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AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin and the fight against HIV ::BY JOHN JAHN

sk the average American what they know about AIDS or HIV, and you’ll get a lot of different responses. Almost no one will say, “Never heard of it,” but that doesn’t mean they know the truth. Lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS is just one of the myriad challenges faced by the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW).

“While there is a greater acceptance of people with HIV today, our patients and clients continue to face daunting discrimination, stigma and bias,” says Mike Gifford, ARCW president and CEO. “Discrimination remains prevalent, especially in healthcare … we have far to go in fully embracing people with HIV.” In many important ways, the American public’s views about HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) have evolved over time. A 2012 national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post about the public’s understanding of HIV showed that acceptance of people living with HIV has transformed, for the most part, from fear into sympathy and understanding, to the point where a large majority of Americans claim they would feel comfortable working with—or having their children taught by—someone who’s HIV-positive. But that same study also showed alarming ignorance is still widespread.

As recently as five years ago, 34% of Americans still held major misconceptions about HIV transmission, such as beliefs that sharing a drinking glass, swimming pool or a toilet seat with an HIV-positive person could lead to contracting the virus. For the most part, views about HIV usually depend on economic and social factors and, unfortunately, HIV continues to have a disproportionate impact upon the poor—those with the least amount of access to decent education programs and to quality public healthcare. That most-affected part of society, alas, continues to harbor the most inaccurate ideas about HIV/AIDS. Without a doubt, widespread public misconceptions ultimately lead to stigmatization and isolation of those afflicted by HIV/AIDS and, worst of all, to the continuance of the HIV epidemic.

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HIV’S ORIGINS The HIV virus, as far as science has been able to tell, originated among non-human primates in West-Central Africa—quietly spreading through jungle populations of chimpanzees, mangabeys, monkeys, baboons and so forth—as what is termed SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus). This ancestral virus is at least 100,000 years old, but very well could be several million years old.

SIV likely took eons to mutate into relative harmlessness towards its hosts, but the species of primate called Homo sapiens should not be comforted by Nature’s “taming” of SIV—lulled, perhaps, into thinking that this might well be in HIV’s near future, as well.

“Don’t expect human evolution to unfold in a timeframe that will do anything good for us,” evolutionary biologist Michael Worobey said at a 2010 meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences. “We’re not going to evolve adaptations that will mitigate this virus in any acceptable timescale, so we need other solutions.”

As reported in the journal Nature, “Most researchers agree that the pandemic strain of HIV that currently infects more than 33 million people worldwide started in Central Africa around 100 years ago, when hunters contracted the virus through tainted bush meat.” Thus, through hunting and killing SIV-infected primates, humans ingested the simian virus. SIV is largely a weak virus that is relatively easily fended off by a healthy human immune system, but frequent, repeated exposure to SIV among a human population, over time, allowed SIV to mutate into its deadly, pandemic-causing progeny—HIV. With European colonialism came urbanization, and with it an increase in poverty, exploitation, sexual promiscuity, prostitution and STDs. By the early 1900s, colonial cities in Africa were noteworthy for their high levels of prostitution and genital ulcer infections—in 1928, as much as 45% of the female population of the Belgian Congo’s capital (modernday Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo), were involved in the sex trade and, by 1933, about 33% of all of the city’s residents were infected by syphilis.

The first well-documented case of HIV in a human was in 1959—in the Belgian Congo.

HIV-1—the most widespread and pathogenic strain of the virus—is believed to have arrived in Haiti around 1967, introduced by an unknown person who took the infectious ticking time bomb home with him after working in the Congo for some period of time. From Haiti, it is now believed, another unknown person brought HIV to the United States.

The vast majority of the world’s cases of AIDS outside sub-Saharan Africa can be traced, ultimately, to whoever that person was. HIV eventually entered gay male communities in large U.S. cities; once that happened, an epidemic was not long delayed. The word began to spread and so did fear, stupidity, hatred and bigotry.

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ATTACKING THE VICTIMS HIV/AIDS spread rapidly through the early ’80s. By 1985, there had been more than 13,000 documented AIDS-related deaths in the U.S.—the same year that President Ronald Reagan managed to mention the word “AIDS” in public for the very first time—and that only when prompted by a reporter’s question.

Given the fact that the spread of HIV/AIDS seemed to emerge solely out of the LGBTQ community (primarily among gay males), and that sexual transmission was known to be the prevailing way of acquiring HIV, moralizing conservatives—especially on the Christian right—were quick to viciously pounce on the victims.

The late Rev. Jerry Falwell infamously proclaimed that “AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.” His colleague in hateful fearmongering, Pat Robertson, chimed in: “Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers.”

In a 1992 national poll, a startling 36% of Americans believed that HIV/AIDS might be “God’s punishment” for “immoral” sexual behavior; a more recent poll (2013) still showed that some 14% of Americans continue to believe in this notion—despite decades of HIV/ AIDS education and research that, most assuredly, point elsewhere. Many Americans continue, in fact, to be judgmental toward those living with HIV/AIDS. Continuing to blame and shame the pandemic’s victims, 65% of Americans believe those of their fellow citizens with HIV/AIDS became infected due to their own irresponsible behavior.

In a 2013 episode of his “700 Club” TV show, Pat Robertson stated: “There are laws now—I think the homosexual community has put these draconian laws on the books—that prohibit people from discussing this particular affliction [HIV/AIDS]. You can tell somebody you had a heart attack, you can tell them they’ve got high blood pressure, but you can’t tell anybody you’ve got AIDS.” Robertson continued: “You know what they do in San Francisco?

Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they got the stuff, they’ll have a ring, you shake hands, and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger,” he said.

“Really. It’s that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder.”

Lamenting the ongoing bigotry and ignorance, ARCW’s Mike Gifford remarked, “For all the improvement our society has made in addressing the HIV epidemic, there are unfortunately still ugly instances of hatred, discrimination and stigma—like Georgia state Rep. Betty Price and her calls for quarantining people with HIV. Those instances also extend to people at greatest risk for HIV, such as efforts

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to discriminate against transgender individuals in the use of bathrooms, service in the military and other ways. These are examples of serious barriers to inclusion, acceptance, good health and winning the fight against AIDS.” Lest we become complacent—thinking that anti-LGBTQ bigotry and HIV/AIDS patient shaming and blaming have, or might soon, totally disappear—consider the June 2017 mass quitting of six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA)—a council that was created during Bill Clinton’s first term in 1995 that makes recommendations, through the secretary of Health and Human Services, to the president. Our current occupant of the White House, it seems, has no use for the board.

“The Trump administration has no strategy to address the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic, seeks zero input from experts to formulate HIV/AIDS policy, and, most concerning, pushes legislation that will harm people living with HIV/AIDS and halt or reverse important gains made in the fight against this disease,” wrote Scott Schoettes of Lambda Legal and a PACHA member. The council had had only one meeting (in March) since Donald Trump’s election. What’s more, Trump saw to it that the Office of National AIDS Policy website was taken down shortly after he took office; he thus far has also failed to appoint anyone to lead the White House Office of National AIDS Policy.

ARCW JOINS THE FIGHT “ARCW is constantly evolving to meet the needs of people living with HIV and the people in our communities who are at risk for contracting HIV,” says Gifford. “Since our inception as a social services and HIV prevention agency in 1984, we have grown into America’s only HIV Medical Home—integrating comprehensive HIV health and social services along with powerful HIV prevention strategies. We are grateful for the opportunity to be the largest provider of HIV health care in the state of Wisconsin … The driver of our innovation is a commitment to making sure that no matter where someone lives, the color of their skin, whom they love or how much money they have in their pocket, everyone with HIV can live a long, healthy life, and that the number of new HIV infections continues to go down.”

Trump’s election (and concomitant rise of the loud and angry populist right) has come at a bad time for ARCW and for those it serves.

“We are possibly at the most critical juncture ever in the fight against AIDS,” Gifford says. “We have all of the knowledge and tools necessary to defeat the epidemic; the question is do we have the political and societal will to win.” He continues, “The great health care debate that engulfs our country calls us to remember what is at stake for people with HIV. Strengthening the Affordable Care Act

is truly a life-and-death discussion for people with HIV and individuals at risk of contracting HIV.” Today, ARCW’s “knowledge and tools” show how it has been able, through hard work and dedication, to expand its services to Wisconsin residents. The ARCW Medical Center (820 N. Plankinton Ave.) is a fully integrated healthcare facility. Among their many services to the public, ARCW offers HIV, hepatitis C and STD testing, PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis—an HIV prevention strategy for those at high risk for contracting the virus), dental care, mental health therapy, pharmacological services and housing assistance to its patients. ARCW also provides food pantries, legal assistance and social work case management with 10 offices and clinics located throughout the state—from Milwaukee to Superior and from La Crosse to Green Bay. ARCW’s stated mission of “a world without AIDS” where “everyone with HIV disease will live a long and healthy life,” is a long way from being fulfilled. Medical research continues around the world to find a cure and, for all the remarkable progress made since its disastrous spread across the globe, the most realistic assessments are that we are still decades away from even the possibility of developing a cure or vaccine for HIV. If ever.

“The French co-discoverer of HIV [Françoise Barré-Sinoussi] was quoted in her last professional interview saying a cure for HIV very well may be impossible. This bleak assessment from one of the world’s foremost minds on HIV has ignited an ever greater passion for us to provide excellent care for all and aggressive HIV prevention,” says Gifford.

“HIV remains a top public health emergency in our country.”

In 2016, about 36.7 million people worldwide were living with HIV, resulting in a million deaths. Between its discovery and 2014, AIDS has caused the deaths of some 39 million people. According to recent numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some 1.1 million Americans are currently HIV-positive and, just two years ago, more than 18,000 people in the U.S. received an AIDS diagnosis.

Globally, the most common means of HIV transmission is through sexual contact between people of the opposite sex, but the virus cares not about your ethnicity, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, political party, nationality, income or education.

Thankfully, organizations like ARCW continue to fight HIV and AIDS with everything they can muster in a life-and-death battle.

Their fight is the fight of all of humanity.

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otorists may soon have to pay to play in Milwaukee County parks along Lake Michigan and elsewhere. The adopted 2018 county budget calls for a whopping $1.7 million to be generated from paid parking. That provision flew under the radar during budget deliberations, in contrast to the widely publicized debate about County Executive Chris Abele’s proposed $30 increase in the vehicle registration fee (“wheel tax”), which the Milwaukee County Board ultimately rejected.

Parks Director John Dargle said that county administrators hope to enlist a private contractor to conduct a “turn-key” parking operation, including all start-up and enforcement costs.

The county recently issued a “Request for Information” (RFI) from potential parking operation vendors, with a deadline of Wednesday, Nov. 27.

The county would, thus, receive only a portion of parking fees collected. For example, parkers would need to pay a total of $17 million in parking fees in order for the county to collect a 10% cut so that they could net $1.7 million, as called for in the 2018 Milwaukee County budget.

County administrators will soon appoint and convene a work group to develop recommendations for paid parking in Milwaukee County parks. County Board Chairman Theo Lipscomb said he does not know whether he will be asked to appoint anyone for the work group. The program would try to make up for the Parks Department’s imminent loss of nearly $2 million in annual parking revenue from the structure beneath O’Donnell Park Downtown.

That operation will soon be transferred to the Milwaukee Art Museum—a plan approved by the board and Abele in 2016. There’s a long waiting list for annual parking by Downtown workers at O’Donnell, which also serves visitors to nearby museums, businesses and events held at Maier Festival Park (the Summerfest grounds). However, high demand for parking

in most county parks—including along the lakefront—is largely seasonal, thus limiting potential revenue.

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County administrators have identified more than 3,400 potential spaces for paid parking. A preliminary list includes up to 1,635 spaces— both along Lincoln Memorial Drive and in lakefront locations—Bradford Beach, McKinley Marina, Veterans Park and Lake Park’s northernmost parking lot. Other possible sites for paid parking are in Estabrook and Hoyt parks (which host beer gardens), along the Kinnickinnic River, Menomonee, Story and Underwood parkways and Mitchell Boulevard. Fewer, additional or different locations could ultimately be recommended, Dargle said.

He also says that Milwaukee County officials have been meeting with staff from the City of Milwaukee regarding the city’s parking operations. Paid parking could be collected through meters, license-plate recognition permits or other systems. The county is considering rates ranging from $1-$3.50 per hour, effective 10 to 12 hours a day, six days per week.

Dargle expressed hope that the work group might finish deliberations after two or three meetings, possibly by January, followed by a request for proposals to run a parking operation.

A budget amendment introduced by County Supervisors Marina Dimitrijevic, Michael Mayo and Sheldon Wasserman requires that the county board approve all paid-parking policies and contracts, following at least one public hearing. Dargle said that the issue being heard at a Parks, Energy and Environment Committee agenda might meet that requirement—albeit within a limited community forum.

The county board has previously removed paid parking from budgets recommended by both current County Executive Chris Abele and the former holder of that office, Scott Walker.

Lipscomb said those revenue projections had been far lower, and thus easier to address during budgetary review. Dargle said he was not sure how public the work group’s process will be, including whether meetings will be videotaped, as are most county board meetings. Some advisory committees convened by Abele in recent years—including for Mitchell Park Domes planning—have not published public meeting notices or minutes.

Potential Impacts of Parking Fees

Dargle has polled vendors running concessions in parks, including Bartolotta Restaurant Group, SURG and the Gift of Wings Kite Store.

He said those businesses tacitly support paid parking in parks, partly because it could increase customer turnover. Wasserman, whose district includes most of the lakefront north of Downtown, said he is “absolutely opposed to parking meters along Lincoln Memorial Drive,” where 617 potential fee-charging spaces have been identified. As he puts it, it “disadvantages those with low incomes, the elderly and many other people who rely on our parks for [their] health and leisure.” However, Wasserman remains open to fees in lots near Bradford Beach,

McKinley Marina and within Lake and Veterans parks.

Dargle said that Park Friends and other community groups have not been asked for input about paid parking plans, but that friends and advocates would be represented within the work group.

Pastor Joseph Ellwanger, who heads the nonprofit Milwaukee Inner City Congregations Allied for Hope (MICAH), said he is “really disappointed” that Milwaukee County may impose parking fees in lakefront parks, “which should be open to everyone—especially those facing poverty and other challenges.” However, if fees are imposed, he would like to see them used specifically for services such as park improvements and expanded bus routes.

Barbara Wells, education coordinator for an adult literacy program in Milwaukee’s Amani neighborhood, said, “Milwaukee’s beach provides an inexpensive way for parents to spend time with their kids. A day at the lakefront should be a time to relax and unwind.

Who wants the stress of wondering if you have enough money to pay for parking or if your meter has expired?”

Colleen Reilly, president of Lake Park Friends, wrote in an email: “The Milwaukee County Parks System was created to provide recreational space and natural areas for everyone, including those who could not afford private gardens and yards. While details have yet to be released, this pay-to-park program appears inconsistent with that parks vision. Lake Park Friends wants to ensure that such a program does not limit access to the parks from a socioeconomic perspective and does not create public safety hazards by causing people to park on city streets.” She added, “We are also concerned that, without a dedicated funding source for our parks, the Parks Department will be forced each year to take such desperate measures to generate revenue to maintain and operate the lands we have entrusted to them.”

Milwaukee resident Sandra Panosh McSweeney said, “Many park users cannot afford to attend a museum, a ball park or a theater. Parks are one of the very few places they can go with their family.” She suggested that county officials should seek alternate ways to more equitably fund the budget, “perhaps increasing the fees for vendors that use our park space for profit.” Meanwhile, Lenore Lee, also of Milwaukee, said paid parking “will make parks the playgrounds of the wealthy.” Kathleen Beaver of Shorewood, who volunteers in several county parks, is concerned about impacts parking fees might have on team sports, special events, use of picnic areas and beer gardens and on nearby streets. As she remarked, “It automatically begs the question: Who will be able to use our parks?”

The 2018 adopted budget increased fees for nearly all paid park amenities and rentals— for golf, aquatics, reserved picnic areas, marina slips and community center memberships.

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eer hunters, for God’s sake, watch out for little children in the woods this year! They’re armed! Just when you think legislators couldn’t get any more reckless in opposing sensible limits on the unrestricted use of deadly weapons anytime, anywhere, by anyone, Wisconsin Republicans are ready to prove you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

The overwhelming majority in the state who do not participate in the annual slaughter known as Wisconsin’s deer hunt may be appalled to learn children as young as 10 have been allowed by lawmakers to roam the woods with fully loaded firearms, and that those kids have never been required to receive any gun safety training. But if you’re just learning this now, forget it, because Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislators de-

cided it wasn’t fair to younger brothers and sisters to require them to reach the advanced age of 10 before they could join the fun of blowing away live animals.

So, get this: They’ve revised the law to eliminate all minimum age limits. Now, even toddlers can experience the joy of killing stuff as long they can lift a fully loaded weapon and squeeze the trigger with their tiny, little fingers. Of course, it might be difficult for really small children to shoot a deer above the knees, so children will always be accompanied by a responsible adult to finish the animal off.

Babes in the Woods Under the previous “mentored hunting” law, the primary responsibility of the adult was to watch the underage child closely at all times to make certain that literal babe in the woods didn’t mishandle a deadly firearm—thus endangering lives around them, as well as the child’s own extremely short one. That’s why the child and his or her adult mentor were permitted to have only one gun between them.

Republicans decided that was a drag, too.

What if more than one deer came along, and the adult had to miss a great shot messing with some little kid? That’s why the new law allows both the child and the adult to carry their own guns so they can fire them at the same time—ideally not at each other.

A logical question some completely sane person might be asking is, what is the purpose of a law pushing innocent, young children who love their pets and stuffed animals into an adult world of bloody, wildlife carnage? Is Wisconsin’s hunting culture so wildly popular that tiny children just can’t wait to massacre animals? Of course not.

Happy Hunting Grounds The dirty, little secret is that the muchhyped Wisconsin hunting culture is slowly dying. That’s because hunters are. Hunting is not one of those healthy lifetime sports that actually extends your life. Drinking heavily, playing poker and tramping through woods wearing heavy blaze orange clothing are not aerobic. As older hunters go to their happy hunting grounds, younger hunters aren’t replacing them in nearly the same numbers.

The reason the state previously set the age for mentored hunting at the absurdly low age of 10 was because older kids weren’t interested. (Teenagers have their own amusements, primarily involving each other.)

Pre-teens didn’t swell the diminishing pack of hunters, either. So now, Republicans have decided to abandon all concerns about child safety and start arming kindergarteners and preschoolers. Why shouldn’t parents decide for themselves when their own little tykes are mature enough to run around

in the woods armed with deadly weapons?

Well, one reason is because some parents are complete idiots. But, hey, the state could lose a lot of money if fewer people buy hunting licenses.

Naturally, Wisconsin Republicans have the strong support of the National Rifle Association (NRA)—the front organization for U.S. gun manufacturers that believes every man, woman and child should be armed from head to toe with as many concealed and openly carried deadly weapons as they can possibly carry at all times.

Opponents who, for some reason, thought toddler hunting might be a bad idea included the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, Wisconsin Hunter Education Instructors Association and responsible Wisconsin outdoor writers who work full time advocating and celebrating every form of hunting. In fact, gun safety instructors testified that 10 years old was already was too young for many children to hunt simply because they lacked the physical strength to control powerful firearms—not to mention possessing childish judgment. Most chillingly, psychologists warn that children (like little Jeffrey Dahmer) who cruelly enjoy torturing and killing animals may be showing signs of incipient mental illness.

Let children learn to love animals first before they start killing them. They’ll be adults with guns soon enough.

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he countdown to the greatest day in U.S. Speaker of the House and Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan’s life has begun. He’s dreamed about it since his frat days. If all goes as planned, by Christmas, he’ll end both Medicare and Medicaid as we have known them.

There’s only one step left until he can claim victory.

As a reminder, Medicare is the program that you pay into your whole life, and then get medical care out of when you get old. Medicaid is a program you pay into and then, if you or your children become impoverished, your family can get medical care. For example, Medicaid covers people in nursing homes and children born with serious health issues.

Ryan isn’t a fan of the programs. He thinks they encourage people to be lazy. Of course, he has yet to explain how becoming elderly is due to laziness or how having a child with serious medical needs is due to laziness. Ryan really doesn’t like rich families and corporations having to pay taxes towards programs that help less-rich people.

After all, as a rich person grows old, they can likely afford most medical costs, and if a rich person has a child with serious medical needs, his or her deep pockets can cover the costs.

Unfortunately for Ryan, basic economics opposes him; for insurance programs to do what they are meant to do, you can’t cherry pick who is in them. Basic democracy also opposes him; a basic task of any democratic government is to create a system where everyone can access the medical care they need.

To explain where Paul Ryan is in his quest to destroy Medicare and Medicaid, here are the three steps to the Congressional budget process: n Pass the Budget Resolution, which outlines where Congress wants more or less spending and taxes. n Pass the Tax Bill, which determines exactly how the government will bring in money. n Pass Spending Bills, which designate how the government will spend money.

In October, Ryan achieved the first step. The Budget Resolution passed in the House and Senate, calling for “finding savings” in Medicare and Medicaid and cutting taxes.

On Nov. 16, Ryan achieved the second step. The House passed his tax bill, which cuts taxes for the richest American families and corporations. For example, it eliminates the inheritance tax (a tax applied if one inherits more than $5 million). We have an opportunity to stop Ryan in his tracks here: The Senate still needs to pass the tax bill. The Senate stopped the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but only because people took action. What will happen if we don’t take action and the Senate doesn’t stop the tax bill?

Ryan’s last step will be to pass spending bills that gut Medicare and Medicaid.

Ryan and the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress have signaled they will cut Medicare in two ways: n Move the eligibility age from 65 to 67. n Create fixed vouchers instead of paying for procedures.

Vouchers will destroy Medicare; they are fixed amounts of money that won’t change even if medical costs go up (of course, medical costs are skyrocketing). So, for example, suddenly a senior will have a medical bill for $10,000, but a voucher for only $5,000.

The $500 billion “savings found” for the government is really just a $500 billion cost to individual seniors.

Congress has signaled a similar strategy for Medicaid through a process called “block grants.” The two biggest, most efficient healthcare systems in America will be rendered basically useless. Let’s steal victory away from Paul Ryan just like we did with the attempted Obamacare repeal!

Katie Dunn is the organizer for the Healthcare for All Organizing Co-Op, a member-led movement of medical professionals and consumers founded by Citizen Action of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals.

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hen baker Nancy Potter wanted to start a food business, she considered how cheese making in Wisconsin has grown exponentially in quality and variety over the last couple of decades—and what pairs better with cheese than crackers?

“One of my biggest reasons for picking crackers was that I saw the Wisconsin cheese industry getting better and better,” Potter says. “Why get a fine $20-per-pound cheddar, and then put it on a Ritz?”

Her choice led to the formation of Potter’s Crackers. The business is based in the Common Wealth business incubator on Madison’s East Side, but Milwaukeeans can easily find Potter’s Crackers at Outpost Natural Foods, Beans & Barley, Sendik’s, Larry’s Market, Kettle Range Meat Company or online. After owning and operating New Glarus Bakery for many years, Potter left the bakery business and worked for two years in marketing, but she missed the food business and being her own boss. She considered making candy, but candy, like bakery, she thought was too seasonal or holiday themed.

She wanted to produce a product that would be in demand year-round. She mentioned the possibility of cracker production to her kids during a Thanksgiving gathering.

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Potter’s Crackers no longer makes gluten-free products, but the company focuses on seven varieties of crisp, hearty crackers. Winter wheat (which is vegan), six seed and classic white all pair well with most kinds of cheese. There’s applewood smoked, in which the crackers are smoked in wood from organic apple trees; Wisconsin rye, made with rye flour from Lonesome Stone Milling in the Driftless Region; caramelized onion; and herbes de provence, lightly seasoned with rosemary and thyme. The latter pairs well with goat cheese or other lighter, creamy white cheeses.

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Potter’s Crackers also makes crisps in flavors such as cranberry hazelnut, caramelized onion, and rosemary thyme; and oyster crackers, which are always fun to toss into a steamy bowl of soup on a cold winter afternoon.

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he worst thing I can say about the Packers-Ravens game is that almost every Packer played well, and they were still destroyed.

(The Packers lost to the Ravens 23-0 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.) I have, in the aftermath, already witnessed fans and media alike ripping the talent level of the rest of the team; ripping into Dom Capers and, worst of all, disparaging the offensive line. The fact of the matter is that Brett Hundley played one of the worst games imaginable for a starting quarterback.

The Buffalo Bills’ Nathan Peterman overshadowed Hundley in terms of poor play with a legendary five interceptions on just 14 attempts, but in truth Hundley wasn’t really that much better. On 38 drop backs, Hundley threw three interceptions, lost a fumble and took two sacks on fourth down plays. The quarterback is the most important position in football, and on Sunday it undermined the good work of 21 other positions.

Nothing Has Changed.

The Quarterback Should Change I don’t think Joe Callahan is very good, however, even if he’s every bit as bad as Hundley, I will settle for someone being bad in new and interesting ways. Hundley has had weeks of starter reps and years of backup reps to work on his deficiencies, and he hasn’t improved. Sunday was his worst game as a Packer, and the Ravens created an easily repeatable template on how to humiliate the young quarterback.

First of all, Hundley is awful under pressure.

The Baltimore pass rush is good, but Hundley made it far better by repeating his worst habit and not stepping up into the pocket. Under normal circumstances, tackles facing overly aggressive edge rushers will simply push them into the backfield while the quarterback steps up. This is impossible with Hundley, who refuses to step up into a rush and instead fades back—directly into the path of the outside rushers.

He did this repeatedly on Sunday, turning potential big gains into huge losses and interceptions. On the surface, Jason Spriggs looked like he had an awful game, but outside of one

missed block, he was actually solid in the face of an impossible task. The Ravens knew they could let it loose and simply fly up field to get to Hundley. It worked, it’s easy, and every subsequent opponent will do the same thing.

Second, Hundley stares down receivers. Last week, I pointed out that Hundley was lucky to escape Chicago without an interception as he threw at least two highly interceptable balls. He wasn’t so lucky against Baltimore’s outstanding secondary; a promising first drive by Green Bay ended with Jimmy Smith reading Hundley’s eyes and abandoning Davante Adams to fall back into coverage on Randall Cobb. The throw itself was also terrible and should have either had much more zip or taken Cobb out to the boundary where only he would have a play on it. Instead, Hundley immediately cost the Packers a seven-point lead, and they would never really threaten again.

Packers Defense Steps Up Baltimore doesn’t have a good offense, but it was good to see the Packer defense play a borderline great game. The Ravens were held to 219 total yards and converted just three of 13 third downs. Ha Ha Clinton-Dix’s pick of Joe Flacco was a thing of beauty, and given that they were constantly operating on a short field, the score could have been much more lopsided. The big issue for the defense going forward is that it continues to be severely injured. Kevin King was a late scratch, and his shoulder is going to be a problem for the remainder of the season. Kenny Clark suffered a severe ankle injury, and his breakout season is going to be put on hold for a few weeks at least.

And—as usual, after a brilliant first half—Clay Matthews was unable to finish the game due to a groin injury. The defense isn’t likely to repeat such a performance any time soon, and it’s a shame that this one was wasted.

Going Forward The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the NFL’s best teams, featuring an outstanding defense as well as a top-10 offense. If Brett Hundley is still behind center on Sunday, it’s not going to be any easier for him and, unlike with players on the Baltimore Ravens team, Pittsburgh’s Ben Roethlisberger, Le’Veon Bell and Antonio Brown will make you pay for every mistake. I didn’t expect the Packers to win this upcoming game without Aaron Rodgers, but now I don’t think that Las Vegas can set a line high enough to make the Packers a worthwhile wager. This is a good bet for the biggest blowout of the year.

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he Fox Bay Cinema Grill (334 E. Silver Spring Drive, Whitefish Bay) is a gem of curvaceous Art Deco architecture. Dating from 1951, the Fox Bay was one of Milwaukee’s last-built neighborhood movie theaters; in 2000 it was sensitively split into a three-screen house with a full bar off the spacious lobby and working kitchen. Off the Cuff spoke with new owner Roman Kelly, who took charge of the historic cinema this summer.

What were you doing before purchasing the Fox Bay? I was an actuary for a consulting firm in Brookfield for many years. I was looking for a different challenge. I wanted to go into business for myself.

Why a movie theater?

The previous owner put the Fox Bay on the market last year. I found it by Googling “Businesses for Sale Milwaukee.” The listing didn’t give the name, it only said “Dinner Movie Theater for Sale.” I guessed it must be the Fox Bay. The other listings were mostly bars, restaurants. A dinner movie theater seemed the most interesting given all the revenue streams from the movies, the food and the bar.

I’m assuming that when you bought it, the facility was intact—no need for any substantial rehabbing?

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The orders are taken in the theater and delivered to the seats?

Our staff is good about being unobtrusive—to not interfere with the viewing experience.

Why is a neighborhood theater like the Fox Bay viable in today’s world?

We are primarily a community theater— people in the area enjoy having us here.

People in the neighborhood have thanked me for keeping it open.

Another appealing thing for me is that there is no open space nearby—it’s unlikely that a chain will build an 18-screen multiplex down the road and put me out of business. I think the dinner-movie concept allows people out on a date to save time— you go out to eat and watch the movie simultaneously. Seeing a movie can also be a family friendly activity and is cost effective. It’s much less expensive than taking the family to a Bucks game.

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Netflix takes away family time. It’s too easy for everyone to watch their own thing.

If you’re seeing the same thing at the same time, there are opportunities for people to talk about it. And ultimately, watching a movie on a 50- or 60-foot screen is better than what the vast majority of people can do at home. There’s also something to be said about being in a crowd that’s reacting as one. The energy of the crowd can enhance the experience.

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SHEPHERD EXPRESS HOLIDAY ARTS GUIDE hat struck us was the immensity: the sheer number of holiday offerings in the Milwaukee area by performing arts groups. The volume of events inspired us to produce a guide to holiday-themed shows opening this week and next month.

Whatever your persuasion, there will be something here to fill the long winter nights with a sense of warmth, humor and wonder.

A Christmas Carol, Milwaukee Repertory Theater

A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Christmas Carol

Nov. 24-Dec. 31 Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Todd Wehr Theater 123 E. State St.

Nov. 28-Dec. 24 Pabst Theater, 144 E. Wells St.

First Stage

Milwaukee Repertory Theater

Follow Snoopy, Charlie, Linus and the gang on an adventure to find out what Christmas is truly about. From Charlie Brown trees and Yuletide blues to dancing and the Christmas spirit, the play directed by Jeff Frank is a fun take on the heart-warming television special. “With an iconic score played live by the incomparable Jack Forbes Wilson and laughs aplenty courtesy of the brilliance of Charles Schulz, this is a perfect holiday show for families to celebrate the season together,” says Frank. (Megan Leonard)

Milwaukee Repertory presents Artistic Director Mark Clements’ adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Production changes from last year are minimal and many of the cast return, including Jonathan Smoots as Marley, Angela Iannone as Mrs. Fezziwig and Jonathan Wainwright as Scrooge. Clements is excited to put suggestions from last year’s audience and artists into effect, and celebrates that this “cross-faith and cross-generational story” is often the first experience of professional theater local young people have. His intended takeaway for audiences? “Be present. Literally. Be engaged. Find the joy in what you can.

Remember life is precious and live everyday as if it’s your last.” (Selena Milewski)

The Christmas Schooner

Scrooge in Rouge

Memories Dinner Theatre

Nov. 25-Dec. 17 1077 Lake Drive, Port Washington

Set at the turn-of-the-century of the last century, The Christmas Schooner’s true, heart-warming story follows a Michigan shipping captain bringing German-American families the Christmas spirit. He sails across the frigid waters of Lake Michigan in winter to bring the homesick Chicagoans something familiar, Christmas trees. The musical story shows joy and courage and the belief that “our blessings aren’t ours to keep, they’re meant to be passed along.” (Megan Leonard)

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In Tandem Theatre

Nov. 30-Jan. 7, 2018 Tenth Street Theatre, 628 N. 10th St.

In Tandem Theatre returns with this popular comedy about an early 20th-century music hall production of Charles Dickens’ 19th-century classic. The hook is that much of the cast falls ill and the entire show must be performed by four actors. In Tandem’s Chris Flieller will be joined onstage by Elyse Edelman, Nathan Marinan and Josh Robinson.

(Russ Bickerstaff)

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A Christmas Carol Falls Patio Players

Dec. 1-3 N88 W16750 Garfield Drive, Menomonee Falls

Falls Patio Players’ rendition of A Christmas Carol has become a family tradition. The original musical play by Carol Klose and Jack C. Strawbridge starts with Charles Dickens’ story and adds French and English carols along with original songs. Falls Patio Players, located in Menomonee Falls, has been entertaining audiences of all ages in southeastern Wisconsin for more than 50 years. (Megan Leonard)

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Cardinal Stritch University, Nancy Kendall Theater Dec. 1-10 6801 N. Yates Road

The cabaret-style show encapsulates “song, dance and good old-fashioned holiday fun” through a variety of songs, dance and dialogue. The 80-minute program of Christmas fun doesn’t miss any of the classics like “O Christmas Tree,” “White Christmas” or “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” to name a few. (Megan Leonard)

The House Without a Christmas Tree Waukesha Civic Theatre

Dec. 1-17 Margaret Brate Bryant Civic Theatre, 264 W. Main St., Waukesha

Milwaukee actor/writer Doug Jarecki has adapted the beloved 1972 holiday TV special (and subsequent novelization) into a live stage show that makes its debut this year in Waukesha. The story of a girl helping her father move beyond the death of his wife for the holidays is brought to life onstage under the direction of John Cramer. With Jarecki’s clever narrative instincts, this should be a satisfying addition to local holiday stage fare. (Russ Bickerstaff )

A Christmas Carol: The Musical Racine Theatre Guild

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November 29 - December 3 Chicago’s famed sketch comedy theater comes to the Marcus Center with an irresistibly festive new show that will have you laughing all the way through the holidays. Stuffed with brand new tidings of discomfort and “oy,” classic sketches and plenty of our holi-dazed improv!

Dec. 1-17 2519 Northwestern Ave., Racine

A Christmas Carol: The Musical wraps the nostalgia of Charles Dickens’ classic story in a lively musical retelling. Talkin’ Broadway called it a “soaring, delightful musical theatre with a treasure house of beautiful, evocative music.” Prior to the show on Dec. 1, 9 and 15, traditional carols will be sung by the Union Grove High School Carolers. (Megan Leonard)

"Northern Lights Concert" Wisconsin Philharmonic

Dec. 5 Carroll University’s Shattuck Music Center, 218 N. East Ave., Waukesha

Combined girls’ choirs of Brookfield Central, Brookfield East and Muskego high schools join the orchestra for an interesting holiday season concert with a Scandinavian bent.

They promise music “from ABBA to Edvard Grieg.” A Pre-Concert Conversation (6:30 p.m.) will help audience members get into the spirit of things and appreciate the evocative and wonderfully wintry music of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. (John Jahn)

“Holiday G.I. Jukebox”

Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts

A 1940’s “Live Broadcast” of the Classic Holiday Favorite This heartwarming holiday classic comes to life through the bygone radio formula of a few hardworking actors, live sound effects - and a listener’s imagination. This stage version reminds audiences of everything we love about the movie!

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Dec. 6 19805 W. Capitol Drive

Singer Elaine Dame has become a mainstay of Chicago’s jazz scene, headlining Windy City clubs with her swinging, virtuosic performances and venturing as far as New York’s legendary Rainbow Room. She’s coming to Milwaukee for a holiday show featuring beloved Greatest Generation hits such as “White Christmas,” “We’ll Meet Again” and “I’ll Be Seeing You.” (Morton Shlabotnik)

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Great American playwright-poet Langton Hughes tells the Christmas Story in the voices of African Americans. Carols and original songs are performed in gospel style. Director Malkia Stampley uses our current social and political climate as backdrop. “The birth of Jesus was not immune to drama and controversy,” she said. “It represented the fierce commitment to challenging the status quo for the sake of true peace for all, and that is one of our production’s goals.” Dec. 7 is “pay-what-you-can” night. (John Schneider)

"Home for the Holidays" Florentine Opera

Dec. 8-9 and Dec. 16-17 Wayne and Kristine Lueders Florentine Opera Center, 930 E. Burleigh St. The Florentine’s Studio Artists will help get you in the holiday spirit with seasoned chestnuts like Jule Styne’s “Let it Snow,” Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride,” Irving Berlin’s immortal “White Christmas” and Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane’s touching war-time classic, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Rarer songs, too, such as Donny Hathaway and Nadine McKinnon’s “This Christmas.” (John Jahn)

Holiday Pops

Racine Symphony Orchestra Dec. 8 Racine Festival Hall, 5 Fifth St., Racine

CHANT CLAIRE CHAMBER CHOIR

Commemorates the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation

The RSO’s Beth Bender explains that the orchestra will be performing “Robert Shaw’s ‘The Many Moods of Christmas’ and Jim Stephenson’s ‘Holly Jolly Sing Along’ with a combined high school choir of students from Union Grove, Burlington, Park and Prairie schools.”

Given the audience layout for this concert, attendees can opt for individual seating or tables for eight to 10 concertgoers. (John Jahn)

“Bing Crosby: Christmas on the Air” Milwaukee Entertainment Group

Dec. 8-23 Brumder Mansion, 3046 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Saturday, December 16 7 p.m.

St. Marcus Lutheran Church 2215 N. Palmer St. Milwaukee, WI Hear works by Martin Luther, J.S. Bach, Praetorius, Dan Forrest, Mendelssohn and others, with some holiday carols Free general admission; suggested donations welcome.

Bing Crosby was, in the knowing estimation of clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, “the first hip white person born in the United States.” These days, der Bingle’s once revolutionary vocal innovations have been so thoroughly assimilated as to be shorthand for the musical tastes of yesteryear, as exemplified by the seasonal ubiquity of “White Christmas,” the best-selling record of all time. Written by and starring Matt Zembrowski, “Bing Crosby Christmas on the Air” presents a tune-filled evening of nostalgia designed to delight old fans and win new ones. (Tyler Friedman)

"Christmas in the Basilica" Bel Canto Chorus

Dec. 8-10 The Basilica of St. Josaphat, 2333 S. Sixth St. What terrific and most apropos ambiance for a Christmas music concert! Bel Canto Chorus will make great use of the historic locale for “Christmas in the Basilica,” a concert featuring the well-known chorus accompanied by brass and organ. Along with many of “the usual suspects” of music composed specifically for this celebrated time of year will be a new piece by local composer Daniel Van Gelderen. (John Jahn)

Reception to follow with free snacks, drinks and fellowship.

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Milwaukee Ballet Dec. 9-26 Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St.

Michael Pink’s endearing production reached perfection years ago. It’s exciting to see who among this superb family of dancers from around the world is playing which of the vivid roles at any given performance. To celebrate 40 years of Nutcrackers by Milwaukee Ballet, Pink himself will play the magic maker Drosselmeyer on Dec. 22. There’s a sensoryfriendly performance on Dec. 20 in partnership with Autism Speaks and the Marcus Center.

And there’s Tchaikovsky’s ravishing score. (John Schneider)

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“The Boston Camerata & SHARQ Arabic Music Ensemble: A Mediterranean Christmas” Early Music Now

Back by popular demand

Dec. 10 St. Joseph Chapel, 1501 S. Layton Blvd.

As the early music movement gathered steam in the 1960s and early ’70s, most ears were tuned to Western Europe for repertoire from the Baroque and Renaissance eras. Recent years have seen the concept expand to include other regions. Milwaukee’s Early Music Now has been at the forefront of this shift by presenting music from other cultures and exploring cross-cultural groups. Their mission is evident in EMN’s holiday concert. The Boston Camerata, one of America’s foremost early music ensembles, will perform with SHARQ Arabic Music Ensemble, an Arab American group focused on the art music of the Near East.

(David Luhrssen)

The Messiah

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Dec. 13: St. Mary Catholic Faith Community, 9520 W Forest Home Ave. Dec. 14: Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 812 N. Jackson St. Dec. 15: St. Josaphat Basilica, 2333 S. Sixth St.

George Frideric Handel’s 1741 English-language oratorio, The Messiah, has perhaps become the prolific Baroque composer’s most famous work, its “Hallelujah Chorus” almost instantly recognizable by people who’ve never heard the whole piece. Its three-part texts (derived from the King James Bible) follow the story arc of Jesus’ life, and its performance by the MSO and Chorus has become one of our area’s great holiday traditions. Under conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong, four vocal soloists, orchestra and chorus will fill three different locations with Handel’s glorious music. (John Jahn)

“Holiday Harp with Kim Robertson and Friends” Irish Cultural and Heritage Center Dec. 16 2133 W. Wisconsin Ave.

ICHC’s international shows rarely feature local talent, but the internationally acclaimed Wisconsin-born harpist Kim Robertson will join Milwaukeeans Brett Lipshutz on Irish flute and whistle, Maria Terres on fiddle, vocalist Rachel Pollack, David Pollock on the Great Highland bagpipe and small pipes, Celtic harpist Mary Radspinner, a harp ensemble from the Irish Fest School of Music and dancers from the Cashel Dennehy School of Irish Dance for a traditional Christmas celebration in the historic Hallamór. (John Schneider)

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Scrooge in Rouge

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December 1, 2017 - January 7, 2018 A troupe of 23 players are about to embark on a musical adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” when 20 of them come down with food poisoning, leaving only 3 to put on the entire show in this musical comedy!

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McMann and Tate Productions will bring its brand of adult comedy back to the Cedarburg Cultural Center for its Holiday Improv Show. A great way to laugh through the holidays with family, friends and coworkers, CCC’s resident comedy cast is still tickling funny bones after 17 years of holiday skit shows. (Morton Shlabotnik)

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Dec. 16 St. Marcus Lutheran Church 2215 N. Palmer St.

“The program follows the narrative arc of the Reformation, as well as Martin Luther’s life,” explains Chant Claire’s music director, Ben Bedroske. In addition to music reflecting “the Catholic polyphony which preceded the Reformation,” he says, it will then “move through the rich musical history of the Lutheran faith” and “the hugely influential Lutheran Choral School.” Composers like Felix Mendelssohn, Heinrich Schütz and, yes, even Martin Luther will be heard. (John Jahn)

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“Welcome All Wonders”

Master Singers of Milwaukee Dec. 16-17 St. Joseph Chapel 1501 S. Layton Blvd.

The Master Singers of Milwaukee welcome all of the many wonders of the holiday season in two concerts; the Dec. 16 concert has the celebrated ensemble joining voices with the Muskego High School Concert Choir; on Dec. 17, MSM’s joined by the Hamilton High School Concert Choir. Works on the program include “All Bells in Paradise” by John Rutter, “Lullay, My Liking” by Matthew Owens and, appropriately enough, “Welcome All Wonders”

by Richard Dirksen. (John Jahn)

Performing extraordinary music for you!

Eduardo Garcia-Novelli Artistic Director

Welcome All Wonders Welcome in the wonders of the holiday season with the Master Singers and their guests—Muskego High School Chorale on Saturday, and Hamilton High School Concert & A Capella Choirs on Sunday—at the magnificent St. Joseph Chapel.

Gorgeous Christmas music in an inspiring space!

St. Joseph Chapel: 1501 S. Layton Blvd., Milwaukee

Sat. Dec. 16, 2017 | 7:30pm

Sun. Dec. 17, 2017 | 3pm

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The Master Singers of Milwaukee is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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“An Evening of Readings and Carols” Milwaukee Children’s Choir

Dec. 16 Cathedral Church of All Saints, 818 E. Juneau Ave.

Looking for a Christmas concert that’s accessible yet musically informative? Milwaukee Children’s Choir has a performance for you! The concert features the Milwaukee Youth Chorale along with “Wisconsin’s premier treble choir,” Voices of Eterna. Audience members are invited to sing along on familiar carols and, according to Voices of Eterna Conductor Marco Melendez, enjoy “rarely performed works by well-known composers such as Johannes Brahms, Pablo Casals and Giovanni Bassano.” Carols are interspersed with inspirational text by writers including Maya Angelou and Martin Luther King Jr. (Selena Milewski)

“It’s a Wonderful Life-Live from WVL Radio Theatre” Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St. Dec. 22-23

“It’s A Wonderful Life: Live from WVL Radio Theater” is a fresh adaptation of Frank Capra’s classic film set during the Golden Age of radio. The show features a bygone radio formula where actors and live sound effects engaged the imagination of listeners. The on-stage version’s “live broadcast” takes the audience back to George Baily’s close call with death on Christmas Eve and transports them back in time. (Megan Leonard)

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BY RICHARD L. PIFER World War I was hard on Wisconsin. Its central European population supported Germany and Austria until America’s declaration of war became inevitable; its Scandinavians remained as neutral as their homelands; its socialist politicians (and there were many in high office) opposed the war. As Richard L. Pifer reminds us in The Great War Comes to Wisconsin, the Badger State was reviled around the nation as the “traitor state” and yet, “when the United States finally became an active belligerent, outward opposition to the war disappeared virtually overnight.” When war came Wisconsin rallied, contributing soldiers to the 32nd Division, which fought bravely on the Western Front; its industry and farms kept the military supplied; and its people bought Liberty Bonds to finance the war. In the face of repressive laws aimed at quelling “disloyalty,” mental reservations were concealed and Wisconsinites, like most Americans, were swept up by patriotism fueled by the fear that the nation was in danger. (David Luhrssen)

Magritte: This is not a biography (SELFMADEHERO),

BY VINCENT ZABUS AND THOMAS CAMPI

“Not a biography” indeed! This graphic—OK, un-biography, is an imaginative attempt to get inside the head of surrealist painter René Magritte—or at least under the artist’s hat, since his trademark bowler is prominent throughout Thomas Campi’s colored panels. Writer Vincent Zabus’ whimsical narrative explores Magritte’s artistic roots (Fantômas films and Edgar Allan Poe?), origin story (as a child he encountered a painter at his easel in a cemetery) and aesthetic (“What is hidden must be shown”). Magritte’s paintings haunt the hapless protagonist investigating the artist’s life in Zabus’ story. (Morton Shlabotnik)

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cholars of all backgrounds have been studying the relationship between poverty and crime for decades, revealing that an unmistakable link between the poor and criminal offenses exists in countries around the world. In America, the poor are disproportionally victims of a criminal justice system that has created economic policies that too often trap poverty-stricken communities in a perpetual cycle of criminalization.

Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman’s new book, Not a Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America, documents the myriad ways that our local, state and national systems of justice use fines and fees, Peter Edelman money bail systems, and strictly enforced behavior guidelines that largely affect the homeless and mentally ill, in order to victimize and demonize the poor. Edelman, who served as an aide to Robert Kennedy during the 1960s and has long advocated for the rights of the disadvantaged, turns our attention to the thousands of forgotten Americans who are imprisoned for no other reason than being poor.

His striking recent examples include the Ferguson Report, which, after its release following the 2014 death of Michael Brown, documented how unjust policing in the city resulted in the imprisonment of many members of the city’s largely poor, African American population. This provocative account extends beyond Ferguson’s biased system of justice to show how similar practices are being replicated in cities across America, sheds new light on the damaging ways that poor children are criminalized through the school system, and documents the increasingly common practice of locking people up for minor violations.

Edelman will speak at Boswell Book Co. at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 29 in a free event co-sponsored by the Community Advocates Public Policy Institute.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 24

Benefit for Rett Syndrome Awareness @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

R&B Cadets @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

Five bands running the gamut from proto-punk to glam to pop-punk have come together to raise money and awareness for a disease many of us haven’t heard of. Rett Syndrome is a genetic brain disorder almost exclusive to girls that can cause coordination problems, seizures, scoliosis and breathing difficulties, among a host of other complications, and right now there is no cure for it. The lineup for this fundraiser includes Ramma Lamma, Aluminum Knot Eye, Meatcurtains, Ornerys and Red Lodge. There will also be a raffle and silent auction featuring items from dozens of local businesses—including Odd Duck, Goodkind, Pizza Shuttle and the Vanguard. The suggested $12 donation at the door includes a free raffle ticket.

The R&B Cadets may be remembered less for the music they made than the careers they launched. Formed in 1980, the group served as a launching pad for some of the city’s most prominent musicians, including John Sieger (who went on to form SemiTwang), singer Robin Pluer and Paul Cebar of the Milwaukeeans and Tomorrow Sound fame. The band’s festive, rock-minded spin on vintage soul music made them one of the city’s most dependable live draws in the early ’80s, and since reuniting in 2015, they’ve reclaimed that honor; since they don’t perform often, each of their shows has the feel of a major event. They do two shows this weekend at Shank Hall, conveniently timed for old fans that may be back in town for Thanksgiving. (Also Saturday, Nov. 25).

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Excision w/ Eptic, Phiso, Um.. and Wooli @ The Rave, 8 p.m.

Master P

SATURDAY, NOV. 25 Master P and Juvenile w/ Bun B., 8Ball & MJG and Mia X @ Miller High Life Theatre, 8 p.m.

These days, the self-starter mentality is so baked into rap’s ethos that many rappers take independence for granted, but in the ’90s, there was almost no way for rappers to get their music heard on a wide scale without relying on a major label.

Master P bucked those trends, starting his own label, No Limit Records, which went on to become the most influential outlets for Southern rap ever, paving the way for countless independent labels and independent artists that followed in his wake.

For his “Kings and Queen of the South” tour, the rap pioneer will be joined by a pair of his fellow No Limit veterans: Juvenile and Mia X (the “Queen” of the tour and one of the label’s most underrated talents), as well as UGK veteran Bun B and the Memphis duo 8Ball & MJG. 24 | N O V E M B E R 2 3 , 2 0 1 7

Few producers understand the importance of spectacle in contemporary EDM better than Canadian DJ Excision. Though he started in the mid-’00s with a fairly bare-bones take on contemporary dubstep and drum and bass, his sound has only grown bigger and brasher over the years, and so has his live show: He now tours with an eardrum-destroying 150,000-watt sound system, along with the requisite light display. The last time he played the Rave, tickets sold so fast the venue had to add a second night, so there’s a good chance this show will sell out.

Hayward Williams w/ Coyote Brother @ Anodyne Coffee Walker’s Point, 8 p.m.

Singer-songwriter Hayward Williams made his mark on the city’s music scene in the late ’00s with his melancholy, cabin-fevered take on Americana and his Leonard Cohenesque way with a lyric, but on recent albums, he’s branched out. 2014’s The Reef brightened things up with festive, hornpunched arrangements modeled after Van Morrison’s Moondance and Hayward Williams the classic Stax Records releases, and a little bit of that Memphis soul spirit carries through his latest release, Pretenders, which offsets Williams’ typically pointed prose with some irresistibly uptempo grooves. This performance will serve as his release show for the new record.

The Verve Pipe w/ AJ of Northern Room and Lauren Lee @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 8 p.m.

The Verve Pipe were one of dozens of alternative bands gobbled up by major labels in the wake of Nirvana’s success, and they made the most of their opportunity, releasing their grungy major-label debut, Villains, in 1996. It included their first hit, “Photograph,” and their signature song, “The Freshmen,” a melodramatic tale of a high schooler’s suicide. The band has released albums sporadically since but were never able to recreate that record’s success, so it makes sense that they’d return to that well for this show, where they’ll perform Villains in its entirety, with new acoustic arrangements.

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SUNDAY, NOV. 26

King Crimson @ Riverside Theater, 7:30 p.m.

In the pantheon of progressive rock, few albums were more influential than King Crimson’s 1969 debut, In the Court of the Crimson King, an ambitious fusion of rock, classical and symphonic music that helped pave the way for some of the genre’s greatest works in the ’70s. King Crimson hasn’t released a new studio album since 2003’s The Power to Believe, a dense, psychedelic work that did justice to the band’s heyday albums, but even as they near their 50th anniversary, they’ve continued to tour heavily—still led after all these years by frontman and founder Robert Fripp. The eight-piece lineup for this tour also includes bassist Tony Levin, singer-guitarist Michael “Jakko” Jakszyk and flute and sax player Mel Collins.

TUESDAY, NOV. 28

Whitney w/ NE-HI @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

NATALIE ESCOBEDO

While frontman Cullen Omori set off on a solo career after the breakup of the late, beloved Chicago power-pop ensemble Smith Westerns, his former bandmates Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich started their own new group called Whitney. It didn’t take long for the indie-pop group to find an audience. Their 2016 debut album, Light Upon the Lake, thrust them into the limelight last year, thanks to irresistible summer jams like “The Falls” and “Golden Days,” which offset the group’s lush instrumentals with breezy vocals and a lighthearted, feel-good air. The record raked in rave reviews from publications like Paste and Pitchfork and earned the band a vocal fan in Sir Elton John—who was so enthusiastic about the record that he interviewed the group for a New York Times magazine feature last fall.

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 29 Longface w/ Bad History Month and Cairns @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

Longface carry on Chicago’s long tradition of unorthodox Americana music that has no interest in capturing life in the city. The group’s latest record, Hillbilly Wit, alternates between buzzy rock songs, folky commentary on American woes and values and noise-drenched freak-outs that sound like the work of a band that’s snorted bath salts. The band is joined on this tour by a similarly singular opening act: Boston’s Bad History Month—a solo indie-rock project from songwriter Sean Bean who fills the band’s new album, Dead And Loving It: An Introductory Exploration of Pessimysticism, with intense and philosophically minded tales of existence and mortality. Bean has likened it to a self-help book, and while it’s a good deal more inscrutable than most anything you’d find on the shelves, it’s an album that does ultimately leave you feeling better about the world.

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BMO HARRIS BRADLEY CENTER With so many fantastic shows to see, they’ll want ticket or a gift card in their stockings this holiday for their favorite show, the Milwaukee Bucks or the many other offerings. Coming this year, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra performs on Dec. 29. You’ll be treated to a rousing performance just perfect for the holidays. Get your tickets now!

There’s so much to see; come to the Bradley Center and create some memories.

BRADY STREET FUTONS Looking for versatile seating? Look no farther than Brady Street Futons—your source for durable and stylish futons with an efficient use of space. The multi-purpose bed, sofa and loveseat options are ideal for the holiday guests coming to stay. They’ll love to cozy up on funky to classic designs.

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CELTIC MKE Breakfast or Lunch with Santa on Saturday, Dec. 2 at the CelticMKE Center, then, partake in arts & crafts; kids take home their crafted gifts. Santa will be handing out gift bags and, of course, you’ll get your picture taken with the jolly old elf himself.

Admission is $8 per person; Children under 2 are free. Tickets must be purchased in advance, so don’t miss out on the fun!

Or, experience “Oh Night Divine: A Holiday Concert” featuring Tallymoore on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. Christmas isn’t just the season of light; it’s the season of music. Let the Irish and Scottish ballads, reels and Christmas tunes sweep over you at CelticMKE Center’s Great Hall. Seating is limited, so get your $10 advanced tickets now. Children under 12 are free. Tickets are $15 after Dec. 2.

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CHANT CLAIRE CHAMBER CHOIR Commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation on Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. at St. Marcus Lutheran Church. You’ll hear the stunning music of Martin Luther, J.S. Bach, Praetorius, Mendelssohn and others. Admission is free, but donations are always welcome.

The Chant Claire Chamber Choir was founded in 2013, and is a Milwaukee choir dedicated to bringing challenging, high-quality choral music to singers and audiences alike.

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THE DOGG HAUS The kids are off from school, the relatives are visiting and they all need to eat. Take them to The Dogg Haus. You can build your own dog from plain to chili cheese and the works, so everyone’s happy! (And, don’t forget they’re a cure for the previous night’s overindulgence in yuletide libations!)

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On Nov. 25, make a day of it and get your holiday shopping done. Walk the quaint streets, browse the many boutiques and shops, stop for lunch at one of the fine restaurants in the area, find unique gifts, and maybe end it all with a cocktail, a snack or even dinner. There’ll be free parking at 212 N. Milwaukee St., so you’ll want to take advantage of the opportunity to “Shop Local.

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IN TANDEM THEATER Professional, affordable, intimate and comfortable…enjoy what thousands of patrons have already discovered at In Tandem: one of the most unique live theater experiences in town. The company state, “Now in our 20th season, we continue to bring you acclaimed dramas, comedies, musicals and original works in a cozy, relaxed atmosphere filled with added touches like a full bar, fireplace, live piano music and visual art gallery. Let us inspire, enlighten, provoke and entertain you this season!”

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MIAD It’s time for the annual Holiday Sale at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Nov. 30-Dec. 2. Peruse and purchase art and design work from students and alumni.

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The weather outside is frightful, but the fudge making is delightful. At Kilwins, you can schedule a class to make a decadent treat with your family and friends. You’ll get to mix your concoction in their copper kettle, then paddle and loaf it. Everyone gets to take home a slice of the rich goodness you made. I can’t think of a sweeter way to pass an afternoon. Plus, indulge in caramels, chocolates or ice cream. It’s all at Kilwins. (Psst…they have gift baskets, too!)

Show your pride. Show what makes Milwaukee Home—the brand built by the community. You’ll want to stuff their stockings (or your own) with T-shirts, caps, hats, onesies, mugs and more. Plus, you’ll find the colors to support your state or team—or shirts for those with a non-Milwaukee home—Austin Home? Denver Home? Sure! You’ll find their well-crafted goodies online or at their store on Jackson Street in the Third Ward.

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During the holidays, you might just feel the need to get away from it all. Discover Milwaukee Sail Loft, a short drive up Erie Street in the Third Ward, but seemingly miles away. With views of the city unlike any other, you’ll find a relaxing place for a cocktail or dinner. Plus, they do holiday parties, so throw away the stress and breeze into the Sail Loft for an experience that’s anything but ordinary.

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Plum Lounge & Fire Bar: Immerse yourself in the sophisticated and intimate lounge experience in the heart of the Cathedral Square neighborhood at Plum Lounge & Fire Bar. Need to dance off those holiday treats? Plum Lounge has a whole weekend of exciting things lined up. Check them out at plumlounge.com.

ROSEWOOD Discover Midwest hospitality in the modern rustic décor of Rosewood, with its unique, cabaret-style theater featuring state-of-the-art sound and video. You’ll want to gather in their cozy space for holiday

music to get you in the holiday spirit. Enjoy chef-created and farm-to-table dining for brunch or dinner. Join them for “Christmas Remembered” now through Dec. 21…a magical, cabaret music show. Get your tickets now. It’s more than a place for a show. Host your party or wedding in a lovely setting. Shop for gifts in their gift shop or attend one of their supper club-revived Dine & Dance events; there’s one coming up in December. Everything you need is at your fingertips. At Rosewood, life’s a cabaret!

SALVATION ARMY The bell ringers are out tinging the air with their merry tinkles. It’s the time of year to remember your riches and be thankful for it all, so be generous when you pass those red kettles. Or, attend the Red Kettle Christmas Spectacular Thursday, Dec. 21 at the Wisconsin Club. Be transported on waves of music and support the Salvation Army’s mission to help those who need it most in our community. Visit redkettlecs.com to purchase your tickets for this sparkling event.

SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATER Spend the holidays with Annie at Skylight Music Theatre! Bring the whole family to this heartwarming Broadway musical that has won seven Tony Awards and captivated audiences with a beloved story and an inspiring score, featuring the unforgettable hit song, “Tomorrow.” Skylight Music Theatre is located in the heart of the Historic Third Ward, just steps away from Christmas in the Ward, local boutiques, dining, the Milwaukee Public Market and more!

SWOON Specializing in locally made, hand-crafted products, you’ll find just the right thing—no matter the use or occasion. Trinkets, doodads, T-shirts, rings, home goods…you’ll find them all at Swoon. Stop in often; the selection is always changing. Give them a gift that will make them Swoon!

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The Pfister Tree Lighting Ceremony happens the Friday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 24. Add some sparkle to your holiday in this the season of light.

Breakfast with Santa on Dec. 9, 16 and 23. You’ll get to breakfast with the jolly old elf and his helping elves. Reservations are going fast, so don’t miss out on this opportunity for you and the kids.

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Milwaukee Repertory Theater, ‘Holmes and Watson’ PHOTO BY MICHAEL BROSILOW

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he Milwaukee Repertory Theater provides a thrilling mystery to sharpen your senses in the Midwest premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s Holmes and Watson. The story is set three years after the conclusion of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Final Problem,” in which the famed detective appears to perish alongside arch nemesis Professor Moriarty in a plunge from the top of Reichenbach Falls. Now Doctor Watson has been called upon by Doctor Evans, keeper of a chilling island asylum, to determine whether one of three patients claiming to be the famed detective is the real Sherlock Holmes back from the dead. Hatcher’s plot is marvelously clever in construction and stylistically faithful to Conan Doyle’s world.

Director Joseph Hanreddy notes, “Rather than the three characters being the archetypes of a ‘Holmes personality,’ they are shaped by whatever we are led to believe are the circumstances after The Falls.” While this certainly bears out in the writing and characterization, the production nevertheless supplies a very satisfying kaleidoscope of Holmesian tropes.

Patient 1 (Ryan Imhoff) is clinically rational, cold and self-assured—Sherlock the intellectual and detective. Patient 2 (Grant Goodman) is passionate, volatile and given to talking about the inexorable pull of “his weakness”—the Holmes we find at his most manic and vexed by cocaine or “The Woman.” Patient 3 (Rex Young) is deaf, mute and blind—he brings the sort of trauma-induced poetry to the role suited only to a Holmes stricken with despair.

In the role of Watson, Norman Moses shines for the grounding he brings to the story. It’s easy to follow what’s going on when intelligent everyman Watson is leading you through his own deductive process. Opposite him, Mark Corkins plays the asylum director, aptly endowed with many of the funniest lines, as well as a dark sense of determination. Maggie Kettering smartly handles a dual role and is particularly striking as The Woman in a state of amnesia: spectral, vulnerable and deceptively resilient. Eric Damon Smith rounds out the cast in various smaller roles, especially memorable as a sinister orderly in a grimestained apron.

Production elements endow the piece with gothic grandeur. Bill Clarke’s scenic design features towering walls painted to look like the metal cage of a Victorian institution, and a steam punk chandelier bathes the action in the eerie glow of enormous Edison bulbs. Lighting designer Michael Chybowski and projection designer Mike Tutaj have gone all out with a plot that features many stormy atmospheric effects and immersive moving images.

A fast-paced and thoroughly satisfying addition to the Sherlock Holmes universe, Holmes and Watson is a decisive success that will make you laugh and keep you guessing from curtain to curtain.

Through Dec. 17 in the Quadracci Powerhouse Theater, 108 E. Wells St. For tickets, call 414-224-9490 or visit milwaukeerep.com.

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s soon as a spunky, red-haired orphan (Kylee Hennes) starts belting out hit song “Tomorrow” in Skylight Music Theatre’s production of Annie, the audience inevitably comes under the spell of this memorable musical. Who wouldn’t love a show that contains adorable orphans (the Sky cast on opening night), a heart-melting relationship between an orphan and a lonely old bachelor, as well as a scruffy dog in a show’s cast of characters? There may be a few Scrooges among us, but Friday’s opening night audience was lapping it up like a cat with a bowl of cream.

Under Molly Rhode’s capable direction, all the main characters in Annie are magical. Carrie Hitchcock leads the way as the horrible orphanage manager, Miss Hannigan. (Unlike the revived 2012 Broadway production, which appeared to soften Hannigan’s resentment against her charges, Hitchcock brings back the original, heartless Hannigan. She’s as coarse, hard drinking and cruel as they come, and her hatred for Annie is particularly intense.)

In Miss Hannigan’s office, the private secretary (played by Diane Lane) to billionaire Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks announces his wish to have an orphan spend the Christmas holidays at Warbucks’ estate. Hannigan reluctantly agrees to let Annie go. Later, Hannigan castigates herself for letting a smart-mouthed orphan find herself in the lap of luxury. Her self-pity is reinforced by the sudden appearance of her disreputable brother, Rooster (Matt Crowle), and his tawdry girlfriend (Samantha Sostarich). Singing and dancing together, they turn “Easy Street,” into a showstopper.

A few minor changes have made the plot more believable. Instead of a bald tycoon who could easily pass for Annie’s great-grandfather, Andrew Varela’s Warbucks has a full head of hair and the vigor to be a real father to this homeless waif. Although the romance between Warbucks and Grace (his personal secretary) is basically non-existent, it only leaves more time for what the audience wants—cute orphans, cleverly scripted scenes with a wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt (a credible Dylan Bolin) and grandly choreographed production numbers.

(Amazingly, Democrat Roosevelt and Republican Warbucks actually seem to get along; today, such an alliance seems to move the show towards pure fantasy.)

Although all of the orphans are equally adorable, a couple of the standouts include tiny Taylor Arnstein as Molly and Avery Holmes as a bully, Pepper.

The children are doublecast, as are the dogs, so audiences may experience a separate set of performers.

Before the final curtain comes down, the audience is treated to well-known songs such as “HardKnock Life” and “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile.” Skylight has pulled out all the stops to produce one of its finest offerings yet, and lucky audiences can look forward to an evening of enchantment at Annie.

Through Dec. 27 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Cabot Theatre. For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit skylightmusictheatre.org.

Skylight Music Theatre, ‘Annie’ PHOTO BY MARK FROHNA

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Love Versus Greed with Boulevard Theatre’s ‘Dear World’

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ubversive musical theater resonates through Plymouth Church as Boulevard Theatre presents a concert reading of Jerry Herman’s Dear World.

Liz Norton is inspiringly vibrant as a woman living in the basement of a bistro in Paris. Her elegantly bent and beautifully mutated optimistic perception of the world is challenged when a group of investors plot to blow-up the bistro in hopes of taking over the property, which they suspect may rest on land containing quite a bit of oil.

The music mingles amid the humble pews and echoes through cozily cavernous church space.

There is no artificial amplification needed. A spectrum of passion radiates from the actors. With no set, the dramatic action of the play takes place around the corners of imagination as actors pulsate with emotion. Norton’s voice is quite powerful as a central emotional anchor of a dizzily surreal story of love against greed. The central romantic narrative features a recovering corporate underling (played by Joseph Gallo) falling for an enchantingly sweet girl (Julianne Frey) who works at the bistro.

Norton’s tireless positivity as a hero is contrasted with the corporate villainy of the men in charge of turning Paris into an industrial wasteland. It’s not one of Jerry Herman’s better-known works, but there are some brilliant distillations of modern politics shining out of the starkly amplified surrealism of the story. Songs like “Just a Little Bit More” and “Have a Little Pity on the Rich” are sparklingly witty satires on greed that seem tragically appropriate in an era of Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and the current political climate in Washington, D.C. Through Nov. 26 at Plymouth Church, 2717 E. Hampshire St. For tickets, call 414-744-5757 or visit boulevardtheatre.com.

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Father and Son Search for Themselves in Next Act’s ‘Secret Mask’

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ext Act Theatre explores the inner depths of human connection in Rick Chafe’s contemporary father-son drama, The Secret Mask. James Pickering is deeply charming as Ernie—a man recovering from a stroke. As the story begins, his grasp of language is tenuous. Pickering manages profound dignity in his portrayal of someone who has lost a great deal of his identity.

Aware of only a shadow of who he is, Ernie’s anxious to recover and perhaps slightly afraid of what he’ll be when he does so. Drew Parker exudes emotional gravity as Ernie’s son, George.

The relationship between father and son is helped along by a tender and compassionate therapist (Tami Workentin) working to help Ernie through the complex journey out of aphasia and into a more self-sufficient life.

Time is fluid in the script. One day becomes the next with great grace. Ernie’s impatience with his own recovery feels tragic as the days slide past, and isolated words become increasingly complex sentences. Pickering handles it all quite well in spite of working with dialogue peppered with words that are only somewhat adjacent to their actual intended meaning.

The dramatic changes in Ernie from one day to the next seem grounded and believable as they permeate Pickering’s performance. Parker touchingly plays a man going through quite a transformation, himself, as he connects with a father he never really knew. Father and son explore the faded fragments of an amnesiac past as both strive to make some sense of family in a world of uncertainty.

Through Dec. 10 at Next Act Theatre, 255 S. Water St. For tickets, call 414-278-0765 or visit nextact.org.

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‘Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol’ Parallels a Dickens Classic

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hen we think of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, our thoughts immediately turn to Ebenezer Scrooge’s infamous holiday put down, “Bah! Humbug!” And we know his story of redemption thanks to the warnings from the ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley. But, what of Jacob Marley’s own journey? Could his dark soul be saved? Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol explores that idea in Tom Mula’s excellent drama now playing at Acacia Theatre Company—and what a stellar production Acacia has staged, using minimal sets and sparse lighting but an acting ensemble that fills the stage with dramatic tension and spirited emotion.

“Eternity’s going to be a long, long time,” warns the mischievous sprite that accompanies Marley on his journey into the bleak nothingness he finds himself in after his mortal death.

The road to Marley’s salvation? Redeem Scrooge in 24 hours and Marley himself will be redeemed. Playwright Mula builds upon familiar phrases from the Dickens classic, and we learn the parallels between Scrooge’s childhood and Marley’s—finally seeing Marley as a three-dimensional, human figure. It’s a clever device that works well throughout the production.

Given the masterful playwriting and well-paced direction by Elaine Wyler, it is David Sapiro’s tour de force performance as Marley that captivates and draws us into the dark labyrinth of Marley’s mind as he searches for salvation. It’s the finest performance of Sapiro’s acting career, and he simply astounds as he even takes on other characters to save Scrooge (the Ghost of Christmas Past as a cocky Cockney boy provides some comic relief in the unrelenting darkness of the play’s vision of an afterlife). After all, the afterlife can be really doomy gloomy.

Claire Zempel excels as the spritely “Bogle” that taunts, teases and pushes Marley to do better. Already a veteran of local stages, Zempel is one to watch as witnessed by her noteworthy performance. Tim Rebers (Record Keeper) and Derrion Brown (Scrooge) round out the solid ensemble work.

“These chains. I deserve them,” says a dispirited Marley in Act Two, as he realizes the error of his ways. But the only way to “break those chains” is to help others in a time of need.

Isn’t that what the spirit of the holiday season is all about?

Through Dec. 3 in Concordia University’s Todd Wehr Auditorium, 12800 N. Lake Shore Drive, Mequon. For more information, call 414-744-5995 or visit acaciatheatre.com.

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n observation of its 30th-anniversary season, Theatre Gigante brought back a favorite from past seasons, David Gaines and his one-man comedic powerhouse, 7 (x1) Samurai, which ran at Kenilworth 508 Theatre Nov. 17-19. He last appeared with Theatre Gigante in 2013 and last performed this particular show here eight years ago.

Gaines has the exacting and telling body movements and facial expressiveness of a star in the era of the silent film had he been born several generations ago. Throughout his one-hour show, Gaines, wearing nothing but a simple Japanese-style robe and white makeup (with a dash of red at mid-lower lip), donned but two masks—otherwise relying upon his utterly elastic face— to create not only the eponymous seven samurai, but peasant farmers and rampaging bandits on horseback.

With but a few words, usually spoken singly, as in “meanwhile,” and vaguely Japanese grunts, groans and pseudo-speak, Gaines told the story of simple peasants who get tired of being robbed by revisiting marauders. They hire a good-hearted warrior, after several funny failed attempts, to turn the tide. The quiet warrior, personified by a stark mask with a placid expression, assembles additional samurai to form a group of warriors ready and willing to do battle for the simple folk. The finale is, of course, the big showdown between good and evil.

Gaines, through simple but exaggerated physical movement, made every scene crystal clear. We can easily see through our mind’s eye each particular character, place and structure. Arrows strike and “twang” into their targets; glass breaks (and is chewed), the wind howls, the horses charge and the swords slice and dice.

Let’s hope David Gaines comes back to Milwaukee again soon—from his current home base teaching theater at George Mason University in Virginia.

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Americana and Nostalgia at Present Music’s Thanksgiving Concert ::BY RICK WALTERS

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resent Music deserves substantial credit for creating and sustaining what has been embraced as a major annual holiday event in its Thanksgiving concert. In its 18th year, this has usually been held at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, the location for the concert on Sunday.

Venerated American composer Ingram Marshall (b. 1942) was in attendance to hear the premiere of his Alleluia Grace. It captured the sense of Americana and nostalgia that has been a theme of Present Music’s Thanksgiving concerts. A recording from the 1942 Alabama Sacred Harp Convention of the opening of the hymn “Northfield” is heard early on and comes back with sound processing at the end.

The amplified string quartet and four solo voices are used in Ingram’s innovative ways. He describes it best: “Sounds are doubled and sometimes tripled by a system of digital delays that govern the density and overall texture of the music.” Rather than technical, the results are mysteriously beautiful. The quartet plays strains of “At the River,” and the singers conjure the spirit of gratefulness in Alleluias.

Ingram balances simplicity and complexity to achieve something that was ultimately emotional and evocative.

The music I’ve heard by Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984) has a sense of drama not found in the work of most contemporary composers. He convincingly writes well for the voice and composes artful word settings, rare talents indeed. All these were evident in his song cycle, The Pieces That Fall to Earth, set to seven poems by Kay Ryan. There was grand majesty in slow-moving harmonies under rising vocal lines, from low to very high. Soprano Lindsay Kesselman gave the music heartfelt presence in exciting singing that roused the audience to spontaneous ovation.

The Ronald Reagan High School choir sang Their Passing in Time by Richard Reed Parry (b.

1977), a long crescendo of a piece that ends in spirited rhythm. I want to again hear Târ o pood (Warp and Weft) by Sahba Aminikia (b. 1981) to grasp its exotic Iranian influences. The Bucks Native American Singing and Drumming Group began and ended the concert—a Present Music tradition.

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Frankly Music Explores the ‘Serious’ Side of Cinematic Composers

Lights, camera… melodies! ::BY MICHAEL MUCKIAN

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rankly Music, the classical chamber ensemble headed by Frank Almond, concertmaster for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, will spend a night at the movies later this month. Their Monday, Nov. 27, performance will feature works from the serious side of well-known Hollywood composers Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Bernard Herrmann.

“We’ve never done anything with a nod to film composers,” says Almond. “I thought it would be interesting to play what are some really spectacular works by what amounts to two of the 20th century’s greatest composers.”

The evening’s quintet will perform two works by Korngold—Incidental Music from Much Ado About Nothing and the Piano Quintet, Op. 15. Korngold left his native Austria in 1934 as the Nazis came into power, but by then the 37-year-old composer had already established himself as a major force in classical music.

“Korngold was considered a child prodigy and was a household name among music fans in Vienna,” Almonds explains. “His serious works and a lot of his chamber music don’t get played very often, and they should be. These compositions are very reflective of his style.”

The New York City-born Herrmann, whose Echoes for String Quartet is also part of the evening’s program, created a very different style of music, especially compared to the lushness of Korngold, Almond says. Echoes also is a piece too often ignored by chamber groups, he adds. “Herrmann is known almost exclusively as a film composer, but he has done other things throughout his career as well,” Almond says. “He was working as a conductor right out of Juilliard and would create these incredibly eclectic programs with the CBS Symphony Orchestra, and he was an early champion of composer Charles Ives.”

While working at CBS, Herrmann met a young Orson Welles, who brought him to Hollywood to score his first film, Citizen Kane. It wasn’t long before the prolific and creative composer was working with directors both major and minor, including a long and particularly productive relationship with Alfred Hitchcock.

“Herrmann is a very atmospheric composer whose work creates specific moods,” says Almond. “Echoes is an especially compelling piece that has elements similar to those that appear in some of his film music, especially in his work for Hitchcock.”

Plainly speaking, Almond is a fan of film music “when it’s good,” and he is pleased to see a growing appreciation among classical performers for various cinematic composers. In addition to those compositions already listed, his “Movie Night” program may contain a few surprises.

“It’s tough to look at the career of someone like John Williams and be anything but amazed,” Almond says. “We may include something of his work, but I am finding it tough to adapt the theme to Jaws for chamber ensemble.”

Monday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 914 E. Knapp St. For tickets visit franklymusic.org

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‘Stacked’ Up, at Portrait Society Gallery ::BY TYLER FRIEDMAN

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ortrait Society Gallery’s third annual ceramics show finds more than 20 local artists spinning variations on the theme “stacked.” The compositional idea of verticality is permitted liberal interpretation, with some artists opting for a more literal take (e.g. stacking discrete ceramic units) and others content to create objects that are theoretically, if ill-advisably, stackable (e.g., ceramic cups).

“Ceramics shows are rare in galleries these days,” laments Deb Brehmer, owner of Portrait Society Gallery, “Either ceramics get pushed to the side or they are only found at DIY craft fairs.” PSG’s annual ceramics show collapses these contemporary dichotomies: non-ceramic artists are encouraged to try their hand at the medium, the pieces blend sculptural and functional elements and, while it is satisfying to simply view the works, the art has been priced to sell with the holiday season Christopher Davis-Benavides, Llovió / It Rained, in mind.

Stoneware, 11” x 8.25” x 5.87”, 2017 Among the exhibiting artists is Craig Clifford, who Brehmer describes as a “mad caster.” Clifford finds charming tchotchkes such as small toy animal figurines from the zoo, casts them and then uses the resultant forms as the vocabulary of his ceramic sculptures. Pat Hidson is one of the two-dimensional artists included in the show. Normally a painter, Hidson has contributed a large portfolio of intricate drawings whose arresting colors and patterns indicate her interest in textiles and Japanese art. In keeping with the show’s theme, Hidson and other two-dimensional artists will have their works stacked vertically on the walls.

“Stacked” opens with a reception on Saturday, Nov. 25 from noon-5 p.m. It will be on display through Dec. 30 at the Portrait Society Gallery, 207 E. Buffalo St., Suite 526.

LANDSCAPES AND MINDSCAPES at GALLERY OF WISCONSIN ART ::BY JUDITH ANN MORIARTY

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oes your idea of landscape art consist of a world confined by sky above, horizon line and our earth below? An exhibition at the Gallery of Wisconsin Art (GOWA; 303 Water St., West Bend) perhaps will tweak your preconceived notions. From now through Dec. 30, set yourself free during the gallery’s “Landscapes: Then & Now” exhibition.

Thanks to the curatorial courage of the owner, Ric Hartman, the 5-month-old venue is well on the way to becoming a destination point. 303 Water Street will get you there.

When 60 (plus) artists conceptualize about the land they inhabit, the results are quite diverse. Wisely, the exhibition is neatly divided and avoids confusion. On the main level, the landscape selection is traditional and the work is primarily, but not exclusively, by artists no longer among us. The lower level gallery houses contemporary works (paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints). This is where you can set yourself free, perhaps by taking a painterly hike with artist Jane Gates. Her colorful canvas is a tangle and snarl of lines and shapes, culled from her many hikes on the Ice Age Trail near her home in Milton, Wis. Nearby, is a dreamy landscape by her former UW-Madison professor, Richard Lazzaro.

It’s as if the professor flew over the Wisconsin ’scape.

What’s this? A small painting of a possum out for a nocturnal snack on a cob of corn. The artist, Valerie Mangion, perhaps was thinking of a critter’s place in the Wisconsin landscape. In any event, critters are, for the most part, far less invasive than Homo sapiens.

It wouldn’t be an exhibition about Wisconsin landscapes without at least one painting of a cow. And the bovine I reference has a crow atop its head. From my perspective, GOWA has lots to crow about.

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rab your stretchy pants, pick up your drunk uncle and raise a glass to all you’re thankful for! It’s time for wine and turkey and gelatinous cranberries and stuffing and wine and yams…and wine. And shopping…and drinking. And dancing. What? Yes, I said dancing, dammit! And a little stripping.

What the hell am I talking about? It’s Thanksgiving in Wisconsin, gosh darn it!

We know how to do it up big in Cream City with Thanksgiving-themed bowling tournaments, burlesque shows (lemme see that turkey breast, baby), disco music, singing bears and unique shopping experiences that include live music and (surprise!) booze. There’s so much on my calendar this week, that I’m forgoing my advice column in the hopes you and I can have some feathery fun together.

Take a moment to celebrate Thanksgiving with loved ones, reflect upon the good in your life—and then let’s party…or shop, or dance, or strip. Happy Thanksgiving!

::RUTHIE’SSOCALCALENDAR Nov. 22: Chick Singer Night at Brinklounge (701 E. Washington Ave., Madison): Hit the road and visit our friends in Mad City with this nod to the state’s top female vocalists. The 8 p.m. concert includes a $10 door charge, but arrive early for a drink at the bar.

Nov. 24: Holiday Invitational Tournament (HIT) at AMF Bowlero (11737 W. Burleigh St.): The oldest LGBT bowling tournament in the world (yes, I said “the world!”) celebrates 39 years of sportsmanship with the annual day-after-Thanksgiving event. Join bowlers from across North America as they settle into town for some good old-fashioned fun. Registration opens at 2:30 p.m. Come and bowl, or simply mingle at the bar…a good time is always had by all! See hitmilwaukee.com for details on the tournament, awards dinner and celebration, and other HIT events scheduled for the weekend.

Nov. 25: Craft & Draft at Riverwest Public House Cooperative (815 E. Locust St.): Grab a beer or take advantage of a drink special with this gallery night gone rogue. Support local artists when you shop the vendors scattered throughout the bar. The drunk shopping runs noon to 5:30 p.m.…and what a way to shop that is!

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Nov. 25: Thanksgiving Fest at Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 N. Market St.): Enjoy a weekend Thanksgiving with your selected family during this noon to 6 p.m. potluck.

Music by Women’s Voices Milwaukee, plenty of food and lots of fellowship make this kid-friendly fest one for the books. The center will provide the entrée, but if your last name starts with A-H, bring a salad or side dish. Last name begin with I-Q? Then, you’re assigned an appetizer. You’re on dessert duty if your last name starts R-Z. See mkelgbt.org for more.

Nov. 25: Disco Dance Party at Mad Planet (533 E. Center St.): Won’t you take me to Funky Town? Shake your groove thing and your tail feather this Thanksgiving with a ’70s-inspired disco. Platform shoes, white polyester suits and afros take center stage at the 9 p.m. event that includes a $5 cover charge.

Nov. 25: Thanksgiving All-Food Burlesque Revue at Frank’s Power Plant (2800 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.): The Brew City Bombshells burlesque troupe promises to tempt your taste buds and tease your trousers with another naughty night, this time focusing on food! (I know, I know…only in Wisconsin.) The mouthwatering revue starts at 9 p.m. with a $10 cover charge; $8 if you bring a canned food donation.

Nov. 25: HyBEARnation Party at D.I.X. (739 S. First St.): Singer, comedian and social-media maven Big Dipper brings his bear beauty to Brew City with this 10 p.m. show. Hosted by RuPaul alum Jaymes Mansfield, the night includes guest spots from local entertainers, drink specials, dancing and more. Always up for hosting to a good time, the Walker’s Point hot spot never involves a cover charge.

Nov. 25 & 26: Urban Garage Sale at Mitchell Park Domes (524 S. Layton Blvd.): The holidays are sneaking up on us, so get a head start on your shopping at this unique marketplace! Featuring more than 60 local artists and makers, this change-of-pace craft fair, includes everything from jewelry and woodworking to apparel and décor. Enjoy shopping, the Domes, music, cash bars and food during the 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. event, with a $5 donation at the door.

Nov. 27: ‘A John Waters Christmas’ at Thalia Hall (1807 S. Allport St., Chicago): Filmmaker John Waters blows into the Windy City with his one-man show that dissects the holiday as only the Pope of Trash can. Don’t miss Waters’ take on everything from Christmas cards to Santa’s wardrobe during the 9 p.m. concert. See ticketweb.com for tickets that start at $35.

Nov. 28: Milwaukee Area ‘Chamber on Tap’ at Jimmy’s Island Grill & Iguana Bar (2303 N. Mayfair Road): The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce hosts this networking happy hour made for elbow rubbing and idea sharing. Free and open to the public (over 21 only), the 5:30-7 p.m. mingle is a great way to meet new people, initiate partnerships and align business strategies.

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once published a sonnet to axilla. I also won a Usinger’s gift certificate for a haiku I composed about brats. I got to recite it at Miller Park in front of a dugout. The park was empty, but still…

And, I know, haiku are supposed to be about nature and the seasons but I figured brats are about as seasonally symbolic of summer as dragonflies or blossoming irises.

Serious poetry, though, is not as esoteric a practice as one might think. We’re really surrounded by it, although, one has to seek it out.

For that, there are many LGBTQ poets out there and Milwaukee has its fair share.

Born in 1946, Wisconsin’s greatest gay poet, Antler, began writing as a teen. Later inspired by Allen Ginsberg (whom he refer to as his “courage teacher”), Antler composed free verse that spans realms of wonder from the wilderness to love, death, kindness and cruelty. Exploring the emotional arch of malemale love most would find too intimate to express, his gay-themed poems are among his most moving for their raw candor. Ginsberg called him “one of Whitman’s poets.” Not surprisingly, Antler received the Walt Whitman Association Prize given to poets “whose contribution best reveals the continuing presence of Walt Whitman in American poetry.”

Antler was also Milwaukee Poet Laureate for 2003-2004. His “pal” of nearly 50 years, Jeff Poniewaz (1946-2015), taught eco-literature at UW-Milwaukee, wrote for the Shepherd Express, was also a Milwaukee Poet Laureate and received numerous awards as well as the SHEPHERD EXPRESS

praises of Allen Ginsberg.

Milwaukee Latina woman loving woman activist Carmen Alicia Murguia published her first volume of collected works, The Voices Inside: Mi Alma, Mi Cuerpo y Mi Espiritu, 25 years ago. Four others have followed. The most recent, a poem for all my people, appeared earlier this year. Murguia is the featured reader for the next “Poets Monday” on Nov. 27 at Linneman’s in Riverwest. Her appearance is preceded by an open mic, beginning at 8 p.m.

New poets are also making their way into the public consciousness. Some publish traditionally; others use blogs and social media or read at local venues. Milwaukee HmongAmerican writer Alex Vayne explores the culturally specific contexts of coming out, sexual violence and the process of creating identity through poems, microfictions and non-fiction stories. His work may be found at alexvayne.wordpress.com.

Bookstores and bars regularly host events that showcase the spoken word and songwriting. Of course, Outwords Books, Gifts & Coffee, the city’s only gay bookstore, has a long history of presenting local writers and poets. A Riverwest institution of 37 years, Woodland Pattern Book Center often presents readings by LGBTQ poets and others addressing themes of social justice. Its annual poetry marathon includes a special LGBTQ dedicated slot as well. Black and Pink: Milwaukee, a chapter of the national organization dedicated to the support of LGBTQ and other prisoners, organizes poetry and music fundraising events to provide books to incarcerated individuals.

Also in the offing, Queer Factor takes place at the Riverwest Public House Cooperative on Saturday, Dec. 2 and features a range of relevant music, poetry and performance art.

Then, on Dec. 29, Bay View’s Cactus Club hosts Queer Pressure, a Madison-based mobile dance party, presenting radical alt-rap artists.

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In Mexico, 12-year-old Miguel Rivera (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), wants to be like his idol—guitarist, singer (and now deceased) Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt). Unfortunately, Miguel’s family banned music generations ago, forcing him to secretly practice. On Día de Muertos (the “Day of the Dead”), Miguel accidentally goes through a portal into the undead world. Returning to our world is more difficult, and Miguel has just 24 hours to do so before he will permanently be trapped in the world of the undead. Dead world resident and trickster Hector (Gael García Bernal), helps Miguel, because Hector hopes to sneak back into the world of the living. Although certain scenes lack focus, the vibrant colors and themes of this film are simply irresistible. A companion short stars Olaf (Josh Gad) and other cast members from Frozen in a story likely to put most everyone in a Christmassy mood. (Lisa Miller)

‘Justice League’

Is it ‘Justice’ for Saving the World for the Superheroes? ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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ometimes, one superhero just isn’t enough. When the whole world is at threat, and the danger comes from a mighty legion of alien entities bent on destruction, it could take a league of superheroes working in tandem to save the Earth.

That’s the premise for Justice League, the latest entry in the rapidly expanding DC Universe.

The movie brings Batman and Wonder Woman together with Aquaman, Cyborg, The Flash and, eventually, spoiler alert: Superman. Their mission: stop the bestial demon Steppenwolf and his countless minions from triggering the apocalypse. Their challenge: Just getting along with each other.

Justice League is a comic-book fantasy, powered by breathless special effects, that holds a dark mirror to our society. The song heard at the onset, a version of Leonard Cohen’s world-weary “Everybody Knows,” sets the mood. Glimpsed are homelessness and white supremacist violence. Batman (Ben Affleck), brooding amid the midnight towers of Gotham, torments a criminal and demands: “Fear me.” Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) thwarts an assault on London’s Old Bailey by terrorists whose purpose is to blow the world “back to the dark ages.” But something more terrible than crime and terrorism is afoot.

Batman senses it and Wonder Woman is alerted by a sacred fire lit by her Amazon sisters.

Steppenwolf, a horn-headed embodiment of unrefined evil, has been handed his chance. The world is already slipping into darkness and the time has come for him to extinguish the light forever.

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gence and Wonder Woman from her comfortable distance. They must convince the cynical, hard-drinking Aquaman (Jason Momoa) and the angry Cyborg (Ray Fisher) that they have a stake in the world’s survival. Flash (Ezra Miller), the youngest and most jaded, is easier to convince.

Beneath the splashy globe-trotting pyrotechnics is a fable about human cooperation, putting aside differences and using the “powers” of each person toward a common goal. But to top it off is another factor: Superman (Henry Cavill) is dead, and ultimately, only so much can be done without his alien assistance. Can he be resurrected?

As usual, Gadot adds emotional depth to the ensemble. Speaking in a threatening Dirty Harry whisper, Affleck succeeds at looking glum. The other cast Justice members are affable one-note players with League Jeremy Irons standing Gal Gadot out as Batman’s faithBen Affleck ful valet-tech Alfred.

The reliance of even Directed by superheroes on a highZack Snyder er power is the subtext Rated PG-13 amid all the digital carnage and whomp ’em, hurl ’em aerial combat. Profound questions are raised and left unanswered. Wonder Woman wonders whether “science without reason or heart will destroy us?” No time to ponder this when demons are tearing down the walls. Those demons, one suspects, are larger-than-life metaphors for forces already at work.

“I don’t recognize this world,” Alfred says sadly.

“I don’t have time to recognize it,” Batman replies. “I just have to save it.”

He can’t do it alone.

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As always, Michael Cera shines in Person to Person.

He’s the glibly self-confident heavy metal-loving editor of a small newspaper trying to break in a shy novice freelancer. But he’s only one member of an ensemble cast in a movie without momentum. Set in Manhattan like innumerable indie films, Person to Person has humor but not enough and a plethora of characters who could be Woody Allen walk-ons in this rambling set of New York stories.

The Journey

In 2006 a pair of enemies, Ulster Unionist Ian Paisley and IRA commander Martin McGuinness, signed the pact that brought peace to Northern Ireland.

The Journey is an imaginary account of how those foes might have recognized their common humanity while on a long car ride. Colm Meaney plays McGuinness as engaging and conscience stricken; Timothy Spall plays Paisley as a fulminating bigot. The story doesn’t quite ring true but excellent acting keeps it rolling along.

The Man Who Died Twice

Three men die in the first two minutes of The Man Who Died Twice (1958)—and one meets his fate a second time. This gritty, low-budget film noir features a crook-cop pair of brothers, rival heroin dealers, a desperate junkie and a nightclub singer whose signature song is “One Step From Nowhere” (“It’s better than where I’ve been”). The hard-faced, hard-drinking characters speak tersely to one another: “You read like a cheap comic book,” says one.

“The Honeymooners: Christmas Laughter”

A tree decorates the familiar Cramden flat in this holiday episode of “The Honeymooners.” Unlike many so-called “classic” sitcoms, this one still crackles with humor—both the screenplay and the brilliant physical comedy of Jackie Gleason as the bellowing Ralph Cramden. Almost unique on 1950s television, “The Honeymooners” depicts childless couples at the rim of poverty and women (Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph) who play more than supporting roles. Art Carney is memorable as Ralph’s dim buddy.

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Milwaukee Rapper Shle Berry Stays True to Herself on ‘Yellow Streak’ ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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relationship with writing, because it was my way to let it out—what I was feeling, and what I was going through. It made me feel so good. I actually told music before I told anybody else.”

Over time, Berry says, she’s come to see all the things that set her apart from the rappers she’d once hoped to emulate—her gender, her mellow personality, her cheeky humor and romantic streak—as an advantage, traits that help her stand out from a sea of rappers that can sometimes bleed together.

“It’s funny. I have some friends who are trying to get into rap right now, and they all feel they have to talk a certain way or dress a certain way,” Berry says.

“And I’m like, ‘You don’t have to do those things to be a rapper! You can actually be yourself, and it’ll actually make you a better rapper.’”

Shle Berry plays an EP release show Friday, Dec. 1, at Company Brewing featuring DJ Alpine, Juke Marciano and King Myles. The show starts at 10:30, and tickets are $7 at the door.

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hle Berry started rapping the way most people do when they’re young: by trying to mimic other artists. It was the mid-’00s, the peak of 50 Cent’s popularity, and she and her friends formed an amateur rap group, rapping into the chintzy microphones they used to use for AOL Instant Messenger, mostly trying to recreate the music they heard on the radio.

“When you first start out rapping, you rap about what you think you’re supposed to rap about,” Berry recalls. “So we were rapping about all the things we have and all the things we were going to do. It was so cheesy, but it was so fun.”

Of course she wasn’t fooling anybody, she says, but she loved the craft. “I was always a writer in school,” she explains.

“I didn’t like math and science or subjects where there was one definite answer. You couldn’t tell me I was wrong about something I wrote, though. So when I started rapping, I realized all these poems that I’d been writing for school could be put into verses. It was so easy: The writing component really complemented rapping.”

These days when Berry raps, she’s not trying to be anybody else. Her upcoming EP, Yellow Streak, due Dec. 1, puts her vibrant personality on full display.

Playing off the assured, low-key persona she’s honed through her live shows, it’s four tracks of laidback, inspirational hip-hop and infectiously syrupy R&B (she’s a Drake fan and shares some of his unabashed romanticism).

“There’s this thing in rap where people think in order to do it they have to be super cool, or super serious or a hard ass,” Berry says. “And I’m none of those things. I don’t like being serious, ever. And I was never part of the cool group anyway, so that’s not something I’m trying to do now. When I’m on stage, I’m joking around and smiling and having fun and acting goofy. I just wouldn’t do it any other way.”

On the EP’s standout, “Free Throw,” Berry addresses the elephant in the room: She doesn’t look or act like your archetypal rapper. And while you’d never know it from her extraverted live shows, where she leads crowd sing-alongs, dances and fires off jokes at the clip of a carefree standup comedian—she absolutely relishes performing—she’s spent a lot of time wrestling with her outsider status. There aren’t many women rappers in general, she says, and fewer still with her Shle Berry tomboyish sensibilities. She doesn’t want to be seen as a novelty.

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ith the mainstream music landscape so densely filled with safe bets and established formulas, it’s always a pleasant surprise when any artist manages to cut through the trends and marketing calculations to really bring some creative weirdness to the masses. At the moment, you’d be hard pressed to find a better example of this kind of eccentric success story than St. Vincent—also known as songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Annie Clark.

With each album, Clark has cemented her status as one of the most creative provocateurs in indie rock, and she’s also managed to gain considerable traction in the wider pop market; her brand new album, Masseduction, even landing on the Billboard Top-10 charts. That translated into a lot of excited fans packed into the Riverside Theater Friday night and, as usual, St. Vincent didn’t disappoint.

Those familiar with St. Vincent’s live shows likely knew she often performs in the “An Evening With …” format (meaning sans opener), so when the lights first went out, many expected her to emerge but instead were treated to a short film—Clark’s directorial debut—which she created for an upcoming female-helmed horror anthology called XX. Entitled The Birthday Party, it’s the deeply anxious and blackly comic tale of a woman, played by character actress Melanie Lynskey, who tries (and inevitably fails) to discreetly dispose of a dead body during her young daughter’s kid-filled celebration.

After the intermission, the curtain was pulled back again, but only about three feet. In the small gap, St. Vincent, dressed in a neon-pink, space-age go-go outfit—fitting, considering the desiredriven themes of Masseducton—performed “Marry Me,” which led into a set of older favorites that dominated the first half of the show. With each entry, the curtain was pulled back more, revealing other curtains and other microphones, all arranged at odd angles.

Playing with the typical concert perspective was a clever way of nodding at the different phases of her oeuvre, but the second segment of the evening was more straightforward, if no less entrancing. Standing atop a circular platform, she electrifyingly ran through much of the new album, and while the pulsing avant-pop grooves kept the energy up, her impeccable, unpredictable guitar work and conceptual stage presence stole the show. Hopefully she keeps the hits coming.

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Milwaukee’s Blue Sails Share a Psych Opus Years in the Making ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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s Mitchell Bell sees it, there’s a mistake that far too many musicians make.

They get so excited about their music that they begin releasing it long before they’ve refined and perfected it. It’s a mistake, he says, that his brother Maxwell and he and were determined to avoid with the debut album from their psych-rock project, Blue Sails.

“We at no point wanted to jeopardize our credibility as musicians by promoting something that wasn’t ready,” Mitchell says, adamantly. “Our whole mindset for our entire album is we need to get this absolutely perfect, and we need to plan 16 steps ahead and months into the future to get everything absolutely right.”

While some bands begin posting music online within months, or even weeks, of forming, the Bell brothers took the other extreme. They spent five rigorous years writing, recording, dissecting and tweaking Blue Sails’ self-titled debut and spent another year trying to prepare for its release.

The recording process was grueling by design. The brothers spent countless days and nights sequestered in their basement studio, deliberately distancing themselves from any outside influence. The two composed their songs following a methodical seven-step writing process they outlined on a whiteboard (yes, a whiteboard was involved), and abided by a regimented work ethic that Maxwell picked up through years of playing collegiate soccer.

“He had to force his body to do things most people would never think about, like waking up at 4:30 a.m. and taking an ice bath before heading to a field in September, breaking his bones on the brittle ground,” Mitchell says. “Hard work is the number one most important attribute of anybody who wants to succeed at anything.”

The brothers banked on the belief that all that extra effort would show in the final product. For Mitchell, it was almost a matter of simple math: The more you put in, the more you get in return.

“Say somebody made a great record that they only spent two years on, controlling for their skill set and other variables,” he argues. “Then, say somebody else with the same set of skills spends four years on their album and loves and nitpicks every detail; just imagine the relative replay value that work with the extra two years is going to have.”

I don’t fully buy his argument. The Ramones only spent a week recording their debut album, and it’s hard to imagine how an extra week, let alone an extra four years, could have improved on it. But in the Bell brothers’ case it worked: Blue Sails is an uncommonly rich, luscious set of soulful psychedelia filled beyond the margins with fascinating colors and textures. All the extra effort shows. At various moments, the record is recalls the feats of Pink Floyd, Spiritualized, My Bloody Valentine and countless other acts that logged unthinkable hours in their studios. The album is only eight songs and 37 minutes—not a lot of music to show for the thousands of hours of labor they invested—but you can get lost in it.

Now that the album is finally out in the world, Mitchell says he feels a sense of freedom.

“For years, I was shackled to this weird ball and chain that was this album, but now I’m free to move on to the next thing,” he says. “Now we get to take what we’ve learned and make something that’s so much better.”

Blue Sails’ debut album is streaming on Apple Music, Spotify and SoundCloud, among other services. Physical copies are available through bluesails.com.

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MUSIC::LISTINGS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Acoustic Guitar Night County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Alley Cat Lounge (Five O’Clock Steakhouse), M.K.E. Legends American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Larry Lynne Band (6:30pm) American Legion of Okauchee #399, Nite Trax Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Art Bar, The Cut-Outs w/Cartoon Pussy Big Head Brewing Company, Jonny T-Bird & Big Dad Cactus Club, The Black Out Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Coyote Brother w/Hayward Williams & J. Hardin Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Rev. Norb and the Onions w/Floor Model (8pm); DJ: Fazio (10pm) Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (6pm) ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Crush Wine Bar (Waukesha), CP w/Mark Rattner Golden Mast Inn, Joe Kadlec (6pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Alec Aldred Quartet (8pm), Late Night Session: Tommy Antonic Trio (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Chris Barnes Lakefront Brewery Beer Hall, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Mamie’s, Pee Wee Hayes Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Milwaukee Ale House, The Hook Up Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Bryan W. (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Robbie Gold (9pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Rave / Eagles Club, La Adictiva Banda San Jose De Mesillas w/ Marco Flores y La Banda Jerez & Adriel Favela (all-ages, 8pm) Shank Hall, The R&B Cadets The Bay Restaurant, Mark Meaney The Packing House Restaurant, Dave Miller Jazz & Blues Quartet (6:30pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Quiet Riot w/CHIEF & Conniption Up & Under Pub, Spare Change Trio

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), The Ricochettes Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Anodyne Coffee (Walker’s Point), Hayward Williams release show w/Coyote Brother Art Bar, Alex Mendenall Cactus Club, Benefit for Rett Syndrome Awareness w/Ramma Lamma, Aluminum Knoteye & Meat Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Sam Llanas Cedarburg Cultural Center, Rebels & Renegades: Len Voy w/The Blisters Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: American Spirits (8pm); DJ: Seedy (10pm) Colectivo Coffee (On Prospect), The Verve Pipe – Villains Acoustic ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Cue Club of Wisconsin (Waukesha), Mt. Olive Final Approach, Larry Lynne Solo Five O’Clock Steakhouse, Kirk Tatnall Frank’s Power Plant, Brew City Bombshells Havana Lounge & Cigar, The Blues Disciples Highbury Pub, Idle Minds Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jazz Estate, Match Stick (8pm), Late Night Session: Nathan Kay Trio (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Chris Barnes Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, The Carolinas w/The Mighty Deerlick Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Milwaukee Ale House, Eddie Butts Band Motor Bar & Restaurant, American Blues Music Series (5:30pm) O’Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), Paul Rebek Orchard Inn (Menomonee Falls), The Falcons Pillars Pub (West Bend), Maple Road Blues Band 42 | N O V E M B E R 2 3 , 2 0 1 7

Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Alyssia Dominguez & Jeremy Zima Rave / Eagles Club, Excision w/Eptic, Phiso, Um.. & Wooli (all-ages, 8pm) Red Dot Wauwatosa, 5 Card Studs Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), The Mike Toomey Christmas Special w/Pete Sorensen, Tim Benker & Kevin MacDougall Shank Hall, The R&B Cadets Silver Spring House, Rick Holmes Smith Bros. Coffee House (Port Washington), Mumblemouth & Keith Kaleidoscope Sunset Playhouse, Jayne Taylor Christmas Show w/Peter & Tom Sorce, Mike Sturino, Carole Hanzel & Craig Omick The Coffee House, Fendrick & Peck w/PK Harmony The Gig, Workingman’s Dead The Packing House Restaurant, Carmen Nickerson & The Carmen Sutra Trio (6:30pm) The Tap Room (South Milwaukee), The Hook Up Trinity Three Irish Pubs, Dan Harvey w/DJ Zovo Up & Under Pub, Various Small Fires

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26 Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/ Julie Brandenburg Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Derek Pritzl and Friends (8pm); DJ: Sextor (10pm) County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (5:30pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jammin’ Jimmy Open Jam (3pm) Jazz Estate, Sunday Night Styles Miramar Theatre, MAYYH3M w/Jutengai (all-ages, 6:45pm) Riverside Theater, King Crimson Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic The Packing House Restaurant, Jazz Unlimited Open Jam w/ Adekola Adedapo Quartet w/Jeff Stoll and Mike Miller (1pm

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27 Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Carmen Alicia Murguia (7:30-10:30pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John The Astor Cafe & Pub, The Chris Hanson Band w/Robin Pluer (6pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, “WTMJ Saves Christmas” Original Radio Play (6:30pm)

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 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) Silver Spring House, Rick Holmes Jam The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich Turner Hall Ballroom, Whitney w/NE-HI

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Cactus Club, Longface w/Bad History Month & Cairns Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Open Jam (6pm) Jazz Estate, Bonifas Electric Band Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Three Bad Jacks Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Morton’s (Cedarburg), Rev. Raven & The Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys w/Westside Andy (6pm) Nomad World Pub, 88.9 Presents “Locals Only” Paulie’s Field Trip, Humpday Jam w/Dave Wacker & Mitch Cooper Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Riverside Theater, Nick Offerman: Full Bush Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Through Fire w/Dangerkids, Righteous Vendetta & American Sin Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk The Packing House Restaurant, Carmen Nickerson & Kostia Efimov (6pm)

::ALBUMS Willie Nelson and the Boys

Willie’s Stash Vol. 2 (LEGACY)

Easy going is the mood and tempo of Willie’s Stash Vol. 2. Playing with his sons Lukas and Micah along with a gaggle of sidemen, Willie Nelson is relaxed, at home and in charge as he ambles comfortably through a batch of his favorite country tunes.

He favors songs associated with Hank Williams (Sr.), singing “Cold, Cold Heart” and “Your Cheatin’ Heart” with creaky sincerity. “Steel guitar” he calls out several times and tearful chords respond. Exuberance vies with sadness during the session. The set also includes the upbeat “Movie It On Over” and “Mind Your Own Business.”

—David Luhrssen

Delfeayo Marsalis Kalamazoo (TROUBADOUR JASS)

Of the sharp-suited Marsalis brothers, Delfeayo is the least recognized outside of jazz culture. But inside, he is known as one of the most vibrant and imaginative trombonists of our era. On his new live album, Kalamazoo, Marsalis makes Duke Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean a Thing” sound new yet firmly rooted and finds his way around the bright melody of the “Sesame Street Theme.” A crack ensemble accompanies him whose members include his esteemed father, pianist Ellis Marsalis.

—David Luhrssen

Mark Zaleski Band Days, Months, Years

It’s considered an unusual combination in jazz—a saxophonist-bassist—but Mark Zaleski feels at home on both instruments. On his second album with a group of long-time collaborators, the Boston music instructor-session player-band leader explores his own past in what might be called, for lack of a better phrase, post-modern jazz. The album’s two non-originals, by Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, serve as guideposts. Zaleski’s alto and soprano sax playing dominates most tracks, often tying knots with tenor saxman Jon Bean. Guitarist Mark Cocheo occasionally burns his own grooves.

—Morton Shlabotnik

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By James Barrick

THEME CROSSWORD

PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Song Sudoku”

Solve this as you would a regular sudoku, except using the nine given letters instead of numbers. When you’re done, each row, column, and 3x3 box will contain each of the nine given letters exactly one time. In addition, one row or column will reveal, either backward or forward, the name of a famous song. psychosudoku@gmail.com

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70. Recidivate 71. Firth or Farrell 72. New dog breed 73. Decomposes 74. — d’Ivoire 75. Carapace 76. Recipe direction 77. Cinnabar is one 78. Measures depth of water 81. Prize 83. Place in the Greek underworld 85. Collect 86. Becomes 87. Means justifier 88. Broke, British style 89. Mister, in Munich 91. Adviser to Nero 94. Broken piece: Var. 95. Wrinkle-free 99. Measures wind speed and direction 101. Measures rainfall 104. Cornbread 105. Sandwich cookies 106. Nourishes 107. Kind of surgeon 108. Jumper 109. Whimper 110. Test question answer 111. Specify DOWN 1. Crumbly cheese 2. Apple computer 3. Moneyed 4. Old English king 5. Notes 6. Gladiators’ place 7. Manx — 8. Stopped a fast 9. Woolen fabrics 10. Erupt 11. “— Be a Lady” 12. Fraxinus 13. Chests

14. Seagal or Spielberg 15. Leatherwood 16. Bodement 17. Used to be 20. Kind of operatic voice 23. Pliable twig 25. Alma — 28. Rime 31. More cunning than most 32. Suitably 33. Substantial 34. Make amends 35. Measures passage of time 36. Pratt or Farley 37. Untrusting 38. Measures human height 39. Fluorescent dye 40. Abrasive material 42. Some tires 44. Clemency 48. Sports event 50. — -cornered 52. Skirts for stage shows 53. Chili con — 54. Status quo — 55. Spirit in old Roman religion 57. Records 58. Evergreens

59. Suspended sculpture 61. Disney dwarf 62. Bun 63. French painter 64. Place of meeting 65. Sitz and sponge 66. Active ones 67. Foreign 68. Standards 70. Water plant 71. Box with a lid 74. Costly spice 75. Even game 76. Source of caviar 78. Punto — (baccarat) 79. Craftsmen 80. Arab VIP 82. Play a zither 84. Rained a lot 88. Abode of the dead 89. Flocks 90. Irregularly notched 91. Drains 92. Lab compound 93. Hawaiian goose 94. Slumgullion 96. Razor brand 97. Pair 98. — Stanley Gardner 100. Before 102. — culpa 103. — canto

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::NEWS OF THE WEIRD

::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Journalist James A. Fussell defined “thrashing” as “the act of tapping helter-skelter over a computer keyboard in an attempt to find ‘hidden’ keys that trigger previously undiscovered actions in a computer program.” I suggest we use this as a metaphor for your life in the next two weeks. Without becoming rude or irresponsible, thrash around to see what interesting surprises you can drum up. Play with various possibilities in a lighthearted effort to stimulate options you have not been able to discover through logic and reason.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s observe a moment of silence for the illusion that is in the process of disintegrating. It has been a pretty illusion, hasn’t it? Filled with hope and gusto, it has fueled you with motivation. But then again—on second thought—its prettiness was more the result of clever packaging than inner beauty. The hope was somewhat misleading, the gusto contained more than a little bluster and the fuel was an inefficient source of motivation. Still, let’s observe a moment of silence anyway. Even dysfunctional mirages deserve to be mourned. Besides, its demise will fertilize a truer and healthier and prettier dream that will contain a far smaller portion of illusion.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Judging from the astrological omens, I conclude that the upcoming weeks will be a favorable time for you to engage in experiments befitting a mad scientist. You can achieve interesting results as you commune with powerful forces that are usually beyond your ability to command. You could have fun and maybe also attract good luck as you dream and scheme to override the rules. What pleasures have you considered to be beyond your capacity to enjoy?

It wouldn’t be crazy for you to flirt with them. You have license to be saucy, sassy and extra sly.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A snail can slowly crawl over the edge of a razor blade without hurting itself. A few highly trained experts, specialists in the art of mind over matter, are able to walk barefoot over beds of hot coals without getting burned. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Pisces, you now have the metaphorical equivalent of powers like these. To ensure they’ll operate at peak efficiency, you must believe in yourself more than you ever have before.

Luckily, life is now conspiring to help you do just that.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In alignment with the current astrological omens, I have prepared your horoscope using five handplucked aphorisms by Aries poet Charles Bernstein.

1. “You never know what invention will look like or else it wouldn’t be invention.” 2. “So much depends upon what you are expecting.” 3. “What’s missing from the bird’s eye view is plain to see on the ground.”

4. “The questioning of the beautiful is always at least as important as the establishment of the beautiful.”

5. “Show me a man with two feet planted firmly on the ground and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants on.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It may seem absurd for a dreamy oracle like me to give economic advice to Tauruses, who are renowned as being among the zodiac’s top cash attractors. Is there anything I can reveal to you that you don’t already know? Well, maybe you’re not aware that the next four weeks will be prime time to revise and refine your long-term financial plans.

It’s possible you haven’t guessed the time is right to plant seeds that will produce lucrative yields by 2019.

And maybe you don’t realize that you can now lay the foundation for bringing more wealth into your life by raising your generosity levels.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I used to have a girlfriend whose mother hated Christmas.

The poor woman had been raised in a fanatical fundamentalist Christian sect, and she drew profound solace and pleasure from rebelling against that religion’s main holiday. One of her annual traditions was to buy a small Christmas tree and hang it upside-down from the ceiling. She decorated it with ornamental dildos she had made out of clay. While I understood her drive for revenge and appreciated the entertaining way she did it, I felt pity for the enduring ferocity of her rage. Rather than

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mocking the old ways, wouldn’t her energy have been much better spent inventing new ways? If there is any comparable situation in your own life, Gemini, now would be a perfect time to heed my tip. Give up your attachment to the negative emotions that arose in response to past frustrations and failures. Focus on the future.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): So begins the “I Love To Worry” season for you Cancerians.

Even now, bewildering self-doubts are working their way up toward your conscious awareness from your unconscious depths. You may already be overreacting in anticipation of the anxietyprovoking fantasies that are coalescing. But wait! It doesn’t have to be that way. I’m here to tell you that the bewildering self-doubts and anxiety-provoking fantasies are at most 10% accurate. They’re not even close to being half-true! Here’s my advice: Do NOT go with the flow, because the flow will drag you down into ignominious habit. Resist all tendencies towards superstition, moodiness and melodramatic descents into hell. One thing you can do to help accomplish this brave uprising is to sing beloved songs with maximum feeling.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your lucky numbers are 55 and 88. By tapping into the uncanny powers of 55 and 88, you can escape the temptation of a hexed fiction and break the spell of a mediocre addiction. These catalytic codes could wake you up to a useful secret you’ve been blind to. They might help you catch the attention of familiar strangers or shrink one of your dangerous angers. When you call on 55 or 88 for inspiration, you may be motivated to seek a more dynamic accomplishment beyond your comfortable success.

You could reactivate an important desire that has been dormant.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What exactly is the epic, overarching goal that you live for? What is the higher purpose that lies beneath every one of your daily activities?

What is the heroic identity you were born to create but have not yet fully embodied? You may not be close to knowing the answers to those questions right now, Virgo. In fact, I’m guessing your fear of meaninglessness might be at a peak. Luckily, a big bolt of meaningfulness is right around the corner. Be alert for it. In a metaphorical sense, it will arrive from the depths. It will strengthen your center of gravity as it reveals lucid answers to the questions I posed in the beginning of this horoscope.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): We all need teachers. We all need guides and instructors and sources of inspiration from the day we’re born until the day we die. In a perfect world, each of us would always have a personal mentor who’d help us fill the gaps in our learning and keep us focused on the potentials that are crying out to be nurtured in us. But since most of us don’t have that personal mentor, we have to fend for ourselves.

We’ve got to be proactive as we push on to the next educational frontier. The next four weeks will be an excellent time for you to do just that, Libra.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is your last warning! If you don’t stop fending off the happiness and freedom that are trying to worm their way into your life, I’m going to lose my cool. Damn it! Why can’t you just accept good luck and sweet strokes of fate at face value?! Why do you have to be so suspicious and mistrustful?! Listen to me: The abundance that’s lurking in your vicinity is not the set-up for a cruel cosmic joke. It’s not some wicked game designed to raise your expectations and then dash them to pieces. Please, Scorpio, give in and let the good times wash over you.

Homework: What’s the most important question you’d like to find an answer for in the next five years?

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Becky Reilly of Omaha, Neb., was forced to call in a roofing company after discovering thousands of honeybees had invaded her home’s attic, producing so much honey that it was dripping down the side of the house. “We heard a loud and rhythmic buzzing, and it was somewhat terrifying because we knew what it meant,” Reilly told KETV. Jason Starkey of Takoda Green Roofing said he removed about 40 pounds of honey on Oct. 26 before moving the bees and tackling the damage, which he called “horrible.” Local beekeeper John Gebuhr moved the bees to his garage, but he is pessimistic about their survival through the winter. But Reilly’s friends and neighbors are thrilled: They’re getting honey for Christmas!

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An Indonesian museum, De Mata Trick Eye Museum in Yogyakarta, Java, has been forced to remove an exhibit that encouraged visitors to take a selfie with a waxwork of Adolf Hitler. The figure, which stood in front of a giant image of the entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp, had been on display since 2014, and the museum said it was one of the most popular displays. Metro News reported that the museum originally defended the exhibit as “fun,” but when the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles demanded its removal, the museum complied, taking it down on Nov. 10.

Least Competent and/or Weird Criminals ¢ A loss prevention officer at a Vero Beach, Fla., Walmart happened to catch 25-year-old Cheyenne Amber West and another woman as they carried out some complicated maneuvers in the electronics aisle on Nov. 6. The officer told the Indian River County Sheriff ’s Office that West and her friend chose a computer, video game controllers and other items worth a total of almost $2,000, then covered the bar codes with stickers taken from less-expensive clearance items. They then moved to the selfcheckout lane, where their expensive tech

items totaled just $3.70. “I am just trying to get gifts for my son that I cannot afford,” West told officers. “The computer is for my husband. Since he just got me a Coach purse, I figured he deserved something nice as well.” ¢ Rondell Tony Chinuhuk, 32, of Anchorage, Ala., had the pedal to the metal on Nov. 7 when he nabbed a motorized shopping cart from a Safeway store in Fairbanks. But the battery-operated Mart Cart tops out at a mere 1.9 miles per hour. Even after some 10 minutes on the lam, he had barely left the parking lot. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that Chinuhuk was charged with felony second-degree theft. ¢ Joseph Vaglica, 40, of Edgewater, Fla., surprised a woman at her New Smyrna Beach home on Nov. 7 when, naked, he burst in through the garage door and ran through her kitchen “acting irrationally.” The homeowner dashed next door to her stepson’s house and called 911, reported the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Meanwhile, Vaglica, after helping himself to some of the woman’s clothes, ran outside, started banging on the windows at the stepson’s home and, when local police officers arrived, was rolling around in the grass. He was later charged with burglary with assault. ¢ Sullivan, Mo., police department Lt. Patrick Johnson joined the town’s residents in witnessing a barrage of weird behavior on Nov. 3 and 4. Johnson thinks the people who were “barking like dogs or other farm animals, running up and down the street, entering people’s homes and breaking into a business” were likely high on flakka—a synthetic drug mixed with methamphetamine. Some of the allegedly flakka-feasting folks broke into a nightclub, stripped down to their birthday suits and showered in fountain water or soda, according to the Sullivan Independent News.

Two people were arrested, and others were treated at a hospital. ¢ Douglas Shuttlesworth, 34, was simply trying to exercise his civic duty when he reported to an elementary school in Harrisburg, Pa., to vote—albeit on Monday, Nov. 6, the day before Election Day. Susquehanna Township police arrested Shuttlesworth for DUI after he appeared at the school intoxicated and admitted he had driven there to vote. © 2017 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

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So yeah, I guess it’s that time of year when only an experienced woodsman knows the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts: Beer nuts are about a dollar-fifty, and deer nuts are under a buck.

Ba-ding! (That one never fails to put the guys in the mood for a night of beer-bingeing after a long day outdoors shooting at each other, what the fock.)

And speaking of “that time of year,” I suppose I could blather on about things I’m thankful for, but believe me you, my platter’s pretty gosh darn light on that kind of fare this year. But I can be thankful that I never had to hear myself say, “But she told me she was 18, your honor. I swear,” and I’m thankful that presently I am not serving hard time with no chance for parole.

And I’m thankful for a loyal reader/fan I’ll call “Ingrid/Mae,” who per occasion sends to me a most fan-focking-tastically designed and scripted card that never fails to indirectly remind me that the problems of one little schmo with the initials of A.K. don’t amount to hill of beans in this crazy world, what the fock. So here’s looking at you, kid. Thanks.

I got to tell you’s I’m a tad torn about what kind of essay I ought to slap together here, this being the Thanksgiving week. Naturally, I feel like blowing the whole damn thing off ’cause that’s the kind of guy I am. Besides, I’d hate to think that people might be reading my essay instead of using that time to be actively engaged with their families, friends and assorted hangers-on of whom they may hobnob with but once a year come the holidays.

And then there are those of you’s who see the focking family every time you turn around and have just about had it up to here with that crowd. Yes, you would welcome any excuse at all for a little private time, even if that means having to lock yourself in the commode, sit on the crapper and peruse my essay, ain’a?

Which reminds me to suggest that wherever you may go for this holiday, besides perhaps bringing a dish to share, do not forget to pack a piece ala concealed-carry protection in the event some in-law at a get-together has too much eggnog, gets a little cranky and all of a sudden whips out a heater and wants to blow your head clean off ’cause he just remembered you didn’t come by to lend a hand and help take the focking pier out up at his crappy cottage by Crivitz last Labor Day. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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So this young Ivy Leaguer from the city goes down South to visit a distant great-uncle on his farm. For the first few days, the uncle shows him the usual things—chickens, hogs, the cotton crop. After three days, it was obvious that the nephew was bored on his ass, and the uncle was running out of things to amuse him with. The uncle has an idea: “Listen son, why don’t you grab a gun, take the dogs and go shooting?” This cheers the nephew up and off he goes with the dogs. Couple, three hours later, the nephew returns. Uncle says, “So, y’all have a good time?” Nephew says, “Absolutely great! Hey, got any more dogs?”

Ba-ding!

And in conclusion, let me say that wherever you find yourself this Thanksgiving holiday, god speed and remember to fight the good fight ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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