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What Foxconn Means for Wisconsin ::BY ELIZABETH ELVING hen Foxconn Technology Group first announced its plan to build a $10 billion electronics factory in Wisconsin, it seemed like a big win—for President Donald Trump, who called the decision “incredible” and promptly took credit for it and for Gov. Scott Walker, who needs a splashy achievement to tout as he seeks reelection. It seemed like a win for Wisconsin, too. The liquid crystal display production plant would reportedly bring in as many as 13,000 jobs with an average salary of $53,000, and possibly summon an industry renaissance.

“This is an area of manufacturing that we surrendered in the United States a couple of decades ago. And here it is coming back to Southeast Wisconsin,” says Buckley Brinkman, executive director and CEO of the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity. “It’s an unbelievable opportunity for all of us.”

To convince the Taiwanese company to invest in Wisconsin, Walker released legislation offering billions in taxpayer money and lifting key environmental regulations. The incentive package passed along mostly party lines in September. Weeks later, Foxconn named the village of Mount Pleasant in Racine County as the future site of its 20 million-square-foot campus. Supporters have called the development “transformational” and a “turning point.” But for many residents, excitement about the mega-plant is overshadowed by dismay at what the state gave up to get it here.

“I’ve heard from hundreds of people from all over the state, and many are concerned about the fiscal impact this is going to have,” says Representative Katrina Shankland (D-Stevens Point). “The State of Wisconsin could have struck a better deal, and unfortunately I think Governor Walker gave away the farm.”

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The incentives package includes up to $2.85 billion in refundable tax credits (depending on the company’s level of capital investment and job creation) and an additional $150 million in sales tax exemptions on construction materials. Walker has claimed that Wisconsin won the Foxconn deal despite being outbid by “at least one” other state, and documents obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel show that Michigan offered nearly $3.8 billion.

However, Michigan’s offer consisted primarily of tax waivers for various taxes that Foxconn would be paying, whereas Wisconsin’s offer was a refundable tax credit, which meant that we would be providing tax payments to Foxconn. Since Walker’s administration has already minimized taxes for manufacturers, his $3 billion amounted to mostly cash payments, making it the better offer. To cover these incentives, the state will pay between $200 million and $250 million annually (according to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation) over a period of 15 years.

“As it stands now, it is possible for the state to cover the estimated credit cost within its revenue flows,” says Todd Berry, president of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance. “That’s not to say there’s money sitting there. It’s just one of those things that will move to the front of the budget priority line.”

Opponents of the incentive package worry about what this means for other budget priorities. “Healthcare, public schools, roads and infrastructure, small business development; all of those things will come after the required Foxconn payments,” says Shankland. “To give a foreign company priority over our kids’ future is irresponsible.”

A report from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimated that it would take at least 25 years for the state to recoup this investment. That’s assuming the company hits its hiring goal of 13,000 (mostly Wisconsin-based) workers, projections that Shankland calls “overly rosy.” But with so much unknown about the future workforce, it’s more or less impossible to forecast when taxpayers would actually break even.

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There’s also no way to predict, at this stage, what the facility’s environmental impact might be. Proponents of the Foxconn deal argue that the environmental exemptions are just meant to streamline the process, and that the company is committed to protecting natural resources. Kerry Schumann, executive director of Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters, is not so sure.

“It’s just a cover,” Schumann says. “When you give these kinds of exemptions, you’re saying ‘you have a free pass around the law,’ and it does affect the environment when that happens.”

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ronmental impact statement. It’s also left environmentalists worried that the plant, which will need to use vast quantities of water from Lake Michigan, won’t have to comply with the Great Lakes Compact.

Schumann says she’s certain that the facility could follow environmental regulations and still be successful, as so many other Wisconsin businesses have. Whether Foxconn (which has a history of polluting rivers in China) will be willing to do so is another matter. She also notes that the Department of Natural Resources

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Fortunately, Schumann says, Wisconsin citizens are good about taking these kinds of matters into their own hands.

“This is going to take some really serious inspection and due diligence on the part of the people who live in the area,” she says. “They are going to have to be constantly asking questions, constantly pushing back, constantly on alert.”

Environmentalist groups could challenge these exemptions in court, but Foxconn may have a special advantage there, too. An amendment to the incentive bill allows for an expedited appeals process in cases involving Foxconn.

This unprecedented provision would let parties appeal decisions directly to the state’s conservative-leaning Supreme Court. Any orders made by the lower courts would automatically be stayed until a final decision was reached. An analysis by the Wisconsin Legislative Council found that some of the amendment’s provisions may be unconstitutional.

“All Wisconsin businesses and Wisconsinites have to adhere to the laws, and this company gets a pass,” says Sen. Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee). “That’s disturbing. They’ve given this company the ability to access our justice system in a way that no other Wisconsinite can.”

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For the majority of legislators (including several Democrats), any misgivings about the incentive package were outweighed by the prospect of thousands of middle-class jobs. But with the factory so close to the Illinois border, its unclear how many of those jobs will go to Wisconsin workers. Walker has predicted that 90% of jobs would go to Wisconsin, but there’s no built-in guarantee for that.

“Where are these workers going to come from? Are they going to move from Northern Wisconsin? Are they going to come from Racine and Kenosha counties? Or are they going to come from Northern Illinois?” Berry says.

“Nobody can say that because nobody knows.”

A modified version of the incentive bill “encourages” Foxconn to hire Wisconsin residents, but a minimum hiring requirement proposed by Assembly Democrats was voted down. Taylor maintains that since Wisconsin tax dollars are funding this project, Wisconsin workers and businesses should be “at the front of the line” for hiring and contracting decisions. Additionally, Taylor would like to see Foxconn commit to hiring in the state’s rural and urban “crisis areas” facing the highest unemployment. “If you’re going to make this kind of huge investment, you should at least be attacking the problems that you have,” she says.

Because the state’s overall unemployment rate is relatively low, Brinkman says a project of this scale presents “the opportunity to pull a whole group of people out of poverty and into the workforce.” To get those jobs, however, workers need access to training. This is especially true for a highly automated facility that Brinkman says will “require more of every worker.”

Gateway Technical College has applied for a $5 million state grant to expand its SC Johnson iMet Center to train prospective Foxconn employees. Taylor says it’s important for the state to invest in these programs and to learn more about what hiring needs will be—not only for Foxconn, but for companies that stand to lose employees to Foxconn. “I would love to make sure that training is done and expanded to make sure we’re thinking about Wisconsin businesses that will be affected,” she says.

Additional transportation will also be needed for workers throughout Wisconsin to access the Mount Pleasant facility. Racine County or Pleasant Prairie may have to spend tens of millions of dollars on infrastructure such as roads.

Another amendment introduced by Assembly Democrats asked for the creation of a Regional Transit Authority for this purpose. It was voted down along party lines.

Opportunities and Unknowns

With the incentive package approved, opponents of the deal continue to ask questions and raise concerns, often stemming from Foxconn’s worrisome history. The electronics giant has long been criticized for its inhumane treatment of workers and is known for installing “safety nets” around its factories to prevent suicides. “We’re a state that is very concerned about workers,” Taylor says, “so we’ll continue to make sure that we are talking about these things—about workers, about access for women and minorities to get positions within the company, including positions of leadership.

We have to figure out how to navigate these issues, even after things are moving.”

Another big question is how vulnerable the plant will be to changes in the market or to innovations that could render LCD screens obsolete. “The rate and direction of technological change is so dramatic now,” Berry says. “There are things you just can’t predict.” Foxconn would probably be able to adapt to such disruptions as it has in the past, however adaptation might mean abandoning the Wisconsin plant and building somewhere else.

For now, Shankland says, Democrats are focused on pushing for accountability. Much of that depends on the Wisconsin Economic Development Council, which is responsible for making sure Foxconn is fulfilling its employment obligations (and not receiving subsidies for jobs they’re not creating). Past audits have shown inaccuracies in the agency’s data, and Shankland says more needs to be done to make sure it’s tracking jobs accurately. Skeptics hope that increased accountability will protect taxpayers and secure the opportunities that were promised at the outset. Still, after months of scrutiny, the Foxconn deal no longer seems like the resounding win that Trump and Walker made it out to be.

“Governor Walker and the folks who voted for the Foxconn bill really misjudged how voters would feel about it,” Schumann says.

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ilwaukee is betting big on the young, college-educated “creative class.” New apartment buildings have emerged to house a generation with historically low home-ownership rates, and the city is building a $128 million streetcar to transport a generation that has largely embraced public transit. To add to the synergy, UW-Milwaukee has recently achieved “R1” status according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education—placing among the best doctorate-granting universities in the country according to level of research activity—bringing great prestige to the university.

There has certainly been a surge in civic pride recently, and the city has attracted praise from national publications like The New York Times, but do “People’s Flags,” Milwaukee Home shirts, a new arena and a Downtown streetcar actually translate into Milwaukee becoming a hub for young people in the same way that Austin, Texas and Seattle have?

“Milwaukee is emerging, I would say,” said Ian Abston, who recently launched a millennialcentric consulting group with developer Blair Williams. “I think it has a lot of upsides and potential. In comparison to other large metro areas, we’re not gaining population yet. However, I think that into the near future, what you can get for a dollar in Milwaukee, job opportunities and quality of life, will beat out many of those other cities. We just have to make sure that we get better at telling that story.”

Effectively telling its story has challenged Milwaukee for decades. Groups designed to champion our city like Spirit of Milwaukee have come and gone, making way for new organizations like NEWaukee. Slogans such as “Milwaukee: A Bright Spot,” “Making Milwaukee Mighty,” “Milwaukee: Talk It Up!” and “A Great Place by a Great Lake” have all similarly oscillated through the local lexicon.

“Every time I hear about Milwaukee, it’s either the drunkest city in the U.S. or it’s the most segregated,” said Ian Lutfiyya, a 2014 graduate of UW-Milwaukee who took a job in the San Francisco Bay Area two months after graduation.

“That’s what bothers me a little bit.”

Whether that is a fair assessment of the city or not, it is how many outside of the area view Milwaukee. Miller Beer, bratwurst and “Happy Days” have encapsulated Milwaukee’s image to many on the outside. The city’s segregation and mass incarceration issues have drawn critiques from the likes of the Milwaukee Bucks’ New York-native president and documentary filmmakers.

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“There isn’t really anyone saying, ‘This is what Milwaukee is to young talent, and this is why they should come here.’”

Stopping the Leaking Pipeline

A recent study by the Urban Land Institute published by Time magazine found that the City of Milwaukee saw a 1.8% drop in its 25 to 34-year-old population from 2010-2015— though census data suggests an overall 3.8% increase in the age group over the same time period.

Abston describes recent college graduates leaving Milwaukee for careers elsewhere, as Lutfiyya did, as a critical point where the city’s “talent pipeline is leaking.” He feels that the city and universities need to do a better job tying themselves to each other, specifically citing one example. “UWM should own Bradford Beach,” he said; not literally, of course. “It shouldn’t just be volleyball. There should be a ton of stuff happening there that UWM would kind of stake claim to.”

Cordio echoes this point, stressing that students who fail to engage with the community while in school are more likely to leave after graduation. “We need to be doing more to get college students when they’re here, because they’re our biggest attractor of talent to the region,” he said. “We need to get them off campus and into the community to experience the cultural amenities that we have.”

This issue is intensified for the most talented individuals—those who are most likely to be courted by the Apples and Googles of the world. “What happens if you have a great SAT score, graduated at the top of your class or showed incredible entrepreneurship skills?” Abston asked. “What do we have put in place here to connect you to the other top 1% of thought leaders? And what are we doing to make sure that they stay here?”

A starting point would be collaboration between local companies. “We need a citywide talent retention strategy,” Abston continued. “The fact that we’ve got 10 major corporations all bringing in summer interns, and none of them are talking to each other, is embarrassing. They’re all creating their own separate ways to sell Milwaukee, and it’s stupid.”

There have been efforts such as The Commons—a nine-week skills accelerator

that connects entrepreneurial college students to local startups and corporations to cultivate and retain the business leaders of the future. While relatively effective, these small programs can only reach a limited number of people at a time.

Cordio hopes to launch a program through Startup Milwaukee that will connect college students with startups and high-growth companies.

ing an opinion. According to Abston, a number of lower-profile additions to the city could also go a long way. Bringing more attractions to the Milwaukee River, expanding the number of popup beer gardens in county parks and creating a Downtown dog park were also on his list of desires for the area, along with more traditional goals like a better school system.

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Connecting people with job opportunities is just one piece of the puzzle. Another challenge is investing in the amenities young people are looking for.

The City of Milwaukee and private businesses have invested millions of dollars in an effort to house, transport and entertain young people in the city. More than 6,700 multifamily units are expected to be added through 2019 according to a report from real estate firm Marcus & Millichap. Many of these units are targeted to young professionals with disposable incomes that are not yet ready to buy a home. The largest infrastructure initiative to attract young professionals has been the Downtown streetcar. While derided as a waste of money by opponents, the Milwaukee Streetcar’s website claims that it will “attract and retain young talent needed to grow Milwaukee’s economy, support the creative class and fuel a culture of entrepreneurship.”

Abston seems to agree with this sentiment, though he admits that this is far from the consensus. Chalking it up to a lack of knowledge on the subject fueled by the talk radio echo chamber, he urges naysayers to experience streetcars in similar cities like Minneapolis before form-

Bryan Burlingame recently moved back to Milwaukee from Seattle. He received his masters in mathematics from UW-Milwaukee, then left to chase the flourishing tech scene with his wife. After 14 months, they made the move back.

“If we were being realistic with ourselves, we wouldn’t have been able to afford a home out there until four or five years from now—at least not where we wanted to be,” he said. “You couldn’t find anything in the city for less than $750,000.”

While housing costs are on the rise in Milwaukee, with affordability falling 14.2% over the last year according to the most recent First American Real House Price Index, a home is still much more affordable here than in many of the cities like Austin, Seattle and San Francisco that get recognized for being meccas for young professionals. Milwaukee also boasts a cost of living that is 1.7% below the national average according to Forbes. (Just spend a day down in Chicago and you will quickly appreciate Milwaukee’s more modest cost of living.)

While no one would be completely happy about a 14.2% increase in home prices, Abston sees the rising values as a sign of progress.

“We’re finally starting to get the amenities that people want, and that means things are going to get more expensive,” he said.

“That’s a good sign. We as city planners now need to do a good job of making sure that at least some of the housing going up is affordable, but the fact that you can’t get a good Downtown condo or apartment for $500 a month anymore means that our city is progressing.”

Burlingame also pointed to an intangible reality of Midwestern life that drew him back. He wanted to get away from the always plugged-in, constantly on-call lifestyle so prevalent in the booming startup economy.

“A big reason we came back was because we could have that work-life balance,” he said.

“It exists. You can shut down after work and not be expected to always be available.”

Milwaukee continues to push itself to become a hub for young entrepreneurs and budding business professionals. While the effort is gaining momentum, the end result is anything but guaranteed.

“Here in Milwaukee, there is some kid who has the next big idea,” Abston said.

“The next Harley-Davidson is here. The guy who is going to create the next Northwestern Mutual is today, right now, working out of a Colectivo coffee shop. But, do we have the resources that he needs to take his business from that idea to five people? To 10 people?

To 3,000 people? I just don’t know if we do yet.”

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

Thursday, Oct. 26

College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration @ Boswell Book Company (2559 N. Downer Ave.), 7-8:30 p.m.

As a part of the Milwaukee Turners’ community conversation about mass incarceration, Daniel Karpowitz, author of College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration, will speak at an event co-sponsored by the Milwaukee Turners, Cardinal Stritch University and Boswell Book Co.

Veterans for Peace Milwaukee Chapter Meeting @ Peace Action Wisconsin (1001 E. Keefe Ave.), 7 p.m.

The Milwaukee chapter of Veterans for Peace will meet at the Peace Action Wisconsin headquarters. Non-veterans are welcome to join as associate members.

Saturday, Oct. 28

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

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

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

Every Saturday from noon-1 p.m., concerned citizens join with Peace Action Wisconsin to protest war and “Stand for Peace.” Signs will be provided for those who need them.

Protesters are encouraged to stick around for conversation and coffee afterward.

Sunday, Oct. 29

Defend Abortion Access @ Affiliated Medical Services (1428 N. Farwell Ave.), 2:30-4 p.m.

The Milwaukee General Defense Committee is organizing a counter-protest of “40 Days for Life,” who frequently protests outside of Affiliated Medical Services. While they do not typically confront these groups in an effort to reduce stress on patients, the clinic is closed on Sunday, so they will take a stand for access to women’s healthcare.

Monday, Oct. 30

Stoking Racism for Political Power: What Can Be Done? @ Milwaukee Area Technical College, Room S120 (700 W. State St.), 4-6 p.m.

This panel discussion will include Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, author of Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America; Fred Royal, volunteer president of the NAACP’s Milwaukee Branch; Robert Smith, professor of history at Marquette University; and Dee Hall, managing editor at Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.

So, You’re Thinking About Running For Office? @ Milwaukee Area Labor Council (633 S. Hawley Road), 6-7:30 p.m.

This will be an evening of conversation with working-family champions to hear how they made the decision to make a difference. Attendees will meet other labor and community activists and connect with resources to run for any level of office.

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

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The Dangerous Opinions of America’s SportsBozo-in-Chief ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

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or weeks now, America’s SportsBozo-in-Chief has tried to stir up some kind of rebellion among football fans to get the National Football League to stop protests during the national anthem led by African American players against continuing racial inequality in their country. Donald Trump’s failure became evident when his attacks on black players only increased solidarity among all players, black and white. As more players chose to kneel in protest during the anthem, teammates, whether standing or kneeling, locked arms.

Some NFL owners—members of Trump’s own social class with a lot more class—joined their players. Then, owners met and refused to change NFL rules to order grown men not to participate in constitutionally protected pro-

tests in a democracy. The Green Bay Packers were fortunate to have an articulate star like quarterback Aaron Rodgers who sincerely tried to explain to fans that football players weren’t disrespecting the flag or their nation’s military.

“We’re all patriotic in the locker room,” Rodgers said. “We love our troops. This is about something bigger than that ... This is about unity and love and growing together as a society and starting a conversation around something [racial equality] that may be a little bit uncomfortable for people.”

Rodgers wondered aloud which was more disrespectful to America: players silently locking arms as they faced the flag, or disruptive fans, egged on by Trump, booing and shouting ugly epithets during the anthem? Then, just like that, Rodgers was gone.

Brutal Reality No, the Packers didn’t follow Trump’s advice—which he’d bellowed at a raucous rally in Alabama: “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, say: ‘Get that son-of-a-bitch off the field right now! Out! He’s fired!!’” But, the sickening injury that broke Rodgers’ collarbone and shattered the Super Bowl hopes of heartbroken fans also can be tied to Trump; he got what he always hopes to see when he watches football: a brutal hit that really hurt somebody.

Trump has been talking about wanting to see

more brutality in football for a lot longer than he’s talked about players disrespecting the flag.

He’s accused the NFL of “ruining the game” by adopting rules to protect players from serious injury. “Fifteen yards! Throw him out of the game!” Trump shouted at that Alabama rally, mocking referees for penalizing illegal hits.

“They had that last week. I watched for a couple of minutes. Two guys, just really beautiful tackle! Boom! Fifteen yards! The referee gets on television! His wife is sitting at home, she’s so proud of him! They’re ruining the game!

Right? Hey look, that’s what they [professional football players] want to do! They want to hit!

But it [enforcing rules] is hurting the game!”

Trump is particularly outraged at the NFL for removing players after concussions to provide time for full recovery to protect them from serious brain injury. He brought that up out of nowhere last year at a Florida rally when a woman passed out from the heat. “That woman was out cold, and now she’s coming back,” Trump bragged. “See, we don’t go by these new and very much softer NFL rules. Concussions! ‘Uh oh, got a little ding on the head.’ ‘No, no, you can’t play for the rest of the season.’ Our people are tough.”

Maybe your friends are the kind of sports bozos who relish seeing violent, head-snapping hits like the frightening one on Packer wide-receiver Davante Adams that got Chicago Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan suspended for two games by the NFL, but mine aren’t; my friends

cringe and get a sick feeling in their stomachs. Trump’s mocking “a little ding on the head” was unusually cruel and ignorant even for a public figure well known for those qualities. The NFL doesn’t need anyone in power encouraging them to ignore the devastating effects of head trauma in football. The league spent years denying and hiding evidence of the terrible consequences.

Medical science has now documented a direct link to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)—a degenerative brain disease with symptoms including confusion, memory loss, violent behavior, aggression, depression, paranoia, suicidal impulses and eventually progressive dementia. A damning scientific study was released in July by researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine who examined 202 brains belonging to men who played football at all levels donated for research after their deaths. Researchers found CTE in 177 of them—more than 87%. The most extensive damage was among those who played in the NFL. All but one of 111 brains belonging to exNFL players were diagnosed with CTE. We’re reminded every day how much character matters in the presidency. So does the complete lack of character in a Bozo-in-Chief who not only wants to deny players their Constitutional rights, but also wants to see more dirty, violent plays that threaten their livelihoods—and their lives.

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What Do You Say? Will Republicans be willing to compromise on a short-term fix to stabilize Obamacare, preventing millions of people from being priced out of the health insurance markets? n Yes n No Vote online at shepherdexpress.com. We’ll publish the results of this poll in next week’s issue.

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Wisconsin’s Redistricting in the Spotlight

UNCONSTITUTIONAL PARTISAN GERRYMANDER OR JUST POLITICS AS USUAL? ::BY ELIZABETH SHIMEK

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n an election for seats in the state legislature, who among us would even bother to vote if we knew, before election day, that our preferred candidates’ opponents—unacceptable to us because of their party affiliation—were essentially guaranteed election victories by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made before a single ballot was even cast?

That is one way of describing the question confronted by the U.S. Supreme Court during a recent oral argument, held on Tuesday, Oct. 17.

The nine justices heard the arguments in Gill v.

Whitford, a Wisconsin case challenging legislative district lines drawn by the Republican legislature in 2011. William Whitford and the other plaintiffs’ attorneys argued that these districts unfairly favor Republican candidates—giving Wisconsin Republicans the majority in the State Assembly despite getting a few hundred thousand fewer votes for their state legislative candidates.

The Supreme Court has long upheld the principle of “one person, one vote,” but when Wisconsin Republicans drew an electoral map that packed many Democratic voters into fewer and more dense districts and spread the remaining Democrats thinly among districts where Republicans have a clear majority—a practice known as “packing and cracking”—these Republican map-drawers, the plaintiffs allege, intentionally diluted (“wasted”) Democratic votes statewide, thus violating the U.S. Constitution.

Drawing the Maps Every 10 years after the country completes the national census, the state legislatures draw new district lines to insure that all districts have approximately the same number of people. Since this process is done by the legislature, the party in power has always had the ability to draw district lines, and generally parties try to draw lines in a way that favors their own candidates. However, Whitford believes that the 2011 maps went far beyond “politics as usual.”

In 2011, for the first time in 40 years, Wisconsin Republicans controlled both chambers of the legislature and the governorship at the time of redistricting. When one party controlled the legislature and the other controlled the governorship, compromise ruled the electoral mapmaking process or the courts ended up drawing the lines.

But when Republicans finally controlled both chambers and the governorship, they went about drawing extreme maps to guarantee their control of the legislature for the next decade.

With the advent of smarter computers, new, highly sophisticated mapmaking software and data-driven electoral politics, the Republican legislature was able to draw new electoral maps with pinpoint precision. Republicans adjusted district lines until they found a ratio of “packing and cracking” adequate to guarantee control of the legislature—even with a minority of the SHEPHERD EXPRESS

statewide vote.

The new map’s first test came in 2012. For Wisconsin’s Republicans, it was an enormous victory. Although Democrats won a couple of hundred thousand more votes than the Republicans, the Republicans won 60 out of 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly. This winning streak continued in 2014. Republicans won slightly more than 50% of the vote, but increased their Assembly majority to 63 seats.

If Democrats cast more votes statewide than Republicans but still lost the majority, the plaintiffs argue, then votes for Democrats are worth less than Republican votes. Whitford sees this “efficiency gap” between votes and results as proof that the 2011 district map violates Wisconsin Democrats’ First Amendment right to free association. If the district map violates these rights, it is known as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

Moving Forward The Supreme Court is expected to release its decision no later than June of next year. If the Supreme Court sides with Whitford and the other plaintiffs, Wisconsin’s electoral districts will need to be redrawn. In that event, one question will be whether the new districts will be in force before the November 2018 election. A Democratic victory in the Court would apply not only to Wisconsin but other states across the country as well. Both Democrats and Republicans could then challenge electoral maps that create an unconstitutional gerrymander under Gill v.

Whitford. In contrast, if the Court finds Wisconsin’s district map is not an unconstitutional gerrymander, the current districts will remain in place; Republicans will then have the opportu-

nity to redraw the districts once again after the 2020 census.

A Democratic Party candidate’s defeat of Gov. Scott Walker in the 2018 gubernatorial election would then affect whether the legislature (if still under Republican control) will be required to negotiate with the new Democratic governor on district lines or, failing that outcome, have the courts draw the legislative lines that will be in place for the next decade. On the other hand, if Scott Walker wins in 2018, then the Republicans will again draw uber-gerrymandered districts and cement their total political dominance in Wisconsin for another 10 years.

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Judging a Gerrymander While the U.S. Supreme Court has previously addressed the question of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering, it has never found an acceptable yardstick to determine whether such maps are unconstitutional.

Partisan gerrymanders, or districts that are drawn to favor one party over another, are not necessarily unconstitutional. It is not enough to show that a district favors one political party; a challenger must demonstrate that the way a district is drawn directly deprives him or her of a constitutional right. The “efficiency gap” measure, developed in 2014, may be the longawaited answer.

When Prof. Whitford and other citizens filed suit in federal court, a special three-judge panel was selected to hear the case. Two of the three federal judges were appointed by Republican presidents. The panel decided in favor of the plaintiffs by a vote of two to one and ruled that Wisconsin’s electoral district map constitutes an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Wisconsin Republicans appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court last year. Ideologically, the court is relatively evenly split between the four liberal justices—expected to favor the “efficiency gap” technique, and four conservative justices—expected to favor the status quo. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who usually sides with the conservatives, is expected to be the swing vote.

During Tuesday’s oral arguments, Justice Kennedy asked many questions of the attorneys representing Wisconsin Republicans, and none of the Democrats’ attorney. Many see this as a sign of skepticism regarding the Republicans’ arguments in favor of the maps. At 81, Justice Kennedy is surrounded by rumors of his imminent retirement, and this case is seen as a defining part of his legacy with the Supreme Court.

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New in Milwaukee Cuban restaurant opens in Oak Creek and sushi is all around us ::BY LACEY MUSZYNSKI Fall has been a busy time for new restaurants in Milwaukee. A new sports bar specializing in bourbon joins the East Side and Oak Creek gets a new Cuban spot. There’s also a huge influx of sushi, with three new spots, including two that serve ramen as well.

Hungry Sumo Sushi Bar

2663 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. | 414-595-9656 | $$ hungrysumosushibar.com

A sushi restaurant that will also serve up some Thai dishes has opened in Bay View in the former Cream City Swirl space. Hungry Sumo has a small sushi bar and seating for around 40 in a warm, industrial setting. While customers will soon be able to enjoy some Thai entrées, like pad Thai and pad kee mao, the focus of the menu is on fresh sushi and other Japanese dishes. Starters include edamame ($4) and gyoza ($5.50-$6.50), plus more unusual options like potato egg rolls ($5.50).

Maki comes in classic and contemporary versions, like the Lady Marmalade ($13.95) with spicy salmon, masago, avocado, cucumber and mayo. Teriyaki bowls, donburi (sushi bowls), soup, dessert and beer are also served.

Artisan Ramen

530 E. Mason St. | 888-8800 | $-$$ facebook.com/artisanramenmke

Downtown has its first dedicated ramen shop, Artisan Ramen. The restaurant’s ambiance is modern and dark, with navy walls and bright art with everything from Star Wars characters to traditional Japanese prints. The menu is small, with a focus on appetizers, ramen and drinks like matcha, espresso and cheese tea ($5), a Chinese drink of green tea with a layer of soft cheese on top. Ramen noodles are made fresh daily, and ramen broth comes in three varieties: pork, chicken and vegetable. On the less traditional side of things is the crunchy ramen cheese sticks ($5), an appetizer made by wrapping ramen noodles around cheddar cheese, then deep frying it.

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Cubanitas

7973 S. Main St., Oak Creek | 414-574-5260 | $$ getbianchini.com/cubanitas-dts/

Cubanitas is the latest restaurant to join the Drexel Town Square development in Oak Creek. This is the Cuban restaurant’s second location. Bright walls, chandeliers and large photographs all mimic the décor of the original Downtown Milwaukee location, which opened in 2003. The menu is similar and includes three types of empanadas ($3.50), Cuban guacamole and plantain chips ($9.50), the classic Cubano sandwich ($9.50) with pork, ham, Swiss, pickles and mustard, and entrées like ropa vieja ($15.75), shredded flank steak with rice and beans.

Popular drinks like mojitos and daiquiris are also available.

Izzy Hops Swig & Nosh

2311 N. Murray Ave. | 414-249-4489 | $$ | izzyhops.com

A pub and sports bar that specializes in craft beer and bourbon has opened on the East Side. Izzy Hops features 30 beer taps and 30 bourbons, plus a bourbon club for enthusiasts. The space features Cream City brick behind the bar, warm lighting and a wood bar top, making it cozier than the average sports bar.

A small menu of the usual bar favorites is served, like a dozen chicken wings ($14.95), nachos with beef or pork ($11.95), a jalapeño popper burger ($9.95), and pizza like the Murray Avenue Meat Pie ($19) with homemade sausage, pulled pork, meatballs, mushrooms and onions.

Kawa Ramen & Sushi

2321 N. Murray Ave. | 414-800-7979 | $$ kawaramensushi.com

The owners of Kawa Japanese Restaurant in Whitefish Bay have opened a second location on the East Side. Kawa Ramen & Sushi will have a similar menu focused on various types of sushi, Japanese entrées, udon and lunch specials, plus a selection of ramen. The ramen broth and noodles are made in house, and come in four varieties. Traditional tonkotsu ramen ($12) is the most common version, made with pork broth and topped with pork belly. Garlic miso ramen ($13), seafood ramen ($16) and a “hell fire” ramen ($13) with a pork broth of varying spice levels are also available.

In other dining news this month, Devon Seafood in Bayshore Town Center has expanded its menu to include steak and has been renamed to Devon Seafood + Steak. A Kansas City strip, bone-in ribeye, filet mignon and steakhouse classics like wedge salad have all been added to the menu, in addition to seafood specialties like crab cakes and scallops. And in closings this month, we say goodbye to Matador Taco + Tequila Bar, Jow Nai Fouquet and AP Bar + Kitchen.

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When Robert Klemm and his wife, Sindy, find time to go out to dinner, they stick to the suburbs. “We are crazy busy, but when given the opportunity, we jump at the chance to visit our friends at Sebastian’s,” located just south of Oak Creek. Klemm finds the food prepared by owner and chef Scott Sebastian to be “extremely harmonious. He balances soul-satisfying and accessible flavors with artful plating. He’s one of a few remaining old-school chefs with skills second to none.” It’s always tough to choose from the New American menu, but Klemm has found two favorites: scallops with Creole seasoning and a five-week dry-aged strip steak.

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While growing up, De Stefanis helped his grandparents with their garden. He later moved from Wisconsin to California, where he met Diaz, who lived in Benicia, Calif. While residing in the Golden State, De Stefanis farmed and started dabbling with microgreens. When he and Diaz moved back to Wisconsin, it was the dead of winter and they weren’t sure how to continue farming. “In California, you can grow all year round, so here our plan was to open an indoor farm where we can grow microgreens and supply herbs for restaurants all year long, so they don’t have to bring stuff in from across the country,” De Stefanis said.

They originally opened on Hamilton Street in February 2015. Diaz said they began with a storefront, but at that time microgreens weren’t on the average foodie’s radar, so they didn’t get much foot traffic. About 18 months ago, they moved to their current space and operate primarily wholesale, supplying flats of live microgreens and packaged snipped microgreens to approximately 50 area restaurants, including Sanford, Black Sheep, The Diplomat, Buckley’s and many others. They also sell at farmers markets.

In addition to microgreens, Big City Greens & Gourmet offers community supported agriculture (CSA) boxes. “What makes our CSAs different is that we offer a lot of foraged items,” Diaz said. Customers can get wild greens, berries, spruce tips and wild foraged mushrooms, as well as apples, mini eggplant and more.

De Stefanis and Diaz began foraging when they bought their property in Shawano County and noticed an array of edibles growing everywhere, practically begging to be picked. “We saw how interested the chefs were in foraged foods, and it was natural fit,” De Stefanis said.

In the East Side warehouse, 15 to 20 microgreens varieties pop their leafy heads up from flat trays under LED grow lights. A popular microgreen is the striking dark pink amaranth, which has a mild beet flavor. “It’s beautiful as a garnish, but it also adds a pop of flavor to dishes,” said Diaz.

Other popular microgreens include cilantro; chervil, which has a licorice flavor; young stage basil; sunflower shoots; and peas. Microgreens are ready to snip and eat within seven to 10 days.

De Stefanis and Diaz grow the microgreens in a mixture of peat and perlite.

Despite some challenges of indoor farming such as electricity costs, humidity control and determining the best germination techniques, De Stefanis has noticed more indoor farming operations take root in more places, thus playing a larger role in the future of food production. He and Diaz plan to add an indoor growing operation to their property in Shawano.

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::SPORTS Brett Hundley’s Difficult Situation ::BY PAUL NOONAN

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rett Hundley did not play very well in his first start, but it’s also difficult to tell how he might play with a competent game plan. Green Bay Packers Coach Mike McCarthy’s play calling repeatedly put Hundley in difficult situations, and attempts to protect him through a conservative scheme of short, unproductive throws blew up in their faces. As a result of McCarthy’s game plan, the offense was inept by design, and the defense was forced to stay on the field for almost two thirds of the game. If the Packers’ coaching staff thinks so little of Hundley that they felt the need to limit him this much, they should cut him tomorrow.

‘Protecting the Quarterback’ It’s common when a backup enters the game for a coach to “simplify� the offense to “limit risk� and “protect the quarterback.� I happen to think this is an awful strategy that accomplishes the exact opposite of its intention. When you take away complexity, you make it easier on the defense. When you are so conservative on first and second downs that you repeatedly put your backup in third-andlong situations, you make it easier on the defense. When you call rollout after rollout, essentially taking away half the field, you make it easy on the defense. The chief accomplishment of McCarthy’s offensive game plan was to make things as easy on the New Orleans Saints’ defense as possible. This is a mistake if the quarterback in question is a rookie with no experience. It’s inexcusable with a player who has been in the system for three years with a full week of first team reps.

In the first half, Hundley was at least allowed a few challenging throws, and his scrambles saved the day and put points on the board, but whatever latitude he had in the first half disappeared in the second. Despite trailing late, Hundley attempted only 10 second half passes, completing five for just 31 yards.

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Any team that gets an electrifying performance out of Aaron Jones and two first half interceptions should have no issues jumping to a multi-score lead. When that lead failed to materialize, the Packers were in trouble, and McCarthy should have reacted in the complete opposite fashion.

Hundley Himself Much of McCarthy’s post-game press conference was baffling. He stated that Hundley was uncomfortable in the pocket, but upon watching the game again, this is completely backwards. Hundley showed poise and awareness in the pocket and did a much better job of reading the rush and stepping up this week.

Against the Vikings, Hundley was very successful attacking the Minnesota corners outside the numbers. This week, he was presented with few opportunities to actually make use of outside routes as McCarthy kept everything in tight. Hundley struggled on deep throws and failed to hit Aaron Jones in stride on checkdowns more than once, but on almost every pass play, the Packers telegraphed their intent so blatantly that it’s almost not fair to judge Hundley at all. The Packers did run a few deep plays for Hundley, but on almost all of them, they kept seven or eight blockers in to give him time, meaning that the only routes being run were deep routes. It’s easy for any defense to take away an offense that presents no deception.

On the Packers’ second last drive, with 9:10 remaining in the game and trailing by two, the team faced a third-and-nine situation from their own 11-yard line. Punting this deep would be a disaster as it would hand New Orleans great field position, and the opportunity to take a two-score lead with almost no time left. The Packers sent four receivers into the pattern, and not a single one ran more than five yards downfield. There was no way that anyone would pick up a first down, and, indeed, Martellus Bennett was stopped after a five-yard gain. The Packers gave up the game on that play.

Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter if Brett Hundley is the problem or Mike McCarthy is the problem, because the combination has been a disaster so far, and the combination isn’t going anywhere. If they want to make any kind of a run after the bye, McCarthy has to drastically change his philosophy with Hundley. The Packers’ defense is not good enough to support anything worse than an average offense, and average offenses take chances and don’t hide their quarterbacks.

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panning three weeks at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, “The Arts Bridge Project: A Century of Song” features a centerpiece event on Friday, Oct. 27. Included are performers from the Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra and the Florentine Opera Company—along with students from the Marcus’ Arts Connect program, The Jamie Breiwick Quartet, Sista Strings and TRUE Skool. Celebrated visiting vocalists Alyson Cambridge and Scott Coulter will also take part, with the latter narrating the event.

What could possibly unite such a diverse group of artists? The answer is twofold: a shared passion for cross-germinating Milwaukee’s vibrant arts disciplines and their audiences, and an important centennial celebration. Onehundred years ago, seven artists were born who would shape the landscape of American music and dance forever: Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, Lena Horne, Dean Martin and Jerome Robbins.

Also part of the Arts Bridge Project at the Marcus Center are the Florentine’s production of Franz Lehár’s beloved The Merry Widow (Oct. 20 and 22) and the Ballet’s La Bohème (Nov. 2-5)—Artistic Director Michael Pink’s balletic telling of Giacomo Puccini’s opera.

“It hit the strengths of all the companies,” says Marcus Center Director of Programming and Events John Hassig. “There are great choreographers from 100 years ago and there are great composers, and it made sense to celebrate all the artists that were born 100 years ago with all the artists that are creating art in the city right now.”

Marcus Center Vice President of Sales and Marketing Heidi Lofy explains the project’s major goal: “We felt it was time to try to get audiences to see us holistically, instead of just as individual groups.

The talent here is so incredible that it felt like a really great opportunity to do something for the community that would be unique. Oftentimes, events will be centered on a single genre, like an opera festival or a dance festival.” She explains that this is an opportunity to look across genre. “If I’m an opera lover, do I ever choose to go see a popular dance concert or a jazz concert? Maybe or maybe not. But if I’m invited in because there’s a familiarity with one of the pieces, then I get this opportunity to enjoy all of it in one evening of great entertainment.”

Arts Bridge’s centerpiece event will present works by the centennial artists in nontraditional ways. “There might be a traditional song sung by somebody, but maybe with a different kind of accompaniment, and there’s dance happening at the same time,” Hassig explains.

Artists and Artworks

Describing the Florentine’s contribution to the centerpiece event, General Director Bill Florescu states, “Alyson Cambridge, a Florentine favorite who is playing the lead in our Merry Widow the week before, is singing. She is well known for her work in crossover as well, particularly the Great American Songbook (she has released an album of standards). Our principal conductor, Joseph Rescigno, is conducting, and our Studio Artists (young artists) are singing as well.”

Of the Ballet’s contributions, Pink says, “Five Milwaukee Ballet dancers will perform in The Arts Bridge: Parker Brasser-Vos, Erik Johnson, Barry Molina, Lizzie Tripp and Lahna Vanderbush.” He asked three of the company’s dancers—Garrett Glassman, Timothy

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O’Donnell and Isaac Sharratt—to choreograph a piece each; he created new choreography for Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, which will be performed by the dancers in the Milwaukee Ballet II Program; and invited colleague Ryan Cappleman to create a work.

Uniting the Arts Bridge project is the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, which plays for Merry Widow, the centerpiece event and La Bohème. Lofy says, “Because of this confluence of all of this work, it made sense for the orchestra to be kind of the theme for all three weeks.”

Also notable are the Milwaukee Public Schools students from the Marcus’ Arts Connect program who will take part in the centerpiece event. This program, which features a weeklong summer intensive coupled

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with satellite events throughout the year, fosters young adults seeking meaningful careers in the arts and elsewhere. This is accomplished by connecting students with touring and local artists, providing valuable audition and college application workshops, and granting students access to the city’s many vibrant arts venues.

Arts Connect strives to inspire young people with the knowledge that all artists and arts professionals find unique paths to their callings. “You never know how that path is going to take you,” Hassig says.

“These students eat up these stories because they don’t know what the right path is yet, but it’s helpful hearing that there [are] many different ways to make a living, and, as [New York director] Jonathan Hawkins said [in a workshop with students], ‘You don’t have to be Beyoncé to make a life in the arts.’”

The smaller groups on the docket for Oct. 27 are no less impressive. Sista Strings is comprised of Milwaukee-based sisters Monique and Chauntee Ross— classically trained instrumentalists who incorporate elements of classical and gospel music geared toward social change. The Jamie Breiwick Quartet consists of a veritable who’s-who of Milwaukee’s jazz greats: Breiwick on trumpet Mark Davis on piano, John Price on bass and Devin Drobka on drums. TRUE Skool, meanwhile, has been working with The Arts area youth since 2004.

Bridge Project: The nonprofit offers A Century numerous arts-based programs, workshops of Song and community events 7:30 p.m., based on the philosoFriday, Oct. 27 phy that the culture Marcus of the “Golden Era of Center for the Hip-Hop” can be used Performing Arts to empower positive social change.

Foundational to all performances offered at the centerpiece event are songs from the Great American Songbook, which the seven centennial artists played such a significant role in creating. Like the artists behind Art Bridge, “All of these artists in one way or another expanded audiences by infusing art forms with influences from other forms, i.e. Bernstein introduced jazz elements into classical music and Broadway,” Florescu says.

On the Oct. 27 program, look for favorites including “I Got Rhythm” featuring vocals by the Florentine Studio Artists and Arts Connect students, dance by Barry Molina, choreography by Ryan Cappleman and accompaniment by John Boswell and the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra; “Summertime” with vocals by Alyson Cambridge, instrumentals from Sista Strings, dance by Lizzie Tripp and choreography by Garrett Glassman; and a piece centered on Monk and Gillespie at the top of Act II which Hassig says gives him chills and which he describes simply as “a hot 10 minutes that people are not going to want to miss.”

To learn more about the Arts Bridge Project and purchase tickets, visit marcuscenter.org.

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::THISWEEKINMILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE THURSDAY, OCT. 26 Food Fright! @ Lakefront Brewery, 7 p.m.

The Shepherd Express is proud to co-sponsor Lakefront Brewery’s Food Fright!, a fundraiser for Local First Milwaukee. Come hungry: 13 Milwaukee restaurants and chefs will be sharing locally sourced small plates, while the Lakefront Brewery staff will offer “haunted” brewery tours, and 5 Card Studs and DJ Cat Reince provide the music. There will also be a costume contest with a $100 cash prize. Tickets are available at shepherdtickets.com.

Wolf Parade w/ Charly Bliss @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

Few indie-rock bands of the 2000s delivered more thrills per minute than Wolf Parade, the jittery Canadian ensemble whose 2005 debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, remains one of the most exciting, unpredictable records of the era. Side projects kept the band apart for years at a time, while Spencer Krug played in groups like Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes, Swan Lake and Moonface, and Dan Boeckner recorded with Handsome Furs and started Divine Fits, a side project with Brit Daniel of Spoon. Thankfully, last year the group reunited, and now they have a new album to show for it: Cry Cry Cry, released this month on Sub Pop. The band’s dour humor and dynamic choruses remain as impactful as ever.

Charly Bliss, a lovable New York power-pop band whose debut album, Guppy, is sure to appear on quite a few critics’ year end lists, opens.

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Halloween Cover Show @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

It’s one of Halloween’s silliest but most entertaining traditions: Each year, members of the local music scene get in the holiday spirit by dressing up as some of their favorite artists and paying tribute to them with covers sets. This show at Cactus Club features some fun selections. Members of The Sleepwalkers and Bad Wig will do a Superdrag tribute set; Brat Sounds will pay homage to the Misfits and The Ramones; some players from Madison will do a Go Gos’ set; and members of Calliope and Airo Kwil will perform as a group called Madonnavanna. If you don’t get your fill at this show, an unrelated bill at Linneman’s Riverwest Inn on Saturday, Oct. 28 will feature tributes to Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, The Undertones, The Damned and The Knack.

Proving that talented string players are always in demand, the Florida classical/hip-hop duo Black Violin have performed and recorded with artists as diverse as Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Aerosmith, Alicia Keyes and the late Tom Petty. Violinist Kev Marcus and viola player Wil B. have saved some of their best work, however, for their own recordings, which pair the compositional dexterity of classical music with the rhythmic thrust of rap. This concert is co-presented by Black Arts MKE and the Marcus Center.

Tim Reynolds and TR3 w/ Sam Llanas @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

To most fans, Tim Reynolds is best known for his work with the Dave Matthews Band. In fact, in many fan circles, the guitarist is considered as integral to that band as Dave Matthews himself.

Reynolds is also a band leader in his own right, though. In the mid-’80s, he formed the power trio TR3, a group that spiked their electric rock with shades of funk and jazz. After a long hiatus in the ’00s, the group reconvened in 2007 and has recorded several albums since as Reynolds has done double duty, recording with both Matthews and his own band.

KMFDM w/ OhGr @ The Rave, 8 p.m.

From their beginnings as a performance-art project in the early ’80s, German noise fetishists KMFDM emerged as one of the earliest, most-pioneering and, eventually, longest-running industrial acts. The band has experienced a good deal of turnover over the decades, leaving frontman Sascha Konietzko the band’s only original member, but their recent output has remained true to the harsh spirit of the group’s earliest recordings—their intense 12th and latest album, Hell Yeah, is yet another brutal opus. By now, Konietzko should be very familiar with The Rave: His band has played there seven times before, their first being a show with Korn back in October 1995.

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Nightmare on Center Street III @ multiple venues, 8 p.m.

Here’s a perfect Halloween night out for music fans who have trouble staying in one place. The label VoodooHoney has organized another installment of its Nightmare on Center Street concert crawl, a lineup of shows at venues along one of Riverwest’s busier main streets, including Company Brewing, the Jazz Gallery, Quarters Rock ’n’ Roll Palace and High Dive. The lineup includes artists from Milwaukee and beyond, including Minneapolis’ Nelson Devereaux (from Bon Iver), Chicago’s Lili K and Milwaukeeans like Foreign Goods, Rio Turbo, Genesis Renji, Raj Raiden, Sex Scenes, Lorde Fredd33, Klassik, Vincent VanGREAT and Zed Kenzo, among many, many others. Cover is $10 for any given show, or $15 for a wristband that lets you show hop all night.

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Sparky and Rhonda Rucker @ Beulah Brinton House, 4 p.m.

From time to time, Bay View’s historic Beulah Brinton House (2590 S. Superior St.) hosts intimate concerts, but this show may be its most high profile yet. For decades, folk songwriter Sparky Rucker and his wife, Rhonda Rucker, have toured the country behind some of the earliest forms of American music, performing old spirituals, work songs, railroad songs, slave songs, Appalachian obscurities, old-time blues and music from the Civil War, while sharing the stories behind those songs. They’ve appeared on NPR’s “Prairie Home Companion” and on the Grammy-nominated folk anthology Singing Through the Hard Times.

Admission for this performance is a suggested donation of $15.

Nick Lowe’s Quality Rock ’n’ Roll Revue featuring Los Straitjackets @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

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Elvis Costello’s cover of Nick Lowe’s “(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” turned the song into a hit, but it was Curtis Stigers’ less-celebrated cover of that song from the massive-selling soundtrack to The Bodyguard that earned Lowe a fortune in royalties. Perhaps because of that wealth, Lowe now works at the leisurely pace of a retiree, recording a new album every five years or so and touring when he feels like it. Those low stakes have yielded some great results over the years—his newer albums tend to be leisurely, country-shaded affairs—but after all these years, the stately songwriter still has some surprises in him. At this show, Lowe shares billing with the Nashville cult surf band Los Straitjackets; they’ll perform separately and together. The Cut Worms open.

Scott Coulter

Alyson Cambridge

The Marcus Center is home to the finest performing artists in Wisconsin, including the Milwaukee Ballet and Florentine Opera.

Arts Bridge: A Century of Song brings together the Broadway flair of the Marcus Center, dance expertise of the Milwaukee Ballet and the unmatched vocals of Alyson Cambridge and the Florentine Opera Studio Artists in a celebration of the works of famous artists born 100 years ago. The evening will be narrated by vocalist, Scott Coulter, who will take the audience through two acts of music by Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Leonard Bernstein and more!

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TUESDAY, OCT. 31 Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie @ The Riverside Theater, 7 p.m.

For years you could count on one holdout from any Fleetwood Mac tour: singer-keyboardist Christine McVie, who retired from touring in 1998 and sat out the band’s last official full-length album, 2003’s Say You Will. Fans were thrilled, then, when McVie rejoined the group in 2014, and even more thrilled by talk of a new album. But since this is Fleetwood Mac, one of those most legendarily dramatic groups of all time, that new album wasn’t meant to be (singer Stevie Nicks essentially vetoed it). Absent Nicks’ participation, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and McVie went ahead and recorded some of the music they’d been working on for an album they released this summer simply titled Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie. Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie perform on the album, making it the closest thing to an “official” Fleetwood Mac album fans can probably expect for quite a while.

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Wael Farouk

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Fall Masterworks Concert There are, indeed, “masterworks” on the program of the Racine Symphony Orchestra’s next concert, and there is also a master musician. The latter is Wael Farouk, an Egyptian American pianist who has performed on five continents and once gave a highly acclaimed five-recital series in Chicago featuring all of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s solo piano works. He’s appeared with several orchestras around the world as well, including the North Czech Philharmonic, Manhattan Symphony, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and the SaintÉtienne National Orchestra.

Dr. Farouk is the featured soloist for a performance of Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (1830), with the RSO under its maestro, Pasquale Laurino. The work is dominated by its Allegro maestoso risoluto first movement and represents a rare foray of Chopin’s into orchestral writing. The acclaimed pianist Martha Argerich has said of the work: “The virtuosity—which is tremendous because it’s terribly difficult—it’s there, but it has to be like an understatement,” and evocatively spoke of “this element of ... a very beautiful, poisoned flower, sometimes.” Also on the program are Ludwig van Beethoven’s dramatic Egmont Overture and Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 86 in D Major, the penultimate work of his so-called “Paris Symphonies.” (John Jahn) Saturday, Oct. 28 at Frances Bedford Concert Hall, UW-Parkside, 900 Wood Road. For tickets, call 262-636-9285 or visit racinesymphony.org.

There are some works of literature that stand the test of time remarkably well; a highly relatable plot and identifiable characters are usually the main reasons for a work’s longevity. Such is the case with the French Gothic-Romantic novel The Hunchback of NotreDame by Victor Hugo, first published in 1831. It has it all: love, jealousy, lust, vengeance, obsession, beauty, ugliness.

A sure sign of Hunchback’s success is the fact that it has been adapted for the dramatic as well as the musical stage and, most famously and frequently, film. In fact, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame appeared on the silver screen seven times between 1911 and 1996—the last of those as an animated Disney musical. In 1999, Disney’s theatrical arm produced a stage musical version of their ’96 film in Berlin, where it became one of the city’s longest-running musicals.

It is that musical—in Peter Parnell’s American version—that makes its way to the live stage via Waukesha Civic Theatre. Directed by Mark E. Schuster, the production features Ryan Peter Dziuba as the heroic, deformed bellringer, Quasimodo; Brant Allen as the evil Dom Claude Frollo; and Andrea Ehlinger as the tragic heroine, Esmeralda. (John Jahn) Oct. 27-Nov. 12 at the Margaret Brate Bryant Civic Theatre Building, 264 W. Main St., Waukesha. For tickets, call 262-547-0708 or visit waukeshacivictheatre.org.

Night of the Living Dead Talk about a profit margin! The 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead was made on a budget of $114,000; it went on to gross $12 million in domestic release and $18 million internationally. While critics disdained its gory bloodletting, the public devoured it.

A cult classic, Night of the Living Dead made it onto the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry as a “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” movie; not too bad for a way-low-budget horror flick with a no-name cast.

Night of the Living Dead is the stuff of a puppet show by Angry Young Men, Ltd., which, as they describe, “is a puppet creation-performance collective that has been building and performing puppetry in Milwaukee since 2007.” As for their moniker: “We’re not especially angry, not getting any younger, and there are actually several women in the group. It’s misleading, but what are you gonna do?”

As you might expect, it’s not all dead serious: “The jokes come a mile a minute,” and “the show is considered PG-13—for ‘Puppet Gore’ and an adolescent sense of humor.”

Yes, kids are welcome but, as the Angry Young Men say: “Parents be warned! We like to warp minds while they’re young.” (John Jahn) Oct. 26-28 at Next Act Theatre, 255 S. Water St. For tickets, call 414-278-0765 or visit nextact.org/rental-events/living-dead.

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Bible Smugglers Morning Star Productions’ Mary Atwood describers her Christian-based theatrical production company’s Bible Smugglers as an “escape game-interactive play” offered “as an alternative to trick or treat,” in which “patrons can dress in 16th-century costumes, and groups that win the escape game will get a traditional ‘treat.’” Given this month’s 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation, Atwood states that Smugglers “will have events from Martin Luther’s life woven into the story.” Multiple performances take place throughout Oct. 28 and 29 at Wooded Hills Church, 777 Highway 164, Colgate. For tickets, call 414-520-4124 or visit morningstarproductions.org.

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‘Dancing on the Ceiling’ is a Fabulous Protest

by Women of Stature ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

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ears ago, when the internationally acclaimed dancer, choreographer, scholar and teacher Simone Ferro agreed to chair UW-Milwaukee’s dance program, she would sometimes lie on the studio floor after the students had gone to feel the energy of the youngsters whose hope for lives in art gave meaning to her new desk job. Last weekend, Ferro herself danced again, filling the studio theater with mature artistry in an unforgettable, quite probably historic concert of solos by six women in their fifth and sixth decades of life.

Dancing on the Ceiling, conceived and produced

by Ferro, also included solos by Milwaukee’s Debra Loewen, Madison’s Li Chiao-Ping, Pittsburgh’s Beth Corning, Charlotte Adams of the University of Iowa and Sara Hook of the University of Illinois-Urbana

Champaign. All have significant international credits and enormous stage presence. Milwaukee is the second stop on a planned national tour.

To quiet traffic sounds in quiet light, Ferro’s heartdriven solo was composed by one of those former aspiring UWM students, Mauriah Kraker, who became a leading member of Loewen’s Wild Space Dance Company and now studies with Hook toward a masters in fine art. An explorer and traveler, Ferro seemed to carefully intuit her way across some new ground to a next stage of life, perhaps.

The remaining solos were self-choreographed.

Loewen presented a drawing of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, clipped her hair, let the strands fall and explained the formula as a “fuzziness” regarding place and behavior. Then she danced, beautifully, a full range of movement possibilities, and I saw in her the great women of modern dance. She was eventually joined by sax virtuoso David Collins, a longtime collaborator whose presence underlined her own dance history.

Through virtuosic clowning, Corning showed us generations of her family—voluble, fragile and vividly alive around a dinner table. We also saw her loss; these folks are gone. We saw her dead, too; the tablecloth became her shroud. Then, no, she’s vibrantly alive, and they are living in her.

Hook became a woman trying to be everything required of a woman and an artist until doing so became too damaging. With amazing strength and flexibility, Li took us from astonishment to astonishment against her recorded voice reciting an encyclopedic list of words and imperatives starting with “be.” Adams danced naked on the rim of a bathtub, her middle-aged body lithe and graceful. She was glamourous, self-possessed, funny, natural, enjoying the time and, it seemed, needing no more. Not just dancers but all older women, Ferro said afterwards, are made invisible. This show is a fabulous protest.

Florentine Opera’s ‘Merry Widow’ BY KATHY WITTMAN

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The Florentine Opera’s Charming ‘Merry Widow’ ::BY STEVE SPICE

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t was appropriate that Early Music Now, ever mindful of history, celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation with a concert Saturday evening. The Dutch male vocal ensemble Cappella Pratensis performed a program of music from the early years of the Reformation at Grace Lutheran Church at Juneau and Broadway.

On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther sent his NinetyFive Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences to the Archbishop of Mainz, setting in motion what would become a break with the Roman Catholic Church and the foundation of Protestantism. In those early years, before the emergence of a liturgy in GerSHEPHERD EXPRESS

man, Luther advocated retaining the Latin Mass, with alterations. Cappella Pratensis constructed a Christmas Mass in Latin of music that might have been heard in Wittenberg, Germany, where Luther was living in the 1520s.

The eight voices of the a cappella ensemble sang with remarkable fluidity and a sure sense of tuning. I particularly noticed how the singers matched vowels so closely, which is the fundamental requirement for true vocal blend. The men rang chords that were so perfectly in tune that they sounded as if created by some great instrument. This performance was a masterful display of sophisticated expression and musicianship.

Five of the pieces were by Dutch composer Heinrich Isaac, with others by Adam Rener and Johann Walter, as well as plainchants. The singers primarily sang at the altar during this Mass, moving away and down front for the two hymns in German. There was some liturgical logic to this, but it did create a visual issue to see the group gathered around a large wooden music stand, obscuring faces, during most of the concert. However historical this may be, it’s an unsatisfying audience experience when you can’t see the faces of the singers.

The program ended with Praeter rerum seriem by Josquin Desprez, showing a different style, with the emboldened, expressive dissonances of the high Renaissance. As with many EMN concerts, this began at 5 p.m. The ornate stained-glass windows began in full sunlight, and over the next hour came the magical, slow coming of twilight.

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he Florentine Opera’s season opener, The Merry Widow, turned out to be a mixed bag of delights offering a series of delightful plot and musical confections. Franz Lehár’s comedic approach to the romantic misadventures is designed to move with effortless aplomb. The cast as a whole moved through their roles with an infectious commitment that almost convinced the audience that they were having fun, despite some strenuous effort.

Yet, almost without exception, they were clearly having difficulty inhabiting the vocal demands of their roles, limited by their efforts for greater volume and clearer delivery. Corey McKern as Count Danilo came off best as he tried to ease himself gracefully into his role as he pursues the wealthy widow. The lovely Alyson Cambridge, wellremembered as the Florentine’s Madame Butterfly a few seasons ago, sounded strident at times and scooped strenuously for her high notes, which did not require that much effort because she possesses a lovely high range. Part of the problem was the dry acoustics at Uihlein Hall, which seemed to force the singers to over-project where a less selfconscious approach would have been more pleasing.

Stacy Dove and Vale Rideout as the young lovers did not fare much better in roles that challenged their vocal endowments. The betterknown numbers, “Going to Maxim’s” and the lovely “Vilya the Witch of the Woods,” sounded tentative. The cast almost concealed their vocal shortcomings with a fervor that usually kept the audience delighted.

The sets were appropriately middle-European, and the Milwaukee Ballet provided a much-needed sense of freewheeling bon vivant under the skillful direction of Petr Zahradníček—especially stunning in the “Maxim’s” number in the last act. Some acting honors must go to Jamie Offenbach as Baron Zeta and to Rodell Rosel in his amusing shtick as his sidekick. The overall charm of the production carried the day.

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‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’

Join Mark Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and O’Brien Fellow, as he discusses his “Outbreak” series and leads a panel discussion of experts and students.

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he honeyed sunlight streams woods triggered memories of flies, big horrible through the leafy branches of things that infested the trenches and reminded Ashdown Forest, the setting and him of combat. Meanwhile, Daphne, a cosmoinspiration for A.A. Milne’s be- politan socialite, was drawn to the bright things loved Winnie-the-Pooh. In Good- of Jazz Age London. She carried their child and bye Christopher Robin the idyllic woods is moved to the country to make her husband happy also the backdrop for emotional complications and, since he remained unhappy, she resented between Milne (Domhnall Gleeson); his wife, him.

Daphne (Margot Robbie); their child, ChristoDaphne abandoned husband and son for sevpher Robin (Will Tilston); and even their nanny eral months of nightlife. During that time the (Kelly Macdonald). The series of children’s sto- walks father and son took in the woods, their ries that grew out of their family and home in playtime with stuffed animals, grew into a web Ashdown Forest brought happiness to a world of names and associations that inspired Winnieof readers and wealth to their author but mixed the-Pooh and friends. The boy and his dad led blessings to the Milnes. each other into a private world Directed by Britain’s Simon of imagination—beautifully renCurtis with a “Masterpiece Thedered on screen—that the wider atre” sensibility for accurately reworld soon would share.

Goodbye producing an era in cars, clothes When the books became bestChristopher and home furnishings, Goodsellers, the media sensation is a bye Christopher Robin sprints great lark for Daphne but Milne’s Robin comfortably along from Milne’s face registers dismay that the spotDomhnall harrowing World War I service light falls less on him than on his Gleeson in the trenches through his difson, the child protagonist of the Will Tilston ficult adjustment to peacetime, stories. The reality of their family his sometimes fraught relations life bends to serve the needs of a Directed by with Daphne and his retreat to the voracious press and a public hunSimon Curtis woods where the muses eventually gry for sensation. Celebrity was Rated PG whispered like the wind in the tree fun at first for the boy but begins branches. The screenplay veers beto weigh more heavily as the retween two poles, the innocence of lentless machinery of marketing childhood and the cruelty of adultturns him into a show pony. hood. Milne, who experienced extreme cruelty Although the popularity of Milne’s honeyunder fire on the Western Front, left a legacy of devouring bear is never explained, and despite nostalgia for innocence inevitably lost. flourishes of melodrama, Goodbye Christopher In the language of his day, he suffered from Robin is an imaginative depiction of the creative shell shock. Today, the disorder is called post- process and the burden of popularity. The story’s traumatic shock but under any name, it resulted whimsy carries the day, yet the film dares to in sporadic outbursts that left his boy understand- show the scars hidden behind the cheery face of ably frightened. Even the sound of bees in the Winnie-the-Pooh.

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[HOME MOVIES/OUT ON DIGITAL] n Queen of the Desert

Nicole Kidman plays Gertrude Bell, a real-life British adventurer, as a free spirit chaffing at restriction—an educated woman escaping low expectations.

She comes alive in the Middle East during the run-up to World War I where she finds dignity and purpose amid the Bedouin and crosses paths with a man of similar interests, T.E. Lawrence. Director Werner Herzog endows his 2015 Orientalist fable with a cinematic beauty that recalls his 1970s art-house classics.

n A Fish Called Wanda

Kevin Kline earned an Oscar as the rage-aholic American assassin-wannabe in this very British comedy. A Fish Called Wanda (1988) was written by John Cleese (Monty Python), directed by veteran Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) and concerned an eccentric crime gang led by the manipulative Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis). Cleese plays an unhappy English barrister drawn into a criminal-sexual caper comparable to The Pink Panther. The Yanks are butt of the most of the jokes.

n The Old Dark House

Seeking shelter on a stormy night, two carloads of travelers find themselves in a remote mansion tenanted by a dangerous family and their sinister, inarticulate servant (Boris Karloff ). Directed by James Whale in between Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, The Old Dark House (1932) injects a touch of camp and a jigger of sexual frankness into the gothic tropes of a creepy manor in a thunderstorm. The A-List cast includes Charles Laughton in his Hollywood debut.

n Meat

This New Zealand documentary by David White spends time with the country’s farmers—small producers who help their animals give birth and grant them plenty of legroom in their pens. Society presses them to produce more at the same time that others question the ethics of eating meat. An interesting perspective comes from a hunter who considers shooting game as “an ethical harvest”; he fills his freezer from foraging yet admits to buying bacon.

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An Evening with Raoul Peck Director Raoul Peck built the Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro around the notes James Baldwin assembled in 1979 for a book he never completed on the lives (and deaths) of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., along with another slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evers. Peck visually links Baldwin’s pessimism on American race relations with recent images from Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere. “I don’t think there is much hope,” Baldwin told talk show host Dick Cavett in a 1968 discussion at the film’s opening.

The director is the star of “An Evening with Raoul Peck,” taking place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26, in the UW-Milwaukee Student Union’s Wisconsin Room. It’s a ticketed event that is free to students (the latter can pick up tickets at the Student Union Information Desk). Peck will also speak in conversation with former French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira at UWM’s Curtin Hall 175 at 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27. (David Luhrssen)

All I See Is You R Writer-director Marc Forster asks how a blind woman’s identity would change were her sight restored. The question arises for Gina (Blake Lively), whose seemingly devoted husband, James (Jason Clarke), has described her world as he wishes her to imagine it. When a groundbreaking surgery restores Gina’s vision, she’s first excited and then shocked to find how much was misrepresented by James. In the realm between blindness and sight, we see what Gina sees, but Forster withholds facts in an attempt to increase tension. That fails, but he certainly triples our confusion. (Lisa Miller)

Geostorm PG-13 In the near future, Earth’s weather is stabilized by climate-controlling satellites. System architect Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) is fired for saying what he thinks and replaced by his more politically correct brother, Max (Jim Sturgess). That is until the satellite system is hacked, and Jake returns to prevent “climategeddon” by using the International Space Station as a base for his daring space jockeying. Back on Earth, special effects depict the freezing, burning and melting caused by weather gone wild. Director-co-writer Dean Devlin is the heir apparent of mentor-director Roland Emmerich, whose climate disaster films 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow are similarly notable for cliché plotlines and hackneyed dialogue. (L.M.)

Jigsaw R When Saw 3D was released in 2010, the producers promised it would be the last in a long line of torture-porn flicks. However, Lionsgate, the studio making upwards of $100 million from each $10 million production, surely had its paws crossed. In this eighth installment, someone calling himself Jigsaw (the supposedly dead perpetrator of ingenious killing-torture schemes), forces unfortunate souls to mutilate themselves trying to escape his traps, or die horrifically. It’s one way to celebrate Halloween (Saw’s traditional release season), or to learn which of your friends can keep down their popcorn, come what may. (L.M.)

Suburbicon R Written by the Coen brothers 30 years ago, director George Clooney and collaborator Grant Heslov updated the script, which now suffers from competing agendas. During the 1950s, buttoned-down corporate accountant Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) resides in idyllic suburbia.

Robbers (Glenn Flesher and Alex Hassell) attack his home, causing the death of Lodge’s wife (Julianne Moore). Fortunately, her sister (also played by Moore) moves in to care for Gardner’s young son, Nicky (Noah Jupe). Gardner guards secrets of his own when a local cop (Oscar Isaac) shows up to investigate the break in. Meanwhile, the community’s first black family seems like nice folks but is mightily resented by locals subscribing to separatism. Clooney appears intent on making a point, but he gives us no one to root for and nothing to believe in. (L.M.)

Thank You for Your Service R Adapted from the nonfiction book by David Finkel, Thank You for Your Service opens by depicting the Iraq war as experienced by a group of American soldiers. At the end of their tours, the soldiers return to the States, haunted by disturbing memories that impede reconnecting with spouses, family, friends and civilian life. This territory, successfully covered in American Sniper, remains at once fascinating and devastating. In a side note, one can try to imagine what role comedienne Amy Schumer will play in a biographical war drama film. (L.M.)

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Potter Gerit Grimm Assembles Parts of the Whole at MOWA ::BY JUDITH ANN MORIARTY

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maid born in Germany in 1973 is destined to spend the first 15 years of her life living east of the Berlin Wall. “Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev,” a voice demands, and so it was the wall tumbled down in 1989. Gerit Grimm, the aforementioned “maid,” was producing pots and bowls for a German factory that left her yearning for more than pretty objects glazed like sugar-coated baked goods. Eventually, with additional and rigorous training, she found a good fit as an assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Grimm claims no kinship to the brothers Grimm, but it’s fair to say her unglazed stoneware figures, fashioned on a potter’s wheel, are amazing tales each and every one. Cunningly crafted part by part, then assembled with elegance and grace, the seven distinct groupings curated by Graeme Reid populate the Hyde Gallery in the white wedge Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA), crowning a hill in West Bend, Wis. Woe to you who rush through this exhibition, for you will miss the exquisite tenderness, the joyful lightheartedness and the knock-your-socks-off seriousness of the grouping positioned at the east end of the gallery.

The figures depict key scenes from the crucifixion, entombment and Christ lovingly cradled in Mary’s arms.

So lovely, so alive, so in the moment is Grimm’s work that it is easy to forget that it begins as a lump of clay on a potter’s wheel. What gold she spins from a most humble material.

Grimm is brilliant, and so is MOWA for bringing her work to us.

The exhibition, “Gerit Grimm’s Fairytales: In A Time Neither Now Nor Then,” runs through Jan. 14, 2018 at the Museum for Wisconsin Art, 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend. (left) Gerit Grimm, Village Tree (detail), Stoneware, 56 x 23 x 23”, 2011 (right) Gerit Grimm, Big Couple, Stoneware, 74 x 27 x 27”, 2012

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I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS),

BY LOUIS MOORE

Denigrating the “other” is one of the necessities of racism, and in the U.S. this often took the form of emasculating depictions of African American men. I Fight for a Living shows that representations of black men as servile or childish was questioned by the rise of professional black boxers in the 19th century. Pouring over contemporary newspapers and sports columns, Louis Moore, history professor at Grand Valley State University, reconstructs a lost prize-fighting subculture that saw blacks beating whites in the ring—until interracial boxing was banned in many jurisdictions. I Fight for a Living also illuminates attitudes of the black middle class, which at first saw boxing as playing into white stereotypes of black savagery but began to embrace the sport for reinforcing “their belief in racial equality” and as “an exercise in merit and manhood.” (David Luhrssen)

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (PUBLICAFFAIRS),

BY LAURA SPINNEY

In the segregated U.S. Army of 1918, the outbreak of Spanish Flu posed a particular problem. The faces of many victims darkened until, as an army doctor noted, it became “hard to distinguish the colored men from the white.” It’s one of the interesting items unearthed by British science writer Laura Spinney in her account of the pandemic that spread across every continent save Antarctica in 1918-19 and—by some estimates—killed nearly 5% of the world’s population. The virus didn’t originate in Spain (“an historical wrong set in stone,” she writes of the misnomer) but possibly at a U.S. Army basic training camp in Kansas; recruits leaving to fight in World War I might have spread the infection to the east coast and Europe. Pale Rider is weakest on how the flu “changed the world” but serves as a reminder of the greatest demographic disaster of the last century and perhaps all time. Could it happen again? (David Luhrssen)

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Lives Cut Short by Guns ::BY JENNI HERRICK

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he statistics are staggering: The United States accounts for 91% of children killed by guns in high-income countries; Americans own more guns than any other nation; and every day, an average of seven children die from gun violence in the United States. On Nov. 23, 2013, 10 American children were killed by guns and, while statistically a bit higher than the national average, the day was typical in that all 10 victims were young men/boys and seven were African American.

Gary Younge’s book, Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, is an intimately researched and highly upsetting account of the powerful and diverse stories of gun violence that are wreaking havoc in communities around the country. Each chapter showcases the deeply moving narrative of a murdered young boy by exploring the tragic circumstances leading up to his death.

In Another Day in the Death of America, Younge provides a gripping account of what communities from Midwestern farm country to inner-city Chicago are experiencing as gun violence continues to unnecessarily claim young victims.

Younge, a columnist for The Nation and editor-at-large for The Guardian, is scheduled to headline Cardinal Stritch University’s 2017 Kendall Lecture Series at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26. This annual university event invites the campus community to read and discuss a common book that coincides with one of the university’s Franciscan values. Younge’s keynote address is free and open to the public, and a book-signing and reception will follow the talk.

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ori Vance is a therapist, but not in a traditional sense. The director of Express Yourself Milwaukee (ExYoMKE) spends her days helping at-risk students create art. After SOUL 2017, this year’s spring performance of dance, music and on-stage painting, ExYo left their former studio on 34th and Lisbon for a spacious third-floor space overlooking Downtown at 13th and Vine above Running Rebels, a fellow nonprofit devoted to helping youth succeed. These two community organizations have history together, as ExYo’s first studio shared space with the group.

What do you like about this new studio compared to the old?

It’s brighter; it’s bigger. One of the artists said this summer when he first came in, “You know, when you look out over the city it feels like it’s yours.” What a great feeling for kids, to look out and see the whole Downtown area.

Do you think the move will have an impact on participation?

I think coming here is going to be easier because it’s a familiar youth-serving space. We haven’t had any problems with people transitioning. Our first move to 34th and Lisbon really helped us solidify our organizational identity, and now kind of rejoining with Running Rebels has really exciting potential for growth for the organization. I don’t anticipate kids having a problem finding us.

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What will you miss about the old space?

We had a pop-up gallery across the street from our studio there. We were just talking about what we’re going to do to replace that. But I’m really interested in how we stay connected to the work that we did there.

How does ExYo use art as a means of therapy?

What I learned early on is that a lot of kids in Wisconsin, if they don’t have family resources, access mental health programs through Corrections; they get expelled from school, they start hanging out with the wrong kids, they get in trouble, they get arrested and held, and therein lies a negative path for kids.

It’s not that simple, but our basis as a mental health provider is to look at what the basic premise is for mental health—and that’s being safe. So our mission is to create a creative space where it’s safe for youth to share who they really are with each other.

How did the idea for ExYo come about?

We’re an affiliate of a national program out of Boston and our parent organization is funded from the Department of Mental Health. But I’m a therapist, and when Sept. 11 happened, my kids were in Milwaukee Public Schools and I thought, “There’s a war zone here.” Things changed from then. ExYo’s model is that every group has a team of regular volunteers, so no one person holds an answer for another person. Kids can join at whatever level they’re safe. I feel like safety is a process.

What about ExYo’s connection to the art community?

Our work is a collaboration between the youth and professional artists, so it has the flavor of both. It has an aesthetic quality that a professional artist brings, but the energy and the themes of the youth that are engaged in it.

ExYo puts on an annual show at the Miller High Life Theater. Do you also have events through the year?

We have a monthly Good EATS (Expressions At The Studio), which is an open mic. I’ve had people call and say, “What are you serving tonight?” Uhh, poetry and music. But it’s not just poetry; it’s multi-art. So if there’s visual art being worked on, that’ll be displayed, too. It’s a very warm and safe place to share creative energy. Everyone is invited to attend as audience members or performers.

Good EATS takes place on the second Friday of every month, 5-7 p.m. at the ExYoMKE Studio, 1300 W. Fond du Lac Ave. On Friday, Dec. 8, from 5-7 p.m., join the ExYo artists and staff for a special open house celebration with open mic, artist showcase, holiday snacks and art making. To learn more about the organization, visit exyomke.org.

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t’s here…it’s here…the high holy day for the LGBTQ community—Halloween! Between the costumes (I’ve seen everything from sexy sailors to sexy ears of corn, no lie), the parties (both at bars and in homes), the horror movies (watch ’em in the theaters, in clubs, on TV), the contests and all the other spooky soirees, my social calendar is loaded with haunted happenings.

In fact, there are so many great ways to celebrate, I’m going to forgo my advice column this week so I can share them all with you. Grab a costume (or not), and paint the town orange this week. It’s Halloween, after all! Let’s have some devilish fun!

Oct. 26: Tori Amos at The Orpheum Theatre (216 State St., Madison): Kick off Halloween with a must-see concert when the infamous coppertop brings her Native Invader Tour to Mad City. A favorite of the LGBTQ community, the songstress is sure to delight Wisconsin audiences. Tickets for the 8 p.m. concert start at $42 and can be found at ticketnetwork.com.

Oct. 26: Halloween with Trixie Mattel at This Is It (418 E. Wells St.): Milwaukee’s favorite breakout girl comes home with this annual evening of tricks and treats. Join the comedy queen who will emcee the 8 p.m. costume contest, awarding hundreds of dollars in cash and prizes. Don’t forget to check out the bar’s new outdoor space, too!

Oct. 27: Ghosts Under Glass at the Mitchell Park Domes (524 S. Layton Blvd.): Get your ghost on with this family friendly feast for the eyes. Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos with a light show, indoor trick-or-treating, crafts, tours of the “haunted tropical dome” and more. Swing by milwaukeedomes.org for additional information on the $8 event. The fun fright fest starts at 6 p.m.

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Oct. 27: Marvel Comix Night at D.I.X. (739 S. First St.): Satiate your cosplay cravings with this monthly nod to Marvel comics. A Bat-villain drag show, shot boys, dancing and more round out the change-of-pace evening that kicks off at 10 p.m.

Oct. 27: ‘Deadtime Stories’ with the Brew City Bombshells at Company Brewing (735 E. Center St.): Cream City’s favorite burlesque troupe promises to scare you right out of their pants! A $10 door charge ($8 if you’re in costume) gets you into the 10:30 p.m. show and costume contest. The naughty gals of this sexy, spooky and silly show only flash their talents to audiences of those 21 and older.

Oct. 28: Let’s Brunch MKE at Italian Community Center (631 E. Chicago St.): Grab your brunch bunch and hit this sensational sampling of the city’s best! Twenty of Milwaukee’s favorite brunch hot spots offer tastes of their menu for a $35 door charge.

From Bloody Marys to burgers and from coffee to cakes, the 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. food fest is an eye-opener you won’t want to miss.

Oct. 28: ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ at Landmark’s Oriental Theatre (2230 N. Farwell Ave.): Ring in Halloween with Dr. Frank N. Furter and his cast of misfits during the infamous midnight movie. The cast of Sensual Daydreams brings the film to life in front of the screen, hosts two costume contests, plays games with the audience and

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Oct. 28 & 29: Disney in Concert: Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ at the Riverside Theater (116 W. Wisconsin Ave.): Looking for a new way to celebrate Halloween? The Milwaukee Symphony performs Danny Elfman’s delightful score in a live-to-film presentation with Tim Burton’s classic movie. Tickets start at $29.50. Stop by pabsttheater.org for tickets and show times.

Oct. 29: Love is Love: An LGBT & Allies Wedding Showcase at Hilton Milwaukee City Center (509 W. Wisconsin Ave.): The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce wants to help you plan your big day. Vendors specializing in everything from food to flowers will be on hand, demonstrating how they can make your wedding a day to remember.

The expo runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Oct. 31: Trick or Treat: The Afterglow at Fluid (819 S. Second St.): Treat yourself to a few tricks on Halloween with this bewitching 9:30 p.m. gala hosted by Dita Von. In addition to scary specialty cocktails, the night includes a costume contest, drag performances and more.

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Our Milwaukee AIDS Walk History ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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s LGBT History Month draws to a close it’s necessary to reflect on exactly what our history is truly about. Obviously, history is a complex notion and includes any number of perspectives. But whether political, social, recreational or otherwise, they all intersect, becoming intertwined to produce the narrative that is our community’s history.

I was reminded of this at this year’s AIDS Walk Wisconsin, the event’s 28th anniversary.

The first was in 1990. Predicated by the HIV virus’ seismic appearance in San Francisco a decade earlier, the Walk was one of many fundraising events created to support the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, a specialized comprehensive health service organization that evolved from the BestD Clinic’s Milwaukee AIDS Project. Since its inception, the Walk has raised more than $12.5 million. The event has always had a celebrity honorary chairperson. The first were co-chairs Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist and his wife, Susan Mudd. This year, it was actress and activist Jane Lynch. Her remarks mentioned a historical fact that may have been forgotten over the decades since the initial response to the AIDS epidemic. Namely, the role played by lesbians. Until the onset of HIV, gays and lesbians, although sharing a certain commonality of identity, rarely interacted. Both groups socialized within their own circles with some political paths crossing as the need arose. But, as Lynch pointed

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out, as AIDS ravaged the gay male population, women rallied to the care of victims. It’s something we should never forget. In fact, our now universal LGBTQ initialism came about in part, if not in great part, due to the health crisis that united the community’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender elements. The result was a solid political bloc that not only advanced rights for all, but also helped implement a national response to HIV/AIDS. The Walk also reminded me of the volunteers who have always made this event and others like it successful. Thousands have participated since 1990. Many are veterans from those first horrific years. One, Bim Florek, began as entertainment organizer for the eight rest stops along the Walk’s route which, at the time, was a full 10 kilometers from Summerfest via Lincoln Memorial Drive to Lake Park above and back again. Each stop had its own stage and crew to accommodate a band with sound equipment and individual generators for power. Florek also recalls selecting music for special moments on the main stage. In 1997, for honorary chair, Olympian Greg Louganis’ entry, Florek naturally played the Olympic Fanfare. Over the years, the route has been shortened. There are no more bands, but Florek remains as main stage manager.

My first AIDS Walk was at the height of the epidemic in 1996 when Bette Midler was honorary chair. I recall her standing on the Mason Street Bridge over Lincoln Memorial Drive waving to the thousands of walkers (according to Nick Giebel, the current ARCW acting director of special events, there were 10,545 to be precise) who passed underneath.

In the face of all those deaths, the Walk represented hope in those most dire of times. Today, the face of AIDS has become largely invisible.

There are fewer walkers and the Walk competes with many others for innumerable causes. Still, this year, it raised more than $400,000 and continues to make history.

To learn more about AIDS Walk Wisconsin, call 800-348-9255 or visit aidswalkwis.org, or to learn more about the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, call 800-359-9272 or visit arcw.org.

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Close Up of the Serene Celebrates Two Years of Progressive Electronic Music ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI Ash Lauryn

obody turns to a CBS sitcom for its deep insights into underground music, but there’s a throwaway line in an old episode of “How I Met Your Mother” where a character invites his friend to a techno club.

“You up for some super loud, repetitive music that hasn’t changed since the mid-’90s?” he asks.

It’s a cheap shot, yet there’s a little truth to it: For listeners who aren’t ingrained in the electronic scene, techno music hasn’t fundamentally changed much over the last two decades, and that can seem especially true in the Midwest, where house and techno hit first and hardest. Cities like Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Detroit have always clung to those genre traditions, and while both styles have continued evolving in some truly exciting ways for enthusiasts, to outsiders it can still just sound like the same old house and techno.

Max Holiday, founder of the Milwaukee electronic label Close Up of The Serene, is careful to stress that he shares a deep appreciation for those foundational styles. “They are the vital roots that everything comes from,” Holiday says. “Milwaukee’s had a booming house and techno scene for a long time, and at various points in history, little scenes have popped up around it. But it’s still four-on-the-floor, 126 BMP-to-132 BMP house and techno music, and that’s just not the full picture of what’s out there.”

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Holiday and his label cohorts, who perform under the monikers MS 115 and Liquid City Motors, prefer to take a broader, more globalist view of dance music— one that embraces the genre in nearly all of its modern forms. And there are a lot of them: Baltimore club music, Jersey club, New York ballroom—pretty much any regional electronic music tied to black or queer communities—along with hardcore techno, jungle, U.K. funky, drum ’n’ bass, grime, future bass explosion and on and on.

“Maybe it’s our generation or a cultural thing, but we’re internet kids,” Holiday says. “We’ve grown up on the internet and listening to people from across the world. We’ve always been drawn to turning over a rock on the internet and finding this whole explosion of music that comes at you.”

They call it progressive music, for lack of a better term—though even that doesn’t quite do justice to the scope of it all—and for the last two years, alongside the label, they’ve themed an event around it called Precognition at a rather unconventional venue: the Riverwest club Quarters Rock ’n’ Roll Palace. “We had always known the best room for what we wanted to do would be Quarters,” Holiday explains, “because it’s small, blank, tiny and loud, and you can transform it.” Holiday admits the night can be a tough sell. “Precognition is a relatively unforgiving club experience,” he says. “There’s no bar stools. There are no lights on. It’s hard to see. It’s very loud and immersive. That’s the point of it; it’s supposed to be an audio emersion experience. The entire reason for it is the music.”

On Saturday, Nov. 4, Precognition will celebrate its two-year anniversary with an event that will also double as its farewell. For its final headliner, Holiday has booked Ash Lauryn, a Detroit-raised, now Atlantabased house and techno DJ who made waves this year with a mix called Black Girls Like Techno Too. “She’s got a Precognition very distinct take on house w/ Ash Lauryn and techno and a vital commitment to preserving the Quarters Rock roots of the music, while also ‘n’ Roll Palace moving forward and creating Saturday, a new take on those sounds,” Nov. 4, 9 p.m.

Holiday says.

There’s a cliché when events like this come to a close that it marks the end of the era, but that’s not really the case with Precognition.

Close Up of the Serene will continue as a label, and Holiday says he’ll continue booking electronic shows, though what shape they’ll take he doesn’t know yet.

“We just thrive on new energy,” says Holiday, who over his years in the scene has retired his share of recording projects (Young Holidays and Athletic Supply among them). “I love reinvention, fresh starts and learning everything you can and then taking that experience and building something new. Closure on one idea is what leads to the next.”

Precognition hosts its final installment Saturday, Nov. 4 at Quarters Rock ’n’ Roll Palace at 9 p.m., with Ash Lauryn and resident DJs Mac Holiday, MS 115 and Liquid City Motors. Entry is free before 11 p.m. and $5 after.

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Asher Gray on the Rewards and Indignities of Being a Milwaukee DJ ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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his month, Milwaukee producer-DJ Asher Gray celebrated a milestone in his 15-year career: his first vinyl release, XLT, four tracks of buoyant bass, aggressive house beats and funhouse synthesizers. It was released by the Portland label Disposable Commodities (run by Milwaukee native Justin Grall), and, at times Gray could have been excused for thinking the project was cursed, given all the pressing delays and headaches it faced. He finished the album in early 2015 and had originally been shooting for a release that summer. Instead, he had to wait more than two more years.

Such are the indignities of his field. If anybody ever suggests that being a DJ is glamourous, Gray can willingly attest otherwise. At times he’s been one of the Milwaukee electronic scene’s more prominent draws. At others, not so much.

“Milwaukee is such a weird test tube since it’s so small, and people are really fickle,” Gray says.

“The trends can get hot and then they burn out really quick. You have to work a little harder here, and you have to be willing to put in the time and effort to create a scene or community that’s going to come out to your event—and even then you also have to be willing to play for five people. If you’re not willing to play for five people, then in my mind you’re not in the right industry. If you want to be a DJ to throw your own parties, and you expect it to be a hit right off the bat, it’s just not going to happen, you know?”

Lately, Gray says he’s been enjoying the freedom of performing for mostly small crowds at mostly small venues. He’s a regular at High Dive, 701 E. Center St.—just as he was at that bar’s predecessors, the Impala Lounge and the River Horse—and he runs a night called Club Ritual at Quarters Rock ’n’ Roll Palace.

That event will celebrate its one-year anniversary on Saturday Dec. 2, with a lineup of DJs he’s bringing in from Minneapolis.

“Having DJed for so many years, there have been times when I was really self-conscious about drawing crowds,” Gray says. “And then some years I would be like, ‘I really

need to just share my vision of music I’m into and stick to that and show people that if they come and hear me it’s going to be a taste-making type of event where they’re not going to know anything; I’m going to beat them down with underground stuff.’ To be honest, that’s more where I am now.”

For years, Gray co-hosted Le Freak, one of the city’s most popular dance parties at the late Hotel Foster on North Avenue. “We hit a critical mass at that party where I felt like I could do no wrong,” Gray says. “I was playing only the stuff I wanted to play, and people were showing up. But even then, were people showing up because of the music, or because we were on North Avenue, and we gave free pizza away at midnight? When an event gets to that level of popularity, you lose the focus of the music. The majority of the people there were not there to hear me play some weird track from a crazy producer in Berlin. They were there because it was an experience.”

Club Ritual may not be the destination event that Le Freak was, Gray admits, but it’s not trying to be.

“When attendance is low, it’s easy to feel like you never get any momentum,” Gray says. “I’ve been doing this for so long I feel like I’ve pushed through a lot of low dips, but I’m definitely still as into the music as I ever was, especially house music, which has been the one thread that’s carried throughout my career.

“Of course, it’s always easier to play things that people know,” Gray continues. “There’s going to be a wider variety of people that walk in and stick around and dance and have a good time because they hear music they recognize. I know I can play Jay-Z or some Top-40 track and get everybody dancing, but to me personally, it’s not as rewarding. The more rewarding moments come when I play stuff that’s really close to me, and I’ll have one person come up to me afterward and ask me what tracks I was playing. That, to me, is way more rewarding than the more pandering approach.”

Asher Gray’s album, XLT, is streaming at disposablecommodities.bandcamp.com.

Asher Grey BY PJ MOODY

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HERBIE HANCOCK BROUGHT THICK GROOVES AND A DISTINCT VISION TO THE PABST THEATER ::BY TYLER FRIEDMAN

“[T]o be and stay a great musician, you’ve got to always be open to what’s new, what’s happening at the moment.” Miles Davis made this remark in his autobiography when discussing the rejuvenating influence brought on by the young musicians of his so-called Second Great Quintet. Herbie Hancock had just turned 23 when he was tapped by Davis to man the piano bench—a move that skyrocketed Hancock to the most rarefied heights of the jazz firmament where he has remained for the past half century.

The quartet that shook the walls of the Pabst Theater on Friday, October 20, shows the 77-year-old Hancock to have internalized the lesson that he helped teach Miles Davis all those years ago. For two ecstatic hours, Hancock and his intergenerational compatriots

blended jazz, R&B, funk and hip-hop into an experience that was as unclassifiable as it was triumphant.

Hancock emerged to a rousing ovation and strode the stage blowing kisses to the audience before the quartet launched into the first tune, which, like the rest of the set list, was marked by a thick groove, indifferent melodic content and lengthy solos of the highest virtuosity.

Hancock favored his Korg Kronos synthesizer and cajoled sounds from the instrument recalling at turns a Clavinet (think Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”), a heavenly choir and a Karlheinz Stockhausen conniption fit. Frequently he toggled over to a concert grand piano with an illuminated interior and occasionally played parallel lines with each hand allocated to a different keyboard.

As the first tune drew to an orgiastic close, Hancock returned to his proscenium perch to welcome, thank and introduce. Milwaukee holds a special place in his heart; it’s the city where Hancock played some of his earliest professional gigs with Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams’ band.

He spared no superlatives in introducing his sidemen. He described drummer Vinnie Colaiuta as one of a kind in the universe, even arousing suspicion that the fusion legend was behind the Big Bang (which Colaiuta affirmed with an apropos tom-tom thud). Bassist James Genus was the most unassuming fourth of the quartet, holding down the bottom end and stepping out for only one solo. His service as the subliminal funk engine fit Hancock’s portrait of Genus as an in-demand musician who has been hiding in plain sight as the bassist for the “Saturday Night Live” band.

The youngest member of Hancock’s group is multi-instrumentalist (alto saxophone, keyboards, vocals) Terrace Martin, who co-produced Kendrick Lamar’s acclaimed To Pimp a Butterfly and will be producing Hancock’s next album.

To some degree the music was afflicted by a vague sameness. The quartet trades in jams

over pedal points, which eschew twisting and turning harmonic structures in favor of burrowing ever deeper into the groove.

Consequently, melodic threads were scarce, which, although it says much for the fecundity of the musicians’ imaginations, can leave listeners hungering for more to chew on. Still, the quartet’s connection can only be described as umbilical, and their free improvisations were contained within strict frameworks that reasserted themselves at unexpected points, revealing deeper forms than a casual listen would suggest.

If Hancock’s current direction does not satisfy all the desires of a straight-ahead jazz fan, it should win him a new generation of devotees weaned on hip-hop, R&B and jam bands—genres that Hancock himself helped shape with his work during the 1970s and ’80s. Hancock’s Terrace Martin-produced album promises to be an interesting next chapter in the storied discography of a great musician who has remained open to what’s new; what’s happening at the moment.

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Rose-Fingered Dawn (AVANT BASS) Milwaukee-born, Nebraska-based jazz singer Jackie Allen continues a skykissing career arc. Though still possessing far more talent than renown, her new album tops her previous, which I considered her best. Dawn is more personal and original, yet also quite accessible. There’s a nifty yin-yang between poetic art-song-like creations often with enchanting world music settings, and more down-home groove songs, all created by her spouse, bassist-composer, Hans Sturm. The title song brilliantly evokes the dangers of romance: “You’re the light on the cliff over walls of mist/you’re the rocks below I can’t resist.”

Allen’s alluring voice, possessing a natural vibrato, glimmers like gulps from the heart.

She conveys lyrics and sentiments with effortless aplomb and exquisite timing. On “Moon on the Rising” her voice, in dramatic effect, speeds up the image to evoke the rising moon in a manner of seconds. On “Steal the Night,” her limpid phrasing sounds as if a circling well of water drifting into a slow current just out of reach of the departing lover, who may never return.

Try Allen out and you’ll fall hard. Return to her and you’ll know why you always do.

—Kevin Lynch

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Thanks, Mac! Songs of Mac Wiseman

On his second album, New York native and longtime Milwaukeean Jerry Wicentowski pays tribute to bluegrass pioneer Mac Wiseman. In his recordings for Dot Records in the 1950s and ’60s, Wiseman shone through with an amiable persona with distinct phrasing and diction harkening back to early 20th-century popular music.

Whether accompanied or singing solo, Wicentowski at times eerily approximates the tone of his musical hero. As most of the selections here run a bit longer than Wiseman’s original recordings, there’s more to hear of the interplay of the bandleader’s rhythm guitar with five-string banjo, upright bass, mandolin and fiddle. Insightful essays

by Wicentowski and Madison-based rootsmusic historian Bill Malone, who mentions Wicentowski’s sadly unreleased experiments in adapting traditional Jewish music to bluegrass, complement an already winning salute to a somewhat neglected trailblazer and his innovative singing.

—Jamie Lee Rake Jerry Wicentowski performs CD release concert at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 5 at Anshe Sfard Kehillat Torah synagogue, 6717 N. Green Bay Road. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Joey “LaVie” Lucchesi Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Acoustic Guitar Night Art Bar, Comedy Open Mic Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Group w/Eddie Butts Cactus Club, Single Mothers County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/ Barry Dodd Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Xeno & Joe (8pm), In the Fire Pit: Andrew Gelles (8:30pm) Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Anodyne Coffee (Walker’s Point), Jon Langford’s Four Lost Souls w/Liar’s Trial Harry’s Bar & Grill, Kyle Feerick (6pm) Thunder Bay Grille, Steve Lewandowski (5pm) Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Big Sky Country Bar & Grill (Germantown), Matt MF Tyner & Leroy Deuster Jazz Estate, Salsa Night Hermanitos Ayala Lakefront Brewery, Food Fright w/5 Card Studs Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Dylan Doyle Band O’Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), The All-Star SUPERband (6pm) Riverside Theater, Kari Jobe w/Cody Carnes Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Hinder w/Josh Todd & The Conflict Wayland Shaker’s Cigar Bar, Rouge 2.0 (6pm) Shank Hall, NRBQ w/Miles Nielsen & The Rusted Hearts The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) The Bay Restaurant, The Bill Feldman Group Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Titanium Blue Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Eric Schoor Trio w/Manty Ellis Turner Hall Ballroom, Wolf Parade w/Charly Bliss Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27

Alley Cat Lounge (Five O’Clock Steakhouse), M.K.E. Legends American Legion of Okauchee #399, The Ricochettes Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Art Bar, Liv Lombardi Cactus Club, Hallowee Cover Show Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Ernie Hendrickson Caroline’s Jazz Club, VIVO w/Warren Wiegratz Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Chain Drive w/GoGo Slow (8pm); DJ: Fazio (10pm) Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (6pm) Club Garibaldi, Billy Bon Scott w/James Addiction ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Brew City Bombshells Presents: Dead Time Stories County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jackpot Gallery, Coventry Jones Band Jazz Estate, Nineteen Thirteen (8pm), Late Night Session: Anthony Deutsch (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Ryan Davis Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Hot and Dirty Brass Band Lakefront Brewery Beer Hall, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Armchair Boogie w/Feed the Dog Los Mariachis Mexican Restaurant, Larry Lynne Band Mamie’s, The Blues Disciples Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Zach Pietrini Band w/The Cow Ponies Milwaukee Ale House, Detour Pabst Theater, Yanni Piano & Intimate Conversation Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Joe Hite (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Kelli & The Soul Mates (9pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Rave / Eagles Club, Ryan Davis , Siggno w/Koncreto & Los Dueños (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Kenny Rogers w/ Linda Davis Rosco’s Restaurant & Sports Bar, The Falcons Rounding Third Bar and Grill, Latino Comedy Tormenta (Storm) Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Mixed Company w/ DayRollers & Brock Betz Band Shank Hall, The Cash Box Kings Site 1A, Markus Schulz w/Surge, Lazrev & Jetpack Smith Bros. Coffee House (Port Washington), 7000 Apart LIVE

Smitty’s On The Edge (Mequon), Matt MF Tyner & Rolf Wessel Steaming Cup (Waukesha), Dangerous Folk Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk The Bay Restaurant, Steve Lewandowski & Lynn Lew The Iron Horse Hotel, The Incorruptibles The Knick, Halloween Spectacular w/5 Card Studs The Packing House Restaurant, Dave Miller Jazz & Blues Quartet (6:30pm) Up & Under Pub, Good Grief Urban Harvest Brewing Company, Mojo Dojo Standup Spooktacular

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Larry Lynne Band Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Arriba Mexican Restaurant (Butler), Maple Road Blues Band Cactus Club, Tricks – Treats – Hip Hop Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band w/James Sodke, Larry Tresp, Jamie Breiwick & Dave “Smitty” Smith Club Timbuktu, Nightmare on Center Street: DJ Spero Lo Menzo, Rio Turbo, Nelson Devereauxn, Quinten Farr’s For the Culture, Lorde Fredd33 & Foreign Goods Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: The Hungry Williams (8pm); DJ: Paul Host (10pm) City Lights Brewing Company, Derek Byrne & Paddygrass Club Garibalidi Motley Brue w/Wyld Stallyns Colectivo Coffee (On Prospect), Patricia Barber ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Nightmare on Center Street: DJ Tarik Moody, Jovan Landry, Lili K, Klassik & 2000’s Emo tribute Crush Wine Bar (Waukesha), CP & Zoe w/Chris Peppas & Zoe Biller (6pm) Cue Club of Wisconsin (Waukesha), King of Clubs Eddie’s Lake House (West Bend), Twister Army Five O’Clock Steakhouse, Kirk Tatnall Frank’s Power Plant, Hallow’s Eve Bash w/Man Random, Awkward Terrible & Beaker Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys High Dive, Nightmare on Center Street: DJ Annalog, Kyel Brandel, Taj Raiden, Boodah Darr, ZED KENZO & Genesis Renji Jazz Estate, Celebrating Clifford Brown (8pm), Late Night Session: Devin Drobka Trio (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Ryan Davis Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Halloween Covers Extravaganza w/Hank Williams and Patsy Cline, The Undertones, The Damned, & The Knack Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, R&B Coquettes Lyon’s Irish Pub (Watertown), Derek Byrne & Paddygrass Mad Planet, Irie Vibez 8th Annual Halloween Monster Mash Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Halloween Costume Party w/ Suave Miramar Theatre, Black Tiger Sex Machine w/Kai Wachi, Sullivan King & LeKtriQue (ages 17-plus, 9pm) Milwaukee Ale House, Shag Mo’s Irish Pub (Downtown), After-Party w/Big Something Muskego Moose Lodge 1057, Floor It Quarters Rock and Roll Palace, Nightmare on Center Street: Mr New York, Immortal Girlfriend, Vincent VanGreat, Avantist & Sex Scenes Pabst Theater, Rick Steves Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Jackie Brown Acoustic Rave / Eagles Club, KMFDM w/ohGr (all-ages, 8pm), RKM Y Ken Y w/Nengo Flow, Tony Dize & Toby Love (all-ages, 9pm) Riverside Theater, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”in Concert & Film w/The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Shank Hall, Tim Reynolds and TR3 w/Sam Llanas Silver Spring House, The Smoovies Site 1A, Markus Schulz w/Surge, Lazrev & Jetpack Smitty’s On The Edge (Mequon), Matt MF Tyner & Rolf Wessel The Iron Horse Hotel, Wicked in Walker’s Point w/Kiings The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Nightmare on Center Street: DJ Enzo DeMay w/Mark Davis The Knick, Halloween Spectacular w/5 Card Studs The Packing House Restaurant, Donna Woodall Trio (6:30pm) Willie’s Lakefront Lanes (Port Washington), Leadfoot Blues Band (5pm)

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 30

Jazz Estate, Tom Harrell Quartet (7pm & 9pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader JoAnn Chang Halloween Show (7:30-10:30pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John Up & Under Pub, Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers Open Mic

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31

C Notes Upscale Sports Lounge, Another Night-Another Mic Open Mic w/Darryl Hill Cactus Club, Halloween w/Saebra & Carlyle, King Eye and The Suirts, Drugs Dragons & Iron Pizzal Circle-A Cafe, Circle A’s 16th Anniversary Hallowe’en Show: Dead at Eight: Aluminum Knot Eye w/Six Wives of Richard (8pm); DJ: Beal Z. Bubb & The PsycheDelic WarLock (11pm) Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Stokes Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Jim Yorgan Sextet Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm) Riverside Theater, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie Shaker’s Cigar Bar, The Sweet Sheiks The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich Turner Hall Ballroom, Secret Symphony at Turner Hall: Fright Night Edition

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GAME OF THRONES

By James Barrick

THEME CROSSWORD

PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Greater-Than Sudoku”

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

Adjoining squares in the grid’s 3x3 boxes have a greater-than sign (>) telling you which of the two numbers in those squares is larger. Fill in every square with a number from 1-9 using the greater-than signs as a guide. When youíre 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

73. Luster 74. Rummy 75. Literary collection 76. Lesions 77. Performers in a circus 78. Exploit 79. Stones 81. Hazardous fungus 83. River in France 84. Kind of terrier 86. Seaweeds 88. — sanctum 89. Hold sway 90. People 92. Time of fasting 94. The tarpan or quagga, e.g.

97. Underworld god 98. Golden 101. Place for a driver: 2 wds.

103. Traveler’s preference: 2 wds.

106. Choler 107. Rich cake 108. Had 109. Move with care 110. Springs 111. Web-footed creature 112. Din 113. Like a wheyface DOWN 1. Taproom 2. Extinct wild ox 3. Ottava — 4. Triangular wall: 2 wds.

5. — — a customer 6. Begrudge 7. — Scott decision 8. Actress Le Gallienne 9. Taciturn 10. Pumped wildly 11. Scents

12. Moue 13. White-tailed eagle 14. Reversals 15. — Chapel 16. Further 17. Ampoule 18. Punta del — 24. Money, disparagingly 26. Linus or Elihu 29. DEA agent 32. One cubic meter 33. Unethical 34. Situations 35. Nahuatl language 36. Inactive one: 2 wds.

38. Humble 39. Endures 40. Informer: 2 wds.

41. Accustom: Var. 42. Was foolish enough 45. Amasses 46. Turbid 49. Musical sound 50. Brumous 54. Epidermal openings 55. Coastal cities 56. Famed Athenian lawmaker 57. Anta 59. Options for a computer user 60. Loving touch 61. Revenue source

63. Hauled 64. Kind of butter 65. Strikes 66. Something refreshing 67. The Pentateuch 68. Claw 69. Von Furstenberg 70. Stage direction 72. Springe 73. Toils 76. High heel 77. Happen next: 2 wds.

78. Free-form composition 80. Union actions 82. Tight 83. Inelastic tissue 85. Ditty 87. Gets away from 90. Blackboard 91. — Mongolia 93. Ruin by degrees 94. Dies down 95. Bon mot 96. Campus out west 97. Saucy 98. — mirabiles 99. Playing cards 100. For one 102. Dipsomaniac 104. — Jima 105. “— kingdom come...”

Solution to last week’s puzzle

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10/19 Solution

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

Southern Beauty Solution: 26 Letters

© 2017 Australian Word Games Dist. by Creators Syndicate Inc.

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ACROSS 1. Dorp 5. Neatness 10. Something to learn 15. Except 19. Opera highlight 20. Effrontery 21. Worship as divine 22. “Sacred” bird 23. Feature of some old cars: 2 wds.

25. Place of local government: 2 wds.

27. Paid tribute to 28. Unreactive 30. Work against 31. Keynes’ field: Abbr.

32. Gobs 33. Far-out painter 34. Horse used in racing 37. Spud 39. Authorized 43. Fresh air 44. Standard 47. Laboratory burner 48. Kind of poker 49. Patient record 51. Ejects 52. “— Town” 53. Shamus 54. Homophone for faze 55. Get-together 56. Seedlike body 58. Chat up 60. Stoppers 61. Oldies anagram 62. Gardner’s Mason 63. Like an absent student 64. Orchid-root meal 65. Intoxicated 67. Wrongs 68. Sodium — 71. Egyptian bean 72. Dostoyevsky’s “— from Underground”

D I S N E L E X T R A O N P H E X A G E W A S A B A A H U M A N U Q A C I R C U A E K D I S T

Aireys Inlet Anakie Avoca Bass Beechworth Bena Brim City Clunes Colac Dargo Edi Eildon Highett

Horsham Huon Illowa Indigo Iona Ivanhoe Kew Kialla Lara Maffra Moe Morwell Moyhu Nathalia

Nilma Nyah Omeo Ouyen Pira Rhyll Romsey Sale Terang Toorak Ultima Warnambool Yea

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::NEWS OF THE WEIRD

::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “You never sing the same song twice,” said chanteuse Billie Holiday. “If you sing it with all the same phrasing and melody, you’re failing your art.”

That’s an extreme statement, but I understand what she was driving at. Repeating yourself too much can be debilitating. That includes trying to draw inspiration from the same old sources that have worked in the past. I suggest you avoid this behavior in the coming days. Raise Holiday’s approach to a universal principle. Fresh sources of inspiration are available!

Halloween costume suggestion: a persona or character unlike any you’ve ever imagined yourself to be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How can you enjoy the lavish thrills of rebirth later unless you die a little inside now? It’s the trickiest phase of your cycle, when your energies are best used to resolve and graduate from the unfinished business of the last 10 months. I suggest that you put the past to rest as best as you can. Don your funniest sad face and pay your last respects to the old ways and old days you’ll soon be leaving behind.

Keep in mind that beauty will ultimately emerge from decay. Halloween costume suggestion: the mythical phoenix, which burns itself down, then resurrects itself from its own ashes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There are no such things as magic healings and miraculous redemptions and impossible breakthroughs. Right? Hard evidence provided by science precludes the existence of exotic help coming from spiritual realms. Right? Well, no. Not right. There is in fact another real world that overlaps the material world, and it operates according to different laws that are mostly imperceptible to our senses. But events in the other real world can have tangible effects in the material world. This is especially true for you right now. Take advantage! Seek practical answers and solutions in your dreams, meditations, visions and numinous encounters. Halloween costume suggestion: white-magic sorcerer or good witch.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Many years from now, in your last hours on earth, you will have visions that show you how all the events in your life were crucial to your life story. You will understand the lesson that was provided by each twist and turn of your destiny. Every piece of the gigantic puzzle will slip into place, revealing the truth of what your mission has been. And during that future climax, you may remember right now as a time when you got a long glimpse of the totality. Halloween costume suggestion: the happiest person on Earth; the sovereign of all you survey; the wise fool who understands yourself completely.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You might be able to pass for normal, but it will be better for your relationship with yourself if you don’t. You could try to tamp down your unusual urges and smooth your rough edges, but it will be smarter to regard those urges and edges as fertile raw material for your future happiness. Catch my drift? In the coming weeks, your main loyalty should be to your idiosyncratic intelligence. Halloween costume suggestion: the beautiful, interesting monster who lives in you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I share Vincent Van Gogh’s belief that “the best way to know life is to love many things.” But I also think that the next 12 months will be an inspiring time for you to be focused and single-minded in your involvement with love. That’s why I encourage you to take an approach articulated by the Russian mystic Anne Sophie Swetchine: “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” Halloween costume suggestion: a lover celebrating a sacred union to the love of your life, to God or Goddess, or to a symbol of your most sublime ideal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Yes, We Have No Bananas” is a silly novelty song that became a big hit in 1923. Its absurdity led to its wide use for humorous effect. For example, on the kids’ TV series “The Muppet Show,” puppets made out of fruits and vegetables sang parodies of the tune. That’s why I find it droll that the “No Bananas” songwriters stole part of the melody from the “Hallelujah Chorus,” the climax of classical composer George Handel’s religious oratorio Messiah. I’d love to see you engage

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in comparable transmutations, Taurus: making serious things amusing and vice versa. It’s a time when you can generate meaningful fun and playful progress through the art of reversal. Halloween costume suggestion: a tourist from Opposite Land or Bizarro World.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the next two weeks, you may have to navigate your way through careless gossip, distorted “facts,” superficial theories, hidden agendas, fake news, and official disinformation. To prevent problems in communication with people who matter, take advantage of the Halloween spirit in this way: Obtain a bicycle helmet and cover it with aluminum foil. Decorate it with an Ace of Clubs, a red rose, images of wrathful but benevolent superheroes and a sign that says “No Bullshit Allowed.” By wearing this crown, you should remain protected. If that’s too weird for you, do the next best thing: Vow to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and ask to receive the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Watch out for a fake pizza-delivery driver who’s actually trying to issue you a legal summons. Be careful you don’t glimpse a blood red sky at dusk in case it’s a prophetic sign that your cell phone will fall into a toilet sometime soon. Beware of the possibility that a large bird carrying a turtle to its nest accidentally drops its prey into a rain puddle near you, splashing mud on your fancy clothes. JUST KIDDING! All the scenarios I just described are stupid lies. The truth is, this should be one of the most worry-free times ever. You’re welcome, of course, to dream up a host of scary fantasies if you find that entertaining, but I guarantee that they’ll be illusory. Halloween costume suggestion: an indomitable warrior.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What is the material object you want most, but don’t have?

This is an object that would serve your soul’s highest purposes, although not necessarily your ego’s. Here’s another question: What evocative symbol might help keep you inspired to fulfill your dreams over the course of the next five years? I suggest that you choose one or both of those things to be the inspiration for your Halloween costume.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Did you get a chance to go to circus school when you were a kid? How about magic school? Or maybe detective school or time-travel school or superhero school? Probably none of the above, right?

Much of your education revolved around what you HAD to learn rather than what would be fun to learn.

I’m not saying it was bad you were compelled to study subjects you felt ambivalent about. In the long run, it did you good. But now here’s some sweet news, Virgo: The next 10 months will be a favorable time to get trainings and teachings in what you YEARN to learn. Halloween costume suggestion: a student.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Now is an excellent phase in your cycle to scour bathrooms, scrub floors, shampoo carpets and wash windows. But the imminent future will be an even more favorable period to purify your motivations, tonify your emotions, purge your less-than-noble agendas, calm down your monkey mind and monkey heart, disinfect the moldy parts of your past and factcheck the stories you tell about yourself. So, which set of tasks should you focus on? It may be possible to make great strides on the second set as you carry out the first set. But if there’s not enough time and energy to do both, favor the second set. Halloween costume suggestion: a superhero who has wondrous cleaning powers; King Janitor or Queen Maid.

Homework: Name your greatest unnecessary taboo and how you would violate it if it didn’t hurt anyone.

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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.

::BY THE EDITORS OF ANDREWS MCMEEL

He Found His Sole-mate

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uick-thinking paramedics in Dorset, England, saved the life of a man whose Oct. 5 fishing outing went south when a dover sole jumped down his throat and blocked his windpipe.

Sam Quilliam, 28, had just caught the fiveand-a-half-inch-long fish and went to give it a kiss when it wriggled free and lodged in his throat. “I ran round the pier like a headless chicken and then passed out,” Quilliam told The Guardian. When first responders arrived, Quilliam was not breathing, but friends were performing CPR. Paramedic Matt Harrison said: “It was clear that we needed to get the fish out, or this patient was not going to survive. I was able to eventually dislodge the tip of the tail and very carefully, so as not to break the tail off, tried to remove it, although the fish’s barbs and gills were getting stuck on the way back up.” Finally, the fish “came out in one piece,” Harrison said. Quilliam said his brush with death won’t put him off fishing.

“Once I am back at work and fit, I will probably get back at it again,” he said.

ky finger. When Deckert tried again the next day, still attached to her partner, police and firefighters were called. The two women were attached by a copper elbow pipe into which they had each inserted a pinky finger secured with “some kind of epoxy,” a firefighter said.

They told authorities they had been that way for about a week at the suggestion of a couples’ therapy counselor. “They haven’t been able to feel their fingers for three days,” said police detective Patty Finch. Efforts to separate the women were unsuccessful, and Deckert was released with advice to seek medical attention.

If the Patch Fits…

Eva Pandora Baldursdottir, a member of the Icelandic parliament from the Pirate Party, was scheduled to take part in a debate on Oct. 12, according to UPI, but an unexpected injury lent her an especially apropos look for the televised event. She had to conduct the debate wearing an eye patch after her toddler daughter scratched her eye. “Sometimes astounding things can happen at the worst time,” Baldursdottir shared on Facebook, along with a photo of herself wearing the eye patch.

One Hell of a Flight

Tucson, Ariz., firefighters were called on Oct. 15 to a mobile home park after a resident there tried to remove spider webs from beneath his trailer using a propane torch, but ended up setting his home on fire. KVOATV reported that the unnamed man’s elderly mother, who also lived there, suffered minor injuries while being carried out of the mobile home with the help of neighbors.

For the last time, Flight 666, traveling from Copenhagen, Denmark, to HEL (Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport), took off on Friday the 13th of October. A Finnair spokesman said the flight, questionably numbered for the superstitious among us, has been making the trip for 11 years and has flown on Friday the 13th 21 times. “Today will actually be the final time that our AY666 flight flies to HEL,” a spokesman told The Telegraph. Some Finnair flights are getting new numbers, and the infamous route will be renumbered to 954. Luckily, the flight arrived safely in Helsinki.

From Vietnam: Top Secret

He’s One Hot Mess

Questionable Judgment

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport made an unusual discovery in the luggage of a traveler arriving from Vietnam in October: 54 bird nests. The nests, which are considered a delicacy in some countries, are built out of solidified bird saliva and are used to make soup and broth (Bird’s Nest Soup), reported UPI. However, they are banned from entering the U.S. because they may carry infectious diseases. The nests were destroyed.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The Daily World in Centralia, Wash., reported that Rachel A. Deckert, 27, tried to turn herself in at the Lewis County Jail on an outstanding DUI warrant on Aug. 21, but was turned away because she brought along her partner—literally glued to Deckert by her pin-

In Vero Beach, Fla., a husband and wife made a hot bet on the Dallas Cowboys vs.

Green Bay Packers football game on Oct. 8: The loser would set their team’s jersey on fire.

When the Packers won, the husband, 27, took his blue-and-silver Cowboys jersey outside and set fire to it. But, as he later told sheriff’s deputies, because he was drunk, he then tried to put the jersey back on, and that’s when things got somewhat heated. Family members pulled the burning jersey off the man and rushed him to the Indian River Medical Center. A witness told the Sebastian Daily that “skin was hanging off his arm and back.” He suffered second- and third-degree burns to his hands, arms and back. © 2017 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

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Ding-Dongers ::BY ART KUMBALEK

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? Listen, I’ve got this old Rodgers and Hart tune—“Where or When,” the one that says “It seems we stood and talked like this before,” key of E-flat usually—stuck in my head over the last days and it’s driving me mucho focking loco, you betcha.

So no essay for you’s this week, boo-hoo, ’cause all I can do is to get together with the fellas and try to clear my head up over by The Uptowner tavern/charm school, the joint where today is always at least a day before tomorrow and yesterday may very well be today, what the fock. Come along if you feel like it but you buy the first round. Let’s get going.

Ernie: I’ll tell you’s, this trick-or-treat baloney boils my butt but good.

These kids start young with this begging one day a year and before you know it, they’re out looking for a focking handout every day of the year—and get your hands off my bar change Emil or I’ll focking deck you right here.

Little Jimmy Iodine: If you don’t want the kids to come by your house for trick-or-treat, then don’t pass out the candy. Do like Artie does, and pass out something healthy or hand-out wise advice.

Julius: The health treats for the kids can save you dough. Last year I couldn’t be home during the begging ’cause I had to take the wife shopping for new doilies and a pair of house slippers. So before we left, the wife put on the porch two warming dishes and left a note for the kids to help themselves. One dish had mashed potatoes with gravy, the other had steamed asparagus. When we got home, the dishes were still full-up, I kid you not.

Herbie: I had one kid come to the door last year wearing a suit and tie.

Here’s a kid who knows from dressing for success, I thought. He says, “Are you Herbie Bryzlyzcki?” I said, “Who wants to know?” He says, “Nice name.

You got something against vowels? Let’s cut to the chase, mister. I’m here to count your candy.” So I show him the bowl the wife filled with the little candy bars. He does the counting and then takes like about 28% of the total and starts to walk away without even a thank-you. I said, “Hey, who the hell do you think

you are?” Kid turns around, says, “IRS.” Emil: Worse than the kids is some of these grownups. Hey, if you’re an adult and make a big deal about the Halloween with all kinds of plans—take a good look in the mirror and think about seeing somebody who’s dressed-up like a psychiatrist.

Ray: And speaking of jackass-o’-lanterns…

Little Jimmy Iodine: Hey, Artie! Over here. Put a load on your keister.

Art: Hey gents. What do you hear, what do you know.

Emil: I heard in the news where they said the biologists went and got themselves some docu-mention of wild gorillas using tools.

Julius: Tools? You got to be jerking my beefaroni.

Emil: They saw a lady gorilla smashing palm nuts between some rocks, like a hammer and anvils, to get some kind of oil from it, and another gorilla was poking a stick into a jungle pond to see how deep it was.

Ray: Big focking deal. When a gorilla looks at a blueprint and then attaches a new garage to his fixer-upper, then you got something to write home about.

Herbie: If you’re the type who has to have a pet, why not the chimpanzee to train to do a wealth of pain-in-thebutt chores around the domicile—swab the toilet, cut the grass, get the focking mail, iron a shirt or two—all for the wage of a couple, three bananas.

Julius: Your own private primate would be like having some kind of slave hanging around and who could possibly complain about that; I mean it’s an animal for christ sakes. Some people eat them for breakfast; so shut up.

Herbie: I would have to believe that any self-respecting simian would much prefer waiting on my ass hand-and-foot to sitting on his dupa at the zoo all day with nothing better to do than repeatedly pluck his magic twanger to beat the band in broad view for families with kids, what the fock.

Art: Seems I’ve heard that one before, but who knows where or when?

(Hey, I know you got to go, but thanks for letting us bend your ear ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.)

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