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

Adulting or Nah?

MILLENNIALS FACE DAUNTING CHALLENGES IN THE WORKFORCE ::BY ANI PRUNI //

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illennials have been branded as impatient, lazy, entitled and whiney ambassadors of #selfienation. They are now also the largest sector of the American workforce. Millennial can be a loaded word, sometimes dreaded by those who bear the label. And economic uncertainty, alongside job instability and information overload, has dealt the Millennials a difficult hand.

What does it take to be a Millennial in the 2017 working class? Are we adulting…or nah?

Making a living doesn’t look the same as it did 20 or even 10 years ago. Many Millennials are juggling multiple jobs within and outside their degree fields amid a rapidly changing career landscape.

Dana Chrzanowski is a 26-year-old, 4K and early childhood education teacher, among other things. “I have to babysit, like, all the time to afford life,” she says. Between teaching and babysitting she is also applying to hostess part time.

Then there’s Dylan Gilje, a 29-year-old self-employed photographer. He is also a film director and Topper’s delivery driver. He takes school and sports pictures by day (“little brats and their baseball bats,” he jokes) while also subcontracting for several studios. He does anything from cameraman work to coffee runs.

Paying Off Those Student Loans

The Millennial struggle is to try to make a living, using a college degree in an environment that scarcely resembles previous generations. Gilje laughs when asked about his college debt. He admits his “children’s children” will be paying off his loans. Hard work ethics don’t seem to be the missing variable here, though. Unless you’re sporting a medical or law degree, prepare to be a weekend waitress warrior for a little while longer.

Chrzanowski would just like to be able to afford a house someday, but knows the only way to do that would be to work all the time. “It’s such a different time now, and people tend to stereotype things they don’t understand,” she says.

“Maybe they don’t understand how hard we’re working, how much debt we have.” Many people her parents’ age, for example, didn’t go to college, but still earn a good living in careers with benefits and insurance. “We don’t get any of that even though we went to school for so long,” she says.

Enter Alex Garra, President and Co-founder of American Bocce Co., business owner and Millennial at 31. He spent much of his early 20s working in restaurants and trying to find a job with his business degree. Necessity eventually prompted him to strike out on his own by developing American Bocce. He and two others slowly transformed a community social club into an innovative business owned and operated by Millennials.

“I guess I tend to look at the more positive spins on those stereotypes,” Garra says. “I think it’s really cool that most of my friends and peers and people that influence me are not tying themselves to one line of work or one position for the rest of their life.”

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Stereotypes may emerge from certain trends, but this young generation has been branded with a lot of negative press. “I feel like it depends on the person,” Chrzanowski says. “I feel stereotyped, but I wasn’t coddled and I’m not lazy.”

Instant Digital Gratification

Technology seems to be the last puzzle piece in building and maintaining a career. Millennials have grown used to instant gratification, which can sometimes heighten their impatience. However, these tools have paved the way for groundbreaking innovation.

“I think it’s definitely difficult to have as many choices as we do,” Garra says. “I think it’s a beautiful and brilliant thing to have all of the information readily available to us.” None of the three seems to think that technology in itself is the problem.

The generational paradigm is in flux. Millennials are fighting a system stacked against them with a digital arsenal of information at their fingertips. What does it take to be a Millennial in the workforce? A lot.

“It’s a nightmare. Literally a nightmare,” Chrzanowski says. That doesn’t stop her from working like crazy so she can keep up her true passion in teaching. “I have like, seven tax forms to do,” Gilje says. “But that’s what it takes; it’s that grind.” He’s not the first one to juggle jobs, but he’s doing it with determination and hard-won skills.

“There are ups and downs to every side of it, and certainly entry-level Millennial jobs are not usually very well paid, but it’s an opportunity to work on your craft or explore opportunities or to meet people that might help pivot you to your next direction, and I think that’s a really cool thing,” Garra says.

Meeting the Challenges

Millennials are approaching and shaping the workforce in ways that are new and untested by their predecessors. They are meeting the challenges of working in a digital era with innovative solutions, and they are doing it their way. Give them a little time to adjust and expect big things from the generation of underestimated, empowered Millennials.

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Millennial Employment Statistics Even though they are commonly known for “job hopping,” Millennials’ job tenure isn’t any shorter than Gen X when they were the same age.

63.4% of Millennials have been with their current employer for 13 months or more, and 22% have been there 5 years or more according to a Pew Research Center study. Gen X was at 59.9% and 21.8% respectively in 2000.

The unemployment rate for those who are 20-24 years old for April 2017 was 7.3%.

47% of millennial managers reported an increase in hours worked in the last five years, versus 38% for Gen X and 28% for Boomers, according to a study done by Ernst & Young.

Contrary to popular belief, only 20% of Millennials said they prefer working from home according to a Randstad USA survey.

41% of Millennials say they prefer to communicate electronically at work than face to face or even over the telephone according to a Price Waterhouse Coopers study.

Career progression is the top priority for millennials, with 52% calling it the main attraction in choosing an employer. Competitive salaries came in second place at 44% according to the same PWC study.

32.1% of Millennials live with their parents according to a 2016 Pew Research Center study.

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BIPARTISAN SUPPORT INCREASING FOR SENTENCING REFORM ::BY ELLIOT HUGHES

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he sheer size of Wisconsin’s swelling prison population—and the weight in public money that’s needed to support it—have recently begun to pull Democrats and Republicans closer in agreement on how to address it.

Forecasts predict Wisconsin will break its prison population record of 23,184 (set in 2007) sometime by 2019. And Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed 2017-’19 state budget includes a 2.6% spending increase on the Department of Corrections, bringing its funding total to $2.2 billion over the next two years—a figure that tops what is earmarked for the University of Wisconsin System.

Although broad, revolutionary reform still feels miles away, the situation has gotten to the point where the “tough on crime” sentiment is perhaps fading just a bit. Walker himself, who scaled back an earned release program in 2011, included in his budget a proposal that could help hundreds of substance-abusing inmates achieve early release. He’s accompanied by another Republican, Rep. Michael Schraa, of Oshkosh and prominent Democratic legislator and attorney Evan Goyke, D-Milwaukee, who have voiced similar ideas.

“The convergence [of ideas for a solution] comes from different perspectives,” said Dennis Dresang, political science professor emeritus at UW-Madison. “For Republicans, it’s primarily recognizing that prisons are really a budget buster, and they are just so expensive to operate. For the liberals or Democrats, it’s kind of a longstanding issue of going overboard on being tough on crime.”

Prison Population Climbing Again Like the rest of the nation, Wisconsin’s prison population ballooned in the ’90s before slowing in the ’00s. From 2008-2012, the population was on a downward trajectory. But Wisconsin’s numbers began climbing again in 2013 for a range of reasons. According to a report from the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance: The state’s violent crime rate is increasing, contrary to the national rate.

Prisoners are serving longer sentences now than in the past—perhaps because more violent offenses are being committed, as well as new, longer mandatory sentences for drunk driving and other offenses.

There is an increase in revocations— prisoners returning behind bars for violating the terms of their conditional release—which, 78% of the time, does not result in new charges.

Wisconsin’s “Truth in Sentencing” law, passed in 1998, which narrowed the chances of early release for prisoners and allowed them to be re-incarcerated for longer periods of time upon violating terms of their extended supervision.

There were 23,117 prisoners in Wisconsin as of June 9—just 67 people below the record set 10 years ago. The state’s 37 correctional institutions were originally designed to

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hold only 16,371, according to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.

“We are at what I think should be correctly labeled a crisis,” said Goyke, who sits on assembly committees for public safety and corrections. “If we don’t come together to address it, we’re going to see poorer outcomes and increased budgets and costs, and we’re all going to pay for it.”

There is still, of course, some hesitation, at least publicly, among Republicans to embrace these kinds of early release programs, just as there is still an appetite for legislation that some might interpret as “tough on crime.”

Nine out of 10 Republicans who sit on the Assembly Committee on Corrections (including Schraa) and the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety either did not return requests for comment or declined comment for this story. The one who did, Rep. Bob Gannon of West Bend, said he still thinks interest in these programs is on the rise in his party.

Meanwhile, Rep. Joe Sanfelippo (R-New Berlin) said treatment programs play an “essential” role in the justice system, but the ones already in place in Wisconsin are too lenient and have become a burden on local law enforcement. He said the kind of offenders who receive those treatments and then reoffend are part of the reason why he and Sen. Leah Vukmir (R-Brookfield) authored a package of bills that, among other things, would toughen penal-

ties for repeat violent offenses and expand the number of crimes a juvenile could be placed in a youth prison. “We are not doing a good job distinguishing between the people that deserve to go into a rehabilitative or alternative program,” Sanfelippo added.

But, according to a 2014 report by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, the state’s treatment alternatives and diversion projects have been successful. Between 2007 and 2013, about 3,100 people were admitted to these programs, with two-thirds completing them. Among the results: A total of 231,533 days of incarceration were averted.

39% of participants were convicted of a new crime within three years of discharge, besting the national three-year rate of 45%.

Despite the fact that 39% were convicted of a new crime, only approximately 10% were admitted to state prison for a new offense or revocation within three years of discharge.

17% of discharges, within three years, were convicted and sentenced to either probation supervision or state prison.

A cost-benefit analysis found that for every $1 invested in these programs, it yields benefits of $1.96 to the criminal justice system through averted incarceration and reduced crime.

As good as that sounds, though, it’s not helping very many people. Walker’s proposal would allow another 250 inmates a year an opportunity to receive treatment for substance abuse and achieve early release. Schraa, the Republican from Oshkosh, and Goyke have also publicly discussed an interest in creating an alcohol treatment facility for more early releases.

Those ideas would help just a couple hundred inmates a year, and only the ones with substance abuse issues. A report from the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance concluded that, if you want to make significant cost reductions to the state’s Department of Corrections, you would have to achieve the closing of an entire prison wing, for example, which would require large-scale declines in the prison population.

Goyke also wants there to be similar programs for violent offenders with mental health issues. But for now, that appears to be a much harder sell for Republicans.

“I’ve seen largely a reluctance to expand that type of thinking and mindset and model to a broader set of inmates,” Goyke said of the state’s majority party. “We’re willing to do a treatment court for someone that’s on opiate addict, for example—and maybe their addiction stems from some traumatic experience that happened when they were 6 years old.

But we’re not willing to see the same-aged person who is not addicted to opiates but has acted out based on similar trauma; their crime is a different crime and we don’t apply that same kind of addressing-root-causes, crimesolving mindset.”

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NEWS&VIEWS::SAVINGOURDEMOCRACY ( JUNE 29 - JULY 5, 2017 )

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

Thursday, June 29

Close MSDF Campaign Launch Event @ Milwaukee Area Technical College (700 W. State St.), 5-7 p.m.

Ex-Prisoners Organizing will host a gathering to watch a video on the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility by Tim Coursen, an independent film producer who has made several films about Wisconsin’s penal system. Janos Dev Marton, who managed JustLeadershipUSA’s #CLOSErikers Campaign which prompted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to commit to closing Rikers Island, will speak. At 6 p.m., there will be a march to the MSDF for a prayer vigil and press conference.

Saturday, July 1

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ The corner of Lincoln Memorial Drive and LaFayette Hill, noon-1 p.m.

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

Sunday, July 2

Impeachment March @ The Milwaukee County Courthouse (901 N. Ninth St.), 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

A group of protesters will organize outside of the Milwaukee County Courthouse this Sunday to demand that congress file articles of impeachment for President Donald Trump.

“Presidents can be impeached for what the Constitution calls ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,’” says the event’s Facebook page. “The question is no longer whether there are grounds to impeach Trump. The practical question is whether there’s the political will.”

Monday, July 3

All Hands on Deck @ Doctors Park (1870 E. Fox Lane), 9 a.m.

As a part of a larger event that includes 45 communities in five states and Ontario, Canada, All Hands on Deck brings people together to “hoist a boat flag and share a marble for a story for one hour along Great Lakes shores to raise awareness of the need to protect the lakes everyone loves.”

Wednesday, July 5

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

Every Wednesday, Bounce Milwaukee offers a space to organize, as well as a free drink to anyone who brings evidence of resistance in the past week, including protest signs, an email to an elected official or a selfie at the capital.

To submit to this column, please send a brief description of your action, including date and time, to savingourdemocracy@shepex.com. Together, we can fight to minimize the damage that this administration has planned for our great country.

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Last week we asked if you believe the U.S. Supreme Court will order Wisconsin to redraw its legislative maps so the majority of legislative districts are competitive. You said: Yes: 46% No: 54%

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The debate over replacing Obamacare has exposed some of the problems and difficulties with America’s current healthcare system. Do you believe the debate has made the country more likely to adopt a singlepayer system?

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he next time some angry, rightwing blowhard like Rush Limbaugh on the radio or the President of the United States on Twitter complains about unelected judges blocking actions by the public’s elected representatives, Wisconsin will be the perfect example of why an independent judiciary needs to step in to clean up inexcusable horrors created by politicians.

In a long-overdue decision that wouldn’t have happened if the ACLU of Wisconsin and the Juvenile Law Center hadn’t brought a lawsuit, Federal Judge James Peterson ordered the state to stop torturing and physically and psychologically abusing children in youth prisons intentionally hidden away by politicians in Northern Wisconsin—out of sight and out of mind; it’s not the sort of legal order any elected official should ever have to be given.

Any decent human being would have acted immediately when horrific stories started coming out of Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls years ago about children being sexually assaulted, suffering broken bones and amputations from brutally violent guards, being repeatedly drenched in blistering pepper spray for minor infractions and held month after tortuous month in solitary confinement.

Many people expected the federal government to step in after 50 state and federal agents raided the prisons in late 2015, seizing records. The FBI and U.S. Justice Department began criminally investigating allegations of physical and sexual abuse and destruction and falsification of records. That hope has disappeared under President Donald Trump, who openly advocates torturing prisoners “and worse,” and Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions, whose racist indifference toward civil and constitutional rights led the U.S. Senate to reject him for a federal judgeship.

Wisconsin’s political leaders have done virtually nothing since a Racine judge first alerted the state in 2012—writing directly to Gov. Scott Walker—about why Racine County would no longer send children to such unsafe facilities. Walker claimed he never saw the letter. But even after years of appalling media horror stories, Walker still refuses even to visit the prisons to witness what’s going on in the black sites of torture and abuse of children he and his Republican legislature created.

Leadership of the Department of Correc-

tions and at the prison has been shuffled. But Republicans controlling the legislature have never introduced a single reform measure. As Judge Peterson noted last week: “There really is zero effort going on” to make any substantial reforms or to reduce a massive overuse of solitary confinement and pepper spraying as punishment.”

Torture Grew Out of Republican Policies When Walker and Republican legislators took control of state government in 2011, they may not have intentionally created two statewide prisons hidden away in the north woods specifically to torture children. But that was the direct consequence of their other political priorities.

They shut down youth facilities in Waukesha and Racine counties for the usual Republican reasons—to cut the budget to give big tax breaks to the wealthy. Never mind facilities closer to home were better for the children, primarily from Southeastern Wisconsin, providing support from families who care about them.

Like other prisons around the state, Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake created jobs for white people in small towns guarding primarily black and brown urban prisoners they knew little about and often feared. Conditions quickly deteriorated far from major media attention until the reports of rapes and broken bones started coming back.

Republican budget cutting also led directly to the poor training of guards who often worked double shifts as a result of understaffing. That’s how the torture became common from overworked, angry guards excessively using burning, blistering pepper spray and holding up to 20% of the children in solitary confinement, often for months at a time.

President Barack Obama issued an executive order banning the use of solitary in federal youth prisons, citing “lasting psychological consequences and, for juveniles especially, increases in the risk of suicide.”

Suicide attempts are common at both youth prisons. In the first 10 months of 2016, there were 135 attempts of self-harm by the 20 to 35 girls at Copper Lake; about one every other day. The blistering pepper spray used 220 times on juveniles at Lincoln Hills in 2016 wasn’t created for human beings. Commonly called “bear spray” by inmates, the pepper spray is sold in outdoor stores to protect campers from wild animals, which tells you everything you need to know about what the prison staff thinks of the children in their custody.

Republicans may not simply be evil people who want to torture children; they just don’t care enough to do anything about it because they have other priorities they consider far more important: cutting government and taxes for the wealthy.

That’s when unelected judges have to step in to protect democracy and, in this case, the lives of children. Somewhere deep down, Republicans should be grateful to be forced to do the right thing and become better people.

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Be Careful What You Wish For

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ne of the big applause lines for Donald Trump on the campaign trail was his promise to eliminate regulations. Like so many of his applause lines, his loyal supporters often had no idea how what they were applauding would actually affect their lives. The main thing they know is if it is government regulation and if it is government anything, it must be a liberal thing and probably something to do with Barack Obama—good enough reason for them to oppose it. So, what does it really mean when Trump talks about eliminating regulations?

We can all come up with some dumb or apparently dumb regulation to make fun of. One of the favorite regulations to ridicule is the law that says you can’t remove the tag on your mattress or pillow. So, how dumb is that? Well, first of all, you can rip the tags off. The law is there to protect you, the consumer. In the past, mattresses and pillows were made with some inexpensive and dubious materials that might be toxic, harbor bacteria and possibly various larvae. The government stepped in and mandated that a tag had to be put on the products to inform the buyers what is in their pillow or mattress. Putting a tag on the pillow became the law, but there were no laws against then

ripping off the tag as some dodgy manufacturers would do. If the manufacturers didn’t rip off their own tag, then some salesperson would often rip off tags from the products with dangerous stuffing. So, a law was made against ripping off the tag until it was sold to the end user, the consumer. We, the consumer, can rip off our own tags, but we can also feel confident knowing what is in the pillow that we rest our heads on each night.

Trump’s Plans for Regulation

Most regulations have a good reason for their existence. They may sometimes be clumsy and inefficient, but yet they are usually directed to trying to protect our wellbeing. When Trump talks about eliminating regulations, he is clearly referring to regulations that would save producers money and probably make our lives and the lives of our children a little more dangerous. He wants to eliminate regulations that would result in rising levels of air pollution causing more respiratory illnesses and more cancer. He wants to ease regulations on food producers and processors that will result in more cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes to name just a few of the health issues. He wants to cut regulations on manufacturers and contractors so we will end up with many more workplace injuries and deaths and more consumers of these products suffering injuries and deaths. He also wants to target regulations that would make it easier for landlords to gouge their tenants and rent them dangerous spaces with toxic problems such as chipping lead paint. Talking about improving regulations is something we all could support, but wholesale elimination of regulation is a bad idea.

Trump talks about lifting the burdens of the Dodd-Frank banking regulations so financial institutions can go back to the unethical practices that brought us the Great Recession, which caused many of his supporters to lose their jobs or their homes. Wells Fargo, for example, was just fined $185 million for defrauding its customers. With fewer regulations, banks like Wells Fargo will be able to defraud more customers with no fear of any significant consequences. On the investment front, when you hire a financial advisor, you assume that he or she is working in your best interest with your money. Trump wants to get rid of the regulations that require financial advisors to work in your best interests, to be transparent with you and to not have conflicts of interest that put their profits ahead of your best interests.

Will It Create More Jobs?

Will the elimination of all of these regulations create more jobs? Maybe or maybe not. What it will do is benefit the sleazy companies that will cut every corner and make cheaper, less safe and less healthy products. It will hurt or kill off the decent, honest businesses whose owners are trying to provide a healthy and safe product or service for their customers. So there may not be more jobs, but a shift of jobs to less scrupulous businesses that will make greater profits and pay lower wages.

Also, if you look at the parts of our country that have some of the most sophisticated regulations, like California or, closer to home, Madison, Wis., they are also the places that have some of the most robust job creation, lowest unemployment rates and highest per capita income. So, for those of you who applaud the elimination of regulation, be careful what you wish for.

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A French restaurant has opened in the former Meritage space in Washington Heights. Maison is headed up by chef and owner Michael Quinn, who previously cooked at Coquette Café. The menu offers French classics like coq au vin ($25) with roasted fingerling potatoes and escargots à la bourguignonne ($14) with grilled baguette for sopping up the butter sauce. Gougeres with foie gras mousse ($14) and soupe à l’oignon ($5) with gruyere make great starters. A large wine list is supplemented with classic cocktails, like the French 75 ($8) with gin, lemon and sparkling wine, and a sazerac ($10) made with cognac, house bitters and absinthe. An homage to Meritage appears on the menu in the form of Chef Jan Kelly’s chocolate ganache cake ($8).

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If there’s one thing that college students all love, it’s donuts. Owned by two recent UW-Milwaukee graduates, Donut Squad has opened in the former Gold Coast Subs space just south of North Ave. It caters to the sweet-loving and nostalgic donut-eating crowd, with most donuts topped with candy and sugary cereal. There’s versions topped with Lucky Charms, Sour Patch Kids, crushed Oreo cookies and peanut butter cups ($2.39), or more traditional varieties like glazed and powdered ($1.89). In addition to normal daytime hours, Donut Squad reopens at 10 p.m. on weekends for all your late-night, bar-hopping donut needs.

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The Laughing Taco

A taqueria in Walker’s Point is now serving up a small menu of Mexican street-style tacos. The Laughing Taco is headed by the husband-and-wife team of Justin Carlisle, of Ardent, and Lucia Muñoz. Muñoz grew up in northern Mexico, and it’s that region’s taquerias that inspired this small counter service spot. The menu includes seven different kinds of tacos. Four are served on corn tortillas ($2.50-$2.75): seasoned pork on a spit called trompo, bistec, papas in tomato sauce, and nopalitos in chile sauce. Three types of tacos are larger and

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served in flour tortillas, like the pirata ($4.75) with steak, cheese, avocado, cilantro and onion. Like Carlisle’s Red Light Ramen, The Laughing Taco serves up alcohol-filled slushies, including a grapefruit and tequila paloma ($5-$10).

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A healthy food-focused restaurant has opened headed by Nell Benton of The National and Andy Larson of Float. Bowls features an entire menu of dishes in bowls, in categories of smoothies, oats, pudding, grains and greens. The smoothie section takes what is essentially a smoothie, puts it in a bowl, and tops it with fruit, nuts, and grains for a sweet breakfast. Most of the menu is dedicated to grains and greens. The Thai green curry bowl ($9) includes brown rice, a mixture of vegetables and spicy green curry sauce. A steak and rice bowl ($12) utilizes Korean flavors with kimchi and bibimbop sauce. Chopped raw salad ($10) is vegan and gluten free with greens, jicama, avocado, veggies and ginger miso dressing. Online ordering is available for faster service at the counter.

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Stand Eat Drink, the hospitality group behind Bodegon and Movida, has opened a ramen restaurant and karaoke bar in the former Yield Bar space on the East Side. The menu features traditional Japanese, Chinese and fusion dishes.

Edamame ($4) and lotus root chips ($3) are great for snacking during karaoke.

Steamed buns ($4) come with a variety of fillings like pork belly and kimchi.

Burgers ($9) make an appearance on the menu, too, complete with ramen noodle buns. Four styles of ramen are offered, including a vegetarian option with red miso mushroom broth ($10), and a version called the momofuker ($13) with Korean flavors that can be made extra spicy. Sake, cocktails and adult sno-cones with alcohol are available to quench your thirst during all that singing.

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he term “barbecue” or “BBQ” means different things to different people, but one thing almost everyone can agree on is there are few things finer on a summer day than the aroma of meat or veggies sizzling on a grill, coated with a spicy or tangy barbecue sauce. Ken Wolfe of Howling Wolf Gourmet Foods is a chef who brought his own unique take on BBQ sauces and rubs.

Wolfe, a West Coast native, has been a chef for almost 40 years. He’s been hooked on cooking since his mother showed him how to make an egg. His grandfather lived in Maryland on Chesapeake Bay, and Wolfe spent many summer seasons with him fishing and cooking.

Wolfe trained and worked at fine dining restaurants in Los Angeles. He traveled to France and served as a chef on the opening crew of Euro Disney. He was also a chef in France’s Loire Valley region, a hilly, farm area that Wolfe said is similar in topography and climate to his current home in Theresa, Wis. “One of the benefits of being a chef is that you have a portable profession, so you want to take advantage of it,” he said. Wanderlust

vegan-friendly; something that’s not often associated with barbecue. “All of my stuff is vegan-friendly—even my Worchester sauce is anchovy-free—and lots of vegetarians do like it,” Wolfe said. “I try to get vegetarians used to the idea that barbecue can be vegetarian, and my sauce is good on vegetables or as a dip.”

The rubs are versatile yearround products that can be used just like salt and pepper, but with a different flavor profile. All are sugar free. The MediterHowling Wolf BBQ Sauce ranean Dry Rub gives grilled vegetables an exotic kick, and it’s also good in couscous later took Wolfe to Wyoming, where after salad or as coleslaw seasoning. Wolfe recomworking as a chef on a snowmobile ranch, he mends Land & Sea Dry Rub on popcorn, vegopened his own restaurant, Café Wyoming. gies or burgers.

Business boomed during the summer tourist New for summer is a limited edition Honseason, and it was there where Wolfe played ey/Huckleberry BBQ sauce that Wolfe used to around with barbecue sauces and perfected his make in Wyoming but has not yet produced recipes. in Wisconsin. The product will launch at About 10 years ago, Wolfe moved to Wisthis year’s Wisconsin State Fair. The Honey/ consin, his wife Jennifer’s home state. To the Huckleberry pairs well with the dry rubs, and benefit of us ’Sconnies, Wolfe continued his Wolfe said it’s especially good on duck. “It’s sauce business here. His line has three bara really unique sauce. You can even make ice becue sauces: Original and Extra Spicy, both cream with it,” he said. molasses-based, and the fruit-based Cranberry Wolfe is getting the bug to open another Orange. Three spice rubs include Original Dry restaurant or maybe a food cart to get his prodRub, a barbecue flavor; Land & Sea Dry Rub, ucts into the community as well as his style of similar to an all-purpose seasoning; and Medpreparing barbecue. But for now, people can iterranean Dry Rub. He also has Worchester find Howling Wolf products at Outpost, Sensauce. dik’s, Whole Foods, Metcalf’s Sentry in WauNone of the Howling Wolf products contain watosa and a handful of Piggy Wiggly stores.

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s the crowd of more than 16,000 settled in for a night of baseball between two struggling teams on a warm June night in Milwaukee, a good portion of the fans in attendance felt as though they were watching their hometown team-to-be. It was 1969, the second summer in a row in which the cash-strapped Chicago White Sox were playing “home games� in Milwaukee at County Stadium, vacated three years prior by the Atlanta-bound Braves. The Milwaukee White Sox stunt was organized by a group led by a young Bud Selig, who was intent on showing the baseball powers that be that Milwaukee was a viable marketplace and that the sale of the Sox to his group would be the best way forward for both the franchise and the sport. Per game, the Sox were drawing more than three times as many customers in Milwaukee as they were in Chicago.

As it turned out, the Milwaukee hopefuls were indeed correct in their assumption they were watching their future hometown nine. But no one would have guessed that it was the Sox opponent that night—the newly christened Seattle Pilots—who would soon make the shift to Milwaukee. As lowly as the support for the Sox was in Chicago, the Pilots were not faring much better in Seattle, drawing only about 11,000 fans per home game.

Troubling too, was the news that broke just as the Pilots arrived in the Cream City: Ground breaking on the new domed stadium that Seattle had promised to the league in order to secure the franchise would be delayed, and the new park would not be ready until 1974 at the soonest.

There seemed to be little enthusiasm in Milwaukee to see the Pilots, as the paid attendance for the game was lower than any of the Sox-Milwaukee games (save for an April 1969 match hampered by bad weather). And any rooters for the new club would have been deflated pretty quickly, as the Sox jumped out to a quick 8-1 lead after three innings, chasing Seattle starter (and future Cy Young Awardwinner) Mike Marshall.

The Brewers’ First Star Oddly, the least impressive performance of the evening probably belonged to the man who would eventually emerge as the first Brewers star. Seattle second basemen Tommy Harper stuck out three times and made three errors in the field, leading the Milwaukee Journal to note: “Harper plays second the way Wilt Chamberlain shoots free throws.� A year later, however, Harper batted .296 for the Brewers with 31 homers and 38 steals, earning him a spot on the AL All Star team and sixth place in the league’s MVP voting. Mike Heagan, another early Brewers star, fared much better on the night, collecting a pair of hits and scoring one of the Pilots’ three runs.

When Sox hurler Billy Wynne got Don Mincher to fly to center for the final out of the game, it was the Sox’s fifth straight win at County Stadium, and the buzz that the club would soon move north and, just maybe, carry over that Milwaukee magic to 1970 was palpable. Selig and company made a strong play to buy the White Sox that off-season, but the American League, not wanting to yield the Chicago market, refused to allow the deal. Instead, the club was sold to a group that vowed to keep the team in Chicago. A few months later, with the Pilots in a financial free-fall and their stadium deal dead, Selig made a move for the year-old club. Just days before the 1970 season, his group’s offer was approved, and Milwaukee was Big League once again.

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n a dream move, Optimist Theatre will present the eighth season of its free outdoor Shakespeare in the Park at the Marcus Center’s Peck Pavilion, the state-of-the-art outdoor stage in Downtown Milwaukee. The show is the comedy Much Ado About Nothing. The first-rate cast includes Kelley Faulkner and Todd Denning as the would-be lovers Beatrice and Benedick, Michael Stebbins as Prince Don Pedro, Jonathan Wainwright as his conniving bastard brother Don John, and Jim Pickering as the dimwitted local sheriff, Dogberry. Di’Monte Henning plays the rash Claudio, Candace Thomas the slandered Hero and David Flores her quicktempered father.

Associate Artistic Director Tom Reed codirects with his wife—company dramaturg and script editor, ML Cogar. With Susan Scott Fry and her husband Ron, respectively executive director and artistic director, they’re the cofounders and volunteer producers of this highly regarded, popular yet bootstrap theater company.

Like Shakespeare’s plays, the tale of Optimist Theatre is rich in plot and characters. What began in 1993 as Midwest Children’s Theatre morphed in 2008 when the Scott Frys left their gigs at Kenosha’s Bristol Renaissance Faire to move to Milwaukee in search of a new direction. They noticed there was no summer Shakespeare in town.

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“So, I got a focus group together,” Susan Scott Fry says. “I started networking. I noticed that Milwaukee Public Theatre had a similar mission of community-wide entertainment and education. I met MPT Artistic Director Barbara Leigh, who introduced us to Mask and Puppet Theatre Artistic Director Max Samson, who introduced us to Tom and ML in 2009 when we all worked on Max and Barbara’s All City People’s Parade.”

Tom Reed was a member of then-expiring Milwaukee Shakespeare Theatre and, with Todd Denning and actor Brian Miracle, was working to keep Shakespeare performance alive here. As Scott Fry put it, “I was wondering how to start Shakespeare in the Park, and Tom was wondering how to keep Shakespeare going.” Reed gathered the cofounders in a small acoustically workable courtyard at Alverno College, where he teaches theater. They chose the name Optimist Theatre. “We crossed our fingers that we could trust each other,” Reed explains, “and in 2010, we did The Tempest in that courtyard. I remember opening night visibly, thinking, ‘It’s free and we’re paying actors and, yeah, we just made this happen!’”

Soon the courtyard proved too small. By Macbeth, the third summer, they were turning audiences away. At the invitation of County Parks Director Sue Black, they explored potential county park sites. When Black was unexpectedly fired mid-search, Alderman Nik Kovac suggested the small amphitheater under construction in Kadish Park along Commerce Street above the Milwaukee River. A county park, Kadish is managed by the COA Youth and Family Center located on its grounds. Susan Scott Fry remembers that COA Director Tom Schneider laughed when she asked if the amphitheater might house Shakespeare in the Park. It was exactly what he’d hoped to have there.

Four summers later, they’d outgrown the amphitheater. When they approached Marcus Center Director of Programming John Hassig, his response was like Schneider’s. His “LIVE @ Peck Pavilion” summer series shares the mission of free performances for the whole community. He’d seen young Summit Players Theatre stage Shakespeare successfully at the Peck in last summer’s Milwaukee Fringe Festival. He opened his arms to the Optimists. The 12 July performances of Much Ado will open “LIVE @ Peck” this summer.

“It’s Shakespeare for the people,” Reed says, raising his fist. “The way we work is collaborative, and we use all local performers, which keeps the storytelling close to the audience because we all live here.” Scott Fry adds, “Our shows are grounded in the text, but we don’t have preconceived notions based on the way they’ve traditionally been performed.

We take a fresh look with the actors.”

Optimist Reed viewed last summer’s production of Theatre Julius Caesar as a warning of national trouble Much ahead. “But it’s such a heavy time right now,” he says, “that I wanted to do something that was Ado About fun. I think Much Ado is fun. But it’s also relevant Nothing in that it shows how people rush to fit things to July 6 - 22 their own motives without really checking the Marcus facts. Like during our election season, people Center’s went into these big rallies and heard the one thing that could set them off emotionally, and Peck they were set off. But there’s no fact behind it.”

Pavillion Indeed, truth and trust are big concerns.

“Speak low, if you speak love,” Don Pedro advises Hero. Shakespeare’s main subject in the comedy would seem to be the importance of defining love as mutual understanding and respect. The wrestling of Beatrice and Benedick to arrive at such a relationship dominates the play, if not the plot.

As Reed says, “Who can make you madder than anybody else? The person you really, really love.”

July 6-22 at the Marcus Center’s Peck Pavilion, 929 N. Water St. These performances are free and open to the public. For performance times and more more information, visit optimisttheatre.org.

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If The Church were coasting on past accomplishments nobody would blame them.

The Australian group was one of the great guitar-pop bands of the ’80s, making good on the promise of their catchy early singles on albums like 1988’s gorgeously psychedelic Starfish, which included their biggest hit, “Under the Milky Way.” More than 25 years later, though, they still haven’t run out of ideas. Their proggy, deliciously mysterious 2009 album, Untitled #23, is as good as anything from their heyday, and their latest record, 2014’s Further/Deeper, is a fine follow-up; the work of a band that never seems to age.

Unlike some of his fellow aging ’60s icons, Paul Simon has shown little interest in reliving past glories. Much as the folk icon reinvented himself as a world-music enthusiast on his landmark 1986 album, Graceland, on his recent albums So Beautiful or So What and last year’s Stranger to Stranger, he’s dabbled in more experimental electronic sounds, creating textured, polyrhythmic tracks built from guitars and loops. Last year, he also contributed the theme song to Louis C.K.’s TV series “Horace and Pete” and guest-starred as a customer of the bar.

The Church @ Uline Warehouse, Summerfest, 5 p.m.

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Soul Asylum @ Miller Lite Oasis, Summerfest, 5:30 p.m.

After a decade spent largely in the shadows of another Minneapolis band, The Replacements, Soul Asylum surpassed that lionized band in commercial success in 1992, when Grave Dancers Union and its sentimental single, “Runaway Train,” made them one of the biggest bands in alternative rock. The band struggled to balance the rawness of their early material with their newly found super-star expectations, but, by the end of the decade, had squandered much of their critical goodwill. They returned strong, however, in 2005 with The Silver Lining. That record was born of tragedy, with the band working with bassist Karl Mueller one last time before his death from throat cancer. Replacements’ bassist Tommy Stinson took over playing bass for a stretch—joining the band for their ’12 album, Delayed Reaction, but left before their latest: 2016’s unexpectedly funky Change of Fortune.

Steve Aoki @ Miller Lite Oasis, Summerfest, 10 p.m.

A club promoter, record producer and founder of Dim Mak Records, Steve Aoki injects tricked-out trance beats into even the tamest tracks to create thumping house music that’s virtually impossible to listen to while standing still. Aoki found fame by adding layers of scratches and dubs to hits like Drake’s “Forever” and Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness,” reinventing them for the dance floor, but it was his own hard-hitting solo output that made him one of EDM’s top-grossing touring DJs. His latest album, 2015’s Neon Future II, was another star-studded affair, featuring collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Linkin Park, Walk Off the Earth and Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo. A follow-up album is expected later this year.

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Burnhearts Pabst Street Party @ Burnhearts, noon

It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years already. For the last decade, Bay View’s cozy beer-lover’s bar, Burnhearts, has celebrated the summer with an annual block party sponsored by Pabst.

This year’s event sticks to the winning formula, with a day of local music, local food (from Goodkind, Classic Slice and Honeypie), art and cold drinks (the Korbel brandy slushes are well worth waiting in line for). Joseph Huber, Queen Hilma, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Rx Drugs, AUTOMatic and Static Eyes make up this year’s music lineup.

The Isley Brothers @ BMO Harris Pavilion, Summerfest, 9:45 p.m.

One of the longest-running bands in the history of modern music, the Isley Brothers have been playing together in some form or another since the 1950s. Unlike most of their peers, who gradually faded from popularity by the mid-’70s, the Isleys had an unusually long shelf life on the radio, thanks to some savvy moves. They made their best album, 1973’s 3 + 3, by reinventing themselves as a wild funkfusion band and scored a series of latecareer R&B hits in the late ’90s and early ’00s with the help of their longtime fan, R. Kelly, whose Midas touch helped their 2003 album, Body Kiss, debut on top of the charts. Their commercial resurgence was cut short by leader Ron Isley’s prison sentence for tax evasion, but since his release, the 76-year-old icon has continued touring.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 5 Girl Talk @ Harley-Davidson Roadhouse, Summerfest, 10 p.m.

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On his breakthrough album as Girl Talk, 2006’s Night Ripper, Pittsburgh DJ Gregg Gillis compiled the most epic mash-up ever produced, a 42-minute collage built from hundreds of samples of pop, rock, rap and R&B, some recognizable, some chopped into bits too tiny to place. Gillis further refined that technique on 2008’s Feed the Animals, before tweaking his approach on 2010’s All Day, which he released as a free download. Gillis dropped as many samples as ever on All Day—372 of them, to be exact—but this time they lasted longer and shifted less frequently. Those same dynamics carried through Broken Ankles, the producer’s 2014 EP with the rapper Freeway.

Few rap stars of the ’00s were more over-the-top, entertaining and ubiquitous than Ludacris, who for nearly a decade was the go-to guest rapper for nearly every R&B star in the industry. Nothing lasts forever, though, so maybe it was wise that Ludacris opted to focus on acting once his music career started showing signs of slowing (in the last six years he’s released only one album, 2015’s forgettable Ludaversal, but appeared in four Fast & Furious movies). He may not have many new hits to share, but his huge back catalogue of boisterous pop-rap hits should be more than enough to keep the crowd fired up when he returns once again to Summerfest.

T-Pain @ Uline Warehouse, Summerfest, 10 p.m.

Ludacris @ Miller Lite Oasis, Summerfest, 10:15 p.m.

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No singer embodied the sound of late-’00s R&B more than T-Pain, the gregarious, good-humored party animal who popularized the most divisive sound in music: AutoTune. Despite popular perception, T-Pain could sing just fine without the effect: For his viral NPR Tiny Desk Concert performance, he delivered his hits “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” and “Up Down (Do This All Day)” al naturale, sans pitch correction, and rarely sounded better. T-Pain hasn’t released an album since his disappointing 2011 effort Revolver, but has continued lending his voice to other people’s tracks, appearing on recent projects from Chance The Rapper, Bruno Mars, Chris Brown and many others.

Car Seat Headrest @ Johnson Controls World Sound Stage, Summerfest, 10 p.m.

Guitar-based indie rock doesn’t carry the same cultural clout that it did a decade ago, but that didn’t stop Car Seat Headrest from breaking out in a big way last year with their album Teens of Denial, one of the year’s big critical hits. That record placed singer/songwriter Will Toledo’s dry prose against some of his catchiest, brightest hooks yet, and revealed ambitions his earliest self-recorded material only hinted at, with songs that routinely broke the six- or sevenminute mark (including the 12-minute “The Ballad of the Costa Concordia.”) It’s the rare epic album that feels as brisk as an EP.

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers w/ Chris Stapleton @ American Family Insurance Amphitheater, 7:30 p.m.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have only released two albums over the last 15 years, but it’s easy enough to see why: Petty has never been one to bite his tongue about his frustrations with the record industry. That may also explain why Petty has sounded so completely unconcerned with scoring another “I Won’t Back Down”-sized hit. 2010’s Mojo and 2014’s Hypnotic Eye are two of his bluesiest records yet, but both pack a punch: With its edging, psychedelic trappings, Hypnotic Eye in particular sounds like the work of a man with something to prove.

It earned Petty a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. No stranger to Summerfest, Petty returns to the former Marcus Amphitheater for another pair of headlining shows, with outlaw country enthusiast Chris Stapleton opening each night. (Also Thursday, July 6.)

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It debuted in 2000 at the Hudson Theatre in Los Angeles and, essentially every year since, Bare: A Pop Opera has been seen on stages from Houston to Toronto, Chicago to Liverpool and Sydney to Barcelona. Now, thanks to Outskirts Theatre, Milwaukee can be added to the growing list of venues that have seen this timely, two-act musical boasting some three dozen songs (music by Damon Intrabartolo; lyrics

by Jon Hartmere).

The focus of this rock musical is upon Peter and Jason—two gay high school students who find friendship and, eventually, love. The problem with this scenario is the setting in which they find themselves when romance blossoms: St. Cecelia’s Catholic Boarding School.

Their secret relationship takes on a whole new dimension when the school begins rehearsals for an upcoming production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Peter and Jason find the parallels striking, indeed.

June 30-July 9 at Tenth Street Theatre, 628 N. 10th St. For tickets, call 414-367-6484 or visit outskirtstheatre.org/tickets.

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Red

“There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend… One day, the black will swallow the red.” So says American abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko to his assistant, Ken, while the two are at work on Rothko’s latest commission: a group of murals for New York’s exclusive Four Seasons restaurant.

Ken is no mere gofer or sycophant; when he begins to question the great artist’s theories and acceptance of a commercial, Pop Art project, Rothko’s not pleased. Will the ensuing debate, amid all the scattered paint and canvass, lead to a change of heart? Third Avenue Playhouse presents this thoughtful, six-time Tony Award-winner.

June 29-July 22 at Third Avenue Playhouse, 239 N. Third Ave., Sturgeon Bay. For tickets, call 920-743-1760 or visit boxoffice.printtixusa. com/thirdaveplayhouse.

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Big Band 4th

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The Wisconsin Philharmonic takes to the outdoors to honor generations of veterans through music and ceremony. Things kick off at 5 p.m. with a one- or two-mile “Veteran Trek” through Brookfield’s Mitchell Park.

Shortly after 6, attending veterans will be officially recognized and honored. The Philharmonic’s outdoor concert begins at 6:30.

Terrific summer outdoor concert music such as “Over There,” Armed Forces Salute, and the John Philip Sousa classics “Hands Across the Sea” and “Semper Fidelis March” will be heard.

The Big Band era will be revisited, as will an orchestral arrangement of “Rock Around the Clock,” a Beatles medley and more.

June 30 at Sharon Lynne Wilson Center in Mitchell Park, 19805 W. Capitol Drive. For tickets and Veteran Trek registration, visit eventbrite. com and search “big band 4th.”

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High Energy ‘Comedy of Errors’ from Summit Players

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::BY JENNIFER WALTERS

he Sun was just beginning to set as the Summit Players lined up in their matching black shirts and blue jeans to take questions after their performance of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. A young girl, perched on the edge of a wooden bench in the Havenwoods State Forest amphitheater, raised her hand and asked, “Why do you all wear the same shoes?”

The rainbow of matching Converse is a wardrobe staple for the cast. Dashing around the outdoor stage and switching costumes in the blink of an eye, the high-energy performance keeps not only actors but audience members as well on their toes.

Condensed to about an hour, the cast of six flew through a shortened adaptation of The Comedy of Errors on a cool, breezy evening last Friday. The free show breathed life into a Shakespeare classic and made it enjoyable for all ages. Summit Players incorporate just enough audience interaction to engage the crowd, but not so much as to make it unenjoyable for older crowds.

Viewers were given fair warning that the players would travel through the aisles; they did that and more. Instead of completely getting lost in dialogue on the stage, the players took turns speaking directly to the audience, especially to a small group of children in the front row. A few characters burst into the crowd and sat on the benches with audience members as part of the act. At one point, the players paraded around the amphitheater with kazoos.

But the nature of the play wasn’t lost on modern adaptation. Classic vests and elegant dresses overlaid the players’ base T-shirts and jeans to create classic Shakespearean outfits in a pinch. There were no out-of-place 21stcentury quirks that the actors included to make things “relatable” to younger crowds (I once saw an adaptation of Hamlet where Hamlet came on stage with an iPod; this was nothing like that). Instead, Summit Players relied on energy and audience engagement to create a spectacular show. With the golden sunset shimmering as they bounced on and off the stage, Summit Players beautifully combined two staples of summer leisure: Shakespearian theater and the outdoors.

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‘Tessellate’ Choreographers Address Isolation and Collaboration

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ach of the premieres in the Battery Factory’s “Tessellate 2017” festival of experimental performance incorporated elements of dance and theater. Two were conceived by dance artists. Joelle Worm is a member of Danceworks Performance Company, director of the process-oriented Field Milwaukee and a performer with the dance and music improvisation group Hyperlocal MKE. Maria Gillespie is co-director of Hyperlocal MKE, of the interdisciplinary performance workshop The Collaboratory and assistant professor of dance at UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts.

The festival required that the works be short, technically simple and responsive to the theme of exile. Day After Night, Anita Diamant’s novel about a Holocaust survivor in a British detainee camp in Israel awaiting placement, inspired the wordless piece by Worm and Milwaukeean Mindy Zarem. One could spend a lifetime trying to embody that experience, but this is a worthy start. Confinement, the loss of all but a suitcase of old items, the waiting and the crazy-making grief—beautifully expressed in Zarem’s emotionalism and Worm’s contrasting mentation—were clearly conveyed in movement. The idea of release, expressed in a game with clothesline and clothes, was less so, and the final use of blank paper to represent stepping stones to a new life, while a nice idea, felt inadequate to the context. tres historias y…not one love song, created and performed by Gillespie, Nguyễn Nguyên and Eric Speth deserves a long life. If it were a visual artwork at MAM, I’d keep visiting it. Extremely well made, its great strength is its honesty. It’s about being/feeling foreign, and it sticks to the facts of these artists’ lives. It’s also about the ties created by collaboration which it, in fact, beautifully, humbly demonstrates. People with different histories and preoccupations join hearts and minds to make something personal and valuable, then go their separate ways.

Bachelor Speth spoke of songs that said he were half-human until he coupled; that “whole” meant “two.” Nguyen came to America as a Vietnamese war refugee and had to acculturate. Bicoastal Gillespie spoke in Spanish and twisted into pretzels to meet bicultural stereotypes. Each covered his or her head with a burlap sack at an especially alienated moment. Three platform stages represented homes and floating boats. Films of foreign sites and travel by car and plane played on artfully arranged screens behind. Crawling, slowly sliding, Speth quietly tied the platforms together with ropes, then untied them.

Summit Player’s perform ‘The Comedy of Errors’ from Blue Mound State Park PHOTO BY DILLON OLSON

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randfather caught the sick- nocturnal darkness comes from living hands. ness with labored breathing, Will (Christopher Abbott) is merely a stranger in skin broken into welts and search of water. Paul beats Will and ties him to a blood flowing from his mouth. tree until assured that the stranger is healthy and His family had no choice: In means no harm. Soon enough, Will’s wife Kim the opening, heart-tearing scene from It Comes (Riley Keough) and their little boy come to live at Night, son-in-law Paul (Joel Edgerton) and in the big forest house, contributing chickens, grandson Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), wearing goats and canned goods to the larder. The two masks and gloves, lead the old man to a clear- families seem to bond around common meals ing outside the house. They cover his face, shoot but distrust lingers. him in the head, set his body on fire and trudge The small cast is perfectly in pitch. Edgerton sadly away as smoke from the pyre reaches the plays Paul with a hard face and eyes continually treetops of the dark forest. scanning for danger. Although he says he was a The “why?” is finally explained many min- history teacher, his reflexes are those of a Special utes into the film, but a visual clue appears early Forces officer commanding a vulnerable outon in the form of a print hung on the wall of the post. His wife, Sarah (Carmen Ejogo), is no less family’s house: A Bruegel image of the Plague determined but softens his deadly survivalism with bodies and skulls heaped against a lurid with a touch of empathy. Their son Travis, 17, sky. An unexplained pandemic sensitive and artistic, suffers has swept across civilization, from nightmares that tend to apparently leaving only scatcome true. Will, a mechanic tered bands of survivors vulIt Comes at Night before the sickness came, nerable to contagion by air or brings another set of practical Joel Edgerton touch. The interracial family at hands; Kim’s presence inadKelvin Harrison Jr. the heart of It Comes at Night vertently adds sexual tension occupies a rambling house in to Travis’ already bulging kitDirected by the woods, windows boarded bag of burdens.

Trey Edward Shults up with only one tightly bolted Ebbing and flowing beRated R entrance—a red door. tween unease and high anxiWritten and directed by Trey ety, the emotional strain of It Edward Shults, It Comes at Comes at Night never ceases.

Night is a gripping end-time Suspense and suspicion are drama steeped in the conventions of horror. The palpable in the face of an implacable specter: spooky tracking shots, slowly inching down the the microbes of a sickness without a cure. The dark corridors, suggest a ghoulish apparition is plague might enter the house with any stranger imminent. But the clanging that erupts from the that knocks on the red door.

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Baby Driver R

This action flick, directed and written by Shaun of the Dead’s Edgar Wright, features a young savant of a car driver known as Baby (Ansel Elgort). Hired by ambitious crime boss Doc (Kevin Spacey) to pilot the getaway car for Doc’s heists, Baby continuously plays music that soothes the lad as he drives. His choices, an eclectic assortment of songs, lend the film emotional heft while controlling its tone. Heart-stopping car chases give way to love when socially awkward Baby falls for diner waitress Carla. Hoping to start a life with her, Baby agrees to one final heist. With Doc bringing on board crazed criminal Bats (Jamie Fox), a difficult caper soon becomes ultra-dangerous. (Lisa Miller)

The Beguiled R

The Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies is a small girls’ school situated on a secluded plantation in the South during the Civil War. After the girls find handsome Union soldier John McBurney (Colin Farrell) suffering from a severe leg injury, he is brought back to the school to recover. Long deprived of male company, several women take an interest in McBurney, and he milks their sympathy and affections. First adapted to the screen in 1971 starring Clint Eastwood, Sofia Coppola here adapts the same Thomas Cullinan novel. Her version made a splash at the 2017 Cannes Festival, winning her the award for Best Director. (L.M.)

Despicable Me 3 PG

This third Despicable Me film finds Gru (voice of Steve Carell) discovering his long-lost identical twin, a villain that prompts our protagonist to question whether he’s able to keep his pledge (to his three adorable adopted daughters) to refrain from further villainy. His twin, the tanned, golden-haired Dru (also voiced by Carell), is wealthy and sports a great wardrobe along with every cool gadget a criminal could want. Little Agnes’ obsession with finding a unicorn is matched only by the minions’ determination to rally behind an ubervillain, such as the angry, washed-up, former child star played by Parker. (L.M.

The House R

After squandering their daughter’s college fund, Scott (Will Ferrell) and Kate (Amy Poehler) help their neighbors start an illegal “pop-up” casino in the neighbor’s basement. Their neighbor assures the couple that their share of just one month operating the casino will fund four years of college. However, the pair is flabbergasted by the negative effect on their friends who gamble away savings, or become obsessed with the strip club and fight club, also on the premises. What makes a Will Ferrell movie funny is when the doughy comedian strips down to his tighty whities and runs amok. If that’s not in there, demand a refund! (L.M.)

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[HOME MOVIES/OUT ON DIGITAL] “Hee Haw: Pfft! You Was Gone!”

They keep coming: DVD packages of an unlikely 1969-1971 network TV comedy. The latest, the two-disc “Hee Haw: Pfft! You Was Gone” begs the question: Why? Nostalgia? Or something more?

The country-themed show was likely conceived as an “Okie From Muskogee” counter-punch to the counterculture, yet attracted a hip audience for its sheer oddness and innovation. “Hee Haw” moved fast, incorporated animation into live action and was aware of its own silliness. Nowadays critics would call it “meta”—it was almost a show about a show set in imaginary hillbilly country.

And then there was the music. With genial hosts Roy Clark and Buck Owens, “Hee Haw” showcased top country stars of the time, both in live and lip-synched performances. Dolly Parton, George Jones, Tammy Wynette and Marty Robbins rode the range from rueful balladry to Bakersfield exuberance. “Hee Haw” regular Grandpa Jones anchored the roots with a little banjo playing.

Alone in Berlin

Otto (Brendan Gleeson) and Anna (Emma Thompson) are a couple whose marriage has fallen into sullen silence. But when their son dies at the front, they are spurred to act against the Nazi regime. Otto and Emma leave anti-Hitler postcards in public places, drawing the attention of a Gestapo investigator (Daniel Brühl). Suffused with dread and the anticipation of disaster, Alone in Berlin is a surprisingly absorbing story of resistance by painfully ordinary people.

Paul Simon: The Concert in Hyde Park

London’s Hyde Park was the setting for this 2012 concert, released in a DVD/two-CD set. With acoustic guitar slung around his shoulders but backed by a large ensemble including keyboards and horns, Paul Simon surveyed his 50-year career, focusing mostly on his post-Simon & Garfunkel repertoire. He turned the spotlight to seminal reggae star Jimmy Cliff who performed a mini-concert within the concert and brought out Graceland collaborators Ladysmith Black Mambazo for a couple of numbers.

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::BY KAT KNEEVERS

rom esoteric photographs to the suggestions of body parts, a powerful mix of images and reference points are part of the exhibition “Transplant Eyes” at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts. They come in the form of the body crouched, or a man standing, or mechanisms of mouths conjoined. They all speak to the human experience with psychological and emotional relevance.

Nine artists, curated by Katayoun Amjadi and John Schuerman, address what is described as liminal space, living between cultures and the differences of geography. The experiences of the artists are narrated through their art and personal stories. They come from different countries, arriving in the U.S. at different stages in life, and their impetus deal with being inside a culture as well as being outside.

Given the current discussions taking place regarding immigration, it is well worth taking note.

Yevgeniya Kaganovich displays sculptures in polymer, molded into forms like masks. She devises these so they are joined mouth to mouth by a single hose. We are all connected, indeed. Her artist notes describe that her work is about the “complexities of social interactions conditioned by the corporeal body and these explore the absurdity of

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Big Ideas at Latino Arts

Latino Arts’ ongoing series of exhibitions finds students from the Bruce-Guadalupe Community School and UCC Acosta Middle School interpreting abstract themes with the resources of visual art.

“Making Connections,” “Envisioning” and “Stretch and Explore” have oriented their creations in recent years. This year’s theme, “Engage and Persist,” will doubtless elicit reflections on our fraught political climate, which has welcomed unwelcoming sentiments directed at Latino immigrants and those who fit stereotypes of how an immigrant looks and speaks. “The Big Idea V: Engage and Persist” is on display from June 29 through Sept. 1.

our attempts to express, perceive, and understand.” In this sense, the deeply intimate notions of her work are especially resonant.

Nina Ghanbarzadeh amplifies this through the identifier of language in her My Fingerprint. It is a large collage of a fingerprint articulated by strands of newsprint and handwritten text. Ghanbarzadeh is from Iran and states, “Even though I think in Farsi I mostly speak in English (that is outside of my house).” She often uses text in her art, incorporating elegant Farsi script in abstract designs. In this piece, her fingerprint is presented on a black background with text from newspapers, often about humanitarian interests of peace and remembrance. Some of the newsprint is covered by whiteout and replaced by elegant script, alluding to the impasse that may occur with disparate languages.

In this age of contention, “Transplant Eyes” serves as a reminder of a shared humanity that transcends race and language.

Through July 8 at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, 839 S. Fifth St.

Yosielys Vargas (6th Grade student at BGCS), Remembering Unity

In case you missed Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day on Sunday, April 30, Port Washington’s Gallery 224 is offering the chance to vicariously relive the experience through PORT PHOTO Photography Show.”

The exhibition features work by seven local photographers who, despite the day’s inclement weather, spent April 30 observing Port Washington’s architecture and waterfront setting through their viewfinders. The result is both a paean to the City of Seven Hills as well as a testament to the enduring artistic interest of pinhole photography. “PORT PHOTO Photography Show” opens with a reception on June 30 from 5-7 p.m. and is on display through Sept. 2.

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OFF THE CUFF WITH ARTIST-IN RESIDENCE MARGARET MUZA ::BY MORGAN HUGHES

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he Pfister’s ninth and current Artist-in-Residence, Margaret Muza, wants to make art that is going to last. Her medium, tintype photography, promises to do just that. The Civil Warera process creates one-of-a-kind photos printed on pieces of tin or glass. The nature of the process shuns waste and massproduction in the same way Muza tries to. Off the Cuff sat down with Muza to discuss her art and her residency at the Pfister.

What got you interested in Tintype photography?

I like history and I love old things, old pictures included. I was curious about what made these images look so different. I read an article about the tintype process and thought it was so interesting I had to learn it. I went to New York to learn.

I took a two-day workshop from a woman in Brooklyn. There aren’t a lot of people who can teach this method. It was a two-day class, and then I’ve just been practicing ever since.

What personal benefit do you get from doing this kind of art?

I’ve always been very comfortable working with my hands, and I get so much satisfaction out of making things. I literally have everything to do with every single step of making a photograph. I think a lot of people find that when we have less and less need to know how things are made and we can just buy things that are

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mass produced, it’s unsatisfying. I like getting my hands dirty and making something. To make a picture is something special, and to make them in this really different way is really special, too.

What about tintype drew you to it, and why is this work important to you?

I have a problem with the way technology is moving fast and the way things are made so cheaply and thoughtlessly and unattractively. It’s so wasteful and destructive to the planet. I spend a lot of time trying to understand why that’s popular, and it’s devastating.

We’re losing a lot of historic buildings in Milwaukee, brand new condos are coming up all the time, I think that’s tragic. I have a problem with waste and a problem with loss of special old things. I think making an image that I know will be an artifact for families in the future is an honor. I like being a part of making something that is going to last longer than me.

How important is this residency, both to you and the Milwaukee art community?

It’s not easy to have the urge to be an artist. That’s not really a realistic thing, and I don’t know many people who are able to make a living out of it. I know amazing artists who can’t say that’s what they do for a living. So, I’m just lucky that what it is that I found speaks to other people in a way that is allowing me to make a living. I feel very lucky about that. I know that any artist would agree that this is like a dream come true, and so for Milwaukee to have this opportunity in place, hopefully it inspires other cities and other places in Milwaukee to value artists and give them opportunities and give them work. Make it so people can make a career out of this, because we need art, now more than ever.

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‘Vice and Virtue,’ YA Fiction (and a Pizza Party!) at Boswell Book Co. ::BY JENNI HERRICK

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n a pair of exceedingly entertaining YA (young adult) novels, readers are transported across Europe as the protagonists and their compatriots pursue high seas adventures, forbidden romance and longburied secrets. Mackenzi Lee’s The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue is a boisterous 18th-century escapade that follows three young friends on a grand tour through Europe.

Eighteen-year-old Monty is a snarky, witty and sharp-tongued English lord who’s known for hard drinking and romantic dalliances with both men and women. After being kicked out of his latest English boarding school, he sets off on a year-long escapade from Paris to Rome alongside his best friend (and secret crush) Percy and little sister, Felicity. Along the way, the eclectic and strikingly modern trio unintentionally unlocks ancient alchemical secrets, faces off against an inexperienced pirate crew and dabbles in illicit affairs. This historically accurate tale features creative characters who bravely confront cultural taboos while also finding time for raucous European hijinks.

In The Last of August, Brittany Cavallaro brings us the second installment of the high-octane trilogy she began in her 2016 novel, A Study in Charlotte. In her new book, readers reconnect with the crime-solving duo of Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes—the teen descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.

This time, the pair has unwittingly found themselves in a dangerous race across Europe to lay bare lost family secrets. From art houses in Prague to the underground scene in Berlin, the young partners face muddled mysteries as they also try to deal with their own relentless relationship drama.

Cavallaro, currently a doctoral student of English literature at UW-Milwaukee, is also the author of the poetry collection Girl-King.

Mackenzi Lee and Brittany Cavallaro appear at Boswell Book Co., 2559 N. Downer Ave., at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 29, as part of a YA Pizza Party.

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::RUTHIE’SSOCALCALENDAR June 28: Opening Day of Summerfest at Summerfest Grounds (200 N. Harbor Drive): If PrideFest whetted your whistle for more lakefront fun, then don’t miss this granddaddy of all musical festivals. Free concerts, savory foods, sweet treats and lots and lots of beer make Summerfest one warm-weather celebration you don’t want to miss. Swing

by Milwaukee’s biggest bash until July 2, or check out Round 2, which runs July 4 through July 9.

June 29: Jazz in the Park at Cathedral Square (812 N. Jackson St.):

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Want to celebrate the upcoming holiday but don’t want to fight the firework crowds? Consider a cool night at this hot spot. Held every Thursday from 6-9 p.m., this free concert offers food, adult libations and great mingling, people watching and friend making.

June 30: Windy City Open Beach Party at Kathy Osterman Beach (5800 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago): Party in Windy City in a whole new way when the Athletic Alliance of Chicago (AAC) hosts this LGBTQ beach bash! Play some free games of volleyball, enjoy some refresh-

t’s summer in Brew Town and that means beer, brats, Brewers, boys and babes! Toss in a few explosives and you’ve got one helluva celebration.

That’s just what you’ll find this week in Cream City. From Summerfest craziness to lakeside celebrations, the hits keep coming when the sun shines in Milwaukee. Think I’m exaggerating? Well, screw you!

Take a look at the weekly happenings and plan your long weekend accordingly—but first, let’s read an email from a reader.

ments, meet some new people and soak in some sun during the 10 a.m.

Dear Ruthie,

out!

Girl to girl: I’m having trouble with the big “O,” if you know what I mean. I’ve always heard that women’s orgasms get stronger and better with age, but at the age of 41 mine seem to be diminishing in strength. Is this normal? I don’t think it’s the men in my life, but I’m also not about to rule that out either. Any clue what might going on? Any exercises or techniques that I should be practicing?

Help a Girl Out, Unsatisfied Sue Dear Susie Q,

Everyone wants to bang out a good one (or seven) during Independence Day, honey. There’s no shame in that game! When your grand finale feels more like a dud, however, it’s time to do some investigating. After all, if the engine’s not firing on all cylinders you’d have an expert check under the hood, right? No…I’m not suggesting you screw a mechanic, although if the opportunity knocks, let your freak flag fly!

But seriously, go to the doctor, sugar. I’m far from an expert, so see your doc and let him/her know that light has gone out of your sparkler. I’m sure you’ll be back to your old self soon!

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to 3 p.m. sandy soiree.

June 30: Transformation Showgirls at La Cage Niteclub (801 S. Second St.): Local diva Nova D’Vine hosts this 11 p.m. drag show featuring the city’s best in female illusion, music, dancing and more. A view of Nova’s costumes alone is worth the $6 door charge. Haven’t been to La Cage in a bit? This glamor-girl revue is the perfect reason to check it

July 2: P!nk at The Marcus Amphitheater (200 N. Harbor Drive): Hip, hip, hooray! P!nk brings her self-titled tour to Cream City today! The songstress got a big thumbs up from folks the last time she performed in Milwaukee, and this tour promises the same excitement. Tickets range greatly in price, so see summerfest.com for more on the 7:30 p.m. concert.

July 3: Milwaukee Lakefront Fireworks at Veterans Park (1010 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive): For the biggest and the best sky show in the city, don’t miss the infamous fireworks at Veterans Park. The no-fail jaw dropper is a great, free way to ring on the Fourth of July for kids of all ages. Get your “oohs and ahs” ready for the 9 p.m. event.

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

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

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The Looming LGBTQ Health Crisis ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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The recent resignation of six experts on the current administration’s HIV/ AIDS Advisory Council was an unfortunate reminder. Their announcement came just in time for National HIV Testing Day, Tuesday, June 27.

One former council member, Scott Schoettes, explained their departure, saying the president “simply does not care” and that there is no official HIV strategy (the White House website for the Office of National AIDS Policy was deleted on inauguration day). He also stated that the 40% of people with HIV receiving care through Medicaid would be “devastated” by Medicaid cuts proposed in the Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). His frustration should have LGBTQs very worried.

Even before the current regime, HIV/AIDS funding had been diverted in order to pursue the “Southern strategy” in which financial resources are concentrated on Bible Belt states where increased HIV/AIDS infection rates have soared to epidemic proportion. “We are following things closely” says Kofi Short, lead coordinator for community and program development for Diverse and Resilient (D&R). The Milwaukeebased agency for health equity and wellbeing of

Wisconsin’s LGBTQ people works to address health disparities in different areas, but HIV/ AIDS remains a primary concern.

According to Short, officially the state’s current infection rate is concentrated among gay and bisexual men: 33% are African American, 9% and 4% are Latino and Caucasian, respectively. Of that, 50% are in Milwaukee County.

However, he admits the true infection rate is impossible to know because up to 50% of infected young African Americans do not know their status. “Due to stigma, lack of health care access, lack of awareness and cultural barriers, people are not comfortable being tested. Whether out of fear or because people don’t feel ill, they don’t seek services.” He cited similar issues for PrEP (Pre-exposure Prophylaxis) strategies. Those at the highest risk are not finding out about it.

“Even if they get on PrEP, the problem is adherence. It’s challenging for those with HIV to be adherent but even more so for youth who are less conscientious. As opposed to someone on medication and aware of the impact of not taking it, PrEP doesn’t have the same impulse,” Short said.

He also agrees with Schoettes’ prognosis.

Asked how ACA changes will affect HIV/AIDS, Short replied, “Our work focuses on prevention, but a big concern is Medicaid because it covers people with pre-existing conditions. If a shift in ACA care occurs, the 40% covered by Medicaid are easily identified as HIV-positive based on the medications they take.” Still, organizations like D&R are responding to the crisis.

“The situation has forced us to develop innovative ways of working with partners like ARCW, 16th Street Clinic, Milwaukee Health Services, Wisconsin’s HIV/AIDS program and the Milwaukee Health Department. We’ve come together to effect change as a unit. And a big part of what we do to close disparities is to develop leadership among LGBTQs using health promoters to spread the message,” Short said.

Meanwhile, the gay Log Cabin Republicans recently reposted a June 2016 New York Times Op-ed titled “The L.G.B.T. Case for Guns” by trans gun advocate Nicki Stallard.

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oddCouple Bridges the Distance Between Chicago’s and Milwaukee’s Rap Scenes ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

appers tend to portray themselves as the masters of their own fates, chalking up whatever success they achieve to their own talent and hard work. Zach Henderson, who records and produces under the moniker oddCouple, isn’t ashamed to admit there was more than a little luck involved in his own rise, though. If Henderson hadn’t moved to Chicago for college when he did, and hadn’t fallen in with the crowd he did—including rapper Alex Wiley and Chance The Rapper’s manager Pat Corcoran—he wouldn’t have been in the position he is today.

In 2007, when Henderson relocated to the city from Milwaukee, Chicago’s rap scene was on the brink of a rebuild. While Chicago luminaries like Kanye West, Common and Lupe Fiasco were all near the peak of their careers, a younger generation of rappers and producers were in the earliest stages of developing new ways to approach city’s tradition of soulful hip-hop.

It would take years for those seeds to begin to bear fruit and for those artists to build a community, but Henderson needed that time himself. He describes his early beats as proficient but nothing special. “I started playing my beats for Chance and Alex Wiley and all those guys, and they thought they were cool, but it wasn’t like they responded, ‘Oh my god, we’re gonna make a legacy,’” Henderson says. “It was good music, though, and I just kept working at it, and over time I got better at it.”

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Eventually, Henderson was getting placements on Alex Wiley’s mixtapes and turning heads with a track he produced for Chance, “Burn the City.” In the years since, of course, Chance grew from a regional star into a bona fide star, a Grammy-winning, festival-headlining icon who increasingly looks like one of the most influential rappers alive, and his success has helped lift the whole city.

“To be part of something special like this new Chicago renaissance, there’s a lot of luck oddCouple involved,” Henderson says, noting that he’s espe7 p.m., Tuesday, cially lucky, given how most of the artists in his July 4 scene are lifelong Chicagoans who have known Briggs & each other since they were kids. After a decade in Chicago, though, he speaks about the city like Stratton Stage he’s a native. at Summerfest “A lot of Chicago’s greatest songs are homages to pain and coming out of it stronger,” he explains. “That’s what made Kanye so accessible to people. That’s what made Common and Lupe so accessible, and that’s what powers this sound, and anybody who is a true Chicagoan can relate to that. That’s why I always identified with Chicago. You know, Chicago toughens you. You live here and your skin gets harder, but at the same time you never lose your heart. Chicago is like a single mom. It’s the toughest situation, but at the same time you end up growing to love your kid that much more because of everything you go through together.”

At the same time, he’s kept a foot in Milwaukee as well. He returns here regularly (“I live for the weekends when I get to come up and hang around Brady Street or run down Prospect,” he says), and he’s kept tabs on Milwaukee’s own ascendant rap scene. Both of his oddCouple albums, including last year’s Liberation, are packed with Chicago guests like Jamila Woods, Kweku Collins, Mick Jenkins and Saba, but they’ve also spotlighted Milwaukee talent like WebsterX and Siren.

It’s in that spirit of bridging the distance between the two city’s music scenes that Henderson has helped curate a showcase of talent from both cities at Summerfest billed as the Lakeside 4cast Festival on Tuesday, July 4 at Summerfest’s Briggs & Stratton stage. oddCouple will perform, along with Milwaukeeans IshDARR and WebsterX and Chicagoans Joey Purp, Saba and the night’s headliner, Jamila Woods, whose gorgeous 2016 album, HEAVN, Henderson executed produced.

As Henderson sees it, Milwaukee and Chicago have more in common than they realize. “There’s a joke in Chicago that Milwaukee is Chicago’s biggest suburb, but I’ve always felt like Milwaukee is Chicago’s cousin,” he says. “They have the same last name and the same lineage; they were just brought up by different people. There are so many parallels between the two; the lake being one of them. What Lake Michigan symbolizes to people is different from what an ocean symbolizes, and it’s different from what a river symbolizes. It’s family, it’s coming together—it’s those days you get to go out to the lake with the family and hang out.

Those are the days you wait for all year. I think the cities are starting to realize that shared connection, which is why there’s been so much collaboration between the two cities in the past year. I’m really happy to be leading that charge.” oddCouple performs at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 4 at Summerfest’s Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard stage. oddCouple PHOTO BY MATT GUERTLER

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Abby Jeanne

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ou could be forgiven for overlooking Summerfest’s Renegade Stage. As the smallest stage at the world’s largest music festival, the stage isn’t even listed in the festival’s official promotional material. And yet, if you know to look for it, the tiny stage nestled beside the lakeshore path can provide a game-changing festival experience. It may be Summerfest’s smallest stage, but it’s also one of the festival’s most inclusive, communityoriented and mission-driven venues.

The Renegade’s history goes back nearly a decade to when co-founder Bibi Adell linked up with fellow Milwaukee musician Coventry Jones to replace a different Summerfest stage that was old and worn out. Left to their own devices, Adell and Jones forged ahead with their vision for a new stage, the Renegade.

Over the years, this vision has remained simple: support emerging artists and local talent. “[We try] to create positions for artists that fall out of the main frame of the traditional, larger stages,” Adell explains. “I really want to see more people succeed from this area.”

A musician herself, Adell says she’s motivated by her love for music and her passion to boost her fellow brothers and sisters. Many Renegade performers are unsigned, which adds to the fun; Adell uses the stage to scout promising acts for her talent management company, Artists in Music, and helps the best acts get signed to record labels. Of the potential rising stars in this year’s lineup, Adell names 17-year-old Tallan Latz and 12-yearold Valor Yost of Spiders from Milwaukee (playing at the U.S. Cellular Stage, not the Renegade Stage). “Those are two of the young

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artists coming out of this region that I’ve got my eye on,” Adell says. Eighteen-yearold Kylar Kuzio is on her radar, too. “Holy smokes,” Adell comments. “[Kylar] decided to become a country star when she was a kid, and I think she’s getting close. I’d love to sign her.”

In addition to industry newcomers, the stage will also host an eclectic mix of seasoned musicians (some now signed to labels, thanks to Adell), including country artist Levi Massie, steampunk band Szilenze and a returning crowd-favorite, Christian hip-hop artist Mr. Aman. Though more prominent Summerfest stages typically have genre niches, such as Johnson Control Sound Stage’s preference for indie rock, the Renegade’s roster is purposefully diverse. “We just have so many cool artists, it’s unbelievable,” Adell says. “I can’t mention enough of them.”

Despite the general lack of publicity, many more artists apply to play at the Renegade each year than Adell can accept. This year’s application process was even more competitive than usual. Adell mentions one disappointed band that has played the Renegade the past five years but didn’t’t make the lineup this year. (They would’ve traded the last five years just to play this time around, says Adell.)

“Everyone’s excited about the 50th,” she exclaims. “This is a big thing.” The Renegade’s theme this year, Summer of Love, will honor the iconic 1967 San Franciscan revolution that swept the country a half-century ago.

Come festival time, this small stage is set to have a substantial presence.

Summerfest runs through Sunday, July 9.

For more information about the Renegade Stage, visit facebook.com/emergingartiststage.

88.9 Block Party @ Radio Milwaukee ::BY THOMAS MICHALSKI

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t’s been 10 years since 88.9 Radio Milwaukee carved out its own niche on the already crowded left side of the city’s FM dial, and in that time they’ve rarely strayed away from their core programming strategy, a careful balancing act between being as accessible and unobtrusive as possible while also maintaining enough grit to stay credible as a cutting-edge music source. Playlists feature a variety of genres, and while the results are reliably enjoyable, smoothing out all those rough edges means you’re unlikely to hear anything the least bit experimental or confrontational. It’s no surprise then that the station’s anniversary block party on Saturday was thoroughly stocked with local and national acts that (no judgment here) happen to walk that particular line, albeit with one exhilarating exception.

None of which is to imply that Saturday, June 24th’s headliners weren’t worthwhile. From the soulful, retro sounds of Abby Jeanne, who kicked off the day as people were still straggling onto Pittsburgh Avenue, to Chicago MC Noname, whose funky set closed out the event as the rain the skies had been threatening all day finally began to fall, the performers were uniformly excellent at what they do, even if what they do isn’t all that far outside the box. Don’t get me wrong: It’s entirely pleasant to catch local alt-country balladeers Field Report or D’Amato’s R&B antics on a sunny June afternoon, especially for free, but not so interesting that you feel like you’re missing out by strolling through the nearby Riverview antique market instead.

The one real surprise of the day, announced via an exceedingly awkward onair interview in the studio’s VIP area, was that hometown hero Juiceboxxx would be doing a “guerilla”-style street set between other bands. It turned out to be a uniquely electrifying moment, as Juiceboxxx’s shows often are, but especially because of the context. It was abundantly clear that many observers crowded around the Merriment Social had never seen the Milwaukee Maniac do his thing before, and the look on their faces was unlike anything else the rest of the lineup managed to inspire. Somewhere between “taken aback” and “blown away,” it was the kind of thing that happens when you let music color outside the lines.

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::ALBUMS FS Camels Goulash

The great lost CD of ’90s Milwaukee altrock has finally been released 22 years after it was recorded.

Goulash is a good name for the album

by FS Camels, a local band that saw fit to cover everyone from The Ramones to J.J. Cale and whose originals spanned the sonic range from full-bore power riffing to spacy moments with an almost psychedelic echo. “Nirvana was our epiphany,” says guitarist Todd Pearson and, yes, like the Seattle grunge titans, FS Camels sheathed memorable melodies in hard metallic tones.

The belated release of Goulash is part of a wave of retrospection on the punk and post-punk eras occurring here in Milwaukee and elsewhere. Vocalistbassist Mike Endrizzi credits the return of FS Camels to the recent Turner Hall reunion show organized by another local ’90s group, Big Mother Gig. It was the Camels’ first appearance since 1995.

“They called and asked us to play and I said ‘No’ and they said, ‘No, really, you’re going to play.’”

Goulash was recorded in various places, including Madison’s famed Smart Studio and in the Milwaukee studios run

by Paul Kneevers and Bill Stace. Whether dreamy in mood or raging on high adrenaline, most tracks have held up well over the decades. FS Camels’ lineup shifted often during the years after its formation in 1987 by Carroll College students. Members from various phases of the band will crowd the stage for their next show at Summerfest. With Endrizzi living in Minneapolis, this might be the last chance to see them for some time.

—David Luhrssen FS Camels perform 2 p.m., June 29 at Summerfest’s Miller Lite Oasis.

MUSIC::LISTINGS THURSDAY, JUNE 29 Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Acoustic Guitar Night Bilda’s Friess Lake Pub, Vinyl Road (6pm) Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Jack Williams Club Garibaldi, Sarah Shook & The Disarmers w/Twin Brother County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Frank’s Power Plant, Tyne Darling w/The Division Men & Gabriel Harris Group Harry’s Bar & Grill, Kyle Feerick (6pm) Jazz Estate, Who’s Your Daddy Trio Jazz in the Park (Cathedral Square Park), Alma Afrobeats Ensemble (6pm) Kelly’s Bleachers (Big Bend), Thursday Night Acoustic Open Jam w/host Michael Sean Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Starlight Riot/The Sketchballs 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: Al White Duo (8pm), In the Fire Pit: Doghouse Flowers (8:30pm), In the Fire Pit: The Mantz Brothers (8:30pm) Quaker Steak and Lube (New Berlin), Larry Lynne Band (6pm) Stoneridge Inn (Hales Corners), Julie Nelson (6pm) The Bay Restaurant, VIVO Jazz Village Hall Park (Waterford), Waterford River Rhythms: Think Floyd USA (6:30pm) Village Park (Menomonee Falls), The Ricochettes (6:30pm)

FRIDAY, JUNE 30 American Legion of Okauchee #399, The Tom Anthony Group Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Tricia Alexander, Donna Frost & Cassandra Vohs-Demann Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Mike’s Classic Country w/Annalise Curtin (8pm); DJ: The Brains & Bush (10pm) Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (6pm) County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Frank’s Power Plant, Council of Crooks w/The Upanishads, Dodgeball Club & 50 Breaks Golden Mast Inn, Joe Kadlec (6:30pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Brian Lynch & Greg Tardy (8pm), Late Night Session: Late Night Session: Lenard Simpson Trio (11:30pm)

Jokerz Comedy Club, James Ervin Berry

The Tonic Tavern, Third Coast Blues w/Alex & Marc Wilson and

Lakefront Brewery Beer Hall, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm)

Andrew & Kurt Koenig (4pm)

Lucky Chance, Big Bang Theory Reunion Mamie’s, Pee Wee Hayes Blues Band

MONDAY, JULY 3

Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm)

Frank’s Power Plant, Prezir w/Towering Abomination & Splat-

Milwaukee Ale House, Ripple Effect

tered Cadaver

Nixon Park (Hartland), Steve Meisner Band

Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm)

Packing House, Eric Diamond: Neil & Nostalgia

Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John

Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Gabriel V2 (9pm), In

Up & Under Pub, Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers Open

the Fire Pit: Chris Boyden & Mostly Water (9pm)

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Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Site 1A, J.Phlip

TUESDAY, JULY 4

The Bay Restaurant, Sherwood Alper

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Frankie Donn

The Brass Tap, Jackie Brown Duo

(noon), The Ricochettes (1pm)

Trinity Three Irish Pubs, Vertigo w/DJ Zovo

Brown Deer Village Park, Eddie Butts Band (5:30pm)

Up & Under Pub, All Hands In

C Notes Upscale Sports Lounge, Another Night-Another Mic Open Mic w/Darryl Hill

SATURDAY, JULY 1

Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic

Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night

Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm)

Bootz Saloon, Smokin Gunz

Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto

Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Slaughter Party! w/Bad Bread

(sign-up 7:30pm)

(8pm); DJ: Theresa Who (10pm)

Port Washington Veteran’s Memorial Park Bandshell, Vinyl

Delafield Brewhaus, Steve Nitros

Groove (1pm)

Fox Point Farmers Market, Lil Rev (10am)

The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session

Greendale Gazebo Park, Jackie Brown Band (3pm)

Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis

Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys

Fermenich

Jokerz Comedy Club, James Ervin Berry Laura’s Donges Bay Clubhouse (Mequon), Division Men w/

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5

Tangled Lines

Caroline’s Jazz Club, Harvey Westmoreland w/Knee Deep

Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm)

Blues Jam

Milwaukee Ale House, Zoot Suit Boogie

Conway’s Smokin’ Bar & Grill, Open Jam w/Big Wisconsin

Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: 89 Mojo

Johnson

Rave / Eagles Club, Los Inquietos del Norte w/Noel Torres, Los

District 14 Brewery & Pub, Wednesday Open Mic

Buchones de Culiacan & Proyecto X (all-ages, 8pm)

Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Noodle Jam (6pm)

Skallywags Bar (Juneau), Street Legal (5pm)

Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam

The Packing House Restaurant, Lem Banks, Jeff Stoll, Alvin

Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage (sign-up

Turner & Omar (6:30pm)

8:30pm, start 9pm)

The Rock Sports Complex, Summer Concert Series in

Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm)

Umbrella Bar: Joe Wray

Miramar Theatre, Stage Right Pub: Paul Smith & Andy Jehly

Trinity Three Irish Pubs, Big Spoon w/DJ Zovo

Nomad World Pub, Locals Only

Up & Under Pub, AGNI

Paulie’s Field Trip, Humpday Jam w/Dave Wacker & Mitch

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

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ACROSS 1. Wind 5. Spurts 9. “— la vista, baby!”

14. Prevent 19. Word in geometry 20. Basic French verb 21. Flower extract 22. Asinine 23. Son-et-lumiere element: 2 wds.

25. Home to some Midwesterners: 3 wds.

27. Sundry 28. Kerfuffle 29. Slander anagram 30. Film spool 31. Look 32. Greeting for Caesar 33. Notice 36. Watery trenches 37. Air: Comb. form 39. Some students: Abbr.

42. Pines 43. Music hall entertainment: 2 wds.

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54. Quail 55. Redolent 57. Eellike salamander 58. Young plants 59. Doomed 60. Falcon-headed god 61. Kerchief 62. Uncooperative one 64. Weathercocks 65. Means of interplanetary travel 68. Shackles 69. Set off

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY CANCER (June 21-July 22): When Leos rise above their habit selves and seize the authority to be rigorously authentic, I refer to them as “Sun Queens” or “Sun Kings.” When you Cancerians do the same—triumph over your conditioning and become masters of your own destiny—I call you “Moon Queens” or “Moon Kings.” In the coming weeks, I suspect that many of you will make big strides toward earning this title. Why? Because you’re on the verge of claiming more of the “soft power,” the potent sensitivity, that enables you to feel at home no matter what you’re doing or where you are on this planet.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may not realize it, but you now have a remarkable power to perform magic tricks. I’m not talking about Harry Houdini-style hocus-pocus. I’m referring to practical wizardry that will enable you to make relatively efficient transformations in your daily life. Here are some of the possibilities: wiggling out of a tight spot without offending anyone; conjuring up a new opportunity for yourself out of thin air; doing well on a test even though you don’t feel prepared for it; converting a seemingly tough twist of fate into a fertile date with destiny. How else would you like to use your magic?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Feminist pioneer and author Gloria Steinem said, “Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” Is there such an activity for you, Virgo? If not, now is a favorable time to identify what it is. And, if there is indeed such a passionate pursuit, you should do it as much as possible in the coming weeks. You’re primed for a breakthrough in your relationship with this life-giving joy. To evolve to the next phase of its power to inspire you, it needs as much of your love and intelligence as you can spare.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): One of the 21st century’s most entertaining archaeological events was the discovery of King Richard III’s bones. The English monarch died in 1485, but his burial site had long been a mystery. It wasn’t an archaeologist who tracked down his remains, but a screenwriter named Philippa Langley. She did extensive historical research, narrowing down the possibilities to a car park in Leicester. As she wandered around, she got a psychic impression at one point that she was walking directly over Richard’s grave.

Her feeling later turned out to be right. I suspect your near future will have resemblances to her adventure.

You’ll have success in a mode that’s not your official area of expertise. Sharp analytical thinking will lead you to the brink, and a less rational twist of intelligence will take you the rest of the way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The tides of destiny are no longer just whispering their message for you. They are shouting.

And what they are shouting is that your brave quest must begin soon. There can be no further excuses for postponement. What’s that you say? You don’t have the luxury of embarking on a brave quest? You’re too bogged down in the thousand and one details of managing the day-to-day hubbub? Well, in case you need reminding, the tides of destiny are not in the habit of making things convenient. And, if you don’t cooperate willingly, they will ultimately compel you to do so. But now here’s the really good news, Scorpio: The tides of destiny will make available at least one burst of assistance that you can’t imagine right now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In my dream, I used the non-itchy wool of the queen’s special Merino sheep to weave an enchanted blanket for you. I wanted this blanket to be a good luck charm you could use in your crusade to achieve deeper levels of romantic intimacy. In its tapestry, I spun scenes depicting the most love-filled events from your past. It was beautiful and perfect.

But after I finished it, I had second thoughts about giving it to you. Wasn’t it a mistake to make it so flawless? Shouldn’t it also embody the messier aspects of togetherness? To turn it into a better symbol and therefore a more dynamic talisman, I spilled wine on one corner of it and unraveled some threads in another corner. Now here’s my interpretation of my dream: You’re ready to regard messiness as an essential ingredient in your quest for deeper intimacy.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your word of power is supplication—the act of asking earnestly and humbly for what you want.

When practiced correctly, supplication is indeed a sign of potency, not of weakness. It means you are totally united with your desire, feel no guilt or shyness about it and intend to express it with liberated abandon. Supplication makes you supple, poised to be flexible as you do what’s necessary to get the blessing you yearn for. Being a supplicant also makes you smarter, because it helps you realize that you can’t get what you want on the strength of your willful ego alone. You need grace, luck and help from sources beyond your control.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the coming weeks, your relationships with painkillers will be extra sweet and intense. Please note that I’m not talking about ibuprofen, acetaminophen or aspirin. My reference to painkillers is metaphorical. What I’m predicting is that you will have a knack for finding experiences that reduce your suffering. You’ll have a sixth sense about where to go to get the most meaningful kinds of healing and relief.

Your intuition will guide you to initiate acts of atonement and forgiveness, which will in turn ameliorate your wounds.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t wait around passively as you fantasize about becoming the “Chosen One” of some person or group or institution. Be your own Chosen One. And don’t wander around aimlessly, biding your time in the hope of eventually being awarded some prize or boon by a prestigious source. Give yourself a prize or boon. Here’s one further piece of advice, Pisces: Don’t postpone your practical and proactive intentions until the mythical “perfect moment” arrives. Create your own perfect moment.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): This is a perfect moment to create a new tradition, Aries. You intuitively know how to turn one of your recent breakthroughs into a good habit that will provide continuity and stability for a long time to come. You can make a permanent upgrade in your life by capitalizing on an accidental discovery you made during a spontaneous episode. It’s time, in other words, to convert the temporary assistance you received into a long-term asset, to use a stroke of luck to foster a lasting pleasure.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Physicist Freeman Dyson told Wired magazine how crucial it is to learn from failures. As an example, he described the invention of the bicycle. “There were thousands of weird models built and tried before they found the one that really worked,” he said. “You could never design a bicycle theoretically. Even now, it’s difficult to understand why a bicycle works. But, just by trial and error, we found out how to do it, and the error was essential.” I hope you will keep that in mind, Taurus. It’s the Success-Through-Failure Phase of your astrological cycle.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should lease a chauffeured stretch limousine with nine TVs and a hot tub inside. You’d also be smart to accessorize your smooth ride with a $5,000 bottle of Château Le Pin Pomerol Red Bordeaux wine and servings of the Golden Opulence Sundae, which features a topping of 24-karat edible gold and sprinkles of Amedei Porcelana, the most expensive chocolate in the world. If none of that is possible, do the next best thing: Mastermind a long-term plan to bring more money into your life. From an astrological perspective, wealth-building activities will be favored in the coming weeks.

Homework: Name your greatest unnecessary taboo and how you would violate it if doing so didn’t hurt anyone. 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

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eird News is forever, but this is my last “News of the Weird” column, as I am now exhausted after almost 30 years in the racket. In this final edition, I remember a few of my favorites. My deep thanks to Andrews McMeel Syndication and to the readers who started me up and kept me going. Y’all take care of yourselves.

(1995) Chesapeake, Va., prison inmate Robert Lee Brock filed a $5 million lawsuit against Robert Lee Brock, accusing himself of violating his religious beliefs and his civil rights by getting himself drunk enough that he could not avoid various criminal behaviors. He wrote: “I want to pay myself $5 million (for this breach of rights), but ask the state to pay it in my behalf since I can’t work and am a ward of the state.” In April, the lawsuit was dismissed.

(2002) The Lane brothers of New York, Mr. Winner Lane and Mr. Loser Lane (their actual birth names), were profiled in a July Newsday report—made more interesting by the fact that Loser is successful (a police detective in the South Bronx) and Winner is not (a history of petty crimes). A sister said she believes her parents selected “Winner” because their late father was a big baseball fan and “Loser” just to complete the pairing.

(1994) The New York Daily News reported in April on a cellblock fight between murderers Colin Ferguson and Joel Rifkin at the Nassau County Jail. Reportedly, Ferguson (convicted of six race-related murders on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993) was using a telephone and told Rifkin (a serial killer serving 203 years for nine murders) to be quiet. According to the paper’s source, Ferguson told Rifkin, “I wiped out six devils (white people), and you only killed women!” Rifkin allegedly responded, “Yeah, but I had more victims!” Ferguson then allegedly ended the brief incident by punching Rifkin in the mouth.

(1998) On the day before Good Friday, reported the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Ernesto A. Moshe Montgomery consecrated the “Shrine of the Weeping Shirley MacLaine” in a room in the Beta Israel Temple in Los Angeles. Inspired by an image he said he had while riding in the actress’s private jet, Montgomery said a subsequent large photograph of him with MacLaine was “observed shedding tears,” which had inspired prayers and testimony of “miraculous healings.”

(1992) The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in June on the local “Silent Meeting Club,” consisting of several people who gather at various spots around town and make it a point not to speak to each other. Founder John Hudak said his inspiration was his observation that people often feel obligated to talk when they really have

nothing to say, such as at parties, and wondered how nice it would be “to have a group of people where you wouldn’t have to talk.”

(1991) In May, Maxcy Dean Filer, 60, of Compton, Calif., finally passed the California Bar Exam. He graduated from law school in 1966, but had failed the exam in each of his previous 47 tries.

(1999) From a May police report in The Messenger (Madisonville, Ky.) concerning two trucks being driven strangely on a rural road: “A man would drive one truck 100 yards, stop, walk back to a second truck, drive it 100 yards beyond the first truck, stop, walk back to the first truck, drive it 100 yards beyond the second truck, and so on.” According to police, the man’s brother was passed out drunk in one of the trucks, so the man was driving both trucks home (though the success of such a scheme is better imagined if the driving brother has a high blood-alcohol reading, too (which was, indeed, the case).

(1988) And, from the very first “News of the Weird” column came good ol’ Hal Warden, the Tennessee 16-year-old who was married at 15 and granted a divorce from his wife, 13. Hal had previously been married at age 12 to a 14-yearold (and fathered children with both), but the first wife divorced Hal because, as she told the judge, “He was acting like a 10-year-old.” © CHUCK SHEPHERD

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? And because it’s that time of year, seems to me that the only thing people want to read are the directions on a can of bug spray, and they do so with the attention span of a United States president who lost a popular vote by a boatload. So I’m declaring my independence from delivering a full-blown essay this week, what the fock.

Anyways, I don’t know what it is about this time of year, but it seems every time I turn around these days it’s that time of year again, I kid you not. Cripes, and now it’s that Summerfest time, again, and listen (and don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before ’cause we don’t have time): After all these years when it comes to this time of year, year-in, year-out, if you even begin to think I could possibly have any gas left to pass through another essay on that annual musical racket down there by our lakefront—then you are abso-focking-lutely correct. Of course I do.

The gas might be a tad overripe, but it smells like this: I’ve pored over and indeed rifled through all the big gig guides and lists and brochures and pamphlets and…HEY! Know what? I think the people in charge of that shebang have gone deaf from all that LOUD ROCK GUITAR MUSIC HELLABALOO they got all the time down there, I kid you not.

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I think those people have gone to deaf because each and every year, simply as a professional courtesy, I keep asking aloudly over and over for two simple things at the grounds in the Summerfest: A TOPLESS TENT and a BOURBON TENT—like it would really kill the hippies who run that fest-joint to have a little something for which the common man to enjoy himself by. It may come as an unexpected thunderclap to some, but we’ve been known to drop a couple, three bucks here and there, now and then, for entertainment purposes, what the fock.

But no, everything’s got to be for the young people all the time today. It’s like nothing at all from when me and my gang were members of the young people, lo, those years ago. No sir, in the threechannel TV days of our black & white youth, ’tis a rare-ass occasion it was when there was a good goddamn something to do. Many a long, beautiful, and long some more, summer day was spent standing around in some kid’s dinky back yard locked in the passionate debates of our day—like whose older sister had the biggest jugs. Or we made plans for the future—like how the hell to come by 20-fockingcents for a comic book and ice-cold bottle of Squirt.

So naturally, you can see how flummoxed I can be to imagine how different for a 14-, 15-year-old kid now today it is, what with all the places to go and things to do for them, not to mention the computers and super-phones they can dick around on for hours, with learning where to send the pictures of their pubescent junk.

That’s probably why we didn’t shoot up the schools back then like they’ve been known to do today. We were too bored. Why spend all that time and energy on blowing up the school? Just quit— fock it. That’s what we did.

And the old-school family values. You could

hardly take a leak without having to have the whole family along, for crying out loud. Sometimes you could go to some store by yourself, sure, but after five minutes inside with some dickhead clerk on your butt for the entire 300 seconds, you’d be told to scram. There was no telling what a kid by himself might try to get away with.

Cripes, it’s a heck of a thing how a half-a-focking-century can fly by when you lose track sometimes, ain’a? Seems like just the other day I was

listening to Pat Boone try to croon “Tutti Frutti” through the AM transistor, and today I can enjoy hardcore pornography on my TV, if I were so inclined.

I wish I was a kid today instead of then when I was, you betcha. Heck, I’d probably even go to the Summerfest and hope adults weren’t around to screw things up since what adults seem best at is to screw things up, same as it ever was, what the fock, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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