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WHY JOSH KAUL SHOULD BE OUR NEXT ATTORNEY GENERAL HE’S TOUGH, SMART AND READY FOR THE JOB ::BY MELANIE CONKLIN

hile hot primary contests for governor and senator dominated Wisconsin news this summer, the statewide race for attorney general has been set for a year. In that race, prosecutor Josh Kaul is taking on incumbent Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel. Few races on the Tuesday, Nov. 6, ballot offer as stark a contrast as theirs.

The two are worlds apart on the issues. Schimel is to the right of even Gov. Scott Walker and President Donald Trump in some cases, such as his support for arming teachers. The challenge for voters is that this vital race has not spent much time in the limelight, despite it being labeled by Governing magazine as the only attorney general race in the country with an incumbent that is a “toss up.” Yet a month ago, the Associated Press ran a story on the Schimel-Kaul race with the headline: “Wisconsin AG race ready to heat up, but will anyone watch?” Another newspaper labeled it a “sleeper race.” Yet electing Kaul would ensure Wisconsin pushes back against the rightwing extremism of Trump’s policies.

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Not only do the two men have jarringly different approaches to the post often called the state’s “Top Cop,” but their leadership styles are equally far apart. Kaul supports Wisconsinites receiving health care through the Affordable Care Act (ACA); Schimel is spearheading a lawsuit against it. Kaul has fought in court to protect voting and representation; Schimel defends gerrymandering and voter-suppressing photo ID policies that he admits helped Trump win Wisconsin in 2016.

Schimel’s made lots of headlines—from botching the Lincoln Hills juvenile prison investigation so badly that the FBI took it over, to his support of a gag order to stop state employees from talking about climate change, to his hosting the National Rifle Association (NRA) in his office, to his hiring of a corporate lobbyist for Walmart as his top aide. Schimel also required Department of Justice employees to sign a non-disclosure agreement, which was drafted a month after Kaul entered the race against him.

While Schimel’s spent more time in the public eye for his gaffes and partisan pandering on the job, voters know less about Kaul. In fact, Kaul’s Twitter bio pretty much sums up what many voters know about him: “Father. Husband. Wisconsinite. Former federal prosecutor. Candidate for Attorney General. Wisconsin.”

Just Who is Josh Kaul?

Addressing a Tavern League group over lunch at Paulie’s Pub in West Allis, Kaul, 37, lays out his platform, sprinkling humor amid his critique of Schimel’s actions. He takes a jab at Schimel for spending $83,000 on such swag as customized fortune cookies and gold-plated coins. “In my house, with two young boys, if you are going to hand out fake coins, there had better be chocolate inside them,” he says.

He also jokes about his Fond du Lac High School football career as a fullback for the Cardinals where he scored “one touchdown, about a yard out,” adding, “It definitely counts as a touchdown all the same.” He takes questions, and the group begins talking about issues important to their industry—from Safe Ride to road blocks. He answers, then engages the bar owners, asking for their opinions, flowing seamlessly from a stump speech into a conversation.

One thing many Wisconsinites, including some attendees in the room, know about Kaul is his mother—former Democratic Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, a trailblazer who passed away in March during his campaign after a battle with cancer. He sidesteps talking about much that is personal, especially a grief so recent. But he emphatically credits his mom and other family members as the key influences on his career. “My family has history in public service, working to make their communities better, safer places,” says Kaul. “It’s always been a part of my life.”

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He attended public schools in Oshkosh and Fond du Lac, where his mother worked as a prosecutor before becoming Wisconsin’s first female attorney general. His stepfather, Bill Rippl, was a police officer in Neenah who later became a teacher, and both Kaul’s maternal grandparents were teachers.

Kaul met his wife, Lindsey, while at Yale University, then attended Stanford Law School, where he was president of the Stanford Law Review. Kaul’s as tough as he is intelligent; during his career as a prosecutor in crimeplagued Baltimore, he prosecuted murderers, gang members and drug traffickers, “taking dangerous criminals off the street and making communities more secure,” he says.

This experience comes up often in the campaign as he speaks about keeping Wisconsin streets safe.

“He is exceptionally balanced and genuine,” says family friend Haben Goitom, an attorney who also knows him professionally. “But, I would not confuse his warmth with weakness. He is a hard-nosed litigator by nature who will fight for what is right.”

More details about Kaul unfold on the campaign trail.

In an article that appeared in the Barron News Shield, mention was made of his ties to the area through his dad: “Josh Kaul spent a lot of time in Barron County, where his father, Raj Kaul, worked for what was then known as Jerome Foods in Barron.” His campaign has been followed by Indian American news, and he is endorsed by the Indian American Impact Fund as a candidate of Indian American descent from his father’s side. (A few of his other endorsements include former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Tammy Baldwin, the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters and the Human Rights Campaign.)

One area of his life Kaul can’t help but smile about is his family—sons Simon, age 4, and Henry, age 1½.

He loves taking his kids to the park near their home and even during the campaign he makes lots of trips to swimming lessons and soccer games. He spent a recent weekend at several kids’ birthday parties. But Josh Kaul is adept at turning personal conversation back to issues, as he notes how being a dad has impacted his views on school safety, particularly after hearing about a lockdown drill a few months back at his boys’ daycare that hit him hard.

That takes him right back to talking about gun safety, keeping criminals off the streets, fines for polluters, holding Foxconn accountable, supporting mental health

programs, fighting the opioid epidemic and making certain the attorney general is a watchdog for consumers.

“I’ve called on Brad Schimel to evenhandedly protect consumers and the environment, especially clean air and clean water that are vital for our health, our economy and our quality of life,” he says.

Taking on Outside Money

Kaul names one hesitancy he had about getting into the race: massive spending and the influence of money in politics. Why didn’t that stop him? “There’s too much at stake in the attorney general race to stop me getting involved. Seeing the attorney general’s failure and extremism on a number of issues and his lack of accountability to the people of Wisconsin, I decided to run.”

Asked to pick one thing he and Schimel agree on, Kaul cites drug courts. When asked to name Schimel’s biggest failure, he pauses. “I have to say the delays in testing rape kits and DNA, toxicology and other evidence at the state crime lab. This has meant justice delayed for survivors and dangerous criminals remaining on the streets.” Last week, Schimel yet again declared “mission accomplished” on testing rape kits, but Kaul notes that even once all of them are tested, the work is still not done. The attorney general must follow-up on DNA hits and ensure any matches are thoroughly investigated.

In addition to specifics, Schimel has used his position as attorney general to advance a far rightwing agenda, including backing Trump’s so-called “border wall” and policy of separating children from their parents at the border. His travel has included a gathering at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and participating in a conference with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a group the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a hate group for supporting criminalization of homosexuality. Schimel’s own costs were covered by the group, but he used taxpayer money to bring along an employee.

In addition to Kaul’s robust critique of Schimel’s failure to do his job and his right-wing views that are out of step with Wisconsin, Kaul blasts Schimel for his focus on serving Scott Walker, saying, “He’s not the governor’s lawyer; he’s supposed to be the lawyer for the state of Wisconsin. Our attorney general should be an independent watch dog, and I’m hopeful the voters feel the same way and see the differences.”

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WHEN ASKED TO NAME SCHIMEL’S BIGGEST FAILURE, HE PAUSES. “I HAVE TO SAY THE DELAYS IN TESTING RAPE KITS AND DNA, TOXICOLOGY AND OTHER EVIDENCE AT THE STATE CRIME LAB. THIS HAS MEANT JUSTICE DELAYED FOR SURVIVORS AND DANGEROUS CRIMINALS REMAINING ON THE STREETS.” SHEPHERD EXPRESS

JOSH KAUL v.

BRAD SCHIMEL ON THE ISSUES Health Care

n Kaul supports Wisconsinites receiving health care through the Affordable Care Act, saying accepting ACA money would cover more Wisconsinites at a lower cost, and a repeal would harm Wisconsin’s most “vulnerable,” including people with pre-existing conditions. n Schimel is spearheading a lawsuit brought by 20 states seeking to end the ACA, calling it unconstitutional and a “train wreck” and claiming that Wisconsin was better off before it.

Guns

n Kaul will not take NRA money and believes in “reasonable gun safety” measures such as universal background checks, banning bump stocks, restricting 3D-printed guns and a red-flag law allowing people at risk of violence to be temporarily disarmed. n Schimel has been endorsed by the NRA and recently refused to take a stand against 3D-printed guns, opposes gun-free zones in schools and has suggested arming teachers.

Reproductive Rights/Abortion

n Kaul is pro-choice and has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood. He’s called Wisconsin’s ban on abortion (currently unenforceable under Roe v. Wade) “unsafe” and said the legislature should repeal it. He added he’d need to conduct legal analysis on enforcement if Roe v. Wade was overturned. n Schimel is anti-choice, believes life begins at conception and supports stringent abortion impediments and overturning Roe v. Wade. Citing his religious beliefs and his adopted daughters, he has pushed to keep the Wisconsin law criminalizing abortion on the books and is endorsed by Wisconsin Right to Life.

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Unearthing Wisconsin’s Lost History

Milwaukee archaeologist digs the Badger State ::BY MARY SUSSMAN

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avid Overstreet says he’s older than dirt. Even at 75, it is an odd claim for an archaeologist who has spent much of his life working in very old dirt excavating ancient skeletons and artifacts that are far older than he is. Overstreet says he has probably worked in almost all of Wisconsin’s 72 counties. From sites in the Apostle Islands to Door County, Keshena, Wauwatosa, Elm Grove and many places in between, Overstreet’s explorations and excavations have yielded new evidence and challenged old beliefs and paradigms.

Take the large wooly mammoth skeleton which greets visitors in the entryway of the Milwaukee Public Museum. It’s there in no small part because Overstreet and his team excavated the 14,500-year-old skeleton in the 1990s. It’s called the “Hebior Mammoth”—named for Kenosha County farmer John Hebior, who owned the land on which it was found.

“When you travel south to Chicago on I-43, you see all those cabbage patches along both sides of the highway late in the growing season,” Overstreet says. “Those are old lake beds that have been drained for muck soil agriculture.

That’s where these skeletal remains exist. The only reason these ancient animals were preserved was because they had been continuously wet in an anaerobic environment for 15,000 years.”

Many of the bones of the Hebior Mammoth had butcher marks on them, and through radiocarbon dating, analysis of the cut marks and analysis of tools found at the bone pile, there was a concatenation of evidence that allowed Overstreet to date the skeleton. If the mammoth was butchered, that meant that there were people around to do it. The discovery was important.

“They made a big deal of it in National Geographic and U.S. News and World Report. That was back in the early ’90s,” Overstreet says.

To dry out the bones of the Hebior Mammoth, Overstreet built crates and used foundry sand that had no organic materials in it. He dried them at his office and lab at Jackson and Water Streets.

“We dried them very slowly,” he says. “You have to turn the bones every day. It was miraculous because the collagen in the bone is what we used for the radiocarbon dating. We also recovered a human hair and mammoth hair that was still preserved intact.”

Decades earlier, Overstreet camped on almost all of the Apostle Islands (before they became a national park) while he did survey work for the National Park Service to identify places where it would build campgrounds or excavate. He once worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and did an overview of the Upper Mississippi Valley stretching from St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis down to Prairie du Chien, Wis. In 1977, Overstreet excavated a large burial site on the Milwaukee County Grounds when the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) was constructing the deep tunnel. The 6 | SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

county grounds is the largest remaining open space in Milwaukee County and home to the confluence of the Menomonee River and Underwood Creek. The MMSD wanted to install a shaft and came across some bones. Overstreet and his team excavated more than 1,300 human skeletons dating from 1840-1950. The site had been a former paupers’ cemetery.

“It was the coroner’s dumping ground,” Overstreet says. “When I started doing the archival research, I found articles in the old Milwaukee Sentinel lamenting the fact that burials were getting kicked up every spring with frost heaving because they were just randomly put in the ground. A lot of them were coroner’s deaths— people who died in house fires or drowned in the Milwaukee harbor. Bodies were just carted out in a wagon after the coroner got through with them and buried in the paupers’ cemetery.”

Bones Tell Wisconsin’s Ancient History There are probably more old bones awaiting excavation than most people realize. In 1979, a developer found some human bones while grading a new subdivision in Elm Grove and called Overstreet to investigate and excavate the site.

The bones were found on the Sisters of Notre Dame property on a little knoll near Underwood Creek. First, Overstreet found a skeleton in which he discovered a stem of a spear point lodged in a lumbar vertebra. After that, his team expanded the excavation and found an infant with elaborate grave goods that had been dressed with red ochre, copper, shells and other materials.

Then, they found another burial pit segregated from the knoll that had eight adults who had all met violent deaths—they had been decapitated or dismembered, and some of them had spear points in or between their bones.

“That was the only scientific excavation of a red ochre burial site that has ever been done in this state,” Overstreet says. Red ochre is a pigment that has been used worldwide for burial for thousands of years, and even Neanderthals may have used it. Through radiocarbon dating, the skeletons at the Elm Grove site dated back to 1000 BCE. Overstreet has worked with the Menominee Tribe in Keshena in northern Wisconsin since the 1990s and has taught at the College of the

Menominee Community volunteers planting the beds after burning and tilling

Menominee Nation. In 1995, some foresters discovered that the floor of the forest was dimpled in a strange way, and Overstreet was once again called in to investigate.

“The whole forest floor was dimpled with these depressions that I recognized right away as storage pits. I also recognized some agricultural ridges,” Overstreet says. He eventually found evidence of many raised agricultural beds in the area. One such bed was larger than 10 acres. The agricultural beds used planting mounds to protect against frost and allowed successful cultivation of a wide variety of crops in a colder climate.

In between the ridges were depressions which served to manage moisture and which also provided a system for composting. He discovered that these early farmers did a spring burn which enriched the soil with bio-char. They also may have used sturgeon guts to further enrich the soil. Sturgeon are important to the Menominee, are plentiful in that region and are especially accessible in spring during the spawning season.

Through experimentation, Overstreet found that the soil in the raised ridges was greatly enriched as compared to the rather poor soil in the surrounding area, even after hundreds of years of abandonment.

“It turns out that the Menominee were the original organic agriculturalists and had a sustained life-way that I was able to document from 750-1650 CE,” he says. Overstreet looked at several sites on the reservation itself and was able to demonstrate that the early Menominee had pursued organic sustainable agriculture for more than 1,000 years. “For contemporary society, with all its concerns about food sovereignty and climate change, here’s this model.”

Overstreet says his research proved that the Menominee had been settled agriculturalists for hundreds, if not thousands, of years—not nomadic hunter-gathers as was previously believed—and laid to rest earlier scholarship suggesting that the Menominee had only recently inhabited the area that once stretched from the northern tip of Lake Michigan to the Milwaukee River. “The earliest date of these gardens through radiocarbon dating is 750 CE,” Overstreet says.

“These are the earliest raised agricultural fields in the mid-continent.”

Excavations Change Native American History In the past decade, Overstreet has hosted many

college interns at the Keshena sites and has run community programs for middle and high school students. One such student, Monea Warrington, grew up in Keshena on the Menominee reservation and met Overstreet when she was 13. She is currently a master’s student in anthropology at UW-Milwaukee and hopes to pursue a doctorate.

Initially, Warrington and her mother took a community class with him. Warrington had taken a vocational interest test a few months earlier, and archaeology emerged as one of her top-five interests. Warrington and her mother found the class fascinating. “For the next few summers, I volunteered to work with Dr. Overstreet’s crew.

I really liked the way they were integrating traditional knowledge into what they were doing,” she says. She adds that Menominee history has always been troubled. “I like the way Dr. Overstreet and anthropologists all over are trying to change that. I wanted to be a part of that and help.” Much of Native American history has been lost or obscured, and archaeology provides a means to recover some of it.

While excavating at a site, Warrington once picked up a large shard of pottery that had the fingerprints of the potter on the back of it. “It was so cool to pick up that piece of pottery and to think that the last person that touched this pottery was one of my ancestors a thousand years ago,” she says.

After a long career, Overstreet says he wants to retire soon. The spirit is still willing, but he says he can’t do the heavy physical work associated with archaeology anymore. He retired from Marquette University as director of the Center for Archaeology Research in 2005. In addition to his work with the Menominee Nation, he also is a researcher with the Milwaukee Public Museum.

In 2016, Overstreet received a Distinguished Career Award from the Midwest Archaeological Conference. The Menominee Nation presented Overstreet with a blanket, a high traditional honor, at the 2018 Sturgeon Fest for his years of teaching and archaeological work.

“I’m a local product,” he says. “To me, it’s amazing that Wisconsin has such a rich, untapped record of prehistory. I don’t know why anyone would want to go anywhere else if they’re an archaeologist. In my line of work, it doesn’t get much better than to be able to walk out of your front door and go 30 miles away and excavate 14,000-year-old mammoths.”

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Canvass and Phone Bank for Democrats @ Tom Palzewicz Campaign Headquarters (12201 W. Burleigh St., Suite 7), 4-8 p.m.

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Paul Ryan’s Ugly Farewell ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

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o, what’s House Speaker Paul Ryan been up to in the waning days of his congressional career as Republicans appear on the brink of losing control of the House of Representatives under his leadership? We haven’t heard much. There’s a good reason why Ryan hasn’t wanted to call attention to his election efforts.

As Republican candidates grow increasingly desperate about their chances of survival in November, the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), the super-PAC for which Ryan has raised $100 million, is broadcasting some of the most dishonest, hate-filled, racist attack ads in their party’s shameful history of inflammatory attack ads going back to the infamous Willie Horton ad of 1988. It’s a reminder that Donald Trump didn’t invent Republican appeals to racial and religious bigotry, and that Ryan’s sanctimonious pretense of distancing himself from his party’s reprehensible political tactics has always been as

transparent as cellophane.

Ryan’s greatest political skill has been looking straight into television cameras with wide, blue eyes to solemnly proclaim the innocence and high principles of Republicans who cruelly slash government assistance for Americans who have the least in order to cut the taxes of those who have the most. When Republicans’ backs are against the wall, Ryan, who once described Trump as “the textbook definition” of a racist and his Muslim ban as a violation of the fundamental principles of Ryan’s party and country, stands ready to pour millions of dollars into scurrilous, election-year attack ads right out of that handy, dandy, racist textbook.

Lies, Lies and More Lies

Consider the CLF ad against African American Democrat Antonio Delgado, a Rhodes Scholar and an attorney with a Harvard law degree, running in an upstate New York district. A grainy video suggests all voters need to know about Delgado is that, as a young man more than a decade ago, he performed a rap song with explicit lyrics criticizing racial inequality… and it gets worse. OMG! He wore a hoodie! That image appears to be visually enhanced with fierce, white eyes glaring out of a dark shadow obscuring Delgado’s face.

Or how about this one: Another terrifying attorney, Aftab Pureval, a county clerk of Tibetan and Indian descent running in Ohio’s Cincinnati and suburban district, is accused in a CLF ad of

“selling out Americans.” That’s because, fresh out of law school, Pureval worked for a Washington, D.C., law firm that helped settle a lawsuit brought by families of Americans killed by Libyan terrorists. Pureval didn’t work on that settlement, but it had strong American support from then-President George W. Bush. You’ll notice the pattern of demonizing black and brown Democrats as scary, dangerous people who are possibly in league with international terrorism.

But what if the Democratic opponent is Abigail Spanberger, a white woman with impeccable U.S. security credentials as a former CIA operations officer, running in a suburban Richmond, Va., district? No problem. When Republicans dig deep enough, they can link any Democrat to terrorism. The CLF ads attack Spanberger for working as a substitute high school English teacher for several months during the 2002-2003 school year at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va. The ads express shock that Spanberger “cashed her paychecks like nothing was wrong.” That’s because… nothing was wrong.

Spanberger’s brief teaching job before starting her CIA career took place several years before rightwing media began attacking the school as “Terror High” after three graduates were accused of supporting terrorism.

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Despite funding such sleazy ads defaming solid, respected Democratic Party opponents running strong races against Republicans as danger-

ous subversives likely to kill your mother, Ryan denies any responsibility for the grotesque distortions. “I abhor identity politics,” he said. “I don’t think identity politics should be played by anybody at any time,” suggesting candidates should never be attacked on the basis of race, religion or national origin. But Ryan said it would be illegal for him to discuss ad strategy with the independent super-PAC to which he funnels millions of dollars. What’s an innocent politician funding abhorrent political advertising to do?

Just two months ago, Ryan gave his annual lecture to 450 congressional interns piously advising them never to “be snarky” or attack others on Twitter—without mentioning the president he slavishly supports does that on pretty much an hourly basis. “Just think about what you’re doing to kind of poison the well of society,” Ryan intoned. “Think about what you’re doing to try and just degrade the tone of our debate.”

Ryan’s sanctimonious public pronouncements rarely bear any resemblance to what he and his fellow Republicans are actually doing. His political career was built on shrill warnings that deficit government spending under Democrats would destroy the country. In Ryan’s three years as House Speaker, the annual deficit under Republicans has skyrocketed from $430 billion to nearly $1 trillion as he heads for the exit door having passed the largest tax cut in history for millionaires, billionaires and their corporations. Sleazy attack ads are one last, obscene goodbye.

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he Riverwest neighborhood is a gathering place for artists, writers, dreamers and those who choose to live slightly outside the norm. It is one of the few truly interracial neighborhoods of Milwaukee and has a vibe that is both welcoming and accepting. Many people who have lived in Riverwest for a long time consider it to be part of their identity.

But Riverwest was not always the creative hub that it is today. In the 1970s, if someone wanted to be at the center of the poetry scene, they would look to places like New York or California. So, in 1979, Karl Gartung, Anne Kingsbury and Karl Young started the Woodland Pattern Book Center to create a spoken-word scene in Milwaukee by hosting writers from around the country. They felt that Milwaukee needed a physical space where artists and idealists could come together to share knowledge and collaborate.

In Gartung’s manifesto, he wrote, “We exist to prove the living artist. We exist against isolation,” describing how important it is that the artist not make work in isolation. To allow the work to come alive, the artist needs an audience, whether that is a small group of people in a workshop or a large audience. And that is what Woodland Pattern has provided to the community since the very beginning.

The team made it their life’s work to strengthen the Riverwest neighborhood with Woodland Pattern at the heart of it all. After more than 30 years of helping build a community of poets in Milwaukee, Kingsbury, who remained the executive director, decided to retire. In March of this year, Kingsbury and the team at Woodland Pattern hired two dedicated and hopeful poets to take her place: Jenny Gropp and Laura Solomon. New to Milwaukee, Gropp and Solomon moved from Georgia as soon as they saw their dream job open up. “We are here because of the mission; that’s why we wanted to come,” Solomon says. They strongly believe in the idea of making art by sharing and listening to one another’s emotions.

In addition, Gropp and Solomon were attracted to the book center’s uniqueness. Woodland Pattern is nationally known for its collection of more than 26,000 small press titles, including hand-made letter-press books by writers from around the world. Many of these books are made for live readings and meant to be handed out to the audience.

In the coming year, Woodland Pattern plans to open its own record label to record the live readings on vinyl. The book center regularly brings in spoken-word performers from around the country who create a safe space for emotions and ideas to be shared with the audience. “The space sort of functions as a sanctuary,” explains Gropp.

Woodland Pattern Book Center continues to make efforts to inspire the next generation to become leaders. “A lot of what I’ve learned from this place is respect and examination of what has come before and for the community that is all around us,” says Gropp. The center’s history is a large part of the neighborhood’s story. That story is one of a community open to trust, sincerity and acceptance.

Woodland Pattern Book Center is located at 720 E. Locust St. For more information, call 414263-5001 or visit www.woodlandpattern.org.

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The menu consists of both breakfast and lunch dishes available all day. Breakfast includes traditional items like pancakes, waffles and French toast. The pancakes are fluffy and light and some of the best in the city and come with different fruit choices, chocolate chips and multi-grain ($9-$11). Same goes for waffles; there is even a dessert option with the addition of a scoop of ice cream. You have choices ::BY ALISA MALAVENDA of French toast, too—original to Cinacrunch and Churros ($12)—a must for the sweet-tooth breakfast lover. Crêpes range from the savory Florentine topped with iesta Café is the newest addition to South First a lemony Hollandaise, fruit or Nutella for the chocolate lover in the crowd. They are Street’s line up of Mexican restaurants and thin and delicate with just the right amount of filling. is a gem sitting under the glow of the Polish On the savory side, I’ve tried to eat my way through the list of Mexican offerings, moon of Rockwell Automation. You can’t miss and each one is better than the last. The divorced eggs ($10) boasts green and red the big orange rooster out front enticing you salsa accompanied by crunchy, cheesy chilaquiles. Enfrijoladas ($10) are filled with to come in for a Fiesta Café experience of black beans, scrambled eggs and chorizo wrapped in three tortillas, all delicious good food and the hospitality that is prevaand prepared with heart. lent in this cuisine and culture.

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Peck & Bushel Organic Fruit Company’s Agricultural Experience ::BY SHEILA JULSON

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eck & Bushel Organic Fruit Company (5454 County Road Q, Colgate) is still a bit of a secret, but that’s okay with Joe and Jenny Fahey, the husband and wife team behind the organic apple orchard. As the only certified organic apple orchard of its size in the Upper Midwest—30,000 trees on 70 acres, with approximately 25 apple varieties—the couple strives to offer a natural, agricultural experience, along with an elegant barn venue for weddings and events.

The Fahey’s started the orchard in 2010 when they purchased acreage and planted 3,000 apple trees. Neither Joe nor Jenny had a background in farming: Joe worked in nuclear medicine technology, and Jenny is an accountant, but Joe had been experimenting with organic growing in a small backyard apple orchard. After succeeding

on a small scale, he decided to try scaling things up.

Joe uses a vertical axis system, in which the apple trees are pruned and trained to grow up a trellis. The method allows better airflow and exposure to sunlight, thus producing more fruit per acre than large, traditional apple trees do.

The system allows easier access to the apples, so cumbersome ladders aren’t needed. He considers myriad issues such as disease susceptibility before choosing which varieties of apples to grow. Peck & Bushel is certified organic, so they get audited every year to be sure they’re not using pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or genetically modified organisms. “It is very difficult to grow organically here,” Joe said. “But I enjoy the challenge of trying to do something I’ve been told over and over can’t be done.”

The honeycrisp apple, developed at the University of Minnesota specifically for cold climates, is one of their most popular, Joe said, and it’s usually ready in mid-to-late September. Some newer varieties that have caught on include hybrids developed in Wisconsin such as the Riverbelle, which ripens about one week ahead of honeycrisps and has a crisp, explosive flavor; and Pazazz, with a perfect balance of sweetness and tartness. It also keeps well.

Peck & Bushel’s pick-your-own season starts mid-to-late August and runs through midOctober. The orchard is open on Saturdays and Sundays. The retail barn, built in 2015, has a fullservice bakery. They also offer certified-organic,

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freshly squeezed apple cider pressed on-site at their cider house. The crowds have grown exponentially along with the apple production. “We never have trouble getting rid of our fruit,” Joe said.

“We’re agriculture, and not ‘agri-tainment,’” Jenny added. “Our customers want a natural, agricultural experience. We don’t have bouncy houses or hay wagon rides, but you can buy a bag to pick apples and walk through a beautiful nature trail on top of a hill and see our orchard— and Holy Hill in the background.”

During the off-season, the retail barn doubles as event space, offering modern flare with rustic charm, with accommodations for up to 200

guests. The Faheys stained or painted every interior board themselves. They recently partnered with The Bartolotta Restaurants group for an exclusive catering partnership for barn weddings, corporate picnics, farm dinners and other events.

Despite the challenges of growing certified-organic apples in Wisconsin, along with curveballs Mother Nature throws their way every year, the Faheys seem content with their slice of life on the orchard. “My favorite thing is showing someone what an apple should taste like and getting them to like a new variety,” Jenny said.

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::SPORTS The Surprising Performance of Erik Kratz ::BY KYLE LOBNER

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The Milwaukee Brewers have gotten both in the form of Erik Kratz.

Kratz is in his 17th professional season, and the rookie ball team where he made his

pro debut (the Pioneer League’s Medicine Hat Blue Jays) no longer exists. The Brewers are his 10th organization and his seventh in the last three years. He turned 38 in June, and he’s one of just eight MLB players born in 1980 or earlier to make more than 50 plate appearances this season.

Despite his journeyman status and his age, Kratz is having arguably the best season of his career. His second hit on Sunday gave him 43 on the season—a new career high. He’s played in 57 games as a Brewer—his most since making 68 appearances with the 2013 Philadelphia Phillies. Kratz was acquired off of the New York Yankees’ AAA roster and likely would not have gotten a chance in Milwaukee if not for Stephen Vogt’s shoulder injury and Jett Bandy’s struggles in a backup role, but he’s made the most of the opportunity.

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the lineup: He started a pair of games each in the recent Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs series and was the starter for all three games behind the plate when the Cubs visited Miller Park on September 3-5. Since Wednesday, Aug. 1, Kratz has played in 28 of the team’s 40 games. The Brewers have only played back-to-back games without Kratz in the lineup four times since Wednesday, July 4.

Kratz’s nine innings behind the plate on Sunday moved him over 420 for the season, and Brewers pitchers have a 3.53 ERA while throwing to him. That’s about 3/10ths of a run better than their overall season numbers and 1/2 a run better than their mark when pitching to Manny Piña (4.09).

Calling for Strikes A big chunk of that could be Kratz’s apparent ability to get more called strikes for his pitchers. In his relatively small sample this year, Baseball Prospectus estimates Kratz has gotten called strikes about 1.8% more often than the average catcher—a difference that they estimate has added about 7.7 runs to his value this season. Piña, meanwhile, has been about average in the same categories: BP estimates he’s getting about 0.2% more called strikes than the average catcher, which equates to about 1.5 runs of value in slightly less than twice as much playing time.

Kratz was behind the plate for the Brewers on Sunday with Jhoulys Chacín on the mound, and that’s become a regular occurrence: Kratz has now caught 102.1 of Chacín’s 178 innings this season. Entering play on Sunday, Chacín was holding opposing batters to a .212 batting average, .285 on-base percentage and .334 slugging when pitching to Kratz, as compared to .248/.329/.405 when pitching to Piña.

The Brewers’ decision to use Kratz extensively behind the plate down the stretch once again raises questions about the organization’s future at the position. It’s plausible Kratz could come back as a semi-regular catcher in 2019, but he’ll turn 39 years old in June, and it’s probably just as likely he’ll retire. Piña, meanwhile, is no spring chicken himself at 31 years old. He’ll be eligible for arbitration for the first time this winter as he comes off a season where his role and numbers have both diminished. The list of free agent catchers that will be available this winter is somewhat underwhelming, but it’s possible this is an area where the Brewers could look to make a move.

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A ‘Caterpillar’ That Teaches and Entertains

With First Steps, Milwaukee’s Children Are Ready for the Stage ::BY HARRY CHERKINIAN

amilies wonder what is the first play they can bring their children to,” says First Stage children’s theater artistic director Jeff Frank. “They ask, ‘When will they be ready?’”

Frank and his staff have provided an answer, and a creative solution, to that question with its “First Steps Series.” Well-regarded nationally as a preeminent children’s theater, First Stage continues to entertain and delight children of all ages, and with First Steps, now in its 10th year, they can start as young as 3 years old.

“We began to provide opportunities for families with younger children by having shows with the lights turned up and no intermission,” adds Frank. The first offering in the new First Steps season kicks off with The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, which includes a stage adaptation of one of the most popular children’s books ever and includes three additional stories as well: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, Mister Seahorse and The Very Lonely Firefly. All this in the space of 55 minutes with no intermission. Audience interaction is strongly encouraged and welcomed.

Sitting in the spacious cast and staff area of the colorful Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC) in Downtown Milwaukee, Frank and First Stage education director Julie Magnasco talked about the importance of the program as well as the upcoming production, which features 75 puppets of varying sizes and shapes.

“These are life-size-looking puppets,” explains Magnasco, who started out as a student in the First Stage Academy. “They are as small as a seahorse,” which she illustrates by putting her thumb and forefinger inches apart, “and as large as an elephant,” spreading her arms wide and sporting a big grin. Magnasco directs Caterpillar and talks about the importance with such a young audience of being able to communicate through actions as well as dialogue. And what’s unique about this production is that she uses child actors from the First Stage Academy to work the puppets as well; it’s the first time in the show’s history that younger actors have been cast.

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“When a child grabs onto a puppet, it becomes a toy. It has a personality, and it comes to life with the imagination they bring to it,” she emphasizes. And, while this show entertains, it also teaches both the young actors as well as the young audience members.

Past Caterpillar productions typically use one actor per puppet; the First Steps production uses two, so that the younger actors learn to work together with others, says Frank. And for the young audiences, the show teaches children the days of the week and how to count based on that very hungry caterpillar’s voracious appetite; this caterpillar eats one apple on Monday, two pears on Tuesday, three plums on Wednesday... You get the idea. After getting sick from gorging on Saturday, the caterpillar eats healthy on Sunday (one green leaf) and is ready to cocoon—emerging two weeks later as a butterfly.

One of the key aspects to this production—a hallmark of First Stage’s innovative programming—is an American Sign Language (ASL)interpreted performance on Sunday, Nov. 4, and a sensory-friendly performance for families with children on the autism spectrum on Saturday, Oct. 13. For the latter, lights are turned up in the intimate, 150-seat MYAC First Stage theater, and the sound is lowered, Frank explains.

The Very In addition, there is a Hungry “quiet space” for children Caterpillar who need to leave the MYAC theater that is staffed by Sept. 22 an educator experienced in the care of children with - Nov. 4 autism and other developmental disabilities, says Magnasco. Families can also can get a specially designed kit ahead of the sensory-friendly performance to work with children with autism, which includes toys and other materials that explains the show’s storyline and what they will be seeing onstage.

Regardless of the performance, Frank wants the young audience members to respond and interact, so the seating is casual, with pillows on the floor, and the puppets close up and as large as life—certainly looming even larger through the eyes of a child. “We are taking these books as a base and literally bringing these stories and illustrations to life,” Magnasco says.

First Stage’s First Steps production of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show runs Sept. 22-Nov. 4 at the MYAC, 325 W. Walnut St. It is suggested for families with children ages 3-7+. For tickets, 414-2737206 or visit firststage.org.

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::THISWEEKINMILWAUKEE THISWEEK SATURDAY, SEPT. 23 Fromm PetFest @ Summerfest Grounds, 10 a.m.

Given how crowded some of the more popular festivals at the Summerfest grounds get, it’s probably for the best that dogs aren’t allowed at most of them. One day a year, however, canines are invited to join the festivities at Fromm PetFest—a free, animal-driven gathering featuring a pet marketplace, training clinics, dock diving, grooming sessions and agility courses, in addition to live music and children’s activities. (Cats are invited, too, but for obvious reasons not many people bring them.) Don’t have a pet to bring? You could end up taking one home from the event’s Adoption Avenue, where more than a dozen rescue organizations will be looking to pair cats and dogs with worthwhile owners.

Doors Open Milwaukee @ multiple locations

Ever wonder what goes on in that building you pass every day on your way to work? This weekend is your chance to find out. Historic Milwaukee, Inc.’s Doors Open Milwaukee is a free two-day event that invites participants to take a peek inside more than 170 buildings of historical or architectural significance, including many that are usually off-limits to the general public.

There will also be more than 30 tours throughout the weekend, some ticketed, others not. For a complete list of participants, visit doorsopenmilwaukee.org. (Also Sunday, Sept. 23.)

Fifth Street Festival in Walker’s Point @ Fifth Street, noon-10 p.m.

Father John Misty

THURSDAY, SEPT. 20

Father John Misty w/ King Tuff @ The Pabst Theater, 8 p.m.

In addition to his time drumming for Fleet Foxes, J. Tillman already had seven albums released under his own name when he decided to reinvent himself as Father John Misty for his 2012 album, Fear Fun, which marked a wild departure from the comparatively traditional folk of his previous releases. Liberated by his new, joyfully ridiculous shamanic alter ego—and most likely by all the mushrooms he’d been wolfing down at the time— he recorded his druggiest, most exploratory album—a sprawling, symphonic, psych-pop magnum opus. On subsequent albums, he’s run with that expansive, baroque sound. His latest, 2018’s God’s Favorite Customer, features some of his more personal songwriting yet. He’s described it as “a heartache album.”

Fifth Street in Walker’s Point is one of those streets that has a little bit of everything—food, culture, nightlife—and a good sampling of all of it will be on display at this inaugural street festival. In addition to the expected refreshments, there will be performances by Milwaukee Ballet dancers and Hamburger Mary’s Drag Divas, yoga and Zumba sessions and music from New Age Narcissism, Lovanova, Evan Christian, The Moonlighters Orchestra, Wooldridge Brothers, Burgundy Ties and many others. There’s also a designated DJ tent featuring sets from DJ Shawna, Hunter Sanchez and more.

Jessica Hopper @ Boswell Books, 7 p.m.

A feminist whose voice and conviction has helped lead music criticism’s shift away from the boys-club mentality that’s blighted the medium for decades, Jessica Hopper compiled some of her most memorable pieces from major publications and small zines alike in her 2015 anthology The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female. Her new book is even more personal. A pocketsized memoir narrated in short, poetic prose, Night Moves chronicles long nights spent traversing Chicago in the mid-’00s on bike, DJing parties, catching shows and hobnobbing with friends and musicians (one colorful chapter is set at a Hold Steady video shoot). It’s an account of a time that already feels half forgotten—the pre-iPhone era of Friendster and Netflix DVDs by mail—as well as a portrait of a city in transition. “I love Chicago as is, burnished perfect from years of disrepair,” she writes in one dispatch from 2005. Hopper appears at Boswell for a conversation with Radio Milwaukee DJ Justin Barney.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 21 Milwaukee’s Creative District Alive! @ Riverworks City Center, 5-10 p.m.

After attracting a slew of new businesses in recent years, Milwaukee’s Riverworks district has been branding itself as one of the city’s destination creative districts. As part of that push, the Riverworks Business Improvement District is hosting a variety of events this week, including this block party at the Riverworks City Center (3334 N. Holton St., right off the Beerline Trail). It’ll feature food trucks, beer from Black Husky Brewing, Company Brewing, Gathering Place and Lakefront Brewery and music from Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound. The events continue on Saturday with a bike tour through the district beginning at 11 a.m.

Justin Timberlake @ Fiserv Forum, 7:30 p.m.

Few teen idols have made the transition to adult pop star quite as seamlessly as Justin Timberlake, whose 2002 solo debut, Justified, remains the model for every former boyband kid looking to rebrand himself. For his most recent solo event, Man of the Woods, Timberlake recruited tried-and-true collaborators like Timbaland and The Neptunes while also expanding his sound, dabbling in country a bit and even sharing a duet with Chris Stapleton on the single “Say Something.” That song’s success teases a possible direction for Timberlake on future albums: more flannel, less dancing.

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MC50: Kick Out The Jams w/ Detroit Cobras and Bleed @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 7:30 p.m.

Best captured on their 1969 debut album Kick Out The Jams, MC5’s loud, leftist, antiestablishment rock ’n’ roll helped pave the way for punk rock. Unfortunately, most of the band’s original lineup isn’t around to celebrate that album’s upcoming 50th anniversary, but surviving guitarist Wayne Kramer found a clever workaround for this tour.

He recruited some famous fans of the band to fill in—among them Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, Faith No More bassist Billy Gould, Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty and Zen Guerilla singer Marcus Durant.

Lydia Loveless w/ King Courteen @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

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In a 2016 interview with the Shepherd Express, Lydia Loveless pushed back against the popular notion that she’s a badass. “I mean, to an extent I do want to be a badass,” the 20-something country-rock singer said. “But there’s this belief that I’m going to people’s houses and kicking in the door and raiding their fridge, or that I’m beating people up all the time, and that’s not me at all.” And while she certainly sounds plenty tough on the albums she’s released for the alt-country label Bloodshot Records, including 2016’s Real, her best songs tend to be her most fearlessly emotional ones, the ones where she writes openly about unrequited feelings, unfulfilled needs and the pervasive fear of rejection.

Hannibal Buress

SATURDAY, SEPT. 23 Hannibal Buress @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

After building a following with a series of uproarious stand-up albums and years of stealing scenes as Ilana Glazer’s affable, sometimes-boyfriend on Comedy Central’s “Broad City,” Hannibal Buress has been making the transition to film with roles in movies like Spider-Man: Homecoming, Baywatch, Blockers and this summer’s Tag, his first starring role. Ahead of his return to Milwaukee, the Shepherd Express spoke with Buress about his movie career, his latest material and his recent sobriety. “There were stories that involved drinking, but they weren’t funny because I was drinking,” he said. “They were funny because I’m funny. Boring people drink too, and there are sober boring people. The activity isn’t what makes it. The person makes it.” You can find the interview at shepherdexpress.com.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 23

Leon Bridges w/ Khruangbin @ BMO Harris Pavilion, 8 p.m.

Texas soul singer Leon Bridges prefers his soul the old-fashioned way—the really, really old-fashioned way. On his debut single, “Coming Home,” Bridges channeled the swooning, early-’60s soul of artists like Sam Cooke, nailing all the period details from the doo-wop vocals to the dusty guitar licks. And that’s pretty much the template for Bridges’ slick, debut album of the same name. It was just 10 songs and half an hour long, but every track hit its mark. Rather than simply repeat a winning formula, Bridges’ new sophomore album, Good Thing, dares to branch out a bit, updating his retro soul with some more modern shadings without losing the old-school charm that made him such an instant favorite.

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Guards at the Taj

Written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph and set in 1648, Guards at the Taj centers on two guards at the famous, glorious Taj Mahal—an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna River in Agra, India. The play contains elements of both drama and comedy as both imperial guards, played by Owa’Aìs Azeem as Babur and Yousof Sultani as Hamayun, have their friendship and faith shaken. Milwaukee Repertory Theater associate artistic director Brent Hazelton directs this production, which The Rep describes as a “boldly funny and deeply moving play [that] examines the meaning of true beauty and the cost of transcendence in a world that confuses the value of both.” (John Jahn) Sept. 26-Nov. 4 at the Stiemke Studio, 108 E. Wells St. For tickets, call 414-224-9490 or visit milwaukeerep.com.

Pippin

“Pippin is a great way to kick off the season because it is about the magic of theatre and the magic we find in ourselves,” says Skylight Music Theatre artistic director Ray Jivoff about his company’s first show of their 2018-’19 season. “I love Pippin because it taps into something haunting, beautiful and unexpected through great music, inventive choreography and the essence of music theatre, which is storytelling,” Jivoff explains. Pippin debuted on Broadway in 1972; its music and lyrics are by Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson and Bob Fosse; the latter also directed its opening run. Pippin makes use of a premise of a mysterious performance troupe to tell the story of the title character, a young prince searching for meaning and significance. (John Jahn) Sept. 21-Oct. 7 at the Cabot Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit skylightmusictheatre.org.

Şahan Arzruni

Though Istanbul, Turkey, native Şahan Arzruni played the “straight man” to famed raconteur Victor Borge for many years, he has also enjoyed a successful career on his own as a concert pianist, recording artist and musicologist. Arzruni has performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the White House as well as on “The Tonight Show.” His considerable discography includes recordings of Frédéric Chopin and Béla Bartók. For his concert at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center (SMPAC), however, Arzruni will focus on music by his fellow Armenians— composers like Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978), Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) and Soghomon Soghomonian (a.k.a. Komitas) (1869-1935), among others. (John Jahn) Saturday, Sept. 29, at the SMPAC, 901 15th Ave., South Milwaukee. For tickets, call 414766-5049 or visit southmilwaukeepac.org.

Chapatti

“His poetic words were a rollercoaster of laughs and heartbreak,” says Milwaukee Chamber Theatre director Michelle Lopez-Rios of Irish playwright Christian O’Reilly’s play, Chapatti. “His writing is brutally honest and brilliant storytelling [which] focuses on two working-class characters in Dublin; the collision of their worlds changes these very complex people. Chapatti examines what it means to love and be loved,” she continues. “At its very core, it’s about human connection and why we long for companionship. In our world of texting, e-mailing and virtual friends, it’s a beautiful look at loneliness and how people are responsible for each other.” (John Jahn) Sept. 21-Oct. 14 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre, 158 N. Broadway.

For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit milwaukeechambertheatre.com.

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In this new, hot-button comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies.

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anceworks provides a valuable service with its DanceLAB series “Get It Out There.” At almost no cost, audiences can witness a dozen radically different short performances by area artists. Each attendee receives pen and paper as they enter the cozy Danceworks studio and is invited to jot down descriptions of what they saw and any thoughts it provoked. The house lights brighten after each act to facilitate writing and to point up the importance of this aspect of the event. Danceworks collates the feedback and passes it on to the artists. All the acts are categorized as “works in progress,” although most seem finished; of course, all art is only “finished” in the presence of an audience.

Dancer-choreographer Elizabeth Roskopf and filmmaker Kym McDaniel presented an anxious woman alone at our great lake; I thought of climate change, the need for art, loneliness and resolve. Catey Ott Thompson and her dancers seem to manipulate energy, connecting us to a non-intellectual place where healing might happen; Meghan McKale’s fleshy visual art assisted while Randall Woolf’s music told a harsher story. Colin Gawronski’s beautiful lighting enriched Nadine Bailey’s autobiographical solo: Giving birth has changed her irrevocably; this look back was affecting.

The athletic, young women of Fusion Dance love high-energy dancing; I saw self-possession and solidarity. Great performances by Joelle Worm and Posy Knight brought Lindsay M. Stevens’ Monster Love to electrifying life. Monster and maker are, perhaps, each of us and all we’ll never be? Cyenthia Vijayakumar and Amy Brinkman’s fusion of classical Indian and American tap dance abets cross-cultural understanding.

Maggie Seer, Annie Peterson, Zach Schorsch and Jimmi Weyneth have a hit on their hands: And We Are All Together takes the pop dance of mid-20th century white kids to millennial extremes, all honest and true. Hannah Garcia’s dramatic solo addressed obsession.

Katherine Zavada’s ballet to George Gershwin’s music was danced by women who, for whatever reasons, couldn’t fully embody it; I saw frailty and valor.

Cyenthia Vijayakumar performed an awesome classical Indian dance; beautifully costumed and executed, it was more living history than work in progress. I admire greatly Piper Morgan Hayes’ tragicomic solo Bee Stings & Oil Pouring: The “Super (man)” performed against a recorded TED talk by Brené Brown on how a woman must live today. To close, the young S.A.I.N.T.S Jasper Sanchez, Sophie Sullivan and Jed Violanda performed All Yours, an original hip-hop dance of great beauty.

S.A.I.N.T.S Jasper Sanchez, Sophie Sullivan and Jed Violanda dance in ‘All Yours.’ Part of Danceworks’ ‘Get It Out There’

his weekend, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra began a new season as it continues to search for its next music director. Ken-David Masur, who led the orchestra in the spring, returned to the podium to conduct two staples of the repertory: Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, and Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73, by Johannes Brahms. The concert showed that, even without a music director, the orchestra’s technique is in top form.

Masur’s take on the Brahms symphony was sophisticated and nuanced with some flexibility in the phrasing. This was quite different from Edo de Waart’s Brahms, with its wonderfully objective transparency or the Brahms performances of former music director Andreas Delfs, which were all about color and warmth. Under Masur, the music emerged with refined subtleties with only rare and selective moments of heat. What seemed to be a bond of trust between musicians and conductor, and vice versa, created especially sensitive playing.

Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg gave a graceful, poetic account of the Rachmaninoff concerto. I’ve heard more powerful playing of this music, but might doesn’t necessarily equal right. Giltburg’s tone had an easy ring to it. What I liked best was that there was nothing forced about this performance.

Giltburg’s rather introspective consideration of the score gave freshness to music that can seem hackneyed if heard too often. Masur supported with perceptive conducting, and I listened to the orchestration with new interest. After the summer break, it was like coming home to hear the balm of Todd Levy’s clarinet solo.

To give the spirit of a gala to the opening night, an orchestral encore was played after remarks from Masur: an elegant account of The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II before the audience headed for a champagne toast in the lobby.

As I’ve written before, the only guest conductors of the last seasons who seem to me to deserve this excellent orchestra as future music director are Fabien Gabel and Asher Fisch. After hearing two concerts in the last few months, I now add Ken-David Masur to that short list.

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Sept. 22 Cedarburg Cultural Center W62 N546 Washington Ave., Cedarburg

Jeanne Kollmeyer, the CCC’s September artistin-residence, has, for several decades, been not only creating but teaching art to Milwaukeearea children. Kollmeyer’s “Folk Art Landscapes” family workshop (suitable for budding young artists 4-9 years old and their families) offers demonstrations and technique-learning experiences in the use of lines, patterns and shapes to create landscape images. All supplies are included. For more information, call 262-375-3676 or visit cedarburgculturalcenter.org.

Fred Stonehouse Gets Personal at Tory Folliard

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here’s a lot of Fred Stonehouse in Fred Stonehouse’s latest show, “Night Vision,” at Tory Folliard Gallery (through Saturday, Oct. 13).

Many of his recognizable artistic alter egos—the pop-surrealist, punk-folk, and generally irreverent figures—are clearly on view, but there’s also a lot of Fred Stonehouse the individual lurking inside them, too.

It might seem a matter-of-fact that an artist’s personality be present in his work, but the issue has a surprisingly fraught history in the post-war/contemporary art world. So fraught, in fact, that I hesitated to address it. But Stonehouse’s is a unique case that can potentially rub some salve on an issue that has festered in the art world for years.

The annals of modern art are cluttered with artists whose colossal personalities complicated the legacy of the art they produced. And it has been difficult to know in many cases whether the art made the legend or the legend the art. Think Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dalí and Jackson Pollock—the latter an artist who flared out so famously, magnificently and ignominiously that his death ushered in a 50-year hangover and subsequent teetotalling with regard to the psychological and biographical.

But, as sure as humans like to have a cocktail, they like art that exudes the essences of its makers. They always have.

Even when they didn’t, they did; from Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons, personalities themselves have been assigned conceptual significance.

The quickest glance at the nearly two-dozen works in Stonehouse’s show suggests something deeply personal. And directly personal, too; not as emotional correspondents, but as visceral collisions. As if Stonehouse himself is confronting you with a scowl and a mirror.

Fire Show, for example, is figurative, audacious and unruly, but still slightly vulnerable. The beanied, blue-eyed figure, appendages all ablaze, next to the words “on” and “off,” could be one man’s fever dream, but in the presence of other works like Nube and Summer Sounds, it adds to a more complex story; 30 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 1 8

something ominous and outward, allegorical and universal.

Stonehouse’s symbolic depiction of tears, sweat, saliva, flowers and other discreet visual nuggets verging on the textual imbue the work with a didactic quality that anyone will read before seeing, in the same way one would a Giotto in 1300.

Cryptic and diaristic text, like “sounds of the summer in the night” in Summer Sounds and other freighted snippets turn Stonehouse’s work further in the direction of the legible, letting us know for sure that these bad-ass painter dudes, punk rock ungulates, hesher skeletons and other macho misfits are reaching out to us even as they look askance. And more than reaching out, they are confessing cosmic forces, urges and thoughts in booming visual profusions of generosity and honesty with just a little contempt.

“Booming visual profusions of generosity and honesty with just a little contempt.” This is Fred Stonehouse, the person.

The art. The art and the person. You may not know him, but take the Milwaukee art world’s word for it that adjectives like “bluster,” “candor,” “generosity” and “sensitivity” might describe the work in Night Vision and are also words anyone would use describe the artist himself.

There it is. I’ve broken that tacit, decades-old taboo between the art and the personality behind the art. The curtain is pulled back, and the wizard is there, ready for questions. If, in 2018, Roman Polanski’s or Chuck Close’s character failings diminish what we think of their work, let the magnanimous have a say in support of theirs. Because, when there’s an easy, natural consonance between the maker and the made, as we see in Fred Stonehouse, it’s nothing to be afraid of; rather, it informs, edifies and, ultimately, liberates the work. We should only make sure the emancipated doesn’t get loose, go feral, run amok and turn into one of those legends that caused us to cage the beasts in the first place.

Mural Festival

Sept. 22-23 Black Cat Alley North Farwell Avenue

Black Cat Alley is an award-winning outdoor art gallery on Milwaukee’s East Side and a much-visited destination in the city. It’s a unique installation with outdoor paintings and murals contributed by artists from all over the world. Three new murals will have their official unveiling over the weekend of Sept. 22-23, making a total of six new public artworks released in the space just this year. For the Black Cat Alley Mural Festival, a stretch that includes the UW-Milwaukee Kenilworth campus and Oriental Theater will be filled with overlapping and surprising experiences through technology, visual art, film and music. For more information, visit theeastside.org/happenings/black-cat-alley.

Women’s Speaker Series: Kelly O’Connor McNees Sept. 24 Lynden Sculpture Garden 2145 W. Brown Deer Road

Kelly O’Connor McNees is the author of the Depression-era fact-based novel Undiscovered Country, which centers on an unlikely friendship that evolves between Lorena Hickok, a top newspaper reporter, and the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. She found inspiration for her story in some 3,000 letters the two women exchanged over three-decades.

In her novel, McNees follows their intense relationship through Hickok’s voice and tells the poignant story of a hidden love that, nevertheless, changed history. For more information, visit lyndensculpturegarden.org.

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[ FILM CLIPS ] Fahrenheit 11/9 R

In his latest film, Michael Moore declares our democracy to be in danger. Donald Trump is likened to Adolf Hitler, but Moore perceives a systemic problem. Traveling to his own hometown of Flint, Mich., the director follows the maneuvering by Gov. Rick Snyder to protect the corporate interests responsible for causing contaminated drinking water. Moore also supplies evidence that Barack Obama participated in covering up the contamination. Calling for grassroots action to preserve our freedoms, Moore correctly points out that the struggle to protect our rights never ends. (Lisa Miller)

The House With a Clock in its Walls PG

When 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) goes to live with his eccentric uncle, Jonathan (Jack Black), he learns his uncle is actually a warlock residing in a magical, creaky mansion. Lewis’ uncle’s neighbor is a good witch (Cate Blanchett) helping to investigate an evil clock hidden somewhere in Jonathan’s home. While learning the basics of spell-casting, Lewis accidentally conjures the spirits of the home’s previous owners (Kyle MacLachlan and Renee Elise Goldsberry) who are seeking to destroy the world. Filled with comical moments, this film aptly taps into Halloween themes. It is adapted from the first of a 12-book juvenile series created by John Bellairs. The story contrasts Lewis’ efforts to lead a normal life while learning the magical arts.

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Life Itself R

While in college, Will and Abby (Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde) fall madly in love. They marry and have a child. Then, Abby leaves Will. He is a broken man. Annette Bening appears as Dr. Cait Morris, Will’s therapist, and Bob Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind” album provides commentary. Another of the film’s four storylines follows Will and Abby’s daughter, Dylan (Olivia Cooke), and the people she meets when traveling in Spain. It’s the setting for a love triangle that includes Antonio Banderas portraying a wealthy landowner.

Eventually, the story returns to New York, closing the circle with a tragic event. Contrived and overly sentimental, the characters talk and talk, but we learn little of value. (L.M.)

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[ HOME MOVIES / NOW STREAMING ] Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist Used to be that fashion could be a street-level way of confronting society. Vivienne Westwood was at fashion’s forefront in London’s ’70s punk scene. She fell in with Malcolm McLaren, that overrated architect of rebellion (or for him, was it just a way of making cash from chaos?). But in Lorna Tucker’s revealing documentary, Westwood is tired of talking about punk. She says she grew “intellectually bored with Malcolm” and as for The Sex Pistols, she “can’t be bothered with them,” adding that John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon should have “changed to something else by now” instead of becoming a nostalgia act.

Westwood reveals a sharply intelligent woman and a demanding boss who still runs her own fashion house. Her clothes have always had eccentric historical-cultural dimensions and remain eye-popping if no longer revolutionary. Her Sex Pistols’ T-shirt, by the way, is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

“Madam Secretary Season Four” It’s frighteningly true to life. In episode one, season four, of “Madam Secretary,” a foreign diplomat drops dead while meeting Secretary of State McCord (Téa Leoni) and, within hours, a rightwing conspiracy website claims she killed him, and the rumor is shared by millions. The power of social media hijacked by nut jobs, abetted by unctuous Fox-style blowhards and sinister Republican senators seeking power, is effectively dramatized. Will cool heads prevail? Stay tuned for more.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Concert: Encore Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is inclusive in choosing inductees, and the annual induction ceremony with its performances has become a highlight. The two-disc Encore, featuring performances from 2010 and 2011, contains something for everyone with its variety. Green Day’s paint-by-numbers rebellion prefaces ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill’s induction of the late bluesman Freddie King (followed by a few numbers with Joe Bonamassa). John Mellencamp gives a heartfelt tribute to Donovan.

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Near-Death Experiences… and Others

(FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX), BY ROBERT GOTTLIEB Opinionated and eloquent, erudite and wearing his knowledge with lightness and humility, Robert Gottlieb is a delight to read. An editor for many years at New York’s top publishing houses and a contributor to that city’s premiere publications, Gottlieb is a cultural insider who, at least in this collection, largely directs his engaging intellect outward toward the wider world. His essays travel widely, from a career overview of 19th-century British novelist Wilkie Collins to 20th-century American lyricist Lorenz Hart, from a dissection of Darren Aronofsky’s film Black Swan to a careful analysis of the literature on near-death phenomena. Gottlieb comes closest to insider trading with his slapdown of Boris Kachka’s Hothouse, condemned as a shallow and hyperbolic tell-all of the publishing world he knows so well. (David Luhrssen)

The Middle Ages in 50 Objects

(CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS), BY ELINA GERTSMAN AND BARBARA H. ROSENWEIN

The idea of understanding the past through the things that people made is obvious enough. That’s what museums have always done and lately, it’s been the subject of books that examine particular eras through a healthy example of artifacts. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects is a handsomely designed book whose full-color panels trigger texts that expand into the larger context of the items at hand. With everything from a Byzantine button to a Frankish brooch, an illuminated page from the Koran to a Roman Catholic altar front, the collection of objects (drawn from the Cleveland Museum of Art) spans a wide geography and several distinct civilizations. Missing, the authors admit, are Jewish artifacts from the period, a gap in the museum’s collection explained in part by the destructive waves if persecution endured by the Jews. (David Luhrssen)

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Milwaukee Poet DeWitt Clinton on War and Wisdom at Boswell Books ::BY JENNI HERRICK

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f you google the name DeWitt Clinton, you’ll find the top entries refer to the early 19th-century politician, one-time presidential candidate and naturalist who is often referred to as the “Father of the Erie Canal.”

Search a little farther and you will come across another DeWitt Clinton, this one a Shorewood poet and professor emeritus at UW-Whitewater, who recently released a new collection of poems entitled At the End of the War. This DeWitt Clinton, who served on the English faculty at UW-Whitewater for more than 30 years, has published numerous pieces of non-fiction and creative works of poetry as well as six chapbooks. He has been recognized for his writing with a Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award Honorable Mention and the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize.

As you may expect, a collection entitled At the End of the War includes poems that philosophize the startling brutality of war. A Vietnam War veteran, Clinton’s newest volume of poetry uses perspective-shifting narratives to muse on human atrocities, but it also weaves together beautiful spiritual images and considers timeless universal questions. Clinton draws on the wisdom and mysteries of his Jewish faith as well as the guidance learned from centuries of wise East Asian philosophers to ponder anew the intersections of our past and present.

These compelling long narrative poems crisscross historic locales in rich detail and wander through the depths of the human mind to draw incisive perceptions of our current world. DeWitt Clinton will perform a reading and discuss his new collection at Boswell Book Company at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21.

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Arguing the Importance of Debate OFF THE CUFF WITH URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE’S JOHN TAO ::BY TEA KRULOS

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While pursuing his legal career, he volunteered with the Chicago Urban Debate League. A position opened at the Milwaukee Urban Debate League, and Tao saw “a fantastic opportunity to take everything I’ve learned over the years as a debater, and as someone who has worked with students in an urban setting and apply it to the Milwaukee area.”

He is now the league’s executive director.

ground their own lives, so, for example, next year, we will be debating immigration, which obviously is one of the main focuses of the Donald Trump administration, so there should be some interesting critical analysis from students on what to do with information that’s presented.

One of your students recently had a great accomplishment; can you talk about that?

Daniel Montalvo was a graduating senior at Ronald Reagan College Preparatory High School who was selected as “Debater of the Year” by the National Association of Urban Debate Leagues out of 10,000-some-odd students he was competing against. It was based on academic achievement, but also collegiality, ability to work on teams and commitment to civic society. He does a tremendous amount of volunteer work with his communities, and he has been a strong leader for his team, making Reagan’s one of the strongest teams we have in the city, if not the state. He was involved with debate for 4 years, so it was a really nice send off to his next stage.

What skills did he have, or what makes a good debater in general? Is it a natural ability or something you learn, or both?

I think it’s a mix of both. Debate is a fantastic opportunity for anyone at all levels. It requires a lot of outside time to research facts, current events and different ideas and then get it down on paper. For some students, learning that research component puts them miles ahead when they move on to college or any other activity. For other students, it’s all about the publicspeaking abilities and how to string logical sentences together.

We get all types of students—from those who are still working on basic literacy skills to those who are widely competitive on the John Tao national circuit and

Why is learning debate a valuable skill, especially in the political atmosphere we’re in now?

I think debate has been an important skill for all students to learn, but, especially in today’s climate, there is a lot of misinformation out there that is being shared on social media and through news venues, and it’s hard sometimes to determine what the facts are.

One of the forms of debate we use is called “policy debate;” it teaches our students how to grapple with real-world current events, take articles and determine how you can tell whether something is true through the practice of debate.

Having the students engage in contemporary issues has the students

could probably jump into political roles and be wildly successful. It’s an activity for everyone at all skill levels.

One of my favorite stories is from a couple of years ago. There was a student who was at risk of dropping out of high school, confrontational with teachers, didn’t really engage with his learning and didn’t take ownership of it.

But one of the debate coaches recognized the potential in him and brought him to the debate team. Three years later, he got admitted to college, which he never thought he would. Four years after that, he went to law school, and now he’s an attorney at one of the biggest regional law firms in the state of Ohio.

Find out more, including information on volunteering and donating at, by visiting milwaukeedebateleague.org.

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Sept. 21—Really Grand Fridays at LUCE Lighting & Design (5407 W. Vliet St.): Help the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center raise funds with this decadent celebration. Mix and mingle, enjoy appetizers and libations and relish the good the center does with this posh, 6:30-9:30 p.m. soiree. Tickets start at $65 and can be purchased at mkelgbt. org, or simply pay $75 at the door.

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I lost my boyfriend because I didn’t tell him I had a Grindr account. I found myself alone and horny one day, so I met someone on the hook-up ap, and the two of us messed around. Now my boyfriend hates me. Is there a way out of this?

Thanks, Mr. Blue

Dear Mr. Blue (Balls),

I’d like to say I can help, but you made your bed (or screwed in it), so now it’s time to lie in it. How horny were you that you couldn’t keep it in your pants until your guy got home? Besides that, if you were truly in love with your honey, you would have closed your Grindr account.

All I can suggest, Horny-Wan Kenobi, is that you try your best to apologize to your boyfriend, explain why you strayed, promise it won’t happen again and close that damn account! Hopefully, he’ll give you a second chance, and the two of you can begin working on gaining trust once again. Good luck, sweetie.

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Sept. 21—Justin Timberlake’s “The Man of the Woods” Tour at Fiserv Forum (111 N. Vel R. Phillips Ave.): Justin Timberlake brings his stellar show (and sweet little keester!) to Brew City with this incredible new concert. Check out Milwaukee’s new venue (and that sweet little keester!) with this 7:30 p.m. event. Tickets start at $53 and go as high as $929—yes, you read that correctly. Hit ticketmaster.com to see which seats make the most sense for you...to see Justin’s sweet little keester!

Sept. 21—Fetish Friday at Club Icon (6305 120th Ave, Kenosha): Indulge your dark side and get your dirty-dirty on when you don your best gear for this 10 p.m. bash. Mr. Wisconsin Leather 2017 hosts the night that pays homage to all things leather, rubber, kinky and piggy, so head down south and let your fetish flag fly!

Sept. 22—Walker’s Point Fifth Street Fest (730 S. Fifth St.): This noon-10 p.m. street party was a highlight of last summer, so I’m sure this year will be an even bigger bash.

Check out the restaurants, bars, clubs and businesses of South Fifth Street, while enjoying local vendors, food, beverages, art and three stages of live entertainment all day long. Join my girls and me at 9:15 p.m. for Hamburger Mary’s Drag Divas Show, and let’s celebrate the end of summer together. Visit 5thstreetfest.com for more information.

Sept. 22-23—Annual Mural Festival at Black Cat Alley (2122 N. Prospect Ave.): Celebrate the unveiling of several new murals in Black Cat Alley and enjoy dance performances, food trucks and more art than you can shake a paintbrush at. The fun starts at 10 a.m. both days, so bring the family to this free event. Visit facebook.com/ events/935901373279347 for more information.

Sept. 22-23—Milwaukee’s Vanishing LGBT Landmarks Walking Tour (400 N. Plankinton Ave.): Part of Doors Open Milwaukee, this incredible one-hour walking tour features stops at the city’s first known “queer speakeasy” to the popular cruising “fruit loop” of the 1940s. You’ll learn about long-gone discos and dives and how these establishments contributed to the strength our LGBTQ community celebrates today. Each $10 ticket to the 1 p.m. event includes a copy of the book LGBT Milwaukee. See doorsopenmilwaukee for tickets and visit facebook.com/events/844218349110025 for more information about the tour.

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A Month for Bisexual Awareness ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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eptember is Bisexual Visibility Month, and Bisexual Visibility Day—Sunday, Sept.

23—will soon be upon us. The fact that they exist at all is evidence of an ever-expanding awareness and acceptance of bi identity.

Also known as pansexuality, the concept of an individual’s sexual or romantic attraction to both sexes is a complex one, and it has long been subjected to misinterpretation or outright dismissal. Still, although rarely discussed as

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such, bisexuality is well-documented throughout history. The many diverse personalities reputed to have been bisexual include ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, Julius Caesar, 17th-century haiku master Matsuo Bashō, Marie Antoinette and Malcolm X among dozens of others.

One of the most colorful was Baroque Era contralto Julie d’Aubigny, better known as Mademoiselle de Maupin. Her reputation as a singer was seconded only by her far more operatically dramatic escapades off-stage as a swordswoman and pansexual lover. She once became a nun to follow a female lover into a convent. Fast forward to the 1968 Stonewall Rebellion, one finds out-and-proud bisexual activist Brenda Howard. Recognized as the “Mother of Pride,” she is cited as a founder of the LGBTQ Pride movement.

Despite this history, bisexuals still find themselves isolated and victims of biphobia as well as bi-erasure—the state of being ignored, demonized or made invalid and invisible—by straights as well as lesbians, gays and transgender individuals.

Currently running at the Stackner Cabaret,

Songs for Nobodies features five famous divas, most of whom are presumed to have been bisexual. Yet, that part of the story is conspicuously absent. Past productions at the same venue about jazz icons Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday underplayed their bi lives as well.

In fact, it’s only relatively recent that Milwaukee’s bi community has become active. BiDefinition, an organization founded in 1996, disbanded in 2004. A Third Ward bi-bar, BTW Lounge, opened in December 2010 but closed nine months later.

‘A Vital Part of the Community’ Then came Bi+ Pride Milwaukee, which was established in 2014 as a local on-line community. Today, with nearly 400 members and motivated by a core of dedicated activists lead by Amy Luettgen, it has ramped up its outreach. The strategy is to provide an umbrella for those who identify as bi, pan, queer, non-monosexual, or, frankly, anyone—labeled or otherwise.

“I think the community has been waiting for something to get things moving. Now we’re starting to make connections in the larger LG-

BTQ community, pushing the LGBT Community Center to reach out. The center’s Bi Support Group is now in the works due in part to collaboration with Bi+ Pride. We just want to be seen and accepted as a vital part of the community,” Luettgen said.

And now they are. Last June under its homemade banner, Bi+ Pride Milwaukee members marched for the first time in Milwaukee’s Pride Parade. The group holds a monthly Bi Visibility Discussion Group at different cafés throughout town and, naturally, there are Happy Hours. For bookworms, the Bi+ Book Club meets at Outwords Books (it’s currently reading James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room).

A bi visibility video is also in the works, and a group contingent is headed to the upcoming BECAUSE 2018—a social justice conference hosted by BOP (Bisexual Organizing Project) in St. Paul, Minn. Its “Bi-BQ” Bi Visibility Day celebration takes place on Sunday, Sept.

23.

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Flat Teeth Dial Up The Emotions on Their ‘Winter House’ EP

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henever Flat Teeth see a bottle of Larceny bourbon they’re reminded of recording their first EP. The band discovered the whiskey while tracking their debut Winter House, and by their account, they drank their fair share of it. “Larceny is how you end up with 16 tracks of gang vocals on a song,” marvels guitarist/backup singer Andy Kosanke. “Andy, strangely, sings a lot louder when he’s drinking Larceny,” singer/guitarist Nik Stoehr notes.

Flat Teeth formed a couple of years ago from the ashes of a dormant band. Four-fifths of the group had played together in Twelve Ounce Prophet, a folky indie act that they originally set out to resurrect. When Kosanke joined the group, though, they decided to start a new project, one with a louder edge.

“I started playing music in my early teens, mostly pop-punk then punk before I found out about bands like The Cure and The Smiths and stuff like that,” said Kosanke, who also plays in Milwaukee indie-rock group Paper Holland. He was excited about the chance to tap his aggressive side. “With the other bands I play with, I usually play pretty clean guitar, so being able to use overdrive and distortion without it seeming totally out of place is awesome,” he says.

Set for release Sept. 29, Flat Teeth’s Winter House EP positions the group alongside some of the city’s more exciting new rock bands. From Versio Curs’ achy guitar-pop to Telethon’s Joycean punk and Vanity Plates’ bratty pop-

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punk, a lot of the best new bands coming out of Milwaukee’s indie-rock scene have a distinctly emo-ish tint, even though none of them could be labeled emo outright. And so it is with Flat Teeth, who spike their melodic rock with feverish guitars and overheated vocal harmonies. On the jittery “Elevator Eyes” and its fist-pumping title track, Winter House channels the spirit of classic Saddle Creek releases, thanks in part to Stoehr’s creaky, Conor Oberst-esque warble, which sells his lyrics with due conviction.

Stoehr credits the band for giving the songs their kick. “Most of them begin as folk songs, really,” he says. “I’ll write the songs or the ideas, and most of the words, and I’ll bring them to band practice and these guys will totally change them into something different—which is awesome.

They change them in a good way. I usually just write songs so they’re something I can play at home on my own. It’s the band that turns them into someFlat Teeth thing bigger.”

Catus Club Flat Teeth doesn’t have much of a live track record Saturday, yet. They’ve played just one show, an August date Sept. 29, 9 p.m. at Cactus Club, but they hope to pick up the pace soon, starting with their EP release show on Saturday, Sept. 29. “When we first started, we were just getting together when we had the time, since everybody was busy with their own stuff,” says Kosanke. “Now it’s a weekly thing. We want to be selective about the shows we play, but we’re really committed to getting out and playing a lot more.”

Flat Teeth headline an EP release show Saturday, Sept. 29, at Cactus Club at 9 p.m. with Versio Curs and Live Tetherball Tonight.

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Milwaukee Cassette Works Keeps Tapes in Production

::BY DJ PANGBURN

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he cassette is in many ways the bastard child of music formats. The perception has mostly been that it lacks the warmth of vinyl and the fidelity of compact discs. It had its day in the 1980s and early 1990s, inspiring many a mixtape, then quickly faded as content consumption went digital. But in certain niche indie and DIY circles, the cassette tape held sway long past its predicted death. Artists like Boards of Canada bounced recordings on and off 4-track cassette recorders to give their songs nostalgic grain, while some time in the late 2000s cassette releases by experimental bands started popping up at record stores. Even major indie labels like Warp Records are once again offering their artists’ releases on cassette.

Here in Milwaukee, cassette labels have emerged from the shadows. With music listeners on the whole less inclined to purchase their music at all, much less on cassette, the phenomenon almost defies logic. Milwaukee Cassette Works, an offshoot of the record label Utech Records, is one of the defiant champions of the cassette.

Created by Keith Utech, Milwaukee Cassette Works is a cassette duplication and printing service that handles complete packages with tapes, cases, and J-cards (the paper cards inserted into a plastic cassette case).

While Utech has been releasing independent music— much of it on cassettes—for the last 13 years, he established Milwaukee Cassette Works only a year and a half ago to better develop and distribute the label’s cassette releases. Under Milwaukee Cassette Works, Utech provides a private imprint service for artists he works with on the Utech label, as well as a tape duplication service for other labels and artists. And if an artist or label needs design assistance for projects, he is happy to offer it.

Utech says that his desire to launch a cassette tape label grew out of his background in graphic design. “The visual impact is a crucial part of Utech Records releases,” he says. “Album art, posters and gatefold jackets from the 1970s instilled in me a love for the visual medium and the magic that’s tied up in it. It made me think about packaging and ultimately became a path that lead me to become a graphic designer.”

Initially, Utech Records joined the ranks of CD-R labels, of which there were a multitude. For 18 months, he released free jazz and noise CD-Rs. From there, Utech moved on to CD, cassettes and eventually vinyl releases. In those first two years as a label head, Utech put together 50 releases, while establishing Utech Records as an experimental label of note.

To start the record label, Utech charged $500 to a credit card and, as he says, never looked back. The focus was on simple design and presentation, all of it done by hand. Editions ranged from 50 to 150 releases.

“I always felt like a label could represent a bigger idea—an artistic venture in and of itself,” Utech notes. “I’ve been running the label for 13 years building on the foundation I cemented in those first 18 months. I present music in the most engaging way possible.”

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In April, Utech Records released Sustain, a collaborative LP and cassette from French doom metal band Chaos Echoes and Swedish free-jazz saxophone player Mats Gustafsson. He also released a 7-inch vinyl record by Ocre, the duo of Stefan Thanneur (bassist of Chaos Echoes) and Michel Langevin of the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod.

Utech is currently working on cassette releases for experimental electronic artist Anji Cheung and Oslo-based noise punk band MoE with Lasse Marhaug, as well as a 7”-lathe cut vinyl release for the Toronto-based ambient project UXVAE. He is also planning special vinyl and cassette releases for Utech Records’ 15th anniversary in 2019.

Like most people who grew up in the 1980s, cassettes were a huge part of Utech’s personal musical landscape. As a kid, Utech and his friends created their own homemade covers for their cassette tapes, imagining various creative ways of visually representing their favorite music. In a sense, that is still how Utech and Milwaukee Cassette Works operate.

“It’s fun and an inexpensive way to release music,” says Utech. “When I was 13, I joined one of those music clubs where you get a bunch of cassettes for a penny. One of those tapes was Black Sabbath Mob Rules. I’ve played that cassette on and off for the last 30 years until it recently died. Now it sits on a shelf as a reminder of the point in time that essentially lead me to where I am now.”

Dinosaur Jr. Let the Guitars Do the Talking at Turner Hall ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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f all the spectacular breakups detailed in Our Band Could Be Your Life, music journalist Michael Azerrad’s seminal account of 1980s underground rock, none were more acrimonious than Dinosaur Jr.’s. In 1989, just as the group was on the cusp of signing to a major label, frontman J Mascis fired bassist Lou Barlow, who spent much of the ’90s fuming about the experience and bad-mouthing his famously apathetic former bandmate. It was more than a little surprising, then, when the band’s original lineup regrouped in 2005 for a surprisingly fruitful reunion that’s lasted far longer than their initial run and resulted in four solid, and sometimes outright great, new albums.

The band returned to Milwaukee Tuesday night for a show that was something of a consolation prize. After the band’s tour supporting Atlanta metal icons Mastodon was canceled two weeks ago due to a family emergency in that group, Dinosaur Jr. announced a last-minute headlining tour of their own. Despite the short notice, the veteran altrock group drew a healthy crowd at Turner Hall Ballroom, where they paid service to all eras of their discography: their celebrated ’80s records with Barlow, their Barlowless ’90s albums for Warner Brothers and their no-frills comeback records.

Often it was the Warner Brothers-era material that made the most impression. After all these years, it’s still vaguely surreal seeing Barlow perform songs that he disdained at the time and gamely singing backup on “Feel The Pain,” the hit that put the band on MTV without him. It might have been tempting when he rejoined Dinosaur Jr. to just pretend their post-Barlow records never existed, but that would have been disingenuous: Mascis wrote some of his best songs during this period, and with Barlow’s help, they popped Tuesday night. It’s no mystery why he’s so vital to the trio. He’s the member who cares most, and his passion and physicality—he’s looking trimmer and fitter than ever, muscled from years on the road—provided a necessary balance to Mascis’ beach-bum indifference.

For his part, Mascis barely acknowledged the crowd and instead let his guitar do most of the talking. His laconic drawl was usually drowned out by the fortress of amplifiers behind him, but his solos were pronounced and brilliant: disjointed squalls that culminated in moments of great clarity. For such an impassive performer, he’s an unusually emotional guitarist. Nobody will mistake him for one of rock’s great showmen, but his performances were no less powerful for his lack of enthusiasm.

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Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Cactus Club, Pardon The Wave w/Fast Layne Sonny Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Sonofmel Caroline’s Jazz Club, J. Ryan Trio County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Italian Community Center, Music in the Courtyard: Hungry Williams (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Soul Night: Cameron Webb Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Open Jam: Roadhouse Rave Up Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Reality Something w/Daydream Retrievers & Ako Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) 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 Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom, Blue Ribbon Comedy Show Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Marcell (8pm); In the Fire Pit: Logan Brill w/Amileigha & Jeremy from Rebel Grace (8:30pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World’s Funniest Free Comedy Show Shank Hall, Liz Vice & Propaganda w/Twila Jean The Back Room at Colectivo, Red Wanting Blue The Bay Restaurant, Pat McCurdy The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Latin Sessions: Carlos Adames Group Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic Urban Harvest Brewing Company, Canton w/Search History

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

Alley Cat Lounge (Five O’Clock Steakhouse), Brian Dale Group American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Larry Lynne Band (6:30pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Julie’s Piano Karaoke Anodyne Coffee (Walker’s Point), Lemon Bucket Orkestra Art*Bar, Syvers w/Fiona Blue Bremen Cafe, theWAZUAZshow CIRCUS Tour Cactus Club, Lawrence w/Victoria Canal Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Karen Johnson Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band w/James Sodke, Andy Spadafora, Michael Ritter & Neil Davis Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Smoke And Mirrors w/Arcade Mode (8pm); DJ: The French Connection (10pm) ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Downtown Milwaukee, 3rd Street Craft Beer and Cheese Festival w/live music Falcon Bowl, Rocket Paloma CD release w/Funk Summit Bass Team & For The Culture Frank’s Power Plant, Obscure Birds w/Bella Brutto and Bruce Dean & Then Some

Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Eric Jacobson Quartet w/”Dizzy Gillespie A Night in Tunisia” (8pm), Late Night Session: Anthony Deutsch Trio (11:30pm) Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Rockabilly for Rescue: Crazy Rocket Fuel w/JP Cyr and the Midnight Men Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Redshift Headlights CD release w/The Mighty Deerlick & The Glacial Speed Mamie’s, Michael Charles Band Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Miramar Theatre, Angra - ØMNI World Tour (6:30pm) Pabst Theater, Kathleen Madigan Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Jake Williams (9pm); In the Fire Pit: Logan Brill w/Keith Pulvermacher (9:30pm) Riverside Theater, STS9 The Baaree (Thiensville), Friday Night Live: Thiensville Hot Club (6pm) The Back Room at Colectivo, Flint Eastwood w/Tunde Olaniran The Bay Restaurant, Nineteen Thirteen The Brass Tap, Matt MF Tyner The Knick, 5 Card Studs The Packing House Restaurant, Carmen Nickerson & The Carmen Sutra Trio (6:30pm) Tripoli Shrine Center, 60 Years of Music: Larry Lynne Forever Rockin’ (2pm) Up & Under Pub, Discord Curse w/Rendered by Hate Urban Harvest Brewing Company, Tall Boys Improv: A Six-Pack of Years!

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Company Brewing, Vinz Clortho Single Release Party Downtown Milwaukee, 3rd Street Craft Beer and Cheese Festival w/live music Fiserv Forum, Jim Gaffigan “The Fixer Upper Tour” Five O’Clock Steakhouse, Kirk Tatnall Fox & Hounds Restaurant, Larry Lynne Solo Fox Point Farmers Market, Frogwater (10am) Frank’s Power Plant, Rebels In Stereo w/Man Random & Sapphire Sea Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys

Hops & Leisure (Oconomowoc), Roadcrew Jazz Estate, Alex Mercado Trio (8pm), Late Night Session: Carlos Adames Trio (11:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, The Smoovies Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Miramar Theatre, Michael Christmas w/Vintage Lee (all-ages, 7pm) MugZ’s Pub and Grill (Muskego), Open Jam w/host Potter’s Field Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: The Stangs (9pm); In the Fire Pit: Logan Brill w/Geoff Landon (9:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, LOCASH (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Hannibal Buress Rockfield Live (Germantown), Matt MF Tyner & Leroy “Pedal Steel” Deuster Duo Rosco’s Restaurant & Sports Bar, The Falcons Shank Hall, Tallan Noble Latz w/4th Annual Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute Show Silver Spring House, Rick Holmes Plays the Blues The Back Room at Colectivo, Sunflower Bean w/Kevin Krauter The Cheel (Thiensville), Cactus Bros.

The Packing House Restaurant, Joe Jordan & The Soul Trio (6:30pm) The Rock Sports Complex, Summer Concert Series in Umbrella Bar: Cherry Pie (6:30pm) The Underground Collaborative, Insult & Battery: A Comedy Roast!

Trinity Three Irish Pubs, DJ Anthony & Tim w/DJ Zovo Up & Under Pub, Moth Light Walker’s Point Fifth Street Fest, 5th Street Fest (noon)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Cactus Club, Guerilla Toss w/Complainer, Rio Turbo & Storm Chaser Jazz Estate, Poetry Night w/Bryon Cherry & Isaiah Joshua Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Kavon Cortez Jones (sign-up 7:30pm, 8-11pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John & Dave Wacker Silver Spring House, Rick Holmes Plays the Blues The Astor Cafe & Pub, The Chris Hanson Band w/Robin Pluer (6:30pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, War on the Catwalk: The Queens from Season 10 Up & Under Pub, Open Mic w/Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

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I’ve always been suspicious of bands that go on with no original members. But in Soft Machine’s case, the band began as part of an amorphous constellation of likeminded musicians in 1968’s thriving Canterbury scene. The current Soft Machine includes bassist Roy Babbington, drummer John Marshall and guitarist John Etheridge, whose associations with the group date from the early ’70s, plus woodwind player and pianist Theo Travis, a fellow traveler from the Canterbury scene. Their music can sometimes be called space jam, albeit grounded in jazz unlike the mesmeric rock of Hawkwind. They can also be called a fusion group, though the music is premised on setting and altering moods, not gratuitous displays of musicianship. Hidden Details is an altogether enjoyable ride, an intriguing set of new music that builds from Soft Machine’s past.

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If memory serves, the 1976 movie The Song Remains the Same was preposterous in parts, a document of rock’s decline into selfindulgence and the reason punk had to happen. But all these years later, hearing the reissued and well-mixed CD serves as a reminder: Despite all the rock star indulgence, Led Zeppelin was a great live band with a sound so enormous they need cavernous auditoriums to contain it. These 1973 concerts at Madison Square Garden caught them at full tilt, boots to the pedals and pushing the needle into the red zone. The twodisc set contains all the familiars, including “Rock and Roll,”“Black Dog” and that protopower ballad, “Over the Hills and Far Away.”

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Myriad3 Vera (ALMA) Myriad3 would not have sounded entirely out of place on the old ECM label. Their meditative jazz builds from the rippled lines of pianist Chris Donnelly, supported by the deep thrum of bassist Don Fortin and the sensitive accompaniment of drummer Ernesto Cervini. The basic recording was done live in the studio, in real time, with Cervini overdubbing atmospheric woodwinds and glockenspiel. The mood is quietly intense, deliberately focused. As is usually true nowadays, Myriad3 hail from Toronto, which seems to have more imaginative jazz musicians per square foot than Manhattan.

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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

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

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Angry Antisocial Anxiety Ashtrays Asthma Breath Butt Cancer Cilia Cost Cough Dirty Drag

Edgy Fidget Filter Gasp Habit Healthy Ill Inhale Kick Lung Menthol Mild Patch

Pipe Pneumonia Rush Secondhand smoke Smell Stop Sweets Tar Thrombosis Tobacco 9/13 Solution: Vape It must be your turn Victory

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5. Sew 10. Footless creatures 15. Roman deity 19. Shelter for pigeons 20. Wharton character 21. Roll 22. Husband of Frigg 23. Bye-bye!

24. Wading bird 25. Cough or corn: Var. 26. Grasslands 27. Start of a quip by anonymous: 6 wds.

31. Commotion 32. “Mila 18” author 33. Ridiculous 37. Savvy 40. Hayward or Sarandon 42. Brickbat 44. AKA Thomas A. Anderson 45. Untrusting 46. Stark 47. Weedy grass 49. Criticize 50. To — — 51. Bogus coin 52. Carriage 53. Mythical Spartan queen 54. Part 2 of quip: 4 wds.

59. Military cap 60. Officers on base: Abbr.

61. Allay 62. Band 63. Hackney coach 64. Many, many moons 66. Runcible — 67. Semiconductor 68. Facing 70. Heave upward on a wave

71. Harangue 72. Soft shoe 75. Copycats 76. Part 3 of quip: 4 wds.

79. Might-have- — 80. Annoyance 81. Competed 82. City in Latvia 83. Girl in Savannah 84. Absinthe ingredient 86. Await 87. Tennis prize cup name 88. — ipsa loquitur 89. Singles 90. Finery 92. Horses on a track 93. Plant disease: 2 wds.

95. Old covered walk 96. Litter’s littlest 97. End of the quip: 7 wds.

105. Ice mass 108. Recliner 109. Girl in “Cabaret” song 110. French river 111. Moonfish 112. “— Doone” 113. Della or Pee Wee 114. Sch. out west 115. Float 116. Fifties Ford 117. Lesions 118. Appear

12. Fairy tale figure 13. OT book 14. Lesson for young learners 15. Shocks 16. Pindaric 17. — dolorosa 18. Printer’s measures 28. — -bitty 29. Nest-egg letters 30. “Motley’s Crew” name 34. Obtuse 35. Bookworm 36. Give 37. Make frightened 38. Put together: 2 wds.

39. Really small: Hyph.

40. Hard liquor 41. Push for 42. Understanding 43. First: Abbr.

46. Utter happiness 48. One more time 51. Grassy area 53. Plumbum 55. Crocodile — 56. Rocky Mountains town 57. Obdurate 58. One of the hobbits 59. Flora and fauna 63. Penalized

65. Merit 66. Mise-en- — 67. Was sufficiently brave 68. Knight’s tunic 69. First act 70. Climbs 71. “— Night in Georgia” 73. High wave: Var. 74. Gross 76. Dwindle 77. Part of the eye 78. Unruly 80. Figure with five points 84. Lowest part 85. Sideward 86. Supplications 87. Hamlet, for example 91. Man in Micronesia 92. Soups 94. Fitting 95. Be bright 96. Union demand 98. Like some horses 99. “Star —” 100. Ersatz butter 101. Opportunist 102. Agreeable 103. Seagirt region 104. Yoked animals 105. Obeisance 106. Clean-water org.

107. UK mil. branch

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DOWN 1. — Sanctorum 2. Biblical kingdom 3. “— —, Brute?”

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo businessman Warren Buffet is among the top five wealthiest people on the planet. In an average year, his company Berkshire Hathaway adds $36 billion to its already swollen coffers. But in 2017, thanks to the revision of the U.S. tax code by President Trump and his buddies, Buffet earned $65 billion—an increase of 83 percent over his usual haul. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re entering a year-long phase when your financial chances could have a mild resemblance to Buffet’s 2017. I’m not predicting your earnings will increase by 83 percent. But 15 percent isn’t unreasonable. So start planning how you’ll do it!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As he stepped up to use an ATM in a supermarket, a Scottish man named Colin Banks found £30 (about $40 U.S.) that the person who used the machine before him had inadvertently neglected to take. But rather than pocketing it, Banks turned it in to a staff member, and eventually the cash was reunited with its proper owner. Shortly after performing his good deed, Bank won £50,000 (about $64,500 U.S.) in a game of chance. It was instant karma in dramatic action—the positive kind! My analysis of the astrological omens reveals that you’re more likely than usual to benefit from expeditious cosmic justice like that.

That’s why I suggest you intensify your commitment to doing good deeds.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As you dive down into your soul’s depths in quest for renewal, remember this testimony from poet Scherezade Siobhan: “I want to dig out what is ancient in me, the mistaken-for-monster…and let it teach me how to be unafraid again.” Are you brave and brazen enough to do that yourself? It’s an excellent time to douse your fear by drawing wild power from the primal sources of your life. To earn the right to soar through the heights in November and December, delve as deep as you can in the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to author Elizabeth Gilbert, here’s “the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”When I read that thought, my first response was, why are the treasures hidden? Shouldn’t they be completely obvious?

My second response was, why do you need courage to bring forth the treasures? Shouldn’t that be the easiest and most enjoyable task imaginable? Everything you just read is a perfect riddle for you to contemplate during the next 14 months, Sagittarius.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A blogger named Sage Grace offers her readers a list of “cool things to call me besides cute.” They include dazzling, alluring, sublime, magnificent, and exquisite. Is it OK if I apply those same adjectives to you, Capricorn? I’d like to add a few more, as well: resplendent, delightful, intriguing, magnetic, and incandescent. I hope that in response you don’t flinch with humility or protest that you’re not worthy of such glorification. According to my astrological analysis, now is one of those times when you deserve extra appreciation for your idiosyncratic appeal and intelligence. Tell your allies and loved ones that I said so.

Inform them, too, that giving you this treatment could help mobilize one of your half-asleep potentials.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Many educated Americans and Europeans think of reincarnation as a loony delusion, even though it’s a cornerstone of spiritual belief for over 1.5 billion earthlings. I myself regard it as a hypothesis worthy of intelligent consideration, although I’d need hundreds of pages to explain my version of it. However you imagine it, Aquarius, you now have extra access to knowledge and skills and proclivities you possessed in what we might refer to as your “past lives”—especially in those past lives in which you were an explorer, maverick, outlaw, or pioneer. I bet you’ll feel freer and more experimental than usual during the next four weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “When the winds of change blow,” says a Chinese proverb, “some people build walls while others build windmills.” Since the light breezes of change may soon evolve into brisk gusts of change in your vicinity, I wanted to bring this thought to your

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attention. Will you be more inclined to respond by constructing walls or windmills? I don’t think it would be foolish for you to favor the walls, but in the long run I suspect that windmills would serve you better.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.” So says poet and philosopher Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening. Now I’m transmitting his observation to you. I hope it will motivate you to expend less energy fantasizing about what you want and devote more energy to becoming the beautiful, useful, irresistible presence that will attract what you want. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to make plans to produce very specific blossoms.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Budi Waseso, the former head of the Indonesian government’s anti-narcotics division, had a radical plan to prevent escapes by people convicted of drugrelated crimes. He sought to build detention centers that would be surrounded by moats filled with crocodiles and piranhas. But his replacement, Heru Winarko, has a different approach. He wants addicts and dealers to receive counseling in comfortable rehabilitation centers. I hope that in the coming weeks, as you deal with weaknesses, flaws, and sins—both your own and others’—you’ll opt for an approach more like Winarko’s than Waseso’s.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In one sense, a “patron saint” is a Catholic saint who is a heavenly advocate for a person, group, activity, thing, or place. St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes, for instance. St. Francis of Assisi is the guardian of animal welfare and St. Kentigern is the protector against verbal abusers. “Patron saint” may also be invoked poetically to refer to a person who serves as a special guide or influence. For example, in one of his short stories, Nathaniel Hawthorne refers to a veteran nurse as “the patron saint of young physicians.” In accordance with current astrological omens, I invite you to fantasize about persons, groups, activities, things, or places for whom you might be the patron saint.

To spur your imagination, here are some appropriate possibilities. You could be the patron saint of the breeze at dawn; of freshly picked figs; of singing humorous love songs in the sunlight; of unpredictable romantic adventures; of life-changing epiphanies while hiking in nature; of soul-stirring music.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In August 1933, author Virginia Woolf wrote a critical note to her friend, the composer Ethel Smyth, lamenting her lack of emotional subtlety. “For you,” Woolf told Smyth, “either things are black, or they’re white; either they’re sobs or shouts—whereas, I always glide from semi-tone to semi-tone.” In the coming weeks, fellow Cancerian, you may encounter people who act like Smyth. But it will be your sacred duty, both to yourself and to life, to remain loyal and faithful to the rich complexity of your feelings.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “People think of education as something they can finish,” said writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, who wrote or edited over 500 books. His point was that we’re wise to be excited about learning new lessons as long as we’re on this earth. To cultivate maximum vitality, we should always be engaged in the processes of absorbing new knowledge and mastering new skills and deepening our understanding. Does that sound appealing to you, Leo? I hope so, especially in the coming weeks, when you will have an enhanced ability to see the big picture of your future needs for education.

Homework: Imagine you get three wishes on one condition: they can’t benefit you directly, but have to be wished on someone else’s behalf. Freewillastrology.com.

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

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imberel Eventide, 36, believes her purpose here on Earth is to help other humans become elves, just like herself.

A resident of Illinois, Eventide identifies as a “Pleiadian Starseed”—an “Otherkin” who first realized she was an elf after reading and watching The Lord of the Rings series of books and films. She spends her time dressing as an elf in silk, velvet or nature-inspired clothing and pointed elf ears— but she doesn’t wear them all the time because “my own ears have a slight point to them.”

Eventide’s husband supports her elfdom, but “he does not understand it and does not watch many of my videos,” she said. “I am an elven spiritual teacher who offers personal Skype online sessions to help individual souls,” she explained to the Daily Mail. Her mission, called “Project Elvenstar,” is specifically to help human beings transform themselves into “High Elves.” “Ears are optional but can become a byproduct over time of becoming extrasensory and being able to hear better,” she says.

with the diner owner’s son, Michael Johnson, or his housemates, Jesse Martin and Norman Auvil, reported WFTV. That evening, as the three sat drinking beer, Martin looked up Walley’s address, then they drove to her home, where Auvil, 42, shot three rounds into the house. “I actually could feel the air from the bullet as it passed by me,” said Ken Walley, Monica’s father. Auvil was arrested Aug. 30 and charged with shooting into a dwelling, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

McAsian McBoosterism University of Houston student Jehv M. looked at a blank wall in his local McDonald’s and saw opportunity. Hoping to boost Asian representation in the burger chain’s advertising, Jehv created a poster featuring himself and a friend touting McDonald’s French fries.

They bought used McDonald’s uniforms at a thrift store as disguises, then boldly hung the poster in a Pearland, Texas, location as customers ordered and ate around them. United Press International reported that, 51 days later, the poster still hung on the wall unnoticed, as shown in a photo on Jehv’s Twitter feed. As of Sept. 4, it was not clear whether management at McDonald’s knew of the poster’s origins.

Leave it to Beaver

Pavel Matveev, 15, of Mogochino village in the Tomsk region of Russia, apparently despairing of having lost a video game, was found in his yard Sept. 4 after committing suicide by decapitating himself with a chain saw.

According to the Daily Mail, Russian media reported the teen’s single mother had bought him a computer, at which he “spent hours,” said one unnamed source. “This is what killed him.”

On Sept. 3, as an unnamed woman drove through Columbia Park, Wash., she witnessed a beaver being struck by a car. She stopped and tried to help the animal, wrapping it in a towel before going home to find a container to put it in. When she returned to the scene about 30 minutes later, YakTriNews reported, she found 35-year-old Richard Delp sexually assaulting the dying beaver. Unsurprisingly, Delp was also found to be in possession of methamphetamine; police charged him with possession and animal cruelty. The beaver didn’t survive.

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An Orlando, Fla., home will need more than roof repairs after a crane parked outside tipped over on Sept. 4, splitting the house in half so cleanly daylight could be seen through it. United Press International reported the roof was under construction when the machinery fell over, likely because the ground underneath it was wet, said Ivan Fogarty, corporate safety director for crane operator Beyel Brothers Crane & Rigging. No one was inside the home at the time, and no one on the roofing crew was injured, but the house has been declared unlivable.

Billy Warren Pierce Jr., 44, an inmate of the Pasco County Jail, Fla., already awaiting trial on charges of capital sexual battery of a child, compounded his problems by trying to hire a fellow inmate to kill his victim and her family. WFTS reported the unnamed inmate told detectives on Aug. 22 that Pierce offered him $9,000 and instructed him about how to get into the house, even suggesting using a gas line fed through a window as the murder method. Jail staff also obtained a contract signed by Pierce, detailing the targets of the killing and the agreed-upon price. When told on Sept. 4 he would be charged with solicitation of murder, Pierce objected, “But I haven’t paid him any money yet!”

Game Over

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen again, I live Downtown and I hadn’t had a nearly copacetic night’s sleep since mid-spring on account of all the goddamn seagulls we got down here squawking their asses off morning, noon and night, what the fock.

All summer long I got my dinky apartment’s windows sprung wide so’s to attract a gentle cooling breeze and soothe my heated brow. And all summer long—morning, noon and night—all I heard was the constant kvetching from a focking uber-flock of winged rats hell-bent on keeping me sleep deprived.

And what do these garbage birds really need to communicate to each other that’s so important— “Hey, I just flew by the corner of Water Street and Juneau and saw some college knob puke his guts out; so beaks off. That vomit is mine, assholes.”

So yesterday, I closed my windows what with the finally weather. I took a stroll around the neighborhood and noticed there was nary a suck-ass seagull to be seen or heard. I rushed back to my dinky apartment for a soothing snooze, the first in months. Mission accomplished.

And I awoke from some stupid dream during which I had shaved half my dome smooth as a baby’s butt and then grew my hair on the other half extralong so I could comb it over the bald half. I got to

tell you, when I start having dreams about fashion, my world is crumbling. I hate fashion. And I hate dreams. For christ sakes, you fall asleep and all of a sudden your brain becomes some kind of focking avant-garde film director high on LSD? Sleep is overrated, what the fock, ain’a?

So I became awake, put on the TV and thought I heard that the History Channel’s going to repeat a show coming up about big-deal historical discoveries and discoverers—probably the usual suspects, you know, your fire, movable type, Tyco Brahe, flight, Albert Einstein, combustion engine, the transistor, Leonardo da focking Vinci—which sounded like a good chance for me to further catch up on my sleeptime and then awaken with restored energy for pissing and moaning.

But hey, I’ll bet you a buck two-eighty one thing they won’t mention on that show is the discovery of the liquor store. I tell you, the guy who came up with that kind of scheme should be in the historical hall of fame. Only a thousand years ago, I don’t know if people even had stores for anything much less one devoted only to good times stored in bottles on shelves that are never empty. I suppose hundreds and hundreds of years ago, if a regular guy had a taste for a little eye opener, he had to go make his own. What a pain in the butt, ain’a? Probably what happened is that breakthroughs in political theory proved that the more time spent making hootch, the less time spent drinking it—an equation that gave rise to wars that could last a hundred years at a crack, I kid you not.

And I’ll bet this show won’t touch on the importance of the discovery of the gentlemen’s periodical and its role in the creation of the modern society we enjoy today. Hard to imagine the hoops you’d have to jump through even 500 years ago just to see a gal buck-naked. Sure, a lot of those old-fart fine-art

painters you might’ve heard of in school knew from putting skin on canvas, but during their time in the Middle Ages, most of their paintings were scooped up by some kind of liege lord and locked up for safekeeping in a dank castle, unavailable for the perusal and edification of the common Joe Blow pissant.

HOLD ON! Just read this excerpt from the Stormy Daniels soon-to-bereleased book, Full Disclosure. This, from NBC News: Daniels had lingering remorse over the experience for years, writing that any time she’d see Trump on television, she’d think: “I had sex with that, I’d say to myself. Eech.”

So let’s get out of here with a little story: So this little kid just got potty trained. But when he went to the bathroom to go Number One, the kid managed to hit everything but the toilet. So mom had to go clean up every time the kid went to take a leak. After two weeks, she had enough and took him the doctor.

After the exam, the doctor said, “My good woman. The problem for your son is that his, shall we say, ‘unit’ is too small. An old wives’ tale is to give him two slices of toast each morning, and his unit will grow so that he can hold it and aim straight. You may want to try that.”

Next morning the little kid jumped out of bed and ran downstairs to the kitchen. There on the table are 12 slices of toast. “Mom!” the kid says. “The doctor said I only had to eat two slices.” The mother says, “I know. The other ten are for your father.”

Ba-ding! ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I “toad” you so.

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11/8 Bottle Rockets 11/9 Nicki Bluhm 11/10 Tweed featuring Gervis Myles,Craig Baumann and The Story 11/12 7horse 11/14 El Ten Eleven 11/16 Bel Airs 11/17 Damaged Justice 11/19 David Sancious, Will Calhoun 11/21 The Last Waltz & Beyond: A Midwest Musicians’ Tribute to The Band 11/23 and 11/24 R and B Cadets 11/26 BAND OF FRIENDS 11/27 Otep 11/29 Reverend Horton Heat with Big Sandy, Junior Brown, The Blasters 11/30 Howard Levy 12/1 Sprecher presents: Koch Marshall Trio 12/2 Savoy Brown 12/6 King’s X 12/7 Rich Trueman and the 22nd Street Horn Band 12/8 Southbound 12/9 Brand X 12/14 Altered Five Blues Band 12/15 No Quarter 12/17 The Sleighriders 12/21 Pundamonium 12/22 Semi Twang 12/28 Pat McCurdy 12/29 The Lovelies, the Quilz 4/10 Uli Jon Roth 4/26 Mary Fahl 5/11 Plasticland 48 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 1 8

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