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MATC Keeps Pace with Innovation ::BY ELIZABETH ELVING

ince it was founded in 1912, Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) has played an integral role in the region’s economic growth. It’s evolved alongside the industries it supports, guiding generations of students into stable, family supporting careers. Now providing more than 200 programs at campuses in Downtown Milwaukee, West Allis, Mequon and Oak Creek, the careercentered college has helped these communities keep pace with a century of innovation.

“MATC is an essential part of the workforce,” says Willie Wade—vice president of community relations for Employ Milwaukee. “They always have been and probably will be even more as we move into the future.” As an open-access institution, MATC connects students of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels with targeted career pathways. Today, between mounting workforce demands and rapidly transforming industries, the school’s job is becoming more crucial and more challenging than ever before.

Meeting Workforce Needs As the worker shortage looms, Wisconsin businesses need qualified professionals to adapt and stay competitive. “The employers coming through the technical college doors are desperate to keep up with the pace of change,” says Conor Smyth, director of strategic advancement for the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS). To meet that challenge, cookie-cutter curriculums will not suffice. MATC engages the business community and consults workforce data, tailoring its coursework to fit demonstrated needs. Programs are linked with advisory committees to make sure students are being trained according to current industry standards.

“We’re always working with employers, and they’ll often reach out to us,” says John Reiss, an instructor in MATC’s renowned culinary arts program. “We always encourage them to come in and talk directly to our students if they’re recruiting.” In the classroom, culinary students get hands-on training and learn the management skills necessary to run a kitchen or a business. And, while classes simulate real-world scenarios, Reiss explains, it’s also important to experience the real thing. “We really encourage them to have a job and be working part time because one reinforces the other; just going to school isn’t enough,” he says.

To help students find those jobs, MATC’s on-campus “JOBshop” reviews résumés, conducts mock interviews and hosts job fairs. Employers can also post job opportunities online. The multi-channel approach works: A survey of 2014-’15 graduates found that 89% were either employed or in school within six months of graduating.

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Reiss says some culinary arts graduates go on to work across the country and internationally, but the majority remains in southeastern Wisconsin, supporting local restaurant and hospitality businesses. Even then, he says, the program is nowhere close to meeting the region’s demand for talent. “There are so many jobs out there at all different levels that, right now, nobody can keep up,” he says.

A Bridge to Employment The greater the call for trained workers, the more important vocational education becomes. “Everyone who is able to work, we need them to be working,” Smyth says.

“Not only from a ‘this is the right thing to do’ perspective. This is an economic imperative.”

Since full workforce participation is the goal, it’s in schools’ interests to be as accessible as possible in every respect. MATC is open-access—more affordable than a traditional four-year college (fall 2016 tuition for an associate degree or technical diploma program was $1,777)—and all four campuses can be reached by bus.

Also, Wade explains, MATC students can often gain credentials and marketable skills early on, allowing them to find entry-level work and earn a living while continuing their education at a manageable pace.

Filling the worker gap means welcoming everyone from high school students (who can complete college courses in their senior year through the dual-enrollment academy) to retirees exploring a second career. It also means creating opportunities for people who might have been held back by language barriers or low educational

attainment. MATC’s pre-college education school offers GED (General Equivalency Diploma) preparation, basic skills training and an ESL (English as a Second Language) program that trains learners from dozens of countries at six different levels.

Instructor Alexandra Topping says that ESL students may also attend job fairs, make appointments at the JOBshop and are kept informed about other MATC departments. While many students go straight to work after completing the ESL, some, such as alumnus and business owner Gloria DeAngelo, pursue more opportunities within the school.

DeAngelo was in her late 20s when she moved to Milwaukee. Although she was born in Wisconsin, she explains, she had lived in Mexico since early childhood and did not speak English. She enrolled in MATC’s ESL program (eventually transitioning to culinary arts) and, after several years of school, went on to work as a baker at El Rey. She now owns Gloria’s Cake Shop and Café (2531 W. National Ave.) and, as a part-time culinary instructor at MATC, she’s able to continue her relationship with the school that she says gave her “the keys to open every door.” “MATC changed my life,” she says. “It gave me the opportunity to do more and the confidence to keep going.”

Stories like DeAngelo’s show the value of an institution that not only trains students but actively helps them overcome barriers to success. Such obstacles are especially common among people with disabilities—who represent nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population—but face much higher rates of unemployment and poverty on average than non-disabled people do. MATC is a critical resource for connecting these individuals to a workforce that urgently needs them.

“We have a shortage of people who can do contract work or technical work, and it’s important that people with disabilities can do those jobs as well,” says Brian Peters, community access and policy specialist at IndependenceFirst. “MATC is often the pathway for that type of employment.”

Universal Accessibility?

In the summer of 2016, political advocate Dorothy Dean was doing voter registration at MATC’s Oak Creek campus when she discovered that the women’s restrooms were not wheelchair accessible. She contacted Peters, who visited all four MATC campuses and found that Mequon and Oak Creek both had bathrooms that weren’t accessible—despite the fact that wheelchair logos present indicated they were.

The WTCS conducts a civil rights compliance review every few years to make sure all 16 of the state’s technical colleges are following federal regulations—including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). (MATC was not found to be in violation when it was last checked in 2016.) In their reports, WTCS inspectors note the age of each building and the last time it was renovated. Under the ADA, institutions are expected to renovate when they can, with the resources they have available, and alterations to older structures must be brought up to date with current codes. WTCS Facilities Director Dan Scanlon explains that, because bathrooms are especially costly and difficult to alter, their renovations are often a long time coming.

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relate to age and code,” Scanlon says. If renovation isn’t an immediate option, he says, he may instead recommend smaller accommodations, like replacing misleading wheelchair logos with signs directing people to a facility that meets modern accessibility standards. Concerned about the lack of accessible facilities on MATC campuses, Dean contacted the college’s leadership and raised the issue during public comment periods at board meetings.

In September, the board formed an ad hoc committee to address the concern and committed $600,000 to renovating the Oak Creek bathrooms. Construction is set to begin in early 2018, according to MATC’s marketing and communications director, Tony Tagliavia. In an email, he wrote that MATC “commits significant resources annually to renovations at our four campuses, including accessibility improvements,” and has partnered with IndependenceFirst to “better serve students and the public.”

“They’re moving in the right direction in terms of the ADA,” says Dean, a former Milwaukee county supervisor who has served on the MATC board. Still, she argues, there is more work to be done. She notes that, as a public institution, MATC is required under Title II of the ADA to ensure full accessibility to all programs, and she hopes the school will continue to make updates that meet those mandates.

Peters says that while MATC has “had some issues historically with improving accessibility,” the board and staff members have recently been “very receptive” to concerns. He recommends that all colleges engage students and community members in making ongoing advancements on this front and points to UW-Milwaukee’s ADA and Accessibility Advisory Committee (ADAAAC), as an exemplary case.

“We wanted the committee to be a central place where information is exchanged,” says Aura Hirschman, a counselor in UWM’s Accessibility Resource Center and co-chair of the ADAAAC. The committee holds regular meetings with representatives from different campus departments and the student body to exchange disability-related information and resources.

UWM also has an app allowing users to photograph and report accessibility barriers. “We try to go beyond the written standards and look at universal design,” Hirschman says. “Part of the thought behind universal design is that design for people with disabilities is better design for everybody.”

As educational methods change, “universal design” can be applied to digital resources as well; for example, making sure that all videos are captioned and all websites are compatible with screen readers. “It’s kind of the new frontier of student accessibility,” Peters says. These methods seem to align with MATC’s larger mission of inclusion and adaptability. As Tony Tagliavia wrote, “MATC is committed to serving all students, and we make accessibility for our students and the public a high priority.”

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Adapting to Change MATC’s relationship with the public is a two-way street. Its work is primarily supported by three major main sources: state funds, local property taxes and student tuition. Several years ago, the legislature approved an infusion of $406 million in state funds for the technical college system to replace an equivalent reduction in property taxes. Because this was a dollar-for-dollar swap, the school’s budget was not affected.

In the 2013-’15 biennium, WTCS implemented an outcomes-based funding formula and as a result received an additional $5 million, which was distributed throughout the 16 schools. Nevertheless, Smyth explains, resources are strained by increasing pressure to keep up with extraordinary demand.

The worker shortage has worsened in recent years, spurred by low unemployment and an aging population. Employ Milwaukee’s chief program officer, Peter Coffaro, explains that in the Milwaukee area gaps exist across sectors— including healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, hospitality, retail, transportation and construction. “Those are some of the major areas where we see labor needs,” Coffaro says.

“Both from a quantity perspective and also a talent perspective.” Without the necessary training, advancements in these fields contribute to the so-called “skills gap.” “Of course, there are still warehousing jobs and line production work, but it’s certainly changed,” says Coffaro, noting that advanced manufacturing can also require proficiency with math, problem-solving, computers and data feedback.

Of course, change has been a constant since MATC’s earliest days, but in recent years, the rate of change has accelerated, leading to unprecedented pressure on technical colleges which have a dual role as both employers and educators in the age of disruption.

“With demographic changes, changes in technology, changes in the nature of education, the people coming to us have much different expectations than they did even five years ago in terms of how education is delivered and what’s available,” Smyth says. “When you put those things together, the demands on our institution have never been greater.” As employer needs become more specialized, the process of training students (who still enter college as beginners) becomes more extensive, as do the tools they’re trained on. “This is not four walls and a white board,” Smyth says. “This is an equipment-intensive education, so it’s costly.”

Any organization facing soaring demand and limited resources must continually evaluate what its top priorities are. Advocates hope that, for MATC, those priorities will continue to include diversity and full accessibility for students, staff and the community it serves. “MATC is a gem,” Dean says. “We’ve got this wonderful infrastructure and wonderful faculty, and we should be using them to the maximum amount possible.”

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Millennials Embrace Community Activism in the Trump Era ::BY ROB HULLUM

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orelia Blanco grew up protesting. She remembers her mother bringing her to her first demonstration when she was just 4 years old. Blanco continued to occasionally participate in the immigration rights movement in Milwaukee as she grew older. She remembers marching along with her family through snowy winter streets with numb feet, and screaming with the crowd though she was too young to know exactly why.

While it was her parents who brought her to protests as a child, her own sense of civic engagement emerged in February 2016 while protesting the Immigration and Nationality Act Section 287(g), which authorizes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies, permitting designated officers to perform immigration law enforcement functions.”

Donald Trump’s election was a sort of breaking point for Blanco, then a senior at Nathan Hale High School and now a freshman at UWMilwaukee. This was when she formally signed up to be a member of Youth Empowered in the Struggle, the student wing of Voces de la Frontera.

In this highly volatile political climate, many millennials are becoming more engaged in community activism according to the 2017 Millennial Impact Report, an annual report supported by the Case Foundation. “The cause-engagement actions of millennials in the first quarter of 2017 have increased and intensified as compared to their actions in 2016,” says phase one of the report. “Intensity is growing in new actions of demonstrating, protesting, petitioning and contacting representatives.”

“I like to poke fun at it and say that Trump is doing something good, which is making people a little more united,” Blanco said. “That’s not always the case, because you still have racist protests going on, but I do see more involvement from people.”

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The Millennial Impact Report cites civil rights and racial discrimination as the social issue most concerning to young people in America. Healthcare reform, climate change and immigration closely followed. This should come as no surprise, given President Trump’s divisive rhetoric on race relations, and the recent assault on healthcare, the environment and immigration rights.

Jordan Roman got involved with the Milwaukee Urban League Young Professionals (MU6 | NOVEMBER 30, 2017

LYP) in January of this year. While he had been active in the community, attending MPS school board meetings and advocating for the Affordable Care Act for years, he said that Trump’s election and the culture of his candidacy made him more passionate about the political process.

Joining MULYP was a way for him to make a difference in the community after finishing graduate school.

“I think that it’s important as an African American man from Milwaukee to be able to use my voice to advocate for those who can’t advocate for themselves,” Roman said. “If I’m not taking what I’ve learned and what I’ve done, and trying to take it back to other people so that they can do the same thing, then what’s the point of it all?”

Shortly after joining, he became the group’s political advocacy chair, and in August he became president.

Roman said he has seen a surge in engagement since the election. MULYP, in conjunction with the National Urban League, is in the midst of their Bounce Back Campaign, which is aimed at proactively getting prepared for the 2018 midterm elections. MULYP’s campaign is primarily focused on voter education, voter registration and voter participation.

In addition to the Bounce Back Campaign, MULYP has hosted events like DACA Demystified: What it Means for Milwaukee’s Urban Communities, and two forums on community policing and public safety, for which they partnered with the City of Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention.

“In this last election cycle that we were in last year, a lot of people who haven’t necessarily

“I LIKE TO POKE FUN AT IT AND SAY THAT TRUMP IS DOING SOMETHING GOOD, WHICH IS MAKING PEOPLE A LITTLE MORE UNITED,” BLANCO SAID.

been engaged in the process are starting to realize how important it is,” Roman said. “The only way to make any kind of change that’s going to last is to get involved and make your voice heard.”

A Wave of Activism on College Campuses

While organizations like the Milwaukee Urban League have been pillars of the community for decades, new organizations have emerged around college campuses and community centers with distinctively youthful approaches to activism.

Universities are “seeing a new wave in organizing, which has a lot to do with the current administration in Washington,” Angus Johnston, a history professor at the City University of New York who specializes in student activism, told USA Today in March. “They’re really concerned about white nationalism on campus, they’re really concerned about the rise of xenophobia—a long list of issues.”

The Young People’s Resistance Committee (YPRC) sprung up in September 2016 as an offshoot of Youth Empowered in the Struggle. It operates with two chapters, one on the UWM campus and one on the South Side.

Where MULYP is apt to working directly with the city to organize a forum, YPRC is more likely to take its protest directly to the streets.

In September, shortly after President Trump announced he would not renew Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), YPRC organized a Legalization for All march that brought thousands of people to Cesar Chavez Drive and Greenfield Avenue.

Mina Ai always had an interest in helping marginalized people, but growing up in a predominantly white Milwaukee suburb never allotted her the network she needed to make the difference she wanted. Ai says she “didn’t know that there was this opportunity to organize,” until she found a group of like-minded people on UWM’s campus.

Ai’s arrival at UWM came at an opportune time. The resistance movement was building, and she became a regular at YPRC events. She eventually joined the group, becoming their minister of organization.

“I would say that the election pushed me to be more present in organizing,” Ai said. “The election encouraged people to create these spaces, which encouraged me to join them.”

Since joining, she has worked with YPRC on a number of community-based initiatives aimed at helping immigrants and other marginalized people. YPRC puts on legal clinics, administers “know your rights” training, helps people fill out legal documents, and gives information and funding to people navigating detention centers.

Ai said that two people have been released from detention centers because of the group’s work.

For Ai, doing this work seems to be the only way of life she can imagine. “If I’m not doing it then what am I doing,” she said.

71% of millennials either think that the country is going in the wrong direction or aren’t sure, according to the Millennial Impact Report.

Luckily, it seems that many are getting up and doing something about it.

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

Thursday, Nov. 30

Community Led Town Hall on Department of Justice Recommendations @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School (3275 N. Third St.), 6-8:30 p.m.

Community leaders and the public will join to discuss how to make sure the Department of Justice’s recommendations for the Milwaukee Police Department are implemented. (Another such town hall meeting will be held on Saturday, Dec. 2, from 2-4:30 p.m.)

Fascism and Antifascism: A Presentation and Discussion @ UWM Union Room 191 (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.), 6:30 p.m.

This talk—led by UW-Whitewater assistant professor of sociology and criminology Stanislav Vysotsky—will provide an overview of contemporary fascist and antifascist movements with a focus on the key differences between them.

Friday, Dec. 1

County Grounds Coalition Potluck @ Wauwatosa Lions Club (7336 St. James St., Wauwatosa), 6-9 p.m.

’Tosa native and singer-songwriter Willy Porter will perform at this potluck social for the County Grounds Coalition. The evening will start off with an update on the battle to save the County Grounds, including Sanctuary Woods, from the developer’s bulldozers.

Saturday, Dec. 2

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

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

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

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

End Poverty Rally @ 831 N. Plankinton Ave., 3-6 p.m.

Help Poverty in Milwaukee is organizing its annual rally with a goal to “persuade upper-class individuals to fight poverty and for people who are going through the situation to let their voices be heard.”

Tuesday, Dec. 5

‘Poisoned Water’ Screening @ Waukesha Public Library (321 Wisconsin Ave., Waukesha), 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Organizing for Action has planned a screening of Poisoned Water—a special report-documentary narrated by Joe Morton that investigates what happened to the municipal water supply recently in Flint, Mich.

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

Every Wednesday, Bounce Milwaukee offers a space to organize—as well as a free drink to anyone who brings evidence of active resistance in the past week—including protest signs, an email to an elected official or a selfie at the capital.

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

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rdinary taxpayers are hoping a few Republican heroes have the courage to stand up against a brazenly unfair tax plan that will eventually raise taxes on most Americans to pay for massive tax cuts for multimillion-dollar corporations and the super wealthy, including the president and his family.

But Wisconsin voters shouldn’t be fooled into believing their own Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is such a hero just because he’s fraudulently trying to present himself as one.

The truth is Johnson, the first Republican to publicly declare his opposition to both the House and Senate Republican tax bills, simply wants to grab a bigger tax cut for himself. His phony

cover story is he’s a champion of small business.

“These businesses truly are the engines of innovation and job creation throughout our economy, and they should not be left behind,” Johnson declared. What this millionaire U.S. senator really cares about are four not-so-small businesses he and his wife, Jane, own in Oshkosh.

Remember Pacur, the plastics manufacturing company in Oshkosh founded by Johnson’s father-in-law and brother-in-law before he married into the family, quickly rising to CEO? Johnson still owns a 5% share of that company—worth between $1 million and $5 million, according to his financial disclosure forms. Johnson and his wife also own 100% of the commercial real estate rented to Pacur—estimated to be worth $5 million to $25 million. He owns smaller stakes in a real estate investment trust and a land development company. All four of Johnson’s businesses qualify for taxation as “pass through” entities under Republican tax plans.

Conflict of Interest?

In the Senate tax bill, the whopping tax cut for major corporations would be from 35% to 20%, but wealthy individuals whose income comes from “pass through” businesses would only be able to deduct 17.4% from taxation and would receive a much smaller tax cut (from 39.6% to 31.8%). So, if Republicans want Johnson’s vote, they’re going to have to give him a much bigger piece of the pie.

Anyone who still thinks Johnson is look-

ing out for the little guy needs to realize “pass through” tax benefits don’t just go to small businesses such as dry cleaners, repair shops and actual mom and pop businesses; like most other Republican tax schemes, the really enormous tax advantages go to millionaires like Johnson and very large businesses, including every National Football League team, Fiat Chrysler, Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific subsidiary, hedge funds and (surprise!) most of the Trump family companies.

That last connection, of course, is the reason Johnson is likely to get the changes he wants to fill his own pockets and will end up voting for the bill. If Johnson and other Republicans were remotely interested in cutting taxes to benefit the middle class, we wouldn’t see such petty jealousy over which millionaire business owners get the biggest tax cuts. Republicans would simply pass substantial, permanent tax cuts for the middle class, hard-pressed folks who really need the money. Instead, all of the Republican tax cuts for the middle class are temporary. In just a few years, they vanish and, for many, suddenly become tax increases. Large, permanent Republican tax cuts are reserved for corporations, millionaires and billionaires.

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Most people aren’t as dumb as Republicans think they are. A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed 52% oppose the evolving Republican tax plan and only 25% support it. Over-

whelmingly, ordinary folks believe—with good reason—that corporations and wealthy people at the top pay far too little in taxes, and people like themselves pay too much. This is being confirmed once again. We see all of the nasty little ways Republicans are funding those enormous tax breaks for the Trump family and their party’s billionaire donors: Ugly little things like eliminating tax deductions for enormous, uninsured medical expenses for special needs children and catastrophic illnesses; ending deductions for interest on the staggering student debt college graduates will take decades to pay off; and yet another Republican attempt to destroy health care for at least 13 million low-income people.

Of course, Sen. Ron Johnson seldom pretends to represent anyone less wealthy than himself.

He told students at New Berlin High School recently that no American had any right to health care or even to food, clothing or shelter unless they could afford it. Johnson claimed the only American rights were to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. “Past that point, everything else is a limited resource that we have to use our opportunities given to us so that we can afford those things,” Johnson declared.

When a U.S. senator is ignorant of all the specific rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, it’s no surprise he believes he has a special right as a millionaire senator to demand a bigger tax cut for himself when all the other millionaires and billionaires are getting theirs.

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What Do You Say? Sen. Ron Johnson has taken a principled stand opposing a Republican tax bill that will hurt the middle class. Will he hold his ground and maintain his opposition, or will he sell out to Mitch McConnell? n He’ll hold his ground. n He’ll sell out.

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AN ISSUE THAT CROSSES PARTY LINES ::BY EVAN GOYKE

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n an era of hyper-partisanship, criminal justice reform has brought fiscal conservatives and social justice-minded liberals together. The surprise collaboration has led to positive change throughout the country, but Wisconsin has yet to learn the lesson.

Twenty years ago, prison overcrowding in Wisconsin led to hundreds of inmates being housed by private prisons, costing millions of taxpayer dollars each year.

At the same time, new prisons were constructed and opened at a rate of nearly one prison per year, also costing millions of taxpayer dollars. Today, we stand on the verge of repeating this costly history.

Wisconsin’s prisons are designed to hold roughly 16,000 inmates, but today they house nearly 23,000, and even this isn’t enough to hold the growing population. Overflow inmates serving state sentences are housed in county jails. The term used to describe these overflow prison cells is “contract beds,” because the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) must contract with a different entity to house state inmates.

The number of contract beds has risen steadily over the last few years. In January 2016, the DOC needed 50 contract beds. A year later, more than 200. Today, there are more than 440 inmates in contract bed facilities. The DOC pays counties $51.50 per inmate, per day. In 2018, taxpayers will see $8.6 million given to counties to house state inmates because of overcrowding. According to the DOC, there are only 500 available county jail beds, meaning that inmate #501 will likely need to be sent out of state.

Out-of-state prisons—including the possibility of using private prisons—will likely cost even more than the use of county jails.

Unsafe, Expensive and Ineffective

Using county jails or private prisons makes us less safe. The contract bed payments are made for the minimal amount of inmate care possible and do not include corrective programming or treatment that reduce the likelihood of reoffending. A growing number of prison admissions come from repeat drunk drivers; there isn’t enough room for treatment in the prison system, and none available in the contract bed program.

Today, there is a waiting list for treatment within the DOC consisting of more than 5,900 eligible inmates, while advances in technology allow for improved monitoring of sobriety in the community.

This is both an expensive and ineffective corrections policy. While the DOC scrambles to place overflow inmates, discussions have begun in Madison regarding the construction of a new prison or prisons. This work is just beginning, but a recent estimate by the DOC projected the cost of building a new prison at roughly $300 million, with annual operational costs in the millions.

As Wisconsin faces prison overcrowding, states around the country are moving in the opposite direction. Criminal justice reform has swept through both conservative and liberal states alike. Stalwart conservative states like Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana have all engaged in substantial criminal justice reform. Prison populations in those states have fallen so much that prisons are being closed. In the last few years, Texas has closed four prisons and is scheduled to close four more. More importantly, crime is also down.

Closer to home, Michigan recently passed meaningful criminal justice reform. Michigan’s political landscape is very similar to Wisconsin’s—a Republican governor and Republican majorities in both state legislative bodies. Republicans in Michigan, facing similar budget pressure because of prison costs, passed more than a dozen reform measures this year.

But Wisconsin refuses to learn from the lessons of its neighbors. Criminal justice reform measures can reduce both incarceration and crime, while targeting the costly process of incarceration on those that commit violent offenses. Without change, we will either send people out of state, build new prisons or both. These options are both less effective and more expensive than reform.

The question remains whether Wisconsin’s political leaders will learn from those around the country by bringing both parties together to lead meaningful reform and avoiding the repetition of history from 20 years ago.

State Rep. Evan Goyke is serving his third term representing the North and West sides of Milwaukee. Prior to his election, Rep. Goyke served as a state public defender in Milwaukee.

He is a 2009 graduate of Marquette University Law School.

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his week, Off the Cuff spoke with UW-Milwaukee theater professor Rebecca Holderness about her background, artistic philosophy and UWM’s upcoming production of George Bernard Shaw’s astute 1906 comedy, Major Barbara. The play centers on a young woman and major in the Salvation Army whose estranged father donates to her cause using monies from his successful munitions-making business; his daughter objects to this “tainted” wealth being used to benefit the poor, and the debate builds from there.

What brought you from New York City to Milwaukee?

I came here 10-12 years ago to be part of the founding faculty for the BFA [Bachelor of Fine Arts program] at UWM. I was recruited out of New York, where I was born, bred and raised.

I’ve always been a choreographer and a theater maker at the same time. I had my own company for a decade in New York, Holderness Theater, which is devoted to heightened language and heightened physical theater. I also direct around the country and in Europe from time to time.

of the Arts] building that has several large rooms. We’re performing in the round—or in the square, really—in an art nouveau boxing ring, because I was really devoted to engaging the students and the audience in a debate that is very connected to our current moment. It’s also framed in video assemblages that explore the military-industrial complex, the women’s movement and other protest movements from 1906 to the present.

The mission of the student actors was to embrace their roles with what we call “radical empathy,” to take on the point of view of their characters—whether they agreed with them or not—with a radical commitment to understanding and presenting them passionately.

The storyline of this play, although more than 100 years old, taps into many issues still relevant today. What do you hope audiences will consider through the historic presentation of these subjects?

Shaw was really compelled by the lives of the common man as he saw it. As a socialist, he would have been acutely aware of postindustrial poverty. I think he cared about the ever-increasing divide between the rich and the You have several special trainings in areas poor and the temptation to blame poverty on the ranging from voice work to yoga. Please tell poor and to assign it a kind of character fault as me more about your unique approach to mak- opposed to understanding it as a social ill that brings with it crime, fear, ing theater and training anxiety and disease. Shaw young performers. felt that if you address povA question that was in erty over all, then many of Holderness Theater Comthese things that we feel we pany’s work that I brought need to spend a lot of monto Milwaukee in the develey on taking care of would opment of the curriculum is actually go away. whether we silo training— The play is presented in whether we train the body such a way to, in an enterand then train the voice and taining way, compel you to then train the mind. All of think about the subjects as my personal education, and they relate to today withall of my research, is about out bending the play out of finding ways to integrate shape. I’m interested in the those kinds of training on quality of the debate in the the assumption that, if the play, and I would love to see training were integrated, the Rebecca Holderness that inspire people to a more performer would be more articulate debate among integrated. My entire life as a choreographer, visual artist, theater director themselves where they actually listen and talk and actor is devoted to an authentic, embodied and are moved by each other—people across truth that I think is more constant, safer and the line, across the aisle, across the divide. Also, closer to the heart. That authentic, embodied empathy and awareness that it’s extremely diffitruth is a healing place to put performance—a cult to come up with a single answer—that there place where a community can come together probably isn’t a single answer. We keep repeating history, so history is useful to us as someand be confident in its relationship to its art. thing to take a look at and to have respect for.

Please tell me about Major Barbara and Major Barbara runs Dec. 6-10 at UWM’s Arts student involvement in the production.

Because the theater is still under repair from Center Gallery, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd. For the fire, we were invited to use a big art gallery tickets, call 414-229-4308 or visit uwm.edu/ on the second floor of the PSOA [Peck School arts/box-office/tickets.

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his month has brought about a little bit of everything in new restaurant openings. A vegan restaurant spinning vintage vinyl, an upscale diner and an Asian spot catering to Marquette students have all graced Milwaukee recently.

Strange Town

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Milwaukee music scene stalwart and record collector Andy Noble has opened Strange Town in the former Allium space. The restaurant and bar is plant-based (read: vegan) and serves a small menu of rotating small plates and snacks. Olives marinated with orange peel and fennel ($4) and a heart of palm crudo ($9) go well with the bar’s natural wines and European beer list. For something more substantial, grab a mushroom tartine ($9) with cashew ricotta or their daily sfinzione ($10), a Sicilian-style pizza. Naturally, music is an important aspect of Strange Town, and Noble installed a custom sound system to play his record collection and host DJs.

Cantina

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The short-lived Matador Taco + Tequila Bar space has been purchased by The Who’s on Third Group and re-opened as Cantina. The concept is essentially the same, with a Tex-Mex menu of tacos, burritos and tequila-based drinks. Tacos are sold a la carte, and come with rice and beans when you order any three. They

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range from slightly more traditional carne cantina ($3.97) with steak, Chihuahua cheese, onion, cilantro and lime, to modern, like the jerk taco ($2.97) with jerk chicken and banana pepper slaw. Fajitas ($14.93$16.97) are available in chicken or steak, and burritos ($9.83-$11.76) come smothered in queso sauce. A variety of margaritas are offered, along with a paloma, michelada and tequila old fashioned.

all available in a few different versions. On the sweet side are cinnamon apple pie glazed waffles ($13) and crème brûlée French toast ($12). A Wisconsin omelet ($11) is stuffed with sausage, cheese curds, onions and peppers and served with potatoes and toast. Sandwiches include diner classics like the croque madame ($10) and Monte Cristo ($11) with ham, chicken, jam and gruyere on thick French toast.

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A counter service restaurant specializing in Malaysian and other Asian cuisines has opened just west of the Marquette campus. Asian Papayoyo is located in The Marq, a student apartment building, and its menu reflects its location. A number of appetizers are offered, with everything from roti bread and curry sauce for dipping ($4.85) to deep fried cheese sticks ($4.85).

Mendy lamb ($10.75) is served with rice and salad, as is rendang beef ($9.75). A number of dishes start with fried chicken pieces, like spicy Symbal chicken, curry chicken and teriyaki chicken. Gyros, bubble tea and a number of soups are also available. Online ordering is in the works.

A new pizza and Italian restaurant has moved into the strip mall that will be home to the new Festival Foods in Hales Corners. Owned by former Jake’s Deli owners, 9th Slice is part fast casual and part sit-down restaurant. Pizzas from the Italian brick conveyor oven can be had anytime, whereas a menu of pastas and grilled meats will be available for dinner. Individual 10inch pizzas are $8 for unlimited toppings or specialty option, like the “Ya Der Eh” with five cheeses. Appetizers include boneless and bone-in wings (both $11), toasted ravioli ($9) and cheesy garlic bread ($4.75).

Lasagna ($12.50) is stuffed with beef and ricotta and topped with pasta sauce. A full bar is available for dining in.

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329 E. Chicago St. | 414-488-9600 sweetdiner.com | $$

A breakfast and lunch restaurant has opened in the Third Ward. Sweet Diner’s menu is pure diner, with a heavy focus on breakfast favorites, plus burgers, sandwiches and salads. The décor, however, is thoroughly modern industrial, matching the neighborhood.

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In other dining news, The Schwabenhof in Menomonee Falls has reopened with new ownership, a renovation and new menu. The beer garden’s kitchen is open every Wednesday and Friday with an allyou-can-eat fish fry and fried chicken dinner, other fish dishes, sausage platter and appetizers. And in closings, Rivalry, a sports bar catering to Chicago transplants on Water Street, has closed.

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Many local breweries tell their own history during brewery tours, but it wasn’t until recently that Milwaukee’s entire brewing heritage was under one roof. On Oct. 4, the Milwaukee County Historical Society (MCHS), along with partners including Miller, Sprecher and Pabst, opened Brew City MKE (275 W. Wisconsin Ave.), an exhibit and beer bar located inside The Shops of Grand Avenue, in a space that formerly housed an Applebee’s restaurant.

Brew City MKE is a one-year pilot project and expansion of MCHS’s popular 2016 brewing history exhibit, “Brew City MKE: Craft, Culture and Community.” Quorum Architects, a firm specializing in renovations to existing built environments, provided architectural plans pro bono, said MCHS Executive Director Mame McCully. The Shops of Grand Avenue was also a major sponsor and supportive of the project.

“We are delighted to have Brew City MKE and know it will be a valued part of the redevelopment of Wisconsin Avenue and The Shops of Grand Avenue,” said Tony Janowiec, co-owner of The Shops of Grand Avenue, in a statement.

Visitors can get a historic look at the breweries that built Milwaukee, setting the context as to why Milwaukee is the Beer Capital. People not visiting the museum can still hang out at the bar. It’s exclusively Milwaukee, so forget about finding Wisconsin labels like New Glarus or Hinterland. “We don’t even have Coke. We’ve got Sprecher sodas and all Milwaukee beers,” said McCully.

MCHS’s Dana Hansen manages Milwaukee Beer Bar and compiled the beer list. A wallsized blackboard menu features eight rotating beers on tap, and up to 20 bottled and canned beers. To add a local touch, the breweries are arranged on the board by neighborhoods.

Miller High Life, Lakefront’s Riverwest Stein, Black Husky’s IPA and newer brewers such as 1840 Brewing Company were represented on opening day.

Each corner of the bar is dedicated to one of the “big four” Milwaukee beer barons—Miller, Pabst, Schlitz and Blatz—with beautiful installations made from beer bottles. Brewer events and tap takeover series are planned.

A mere $10 will get you into the museum.

The fee includes a tap beer at the bar and admission to the Milwaukee County Historical Society for the same day. Ben Barbera, original curator of the 2016 exhibit, again worked his magic arranging 150 artifacts and 400 photos, incorporated into panels or displayed as stand-alone pictures, into the built-out space.

“We arranged the exhibit thematically, rather than doing a timeline or a specific path that visitors need to follow,” Barbera said. The Big Four breweries each have a section, and lesserknown yet significant brewers like Gettelman Brewery—of Milwaukee’s Best fame—are represented. A vast majority of artifacts are from MCHS’s collection, with some items borrowed from other sources. Miller pulled vintage machinery from their storage for the section dedicated to the process of brewing beer.

The exhibit will also add interactive features. People will be able to touch, see and smell beer ingredients such as barley malt and hop pellets. “It will be a chance for grown-us to play like they’re at a children’s museum,” Barbera said.

Unique items include a large ceremonial Schlitz key presented to Mayor Daniel Hoan in 1938. A striking Pabst display features horse medallions on faded blue ribbons; however, some may be surprised to learn that the only blue ribbons Pabst won was for their draft horses shown at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis.

“The blue ribbons were actually a marketing scheme Pabst started in 1882,” Barbera said. “They started tying blue ribbons around the bottles of the beer to make people think it was special. Pabst may have won awards for their beer as early as 1876, but they never actually won blue ribbons other than these, for their horses.”

Those and other fascinating facts about Milwaukee’s brewing history are presented in displays devoted to advertising, bottling and transportation, beer baron families, labor, and beer gardens and taverns. The exhibit cuts off at the year 2016, Barbera said, thus leading visitors to the Milwaukee Beer Bar, where the present and future of brewing in Milwaukee can be appreciated and enjoyed.

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here is no shame in losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers as it’s one of the best teams in football—and one of the rare teams to have a top-ďŹ ve offense and defense. The shame is in playing so well, and getting so close, but still having the season slip away. The Green Bay Packers are now faced with the prospect of winning out, and while it’s not impossible to see them beating Tampa Bay and Cleveland, the road is much rockier for the ďŹ nal three games of the season.

Assigning Value College football is loaded with terrible quarterbacks. NCAA teams deal with this in various ways, but my favorite is to emphasize power running with deep passing. For a bad quarterback with a strong arm, the deep ball can be a godsend, especially if your running game can force the secondary to play up.

Deep passes need not be as precise, as receivers have an opportunity to adjust to the ball in ight, and if receivers are talented enough, they will win the majority of 50/50 balls. If I were running an offense with Brett Hundley, I would focus on the run with some run-pass options, and then let him air it out pretty fre-

quently. Hundley wasn’t great when making precision passes on Sunday, but he did have success downďŹ eld, taking advantage of some questionable defense.

On his ďŹ rst touchdown pass, a 39-yard strike to Randall Cobb, no one covered Cobb, leaving him as wide open as a receiver can be.

Hundley should get some credit for making a solid throw, but the defense handed this score to the Packers. Jamaal Williams would later score on a 55-yard screen pass, where Williams did the vast majority of the heavy lifting, including twisting 180 degrees to secure a ball that was thrown behind him. Finally, Hundley’s third touchdown to Davante Adams was a thing of beauty, and Hundley hit him perfectly in stride. That said, Adams deserves the bulk of the credit for the score because his double move to get open deep embarrassed a Steeler defender and provided Hundley with a high margin for error.

Those three passes accounted for 148 of Hundley’s 245 yards. On his other 28 drop backs, he threw for only 97 yards, with nine incompletions, while taking four sacks. It’s good that Hundley made the big plays when they were available, but this wasn’t the breakthrough that many are claiming. Davante Ad-

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verwhelming interest in the recent, nationally televised O.J. Simpson parole hearing probably reminded many viewers of 2016’s multi-Emmy Award winning mini-series on FX cable “The People vs. O.J. Simpson.” And over the last several decades, a number of outstanding mini-series have become staples of network and cable TV. One of the very best of the genre was HBO’s riveting, six-part “Show Me a Hero” (August 2015), dissecting racially tinged attempts to build 200 units of lowincome housing in Yonkers, N.Y.—a hyper-segregated city of 195,000—from 1987-'94.

The searing, real-life story is seen through the eyes of its 28-year-old Democrat mayor—feisty, ultimately tragic Nicholas Wasicsko, masterfully portrayed by look-alike Oscar Isaac.

Based on a nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin of The New York Times, “Show Me a Hero” is of particular significance to me because I knew and respected the besieged Wasicsko. America’s youngest mayor, he was one of a kind and, to many, a true hero.

After leaving the Milwaukee Journal in 1987 to become an editorial writer-columnist with the New York Daily News, I met and interviewed Wasicsko twice in Yonkers. In addition to spending time with him and his staff in their offices, he showed me around his city at the south end of Westchester County, just north of the Bronx.

As a result, I wrote op-ed page columns headlined “The Man in the Middle in Tense Yonkers” and “Wasicsko Ready to Hit Comeback Trail.” Visiting Yonkers on my

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own, interviewing black, white and Latino residents and attending several raucous city council meetings, I wrote several dozen editorials over a three-year period about its high-profile struggle to build low-income housing on the largely white east side of town.

“Show Me a Hero” was unrelenting in depicting outrage and occasional violence—including death threats—by white residents opposed to the townhouses planned for their neighborhoods. Some of the blacks and Latinos wallowing in poverty in high-rise, crime-ridden public projects, were shown as long-suffering and eager for a better life, as well being simply drug dealers, users and unwed mothers.

Among its stars, Isaac—with his Al Pacino-like voice—was far from the only polarizing figure so brilliantly portrayed in “Show Me a Hero.” Alfred Molina was bombastic as councilman-turned-mayor, Hank Spallone, a strident housing foe; Jim Belushi was sly as six-term Mayor Angelo Martinelli and Bob Balaban was demanding as U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand, who held Yonkers in contempt—imposing and doubling daily fines which would bankrupt it in less than a month if it failed to agree to build the housing.

The young Wasicsko—an attorney, ex-cop and former councilman who was mayor from 1987-'89—took heat from white residents and city council members for supporting the housing, saying: “For the first time in my life, I’m on the right side of something.” But he later backed a legal appeal of Sand’s pro-housing rulings, which was denied.

At the same time, his political future was severely impacted by the city’s two-year mayoral term. Yet, after pushing through legislation adding a second twoyear term, he lost to Spallone in his bid for re-election.

But this was far from his only political problem.

After agreeing to step aside to help the party instead of running for a second term as mayor, Wasicsko was gamed by politicians he trusted. His wife was fired from her job in the city’s parking authority and, effectively, he was put out to pasture.

However, Wasicsko ran for his old city council seat and narrowly won. Before the next election, the city altered council boundaries and his district became heavily Latino, assuring defeat if he ran there again. In 1993, he lost a bid for city council president.

Taking its title from novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous quote “Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy,” TV’s “Show Me a Hero” played out in exactly that way. Despite heavy opposition, low-income townhouses were built on the largely white east side of Yonkers. But the road for many people was long and rocky.

The show followed the lives of four black and Latino women coping with daily pressures of ghetto life and garnered scintillating performances. They accurately channeled Yonkers’ 12% minority population stuck on the poverty-stricken, drug-ridden west side.

In a tragic finale, a 34-year-old Wasicsko commits suicide in October 1993, shooting himself in the mouth seated against a tree in a cemetery near his father’s grave. After moving scenes of his funeral that brought out his allies and opponents, the mini-series ends by showing the real life characters next to the actors who portrayed them. Isaac won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. And this true story, bolstered by a stellar cast, make is one of the great TV mini-series ever.

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::THISWEEKINMILWAUKEE THURSDAY, NOV. 30 Nick Offerman @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

For most viewers, Nick Offerman is impossible to separate from his “Parks and Recreation” character Ron Swanson, an over-the-top embodiment of masculinity in its most stubborn, meat-devouring, wood-splitting form. Indeed, Offerman has quite a bit in common with his signature creation—like Swanson, he’s a genuinely talented furniture maker—but in recent years he’s broken from his man’s man persona to branch out with more dramatic roles in films like The Founder and the second series of FX’s “Fargo,” for which he received a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination. Offerman has swung through Milwaukee a few times over the years, each time behind a different batch of material (like his one-man show “American Ham” or as part of a joint tour with his actress wife Megan Mullally). For this appearance, he’ll perform a set of stand-up comedy called “Full Bush.”

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FM 102.1 Big Snow Show: Paramore, Dashboard Confessional and The Wrecks @ The Rave, 7:30 p.m.

No act from the mid-’00s pop-punk boom has aged more gracefully, or in more unexpected ways, than Paramore. While navigating a series of lineup shifts, singer Hayley Williams has led the band through one reinvention after another—dabbling in a little bit of everything (including dance-punk, country and post-rock) on the group’s 2013 self-titled album and embracing the spirit of new wave on the group’s synth-heavy, incredibly fun new album, After Laughter. The group returns to Milwaukee to headline this installment of FM 102.1’s annual Big Snow Show, which will also feature the cultishly beloved emo group Dashboard Confessional.

Phil Vassar and Kellie Pickler @ Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, 8 p.m.

Country singer Phil Vassar built his singing career the old-fashioned way—by first paying his dues as a songwriter. He penned hits for bigger stars like Tim McGraw and Alan Jackson in the ’90s before issuing his self-titled debut album in ’00. He remains an oddity in the genre for his choice of instrument: In a field dominated by gruff guitar players, he’s a balladeering piano man. Like many of his peers, though, he has a soft spot for the holidays. In 2011, he released his first holiday album, Noel, and for his current tour with “American Idol” alum Kellie Pickler, the pair will perform some of their favorite Christmas songs. (Also Saturday, Dec. 2.)

The Big Wu w/ Chicken Wire Empire, Jason Fladager and STEEZ @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

Just how long have the Big Wu been at it? They were the very first group ever to take the stage at Bonnaroo, during the festival’s first year. Their storied set opening the Tennessee music festival in 2002 in front of tens of thousands of eager attendees helped make them rising stars in the jam scene and one of the Midwest’s most popular jam acts. These days, the Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers-inspired group curates a music festival of its own, the Big Wu Family Reunion, which, while not as gigantic as Bonnaroo, has become one of the region’s most celebrated jam festivals.

For their current round of shows, the band is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Adam Savage & Michael Stevens: Brain Candy Live! @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

Anybody who thought “MythBusters” star Adam Savage would quietly fade from the public eye after the end of his long-running Discovery Channel show seriously underestimated his love for science and mayhem. For his latest tour—shared with YouTube star Michael Stevens—Savage (2017 Humanist of the Year honoree of the American Humanist Association) continues to demonstrate all the ridiculous and uncanny spectacles that science makes possible, often with the help of some self-made toys and tools. If Savage’s past appearances in the city are anything to judge by, expect at least a few moments that make you ask yourself, “Is this safe?”

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Santa Hustle Milwaukee 5k @ Veterans Park, 8 a.m.

Milwaukee winters generally aren’t very accommodating for runners, but at least they have something to look forward to each December: the Santa Hustle, a popular 5k run with a holiday twist. In addition to a shirt, all participants receive a Santa hat and beard, as well as a pair of candy cane socks. There will be cookies and candy stations along the route. In addition to the 5k and one-mile races, there will also be a 100-yard race and a one-mile kids’ race (the Rudolph Run).

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Legend of Zelda: The Symphony of the Goddesses @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

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Over the last decade, a number of live symphony performances have popped up dedicated to the unlikely subject of video game music, but none have better material to work with than Symphony of The Goddesses—the touring tribute to the music of “The Legend of Zelda.” Composer Koji Kondo’s score for the original Zelda game, which he claims to have written in a day, is perhaps the best regarded in video game history, setting a high standard that has carried through most subsequent installments in the Zelda franchise. The symphony’s current tour includes material from the latest Zelda adventure, “Breath of the Wild,” one of the franchise’s best yet.

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Vinnie Moore w/ Gus G @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

One of the great showboating guitarists of the ’80s and ’90s hard-rock and heavymetal scenes, Vinnie Moore has spent his career bouncing from one gig to another, playing with the metal band Vicious Rumors and touring and recording with Alice Cooper in the early ’90s, while also releasing his own solo albums (and the occasional guitar instruction video). Since the early ’00s, he’s been the lead guitarist for the cult British hard-rock band UFO, which he helped reinvigorate and return to the charts with a series of studio albums. That group’s latest album, The Salentino Cuts, is a covers collection that came out in September, but for this show, Moore will perform with his own band—a set which is likely to include selections from his 2015 solo album, Ariel Visions.

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Cam’ron’s commercial peak came more than a decade ago, when he scored a number one hit with his 2002 single, “Oh Boy,” and even flirted with an acting career. Since he broke from Roc-A-Fella Records in 2005, the hits have been few and far between, but unlike so many rappers from his era, he never lost his following; in some circles of rap fandom, he remains one of the most feverishly defended acts of his time, an artist who can do no wrong. This year he released a solid new album, The Program, which probably won’t do much to win him new fans but should ensure his existing fanbase stays loyal for years to come.

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The Prometheus Trio (violinist Margot Schwartz, cellist Scott Tisdel and pianist Stefanie Jacob) continue their 18th season as the resident chamber music ensemble at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music with two very different pieces of music from men in quite different places in their lives.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 70, No. 2 (1809) was written during his magnificent “Middle Period,” when the composer was in Vienna and had just put the powerful Fifth and pastoral Sixth symphonies under his belt. It was composed for Countess Marie von Erdödy in gratitude for her support and hospitality.

The second work on the program is an enormous, eight-movement quartet, for which the Prometheus Trio will be joined by clarinetist Benjamin Adler. This is French composer Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (“Quartet for the End of Time”). He wrote this piece while in Stalag VIII-A—a Nazi POW camp in which Messiaen was imprisoned (he was captured as a French solider during the German invasion of his country in 1940. The work premiered, in fact, in the prison—performed there by three prisoners and Messiaen, himself, at an old piano. (John Jahn) Dec. 4-5 at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, 1584 N. Prospect Ave. For tickets, call 414-276-5760 or visit wcmusic.org.

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Andrew Parchman has spent most of his life working in live theater, whereby he has done lighting design, sound design and even puppet work for a number of productions.

Parchman—who also works as a freelance art teacher in Milwaukee-area community centers and schools—has likewise put his artistic side to work in creating poster artwork for many Quasimondo productions. As for puppetry, he’s created puppets for Love and Cthulhu, Animal Farm, Halloween Legends and Lore and Giraffe on Fire for Quasimondo Physical Theatre; his newest project: The Depths, which he has both written and will direct.

The title refers to the extreme depths of Earth’s Marianas Trench—the very deepest part of which (the Challenger Deep) is some 35,760 feet below the surface; that’s almost seven miles down. It’s in exploration of this terra incognita that we find aquanaut Lilith Hooper who, with the assistance of experimental drugs and software designed to stimulate her senses and comprehension, has been mapping the sea bottom for some 31 days.

Described by Quasimondo as “a supernatural sci-fi thriller” and “a collision of puppetry, movement and multimedia,” audience members are invited “to investigate a primordial ecosystem where terrestrial lives, corporate interests and the mysteries of Nature vie for dominance.”

(John Jahn) Dec. 2-10 at Danceworks Studio Theatre, 1661 N. Water St. For tickets, visit quasimondo.org.

The Bartender

“This is The Bartender’s third run at The Alchemist Theatre,” says the company’s Aaron Kopec, “and it always sells out fast.” Such will likely be the case this time around, then, for the show “is an eclectic trip through the ‘whys,’ ‘hows’ and ‘how comes’ of eight classic cocktails.” Perhaps adding to its popularity is the fact that, yes, the audience gets “good-sized” samples of that cocktail octet.

Featuring Randall T. Anderson (who also wrote the play), The Bartender is “part instructional show-part storytelling-part drinking,” Kopec explains, “taking its audience through war-torn Europe, the Big Easy, early New York City and other places far and wide—as well as then and now.” The production will feature a vast array of changing, robotic lights as well as video and audio multi-media elements.

(John Jahn) Dec. 1-22 at Alchemist Theatre, 2569 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. For tickets, visit thealchemisttheatre.com.

The Concord Chamber Orchestra performs sacred music—or rather, classical instrumental and choral pieces inspired by Bible stories—in a most appropriate setting for such. Composers featured include Giuseppe Verdi, George Frideric Handel, Jules Massenet, Camille Saint-Saëns and more. The CCO is joined by the Milwaukee High School of the Arts Choir. Saturday, Dec. 2 at the Basilica of St. Josaphat. For tickets, call 414-750-4404 or visit concordorchestra.org.

The Florestan Duo

This instrumental duo, consisting of cellist Stefan Kartman and pianist Jeannie Yu, presents a recital of fine chamber music pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and Samuel Barber. Kartman and Yu are no strangers to one another; together, they perform as the Florestan Duo locally, nationally and internationally. Sunday, Dec. 3 at UW-Milwaukee Music Recital Hall, Room 175. This concert is free and open to the public.

‘Tales of Hoffmann’ Showcase

Inspired by Jacques Offenbach’s immortal opéra fantastique The Tales of Hoffmann—the sine qua non of French light opera of the late-19th century—as well as an upcoming Skylight Music Theatre-Milwaukee Opera Theatre collaborative production of the full work, UW-Milwaukee Opera Theatre Department students present a Tales of Hoffmann Showcase—renderings of their semester-long research that will include French-language excerpts and student-devised scenes.

Saturday, Dec. 2 at UWM’s Music Recital Hall, Room 175. This event is free and open to the public.

On Display

Catey Ott Dance Collective has performed more than 100 works at various venues in both New York City and here in Milwaukee. Members of the company— with direction from New York City-based Heidi Latsky Dance and in collaboration with the Haggerty Museum of Art—will be quite literally “on display” as the performance artists embody very slow-moving statues. On Display, which Heidi Latsky Dance describes as a “deconstructed art exhibit-fashion show and commentary on the body and society’s obsession with body image,” takes place Saturday, Dec. 3—the U.N.’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Haggerty Art Museum, Marquette University Campus. This event is free and open to the public.

Glitter Girls

“This play has been a delight to direct,” says Scott Sorensen, director of Village Playhouse’s world premiere production of Mark Dunn’s Glitter Girls. “I have a strong cast of committed actors who have given life to words from Mark’s hilarious play. I can’t help but laugh during every rehearsal.” Dunn says that his new play—with its mostly female cast and Southern story—may be largely comedic, but “there are some serious topics that get addressed” as well. Dec. 1-17 at Inspiration Studios, West Allis. For tickets, call 414-207-4879 or visit villageplayhouse.org.

Major Barbara

Written by the great George Bernard Shaw and directed by UW-Milwaukee Theatre’s Rebecca Holderness, Major Barbara is a dramatic comedy that examines middle-class values and derides how society addresses income inequality and classism. In slice-of-life realism, the play satirizes the issue by pitting an opinionated, politically active daughter against her traditionalist father. Dec. 6-10 at the Arts Center Gallery, UWM Theatre Building, Room T228. For tickets, call 414-2294308 or visit uwm.edu/arts/event/major-barbara.

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First Stage Presents a Heartwarming ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’

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as Snoopy. (It should also be mentioned that another adult, Jack Forbes Wilson, reprises his role as music director and pianist.) The two performing veterans work well together, and they add a bit of extra polish to the production.

As Snoopy, Daniels sets the tone in his first scene, when he decides that some “deep cleaning” is necessary to winterize his mansized dog house. Only Snoopy could produce a mix of items that include, among other things, a golf club, toaster and baseball glove. While Snoopy technically doesn’t “talk,” Daniels communicates with facial expressions, physical antics and an indescribable series of odd noises.

Some slippery stage magic on Martin McClendon’s set creates a picturesque ice skating pond. Violet (Sydney Johnson) dons her skates and puts on a brief but impressive ice show.

The child actors sport colorful, 1960s-era winter outfits (that include earmuffs, mittens and long wool coats), designed by Jason Orlenko.

In addition to the jazzy opening tune borrowed from the TV special, the show’s musical references range from “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” to “Joy to the World” and “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.” The entire production will have you wishing that Santa was coming down the chimney just one day sooner.

Through Dec. 31 at the Marcus Center’s Todd Wehr Theater, 123 E. State St. For tickets, visit firststage.org or call 414-273-2964.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s ‘Miracle on South Division Street’

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Realistic Family Drama in Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s ‘Miracle on South Division Street’ ::BY SELENA MILEWSKI

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irst Stage’s A Charlie Brown Christmas has everything one could want in a kid-themed special. Even those who saw the show’s Milwaukee debut two years ago may be tempted to return for another peek. One finds the whole “Peanuts” gang here—Lucy, Schroeder, Linus, Sally and, of course, Snoopy. The show is suggested for children ages 4 through 14. The show is based on the popular 1965 “Peanuts” TV special as adapted by Eric Schaeffer. It’s directed by Jeff Frank, First Stage’s artistic director.

Audiences should be prepared: Get ready for carol singing and bell ringing—plus non-musical scenes that express the author’s opinions about honoring the birth of Jesus vs. holiday materialism. What you won’t find: cell phones, Hatchimals and video games.

Although the show reflects a more innocent time, it reminds us that children can get stressed by the holidays, too.

It’s Charlie Brown himself (Zachary Church) who starts things off by admitting that he’s depressed by Christmas preparations. The always-bossy Lucy (Ivy Broder) decides that Charlie needs to get engaged in seasonal activities, so she casts him as the director of the children’s Christmas play. Although the child actors perform with admirable skill, it’s the sole adult performer who attracts the most attention. A terrific Matt Daniels reprises his role

First Stage’s ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’

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ilwaukee Chamber Theatre’s production of Tom Dudzick’s Christmas comedy, Miracle on South Division Street (no relation to the film, Miracle on 34th Street), supplies a realistic dose of family drama along with a liberal helping of laughs.

The plot centers on the Nowaks, a middle-class family from director C. Michael Wright’s hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., and the reformation of their long-held identity. For decades, the Polish Catholic Nowaks have been keepers of a shrine to the Virgin Mary built by their grandfather, who claimed she appeared to him in his barbershop.

When daughter Ruth (Kat Wodtke) calls a family meeting on Christmas Eve to reveal a very different explanation for the shrine’s origins and to ask permission to write a play about it, her mother Clara (Raeleen McMillion), brother Jimmy (Josh Krause) and sister Beverly (Greta Wohlrabe) are thrown into volatile disbelief and conflict. Although Ruth takes most of the heat, other Nowaks have secrets too, and the action of the play does much to air them in that teeth-rattling, rapid-fire way seemingly native to families on holidays.

The ensemble creates believable family dynamics, even as characters occasionally appear trope-like. Their strong New York Polish dialect, although humorous, occasionally contributes to the stereotypical edge, but not to the point where the relationships become less compelling. McMillion’s performance is impressive for its pronounced and absorbing character arc. Krause is noteworthy for handling his character’s unspoken revelations with comedic aplomb. Wohlrabe delves deeply into her character’s narrow-minded side but also excels at rounding her out as the plot thickens. As the protagonist, Wodtke is understated and intelligent; we believe her frustration at being different and othered by her family, while still committed to having real relationships with them.

Stephen Hudson-Mairet’s scenic design supports the story well; the entire action of the play takes place within the Nowak home—a realistic dining room-kitchen decked out in kitschy holiday trappings. Other production elements are understated and effective as well.

While the story takes a while to find its footing, the dialogue is strong throughout, and the final turns of the plot will certainly get you thinking. Dudzick’s script is praiseworthy as well for its acute representation of family dynamics, sensitive examination of the nature of miracles and easy way with comedy.

Through Dec. 17 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre, 158 N. Broadway.

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

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Day of the Dead (in Living Color) in Pixar’s ‘Coco’

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[HOME MOVIES/OUT ON DIGITAL] From the Land of the Moon

Beautiful cinematography under director Nicole Garcia and fine acting all around, led by Marion Cotillard, combine with an emotionally nuanced screenplay in From the Land of the Moon (2017). The Oscar-winning Cotillard plays Gabrielle, a high-strung and unhappy teen in postWorld War II rural France. At a loss, her parents convince her to marry a Spanish refugee; the marriage begins lovelessly as well as asexually but grows complicated as emotions evolve and delusions seep into reality.

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Coco

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he lynchpin of Pixar’s new animated feature, Coco, is Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. In the out-of-time Mexico of Coco’s setting, Día de los Muertos is that time each autumn when the barrier between worlds becomes tissue thin. Families stock their home altars, the ofrendas, with photographs of their deceased and offerings of food. The ancestors return to Earth that day, and in Coco, the point is that they persist because they are remembered by the living. Forgotten, they have no existence.

The protagonist is a 12-year-old, Miguel Rivera (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), determined to become a musician despite the unmovable opposition of his family. His great-great grandfather was a musician who abandoned wife and child to follow his muse.

As a result, music has been strictly banned from the Rivera household. Even whistling into a bottle is forbidden. The Riveras are a loving family but turn into blue meanies at the sound of music, and have torn the face of their musician forebear from the photo on their ofrenda.

Miguel is only encouraged by his ambition when he discovers that his hero and role model, a 1930s star called Ernesto de la Cruz, was the mysterious missing great-great grandfather. But that’s not the only twist in a story that races from the land of the living through the land of the dead once Miguel slips through the barrier and finds himself among the dead, lively skeletons one and all.

The after-life is reached across a bridge of orange flowers and is a fantastically drawn conception of terraced and cantilevered structures rising toward heaven in candy box colors. Accompanied by his faithful dog Dante as he crosses the circles of a realm too happy to be hellish, Miguel searches for the sombrero-wearing Ernesto (Benjamin Bratt) with the help of the comically inept dead man Hector (Gael García Bernal). Thwarting him at every

step is his late great-great grandmother, Imelda (Alanna Ubach), who long ago decreed the family’s ban on music.

The skeletons are kinetic, falling apart and reassembling themselves in a snap, and capable of giving chase. Miguel must disguise himself under makeup and a hoodie because the dead are spooked by the presence of a living person in their world.

As always, the level of Pixar’s software-drawn animation is high, as is, even more crucially, the screenplay. Family, whether fish or dinosaur or urban professional, is key to Pixar’s ethos—as is the necessity for children to grow into the best version of themselves. The potential for conflict that always exists between collective and individual good plays out Coco acutely in Coco, whose protagonist has Anthony a high barrier of resentment to surmount Gonzalez if he hopes to receive his family’s blessGael García ing. Coco’s title character in this multigenerational tale is Miguel’s grandmother, Bernal wizened, shriveled and drifting between Directed by forgetfulness and sleep—a sadly moving Lee Unkrich figure of old age respected. She was the and Adrian little girl the musical ancestor abandoned.

Molina Can she accept Miguel’s love of music?

Rated PG The path to reconciling Miguel with his family history twists and turns, leading, among other things, to the shattering of idols and the realization that the darkness of avarice can hide within the glamor of the performing arts. And yet, creativity and its expression are essential to those who feel called to the profession of artist. It’s a hard road for Miguel and the suspense over the outcome carries into the colorfully choreographed climax.

Developers who drive out long-time residents are a problem all over. In the 2016 Brazilian film Aquarius, Clara (Kiss of the Spider Woman’s Sônia Braga) is an independent woman stubbornly hanging on to her condo against mounting pressure from a corrupt company with plans to tear down and rebuild. Leisurely and filled with unedited conversations and visual subtlety, Aquarius slowly grows compelling as it meditates on the important physicality of buildings, vinyl LPs—and life itself.

The Last Laugh

One day you are a respected member of society but on the next, stripped of the job that gave life its meaning, you are the butt of jokes. That’s the enduring theme of F.W. Murnau’s superb The Last Laugh (1924), a silent film with virtually no intertitles. The story is told visually. Emil Jannings plays the put-upon department store doorman with comedy and pathos. The Blu-ray/DVD release includes two versions of the film.

Kill, Baby, Kill

He’s warned by the coachman not to stop there—that the village is cursed— but the stolid coroner, a scientific materialist, places no stock in superstition. Italian cult director Mario Bava’s Kill, Baby, Kill (1966), dubbed in English for the drive-in audience, has some autumnal cinematography worthy of Ingmar Bergman amid a creaking horror melodrama analogous to what Britain’s Hammer Studio produced at the time. Reason confronts evil in the Hapsburg hinterlands. Guess who wins?

—David Luhrssen

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‘Organic Nonsense’ at Inspiration Studios

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eginning Dec. 3, the walls of West Allis’ Inspiration Studios will be adorned with colorful works by Allison Estry. The exhibition title, “Organic Nonsense,” is revealing. Estry paints biomorphic abstractions, favoring shapes found in nature without overtly representing anything in particular, leaving the interpretive legwork to the viewer. “There must be billions of ugly, uncomfortable ways to arrange color and texture on a canvas,” Estry says, “but the act of sifting through all of the wrong things to make a piece that’s serene, or whimsical, or unsettling, restores a sense of power and purpose.”

A comparison with inkblot tests is fitting given the self-taught painter graduated from Valparaiso University with a degree in psychology. Estry’s description of her creative process even sounds inspired by psychoanalytic expeditions into the subconscious: “I pull some interesting colors off the shelf,” she says, “and smack them across a canvas, over and over again, until I find something relaxing creeping out of the weave.” “Organic Nonsense” opens with an artist reception from 4-6 p.m. on Dec. 3 and is up through Dec. 31.

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‘The Shape of Things’ at Galerie Kenilworth ::BY KAT KNEEVERS

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ith cool white walls and wide windows, the newly opened Galerie Kenilworth feels expansive.

The current exhibition, “The Shape of Things to Come,” echoes this sentiment with abstract works by three artists with uniquely complementary approaches.

Karin Haas’ drawings are pastel constructions of shapes, something like building blocks that might be used for exercises in modeling light and shadow. However, subtle variations in hue are not their real interest. Her trapezoids, discs and other irregular forms are decked out with surfaces of flat color relieved by finely reserved lines. Amid the multitude of hues, this negative space creates contours where the structures shift, offering a refined pause in bold color fields.

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are like acrylic television static on canvas. From a distance their striations are more apparent and the subtle mingling of colorful points blends together. Your eye traces the transitions that happen in horizontal bands, often concocted in a manner that is tilted a little bit off-kilter on the rectangular canvas. It becomes difficult to detect exactly where purple fades into blue and then yellow, or how the graduation and clarity of one side of the painting becomes so opposite on the other side of the composition. Opgenorth also works with this technique in three-dimensional pieces, lit in a manner that their cast shadows become like smooth grey reactions to the multicolored surfaces.

Installations by Keith Nelson are related to some of these ideas but through an entirely different set of directives. Nelson uses found materials, often things like construction supplies or industrial stuff, to organize pieces that refocus our attention from what something used to be and into a consideration of its purely visual properties. A wall of toilet tank covers, with smooth variations in surface textures as well as colors and blemishes, becomes a wall relief of softly toned porcelain reflecting spots of light.

This idea of reconsideration, of looking at things in alternative ways and with a conscious attentiveness on small details and gestures, connects these artists and offers something to ponder about the shape of things to come.

Through Dec. 31 at Galerie Kenilworth, 2201 N. Farwell Ave.

Painting by Allison Estry

“Lacerations”

Gallery 2622 | 2622 N. Wauwatosa Ave.

With 2018 in the offing, it’s time to begin prepping those New Year’s resolutions. Could I stand to lose some weight? Save some money? Or perhaps just reevaluate my artistic direction? Local painter Benjamin Fairly chose the latter path, ripping up—or lacerating, if you will—his work from the past five or six years before reassembling them in search of fresh possibilities. “Lacerations” opens at Gallery 2622 on Friday, Dec. 1, from 6-9 p.m.

“Here We Make Our Home: Journey Stories” Latino Arts Gallery | 1028 S. Ninth St.

Latino Arts, Inc. has teamed up with Wisconsin youth for a searching artistic examination of personal journeys. Centered on the symbolically charged image of the birdhouse, students from schools across greater Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin have created works representing their personal journey stories. The aim of the exhibition is to foster an environment for respectful conversations surrounding the timely topics of immigration and settlement.

The opening reception for “Here We Make Our Home” takes place Friday, Dec. 1, at 5 p.m. The exhibition is on display through February 2018.

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Dear Ruthie,

I was frisky one night, and my gf wasn’t. She was tired and wanted to wait until morning. I kept playing around with her until she relented.

During the activity I stopped to go to the bathroom. I couldn’t go, however, because she held me tight until I finished the encounter. In the morning she acted like I raped her. “‘No’ means no,” she said. I think she overreacted due to all the news of sexual assaults. What do you think?

—Confused

Here’s something that won’t confuse you: When it comes to sex, “no” does, indeed, mean no. Period. When your girlfriend said she wasn’t interested in fooling around, you should have backed off. For God’s sake, do what every decent guy does in this situation: Tell your partner you love her, then hop in the bathroom, rifle off some knuckle juice and call it a night.

It’s important you talk to your girlfriend about the event, and apologize. Note that while you may have been confused by what you originally thought were mixed messages, you won’t make that mistake again. Ever.

Do not suggest she’s overacting due to the current revelations out of Hollywood and the political arena…that is, unless you want her to go Lorena Bobbitt on your sorry ass.

::RUTHIE’SSOCALCALENDAR Nov. 29: Pink Hat Party at This Is It (418 E. Wells St.): The gang at Cream City Foundation hosts this month’s pink party that features drink specials, raffles, prizes and Miss Karen Valentine! Don’t have a pink hat to wear? You can buy one at the 9 p.m. fundraiser. (No, you can’t borrow mine!)

I like the holidays. I’m bizarre. That said, this Menomonee Falls shop-a-thon is a must on my to-do list. With free swag bags to the first 15 shoppers (doors open at noon), it’s a great way to support local vendors. Cross off everyone on you Christmas list before the doors close at 4 p.m.

Nov. 30: ‘Intersex Stories, Not Surgery’ with Pidgeon Pagonis at UW-Milwaukee (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.): Intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis presents this lecture/workshop that challenges how the healthcare industry regards intersex folks.

The in-depth discussion addresses hardships faced by this particular community as well as future opportunities. Learn more during the 6-8 p.m. evening.

Dec. 2: Queer Factor at Riverwest Public House Cooperative (815 E. Locust St.): From comedians and drag queens to rappers and DJs, this variety night has it all! Featuring acts from Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago and Minneapolis, the change-ofpace night runs 8 p.m. until bar close.

Nov. 30: World AIDS Day Community Interfaith Service at Holy Rosary Church (2011 N. Oakland Ave.): Commemorate World AIDS Day and reflect on lives that were changed forever with this 7 p.m. service. Arrive an hour early for free HIV testing and to meet new yet friendly faces, willing to share the pain, memories and hope concerning this disease.

Nov. 30: Beards & Brews at Mo’s Irish Pub (142 W. Wisconsin Ave.): It’s No-Shave November, and Mo’s Irish Pub is celebrating with crazy moustache contests, best beard awards and more. Win prizes for your shaggy ’stache while enjoying live music at the 7 p.m. party.

Dec. 1: Opening Night ‘Scrooge in Rouge’ at In Tandem Theatre (628 N. 10th St.): Three actors are left to tackle a musical version of A Christmas Carol in this hilarious holiday performance that piles on yuletide cheer. Written by Ricky Graham and Jefferson Turner, the bawdy show runs through Jan. 7, 2018. Stop by intandemtheatre.org for $30 tickets.

Dec. 2: Sip and Shop Holiday Bazaar at The Radisson (N88 W14750 Main St., Menomonee Falls): I like to sip. I like to shop.

Dec. 2: Make-Out Party at The Jackhammer Complex (6406 N. Clark St., Chicago): The sexy LGBT soiree that’s sweeping the country hits the Midwest with its debut in Chicago. Find a hottie and lock lips in front of the camera and you both get a free shot. Go-go boys, DJs and drag queens round out the naughty night that starts at 9 p.m.

Dec. 4: Katy Perry’s Witness Tour at the BMO Harris Bradley Center (1001 N. Fourth St.): One of the most popular singers of our time, this pop diva struts her sugary self into Cream City with her latest tour. Tickets run $27.50 to $500+ for the 7 p.m. concert. Visit bmoharrisbradleycenter.com to get yours.

Dec. 5: Old Fashioned Faceoff at Wherehouse (818 S. Water St.): When it comes to Old Fashioneds, I’m a brandy-sweet girl, but you’ll find 13 varieties mixed by the city’s best bartenders in this sip-off where you choose the winner! The fist 100 attendees get a free bite from Gypsy Taco, so arrive at the event when the doors open at 6:30 p.m. Winners are announced shortly before the end of the competition at 10:30 p.m.

Want to share an event with Ruthie? Need her advice on a situation? Email DearRuthie@Shepex.com.

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Endof-Year Giving for LGBTQ Health ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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t’s that time of year again. Yes, with Thanksgiving and Black Friday behind us, the holidays are officially underway.

Now you can look forward to bundles of mail with all those cards, torturous catch-up letters, even more store fliers and, inevitably, those guilt-inducing end-of-year-giving letters.

Back in the day, I recall hand-addressing Gay Arts Center end-of-year-giving solicitations. It was that personal touch people like but, in this case, it was really a matter of saving printer ink.

Other organizations, the ones with real budgets for such things, vie for attention with “Pick me!

Pick me!” desperation. One once used oversized envelopes containing glossy color pamphlets while another chose pink envelopes to stand out in a crowd. The additional costs incurred for all that folderol would be rationalized by the anticipated increased income generated by the ploy.

I’m not sure if it worked, though. I still get those pink envelops and toss them. Their senders can’t be blamed. It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there when it comes to gay-supporting charities and service organizations. It’s sad to say but especially today with ever-dwindling resources, it’s almost become a dire Sophie’s choice dilemma. Everyone’s need is legitimate.

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This year, though, I have a recommendation. It’s the same agency a local philanthropy organization, G/L Community Fund’s 2017-18 campaign chose as its recommended funding recipient, namely Diverse & Resilient. It’s the same agency whose Harambee neighborhood facility suffered three attacks of post-election vandalism last winter.

D&R’s mission is “to achieve health equity and improve the safety and well-being of LGBTQ people and communities in Wisconsin.”

Launched in 1995 as a program at Milwaukee’s Sinai Samaritan Hospital, it evolved into a non-profit organization focusing on capacity building, youth leadership and health needs and developed partnerships with the Milwaukee Health Department and dozens of LGBTQ organizations statewide. Today, its varied programs focus on mental and sexual health, substance use as well as partner and community violence.

Over the course of two decades, those expansive services coupled with the increased impact of HIV, especially on people of color, have exponentially raised costs. Funding came from a variety sources but especially from federal and local government grants.

But, starting in 2016, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shifted the bulk of its resources to support the “Southern Strategy,” a campaign to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Bible Belt. As a result, D&R’s joint CDC proposal submitted as a collaboration with 16th Street Clinic and the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW) was not funded. The current White House agenda has also lead to funding cuts across the board.

Locally, the City of Milwaukee Health Department has reduced D&R’s financial aid for 2018 by at least $30,000.

We all have our causes but this year our community’s health should be a priority.

You can donate online under the “Get Involved” tab on the D&R website: diverseandresilient.org/get-involved.

Milwaukee Author Sets Out Terms for ‘A Happy Life for Busy People ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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elf-help is one of publishing’s growth industries as millions of people, bereft of traditional support networks or confused by a world spinning more rapidly with each passing year, turn to selfhelp authors for advice and insight. When Milwaukee’s Neil Panosian was downsized out of his postal job and fell prey to frustration, he began to prowl the aisles of public libraries, checking out every self-help book on the shelves.

“It can be just as overwhelming as the problem,” Panosian says of the plethora of books he read. “I wanted to find a simple resource for the average Joe.” His search led him to establish a blog, produce YouTube videos and, finally, a book of his own, A Happy Life for Busy People: Powerful Secrets to Get You There Quickly and Easily. Define terms, I insist: What is happiness? “It can be the progressive realization of a worthy ideal,” he answers. “If you don’t have a purpose in life, it’s hard to find happiness.”

Discovering your purpose is one of the topics Panosian addresses. Lacking that, we can easily fall into what Panosian calls “waking up in neutral.” He describes it as “waiting to see what life will dictate.” Panosian’s two recommendations are: “1. Come up with a purpose, a reason to get up in the morning whether it’s being the best parent you can or working for social change, and 2. Develop an attitude of gratitude,” which is to say, stay aware. “Enjoy the food you eat, the texture and the taste,” he says. “Slow down! Reduce stress, increase joy, become the best version of yourself.”

Panosian will take part in an author symposium at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2 at Barnes & Noble, 4935 S. 76th St.

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Cold War Kids

Stick to Their Guns old War Kids singer/guitarist Nathan Willett feels his group has occupied a rather rare and enviable niche in the music world so far during its career. Though the group is widely considered an indie band, they’ve also been able to get a few tastes of mainstream pop success without losing the credibility they established early on.

Having been able to exist in both the indie and mainstream pop worlds is a situation Willett doesn’t take for granted.

“We’ve had that kind of unique and great problem that, while we have never had an enormous breakout, we have also had an amazing ability to just maintain a certain level of popularity and stick around,” Willett said. “In many ways, that’s such an amazing feat in itself.

It’s especially impressive, he said, considering all the examples of young bands that have found success early in their career and been unable to follow it up.

“We were very fortunate to grow on our own time, and that means musically, writing and recording-wise, and as performers,” he said. “I think the ideology of the band has gotten to grow at its own pace, which I think is incredibly rare for anybody who has that kind of one-foot-in-mainstream success—success at radio and stuff like that—and then another foot in the kind of more cult audience, or fans that just love us for being us. That’s kind of the dream. That’s the best thing you can have, really.”

But as Cold War Kids tour behind their latest studio album, L.A. Divine, Willett sounds ready to see the scales of success tip more toward the mainstream pop world. And there are reasons to believe a break-

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No. 2 “Billboard’s” Alternative Rock singles chart) and through in mainstream pop might be more within “Wilshire Protest,” with their pounding piano, jagreach than ever for Cold War Kids, which formed in ged melodies and Willett’s caffeinated vocals, echo 2004 in Fullerton, Calif. and are now six full-length stufavorites that first surfaced on the group’s 2006 debut dio albums and 10 EPs deep into their career. For one album, Robbers & Cowards, and its 2008 follow-up Loything, Willett noted, a number of indie acts (including alty to Loyalty.

Alabama Shakes, The Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys) “I think this record was just, in many ways, buildhave scored mainstream breakthroughs in recent ing upon all that we’ve learned over the course of years without losing the qualities that made them all these years,” Willett said. “I feel like it is a totally unique in the first place. the best Cold War Kids record. It is the embodiment And Cold War Kids’ previous album, Hold My Home, of all the stuff we’ve learned over all these years also gave the group their first No. 1 hit when the goldand the stuff we love.” certified single “First” topped Billboard’s Alternative This winter, the group has a run of appearances on Rock singles chart. radio-sponsored multi-act holiday shows (including With L.A. Divine, Willett feels the group has found this weekend’s FM 102.1 Big Snow Show at the Rave) ways to modernize its sound to fit pop radio without which will mean playing a shorter set forsaking the distinctive elements that than on headlining dates. But Willett have long been a part of the band’s musisays he’s been enjoying reaching a point cal identity. For the album, original band where the Cold War Kids can mix and members Willett and bassist Matt Maust Cold War match songs in shows of any length. and more recent recruits Joe Plummer Kids “Having this much music and this (drums), Matthew Schwartz (keyboards/ many records and EPs and all that, it’s guitar) and David Quon (guitar), put a Saturday, so fun to be able to choose from so more modern pop sheen on their songs, Dec. 2, 7 p.m. much,” he said. “I always kind of had in while still weaving unusual piano, guitar The Rave the back of my mind that I hoped there and drums into the sound. would come a time when we could just Uptempo tunes like “So Tied Up,” have this music to pick from. Every band “Open Up to The Heavens” and “Invinknows the feeling of having one album cible” have the kind of sing-along voout and playing it, trying to stretch a 40-minute alcal hooks, danceable beats and pop melodies that bum into an hour-long set. It’s so stressful and you fit current top-40 trends, but also retain the nervy have to play everything ... Obviously, we want fans to edginess that has often characterized Cold War Kids’ hear what they came to hear, but also that it’s going music. There are also a few ballads, such as “Restless” to be a little different every time. That’s the most fun and “Can We Hang On?,” which could cross into mainto me.” stream pop.

Cold War Kids co-headline FM 102.1’s Big Snow Show But there’s still an indie feel and attitude to several on Saturday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. with Phoenix, Lord Husongs. “No Reason to Run” mixes a bit of gospel into ron and Welshly Arms. its piano pop sound. “Love is Mystical” (which reached

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ometimes the worst thing you can do with a band is try to force it to be something it wasn’t meant to be. Mark Harrig started Paladino a few years ago with a very specific vision: a bluegrass duo featuring him on mandolin and a friend, no longer in the band, on concertina.

“We both kind of decided, ‘Hey, we both play unusual, small instruments; let’s get together and do something interesting,” Harrig recalls.

The two soon realized, though, that as interesting as their setup was, it wasn’t enough. From there the band continued expanding. They added another guitarist (Matt Webber), a bass player (Weston Grit), and perhaps most transformatively, a drummer, Chad Burgess. “We weren’t even looking for a drummer, but I think Chad found our ad on Craigslist looking for a bassist and took a listen to us and said, ‘Listen, you guys really need a drummer,’” Harrig says. “He came in to practice with us, and once we heard our music with percussion it opened up a new door for us.”

The addition of pianist Chris Haise solidified the band’s current lineup, which released an EP last year, Bellows, a wide-ranging set of bluegrass. In the spirit of genre conventions, it even included an original murder ballad, “Iowa.”

But the more Paladino played, the more they realized they weren’t meant to be a bluegrass outfit. “We were still trying to find our voice and which direction we were trying to take the band,” Harrig recalls, “because we were Paladino always trying to force ourselves into the bluegrass genre, Friday, even though naturally a lot of us were more into rock Dec. 1, 7 p.m. and alt-county, and we all had that background.”

So they became an alt-country band. “I don’t think Linneman’s we ever sat down and said, ‘OK, people aren’t getting into our music, or we’re not happy with this,’ because we were always happy with the music we made, but every time we debuted a new song and it had an alt-country type of feel, people reacted to it a lot better,” Harris says. “We kept seeing that over and over, every time we had a new song. Then all of the sudden one day we just realized we were an alt-country/Americana band. We didn’t necessarily set out to change our style. We just started creating a lot more upbeat music, because that’s what we got the best reaction to and what we enjoyed playing the most.”

The group’s lush new album, Friend a Dinosaur, puts that reinvention on full display. Produced by Lodi Broekhuizen of Twin Brother, who contributes some striking violin arrangements, it’s a brisk roots rock record that lands somewhere between the uplifting strumming of The Avett Brothers and the Heartland-leaning modern rock of ’90s acts like Toad the Wet Sprocket and Gin Blossoms, depending on which of the band’s three singers and songwriters takes the reigns of any particular song.

“We were trying to be more dynamic with this record, making the loud parts louder and the quiet parts quieter to make the songs more interesting and keep people on the edge of their seats,” Harrig says. “That’s kind of how we tried to keep the flow of the album.”

Paladino play an album release show on Friday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. at Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, with Cullah and Derek Pritzl opening. They’ll perform on Radio Milwaukee’s 414 Live the day before, on Thursday, Nov. 30, at 5:30 p.m.

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Over the course of several albums, Milwaukee blues singer Gerome Durham has moved toward the synthdriven R&B of Southern soul. Durham’s always homey, nearly conversational singing fits well with his stylistic shift on AKA Mississippi Blues Boy. He’s especially strong when advancing the templates set forth by blues/Southern soul crossover forebears such as Mel Waiters and Marvin Sease as he sings about love, his non-barking dog, romantic regret and the travails of a typical Thursday morning.

However, Boy’s idiosyncrasies, perhaps foisted upon Durham by producer Marcus Gibbons, yield strange results, such as electronic vocal effects applied to Durham’s female counterpart and oddly phrased sexy talk on a slow jam duet. Bookending the set’s mere eight songs are a shout-out for the producer’s studio and almost two minutes of sound FX and spoken word to conclude. Durham’s singing is a comfy fit to commercial Southern soul aspirations, but he may want to ease back on the experimentations and reconnect with his electric All-Star Band to fill out his next long-player.

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(ALUCARD) Steven Wilson, one of progressive rock’s reigning musicians and producers, remixed some tracks from Gentle Giant’s first three albums to deliver more clarity, detail and definition. These new versions enhance the work of the seminal British band, noted for counterpoint vocals, complex arrangements and wild instrumental tangents. Inclusion of the nine tracks here—three from 1970’s self-titled debut, two from 1971’s Acquiring the Taste and four from 1972’s Three Friends—was determined by the limited availability of multi-track master tapes from the era. “Freedom’s Child” (a previously unreleased orchestral folk song) and a 7-inch edit of 1970’s “Nothing at All” round out this diverse collection that serves as a proper primer on one of prog’s most overlooked groups. A bonus Blu-ray disc contains a 5.1 surround sound version of Three Piece Suite, plus instrumental tracks and the original album mixes. This might be all the Gentle Giant you need—at least for now.

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(GLP MUSIC) Lea Salonga is a Broadway and London West End star. She played Kim in Miss Saigon and has lent her voice to Disney productions. On Bahaghari: Rainbow, she searches the songbook of her Filipino homeland for material. Accompanied by piano and sometimes a light dusting of traditional and contemporary arrangements, she sings with the crystalline clarity demanded on Broadway, delivering emotively on the best tracks. “Rainbow” refers to the diversity of the Philippines—she sings in no less than six Filipino languages.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30

Amelia's, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Angelo's Piano Lounge, Acoustic Guitar Night Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Song Circle w/Tricia Alexander County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/ Barry Dodd Jazz Estate, Anders Svanoe CD release: State of the Baritone Vol. 2 Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall, Open Jam: Roadhouse Rave Up Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/ feature St. Martin (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Frances Luke Accord w/ Humbird Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Miller Time Pub, Joe Kadlec Miramar Theatre, Ekali Medasin w/Judge & eXotica (ages 17-plus, 9pm) Paulie's Field Trip, CP & Stoll w/Chris Peppas & Jeff Stoll Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Michael Sean of Bellevue Suite (8pm), In the Fire Pit: Riding Shotgun (8:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Walk The Moon / Foster The People w/AJR (all-ages, 7:30pm) Riverside Theater, Nick Offerman: Full Bush The Bay Restaurant, Will Ulrich The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Eric Schoor Trio w/Manty Ellis Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic

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Alley Cat Lounge (Five O'Clock Steakhouse), Christopher's Project American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Brian Wurch Angelo's Piano Lounge, Piano Night Anodyne Coffee (Walker's Point), Rev. Raven & The Chain Smokin' Altar Boys w/Westside Andy, and Big Al Dorn & The Blues Howlers Art Bar, Beat Music Series Cactus Club, Eagle Trace EP release party Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Bill Camplin Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Mike Maher Band (8pm); DJ: LaFontaine & Triplett (10pm) Colectivo Coffee (On Prospect), The Dustbowl Revival ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Yellow Streak Release Party w/Shle Berry, DJ Alpine, Juke Marciano & King Myles County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Frank's Power Plant, The DUIs w/Future Plans, Law of Keanu & Self Destrukt Gina's Sports Dock (Pewaukee), South End Blues Band Iron Mike's (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Jamie Breiwick Quartet (8pm), Late Night Session: Scott Currier Trio (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Ralphie Roberts Kelly's Bleachers (Wind Lake), Genessee Depot Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall, Krampus Fest: Anomaly, The Dead Morticians & Size 5s Lakefront Brewery Beer Hall, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Landmark Lanes, Spatola vs. Reynaldo Jenkins and the Tear Drops Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Paladino CD release w/ Cullah & Derek Pritzl Mamie's, Stokes & the Old Blues Boys Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Milwaukee Ale House, Crank the Radio Miramar Theatre, Dead Man's Carnival: Tom Waits tribute show & season finale w/Prof. Pinkerton & The Magnificents Northern Lights Theater at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In the Northern Lights Theater: Phil Vassar & Kellie Pickler Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Jake Williams (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Bound For Branson (9pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Rave / Eagles Club, Paramore w/Dashboard Confessional & The Wrecks (all-ages, 7:30pm), Yelawolf w/Mikey Mike, Big Henri & Cookup Boss (all-ages, 8pm)

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American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Nostalgia Angelo's Piano Lounge, Piano Night Anodyne Coffee (Walker's Point), 4onthefloor w/ Christopher Gold & The New Old Things Art Bar, Colly Cactus Club, Faux Fiction w/Half Gringa & Hello Death Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Jerry Wicentowski & the Unrelated Brothers Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Final Ultimate w/Vexnation (8pm); DJ: Theresa Who (10pm) Club Garibaldi, Rock & Soul Jam: Mr. Blotto w/People Brothers Band Colectivo Coffee (On Prospect), Pert Near Sandstone w/ Miles Over Mountains ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, VoodooHoney presents: The Women of Jazz Cue Club of Wisconsin (Waukesha), Party Anthem Elkhorn Saloon (Elkhorn), Carole & the DV8's Five O'Clock Steakhouse, Charles Barber Fox & Hounds Restaurant, Larry Lynne Solo George's Tavern (Racine), The Blues Disciples Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Hops & Leisure (Oconomowoc), Vinyl Road Jazz Estate, Dan Pierson's 'Quartet' w/Greg Tuohey (8pm), Late Night Session: Jeno Somlai Trio (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Ralphie Roberts Just J's, The Carpetbaggers Kelly's Bleachers (Wind Lake), Almighty Vinyl Kuhtz General Store (Oconomowoc), Maple Road Blues Band Linneman's Riverwest Inn, The Cow Ponies CD Release w/Alex Ballard and Sugarfoot, & Mood Vertigo Los Mariachis Mexican Restaurant, The Ricochettes Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Milwaukee Ale House, 76 Juliet Miramar Theatre, The Widdler w/Perkulat0r & smith.

Motor Bar & Restaurant, American Blues Music Series w/Perry Weber, Edward McDaniel & Jimi Schutte (5:30pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Katie Mack & The Moan Rave / Eagles Club, Phoenix w/Cold War Kids, Lord Huron & Welshly Arms (all-ages, 7:30pm) Red Dot Wauwatosa, Chocolate Ice 2 Revere's Wells Street Tavern (Delafield), Jonny T-Bird & the MPs Riverside Theater, Brian Regan Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Rebel Grace Saloon on Calhoun, The Brew City Rockers Shank Hall, Southbound (Allman Brothers Tribute) w/The Ryann Lyn Band & Eddie Sauer of the Heavyheads The Cheel (Thiensville), Rev. Raven & The Chain Smokin' Altar Boys w/Westside Andy The Coffee House, Food Pantry Benefit w/Matt Johnston, Don Pardee & Tom Plutshack The Packing House Restaurant, Lem Banks with Jeff Stoll, Alvin Turner & Omar (6:30pm) Up & Under Pub, The Radiomen Var Gallery & Studios, Jay Matthes

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3

Angelo's Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/ Julie Brandenburg Anodyne Coffee (Walker's Point), Larry Penn - 4th Annual Tribute Concert Beulah Brinton House, Bittersweet Christmas Band (4pm) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: The Tritonics (8pm); DJ: Trail Boss Tim Cook (10pm) Company Brewing, Position Players Inc & Uni Fi Records Present: Winter Clothing Drive & Industry Mixer Dugout 54, Dugout 54 Sunday Open Jam Hiawatha Bar (Sturtevant), Steve Meisner Band (2pm) Iron Mike's (Franklin), Jammin' Jimmy Open Jam (3pm) Miramar Theatre, Earphorik w/Undercover Organism & The Old Prospectors (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Shank Hall, Vinnie Moore w/Gus G The Tonic Tavern, Third Coast Blues w/The Blues Disciples, Barefoot Jimmy & Pauly Walnutz (4pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, WMSE 91.7FM Big Band Grandstand with Dewey Gill presents: The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (4pm) VFW Post 5716 (New Berlin), Classic Country Music Club 50th Anniversary Celebration (1pm)

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Jazz Estate, WCM BlueNote Ensemble (7:30pm), Jazz Estate Jam Session Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Poet's Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Rickard Hokans (7:3010:30pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie's Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John Riverside Theater, Cirque Musica Holiday

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Cactus Club, God Eaters w/Neutron Friends & FoxFace Frank's Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Jazz Estate, Dave Hillyard Jamaican Jam Mamie's, Open Blues Jam w/Carole & Craig Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Papa Roach w/Falling In Reverse (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Celtic Thunder The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Donna Woodall Turner Hall Ballroom, Cam'ron

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Colectivo Coffee (On Prospect), The Districts w/Katie Von Schleicher & Sun Seeker Conway's Smokin' Bar & Grill, Open Jam w/Big Wisconsin Johnson Iron Mike's (Franklin), Danny Wendt Open Jam (6pm) Jazz Estate, Carlos Adames Latin Group Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/ feature Lindsay Powell (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Larry Lynne Trio Nomad World Pub, 88.9 Presents "Locals Only" w/Detlef Schrempf & Bellvue Suites Paulie's Field Trip, Humpday Jam w/Dave Wacker & Mitch Cooper Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Rave / Eagles Club, Khalid w/Jessie Reyez & Lauv (allages, 7:30pm) Riverside Theater, The K-LOVE Christmas Tour 2017 Shank Hall, Guttermouth w/Koffin Kats, The Atom Age & Gallows Bound Tally's Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk The Cheel (Thiensville), Acoustic Blu Duo (6:30pm) The Packing House Restaurant, Ellen Winters & Kostia Efimov (6pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Matisyahu Common Kings & Orphan

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WORD FIND This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 25 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Serving Their Country Solution: 25 Letters

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ACROSS 1. Title for Coptic bishops 5. Crude broom 10. Pressure 14. Body or beauty 18. Clamorous 19. Radiate 20. Film -21. -- libre 22. Start of a quip by anonymous: 5 wds.

25. Estate 26. Comply with: 2 wds.

27. Cupola 28. Snapping creature 29. Regrets 30. Legatees 32. Cram 33. Kitchen utensils 36. Budgetary concern 37. Games 41. “-- -- ear and out...”

42. Part 2 of quip: 3 wds.

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Date: 11/30/17

::NEWS OF THE WEIRD

::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “What is love?” asks philosopher Richard Smoley.

“It’s come to have a greeting-card quality,” he mourns. “Half the time ‘loving’ someone is taken to mean nurturing a warmish feeling in the heart for them, which mysteriously evaporates the moment the person has some concrete need or irritates us.”

One of your key assignments in the next 10 months will be to purge any aspects of this shrunken and shriveled kind of love that may still be lurking in your beautiful soul. You are primed to cultivate an unprecedented new embodiment of mature, robust love.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You know that unfinished task you have half-avoided, allowing it to stagnate? Soon you’ll be able to summon the gritty determination required to complete it. I suspect you’ll also be able to carry out the glorious rebirth you’ve been shy about climaxing. To gather the energy you need, reframe your perspective so that you can feel gratitude for the failure or demise that has made your glorious rebirth necessary and inevitable.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In an ideal world, your work and your character would speak for themselves. You’d receive exactly the amount of recognition and appreciation you deserve. You wouldn’t have to devote as much intelligence to selling yourself as you did to developing your skills in the first place. But now forget everything I just said. During the next 10 months, I predict that packaging and promoting yourself won’t be so #$@&%*! important. Your work and character WILL speak for themselves with more vigor and clarity than they have before.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There used to be a booth at a Santa Cruz flea market called “Joseph Campbell’s Love Child.”

It was named after the mythological scholar who wrote the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The booth’s proprietor sold items that spurred one’s “heroic journey,” like talismans made to order and herbs that stimulated courage and mini-books with personalized advice based on one’s horoscope.

“Chaos-Tamers” were also for sale. They were magic spells designed to help people manage the messes that crop up in one’s everyday routine while pursuing a heroic quest. Given the current astrological omens, Pisces, you would benefit from a place that sold items like these. Since none exists, do the next best thing: Aggressively drum up all the help and inspiration you need. You can and should be well-supported as you follow your dreams on your hero’s journey.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope that everything doesn’t come too easily for you in the coming weeks. I’m worried you will meet with no obstructions and face no challenges.

And that wouldn’t be good. It might weaken your willpower and cause your puzzle-solving skills to atrophy. Let me add a small caveat, however. It’s also true that right about now you deserve a whoosh of slack. I’d love for you to be able to relax and enjoy your well-deserved rewards. But on the other hand, I know you will soon receive an opportunity to boost yourself up to an even higher level of excellence and accomplishment. I want to be sure that when it comes, you are at peak strength and alertness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You were born with the potential to give the world specific gifts—benefits and blessings that are unique to you. One of those gifts has been slow in developing. You’ve never been ready to confidently offer it in its fullness. In fact, if you have tried to bestow it in the past, it may have caused problems.

But the good news is that in the coming months, this gift will finally be ripe. You’ll know how to deal crisply with the interesting responsibilities it asks you to take on. Here’s your homework: Get clear about what this gift is and what you will have to do to offer it in its fullness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Happy Unbirthday, Gemini! You’re halfway between your last birthday and your next. That means you’re free to experiment with being different from who you have imagined yourself to be and who other people expect you to be. Here are inspirational quotes to help you celebrate. 1. “Those who cannot

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change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw. 2. “Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.”

—W. Somerset Maugham. 3. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds … With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” — Friedrich Nietzsche.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suggest that you take a piece of paper and write down a list of your biggest fears. Then call on the magical force within you that is bigger and smarter than your fears. Ask your deep sources of wisdom for the poised courage you need to keep those scary fantasies in their proper place. And what is their proper place? Not as the masters of your destiny, not as controlling agents that prevent you from living lustily, but rather as helpful guides that keep you from taking foolish risks.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his book Life: The Odds: And How to Improve Them, Gregory Baer says that the odds you will marry a millionaire are not good: 215-to-1. They’re 60,000-to1 that you’ll wed royalty and 88,000-to-1 that you’ll date a supermodel. After analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I suspect your chances of achieving these feats will be even lower than usual. That’s because you’re far more likely to cultivate synergetic and symbiotic relationships with people who enrich your soul and stimulate your imagination, but don’t necessarily pump up your ego. Instead of models and millionaires, you’re likely to connect with practical idealists, energetic creators, and emotionally intelligent people who’ve done work to transmute their own darkness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What might you do to take better care of yourself in 2018, Virgo? According to my reading of the astrological omens, this will be a fertile meditation for you to keep revisiting. Here’s a good place to start: Consider the possibility that you have a lot to learn about what makes your body operate at peak efficiency and what keeps your soul humming along with the sense that your life is interesting. Here’s another crucial task: Intensify your love for yourself.

With that as a driving force, you’ll be led to discover the actions necessary to supercharge your health. P.S. Now is an ideal time to get this project underway.

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Passé Passat

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Germany,

called police 20 years ago

on Nov. 12 for making their own license plate out of a pizza box and markers. The plate, which reads “MASS” at the top and sports a sloppily rendered, six-digit number, prompted police to post some helpful warnings to creative citizens on its Facebook page; the resulting charges included operating an uninsured and unregistered vehicle and attaching “fake homemade” plates.

Gonna Make You Pay Now

to report his Volkswagen

Montreal police may win the “Funsuckers

Passat missing, believing

of the Year Award” after pulling over 38-year-

it had been stolen. Earlier this month, the car

old Taoufik Moalla on Sept. 27 as he drove to

was found just where the driver had left it (ac-

buy a bottle of water in Saint-Laurent. Moalla

cording to Metro News)—in a parking garage

was enthusiastically singing along to C+C

now scheduled to be demolished. Police drove

Music Factory’s hit 1990 song, “Gonna Make

the 76-year-old to the garage to be reunited

You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” when a

with his car, which, after two decades, is un-

patrol car pulled behind him with lights and

fit to drive, before sending it off to the scrap

sirens blaring. Officers directed him to pull

heap.

over, and four officers surrounded Moalla’s

Weird Law and Order

car. “They asked me if I screamed,” Moalla told CTV News. “I said, ‘No, I was just sing-

The Detroit Police Department got a

ing.’“ Then he was issued a $149 ticket for

little carried away on Nov. 9 while trying to

screaming in public—a violation of “peace

address a persistent drug problem on the city’s

and tranquility.” “I understand if they are do-

east side. Two undercover special ops officers

ing their job, they are allowed to check if ev-

from the 12th Precinct were posing as drug

erything’s OK,” said a “very shocked” Moal-

dealers on a street corner when undercover

la, “but I would never expect they would give

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are themes I suggest you specialize in during the coming weeks. 1. How to gossip in ways that don’t diminish and damage your social network, but rather foster and enhance it. 2. How to be in three places at once without committing the mistake of being nowhere at all. 3. How to express precisely what you mean without losing your attractive mysteriousness.

4. How to be nosy and brash for fun and profit. 5. How to unite and harmonize the parts of yourself and your life that have been at odds with each other.

officers from the 11th Precinct arrived and,

me a ticket for that.” His wife, however, said

not recognizing their colleagues, ordered the

she wasn’t surprised and would have given

undercover officers from the 12th Precinct to

him a ticket for twice that much.

the ground. Shortly thereafter, more 12th Precinct officers showed up and the action moved

A Real Attention Grabher

to a house where, as Fox 2 News described

The Canadian Press reports that Lorne

it, “a turf war broke out as officers from the

Grabher of Nova Scotia, Canada, is suing

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I predict that in the coming months you won’t feel compulsions to set your adversaries’ hair on fire. You won’t fantasize about robbing banks to raise the funds you need, nor will you be tempted to worship the devil. And the news just gets better. I expect that the amount of self-sabotage you commit will be close to zero. The monsters under your bed will go on a long sabbatical. Any lame excuses you have used in the past to justify bad behavior will melt away. And you’ll mostly avoid indulging in bouts of irrational and unwarranted anger. In conclusion, Scorpio, your life should be pretty evil-free for quite some time. What will you do with this prolonged outburst of grace? Use it wisely!

two precincts engaged in fistfights with each

the Transport Department to keep his vanity

other.”

plate, which reads “GRABHER.” The retiree

Homework: What change have you prepared yourself to embrace? What lesson are you ripe to master? Write: freewillastrology.com.

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

Dunedin, New Zealand, police sergeant

has sported the namesake plate for 27 years,

Bryce Johnson told stuff.nz that he’s seen

but in January, it was revoked for being “inap-

people reading newspapers, putting on make-

propriate,” and authorities denied the reason

up and using their mobile phones while driv-

was because of its similarity to a suggestive

ing, but pulling over a driver who was playing

comment by U.S. President Donald Trump

bagpipes while driving (as he did on Nov. 15)

revealed during his unfortunately successful

was a first for him. “His fingers were going

campaign. “I am increasingly dismayed by the

a million miles an hour,” Johnson said. The

hypersensitivity of some people who are ‘of-

driver, who admitted to being a bagpipe play-

fended’ by every little thing they encounter,”

er, said he was only doing “air bagpipe,” and

Grabher wrote in his affidavit, adding that he

a search of the car did not turn up the instru-

is proud of his Austro-German surname.

ment. He was released with a warning.

The Hopkinton, Mass., police department cited an unnamed driver of a Buick Century

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