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LGBTQ MILWAUKEE

Proud since the ’70s, the city made progress thanks to brave pioneers ::BY MATTHEW J. PRIGGE

Throughout the ’70s, gay and lesbian activists organized and demonstrated to assert their rights while Milwaukee’s LGBTQ social scene expanded and became more open. Although the local community still faced persecution and discrimination, Milwaukee became a beacon for young LGBTQ people from small cities and towns all across Wisconsin. Actor and musician John Schneider came to Milwaukee from Fond du Lac in 1970. “I think it’s safe to say that if you found yourself gay in the 1970s or earlier and you had the ability to do so, you would move to Milwaukee,” Schneider says.

The scene in those days was far beyond anything that a young gay man from central Wisconsin could have imagined. Recalling his first visit to Castaway’s South, a South Second Street gay bar that opened in 1969, Schneider says, “I was so overwhelmed to be in such a place that it seems like a dream when I think back to it. I found it thrilling.

There were all these smiling men, not much older than me, and they seemed to be comfortable with themselves.”

But there remained significant challenges for the community in Milwaukee. Gay hangouts were aggressively patrolled by police, with officers often going undercover to arrest gay men on charges of “lewd conduct.” Gangs of young men prowled popular gay hook-up spots like Juneau Park, attacking and beating couples. Perhaps most challenging was the coming-out process itself, as many young gay people were forced onto the streets by parents and friends who could not accept their sexuality. And then, in the ’80s, the AIDS epidemic shocked the community as much of the straight world and government officials ignored it as a “gay plague” or just retribution for “immoral behavior.”

Growing Strong in Crisis

efore the epochal Stonewall Inn raid of 1969 ushered in the modern era of the Gay Rights Movement, accounts of LGBTQ activity in Milwaukee are scattered. Cases of women dressing and living as men (and occasionally of men dressing and living as women) made local headlines between the 1890s and 1910s. At least two of these incidents included same-sex marriages that were unwittingly granted by the state. This behavior was, among women living as men, passed off as a result of child-like confusion. For men living as women, it was usually treated as a criminal offense.

These rare glimpses into Milwaukee’s early LGBTQ community (although it had no such title at the time), were only brought about by arrest and scandal. But evidence suggests that the city already had a secretive network of such like-minded people early on in the 1900s. Downtown hotels, bars, rooming houses and parks became known, by both members of the community and the police, as hangouts for gay Milwaukeeans. Police raids of these spaces resulted in arrests and, often times, in the public “outing” of the men charged as their names and addresses were listed in articles in the Milwaukee Journal and Sentinel. As noted by the Milwaukee LGBT History Project, at least one of these men committed suicide after having being named as a “deviant” in the paper.

According to Michail Takach’s 2016 book, LGBT Milwaukee, there were at least 33 gay or lesbian bars in the city pre-Stonewall. Most of these places were clustered in the river-bound Downtown districts, long known for their embrace of certain behaviors—prostitution, gambling, drug use and more— that would not have been tolerated in other neighborhoods.

Emerging from the Shadows

In the early 1970s, however, Milwaukee’s LGBTQ community began to emerge from the shadows as the fallout from Stonewall emboldened activists nationwide. In 1970, the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Liberation Organization (later to become the Gay People’s Union or GPU) were founded, the city’s first two gay rights groups. The following year, the GPU published the first issue of the GPU News, a publication that would remain in print for 10 years.

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Milwaukee’s LGBTQ community grew stronger through the crisis, forming a local chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) to raise awareness of the disease and advocate for government resources devoted to the AIDS fight. ACT UP Milwaukee also fought for the legal rights of AIDS patients and worked to improve their access to medical services at a time when there was still widespread fear and confusion about the disease.

In 1988, the Milwaukee Lesbian/Gay Pride Committee held the “Rightfully Proud” celebration in Mitchell Park. Although various pride celebrations had been held since the early 1970s, this one would spur the annual event that has come to be known as PrideFest.

The event added a parade in 1989, expanded to a two-day format in 1994 and moved to Henry Maier Festival Park in 1996. PrideFest has since expanded to three days and is now acknowledged as the traditional “opener” of the city’s festival season, drawing more than 30,000 people—gay and straight—every year.

Since the mid-’90s, PrideFest has featured various displays of the history of Milwaukee’s LGBTQ community. These efforts eventually evolved into the “Milwaukee LGBT History Project,” which debuted at 2003’s PrideFest with a collection of memorabilia, movie posters and excerpts from a series of oral histories of the community recorded over the previous 18 months. The drive to document and preserve the community’s history led to the creation of mkelgbthist. org, an incredible online repository of stories, artifacts, biographies, business histories and more.

“The Wisconsin LGBT History Project is critically important to Milwaukee and surrounding areas,” said Takach, whose book relied heavily on the archives amassed by the Project. “As our LGBTQ elders continue to leave us, their experiences, memories and knowledge are increasingly being lost to the communities of today and tomorrow.” Milwaukee’s LGBTQ history has added many chapters since the Project was born.

A more accepting city has melded the community’s once-hidden nightlife into the mainstream, as the distinction between gay and straight spaces has faded. In 2012, local voters helped to elect Tammy Baldwin to the U.S. Senate, making her the first openly

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The Shepherd Express has the largest LGBTQ readership in Wisconsin, and we’re showing our pride with our third annual LGBTQ Progress Awards, taking place on Thursday, Aug. 10. The awards serve to celebrate and thank both the sung and unsung individuals fighting for progressive policies and promoting diversity in our communities. Eric Peterson of the Cream City Foundation will be the event’s emcee, and the Shepherd’s own Dear Ruthie will be among the presenters. The event starts with cocktails at 5:30 and dinner at 6:15 p.m. at The Wherehouse, 818 S. Water St. Tickets can be purchased at: shepherdtickets.com.

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gay Senator in U.S. history. In 2014, a court ruling permitted same-sex marriage in Wisconsin, striking down a constitutional amendment that had been passed by voters in 2006. Opinion polls show that an overwhelming majority of state residents now approve of marriage equality. Still, challenges remain.

Shifts toward the far right at both the state and national levels have threatened LGBTQ rights and emboldened hate groups. Transgender people in particular have been targeted by bigoted policies that seek to roll back recent progress and leave them as second-class citizens.

Takach believes that the history of the community in Milwaukee has left a legacy that is vital to its present and its continued advancement. He has spoken about his book and his research to groups both local and national, and has seen a tremendously positive response to the work.

“At the end of every engagement, someone inevitably says, ‘If I knew that my community had such a long and proud history, I would have felt so much better about coming out myself.’ That’s the lasting legacy of LGBTQ history,” Takach says.

“We can’t imagine, in the modern context, what it meant to live out loud as an LGBTQ person in these earlier times. We owe it to these courageous pioneers to make sure that nobody has to live in shame or silence ever again.”

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New Strides in the Fight Against AIDS

NEW, DAILY PREP PILL HELPS PREVENT HIV TRANSMISSION ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

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t seems almost a miracle. Taken daily and combined with condom use and basic safe sex practices, a new HIV prevention medicine called PrEP has proven to be more than 90% effective in preventing the transmission of HIV through sexual activity. Less data is available regarding needle transmission, but new studies show PrEP at least 70% effective there, as well.

“For those of us who’ve been involved in the fight against HIV for decades,” says Mike Gifford, president and CEO of the Aids Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW), “this is the promise we’ve wanted for 30 years— to give our friends, families and loved ones the medicine that could prevent them from contracting HIV to save their lives. We now have that very powerful prevention tool, and we need to make sure that people in need are aware of it and get easy access to it. ARCW is

very pleased to offer PrEP to anybody who is interested, regardless of their ability to pay.”

PrEP, an acronym for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, now comes in the form of an FDAapproved, one-pill-daily medication called Truvada. Each pill combines two drugs currently used in the treatment of people who are HIV positive. “The idea,” Gifford says, “is to provide people at high risk of contracting HIV with medicine you would typically provide to somebody living with HIV, to prevent individuals from contracting HIV in the first place.”

Dr. Leslie Cockerham, ARCW’s medical director, emphasizes the need for consistency of usage with PrEP. “I tease my patients by saying, ‘the drug only works if you take it.’

Ideally, you take it every day to maintain the level in your body necessary to prevent HIV transmission. Some of the international studies have had a lower efficacy rate, but when

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they went back to look at the patients, many who got HIV didn’t have the levels of the drug in their system needed to protect them because they weren’t taking it very often at all,” she says.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), PrEP reaches maximum protection from HIV for receptive anal sex at about seven days of daily use, and for all other activities at about 20 days of daily use.

Who should consider the medication?

“There are many different reasons why people might take it,” Cockerham says. “Certainly, we know that men who have sex with men are at increased risk of acquiring HIV. Heterosexual men or women might have an HIVpositive partner, and that might be a reason they should be on PrEP. Individuals having multiple partners who don’t always know the status of their partners might choose to protect themselves. Injection drug users, especially if they share needles, would be at high risk.”

ARCW has been providing PrEP to its patients since the fall of 2015. Awareness of the medication’s existence and its benefits is slowly growing. “We’re really trying to get the word out,” Dr. Cockerham says. “There are people who don’t know about PrEP or who are not sure where to get it.” This may be in part because of stigma associated with the activities that put people at risk.

Dr. Cockerham pointed to a further complication: “Sometimes, people don’t necessarily see themselves as being at risk if they’re not engaging in what one would normally think of as risky behavior, such as having multiple sex partners. But you only need to have sex once, or have one partner who is infected, to actually get HIV. So, we’re really trying to change the assumption that you only need PrEP if you’re doing risky things or you’re ‘that type of person.’ That’s not at all the way we think. We want people to feel empowered—to have control over their sexual health and be empowered to protect themselves,” she emphasizes.

“If people have questions about its efficacy or its affordability, we’ll take the time to work through those questions and to work through any obstacles that might come up with insurance or lack thereof,” Cockerham says. “We really do try to serve everyone. It doesn’t mean that it’s always exactly free, but we try to make sure that finances are not a barrier if at all possible. The first step is to make sure people know about it and know where to go to get more information and see if it’s right for them or not.”

For more information, call the Aids Resource Center of Wisconsin at 414-273-1991 or visit arcw.org. Additional information about PrEP itself is available on the CDC website at cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.

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Acción Ciudadana de Wisconsin, Latino Voting Bloc of Wisconsin and Citizen Action of Wisconsin are coming together to organize a weekly Saturday campaign of knocking on doors and phone banking to get people thinking about the 2018 elections. Volunteers can go out and talk to voters about the issues that they care about and get them involved in different events happening in the community.

Milwaukee’s Industrial Workers of the World are hosting a discussion on “ending prison slavery and supporting rebellions and resistance with organizers of the historic September 9, 2016, nationally coordinated prisoner strike and protest and prisoner leaders calling in from inside.”

Voter and Civic Engagement Campaign @ Acción Ciudadana de Wisconsin (221 S. Second St.), 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

March on Milwaukee 50th: History Harvest @ Wisconsin Black Historical Society (2620 W. Center St.), noon-4 p.m.

Inspired by local civil rights leaders organizing “listening posts” to record accounts of police neglect, harassment and brutality in 1967, the March on Milwaukee 50th Oral History Committee is organizing four History Harvests, designed to unearth local stories from Milwaukee’s civil rights movement.

Wednesday, Aug. 9

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

Every Wednesday, Bounce Milwaukee offers a space to organize (and 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.

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

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Southeastern Wisconsin NORML Monthly Meeting @ Milwaukee Public Library (814 W. Wisconsin Ave.), 6-7:30 p.m.

The Southeastern Wisconsin branch of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) will hold their monthly meeting and discuss ways to make Wisconsin more economically, socially and judicially more sustainable through updated marijuana policy.

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Trump’s Attack on Transgender Americans ::BY MARK POCAN

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ith the offhanded whim of a couple tweets, President Donald Trump hastily announced putting a hateful and discriminatory policy in place at the largest employer in our country.

Trump’s shameful decision to ban transgender Americans from serving in any capacity in the U.S. military tells more than a million Americans that they are not equal or valued. And while Trump vowed to fight for the LGBTQ community during the election, he certainly showed that promise to be a pantson-fire lie.

Trump’s ban—an actual threat to our freedom and beliefs—has been condemned by Republicans and Democrats, alike. He is ripping away freedom from people who literally put their lives on the line for our freedom.

I have the honor of representing retired Col. Sheri Swokowski, who spent 34 years in the U.S. Army serving her country. In 2004, as a lead instructor at the Army’s Force Management School, she transitioned from male to female, and when she returned to work, she was told they had already hired her replacement. In a Washington Post opinion column on Thursday, Swokowski wrote: “Thousands of patriotic transgender Americans already put their lives on the line every day to keep our country free. We’ve been doing that since the 1700s … I can’t imagine what my fellow trans service members are feeling today. I know transgender people are going to get up tomorrow, put their uniform on and defend their country— just like they do every day—but I also know they’re going to be wondering if the commander in chief is really looking out for their best interests.”

Wondering if the commander in chief is really looking out for our best interests is a thought too many of us have had too often over the past six months.

Trump clumsily attempted to justify this most recent Twitter-order by saying that transgender troops are costly and disruptive. Transgender military personnel are neither costly nor disruptive, but those words do, in fact, accurately describe Trump’s first six months as president. The reasons for this erratic policy shift are transparent: Trump is desperately trying to distract the public from his epic failures on healthcare, jobs and infrastructure. The kitchen-table-type issues most of us really worry about are things he has failed to address.

Further, allowing transgender Americans to serve openly in the military was a policy of the Barack Obama administration, and Trump has always resented our 44th president. This bitterness can only have gotten worse now that Trump has realized being president is harder than he thought. Don’t for a minute feel sorry for this multiple-time draft dodger who never had the courage to serve in the military and has no credibility deciding who is fit to serve. But it had to have stung a little bit the morning after his ban, when his hometown newspaper summed up his presidency with the all-caps headline, “COMMANDER IN HATE.” The U.S. Congress recently took a stand against this particular act of hatred. An amendment proposed to the annual defense policy bill that would have blocked the Pentagon from offering gender transition therapies to active duty service members was voted down, with 24 Republicans joining all of the Democrats to defeat it. Democrats hope Republicans will join them in adding budgetary language refusing to spend any money implementing or enforcing this hateful ban.

If some Republicans continue to stand with Democrats against the discrimination and hatred that grips the executive branch, maybe congress can actually move forward on core economic issues with bipartisan cooperation, and let the president get lost in his Tweetstorms of hate.

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02) is co-chair of the House Equality Caucus and the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

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We agree with his observations and his cautions. The Shepherd’s position is that, since Wisconsin has had a dismal job creation record over the past several years, we embrace the idea of taking a risk with Foxconn.

We hope that Foxconn delivers close to the number of jobs it is estimating. Further, we believe the Walker administration could improve its deal by requiring Foxconn to abide

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hy do you think it’s called Foxconn? Politics aside, everyone who cares about Wisconsin really wants to believe all those gushing promises about the staggering number of high-paying jobs about to be created by a gargantuan hightech facility—three times as large as the Pentagon—guaranteed to transform Racine and Kenosha into a modern-day version of Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland. But it sure would be a lot easier to believe if the breathless announcement hadn’t been made jointly by President Donald Trump, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Terry Gou, chairman of the Taiwanese electronics company Foxconn, all three notorious public liars.

Many people are familiar with the dubious veracity of Trump and Walker. The Washington Post’s running tally of Trump’s documented lies and misrepresentations averages nearly five a day. Walker once attempted to remove “the search for truth” from the mission of the University of Wisconsin and then lied about trying to do it. But most Wisconsinites are just starting to learn about Gou’s stream of broken promises around the world to spend billions of dollars to create tens of thousands of jobs—$10 billion in Brazil, $5 billion in India, $5 billion in Vietnam, $1 billion in Indonesia, $30 million in Pennsylvania—that came to little or nothing. He sounds like Trump and Walker’s brother from another mother.

An early warning sign the Wisconsin announcement might produce far less than the mind-boggling claims was the mysteriously shrinking number of promised jobs. In January, around the time of Trump’s inauguration, Gou announced he might invest at least $7 billion in the U.S. to create 30-50,000 jobs producing flat LCD screens for TVs and computers.

By the time Walker made the announcement, Gou’s investment was claimed to be $10 billion producing only 13,000 jobs. Even that number appeared to be inflated by Walker. Foxconn said it would only be hiring 3,000 workers over four years, and eventually that number might potentially grow “up to 13,000.” Someday. Maybe. Or maybe not.

Good Jobs First, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C. research group that tracks government subsidies to private companies, ranked it as the fourth-largest tax incentive deal in U.S. history and unlikely ever to produce enough revenue to justify the enormous cost. “We can only describe this as a gift from Wisconsin taxpayers to Foxconn shareholders,” Executive Director Greg LeRoy told The New York Times. “This is a guaranteed loser for the state.”

Walker swears state safeguards protect taxpayers. If Foxconn doesn’t create 13,000 jobs, he said, it won’t get all of its $3 billion windfall, and anybody who raises questions about the deal can go suck lemons. But when, exactly, over the next decade-and-a-half would Wisconsin decide Foxconn isn’t creating enough jobs and stop writing $200 million dollar checks? After Foxconn’s first billion in five years if it’s only created the 3,000 jobs it promised? After the second billion? And what kind of deal is paying a billion dollars to create 3,000 jobs, anyway? In 2010, with what would now be the second-largest Wisconsin subsidy, Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle saved 3,000 jobs at Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac for a mere $65 million (with an “m”).

Politicians are always thrilled to attract hightech “jobs of the future.” But high-tech factories almost always mean far fewer jobs. Foxconn’s biggest investments are likely to be in robotics.

Foxconn recently announced laying off 60,000 workers at its iPhone 6 factory in Kushan, China—more than 50% of the workforce— replacing them with robotic advanced technology, also produced by Foxconn.

One of the attractions of Wisconsin for Gou was the anti-union, anti-worker culture Walker has brought to the state. That’s disturbing given Foxconn’s reputation as a dangerous, high-stress work environment. Chinese workers complain of working seven days a week and standing for long hours on swelling legs. In 2010, there was a suicide cluster of 18 workers throwing themselves from Foxconn buildings, with 14 deaths. Foxconn installed safety nets to catch the falling bodies. Two years later, 150 workers threatened mass suicide from the roof of one factory before they were talked down.

Do Walker’s state safeguards for Foxconn’s Magic Kingdom include suicide nets? Mass suicides can put a real crimp in a state’s workforce development.

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But, while many of those jobs could be imaginary, the historic $3 billion (that’s billion with a “b”) state tax giveaway Walker wants his eager Republican legislature to hand to Foxconn is real, hard cash. If Foxconn makes its promised investment, Wisconsin would literally write checks for more than $200 million a year for the next 15 years to Gou’s multi-billion-dollar company.

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hat do you get when you cross a Mexican Bistec, the other meat option, is one of the best versions of steak tacos I’ve taqueria with the sterling reputation of had. The chopped beef—which comes from Carlisle’s parents’ farm, same as Justin Carlisle and his wife, Lucia Muñoz, the meat at Ardent—is seasoned so well that you’re not going to need to and sprinkle in some gentrification for good reach for the salsa bottles immediately after your first taste. There’s no gristle measure? The Laughing Taco. or fat to be found, just tender beef chopped into just-the-right-size pieces.

The little counter service restaurant, located Of the vegetarian options, the papas are described as “potatoes in a toin the corner space of the brand-new Trio Apartmato sauce (non spicy)” and that’s an apt description of their mildness. The ments building in Walker’s Point, is owned and more unusual nopalitos combines chopped cactus paddles with a mild red operated by Muñoz and modeled after taquerias chile sauce. It’s better than the potatoes, thanks to a more flavorful sauce from her home city of Monterrey, Mexico. When I and still-crunchy texture. imagine what a taqueria there might be like, I figure All four fillings can be ordered in doubled corn tortillas ($2.50-$2.75). The they’re quaint little spots that specialize in a couple of tortillas are fluffy and light and relatively small. Only the meat fillings come taco options, served quickly to a wide cross section of with onion and cilantro on top, leaving the mildest options without toplocals. The Laughing Taco delivers on all those points, pings. For those, you’ll want to utilize the salsa bottle labeled “hot” that’s but at a moderately higher price than other Walker’s Point taquerias—perfilled with creamy green sauce made with puréed fresh chilies. haps that’s the price of renting a spot in a new mixed-use building. Judging Unless you’re a purist or gluten intolerant and must have corn tortillas, by how busy the restaurant was at lunch on a weekday, plenty of people are the best option here is the larger flour tortilla tacos ($4.75-$5). They come in willing to pay it for a seat in a space that’s sleeker and three combinations of the meat fillings, avocado and more austere than any other taqueria on the toppings, along with something ingenious: cheese South Side. griddled onto the tortillas. A pile of white cheese is The Laughing Taco The tacos, the only thing they serve besides drinks, placed directly on the griddle and allowed to melt 414-210-3086 are delicious. While there are seven varieties on the before the tortilla is stuck on top of it. You end up with menu, they really only have four fillings: two meats, a gooey layer of cheese in between a warm tortilla 1033 S. First St. and two vegetarian options. Trompo, what they call and savory cheese crisp. It’s infinitely more satisfying $ their marinated pork, is essentially al pastor. Pork than some cold shredded cheese thrown on top of the laughingtaco.com steaks are coated in bright orange seasoning, layered taco, but they can get a little greasy. Wash them down Handicapped access: Yes on a vertical spit, and roasted. When it’s time to serve, with a refreshing paloma or margarita slushie from the meat is cut off the spit. The marinade is heady with machine that greets you when you walk in. Alcohol is a CC mild dried chiles, achiote and spices. It’s quite tasty, nice addition that many taquerias don’t have.

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hen Juliet Popovic and her brother, Dave, opened Rusty Sprocket Antiques on the south end of Kinnickinnic Avenue, near St. Francis, in March 2013, a coffee shop wasn’t necessarily on Popovic’s radar. But she often served free coffee to their customers as they browsed in the shop. That customer-friendly gesture, along with the fact that there was no coffee shop in the vicinity, planted the seed for what would become Sprocket Café (3385 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.), which opened November 2016 in the adjoining space next to Rusty Sprocket Antiques.

Midwest Yarn previously occupied the café space, and when the storefront became available, Popovic snapped it up, but she wasn’t prepared with finances or a business plan. Enter Gwenn Barker, Popovic’s best friend, who helped Popovic open and is co-owner of the café. They also got a loan through Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC).

Popovic and her husband, along with Barker and café manager Rob Parrish, remodeled the space to make it café-ready.

The unique counter is accented with thick pallet wood. The tables, chairs and décor are a fun mishmash of vintage pieces, including a 1970s earthy orange portable TV—the kind found on almost every kitchen counter during the disco decade. Customers can play a board game or read while enjoying one of the unique coffee drinks or a bagel sandwich. Kitschy coffee mugs are for sale in the café, or those searching for more antiques can grab their coffee and walk through a SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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Sprocket Café serves Anodyne Coffee.

Customers can choose a straight up cup of java, latte, cappuccino, espresso or one of the unique coffee drinks Popovic added to the menu. “I like trying different stuff,” she said, “we have the Oaxacan latte, made with Mexican chocolate. It’s like a mocha, but with cinnamon; some people call it a Mexican hot chocolate. We also have affogato, which has a scoop of vanilla gelato and two shots of espresso. We also create weird drinks. I made one with two scoops of espresso-flavored gelato, cold coffee and whipped cream.

We also have malted milk, so we can make malted lattes. It’s a weirdly good flavor that reminds you of your childhood.”

Sprocket Café serves muffins from Jen’s Sweet Treats. Cookies from East Side Ovens’ will return to the menu, and trail mixes and nuts will soon be available. Popovic said they’re slowly adding more food as the business grows and they get more equipment.

They recently got a stand-up cooler and now offer bagel sandwiches: turkey and Swiss, black forest ham and cheddar, or roast beef and cheddar, all made with Sprocket Café’s own aioli spread—a garlicky, Mediterranean version of mayonnaise. Vegetarians can grab a veggie bagel with hummus, cukes, green leaf lettuce and red onion.

There’s also a bike shop in the basement, and on weekends customers can get their bicycles tuned up or have flat tires fixed while enjoying a latte.

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ccording to the Wisconsin Historical Society, from 1840 to 1880, one-sixth of the wheat grown in the United States came from Wisconsin.

As today’s good food pendulum continues to shift and people rediscover Old World artisan baking, farmers like Charlie Tennessen of Anarchy Acres stand ready to supply them with true heritage wheat.

Tennessen’s interest in Wisconsin’s heri- terested in wheat historically grown here. tage wheat came from a baking hobby. He focuses on red wheat and gets samples of “When you bake, you go through a lot of seeds through seed banks, including the U.S. cookbooks, and I eventually came across Department of Agriculture’s National Small a book that advised you to grind your own Grains Collection and the Australian Winter wheat,” he recalled.

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“I started grinding “I was very interback in the 1990s ested in Marquis bewith a grinder from cause it was a domia Lehman’s catanant wheat back in logue.” the 1920s,” he said.

He experi“Over two-thirds of mented with heriwheat grown in Wistage grains on consin was Marquis. his homestead in I was able to find Mount Pleasant, commercial quantiWis., and in 2008, ties from a farmer in his grew his first Canada, so I bought a grain crop, Turcouple bushels. Last key Red. Staying Anarchy Acre’s Heritage Wheat year at this time, we true to Old World were harvesting what methods, TennesI’m pretty sure was sen cut and threshed the wheat by hand and the first harvest of Marquis wheat in Wisconthen cleaned it and ground it in his machine. sin since the 1950s.”

Seeds from the seed bank can take four to He’s been upping the ante since then. Today he grows Turkey Red, Red Fife and Marquis five years to grow out and produce enough wheat on rented acreage and offers those wheat to sell. Tennessen uses organic growvarieties for purchase. He also experiments ing methods, including crop rotation and with other types of grains on his four-acre composting. He grinds flour as it is orhomestead, on which he farms with donkeys dered, using a stone ground mill that he built himself. and manual farming equipment.

A large portion of his customer base is Being a Wisconsinite, Tennessen was inthe home baker. He also sells wheat berries

(or kernels) for people to grind themselves, plant or use in recipes such as tabbouleh salad. All the wheat grown on Anarchy Acres works well as all-purpose flours and can be used in breads, pizza crust, cookies and pasta.

Heritage wheat retains more fiber and nutrition, since commercial milling practices focus on extracting just the starch and throw out healthy vitamins and trace minerals. By law, those producers have to put the vitamins back in; hence the term “enriched” that appears on many supermarket flour bags. Tennessen noted that those with gluten allergies or intolerances may also do better with heritage wheat, since the ratio of glutenin to gliadin, the two main protein groups of gluten, is different in heritage wheat than in modern wheat.

One of Tennessen’s recent experiments on his test lot is Red May, an English wheat that dates back to1690. “Everyone deserves good-tasting food that’s local and grown responsibly. It’s a different flavor, and I’m hoping that I’m bringing it back to the marketplace.”

Anarchy Acres flour is available at Outpost Natural Foods, Piggly Wiggly in Racine, Molbeck’s Health & Spice Shop in Racine, or online and at the farm.

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ASKTHEEXPERTS:: I WANT TO BECOME VEGAN. HOW DO I START? Dear How Do I Start, It is an exciting time to go vegan! Since 2014, there has been a 600% increase in veganism in the United States largely due to readily available information about the health benefits of being vegan and how a plant-based diet can help save the environment. There’s also overwhelming information about the treatment of animals, something important to so many people.

If you’re interested in becoming vegan, you’ll find that the benefits are endless. It can expand your social circle, make you more cognizant of cruelty-free living choices and drastically lower your carbon footprint.

So, the first step to becoming a vegan is to look for support from like-minded individuals. We are very lucky in 2017 to have vast resources for switching to a vegan lifestyle, including local individuals and organizations in Milwaukee that are here to support you. One resource I find valuable is VeganMilwaukee.com. Here you will find a full directory of resources such as Milwaukee-area restaurants that offer vegan options, a listing of local cruelty-free products including beauty

and home-care, vegan meal delivery services and animal rights organizations. The website also lists active community groups to join.

The second step is to remember that you can start slowly.

Swap out a meal a day with a vegan option. Then, build from there until your entire meal schedule is vegan. You can also go cold turkey, or being vegan, no turkey – whatever works for you. You’ll also want to look for products, including clothing, makeup, household cleaners and even beers and wines that are made with vegan, cruelty-free practices.

Finally, seek advice on and adequate health information about veganism to make sure you are maintaining a wellbalanced diet. The best source of plant-based diet health information can be found via The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which is a nonprofit organization comprised of thousands of physicians around the world that support plant-based diets. They have conducted hundreds of peer-reviewed studies indicating that meat and dairy are responsible for many of humankind’s health issues and in contrast show how going vegan can save your life. You may want to consult a physician about going vegan; I recommend finding a plant-based physician at PlantBasedDoctors.org. A nutritionist can also help ensure you are getting the proper balance of proteins, fats, and fiber and not relying too much on processed food. Check out vegan recipes, too. There are so many tasty options out there.

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Check out Milwaukee Vegan Meet-Up, Milwaukee Veg People of Color, and the Urban Ecology Center’s monthly vegan potluck.

If animal rights activism is of interest, look into Direct Action Everywhere’s Wisconsin chapter or Wisconsin Animal Save. While going vegan is great, activism will help others become educated on animal agriculture, the entertainment industry, the fashion industry and beyond. In order for systematic change to happen, we need grassroots social justice groups to gather and take action. Using your voice to challenge systems that normalize violence against animals is extremely needed. Further, you can find documentaries on Netflix that explore the economics of animals and animal treatment. I recommend “Cowspiracy” or “Earthlings.”

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What connects you to this work?

I see myself in a lot of the kids. I grew up in a fairly rough neighborhood, and I had some of the same struggles and experiences. A lot of times we don’t get to see the people in our neighborhoods who are doing something positive, who are successful and doing well for themselves. I try to show them that you can come from the inner city and be positive and successful at the same time, and really love what you do.

What made you decide to stay with the Boys & Girls Club, rather than pursue a career in basketball?

I saw so many kids who were just like me. They came in and played basketball all day and still had to struggle. But it was like they were oblivious. They didn’t know it was a struggle because that’s all they knew. We were talking and they started telling me about some of the issues they were facing, and a light bulb went off. The more I developed relationships with the youth, I didn’t even think about basketball anymore. I felt like it was more important for me to help the community. I could help more than just myself. And I felt that I could help to produce young productive citizens.

What is most rewarding about your job?

A lot of times the students don’t trust adults, so for them to be able to express themselves to you, that feels good because you know you have trust. Building those relationships is like payment. When you work at a Boys & Girls Club, and you’re there every day, the students and staff become your family. And it’s a blessing to be around youth who don’t even know they’re struggling. I see kids smiling from ear to ear, even if they don’t have the best things or the best situation, they’re just happy to be here.

How crucial do you think programs like the Boys & Girls Club are?

I don’t think words can express how valuable the Boys & Girls Club is, not just to students but to families. I feel like the Boys & Girls Club saves thousands of lives each year.

There are so many different opportunities and programs for the youth. There are leadership programs, scholarship programs, job opportunities, networking, the chance to learn job skills. It’s a vehicle to help students find success. But it’s not just me. It takes a team and I have a great staff.

To learn more about the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, visit boysgirlsclubs.org.

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ilwaukee’s own Bud Selig was inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame this past weekend largely for his contributions to the game as commissioner. Over the past week, a million stories have been told about Selig, some complimentary, others not so much. It took some digging to find a Selig story that was not well-tread material, but Brew Crew Confidential found one: Bud Selig’s mid-’80s battle against a proposed maximum security prison that would have loomed just beyond County Stadium’s centerfield bleachers.

1984 had been a nightmare for the Brewers. Just two years removed from the World Series and a year after the team contended in the AL East until the final month of the season, the Brewers staggered to a 67-94 finish—dead last in the league. The team drew just 1.6 million fans—a drop of 800,000— from 1983. Still paying star salaries to the core of their ’82 juggernaut, many of whom underperformed or were injured, the team finished the year in the red; the first time in their history they had lost money in a season.

Beyond the team’s poor play, Selig was worried about another development that, as he saw it, had the potential to drastically affect the team’s drawing potential. Throughout the early 1980s, the State of Wisconsin had been trying to build a prison in Milwaukee.

The state needed more prison space and, pointing out that most state prisoners came from Milwaukee anyway, Gov. Tony Earl argued that a prison in the city would make it easier for Milwaukee residents to visit incarcerated family members.

The state’s first choice was alongside the Milwaukee River in the Brewers Hill neighborhood. Opponents of the proposal managed to tie it up in the courts, but meanwhile, the state moved forward on another Milwaukee site: a parcel of former industrial land in the Menomonee Valley that sat less than a halfmile from County Stadium. The Valley project called for a 450-bed maximum-security prison. The perimeter of the facility would lie less than 100 feet from the eastern end of the stadium parking lots, and the entire works— including the cell house, radio and light tours and guard towers—would be visible from the stadium’s press box and upper deck.

Scaring Off the Fans?

Selig voiced concerns about the project as soon as it was announced. While state officials insisted that there was no threat of a jailbreak or riot disrupting any goings-on at

the stadium, Selig was not convinced. “I just keep saying, ‘What if, God forbid, they are wrong, and they find out too late that they have done something to harm us?’ Here is a stadium that is filled with 35 years of mostly wonderful memories.” He also worried about the psychological effects of having the prison so near and within view.

With fears legitimate or not, fans might now avoid the area. Signage along interstates and access roads leading the park would give ominous directions, such as “Stadium/ Prison: Next Left Turn.” National broadcasts of games at County Stadium might show the prison, and broadcasters could make off-hand references to the facility during slow points in the game (“Boy, if this guy doesn’t pitch any better, he could be sent to the bullpen. And if he struggles there, he might get sent somewhere even worse.”)

During the 1984-’85 off-season, the team filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction to prevent the project from breaking ground. “Why would anyone take this chance at the largest tourist attraction in Wisconsin?” Selig testified. “They didn’t build a prison across from Disneyland.”

That January, while the case was still pending and Selig fumed about the media not taking his objections to the prison plan seriously, rumors emerged that the Brewers could potentially leave Milwaukee for another city.

Selig dismissed this talk but, just a month later, he began to openly drop hints that, if the team’s finances continued to slide, the future of Milwaukee baseball could be in doubt.

Selig said he was confused as to why Wisconsin was doing something to damage their baseball club while, in a not-so-thinly veiled reference to relocation, cities like Phoenix, Tampa, Fla., and Vancouver, British Columbia, were planning to build new stadiums with the hopes of attracting a team.

In February 1985, a judge issued a temporary injunction preventing the project from moving forward, pending the results of more environmental impact and traffic flow studies of the prison project. That spring, after the state dropped the plans for the Milwaukee River prison, efforts on the Valley location were redoubled, but a string of legal setbacks delayed the project and, after defeating Earl in the 1986 gubernatorial election, Republican Tommy Thompson said his administration would abandon the Valley plan for a more rural prison site.

The once-proposed prison site is presently occupied by Miller Park’s Yount and Uecker parking lots.

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CHARLES Q. SULLIVAN REFLECTS ON HIS DEVOTION TO THE MUSICAL LIFE OF HIS CITY ::BY JOHN JAHN y only time out of the Milwaukee arts scene since 1969 was to direct a major music program and concert series in Columbus, Ohio,” reflects Charles Q. Sullivan, retiring executive and artistic director of Early Music Now (EMN), though he quickly wishes to clarify just what leaving that position means. “This ‘retirement’ is the latest in a series of endings to a variety of roles I have served in the Milwaukee arts community,” says Sullivan. Endings that always lead to new beginnings.

Charles Q. Sullivan is leaving his leadership post with EMN after 16 years in that role—his longest tenure in any one such position—during which time the early music presenting organization has proffered more than 90 concerts to more than 30,000 Milwaukee-area residents—critical reviews of which have been almost universally enthusiastic.

World-class ensembles, time and time again, have made their way to Milwaukee for concerts of early music unavailable elsewhere in our city.

“We will greatly miss Charles’ sure and steady

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hand in leading Early Music Now,” says EMN Board President Katherine Lambert. Thallis Hoyt Drake, who, with music-loving friends founded Early Music Now in 1986, adds that the organization “has grown beyond my wildest dreams, in large part due to Charles Q. Sullivan’s faithful leadership.”

Clearly, Sullivan threw himself into making EMN a success because his heart was truly in it; his music bona fides are, indeed, impossible to overstate.

Between 1971 and 1982, he founded and directed the Sullivan Chamber Ensemble, “the most active

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small performing organization in the area,” he says.

From 1985-1992, he served as executive producer and director of liturgical drama at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, “presenting what became an alternative Christmas presentation that drew audiences of close to 5,000,” he recalls. (What those concerts entailed were alternating performances of the medieval Latin liturgical drama, Play of Daniel, with Benjamin Britten’s 1948 cantata, Saint Nicolas.) In addition—and overlapping several of the important occupations previously mentioned—Sullivan has been a vocal coach with UW-Milwaukee’s Professional Theatre Training Program, founder of the Plymouth Chorale and, today, continues on as Chapel Musician at St. John’s On The Lake.

“These years of working to promote other artists have been very rewarding, but I have missed performing and conducting and hope to exercise some of those muscles in the coming years,” says Sullivan, who is clearly not ready to retire in any sense of the word. “I feel that I am leaving EMN in excellent artistic and financial shape to support new ideas in the future.” He most certainly looks back upon his leadership of Early Music Now as a successful chapter in his musical life, though, as we see, not the final chapter at all.

“Early Music Now was founded very early in the burgeoning of interest in early music and has become widely regarded as one of the most creative and successful early music presenting organizations in the U.S.,” Sullivan explains, adding that it “attracts the finest and most creative period musicians for concerts and outreach events.” He attributes much of the success of the organization to its growing, devoted audience members.

“Visiting artists frequently comment on the size and musical sophistication of our audiences, noting that this is unusual for a city of Milwaukee’s size,” he says. “Concert audiences are frequently close to capacity, and for major artists, often sold out.” Perhaps they are in on a secret that deserves to be exposed widely: Through Early Music Now, Milwaukeeans have “an opportunity and a privilege enjoyed by only a few cities in the U.S. In fact, EMN is the only music presenter in the Midwest and one of the few in the country to focus on performances of Medieval, Renaissance and early-Baroque music,” according to Sullivan.

“It was Early Music Now’s great good fortune when Charles Q. Sullivan accepted the position of executive and artistic director in 2001,” comments Katherine Lambert. “He brought to the job a unique combination of attributes and experience—knowledge of music and its historical context and performance practices; fundraising, business, communications and administration skills; a wide network of contacts; and a deep understanding of the arts in the Greater Milwaukee area.”

This is not, at all, a goodbye and fare-thee-well.

Sullivan is at St. John’s On The Lake, and look for him performing and conducting concerts in our community for what we can only hope will be quite some time to come.

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Wisconsin State Fair @ Wisconsin State Fair Grounds

Every year, vendors at the Wisconsin State Fair outdo themselves, delivering some of the weirdest, most decadent and over-the-top festival food imaginable. Among the highlights of this year’s heavily deep-fried new offerings are dessert nachos (with salted caramel and chocolate gelato as the sauce); deep-fried grilled cheese bites; spaghetti and meatball mozzarella sticks, and, from Saz’s, a deep-friend banana burrito with peanut butter and bacon jam. Music performers at this year’s fair, meanwhile, include John Mellencamp, The Beach Boys, Patti LaBelle, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, GGOOLLDD, Here Come The Mummies and an I Love the ’90s tour with Vanilla Ice, Kid ’n Play, Ton Loc and Young MC. The fair runs through Sunday, Aug. 13.

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Chris Isaak @ Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, 8 p.m.

With just six more episodes of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks revival left, it’s still unclear whether we’ll ever find out what happened to Chester Desmond, the mysteriously vanished FBI agent played

by Chris Isaak in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Thankfully, unlike his character, Isaak himself never disappeared from the public eye. Since scoring his signature hit “Wicked Game,” a song that introduced the world to his impassioned falsetto and gained popularity in part due to its Lynch-directed video, Isaak has continued releasing albums that spotlight his signature mix of rockabilly guitar and lovelorn voice. His latest album, 2015’s First Comes The Night, makes the vintage influences that have always run through his music even more explicit.

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Worriers w/ Typesetter and The Gnar Wave Rangers @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

Worriers’ Lauren Denitzio uses the band’s pop-punk as a platform to comment on the flaws of societal norms and institutions, exploring how concepts like gender, queer politics and institutionalized hierarchies shape the way people experience the world. There’s a nervous urgency in the music’s racing guitars, but Denitzio’s vocals charge ahead with steady strength even when the songs touch on tumultuous topics. The band recently released an impassioned single called “Future Me” ahead of their upcoming album, due later this year.

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For this clever Milwaukee Craft Brewery Week event, Mobcraft will host a series of music and beer pairings: A band will perform while a brewery serves a specialty brew.

Along with MobCraft, participating breweries include Enlightened, Sprecher, Biloba and Third Space. Highlights of the music lineup include Sweet Sheiks, 4th Street Elevator and The Hungry Williams, a new New Orleans-style jump blues band featuring members of Uptown Savages, Semi-Twang, Blue in the Face and The Subcontinentals (they’ll perform at 7:15 p.m., with the suggested pairing of Third Space’s American pale ale, Happy Place). Food truck Hidden Kitchen MKE will also be on site.

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Mt. Joy w/ Trevor Sensor @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 8 p.m.

The indie-folk group Mt. Joy hails from Los Angeles, where they’re currently recording their debut album. The five-piece band only recently decided to pursue music full time and have spent the past year putting out singles inspired by musicians who use art to make a statement, such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and The Grateful Dead. Mt. Joy’s fiery song “Sheep” plays on the current political climate surrounding Donald Trump’s presidency, commenting directly on the need for collective action. Though they haven’t quite finished their full-length album, they’re playing all the songs from it on tour this summer.

John Nemeth w/ Delta Routine @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

Following his critically acclaimed May release, Feelin’ Freaky, John Nemeth is bringing his dynamic take on the blues on the road for this cross-country tour. The blues, soul and R&B artist has put out nine albums to date, establishing himself as a powerhouse leader in the genre. With Feelin’ Freaky, Nemeth incorporates a daring mix of hip-hop and rock influences into his arrangements. His willingness to test genre boundaries has done him well so far, as he’s nominated for a 2017 Blues Music Award in the category of B.B. King Entertainer of the Year.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 5 Center Street Daze @ Center Street, noon

The Locust Street Festival may be Riverwest’s signature summer event, but Center Street Daze arguably does an even better job capturing the quirky, communal spirit that makes the neighborhood a sure treasure. The festival celebrates its 20th year this weekend with a full day of music at venues including The Uptowner, Jazz Gallery, Company Brewing, Quarters Rock ’n’ Roll Palace, Club Timbuktu and Riverwest Radio—and a ton of quirky tournaments and competitions, which in recent years have included push cart races, street pool tournaments, dodgeball and pinball. There will also be a classic car show.

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Vanishing Kids w/ Moon Rats and Galactic Hatchet @ Boone & Crockett, 8 p.m.

Zola Jesus may be the most notable goth act ever to spring from Madison, Wis., but, years before she was self-recording dramatic demos, another local band ruled that scene: Vanishing Kids, a shoegazey, goth-pop group that recorded their 2005 album, The Selfish Mirror, with industrial legend Martin Atkins (of Public Image Ltd, Nine Inch Nails, Killing Joke and so many others). The band’s sound has evolved over the last decade, growing considerably heavier as it’s taken on a doomier, psychedelic edge. They’re planning to release a new album next year called Heavy Dreamer.

MONDAY, AUGUST 7 Psychic Temple @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

Psychic Temple’s Chris Schlarb has left his mark on many projects, working with Sufjan Stevens, Nels Cline (of Wilco) and Dave Longstreth (of The Dirty Projectors) among many others. The musician, writer and producer revels in free-form, avant-garde compositions, but Psychic Temple is probably his most accessible project. Going from a solo undertaking to a full band in order to realize his vision, Chris Schlarb’s Psychic Temple songs are a mashup of pop, country and jazz. The group’s third and latest album, IV, came out earlier this summer and is their most pop-forward yet.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 Rancid and Dropkick Murphys @ BMO Harris Pavilion, 6:30 p.m.

Coming to prominence from under the wing of the record label Epitaph, the same label that nurtured other punk bands like The Offspring and Green Day around the same time, Rancid quickly amassed a huge following in the ’90s from their frequent airtime on MTV and rock radio. They’ve maintained this following for the last quartercentury—continuing to put out music as blistering and energetic as ever. The Bay Area group put out a new album called Trouble Maker this year to appreciative reviews from music blogs like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and Consequence of Sound, the latter of which said it might be their catchiest album ever. They’ll split this bill with the Dropkick Murphys, the Celtic punk band whose roaring 2005 song, “I’m Shipping Up to Boston,” has become a staple of sports arenas everywhere.

The Black Lillies @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

Since forming in 2009, The Black Lillies have worked their way to the forefront of Americana acts. Their music ranges in genre from folk and blues to jazz, though it’s always tinged with underlying country roots. The group went through a lineup shift in ’15, losing two members, but also welcoming new talent in their place, including Bill Reynolds from Band of Horses on bass.

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All’s Well That Ends Well

The Countess says: “Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.” The Clown responds: “My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.” A little opaque? Mangled syntax? How dare you! It’s William Shakespeare writing lines in his 1601 romantic comedy, All’s Well That Ends Well. (Basically, the clown is telling the countess that, if the devil’s driving, strap yourself in for a wild ride!) What will All’s Well That Ends Well look and sound like in the besotted grip of Boozy Bard? Follow your fleshly drives for their “Shakespeare Raw”-take on this classic. After all, you must needs go! (John Jahn) Aug. 14-16 at Best Place in the Historic Pabst Brewery, 901 W. Juneau Ave. For more information, visit facebook.com/boozybard.

Coraline the Musical

Published 15 years ago as a dark fantasy novella aimed at younger readers, Neil Gaiman’s Coraline is full of things that unnerve us when we’re young. Things like being warned against opening a certain door, worrisome predictions about the future, being told of inanimate items with special powers…or maybe a next-door apartment that has been bricked up. Bad Example Productions brings a stage adaptation, Coraline the Musical (David Greenspan, writer; Stephin Merritt, composer-lyricist), to Milwaukee in a premiere production, thereby offering us a little foretaste of Halloween. Coraline is for all ages, but parents of younger children should know that there are some scenes designed to be genuinely frightening.

Aug. 3-13 at Tenth Street Theatre, 628 N. 10th St. For more information and tickets, visit coralinemusical.brownpapertickets.com.

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They’ve released two highly acclaimed CDs and have appeared live in the Far East, Europe and the Americas. The following day is styled “Fingerstyle Friday.” Sponsored by Milwaukee’s CandyRat Records, this evening’s concert features fingerstyle guitarists Antoine Dufour from Canada and Mike Dawes from Great Britain. The last evening of the festival welcomes former “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” musical director Kevin Eubanks to the stage who, after almost two decades on the show, has begun a new chapter in his life as a recording and touring guitarist.

Aug. 17-19 at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, 19805 W. Capitol Drive, Brookfield.

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‘13 Minutes’ Brilliantly Restages the Plot to Kill Hitler ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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ulping nervously for air and sweating profusely, Georg Elser set sticks of dynamite into a basement crevice and attached a ticking timer to the charge. On Nov. 8, 1939, two months into World War II, Elser planted the bomb in the Munich beer hall where Hitler conducted his annual address to party comrades on the anniversary of the failed putsch that propelled him from local rabble-rouser to the national spotlight.

But with the diabolical luck that accompanied Hitler up until the end, he left the hall 13 minutes before the bomb went off. The time between his departure and the explosion provides the name for the film based on those events by German director Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall), 13 Minutes.

Quietly haunting the film, Christian Friedel portrays Elser as determined to maintain his dignity and conscience under unconscionable conditions. Elser has been chalked up as an enigma in the history books, a lone bomber acting from uncertain motives, and a nimbus of mystery clings to him throughout 13 Minutes. Elser is accurately depicted as a Christian who hung around with Communists but never joined the party—and as a suave proletarian laSHEPHERD EXPRESS

dies man, a dancer and a musician and as much a bohemian as his small-town life allowed.

Not improbably, the Elser of 13 Minutes is a pacifist finally driven to kill in the name of peace. He has deep remorse for the casualties he caused, including a waitress, but regrets that Hitler, driven by some unnamable impulse, cut his speech short and exited before the blast that surely would have claimed him.

With a strong sense of the past seeping into the present, much of Elser’s story is revealed in flashbacks triggered by incidents during his captivity. His bomb may have been well made but his escape was ill planned. After he was arrested, Elser is subjected to medieval tortures, the worst of it barely off screen. Hirschbiegel depicts a fissure in Germany’s officialdom in the attitudes of police official Arthur Nebe and his Gestapo counterpart. Nebe is shown as a professional cop concerned with establishing the truth. He believes Elser’s profession of acting alone. But as the Gestapo insists, “We create the truth”—the Fuhrer believes it was a conspiracy and they are determined to force Elser to confess to being part of a network. The relatively sympathetic portrayal of Nebe will be controversial.

Aside from painting a plausible portrait of Elser, 13 Minutes 13 Minutes excels in depicting the Christian process that drove the Friedel would-be assassin to build his bomb—the Directed by Nazification of everyOliver day life in Germany.

Hirschbiegel The party boss in Rated R Elser’s town praises Hitler as the avatar of progress and technology and promises new streets paved and lit and a radio in every home.

Hitler delivered on those promises even as he plotted the war and genocide that killed millions and left the continent in ruins.

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The Dark Tower PG-13 Over the past decade, numerous efforts to bring Stephen King’s eight-novel series to the big screen fizzled before the project found a home at Sony. Planned as a film trilogy linked with a TV series, the action unfolds in both present-day New York City and in an Old West parallel universe. Young Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) joins gunslinger Roland Deschain (Idris Elba) in protecting the universe from a sorcerer known as the evil Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey).

The sorcerer seeks to gain control over The Dark Tower, a mysterious structure underpinning various realities. Blending elements of magic, old-school gun skills and spiritualism, hopefully King’s world springs to life onscreen. (Lisa Miller)

Detroit R Director Kathryn Bigelow’s film is set in 1967 as white America grappled with implementing civil rights laws. Following the unnecessarily rough handling of African American patrons of an unlicensed Detroit tavern, the black community revolts with riots, firebombs and looting. Michigan State Police and the National Guard are called in to contain the situation, but racism runs rampant through the ranks of the local police. The story focuses on the infamous incident at the Algiers Motel, an unforgettable and deeply disturbing event. Hopefully, rather than incite anger, this depiction helps us realize some of the great strides made by our culture during the past 40 years. (L.M.) Dancework’s ‘Hip Hop Dance Experience’ PHOTO BY JENNA MARLI

Kidnap R After several seasons pursuing her missing son on TV’s “Extant,” Halle Berry is at it again in Kidnap. Karla Dyson (Berry) and her young son are enjoying an afternoon in the park when the lad is suddenly spirited away in a blue car. Having lost her cell phone, Karla hops into her maroon minivan, relentlessly pursuing her son and his abductor, whose vehicle has no license plates.

The chase takes her through seemingly impossible driving sequences as she risks everything to retrieve her boy. The film depends on Berry’s ability to sell Karla’s mix of grit and terror. (L.M.)

[HOME MOVIES/OUT ON DIGITAL] Alive and Kicking

Alive and Kicking glances back at swing dancing’s roots in 1920s Harlem and its ancestral ties to hip-hop. But the documentary focuses on the present, showcasing comments from young dance partners for whom swing is a way to dress up, have fun, improvise within set boundaries and develop personal skills. For some, it’s a finger in the eye of contemporary digitalized existence, a way to feel alive. Many scenes were shot at high-stepping ballroom contests.

I Am the Blues

The great postwar blues artists—the Muddy Waters and the John Lee Hookers—are gone, but their musical children continue. I Am the Blues is a journey through the muggy backcountry of the American South with Grammy-winner Bobby Rush and less-known 70-something-year-old survivors of an earlier era. All are filled with memories, are still musically proficient and often capable of moving performances. Tin-roofed juke joints and dusty rural roads are among the settings.

Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary

As astronauts first ventured into outer space, Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass) began exploring inner space through psychedelics. Narrated by Robert Redford, Dying to Know crisscrosses around the lives of those two academic adventurers with emphasis on a conversation between them shortly before Leary’s death (1996). They weren’t playing around for kicks but used science to transcend science in an exploration of the human psyche—and perhaps the divine.

Kansas vs. Darwin

The 2005 hearing by the Kansas Board of Education on the validity of Darwinism drew international attention and is the subject of this documentary. What emerges is the self-perception of many creationists as rebels, kicking against elitists trying to impose an alien worldview. Their fundamentalism is aided, ironically, by the pervasive relativism of our time in which sincerity trumps factuality. Several Kansans interviewed by director Jeff Tamblyn intelligently blend science with philosophy and faith.

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nce again, Ignite: A Hip Hop Dance Experience, the now five-year-old annual citywide hip-hop dance showcase produced by Danceworks DanceLAB, provided dance entertainment in which equality in race, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation was a joyous given.

Hip-hop, of course, is an African American style embraced by many minorities.

White artists joined without taking it over, and everyone’s side-by-side presence onstage helped dispel any shadows of minstrel shows. Men and women dance identical movements. All bodies are hot and desire is hot stereotyped. The great variety of individual performers, highly communal structures and spirited dancing are fun to watch and an ideal image of city life.

This summer’s 10-dance program started strong with the SueMo dancers. Theatrical, balletic, athletic and explosive, Morgan Williams’ “Shortline” believably dramatized the struggle of a man caught in an emotionally difficult relationship. Later in the show, Christa Smutek’s “Architect of the Mind” for SueMo’s well-trained young company, SueMo II, was another highlight. The costuming—sleeveless white tuxedo shirts with black bow ties and short shorts—had interesting references. Ten girls executed fast-paced combinations, pirouettes, leaps and gymnastics with serious mental focus finished by grinning and wiggling their bowties.

“J.T.,” named for Justin Timberlake whose songs provided the accompaniment, featured group choreography, 17 dancers in ever-shifting combinations and the kind of creative thinking about hip-hop I’ve learned to associate with this event: an episode of straight-out tap dancing with no change in music. Gabi Sustache, gifted at both tap and hip-hop, was one of its choreographers. The recognition that sophisticated, beat-conscious hip-hop movements are a kind of tap dancing for every body part returned for me later in “Okukola Awaamu” (Working Together) by Sustache, Samantha Mesa and Joel Talemwa. The latter also presented a solo, “Kilooto” (A Dream), with some old-fashioned breakdancing.

The estimable Richard Buda Brasfield choreographed the touching finale, “MKE is Burning,” a reference to the famous film that names Paris the flaming city. Many of the evening’s artists took part, including virtuosos Clay Savage, who’d presented his own piece earlier, and Rasheeda Pannniell, another “J.T.” choreographer. Brasfield turned the stage into a ballroom where, as in the film, the characteristically oppressed execute the stylized poses and moves of high-fashion models and old Hollywood movie stars. Brasfield’s judges give everybody 10s; the dance’s black gay male central character finds a family; voguing and hip-hop save lives.

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The Order, Chaos and ‘Joy’ of Rashid Johnson at Milwaukee Art Museum ::BY KAT KNEEVERS

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rt is a slow responding medium and it often doesn’t lend itself to reacting very directly to current events and issues,” says Rashid Johnson. “So it slowly begins to translate those things and tell us how history unfolds through the artist’s brain…” This is a reminder to take time when viewing Johnson’s work in the exhibition “Hail We Now Sing Joy” at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

At the exhibition space’s entrance, Antoine’s Organ is an imposing presence, like a garden that rises far overhead. Constructed on a metal grid, hundreds of plants are placed with old televisions, lights and books. Inside the structure is a hidden piano, which is played at certain times during the exhibition run. Some items embedded in this installation are reflective of Johnson’s earlier artwork, other items signify research and questions about identity and the experience of being African American. Shea butter and black soap from West Africa are particularly resonant materials for the artist, as is the abundance of plants. This motif stems from an idea in his childhood that lush gardens and tropical paradise were signifiers of success, and places standing in stark contrast to the cold concrete of his Chicago home.

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painted works range from abstract smears and textures, like in the Falling Man series, to large areas of images and patterns in the Escape Collage series. In the quietly haunting Anxious Audience, a massive array of expressionist faces are scratched and incised into soap and wax on white ceramic tile. As is the case throughout “Hail We Now Sing Joy,” a dichotomy forms between elements that are highly personal and symbolically charged, flowing in energetic gestures and even chaos, yet girded by foundational structures.

In conjunction with this exhibition, a panel discussion titled “Art, Politics, and Activism” will take place at 6:15 p.m., on Thursday, Aug. 3. Panelists include Slate Magazine political analyst Jamelle Bouie, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee DJ Marcus Doucette, activist and urban agriculturist Venice Williams and MAM curator Margaret Andera.

“Rashid Johnson: Hail We Now Sing Joy” continues through Sept. 17 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive.

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riving east on Greenfield Avenue,just one block past its intersection with Barclay Street, you’ll encounter a railroad bridge badly in need of a mural, which, thanks to Harbor District, Inc., it shall soon have. The organization has put out a request for proposals of mural concepts that give visual expression to the ongoing revitalization of the Harbor District. Thousands of Milwaukeeans—be they commuters traversing South First Street, the 2,800 employees of Rockwell Automation or shoppers visiting the new Cermak Fresh Market Store—drive by the underpass on a daily basis.

Artists are asked to make the themes “water” and “entrance to the Harbor District” central to their design and are encouraged to consider “Kinnickinnic River Trail,” “port and shipping,” “the natural environment,” “the surrounding neighborhood and built environment,” and “industry” as other possible themes.

Proposals must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 11. Interested parties should email dan@harbordistrict.org for a detailed document explaining response requirements, submission directions, selection process and timeline.

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On Saturday, Aug. 5, the Lynden Sculpture Garden takes on a Gullah flavor with a handful of events inspired by the continued presence of Fo Wilson’s installation “Eliza’s Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities.” The free, family friendly day includes artist-in-residence Portia Cobb leading dyeing projects with South Carolinabased textile artist Arianne King Comer as well as an intimate, outdoor concert by local R&B-meets-classical duo SistaStrings.

“Many Elizas” takes place from 10 a.m. through 4 p.m.

“It Runs In the Family: Art and the Rosenblatts” Jewish Museum Milwaukee, 1360 N. Prospect Ave. In his decades of teaching at UW-Milwaukee, sculptor Adolph Rosenblatt inspired generations of students to appreciate and pursue a career in the arts. Not surprisingly, his family also developed artistic inclinations. “It Runs In the Family: Art and the Rosenblatts” is a panel discussion detailing the artistic endeavors of the Rosenblatt family and the indelible influence of father/husband, Adolph. The discussion will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 2. General admission is $5 and free for JMM members.

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An Enlightening Account of Islam’s Entry to the Modern World ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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utside the Islamic world, commentators as far back as the 18th century have wondered whether Islam and modernity are compatible. Within the faith, some Muslims have despaired at the question—or turned to militant fundamentalism in a doomed bid to cancel the past three centuries.

As Christopher de Bellaigue writes in his unfailingly witty, often wise account, The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times (Liveright), “There is something wonderfully earnest and yet wholly irrelevant about westerners demanding modernity from people whose lives are drenched in it.”

During the Middle Ages, Islamic civilization was one of the lights of the world, de Bellaigue reminds us, only to dim under the long reign of the Ottoman Empire and shrink from the technological and social advances of post-Enlightenment Europe. By the time Napoleon conquered Egypt in 1798, the Muslim world was militarily weak, intellectually feeble and socially anemic. Fatalists among the faithful resigned themselves to God’s will.

Reactionaries plotted vainly. But in many places, especially Egypt, Turkey and Persia, the intelligentsia (often led by open-minded clerics) and the rulers (fearful of Western conquest) began to propose and implement reforms. Sometimes they moved cautiously and incrementally so as not to alarm sleepy reactionaries and sometimes they acted in broad strokes backed by a heavy hand.

One problem—and it persists into the present day—was that the world-shaking prowess of the modern West had been achieved through centuries of organic social as well as scientific growth. Panicked by the unexpected strength of the infidel, Islamic rulers determined to catch up by any means necessary, erecting modern institutions, “but the ethos inside them was not always modern,” de Bellaigue writes. Coercive modernization was met with populist resistance. The dangerous fault lines apparent in many 21st-century Muslim states began to appear as early as the 19th century.

A writer for The Economist, de Bellaigue’s particular bias seems transparent: One imagines that for him, liberal democratic capitalism is the best of all possible worlds. He is too good a historian, however, to entirely discount the thinking of those who might conclude otherwise or to undervalue the positive collaboration between the conservers and the innovators. The project of modernity, in Islamic states and elsewhere, often claimed tens of thousands of lives in schemes to build a “better,” more efficient world.

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‘Milwaukee During the Great War’ Looks at a Divided City ::BY JENNI HERRICK

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017 marks the centennial anniversary of American involvement in World War I. In Wisconsin, 122,000 service members joined the fight in Europe, even though many local residents remained sharply divided over participation in the war. For the large German American population in Milwaukee, as well as a strong Socialist political base in the city, the declaration of war in 1917 led to much uncertainty and raised suspicions of German American patriotism.

In his book, A Crowded Hour: Milwaukee During the Great War, 1917-1918, author Kevin Abing examines the diverse social, political and economic forces that Milwaukeeans faced during and after World War I. Abing, a Marquette University graduate who has worked at the Wisconsin Historical Society for 10 years, has researched the complicated stories of city residents who found themselves facing intense scrutiny by pro-war patriots who questioned their loyalty and urged widespread efforts to suppress German culture.

Despite some outspoken opposition, most Wisconsinites did not oppose the war and many state industries enjoyed wartime prosperity. In addition to sacrificing the lives of 1,800 residents, the state was the first to organize a State Council of Defense to educate citizens on the war and its required sacrifices such as meatless and wheat-less days.

In addition to wartime struggles, Americans were also facing pressures over long-debated social crusades including women’s suffrage and prohibition, skyrocketing inflation and growing ethnic tensions. Abing’s book shows the myriad of ways that the war dramatically transformed Milwaukee. He will discuss A Crowded Hour at Boswell Book Co., 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 3.

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::RUTHIE’SSOCALCALENDAR Aug. 1-6: Milwaukee Comedy Festival (various locations): Get the giggles, bust a gut and yuck it up this week! Funny man Michael Ian Black helps celebrate Cream City’s largest multi-day laugh fest, featuring stand-up, improv, sketch comedy and more. Visit mkecomedyfest.com for a list of events, venues and tickets ($15 for individual shows; $50 for an all-access pass).

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Aug. 3: Opening night of ‘Coraline the Musical’ at In Tandem Theatre (628 N. 10th St.): Bad Example Productions serves up the Wisconsin premiere of this fantasy favorite. Written by David Greenspan with music by Stephin Merritt and direction by David Kaye, this musical follows a little girl as she explores a hidden world that’s sure to intrigue theatergoers. Performances run through Aug. 13. Swing by coralinemusical.brownpapertickets. com to reserve your $25 ticket.

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Aug. 4: Gay-Straight Alliance Night at Fat Daddy’s & D.I.X. (120 W. National Ave. & 739 S. First St.): Gay? Straight? No one cares during this monthly party that kicks off at Fat Daddy’s. Mix, mingle and grab a free raffle ticket at 9 p.m. Then head over to D.I.X. by 11:30 p.m., where the party continues with raffle prizes, free shots and a Whitney Houston-themed drag show. No cover charge at either bar, but you must be over 21 to partake.

I graduated from Marquette this summer and was able to get an internship with a good company. I met my boyfriend there who is also an intern. I really like him and there’s some serious feelings between us. The issue is that in a few weeks he leaves Wisconsin to go to back to his home state to finish his last year of school.

We knew this was coming, but now it’s here and it’s killing me. Since I graduated, I’m thinking maybe I should move with him. My friends say it’s way too soon, and he’ll be busy with school and stuff anyway, so I don’t know. They also think I’m being gullible for thinking this is the person I’ll spend the rest of my life with.

What do you think?

Gullible Grad Dear Grad,

Ah…young love. So magical. So beautiful.

So stupid. Just kidding, honey. I completely understand the conflicting feelings you have.

And they’re just that…conflicting. Your collegeeducated brain is telling you one thing; your young, innocent heart is telling you another. I get it, sugar.

Perhaps try a long-distance relationship for a bit. Before he leaves, set up exact dates you’re going to visit one another. This will add a sense of commitment to the relationship and make you both feel better. If you can survive a long-distance affair over the next several months, then you’ll both feel stronger about making decisions about being together after he graduates. I know this will be hard, but give it a shot. This way, he can focus on his degree and you can get your feet wet in the working world.

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Aug. 5: Rugby 101 with Milwaukee Beer Barons at Wilson Park (1601 W. Howard Ave.): Milwaukee’s newest gay rugby club wants you…for rugby that is. Join the team at 2 p.m. for a class on how to play the game and secret rugby strategies. No experience is needed, and every fitness level is encouraged to participate. Come ready to make new friends, but bring bottled water and sunscreen and dress appropriately. (You’re going to get sweaty and dirty.) After the class, you’re invited to a beer bash at Woody’s (1579 S. Second St.) where you’ll meet rugby players from Madison and Chicago.

Aug. 5: Otter Romp at Hamburger Mary’s BeerCade (734 S. Fifth St.): Whether you’re an otter, a cub, a bear or simply an admirer, you’ll love this new monthly party at Downtown’s burger palace. Hosted by local otter Richard Hawkins, the night kicks off at 9 p.m. with drink specials, mingling and more in the beer garden. At 10 p.m. the party moves into the BeerCade with a DJ, more booze and more boys!

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Another week, another attack on LGBTQ rights… actually several ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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inus the incessant drumming and trumpet fanfares, the president’s recent visit to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Jamboree had all the trappings of a classic 1930s Hitler Youth rally. It shouldn’t have, of course, and it wasn’t supposed to. BSA is a non-partisan youth organization designed to instill in its members a set of core values. You know those dozen virtues starting with “trustworthy, loyal, helpful…”

Traditionally, the president is invited to give a speech encouraging and inspiring the scouts to live according to their oath. Instead, the president’s speech was a vulgar endorsement of his own self-serving code of misogyny, intimidation, greed and division. A Harvard professor of psychiatry called it “toxic” and “indoctrination.”

I know a scout leader in a South Side Milwaukee troop. The embodiment of scouting, he is an athlete and an environmentalist with strong family and community ties. He is truly an exemplary representative of all the good to which scouting aspires. And, he’s gay. He was happy his troop was camping and off the grid during the Jamboree. When we spoke, his scouts hadn’t heard the speech, and he was concerned how they might have been affected if they had. “I imagine our boys who maybe don’t have much money and are so diverse in their background would be so disappointed to hear the tone of the speech,” he confessed.

That may be an understatement.

Scout parents and anyone else with a sense of dignity reacted with revulsion and criticized the BSA for letting it happen. The chief scout executive offered a tepid apology for the event’s politicization, but not for the speech’s content. Not surprisingly, BSA Presi-

dent Randall Stephenson, who is also AT&T’s CEO, was equally noncommittal. He’s currently lobbying the president to support his company’s takeover of Time Warner Cable.

The $85 billion deal is currently before a Department of Justice anti-trust review. Should it go through, AT&T will own Time Warner subsidiary and regime critic CNN. The quid pro quo would logically be for Stephenson to muzzle CNN. Perhaps, as an additional bone for the base, a rollback of allowing LGBTQ scouts and leaders might be negotiable as well.

Speaking of which, days later, in another moment of rule by tweet-decree, the president announced, purportedly with “his” generals’ acquiescence, the U.S. military would ban transgender people from serving “in any capacity.” The Evangelical base, giddy with bigotry, celebrated. However, those generals had never been consulted at all. At least for now, they insisted, the current transgender policy remains in place. Still, the action portends a wider attack on the remaining LGBTQs. Reinstating Don’t Ask Don’t Tell or an outright ban would not be beyond the machinations of a clique bent on dismantling democracy and the equality it guarantees.

Meanwhile, in response, the state’s LGBTQ advocacy group, Fair Wisconsin, issued a policy statement of solidarity with trans service members. Our local community center graciously thanked our transgender troops.

Milwaukee Pride’s President Wes Shaver also posted official remarks decrying the trans ban.

Then the Department of Justice announced LGBTQs may not be protected by civil rights laws. It never ends.

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The Wooldridge Brothers Nod to Days Gone By ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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ever let it be said that the Wooldridge Brothers aren’t men of their word. It was more than three years ago when the duo launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund not one but two albums—a rustic, largely acoustic solo LP from Scott Wooldridge and a more rock-oriented group effort. Scott’s selftitled album arrived as promised in early 2015, and this week the brothers will make good on the second part of their pledge when they release their latest album, Starts At Dusk.

The new record took them a bit longer to finish than they’d have liked, Brian Wooldridge admits. With the brothers scattered across two cities (Scott lives in Minneapolis, Brian in Milwaukee; and their drummer and co-producer, Scott Gorsuch, in Evanston, Ill.), finding time to record was often an ordeal. “We would just schedule a time every couple of months to get together and work on it, then with the distance between everybody, it would take forever to get together for the next round,” Brian says.

During that time, the scope of the project expanded. The brothers had initially expected to record a short record with producer Jon Munson of the Minneapolis bands Trip Shakespeare and Semisonic. But from there the material kept coming.

They were shooting a video at an old drive-in theater when an idea hit.

“I just got inspired to create this kind of drive-in theater-themed album,” Brian says. “We hired a guy to follow us around that day while we were shooting the video and just take pictures. And I was looking through those pictures, and we had this classic car club come in for the shoot, so there were a bunch of old cars sitting around, and it was the off season, so all this grass was overgrown and the theater looked abandoned. I started thinking that you just don’t see a lot of places like this anymore. Scott was writing a lot of songs about looking back at youth and lost summers, so this summer theme took shape of days gone by.”

So they continued recording more material with Gorsuch, whose “arranging and production style helped make this record blossom and come alive,” Brian says.

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satisfying of the band’s career. In September 2015, the brothers were invited to play a Big Star tribute concert in Minneapolis, where they shared the stage with luminaries like Big Star’s Jody Stephens, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Ken Stringfellow of The Posies and Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum. That gig led to an invite to join Mills’ band, The Baseball Project, on the road for a week in ’16, the same year they opened for Ben Folds at Summerfest.

“We didn’t seek any of these things out, they all came to us, but the past two years have been pretty nice to us,” Brian says. “We feel like we’re peers with these people even though a lot of them are our musical heroes.”

All that time in the company of so many power-pop and alt-rock greats seems to have influenced their recent material. Stars At Dusk is a considerably peppier, livelier record than the woodsy Americana of the group’s previous work, a bright pop record in the tradition of Big Star’s Third and R.E.M.’s late-’80s LPs, filtered through the sensibilities of Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen’s heartland rock. It is being rolled out with an unusual release model. For the next month or two, it’ll be exclusively on sale at Anodyne coffee shops—a sort Wooldridge of local Milwaukee spin on those CDs that Starbucks Brothers used to sell a few years back.

Friday, Aug. 4 “Fans requested it on vinyl, and people were offering us money to put it out on vinyl to help support it, Anodyne Coffee but I couldn’t guarantee we could make the finances work,” Brian said. “It’s funny, because some of the younger people that have been discovering us have talked to me and said they only have turntables at home—they either stream music or listen to it on vinyl. They don’t have a CD player except in their car. And I said, ‘Hey, this is a drive-in theater, mid-summer-evening type of album. Drive around, roll the windows down and crank it up. That’s what it’s all about. The best way to listen to this music is probably in your car.”

The Wooldridge Brothers play an album release show Friday, Aug. 4 at Anodyne Coffee, 224 W. Bruce St.

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::BY LAUREN KEENE

he corner of Center and Pierce streets was bustling with excitement over the weekend. Not only was the Riverwest 24 Bike Race in full throttle, but the beloved bar High Dive also celebrated its second birthday with a very crowded party. The small bar is home to cheap beer, friendly bartenders and live music almost every night, making it a very popular destination for both Riverwest residents and music fans from all over Milwaukee.

Longtime Bremen Café bartender Jason McBrady opened High Dive in the summer of 2015 after the opportunity fell into his lap. His goal was to create a relaxed environment with a primary focus on live music and DJs, taking a cue from his last place of employment. Though more casual than its former tenant, Impala Lounge, the bar has a cozy, intimate interior with quirky décor and very limited seating. Most of the bar is standing area for shows, and a little arcade is located in the bar’s back room (which often doubles as a place for acts to leave their gear while watching other musicians).

To celebrate its anniversary (as well as the bike race), High Dive threw a show featuring a variety of Milwaukee rock bands. Six bands played over the course of as many hours, and countless patrons waltzed in and out of the bar to catch a glimpse of the action. Most shows at the bar generally boast a comfortable crowd size, but the anniversary party found both regular bar patrons and casual bike race onlookers packed inside and outside.

High Dive is known for employing pivotal members of Milwaukee’s music scene, and the lineup was reflective of both their tastes and talents. Sex Scenes (with High Dive bartender Connor LaMue on bass) took the tiny stage first, performing a short and sweet set of their blistering,

aggressive punk. Recently formed Soda Road played their second show ever at the anniversary party. Featuring Sam Reitman and Graham Hunt of Midnight Reruns and former Sat. Nite Duets member Steve Strupp, the band doesn’t stray too far from the Pavement and Weezer-esque rock Strupp’s previous band is known for.

Madison-based rock band Wood Chickens made the drive over to Milwaukee, and their commute was well appreciated. The group has acquired a following in Milwaukee, and they played one of the night’s most energetic sets to an enthusiastic crowd. Space Raft played one of their first local shows in a while to the night’s biggest crowd. Additionally, their set was by far the longest, ensuring that patrons were entertained as they squeezed in and out High Dive’s entrance.

But the evening’s highlight was easily Dogs in Ecstasy’s riveting performance. High Dive was packed corner-to-corner for the band’s set, and the fervent crowd danced and sang along to D.I.E.’s hits “Do Me Ronnie” and “Make It Right.” Beer was thrown and heads were banging as the band lived up to their Milwaukee cult-hero status, and their new tracks were embraced with adoring, open arms.

Six-piece Gauss closed the show with a set far more relaxed than the last three. The melodic pop band is undoubtedly one of the most unique rock bands Milwaukee has seen in recent years, and their shows are no exception. Along with the standard rock band instruments, the band boasts a horn and violin to make their sound even more full. They played with a smooth intensity that kept the thinning crowd engaged until the very end of the night. It won’t be long until High Dive hosts another show of such high caliber, showcasing local talent; the venue does it nearly every weekend. It’s reasonably safe to say it’ll be around for its third birthday next summer.

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The Zach Pietrini Band Launch a Tour of Living Rooms ::BY SHAYE GRAVES

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hose in the punk-hardcore scene have long understood the value of house shows, enjoying intimate concert experiences in private spaces and residential homes. Now more artists in other genres are opening their eyes to the concept and its perks.

House shows can be a way to supplement club dates when artists need to fill their schedules, but increasingly, artists and fans alike are finding they prefer the DIY events to traditional concerts.

Even well-known indie acts like David Bazan, Laura Gibson and S. Carey, artists who are more than capable of playing large venues, often choose to embark on “living room tours” instead. Milwaukee’s own Zach Pietrini Band are in on this movement, and will give the city a chance to see them play in one of the most intimate environments imaginable when they embark on their Songs & Spirits Living Room Tour this August.

This tour is unique in that it will bring the underground thrill of rambunctious punk basement shows to quieter, cozier environments. And, in a step up from the cheap beer that usually accompanies such events, the band partnered with the local distillery Twisted Path to provide the beverages. “I really love their products, anyway,” frontman Zach Pietrini said, “so it was just a natural partnership.”

Both local and looking to grow their reach, they know creativity is as essential to their business tactics as to their artistry. “They’ve got a rested gin that is like nothing I’ve ever had before,” Pietrini added. “It’s pretty amazing.”

Believe it or not, house shows are some of the most lucrative for local musicians. Without venue fees cutting portions to sound and lighting crews, promoters, bouncers and the SHEPHERD EXPRESS

like, artists are able to keep most of the profits for themselves. House shows also help artists go above and beyond just performing for the community to fostering actual relationships.

Pietrini’s tour offers everyone in the city the opportunity to come out and bond with each other and with him. “That’s kind of the beauty of this,” he explained. “We ask that people invite their friends, their families, their coworkers. We’ll come to anybody’s house.”

Pietrini has played quite a few house shows before and knew the low-key aesthetic would work particularly well as a performance platform for his new album, Holding Onto Ghosts. Its songs explore a range of delicate topics—from quiet, consuming depression to forceful nostalgia and heart-lifting familial love—surrounded by a confluence of Americana influences and communicated with refreshing vulnerability.

“The way that I write, a lot of it is just about myself and my life, so it gets to be challenging when [I’m] trying to deliver that message over a really big area or fighting through the noise of a bar,” he said. “[House shows allow] for a more intimate, real setting where [I] can really engage with people on the subject matter.

My biggest desire in writing and performing music is to connect with people and hopefully make the world seem like it’s a little less lonely and, I think with house shows, time and time again, that happens.”

The Zach Pietrini Band’s Songs & Spirits Living Room Tour kicks off on Saturday, Aug. 5, at 8 p.m. at 2806 N. Booth St.

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MUSIC::LISTINGS THURSDAY, AUGUST 3

Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Acoustic Guitar Night Catalano Square Third Ward, Ayre in the Square Concert: ZooFunkYou (6:30pm) County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Drexel Town Square (Oak Creek), Concerts on the Square: The Diving Bell (6pm) First Presbyterian Church (Racine), Music and More Concert: Jack Grassel & Jill Jensen (noon) Frank’s Power Plant, Maharaja w/El Wrongo, Satan’s Dealer & Mud Dog Green Tree Community Garden, Rhythm & Blooms Concert Series: Extra Crispy Brass Band (6pm) Harley-Davidson Museum, Altered Five Blues Band (6pm) Harry’s Bar & Grill, Kyle Feerick (6pm) Italian Community Center, Groove Therapy (6:30pm) Jazz in the Park (Cathedral Square Park), Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal (6pm) Kelly’s Bleachers (Big Bend), Thursday Night Acoustic Open Jam w/host Michael Sean Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, The Tritonics w/The Strangled Darlings Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Nines American Bistro of Mequon, ninesLive!

O’Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), The All-Star SUPERband (6pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: The Acoustix (8pm), In the Fire Pit: Sensations (8:30pm) Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Michael Angelo Batio w/ Brock Betz, Steven Lesko & Lane Wrobleski Shaker’s Cigar Bar, Prof. Pinkerton & the Magnificents Shank Hall, Art’s Fishing Club Shully’s Cuisine and Events (Thiensville), Shully’s River Sounds: Streetlife w/Warren Wiegratz (6:30pm) Site 1A, Downlink & Dieselboy The Bay Restaurant, Ian Gould The Corners of Brookfield, Concert at The Corners: Nick Scanlon (6pm) The Landing at Hoyt Park, Dave Miller Chicago Blues Trio w/ Hal Miller & Bill Seaman (5pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Who’s Bad: The Ultimate Tribute to Michael Jackson Underground Collaborative, Milwaukee Comedy Festival

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Hat Trick (6:30pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Anodyne Coffee Walker’s Point Roastery & Cafe, The Wooldridge Brothers album release Cactus Club, Worriers & Typesetter w/The Gnar Wave Rangers Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Harmonious Wail Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: CG Chafes w/Victims Of Symmetry (8pm); DJ: Miss LaFontaine & Triplett (10pm)

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::ALBUMS Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (6pm) Colectivo Coffee On Prospect, Mt. Joy w/Trevor Sensor Company Brewing, Matthaus w/Surgeons In Heat County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Five O’Clock Steakhouse , Christopher’s Project Frank’s Power Plant, Amuse w/Ratbatspider, Man Random & Welfare Beer League Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jokerz Comedy Club, Ken Evans Lakefront Brewery Beer Hall, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, LUXI w/Dashcam, Storm Chaser & Randal Bravery Mamie’s, The Incorruptibles Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Milwaukee Ale House, Grimm Brothers Milwaukee Athletic Club, AURA Music Series on the Rooftop Deck: Gabe Dixon & Tony Lucca Miramar Theatre, Dead Man’s Carnival w/Prof. Pinkerton & The Magnificents Nice Ash Cigar Bar (Waukesha), Jude and The AcoustiDudes Ozaukee County Fair, Rebecca & The Grey Notes (3:30pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Xeno & Joe (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Sweet Diezel Jenkins (9pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Rave / Eagles Club, Camila (all-ages, 8pm) Shank Hall, John Nemeth w/Delta Routine The Bay Restaurant, Carley Baer The Landing at Hoyt Park, Swing & A Miss (5pm) Underground Collaborative, Milwaukee Comedy Festival Up & Under Pub, Spare Change Trio w/SLS Von Trier, The Blues Disciples

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5

Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Bootz Saloon, Brecken Miles Acoustic Cactus Club, The Addict Records DJ Battle of the Apocalypse (8pm), Doormouse & Anonymous Live & Drums w/Stunt Rock & Demix (10pm) Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Kaia Fowler Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Carolina Wray (8pm); DJ: Theresa Who (10pm) City Lights Brewing Company, Paddygrass Colectivo Coffee On Prospect, COBI Company Brewing, Noh Life: Tons of Friends 06 w/VoodooHoney Takeover Delafield Brewhaus, Robert Allen Jr. Five O’Clock Steakhouse , Charles Barber Frank’s Power Plant, Barbarian w/Peucharist, Steel Iron & Apocalyptic Session Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub (Downtown), Joe Hite Jokerz Comedy Club, Ken Evans Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, The Bay Boys Mamie’s, 36th Anniversary & Pig Roast: Stokes & The Old Blues Boys (noon), The Blues Disciples (4pm), Motown at Mamie’s (8pm) Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), The Tommy Bentz Band Milwaukee Ale House, Ripple Effect Milwaukee Boat Line Dock, Rock the Boat w/The Revomatics & The Perks Miramar Theatre, Shiverz w/Obey, Siphonic & Anti$ocial (ages 17-plus, 9pm) Orson’s Saloon (Cudahy), Carlyle Petrifying Springs Park (Kenosha), Altered Five Blues Band (6:30pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Dave Wacker Duo Rave / Eagles Club, Seether w/Letters From The Fire & Big Story (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, R&B Rewind: Monica, Jon B, Ruff Endz, H Town, Adina Howard & Lil Mo Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Dirge Within w/Conniption & Divyded Shank Hall, Milwaukee Comedy Festival The Rock Sports Complex, Summer Concert Series in Umbrella Bar: Phil Norby Turner Hall Ballroom, Moshe Kasher & Natasha Leggero Underground Collaborative, Milwaukee Comedy Festival Up & Under Pub, Morangutangs Yardarm Bar and Grill (Racine), The B Side Band

SUNDAY, AUGUST 6

Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Bilda’s Friess Lake Pub, Vinyl Road (3pm) Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Antje Duvekot Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Texas Dave Trio (8pm); DJ: Trail Boss Tim Cook (10pm) Colectivo Coffee On Prospect, The Roosevelts w/Andrew Leahey Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jammin’ Jimmy Open Jam (3pm) Miramar Theatre, CarsonTHAGREAT & guests (all-ages, 7pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic The Tonic Tavern, Sunday Matinee Live Music Series: Third Coast Blues w/Matthew Skoller & Tom Holland (4pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Michael Ian Black Underground Collaborative, Milwaukee Comedy Festival Von Trier, On the Patio: Robin Pluer (4pm)

MONDAY, AUGUST 7

Cactus Club, Psychic Temple Italian Community Center, Generation Gap w/Zim & CP (6:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Morgan Shepherd (7:30-10:30pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John Shank Hall, Dick Dale w/Devils Teeth Up & Under Pub, Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers Open Mic

TUESDAY, AUGUST 8

C Notes Upscale Sports Lounge, Another Night-Another Mic Open Mic w/Darryl Hill Cactus Club, The High Divers w/The Vegabonds & Telethon Chill On the Hill (Humboldt Park), Max & the Invaders w/The Revomatics & HI/Jack (6pm) Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Italian Community Center, Robin Pluer (6:30pm) Kilbourn-Kadish Park, Skyline Music Concerts: 5 Card Studs (5:30pm) Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Stokes Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Jim Yorgan Sextet Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm) The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich

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Sweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa (OSTINATO RECORDS) Before the era of Black Hawk Down and the endless civil wars that followed, Somalia was a functioning dictatorship with restaurants, nightclubs and a flourishing popular music culture—disseminated less through records than by broadcasts on state-run radio. The stations maintained an extensive collection of those broadcasts on reel-to-reel and cassette.

Sweet as Broken Dates is culled from those archives, whose heroic preservation in the face of the catastrophe that overtook the East African nation is a story to inspire a novel. Some of the 1970s-’80s music collected here sounds as if excerpted from a Bollywood soundtrack and reveals influences from the Near East and India—unsurprising, given the proximity of the Horn of Africa to the Arabian peninsula and the Indian subcontinent. Primitive electronic keyboards abound—an echo of reggae can be discerned on one track and on the next, the influence of organ-powered British rock. The diversity of Somali pop from its little known golden age is wide and appealing. —David Luhrssen

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9

BMO Harris Pavilion, Rancid and Dropkick Murphys Cactus Club, Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa w/Tarek Sabbar & Storm Chaser Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Irish Session 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 Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Open Jam (6pm) Italian Community Center, Jordan Kroeger (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Jerry Grillo Quartet Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Eliza Hanson (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Oak Creek Community Center, Outdoor Summer Concert Series: Catch A Wave Paulie’s Field Trip, Humpday Jam w/Dave Wacker & Mitch Cooper Pere Marquette Park, River Rhythms: De La Buena (6:30pm) Pewaukee Lakefront Park, Waterfront Wednesdays: Scotch & Soda (6pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Quaker Steak and Lube (New Berlin), Vinyl Road (6pm) Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk Turner Hall Ballroom, The Black Lillies Washington Park, Summer Concert Series: New Age Narcissism (6pm) Zeidler Union Square, Westown Farmers’ Market: Derek Sallman (11:45am)

Bubblemath Edit Peptide

(CUNEIFORM RECORDS) The opening song on the second album from Minnesota’s Bubblemath is titled “Routine Maintenance,” but there is nothing routine about the cleverly colorful and proudly eclectic Edit Peptide. This progressive-rock-slash-avant-pop-slashart-math band last released a record, Such Fine Particles of the Universe, in 2002—back when success for new artists was measured by their number of MySpace followers. For reasons too complex to recount here, Bubblemath took 15 years to make a second album. And, lo and behold, it was worth the wait. Drawing comparisons to Umphrey’s McGee, Haken, A.C.T. and The Mars Volta, the band juggles charming wordplay, offbeat time signatures and chaotic instrumentation with playful vocals sung by all five band members. The album’s sheer exuberance might exhaust you during the first couple spins; after a few more, though, Edit Peptide’s penetrating quirkiness will wiggle its way into your soul. —Michael Popke SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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91. Obvious 93. Kind of loan 96. Column order 98. Rare and early 99. Genesis name 100. Suspends 102. Mend 104. Noted atomic physicist 107. A restorative 108. Bacon, Italian-style 112. PROUD: 3 wds.

115. LIGHT: 3 wds.

117. Moonraker 118. Big biz titan 119. Desert shrub 120. Vetch 121. Air 122. Ordinary language 123. Like a hoyden 124. Holds DOWN 1. Entangle 2. Repose 3. Culture medium 4. Clark Kent, e.g.

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39. Youngsters 40. Indication of rank 41. DULL: 2 wds.

42. Out-of-towner 43. Foil cousins 45. Gold rush town 47. Muttonheads 48. Cartomancy variety 52. One of the Simpsons 54. Garment parts 57. Out cold 58. Jump 60. Make new 62. Incline 63. Polytheistic religion 67. Consecutive 68. Revise 69. Kind of fence 71. Belt 72. Make resentful 75. -- of faith 76. Spiral-horned animal 77. Obligations 79. Lowest

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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.

Housing Solution: 23 Letters

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ACROSS 1. Muscle injury 5. Name on back pocketts 10. Today’s Gold Coast 15. Hurry 19. Fad 20. Like some gases 21. Players’ parts 22. Sufficient, long ago 23. FLAT: 3 wds.

25. CLEAN: 3 wds.

27. Relating to the fibula 28. Terse anagram 30. Trials 31. Criminal group 32. Entreaties 33. Cacholong 35. Garments with buttons or zippers 38. Go in secret 40. Material lost 44. Hidden 46. WEAK: 3 wds.

49. Eat 50. Word in a cookbook 51. Bygone 53. Weedy grass 55. One of twenty-six 56. Much-used abbr.

57. Wrongly 58. Albizzia lebbeck, a tree 59. Originate 61. Flows 63. Set of steps 64. Unwanted ones 65. Ripken of baseball 66. MAD: 3 wds.

70. Old English letter 71. Foam 73. African rulers 74. Sanctioned 78. Scottsdale neighbor 79. British goose 80. Austin Powers et al.

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo actor Robert DeNiro once observed that most people devote more energy to concealing their emotions and longings than to revealing them. Is that true about you? If so, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to hide less of yourself and express more. There’ll be relatively little hell to pay as a result, and you’ll get a boost of vitality. Don’t go overboard, though. I’m not suggesting that you unveil every last one of your feelings and yearnings to everyone—just to those you trust. Most importantly, I hope you will unveil all your feelings and yearnings to yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It has almost become a tradition: Each year at about this time, you seem to enjoy scaring the hell out of yourself, and often the heaven, too. These self-inflicted shocks have often had a beneficial side effect. They have served as rousing prompts for you to re-imagine the future. They have motivated and mobilized you. So yes, there has been an apparent method in your madness—an upside to the uproar.

What should we expect this time, my dear? A field trip to a crack house or a meth lab? Some fun and games in a pit of snakes? An excursion to the land of bad memories? I suggest something less melodramatic.

How about, for example, a frolic with unruly allies in a future paradise that’s still a bit unorganized?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Before grapes become wine, they have to be cleaned. Then crushed. Then macerated and pressed. The next phase is fermentation, followed by filtering.

The aging process, which brings the grapes’ transformation to completion, requires more time then the other steps. At the end, there’s one more stage: putting the wine in bottles. I’d like to compare the grapes’ evolution to the story of your life since your last birthday. You are nearing the end of the aging phase. When that’s finished, I hope you put great care into the bottling. It’s as important as the other steps.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you gearing up to promote yourself and your services? In my astrological opinion, you should be. If so, you could put the following testimonial from me in your résumé or advertisement: “[place your name here] is a poised overseer of nervewracking transitions and a canny scout who is skilled at tracking down scarce resources. He/she can help you acquire the information and enhancements you don’t quite have the power to get by yourself. When conditions are murky or perplexing, this plucky soul is enterprising and inventive.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your eyes are more powerful than you realize. If you were standing on a mountaintop under a cloudless night sky with no moon, you could see a fire burning 50 miles away. Your imagination is also capable of feats that might surprise you. It can, for example, provide you with an expansive and objective view of your entire life history. I advise you to seek that boost now. Ask your imagination to give you a prolonged look at the big picture of where you have been and where you are going. I think it’s essential to your discovery of the key to the next chapter of your life story.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Love is your gritty, but sacred duty. It’s your prickly prod and your expansive riddle, your curious joy and your demanding teacher. I’m talking about the whole gamut, Capricorn—from messy personal romantic love to lucid unconditional spiritual love; from asking smartly for what you desire to gratefully giving more than you thought you had. Can you handle this much sweet, dark mystery? Can you grow your intimacy skills fast enough to keep up with the interesting challenges? I think you can.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s an eclipse of the moon coming up in the sign of Aquarius. Will it bring bad luck or good luck? Ha! That’s a trick question. I threw it in to see if you have been learning anything from my efforts to redeem astrology’s reputation. Although some misinformed people regard my chosen field as a superstitious pseudo-science, I say it’s an imaginative art form that helps us identify and transform our subconscious patterns. So the wise answer to my earlier question is that the imminent lunar eclipse is neither bad luck nor good luck. Rather, it tells you

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that have more power than usual to: 1. tame and manage the disruptive and destructive aspects of your instinctual nature; 2. make progress in dissolving your old conditioning; 3. become more skilled at mothering yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): August is Good Hard Labor Month for you Pisceans. It’s one of those rare times when a smart version of workaholic behavior might actually make sense.

Why? First of all, it could ultimately lead to a pay raise or new perks. Secondly, it may bring to light certain truths about your job that you’ve been unconscious of. Third, it could awaken you to the fact that you haven’t been trying as hard as you could to fulfill one of your long-term dreams; it might expand your capacity to devote yourself passionately to the epic tasks that matter most. For your homework, please meditate on this thought: Summoning your peak effort in the little things will mobilize your peak effort for the Big Thing.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In my astrological opinion, your life in the coming days should draw inspiration from the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, a six-day bout of revelry that encouraged everyone to indulge in pleasure, speak freely and give gifts. Your imminent future could (and I believe should) also have resemblances to the yearly Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, which features a farcical cavalcade of lunatics, like the Shopping Cart Drill Team, The Radioactive Chicken Heads, the Army of Toy Soldiers and the Men of Leisure Synchronized Nap Team. In other words, Aries, it’s an excellent time to set aside your dignity and put an emphasis on having uninhibited fun, to amuse yourself to the max as you experiment on the frontiers of self-expression, to be the person you would be if you had nothing to lose.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s time to reinvent the wheel and rediscover fire, Taurus.

In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wasting your time unless you return to the root of all your Big Questions. Every important task will mandate you to consult your heart’s primal intelligence. So don’t mess around with trivial pleasures or transitory frustrations that won’t mean anything to you a year from now. Be a mature wild child in service to the core of your creative powers.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Writing in The Futurist magazine, Christopher Wolf says that the tradition of eating three hearty meals per day is fading and will eventually disappear.

“Grazing” will be the operative term for how we get our fill, similar to the method used by cavemen and cavewomen. The first snack after we awaken, Wolf suggests, might be called “daystart.” The ensuing four could be dubbed “pulsebreak,” “humpmunch,” “holdmeal” and “evesnack.” In light of your current astrological omens, Gemini, I endorse a comparable approach to everything you do: not a few big doses, but rather frequent smaller doses; not intense cramming but casual browsing; not sprawling heroic epics but a series of amusing short stories.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The RIKEN Institute in Japan experiments with using ion beams to enhance plant growth. In one notable case, they created a new breed of cherry tree that blossoms four times a year and produces triple the amount of flowers. The blooms last longer, too, and the trees thrive under a wider span of temperatures. In the next 11 months, Cancerian, you won’t need to be flooded with ion beams to experience a similar phenomenon. I expect that your power to bloom and flourish will be far stronger than usual.

Homework: What do you know or do that very few people know or do? Tell me at freewillastrology.com.

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

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obert Kanoff, 49, celebrated Independence Day this year in an unusual way: High on drugs, he was dropped off in his birthday suit at a Tempe, Ariz., Walmart by two people who thought it would be “funny to see him naked,” according to police. There he walked around the store wearing only shoes and carrying methamphetamines.

Maricopa County sheriff’s officers caught up with him around 10 p.m. across the street from the store.

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Two women in Arlington, Texas, called police for help on July 10 as a mentally ill man doused himself with gasoline in preparation to commit suicide. When responding officers began talking with the distraught man, he poured more gasoline on himself and appeared to be holding a lighter in his hand. Hoping to subdue him, one of the officers used his Taser on the man, and the gasoline ignited, engulfing him in flames. Officers wrapped him in blankets and removed him from the house. His family reports he was severely burned, and at press time he was in critical condition.

The Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival, in which water buffalo are pitted against each other, has been a tradition in Hai Phong, Vietnam, since the 18th century. But on July 1, buffalo trainer Dinh Xuan Huong, 46, met his doom when his own bull turned on him.

The water buffalo first knocked Dinh to the ground, then flipped him over its head, goring Dinh’s leg with its horn. Dinh later died at the Vietnam-Czech Friendship Hospital. Water buffalo fighting was stopped in the country during the Vietnam War, but fighting resumed in 1990.

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Police in Slidell, La., stopped a “car full of drunks” on July 8 and arrested the driver for driving while intoxicated. The car’s passengers rode home in a taxi, but one of the women then drove back to the police station to bail out the driver. Slidell officers arrested the woman for DWI, and she joined her friend in jail. “Lesson of the day,” Slidell officers posted on their Facebook page: “Don’t drive drunk to a police station in order to bail out your drunk friend!”

Police in Swansea, Ill., suspect the heir to a brewery fortune has graduated from driving drunk to flying high. August Adolphus Busch IV, 53, landed his helicopter around noon on July 10 in an office complex parking lot outside St. Louis. Police and FAA investigators were still trying to determine why he had landed there and whether any aviation laws had been broken when they were called back to the parking lot around 8 p.m., where Busch, appearing to be intoxicated, was trying unsuccessfully to take off. Busch failed field sobriety tests, but passed a breath test. After a search warrant was obtained, Busch was taken to a local hospital for blood tests. In Busch’s helicopter , police found four loaded guns, several prescription pill bottles and eight dogs.

A mathematician in Bucharest, Romania, scored a 44,900 euro profit when he made an exciting discovery at a flea market there—a rare World War II Enigma machine used by the Germans to encrypt messages. After paying the unwitting seller just 100 euros ($114 U.S.) for it, he took it into his care, cleaning and repairing it and learning how it worked.

On July 11, a Bucharest auction house sold the machine for 45,000 euros ($51,500 U.S.) to an unnamed bidder.

On July 6, IRS workers in Ogden, Utah, received a fake bomb from Normand Lariviere, 68, of Olympia, Wash. The U.S. Navy veteran and former civilian defense contractor has been disgruntled with the Department of Defense since his dismissal in the 1990s and has a history of mailing disturbing objects to the IRS to protest paying taxes. In 2016, Lariviere sent one of his fingers, a bullet and a marijuana joint to tax collectors. “Many things I could do,” he threatened. “I’m not going to tip my hand.”

Update Zimbabwe’s “sperm bandits” have reportedly struck again. An unnamed 39-year-old male teacher from Macheke was abducted as he waited for a bus on July 2, drugged and gang-raped by a gang of three women. Since 2011, the “semen harvesters” have struck several times, sexually assaulting their victims and collecting semen in condoms to sell later for “good luck.” The latest victim told The Standard newspaper that for two days he was held against his will and subjected to further abuse under threat of being shot. Finally, his abductors dumped him by the side of the road. © 2017 Andrews McMeel Syndication

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