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CHARDHI KALA, RELENTLESS OPTIMISM The Sikh community five years after Oak Creek shooting ::BY SELENA MILEWSKI ecause we love all people, we shall be relentlessly optimistic in the face of tragedy.”

Pardeep Kaleka shares this translation of a traditional Sikh prayer to emphasize his point that it is engrained in the very fabric of Sikh belief that suffering and sacrifice should be met with forgiveness, love and relentless optimism, chardhi kala.

Kaleka is a trauma therapist, co-founder of the peacemaking and service organization Serve 2 Unite, public speaker and activist for social justice. He is also the son of Satwant Singh Kaleka, who served as president of the Sikh temple, or gurdwara, in Oak Creek until his death at the hands of white supremacist Wade Michael Page on Aug. 5, 2012.

The massacre also claimed the lives of temple members Sita Singh, Ranjit Singh, Prakash Singh, Suveg Singh and Paramjit Kaur. Four others, including first responding police officer Brian Murphy, were hospitalized for injuries sustained.

As the fifth anniversary of the shooting approaches, we take stock of the Sikh community locally and nationally; hate crimes in America; religious and governmental responses; the ways in which media messaging has shaped our understanding of the ongoing struggle with xenophobia; and peacemaking efforts going forward, including the Oak Creek temple’s annual 6K run-walk.

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Who are the Sikhs?

Sikhism, founded more than 500 years ago by Guru Nanak in what is now the Punjab state of India, has 25 million adherents worldwide, making it the fifth largest world religion. In the United States, the Sikh population is conservatively estimated to be 500,000, with immigration beginning in the late 1800s, and yet a January 2015 report from the National Sikh Campaign revealed that 60% of Americans admit to knowing nothing about Sikh Americans. Mandeep Kaur, a lead organizer and spokesperson in Oak Creek for the Sikh Coalition for the last five years, shares that most American Sikhs have historically chosen to reside on one of the coasts, but that living expenses have increasingly driven them to the Midwest, especially in the past 15 years. In 2013, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel estimated that about 3,000 Sikh families live southeastern Wisconsin.

In the greater Milwaukee area, the majority of Sikhs reside in the Oak Creek and Brookfield area—also the locations of the area’s two gurdwaras—with many first-generation Sikhs working as gas station or liquor store owners and taxi drivers. Although most Sikhs reside in the suburbs, many of their businesses are in the inner city.

Kaur observes that, as the second generation comes into adulthood, more and more are entering professional fields such as medicine.

To understand the Sikh response to the 2012 shooting, it is important to gain a basic grasp of Sikhism’s tenets and worldview. Kaur summarizes the religion’s core principals, thus: “One is living an honest life, making an honest living and being hardworking. And one is caring for the people that aren’t able to care for themselves— so volunteering, going out and providing food to anyone who can’t get it for themselves, living in high spirits, in other words, chardhi kala, taking events or incidents in life as God’s will and always seeing the positive side to it. And spirituality, making sure that, not just by appearance, you’re showing that you’re a Sikh by actually living by the teachings of Sikhism—cleansing yourself internally and always trying to live by the teachings of Sikhi.”

The religion is monotheistic, stresses the equality of all people in the eyes of God, has no designated priests, espouses gender equality, encourages teaching and learning, and places a premium on selfless giving. Kaleka notes, “For Sikhs, it’s really a falling in love with the process of growth and learning.” Sikhism is likewise not a religion of conversion. “To a point, a Sikh will always tell you, ‘I want you to be the best Christian possible, the best Hindu possible, the best Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh’, meaning that they want you to be the best person possible,” says Kaleka.

Speaking of the founding of Sikhism, Kaleka continues, “Nanak was a reformer. He was born Hindu. As he attained enlightenment, the journey says that he went into the river and didn’t appear for a couple days and once he did, his first words were, ‘There is no Hindu and there is no Muslim.’ Those were the two main religions of the time in India. He went from there to talk about reforming the way that we look at God and really emphasized that there is one God and that no matter who you are, everyone should be treated equally.

There was this sense of what now we would call social justice. But he came up with this thing before the word was ever around and formed a faith based on it that said that if someone says that someone else is unequal, you go out of your way to deny that and even to the point that you sacrifice your life.”

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The immediate response of the Sikh community to the 2012 shooting was fully in keeping with these principles. Many individuals, both from other religious groups and the general populace, took this fine example and began working assiduously for social change.

According to Tom Heinen, executive director of the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, “Sikhs who were interviewed on television and quoted in print publications after the shooting called

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(including the recent influxes of refugees). Kaleka shares his recent personal story and also provides insight on what it is like to be an immigrant to America in the modern era.

Describing the psychology Serve 2 Unite encounters, he notes, “A lot of times it comes back to fear—fear of immigrants, fear of change, fear of not being inclusive. Typically, the solution is not just talking it out; it’s action steps.

The action steps are definitely service. These community members have to actually work together—to actually build something together, to build their community together, because part of the narrative comes back to ‘You don’t belong here. You’re a new incoming immigrant and you haven’t invested enough into the American dream to really have a part in it.’ So that’s part of the narrative. Trying to counter that looks like service.”

In the broader community, many efforts have been made to counter hate crimes and build empathy and understanding. Heinen notes the Interfaith Conference’s participation in numerous events ranging from prayer services and interfaith dialogues to talk-backs after relevant theatrical productions and a panel discussion of the documentary The Sikh Temple Shootings: Waking in Oak Creek…a community rocked by hate is awakened and transformed, which was created in 2013 and which Kaleka uses to present alternatives to vengeance for communities across the nation.

The Interfaith Conference’s most prominent legacy is its Amazing Faiths Dinner Dialogue program. Heinen says that more than 500 people have participated since the pilot events in 2012; the program entails small gatherings of 8-12 people of different faiths, philosophies, races and cultures for a simple vegetarian meal and moderated dialogue to share stories of their lived experiences. To learn more about these events, visit interfaithconference.org or call 414-276-9050.

Governmental response has also included notable gains. The FBI began tracking hate

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for broad interfaith understanding, urged community unity and forgave the shooter. There were no angry outbursts or calls for vengeance.

Amid the grieving, their community graciously served food to law enforcement officers and others who had come to help them.”

Heinen recalls that Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards, at an outdoor candlelight vigil after the shootings, said that he had seen a lot of crime and vengeance in his career, “but that he’d never seen reactions like the Sikhs’, adding that these people have something to teach us. At the observance of the first anniversary of the shooting, speaking to a crowd in the Oak Creek temple as one of several dignitaries, he also noted that Sikhs came up to him during the aftermath of the shooting and asked how he was doing. People never ask the cops how they are doing, he added as he described the hospitality and demeanor of the Sikhs he encountered.”

Looking to the longer-term response of the community, Kaur shares the story of Panjab Singh, the Sikh temple member so grievously injured in the shooting that he remains in longterm care to this day. “We tend to focus a lot on the Sikhs that we lost, but we tend to forget the one that’s still with us. He can’t talk or function on his own, but he’s very well aware of what’s going on around him. Before this incident he was a very spiritual individual, literally someone who lived by the Sikh key principles. Now, when you visit him and ask him questions, he acknowledges that he understands by blinking his eyes. When you ask him if he’s still in chardhi kala, he’ll blink his eyes. It’s just that—he’s an example of what we’re trying to teach the people in the community, in the country and around the world.”

On an institutional level, the events of Aug. 5, 2012, were the direct impetus for Kaleka forming Serve 2 Unite, which travels the country working in schools to engage youth in positive identity development through service, artistic response and global engagement; and also visiting communities undergoing demographic change

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Of changes to legislation, Kaleka says, “Right here in Wisconsin we’ve been able to institute hate crimes legislation. Sikhs weren’t part of hate crimes legislation until August 5, and so that led directly to that. Next month, I’ll be in Indiana. Indiana is one of five state that hasn’t adopted hate crime legislation and so, with that said, there’s still work to be done.”

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Kaur notes that some of the progress made over the past five years has been undermined under the current administration and that, while reported hate crimes committed against Sikhs seem to be on the decline, much religious and racially based violence and bigotry persist in the U.S. Moreover, reported hate crimes do not tell the whole story. As Kaleka notes, many hate crimes against Sikhs likely go unreported precisely because, he says, “we are a culture of resilience.”

A recent survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center showed that, in 2016, the number of hate groups in the country rose for a second consecutive year, with the most significant growth in the near-tripling of anti-Muslim groups from 34 in 2015 to 101 in 2016. FBI statistics cited in the survey show that hate crimes against Muslims likewise grew by 67% in 2015.

The first reported revenge killing after 9/11 was not committed against a Muslim, but against Sikh gas station manager Balbir Singh Sodhi in a rash of violence that many media outlets describe as cases of “mistaken identity.” By religious prescription, many Sikh men wear turbans and long beards, which, due largely to the Osama bin Laden videos made viral in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, led many Americans to erroneously believe Sikhs are Muslims.

Beyond the obvious horror of the atrocities committed over the past 16 years against innocent members of minority faiths in America is the danger of implication. To call a murder such as Singh Sodhi’s a case of “mistaken identity” allows for the implication that hate groups should simply target Muslims instead of Sikhs.

This is in no way an appropriate response.

Janan Najeeb, president of the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition states, “An important point that those that endorse the ‘mistaken identity’ concept forget, is that people that endorse bigotry and racism seldom target one group, because it encompasses anyone and everyone that do not look and think as they do. When the white supremacist entered the Sikh temple and killed innocent people, he most probably did not know if he was killing

Sikhs, Muslims or people from another galaxy; he most likely had no clue or understanding of their beliefs, and it really did not matter because he wanted to destroy anyone that did not look like him. That’s the racism that fuels violence.”

Kaleka offers further as a trauma therapist: “One of the things about trauma is it makes you look at the world in black and white—us and them, good and bad—and all of a sudden there becomes no gray complication; when the reality is that this world is full of the gray, and there’s really rarely a good or bad, a black and a white.”

His work thus involves helping people understand that racism, xenophobia and “othering” of all kinds can be seen as a trauma response, even a misplaced survival mechanism (he cites the necessity for black-and-white thinking in the context of the battlefield, for example). He strives to help people understand that, “what they’re doing and how they’re believing is not all about racism or Islamophobia or xenophobia, it’s about trauma and hurt and pain. It might just be pain that they’ve suffered in this lifetime, but it might also be a generational pain that is passed. Then, the goal becomes addressing it and admitting that this world is complicated.”

Looking Forward

Although there is still much work to be done in educating Americans about Sikhism and working to counter hatred with love, the Sikh community remains committed. To mark the fifth anniversary of the shooting, the Oak Creek gurdwara will host the Chardhi Kala 6K run-walk, named for the principle of relentless optimism and high spirits. Meanwhile, across the nation, cities have organized National Day of Seva events (named for the Sikh word for service) in solidarity with the Oak Creek event. Community members are encouraged to remember the sacrifice of Oak Creek’s Sikh community by engaging in any kind of service they feel is appropriate.

Kaur, who organizes the annual Oak Creek event, says there will be activities for children, a free meal and a speech by Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa, a prominent Indian entertainer, on the message of chardhi kala and love. All components of the event are free, and donations will primarily go to support a scholarship fund that honors the 2012 victims by aiding students who dedicate themselves to community service.

Describing the ideological thrust of the event, Kaur says, “We always try to remember Orlando or any of the shootings that happened in the last four years. This year, the focus is more on looking forward and how the incident itself has taught us to not only live in high spirits but show by example and actually go out into the community and make that difference and teach people that the more we know about each other and the more we work together, the better. I know it sounds weird coming out of my mouth, but we are taking the good that came out of the incident and trying to make that a ripple effect across the country.”

To learn more about and register for the Chardhi Kala 6K and its related events, call 414-6906435 or visit chardhikala6kwi.org.

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bring some positive energy into the neighborhood and let you guys fellowship with each other and heal through fellowship,’� Butler says, adding that block parties in different neighborhoods around Milwaukee are intended to spread the message of love and healing. “The intent is to not let Heal the Hood fizzle out because, being in a city with so many disparities, there is the need to close so many of these gaps, and it is important to have people in this community and be a part of this community so that people see that they are represented by people that are actually a part of this city,�

Butler continues.

Although people from different backgrounds participate and attend the block parties, she mentions, “Heal the Hood is infused with black culture—from the elders to the youth. From the vendors to the community resources we invite

out to be there with us, they represent the community and have things for the community to benefit from.�

Typically, there are about 20 to 25 vendors at the block parties, but, at the most recent block party, the number grew to 59. The Hunger Task Force was present to provide families with Foodshare options; Bianca Williams’ Cry For Help Foundation was there to educate the community on sexual assault and sex trafficking; Running Rebels and the St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care were also on hand. Participating in the block parties allows vendors to reach communities whose residents may not be aware of the services that are available.

Rashidah Butler, 27, volunteer coordinator for Heal the Hood Milwaukee and Ajamou’s older sister, said community service and working with the Heal the Hood team matters to

her because her family grew up on 19th and Locust—a neighborhood some might consider to be in “the hood.� Times were different, even though it was not that long ago. “I remember knowing our neighbors. I remember we could go outside and play and not have fear about what would happen to us,� she recalls. “I think about my future children and feel like, when I look at those communities, instead of complaining or talking about all the things that are wrong, I need to involve myself in things that can help shape and change that narrative.�

The next Heal the Hood block parties will be hosted noon-6 p.m. on Saturday, July 29, at Maple Tree Elementary School (6644 N. 107th St.) and Aug. 25-26 at COA Youth and Family Centers, 2320 W. Burleigh St. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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go because I firmly believe that if someone from the community does not continue to make sure the kids in the community are getting what they need, then no one else is going to,� Brianna Hawkins, 22, said of the Heal the Hood block party held at North Avenue and 30th Street this past June.

Although this is only the second year Hawkins has attended the neighborhood event, she said she will always try her hardest to go to show her support. “I very much believe in Ajamou and what he does in the community, and I know that they are doing things for the right reasons,� she added.

Heal the Hood MKE is a neighborhood event launched back in May 2012 by founder and lead organizer, Ajamou Butler, 25. “Initially when I started Heal the Hood, it was just a seed, and it was a thought,� Butler said. It is more than a block party; it offers a variety of educational resources for parents and children alike who may not otherwise have access to those resources. This is the sixth year Heal the Hood has hosted its block parties.

Heal the Hood is intended as a positive resource for people in Milwaukee neighborhoods that need a little extra support. Butler explains: “When you look at the social conditions, the economic and emotional trauma that we see in the ghettos of Milwaukee ‌ when you look at the spiritual trauma, the disconnect from neighbors who stay on the same block and will shoot and kill each other, when you look at the amount of children who don’t have adequate food in their refrigerator to eat ... when you look at the number of people who are underemployed and the underemployed class of greater Milwaukee, we see a necessity. We find a need.â€?

According to Jessica Butler, Heal the Hood’s campaign manager, the idea for hosting the block parties in Milwaukee neighborhoods that are considered high crime areas came after the shooting death of a young boy; this occurrence created that feeling of urgency that something needed to be done to help repair the damage and be a positive presence in the neighborhood. “Having the block parties every year became his [Ajamou’s] way of saying, ‘Hey, I want to SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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Thursday, July 27

Planned Parenthood Leadership Council Summer Social @ Company Brewing (735 E. Center St.), 5:30-8 p.m.

At this social to benefit Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, you can try an exclusive I”PP”A beer. Admission is free, and there will be a raffle and activity prizes.

Beyond Sherman Park @ Parklawn Assembly of God (3725 N. Sherman Blvd.), 6:30-9 p.m.

10thirtysix host Portia Young and WUWM’s LaToya Dennis will lead a community discussion on what’s making a difference (and what still needs work) regarding housing, unemployment, education, community pride and police relations, as well as the impact these have on neighborhoods and residents beyond Sherman Park.

Shorewood Solidarity Network Monthly Meeting @ North Shore Presbyterian Church (4048 N. Bartlett Ave.), 7-9 p.m.

The first monthly meeting of the Shorewood Solidarity Network will focus on how to mobilize the community to support immigration rights and how to separate local police from immigration enforcement.

Saturday, July 29

Savor, Sip and Cycle for Sustainability @ Boone & Crockett (2151 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.), 1-6 p.m.

This biking fundraiser for Milwaukee Area Science Advocates begins at Boone & Crockett and then goes to Classic Slice, Café Corazon, LuLu Café and Goodkind. There is a $75 donation per team.

Wednesday, Aug. 2

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 action in the past week, including protest signs, an email to an elected official or a selfie at the capital.

Medicaid For All Rally @ Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (9620 W. Greenfield Ave.), 11 a.m.-noon

On the 52nd anniversary weekend of the passage of Medicaid, Citizen Action of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals are hosting a rally in favor of a Medicaid public option.

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ The corner of 16th Street and Greenfield Avenue, noon-1 p.m.

Sunday, July 30

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.

Black & Pink @ Milwaukee Public Library (2727 W. Fond du Lac Ave.), 6-7:30 p.m.

Black & Pink is a group of LGBTQ prisoners and allies who support each other in the midst of violence in the prison system. Every first Wednesday of the month, the group meets to write letters and make birthday cards for the incarcerated.

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Enter courageous whistleblower Johnson: “If our leader is basically saying don’t worry about it, we’ve designed it so that those reforms will never take effect, first of all, that’s a pretty significant breach of trust, and why support the bill, then?” Golly, imagine Republicans breaching the public trust. This is the party whose president promised a beautiful health care plan that would cover everybody at much lower cost than Obamacare without cutting Medicaid. Instead, U.S. Senate Republicans debated plans to destroy health care for either 22 million or 32 million Americans and send premiums and co-payments soaring for older Americans and anyone with a pre-existing condition.

The biggest lie, of course, was that the Republican health care bill was ever about providing health care. It wasn’t. It was about cutting almost $800 billion out of health care spending over 10 years by destroying health care for tens of millions of people in order to give nearly a trillion dollars in Republican tax cuts to the wealthiest people in America.

The latest Washington Post running tally of lies and misleading statements by the nation’s pathologically lying Republican president is 836 in his first six months—averaging 4.6 lies a day—only microscopically fewer than his first 100-day daily average of 4.9. One of the leading topics for Trump’s repeated lies was health care.

If Mitch McConnell slightly exaggerated the cruelty of Republican Medicaid cuts toward the poor and disabled to win votes from tea party extremists as Johnson charged, that should qualify as an unexpected, pleasant surprise rather than some kind of shocking party scandal.

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That sentiment is rare among Republicans these days. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson told a Green Bay newspaper that, for him and many other Republicans, hurting the poor and disabled by throwing millions of them off Medicaid was their favorite part of the Senate bill. “Many of us, one of the main reasons we are willing to support a bill that doesn’t even come close to repealing Obamacare...,” Johnson said, “was because at least we were ... putting some level of sustainability into an unsustainable entitlement program.” You know, by tossing the growing number of people who can no longer afford health care off Medicaid.

So, when Johnson caught wind of a secret plot by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell not to fully implement the most devastating cuts to Medicaid coverage for the poor and the disabled, he denounced it as an outrage. If the Senate bill wasn’t going to make the most savage cuts it promised to health care for the millions dependent on Medicaid, Johnson asked rhetorically, “why support the bill, then?” It was the latest sick twist from Johnson, who has flopped back and forth like a beached catfish on whether to vote for the Republican attempt to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Johnson’s ideological objection to McConnell’s bill was simply that it wasn’t cruel enough.

It still provided some government assistance for people in need. In Johnson’s free market world, people shouldn’t receive any more health care than they can afford. Otherwise, they won’t care how much health care costs and will waste tax money willy-nilly by staying alive.

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Sure, McConnell resorted to some reprehensible political tactics, but Johnson and other Republicans had always supported McConnell’s reprehensible political tactics against Obama.

McConnell crafted the Senate health care bill in secret so fewer voters would ever know what was in it. Then, even after the bill was released, McConnell began making side deals with both the extreme right wing and more moderate Republicans to fudge details in the bill every which way before the final vote. One of those fudgy little details totally infuriated Johnson. McConnell told moderate Republicans not to worry about the most drastic cuts to Medicaid; those cuts were intentionally set so far in the future that they would never take place.

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egardless of what happens in court or the “call back” from President Donald Trump, the Wisconsin Elections Commission will follow Wisconsin law and grant a request to release limited information about our voters, as they must under our open records law. The name and address of voters, as well as when and where they voted, will be given to Trump’s commission if they pay for the records. But the secret ballot, party preference, Social Security number and date of birth are rightly protected by our laws. There is no other choice because our law on open records is clear.

However, violating our voters’ rights in search of fraud is a waste of time and a violation of privacy because the Republican claim of voter fraud has been proven false more than once. This national ploy will show nothing different. Voters are not the ones committing fraud in elections; politicians who pass laws rigging the maps so only they can win create the true voter fraud.

This fraud is so great that a panel of three federal judges overturned it and demanded new maps be drawn. This fraud is so valid that the U.S. Supreme Court will now hear how fraudulent our maps are and how dirty Wisconsin elections have become under this one-party rule. This should make no one proud. The voter fraud of rigged maps is what needs attention. Taking away the right to one person-one vote, without political interference, is the crime.

Voters in this state must work hard to access the ballot, and that is not something that has been made easier with the elimination of special registration deputies and additional identification at every single election—not just when you register to vote. But these barriers and intimidation will not break the Wisconsin voter spirit. We have fortitude, we have strength, we are stubborn and we won’t let Republican voter intimidation take away our right to vote.

Coming off an election where the party I belong to did not perform well, this optimism and faith in voters may seem misplaced. But I believe in the value of the right to vote, even if people don’t vote for me. The process of clean elections and the value of the right to vote are bigger than any politician, bigger than any party.

If you would like additional information on voters’ rights and the violation of those rights with the current one-party rule in Wisconsin, call my office at 608-266-6670 or send an e-mail to sen.erpenbach@legis.wi.gov.

Jon Erpenbach is the Wisconsin State Senator for the 27th Senate District. Issue of the Week presents the Shepherd Express’ opinion on an important issue in the news. It is usually written by the Shepherd’s editor, but at times we invite someone outside of the paper who is either working in the field or has some other level of expertise.

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to shrimp skewers ($13) with pineapple, scallion and sticky chive rice. Cocktails include many classic tiki choices like the Mai Tai ($9), as well as some originals, all served in novelty glassware. The second floor houses a smaller space called The Rhum Bar with its own cocktail menu, patio and lounge atmosphere.

($2.50-$2.75): birria, a braised, shredded meat that’s made with beef here, al pastor, bistec marinated in beer, and a vegetarian option with Muenster cheese and guacamole.

All corn tortillas are handmade in the truck. Unlike most food trucks, Mazorca stays put at its location, and is open all day Monday-Saturday.

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Located in the former Trocadero space, DiModa Pizza serves up Roman-style pies. They’re baked in a wood-fired oven from Wood Stone Ovens in Washington state. The crust is thicker and chewier than the Neopolitan-style pizzas that have been springing up all over the city lately.

There are nine specialty pizzas to choose from, like the Bacon, Egg & Fig ($14) and the Devil’s Own ($14) with ’Nduja sausage, pickled peppers, giardiniera and smoked provolone. The menu also includes nine pastas, like a 12-layer lasagna Bolognese ($15), numerous starters, sandwiches and entrées. Brunch is available, as well as a dog menu for pups who accompany their humans on the patio.

Chef and owner Frank Sanchez returns to Bay View for Sabrosa Cafe & Gallery. He previously owned Taqueria Azteca, just a few blocks from his new spot. Sabrosa serves breakfast, lunch and brunch, and doubles as an art gallery for local artists. The menu features breakfast and brunch classics with some Italian and Mexican influences. Instead of biscuits, sausage gravy is served over jalapeño cornbread ($11). The Italiano scramble ($12) riffs on caprese salad with mozzarella, arugula and heirloom tomatoes with eggs over vegetable hash. Come lunch, options include Sanchez’s popular sopa azteca ($3-$6), sandwiches, enchiladas and tacos.

With the hiring of new Culinary Director Jason Gorman, the Ambassador Hotel has remodeled and rebranded its restaurants and bars.

The Fitz replaces Envoy as the hotel’s flagship restaurant. The name is a nod to F. Scott Fitzgerald, which fits in with the hotel’s Roaring Twenties feel. The Fitz will serve breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner in a gold-accented art deco dining room. The dinner menu consists of some retro classics, like rumaki made with chicken livers and pork belly ($12), crab louis salad ($16) and lamb chops with sweet pea potato pancakes ($32).

Gin Rickey is a bar that also serves small plates, sandwiches and a few entrées. The cocktail menu consists of mostly pre-Prohibition era cocktails ($10-$12), including the sidecar, whiskey sour, negroni and French 75. Food available runs the gamut from hazelnut-crusted goat cheese ($9) to fried chicken and waffles with Korean chili maple syrup ($14).

Deco is a casual spot open for breakfast and lunch and serves Valentine coffee and other beverages, pastries, simple breakfast items, sandwiches, salads and soft serve ice cream.

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Polynesian-inspired food and cocktails abound at The Love Shack. The two-story space located on the river was formerly home to Wine Maniacs. The space has been completely remodeled, with palm trees, volcanos and palapa umbrellas on the patio. The food menu includes about a dozen dishes, from Spam Musubi ($10), popular in Hawaii,

A new food truck—well, a transformed vintage aluminum trailer—has appeared in the vacant lot at First Street and Pittsburgh Avenue in Walker’s Point. Jesus Gonzalez, a native of Milwaukee who went to culinary school in New York, is creating tacos based on family recipes from the Jalisco region of Mexico. On the menu are four tacos

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And don’t forget the beer. Lakefront Brewery will be pouring five different beers. The first purchase is $5 and comes with a souvenir cup. Refills will be $4.

There will be lots to do aside from eating and drinking. Milwaukee Irish Fest will be on hand with games and giveaways and Milwaukee Irish Dance Company and the Cashel Dennehy School of Irish Dance will perform. The Hearthfire Duo will provide Irish music.

Street Eats Food Vendors include: Chillwaukee, Drift, GypsySoul, Ian’s Pizza, Jamaican Kitchen, Jericho’s BBQ, Marco Pollo, Palermo’s Pizza, Pedro’s South American Food, Pig Tailz, Press Belgian Liege Waffles, Punjabi Accent, Rich’s House of Cakes, Shawarma House, Taqueria La Guacamaya, Tasty Café, That Salsa Lady, The Fatty Patty, Tudo Sabor Brasil and YellowBellies.

Street Eats runs 4-8 p.m. on Friday, July 28 at Catalano Square in the Historic Third Ward.

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he Crave brothers—George, Charlie, Thomas and Mark— have dairy farming in their blood. The siblings grew up on a 40-cow dairy farm near Beloit, Wis. As adults, they carried on their father’s passion for farming, eventually purchasing their own farm in 1980 in Waterloo, Wis. While considering ways to grow business, George thought that cheese making would be the next logical step for a dairy farm, and Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese formed in 2001.

Today Crave Brothers Farm has 1,900 cows on 2,500 acres. Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese is located across the road. George is

president and licensed cheese maker, and his wife, Debbie, is vice president. Their nephews and a niece also work for the business. “We are truly a family business and happy to have the next generation involved,” Debbie said.

Crave Brothers Farm grows their own crops for feed. The farm uses sustainable practices including a bio digester that turns manure into renewable energy. They partner with brewers and millers to use byproduct grains for cattle feed. “Farmers are the original recyclers,” George commented.

The milk is piped straight from the cows over to the cheese factory, where it’s crafted into fresh mozzarella, mascarpone, Queso Oaxaca and cheese curds. The process of cheese making took diligent study and connecting with others in the know. “We have a lot of great resources here in The Dairy State, and we used all those resources to put this together,” George said. Despite being a larger operation, Crave Brothers uses many handson, artisan methods throughout the cheesemaking process.

Crave Brothers’ signature fresh mozzarella placed first, second and third in the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest this past March. “What’s fun about our mozzarella is that we make all different sizes,” Debbie remarked. Their eight-ounce retail and foodservice tubs come in perline (pearl size), ciliegine (cherry size), ovoline (egg size) and medallion-shaped. They also offer fresh mozzarella

in a Mediterranean-seasoned marinate, which George said is popular at many restaurants’ olive bars.

Fresh mozzarella was once a summer foodie trend, particularly for caprese salad, but more fresh mozzarella recipes are appearing in food magazines. “As an alternative to caprese, we promote fresh mozzarella, strawberries and mint. People are getting new ideas for ways to use the cheese all year long,” Debbie said.

The mascarpone is a sweet cream, non-cultured cheese that’s a more versatile, gourmet version of cream cheese, and good in sweet and savory dishes. Their jalapeño cheddar cheese curds placed first in the natural snack cheese category at the 2017 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest. Crave also makes Farmer’s Rope, a handmade deli-style string cheese.

Crave Brothers has recently won the Wisconsin Family Business of the Year award in

the medium-sized company category. The award recognizes contributions the family business makes to its community and industry; positive links between family and business; and its innovative practices.

“It really is an incredible accomplishment to be recognized by our peers,” said Charlie Crave. “Many people in our society appreciate the efforts of farmers and food production, and we have substantial involvement in our family and in the industry.” Crave Brothers is involved with the 4-H Club, as well as local and national agriculture initiatives and university programs.

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o folks with a sweet tooth, the Wisconsin State Fair means one thing: cream puffs. It’s the only place you can get the official version of the crusty pastry shell filled with mounds of lightly sweetened fresh whipped cream. Since 1924, when cream puffs were first sold at the fair, the Wisconsin Bakers Association has managed the operation and baking of the Original Cream Puffs—now a registered trademark. In this 94th year of cream puff bliss, we caught up with Kristi Chuckel, communications director of Wisconsin State Fair Park, for a little off-the-cuff chat about the puff.

Where did the recipe for the Original Cream Puff come from, and do you still use it?

The Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff was created in 1924 when Governor John Blaine asked Wisconsin food inspector Charles Kremer to come up with a food item that would highlight Wisconsin’s dairy industry for fairgoers. Kremer was chosen not only because he was a state food inspector, but because his family also owned a bakery on the South Side of Milwaukee. While there have been a few minor tweaks throughout the years to improve upon the original recipe, it is essentially the same recipe that Kremer created in 1924.

How many cream puffs do you sell each year?

An average of 350,000 cream puffs are consumed each year. And there are no calories in any State Fair food because you burn them off walking around the Fair. [OK, fine—they really do have approximately 500 calories, but who’s counting calories at the Fair?]

How important do you think cream puffs are to the success of the State Fair?

The Wisconsin State Fair Original Cream Puffs are not only delicious, but the entire process of watching them being made is a time-honored tradition for many fairgoers.

They would certainly be missed if they weren’t at the Wisconsin State Fair, but we also would never measure the success of the fair on one food item. There are literally thousands of foods at the fair made by more than 200 different vendors.

And this is just the food!

It’s been announced that the fair is getting a brand-new cream puff building for 2019. What we can expect?

The governor’s office announced earlier this year his approval of a request to enumerate funding for an expanded and renovated Cream Puff Pavilion. While the project is enumerated in the state budget, funding still must come from gifts and grants. We are currently seeking donors for this project and working with architects on plans to expand the footprint of the bakery and improve productivity, while still honoring the history of the Dairy Building (which was built in 1909) and the tradition of watching cream puffs being made.

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o matter how the Brewers finish this year, it would not be fair to classify 2017 as a genuinely disappointing season. Like 2014, when the Brewers were an outof-nowhere contender that ran out of gas down the stretch, this year’s club has far outpaced their expectations and, even if it does come with a let down at the end, 2017 must be regarded as an overall pleasant surprise. And any sour feelings that might come at season’s end will be able to compare to the most disappointing season in franchise history: the 1983 follow-up to their lone pennant-winning campaign.

By the roster sheet, the 1983 Brewers looked a lot like the ’82 team. The only off-season move the team made was to re-sign pitcher Bob McClure. But there were a couple of big question marks on the roster, with reigning Cy Young winner Pete Vuckovich’s elbow so badly damaged he was likely to miss the entire 1983 season, and Rollie Fingers still recovering from a torn arm muscle. The Brewers were also a year older, with the projected regulars averaging more than 32-years-old. While The Sporting News and Street and Smith projected the Brewers to repeat as AL East champions, the team was picked by most as a second- or third-place club—behind the Orioles and Yankees.

But enthusiasm in Milwaukee was very high.

Local sportswriters defied the national trend and unanimously declared the Brewers as AL favorites. Fans mobbed the box office, leaving the team to project 1983 as a record-setting year for attendance. And the players themselves swaggered into opening day. “First we had a taste of the pie. Then we got a slice of the pie. Now we want the whole pie,” slugger Gorman Thomas declared.

Struggling out of the Gate Like the ’82 team, the Brewers struggled out of the gate in 1983, barely above .500 by the end of May. While the tepid open in 1982 was mostly attributed to the gruff style of Manager Buck Rodgers, the lifeless start to 1983 was laid partially on Rodgers’ replacement, Harvey Kuenn.

Kuenn’s hands-off style was criticized as a lack of strategy and oversight. This was most evident in Thomas, a Kuenn favorite who remained in the lineup despite looking utterly helpless at the plate and drawing resentment from his teammates for his lazy off-field habits. Considering trading the slugger since spring training, the Brewers shipped him to Cleveland for Rick Manning on June 7 in an attempt to shake up the club. It didn’t work.

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team suddenly sprung to life. Cecil Cooper, Ted Simmons and Paul Molitor each got red-hot at the plate, and reliever Pete Ladd, filling in for a still-injured Fingers, rebounded from an early season slump to become the team’s most effective bullpen arm. Kuenn was more active in the dugout and Manning, having replaced Thomas in centerfield, was performing well. Starting on July 12, the team went on a 24-9 tear—moving from fifth place and 6.5 games back to one game up on the second-place Tigers.

But, as quickly as they had regained it, the Brewers lost their momentum. On August 26, the team was bounced from first place after a 4-3 loss to Oakland. For the next two weeks, the Brewers lost five games in the standings as the Yankees, Tigers and Orioles all surged.

Then came the collapse: The Brewers dropped 10 straight games as their offense disappeared.

In six of the 10 games, the Brewers were either shutout or scored only a single run. By the streak’s end, the Brewers, in first place less than a month before, had been eliminated from playoff contention.

Sack the Manager!

The streak had also sealed the fate of Manager Harvey Kuenn. General Manager Harry Dalton had actually wanted to move past Kuenn after the ’82 season, upset at how the team had played down the stretch. Unable to can him after the World Series trip, however, Dalton now had plenty of cover to make his move. And Dalton was not alone in his assessment of Kuenn as a manager.

“The personal feelings for him within [the Brewers] family,” the Milwaukee Journal wrote just after the losing streak, “are in no way matched by professional respect for him.” There was already speculation that the Brewers might bring back George Bamberger or hire former player Sal Bando to lead the club for 1984. No one seriously thought that Kuenn would return.

Two weeks later, the Brewers season mercifully ended with a three-game sweep of the Tigers.

The Brewers finished with a respectable 87-75 mark, but it was not enough to save Kuenn, who was fired on the last day of the season.

The dreams of a repeat trip to the World Series faded fast that summer in Milwaukee. It would be the last time the team would seriously contend for a decade and would bring about some of the least-inspiring seasons in club history. The Brewers could hang on and shock the world in 2017, or they could fall back behind the preseason favorites. But either way, while 1983 will be remember for the great season that could have been, 2017 should be remembered as the lousy season that never was.

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The Two Hearts of Brady Street moved to Milwaukee in 1970, age 22, to an apartment above a small Sicilian grocery in a long-gone triangular building at the point where Farwell and Cambridge meet Brady. I was a longhaired hippie, an artsy one who’d get high to listen to Shostakovich.

I was a shaken war resister, an aspiring theater artist without money and a gay man struggling for self-acceptance. Brady Street befriended me in each respect. It was a crazy base of operations from which to fashion a life, but it worked. Like many, I moved away later in the decade; like many, I returned in the ’90s. I’m a homeowner here.

When I’m blue, the street cheers me, especially in good weather when the many restaurants and bars put out sidewalk seating and people are everywhere. It’s my ’hood and, of course, there’s comfort in familiarity; invisible footprints from decades of walks; memories and dreams smashed into every façade, sidewalk and street crossing. But there are always new things, too.

The street keeps changing, sometimes drastically, and yet somehow it doesn’t change.

Brady Street has two hearts: an older Italian one, still visible, and a counterculture heart, ghostly but powerful.

People hang out here knowing the street will accept them whoever they are. It’s evident in the incredible diversity of age, race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status you see on Brady Street daily.

Maybe the nearby river and lake connect it to kindly forces eons old. Whatever. As Steph Salvia, executive director of the Brady Street Business Improvement District put it, “The street has such a deep history. People who come here want to be part of that.”

I performed politically edged street theater in the first Brady Street Festivals in the 1970s. As I recall, the focus of those festivals was arts, crafts, trippy stuff, entrepreneurship, sisterhood, equality and community.

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That’s all still there, though the style and scale have changed in the 21st century. Arts and crafts are prominently featured among the 80-some street vendors.

Four stages along the festival’s nine-block midway host 30 acts; six stages, if you count the ramps used by Division BMX and the Milwaukee Flyers, and the GLWC Casablanca Rumble VII Pro Wrestling ring.

Glorioso’s Italian Market, resident since 1946, makes craftwork edible. The market’s popular artisan cheese tasting tent will split in two at this Saturday’s festival.

Stroll one side to sample cheeses, then the other for homemade gourmet Italian sausages, pesto, bread dips and more. Another landmark, Peter Sciortino’s Bakery, offers homemade Italian gelato. Entertainment starts at noon at Glorioso’s Astor Street stage with The Mike Maher Band, followed by Dr. Magic’s slight-ofhand magic and comedy, and ends with Shoot Down the Moon at 10:30 p.m.

Music is curated to meet four criteria, Salvia said.

“Variety, so all genres are covered; new to the festival, we rarely repeat; originality, no cover bands; and strong female vocalists, because we really like them.”

All these criteria are met on the Humboldt Street Stage by singer-songwriter Abby Jeanne at 6 p.m. and SIREN at 9. From noon to 2 p.m., that stage will showcase teenaged musicians.

Several out-of-town bands add interest. Me Like Bees, an alternative indie band from Joplin, Mo., plays

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the Main Stage at 5:30 p.m.; upstate New York rockers Wild Adriatic occupy the east end stage at 6:30, followed by Chicago’s ¡ESSO! Afrojam Funkbeat at 8 and Milwaukee’s NO NO YEAH OKAY at 10.

In theater news, Nova D’Vine’s Cream City Queens hit the Main Stage at 9:30 p.m. for the festival’s hugely popular drag show. Nova—the only name he uses— MC’d the original Brady Street drag show a dozen years ago. He began performing in 1997, took over the show at Club 219 in 1999 and brought it to La Cage in 2003, where he continues to direct the Friday night shows.

He’s performed in Brady Street Festival shows, but this year marks his comeback as director and MC, and he’s assembled a stellar all-Milwaukee cast including the great B.J. Daniels as Dita Von and drag king Richard Fitswell. “We all perform often,” Nova said, “but for an event like this, you bring out the The very best you have.”

Brady Nova moved to Brady Street Street from West Allis with an ex-partner “when I first came out,” he told Festival me. “I couldn’t get away. I moved, 11 a.m. came back, moved, came back and Midnight opened a salon. I live here now.

July 29 The street draws you in. There’s a Brady constant metamorphosis, and the change is always positive.”

Street The festival starts with yoga at 11 a.m. on the east and Zumba at 11:30 a.m. on the west. The Main Stage has Latin dance lessons at 1 p.m. The new progressive 1510-AM Radio WRRD will broadcast interactively from the street. The vibe goes on. Among the posters taped to street poles is one at the end of my block that says simply “End War.” The Brady Street Festival is Saturday, July 29, 11a.m.midnight.

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Autograph w/ American Zeros @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

Best known for their hit single, 1984’s “Turn Up The Radio” (and maybe their iconic ’80s glam hairstyles, too), Autograph didn’t have a particularly long run. The rockers formed in ’83 and were already disbanded by ’89. Though they played with greats like Van Halen and Aerosmith, they couldn’t quite keep up with Los Angeles’ thriving pop-metal scene. 2014 brought their reunion, the original members (sans singer-guitarist Steve Plunkett) back together and touring. Their sets include classic fan favorites such as “Deep End,” “Blondes in Black Cars” and, of course, “Turn Up the Radio,” as well as their three new singles, “I Lost My Mind in America,” “You Are Us, We Are You” and “Every Generation.”

FRIDAY, JULY 28 German Fest @ Summerfest Grounds

One of America’s largest celebrations of all things German, German Fest invites patrons to raise a stein and honor one of the cultures that helped define Milwaukee. The event celebrates German culture with an abundance of authentic and delicious food, including bratwurst, roast pig, goulash, rollbraten, schnitzel and more. The festival will also feature music and dance performances by The Alex Meixner Band, German brass band Alpensterne, local rock band Copper Box and others, as well as parades, fireworks, a Milwaukee-area battle of the mascots competition and a special opening ceremony salute to the U.S. military. (Through Sunday, July 30).

MishMash Fest @ Art Bar, 5 p.m.

Now entering its seventh year, MishMash Fest returns to Riverwest this weekend for one jam-packed day of entertainment in conjunction with the neighborhood’s iconic Riverwest 24 Bike Race. Once again, the festival will showcase an impressive array of local talent on two stages. This year’s lineup features Community Center with BrewCity Fire Brigade & Renegade Fire, Antler House, The Fog and Lova Nova on the Art Bar Stage and Reckless & Darlene with Liam Ford Band and Do Easy on the Dino’s Stage.

There will also be food trucks and drink specials by Art Bar.

Social Distortion w/ Jade Jackson @ The Riverside Theater, 7 p.m.

Spawned from the ’80s Los Angeles hardcore scene, punk rockers Social Distortion came of age alongside bands like The Offspring, Bad Religion, Green Day and AFI. They’ve faced their fair share of hardships over the past three decades, including the heroin addiction of frontman Mike Ness, a revolving-door rotation of members and long hiatuses, and yet they endure. On their most recent album, 2011’s Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, they used outlaw country to bring new balance and lightness to their classic heavy, punk rock sound. Opening for Social Distortion is country-rock artist Jade Jackson, who worked with Social Distortion’s Mike Ness as the producer of her debut album, Gilded, released in May. MEGA IMAGE

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SATURDAY, JULY 29 Ryan Adams @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

It should have been a cheap novelty. In 2015, Ryan Adams released the riskiest album of his career, 1989, a song-for-song cover of the most recent Taylor Swift album, featuring room-silencing renditions of pop-radio hits like “Shake It Off ” and “Bad Blood.” It arrived at a particularly eclectic point in Adams’ career—a time when the singer-songwriter had been ping-ponging between electric and acoustic releases (and even releasing a few punk 7-inchers on the side). His latest album, Prisoner, however, finds a kind of middle ground.

Recorded after his divorce from Mandy Moore, it’s a warm, welcoming set of tunes about working through heartbreak.

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Since 2004, the Milwaukee nonprofit TRUE Skool has used hip-hop culture to educate and reach out to at-risk youth. This free party at the Marcus Center’s Peck Pavilion should give a sense of what the organization is all about. It’ll feature live hip-hop and art, a children’s craft area, a skate jam and the Circulate Creative Entrepreneur market, the latter featuring original art, fashion and skin and body products. For those 21 and up, there’s also a TRUE Skool boat cruise after the event at 7 p.m., which will feature a variety of food from local vendors and raffle prizes.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 Dawes @ The Pabst Theater, 8 p.m.

Formerly known as Simon Dawes, Dawes is a folk-rock band from Los Angeles. The group gained momentum right away with their formation in 2009, their laidback approach to indie rock a welcomed nod to folk-rock music of the ’60s and ’70s. Their debut album, North Hills, drew attention to the band for its “authentically vintage” sound, as Rolling Stone magazine called it; the band recorded it on analogue tape in a live setting. Dawes have released five albums to date, including last year’s We’re All Gonna Die, in which they showcase their new, starker sound with stripped-back guitar parts and added keyboards. The result still sounds vintage, but with added vibrancy and richness.

PUP w/ Meat Wave @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

Toronto indie-punks PUP take their name from an acronym for “pathetic use of potential.”

Despite this self-deprecation, the four-piece outfit have done quite well for themselves since forming in 2011. Their debut self-titled album was an immediate success; CBC Radio 3, a Canadian radio network, named them “best live show” and “best new artist,” and it wasn’t long before success followed in the States. After releasing PUP to all of North America in 2014, they played on a mostly sold-out tour with Philadelphia emo band Modern Baseball.

Their latest album, The Dream Is Over, was one of last year’s best rock albums, its bleak themes communicated through spinning hooks and shout-worthy lyrics.

The Killers

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2 The Killers @ Eagles Ballroom, 8 p.m.

The Killers quickly established themselves as one of the biggest alternative acts in the country, thanks to a pair of blockbuster albums—Hot Fuss and Sam’s Town—and singles like “Mr. Brightside” and “When You Were Young.” But, as the band’s popularity flattened at the end of the ’00s, singer Brandon Flowers made the leap to become a solo artist. Without downplaying his pop instincts, his 2010 solo debut, Flamingo, positioned him as a heartland rock singer-songwriter a la ’80s Bruce Springsteen. His 2015 follow-up, The Desired Effect, mines the same era of MTV but thinks bigger— drawing from the high-gloss production of Duran Duran, Madonna and Dire Straits.

All signs suggest some of those ideas from his solo career may filter into his work with The Killers, too. Though we don’t entirely know what to expect from the band’s upcoming fifth album, Wonderful Wonderful, set for release this September, we do know it features a cameo from Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler.

Foxygen @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

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Foxygen no longer seem dead set on sabotaging themselves; for a time, the band was as well known for their in-fighting, on-stage meltdowns and concert cancelations as they were their spirited indie rock. Just a couple years after their 2013 breakthrough album, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic, and shortly after the release of 2014’s …And Star Power, the group announced they were breaking up. They didn’t, though. They returned for this year’s Hang, an audacious, symphonic rock album recorded with arranger Matthew E. White and a 40-piece orchestra. Nothing else released this year sounds remotely like it.

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aughter will ring through the city as the Milwaukee Comedy Festival returns. Priding itself on being “Wisconsin’s largest comedy event,” the festival includes stand-up, sketch and improvisation comedy. Lakefront Brewery, The Underground Collaborative, Shank Hall and Turner Hall will play host to comedians from all over the country.

Since its founding in 2005, the Milwaukee Comedy Festival grew along with the city’s humor scene. The event now attracts artists from Los Angeles, New York and Toronto and is larger than ever on its 12th birthday!

The festival starts Wednesday, Aug. 2 at 7 p.m. with a kick-off event at Lakefront Brewery, bringing stand-up comedy to the fore of the festivities.

The Underground Collaborative, however, will host most of the performances, starting with an all-star Milwaukee lineup on Thursday, Aug. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Special events include a live staging at Shank Hall with the cast of the upcoming film This is Meg on Saturday, Aug. 5. All of this will lead to the grand finale at Turner Hall on Sunday, Aug. 6 at 8 p.m., with festival headliner Michael Ian Black, best known for his work on MTV and Comedy Central’s “Another Period.”

Single show tickets are $15 online, $20 at the door or $50 for unlimited access to every show.

Aug. 2-6 at Lakefront Brewery, The Underground Collaborative, Shank Hall and Turner Hall. For tickets, visit mkecomedyfest.com/tickets.

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Ignite: A Hip Hop Dance Experience In Danceworks’ DanceLAB, “the focus is on collaboration, fusion of forms and current trends in the field,” as they aptly put it, and such will certainly be the case with the group’s next performance event, Ignite: A Hip Hop Dance Experience. DanceLAB itself is described as “an experimental performance initiative dedicated to pushing artists and audiences to expand their thinking about dance as an art form.” It is, indeed, fascinating to watch as fringy and avant-garde forms of music, art and dance gradually migrate into the mainstream over time. This has happened with the now much-respected hip-hop dance genre. (John Jahn) July 29-30 at Danceworks Studio Theatre, 1661 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414-277-8480 or visit danceworksmke.org.

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DanceMKE Peck Pavilion Competition Live @ Peck Pavilion returns once more this summer with events such as Peck Flicks (outdoor movie screenings) and both Sunday afternoon and Tuesday lunchtime concerts, with the likes of the Milwaukee Police Band, Hartland Community Band, SistaStrings, the Extra Crispy Brass Band and more on stage. Of particular note is DanceMKE’s weekly dance competition featuring Milwaukee dance artists from many different disciplines. Selected dancers or dance ensembles will compete for cash prizes and trophies (as well as general fame and glory) over three consecutive weeks, with the finals culminating on the last day of competition. First Place nets the winner $1,000. Those interested in competing should pre-register at marcuscenter. org/dancemke. (John Jahn) Aug. 1, 8, 15 and 22 at the Peck Pavilion, 929 N. Water St.

Door County, Wis., is not merely a venue for tourist traps and rolling countryside bedecked in vibrant autumn leaves. For 65 years now, it has been the site for a series of orchestral concerts called the Peninsula Music Festival. This year’s event features Music Director-Conductor Victor Yampolsky leading musicians from some of the country’s finest orchestras, gathered together for nine different symphonic concerts over a threeweek period. A glance through the schedule finds many of classical music’s biggest names: Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, Antonio Vivaldi… and even an all-Wolfgang Mozart concert and a tribute to the days of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. (John Jahn) Aug. 1-19 at the Door Community Auditorium, 3926 WI-42, Fish Creek. For tickets, call 920-854-4060 or visit tickets.peninsulamusicfestival.org.

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Candide Most people only know Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 comic operetta Candide by way of its sprightly overture, but Third Avenue Playhouse offers you the chance to experience not just that delightful little curtain-raiser but the whole work. With book by Hugh Wheeler and lyrics contributed by a host of stage giants (Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, Stephen Sondheim and Bernstein, himself ), Candide is based upon Voltaire’s 1759 novella of the same name. Truly, it’s not so much a traditional comic operetta as a modern send-up of one. “Glitter and be Gay” is one of the show’s musical highlights. James Valcq directs, Adam Baus provides musical direction, and performers include Kaleigh Rae Gamache, Drew Brhel and Anna Cline. (John Jahn) July 27-Sept. 2 (with a pay-what-you-can preview on Wednesday, July 26) at the Third Avenue Playhouse, 239 N. Third Ave., Sturgeon Bay. For tickets, call 920-7431760 or visit thirdavenueplayhouse.com.

Beyond Flesh and Blood As part of Alchemist Theatre’s rental program, the one-man play Beyond Flesh and Blood, 2013 winner of Ex Fabula’s All-Star Story Slam, will be performed. Directed by Jacque Troy, it tells the story of Dave Hendrickson (performing in person) as he “explores his unconventional upbringing, college and early married life at the time of the Vietnam War, and all the complex and influential people he met along the way,” as Alchemist explains, and “through his many job experiences and devoted mentors, [Hendrickson] shares how he learned to find the extraordinary in the every day.” (John Jahn) Aug. 1 and 2 at the Alchemist Theatre, 2569 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. For tickets, visit beyondfleshandblood. brownpapertickets.com.

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fter directing a charming, special-effects driven children’s movie, Pete’s Dragon, Milwaukee-born David Lowery decided to purge his system by going bare bones. A Ghost Story stars Casey Affleck, visible in a few scenes before disappearing under a sheet. He’s dead for most of the film, yet exists as a ghost, doomed to haunt a modest ranch house as a white-sheeted specter with big holes for eyes. The mood in some scenes is

strangely affecting. Trapped in the place where he last lived (and died), he stares mournfully at his wife (sad-eyed Rooney Mara) and the other tenants who come and go after she moves out.

With dialogue as sparse as its budget, A Ghost Story avoids flash. Lowery’s camera hovers and stares much like Affleck’s ghost—invisible to the living except for an occasional play of flickering light, stuck in place and unnoticed for what seems like an eternity. His only communication is with the sheeted ghost next door.

Their murmurs are subtitled as if the A Ghost Story dead possess their Casey Affleck own tongue.

Rooney Mara A Ghost Story Directed by is not a horror film David Lowery by any definition.

Nothing horrible Rated R happens beyond Affleck’s death, seen only in retrospect. Often nothing much happens at all as Affleck passes time in limbo—in this world but no longer of it. A Ghost Story is an oddly moving meditation on time, frustration and loss.

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ou could say it’s the summer of public art in the city. The Sculpture Milwaukee project, with 22 pieces by local and international artists, lines Wisconsin Avenue.

At the Hilton Milwaukee City Center Downtown, Joel Pfeiffer has installed 16 sculptures in the courtyard as a Secret Garden project. In Bay View, five artists have created murals placed throughout the Kinnickinnic Avenue corridor.

Only the latter of these endeavors is permanent, and it contributes to the ever-evolving character of Bay View.

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Collectively titled Street Canvas, the murals originated as a plan by the Kinnickinnic Avenue Business District as a means of adding more visual interest to the area. Potential sites were located, essentially, by knocking on doors and asking if building owners would be interested in having large-scale art decorate their exterior.

The styles of the murals vary, from the purely abstract and playful design of Dena Nord’s work above Mr. P’s Tires, to atmospheric figures like Jenny Anderson’s amorphous faces that flicker in patches of color at the Shape-Up Shoppe. Nova Czarnecki’s Witness to the Wild at Rusty Sprocket Antiques, as well as murals

by Jenny Jo Kristan and Rozalia HernandezSingh paired together in the alley between District 14 Brewery and LuLu Café, represent figures of women as emblems of strength and inspiration.

The fact that the five artists in the project are all female was a guiding principle of the project. Stacey Williams-Ng of Wallpapered City, an organization that helped guide the project, notes that, in this way, “We’re celebrating women in Bay View this year.”

Street Canvas follows in the footsteps of other street art projects like Black Cat Alley on the East Side and is part of a public art zeitgeist with other new murals now on view in Walker’s Point and two upcoming murals commissioned

by Radio Milwaukee. Keep your eyes on the street; there’s even more to come.

Locations for Street Canvas in Bay View: Mr. P’s Tires (2366 S. Howell), Shape Up Shoppe (2697 S. Kinnickinnic), Rusty Sprocket Antiques (3383-3391 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.), District 14 Brewery & Pub (2273 S. Howell Ave.), LuLu Café & Bar (2265 S. Howell). (left) Nova Czarnecki PHOTO BY DAVE ZYLSTRA; (right) Jenny Anderson PHOTO BY JEAN-GABRIEL FERNANDEZ

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::BY TYLER FRIEDMAN A history-rich city like Milwaukee is ripe for perpetual rediscovery. Historic Milwaukee, Inc. is dedicated to preserving and presenting the past’s bequest. The organization offers walking tours of Downtown and various neighborhoods every day of the week, led by experts and free for members ($10 for non-members). Destinations include the mansions of North Point, Milwaukee’s gold coast, the historic Third Ward, Bay View and Brady Street.

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As arts programs in public schools are increasingly imperiled by diminishing budgets and the pernicious view of art as a mere diversion, creative approaches to incorporating art in the classroom become increasingly necessary. The Lynden Sculpture Garden’s annual Innovative Educators Institute recruits a slew of K-12 teachers for a summer of activities and conversations with curators, artists, naturalists and UW-Milwaukee faculty. At summer’s end, these teachers are ready to return to the classroom with innovative curricula that teach through the arts. An exhibition of projects completed by the intrepid educators opens with a reception on Friday, July 28, from 5-6 p.m.

“A Conversation About Still Life” Haggerty Museum of Art | 530 N. 13th St.

The still life is among the most enduring artistic genres. Who needs to pay a fidgety model when you can simply gather some symbolically charged odds and ends or pose the postprandial dinner table (also a painter’s trick for forestalling dish washing)? Nohl Fellow and still life painter Robin Jebavy will be joined by artist Beth Lipman and Debra Brehmer of the Portrait Society Gallery for an informal conversation about contemporary still life, women artists and glassware on Thursday, July 27, at 6 p.m.

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Sculpture is having its day in Milwaukee. Sculpture Milwaukee’s expansive installation of 22 pieces along Wisconsin Avenue was just the beginning. Add the outdoor courtyard of the Hilton Milwaukee City Center to your “gotta see” list.

Sixteen sculptures of stainless steel and fused glass, courtesy of Hartland-based artist Joel Pfeiffer, have been installed as part of a Secret Sculpture Garden.

“The green space at the Hilton lends a perfect landscape for the interplay of color and light throughout the day,” says Pfeiffer. The exhibit is up through Sept.

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Milwaukee Art and Hope OFF THE CUFF with JANE BRITE ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

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y life makes sense because of what people did before me,” my friend Jane Brite concluded after sketching for me, on the eve of her 81st birthday, the major chapters of her life in service to Wisconsin art and artists.

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Local author Lisa Ann Jacobsen on ‘Kinnickinnic Avenue’::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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efore becoming Milwaukee’s hippest neighborhood at the turn of the present century, Bay View had slumbered for decades.

But as Lisa Ann Jacobsen reminds us in her just-out book, Kinnickinnic Avenue: The Heart of Bay View, WI, the lakeside district has a long history. A self-governing village before its annexation by Milwaukee, Bay View was home to industry and immigrant communities in the 19th century.

Kinnickinnic Avenue was—and remains— its main street.

Kinnickinnic Avenue is more picture book than textbook with page after page of antique maps, lithographs and—especially—vintage photos that look as if plucked from family albums. The text, however, contains many points of interest, including KK Avenue’s origins as “a cow trail that winded through the surrounding fields and wilderness.” Some buildings along the avenue were already in place at the time of Bay View’s most-remembered historical incident, the 1886 strike in which the Wisconsin Militia opened fire and killed seven strikers and bystanders.

Jacobsen will sign copies at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 28 at Voyageur Book Shop, 2212 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.

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Are you an artist?

I never made art. My grandmother was a well-known decorator in Chicago; my grandfather was an architect. All my aunts are artists. I love to tell the story of going with my older brother to the Chicago Art Institute every Saturday morning. I sat there while he took the class. But I did get the sense for it.

How did you join the art world?

We moved to Milwaukee my freshman year at Whitefish Bay High School. I went to a women’s college in Washington, D.C., then got married in Germany after my fiancé got drafted. He was an engineer so they put him to work on atomic bombs in a cave near Frankfurt. I’m not sure that didn’t have something to do with him getting MS later. After his service we lived on Farwell Avenue. Lots of artists lived on that block and one friend asked me to volunteer at the Milwaukee Art Center, now MAM. They had that Gallery of Wisconsin Art on the third floor of the War Memorial. So I became a docent in 1962. Docents took classes once a week as long as you were a docent. And I took art history classes at UW-Milwaukee.

And became the director of that gallery?

And expanded it. I would go around the state to universities and colleges and I would say, I want to meet other artists in your community who aren’t connected with your school, and they were very nice about it. I would do that every year—half the state one year and the other half the next. So I really got to know a lot of Wisconsin artists. I started bringing artists from all over the state instead of only the Milwaukee area. I started doing one or two-man shows with catalogues. It was just a small part of what the museum did, one little section.

And the Lakefront Festival of the Arts?

I didn’t do it my first year, but for many years after I organized all the art of it. I chose the jurors.

A friend of mine worked at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., and I had him come as a juror and that brought a lot of artists because that’s an opportunity for them; if they see the work, they might want to use it.

From then on I brought national jurors and it became one of the better art fairs in the country.

You started Gallery Night!

I did a big show and catalogue at the Art Museum in 1986 on fiber art called “Fiber R/Evolution.” I knew Chicago had a gallery night. We checked it out and did a gallery night for the fiber show. And it lasted.

The next year you became the founding director of Walker’s Point Center for the Arts.

Steve Chicorel and his mother, Phyllis, got the building and hired me. They had a dream to help the neighborhood develop.

I was happy I could do performance art there, too, because it was new then. I was there about 12 years. It took a while to build, took a while for that community to feel comfortable with it. Probably we should have had more Latin shows early on but that’s not so easy to access. We started an after-school children’s program for the neighborhood. Marlene Jaglinski and I wrote a book from that, Art After School. It’s still on Amazon and it still sells. It’s got five stars.

And now?

There was a flood in Louisiana and they brought victims here to the State Fair grounds. A friend of mine asked if someone could find a muralist so the victims could do a mural. I know a muralist from Green Bay and he came and did one with them. That started me bringing artists to the homeless shelters. That’s what I do now. It’s called Milwaukee Art and Hope. We go in for six weeks. The first two or three weeks, the residents learn how to make what we’re going to make.

They get to keep those pieces. Then we make a piece that stays in the shelter. And I also work with at-risk teenagers at a wonderful place on MLK Drive called the Milwaukee Center for Children and Youth. We do after-school and summer art programs for kids who are in trouble in many ways, to help them straighten out.

Why do this?

It comes from my background. I had a very socially conscious family. It’s better than to go around doing nothing to make the world better. I’ve seen how art makes a difference in people’s lives. I feel lucky that I’ve had these opportunities fall into my lap. I love working with Wisconsin artists. I love how the artists and the kids learn from each other. It changes lives on both sides.

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ne of the best things about Wisconsin is the unique way we pair up hobbies, interests and pop culture phenomena with booze, food and overall fun. For instance, where else but Milwaukee could you walk into a bar only to find an adults-only Harry Potter birthday bash? What other cities offer opera singers performing on coffee shop patios or drag queens reading children’s books? How about a spot where anime nuts invade a Renaissance fair or a nautical restaurant serving up Bloody Marys to a group of scooter drivers?

You’ll find these crazy combinations and party-minded pairings this week on my social calendar. In fact, there are so many twisted twosomes happening, I’m going to forgo my advice column to give you as many options for fun as possible. So, get out there and discover one of the whacky couplings the state has to offer this week!

::RUTHIE’SSOCALCALENDAR July 27: Florentine Opera at the Lake at Colectivo Coffee (1701 N. Lincoln Drive): Combine the fine arts with the great outdoors (and a tasty cup of coffee) and you’ve got this free concert from the Florentine Opera. Arias and ensembles fill the summer air from 7-8:30 p.m.

July 28: Street Eats at Catalano Square (147 N. Broadway): Dig in! It’s time for the July edition of the city’s favorite food-truck fest featuring live music, beer, Irish dancers, giveaways and, of course, more than 15 finger-licking dinner decisions. Cash is king (at least at the bar) at the 4-8 p.m. chow down, so bring your wallet as well as your appetite!

July 28: Mr. & Miss Fox Valley Pride Pageant at Re Mixx (8386 State Road 76, Neenah): It may be July, but pride celebrations are still going strong in Wisconsin! Take a road trip and visit our friends up north with this 10 p.m. pageant, which includes pride wear, talent and interviews.

July 28-30: Brew City Weekender Scooter Rally (various locations): Have scooter, will travel! Join the scooter revolution during this fifth annual pub and restaurant crawl hosted by Revenge Scooter Club. See revengesc.com for more on the $30 registration, route, kickoff party and more.

July 29: H.I.T. 9-Pin Colored Pin Bowling at Classic Lanes Greenfield (5404 W. Layton Ave.): The country’s oldest LGBTQ+ bowling tournament, the Holiday Invitational Tournament (H.I.T.), hosts this kooky night of fun and friendship. Land a strike when the colored head pin appears, and you could win cash! Pick up featured splits, and you could win cash! Enter the 50/50 raffle, and you could win cash! Contact gmartin654@att.net for more regarding the $20 day of 1-3 p.m. fun.

July 29: Harry Potter’s Birthday Cocktail Party at 42 Lounge (326 E. Mason St.): Whether you belong to Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff, you’ll find plenty of Harry Potter peers at this b-day party for grownups. Celebrate the wizards’ special day with costume contest, drink specials, Butterbeer and bar games.

The 21+ event starts at 8 p.m.

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July 29-30: Art & Chalk Fest at Museum of Wisconsin Art (205 Veterans Ave, West Bend): What the what? An outdoor gallery featuring chalk masterpieces? Check it out during this 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. celebration of art and creativity. You’ll also find food, music and activities for kids. A great time in West Bend? Chalk it all up to a great weekend! (See what I did there?)

July 29 & 30: RennCon™ Weekend at Bristol Renaissance Faire (12550 120th Ave., Kenosha): Whether you’re into knights, fairies or princesses, or you favor sci-fi, anime or comic characters, this is the weekend for you! Fantasy worlds collide as cosplay fanatics hit Wisconsin’s beloved Renaissance Faire for two days of revelry.

Take in costume contests, shows, change-of-pace foods and more during the first RennCon weekend at the faire.

July 29: Brady Street Festival (at Brady St.): What has four stages, countless food options, belly dancers, beer stations, climbing walls, drag queens, wrestling matches and more? Why, Brady Street Fest, of course! The annual bash kicks off at 11 a.m. and runs until midnight with nonstop good times all day long. See bradystreet. org for stage schedules and more.

July 30: MKE Drag Story Time at Riverwest Public House Cooperative (815 E. Locust St.): Celebrate diversity and creativity with this free family event. Join the fun at 11 a.m. as drag personalities read to the kids while the parents listen or shop the garden market outside. Bring a canned good donation, and you’ll even receive a free raffle ticket for a drawing before the day ends at 2 p.m.

July 30: The Last Bash for Ruthie’s Kennel Club at Hamburger Mary’s Beer Garden (734 S. Fifth St.): As I noted earlier, I’m taking a break from my charity, Ruthie’s Kennel Club, for a bit, but not without a final bash! Join me for free food, drink discounts, a quick award ceremony and more during this Sunday Fun Day of drinking.

The drinks will be flowing from 3-7 p.m., where we’ll honor Door Country Sled Dogs, Community Cat, and our volunteer and friends of the year. See you there!

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recently watched an RT (Russia Today) TV report on Bacha Bazi, the dancing boys of Central Asia. In this case, the focus was on the phenomenon in Afghanistan. Essentially, poor young boys are recruited as prostitutes for wealthy and influential men. Made illegal under the Taliban, the Bacha Bazi culture is still against the law but goes unprosecuted.

This report, and others like it, attributes the practice to Islam and its restricted access of men to women. In fact, Bacha Bazi pre-dates Islam. The custom was probably practiced when Alexander the Great invaded the country circa 300 B.C. But, it’s not surprising to see a documentary critical of anything gay on Russian TV, especially since anti-LGBTQ laws were passed under President Vladimir Putin and more recent reports of concentration camps for gays in Chechnya, a republic in the Russian Federation. Interestingly, the American press has been equally critical of Bacha Bazi but more vehemently as another indictment of Islam.

Of course, the moral outrage is warranted.

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In mid-July, news of a decades-long sex and physical abuse scandal involving nearly 600 Catholic choirboys in Regensburg, Germany, received only brief coverage. It’s also odd that precious little press has been dedicated to the recent release from prison of former U.S. Speaker of the House, Republican Dennis Hastert. His “Bacha Bazi” boys were members of the high school wrestling team he coached. But his incarceration was not for sexual abuse but rather for breaking banking laws resulting from paying $3.5 million in hush money to his victims. The statute of limitations had already run out on his other crimes of child molesting. During his trial in 2016, Hastert’s political colleagues, including former Republican House Whip Tom DeLay, wrote laudatory letters attesting to the former speaker’s character, praising his faith and trustworthiness, among his many virtues.

In other news, suburban Cincinnati school board member Tim Nolan, a former Kentucky judge and zealot for Donald Trump and the tea party has been indicted on 11 counts of trafficking of a minor, rape, prostitution and inducing a minor to have sex. A Tennessee Republican Party chairman got busted for soliciting sex in a public bathroom. And speaking of Tennessee, girls as young as 10 years old have been married off there (with parental consent, of course) as recently as 2001.

With all the issues of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, straight, gay or otherwise, we might focus on local problems rather than divert attention to another culture we barely understand.

To be fair, Milwaukee has recently launched its “Operation Dear John” to arrest clients of prostitutes. Still, that does nothing to address the myriad causes of the problem, like poverty and poor education. Or, as cited in a New York Times piece from September 2015, “non-intervention…also reflects a reluctance to impose cultural values in a country where pederasty is rife, particularly among powerful men, for whom being surrounded by young teenagers can be a mark of social status.” Oh wait, that was about Afghanistan.

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::BY THOMAS MICHALSKI

f you’ve even casually followed his eccentric career, it’s a tad disheartening to recall how often Juiceboxxx, arguably one of the most exciting and unique artists to ever come out of this fair city, has been summarily written off, either as being insincere or a novelty or for any number of similarly flimsy reasons. Sure, his shows usually have a certain level of silliness, when they’re not awkwardly confrontational, but to act as if the whole project is nothing but a lark ignores a body of work that speaks (loudly) for itself.

Few artists boast his originality or, for that matter, his eclecticism, but too often he gets nothing but grief for his efforts. Still, if you’ve listened to just about any of his recordings, you know JB himself is never down for long, and his latest, Freaked Out American Loser, amply demonstrates that he still has plenty left to prove—to the press that try to define him, to the city that bore him and, most importantly, to himself.

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While the genre-bending rapper is by now no doubt used to being misunderstood by journalists, having an entire book written about him, Leon Neyfakh’s The Next Next Level, was still a rather confusing experience. “I feel like that book created this narrative for me that I had to transcend in some way,” Juiceboxxx says over the phone from New York City, his new home after years of a semi-nomadic lifestyle. “It’s hard for me to put my thoughts together about this, but I think the positive thing that came out of it was that it sort of set up a challenge for me; it did introduce me to this new group of people, but it wasn’t really on my own terms.” Determined to set the record straight, the whole ordeal only reinforced his commitment to the music. “I want to see if I can move past it and change people’s minds, you know, get my narrative back from other people’s hands,” he says, “It’s very motivational in a twisted way.”

Yet, even as the publicity surrounding the book’s release raised his already high profile immensely, to the point where international news outlets like The Guardian were covering his admittedly unusual story, hometown hero Juiceboxxx still maintains a complicated relationship with the scene from which he originally sprang. “I legitimately feel like I have something to prove, especially to people in Milwaukee, and I’m up for the challenge,” he says. “I just have a crazy history with this town, all these viral videos, and I’ve been running around playing shows here since I was 15; I mean, half my life I’ve been playing shows in Milwaukee.”

Which isn’t to say there isn’t plenty of love, of course, as the list of local personnel on the new album can easily attest. Beyond longtime collaborators like Dogs in Ecstasy’s guitar virtuoso Willy Dintenfass and producer Andy Petr, Freaked Out American Loser also features live drums courtesy of Call Me Lightning’s Shane Hochstetler and Milwaukee’s Kid Cut Up ably handling the necessary turntablism.

On the page, it might seem like Juiceboxxx is holding a grudge or two, but talk to him for a few minutes, and his irrepressible positivity makes it self-evident that his drive actually comes from somewhere inside. His ideas, drawing on a deep well of American music, deserve exploring, and his ability to do so recently got a major leg up when he signed with indie-rock powerhouse Dangerbird Records.

“I don’t know, all this stuff is very important to me; I’m a fucked-up person, and music is one of the few things that keeps me stable and gives me some kind of reason to change my life for the better,” he says, reflecting on this new phase of his shifting career. “It’s been good to just to work, you know? That’s all I can say, that it’s been good to cut a lot of the bullshit out of my life and focus on the things that matter, which is the music and just trying to be a better person.”

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ix years ago, Amy Winehouse’s tragic passing shocked music fans around all corners of the globe.

Winehouse’s struggles with addiction were no secret—her biggest song was called “Rehab”—and yet, her premature demise still seemed to come out of nowhere.

Since then, the soulful singer has been mythologized and idolized by audiences young and old.

Over the weekend, Milwaukee-based record label VoodooHoney organized a tribute to the late singer called “Amy Winehouse Supper Club,” jam-packed with Milwaukee artists covering many ends of the musical spectrum.

Friday’s nearly three-hour performance at Company Brewing featured all of Winehouse’s most popular songs, as well as deeper cuts and covers. Three separate sets gave the night’s performers more than a few opportunities to wow audiences with their unique interpretations of Winehouse’s defining tracks. Company Brewing isn’t one of the most comfortable live music venues in Milwaukee, but it is probably the most elegant place to watch a cheap show. The venue’s glitz and glamor mirrored the performers and Winehouse’s catalog perfectly, and the night had a very swanky feel to it from the start.

The first set was easily the mellowest, loaded with low-key tracks that encouraged the audience members to find their groove. Lotus Frank’s stripped-down, soulful performance of “You Know I’m No Good” was a refreshing take on a Winehouse pop classic. Sugar Ransom slowed things down even more with “Take the Box” from Winehouse’s debut LP, Frank.

Many of the show’s most memorable performances were during the second set. The night’s highlight was easily Yasmeen Daniel’s beautiful rendition of “Wake Up Alone.” The understated Daniel and her backup singers had the entire

audience in awe, and her insanely impressive vocal chops received the attention they so obviously deserve. New Age Narcissism diva Siren delivered a second standout performance, covering “Tears Dry On Their Own” with passion that would make Winehouse proud herself. Though she can sometimes be overshadowed by her NAN counterparts, Siren’s formidable performance highlighted her larger-than-life range and unique vocal stylings.

The night’s final set brought some Milwaukee big names up to Company Brewing’s small stage. Abby Jeanne’s take on “Me and Mr. Jones” wasn’t anything out of the ordinary for the singer, but it further proved that she can consistently deliver performances dripping in soulful swagger.

“I love Amy Winehouse, and I’m very in her spirit…’cause I’m fucked up,” laughed Lex Allen before diving into “Love Is a Losing Game.”

Though he admitted to being very shy about covering the track, his tender performance was yet another one of the night’s most fantastic tributes.

Klassik closed the show with “Rehab” and had the entire crowd chanting those iconic “No, no, nos.” It was a bittersweet ending to a nearly flawless show.

Even though the two-night event was planned around the anniversary of Winehouse’s death, the mood overall was very lighthearted and joyful. It was obvious the performers were enjoying themselves as they reinterpreted Winehouse’s already timeless catalog.

Instead of mourning her passing, the show was a celebration of her life and influence, bringing together a large group of Milwaukee’s most renowned musicians to honor Winehouse with their talents. Hopefully, Milwaukee will see more multi-musician exhibitions like this one in the future. It was a total win-win for both the performers and the audience.

Amy Winehouse Supper Club PHOTO BY MAHDI GRABSBERRY

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Soul Low

Give Bitterness a Bright Spin on ‘Cheer Up’

::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

I

should probably lay off comparing Soul Low to the Violent Femmes, but sometimes they make it too easy. It’s not even that the two bands sound all that alike—Soul Low draw from a much more modern pool of indie-rock influences than the Femmes—but like Milwaukee’s most famous band, they were in high school when they wrote a nervy, near-perfect debut album seeped in the anxieties and frustrations of adolescence. Like the Femmes, they’re led by a singer with a braying, love-it-or-hate-it voice, and, like the Femmes, they’re kind of into jazz—even if it only shows up intermittently on their records.

Last year, Soul Low tossed another big one onto the ever-growing pile of Violent Femmes similarities when they followed up their catchy, well-received debut with a much more difficult, divisive sophomore album. For the Femmes, that sophomore album was 1984’s Hallowed Ground, a conflicted rumination on religion that, at the time, critics hated and fans rejected. Soul Low’s sophomore effort, Nosebleeds, was far better received but no less of a gambit, frequently swapping the brisk pop of their debut, Uneasy, for a tumultuous, claustrophobic splatter of anxious rock. It was a bold gambit that could have easily stalled the momentum the group had been building, both inside the city and beyond.

“With Nosebleeds, we were so nervous about what the reception would be, because we’d put so much time into it, and it was kind of a weird, darker record for us,” says bassist Sam Gehrke. “But we put it out and people liked it.”

That took some of the pressure off for the group’s new album, Cheer Up, which comes out this week on Gloss Records, just a year after the previous one. The record is a return to form, of sorts, more of a piece with the bright, chipper pop of Uneasy and the pair of high-spirited EPs that followed that debut. “This one is more commercially accessible,” Gehrke says. “There’s more pop tunes on it. It’s a little more catchy.”

Even if the music is more upbeat, though, the songs themselves stay true to the band’s usual sweet-sour view of the world. Two of the album’s catchiest songs, “Bad Set of Moods” and “Chancing It,” are Soul about depression and suicide, respectively, while “Sad Boy Freestyle” Low calls out Milwaukee, the city that’s been pretty damn good to the 7 p.m. band, for its hypocrisy and complacency. There’s also a song about Jeffrey Dahmer.

Saturday, Cheer Up’s cover serves as a metaphor, of sorts, for those sweetAug. 12 on-the-surface, bitter-underneath songs. It’s a photo of what at first Polish looks to be a paradise, a picturesque spa with crystal clear water and Falcon bright flowers. A closer look, though, reveals a far sadder tableau: The spa is actually a hotel’s pool area; the flowers have been painted on the walls (rather poorly), and the pool’s white tiles are outlined with dirtied caulk, darkened by grit and grime. A safety rules sign hangs above the hot tub—presumably warning anybody with heart disease, diabetes, high or low blood pressure or any serious illness to consult with a doctor before entering—while the outside windows show the unmistakably barren, bone-white sky of Wisconsin in the middle of winter.

“It’s pretty upon first viewing, but when you delve deeper, it’s a lot more depressing, and most of the songs we write are an extension of that,” Gehrke says. “We can go on stage and play these songs that seem like fun, party pop tunes, but at the same time we’re releasing these demons through them. That’s always been a really cathartic thing for us.”

Soul Low play an album release show for Cheer Up at the Polish Falcon with opener Cairns on Saturday, Aug. 12 at 7 p.m.

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MUSIC::LISTINGS THURSDAY, JULY 27

Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Acoustic Guitar Night Cactus Club, Astral/Subastral w/CHEW, The November Criminals & Tapebenders Catalano Square Third Ward, Ayre in the Square Concert: Klassik (6:30pm) Company Brewing, DOSH w/Weatherman & Hot Jupiter County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Frank’s Power Plant, Ravi/Lola w/Spring. Fall. Sea & WORK Green Tree Community Garden, Jonny T-Bird & the MPs (6pm) Harry’s Bar & Grill, Kyle Feerick (6pm) Italian Community Center, Rick D’Amore Band w/Larry Lynne (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Don Linke Trio Jazz in the Park (Cathedral Square Park), The Paul Spencer Band (6pm) Kelly’s Bleachers (Big Bend), Thursday Night Acoustic Open Jam w/ host Michael Sean Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, The Sketchballs Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Dodgeball Club w/Ako & Underground Hive Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Miller Time Pub, Joe Kadlec Nines American Bistro of Mequon, ninesLive!

Nixon Park (Hartland), The Ricochettes O’Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), The All-Star SUPERband (6pm) Packing House, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Subtle Undertones w/Matt & Karla Acoustic (8pm), In the Fire Pit: Boxkar (8:30pm) Riverside Theater, Bring It! LIVE The Bay Restaurant, Trevor Mihalski The Corners of Brookfield, Concert at The Corners: Jason Behr (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Cecilio Negron Jr.: Experiencia Bohemia Village Hall Park (Waterford), Waterford River Rhythms: Daryl Stuermer of Genesis (6:30pm) Von Trier, Tom Sorce Trio

FRIDAY, JULY 28

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Tomm Lehnigk (6:30pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Art Bar, Mish Mash Fest (5pm) Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), 10 String Symphony Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Magnetic Minds w/Guerrilla Ghost (8pm); DJ: Fazio (10pm) Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (6pm) Club Garibaldi, Conniption w/Brock Betz Band, 20 Watt Trombone & Sam Landscape Sounds County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Five O’Clock Steakhouse , Rafael Mendez Frank’s Power Plant, Sacred Leather w/Forcefield, Ratt Trap & Law/ Less Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Dave Bixler Quartet (8pm), Late Night Session: Cameron Webb and Anthony Deutsch (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Dave Waite Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Audiophilia w/EDEN & Three Unassisted

::ALBUMS Konkel Park, Food Truck Friday: The Group (6pm), Eddie Butts Band (7:30pm) Lakefront Brewery Beer Hall, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Armchair Boogie w/Derek Pritzl and The Gamble Mamie’s, Marvelous Mack Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Milwaukee Ale House, Random Maxx Trio Milwaukee Athletic Club, AURA Music Series on the Rooftop Deck: Goldford North Beach Oasis (Racine), Group Therapy Band (6pm) Packing House, Dave Miller Blues & Jazz Quartet (6:30pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Chris Schmidt Acoustic (9pm), In the Fire Pit: The Playlist (9pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Quitting Time Pub & Grill (Lomira), Floor It! (6pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Light Up the Night: Nate Derus, Kedzie, Colton Duwe, Jonnie, DJ Kalibre, Charly J, Patrick Milton, Don Julio, DJ DisTrix, Galena Crew & XCAVATA (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Social Distortion w/Jade Jackson Shank Hall, Autograph w/American Zeros Site 1A, WIN WOO w/Subset Smith Bros. Coffee House (Port Washington), The Brothers Burn Mountain St. John the Evangelist (Greenfield), Family Festival: Hat Trick (4pm) Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Rebecca & The Grey Notes The Bay Restaurant, Harold Stewart & Friends Trinity Three Irish Pubs, Detour w/DJ Richie Rich Turner Hall Ballroom, Brendan Schaub from Fighter & the Kid podcast Von Trier, Alex Wilson Band

SATURDAY, JULY 29

Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Barb’s Pub & Grub (Fredonia), Vinyl Groove (2pm) Blu (Pfister Hotel), MRS. FUN w/Eric Jacobson & Mike Britz Bootz Saloon, Steven Scott Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Lonesome Bill Camplin Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Christopher Haise Band w/Cullah & Cambodia OK (8pm); DJ: The Zero-Hour Roadshow (10pm) Club Garibaldi, Divinity Compromised CD release w/Scream King, A Tortured Soul, Opacia, It Bleeds & Sam Lastrapes Sound Delafield Brewhaus, Dave Miller Band w/Andrew Wilson, Bill Martin & Hal Miller Five O’Clock Steakhouse , Kirk Tatnall Fox Point Farmers Market, Eric & Carley Baer (10am) Frank’s Power Plant, Begrime Exemious w/Razor Fist, Emblazoned & Missile Fist Great Lakes Distillery, Jude and The Acousti-Dudes Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub (Downtown), Joe Richter Jazz Estate, Eric Jacobson Organ Trio (8pm), Late Night Session: Celebrating Augie Ray (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Dave Waite Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Brendan Demet Trio w/Jordan Rattner Group Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), The Wildwoods Milwaukee Ale House, Life In a Tree Packing House, Martelle Jossart Quartet (6:30pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Phil Norby

Rave / Eagles Club, House Party w/DJ Mr. Martin & DJ Martinez Riverside Theater, Ryan Adams Shank Hall, Signalfire w/The Heroes Lie & Once The Sun St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Union Grove), “Picnic in Paris” Festival and Car Show: Floor It! (12pm) The Bay Restaurant, Billy Sullivan The Cheel (Thiensville), Three -year Anniversary: Derek Stallman (12pm), Sweet Sheiks (3pm), Leroy Airmaster w/Little Maddie & Stokes (6pm), The Blues Disciples (9pm) The Rock Sports Complex, Summer Concert Series in Umbrella Bar: Southbound Three Cellars (Menomonee Falls), CP & Stoll w/Chris Peppas & Jeff Stoll Trinity Three Irish Pubs, Dan Harvey w/DJ Zovo Urban Harvest Brewing Company, No Dice: Improv D&D

SUNDAY, JULY 30

Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Anodyne Coffee Walker’s Point Roastery & Cafe, Third Coast Blues Genes: Jim & Matt Liban, Greg & Dylan Koch, and Andrew & Kurt Koenig (4pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jammin’ Jimmy Open Jam (3pm) Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, 4th Annual Midday Matinee Milwaukee Music Mash-up (1pm) McKiernan’s Irish Tavern, One Lane Bridge Miramar Theatre, Digitour: Goodtimes (3pm) Red Lion Pub, Drift Away Sunday Funday Patio Party w/Straight Circles (3pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic South Milwaukee LionsFest, The Ricochettes The Tonic Tavern, Sunday Matinee Live Music Series: The Tritonics (4pm) Von Trier, On the Patio: Steve Cohen & Peter Roller (4pm)

MONDAY, JULY 31

Club Garibaldi, Milwaukee Record Presents: The Roast Of Milwaukee Italian Community Center, Suzanne Grzanna Band w/Tom Sorce (6:30pm) Jazz in the Park (Cathedral Square Park), Streetlife w/Warren Wiegratz & VIVO Jazz (6pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Sam Pekarske (7:30-10:30pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John Up & Under Pub, Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers Open Mic

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1

C Notes Upscale Sports Lounge, Another Night-Another Mic Open Mic w/Darryl Hill Chill On the Hill (Humboldt Park), Colors of the Alphabet w/MYSO Jazz Ensemble & Slimabean (6pm) Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Italian Community Center, The Andrew Koenig Band w/Benny Rickun (6:30pm) Kilbourn-Kadish Park, Skyline Music Concerts: Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound (5:30pm) Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Parkside Reunion Big Band Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm) Pabst Theater, An Evening with Dawes Rave / Eagles Club, Primus w/Clutch (all-ages, 7:30pm) The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich Turner Hall Ballroom, PUP w/Meat Wave

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2

7/27 No No Yeah Okay 8/3 Coyote

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Cactus Club, Miles Nielsen & the Rusted Hearts w/Strange Americans Caroline’s Jazz Club, Harvey Westmoreland w/Knee Deep Blues Jam Conway’s Smokin’ Bar & Grill, Open Jam w/Big Wisconsin Johnson District 14 Brewery & Pub, Wednesday Open Mic Golden Mast Inn, Joe Kadlec (6pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Open Jam (6pm) Italian Community Center, Hothead Caravan (6:30pm) Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Lakefront Brewery Beer Hall, Milwaukee Comedy Festival Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Ian McGibbon (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Pabst Theater, Banks Paulie’s Field Trip, Humpday Jam w/Dave Wacker & Mitch Cooper Pere Marquette Park, River Rhythms: Saddlebrook (6:30pm) Pewaukee Lakefront Park, Waterfront Wednesdays: Pat McCurdy (6pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Shank Hall, Jesse Malin w/Trapper Schoepp & Anthony D’Amato Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk Turner Hall Ballroom, Foxygen Washington Park, Summer Concert Series: Clave y Afinque & Salsabrosa (6pm) Zeidler Union Square, Westown Farmers’ Market: Joe Wray (11:45am)

Oh Wonder Ultralife (REPUBLIC UNIVERSAL) Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West posted their first Oh Wonder track anonymously on SoundCloud in the fall of 2014. As they kept posting one new song per every succeeding month, their popularity increased until, as they seem to tell the story, they had no choice but to become an official going concern with a 2015 self-titled debut album.

That hint of reluctance remains intrinsic to Oh Wonder even as it expands to include a bassist and drummer, prepares for a high-mileage American tour and releases its second album, Ultralife. So does a gently utilized knack for wrapping electronic pop in the allure of fragile humanity, however.

Individually, Vander Gucht and West are among the least emphatic vocalists in their nebulous genre, but there is a slowly cumulative power in the space between her lilting femininity and his misleadingly flat-affect lower register, and their understatement reveals how their counterparts, those who aspire closer to the center of the mainstream, push too much drama.

Even the references to other pop songs are genteel and undramatic: “Bigger Than Love” paraphrases Rihanna’s “We Found Love” so it refracts despair; “Lifetimes” almost directly quotes the piano figure plinking through Elton John’s “Bennie and the Jets”; and “All About You” converts the spiteful spitting of Billy Joel’s “Big Shot” into a more diaphanous dis.

Oh Wonder isn’t always so sheer: “Heart Strings” opens from a minimal keyboard hop and a scattering of Mitchell Froomish sonic quirks into a lush chorus that could pass for Bacharach’s adaptation to 21st-century synthesizers and rhythms, while “Slip Away” builds up a nearly clichéd melody for music box until it’s a sonic version of a sweetsmelling cloud.

Despite the overarching mistiness of Ultralife—cloudy, diaphanous, nebulous—its final emotional weight is heavy and full, and, despite Oh Wonder’s reluctance about pop stardom, it embraces the actual pop.

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THEME CROSSWORD

By James Barrick

PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Kaidoku”

Each of the 26 letters of the alphabet is represented in this grid by a number between 1 and 26. Using letter frequency, word-pattern recognition, and the numbers as your guides, fill in the grid with well-known English words (HINT: since a Q is always followed by a U, try hunting down the Q first). Only lowercase, unhyphenated words are allowed in kaidoku, so you won’t see anything like STOCKHOLM or LONG-LOST in here (but you might see AFGHAN, since it has an uncapitalized meaning, too). Now stop wasting my precious time and SOLVE! psychosudoku@gmail.com 10 13 5 6

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31. Nucha 32. Ogled 33. Edge tool 34. The hoi polloi 37. Known and admired 39. Cutting remark 41. Ear: Prefix 44. Melville title 45. — accompli 46. Old Italian coin 47. Limit 48. Part 2 of quip: 6 wds.

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83. Letters 84. Wine quality 85. Camp beds 86. Status quo — 87. Cap 88. Rather and Quayle 89. Pitches 91. Whodunit event 93. Neighbor of Morocco: Abbr.

94. Fleet 95. Recipe amount 96. End of the quip: 5 wds.

103. Trim 105. In the know 106. Big cats hybrid 107. — avis 109. Diva’s offering 110. “... — the twain shall meet” 111. Peace goddess 112. Pack 113. Push 114. Curly lock 115. USMA student 116. If not DOWN 1. Flittermouse 2. Jai — 3. Sediment 4. Antelope: Var. 5. Treeless plain 6. “Daphnis and —” 7. Ohio players 8. Deck items 9. Victor Herbert’s “Naughty —” 10. Climbed 11. Prepared apples 12. Further 13. In — parentis 14. Public notices

15. Composition 16. Traveled in 17. Tip 18. Fundamental 28. — ammoniac 29. Remark at parting 30. Bend in a river 34. Like a judge 35. Violin maker 36. Lawn bowling in Lombardy 37. Identified 38. Like sardines in a can 39. Golf score 40. Woe is me!

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97. Vessel for liquids 98. Undulate 99. Euro predecessor 100. Getting on 101. Part of NLRB: Abbr.

102. — Ramazzotti 103. Baby food 104. Abbr. in timetables 108. Wonder

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WORD FIND This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 23 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Going Bush Solution: 23 Letters

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Ant Arid Beauty Bog Cairn Calm Care Conserve Cyclone Dryness Edge Endemic Environment Ferns

Fly Free Gecko Gore-tex Green Grid reference Hike Idle Koalas Lush Mud Park Prondonicles Rangers

Rests Ridge River Rock hopping Shaded Snake Spur Trees Unique Valley Vines Walk

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you really have to be the flashy king or charismatic queen of all you survey? Must all your subjects put on kneepads and prostrate themselves as they bask in your glory? Isn’t it enough for you to simply be the master of your own emotions, and the boss of your own time, and the lord of your own destiny? I’m not trying to stifle your ambition or cramp your enthusiasm; I just want to make sure you don’t dilute your willpower by trying to wield command over too wide a swath. The most important task, after all, is to manage your own life with panache and ingenuity. But I will concede this: The coming weeks will be a time when you can also probably get away with being extra worshiped and adored.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Dear Hard Worker: Our records indicate that you have been neglecting to allot yourself sufficient time to rest and recharge. In case you had forgotten, you are expected to take regular extended breaks, during which time it is mandatory to treat yourself with meticulous care and extreme tenderness. Please grant yourself an immediate dispensation. Expose yourself to intensely relaxing encounters with play, fun, and pleasure—or else! No excuses will be accepted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If extraterrestrial beings land their space ship on my street and say they want to meet the creatures who best represent our planet, I will volunteer you Libras.

Right now, at least, you’re nobler than the rest of us, and more sparkly, too. You’re dealing smartly with your personal share of the world’s suffering, and your day-to-day decisions are based more on love than fear. You’re not taking things too personally or too seriously, and you seem better equipped than everyone else to laugh at the craziness that surrounds us.

And even if aliens don’t appear, I bet you will serve as an inspiring influence for more human beings than you realize. Does being a role model sound boring? I hope not. If you regard it as an interesting gift, it will empower you to wield more clout than you’re used to.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the four years he worked on painting the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo allegedly never took a bath. Was he too preoccupied with his masterpiece?

Modern artist Pae White has a different relationship with obsession. To create her fabric art pieces, she has spent years collecting more than 3,500 scarves designed by her favorite scarf-maker. Then there’s filmmaker James Cameron, who hired an expert in linguistics to create an entire new language from scratch for the aliens in his movie Avatar. In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I approve of you summoning this level of devotion—as long as it’s not in service to a transitory desire, but rather to a labor of love that has the potential to change your life for the better for a long time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers,” wrote author James Baldwin. Even if you’re not an artist, I encourage you to make that your purpose in the coming weeks. Definitive answers will at best be irrelevant and at worst useless. Vigorous doubt and inquiry, on the other hand, will be exciting and invigorating. They will mobilize you to rebel against any status quos that have been tempting you to settle for mediocrity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re in a phase of your cycle when the most useful prophecies are more lyrical than logical. So here you go: three enigmatic predictions to help stir up the creative ingenuity you’ll need to excel on your upcoming tests. 1. A darling but stale old hope must shrivel and wane so that a spiky, electric new hope can be born. 2. An openness to the potential value of a metaphorical death will be one of your sweetest assets. 3. The best way to cross a border is not to sneak across bearing secrets but to stride across in full glory with nothing to hide.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian novelist James Joyce had a pessimistic view about intimate connection. Here’s what he said: “Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to be-

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come virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.”

My challenge to you, Aquarius—in accordance with the astrological omens—is to prove Joyce wrong.

Figure out how to make your soul virgin again so it can cast itself out into the ocean of another’s soul. The next eight weeks will be prime time to achieve that glorious feat.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Years after he had begun his work as a poet, Rainer Maria Rilke confessed that he was still finding out what it took to do his job. “I am learning to see,” he wrote. “I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to.” Given the current astrological omens, you have a similar opportunity, Pisces: to learn more about how to see. It won’t happen like magic. You can’t just sit back passively and wait for the universe to accomplish it for you. But if you decide you really would like to be more perceptive—if you resolve to receive and register more of the raw life data that’s flowing toward you—you will expand and deepen your ability to see.

ood fortune quickly turned to horror for a man in Allyn, Wash., who scored some raccoon roadkill to use as crab-trap bait on June 25. As the unidentified man walked toward home dragging the carcass behind him on a 15-foot rope (so he couldn’t smell it), two different vehicles stopped, and their occupants, mistakenly thinking he was dragging a dead dog, began berating the would-be fisherman. As the dispute heated up, someone produced a gun, shooting the man twice in the leg before he was struck by one of the vehicles as the assailants fled.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you feeling as daring about romance as I suspect? If so, I’ve composed a provocative note for you to give to anyone you have good reason to believe will be glad to receive it. Feel free to copy it word-forword or edit it to suit your needs. Here it is: “I want to be your open-hearted explorer. Want to be mine?

We can be in foolishly cool drooling devotion to each other’s mighty love power. We can be in elegant solid-gold allegiance to each other’s genius. Wouldn’t it be fun to see how much liberation we can whip up together? We can play off our mutual respect as we banish the fearful shticks in our bags of tricks. We can inspire each other to reach unexpected heights of brazen intelligence.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You still have a wound that never formed a proper scar.

(We’re speaking metaphorically here.) It’s chronically irritated. Never quite right. Always stealing bits of your attention. Would you like to do something to reduce the distracting power of that annoying affliction? The next 25 days will be a favorable time to seek such a miracle. All the forces of nature and spirit will conspire on your behalf if you formulate a clear intention to get the healing you need and deserve.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In his poem “The Initiate,” Charles Simic speaks of “someone who solved life’s riddles in a voice of an ancient Sumerian queen.” I hope you’re not focused on seeking help and revelations from noble and grandiose sources like that, Gemini. If you are, you may miss the useful cues and clues that come your way via more modest informants. So please be alert for the blessings of the ordinary. As you work on solving your quandaries, give special attention to serendipitous interventions and accidental luck.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For many years, the Tobe Zoological Park in China housed a “praying panther” named Ato. The large black feline periodically rose up on her hind legs and put her paws together as if petitioning a higher power for blessings. I suggest we make her your spirit ally in the coming weeks. I hope she’ll inspire you to get your restless mind out of the way as you seek to quench your primal needs. With the praying panther as your muse, you should be able to summon previously untapped reserves of your animal intelligence and cultivate an instinctual knack for knowing where to find raw, pristine satisfaction.

Homework: Make a prediction about where you’ll be and what you’ll be doing on Jan. 1, 2020. Testify at freewillastrology.com.

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

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Sorry I Missed It A Canada Day parade in southern Ontario sparked a flood of typically mild protests over Dave Szusz’s float, which featured a three-meter-tall blow-up Jesus (holding a baby sheep) and several real sheep. “I thought it was kind of sad to see sheep out with very loud, blasting music, out in the heat in the city,” said animal rights activist Dan MacDonald. Others flooded Szusz with complaints on Facebook. Szusz and MacDonald have since talked it out, although MacDonald still hopes Szusz will discontinue using sheep on his floats.

Least Competent Criminals Six suspects in a June 25 Denver mugging counted among their spoils the victim’s brand-new iPhone. After using Ryan Coupens’ credit cards at a nearby Walgreens, the thieves used the phone to post a Snapchat story about their shenanigans to Coupens’ account, where his friends—and police—could clearly see some of their faces.

A repeat offender came to the end of his career when an accomplice and he tried to burglarize a home in East Macon, Ga., on June 19. As James Robert Young, 41, a 35-time resident of the Bibb County Jail, and another man zeroed in on her TV, the homeowner woke up and heard them. “When she yelled, the men ran out,” said Sheriff David Davis, and that was when the other suspect turned around and fired his weapon, striking Young in the head, killing him. The accomplice is still at large.

Smooth Reaction Anger over spilled sugar led a Blue Springs, Mo., grandfather to a chilly end when his grandson, Tyreik Baldwin, 21, allegedly killed Harvey C. Baldwin, 77, and stuffed him into

a freezer. A family member who had become worried about the elder Baldwin visited the home on June 30, then called police after Tyreik hit him in the head with a hammer and drove off in the family member’s truck. Police caught up with Tyreik as he tried to escape and took him into custody.

Suspicions Confirmed Karen Leclair, 51, of Albion, Penn., was reported missing on June 11 by her commercial fisherman husband, Christopher, 48, after she went over the side of his boat on Lake Erie.

Christopher told police he hadn’t been watching when his wife fell overboard. When her body washed ashore on the Fourth of July in upstate New York, however, she had a gunshot wound to her head, was bound in nylon fishing rope and weighted with an anchor. Christopher was charged with her murder after the gun used to shoot Karen was found under a bed in their home.

Oh, Those Monkeys!

A monkey mystery unfolded near Mesa, Ariz., in early July as drone owner Jesse Sorensan dispatched his device over a facility rumored to house abandoned monkeys.

“Hovered above it and took some pictures ... and, sure enough, there’s monkeys in almost all the cages,” said Sorensan. “What are these monkeys doing in the middle of the desert?”

Local TV reporters looked into the mystery and found the facility is used for research and breeding for the University of Washington and the Centers for Disease Control—who were quick to point out that the monkeys have access to air conditioning and veterinary care.

Who You Gonna Call?

Villagers in the eastern Thailand province of Amnat Charoen have called in the Royal Thai Police to help rid them of an evil female spirit named “Phi Pob,” whom they accuse of killing four cows and sickening four border police officers, according to a report by the BBC in June. In Thai folklore, Phi Pob can possess people and sow chaos—including a 2016 incident in which neighbors were forced to strip naked at gunpoint by three reportedly possessed individuals. Adul Chaitprasithkul, the local police chief, noted, “More people believe in Phi Pob than those who don’t.” © 2017 Andrews McMeel Syndication J U LY 2 7 , 2 0 1 7 | 41

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Sim Sala Ba-ding! ::BY ART KUMBALEK

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? Listen, I’m on special-reporter assignment to research the whereabouts of the past, so I’m short on the wherewithal to pony up an essay for you’s this week, what the fock.

I thought to take a look-see over by the Uptowner tavern/charm school. The past may be hiding out there. Problem is the Uptowner isn’t open yet, so I figure to swing by my favorite open-24-hours restaurant where a guy like me can get a jump-start on girding his loins in preparation for the day’s daily shit-storm to follow. Come along if you want but you leave the tip.

Let’s get going.

Bea: Hey there, Artie, what’s your pleasure?

Art: Bea! How the heck are you? Haven’t seen much of you around here lately. Everything all right by you?

Bea: Everything’s fine, Artie, I’ve been just so busy lately. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. First, I had jury duty.

Art: Yeah yeah, the jury duty can really eat up the time.

Bea: Yes it can.

Art: I’ll never forget the one time I had the jury duty. This guy’s on trial for aggravated assault. The judge says to the guy, “You are charged with assaulting your wife with a hammer,” and I hear a voice in the

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back of the courtroom yell, “You bastard.” The judge bangs his gavel and continues, “You are also charged with assaulting your mother-in-law with a hammer.”

Again, the voice in the back yells, “You bastard.”

The judge is really angry and directly addresses the guy who’s been yelling. Judge says, “We cannot have any more of these outbursts from you, sir, or I shall charge you with contempt. Now, what seems to be the problem?”

And the guy who’s been shouting says, “Fifteen years I’ve lived next door to that bastard, and every time I asked to borrow a hammer, he said he didn’t have one!”

Bea: Really, Artie.

Art: Oh yeah Bea, I swear.

Bea: And I’ve been busy helping my niece get ready for college.

Art: Well, it’s nice to see you back here, Bea. How ’bout you bring me a nice cup of the blackest, thickest and cheapest of whatever it is you’re calling plain old American coffee today, thank you very kindly.

Bea: Coming right up, Artie. There you go.

Art: So what does your niece plan to study?

Bea: International relations.

Art: Good idea, Bea, ’cause you read the papers these days and gosh darn if we couldn’t use more people who knew how to relate internationally—what a world, ain’a?

Bea: That it is, Artie.

Art: Take this terrorism, for example. A lot of people say, “Oh yeah, terrorism. We ought to fight fire with fire.” And I say, you got to be jerking my beefaroni. That’s like you discover your kitchen’s on fire, so you say, “Hey, my kitchen’s on fire. I know what I’ll do. I’ll start my bedroom on fire to boot. That’ll take care of it.” Cripes Bea, how stupid can you get, ain’a?

Bea: Couldn’t tell you, Artie.

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Art: These so-called terrorist countries—the people seem to me to be a pretty grumpy bunch.

Bea: I suppose they don’t have much to be cheerful about.

Art: Exactly. Call me crazy, but I happen to believe that bombing the bejesus out of them is not exactly going to improve their disposition. We’d have a lot better chance of turning things around in these countries if we were to fly over and airdrop a couple, three hundred-thousand whoopee cushions for the people ’cause I ask you Bea: Who doesn’t get a kick out of those magical little rubberized gas bags?

Bea: Beats me, Artie.

Art: See, Bea? Once the people get the hang of how to use them, they just might think that “Hey, the world’s not such a bad place, after all.” And along with the whoopee cushion, let’s include the squirt bow-tie, the fake dog doo-doo and a complimentary translated copy of the “Henny Youngman Bedside Joke Com-

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Bea: I suppose it’s worth a try.

Art: Darn tootin’, Bea. And you know, some of these nutball leaders in the threatening countries, they got like a couple, three, four wives each—talk about your perfect audience for Henny on the topic of marriage, ain’a? Like: “I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.” Or, “I’ve been in love with the same woman for 49 years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me!” And my favorite: “First guy says proudly, ‘My wife’s an angel.’ Second guy says, ‘You’re lucky. Mine’s still alive.’ ” Bea: You might be on to something, Artie.

Art: Anyways, I got to run, so thanks for the coffee and for letting me bend your ear there, Bea—utiful.

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

(It’s off to the Uptowner, if I see you there, you buy me one ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.)

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