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

An Evidence-Based Approach

Milwaukee’s Adult Drug Treatment Court Saves Lives Through Long-Term Recovery ::BY AMY STONE

aura Haas’ message is simple: “People addicted to drugs are not ‘junkies’ or society’s throwaways.”

Many work hard to achieve recovery, she says. “But they can’t do it alone. They need community support.” And Haas should know: She’s in long-term recovery from a substance use disorder. In large measure, her recovery is due to support from Milwaukee County’s Adult Drug Treatment Court (DTC). Since its inception in 2009, the DTC has enrolled 602 participants. All, including Haas, committed non-violent offenses stemming from substance use disorders.

“I stole stuff [to sell] so I could buy heroin,” Haas recounts, “and I got caught.” Instead of leading her to prison, arrest led Haas to DTC, which Haas describes as a life-saving journey. Today, two-and-a-half years into her recovery, Haas is not only a drug-free DTC graduate, she holds a full-time job as a peer specialist at the United Community Center (UCC). At UCC, Haas is “giving back” by helping others recover from substance use disorders. She employs an approach she experienced at DTC: letting people know they’re cared for and holding them accountable.

Presiding Judge Carl Ashley would likely agree with Hass’ assessment of the Drug Treatment Court’s approach. “I do hold people accountable,” he says, “but I also care about them.” Early on, as a new judge, Ashley focused primarily on accountability. Over time he came to realize that understanding personal situations and the traumatic events and histories that often contribute to criminal offense makes a difference. “Now I don’t look just at the incident, I peel away the onion and learn the story,” he says, “and that makes me have more [of an] impact.” People are more likely to change when they’re understood as well as held accountable, Judge Ashley explains. He adds that DTC’s approach is not “soft on crime,” a criticism he sometimes hears. “DTC is extraordinarily difficult to navigate,” he says. “Many participants tell me it’s the hardest thing they’ve ever done.”

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Recovering from a substance use disorder can be difficult in and of itself, but being held accountable by the county’s DTC also entails complying with numerous rules and many procedures. They reflect an evidence-based approach to ensuring public safety and providing effective recovery treatment—both part of DTC’s mission. To be eligible for DTC, participants must be at least 18 years old, reside in Milwaukee County and face a sentence recommendation from the district attorney’s office of at least nine months straight time.

Their criminal history cannot include violent offenses. Participants also submit to frequent drug testing, appear before Judge Ashley for regular hearings and, as ability permits, pursue job training, work or perform volunteer service.

Ongoing substance abuse treatment is a nonnegotiable DTC requirement. The treatment type depends on addiction severity as well as other participant needs, as determined by one of Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division’s comprehensive intake units. Treatment can be residential, intensive or standard outpatient substance abuse counseling and can include family counseling, anger management and mental health services. Participants needing residential treatment sometimes have to wait for it. Haas endured nearly two months in jail before a bed opened for her. “It was frustrating,” she says, especially because “the light bulb had gone on” and she knew she was ready for treatment. Judge Ashley says the DTC is constantly “banging on doors” in search of appropriate resources, especially bridge or short-term housing that helps people stabilize while they undergo treatment. “The resource issue is extraordinarily difficult,” he adds.

All DTC participants are expected to work hard at changing their harmful behaviors, and Haas did just that. “But,” she says, “a whole bunch of people had my back, and that made it easier.” Her supporters included DTC graduate peer mentors as well as a DTC team led by Judge Ashley. The team meets weekly to monitor DTC participants’ progress and includes their defense attorneys, treatment providers, district attorneys, DTC coordinators and case managers, as well as law enforcement representatives.

Points for Positive Behavior

At one early morning team staffing, Judge Ashley placed a fish bowl on the table. He announced that one of the more creative team members had decorated the bowl by painting it and covering it with colorful plastic fish. Everyone understood that participants who had earned points for positive behavior could draw a gift certificate from the bowl during their hearing with the judge. Haas loved the rewards. They made her feel proud of her progress and fond of Judge Ashley. She thinks she was the first DTC participant to give him a hug, which at first took him aback. “Now,” she

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says, “he’s as much of a hugger as I am.”

Judge Ashley may give hugs when warranted, but he also gives sanctions—consequences intended to hold participants accountable and change their behavior. Depending on the severity of the participant’s infractions, sanctions can range from a reading assignment or a curfew to more frequent drug testing or even program termination. At times, the DTC approach falls somewhere in between incentives and sanctions.

During the team staffing session, members talked about a participant who had missed a drug test. They deliberated for about 10 minutes, searching for reasons behind the lapse; was it manipulation or merely miscommunication? They questioned whether the participant needed more support or maybe a sanction. Ashley listened carefully, asked incisive questions and brought deliberations to a close.

He decided more context and information were needed and asked the DTC case manager to check in with the participant’s residential treatment provider and report back. “Then we’ll see what we can do for this young woman,” he concluded. The aim, he conveyed, was to provide judicious help.

The overall DTC approach—balancing of incentives and sanctions, attentive monitoring and wrap-around social services—is designed to ensure participants progress through DTC’s four phases. At a minimum, completing all four of the phases takes 12 months, but it can take up to 18 months depending on such factors as addiction severity and treatment engagement. To progress from phase one to phase two, for example, participants must remain drug or alcohol free for 21 days following two negative tests, meet weekly with Judge Ashley and attend and engage in all treatment sessions. By the time participants are ready to finish the fourth and final phase, DTC Coordinator Meagan Winn says they’re “in the driver’s seat.” They proudly complete an application summarizing their progress and accomplishments related to their treatment: their education, training, employment and family relations; they also have a relapse prevention plan in place.

Some Don’t Make It

Completing the four DTC phases isn’t easy, but Haas made it through in 12 months. “I never failed a drug test or missed a court appearance, and I always kept my treatment appointments,” she says with noticeable pride.

Such success, however, is not universal: Some participants don’t make it through, which means they face sentencing because they previously pled guilty.

According to Winn, termination reasons vary. For one thing, the disease of addiction is characterized by relapse, treatment notwithstanding. Hence, for some people whose disorders are severe, the program requirements

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exceed their abilities. Other participants face particularly tough mental health challenges that can complicate or prolong recovery beyond the program’s capacity. Using evaluation data compiled by the UW-Milwaukee Helen Bader School of Social Welfare as well as recent scientific research results, the DTC has been restructured in recent years, and completion rates have increased. The new structure recognizes that, early on in the recovery process, DTC participants need particularly close monitoring, and goals need to reflect recovery realities.

Low participation of African Americans in DTC has engendered criticism, and Judge Ashley (who is African American) acknowledges the complaints are well founded. The majority (67%) of current DTC participants are white, while 27% are African American and 6% are classified as “other.” Fifteen percent of enrollees specify their ethnicity as Hispanic, and 85% specify it as non-Hispanic.

According to Ashley, under-representation of African Americans in drug courts is a nationwide problem, and the reasons for it aren’t clear. In Milwaukee County, he says, “we’re trying to dive into [the reasons] and trying to evolve. We don’t have all the answers yet.”

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Across the nation, drug treatment courts are seeing measured success. Data from the National Institute of Justice Multi-site Adult Court Evaluation show that participants in the country’s approximately 1,550 adult drug treatment courts report less criminal activity (40% vs. 53%) and fewer arrests (52% vs. 62%) than comparable offenders. Participants reported less drug use (56% vs. 76%) and were less likely to test positive for drug use (29% vs. 46%) than comparable offenders. While drug treatment costs were higher for participants, less recidivism resulted in an overall average savings of $5,680 to $6,208 per offender.

Anyone who hears DTC participants’ stories, day in and day out, which frequently feature trauma and multiple losses, could be forgiven for sometimes feeling weary, and the most enthusiastic DTC champions could grow discouraged after repeated exposure to the worlds of hurt caused by the ever-escalating drug epidemic. Judge Ashley might feel it from time to time, but if so, he doesn’t show it.

He appears to be all one could want in a DTC judge—energetic, impassioned, informed and convinced the evidenced-based DTC team approach is not only effective, but worth emulating.

“We need more [such courts],” he says.

“Seeing DTC participants graduate is a blessing. Some become case managers and help improve the system,” he adds, and “that’s incredible. I’m very encouraged.”

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More than Managing Sewers MMSD Leads the Way in Green Infrastructure ::BY VIRGINIA SMALL

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longtime civil engineer, Kevin Shafer used to think about wastewater infrastructure in terms of “straight lines and pipes.” Now, much of what he advocates and oversees as executive director of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage District involves “green infrastructure”—wide-ranging, sustainable solutions undertaken by governmental agencies as well as individual property owners. Shafer, who joined MMSD as head of engineering in 1998 and was promoted to his current position in 2002, is recognized as a national leader in promoting cutting-edge approaches to water management.

Earlier this month, he spoke on a plenary panel at the City Parks Alliance Biennial Conference in St. Paul, Minn. Other experts addressing “Parks and Water: Partners in the One Water Movement” hailed from Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. The conference drew more than 1,000 attendees from 200 cities in 40 states and 11 countries. Panelists described how lines are blurring among agencies overseeing utilities and parks—which all cited as a positive trend.

Mami Hara, who heads Seattle Public Utilities, said: “As cities move toward more holistic water policies, water management is land management.” Allegra Haynes, director of Denver’s park system, noted that infrastructure in cities, including green space, has not always been fairly allocated. She asked: “How do we work to right that misallocation?” One benefit of some green infrastructure initiatives is expansion of urban green space. Shafer says these investments also cost less than building more sewers or deep tunnel storage.

How did Milwaukee become a leader in sustainable water management? Shafer said it evolved over time—partly in response to the Clean Water Act of 1972. First came decades of infamous “sewer wars,” including one over who would pay for the massive, expensive “Deep Tunnel” expansion of Milwaukee’s sewer system. Once those issues were resolved in 1996, Shafer says it was possible to move on to flood control efforts—specifically to prevent the public health hazards of residential basement flooding.

Listening to the People

Those flood control efforts have entailed removing concrete channeling within rivers and streams, which was installed during the 1960s.

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Around 1998, during an MMSD flood-management project involving Lincoln Creek, MMSD staff heard from affected residents about their concerns. As Shafer said, “We needed to open up to what we were hearing.” For example, people wanted to see more natural areas and less concrete, so final designs reflected that.

MMSD began exploring other green infrastructure options in the 2000s, when Shafer said Milwaukee, Portland, Ore., and Seattle were among a few trailblazing American cities. He also began communicating with others around the country, which eventually led him and others in 2008 to found the U.S. Water Alliance, a national nonprofit that “advances policies and programs that build a sustainable water future for all.” Shafer currently chairs the Alliance’s board of directors and says it affords many voices to be heard on water issues.

According to Adel Hagekhalil, assistant director for the City of Los Angeles’ Bureau of Sanitation and immediate past president of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, “Milwaukee has really led the way for other cities.

MMSD has modeled how to collaborate across agencies and with the public on projects that provide multiple benefits, including improved quality of life.” He said that support for investing in green infrastructure grows when people can see tangible outcomes, including more and higherquality green spaces.

Rob Henken, president of the nonprofit Public Policy Forum, calls MMSD greater Milwaukee’s “de-facto environmental protection agency,” adding that “It’s really remarkable that MMSD has effected a transformation in which it sees itself as having a broader environmental mission than merely treating wastewater. He said that in the course of doing a report about MMSD’s finances, the Public Policy Forum “came to realize that they have a very strong reputation nationally that’s based on innovation and dedication to sustainability and green technology.”

Incentives for Property Owners

MMSD’s other green infrastructure involves providing funding and incentives for interested property owners to install rain barrels to catch and use rainwater and rain gardens designed to capture runoff water. It also has a green infrastructure partnership program which requires a proposal process. In 2017, it awarded $1.5 million in grants to 13 community groups, businesses and municipalities to help pay for rain collection projects, including rooftop gardens, porous pavement and artificial wetlands.

MMSD’s Greenseams program is an “innovative flood management program that permanently protects key lands containing water absorbing soils.” MMSD makes voluntary purchases of undeveloped, privately owned properties in areas expected to have major growth in the next 20 years and open spaces along streams, shorelines and wetlands. This helps prevent future flooding and water pollution while supporting and protecting its structural flood management projects.

MMSD is currently protecting more than 3,400 acres through the Greenseams program.

In addition to flood control, green infrastructure reduces pollutants flowing into waterways and Lake Michigan. Other payoffs include more accessible and higher-quality waterways and the creation of more open space. MMSD has engaged with Milwaukee County Parks, which Shafer calls “a phenomenal partner,” as well as the City of Milwaukee and other agencies within its 28-municipality jurisdiction. Recent projects have included the expansion of Valley Park in Wauwatosa, as well as projects on the Milwaukee County Grounds, the Menomonee River Parkway and in Hart Park. It’s now working on a long-term project involving the Kinnickinnic River on the South Side. Work will begin in Pulaski Park next spring, followed by projects in Jackson Park. MMSD is also involved in plans

to remove the Estabrook Dam, a structure within the Milwaukee River along Estabrook Park, “as long as we can get necessary approvals,” according to Shafer.

Shafer acknowledges that some projects face controversy “whenever people’s backyards are impacted.” For example, some major initiatives have required cutting down trees, “which is generally not welcomed” by citizens. He says the goal is to avoid felling any trees that have a 20-inch or wider diameter. To that end, he says, MMSD always conducts an up-front survey of all potentially impacted trees; this includes assessing each tree’s health and financial projections of replacement. Shafer said that extensive and ongoing engagement with community members has been crucial to all of MMSD’s initiatives.

Building Tomorrow’s Greenways

Shafer acknowledges that, even in Greater Milwaukee, green infrastructure initiatives “are still in their infancy. Funding is always an issue, and major projects involve seeking support from multiple agencies from the local to [the] federal level.” One long-term MMSD project is supported by West Side advocates David Boucher and David Flowers, who meet weekly to push creation of a new “Greenway” within Milwaukee’s former 30th Street industrial corridor. They envision working with nonprofits and city and county government to link the Hank Aaron State Trail to Havenwoods State Forest on the northwest side.

According to Boucher, “MMSD understood that their work mitigating storm water around Lincoln Creek could be more than a sewer public work project.” He believes that connecting the county’s Oak Leaf Trail to underserved communities, while creating safe public spaces, will increase access to parkland while spurring community development.”

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HELP MANAGE WATER WHERE IT FALLS Green infrastructure captures, absorbs or stores rain and melting snow. Such efforts also help protect rivers and lakes from water pollution, reduce the risk of basement backups and sewer overflows and keep storm water from becoming someone else’s headache downstream. Certain measures can be taken by homeowners, businesses and governmental entities (see below). By 2035, MMSD intends to develop enough green infrastructure in our region to capture 740 million gallons of water every time it rains. (One inch of rain on MMSD’s service area equals 7.1 billion gallons of water.)

Here’s What You Can Do

Install a 55-gallon rain barrel to collect and store rainwater.

Plant a rain garden. Shallow depressions within the soil planted with native flowers and grasses naturally collect and absorb rain and melting snow. Most rain gardens channel water from rooftop downspouts; they can also absorb water from hillsides, driveways and other impervious surfaces.

Plant trees. Their root systems absorb rainwater in addition to providing many other benefits.

Consider disconnecting downspouts—after checking with your municipality about how to do so legally and safely. During heavy rain, every residential downspout can send 12 gallons of water a minute to the sewer system, increasing the risk of basement backups and sewer overflows.

Use porous pavers for driveways, walkways and parking lots. They allow water to seep into the soil instead of flowing into sewers.

Encourage development of rooftop gardens on buildings or bioswales along city streets.

Participate in events for the third annual national “Imagine a Day without Water” on Thursday, Oct. 12. (MMSD will be hosting a grand opening of its new Green Infrastructure Center.)

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

Thursday, Aug. 24

Cathy for Congress Garden Party @ 2633 N. Hackett Ave., 6-8 p.m.

Attorney Larraine McNamara-McGraw will host a garden party at her home to support Cathy Myers, who is running for Wisconsin’s First Congressional District seat. The event will feature a guest appearance from Alderwoman Chantia Lewis and music from SistaStrings. Suggested donations are: general tickets: $50; supporters: $100; friends: $250; co-hosts: $500; and sponsors: $1,000.

‘Against the Fascist Creep’ Author Talk @ Riverwest Public House (815 E. Locust St.), 7-10 p.m.

Alexander Reid Ross, author of Against the Fascist Creep, will be coming to Milwaukee for a last-minute visit. At the event, participants will discuss Ross’ new book and then screen the documentary Trouble #5 and discuss surveillance and resisting state control. Givewhat-you-can donations will be collected to support Alexander Reid Ross on his book tour.

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Monday, Aug. 28

200 Nights of Freedom Kickoff @ City Hall Rotunda (200 E. Wells St.), 5:30-7:30 p.m.

This event kicks off the 200 Nights of Freedom initiative, which takes inspiration from the original timeline and spirit of Milwaukee’s open housing marches. During this 200-day period, groups will recognize local civil rights heroes and re-ignite Milwaukee’s activist spirit through public events, policy initiatives, digital dialogue and other programming.

Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for More Revival @ St. Gabriel’s Church of God (5363 N. 37th St.), 7-9 p.m.

The Poor People’s Campaign emerged from more than a decade of work by grassroots community and religious leaders fighting to end systemic racism, poverty, militarism, environmental destruction and related injustices, and to build a just, sustainable and participatory society. This gathering gives the public a chance to learn more about the campaign.

NRA in Milwaukee Protest @ Zeidler Union Square Park (301 W. Michigan Ave.), 6-7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 30

The NRA (National Rifle Association) will be in Milwaukee for a national Carry Guard Expo at the Wisconsin Center from Aug. 25-27.

A protest has been organized to show support for smart gun laws.

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, emails to elected officials or a selfie at the capital).

Saturday, Aug. 26

Picket Training @ Milwaukee Public Library (3501 W. Oklahoma Ave.), 5:30-8 p.m.

Voter and Civic Engagement Campaign @ Acción Ciudadana de Wisconsin (221 S. Second St.), 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Acción Ciudadana de Wisconsin, Latino Voting Bloc of Wisconsin and Citizen Action of Wisconsin have come 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.

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ The corner of Greenfield and National Avenues, noon-1 p.m.

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

Equal Pay and Women’s Health Education Session @ Cudahy Public Library (3500 Library Ave., Cudahy), noon

This day of education will include question-andanswer sessions with Democratic Party of Milwaukee County Chairman Robert Hansen, State Rep. Christine Sinicki and Congresswoman Gwen Moore.

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Rogers Behavioral Health is currently recruiting individuals (aged 18-65) with OCD symptoms to participate in testing a computer-based treatment program. The treatment, delivered on a smart phone in a controlled setting, is aimed at reducing the anxiety associated with the disorder.

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

Milwaukee’s Industrial Workers of the World will hold a training session on how to organize pickets to maximize results. The session will include sharing experiences of picketing, determining goals, identifying players and roles, role playing, mapping and strategizing in preparation before picketing.

A Conversation with State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout @ Grassroots Northshore (5600 W. Brown Deer Road, Brown Deer), 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Wisconsin State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout will come to Grassroots Northshore to discuss the state budget and other issues. This event is free and open to the public and is a great opportunity for citizens to speak directly with a member of the state senate.

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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he audacity of hope under Barack Obama has been replaced by the audacity of hate under Donald Trump. The U.S. has never had a president before who would publicly insist that many “very fine people” had joined a violent and deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., organized by the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis.

That appalling presidential statement immediately followed unprecedented danger to the entire world threatened by Trump’s reckless promise to launch World War III by unleashing nuclear “fire and fury… unlike anything the world has ever known” if North Korea’s own childlike leader didn’t stop acting up. Any American who wasn’t disgusted by the second statement from their president and terrified by the first should have been.

Dangerous, unacceptable presidential behavior requires leaders of both parties to take action to prevent further destruction of their country by the totally unfit occupant of its highest political office. The effort needs to be bipartisan, but the heaviest responsibility falls upon Republicans— especially House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Trump’s vocal support for participants in a white hate rally doesn’t just make it difficult for Republicans to pass their agenda, it exposes just how much of the Republican agenda is intentionally designed precisely to appeal to those un-American hate groups. Republicans have aggressively sought support from white supremacists ever since Democratic passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act caused racist Southern Democrats to switch parties and become racist Southern Republicans.

Sure, Ryan and McConnell are sincerely embarrassed that Trump is standing behind those who marched with neo-Nazis carrying flaming torches through Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia campus chanting “Jews Will Not Replace Us!” and “Heil Trump!” Republicans loudly honor as America’s “Greatest Generation” all those who fought, sacrificed and died fighting Nazis and Adolf Hitler’s murderous policies of racial purity. But there’s little difference in Trump supporting those who march with Nazis and his support for those who worship graven images of Confederate generals who also fought a war against the United States to defend slavery and racial atrocities. Blow in Trump’s ear and he’ll follow you anywhere. The not-so-secret affair Trump has been carrying on with Klansmen and neo-Nazis is now right out in the open.

GOP Speaks in Code When Ryan kept pirouetting back and forth between supporting candidate Trump and objecting to his openly racist rhetoric, the crudeness of Trump’s racism seemed to bother Ryan the most. Modern-day Republicans are supposed to subtly appeal to racists with coded messages and winks, not blaring bullhorns. Everyone except for the third of Republican voters who really would support Trump for shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York City now know he’s a clear and present danger to our country and to the world at large. An occasional “tut, tut” from Republican lawmakers isn’t nearly enough anymore.

Even though Trump’s threat to launch a nuclear war was knocked out of the news by his cheerleading for domestic terrorists, the danger to the world adds even more urgency for responsible Republicans to permanently break with Trump. They now know that Trump’s emotional immaturity and what Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker accurately described as Trump’s lack of “stability” make him the most dangerous man in history ever to control the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.

During campaign security briefings as a candidate, Trump wondered aloud why the U.S. even bothered developing nuclear weapons if it was never going to use them.

Less than three months into his presidency, Trump dropped the MOAB (“Mother of All Bombs”)—the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. military possesses. Does anyone even remember now what country Trump bombed?

(It was that old standby, Afghanistan.)

So what’s left for a blustering tough guy like Trump to threaten other than nuclear war? Because the last Republican president got two major wars going, Trump recently tossed out the possibility of a U.S. military attack on Venezuela as well. Nothing boosts a Republican president’s plummeting approval ratings like war.

So, what are Republican leaders to do if their party’s president is a dangerously unstable, embarrassing apologist for violent racist and anti-Semitic hate groups?

First, they simply write off Trump as an ignorant incompetent with neither the ability nor character to govern, which is true.

But they also need to develop a positive conservative agenda of their own that abandons the racist subtext of their party’s long, ugly history of opposition to civil rights, voting rights, affirmative action, immigration, food stamps and other forms of assistance to those in poverty.

This would deliver a much-needed shock to the Republican system, but it’s been done before in this country. Democrats did it when they drove Southern racists out of their party under Southern Democratic President Lyndon Johnson. If neither major political party provided a home for white supremacists and neo-Nazis, violent, un-American hate groups would return to the lunatic fringe of society where they belong.

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But when nearly all the income gains go to a select few, too many Wisconsin families are deprived of their shot at achieving their full economic potential.

A new report by the Wisconsin Budget Project and COWS (a UW-Madison-based

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1% of earners. The top 1% of earners had income of $335,000 or higher in 2014. The top .01% in Wisconsin (one out of every 10,000) had incomes of at least $6.5 million. The share of income going to the top 1% in Wisconsin has more than doubled since the 1970s.

Between 1979 and 2014, the average income of the top 1% in Wisconsin grew by more than 130%, while the average income of the remaining 99% grew by only 9%.

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The report outlines a number of strategies for mitigating the effects of growing income inequality. These include: Raising the minimum wage to give a boost to the lowest-paid workers and strengthen labor standards.

Building the skills and education of Wisconsin’s workforce by investing in technical colleges and improving the connections between training and employment.

Supporting working families through paid family leave and sick time, which will help more Wisconsin residents succeed in the workforce—as will a strong child care system and improved tax credits for working families.

Making state taxes more equal across income groups. People with high incomes should pay at least as much in taxes relative to income, as people with lower incomes do.

When the tide is rising in Wisconsin, we need to make sure it is lifting all the boats.

But right now, the economic gains that have occurred in the period of recovery after the recession have largely been funneled into the pockets of our highest earners.

Between 2009 and 2014, the incomes of the top 1% rose by 17%, while the incomes of everyone else rose just 9% on average, and when we look at income growth in Wisconsin over the last 45 years, we ďŹ nd that nearly three-ďŹ fths of the total has been claimed by the top 1%.

If Wisconsin wants to get serious about tackling income inequality and the drag it puts on our economy, there are a number of steps policymakers can take immediately, including giving a raise to the lowest-paid workers by raising the minimum wage and building the skills and education of the Wisconsin workforce. While there is no magic bullet to rectify this growth in inequality, acting sooner rather than later will move us closer to economic security for every family in Wisconsin.

For more information on how growing income inequality is hurting Wisconsin and what policymakers can do to reverse that trend, read the report, Pulling Apart 2017: Focus on Wisconsin’s 1%, which can be found at wisconsinbudgetproject.org.

Tamarine Cornelius is a research analyst at the Wisconsin Budget Project—an initiative of Kids Forward that is engaged in analysis and education on state budget and tax issues, particularly those relating to low- and moderate-income families.

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You’d never guess that nachos could be this healthy. The appetizer had an earthy, hile going through the maze of strip malls nutty taste and was mildly seasoned; different flavor profiles gently emerged with and big-box stores that comprise most of each bite. The portion was generous enough to share or be a meal in itself.

Brookfield’s commercial districts, it might be The More Yummy Food section consists of choices such as truffle cream pasta easy to miss Café Manna, a 100% vegetarian ($17), featuring caramelized mushrooms, orecchiette pasta and three-cheese eatery located in the Sendik’s Towne Centre. cream sauce. There’s quite a buzz in the vegetarian world about jackfruit, advertised But vegetarians, or anyone with an appreciation on foodie blogs as “able to fool any meat lover.” Café Manna’s jackfruit enchiladas for healthful food, should make a point of seeking ($16) feature the trendy fruit simmered in tomatillo sauce, topped with mozzarella this place out. cheese and a pumpkin seed mole. Grilled vegetable pizza ($17) or Manna’s unique Patrons can have a seat at the one of the modern wooden tables or on a small outdoor patio with priva- stir fry ($17) topped with kimchi were other tempting choices.

I wanted to go lighter on that hot afternoon, so I chose the Tu-No Melt from the cy hedges that comfortably block the sights of traffic Exotic Sandwich Creations section. As a tuna lover during my meat-eating days, I’ve from surrounding busy streets. Some of the restaurant’s been on a quest to find a good meatless tuna substitute since going vegetarian ingredients are part of the patio aesthetics, such as potover a decade ago. Café Manna nailed it by using tempeh, versus the usual chickted tomato plants and a small garden. pea mash found in most vegetarian tuna sandwiches. Celery, sunflower seeds and Each menu section offers a few varied options that a touch of dill added a slightly salty, fresh flavor, and the sandweave influences of world cuisines into wich was topped with soft turmeric nut cheese. A fruit cup with scratch-made, raw, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options. apples, grapes, strawberries and pineapple came on the side.

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his Friday, Aug. 25, from 5-8 p.m., the Shepherd Express presents its newest event, Margarita Festival. Held in the Third Ward’s Catalano Square, rain or shine, attendees age 21 and up can enjoy margarita samples from 15 local bars and restaurants.

All participating establishments will work with tequila sponsor Brown & Forman’s Tequila Herradura (blanco-silver variety) as a base for their margaritas. Several additional food options will be on hand to make sure you’re not drinking on an empty stomach, and, if tequila isn’t your thing, try the special Mexican Lager brewed by Broken Bat Brewery just for this event.

As Shepherd Express Event Coordinator Rachel Repetti reminds us, “Margaritas are the most popular cocktail in the United States, and Milwaukee bars and restaurants make some of the best there are. No one has previously showcased everything our city has to offer, and I’m excited to give people the opportunity to get them all in one place. What better way to celebrate the end of summer than with a margarita in hand?”

Margarita Contestants:

• The Azteca: Founded by Pepe Ramos, who hails from the Jalisco state of Mexico, The Azteca serves up traditional recipes— think Mariscos Mojo de Ajo a La Diabla and cevice as well as more familiar favorites like quesadillas and empanadas. Their motto?

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• BelAir Cantina (also serving food): BelAir just keeps expanding—seven years after its original North Avenue spot served its first famous taco special, it now has six locations, including one in Madison. It’s understandable why: welcoming ambiance, a tremendous tequila selection and some of the tastiest fusion dishes in town.

• Botanas II Mexican Restaurant: The original bustling and beautifully mural-covered location was so popular, they had to open a second. All the usual Mexican staples are served here, but check out the seafood menu—the selections are more plentiful than most establishments’ and include shrimp fajitas, red snapper and caldo de pescado.

• Buddha Lounge (also serving food): Buddha Lounge takes Asian fusion to the next level, both in the dishes they offer and the vibes they put forth. Walk on the wild side with Bo Luc Lac (“shaking beef”) on a date, enjoy a big bowl of phở with the folks, or enjoy sushi and Salsa dancing with friends on a Sunday.

• Café Corazón Riverwest: This establishment serves the best black beans in town.

No joke. There are many other fine qualities to recommend Corazón—gorgeous, tree-enclosed outdoor seating, fantastic drink menu, affordable and delicious lunch specials—but go for the beans, and learn all the other reasons this is an enduring Riverwest favorite for yourself.

• Club Charlies: A cozy and quirky bar just off of Catalano Square, Charlies serves up traditional pub fare, a respectable beer selection and lots of sports TV, along with more unexpected entertainments like Showtune Sunday Fundays.

• Concoctions MKE: This mobile drink truck caters to summer festivals and parties.

Offerings have fun names like Lava Flow, Mango Sunrise and Stormy Passion. Their mission? “To provide one-of-a-kind flavor combinations that are unique and look as good as they taste!”

• El Fogón: This establishment actually bills itself as a tequila bar, so you know they’re serious about margaritas. In addition to a broad range of Mexican food favorites, you’ll find an expansive margarita menu, including creative ones made with beer, chocolate, tamarind and even Redbull.

• Jalisco Mexican Restaurant: This restaurant has been satiating hungry visitors to the East North Avenue neighborhood for more than 30 years. Prices are very reasonable, seating is ample, service is swift and friendly, and the menu has a nice range. Try their Famous Burrito.

• La Fuente Restaurant: One of Milwaukee’s most elegant Mexican establishments, the restaurant named for its trademark fountain offers lovely ambiance, deliciously authentic cuisine and margaritas striped with many colors and flavors.

• Lucky Joe’s Alchemy & Eatery: This new American restaurant in Wauwatosa offers craft and classic cocktails, beer, wine and, of course, margaritas. Food is great for sharing, and there are lots of fun specials and themed nights like Speakeasy Saturday, Tiki Tuesday and Wings Wednesday.

• Margarita Paradise Mexican Restaurant: This gem of the Milwaukee Public Market has fantastic Mexican beverages (both alcoholic and non; the horchata is one of the best in town) and a delicious array of dishes.

The tamales are lovingly wrapped and mouthwatering any time of day.

• Riviera Maya Milwaukee: Kinnickinnic Avenue boasts a lot of great restaurants, but this is one you’ll want to come back to again and again. From its eye-catching artworks and fish tank to its delicious food and drinks, Riviera Maya is well suited to its upscale, artsy environs.

• Samano’s: A family business operating for more than 40 years out of the original 1894 Miller Brewery Tavern and Rooming House, this Cudahy restaurant offers a good selection of Mexican American favorites. To add a touch of fusion, on Fridays there’s a very popular Mexican Marinated Grilled Cod. • Tu Casa Mexican Restaurant & Bar (also serving food): With its charming building, expansive menu including Mexican breakfast offerings and endearing name (seri-

ously, how fun is it to say “Karaoke at your house Sunday, Monday and Tuesday!”), Tu Casa hits the mark.

Food Vendors:

• Oasis Fresh Foods: This organic community co-op operates a mobile food van as well as a store on Center and 53rd streets, bringing high-quality goods to the area near Sherman Park. The business will bring its Country Fresh Kitchen (organic Southern cooking) to Margarita Fest.

• The Salsa Lady: The mother-daughter team of Angela Moragne and Stevey Pitts craft gourmet salsa and tortilla chips. Their produce comes from a 20,000-square-foot garden on the North Side, which Moragne lovingly calls “That Hood Ranch.” The garden grows tomatoes, cucumbers, hot peppers, cabbage and ginseng and fosters community involvement.

• Tudo Sabor Brazil: Tudo Sabor Brazil offers dishes ranging from chicken stroganoff to Brazilian feijoada and from passion fruit mousse to flamed bananas. Food is sold in Milwaukee through farmers markets and direct sales on their Facebook page. Hosting an event? Check out their catering options; there are many delicious bite-sized options in addition to traditional entrées.

Several other vendors will be present as well to further enrich your experience: Armory Quest, Everdry Waterproofing, Sherper’s and Wiener Winks.

Margarita Festival features musical entertainment from the steel drum band Caribbean Eclipse, with songs running from calypso classics to jazz standards. Likewise, Daync Studio will be on hand for a salsa dance performance at 6 p.m. and a lesson at 7 p.m.

Tickets for the margarita-tasting portion of the event are $20 and there is a limited supply.

At the time the paper is going to press, there are only a few tickets left. Tickets are available at shepherdtickets.com. Interested in socializing but not drinking? Stop by the park for food and great music—no ticket needed!

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ut in the town of Lone Rock, Wis., population 888, Gilbert Williams of Lonesome Stone Milling has been hard at work with farmers of Wisconsin’s Driftless region to obtain grains such as wheat and rye for milling into all-purpose flours, pancake mixes, hot cereal and more for retail and wholesale markets. His regular customers include Outpost Natural Foods, which uses Lonesome Stone Milling’s all-purpose flour in their bakery, and sells the flour in the bulk food bins.

A native of Maryland, Williams has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a master’s in agronomy. He worked for the United States Department of Agriculture and later moved to Wisconsin to work in the pesticide department at Hazelton Laboratories (now Covance). He’s since had a number of environment-related jobs.

When Williams and his wife moved to Sauk County in 2000, he held quality control positions at Cedar Grove Cheese and Richland Hills apple orchard. Those experiences helped him learn the ins and outs of operating a food business.

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Lonesome Stone being the humorous nickname for Lone Rock, Williams said.

Williams operates in a historic building that was once a general store. “We set up the business for small grains,” Williams said. “A young guy who was working for me part-time said the grains make great pancakes.” That suggestion led to the wheat and rye mix that is now Lonesome Stone Milling’s popular pancake mix.

Williams and the farmers in his network focus on crops that naturally grow well in Wisconsin.

Employing Williams’ vast knowledge of soil health and agribusiness, the farmers use sustainable measures such as rotating crops of legumes and grasses to minimize erosion, which results in healthier plants that resist disease and produce flavorful grains. By the end of 2016, Williams had harvested grains from 14 farmers.

Using a 30-inch Meadows stone mill, Williams processes grains into flour the traditional way. He said their higher-quality wheat and the stone milling process results in a healthier product: “We use locally grown wheat, and not dry lands high plains wheat. Our protein content tends to be lower, so the gluten will be lower.

Secondly, with the commercial milling process of white bread flour, the wheat germ is removed.

When you’re taking out the wheat germ, you’re taking out the flavor agent that also has the nutrients.”

He notes Lonesome Stone Milling’s flours are often used for artisan baking that involves slow fermentation: a biological process that partially digests the gluten, so it’s more tolerable for a gluten-sensitive person. Stone-milled wheat retains the fiber, which is digested slower, so there’s no glycemic spike.

Since forming Lonesome Stone Milling, Williams has skillfully balanced nutritional science, the environmental aspects of sustainable farming and the challenges of expanding a small business. He’s seeking investors and hopes to expand to a larger grain facility. This past spring, Lonesome Stone Milling received a Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grant to help with marketing.

Lonesome Stone Milling’s products can be ordered online. Their flour is sold in the bulk foods section at Outpost. In addition to supplying area bakeries like Outpost and Rocket Baby Bakery, Williams said one of his farmers is providing rye for Twisted Path Distillery.

For more information, visit lonesomestonemilling.com.

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John Briggs, 1972. Johnny Briggs is probably the most overlooked player in franchise history. The Brewers picked up the sturdy outfielder in an early-season trade with the Phillies in 1971, and by ’72, Briggs had emerged as the team’s most potent offensive weapon. He led the team in homers (21) and OPS (.801), while finishing among the league’s top 10 in homers and slugging percentage (.455). His OPS+ was a robust 141; a mark only 23 other Brewers have ever bested over a full season. He remained a plus hitter over the next two seasons (and even got some MVP votes in 1973), but rankled the Brewers’ brass by threatening to go to salary arbitration and was open in his desire to secure a big payday for his big numbers. He was off to another hot start in 1975 but was dealt to the Twins in June for Bobby Darwin, who was lauded for his high RBI totals.

Tom Murphy, 1974. The mid-1970s saw the emergence of the “fireman” in baseball—a tough-as-nails bullpen ace who came into the game when things were about to burn beyond control. Detroit’s John Heller, the White Sox’s Goose Gossage and Oakland’s Rollie Fingers all become stars in this role and, in the summer of 1974, Milwaukee’s Tom Murphy was as tough as any of them. Acquired from the Cardinals that offseason for utility infielder Bobby Heise, Murphy anchored the Brewers pitching staff, throwing 123 innings over 70 relief appearances and running up a sparkling 1.90 ERA. His 20 saves were second-most in the AL, and his 5.1 pitching WAR was tops in all of baseball for relievers. Murphy even received a handful of MVP votes that offseason. Murphy’s ERA ballooned

by nearly three runs in 1975—and he was never nearly as effective again for the remainder of his career.

Willie Randolph, 1991. Randolph was an aging six-time all-star who was just looking for a job when he signed with the Brewers days before the start of the 1991 season, but ended up turning in one of the greatest season ever by a Brewers second baseman. Taking over the starting spot for an injured Jim Gantner early in the year, Randolph slapped his way to a career-high .327 batting average (third-best in the AL) and used his keen eye on the plate to register a .424 on-base percentage (second-best in the AL). It would be the last great year of Randolph’s career. He moved on to the Mets for 1992 (being rewarded with a handsome raise) but struggled at the plate. He retired after the season.

Bill Wegman, 1991. Most people remember Bill Wegman as a steady, yet unspectacular, starting pitcher. But in 1991, while Willie Randolph was proving tough to get out, Wegman was one of the toughest pitchers in the AL to hit.

Over 28 starts, he registered a 2.85 ERA—by far a career best—which was good enough for third-best in the AL. Wegman’s 142 ERA+ on the year remains the seventh-best among qualified Brewers starters. But, even nearly winning the ERA title and posting the kind of win-loss record (15-7) that baseball writers of the era loved to see, Wegman was stiffed at the ballot box for the Cy Young Award, even as pitchers like Kevin Tapani and Bill Gullickson got votes with similar numbers.

Ricky Bones, 1994. Acquired in the Gary Sheffield trade, Ricky Bones has an undue reputation as an example of why the “every team gets an all-star” rule dilutes the honor of the game.

Bones was the Crew’s long representative in 1994 but, unlike many other Brewers solo-reps of the era, he was entirely deserving of the spot.

While the 3.43 ERA Bones posted on the season doesn’t immediately jump out at you, it was good enough for eighth-best in the AL during the homer happy 1994 season. Bones also placed among the league top-10 in WHIP, walks per nine innings, ERA+ and pitching WAR. Bones regressed in 1995 but remained an above-average starter. He struggled badly to start the 1996 season and was traded away to the Yankees that August.

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ILWAUKEE’S OWN FRINGE FESTIVAL is back for its second edition. The two-day multidisciplinary performance and visual art festival will swing the spotlight onto local artists of all kinds, proving once again that Milwaukee’s art scene is uniquely gifted.

“I can’t think of any other event where you can see such an amount of work over the course of a weekend,” says one of the event’s organizers, Shepherd Express Assistant A&E editor and Marquette theater instructor John Schneider. “You can see music, theater, dance, diverse performances back to back to back.”

Do you want to see a modern dance performance on a staircase? This year’s Fringe Festival has it. Are you curious how a poet can capture your essence in words using only a typewriter and her wit? You guessed it, the Fringe Festival is the place to be.

Many of last year’s artists are returning, alongside new talents, to bring Milwaukee audiences more than 25 live acts to enjoy over the weekend.

Milwaukee’s Fringe Festival was born when founding members Karen Raymond and Katie Rhyme went to the Minneapolis Fringe Festival. “It is huge compared to ours,” Raymond explains. “It lasts 11 days in so many theaters throughout the city. It was so much fun! We thought ‘Milwaukee needs this!’” So Milwaukee got it, through the hard work of the team working on the project.

“Last summer was a huge artistic success. There was no way not to continue it,” Schneider says. “It was just what Milwaukee needed, but it was too expensive.” The 2017 edition will be less spread out, more focused. Unlike last year’s edition, the festival will be limited to the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and will not spread to the neighboring Pere Marquette Park. The organization has also been fine-tuned to give audiences the best possible experience; starting times are scheduled so that people can see the greatest number of shows and also enjoy some time off to wander between events.

The event will take place Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 26-27 at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.

Ticketed shows will take place in the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall and the Todd Wehr Theater. There will also be free performances in the outdoor Peck Pavilion and the grounds of the Marcus Center.

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2017 LINEUP After being transformed into a female of a different race and talking to dinosaurs with keen dance moves, time-traveling adventurer Valentine has to find a way to fix his travel device to go back to the present. That is the plot of the Fringe Festival’s opening play, Version 3 of Valentine The Physics of Time Travel, An Act of Transgenracialization, presented by The Battery Factory. Self-described as “an organic theatrical experiment,” the play will kick off the festivities in the Todd Wehr Theater, on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Other artists are nothing to sneeze at either.

The Fringe managed to attract more than its share of talents. “We have artists who come from Minneapolis, others who come from Chicago,” Raymond says.

Minneapolis’ Bollywood Dance Scene has been a favorite at that city’s Fringe Fest. Their performance, Love You Zindagi, along with Minneapolis Ballet Dancers’ highly acclaimed Ambiance, will be part of this year’s Milwaukee Fringe Fest. Also from out of state is Chicago’s Salty Lark Dance, presenting Parachutes in Our Pockets, a modern dance performance about voyage and navigation.

Among locally based artists, creativity is plentiful. Audiences may enjoy the comedic genius of the Angry Young Men puppeteers, for instance. They may also take a moment to look at the performance of Project Non-Violence, a group that works with inner city youth. The kids come up with the script, so adults get to understand teenagers’ perspectives.

More importantly, the public will be able to transcend artistic boundaries between disciplines and genres. If you are into dance shows and go see them around the city, maybe you don’t have the chance to look into theater. If you love music, maybe you don’t know all that much about visual art. Those barriers are what the Fringe intends to kick down. Montauk Project represents that ideal, by mixing music and dance into a one-of-a-kind performance.

Performances and artists are far too numerous to all be named here, although they all deserve it. Thankfully, audiences confused by this amazing blizzard of options may enjoy the outdoor performances of roving artists— whose creativity is not restrained by time or by a stage—at their leisure. A simple tip: Look carefully at statues, one of them could be Alice Wilson! The famous living statue performer is back—but nobody knows what she’ll look like for this year’s Fringe, so keep an eye out!

For tickets, more information and a complete list of performers, visit mkefringe.com.

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Over The Rhine @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 7 p.m.

The husband-and-wife-fronted folk band Over The Rhine sometimes feel like an audio incarnation of the book series Chicken Soup for the Soul. Whether they’re singing about learning to laugh through tears and love without fear on “Born” or leaving mistakes in the past on “Meet Me at the Edge of the World,” there’s an undeniable calming effect to the gentle insightfulness of their music, which they describe as “post-nuclear, pseudoalternative, folk-tinged art-pop.” Despite their small-town namesake (Over-the-Rhine is a neighborhood in their hometown of Cincinnati), the band have left impressions around the world in their decades-spanning career, even playing with greats like Bob Dylan, John Prine and My Morning Jacket.

Mexican Fiesta 2017 @ Summerfest Grounds, 12 p.m.

Like we need an excuse to drink margaritas and listen to live music. This weekend, the Wisconsin Hispanic Scholarship Foundation invites you to be part of the culture-filled, community-oriented tradition that is Milwaukee’s annual Mexican Fiesta. The event hosts more than 85,000 attendees each year, offering Mexican and Latin American cuisine, a cultural pavilion with various exhibitions and artisan crafts, the Hotwheelz Car and Motorcycle Show on Saturday and the Fiesta Run & Walk on Sunday. Other entertainment will include live dance and musical performances featuring mariachi, salsa and bachata, among other styles. (Through Sunday, Aug. 27.)

Triple Eye Industries Fest II @ Cactus Club & Club Garibaldi, 4 p.m.

Milwaukee’s noise rock record label Triple Eye Industries celebrates its third birthday with a talent-packed music festival this Friday and Saturday. The event will host more than 20 bands on two stages over the course of four shows. Friday’s lineup is local-heavy and includes Milwaukee acts Static Eyes, Soup Moat and Guerilla Ghost among others, while Saturday’s lineup has more regional acts such as War Brides and Sweet Cobra, both of which are from Chicago, and Minneapolis punk band Buildings. Both venues will have a commemorative compilation available for purchase featuring songs from bands performing at the festival. (Also Saturday, Aug. 26.)

When comedians Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay and Mike Smith created their whitetrash characters Ricky, Julian and Bubbles for the Canadian mockumentary series Trailer Park Boys, they probably didn’t realize how much longevity their act would have. The Trailer Park Boys have now been doing their thing for 11 TV seasons (with a 12th season for Netflix on the way), three movies (including 2014’s Don’t Legalize It) and a couple of specials.

There’s no set formula for the group’s live appearances, but in the past they’ve featured puppet shows, musical numbers and comedy sketches.

SATURDAY, AUG. 26 Milwaukee Fringe Festival @ Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 12 p.m.

The history of the original Fringe Festival goes back to 1947 when eight theater companies, after being passed up for inclusion in the Edinburgh International Festival, decided to perform anyway on the literal fringe of the larger festival. Since then, artistically inclined cities have thrown Fringe Festivals as a way to showcase local talent. Milwaukee threw its first fringe festival last year and will reprise the event this weekend with its second citywide celebration of art, music and dance. This year will feature more than 25 performances by amateur and professional artists in poetry, music composition, theater, jazz and hip-hop dancing, classical and contemporary ballet, comedy, puppetry and more. (Also Sunday, Aug. 27.)

Darsombra w/ The Old Northwest @ Circle-A Café, 8 p.m.

The Baltimore psych-rock project Darsombra puts nearly as much emphasis on visuals as they do their actual music, often performing against a projection of unusual visuals and swirled colors that complement their droning space rock. They’re touring behind their latest album Polyvision, which they released on Translation Loss Records (and on cassette through the label Sonic Meditations). They’ll play an early show at Circle A Café with openers The Old Northwest, followed by a 10 p.m. DJ set from Paul Host.

Serbian Days Festival @ St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, 5 p.m.

One of the city’s oldest ethnic festivals, Milwaukee’s Serbian Days Festival returns this weekend for its 62nd year. The three-day festival is a great family event, with live Serbian and American bands to dance and sing along to, carnival rides, games, cultural exhibits, crafts, church tours and a raffle. Between activities attendees can nosh on homemade food including barbecue lamb, pork and chicken, burek (savory pastries), sarma (stuffed cabbage rolls) and cevapcici (skinless sausage). Head over to Serb Hall for after-parties Friday and Saturday to jam to more Serbian music until 2 a.m. (Through Sunday, Aug. 27.)

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Playboi Carti w/ Young Nudy and Pierre Bourne @ The Rave, 8 p.m.

Playboi Carti last played Milwaukee just this spring, warming up the Eagles Ballroom for Gucci Mane. That was a fateful day for the 20-year-old Atlanta rapper: It was the same day his self-titled debut mixtape dropped. A twitchy little thing, it showcased Carti’s minimalist approach to rapping (he doesn’t have “verses” in the traditional sense) and his gift for weird, sticky beats that worm their way into your head whether you’d like them to or not. It also contains one of this summer’s most memorable rap hits, “Magnolia,” a song that’s spawned countless freestyles and viral videos.

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Indigo Girls w/ Becky Warren @ The Pabst Theater, 8 p.m.

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have come a long way since the Indigo Girls’ 1987 debut Strange Fire broke into the world of mainstream pop with its hit “Closer to Fine.” The Indigo Girls have remained one of the most popular folk-rock duos over the last three decades, releasing 15 studio albums including 2015’s One Lost Day, one of their biggest, most expansive records yet. Like many of their recent records, it fleshed out the duo’s emotional folk music with lush, orchestral accompaniments, as the band explored familiar themes of nostalgia and coming of age.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 29 Donald Fagen and the Nightflyers @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

Usually when just one member of an band comes to town, it’s cause for less celebration than when their main band performs. But in the case of Donald Fagen, the Steely Dan singer and keyboardist who has come to Milwaukee quite a bit with that band over the last decade, it’ll be a refreshing change of pace—a chance to hear some of the worthwhile solo material that Fagen doesn’t get a chance to perform when on tour with Steely Dan. The name of Fagen’s backing band suggests the setlist will include quite a bit of material from Fagen’s 1982 solo debut, The Nightfly, though it’s a safe bet that some material from Fagen’s rich, jazzy 2012 album, Sunken Condos, will be covered, too.

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Returning to Milwaukee for the first time since opening for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 2014, Los Angeles-based band Warpaint are back with another album under their belt and an overdue headlining show. The band may move in indie-rock circles, but R&B and hip-hop loom large over their dreamy, dubby sound. Inspired by artists as diverse as Kendrick Lamar, Outkast and Janet Jackson, their most recent album Heads Up is yet another enthralling exploration of sound and genre, filled with sugary, aerial vocals and rhythmic tension.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 30 Lil Yachty @ The Rave, 8 p.m.

Like so many of rap’s newer crossover stars, Lil Yachty blurs the lines between rapping and singing. The 20-year-old Atlanta native sings in a leisurely, agreeably melodic croon, and since his breakout single “1 Night” crept its way onto rap radio last spring, he’s been everywhere, guesting on songs by Post Malone, D.R.A.M., Offset and Bankroll Mafia, and appearing with Young Thug on Chance The Rapper’s “Mixtape.” As with so many young rappers with the “Lil” prefix in their name, Yachty isn’t for everybody, but he knows his audience. “We are the youth!” he yelled on the opener of his mixtape, Summer Songs 2. His commercial debut, Teenage Emotions, didn’t quite make good on the promise of Yachty’s rock-star persona, but can’t be faulted for lack of spirit.

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‘A Chorus Line’

The classic musical that asks: What would you do for love? ::BY JOHN JAHN

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ilwaukee Opera Theatre and Theater RED have assembled a large cast (nearly 30) actors and dancers from local stages for a production of Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban’s enduring musical of ambition, success and failure, A Chorus Line. Familiar names in the cast include Joe Picchetti, David Flores, Mark Bucher, Doug Jarecki, Karl Miller and C. Michael Wright.

A Chorus Line is widely credited for revitalizing the musical theater genre when it was beginning to lapse somewhat into moribundity. Rather than focusing on historical characters or times long ago and far away, A Chorus Line was, quite simply, about the art of acting and dancing professionally, telling the stories of those who live their lives from production to production in search of stardom, fame or, perhaps, love.

Aug. 27-28 at the Nancy Kendall Theater on the campus of Cardinal Stritch University, 6801 N. Yates Road. For tickets, call 800-838-3006 or visit singularsensation.brownpapertickets.com.

Romeo and Juliet

The timeless story of two young lovers cursed to be on the opposite sides of rival families filled with loathing for each other, William Shakespeare’s immortal Romeo and Juliet comes to SummerStage of Delafield. It is perhaps the archetypal tragic romance story, the roots of which go back to antiquity. Its central story has been told and retold via every possible art form. There’s no need to wonder why. Take the rawest and most basic of our animal instincts and emotions, add the brilliant poetic-dramatic writing of a man like Shakespeare, and you have something that will endure forever.

SummerStage takes this wonderful work, Shakespeare’s original, to the great outdoors.

Aug. 24-Sept. 9 at the Lapham Peak Unit of Kettle Moraine State Forest, W329 N846 County Highway C. For tickets, call 262-337-1560 or visit summerstageofdelafield.org.

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aestra Christine Flasch and the Southwestern Suburban Symphony put on a terrific show this past Sunday at the Saber Center in Franklin—the orchestra’s acoustically resonant home turf. The entire concert program was devoted to the beloved music of legendary American composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein. And, in so doing, they made it clear to

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Campy Cruelty with Off the Wall’s ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?’ ::BY RUSS BICKERSTAFF

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ff the Wall Theatre turns its tiny stage over to Blanche and Jane Hudson as it remounts Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Once again, Dale Gutzman’s campy adaptation of the 1962 movie features local theater veterans Jeremy Welter and Mark Hagen taking

all in attendance why “composer” should be Bernstein’s first descriptor, not “conductor.”

The first half of the program consisted of the lovely “Simple Song” from Mass, gorgeously sung by 14-year-old Samual Piatt. After that came the plucky overture to Candide, played with wit and exactitude.

The rest of the meaty first half paid rapturous homage to West Side Story—complete with semi-staged duets by soprano Vanessa Rodriguez and tenor Benjamin Robinson (both in fine voice) as the doomed lovers, Maria and Tony.

The Bernstein of Broadway and Hollywood showed forth in splendor after intermission, with five vocal soloists performing highlights from Peter Pan, On the Town, Wonderful Town and Candide.

Of the latter, “Glitter and Be Gay” was sung and acted to zany perfection by Alisa Suzanne Jordheim.

The whole cast brought the concert to a rousing conclusion with a somewhat messy but certainly exuberant “Conga” from Wonderful Town.

turns as the two leads. True to the campiness that Gutzman has written into the script, both Welter and Hagen take to the stage with an overly theatrical amplification that is both reasonably humorous and slightly disturbing.

Fading famous actress Blanche is bound to a wheelchair, captive of her sadistic sister, Jane, who has always resented her for her success. Welter approaches the over-the-top comic drama with an earnestness that serves the production well. Hagen has a multi-layered grasp of subtlety in humor that blossoms quite well in the tongue-in-cheek end of Gutzman’s humor.

The rest of the scenes flow in and around the two actors without impeding them too much. We get enough of the story beyond the two central characters to know what’s going on. Things stumble across the stage with an exaggerated gracelessness that sometimes serves to amplify the darker ends of the story. On one level this is a light spoof of a cult classic film, but on another level it’s exploring casual human viciousness with a garish, crooked smile that’s far more sinister than anything one might expect from straight-ahead drama. Whether it’s taken as light comedy or something far darker, it’s hard to ignore what Dale Gutzman and company have done with this production.

Through Aug. 27 at Off the Wall Theatre, 127 E. Wells St. For tickets call 414-484-8874 or visit zivacat.com/offthewalltheatre.

(I)dentity

SueMo’s Morgan Williams describes the dance company he co-founded with Melissa Sue Anderson as one that “will take the audience on a journey of movement that is edgy, funky, organic and diverse” comprised of a “fusion of ballet, contemporary, jazz and hip-hop dancers with the ultimate goal of versatility in their movement vocabulary.” SueMo’s next performance piece, (I)dentity, is described as “an exploration of what it means to self-identify,” whether it’s through one’s sexual orientation, race, religious beliefs (if any), or social or economic status. New works by Williams and Anderson are featured, as well as by Associate Artistic Director Christa Smutek, Kam Saunders and Dallas Black Dance Theater’s Keon Nickie.

Aug. 26 at Danceworks Studio Theatre, 1661 N. Water St. For tickets, visit danceworksmke.org.

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Birth of the Dragon PG-13 Forty-four years after the death of 33-year-old Bruce Lee, the fighter’s legend still resonates.

This film purports to chronicle Lee’s rise to fame in San Francisco during the early 1960s. In order to prove himself a true master, Lee sought an epic and still controversial showdown with Kung Fu master Wong Jack Man. Considering the complexity of Lee’s evolution, this rivalry presents a narrow focus. Lee excelled in several fight disciplines, ultimately connecting his style with his unique philosophy. The film presents interesting fight choreography, but it would be gratifying to meet the man behind the movie star. (Lisa Miller)

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Leap! PG British orphan Felicie (voice of Elle Fanning) aspires to become a great ballerina. Accompanied by best friend Victor (Dane DeHaan), Felicie journeys to France where she gains entrance to a top ballet academy. The new girl squares off against spoiled Camille (Maddie Ziegler), hoping to best Camille and win the lead role in The Nutcracker. Originally made in France featuring a French voice cast, the Weinstein Company subbed American voices for the film’s release in the states. Though well received in Europe, critics lament that contemporary dress and music are slipped into Leap!’s 19th-century setting. (L.M.)

STEP PG Between “The Wire” on one hand and a real-life police killing and violent upheaval on the other, Baltimore can seem like a city of no hope. Director Amanda Lipitz documents another side of Baltimore through an inner-city all-girls charter college prep school and the hope engendered by its step (dance) team. We learn about several of the girls, their difficult lives and their dreams of getting out of poverty through education. The aggressive choreography of step dancing teaches them discipline, self-respect, respect for others, team work and the idea that they can succeed. It’s an enlightening film. (David Luhrssen)

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Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus Jazz great Sonny Rollins has remarkable sustain as a saxophonist—he’s like the pearl diver who seldom needs to surface for air. The 1986 concert in director Robert Mugge’s documentary is driven by powerful rhythms but led by his dynamic solos. He plays in a personal tone with a mindful ability to transmute melody into new shapes. In interviews, Rollins speaks of his music as a meditative discipline requiring active imagination and intense focus.

Roaring Abyss According to Quino Piñero’s documentary, the 90 million people of Ethiopia sing in 80 different languages. While it’s impossible to fully survey such diversity in an 87-minute film, Roaring Abyss uncovers seldom seen places where music remains rooted to ancient traditions. Voices rhythmically braid with percussion and curious string instruments in songs of joy and group solidarity. And yet, nearby, a man plays on a wooden flute to entertain himself and his cattle.

Facing Darkness Ebola had never been seen in Liberia until 2014 and it moved with frightening speed against an unprepared population. Facing Darkness is a documentary about Christian “medical missionaries,” in Liberia to repair the damage of civil war, suddenly confronted with a new crisis. A virus whose flu-like symptoms lead to hemorrhaging and death, Ebola has no cure. Facing Darkness shows the struggle to provide comfort and alert Liberians that human touch had become deadly.

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Figuring the Human Body at Portrait Society ::BY KAT KNEEVERS

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erman Aguirre’s paintings become even more stunning in person, as photographs don’t fully capture the sculptural dimensions of his work. The paint is laid on so thickly that it becomes like clay, seeming to churn on the surface and yet retain the DNA of its subject. In many of these, it is his wife. Through the vigorous mountains of paint, a spirit remains that simultaneously exposes and disguises the likeness of the body.

Aguirre is just one of 21 artists in the “NOW Figuration” exhibition at Portrait Society Gallery. Many have shown at the gallery before but here they come together as a response to an exhibition held 35 years ago at the Milwaukee Art Museum called “New Figuration in America.” The primary question for both is the 26 | A U G U S T 2 4 , 2 0 1 7

same: What do representations of the human body communicate through different styles and forms?

The striking, large-scale drawings of Dominic Chambers stand out for their sense of drama framed through a synthesis of art history and personal biography. Every Time the Sun Comes Up is a stirring pietà where a darkskinned woman holds the stretched out body of a man we surmise is her son. Another figure hovers in the background as though taking on the guise of a protector. The sense of gravitas is quiet but evident.

Lois Bielefeld’s photographs of people in neighborhoods at dusk use the unflinching nature of the medium tempered by Bielefeld’s exquisite sense for light and personality. In Juanita, a woman stands in front of silent reflections in a swimming pool. The waving lines of the pool slide become a pale, abstract glide, balancing the woman’s steady, solid pose with her feet planted wide and hands on hips.

The installation Shadows by J. Shimon brings the body into our own space through life-size drawings and painted Plexiglas cutouts. They float in a circle, ethereal but solid.

Their presence in the gallery constitutes representations of a figure, but is also like markers to hold open a space. While the body in art has endless stylistic variations, perhaps its most important aspect is symbolic.

Through Sept. 8 at Portrait Society Gallery, 207 E. Buffalo St., Fifth Floor. An artists’ talk featuring many of the exhibition participants will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 2.

Cameron Bliss, Come Back, Acrylic on canvas, 30x30”, 2017

layfulness is the first quality lost when an artist becomes too concerned with being taken seriously. Romano Johnson, on the other hand, is a seriously playful painter. In his first solo museum exhibition, “Romano Johnson: The Glitterati” at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the Madisonbased self-taught artist shows himself to be, in the words of MOWA Director of Collections Graeme Reid, “one of the most original artists working in Wisconsin today.”

Johnson’s playfulness is evident in both his subject matter and style.

Popular music stars such as Michael Jackson, Prince and Tina Turner comprise a significant percentage of Johnson’s subject matter. Stylistically, Johnson depicts his figures without the illusion of a third dimension and set against a background of brightly colored patterns. The large-scale acrylic canvasses are accented with generous portions of glitter, which catch light and ensoul Johnson’s figures. “Romano Johnson: The Glitterati” is on display Aug. 26Nov. 5.

Romano Johnson, Gold X Woman, Acrylic on Canvas, 40x60”, 2016

“Men of Metal”

Kenosha Public Museum | 5500 First Ave., Kenosha Fathers have been essential in the artistic development of sculptor Bruce Niemi. “I steal from God, first off, using nature,” he says. But Niemi’s earliest teacher was his biological father, who was himself a self-taught sculptor and ornamental iron artist. “Men of Metal,” Aug. 26 through Nov. 4 at the Kenosha Public Museum, presents sculptures by father and son set side by side. There will be an opening reception on Sunday, Aug. 27, from 1:30-4 p.m. during which Bruce Niemi will speak at 2:30 p.m.

Batik Workshop

Cedarburg Cultural Center | W62 N546 Washington Ave. The Cedarburg Cultural Center’s August Artist In Residence is Lynn Barber, a batik watercolor specialist. The technique, which involves the selective application of dye-resistant wax to paper or fabric, is best recognized in the hypnotic patterns and understated earth tones of Javanese art. The public can visit Barber at work on Tuesday, Aug. 29, and Thursday, Aug. 31, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. On Thursday, Aug. 24, from 7-9 p.m., Barber will offer a crash course in the non-traditional, multi-layering technique of batik with watercolors and wax on Ginwashi rice paper. The workshop is $35 for members, $42 for non-members.

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Radio Milwaukee Brings Art to Penfield Children’s Center Off the Cuff with mural artist Stacey Williams-Ng ::BY JEAN-GABRIEL FERNANDEZ

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o give back to the community on its 10th anniversary, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee is commissioning public art for the city. Local artists will create two large murals on blank building walls in the near West Side and Walker’s Point neighborhoods. Financed by a grant from the Mary L. Nohl Fund, the project aims to spark dialogue and bring art to local neighborhoods.

Stacey Williams-Ng is one of the artists chosen for the project. Her mural, a gigantic 122-by-27-foot piece, will be completed by Sept. 10 on the north wall of Penfield Children’s Center, 833 N. 26th St. “The mural concept plays on themes of rhythm, community and cohesion,” 88Nine spokesperson Jeff Bentoff says. “It recognizes that music brings us all together and that differences disappear when we bind together as a community.”

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What are your qualifications and credentials as an artist?

I’m a professional artist and the founder of Wallpapered City, which is a service that helps companies find artists for large-scale art installations like murals. I also paint regularsize paintings, and occasionally illustrate children’s books.

Your readers may recognize Wallpapered City as the consulting company that led the Black Cat Alley project. More recently, we installed five new murals along KK Avenue under the project name “Street Canvas.” Those were unveiled in June, and all five of the murals were painted by women.

How did you end up taking part in Radio 88Nine’s project to bring art to the public?

88Nine held a public call for entries, inviting artists to submit concepts for their two community-themed murals. I submitted an idea for the Penfield building and won.

Stacey Williams-Ng

Why would a radio station create murals, of all things?

I don’t think of 88Nine as just a radio station. They are a non-profit organization, with a vision for building and promoting the culture of Milwaukee. If you look at it in that context, it makes perfect sense that they’d want to support the arts and reinvigorate the physical spaces of our city.

What will the mural represent? What makes it special?

Every mural is special! [laughs] The mural features a school of brightly colored fish swimming between two giant speakers. The waves behind them are inspired by sound waves. I hope that when people see it, they think about how music and art are things that bind us together as a community.

What does creating art in public spaces represent for you? What do you think it achieves?

The thing I love most about street art is that it is available to everyone. It’s not behind a closed door; there is no ticket price to enjoy it. In the last couple of years, Milwaukee has started to wake up to the value of street art in placemaking...and it’s been a very exciting couple of years for artists like me. It seems like nearly every week, you hear about Mayor Barrett coming to visit a new community mural in town. It’s just fantastic.

The mural was planned to take one and a half months to create; is it possible for members of the public to watch you create it in real time?

Definitely! That’s the whole idea! And anyway, I’m trying to work faster.

How can our readers support you?

Come by and visit! Ask questions, take pictures and share the love. If you’re a building owner with a blank wall, consider calling a local artist to grace it with a mural. You won’t be sorry.

For more information, visit staceywilliamsng.com.

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The Grandma Guise Dear Ruthie,

My 77-year-old mother has moved in with my husband, two kids and me. We are thrilled to share these years with her, and my children are closer to their grandma than ever. It’s a win on all counts, but one.

We all know that rules are bent at grandma’s house, and grandkids get away with a lot under grandma’s care. The problem is that grandma’s house is my house. My mom keeps bending the rules behind my back, and she’s disrespecting our parental authority.

I want her to be happy here, and I want the relationship she has with my kids to grow, but she can’t keep this up. Any ideas of how to get our household back on track?

Thanks!

Mommy Dearest

Dearest Dear,

Congratulations on your new live-in maid/babysitter/personal chef!

Send that old gal to cosmetology school, and you’ll have a nail girl/ colorist at your beck and call. Does she garden? Mow the lawn? Can she change the oil in your car? You’ve got it made, sister!

You do need to tell her, however, that she must respect your rules where the kids are concerned. Start the conversation by letting her know how wonderful it is to have her as part of your home. (After she’s painted the kitchen, of course.) Acknowledge how valuable it is for her to make memories with the kids, but tell her that you and your hubby need to call the shots as parents. Keep an example or two in your back pocket and only bring them to the table if needed.

Stick to your guns no matter what. If she continues to disrespect your rules under the “Grandma guise,” call her out on it…calmly and in private. Another strategy is to ask her advice on parenting. If she feels she has input on raising the kids, she’s more likely to stick to the rules.

Have your hubby in on all conversations, too, so that all of the adults in the house are on the same page. Now, ask your mom to put the kids to bed and shake up a few martinis.

Aug. 24: Tapping for Pride! at Rock Bottom Brewery (740 N. Plankinton Ave.): Bottoms up! Haven’t been to Rock Bottom lately? This fundraiser is a great time to check it out. Swing by 5:30-7:30 p.m., and you’ll enjoy two beers and small-plate appetizers for $5. Best of all, a portion of the proceeds go to Milwaukee Pride, the parent organization of PrideFest!

Aug. 25: Margarita Festival at Catalano Square (147 N. Broadway): You’ll be shouting, “tequila” when 15 of the city’s best margarita makers compete for the golden sombrero and the title of top margarita mixologist. Your $20 ticket gives you the chance to sample all and vote for your favorites. The 5-8 p.m. fest carries on rain or shine, so hurry and get your tickets at shepherdtickets.com today!

Aug. 25: Marvel Comix Night at D.I.X. (739 S. First St.): It’s cosplay a go-go as the team at D.I.X. offers up another night of fun. Malaiya Marval hosts the night as your personal Sailor Moon, so be sure to dress as your favorite character, too. Enjoy drink specials, a DJ, drag performances and more during the 10 p.m. cosplay craziness.

Aug. 27: Transgender Family Support Party at Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 N. Market St.): Make new friends, meet families like yours and help teach Trans kids that they’re not alone…while having a great time! Join this noon to 3 p.m. get-together where you’ll enjoy food, activities for kids, lots of smiles and all the support Cream City families have to offer!

Aug. 27: Miss Wisconsin Continental Plus Elite Pageant at FIVE Nightclub (5 Applegate Court, Madison): Our state’s capital hosts another battle of the beauties with this 9 p.m. competition. Someone will go home with a crystal crown, but not before performances by some of Wisconsin’s favorite entertainers. The evening involves a $10 cover and is open to everyone 21 and older.

Email Ruthie with your queries at DearRuthie@Shepex.com.

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LGBTQ Hmong Fighting the Culture of ‘Ua siab ntev’

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tance, the first generation of Hmong American LGBTQs began finding expression, too. But, they faced even more challenges than their straight counterparts.

One acquaintance writes short poems and essays about coming out and gay life. Like his American peers, his experiences reflect the typical tentative process of accepting LGBTQ identity. But unlike them, he confronts the added conflict of cultural separation. That, in turn, results in depression, loneliness, bitterness and longing to escape through internalized racism.

Others, in deference to their large, closely knit families, often where children remain in the parental home until married, use the strategy of interracial dating to avoid being outed. As in other ethnicities where being gay isn’t an option, the tactic is a familiar one. And like them, it further alienates them from their families and forces them into secret lives.

Fourteen years ago, to address the needs of LGBTQ Hmong, activists in St. Paul created SOY (Shades of Yellow). The first and only organization of its kind, SOY’s mission supported Hmong, Asian and Pacific Islanders. It struggled, but, through its website, events and YouTube videos, managed to reach hundreds of LGBTQ Hmong Americans throughout the country. Sadly, the rigors of non-profits, like fundraising and maintaining volunteers, proved too formidable and forced its closure last June.

Locally, the UW-Milwaukee LGBT Resource Center offers assistance to Hmong students.

Despite all, and with a degree of personal risk, a small contingent of LGBTQ Hmong and their allies, perhaps a dozen with some in traditional costume, proudly marched in the Milwaukee Pride Parade. Hopefully, it will inspire others.

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n Hmong, elders use a catchall phrase to address the complaints of the younger generation: Ua siab ntev, or, literally, be patient. It’s sometimes said to comfort wives suffering domestic violence or cheating husbands. As in its other applications, should the subject of accepting LGBTQ children ever be raised, the phrase means, at best, “Don’t try to change your culture.”

The Hmong social structure is clan based and strictly patriarchal. As in most cultures, marriage is sacrosanct and the sole means to preserve clan identity. Because LGBTQs do not contribute to continuing the family lineage, same-sex attraction itself becomes an act of defiance. So foreign is the idea that there is no word in Hmong for homosexuality. Hence LGBTQs are outcasts for their imperfection and infidelity to the clan.

Hmong history is as complicated as it is long. Its most recent chapter begins with the end of the Vietnam War in 1973 and the subsequent resettlement of thousands of Hmong in the United States. Currently, more than 250,000 reside here. One of the largest concentrations is in St Paul, Minn. About 50,000 live in Wisconsin with just over 10,000 in Milwaukee.

Having been moved from ancestral lands in Laos and Vietnam and their agrarian lifestyle to refugee camps in Thailand, then relocated to an extremely foreign and often hostile environment in American cities, the Hmong found themselves culturally traumatized. Isolated by language, customs and social mores, a clash with their new surroundings was inevitable.

However, it also disrupted their traditional social order.

Their children assimilated readily, albeit with difficulty. Some rejected Hmong values in the process. Struggling for identity and accep-

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Pallbearer’s Doom Metal Speaks to the Times ::BY MICHAEL CARRIERE

ittle Rock, Ark.-based doom metal outfit Pallbearer found themselves playing a string of shows in Canada when events in Charlottesville, Va., pushed the American South back into the global spotlight. Acutely aware of the racism of the region, Pallbearer bassist Joseph D. Rowland found the distance between the chaos of this past weekend and his normal day-to-day life as “way unusual.”

“It feels strange to have this slight removal from reality” that being on tour brings, Rowland says. At the same time, Rowland had little interest in participating in any sort of political grandstanding. “We’re not going on stage with the intention of giving a speech,” or in letting emotions associated with recent events get the better of him. “We have a responsibility to our audience to deliver a certain experience, day in and day out,” Rowland explains. Yet the distance between Pallbearer’s latest album, this year’s Heartless, and current events may not be as far as one might think.

Over the course of seven songs, Heartless ruminates on ideas related to defeat, blame and loss while a general sense of things veering wildly off course hangs heavy over all tracks. “It’s not a concept album,” notes Rowland, “but there are running themes that are both personal and universal.” And perhaps even political. It’s hard to listen to album stand-out track “I Saw the End” without thinking about the climate that has allowed white supremacy to gain currency once again: “The truth of light / reveals the hatred that has won / corrupt and bleeding rage / Can’t understand / we’re a sick and dying race.”

While Rowland will not admit that Heartless was

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written with an eye on the rise of such detestable ideologies, he doesn’t discourage such a reading, either. To Rowland, the beauty of Pallbearer’s best songs can be found in the ample room they provide for multiple interpretations. To Rowland, “the most important thing is for everyone to draw their own conclusions about the songs. The power of the songs comes from people interpreting them in their own lives.”

Helping to provide the space necessary for such open-ended readings of their material is the fact that the band does not sound tethered to any specific musical moment. Yes, it is clear that Pallbearer has been influenced by a number of acts from the ’70s, but Heartless sounds like anything but a tribute album to the likes of Black Sabbath. “We’ve made it a goal, from day one,” explains Rowland, “to remove ourselves from any certain musical time

period.” Songs such as “Thorns” seem to draw from ’80s-era Metallica, while album closer “A Plea for Understanding” at times veers into ballad territory.

As such a description suggests, Heartless is not easy listening; those expecting another version of the band’s first two critically-acclaimed albums (2014’s Foundations of Burden and 2012’s Sorrow and Extinction) will be sorely disappointed. “Heartless,” concludes Rowland, “is kind of a difficult record. It’s not something you can just throw on and immediately enjoy.” Yet Rowland notes that the presentation of these new songs in a live setting has forced many hardcore Pallbearer fans to rethink their initial opinions on the band’s most recent release. “Seeing us play [Heartless] live,” notes Rowland, “changed the game” for those still on the fence regarding the band’s evolving sound.

If nothing else, Heartless suggests a band comfortable with pushing their sound beyond expectaPallbearer tions, and Pallbearer Cactus Club remains committed to Sunday, Aug. 27 further growth with their next release which is now, 7:30 p.m. according to Rowland, in “the dialogue phase.”

While the band is unsure what this “dialogue” will lead to, there is little doubt that it will lead to another album that pushes heavy metal in new and exciting directions.

Pallbearer plays the Cactus Club (2496 S. Wentworth Ave.) with Kayo Dot and Bask on Sunday, Aug. 27 at 7:30 p.m.

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Beck Showed Off His Many Personas at the Riverside ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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ith his hip-hop-shaded funk, folk and quirk rock, no artist embodied the postgenre ideal of the ’90s quite like Beck. He rapped like a Beastie Boy, danced like a robot and spoke with the slackery nonchalance of Stephen Malkmus.

(Even as he played to alternative rock’s wider audience, he was always keenly dialed into the sensibilities of indie-rock, which may be why his brand has held up better than, say, Soul Coughing’s.)

He’s such an ageless presence that it’s easy to forget how long he’s been around. He’s tied to some of my earliest memories of music fandom.

One of the first purchases I ever made at a Sam Goody was the cassette single of “Loser” (its Bside was “Alcohol,” an early indication this guy’s album cuts weren’t nearly on the level of his singles). In high school, I skateboarded to Odelay. In college, Midnite Vultures soundtracked parties, while Sea Change became one of my go-to albums for wallowing in self-pity (unlike the pop-punk or emo that usually served this purpose, this album scanned as sophisticated, probably mostly because it had strings on it).

Yet, for a musician so indelibly tied to my youth—one I’ve been listening to for most of my life—it’s almost astounding how little of a bond I’ve formed with him as an artist. Beyond a piece of cocktail trivia about his religious beliefs, I barely know anything about the guy, and that seems to be by design. Though his stage persona changes from album to album, it’s always clear that at least on some level it’s an act; even his seemingly confessional records like Morning Phase—the one that earned the Album of the Year Grammy most of the world believes was rightfully Beyoncé’s—have the same air of genre exercise about them as his party-funk records.

He sings about feelings, but he doesn’t necessarily seem to be singing about himself. Heartbreak, like his party-bot or oversexed soul singer routines, becomes its own kind of burlesque.

Wednesday night at the Riverside Theater—or “Tuesday night” as Beck kept referring to it (how weird it was to see a guy that boyish have such a sustained senior moment)—Beck demonstrated that he’s still a game performer and all-around

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agreeable dude. But if for his first Milwaukee concert in 20 years you were looking for any insight into what makes him tick—why he makes the music he does and what it means to him—it wasn’t going to happen.

Instead, backed by a buzzy seven-piece band, he rocketed through a 90-minute set that kept the jams coming (an opening run of “Devil’s Haircut,” “Black Tambourine” and “The New Pollution” set the pace) and delivered nearly all the expected hits: “Sexx Laws,” “E-Pro,” “Where It’s At” and “Loser” among them. Even the Sea Change/Morning Phase songs didn’t kill the mood (a bombastic version of “Blue Moon” was one of the night’s highs). The only missing fan favorite was “Debra,” a song that, despite a cute homage in this year’s delightful musical action flick Baby Driver, has all the racial sensitivity of a drunk college kid shouting “Chappelle’s Show” catch phrases.

Beck didn’t need to give any more than he did Wednesday night. There’s nothing wrong with entertainment for entertainment’s sake, and not all musicians need to bleed for their art or sacrifice their privacy for the titillation of their fans.

Still, even if it’s a selfish request, I still wish the real Beck would show himself from time to time.

He’s a legacy artist now, one who’s likely to be around for decades to come, and if he’s going to keep soundtracking my life, it would be nice to know a little about the guy.

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The Diaspora Arkestra Presents a Wide-Spanning Tribute to Black American Music ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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hen the team at Washington Park asked Radio Milwaukee DJ Tarik Moody to book a night of their Wednesday night concert series at the park’s band shell, he went above and beyond. He didn’t just book a band, he created one, and quite a large one at that—an 18-piece ensemble billed as the Diaspora Arkestra.

“I didn’t want to have a four piece band up there,” Moody says. “A band shell just looks so weird with only a few members up there. Then I had this idea of how to use all those musicians by having them run through a timeline of African American music. I wanted to show how many styles of music in America really came from African Americans, so I thought what better way to show that than to have some of the best Milwaukee musicians of color perform various genres that African Americans helped create or innovate.”

If condensing the entire scope of black American music into one program sounds like an epic undertaking, that’s because it is, says saxophonist Jay Anderson, who, along with singer B-Free, helped assemble the band and curate the event’s setlist. What began as a manageable 15-song setlist gradually ballooned to 25 songs for a program Anderson says will run about two hours and 20 minutes with no break.

“The whole thing starts with Ethiopian folk music and ends with Beyoncé and covers everything in between,” Anderson says. “Making that setlist got really hard. We had moments where we’d thought we’d finalized it, and then we’d be looking around, and it was like, ‘Ah, damn, we forgot Earth Wind and Fire!’” The players also got some input from their parents; it was Anderson’s mom who reminded them to include Michael Jackson.

The scope of the program begs the question: Why go through the trouble to create such an elaborate band for a one-off performance? “Because it’s fun,” Anderson says, “and it helps us expand our horizons as musicians.” Already this year, participants in the Diaspora Arkestra have been part of similarly ambitious tributes to Stevie Wonder, A Tribe Called Quest and Amy Winehouse, so they have experience with these kinds of undertakings.

But Moody also sees the Arkestra as a sort of trial balloon for something bigger. For the last few years, he’s dreamed of launchDiaspora ing what he calls the “Diaspora Festival”—an African American Arkestra music showcase roughly patterned after the New Orleans Essence Washington Music Festival or Brooklyn’s Afropunk Festival, and the Arkestra Park or something like it could be a part of it. Moody plans to videotape Bandshell the Washington Park performance and use it as part of his pitch to Wednesday, investors to help make the Diaspora Festival happen.

Aug. 30, “There’s no major festival like Afropunk or the Essence Festi6 p.m. val in the Midwest,” Moody says, so the idea is—why not have Milwaukee do it before Chicago does? Hopefully it’d bring a lot of money to the city, having people come in for it, booking hotels.

I think it could really help change the image of the city. I mean, I’m not trying to solve segregation with a festival, but hopefully it might help retain more black professionals, and it might start to make people more interested in what’s going on in the city. It might start to change impressions of the city. It’s just a vision I’ve had, but I’ve been here 10-and-a-half years now,” Moody continues. “And I feel like, if I’m going to stay here longer, I have to do something big.”

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Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Acoustic Guitar Night Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Robinson & Rohe Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Group w/Eddie Butts Catalano Square Third Ward, Ayre in the Square Concert: The Radio Wranglers (6:30pm) Company Brewing, Homecoming: James Isaac, Phat Nerdz, Olivere Lee & guests County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Harry’s Bar & Grill, Kyle Feerick (6pm) Italian Community Center, Tom Anthony Group (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Manty Ellis Trio Jazz in the Park (Cathedral Square Park), Incendio & Terra Guitarra (6pm) Kelly’s Bleachers (Big Bend), Thursday Night Acoustic Open Jam w/host Michael Sean Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Lost Balloons w/Chinese Telephones & Fox Face Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Miller Time Pub, Joe Kadlec Nines American Bistro of Mequon, ninesLive!

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Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Cactus Club, Triple Eye Industries Fest II Day 2 Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Reggie Harris Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Darsombra w/The Old Northwest (8pm); DJ: Paul Host (10pm) Club Garibaldi, Triple Eye Industries Fest 2: Hot Coffin, Canadian Rifle, Conan Neutron & The Secret Friends, Tongue Party & Ribbonhead Cooler By The Lake, Sensations (4pm) Delafield Brewhaus, Off the Record Fireman’s Park (Richfield), Richfield Days: Vinyl Road (3pm) Five O’Clock Steakhouse, Kirk Tatnall Frank’s Power Plant, Nak’ay w/Scathed George’s Tavern (Racine), Jonny T-Bird & the MPs Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub (Downtown), The Flood Brothers Jazz Estate, Barbacoa (8pm), Late Night Session: Gypsy Jazz w/Scott Hlavenka & Friends (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, BT Juice’s Ghost Town Tavern (Grafton), Vinyl Groove Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Allman Brothers Tribute: Reckless & Darlene w/Frutiger Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee Fringe Festival Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Milwaukee Ale House, Alex Wilson Packing House, Donna Woodall Trio (6:30pm) Pizzeria Piccola, Texas Dave Trio (6pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Katie Beth & Luke Cerny Silver Creek Brewpub (Cedarburg), Matt MF Tyner & Rolf Wessel Duo The Cheel (Thiensville), The Bel Airs The Rock Sports Complex, Summer Concert Series in Umbrella Bar: Oil Can Harry Up & Under Pub, Young Revelators Urban Harvest Brewing Company, First Five w/Busy Bar

SUNDAY, AUGUST 27

Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Anodyne Coffee Walker’s Point Roastery & Cafe, Steel City Jug Slammers w/Sweet Sheiks, and Nickel & Rose Cactus Club, Pallbearer w/Kayo Dot & Bask Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Derek Pritzl & Friends (8pm); DJ: Sextor (10pm) Edgewater (Pewaukee), Joe Kadlec (3pm) Fireman’s Park (Richfield), Larry Lynne Band (1pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jammin’ Jimmy Open Jam (3pm) Pabst Theater, Indigo Girls w/Becky Warren Packing House, Jazz Unlimited of Greater Milwaukee Jazz Open Jam: CP3Oh! w/Chris Peppas, Jeff Stoll, Joe Zarcone & Wayne Zimmerman (1pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Playboi Carti w/Young Nudy & Pierre Bourne (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Joe Bonamassa Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic St. Charles Borromeo Parish, Parish Picnic: Vern & The Originals Polka Band (12pm), Close Enuf Oldies Variety Band (3pm) The Tonic Tavern, Sunday Matinee Live Music Series (4pm) Von Trier, On the Patio: Joe Filisko & Eric Noden (4pm)

MONDAY, AUGUST 28

Cactus Club, Endless Boogie w/Slow Walker Italian Community Center, The Bel Airs (6:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader AnjaNotanja Sieger (7:30-10:30pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John The Astor Cafe & Pub, The Chris Hanson Band w/Robin Pluer (6:30pm) Up & Under Pub, Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers Open Mic

TUESDAY, AUGUST 29

C Notes Upscale Sports Lounge, Another Night-Another Mic Open Mic w/Darryl Hill Chill On the Hill (Humboldt Park), De La Buena w/Sara and Kenny (6pm) Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Highbury Pub, Sweet Sheiks Italian Community Center, The Jim Liban Combo w/Roger Brotherhood (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Charlie Parker Tribute w/Jason Goldsmith Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Stokes Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm) Riverside Theater, Donald Fagen and the Nightflyers The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich Turner Hall Ballroom, Warpaint w/Rose of the West

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30

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 Grant Park , Taste of South Milwaukee: Sweet Sheiks Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Open Jam (6pm) Italian Community Center, Caley Conway (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Wisconsin Conservatory Jazz Institute Recital w/ Eric Schoor Trio Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature James Cameron (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Packing House, Carmen Nickerson & Kostia Efimov (6pm) Paulie’s Field Trip, Humpday Jam w/Dave Wacker & Mitch Cooper Pere Marquette Park, River Rhythms: 5 Card Studs (6:30pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Rave / Eagles Club, Lil Yachty - Teenage Tour (all-ages, 8pm) Shank Hall, The Alarm w/Mike Benign Compulsion Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk Veterans Park (Saukville), Live at the Triangle: Vinyl Groove Washington Park, Summer Concert Series: Tarik Moody & The Diaspora Orchestra (6pm) Zeidler Union Square, Westown Farmers’ Market: The Bibby Cats (11:45am)

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What I wish for you is a toasty coolness. I pray that you will claim a messy gift. I want you to experience an empowering surrender and a calming climax. I very much hope, Virgo, that you will finally see an obvious secret and capitalize on some unruly wisdom and take an epic trip to an intimate turning point. I trust that you’ll find a barrier that draws people together instead of keeping them apart. These wonders may sound paradoxical, and yet they’re quite possible and exactly what you need.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Psychologist James Hansell stated his opinion of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud: “He was wrong about so many things. But he was wrong in such interesting ways. He pioneered a whole new way of looking at things.” That description should provide good raw material for you to consider as you play with your approach to life in the coming weeks, Libra. Being right won’t be half as important as being willing to gaze at the world from upside-down, inside-out perspectives. So I urge you to put the emphasis on formulating experimental hypotheses, not on proving definitive theories. Be willing to ask naïve questions and make educated guesses and escape your own certainties.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be likely to receive gifts at a higher rate than usual. Some gifts could be big, complex and catalytic, though others may be subtle, cryptic, or even covert. While some may be useful, others could be problematic. So I want to make sure you know how important it is to be discerning about these offerings. You probably shouldn’t blindly accept all of them. For instance, don’t rashly accept a “blessing” that would indebt or obligate you to someone in ways that feel uncomfortable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are currently under the influence of astrological conditions that have led to dramatic boosts of self-esteem in laboratory rats. To test the theory that this experimental evidence can be applied to humans, I authorize you to act like a charismatic egomaniac in the coming weeks. JUST KIDDNG! I lied about the lab rats. And I lied about you having the authorization to act like an egomaniac.

But here are the true facts: The astrological omens suggest you can and should be a lyrical swaggerer and a sensitive swashbuckler.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I invite you to eliminate all of the following activities from your repertoire in the next three weeks: squabbling, hassling, feuding, confronting, scuffling, skirmishing, sparring and brawling. Why is this my main message to you? Because the astrological omens tell me that everything important you need to accomplish will come from waging an intense crusade of peace, love and understanding. The bickering and grappling stuff won’t help you achieve success even a little—and would probably undermine it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Stockbrokers in Pakistan grew desperate when the Karachi Stock Exchange went into a tailspin.

In an effort to reverse the negative trend, they performed a ritual sacrifice of 10 goats in a parking lot.

But their “magic” failed. Stocks continued to fade.

Much later they recovered, but not in a timely manner that would suggest the sacrifice worked. I urge you to avoid their approach to fixing problems, especially now. Reliance on superstition and wishful thinking is guaranteed to keep you stuck. On the other hand, I’m happy to inform you that the coming weeks will be a highly favorable time to use disciplined research and rigorous logic to solve dilemmas.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming days, maybe you could work some lines from the Biblical “Song of Solomon” into your intimate exchanges. The moment is ripe for such extravagance. Can you imagine saying things like, “Your lips are honey,” or “You are a fountain in the garden, a well of living waters”? In my opinion, it wouldn’t even be too extreme for you to murmur, “May I find the scent of your breath like apricots, and your whispers like spiced wine flowing smoothly to welcome my caresses.” If those sentiments seem too flowery, you could pluck gems from Pablo Neruda’s

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Welcome to Swami Moonflower’s Psychic Hygiene Hints. Ready for some mystical cleansing? Hint #1: To remove stains on your attitude, use a blend of Chardonnay wine, tears from a cathartic crying session, and dew collected before dawn. Hint #2: To eliminate glitches in your love life, polish your erogenous zones with pomegranate juice while you visualize the goddess kissing your cheek. #3: To get rid of splotches on your halo, place angel food cake on your head for two minutes, then bury the cake in holy ground while chanting, “It’s not my fault! My evil twin’s a jerk!” #4: To banish the imaginary monkey on your back, whip your shoulders with a long silk ribbon until the monkey runs away. #5: To purge negative money karma, burn a dollar bill in the flame of a green candle.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A reader named Kameel Hawa writes that he “prefers pleasure to leisure and leisure to luxury.” That list of priorities would be excellent for you to adopt during the coming weeks. My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you will be the recipient of extra amounts of permission, relief, approval and ease. I won’t be surprised if you come into possession of a fresh X-factor or wild card. In my opinion, to seek luxury would be a banal waste of such precious blessings. You’ll get more health-giving benefits that will last longer if you cultivate simple enjoyments and restorative tranquility.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks will be an excellent time to cruise past the houses where you grew up, the schools you used to attend, the hotspots where you and your old friends hung out, and the places where you first worked and had sex. In fact, I recommend a grand tour of your past. If you can’t literally visit the locations where you came of age, simply visualize them in detail. In your imagination, take a leisurely excursion through your life story. Why do I advise this exercise?

Because you can help activate your future potentials by reconnecting with your roots.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of my favorite Cancerian artists is Penny Arcade, a New York performance artist, actress and playwright. In this horoscope, I offer a testimonial in which she articulates the spirit you’d be wise to cultivate in the coming weeks. She says, “I am the person I know best, inside out, the one who best understands my motivations, my struggles, my triumphs. Despite occasionally betraying my best interests to keep the peace, to achieve goals, or for the sake of beloved friendships, I astound myself by my appetite for life, my unwavering curiosity into the human condition, my distrust of the status quo, my poetic soul and abiding love of beauty, my strength of character in the face of unfairness, and my optimism despite defeats and loss.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Witwatersrand is a series of cliffs in South Africa. It is 35 miles long. From this area, which is a tiny fraction of the Earth’s total land surface, humans have extracted 50% of all the gold ever mined. I regard this fact as an apt metaphor for you to meditate on in the next 12 months, Leo. If you’re alert, you will find your soul’s equivalent of Witwatersrand. What I mean is that you’ll have a golden opportunity to discover emotional and spiritual riches that will nurture your soul as it has rarely been nurtured.

Homework: Each of us has a secret ignorance. What’s yours? What will you do about it? Testify at freewillastrology.com.

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

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People Different From Us

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n a shocking display of mischief, an unnamed 60-year-old man in Singapore is under investigation for lodging three toothpicks in a seat on a public bus in July. If he is found to be the culprit, he could spend up to two years in prison. Singapore has an extremely low crime rate, and even minor offenses result in harsh punishments. For example, vandalism is punishable by caning.

Wait, What?

Practicing physicians in Cairo, Egypt, opened a surgery-themed restaurant called D.Kebda in July, where they wear surgical scrubs and prepare their only offering, grilled beef liver sandwiches, behind a glass partition. Kebda is a popular street food in Egypt, but it can cause food poisoning if not prepared carefully. “We tried to take our career values and apply them to this other field,” said Mostafa Basiouny, one of the owners. “There is no contradiction between them; we are still practicing doctors.”

Great Expectations

On Aug. 7, 16-year-old Jack Bergeson of Wichita, Kan., filed papers in Topeka to run for governor as a Democrat in the 2018 race. Bergeson, who won’t be able to vote in that election, said, “I thought, you know, let’s give the people of Kansas a chance. Let’s try something new.”

The candidate says he would “radically change” health care and would support legalizing medical marijuana, but he’s conservative on gun rights. Bryan Caskey, director of elections at the Kansas secretary of state’s office, said there is no law governing the qualifications for governor. Bergeson’s running mate, 17-year-old Alexander Cline, will be 18 by the election and will actually get to vote.

Animal Antics

The Scardillo Cheese Factory in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, has a squirrel to blame for a fire that resulted in more than 20,000 gallons of milk being spoiled on Aug. 8.

The squirrel chewed through a main power line on the outside of the building, which sparked the fire, and power could not be restored for 12 hours. Already-made cheese was kept cool with generators, but milk being readied to make cheese warmed and went bad.

Least Competent Criminals

Criminal justice student Jordan Dinsmore, 20, of Columbia, S.C., had her car’s manual transmission to thank for her safe escape on July 26. Three men approached her around 1 a.m. and pointed a gun at her. After robbing her of her phone and purse, the men forced her

into her car, threatening to kidnap and rape her, but when they realized none of them knew how to drive her stick-shift car, one of the criminals ran away. The other two forced Dinsmore to drive to an ATM to withdraw cash. As she drove, Dinsmore removed her seatbelt, then put the car in neutral and jumped out, screaming, “Call 911! Call 911!” to passing motorists. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department arrested a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old in the kidnapping and robbery.

Surveillance video from a July 27 breakin at the home of John Burbage, 59, of Naples, Fla., showed a surprisingly familiar picture of the perpetrators: Harold Lanham, 22, and his dad, James Lanham, 41—both of whom Burbage employed, and both of whom were wearing their work uniforms. The Lanham duo stole a safe containing more than $30,000 worth of cash and property from their boss’ home.

The Weirdo American Community

Residents of Hollis, Maine, were unnerved on the evening of July 25 as Corey Berry, 31, wearing a clown mask, walked around town with a machete duct taped to the place where his arm had been amputated. When the intoxicated Berry was taken into custody in nearby Waterboro, he explained to officers that he was copying other clown sightings as a prank on a friend. Karmen LePage of Hollis warned: “He’s not funny. We live in the woods; you think we don’t have guns? He’s ... lucky.”

A Gorn Invasion, Perhaps?

The South Carolina Emergency Management Division issued an alert on Aug. 9 in advance of the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 asking state residents to be “vigilant” and look out for humanoid reptiles during the celestial event: “SCEMD does not know if Lizardmen become more active during a solar eclipse,” the note read. “But, we advise that residents of Lee and Sumter counties should remain vigilant.”

The folkloric reptilian beast is thought to live in swampland around Lee County and frequent sewers in nearby towns. While some people thought the warning might be a joke, SCEMD said it “will neither confirm nor deny” the existence of Lizardmen.

Anger Management

Customers at a Flying J truck stop in West Hanover Township, Va., got quite the show on Aug. 14 when Craig Troccia, 54, of Roanoke smashed the windshield of his truck and poured a cup of urine onto the interior. Wait; did we mention Troccia was also naked? He then yelled a racial epithet at a black man and flashed his genitals at everyone within sight. Next, (and still naked) Troccia pointed a gun at the insulted black man and then at another person, threatening to kill them both. After state troopers loaded Troccia into their cruiser, he “slammed his body and head on the various panels of the vehicle,” they reported. He was charged with 34 criminal counts, including public drunkenness. © 2017 Andrews McMeel Syndication A U G U S T 2 4 , 2 0 1 7 | 37

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So I hear another solar eclipse has come and gone. And I’ll tell you’s, a couple-three minute sun and moon shadow dance is no big focking deal to me, hell no, not to a guy who’s been in eclipse for years, I kid you not.

Yeah yeah, I saw the photo of our President Orange Circus Peanut staring up at the eclipse (retina-schmetina, those astronomer scientists think they know everything, fock ’em); thus completing the trifecta. And by that I mean he’s always had “dumb” nailed, you bet. He’s got “deaf” in his hip pocket, since he can’t and won’t listen to anyone or anything but his own meshugah inner demons. And now he’s going for “blind.” What a guy. What the fock.

And speaking of blind, what’s with the big focking type you ask? It’s so I can read what I’m whipping out on this page here. Apparently, I, too, may have gazed, sans safety glasses, at the goddamn eclipse a smidge longer than recommended and now my eyesight seems to have gone all ferkakta on me, for crying out loud. Cripes, I knew I probably should’ve slaughtered and sacrificed a goat before the eclipse like I had planned. If I had, maybe I’d be just peachy now instead of wondering if I should ask for a tin cup and cane for Christmas this year, what the fock.

Anyways, since I’m already feeling half blind, I may as well go all the way and head up to the Uptowner tavern/charm school where I shall sacrifice a Jackson or two at Old Crow’s altar. Come along if you’d like, but you buy the first round ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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