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The Shepherd Express 2018 Primary Endorsements Please vote. This election is particularly important for a couple of reasons.

At the state level, the governor’s race will determine whether the Republican legislature, after the next census, can once again draw extremely gerrymandered legislative boundaries for the next 10 years and have a governor sign it—or whether there will be a Democratic governor in 2021 who will veto the gerrymandered Republican legislative map and have the courts draw fair and honest legislative districts. If we have fair, competitive legislative districts, legislators will then have to be concerned about serving their constituents. Since they will face competitive elections, this will produce more honest, responsive and transparent government.

At the national level, our state elections, like those in other states, will give voters their first real chance to express concerns about whether America is moving in the direction of a more authoritarian, anti-democratic country—not the America we learned about in our high school civics classes. We can conduct or read all the opinion polls we want, but the real pulse of the nation takes place at the ballot box. We can’t take America for granted; it’s not a given. We are living in a strange time with a very divided nation. Democracy requires effort and vigilance. People have died defending America. The least we can do is to pay attention to what is happening and vote.

TONY EVERS FOR GOVERNOR The Shepherd Express enthusiastically and unequivocally endorses Tony Evers for governor. There are many good and honorable people running in this Democratic primary, but we focused on two things: Who would be an effective governor with good values, and who can beat Scott Walker.

This election is important for a couple of reasons. We need to change the course of our state, which, over the past eight years, has passed laws and created policies that one would expect in Mississippi or Louisiana. Compared to our neighbor, Minnesota, we are lagging in virtually every important indicator. Over the past eight years, the quality of life in Wisconsin has diminished except for the very wealthy. Most of our decline has been unnecessary and could be changed by a new governor.

There is a reason why we are in the lower half of the 50 states in metrics like GDP growth and wage growth. We need a different governor.

Evers has been Wisconsin’s superintendent of public instruction for the past nine years. He was born and raised in a small community, Plymouth, and worked as a teacher, principal and school superintendent in different small town and rural communities. As governor, Evers will focus on education at all levels, which Walker has neglected. He understands that education is the avenue to the middle class, and an educated population is one of the main components of building a strong economy.

Evers can beat Walker. He has won three statewide elections and in his last election received 70% of the vote. These were spring elections where the turnout is lighter, but the critical fact is that Evers won virtually all the northern rural counties that have been difficult for Democrats in recent years. He currently lives in Madison and, in elections, has done well in Dane County. He has also spent enough time in Milwaukee to thoroughly understand our community, our needs and what can be done at the state level to improve the lives of Milwaukee residents.

Also important, Evers does not need on-the-job training. As superintendent of public instruction, he has learned to successfully navigate the state legislature, which will be important because he will have to work with Republican legislators. Even with a “blue wave,” the Democrats might be able to gain the majority in the state Senate, but winning control of the state Assembly will be very difficult since the Assembly’s legislative lines have been so dramatically gerrymandered. Tony Evers’ experience with the state legislature is important because we need a governor who, on day one, can begin to get Wisconsin back on course and back to being the progressive state that was once respected throughout the nation and the world.

After three successful elections, there has been absolutely no hint of any scandal or corruption where Evers is concerned. He was thoroughly vetted by the voters three times, and he came out a winner. The only real criticism you hear is that Evers is not a flashy guy. After eight years of a governor who has tried to be flashy and unsuccessfully tried to make it on the national level, Wisconsinites seem to be looking for someone who is honest, competent and looking out solely for what is good for the people of Wisconsin. That’s Tony Evers.

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MANDELA BARNES FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Mandela Barnes has experience, vision and energy. Barnes, a former state legislator from Milwaukee, ticks all the boxes you need in a great candidate and state official. We like his positions on equity, health care, education, economic opportunity, renewable energy, the environment, transportation, guns, drugs and the need to bridge the so-called rural-urban divide within Wisconsin.

He’s a Milwaukee Public Schools graduate from the heart of Milwaukee and most recently has been working with the State Innovation Exchange, which has broadened his perspective of what policymakers can do to create a fairer, more prosperous and healthier state. His legislative experience is an asset. We request that Wisconsin’s next governor offer Barnes a full slate of responsibilities when he takes office in January.

In recent general elections, we have seen a decrease in the vote coming out of Milwaukee, diminishing our city’s influence at the state capitol and hurting Milwaukee in many ways. With Barnes on the ticket, we believe that he can play a big role in energizing the voters for a stronger turnout from Milwaukee—despite the various laws the Walker administration has passed to suppress the vote.

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EARNELL LUCAS FOR MILWAUKEE COUNTY SHERIFF

The problems at the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office didn’t magically disappear when its vitriolic former sheriff, David Clarke, resigned in August 2017.

The county’s next sheriff will be tasked with reforming a department addled by budget problems, staffing shortages and, not least of all, systemic cruelty at the county jail, where four inmates died in a span of just six months, one of dehydration. Earnell Lucas is the candidate best qualified to address these enormous moral and managerial challenges.

Lucas’ credentials are impeccable. After graduating from Rufus King High School, he served 25 years in the Milwaukee Police Department, where he was awarded the department’s Heroism Award after being shot in the line of duty. He retired as captain, then went on to an impressive career with Major League Baseball, where he oversaw security initiatives that protected the sport’s tens of millions of fans. Throughout his career, he’s proven his ability to work with community leaders and civic organizations—something the sheriff’s office badly needs after Clarke burned bridges during his tenure.

Lucas’ primary opponent, Acting Sheriff Richard Schmidt, was Clarke’s second in command. His unconscionable silence while serving under Clarke speaks louder than any promises he’s made to clean up the department. Schmidt has also expressed extreme views far out of touch with the mainstream, let alone the Democratic Party. An evangelist minister who graduated from an unaccredited religious college, he believes the Earth is only 6,000 years old and, in a podcast recorded just last fall, advised victims of domestic violence to stay in their marriages and “submit” to their abusers.

We are disappointed in Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele for not rescinding his support of Schmidt considering such appalling comments.

Milwaukee County already survived one extremist conservative in its sheriff’s office; it is time for the department to set a new course. Lucas has earned the endorsement of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Working Families, Voces de la Frontera, Milwaukee Area Labor Council and Milwaukee Police Supervisors Organization. We’re proud to stand with them in our support.

GWEN MOORE FOR U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wisconsin is lucky to have a progressive like Gwen Moore representing the state in Congress. After more than a decade as a state senator—where she fiercely fought against voter ID laws designed to disenfranchise black voters—Moore became the first African American from Wisconsin elected to the House of Representatives in 2004. Since then, she’s fought passionately for her district, while making a name for herself as a tireless advocate for women, workers, students and the poor.

Moore has the courage of her convictions. Few representatives have been more outspoken about the need for income equality. In 2014, she was arrested for peacefully protesting for a living wage along with fastfood workers. She’s also been a solid line of defense as Republicans have chipped away at reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, welfare protections, education and healthcare coverage.

Moore’s primary opponent, Gary George, a former state senator who lost his seat in a 2003 recall election, is challenging her for the third time in six years. He was not a serious candidate in those previous races and is not one now.

With Donald Trump and his congressional allies waging war on core American values, Congress needs all the progressive voices it can get. It has an especially strong one in Moore. She has more than earned another term.

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NEWS&VIEWS::ENDORSEMENTS SARAH GODLEWSKI FOR STATE TREASURER Sarah Godlewski, an Eau Claire, Wis., native, is eminently qualified to serve as the state’s financial watchdog.

She owns her own business (focused on investing and mentoring socially responsible businesses), worked for the U.S. Department of Defense on a project to aid veterans with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), participated in the National Security Fellowship program with the Air War College and currently co-chairs UNICEF USA’s Advocacy Leadership Group.

Unlike the current state treasurer, who supported abolishing the office through a statewide constitutional referendum, Godlewski helped to lead the successful fight to save the office and preserve the concept of an independently elected fiscal watchdog to ensure that our tax dollars are spent properly. She is now seeking to serve as treasurer and be an active watchdog over all matters concerning our tax dollars. She wants to publish a Taxpayer’s Annual Report to provide accountability and transparency to Wisconsinites; wisely invest the state’s trust funds, valued at more than $1.2 billion; help student loan holders refinance their debt at a lower interest rate; and protect seniors, veterans and disadvantaged residents from financial predators.

Godlewski has proven she has the financial acumen and solid commitment to public service to be a trustworthy and transformative state treasurer.

DOUGLAS J. LA FOLLETTE FOR WISCONSIN SECRETARY OF STATE If the name Doug La Follette rings a bell, it should; he has successfully and diligently served the people of Wisconsin for many years as secretary of state by monitoring lobbying activities and investigating ethics violations. What many may not know is that he is an ardent supporter of education and the environment as well.

As an assistant professor at UW-Parkside, La Follette was a Wisconsin organizer of the first Earth Day for Gaylord Nelson in 1970. He also co-founded Wisconsin’s Environmental Decade, now known as Clean Wisconsin. In addition to the outstanding job he’s done as secretary of state, La Follette is the author of The Survival Handbook: A Strategy for Saving Planet Earth, has served on the board of directors of Friends of the Earth, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Sierra Club, and in 2003, La Follette was named a Fulbright Distinguished American Scholar.

MARISABEL CABRERA FOR STATE ASSEMBLY —9TH DISTRICT Born and raised on the South Side of Milwaukee, Marisabel Cabrera’s family fought to get by and, more than once, had to rely on a local church for food and other necessities; thus, she became aware at a very early age of how difficult life can be for those with little to fall back on. “I remember my parents constantly emphasizing that the surest way out of poverty is through a good education,” she says, and credits a quality public education for getting her to where she is today. Cabrera took her parents advice and earned a bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison and law degree from Michigan State University.

Cabrera is bright, hardworking and committed to making her community better by serving in several capacities. She is an entrepreneur, immigration attorney and former chair of the Latino Caucus of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. She’s a member of Voces de la Frontera and has served as a member and vice chair of the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission. She explains that she is running for the state Assembly to ensure that “each and every person—regardless of nationality, gender or orientation—has the same opportunities, services and protections to prosper and safely enjoy their home and community.”

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NEWS&VIEWS::ENDORSEMENTS FREDERICK P. KESSLER FOR STATE ASSEMBLY —12TH DISTRICT Milwaukee-born Frederick P. Kessler has earned his bid for re-election to the Wisconsin Assembly. He is a lawyer, labor arbitrator and redistricting consultant—in the latter capacity fighting efforts by Republicans to gerrymander voting districts throughout the state to their own benefit. As a member of the minority party, Kessler understood that it is nearly impossible to get any decent legislation passed, so he focused some of his time on the root cause of the problem: unfairly drawn legislative boundaries.

Gerrymandered districts are one of the main reasons we have a gridlocked Congress and state legislature. When a district is safely Republican or safely Democratic, the representatives don’t need to worry about a challenge from the other party, so they don’t have to try to work with the other party and compromise to get something done. Instead, they worry about a challenge from the extreme of their own party—the far right for Republicans or the far left for Democrats. This causes them to embrace more extreme positions and, thereby, little important and reasonable legislation gets passed. The center of the legislative body gets hollowed out.

Gerrymandering has been especially harmful to Milwaukee. The GOP drew many of the districts to ensure that they are controlled by suburban voters, many of whom are not particularly fond of the city of Milwaukee. Representative Kessler was the engine behind the redistricting lawsuit that went to the U.S. Supreme Court, only to have the justices duck the redistricting issue.

Fred Kessler has also been a solid and consistent progressive voice both inside the legislature and outside in his civic life. Kessler proudly shows his devotion to our community and the people of Wisconsin through his personal advocacy: He’s a board member and former president of the Milwaukee Chapter of the ACLU; a board member of the World Affairs Council of Milwaukee and the Wisconsin State Historical Society; former chair of Amnesty International and a current member of the NAACP.

Goyke grew up in Madison, Wis., moved to Milwaukee to attend Marquette University Law School and, before his election in 2012, served as an attorney in the Office of the Wisconsin State Public Defender and as an Adjunct Professor of Law at MU. Issues of criminal justice appear repeatedly on his résumé, and for good reason: He cares deeply about criminal justice reform and not giving up on people—ever. He understands that Wisconsin cannot afford to continue to lock up people for long periods of time for nonviolent crimes.

Goyke has worked with Republican legislators on this issue to have saner sentencing policies that will also save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. “Neighborhoods can experience drastic reductions in crime, but it really has nothing to do with long prison sentences,” he told the Shepherd Express. “It has more to do with empowering people, wrapping the community around troubled individuals and engaging young people in a positive way.” He also spends a great deal of his efforts on working on issues to promote economic development, job creation and neighborhood improvement.

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SUPREME MOORE OMOKUNDE FOR STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT —16TH DISTRICT Supreme Moore Omokunde is running for the seat currently held by the retiring Leon Young. Omokunde says he named his campaign “Supreme for the People” because of his mission “to serve the community and [his] neighbors.” His life’s trajectory thus far is well in keeping with such a goal.

As a young man, he learned about community leadership through Public Allies Milwaukee, a program of the AmeriCorps national service network. After spending several years working in the community, Omokunde embarked upon his first campaign for public office and was successful: He was elected a county supervisor for the 10th district in 2015. He currently serves on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors’ Finance and Audit Committee and was formerly chairman of the Community on Health and Human Needs Committee.

“I’m proud of the work I’ve done to contribute to a culture of collaboration in county government,” Omokunde says, “and I’m proud of the solutions we have achieved on some very difficult issues.”

EVAN GOYKE FOR STATE ASSEMBLY —18TH DISTRICT Incumbent Evan Goyke is bright, hardworking and spends a great deal of his time working on the issues directly affecting his constituents. He is clear about the fact that his “greatest responsibility… is to be your voice in state government.” In this capacity, he has fought to serve on committees that deal with the issues that directly affect the residents of his district. Goyke currently serves on five committees: Corrections, Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Family Law, Veteran and Military Affairs, and Housing and Real Estate. He is also a WHEDA board member.

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

Friday, Aug. 10

Lanterns for Peace @ Urban Ecology Center-Riverside Park (1500 E. Park Place), 6:30-9 p.m.

Peace Action Wisconsin will hold a traditional commemoration for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, at the close of World War II. There will be family activities, including Japanese lantern making, a program reflecting on nuclear disarmament and a floating of the lanterns on the lily pond.

Saturday, Aug. 11

Green Party of Greater Milwaukee Monthly Meeting @ Milwaukee Public Library, Bay View Branch (2566 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.), 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

The Green Party of Greater Milwaukee holds their public monthly meetings on the second Saturday of every month. All are welcome to learn about opportunities, action planning and more within the party.

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ the corner of North Avenue and Sherman Boulevard, noon-1 p.m.

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

Laughing Liberally @ ComedySportz Milwaukee (420 S. First St.), 8-10 p.m.

Laughing Liberally Milwaukee is a monthly progressive political comedy show hosted by comedian, satirist and progressive talk radio host Matthew Filipowicz. This month’s show features Ton Johnson, Brittany Tilander, Jen Durbent, Patrick Tomlinson, Cynthia Marie and sketch comedy group The Accountants Of Homeland Security.

Sunday, Aug. 12

Prisoner Resistance: Then and Now @ Turner Hall (1034 N. Fourth St.), 6-8 p.m.

Reggie Jackson, the head griot at America’s Black Holocaust Museum and Ben Turk, an organizer with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee will explore the historical roots and the recent resurgence of organizing within prisons.

Tuesday, Aug. 14

Invisible: Imprints of Racism @ Northside YMCA (1350 W. North Ave.), 6-8:30 p.m.

The Frank Zeidler Center for Public Discussion will host an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination with a performance from Beheard.world and community dialogue about combatting racism and oppression.

NORML Monthly Meeting @ Milwaukee Public Library, Central Branch (814 W. Wisconsin Ave.), 6-8 p.m.

The Southeastern Wisconsin chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws will hold their monthly meeting at Milwaukee Public Library Central Branch in Community Room 1.

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Republican Anti-Baldwin Hopes Dwindling ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

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ust a year ago at the annual gathering of the nefarious Koch donor network, the billionaire owners of Republican politicians identified Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin as the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent in this year’s election. They immediately began spending more than $11 million on early attack ads that were supposed to have reduced Baldwin to human rubble by now.

Funny thing, though. A year later, Sen. Tammy Baldwin is looking stronger than ever against either of her extremely unpleasant Republican challengers—Kevin Nicholson or Leah Vukmir—whose bloody cage match will come to a welcome end with next week’s Tuesday, Aug. 14, primary election.

We knew it was going to be bad when the Wisconsin race attracted Nicholson, who was personally endorsed by Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s sleazy former chief political strategist, as part of his now shattered dream of electing his own slate of reprehensible Republicans to the U.S. Senate. It got worse when establishment Republicans hoping to protect Wisconsin from Nicholson chose State Sen. Vukmir, eager to prove she could be just as vile a candidate.

This is what Republican politics has been reduced to in the Trump era.

In one of their most dramatic faceoffs, Vukmir and Nicholson tried to top each other by arguing about which one had been called the worst names in politics. “I’ve already been called vile,” Vukmir bragged. “I’ve already been called Nurse Ratched.” Not to be outdone, Nicholson boasted: “I’ve had people try to kill me for what I believe…I’ve had people in our own party say I have no real principles.” Can’t we just all agree that they’re both terrible human beings?

Before we leave Vukmir’s pride in being compared to Nurse Ratched, we should explain to younger readers that Vukmir, whose background is in nursing, was referring to film history’s most chilling portrayal of a sadistically cruel nurse in a mental hospital. Louise Fletcher won an Oscar for the role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the 1975 film starring Jack Nicholson. And Kevin Nicholson wasn’t suggesting the Wisconsin Republican Party was trying to assassinate him to prevent him from winning the Senate nomination; he was referring to the only real credential he ever cites qualifying him for public office. He once served in the military.

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one of the most important issues in this year’s election. But, of course, that doesn’t apply in right-wing Republican primaries. That’s because Republicans all promise to continue trying to destroy affordable health care for millions of people, end women’s access to birth control and cancer screenings by Planned Parenthood and, most importantly, support U.S. Supreme Court nominees who will repeal Roe v. Wade, which protects abortion rights for women.

Nurse Ratched heartily agrees.

So does Nicholson. Forget that video of Nicholson speaking at the 2000 Democratic convention declaring his passionate support for a woman’s right to choose. That was way back when Nicholson was president of the College Democrats of America. Nicholson says he’s since learned Democrats “have wholesale rejected the Constitution.” Nicholson says he now believes “the Constitution is pro-life,” which apparently the U.S. Supreme Court has violated for 45 years by upholding abortion rights for women as completely constitutional.

But the terrible Republican candidates aren’t the only reason U.S. Senate Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell has removed Wisconsin (along with Ohio and Pennsylvania) from his list of states voting for Trump that he believes Republicans have a chance of winning to hang on to their razor-thin Senate majority.

One of the reasons Baldwin is running so far ahead of either Republican candidate in the polls—anywhere from nine to 17 points ahead of Vukmir and nine to 15 points ahead of Nicholson—is the past year has already been terrible for Republicans in Wisconsin special elections and the statewide Supreme Court race. The anchors that appear to be pulling the party down are both Trump and Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

Despite everything you hear about how Trump’s voters will stick with him through every crazed tweet and outrageous lie, according to a recent NBC News-Marist College poll, only 31% of Wisconsin voters, a state Trump won, believe he deserves to be reelected. There also are warning signs Walker fatigue is growing in the state.

Early polls—held before Walker’s Democratic opponent has even been determined—show him with either a very narrow lead or losing by as much as 13 points.

No one should get cocky about polls after empty suit Sen. Ron Johnson overcame Russ Feingold’s commanding lead, but Baldwin also is a terrific campaigner. She proved that against former Gov. Tommy Thompson, whom Republicans throughout the state were far more likely to vote for than either of this year’s nasty opponents.

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e need each other.” Those are Dasha Kelly Hamilton’s words describing what she’s learned from young people she has worked with for the past 18 years. Our country and our city are changing because more people are speaking up, but the voices we need to hear the most are those of the youth in this country. For them to speak louder, they need a support system and the confidence that their voice matters.

Still Waters Collective (SWC), founded by Kelly Hamilton, is one of many organizations in Milwaukee working with local youth to help them find their voice. It is an outreach organization that uses creative writing and performance art to build community. The organization started as an adult open mic but has since grown to predominantly serve youth by partnering with public schools to teach poetry workshops. Words have power when we speak our truth, but the real power happens when an audience listens to those words and is affected by them.

The organization first transitioned to work with youth when Kelly Hamilton was asked to teach a workshop at a Milwaukee high school. Her world changed when she asked the class a simple question: “How many of you think your voice matters?” Less than a third of the class raised their hands, which surprised her. They were so young, she thought, but not excited by their ideas, thoughts and imaginations. “I was never there to teach them but to show them that they are important,” says Kelly Hamilton. At the end of all her workshops, she has each student write a poem because it “requires the young person to consider all the possible ideas in the universe... Recognize that you’re creative, and your voice matters. Magic happens by the time we get to that poem.”

Words Have Power

Kelly Hamilton reiterates one point to every one of her students before they perform their poems: “Every time you speak your truth in front of an audience, there’s someone who needs to hear it.” That statement is why poetry is so important. We all relate to one another and through words, we can come together to a common understanding. Listening can be just as powerful as speaking, and having active listeners shows these young people that their words have power.

Words touch our lives in many ways, and SWC wants to make sure that words are also being used to connect the people across our city. One of their core programs is the SWC Fellowship in which students from ages 18 to 25 complete course work and connect with local community members to build relationships. The intention is to cross the lines in Milwaukee’s different neighborhoods and show the participants of the program that they are welcome in any part of the city.

“These are young people who have figured out that their voices matter,” says Kelly Hamilton, but, as she explains, this is also a time in their lives when they could lose that confidence. Still Waters Collective ensures that they have a time and place to share that voice.

We all have stories hidden away where the still waters run deep. Telling those stories helps the listeners better understand their community and allows the storytellers to speak their truths to the community. The people of this city can empower each other by listening; by listening we can open a conversation.

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With the Viagra Patent About to Expire, a New Sex Pill Takes the Spotlight A patented pill costing less than $1 a dose stands to help millions of men with failing sex lives; no prescription will be required

By Ray Wilson Associated Health Press AHP− A new sex pill is set to take the spotlight with the Viagra patent about to expire. But unlike the former, it won’t require a prescription and is priced just under a $1 a dose.

The result is a rush of blood flow to the penis and brain, helping to create an impressive erection and a surging desire for sex. Often, this is all men need to get going. And when taken regularly, many men say they are energized and aroused all day.”

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The new pill called Vesele is part of a new class of performance enhancers for men, which work instantaneously on the body and mind triggering arousal and firmer, harder erections.

With the conclusion of their latest human clinical use survey trial, Dr. Esber and his team are now offering Vesele in the US. And regardless of the market, its sales are exploding.

Formulated with a special compound known as an “accelerator”, Vesele can transport its active ingredients faster and more efficiently into the blood stream, where it begins to work its magic.

Men across the country are eager to get their hands on the new pill and according to the research, they should be.

The patented ingredient blend initiates a process known as vasodilation, which causes arteries and vessels throughout the body to expand. This allows blood to flow directly to penis and genitals, resulting in harder erections which last longer. Cialis and Viagra are based around a simlilar concept.

But what makes Vesele so remarkable, and what these other sex pills can’t do, is that also directs a small portion of this blood flow to the brain, which creates feelings of intense arousal. In laymen’s terms, users become incredibly excited and turned on.

This is why the makers of Vesele say their pill has worked so effectively in clinical trials. It stimulates the two most important organs for great sex, the penis and the brain.

The Brain Erection Connection Until now, medical researchers did not fully understand the brain-erection connection. It has now been made clear with Vesele. When both are supplied with a constant blood flow, men are harder and firmer for longer...and have unbelievable sex drives.

“Most of the research and treatment methods for men’s sexual failures have focused on physiological factors and have neglected the emotional ones. For the leading sex drugs to work, like Cialis and Viagra, you need visual stimulation” explains Dr. Henry Esber, the creator of Vesele.

“And although they work for some men, the majority experience absolutely no fulfillment during sex.

According to research published by the National Institute of Health, 50% of men taking these drugs stop responding or can’t tolerate their side effects...and on top of that they spend $50 per pill and it doesn’t even work half the time.

This is what makes Vesele so different and effective. It floods the blood stream with key ingredients which cause arteries all over the body to expand. The patented accelerator speeds up this process even more.

In the trial above, as compared to baseline, men taking Vesele saw a staggering 85% improvement in erection hardness over a four-month period. Their erections also lasted twice as long.

These same men also experienced an astounding 82% increase in the desire for sex (libido/sex drive) and an even greater improvement in overall satisfaction and ability to satisfy their partners.

Many men taking Vesele described feeling horny and aroused through the day. The anticipation before sex was amazing. They were also easily turned on. Their moods were more upbeat and positive, too.

Faster Absorption into the Blood Stream Vesele is made up of three specialized ingredients: two clinical strength vasodilators and a patented absorption enhancer often called an accelerator. According to an enormous amount of clinical data, each is very safe.

Research shows that with age, many men lose their desire and interest in sex. They also struggle to produce an erection firm enough for penetration.

And although there are many theories as to why this happens (including a loss in testosterone) one thing is certain, inadequate blood flow is virtually always to blame. That’s why sex drug manufacturers focus on blood flow, it makes your erection hard.

But what’s more surprising, and what these manufacturers have failed to consider, is that lack of blood flow can also kill your sex drive. That’s because blood supplies energy for the brain. This energy is required for creating brainwaves that cause excitability and arousal.

Expiring Patent Opens the Door to a New Sex Pill: Vesele is a new pill that cost just $1 a dose does not require a prescription. It works on both body and mind to increase arousal and erection hardness.

Recent Studies Show Positive Effects on Women In the same study referenced throughout, Vesele was also shown to have an amazing (and somewhat surprising) effect on women too. That’s because the same arteries and vessels that carry blood and oxygen to the brain and genitals are the same in men and women.

“In our most recent study, women taking Vesele saw a stunning 52% improvement in arousal and sex drive. Perhaps more impressive, they also experienced a 57% improvement in lubrication.

You can imagine why some couples are taking Vesele together.

Everything feels better. Everything works better. Everyone performs better. It’s truly amazing.”

A New Frontier of Non-Prescription Sex Pills With daily use, Vesele is helping men (and women) restore failing sex lives and overcome sexual lets downs without side effect or expense.

Through a patented absorption enhancer, the Vesele formula hits the bloodstream quickly, resulting in phenomenal improvements in erection firmness and hardness. By boosting blood flow to the brain, users also experience sexual urges and arousal they often haven’t felt in years.

Where to Find Vesele This is the official release of Vesele in Wisconsin. As such, the company is offering a special discounted supply to anyone who calls within the next 48 hours.

Studies show the Vesele stimulates the entire cardiovascular system, including the arteries that lead to both the brain and penis. The extreme concentration of the ingredients combined with the accelerator ensures that this process starts quickly.

A special hotline number and discounted pricing has been created for all Wisconsin residents. Discounts will be available starting today at 6:00AM and will automatically be applied to all callers.

The sexual benefits of Vesele are also multiplied as its ingredients build up in the system over time. This is why many men take it every single day.

Your Toll-Free Hotline number is 1-800-749-4416 and will only be open for the next 48 hours. Only a limited discounted supply of Vesele is currently available in your region.

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::BY LACEY MUSZYNSKI

ilwaukee is a burger town. You expect to find them things cool and crisp. These are not typical flavors you find elsewhere on a burger, and Milwaukee is all the better for it. in bars and family restaurants, but even our seaMushrooms on the Mushroom and Swiss Burger ($6) are portobellos, cut into food restaurants and steakhouses have burgers fat slices and mounded into a pile as thick as the beef patty below them. It’s on the menu. So, with no shortage of places to get plainer than the other burgers, but thanks to the attention paid to the basics, a burger, do we really need another option? In the like the crunchy butter-toasted brioche bun and deep crust on the beef from the case of CRAVE Café, the answer is most definitely yes.

The best part about having an abundance of burgers is griddle, it’s still a satisfying sandwich.

Mexican flavors inspire the Hamburguesa ($6) which is topped with American that there’s a style of burger and burger joint that fits evcheese, chipotle aioli, pickled jalapeños, onion, tomato and romaine. The signaeryone’s needs. Craving fast food but prefer local? Kopp’s. ture burger, called the CRAVE Burger ($8) gets a little fancy with Swiss, caramelA diner with malts? Mazos. Want to impress a busiized onions, arugula and white truffle aioli. Hamburgers and cheeseburgers with ness client but you’re a picky eater? Stella Van Buren. ketchup, mustard and pickles can’t be beat in value at $4 and $5 each.

Where Crave Café fills a niche in the market is a quick, The menu also includes a number of non-burger “burgers.” A thick, crunchy, takeout-heavy business model with food that’s high panko-breaded pork loin chop is the base for the Japanese Katsu Burger ($7). in quality and low in price.

American cheese, garlic aioli, cabbage slaw and katsu sauce—a thick, dark, sweet Opened a little less than two years ago, CRAVE Café in Shorewood (not to be and savory sauce for fried pork—are barely held in by the sturdy bun. It’s messy, confused with Crave Bar in Mequon which opened a year earlier and has no unusual and very delicious. relation) quickly made a name for itself as having some of the most creative and A Soft-Shell Crab BLT ($9) comes with not just one, but two deep fried crabs on memorable burgers in town. Owner David Wu grew up in the restaurant industry, a bun along with bacon, arugula, tomato and garlic aioli. It’s worth the splurge— and it shows. His parents opened East Garden Chinese Restaurant right across if you can even consider a $9 sandwich that—and has a following all its own the street in 1983, and Wu operates that restaurant as well. That experience among CRAVE customers. makes the tiny CRAVE Café run like a well-oiled machine with employees that are The side of choice here is fries, of course. They come in two sizes ($2-$3), which all smiles behind the counter.

There are maybe 12 seats in the space and about the same number of menu I hesitate to call small and large. Really, they’re large and larger. Served spilling out of a Chinese takeout container, it’s a playful presentation that hearkens to items. Seven beef burgers have international and classic American flavors and Wu’s background. Get them seasoned with either ranch, are made with a third-pound patty of 80/20 Angus beef. cheddar, Cajun or barbecue seasoning for 50 cents more. The I’ve eaten a whole lot of burgers in my life, and if the menu ranch is a little bland on the thin, crisp fries, but the Cajun has didn’t tell me otherwise, I’d have guessed these were halfCRAVE Café heat. pound patties. They’re cooked to medium unless other3592 N. Oakland Ave. CRAVE also offers fish and chips ($9) and a cod sandwich wise requested, and indeed, were medium and juicy in my ($6) every day of the week, along with a few salad choices two burgers. Seasoning, especially black pepper, is heavy 414-204-8778 • $-$$ that seem like an afterthought on the menu. And really, they on the beef.

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AM Ice Cream (1232 Milwaukee Ave.), the most recent addition to a surge of new businesses on South Milwaukee’s main drag, specializes in rolled ice cream. Slightly creamier than regular ice cream, rolled ice cream is made by the server pouring the liquid ice cream base onto a cold metal pan and working in flavorings of the customer’s choice. The mixture is spread thin, and then the server uses a scraper to roll the ice cream sheet into columns, which are placed in a cup for serving. Patrons can watch the process at the prep counter.

Rolled ice cream servings start at $4.95, and flavors include blueberry, fudge mint, Oreo and more unusual offerings like green tea, in which the tea’s slightly grassy flavor nicely complements the vanilla creaminess.

Scoop ice cream in traditional flavors like vanilla bean and mint chip are also available ($2.50 and $3.25), as are bubble cones ($7.95), which are fun, puffy waffle sundae cones made fresh to order and filled with ice cream and toppings. Other cool treats include Hawaiian shaved ice ($3 and $5) in about a dozen fruity flavors, and owner Lee Yang plans to add cold grab-and-go beverages to the offerings.

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ocated in a small storefront among a strip of businesses in the heart of South Milwaukee, Milwaukee Sausage Company (1200 Milwaukee Ave.) has gained a good reception in the couple of months they’ve been open. According to owner Mark Maciejewski, the butcher shop-style storefront is selling sausage as quickly as they can crank it out.

“We sell out almost every weekend,” Maciejewski boasts of his handmade sausages, inspired by his family favorites.

“My grandparents made Polish for Easter and Christmas,” Maciejewski says, adding that as he got older, he helped them in the process. “It wasn’t until I shot my first deer, I started making hot sticks. They didn’t turn out well but that was the start of getting into this. I started making bulk chorizo and then branching out into other ideas I had.” Maciejewski’s trajectory is much like a homebrewer who evolves into a craft brewer—he originally made sausage for friends and family, then spent the last two summers set up with his

wares at a farmers market booth before he “decided to make the jump” into a brick-andmortar business.

He still also works as a plumber and coaches softball. “That’s about it, I keep it simple,” Maciejewski says. His three daughters help in the shop on register, and each has a sausage named after her, following their favorite recipes—you’ll find The Stella, The Sophia, and The Olivia as part of the menu’s lineup.

The key to making a good sausage, Maciejewski says, is custom cutting the ingredients, “and [using] original flavors instead of just buying bag mix—everything is my own recipe.”

Milwaukee Sausage Company’s biggest hits so far include the classic Polish, just like Maciejewski’s grandparents used to make for the holidays, and a standard brat. But the bestseller so far has been The Southsider, inspired

by Maciejewski’s favorite pizza. It’s got mozzarella, mushroom and onion, and South Milwaukeeans have embraced it as their new favorite. Chorizos and Italians, an andouille, and a Buffalo chicken with blue cheese crumbles (“The A-A-Ron”), are among the other offerings on the menu.

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Brewers had used the same reliever on backto-back days just 67 times all season (Jeremy Jeffress was used the most often that way, with 17 sets of appearances in consecutive games). They’ve been rewarded with a bullpen that leads the NL in strikeouts per nine innings (10.1) and is fifth in earned run average (3.51). With extra days off on the calendar, the Brewers should be positioned to be even more careful about avoiding overusing an effective bullpen, and they’ll be in even better shape once rosters expand on Saturday, Sept. 1.

While the Brewers are able to use off days to keep their pitchers at their best, their primary rivals will have to deal with the added

strain caused by a lack of breaks. As of Monday, the Brewers had as many off days in the last 24 days of August (five) as the Cubs have for the rest of the season. Chicago will play 23 games in 23 days starting on Tuesday, Aug. 21, including a one-day road trip to Atlanta for a makeup game on Thursday, Aug. 30.

The Cubs are already fielding questions about how they’ll manage that workload. Last week, Mark Gonzalez of the Chicago Tribune wrote about how the stretch will impact Kris Bryant—who has been sidelined twice this season with inflammation in his left shoulder.

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fully healthy this time of year, and it’s at best unlikely that the Cubs will be able to present their best lineup consistently during a grueling sequence.

The Brewers’ schedule advantage over the Cubs appeared poised to loom larger over the season’s final months when Milwaukee was still leading Chicago in the standings. Holding the lead and getting more rest than the other teams in the chase would be an attractive combination. Nonetheless, when handicapping the stretch run, it’s important to remember that the calendar itself will give the Brewers a slight advantage.

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or about a week now, the Milwaukee Brewers have held a pretty unlikely position: They’re the National League’s leader in wins, but they’re not the leader of their own division. They picked up their 65th win on Saturday, and the NL’s three division winners—at least as of last Monday morning—had yet to match that number. But the Brewers also remain a game back of the Chicago Cubs following the two teams’ simultaneous losses on Sunday. The Cubs entered the week with a 64-47 record and a .577 winning percentage in 111 games played, while the Brewers were at 65-50 and a .565 mark.

All told, Sunday’s game was the Brewers 115th of the season. They’re the only NL club that has played that many games, leaving them with just 47 left on the schedule in the season’s final 56 days. They have at least one off day in each of the season’s eight remaining weeks and a pair surrounding a brief two-game visit to the Cubs next week.

The Brewers’ decision not to add starting pitching at the trade deadline was widely documented, but their remaining schedule could limit their need for depth down the stretch. They’ll still need a fifth starter at least seven more times between now and Wednesday, Sept. 26, but additional off days could give them an opportunity to allow struggling pitchers to skip starts or to play matchups without anyone having to work on short rest. That extra opportunity for rest could be important as Chase Anderson, Junior Guerra and Freddy Peralta are all on pace to far exceed their career highs for innings pitched.

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NATURE’S CATHEDRALS, YOSEMITE THROUGH THE WISCONSIN DELLS, AT MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM ::BY HARRY CHERKINIAN

he first thing you see in the landscape in front of you is the silence that abounds within it. There is a calmness, a serenity that escapes most of us in our way-toobusy, too-much-technology lives.

Yet “Photographing Nature’s Cathedrals: Carleton E. Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and H.H. Bennett,” on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum, exhibits some of the most cutting-edge technology of its times—the mid 19th century to be exact. Carleton E. Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge and Henry Hamilton Bennett individually changed the landscape, literally and figuratively, of the American West and Wisconsin Dells through their use of innovative photography techniques.

MAM has put together a well-curated exhibit which highlights the artists’ works as competitors as well as influencers on one another’s photographs. Strolling through the exhibit is like floating on a meandering river seen in these sepia-toned photos. And it can be a relaxing respite from the rapid pace of the world waiting back outside for us.

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The exhibit begins with Watkins, whose love for the beauty of the American landscape emanates from works such as Half Dome at Glacier Point which showcase the majestic interplay of light and shadow within the jagged rocks and dark depths through the use of mammoth-size photographs. His work was groundbreaking in the 1860s when photography was not even considered art. Watkins’ photographs exposed people to what is now called the Yosemite Valley and his photography played a key role in the preservation of Yosemite.

His use of wet-plate photography, where exposures can take up to 30 minutes (and required a makeshift darkroom where he was shooting), is an amazing feat in itself and is on display throughout his works. The photograph titled Three Brothers playfully refers to three grandiose mountain peaks, the background whited out to push the “brothers” front and center. It’s clear to see which is the dominant one; the center peak is the largest and clearly keeps watch over the other two. The effect is stark and stunning in its simplicity and command of the natural world surrounding the peaks.

Watkins’ influence is clearly seen in the works of Eadweard Muybridge, an Englishman who is often considered the father of the motion picture. Muybridge’s use of cutting-edge technology in the 1870s involved taking electronically triggered images through freezing a sequence of motions like a strip of movie film.

The effect is simply mesmerizing in Vernal Falls, a waterfall with a 400-foot drop where we can almost feel the rush of water falling, the intensity of the energy and the power of gravity pulling all in its path forward. And finally, the resting place on the bottom, where fog and mist and spray are swirled together. But Muybridge also manipulated his images, as we see the same set of clouds used repeatedly in various photos. Think of this as an early form of Photoshop. It worked to great effect commercially: Muybridge’s work helped to promote tourism in the American West and in particular, what would eventually become Yosemite National Park.

Henry Hamilton Bennett also manipulated images, to the point of cutting down trees and showing off his handwork in View of Yosemite from Mosquito Camp. Both Muybridge and Bennett sought to make the American landscape look more like paintings in their photos; this is clearly on view in Bennett’s Merced River, Yosemite Valley. Bennett’s goal of also creating a three-dimensionality exMilwaukee ceeds expectations in this work where we can see the finer points of broken Art Museum rocks hunkered down in the still water, ‘Photographing the late afternoon shadow creeping Nature’s up onto the shoreline, a somber reCathedrals’ flection of a crowd of evergreen trees demanding our attention, and in the Through background, the whitewashed solitary Aug. 26 presence of the mountain range, presiding over all.

The exhibit’s crowning achievement lies in Bennett’s amazing panoramic view of The Narrows, Wisconsin Dells. Bennet used stereographs to create seamless panels of photos. The Wisconsin River comes alive amid the jagged rock formations and the river’s twists and turns. The grace and grandeur of nature speaks silently yet powerfully in “Photographing Nature’s Cathedrals” for those who stop to listen.

“Photographing Nature’s Cathedrals: Carleton E. Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and H.H. Bennett” is on view through Aug. 26, in the Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum. For more information, visit mam.org.

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Dick Dale w/ Devils Teeth @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

Not only did guitarist Dick Dale help establish instrumental surf-rock in the 1960s, he also helped lead its resurgence in the ’90s when his track “Misirlou” opened the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Though it’s been a long time since he’s hit the studio to record a new album, he’s continued to tour aggressively, even at age 81. For this return to Shank Hall, he’ll be joined on the bill by Devils Teeth, a Milwaukee band whose feverish rock ’n’ roll frequently nods to Dale’s brand of bravado surf rock.

Boy George and Culture Club @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

Few bands embodied the sound of the ’80s quite as well as Culture Club, the London new wave band that flirted with all kinds of different styles of pop, reggae and soul, scoring hits like “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” and “Karma Chameleon” in the process. Famously androgynous frontman Boy George went on to enjoy a fruitful solo career in the ’80s and ’90s, often dabbling in dance and electronic music, but in recent years he’s been back on the road with Culture Club. This year they finally have some new music to share, too. After shelving a planned album in 2016, this fall they plan to release Life, their first new record since 1999’s Don’t Mind If I Do.

Morgan Page

FRIDAY, AUG 10 Morgan Page @ Site 1A, 9 p.m.

It’s been 10 years since Vermont DJ Morgan Page released his breakout single, “The Longest Road,” featuring singer Lissie, and few songs from that era sound quite so prescient.

The track helped predict the big, blown-out electro-house sound that came to dominate the club scene and the pop charts in the 2010s. Page has been busy in the years since. He recently signed a deal with Dutch producer Armin Van Buuren’s Armada Music label, which released his latest EP, Born To Fly, in March.

Waukesha Rotary BluesFest @ Nega-Waukee Park, Delafield, 1 p.m.

The Waukesha Rotary BluesFest returns to Delafield’s Nega-Waukee Park for another stacked two full days of music representing nearly the entire spectrum of blues. Electric blues rock is especially well-represented on this year’s two-day lineup, which features artists including The Hungry Williams, Joe Louis Walker and Carolyn Wonderland on Friday, Aug. 10, and Harper and the Midwest Kind, Nikki Hill and Jarekus Singleton on Saturday, Aug. 11. Tickets are $25 at the gate ($40 for both days), and music runs from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. each day.

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For six years running Burlington has opened its doors to folk, rock, country and blues musicians from around the country for its Tall Tales Music Festival. The free, two-day festival on the 200 block of East Chestnut Street this year will feature, aside from Field Report, a lineup that almost exclusively showcases woman songwriters and band leaders, among them Erin Rae, Nicole Atkins, Lilly Hiatt, Tristen, Kashena Sampson, Roco Reilly and The Savage Radley. The weekend will also include workshops on playing the harmonica and ukulele, a kids zone, a drum circle, a dance workshop from the Burlington Dance Academy and a 15-mile group bike ride (as well as a 3-mile one for kids). For more details, visit talltalesfestival.com. (Through Saturday, Aug. 11.)

Brothers Scott and Seth began recording as The Avett Brothers in 2000, roughly at the beginning of the modern roots-revival movement jump-started by O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and in the 15 years since, with bassist Bob Crawford and cellist Joe Kwon, they’ve emerged as one of the movement’s biggest crossover acts. The North Carolina ensemble transcended their native folk and bluegrass scene by drawing from pop melodies and rock ’n’ roll—particularly at their rowdy live shows—before consolidating their critical reputation with the 2007 Emotionalism. Even better was 2009’s I and Love and You, a softer, more focused collection produced by Rick Rubin, who polished away the band’s rough edges to better emphasize their song craft. Rubin returned to produce the group’s next three albums, including their latest, 2016’s True Sadness, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Americana Album. The band does two shows at the Riverside this weekend. (Also Sunday, Aug. 12.)

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TUESDAY, AUG. 14

Juice WRLD w/ Lil Mosey, YBN Cordae and BLAKE @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

Like some of the buzziest rappers in his age bracket, 19-year-old Illinois rapper Juice WRLD finds inspiration well outside of traditional hip-hop, drawing particularly from the hyper-youthful, expressive spirit of emo and pop-punk. This spring he released his debut record on Interscope, Goodbye & Good Riddance, a breakup album that wears its heart on its sleeve—it’s like a Taking Back Sunday album—if Taking Back Sunday had come up under the influence of Chicago drill music. It features the hit “Lucid Dreams” and a cameo from Lil Uzi Vert on “Wasted.”

The Richard Lloyd Group w/ Sleepersound @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

Few guitarists’ sounds are more instantly recognizable than Richard Lloyd’s. Lloyd will forever be legendary for his work in the band Television, the New York group behind one of the most mesmerizing guitar records of all time: 1977’s Marquee Moon. In the decades since, he has continued as a session musician, supporting acts like Matthew Sweet and John Doe, and last year he released his memoir, Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB’s and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist.

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The latest installment of Juneau Park’s intimate Poetry in the Park series features another quartet of area wordsmiths, including Mikey Swanberg, Su Cho, Rebecca Dunham and former Milwaukee Poet Laureate Matt Cook. As always, guests are welcome to bring their own blankets, lawn chairs, beverages and snacks, and dogs are welcome.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily

Victorian socialite and celebrated actress Lillie Langtry finds herself being blackmailed by an unknown man, and there are but two people who can help her out of this fix: her dear friend, Oscar Wilde, and super sleuth Sherlock Holmes. The extortion is based on an illicit affair Langtry once embarked upon with the Prince of Wales. Such is the heady stuff of Katie Forgette’s engrossing mystery play, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, produced by Milwaukee Chamber Theatre.

Forgette’s script draws inspiration from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Sherlock Holmes stories and from the mercurial life of playwright Oscar Wilde. She intermixes real-life people—including Langtry (a famous British American actress) and Abdul Karim (a confidante of Queen Victoria)—with fictional characters seamlessly.

Though thoroughly English in milieu, the play boasts some of Milwaukee theater’s most noteworthy actors, including Kay Allmand, Brian J. Gill, Ryan Schabach and Rick Pendzich. (John Jahn) Aug. 10-26, at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Cabot Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit milwaukeechambertheatre.com.

Tapology

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“This is not your ordinary tap show,” says Amy Brinkman-Sustache, founding artistic director of Danceworks on Tap. “I say that every year, and sometimes it’s more ordinary than others, but this year it’s less ordinary than others. All the pieces are ‘-ologies.’ Most are real, but a few are made up.”

So fields of study cue tap experiment in this year’s concert, starting with Brinkman’s “Ethnomethodology.” “That’s the method,” she explains, “by which people understand where they are socially.” In its two parts, the 10-woman company will represent via tap that “what we do in life is imitate others until we find our own voice; and then we find out if we belong with this group of people or that group of people or with both groups.” Later, in darkness with handheld flashlights, the company will dance Brinkman’s study of light, “Photology.” And 14 members of her eight-week summer tap

performance workshop will present “Rhythmology,” their graduate thesis, so to speak.

Other longtime DOT artists translated diverse fields of study into tap language.

Annette Grefig examined “Cardiology” (intricate heartbeats), “Somnology” (sleepy tappers) and “Psychology” (split personality). In a duet, Kelly Kotecki and her 10-year-old daughter tackle the mysterious implications of “Genealogy.” The thesis of Nikki Platt’s “Swingology” would seem a foregone conclusion since she’s using seven different versions of Duke Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing.” Tap scholars Bob Balderson and Lamont Johnson, specialists in contrasting methods, will present the results of their co-research. (John Schneider) Aug. 11-12, at Danceworks Studio Theatre, 1661 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414-2778480 or visit danceworksmke.org.

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This is the “Vth” anniversary performance of SueMo: A Dance Experience, the vibrant contemporary dance company of Melissa Sue Anderson and Morgan Williams. For the fifth summer, SueMo will present a signature concert in the Marcus Center’s Wilson Theatre. This year, the emphasis is on the repertory nature of the company with its growing performanceready body of work, consistent dance ensemble and solid aesthetic. The show will close with company member Christa Smutek’s Roman-inspired piece “Reliqui Victis,” about the fall of an empire; hence, the title’s featured Roman numeral.

Two additional works by Smutek will be revived: “He Gives” for a quartet of young women; and “Broken Chord,” a comic dance for two couples to Frédéric Chopin played live on piano. Co-founders Anderson and Williams are polishing early works for this concert. SueMo II, the terrific young company, will also perform. The show will open with Leila Henry’s “Fair and the Weak,” the dance that opened the company’s very first concert. Seen very recently in Danceworks’ hip-hop showcase, it’s a knockout, a feminist protest that goes deep.

All the works—comic, serious, abstract, narrative—in SueMo’s repertory fuse contemporary ballet, hip-hop and show dance in various ways. All the dancers are seasoned professionals and trainees and perform as an impeccable ensemble while remaining individually striking. “Every year we get stronger,” Williams says. “We get better. More people take us seriously as a professional dance company, as Milwaukee’s premiere repertory dance company.

That might sound arrogant, but I do believe it.” (John Schneider) Sunday, Aug. 12, at the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall. For tickets, call 414-273-7206 or visit marcuscenter.org.

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Back from the Donner Party with ‘The Flesh Trade’ ::BY RUSS BICKERSTAFF

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lchemist Productions and Emerald Condor Productions conjure an immersive, darkly comic horror satire to the small stage this month with the debut of writer-director-composer Michael Christopher’s The Flesh Trade. Set in the Old West, Christopher’s intimate modern ragtime musical stars Kendall Yorkey as a prostitute named Honey. Honey also dances burlesque with a couple of others named Candy and Sugar. Candy is a fading Calamity Jane charismatically played by Katie Katschke. Ami Majeskie lends a sweetly nurturing presence as Honey’s “moon sister,” Sugar.

Yorkey is grittily enchanting as the anti-hero who is desperate to get out of the tiny, little town of Tombstone that just might turn into her coffin if she isn’t careful. Nick Firer wields an enticingly sharp and precise menace as the villainous James Reed, a man who has returned from the Donner Party with a taste for human flesh. Reed hires Honey to provide fresh human meat for him and his colleagues.

Christopher cleverly wrestles with dichotomies in an allegorical tale of a woman struggling to break free from an oppressive system that wants more than just her body. Christopher’s Flesh Trade is animated by opposing aesthetics. Horror and revulsion contrast against beauty and shadowy triumph. The story deftly sutures various elements of trashy pop art into a compelling tale illustrating how the powerful tenuously remain in power. Some of the most beautiful songs in the show are catchy little jingles about bestiality, menstruation and murder. The Flesh Trade gracefully claws its way out of the gutter in a strangely inspirational story that dances sensually away from the excessive sentimentality that saddles so much musical theater.

Through Aug. 18 at Alchemist Theatre, 2569 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. For tickets, visit thealchemisttheatre.com.

‘Forty Carats’ Looks at the Dating Double Standard ::BY KATE LAFOND

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he theater itself is small, but the voices of the actors in the Village Playhouse absolutely fill the room. There is no better way to start off their 40th season than with Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy’s Forty Carats. Directed by Elizabeth M. Havican, Forty Carats is a comedy that follows Ann Stanley, a 40-year-old divorcée who falls for Peter, a man half her age, while vacationing in Greece. When she arrives back home in New York City, Peter unexpectedly arrives at her doorstep to pick her daughter up for a date.

The play deals with the double standard between men and women while dating younger people.

Although there were a few missteps in the production, the actors handled it with grace. Especially the leading lady, Sam Billeck. Billeck brought Ann Stanley to life and was able to give depth to a character that most people would root against in the real world.

Hands down, the best part of Village Playhouse’s production was Jan Pogodzinski who played the grandmother, Maud Hayes. Pogodzinski had perfect comedic timing and bounced off her costars with a wit that left me giggling throughout every scene she was in. Forty Carats creates a conversation about the way society views relationships that stray from the norm.

Through Aug. 19. For tickets, call 414-207-4879 or visit villageplayhouse.org.

Alchemist and Emerald Condor’s ‘The Flesh Trade’

To be fair, not all the art loves you either.

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Drossos P. Skyllas, Young Girl With a Cat, ca. 1955. Oil on canvas.

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[ FILM CLIPS ] The Meg PG-13 This American-Chinese co-production is based upon Steve Alten’s Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror. Jason Statham portrays Jonas Taylor, a disgraced deep-sea diver. After claiming he saw a Megalodon—a massive, prehistoric shark—Taylor was dismissed from the Navy. Now, with the creature harrying a deep-ocean research station, Taylor is sought out by a wealthy oceanographer (Winston Chao). The station, a maze of tubular corridors in steel and glass, is fascinating, but the film waffles between silly and somber. The special effects are often stunning, but the Megalodon appears cartoonish. Although imperfect, the film should take a bite out of the male teen demographic which will queue up to see the largest shark to ever inhabit our oceans. (Lisa Miller)

Slender Man PG-13 ‘‘BlacKkKlansman’

Spike Lee’s Angry, Funny, Sad ‘BlacKkKlansman’ ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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lacKkKlansman is filled with telling her he works in construction.

Confederate flags. The stars and Ron leads a double life several times over: as bars are seen in a clip from Gone a black man in white America; as a man whose with the Wind and show up in lover could consider him the enemy if she knew neon on the wall of a redneck pool the truth; and as the voice on the line to the Klan. hall and framed on the wall of David Duke’s of- His infiltration of its Colorado Springs branch fice. The cultural legacy of the Ku Klux Klan could not have occurred without the help of his and the symbol it adopted is the theme of Spike fellow officer, Flip (Adam Driver), a Jew who Lee’s latest film. It’s present in the recurring gave no thought to his heritage until confronted clips from The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 film by the Klan’s raging anti-Semitism. Pretendthat extolled the Klan as Reconstruction-era ing to be Ron, Flip attends meetings and gets heroes and triggered the reemergence of the de- to know the Klansmen face to face. He realizes funct terrorist group. The Klan is at the heart of that, like some African Americans, he has been BlacKkKlansman’s unlikely seeming tale except “passing” as something he was not in white that it was drawn from the memoir of an African Anglo-Saxon Protestant America.

American police officer, Ron Stallworth, who The humor in BlacKkKlansman is inherent responded to a white supremacist recruiting ad in Ron’s playacting on the phone with the loin a Colorado Springs, Colo., newspaper and cal Klansmen and their long-distance leader, the initiated an elaborate plan to infiltrate the local real-life David Duke, played to perfection by chapter.

Topher Grace. In the ’70s, Duke sought to mainIn the early ’70s, Ron (John David Washing- stream the Klan. In public he wore a necktie, not ton) becomes the first black officer in Colorado a hood; he called himself “national director,” not Springs. As the gruff police chief (Robert John grand wizard. As one of his police colleagues Burke) warns, he will have a hard time with explains to Ron, Duke’s goal is to mask racism some of the boys in the force. But the chief, beneath issues tailored to white middle-class a fair-minded lawman according to his own anxiety over immigration, crime and taxes— lights, takes a chance on Ron as a detective. His and one day, someone like Duke will seize the first assignment: infiltrate White House. Ron shakes a rally by Black Panther his head, doubting whethleader Stokely Carmier anyone like that could BlacKkKlansman chael aka Kwame Ture ever be president of the John David Washington (Corey Hawkins), whom United States. the chief suspects of stirLee has seldom been Adam Driver ring up the “good black accused of subtlety and Directed by Spike Lee people.” Wearing a wire, he makes his points with Not Rated Ron records a firebrand broad strokes in BlacKspeech denouncing the kKlansman. The movie’s murder of blacks by racpostscript features footist cops and condemning the racism inherent in age from the 2017 white supremacist rally in Hollywood portrayals of blacks. Ron also falls Charlottesville, Va.; Trump’s notorious remarks for the rally’s militant organizer, Patrice (Laura afterward; and, yes, the real David Duke, adHarrier). She hates the “pigs,” as she calls cops, dressing the Charlottesville rally and quoting and discounts the possibility that “black libera- Trump: “This is the first step toward taking tion” can be achieved within the system. He lies, America back.”

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A trio of adolescent girls are caught in Slender Man’s web after they set out to prove he is a silly urban legend. The character builds upon a 2012 entry into a Photoshop contest. According to Wikipedia, Slender Man is “a tall, thin, spectral figure wearing a black suit.” Played here

by Javier Botet, Slender Man lacks discernible facial features and uses long, tentacle-like arms to ensnare the teens he haunts, kidnaps or kills. Employing high production values, this film will win at the box office if it ignites the shadowy imaginations of a new generation. That’s a slender possibility at best. (L.M.)

The Spy Who Dumped Me R When her missing boyfriend shows up claiming he’s a CIA agent saving the world, Audrey (Mila Kunis) and bestie Morgan (Kate McKinnon) join his cause. The film fancies itself a sisterpower action flick topped off with jokes. Generic set pieces fly thick and fast, but their overthe-top quantity lacks quality and prevents us from bonding with these thinly drawn characters. McKinnon delivers delightful facial expressions and body language, but real laughs are rare. Frequent accidents by the opposition mean the gals live to fight another day, but it isn’t the stuff to make us long for a sequel. (L.M.)

[ HOME MOVIES / NOW STREAMING ] The Return and The Banishment

Teenage Andrei and his younger brother Ivan are startled when they find their father at home—a man who had been absent for nearly their entire lives.

In The Return, the 2003 debut by Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev, the fishing trip proposed by their long-lost dad proves less than idyllic. He may be a criminal with ulterior motives for the expedition; he slaps the boys around as if drilling them for manhood. Does he love them?

The Return is a psychologically complex film with acute observations into adolescence and an enigmatic adult who intruded into the children’s lives. The film takes place against the vastness of the countryside and the emptiness of towns filled with abandoned factories. Also out on Blu-ray is Zvyagintsev’s second film, The Banishment (2007). Although drawn from a story by Armenian American author William Saroyan, it includes a similarly mysterious father figure and a sense of immensity.

Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left

The director of A Nightmare on Elm Street got started in 1972 with The Last House on the Left. Although categorized as horror for its Richard Nixon-era shock value, nowadays it’s easier to watch The Last House as a comedy of the generation gap and of middle-class mores colliding with big city pathologies. The new three-disc Blu-ray set is furnished with many extras, including a gaggle of documentaries, interviews, outtakes and commentaries, plus a 60-page booklet.

A Ciambra

Family life as inseparable from criminal life: it threatens to become a cliché in a film set in Sicily but in its gritty realism, A Ciambra eludes such truisms.

It’s a close-up, inside dramatization of squabbling life in the island’s closely packed slums, where half-unpaved lanes are strewn with garbage and the native Sicilians find their level with Romani and recently arrived African immigrants. Directed by Jonas Carpignano, A Ciambra is executive-produced by Martin Scorsese.

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The CCC welcomes talented oil painter and nature enthusiast Steve Gerhartz, their August artist in residence, for a series of demonstrations. As the Kewaskum, Wis., native explains: “Paintings bring life and the beauty of Nature into people’s homes, granting them the opportunity to escape into a place they may not have had the chance to see otherwise.” Gerhartz will also lead a portraiture workshop on Tuesday, Sept. 11, from 9 a.m.-noon. Learn more at cedarburgculturalcenter.org.

“Joseph Friebert: A Life in Art” Aug. 11-Oct. 7 Museum of Wisconsin Art 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend The Book Club: What Would We Do with Lynne Tillman?

Frank Juarez (and Friends) Ask: ‘What Would Lynne Tillman Do?’ ::BY SHANE MCADAMS

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he Book Club: What Would We Do with Lynne Tillman?,” at Frank Juarez Gallery (through Sept. 1), pulls its title from the essay collection, What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, written by, maybe you saw this coming: Lynne Tillman.

Tillman’s writing is some of the slipperiest, shrewdest and most self-referential contemporary prose you’ll read. Her essays are topically broad— addressing everyone from Karl Marx to William Eggleston—but tend to turn inward on both the author’s psyche and on the conventions of writing itself. Her fiction reads like a head dunk into Lily Briscoe’s stream of consciousness, only with added post-modern anxiety, post-industrial complexity and contemporary socio-political turmoil.

In short, it’s a perfect armature on which to hang an improvisational group show: a natural metaphor for the process of self-creation and art making in relation to social interaction and communication.

Juarez deserves applause for his ambitious conception of a show, but five artists—Peter Beck, Lois Bielefeld, Melissa Dorn Richards, Jaymee Harvey Willms and Kate E. Schaffer—and Tillman herself, ultimately consummate his idea.

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on the sixth floor of the Marshall Building we are greeted abruptly by an oddly placed false wall. It’s not a practical divider of the space, and it’s definitely not structural—the studs on the back are exposed.

It’s an interior wall-as-sculpture. A repurposed chair rests conspicuously in the foreground of the irregular wedge of gallery space. Both wall and chair are painted a crude plaid pattern as if to casually signify their domestication. A crude white L-shaped shelf on the wall holds five copies of Tillman’s text in various states of use (one for each artist?) and a piece of soap in the shape of a book by Kate E. Schaffer with a question mark on it. It begs a question. Its robin’s egg blue match with the spine color of the books forces one to see it as a decorative commentary. Do books and authors become objectified vanities like so many baskets of scented cockle-shell soaps next to the sink in manicured guest bathrooms?

A refrigerator covered with a collection of printed email rejection letters to the five artists hulks on the other side of the wall. It casts the gallery officially as a domestic interior, and that interior as a site of a certain career frustration. Deeper in the space a kitchen table sits suggestively in front of a wall of hanging skillets with bacon and eggs in most of them. The room is further accented with drawings and sculptural appliances that ultimately place the viewer in what feels like an inactive television sound stage for a surrealist three-camera family sitcom.

The camera on that implied soundstage in this case is our own mind’s eye. Eyes that look outward and minds that peer inward, toggling between public and private endlessly. It’s a paradoxical exercise to look outward to see inward forcing us to finally ask how one explores finer and finer personal details while still communicating socially. How do we do this and arrive at something other than solipsism?

One might rhetorically ask themselves at this point: “What would Lynne Tillman do?” because she takes on these questions and treads this territory as elegantly as anyone. Finally, if one would like to hear what Lynne Tillman would do, there will be a Skypecast reading with the author at the gallery at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15.

Joseph Friebert (1908-2002) enjoyed an extensive, illustrious career, eventually becoming one of Wisconsin’s foremost art teachers and painters. MOWA assembles more than 100 of his paintings and works on paper for an exhibition celebrating Friebert’s legacy. An exhibition opening party takes place on Saturday, Aug. 18, from 2-5 p.m. with live music, art making, light bites and a cash bar. Call 262-334-9638 or visit wisconsinart.org for more information.

“Jerry”

Opens Saturday, Aug. 11 Var Gallery • 643 S. Second St.

The passing of Jerome M. Kutcheid last October sent a quiet yet profound wave of sorrow throughout Milwaukee’s arts community. Hence, the Walker’s Point Var Gallery presents an exhibition to honor the figure model, friend to many and pleasantly unpretentious muse titled “Jerry.” The gallery asked those who knew him to showcase art that hosts Kutcheid as its subject; thus, paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works will be hung salon-style at the Var. For more information, visit vargallery.com.

Glendale Chalk Art Festival Sunday, Aug. 12 Glendale Marketplace 6969 N. Port Washington Road

Nationally known chalk artists will be on hand Sunday, Aug. 12, to decorate the pavement at the Glendale Marketplace, and several other local artists will be producing some of their own works, as well. This outdoor festival is raising money to replace the Glendale Police Department’s retired K-9 officer, Boomer, who served his community for nearly a decade.

Tea on the Terrace

Sunday, Aug. 12 Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum 2220 N. Terrace Ave.

An afternoon tea-tasting takes place on the museum’s Lakefront terrace, which includes tastings of both hot and cold teas led by the experts at Urbal Tea, traditional tea-time sandwiches

by Shully’s Cuisine, jazz music by Joshua Catania and even free hand massages! Advance ticket purchases are strongly recommended for this always-popular summer event. For tickets and more information, call 414-271-3656 or visit villaterrace.org.

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Poets in Juneau Park ::BY JENNI HERRICK

Juneau Park Friends and Woodland Pattern Book Center will welcome an eclectic mix of local poets to the park for an absorbing evening of prose and spoken word beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 14.

This month’s lineup will feature readings by Matt Cook, Milwaukee’s poet laureate from 2015-2017, whose witty and insightful musings have been published in five full-length books and multiple anthologies; current UWMilwaukee creative writing doctoral student Su Cho, whose lyrical and imaginative poems have appeared in Thrush Poetry Journal, Day One and elsewhere; Chicago-based poet Mikey Swanberg, the author of numerous works of poetry, including the recent chapbook Zen and the Art of Bicycle Delivery; and UWM professor and esteemed poet Rebecca Dunham, whose passionate poetry touches on issues from feminism to ecological concerns. Guests are invited to bring children, pets, blankets and snacks to fully enjoy the August installment of Poetry in the Park.

‘Beautiful Music’ at Boswell Books ::BY JENNI HERRICK

Authors Michael Zadoorian and Peter Coviello will appear together at Boswell Book Co. at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15, to discuss how music inspired their new books. In Beautiful Music, author Michael Zadoorian, whose 2009 novel The Leisure Seeker was recently released as a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, delivers a poignant tale of a boy’s coming of age in 1970s Detroit and the metaphorical cogency of losing (and finding) yourself in music. Zadoorian’s young protagonist faces a tumultuous adolescence growing up in the Motor City at a time of racial tension and high school bullies, made bearable only by the saving grace of music.

Peter Coviello, a recent fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, weaves his musical message throughout the heart-rending new memoir Long Players.

By beautifully illustrating the transformative power and tremendous impact of music, Coviello unfolds a deeply personal tale of loss, grief and ultimately, the healing power of music.

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::OFFTHECUFF

Walking and Talking on Every Corner

OFF THE CUFF with Host JOHN MCGIVERN ::BY EVAN CASEY

J

ohn McGivern was born and raised on Milwaukee’s East Side in the 1950s. Having appeared in multiple movies and plays, he decided to change things up a bit in 2011, when he and his producer friend Lois Maurer approached PBS about a show where they would visit and highlight both rural and urban communities all across Wisconsin. Seven years later, “Around the Corner with John McGivern” has been receiving national accolades, having been picked up by PBS World and receiving the highest ratings on any PBS station in the country on Thursday nights at 7 p.m. The mission of the show is to discover where a particular community lives, works and plays. “Around the Corner” is now filming its eighth season and rapidly approaching its 100th episode.

How do you and the “Around the Corner” team select what cities or towns to focus on?

We were foolish in the beginning. If you watch season one or season two, we thought we could do Racine or Kenosha [in a single episode] … you can’t do a city of that size in 28 minutes. So now we’ve decided we will do areas in these towns so that we can go back and cover more. We’ve done real specific Milwaukee neighborhoods, like Bay View or Riverwest. And we decide at the end of every season, we all sit together praying that there’s a next season with funding, and we decide where on the map we are going to go.

We have pins all over our producer’s Wisconsin map of where we have been and where we should go.

What is the general shooting process of the show?

Our process is we show up, we meet someone at their home or their business, or wherever they want to meet, and we spend a good two hours with these subjects. We chat and we walk around and we look at where we should talk and we put a microphone on and we talk for a good 15 minutes with the camera in front of us.

Whoever takes the time with us gets a part of what we are doing. I love those who have no clue about why we are there. They are so incredibly wide open to do whatever they need to do.

What is your favorite part of shooting the show?

I love that they allow us into these huge factories that make widgets that connect the world … it’s kind of unbelievable that they allow us in. That’s my favorite part of the show, that we can go into this big hot factory and we can see how things are made. Who else gets a hard hat and the glasses and the gloves to walk through all of this stuff? In truth, I would never be doing this, so to look at how it’s done is really the best.

What would you say to younger people who might view Wisconsin as being boring or uneventful?

They need to move…. No matter where I lived, I compared those places to where I lived in my neighborhood in Milwaukee, and where I grew up on the East Side, and when I came back I learned that anyone who complains about this city needs to move back.

It’s so manageable, it’s so loveable. I’m an actor by trade, and when

John McGivern

we look at what we have theater-wise in this city, people who have lived here their whole lives don’t understand that in a one-block radius, we have nine stages. So, I always say move away, so in the end you can move back and realize that home is always so much better.

You are also an actor, hosting local shows and appearing in movies. How does being an actor compare to being the host of “Around the Corner”?

It’s weird. It’s completely different. What I love about it is neither one takes away from the other one. The audience around TV is much greater. No matter where I go across the state, people say “I like your show.” It helps feed what I do on the stage. In TV, I love that there’s a crew of us that get into a van every day at 8 a.m., and it’s the same crew that’s been together for eight years. We know each other. It’s really a gift, working together for so long. Here, I’m part of a group.

How do you feel when you realize you have finished seven seasons of the show, and are working on the eighth?

I’m 63, and I wish I was 40, because I would love to do it longer.

We thought, when we got this, we hoped we could do five, and at five we hoped we could do 10. There are so many more communities to cover. There are more people who watch it now. We could do it for another 10 years. It’s not a hard job and I love it.

To learn more about John McGivern and “Around the Corner,” visit johnmcgivern.com.

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::HEARMEOUT ASK RUTHIE | UPCOMING EVENTS | PAUL MASTERSON

Amp Up Your Camp!

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mp up your camp” is a phrase you’ll hear a lot on my new reality show “Camp Wannakiki” now playing on YouTube. (Check out the “Camp Wannakiki” page and subscribe so you never miss a zany episode.)

With the world in a crazy and stressful and confusing state (in and out of the White House), it’s time for everyone to amp up their camp! Go crazy, get silly, be a nut! Smile and make those around you smile. Amp up your camp and the world camps it up with you. Trust me, damnit! Read on and see.

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Aug. 9: LGBTQ Progress Awards at 1451 Renaissance Place (1451 N. Prospect Ave.): Join the Cream City Foundation and Shepherd Express as we honor eight of the movers and shakers in the LGBTQ community who have truly made a difference in Milwaukee. I’m fortunate enough to host this rewarding evening once again, this time alongside Brett Blomme. Join us for cocktails at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner and awards presentation at 6:15 p.m. Visit shepherdtickets.com for tickets, starting at $50. See you there!

Aug. 9: Boy George and Culture Club at The Riverside Theater (116 W. Wisconsin Ave.): Spend the evening with this LGBTQ icon, campy ’80s diva and all-around glam master—Boy George! Don your best red, gold and green and let the intoxicating sounds of Culture Club shake up your soul and lead you to the church of the poison mind. Visit pabsttheater.org for tickets to the 8 p.m. show that run $49.50 and higher.

Aug. 10: TLC with En Vogue at the Wisconsin State Fair (640 S. 84th St.): Two powerhouse girl groups take over the main stage at the fair during this 8 p.m. concert. TLC has sold more than 85 million records, and these

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I hate my job. Getting up every morning and going to that hell hole factory is awful. Any advice on how to improve my life ASAP?

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two sensational acts promise to heat up your summer and create the sort of musical memories you’ll never forget. Tickets start at $29 and can be purchased via wistatefair.com.

Aug. 10: ‘Whose Drag Is It Anyway?’ at D.I.X. (739 S. First St.): Talk about amping up your camp! Celebrate the one-year anniversary of this comedy

Dear Girlie Girl,

Amp up your camp! Wear something nutty to work, slap on a ton of lipstick or walk around handing out cheese curds. Discover how fun it is to be funny.

drag show with the team at D.I.X. Hosts Sylvia Nyx and Dixie Kuppe wel-

Dear Ruthie,

make the 10 p.m. party a silly soiree that kicks off the weekend like few oth-

My boyfriend is so boring. All he wants to do is come home from work, eat, watch CNN and go to bed. What’s a horny girl to do?

—Lonely Lindsey

come some of the city’s wackiest guests (including me!) for a show sure to tickle your funny bone. A DJ, dancing, Jack Daniels drink specials and more ers. Stop by, and party with me!

Aug. 12: Flex-at-the-Fair Finales at Wisconsin State Fair (640 S. 84th St.): Get your muscle on (or watch the hotties that do) with this popular

Dear Lindsey,

State Fair attraction that poses the state’s best bodies against one another.

Amp up your camp! Parade around in a sexy maid’s outfit. (Hell, you can even dress like Alice from “The Brady Bunch.”) Plan a build-your-own-pizza night only using kooky ingredients, create an adult scavenger hunt around the house, or kidnap him as he’s leaving work for a night of campy, unexpected fun.

Here, the contenders of the fair’s previous body building competitions hit

Dear Ruthie,

Mingle from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. during a mixer for the city’s bi community.

My teenage daughter hates me. She rolls her eyes at just about everything I do and thinks I’m as lame as they come. Do you have any ideas on how I can encourage some mother-daughter bonding?

Thanks, Mom in Need

Dear Mommie Dearest,

the Associated Bank Amphitheater at 6:30 p.m. for this free best-of-thebest showdown.

Aug. 13: Bi Café at Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. (224 W. Bruce St.): You’ll find lots of friendly faces, laughs, smiles and maybe even a few games to help break the ice.

Don’t miss Ruthie’s new reality show, “Camp Wannakiki” on YouTube. Want to share an event with Ruthie? Email DearRuthie@Shepex.com and follow her on Instagram @ruthiekeester and Facebook at Dear Ruthie.

She’s a teenager. You’re screwed.

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2018 LGBTQ Progress Awards ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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he Fourth Annual Shepherd Express LGBTQ Progress Awards presentation ceremony takes place this week.

Founded to recognize our community’s pioneers and early activists, the award’s significance is in part that it is conferred by a non-LGBTQ entity. The Shepherd Express has always been a media voice for social justice. But, by instituting this award, it took an additional step in bringing greater public awareness and recognition to those who influenced Milwaukee’s progress towards LGBTQ equality.

I am honored to be a part of the process of nominating and selecting the awardees. The criteria of each award may include long-term, selfless dedication to the cause of LGBTQ rights and personal actions that have added to the momentum of LGBTQ progress. Many past recipients are unsung heroes and heroines whose contributions have not been previously acknowledged. These individuals tenaciously pursued their activism, usually as volunteers, simply as a matter of a deeply held moral principle. For these men, women and organizations, fighting for our collective rights was an instinctive response to social injustice. All had their particular role. Some were engaged in the struggle politically or through their philanthropy, others through the arts, health services and education, while still others, some almost inadvertently, through sports and entertainment. However they manifested their activism, they made an impact, inspiring others to overcome fear, accept themselves and believe in their own inalienable rights.

Two years before Stonewall, in 1967, NAACP leader and Milwaukee state Rep. Lloyd Barbee introduced legislation to decriminalize homosexuality in Wisconsin.

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others would successfully shatter. In 1971, nearly half a century before marriage equality, Donna Burkett and her partner, Manonia Evans, shocked city hall when they applied to the Milwaukee county clerk for a marriage license. As a board member of Milwaukee’s only official LGBTQ organization at the time, the Gay People’s Union, Si Smits publicly outed himself in 1973 on local TV, appearing in a segment called “Some Call Them Gay.” Among other accomplishments, he would go on to create a philanthropic foundation, the G/L Community Fund.

Business owners are also among those feted. These are not simply LGBTQ people who happened to operate a successful commercial enterprise. Rather they focused on serving their community. Bob Schmidt opened the famous M&M Club in 1976. It served not only as a popular bar but also as a veritable community center. Even more importantly, Schmidt’s removal of the wooden shutters from the bar’s floor-to-ceiling windows helped remove the stigma of being gay and hidden. Carl Szatmary, owner of Outwords Books (it just celebrated its silver anniversary), remains one of the few remaining private purveyors of LGBTQ literature. He also created the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival.

Joe Pabst and Jack Smith received their awards for philanthropy. Without their financial support the city would have no LGBTQ infrastructure. Tina Owen-Moore established the Alliance School as an MPS charter school for bullied LGBTQ-identified kids.

The other winners are too numerous to mention here. All of them, along with this year’s slate of eight awardees that includes veterans and, for the first time, younger activists, deserve our thanks and appreciation for their service in achieving the fragile rights we enjoy, and often take for granted, today.

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FEATURE | ALBUM REVIEWS | CONCERT REVIEWS | LOCAL MUSIC

Har Mar Superstar Has Had an Odd Career ::BY BILL FORMAN

ean Tillmann’s heart and soul are both in the right place, but his alter ego, Har Mar Superstar, can get pretty far out there. During his Hollywood years, he was often mistaken for porn star Ron Jeremy, a striking resemblance that’s haunted him in the decades since fronting bands like Calvin Krime and Sean Na Na back in his native Minnesota.

Even so, Tillmann hasn’t done all that much to distance himself from the comparison. Har Mar Superstar performances typically find him stripping down to his briefs by show’s end. He also has a thing for singing lurid songs while executing breakdance spins and shoulder stands.

All that may sound just a little too gimmicky to take seriously, until, that is, you hear his music. Tillmann is a natural-born crooner with chameleonic songwriting abilities—from the a cappella doo-wop on his self-titled 2010 debut album up through the seven-and-a-half-minute title track of last year’s Personal Boy EP, a downtempo ballad with moody, synth-heavy production by Doomtree beatmaker Lazerbeak and Low producer BJ Burton.

And now, just when we thought we’d had him figured out (sort of), Tillmann is once again turning the tables with this summer’s “Har Mar Superstar Sings Sam Cooke” tour, which began as a one-off performance at Minneapolis’ famed Dakota Jazz Club. “I just wanted to change it up from doing a regular Har Mar show and instead do a Sam Cooke night, because he’s one of my favorite singers and songwriters, and I love his whole catalogue,” Tillmann said.

The shows start out with a 45-minute set of songs by the legendary soul singer who defined an era with ’50s and ’60s hits like “You Send Me” and “Bring It on Home to Me,” followed by some Tillmann originals that he says were inspired by Cooke’s repertoire. “My show has always been a little bit out there,” Tillmann acknowledged, “so I thought I’d do something that’s more accessible, something you could bring your parents or your grandparents to, and everybody would have a good time.”

The singer will also be dressing the part during the Sam Cooke set, leaving behind his shirtless shtick in favor of more formal attire, as will his seven-piece backing band, which includes a full horn section. “I have a lot of respect for Sam Cooke, so we’ve been wearing suits and keeping it pretty classy,” he said.

Tillmann expresses further respect by staying away

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from Cooke’s 1964 ballad, “A Change Is Gonna Come,” which became an anthem of the civil rights movement. It’s a song he feels would be entirely inappropriate to include in his set. “Those lyrics will never come out of my mouth, because, as a white man, I don’t deserve to sing them,” said Tillmann. “‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ is about systemic change, about changing the whole system. I think it’s his most beautiful song, and it’s the most touching, and I think the point will be completely missed if I sing it,” he elaborated. “It goes so deep that it’s hard to even wrap my head around that song, but it’s beautiful, and I cry whenever I hear it. So yeah, you’ll never hear me sing it; no one ever will.”

It’s impossible to say whether the far less serious elements of Tillmann’s Har Mar Superstar act have held him back or helped him move forward. He’s

never scored a proper hit, but he has had plenty of brushes with fame.

Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, for instance, helped produce Tillmann’s most recent fulllength Har Mar album, 2016’s Best Summer Ever, and wrote its opening song, “Youth Without Love.” “Haircut” is a co-write with Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ frontwoman Karen O, who also sings on the track.

And then there’s Prince.

Tillmann, who turned 40 earlier this year, was born and raised 150 miles outside Minneapolis in a southern Minnesota city where he would search the rivers for minnows, hang out at the local video store and take music lessons along with his sister, who went on to become an opera singer. In his teens, the future Har Mar would perform at Prince’s legendary Minneapolis venue, First Avenue, and attend the Purple One’s after-hours parties.

Har Mar “I’d see him jamming with legends Superstar of every type of music. It was pretty Back Room humbling to be in the presence of at Collectivo Prince, because he was so insanely talented, and it was a huge honor Saturday, to be around that, you know?” That Aug. 11, said, Tillmann was careful to keep a 8 p.m. proper distance from the superstar who, along with Stevie Wonder, would so profoundly influence his music.

“You never want to meet your idols,” he explains, “and Prince was such a prankster that, if he’d made an off-handed hilarious comment about me, it would have basically destroyed my life.”

Har Mar Superstar plays the Back Room at Colectivo on Saturday, Aug. 11, at 8 p.m. with openers Nelson Devereaux and the Style Band.

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At 70, Alice Cooper is as Entertaining and Outrageous as Ever

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::BY JAMIE LEE RAKE

here was a time when Alice Cooper’s brand of horror show theatrics wed to caustically tuneful hard rock was considered a threat to public morality. These days, of course, his act is unthreatening enough to headline the Wisconsin State Fair. What’s changed?

The answer could take doctoral dissertations in musicology and sociology to hazard an answer. What counts is that Cooper, his band and assorted extras still brought a show on par with the extravaganzas of his 1970s heyday when they headlined the fair Friday night.

The retrospective genius of Cooper’s aesthetic of mascara, guillotines, power chords and sick humor as sly social commentary has been the launch point for numerous genres and musical tribes. Punk, goth, black metal and industrial number among the most obvious descendants of Cooper’s outrageousness. The current genius of Cooper’s ghoulish stage character is that it’s become a persona he has grown into, even as a teetotaling Christian known to play the celebrity golf circuit when not plying his shock schtick to enraptured crowds.

In a way, it makes more sense for Cooper to be a currently 70-year-old singing monster/master of ceremonies than the young buck he was when Frank Zappa signed him (or them, as Alice Cooper started as the name of the band itself) to his label in the late ’60s. Through a two-hour show replete with a series of costume changes that could frazzle a man half his age, Cooper delivered nigh everything that could have been expected of a performer of his seniority and influence.

Though commercial hard rock radio has been loath to play anything from it, the tracks he sang from his 2017 album for which his current tour is named, Paranormal, wouldn’t sound out of place in rotation with Seether, Shinedown and Ghost. The wilderness of strangeness and silliness between his last popcharting single, 1989’s acerbic “Poison,” and the present yielded tracks he saw fit to include this evening, such as “Lost in America,” “Brutal Planet,” “Woman of Mass Distraction” (really!) and “Feed My Frankenstein.” The last one provided the setup to bring an enormous, cartoonish zombie figure on stage who sort of lip-synced the end of the song.

The first of his dubiously advised balladic hit singles throughout the later ’70s, “Only Women Bleed,” set off the plot structuring the second half of the show. Cooper’s wife, Sheryl, dolled up as a nurse in exaggerated death mask makeup that King Diamond could envy, suffers at the hands of her murderous other half. Villainous Alice gets his comeuppance, first in a straightjacket and, finally... well, not to spoil anything, but a severed Alice Cooper head would make for a sweet trick-or-treat mask.

Cooper still wields fierce command of the early-’70s odes to teen ennui, confusion and frustration that made him a household name, too. “No More Mr. Nice Guy” appeared early on in the set. “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out” still pack at least as much punch, too. The latter became part of a medley with Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)” that made for another natural audience sing-along.

Generous bandleader that he is, Cooper allowed his guitarist and drummer accomplished solos. However, neither player could steal the spotlight from the absurd, regal presence of their boss. Long may his horror and humor entertain.

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CRLSS Confronts Shame, Regret and Addiction on ‘Heartstrings’ ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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t was only years later, as awareness of the opioid epidemic spread, that Ryan King would understand just how common his experience with addiction was. It was the early ’00s when he injured himself playing hockey. You can probably already guess how the rest of that story played out. He was prescribed pain killers, became addicted to them, began using heroin and lost years of his life, ultimately landing in jail.

King looks back at that stint in jail with complete gratitude. “I feel like I would have died if I hadn’t went,” he says. “It was what was needed. It saved me.” Upon his release, he went about repairing his life. As he worked to stay sober, he began recording dreamy electronic music under the moniker CRLSS and operating an online music community called CLLCTIVE, helping promote artists across the Midwest and beyond. He felt proud. He was building something. And then he was sent back to prison for a year and a half.

“I felt like I was clean,” he says. “I was doing what I needed to do, but I got pulled over with a little bit of weed. It wasn’t a lot of weed, but in Wisconsin, the second offense is a felony, regardless of the amount.”

If things had worked out as he hoped, King says he wouldn’t be making music anymore. He’d hoped to gain guardianship of his daughter, retire CLLCTIVE and focus on raising her. But after he lost that custody battle, he says, music became the healthiest outlet he had.

“Wanting to be her father and not being able to, because of the decisions I’ve made in my life, I was really beating myself up over that,” he says. “Being an addict, each time you relapse, you’re more embarrassed. The shame is heavier each time. It’s really easy to get down on yourself, and I was so down on myself that I had to write about it. I had to sing sorrow to get it out of me.”

Recorded in the basement of a halfway house, CRLSS’s new EP, Heartstrings, is a clash of light sounds and heavy emotions. His beats are airy and vaporous, his melodies punchy and direct, yet a cloud of grief hangs heavy over all five of these songs, especially the closing ballad, “I Never Went to Texas with You,” a sorrowful eulogy to the many opportunities he’d missed while battling addiction.

“They’re pretty dark songs,” King says. “I’m really anxious about releasing them because it puts you in a really vulnerable space. But I’m at the point in my life where I’m like, ‘This is who I am.’ I don’t want to suffer for fashion at all.

“Music is a selfish thing for me,” he continues. “It’s my own therapy when I work on it. I’m like someone who needs to exercise every day; I’ve got to wake up and make that run. That’s my release.

I’d love for people to enjoy my music and dig into it and relate to it, but when it comes down to it, I had to make this music so I could get through that really rough time.”

CRLSS’s Heartstrings EP is streaming on multiple services, including Soundcloud, Apple Music and Spotify.

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MUSIC::LISTINGS THURSDAY, AUGUST 9

Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Bilda’s Friess Lake Pub, Scotch and Soda (6pm) Cactus Club, Tacocat w/Gymshorts Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Randy Sabien, Jack Williams, John Sieger, Robin Pluer Caroline’s Jazz Club, Milwaukee Hot Club Colectivo Coffee (Lakefront), Colectivo’s Música del Lago County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Fire On Water, Steve Cohen & The Riccos (5pm) Jazz Estate, Outer Dimensions Trio Jazz in the Park (Cathedral Square Park), Mike Mangione & The Kin (6pm) Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Matty’s Bar & Grille (New Berlin), Smokin’ Live & Local Mezcalero Restaurant, Ultimate Open Jam w/host Abracadabra O’Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), The All-Star SUPERband (6pm) On the Bayou, Open Mic Comedy w/host The Original Darryl Hill Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White Duo Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (12pm) Riverside Theater, Boy George & Culture Club Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World’s Funniest Free Comedy Show Saloon on Calhoun, Amplified Artist Sessions presents: Rocket Cat Shank Hall, Guitar Legend Dick Dale w/Devils Teeth The Back Room at Colectivo, The Family Crest w/Joe Richter The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Latin Sessions: Carlos Adames: Choro Turner Hall Ballroom, Chris Robinson Brotherhood Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic Wisconsin State Fair Park, Door County Fish Boil: Larry Lynne Solo Wisconsin State Fair Park - Associated Bank Amphitheater, Los Amigos Invisibles Wisconsin State Fair Park - Main Stage, The Temptations and The Four Tops

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10

American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), The 45’s

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Rick Holmes Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Julie’s Piano Karaoke Anodyne Coffee , 3rd Annual Fiddle Fest Arriba Mexican Restaurant (Butler), Rebecca and the Grey Notes Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Peter Mulvey, Paul Cebar, Shane Leonard & Klassik Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band w/Curt Hanrahan, Tom McGirr, Chris Klinhart & Neil Davis Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Primitive Broadcast Service w/Matt Cook (8pm); DJ: The Nile & Stephen (10pm) Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (6pm) Colectivo Coffee (Lakefront), Friday Nite Music Series ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15

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Something bugging you? Find out what the Shrink thinks

Just Get on With Your Life!

Dear Shrink,

A month ago, I was totally blindsided and dumped by a partner I’ve been with for more than a year. She said she wanted to focus more on her job, etc., and that it’s not about me.

Now she keeps contacting me and asking why we can’t just “hang out.” I’ve told her I have no interest in that and don’t trust her anymore, but she doesn’t get it. How can I get her to leave me alone?

The Shrink Replies,

She’s the one who arbitrarily decided to break up, but she’s initiating contact and pestering you? That’s pretty crazy-making. I guess it’s OK for her to change the rules, but she wants you to play by them based on her emotional whims. Good for you for taking her breakup pronouncement seriously and trying not to waffle just because she wants to hang out. You need some time to adjust to the loss, but she knows just how to push your buttons to get you to let your guard down and connect, even though you’re determined to stay strong.

When relationships end, even in an ambush like this, there probably were warning signs that this was coming. When faced with people who say one thing but do another, we tend to believe what we most want to believe. She may have been pushing you away or sabotaging things for a while, but we often rationalize away unpleasant things, so we don’t have to face the icky truth about a given situation.

What’s your strategy? Please ponder these points: Do a “post-mortem.” By this, I mean a retrospective list of the ups and downs of your relationship. We can often see things in the rearview mirror that we couldn’t see when they were happening in front of us. See if you can find your blind spots.

Every relationship, even the lousiest of

them, is at least 1% good. Yours may have been more than 1% good since she wants to stay connected, and you are leaving the door open by responding. Even though you say you aren’t interested, you’re sending a mixed message to her, too. If, after the autopsy, you determine that the relationship is indeed dead and needs to stay that way, you have to start treating it like a corpse.

Get stronger about setting boundaries.

Tell her again, firmly, that it’s too hard for you to be just friends (with or without benefits) because you’re hurt, disappointed, angry, etc.

Why would you continue to put yourself on the path of someone who no longer wants you there—except for “sometimes” and on her own terms? Even though you might feel lonely or miss her, those aren’t good reasons to continue the charade that this can be a healthy relationship.

Who knows what it’s really about—dependency, denial, fear of intimacy on both of your parts? There are lots of possibilities. But if it’s not the kind of relationship you want, stay away for the sake of your sanity.

How do you remove yourself for good?

Know, within your own heart and mind, that the old relationship is over, and a new one, if you choose it at some point, can’t be built on the old foundation. Now isn’t the time to decide that. Some people are able to be friends with their exes, but it takes time for the wounds of confusion and betrayal to heal.

It’s definitely not a decision that should be made on a whim, in a weak moment or based on emotion vs. thoughtful consideration. For now, block her number, shut down your social media contact with her, do whatever it takes to keep her out of sight, which can help you keep her out of mind.

The bottom line is that break-ups suck.

Whether you’re the dumper or the dumped, the clumsiness and drama of an unhappy ending always feels bad. The jagged edges of this uncoupling may continue to poke you for a bit longer until the new normal settles in.

Nobody dies from a broken heart; beginnings and endings are part of the organic path of all relationships. While you’re healing your weary heart and mind, try to take stock of what happened and what things to remember for the next time around. Remember, it takes two. All you can do is bring your best self to the next relationship and hope for a happier trajectory.

On the Couch is written by a licensed mental health professional. Her advice is not meant as a substitute for mental health care.

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PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Greater-Than Sudoku”

For this ‘Greater-Than Sudoku,’ I’m not giving you ANY numbers to start off with!

Adjoining squares in the grid’s 3x3 boxes have a greater-than sign (>) telling you which of the two numbers in those squares is larger. Fill in every square with a number from 1-9 using the greater-than signs as a guide. When you’re done, as in a normal Sudoku, every row, column, and 3x3 box will contain the numbers 1-9 exactly one time. (Solving hint: try to look for the 1’s and 9’s in each box first, then move on to the 2’s and 8’s, and so on). psychosudoku@gmail.com

ACROSS 1. Get rid of 5. Virgule 10. Spectrum 15. Innermost part 19. Monkey 20. -- del Este 21. Pain-reliever brand 22. -- Jannings, first Best Actor winner 23. Oh, woe!

24. Info 25. Handyman 26. Quechua 27. Start of a quip by 92-Across: 3 wds.

30. Graceful horse 32. Experts 33. Big -34. Nest eggs: Abbr.

35. Campfire treat 38. Philippine tree 41. Brew 43. AFL- -46. Affectionate 47. Part 2 of quip: 3 wds.

52. Miscellaneous collection 53. Gardner’s Perry 54. Figure in Greek myth 55. Cut 56. Presage 57. Spotted pony 58. -- of passage 59. English queen 60. Flat figure 62. Superlative suffix 63. Coffee drinks 65. Part 3 of quip: 3 wds.

69. Part 4 of quip: 2 wds.

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86. OT name 87. Old marketplace 89. Just about 90. “It is -- -- told...”

91. Likable 92. Speaker of the quip: 2 wds.

95. Pie 96. Compass pt.

97. Hardy heroine 98. Kind of “pikture” 99. Dressed to the -100. Shower 102. -- Annie of “Oklahoma!”

104. Understands 106. Plant pod 109. End of the quip: 2 wds.

116. Wine city 117. La Scala’s city 119. Bower 120. Dies -121. Like hand-me-downs 122. Summon 123. Public outburst 124. Actress -- Sorvino 125. -- majesty 126. Delayer’s motto 127. Reduced 128. Eskers DOWN 1. Getz or Laurel 2. Hawaii town 3. “L’--, c’est moi” 4. Strife 5. Quill 6. Body parts 7. Opposing one 8. Kind of British gun 9. Assembly room 10. Faux pas 11. Exotic 12. Where Durango is: Abbr.

13. Eye layer 14. Dorothy’s dog

15. Silk-cotton tree 16. Infinitely wise 17. Costa -18. -- vital 28. “Rocks” 29. Wild goat of mountainous regions 31. Wall hanging 35. One fell -36. City in Sweden 37. Bay window 38. Part of ASEAN: Abbr.

39. Aquatic bird 40. Jay of late-night TV 41. Plastered 42. Relaxation 44. Pointless 45. Monsters 47. Establish by authority 48. Word in place names 49. -- to you!

50. Celtic language 51. “The Mouse -Roared” 61. Liquid meas.

63. Sweet bay 64. Courtroom fig.

66. Branch of physics 67. Branch 68. Root or Yale 70. Chat room troublemaker

71. Softens 72. Curia -73. Clears 74. Obstacles 77. Very slowly, in music 78. Chinese, e.g.

79. Pearly material 80. Some compositions 82. Austrian river 83. Fire 84. Roman emperor 85. Annoying one 88. Storage space 93. Old wine-and-honey drink 94. Rumble 99. Born: Fr. 101. Parenthetical remark 102. Conscious 103. Eatery 104. Ruby or emerald 105. Miscalculated 106. Peter -- Rubens 107. -- est percipi 108. Prima donna 110. Fastener 111. Killer whale 112. Ridesharing company 113. “Exodus” author 114. Pasternak girl 115. Rend 118. Group

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WORD FIND This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 30 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You probably gaze at the sky enough to realize when there’s a full moon. But you may not monitor the heavenly cycles closely enough to tune in to the new moon, that phase each month when the lunar orb is invisible. We astrologers regard it as a ripe time to formulate fresh intentions. We understand it to be a propitious moment to plant metaphorical seeds for the desires you want to fulfill in the coming four weeks. When this phenomenon happens during the astrological month of Leo, the potency is intensified for you. Your next appointment with this holiday is Aug. 10 and 11.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her poem “Dogfish,” Virgo poet Mary Oliver writes, “I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it…” Why? Because she wanted her life “to open like a hinge, like a wing.” I’m happy to tell you, Virgo, that you now have more power than usual to make your past go away. I’m also pleased to speculate that as you perform this service for yourself, you’ll be skillful enough to preserve the parts of your past that inspire you, even as you shrink and neutralize memories that drain you. In response to this good work, I bet your life will open like a hinge, like a wing—no later than your birthday, and most likely before that.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran fashion writer Diana Vreeland (1903-1989) championed the beauty of the strong nose. She didn’t approve of women wanting to look like “piglets and kittens.” If she were alive today, she’d be pleased that nose jobs in the U.S. have declined 43% since 2000. According to journalist Madeleine Schwartz writing in Garage magazine, historians of rhinoplasty say there has been a revival of appreciation for the distinctive character revealed in an unaltered nose. I propose, Libra, that in accordance with current astrological omens, we extrapolate some even bigger inspiration from that marvelous fact. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to celebrate and honor and express pride in your idiosyncratic natural magnificence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.” This definition, articulated by author Isaac Asimov, will be an excellent fit for you between now and Sept. 20. I suspect you’ll be unusually likely to feel at peace with yourself and at home in the world. I don’t mean to imply that every event will make you cheerful and calm. What I’m saying is that you will have an extraordinary capacity to make clear decisions based on accurate appraisals of what’s best for you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’ve compiled a list of new blessings you need and deserve during the next 14 months.

To the best of my ability, I will assist you to procure them. Here they are: a practical freedom song and a mature love song; an exciting plaything and a renaissance of innocence; an evocative new symbol that helps mobilize your evolving desires; escape from the influence of a pest you no longer want to answer to; insights about how to close the gap between the richest and poorest parts of yourself; and the cutting of a knot that has hindered you for years.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It has become clear to me that I must either find a willing nurturer to cuddle and nuzzle and whisper sweet truths with me for six hours or else seek sumptuous solace through the aid of eight shots of whiskey.” My Capricorn friend Tammuz confided that message to me. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were feeling a comparable tug. According to my assessment of the Capricorn zeitgeist, you acutely need the revelations that would become available to you through altered states of emotional intelligence. A lavish whoosh of alcohol might do the trick, but a more reliable and effective method would be through immersions in intricate, affectionate intimacy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Not even 5% of the world’s population lives in a complete democracy. Congratulations to Norway, Canada, Australia, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Denmark, New Zealand, Switzerland and Sweden.

Sadly, three countries where my column is published—the U.S., Italy and France—are categorized as

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“flawed democracies.” Yet they’re far better than the authoritarian regimes in China and Russia. (Source: The Economist.) I offer this public service announcement as a prelude to your homework assignment. According to my astrological analysis, you will personally benefit from working to bring more democracy into your personal sphere. How can you ensure that people you care about feel equal to you, and have confidence that you will listen to and consider their needs, and believe they have a strong say in shaping your shared experiences?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Mystic poet Kabir wrote, “The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.” He was invoking a metaphor to describe his spiritual practice and reward. The hard inner work he did to identify himself with God was the blooming flower that eventually made way for the fruit. The fruit was his conscious, deeply felt union with God. I see this scenario as applicable to your life, Pisces. Should you feel sadness about the flower’s withering? It’s fine to do so. But the important thing is that you now have the fruit. Celebrate it! Enjoy it!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Palestinian American writer Susan Abulhawa writes that in the Arab world, to say a mere “thank you” is regarded as spiritless and ungenerous. The point of communicating gratitude is to light up with lively and expressive emotions that respond in kind to the kindness bestowed. For instance, a recipient may exclaim, “May Allah bless the hands that give me this blessing,” or “Beauty is in the eyes that find me beautiful.” In accordance with current astrological omens, I propose that you experiment with this approach. Be specific in your praise. Be exact in your appreciation.

Acknowledge the unique mood and meaning of each rich exchange.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you need this advice from mythologist Joseph Campbell: “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” He says it’s “a rescue land . . . some field of action where there is a spring of ambrosia—a joy that comes from inside, not something external that puts joy into you—a place that lets you experience your own will and your own intention and your own wish.” Do you have such a place, Taurus? If not, now is a great time to find one. If you do, now is a great time to go there for a spell and renew the hell out of yourself.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When he was 20 years old, future U.S. President Thomas Jefferson had an awkward encounter with a young woman who piqued his interest. He was embarrassed by the gracelessness he displayed. For two days afterward, he endured a terrible headache. We might speculate that it was a psychosomatic reaction.

I bring this up because I’m wondering if your emotions are also trying to send coded messages to you via your body. Are you aware of unusual symptoms or mysterious sensations? See if you can trace them back to their source in your soul.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There’s a zone in your psyche where selfishness overlaps generosity, where the line between being emotionally manipulative and gracefully magnanimous almost disappears. With both hope and trepidation for the people in your life, I advise you to hang out in that grey area for now. Yes, it’s a risk. You could end up finessing people mostly for your own good and making them think it’s mostly for their own good.

But the more likely outcome is that you will employ ethical abracadabra to bring out the best in others, even as you get what you want, too.

Homework: If you could make money from doing exactly what you love to do, what would it be? 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.

::NEWS OF THE WEIRD ::BY THE EDITORS OF ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

A Mission from ‘God’

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uring a Monday, July 23, debate among mayoral candidates in Key West, Fla., Sloan Bashinsky suddenly stopped speaking and, answering his cellphone, said: “Hello? What?

God?” According to FLKeys News, it wasn’t the first time he’s heard from a higher power.

“I have said every time I ran, I ran because God told me to run,” Bashinsky explained. “I think anyone who wants this job is insane.”

Bashinsky has a law degree from Vanderbilt University and was once among the island’s homeless. He’s among six other candidates on the ballot.

A Millennial’s Mischief Just after midnight on Sunday, July 22, a couple in Palo Alto, Calif., were awakened in their bedroom by a 17-year-old burglar in a mask. But, instead of demanding money, jewelry and the like, he asked the startled couple for their Wi-Fi password. According to The Sacramento Bee, the homeowners forced the teen out of their residence, sans password, and called police, who tracked him down a block away and arrested him for felony residential burglary. Police later determined it wasn’t the teen’s first attempt at criminal connectivity; less than an hour earlier that same night, a prowler had summoned a woman from her home to ask for access to her Wi-Fi network.

She told him to go away, and he rode off on a bicycle—which she realized the next day was hers. She called police, who recovered the bike near where they had arrested the teen.

A Bogus Bruin Jeffrey Jacobs, 37, thought he had a great thing going. Last year, when a tree fell on his White Plains, N.Y., home, he called a local tree service for assistance, informing them that he was the owner of the Boston Bruins hockey team, reported The Hour. Duly impressed, the tree service owner sent a crew amid a storm, then billed the real Bruins owner—78-yearold Jeremy Jacobs—the $5,100 fee. Police in nearby Wilton, Conn., heard about the deception when they received a call in May from security officials at a company chaired by the Bruins’ owner. The story sounded familiar. In November, Jacobs, who had been pulled over in Wilton and told officers he owned the Bruins in an effort to get out of the ticket. Jacobs, the bogus Bruin owner, has been charged with criminal impersonation.

A Shitty Sentence Painesville, Ohio, Municipal Court Judge Michael Cicconetti has a reputation for giving unusual sentences, and he delivered again on Tuesday, July 24, when Bayley Toth appeared in his courtroom. Toth was convicted of two misdemeanor criminal mischief charges for toppling a portable toilet at Painesville Township Park in June, among other things. Cicconetti sentenced him to 120 days in jail but suspended it in lieu of Toth shoveling manure at the Lake County Fair. “You act like an animal, you’re going to take care of animals,” Cicconetti told Toth. The News-Herald reported Toth will also have to perform 40 hours of community service and pay restitution for damage to the park.

A Rotten Russian A weird in-air experience for passengers traveling from Spain’s Canary Islands to the Netherlands on Tuesday, May 29, had an unhappy ending. The Transavia flight was forced to land in Faro, Portugal, after passengers began fainting and vomiting in reaction to the overpowering stench of another passenger— 58-year-old Russian rocker Andrey Suchilin.

“It was like he hadn’t washed himself for several weeks,” Belgian passenger Piet van Haut said. CBS News reported that Suchilin had sought medical attention in Spain and was given antibiotics for an “ordinary beach infection.” Taken to a hospital in Portugal, his condition deteriorated, and he was diagnosed with tissue necrosis caused by flesh-eating bacteria. Doctors induced a coma and performed several surgeries, but his wife reported on his Facebook page that he died on Monday, June 25.

A Notable Nematode You thought you were old? You’re just a twinkle in a nematode’s eye. Russian scientists recently revived a frozen roundworm, or nematode, from a sample collected in Siberian permafrost, The Siberian Times reported on Thursday, July 26. The worm, which was found in a permafrost core drilled 30 meters deep, is believed to be female and some 41,700 years old. After collecting the core sample, scientists slowly thawed out the worm, which eventually started eating and moving. Scientists from the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science in Moscow conclude, as other scientists have, that nematodes have an inherent, adaptive longevity mechanism. © 2018 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

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On-a-Stick This ::BY ART KUMBALEK

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain’a? Listen, it’s early-voting week for the primary, so I suggest you VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! now before our state Republicans and Russians finagle a way that the only people ever allowed to vote are white Republican Trumpites who live in Honkysha County, what the fock.

Yeah yeah, seems like it could be a slow summertime week here, so what with the PGA Championship teeing off this week, I thought I’d share a little story for all of you’s golf fans: So this guy was not having his best day on the golf course. After he choked on a six-inch putt, his partner asked him what the problem was. The guy says, “It’s the wife. She’s taken up golf and since she’s been playing, she’s cut my sex down to once a focking week.”

And his partner says, “That’s nothing, She’s cut some of us out altogether!” Ba-ding!

Hey, I heard the other day that Pope Francis said that the “death penalty is unacceptable in all cases.”

And I’m shocked, shocked that President Trumpelthinskin hasn’t so far tweet-pissed all over the pontiff for sounding so un-American, ain’a?

I’m sure the pope, and a bunch of like-thinkers, considered the question of whether or not the guy or gal to be executed might actually be innocent and

putting innocent people to death was supposed to be for private-industry types like what Doc “Black Jack” Kevorkian used to do. And if the government starts executing too many innocent people, it could be used as an example of the goddamn government dicking around with free enterprise and trying to horn in again.

But then there’s the example of the state of Texas, where they choose to croak the whole kit and caboodle—guilty and innocent—then let God sort ’em out ’cause that’s the Christian way to do it. They believe that when you get to the Pearly Gates, if God figures you’re innocent he gives you the green light to come on in and what the fock, heaven sure beats sitting around in prison for the rest of your life, ain’a? And if you’re guilty as sin after all, he sends you to hell, which from what I hear is exactly like being dirt poor and living in the Lone Star State, so big focking deal.

And I’ve got a hunch that an expanded death penalty is sky high on the Trump to-do list ’cause I’m sure he’s got a list of preferred candidates yea long, I kid you not. Of course, he’d prefer to turn the executions into a reality TV/entertainment shebang, maybe on a pay-per-view like the Big-Time Wrestling. But I suspect he’d have to really jazz it up or it would be goddamn butt-boring but good, ’cause who the hell wants to pay good money just to watch some guy laying on a cot get a shot in the arm and then just go to sleep ’till he croaks?

Very little value for your entertainment dollar, there. By executive order, Trump will get the government out of the capital punishment racket and turn it over to the private sector. Let the people over at the Focks nutwork handle a show like that: “America’s Wildest and Wackiest Death Row Executions”—load up an old Pinto or some kind of van with these cons and drive it off Pike’s Peak. Or maybe send a bunch of these bastards and enemies-of-the-people up in a

hot-air balloon and for $10 a bullet, members of the general public get a shot at bringing that baby down to Earth, what the fock.

And before I forget, speaking of voting, how the hell does some dink state like a Delaware rate two senators when your Big Ten states like a Michigan or an Ohio also gets dealt only a deuce for the Senate?

Come to think of it, why the hell do we even have a Delaware, except maybe for a place to dump used-up chemicals and we already got New Jersey for that; so for christ sakes, we don’t need Delaware. For that matter, we don’t need a Rhode Island or a South Carolina either. Cut them loose or make them part of another

state or give them to the Palestines, but let’s do something, ain’a?

Anyways, finally, let’s wrap this now—’cause I think I’m hearing voices—with a quote from Scotty Fitzgerald: “Let me tell you about the rich. They are different from me and you.” You got that right, Gatsby.

And here’s proof: A homeless guy walks up to a ultra rich-looking woman shopping on Rodeo Drive and says “Excuse me, ma’am, but I haven’t eaten anything in four days.”

She looks at the guy and says, “God, I wish I had your willpower.”

Ba-ding! ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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