much talent.

Seshat Roberts, aka Queen Tut, made it her goal not to go unnoticed. Through music, fashion and philanthropy, Roberts has been making waves through both Milwaukee and New York City.

The rapper (or femcee, as she prefers to be called) was drawn to hip-hop after showing interest in poetry. Roberts eventually hit a wall when writing, and started to feel as though she couldn’t thoroughly express herself. She decided to make the transition from poetry to hip-hop and began to dip her toes into Milwaukee’s hip-hop scene, adopting her stage name. She caught the city’s attention after being featured on various local tracks, most notably on Lex Allen’s soul pop single “Shapeshifter.”

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Roberts cites an eclectic mixture of influences, including Jimi Hendrix, TLC, Janelle Monet, Outkast and Missy Elliott. She says her biggest inspiration, both musically and aesthetically, is Lil’ Kim. In 2015, she released her debut EP, Psychedelic Traphouse, a five-track effort that showcased Roberts’ lyrical talents as well as her unique production flair. The EP featured collaborations with multiple Milwaukee artists, including Abby Jeanne and Zed Kenzo.

A year ago, Roberts relocated to Brooklyn. She became acquainted with New York City while touring, and frequently attended AFROPUNK, a festival celebrating black alternative culture. Upon meeting potential collaborators and new friends at the event, she decided to expand her creative horizons to the East Coast.

When Roberts isn’t making music, she does editorial work as a freelance hairstylist and makeup artist. She is also heavily involved in social activism. Her Milwaukee performances have raised money for organizations like Milwaukee Public Schools, Planned Parenthood and Date Rape Awareness Milwaukee.

Her New York philanthropic pursuits include a vegan food pantry that provides meals to the hungry and starting a cooperative production company for artists and musicians. The co-op’s goal is to bridge Milwaukee’s art scene with New York’s established industry.

When performing in New York, she says she always makes a point to let people know she’s from Milwaukee.

“When I am in New York, I definitely shout that I am a Milwaukee artist,” explains Roberts. “I don’t ever want them to claim me. I’m very aware that I don’t necessarily fit into their cookie-cutter view of whatever a female rapper should look like.”

Roberts says that New York’s hip-hop scene is quick to embrace new artists. Because everyone is from somewhere else, the music community is very open and inviting. She says that her New York contemporaries are intrigued by her Midwestern roots and are quick to notice them in her music.

“When they hear my music, they’re shocked by the Milwaukee sound,” Roberts says. “It’s something they’re not familiar with. Everybody has a different sound in Milwaukee. We all pick up different elements of things. The sounds of our voices are different, our sounds are different. Personally, I don’t think I sound like anybody.”

Queen Tut’s most recent single, “Cantaloupe,” dropped last July. The single seamlessly blends hip-hop, trap and world beats. In April, an accompanying Queen Tut look book was shot by Milwaukee phoThursday, tographer Mahdi Gransberry. Roberts June 15 focuses as much on her music’s aesCactus Club thetics as she does her music’s sounds, being sure to combine her talents as both a musical and visual artist.

Roberts isn’t revealing too many details about her next project, except that it will include several Milwaukee features. Roberts says the project will include multiple “Milwaukee fan favorites” like saxophonist Jay Anderson and Sista Strings.

“I see this new project showing people a different side of me—the person I am now,” she says. “There’s going to be a new sound, and people will get the updated version of me.”

Queen Tut will perform at Cactus Club on Thursday, June 15 with CRASHprez and D’Amato. All proceeds will be going to Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity. Her music can be found at soundcloud.com/seshat-queen-tut.

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::BY LAUREN KEENE

s the self-proclaimed City of Festivals, Milwaukee is no stranger to outdoor music events. From Summer Soulstice to the Locust Street Festival, summers in the city have always been filled with live music. 2017 will be the first year, however, that Milwaukee will participate in Make Music Day—a worldwide celebration of music that takes place on the first day of summer.

The event began in Paris, France in 1982. Make Music Day’s founders envisioned a day dedicated to free, live music with performances in public places. The event aims to be nontraditional; musicians are encouraged to participate both in standard venues as well as on street corners, rooftops and other outdoor spaces.

The festival is open to musicians of all ages, skill levels and genre preferences.

Last year, more than 750 cities participated in more than 120 countries. More than 50 U.S. cities will be celebrating Make Music Day this year.

It was Katelyn Reithel, the event coordinator at Brass Bell Music Store, who brought the event to Milwaukee. Reithel heard about the celebration while interning at the NAMM Foundation, a nonprofit focusing on music philanthropy. She was intrigued by the event and became determined to bring it to Milwaukee. She was surprised that a city with such a flourishing music scene and high volume of music business wasn’t already involved. Reithel became the Make Music Day Milwaukee administrator and began her quest to get the city interested.

The festival’s goal isn’t to book Milwaukee’s big name performers. The event encourages inclusivity, and any venue or musician can opt to get involved. Make Music Day’s coordinators have developed a matchmaking process that allows artists to select a performance timeslot of their choice. Participating venues can reach out to interested musicians and schedule performances.

Make Music Day festivities will take place at outdoor spaces like the Mitchell Park Domes and Riverwest’s Kadish Park, as well as at indoor venues like Stage Right Pub and Brass Bell. Performers range from rock bands to Native American flute players. “We have more people wanting to perform than we have timeslots available,” says Reithel.

Milwaukee rocker Nyanna Krajewski is performing twice on Make Music Day with her bands Gas Station Sushi and Slimabean. “We want to support loMake Music cal artists and play music wherever we can, especially at places that are all ages,” Krajewski says. “We are Milwaukee underage and find it hard to get gigs. It’s not easy to Wednesday, get people our age to come to our shows.” Her bandJune 21 mates are eager to perform in a space that is welcomVarious Venues ing to the public. “It’s a great opportunity, and I’m always excited to perform, no matter where it is,” says Slimabean vocalist Tess Minette. “Performing makes me feel more confident and comfortable socially. Music is something that brings people together.”

Other than performances, Make Music Day will create opportunities for music fans to learn a new skill or two. Both Kadish Park and the Domes will host group ukulele lessons. The instruments will be provided by Brass Bell, and instructors will teach participants how to compose their own tunes. Harmonica manufacturer Hoener will be donating instruments and teaching harmonica lessons at the Domes as well.

Make Music Milwaukee takes place on Wednesday, June 21, at various venues.

For more information about the event, visit makemusicday.org/milwaukee.

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ne of the most commercially successful acts to spring from Baltimore’s bustling, ever-eclectic music scene, Future Islands have experienced something of a meteoric rise over the last few years, and it’s easy to see why.

The band’s brand of anthemic, cinematic synth-pop, a kind of spiritual successor to the likes of New Order and Kate Bush, is immediately accessible in a way which, if put in front of a large enough audience, was bound to catch on. And that’s exactly what happened following a career-making 2014 appearance on “Late Night with David Letterman,” but more impressive is that they’ve been able to turn what started as a viral sensation into a lasting, loyal following (something that’s easier said than done) and that’s partly thanks to their passionate live performances and unique stage presence.

Speaking of stage presence, local opener Milo also had plenty, albeit in a different way. Surrounded by several musicians covering every inch of available real estate, Milo deftly led his sizable ensemble through a loosely structured set of inspired acid-rap. With the house all but packed for the buzzed-about main act, Milo and company definitely gained more than a few new fans with their jazzy, genre-bending explorations, which put a strong lyrical emphasis on social justice issues, particularly police brutality. The politics, however, never felt heavy handed, aligning nicely with the positivity-laced, consciousness-expanding spirit of the music, one in the grand Afro-cosmic tradition of Sun Ra and Parliament-Funkadelic. While more than entertaining throughout, they put an exclamation point at the end of their performance with an unexpected appearance from likeminded local MC Lorde Fredd33.

When the lights dimmed for Future Islands, frontman Samuel T. Herring offered up some sincerely effusive praise for their warm-up act before launching into a long set that delivered three-and-a-half-minute doses of dreamily danceable art-pop with the steady precision of a morphine drip. The discography-spanning setlist, predictably showcasing their brand-new The Far Field, had plenty of highlights, but after well over an hour and a half, the similarities between the songs started to stand out more than the differences. Yet, if their overall enjoyable style began to get a little repetitive by the time they reached the end of a four-song encore, what didn’t was Herring’s evocative voice and especially his strange dance moves—a theatrical mixture of Michael Jackson, Brazilian capoeira and Ian Curtis’ epileptic twitchiness which often stole the show.

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Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Acoustic Guitar Night Anodyne Coffee Walker’s Point Roastery & Cafe, Adam Greuel (of Horseshoes & Hand Grenades) & Sarah Vos Cactus Club, Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity Fundraiser: Queen Tut, CRASHprez, D’Amato & DJ CSYK Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), *hitunauts aka The Occasional Quartet Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Misha Siegfried Band Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Ginni & JoAnna Marie (6pm) Colectivo Coffee On Prospect, Jakubi w/Kyle Megna & The Monsoons Colectivo Coffee at the Lake, Musica del Lago County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Harry’s Bar & Grill, Kyle Feerick (6pm) Italian Community Center, Rick D’Amore Band (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Mark Pulice Quartet Jazz in the Park (Cathedral Square Park), The Rhythm Rockets (6pm) Kelly’s Bleachers (Big Bend), Thursday Night Acoustic Open Jam w/host Michael Sean Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Mike Mangione w/Zach Pietrini Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Miller Time Pub, Joe Kadlec Nines American Bistro of Mequon, ninesLive!

O’Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), The All-Star SUPERband (6pm) Packing House, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Keith Pulvermacher (8pm), In the Fire Pit: The Terry Sims Band (8:30pm) Stoneridge Inn (Hales Corners), Julie Nelson (6pm) The Bay Restaurant, Ian Gould The Landing at Hoyt Park, Paul Rebek (6pm) Village Hall Park (Waterford), Waterford River Rhythns: Jackie Brown Band (6:30pm)

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TUESDAY, JUNE 20

Chill On the Hill (Humboldt Park), Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (6pm) Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Italian Community Center, Matthew Skoller Band w/Billy Flynn (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Funk Night w/Angie Swan & Friends Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Marvelous Mack Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Parkside Reunion Big Band Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm) The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich

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Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Comedy Night: Dave Losso w/Jason Melton, Addie Blanchard & Josh Ballew Beulah Brinton House, David HB Drake: Singing in the Solstice (6:30pm) 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 Frank’s Power Plant, First Day of Summer Celebration w/Eve Minor, Kia Rap Princess & Pleasure Thief (Cat Ries of No/No) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Noodle Jam (6pm) Jazz Estate, Bonifas Electric Band w/Brian Lynch Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Myles Coyne (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miramar Theatre, Stage Right Pub: Brendan Demet (of Evergreen) 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: Brother (6:30pm) Pewaukee Lakefront Park, Waterfront Wednesdays: Random Maxx (6pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Rave / Eagles Club, XXXTentacion w/Members Only, Ski Mask The Slump God & Craig Xen (all-ages, 8pm) Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk The Metal Grill (Cudahy), Locust Grove (ages 18-plus, 8pm) Zeidler Union Square, Westown Farmers’ Market: Roxie Beane (11:45am)

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THEME CROSSWORD

By James Barrick

PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Kaidoku”

Each of the 26 letters of the alphabet is represented in this grid by a number between 1 and 26. Using letter frequency, word-pattern recognition, and the numbers as your guides, fill in the grid with well-known English words (HINT: since a Q is always followed by a U, try hunting down the Q first). Only lowercase, unhyphenated words are allowed in kaidoku, so you wonít see anything like STOCKHOLM or LONG-LOST in here (but you might see AFGHAN, since it has an uncapitalized meaning, too). Now stop wasting my precious time and SOLVE! psychosudoku@gmail.com 3

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WORD FIND This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 49 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Navigational Feat Solution: 49 Letters

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ACROSS 1. Fixes 5. — buffa 10. Confines 15. Luncheonette fare 19. Cafe au — 20. Tour de France participant 21. Battery terminal 22. Commedia dell’— 23. Height 24. Enlightened one, in Buddhism 25. Pied — 26. Appurtenances 27. Start of a quip by Bernie Mac: 4 wds.

30. River ‘twixt New York and Ontario 32. Approval: Var. 33. Leading 34. Prof. org.

35. Halted 38. “The Purple Rose of —” 40. Reference mark 45. Heart chambers 46. Part 2 of quip: 2 wds.

48. Toupees 49. Baton 50. Provo neighbor 51. Ear: Comb. form 52. Girl in Idaho 53. Somata 55. Fastened 56. — - — -arms 58. — canto 59. Hibernia 60. In that case 62. Fish paddle 63. Part 3 of quip: 5 wds.

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Actress Marisa Berenson offers a line of anti-aging products that contain an elixir made from the seeds of a desert fruit known as prickly pear. The manufacturing process isn’t easy. To produce a quart of the potion requires 2,000 pounds of seeds. I see you as having a metaphorically similar challenge in the coming weeks, Gemini. To create a small amount of the precious stuff you want, I’m guessing you’ll have to gather a ton of raw materials. And there may be a desert-like phenomenon to deal with, as well.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There are three kinds of habits: good, bad and neutral. Neutral habits are neither good nor bad, but use up psychic energy that might be better directed into cultivating good habits. Here are some examples: a good habit is when you’re disciplined about eating healthy food; a bad habit is watching violent TV shows before going to bed, thereby disturbing your sleep; a neutral habit might be doing Sudoku puzzles. My challenge to you, Cancerian, is to dissolve one bad habit and one neutral habit by replacing them with two new good habits. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, cosmic forces will be on your side as you make this effort.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Dr. Astrology: Good fortune has been visiting me a lot lately. Many cool opportunities have come my way. Life is consistently interesting. I’ve also made two unwise moves that, fortunately, didn’t bring bad results. Things often work out better for me than I imagined they would! I’m grateful every day, but I feel like I should somehow show even more appreciation.

Any ideas? —Lucky Leo.” Dear Lucky: The smartest response to the abundance you have enjoyed is to boost your generosity. Give out blessings. Dispense praise. Help people access their potentials. Intensify your efforts to share your wealth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Years ago, a fan of my work named Paul emailed to ask me if I wanted to get together with him and his friend when I visited New York. “Maybe you know her?” he wrote. “She’s the artist Cindy Sherman.” Back then I had never heard of Cindy. But since Paul was smart and funny, I agreed to meet. The three of us convened in an elegant tearoom for a boisterous conversation. A week later, when I was back home and mentioned the event to a colleague, her eyes got big and she shrieked, “You had tea with THE Cindy Sherman.” She then educated me on how successful and influential Cindy’s photography has been. I predict you will soon have a comparable experience, Virgo: inadvertent contact with an intriguing presence.

Hopefully, because I’ve given you a heads up, you’ll recognize what’s happening as it occurs, and take full advantage.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll never get access to the treasure that’s buried out under the cherry tree next to the ruined barn if you stay in your command center and keep staring at the map instead of venturing out to the barn.

Likewise, a symbol of truth may be helpful in experiencing deeper meaning, but it’s not the same as communing with the raw truth, and may even become a distraction from it. Let’s consider one further variation on the theme: The pictures in your mind’s eye may or may not have any connection with the world outside your brain. It’s especially important that you monitor their accuracy in the coming days.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to go gallivanting so heedlessly into the labyrinth. Or maybe it was. Who knows? It’s still too early to assess the value of your experiences in that maddening, but fascinating tangle. You may not yet be fully able to distinguish the smoke and mirrors from the useful revelations. Which of the riddles you’ve gathered will ultimately bring frustration and which will lead you to wisdom? Here’s one thing I do know for sure: If you want to exit the labyrinth, an opportunity will soon appear.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Over the years I’ve read numerous news reports about people who have engaged in intimate relations with clunky inanimate objects. One had sex with a bicycle. Another seduced a sidewalk and a third tried to make sweet love to a picnic table. I

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hope you won’t join their ranks in the coming weeks.

Your longing is likely to be extra intense, innovative and even exotic, but I trust you will confine its expression to unions with adult human beings who know what they’re getting into and who have consented to play. Here’s an old English word you might want to add to your vocabulary: “blissom.” It means “to bleat with sexual desire.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your life in the coming days should be low on lightweight diversions and high in top-quality content. Does that sound like fun? I hope so. I’d love to see you enjoy the hell out of yourself as you cut the fluff and focus on the pith…as you efficiently get to the hype-free heart of every matter and refuse to tolerate waffling or stalling. So strip away the glossy excesses, my dear Capricorn. Skip a few steps if that doesn’t cause any envy. Expose the pretty lies, but then just work around them; don’t get bogged down in indulging in negative emotions about them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Inventor, architect and author Buckminster Fuller lived to the age of 87. For 63 of those years, he kept a detailed scrapbook diary that documented every day of his life. It included his reflections, correspondence, drawings, newspaper clippings, grocery bills and much other evidence of his unique story. I would love to see you express yourself with that much disciplined ferocity during the next two weeks. According to my astrological analysis, you’re in a phase when you have maximum power to create your life with vigorous ingenuity and to show everyone exactly who you are.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have a cosmic license to enjoy almost too much sensual pleasure. In addition, you should feel free to do more of what you love to do than you normally allow yourself. Be unapologetic about surrounding yourself with flatterers and worshipers. Be sumptuously lazy. Ask others to pick up the slack for you. Got all that? It’s just the first part of your oracle.

Here’s the rest: You have a cosmic license to explore the kind of spiritual growth that’s possible when you feel happy and fulfilled. As you go through each day, expect life to bring you exactly what you need to uplift you. Assume that the best service you can offer your fellow humans is to be relaxed and content.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have to admit that salt looks like sugar and sugar resembles salt. This isn’t usually a major problem, though. Mistakenly sprinkling sugar on your food when you thought you were adding salt won’t hurt you, nor will putting salt in your coffee when you assumed you were using sugar. But errors like these are inconvenient, and they can wreck a meal. You may want to apply this lesson as a metaphor in the coming days, Aries. Be alert for things that outwardly seem to be alike but actually have different tastes and effects.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s a possible plan for the next 10 days: Program your smart phone to sound an alarm once every hour during the entire time you’re awake. Each time the bell or buzzer goes off, you will vividly remember your life’s main purpose. You will ask yourself whether or not the activity you’re engaged in at that specific moment is somehow serving your life’s main purpose. If it is, literally pat yourself on the back and say to yourself, “Good job!” If it’s not, say the following words: “I am resolved to get into closer alignment with my soul’s code—the blueprint of my destiny.”

Homework: Do a homemade ritual in which you vow to attract more blessings into your life. Report results 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.

NEWS OF THE WEIRD

Advertisers Are Coming for You

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he New York Times reported in May that the “sophistication” of Google’s and Facebook’s ability to identify potential customers of advertisements is “capable of targeting audiences so narrow that they can pinpoint, say, Idaho residents in long-distance relationships who are contemplating buying a minivan.” Facebook’s ad manager told the Times that such a description matches 3,100 people (out of Idaho’s 1.7 million).

Government in Action!

Harry Kraemer, 76, owner of Sparkles Cleaning Service in London, Ontario, was alone in his SUV recently and decided to light up a cigarette based on his 60-year habit, but was spotted by Smoke-Free Ontario officers and cited for three violations. Since his vehicle was registered to his business, and the windows were up, the cab constituted an “enclosed workspace.” It took a long legal fight, but in May, the Provincial Offences Court cut Kraemer a break and dismissed the tickets.

The Continuing Crisis

Japan is in constant conflict over whether to become more militarily robust (concerned increasingly with North Korea) even though its constitution requires a low profile (only “self-defense”). When the country’s defense minister recently suggested placing females into combat roles, constitutional law professor Shigeaki Iijima strongly objected, initiating the possibility that Japan’s enemies might have bombs capable of blowing women’s uniforms off, exposing their bodies. The ridicule was swift. Wrote one, “I saw something like that in ‘Dragon Ball’” (from the popular comic book and TV productions of Japanese anime).

Took It Too Far: Already, trendy restaurants have offered customers dining experiences amid roaming cats (and in one bold experiment, owls), but the art house San Francisco Dungeon has planned a two-day (July 1 and 8) experimental “Rat Café” for those who feel their coffee or tea is better sipped while rats (from the local rat rescue) scurry about the room. Pastries are included for the $49.99 price, but the rats will not arrive until after the dining portion of the event concludes. (Sponsors promise at least 15 minutes of “rat inter-

action,” and the price includes admission to the dungeon.)

Bright Ideas

Organizers of northern Germany’s Wacken Open Air Festival (billed as the world’s biggest metal music extravaganza) expect the 75,000 attendees to drink so much beer that they have built a nearly 4-mile-long pipeline to carry 105,000 gallons to on-site taps.

(Otherwise, keg-delivery trucks would likely muck up the grounds.) Some pipes were buried specifically for the Aug. 3-5 festival, but others had been used by local farmers for ordinary irrigation.

Fine Points of the Law

Convicted murderer John Modie, 59, remains locked up (on an 18-to-life sentence), but his several-hours-long 2016 escape attempt from Hocking (Ohio) Correctional Institution wound up unpunishable—because of a “technicality.” In May 2017, the judge, lamenting the inflexible law, found Modie not guilty of the escape because prosecutors had, despite numerous opportunities, failed to identify the county in which Hocking Correctional Institution is located and thus did not “prove” that element of the crime (i.e., that the court in Logan, Ohio, had jurisdiction of the case). (Note to prosecutors: The county was Hocking).

Drugs—Is There Anything They Can’t Do?

(1) Sheriff’s deputies in Dade City, Fla., nearly effortlessly arrested Timothy Brazell, 19, for trespassing in May. Brazell (high on methamphetamine, he said) attempted to commandeer a stranger’s car by hot-wiring it, but only by uselessly connecting the wires of a voltage meter—and even though the key was already in the car. According to the owner, the door lock was jammed on the inside, and Brazell could not figure out how to open it. (2) On May 18, Carl Webb and his wife left a nighttime barbecue festival in downtown Memphis and headed home. They drove 14 miles on an interstate highway before a police officer pulled them over to ask if Webb knew there was a body on his trunk. The man was clinging to the lip of the trunk, but was still unconscious (from drinking) and had to be jarred awake.

A News of the Weird Classic (December 2013)

Slick Talker: A young woman, accosted by a robber on Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill in October (2013), told the man she was a low-paid intern—but an intern for the National Security Agency and that within minutes of robbing her, the man would be tracked down by all-seeing, all-knowing NSA surveillance.

Said she, later (reported the Washington Examiner), the man just “looked at me and ran away [empty-handed].” © CHUCK SHEPHERD 2017 J U N E 1 5 , 2 0 1 7 | 37

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Bloom or Bust ::BY ART KUMBALEK

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? And yes, I hear we got Father’s Day coming up this Sunday and I’ll tell you’s, with the bad rap fathers have got in the press and on the TV for far too long, I’m surprised the day is celebrated at all.

Cripes, why don’t they just go ahead and change Father’s Day to Deadbeat Dad’s Day, or Workaholic Dad-You’re-Never-Around-The-Focking-HouseWhen-We-Need-You Day, what the fock.

And yes, I’m too busy to serve up an essay here again this week. Foremost, I’m about to leave for the Uptowner tavern/charm school where me and the fellas shall gather to make our Polish Fest plans for the weekend. Yeah yeah, perhaps “she’s too fat for me,” but you can bet your buck two-eighty that never not ever is “she too drunk for me,” you betcha.

And yes, I am reminded that June 16 is to celebrate the 113th anniversary of the novelistic day that took an Irish guy by the name of James Joyce practically 10 million pages and who knows how many gallons of whiskey to write about, lo, those years ago—perhaps the greatest focking novel nobody’s never not ever read all the way through.

And yes, I’m reminded of a little story: Once upon a time and a very good time it was, there was an Irishman, an Italian and a Polish guy in a tavern, sitting around and enjoying a couple, three rounds of cocktails. James, the Irishman, says, “Aye, this is a nice bar, but where I come from, back in Dublin, there’s a better one. At Lucky’s, you buy

a drink, you buy another drink, and Lucky himself will buy your third drink!” The others agree that it sounds like a nice place.

Then Dante the Italian guy says, “Yeah, that’s a nice bar, but where I come from, there’s a better one. Over in Brooklyn, there’s this place, Pozzo’s.

At Pozzo’s, you buy a drink, Pozzo buys you a drink. You buy another drink, Pozzo buys you another drink.” They all agree that also sounds like a very great bar.

Then the Polish guy, let’s call him Kumbalek, says, “You’s guys think that’s great? In my neighborhood, there’s this place called Godotski’s. At Godotski’s, they buy you your first drink, they buy you your second drink, they buy you your third drink, and then they take you in the back and get you some action!”

The other two guys are smithied with wonderment. “That’s fantabulous! Did that actually happen to you?” they want to know. And Kumbalek, the Polish guy, says, “No, but it happened to my sister!” Ba-ding!

And yes, then later, Kumbalek approached a lady named Didi wouldn’t you know, sitting solitary at the end of the bar. A man of direct address, Kumbalek said he’d been waiting to meet an attractive gal such as she was, and told her he’d like to get into her pants, if that were to be copacetic. Didi says, “No thanks, there’s an ass in there already.”

Ba-ding-ding-ding!

And yes, about the state of today’s health care: Guy goes to the doctor. Doctor says, “I have some bad news, and some very bad news.” The guy says, “Might as well give me the bad news first, I guess.”

Doctor says, “The lab called with your test results.

They said you have 24 hours to live.” Guy says, “24 HOURS! You got to be jerking my beefaroni. So

what the fock’s the very bad news?” Doctor says, “I’ve been trying to reach you since yesterday.”

Ba-ding!

And yes, if you are to see dear old dad come Sunday you’re too focking cheap to spring for a gift for the old fart, how ’bout you bring him a nice little story?

One day, during a lesson on proper grammar, the teacher asked for a show of hands for who could use the word “beautiful” in the same sentence twice. First, she called on little Molly, who responded with, “My father bought my mother a beautiful dress and she looked beautiful in it.”

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“Very good, Molly,” replied the teacher. She then called on little Stephen.

“My mommy planned a beautiful banquet and it turned out beautifully,” he said.

“Excellent, Stephen!” Then, the teacher called on little Leo. “Last night, at the dinner table, my sister told my dad that she was pregnant, and he said, ‘Beautiful.

That’s just FOCKING beautiful!’” Ba-ding!

And yes, of fathers, of sons, this time of year, I’ll be seeing you, as the song goes, in all the familiar places, in every lovely summer’s day, I remember you, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek, and I told you so.

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