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VOLUME 44, ISSUE 5 JAN 31-FEB 6, 2019

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8-10 NEWS

Full speed ahead

Council contests

In some districts, voters will have more than two choices for Common Council.

The growing movement to secure legal rights for transgender people

12 OPINION

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Divided state government should keep GOP power grabs at bay.

In August, staff writer Allison Geyer reported on the efforts of local activists who were lobbying the state’s Group Insurance Board to cover gender-affirming surgery for state employees. In this week’s cover story, Allison looks more broadly at the movement to secure anti-discrimination protections for transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

Sadly (for us), Allison is leaving Isthmus to pursue an exciting opportunity at a local startup. We are grateful that she will continue to contribute her prodigious talent to Isthmus as a freelancer and we wish her all the best.

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23-24 MUSIC

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Court rulings show high court candidates mostly agree on criminal cases The current race for Wisconsin Supreme Court is unusual in that both candidates, Lisa Neubauer and Brian Hagedorn, have served for the last several years on the same appeals court, at times taking part in the same cases. Bill Lueders decided to see how often they agreed and disagreed in their rulings. He went to the state court system’s web page that links to appellate court opinions and created spreadsheets to track all 117 opinions from 2018, no matter what type, and all 122 cases involving criminals in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Together these two spreadsheets (linked in the online story) include 24 pages of data, which he then analyzed for the story. He says the analysis “provides one small but useful measure for gauging how the judges have ruled, and perhaps highlighting the unfairness of how they will be portrayed during the course of this campaign.”

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Yuriy Gusev makes sure Elver Park is ready for skiing whatever the weather The Madison Winter Festival couldn’t come at a better time this year, but that isn’t always the case. Whether Mother Nature is cooperating or not, Yuriy Gusev, the festival’s co-founder, makes artificial snow for the event. Erica Krug caught up with him at Elver Park to see what’s involved. It was a choice assignment for Krug, who loves snow and has been cross-country skiing since she was a kid. “In my 20s I lived in Jackson, Wyoming, and I managed a snack shack at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort at 9,000 feet elevation. I rode ski lifts — and then had to ski down several trails — to get to work every day.

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As predicted, it starts snowing in Madison around 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 18. Forecasters are expecting between three and five inches overnight but Yuriy Gusev, co-founder of Madison’s Winter Festival, isn’t taking any chances. Snowfall has been scarce to this point, 56 percent below the historical average.

Gusev says that when it comes to making snow for winter sports, humans have improved on Mother Nature. So two weeks before the winter festival, he’s out at Elver Park, monitoring the city’s snowmaking equipment as it sprays artificial snow onto a mound that, after 15 hours, is 5 feet tall, 50 feet long and 30 feet wide.

“It’s so much easier to work with the man-made snow,” Gusev says. “And you can count on it. It’s going to be there for the rest of the season.”

Gusev, who also serves as executive director of Central Cross Country Skiing Association (CXC) — an organization that promotes crosscountry skiing through events and education — planned on making snow from Jan. 17 until the morning of Jan. 20. But he needed some cooperation from the weather: It has to be below 27 degrees to make snow.

The snowmaking machines do most of the work, but they require regular monitoring.

When a snow pile gets big enough, volunteers use grooming machinery to spread it around the park. The ski trails are groomed almost daily.

According to Gusev, the festival needs “enough snow for one mile, 30 feet wide and one foot deep.”

Pushing on the machine, or “snow gun,” Gusev changes the direction of the pressurized stream of ice pellets now mingling with the natural snowflakes swirling through the air. Gusev grew up in Russia — “south of Moscow” — where he started cross-country skiing as soon as he learned to walk. After skiing the Birkebeiner (the largest cross-country ski race in North America, which takes place in February in Hayward, Wisconsin) for the first time in 2002, Gusev moved to Madison. Gusev started with CXC in 2005 and co-founded Madison’s Winter Festival that same year when he wanted the city to hold an Olympic qualifier ski race for the 2006 Winter Olympics in

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Yuriy Gusev monitors the snowmaking at Elver Park in preparation for the Madison Winter Festival.

Torino, Italy. The first festival — which consisted only of the ski race — was held on the Capitol Square with snow that was trucked in from the parking lot of the Alliant Energy Center, where it was made, and later trucked away.

As the festival grew to include more activities, including snow tubing and snow carving, Gusev says the logistics of moving snow downtown became more complicated. In 2017, the festival moved to Elver Park. “The Capitol was a great backdrop,” Gusev says.

“But Elver Park has many advantages, including the ability to make snow that can be used all winter long.”

Making snow at ski resorts became widespread in the 1970s. Snowmaking for cross-country skiing is now becoming common in the upper Midwest, including at Blackhawk Ski Club in Madison. Madison’s Parks Division had plans to make snow at Elver Park for at least a decade — and even purchased

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snowmaking equipment — but lacked the staff to make it happen. When Gusev decided to move the Winter Festival to Elver Park he realized there was an opportunity to make snow that could be used by skiers all winter long, not just for the weekend of the festival.

So with a group of volunteers and funding from both the city and private sources, the city’s snowmaking equipment is now getting used.

And while Gusev prefers the artificial snow over the natural stuff, he’s always thrilled at the prospect of new snow. “It mixes in with man-made snow, gives it a little more freshness and breaks up the density,” he says.

Plus, it gets people in the mood to ski and be outside.

“I think a big part of Wisconsin and living in the northern part of the United States is winter,” Gusev says. “Enjoying being outside in cold weather makes a big difference.” ■

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Huge stakes, little difference on crime Supreme Court contenders both routinely rule against the convicted

BY BILL LUEDERS

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One of the most consequential elections in modern Wisconsin history will take place April 2. The Supreme Court contest between appeals court judges Lisa Neubauer and Brian Hagedorn could shape the court’s ideological balance, with deep ramifications for the state’s future.

Outside groups will spend vast sums — likely more than the candidates, as in other recent state Supreme Court elections — to urge voters to pick one judge over the other, painting the differences between them as vast.

But are they?

Clearly, the two candidates’ backgrounds suggest ideological affiliations that comport with what their core supporters want.

Neubauer was appointed to the 2nd District Court of Appeals in 2007 by Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, won two elections and is now its chief judge. Her husband, Jeff, is a former Democratic state legislator who later chaired the state party and ran Bill Clinton’s Wisconsin presidential campaigns. Her daughter, Greta, is a Democratic lawmaker from Racine.

Hagedorn was tapped for the same court

by Republican Gov. Scott Walker in 2015, and won a six-year term in 2017. He headed his law school’s chapter of the conservative Federalist Society and became Walker’s chief legal counsel, where he was, states his campaign bio, “involved in some of the most significant and high profile litigation in Wisconsin history.” Read: Act 10.

The winner will replace longtime Justice Shirley Abrahamson, who at age 85 and fighting cancer is not seeking another 10-year term. A win by Neubauer would preserve the court’s current 4-3 balance, with conservatives in the majority, and set the stage for liberals to regain control in 2020, when Walker appointee Daniel Kelly — an ultraconservative who has inveighed against same-sex marriage and likened affirmative action to slavery — must face voters.

Republicans in the Legislature were so concerned Kelly would be at a disadvantage in 2020, when Democratic voters are expected to turn out en masse for Wisconsin’s presidential primary, that they tried moving the primary to a different date, but had to back down.

If liberals do clinch the majority, conservatives’ next chance to regain it would be against three-term Justice Ann Walsh Bradley in 2025, followed by Justice Rebecca Dallet in 2028. Meantime, the court’s ideological balance could prove pivotal in court challenges involving GOP-initiated Republican gerrymandering and voter suppression laws meant to hurt Democrats.

In sum, the April 2 election could affect Wisconsin’s future for years, even decades, to come. Yet a review of Neubauer and Hagedorn’s recent rulings reveals little difference between them.

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The 2nd District Court of Appeals, one of four state appellate courts, covers 12 counties in southeastern Wisconsin. Its purpose is to review actions by the state’s circuit courts.

In 2018, the court issued 117 opinions, including 46 on which both Neubauer and Hagedorn participated, an Isthmus analysis shows. (The court has four judges who decide cases either on their own or as part of three-judge panels.) Of these, the rival judges agreed 43 times.

In one of the three exceptions, Hagedorn dissented from his colleagues’ decision to overturn a state commission that had denied an employee workers compensation, writing saucily, “Like a master chef, the majority slices and dices [the employee’s] lengthy medical history, carefully working through the highs and lows to paint a picture of her evolving maladies.” In a second case, Hage-

ing Denny any DNA testing. Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, in dissent, decried this as conservative judicial activism: “Throwing caution (as well as any semblance of judicial restraint) to the wind, the majority steps in to perform the Legislature’s job.”

Of these 122 opinions involving criminals, Neubauer took part in 78 and Hagedorn in 74, either singly or as part of threejudge panels. Both generally ruled against criminal defendants, rejecting arguments that evidence was improperly obtained or defendants received ineffective assistance of counsel, among other challenges.

The exceptions are few. Besides his dissent on the drunken-driving fine, Hagedorn served on unanimous three-judge panels that gave a convicted drug dealer a three-day sentence credit; granted a new trial to a convicted thief

Brian Hagedorn (left) and Lisa Neubauer are both members of the same state appeals court.

dorn disagreed with Neubauer and another judge on a property-division dispute.

And in the only 2018 criminal case in which he and Neubauer differed, Hagedorn dissented from a ruling to uphold a fine in a drunken driving case, saying the majority lacked an adequate basis for its actions.

Isthmus also analyzed all 122 opinions regarding criminals by the 2nd District in 2016, 2017 and 2018 — the three full years both Neubauer and Hagedorn served.

(About a third of the court’s cases result in opinions; the rest are resolved through other means, including summary dispositions.)

Of these opinions, 44 were issued by panels that included both Neubauer and Hagedorn. They disagreed just twice: the aforementioned drunken driving fine and a 2016 ruling involving convicted murderer Jeffrey C. Denny. Neubauer and another judge said Denny was entitled to test crime scene items “at private or public expense.” Hagedorn, in dissent, said Denny had not met the standard for publicly funded testing but could do so at private cost under precedent law.

The state Supreme Court’s conservative majority later cited Hagedorn’s analysis in ditching its precedent ruling, deny-

due to a faulty jury instruction; and ruled that the standard had not been met for ordering a man convicted of possessing child porn to pay restitution to the child’s mother. Hagedorn also, as a sole judge, overturned a termination of parental rights that was based on a single conviction, not “a pattern of abusive behavior,” as the law requires.

Besides being in the majority on the Denny case, Neubauer was on a panel that ordered a sentencing reconsideration for a man convicted of causing a death while driving after license revocation. And she and Hagedorn joined in a 2017 ruling that a circuit court erred in suppressing evidence that a fatal crash was caused by a seizure and not the use of drugs.

That makes just eight opinions in which Neubauer and Hagedorn sided at least in part with convicted criminals. Add in their fellow District 2 judges, Mark Gundrum and Paul Reilly, and the total is nine, or about 7 percent of the 122 opinions. In several cases, the judges overturned lower court rulings in defendants’ favor.

Dean Strang, a prominent local defense attorney, is not surprised by these findings. “It’s a court that in my view routinely,

and with little apparent critical analysis, affirms the status quo and looks for reasons to excuse errors as harmless [and] for technicalities on which to uphold unreliable convictions,” he says. “The next time I see a well-reasoned, inspiring or courageous ruling out of District 2 will be the first time.”

The 2nd District and other state appeals courts, Strang notes, handle a large number of cases relative to the state Supreme Court, which also has more jurists, and deliver “rapid, assembly-line justice.”

Strang points to the 2013 decision, by a District 2 panel including Neubauer, which spent just two pages analyzing before rejecting Brendan Dassey’s effort to disallow the confession he gave as a 16-year-old in the murder case involving his uncle (and Strang’s client) Steven Avery.

That confession later spurned international outrage when the Netflix series Making a Murderer provided a glimpse into how it was obtained. A three-judge federal court panel later deemed the District 2 court’s ruling “objectively unreasonable,” but this determination was narrowly overturned when the full court took the case.

The general antipathy shown by Neubauer and Hagedorn toward lawbreakers in no way ensures they won’t be portrayed in campaign ads as criminal-coddling menaces to society. In the last Supreme Court race, in which liberal Dallet trounced conservative Michael Screnock, both sides aired messages to this effect.

For instance, the business lobby group Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce has spent nearly $7 million since 2007 on such ads, even through crime isn’t on its nine-item list of areas of concern. WMC’s soft-on-crime messaging is meant solely to scare voters into picking justices who will, say, side with companies over injured consumers.

Asked what “distinguishes you [from your opponent] in terms of the legal analysis you apply and the decisions you reach on cases?” Hagedorn’s campaign said he is “an originalist and a textualist” in interpreting the law while “Judge Neubauer has never described herself that way.” It added: “The biggest differences in the cases they have decided together arise when Judge Neubauer’s sense of justice is violated. In those cases, she is more willing to exercise judicial power to achieve her version of a just result.” The sole example given was the Denny case.

Neubauer’s campaign, which proclaims in its literature that Hagedorn has “a deeply partisan history and an ideological agenda,” responded to the same question as follows: “As a sitting judge, it would not be appropriate for Chief Judge Neubauer to comment on the court’s cases, and particularly those in which she and her opponent have disagreed.”

But, Neubauer stressed, “I don’t come to any decision with an outcome in mind, an agenda or any ideology.” n

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BY HOWARD HARDEE David Hoffert is the president of the Dudgeon-Monroe Neighborhood Association, a trainer at Epic, and a regular volunteer for Wisconsin Public Television. Born and raised in Madison, he earned a master’s degree in public policy from Stanford University, where he “witnessed a society that was truly breaking down due to inequality” in the San Francisco Bay Area. And now he’s watching his own district develop quickly, wary that the same inequalities are emerging here.

“We’re clearly going down the road of a tech economy that’s great for upper-middle class white people and awful for others,” Hoffert says. “I don’t want us to go down that road.”

Hoffert is running for the open District 13 Common Council seat, along with Tag Evers, Lee Lazar and Justin Kirchen. The district includes the Monona Bay neighborhood, sections of the Greenbush neighborhood, and parts of the South Park Street and Monroe Street corridors on the near west side. The seat is now held by Allen Arntsen, who was appointed last summer but pledged not to run for election.

The top two vote-getters in the Feb. 19 primary will move on to the general election in April.

Isthmus reached out to all the candidates to discuss their priorities and experience.

Kirchen did not respond to interview requests. A primary concern among the candidates who responded is the city’s booming population and what it means for a range of issues, from transit to social equity.

Hoffert is a proponent of high-density housing and “responsible in-fill development.” He would prioritize the building of affordable housing and “smart development” in traditional neighborhoods. He would also address racial inequities by evaluating police practices, increasing economic mobility, and listening to resident concerns.

Lazar is an insurance agent who is seeking to provide some stability in a district that has seen a lot of turnover on the council. He, too,

is concerned with managing Madison’s growth to ensure there “is equality and opportunity for everyone,” and advocates for a renewed commitment to affordable housing. “We are a growing city,” he says. “The issues of density and additional population are not issues, they are inevitabilities, and managing that responsibly is the number one thing I talk about.”

Housing promises to be a controversial matter in the Bay Creek neighborhood, specifically where a proposed 58-unit permanent supportive housing facility on South Park Street may begin construction this year. More generally, Lazar considers the housing shortage an all-hands-on-deck situation.

“Any chance we have to create incentives for developers to offer more affordable housing, and also more publicly available parking, we should advocate for those opportunities,” he says.

He supports another controversial project, the proposed football stadium at Edgewood High School, based on the demand of existing sports facilities — unlike Evers, who strongly opposes it. Evers is a concert promoter and activist who describes “pulling out the little bit of hair I have left” during President Trump’s 2016 election, then deciding that “getting involved in politics at the local level is where it’s at.” He’s a first-time candidate who’s calling for a “moon-shot sense of urgency” on housing, transit, and preparing for the “probability of catastrophic, 100-year floods.”

Evers also identifies racial equity as one of Madison’s top problems, decrying the city’s racial and economic segregation. Like Hoffert and Lazar, he believes a rapid growth spurt like the one projected for Madison — 70,000 new residents by 2040 — will squeeze out people already struggling to afford living in the city.

“We have profound problems with homelessness,” he says. “We have some of the lowest vacancy rates in the country. The solution has to be more nuanced than build, build, build, because if you let the market do as it chooses, you only get luxury apartments. … So, we have to come up with creative and bold solutions.” n

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She supports the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) model under consideration by city officials, for example. She also would encourage community involvement in developments and encourage a culture in public spaces that is inclusive and welcoming. Without action on those Veterans are at an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease. fronts, Jenkins says, disadvantaged groups will only fall further behind as the city’s popuThe goal of the BRAVE Study is to find out if a lation grows: “We need to work collectively to prescription-strength dose of fish oil can stop or delay maintain strong and diverse communities.” early brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Such matters also preoccupy Williams, who works with Jenkins as the secretary for the Lake Edge Neighborhood Association. He’s a ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS: social justice advocate who is making equity • Veterans aged 50-75 years old his central message. He’s worked on cam• No clinical diagnosis of a memory disorder paigns for Common Council and state attor• Parent with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia ney, general and currently works as campaign manager of Community Shares of Wisconsin.

Williams promises to focus on “equitable, NUMBER OF VISITS AND LENGTH OF STUDY: sustainable and reliable” public transportaNine in-person visits spread over 18 months at the William S. Middleton tion and “bringing a community-centered Memorial Veterans Hospital and the University of Wisconsin in approach to our public safety problems.”

He also supports BRT, as well as increasing Madison, WI. You will receive up to $150 for your time. transit routes in underserved areas and fully restoring Metro Transit’s paratransit service, If you are interested in participating in this study, which was outsourced to contractors last year due to changes in state funding. contact Elena Beckman at elena.beckman@va.gov or Foster has worked in education and health 608-256-1901 (ext. 11199). care, and hass become involved in advocacy and public service as a member of the Pedestrian, Bicycle and Motor Vehicle Commission and president of Madison Bikes.

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streets that don’t accommodate motorists alone and more bike path connectivity. He would also work to reduce energy consumption in transportation and other sectors.

“The best ways to do that would be through mass transit, and active transportation like walking and biking,” he says.

“There’s a really good opportunity in Madison, I think, to double our bike mode share, from 5 percent to 10 percent.”

He identifies the implementation of the Milwaukee Street Special Area Plan (approved by the council on Dec. 4) as a specific challenge looming in the months and years ahead for his district. He’d like to encourage more involvement from residents in those big, neighborhood-shaping decisions. As a council member, Foster says he would help the people of District 15 — and Madison — feel like they have a voice, not like “decisions are being made ahead of time and separate from public feedback.” n

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A little gridlock in government can be a beautiful thing.

Certainly, that’s not always true. At the federal level, gridlock is proving tremendously destructive. President Trump’s tantrum over a hateful and pointless border wall created the longest government shutdown in American history. Workers weren’t paid, irreplaceable national parks were damaged, and airports even started grounding flights.

At the state level, however, gridlock can be a little more benevolent. Wisconsin’s government doesn’t shut down if a budget agreement can’t be reached. The state simply continues to operate under the old budget because government shutdowns are ridiculous. And now, with the end of eight long years of one-party Republican rule, it will be much harder for the state to steamroll local governments and their citizens.

For nearly a decade, the Legislature rocketed through one far-right piece of legislation after another. Those bills then hit the desk of Gov. Scott Walker, who happily signed almost every bill into law. Some of the biggest losers in these bills were city and county governments, as the state regularly overruled local governments — particularly Madison, Milwaukee and rural counties in the northern part of the state that dared to care a little too much about protecting natural resources.

From 2011 to April 2018, Republicans passed 180 different measures that either limited local control or acted as an unfunded mandate on local governments. These measures ranged from restricting employment protections to the outright banning

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Re: “Madison’s black pioneers” (1/24/2019): My thanks to Muriel Simms for her book, Settlin. I, too, am a native Madisonian and grew up in a neighborhood rich with history. My grandparents are William and Anna Mae Miller (pictured above). They settled on East Dayton Street at the turn of the century and were followers and friends of W.E.B DuBois who frequented their home when he visited Madison. Their story and others are part of “Stoney The Road,” the celebrations and struggles of Madison’s early African American pioneers. The collection includes photos and documents.

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of regional transit authorities. Do you know what Dane County could do with a regional transit authority? Just imagine all the communities in the area working together on funding and planning public transportation. We could get more bus routes from the suburbs to Madison, reducing the cars on the Beltline and on the isthmus.

Outside of the immediately visible impacts, these attacks on local control were incredibly demoralizing. Community coalitions, city or county committees, and other partners often worked for years to get a new ordinance just right. These were rarely decisions made lightly or without copious amounts of data. Yet, after finally passing local policy, years of work could get erased in a hastily introduced budget amendment. Actions like that discourage civic participation.

It’s not as if the attacks on local control were a one-and-done deal either. Laws that gave more power to landlords and weakened tenant rights went into effect in 2011. And 2012. And 2014. And 2016. And 2018. For groups like the Tenant Resource Center, these constant changes in state law required frequent revisions to their educational materials and a near-perpetual retraining of staff. It is an exhausting and demoralizing cycle — mobilize to fight bill; watch those efforts fail; work through the fallout of the bill. Repeat.

That’s why a little gridlock can be a beautiful thing. With Gov. Tony Evers holding a veto pen, it will be harder for the Legislature’s attacks on local control to become law. For the next four years, local governments and community coalitions are in the driver’s seat when it comes to creating policy. With state government slowed, progress and innovation will

instead come from city councils, county boards and school boards.

That’s not to say things will be easy.

Tight revenue limits make it difficult to pay for anything too ambitious and the 180 measures attacking local control still stand. Evers can’t snap his fingers, à la Thanos, and make the ban on regional transit authorities go away.

But, operating within those fiscal and legal restrictions, it’s time for local communities to take charge and create positive change. Without constantly being on the defensive, communities have time to work on finding creative solutions for the issues that matter to them — affordable housing, equitable communities, climate change.

Local policymakers will play a big role in shaping these changes, which makes the spring elections exciting. With the primary on Feb. 19 and the general election on April 2, communities throughout Wisconsin will elect new leaders. Here in Madison, there is a full slate: contested races include the mayor’s office, three school board seats, and 11 of the 20 Common Council seats. Excitingly, almost all of the council races are for open seats, meaning they are truly competitive races. Local government has an opportunity to again create real change and, with these elections, citizens have an opportunity to change local government.

Local governments with new faces and ideas, unencumbered by a micromanaging and overbearing state government — what a concept. While the national news remains depressing and disconcerting, it is an exciting and hopeful time for democracy in neighborhoods and communities. n

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Re: Off the Square” (1/24/2019): Just legalize it period. Partial [marijuana] legalization would only cost the taxpayers more money.

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Re: “Tell All: Privileged millennial sneers at the rich” (1/28/2019): LOL. Madison has always had affluent or solidly middle class [people] doing all their shopping at used clothing stores, trying to look as if they’ve got hard knocks.

— Ro Rosenkranz, via Facebook I’m more creeped out that this man is obsessed with a girl young enough to be his daughter and can’t stop talking about her body and tattoos.

— Violet Lin, via Facebook Just STOP with the millennial hate and get off your high horse. You don’t hear them bitching about baby boomers and about the ruined economy. There are shit people in the world, and the date you were born doesn’t dictate that.

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n October 2017, Kathy Oriel opened a private medical practice in a converted Taco Bell on Madison’s west side. It’s a small operation — Oriel has just one full-time employee, a nurse. When they’re not helping patients, they’re cleaning, doing laundry and maintaining the building. “I’m super lucky — she’s far better with a drill than I am,” Oriel says.

A family doctor who specializes in treating LGBTQ patients, Oriel spent 20 years at UW Health before striking out on her own. It was a professional and economic risk, and her reasoning is complicated. But above all, she wanted to provide the best possible care for her transgender and gender-nonconforming patients in a more private and supportive space.

“Very few people like medical settings,” Oriel says, and transgender patients are particularly vulnerable — studies have shown they frequently experience discrimination when seeking health care. This is linked to trans people postponing medical care, and they have much higher rates of HIV infection, smoking, drug and alcohol use, and suicide attempts compared to the general population. Some report being denied care or insurance coverage due to their transgender status. “I sit there and I listen to these stories, and I’m like, ‘You are so resilient, and you have been through so much,’” Oriel says. “[Medical providers] need to do everything you can to keep folks feeling safe in that conversation about their health.”

Oriel also left UW Health over disagreement about medical coding — the system that serves as a universal language for clinicians, health care organizations, billing departments and insurance companies.

“Diagnostic codes can carry a lot of stigma,” she says.

While being transgender is no longer considered a mental illness, health care providers still use medical codes including “gender dysphoria” or “gender identity disorder” to indicate visits for gender-related care from patients across the TNBGNC — transgender, nonbinary and gendernonconforming — spectrum. Gender dysphoria is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as “the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one’s experienced or expressed gender and one’s assigned gender.”

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Fear of discrimination is linked to transgender people delaying or avoiding medical care.

Dr. Kathy Oriel, right, opened her own private clinic to better serve this vulnerable population.

But not all transgender people experience gender dysphoria.

“A patient of mine, who is witty, says: ‘I’m not gender dysphoric, I’m gender euphoric!’” Oriel says. “It was so lovely. I told her that even though I was told to use that [code], I could change the wording on her chart.”

In a document explaining gender-related codes to patients, UW Health acknowledges that the language should be updated.

But beyond semantics, medical codes can dictate whether a patient’s health care is covered by insurance. Procedures can be coded several ways, covered in some cases but not in others.

This can affect cisgender patients, but it’s of particular concern for those seeking gender-affirming care — things like gender reassignment surgery and hormone replacement therapy. Despite widespread agreement among medical professionals that this treatment is medically necessary, patients often must fight to get transition-related care reimbursed.

“Physicians are obligated to code truthfully,” Oriel says, but doctors also have discretion. She and a small group of UW Health physicians developed a system of coding for transgender and nonbinary patients. For example: A patient visiting to talk about high blood pressure, asks for a refill on their hormones during the appointment. A provider could enter the code and indicate gender dysphoria was part of the visit, but should they? “I did not feel it was appropriate to use the gender dysphoria code just because I happened to refill hormones,” she says. But the approach became a problem for the health system’s compliance department. Disagreeing with the institution’s interpretation and desiring greater flexibility in caring for her patients, Oriel launched her private practice.

“What I didn’t want to do was these mental machinations about what I should put on a bill,” Oriel says. “What the real focus should be is giving the best care to the person in front of me.”

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COVER STORY Health care is hardly the only arena 0where transgender people face discrimination, erasure and barriers to access.

The LGBTQ movement has achieved major victories, but these gains have disproportionately benefited cisgender individuals — those whose gender identity matches their natal sex. Trans people remain unprotected by federal civil rights laws when accessing housing, employment and public accommodations. Antitrans animus is common among conservatives and the religious right — and even some liberals. The Obama administration advanced protections based on gender identity, but the Trump administration quickly reversed course, rescinding protections for transgender students and banning transgender people from serving in the military.

These developments are deeply troubling for sj Miller, an internationally known gender identity educator and social justice activist who works as a faculty assistant at UW-Madison’s School of Education. “I’m worried sick,” says Miller, who is transgender. “You talk about hope, but I’m scared. [The Trump administration’s policies on gender identity] are going to open up this maelstrom of possibilities for putting prejudice back into practice.”

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law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity, some states and municipalities are enacting their own policies. Twenty states and Washington, D.C., have explicit legal protections for gender identity; other states have expanded existing sex-based anti-discrimination laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

Wisconsin was once a leader in LGBTQ legal protections, becoming in 1982 the first state in the nation to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. But as other states have extended legal protections to transgender people, Wisconsin hasn’t followed suit. Of the states that protect sexual orientation, only Wisconsin and Indiana do not cover gender identity.

Still, the state is making progress. In July 2018, a federal judge in Madison ordered the state to cover transition surgery for two Medicaid recipients. In August of that same year, the state insurance board voted to lift a ban on coverage for transgender health care for state employees.

For his first executive order, Gov. Tony Evers protected state employees from harassment and discrimination based on gender identity.

“The LGBTQ community — and particularly transgender individuals — has come under attack in recent years in Wisconsin, and the progress our state had made toward equality has been threatened,” says Evers’ spokesperson Melissa Baldauff. “This executive action sends a

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strong message about this administration’s commitment to affirming the dignity of every Wisconsinite.”

State Rep. Mark Spreitzer (D-Racine) co-authored a 2017 bill that would have added gender identity to Wisconsin’s antidiscrimination law. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on marriage equality, Spreitzer sees legal protection for transgender people as “the frontline of the fight right now.” “[Wisconsin needs] to come back and catch up on this issue,” says Spreitzer, one of the few openly gay members of the Legislature. “We need to make sure we are protecting the most vulnerable.”

Spreitzer’s bill went nowhere in the Republican-controlled Legislature. But he plans to re-introduce a “comprehensive nondiscrimination bill” and is in the process of drafting additional measures aimed at reducing the “everyday burdens” that transgender people face; this includes legislation that would make it easier to update official documents, state-issued identification cards and driver’s licenses to reflect a person’s correct gender.

He’s optimistic, noting that two sessions ago, progressives were fighting a GOP bill that would have required public school students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the gender they were assigned at birth. “Now we’re kind of at that pivot point, going from playing defense to moving proactively on increasing protection.”

Although Wisconsin’s nondiscrimination law does not mention gender identity, the term does appear elsewhere in state statute. The first and only mention of

gender identity as a protected class was a 2015 law regulating transportation network companies (ride-hailing platforms like Uber and Lyft). The language, which is in line with the companies’ own nondiscrimination policies, didn’t raise red flags with GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin — the bill passed with bipartisan support.

Spreitzer says he and other LGBTQ lawmakers noticed the language, but it wasn’t discussed as the bill made its way through the process. “We were like, ‘Okay, let’s let this fly under the radar,’” he recalls. “We’re not going to stand up and make floor speeches. We don’t want to risk that getting stripped out. I don’t know how many Republicans realized they were voting for that.”

IN THE ABSENCE OF STATE law, cities and counties across Wisconsin have adopted municipal ordinances banning gender identity discrimination.

Madison’s policy is one of the broadest in the state, prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations. Verona, Sun Prairie, De Pere, Cudahy, Appleton, Janesville, Racine and Milwaukee also have ordinances.

Megin McDonell, executive director of LGBTQ advocacy organization Fair Wisconsin, says her organization helps city leaders craft ordinances that will be “as defensible as possible.” Similar to the fight for marriage equality, she sees local ordinances as part of “a steady, concerted, strategic effort” to advance rights for transgender people until a state-level law — or better yet, a federal law — is passed.

“That’s where the movement is going with discrimination protections,” she says.

“It’s the next frontier.”

McDonell says “it’s not a radical or cutting-edge thing to have these protections — it’s pretty basic human rights.”

But some religious groups, like Wisconsin Family Action, have fought the ordinances.

Last February, a group of churches and a Christian-owned radio station sued the city of De Pere, challenging its gender identity antidiscrimination law. In December, a judge in Brown County ruled that churches are exempt from the ordinance, finding that religious organizations should be free to hire employees who align with the organization’s beliefs.

Casey Nelson, the De Pere city council member who introduced the measure, says the ordinance is clear that churches are not considered to be places of public accommodation — so they are exempt from it anyway. He says the impact of the ruling remains to be seen, but he believes the ordinance will remain intact.

De Pere’s ordinance was controversial, stalling once in council and passing in November 2017 thanks to a tie-breaking vote from Mayor Mike Walsh. Nelson says much of the opposition was voiced online, and the majority had to do with fear over allowing transgender people access to bathrooms that correspond to their identity. “That was the big one — people saying there’s going to be all these assaults and crimes,” Nelson says.

“It’s kind of ridiculous.” A recent study found no link between transgender-inclusive bathroom policies and incidence of crime. To the contrary, transgender

people are disproportionately affected by violent assault.

The ordinance, Nelson says, “is not special treatment — it’s just equality.”

School districts across the state are also adopting gender-inclusive policies.

Brian Juchems, co-director of GSAFE, a Madison-based organization that advocates for LGBTQ youth, says nearly 230 districts have approved gender-inclusive language in their nondiscrimination policies. It’s a good start, he says, but many of the districts with such policies in place still have not established guidelines for implementation. For example, schools with gender-inclusive nondiscrimination policies may still have a procedural rule in place requiring parental permission before students can use their preferred name or their appropriate pronouns.

“That feels pretty discriminatory,” Juchems says. “It’s setting up a standard that only applies to trans students.”

Some districts fear stirring up controversy, and for good reason — religious and conservative groups often respond to displays of trans inclusion at schools with lawsuits. In 2017, the Mount Horeb Primary School canceled a reading of I Am Jazz, a book about a transgender girl, after threats from the Liberty Counsel, an anti-LGBT organization classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“Right now is when a lot of law is being made that is going to define the scope of transgender rights for a long time.”

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“The 7th Circuit isn’t necessarily known as a bastion of progressive thinking,” says Larry Dupuis, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin. “But it’s been actually, for quite some time, at least periodically good on LGBT rights issues.”

Each of the 13 federal appeals courts wield great power and influence. The U.S. Supreme Court reviews less than 2 percent of the more than 7,000 petitions it receives each year, so the appellate courts are almost always the final arbiter of federal cases.

Of the 11 judges who make up the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, nine were nominated by Republicans. Despite the court’s conservative majority, it has often been a championed for LGBTQ rights.

In 2018, a three-judge panel of 7th Circuit judges ruled in favor of Marsha Wetzel, a lesbian senior citizen who was targeted for harassment and violence from residents in her assisted living facility based on her sex and sexual orientation.

Wetzel v. Glen St. Andrew Living Community established that landlords may be held liable under the Fair Housing Act if they fail to protect a tenant from other tenants.

The previous year, the 7th Circuit ruled in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College that discrimination based on sexual orientation violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Also in 2017, the 7th Circuit’s decision in Whitaker v. School District of Kenosha brought a landmark victory for transgender legal protections. Plaintiff Ash Whitaker, a transgender boy, successfully sued after being denied access to male-designated restrooms.

Art Leonard, a law professor at New York University and executive editor of the LGBT Law Notes journal, says the 7th Circuit’s liberal rulings on LGBTQ rights are vestiges from when judges remained independent of partisan politics.

“The divisions of the court around LGBT issues don’t seem to be based on the politics of the presidents who appointed the judges,” Leonard says. “Or at least, not the judges who were appointed by Republican presidents prior to the turn of the century.”

“The process has become much more politicized,” Leonard adds.

LGBTQ legal advocates hope that transgender people will continue to secure legal protections in the courts.

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“I think schools are not always clear about what they’re supposed to do,” Juchems says. He says the Trump administration’s rollback of protections for transgender students — including rescinding an Obama policy that allowed students to use the bathroom of their choice — has caused more confusion.

“Sometimes schools are fearful of somebody being upset from the community, or overly concerned about what they can legally do or not do.”

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One of the biggest questions in many of these cases is the legal defi nition of the word sex. A host of statutes — including the Affordable Care Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 — prohibit sex-based discrimination. But does the concept of sex include a gender identity that differs from a person’s sex assigned at birth? “How particular courts interpret that word will likely have farreaching impacts on many different areas of law,” Diedrich says. “It’s likely too that a ruling in one particular context — like health care — about what ‘sex’ means would likely be persuasive to a court down the road in an employment or education context.”

Even with rising partisanship in the judiciary, LGBTQ advocates were, as recently as last spring, optimistic about the prospect of a landmark Supreme Court victory for transgender rights. But the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy — a crucial swing vote who sided with the court’s liberals on several LGBTQ rights decisions — changed everything.

On Jan. 22, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an unsigned 5-4 ruling that allowed the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military service to go into effect. There are a number of other cert petitions — requests for a SCOTUS ruling from parties that lost in lower courts — dealing with trans rights.

With recent rulings from appeals courts on trans issues deviating from older decisions, Leonard believes the time is ripe for SCOTUS to establish a nationwide decision.

But with the new makeup of the court, advocates are apprehensive. In future terms, he anticipates advocates will avoid the U.S. Supreme Court — which means being willing to take losses at courts of appeal. “We’ve got to work on the Legislature,” he says, “and persuade them that this is an issue that shouldn’t be political.”

WHEN ORIEL’S CLINIC flooded during last summer’s heavy rains, she wondered if the universe was giving a sign that her private practice was a bad idea. But after posting about the damage on social media, she was amazed by the response from her patients. “We literally had people not just calling, but showing up to help,” she says.

Cass Dowling, a transgender woman who has been a patient of Oriel’s since 2001, isn’t surprised by the devotion she inspires. Dowling transitioned under Oriel’s care 11 years ago and now the pair work together to educate health care providers on best practices for treating the trans community. “I probably would not be alive if it was not for Dr. Oriel,” Dowling says. “She really gave me hope.”

After the flooding, Oriel moved her practice to a temporary space on University Avenue. In addition to seeing patients, she’s raising money to move the practice into a permanent home — someplace that has “all the things our patients deserve — like sinks,” she says with a laugh.

Oriel’s story is an example of how allies can make progress by pushing for justice and inclusion while institutions are still catching up. Despite the struggles, she has no regrets. “It has been absolutely moving and humbling just to feel like I’m part of this community,” she says. “It really is amazing.” ■

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Laub, a UW alum, was shooting freelance photography for Spin magazine in 2002 when the publication received a letter from a Mount Vernon high school student pleading for someone to chronicle her town’s segregation practices. The high school was integrated, with black and white students freely mingling and even dating, but area tradition required the school to hold two separate proms each spring — one for black couples and one for white couples.

White couples could attend the black prom, but black or mixed-race couples could not attend the white prom. Should they try they would be stopped at the door and threatened with arrest for “trespassing.”

The large format photos on display chronicle those proms and their participants’ preparation. Well-dressed young people — both black and white — populate the pictures, but no one is smiling. Instead

they look back at the lens with fear, accusation, frustration and sadness.

The 42 images are accompanied by 30 supporting objects, including high school yearbooks and a class writing assignment in which a student expressed her frustration over the proms. Her teacher replied that a high school principal who had staged an integrated prom in 1995 did not have his contract renewed.

Laub’s work resulted in a photo essay in The New York Times Magazine in 2009 and an HBO documentary, which the Chazen will screen on April 16 at Union South’s Marquee Theater. In 2009, the high school finally combined its proms.

Sadly, that is not the end of the story.

In 2011, 22-year-old Justin Patterson and his brother Sha’von, two young black men, were invited for a late-night visit to the home of Danielle, a biracial

young woman being raised by her uncle, a 62-year-old white man, Norman Neesmith. Danielle was there with her friend Brittany. Neesmith awoke, grabbed a handgun from his nightstand, and hustled the young men into the living room.

“I could kill you and no one would know,” Neesmith allegedly told the young men. They ran, and he fired four times, killing Justin as he fled.

A black cove within the Chazen exhibit shows a moody video behind a recording of Neesmith’s 911 call reporting the incident.

“I hate to say it, but I shot him,” Neesmith says to the dispatcher with a nervous laugh. “It was just a black boy.”

Laub knew Justin Patterson personally from the project. His murder, for which Neesmith served one year in a probationary facility, brings a frightening close to the exhibit, which runs through May 25. ■

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ood photos tell compelling stories of the people, places and actions they capture. Southern Rites, photographer Gillian Laub’s chronicle of modern-day segregation in Mount Vernon, Georgia, succeeds in all categories.

But Laub’s exhibit, which opened a semester-long run Jan. 24 at the Chazen Museum of Art on the UW-Madison campus, goes a step further. Her work, resulting from more than a decade of visits to the town 150 miles south of Atlanta, carries its own narrative arc. It’s a story characterized by success and tragedy, giving Laub’s powerful images a profound impact.

“This is a great blend of visuals paired with complex, deepening storytelling,” says Amy Gilman, the Chazen’s director and the one responsible for bringing the exhibit to Madison. “The origin story is completely happenstance.”

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Madison-area parents who’ve enrolled their children in classes at Children’s Theater of Madison (CTM) or Madison Youth Choirs know the drill. Theater classes and rehearsals for CTM take place in more than a dozen rented spaces around the city, from abandoned offices to church basements. And singers are delivered to Madison Youth Choirs’ cramped, windowless studios at the dying Westgate mall.

By fall 2020, that will change dramatically, thanks to a strong partnership between the two nonprofits and a gift from Madison’s arts angel, Pleasant T. Rowland, who has pledged $20 million toward the building of the Madison Youth Arts Center.

The newly formed nonprofit will launch a capital campaign to raise another $10 million.

“We’ve always included [Rowland] in our dreams and visions,” says Roseann Sheridan, CTM’s artistic director. “Youth is her passion, and arts are her passion. This gift will be so transformative to Madison and Dane County and beyond.”

The 65,000 square foot center is planning to break ground in April. It will be part of a mixed-use development on East Mifflin Street, across from Lapham School, and will include parking, rehearsal studios, shared work spaces, classrooms, offices and performance spaces, including a state-of-the-art 300-seat theater.

Sheridan says the facility has been a long time in the making. “Lots of people in the community have been talking about the need for space and the need for inclusive, welcoming, affordable, versatile space,” says Sheridan.

“One of the things we realized we were really looking at was how important space was — to our own survival, really.”

Allen Ebert, CTM’s managing director, says CTM has been strained by operating out of so many different locations. “We would form these wait lists for some of our programs,” says Ebert. “I would have to find another landlord, another building, and we just couldn’t react fast enough. Turning youth away is sad to me.” Ebert often spent a month seeking a space large enough to rehearse

A Christmas Carol, the company’s annual holiday show.

Lynn Hembel, managing director of Madison Youth Choirs, says her organization is also challenged by location. “We are on the second floor of the Westgate Mall,” says Hembel, who notes the many vacant storefronts there. The site “does not reflect at all the magic that happens inside the space,” she adds. There is no place for parents to observe rehearsals, and large choirs have to be broken into smaller groups. “Our space currently constrains our ability to add programming.

To have access to space that’s specifically designed for the work that we do is just unbelievably exciting to us,” she says.

Sheridan says she first visited the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center at least a decade ago, and wants young people in Madison to have the similar opportunities. “There were kids coming in — different ethnicities, different races. One’s carrying a violin, one’s carrying some dance shoes, one’s carrying sheet music, one’s carrying a script,” says Sheridan. “It’s so exciting to see them all coming into the same physical space, going into their own practice rooms for their own particular chosen discipline, but then being curious about somebody else’s work.”

The new center will also open its doors to other organizations that need space. “It’s a rich experience to just have a great space where kids can come and do CTM or MYC, but it’s even richer and more exciting if there are sporadic users,” says Sheridan.

Sheridan emphasizes that a facility is a positive step for Madison, but won’t solve Madison’s arts disparities. “I don’t think we can sit back and say if we build it they will come,“ says Sheridan, adding that a diverse group of young people has been invited into the design process with an eye toward building inclusivity.

“I just hope that leadership at the state and city level steps up to see that arts are so vital to our economy, and especially starting with youth,” says Ebert. “We are creating the next generation of thinkers and innovators. We are in the business of helping them discover their world, and helping them discover themselves and become the best they can be.” ■

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It’s a surprise to me when a poet breaks through to some greater public consciousness. Mary Oliver’s recent death and the outpouring of appreciation for her work on Twitter and Facebook proves that a general readership does have a need for, even a thirst for, poetry. And it doesn’t hurt, these days, if lines from those poems make great Facebook posts or tweets. But it would be a shame if readers failed to look beyond that. Do we really want only poetry that would look good on a Successories poster?

Madison poet Marilyn Annucci’s work escapes the trap of easy Facebook quotability. Answers are not so easy to find in Annucci’s recent collection The Arrows That Choose Us (Press 53, 2018), yet the questions prove irresistible.

The title poem is no fortune-cookie-level message about fate, as it might be in lesser hands. Its urgency (“whatever is needed to tear us awake”) carries through the volume. The poems often look back to a simpler, pre-tech past. “Houdini Escapes the Time Capsule” whimsically reimagines the magician in our contemporary landscape, surrounded by technology and commerce, Walmarts and ATMs, “the need for escape even greater,” he thinks.

Even so, the past is often bittersweet, as in the beautiful “I was an ocean away,” a meditation on a long-ago summer abroad, again centered in a pre-tech past (“Nineteen and no e-mail, no Instant Message, no chat”). The speaker ponders the extent to which we ever reach others, despite all the ways we now have to be in touch.

“Wrecked World,” an extended metaphor based on doing the dishes, asks “Were you wrong to dredge it up?” — the “dangerous material, where the knives lie.” The dredging — the basis of this collection — while dangerous, is, ultimately, necessary.

Milwaukee poet DeWitt Clinton’s work has the ring of more straightforward narrative. His collection, At the End of the War (Kelsay Books, 2018), frequently turns to war, as the title suggests, but also to family history, paintings, and the imaginings of the doings of Biblical figures and the ancient Greeks.

These poems are rooted in history and tradition, but don’t always avoid flights of fancy — after all, the birthright of a poem. In “Job’s Comforters Fly Over Wisconsin,” the speaker is joined in his car by three advice-dispensing cranes, creating an unusual epiphany. And “On the Way to Church Camp, Mother Meets the Devil” is a folksy, rollicking tale.

Yet the overriding mood of the collection is dark, dominated by a long prose poem on the Holocaust. A companion poem of sorts, “Reading the Tao at Auschwitz,” is not without consolation, though — rooted in the healing power of nature: “Make the skies darken/Make the skies brighten/Let the living start to come back/Let it be a place of memory.” ■ Marilyn Annucci and DeWitt Clinton will read from their work at 6 p.m. on Feb. 1 at A Room of One’s Own.

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The sparkling opener was Domenico Cimarosa’s perky overture to his opera, Il matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage, 1792). The orchestra’s playing was strong, though I felt that the trumpets were a bit too loud in the balance.

The real musical substance was supplied in the program’s second half, which was devoted to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8.

Falling between the ingenious Seventh and the colossal Ninth, the Eighth can easily seem almost trivial. But maestro Andrew Sewell’s insightful performance set it in a fresh and refreshing light. The orchestra, now set free, really let go in following him.

This effectively is Beethoven’s whimsical spoof of Haydn’s symphonies, and of the composer’s own style. Careful listening reveals an enormous amount of humor and satire. Sewell not only made this clear, but created considerable excitement in the process.

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The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra opened its winter-spring series with a compact yet stimulating concert featuring a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1 — one of the greatest works for this instrument in the concerto repertoire. This work begins a stylistic procession through Victor Herbert (yes, he wrote cello concertos!) to Antonín Dvorák and Edward Elgar.

The Jan. 25 concert had an added novelty: The soloist, Miriam K. Smith, is all of 12 years old; she began cello studies at 4 and became a concert performer at 8. She is now an accomplished professional with pitch-perfect fluency and a confident stage presence. She plays from memory, and is obviously working deeply into the literature for her instrument.

But despite her prodigious talent, her performance was immature. This concerto is a bold and swashbuckling work, which her sweet and small-scale tone simply could not realize. The orchestra constantly had to pull back to avoid drowning her out. And she displayed little ability in phrasing. That lack of

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In the late 1960s, singer-songwriter Gram Parsons of the Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers came up with the concept of “cosmic American music,” a nebulous blend of country, rock, blues, soul and folk. This helped crystalize the influential resurgence of American roots music that eventually branched out into Southern rock, Midwestern heartland rock, indiefolk rock and alt-country.

Driveway Thriftdwellers, an Americana quintet with members based in both Madison and Milwaukee, started out in 2012 as a Flying Burrito Brothers cover band. That same genre-bending influence has made its way into the band’s original music, which sounds a bit like what might happen if Ryan Adams and Merle Haggard got snowed in together at a cabin up north.

The band’s self-titled sophomore album, released in November 2018, takes on a more rock ‘n’ roll sound than their debut, Cuttover Country. Guitarist and lead vocalist John Knudson creates catchy, narrative-driven songs inspired by love, loneliness and life on the road. Each one captures a tiny vignette — a train journey, an old flame, an encounter with a dental hygienist — enhanced by slick production and solid, artful playing from lead guitarist Kyle Rightley, bassist Aaron Collins, drummer Jon Storey and pedal steel player Ryan Knudson.

The album’s best song is buried right in the middle of the track list. “Escanaba” is a joyful, twangy cowboy number that wouldn’t sound out of place in a southern roadhouse — except for the fact that it

references a town in eastern Michigan.

Album opener “King of Milwaukee” adds to the sense of Midwestern identity (and creates an earworm chorus), using the city as an anchor as Knudson sings about wanderlust.

The interplay between lead, rhythm and pedal steel guitars gives glorious texture to “Snow Ghosts and Alpenglow” and “Lonelier than Me.” On slower numbers,“Grandpa’s Tattoos” and “This Might Hurt A Little Bit,” the pedal steel adds gorgeous countermelodies accented by a tight rhythm section.

The band owns its driving rock sound on “Bad News,” a song with a guitar riff that gives off strong Lynyrd Skynyrd vibes.

In a way, this is country music for people who might not like country — or maybe they don’t realize they like it yet.

Upbeat and anodyne, vintage-feeling but somehow fresh and current, this is music that calls for cold drinks and warm nights. Driveway Thriftdwellers return to Madison April 26 for the Spring String Fling at the High Noon Saloon. ■

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BY REID KURKEREWICZ The atomic bomb upended life on Earth in the second half of the 20th century. Yet even as the U.S. arsenal ages and fears mount about nukes in the hands of North Korea and Iran, the apocalyptic technology doesn’t generate the same public reaction that it did at the height of the Cold War. Perhaps a new century requires a new approach. Organizers of the Feb. 5 Union South screening of the 2016 experimental documentary The Bomb seek to place nuclear weapons back in the popular psyche.

Co-directed by filmmaker Smriti Keshari, the project collages megatons of media, presenting a mesmerizing testimony to the technology’s awesome power. The Bomb is organized thematically: Cold War-era tutorials on keeping tidy homes to guard against fireballs give way to irradiated bodies painted by Hiroshima survivors. The film opens with military marches, which appear quaint in comparison to humankind’s harnessing of atomic power.

“The film shows an idyllic America that thinks it is prepared to survive a nuclear attack with little real consequences,” says Tara Drozdenko, the managing director of the Outrider Foundation, a group that seeks an end to the threats of nuclear war and climate change. “It kind of pulls back the veil of the lies that we live with every day.”

Drozdenko, who holds a doctorate in plasma physics, will moderate a conversation with Keshari; Rachel Bronson, president of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists; and Tom Weis, an assistant professor in the industrial design program at the Rhode Island School of Design.

The group will discuss artistic approaches to confronting the possibility of nuclear war.

Keshari drew inspiration for The Bomb from co-director Eric Schlosser’s 2009 book Command and Control, which digs into the history of accidental nuclear detonations and the flaws in the system designed to alert the U.S. of an incoming attack.

“There’s an entire system, processes, timing, and reasoning that led us to this

reality,” says Keshari. “In order to understand how we’ve gotten here, we must first recognize the emotions nuclear weapons evoke — their allure, their beauty, their construct, and the ultimate death wish at the heart of them.”

Keshari enlists minimalist electronica band The Acid to provide the eerie musical backdrop; the only other voices in the film are in archival clips.

The Bomb was first screened as a video installation, with the band playing live. Though the soundtrack is a highlight, in the most terrifying segments of the film, silence reigns.

THE BOMB While the Cold War is ostensibly over and disarmament treaties stand — for the moment, anyway — Drozdenko urges audiences to question their representatives on nuclear policy and crumbling infrastructure. She adds that the New START treaty between the U.S. and Russia will end in 2021, opening the possibility of an expansion in nuclear arsenals. Trump has already pulled out of the International Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which prevented the U.S. from constructing land-based ballistic missiles carrying nuclear bombs in a certain range.

“The status quo will remain until citizens make change a political priority,” says Drozdenko. “There isn’t anything out of our hands.” ■

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Steve Coogan, left, and John C. Reilly.

They had been partnered since the late 1920s, the final years of the silent era. But both worked professionally since 1910, Laurel primarily in British music halls, roughly equivalent to American vaudeville. He became the team’s writer/director brains. And Hardy?

By the time Laurel made his first movie in 1917, Hardy, an American, had already made more than 140 short subjects and a feature film.

The influence of that mismatch has never been accounted for. If nothing else, Stan & Ollie

A woman tries to raise money for an elementary school; the earliest existing feature by pioneering African American director Oscar Micheaux.

Melodrama/Melodiary: Mills Folly Microcinema: Three videos by George Kuchar. Arts + Literature Laboratory, Jan. 31, 7:30 pm.

Widows: Four women take care of the debts of their late husbands by continuing their criminal activities. Union South-Marquee, Feb. 1 (5:30 pm), Feb. 2 (8:30 pm), Feb. 3 (3 pm).

That Time I Got Reincarnated as Slime: Anime Club screening. Hawthorne Library, Feb. 1, 7 pm.

Detour: Restored version of director Edgar Ulmer’s classic film noir. UW Cinematheque, Feb. 1, 7 pm.

The Hate U Give: When her friend is killed by police, Starr must find the right path forward. Union South-Marquee, Feb. 1 (8:15 pm), Feb. 2 (5:30 pm), Feb. 3 (6 pm).

Kościuszko: A Man Before His Time: Polish Heritage Club documentary screening and exhibit. Ashman Library, Feb. 2, 10 am.

Rue de L’estrapade: The story of a mismatched race car driver (Louis Jourdan) and his wife (Anne Vernon). UW Cinematheque, Feb. 2, 7 pm.

Back Street: UW Cinematheque: A woman (Irene Dunne) agrees to be a married man’s mistress. Chazen Museum of Art, Feb. 3, 2 pm.

The Bomb: Screening of documentary about nuclear weapons, plus discussion. Union South-Marquee, Feb. 5, 7 pm. See story, left.

will hopefully spark an overdue critical assessment. The last and best commentary came in 1975, by Walter Kerr in his book, Silent Clowns.

The film relies on A.J. Marriot’s 1993 Laurel and Hardy: The British Tours. For the record, the arguments in Stan & Ollie are fiction. For example, the film exaggerates Laurel’s anger toward Harry Langdon — too briefly a silent film superstar. In private correspondence in 1962, Laurel called Langdon, “a very funny comedian, a great talent, I had great admiration for him, knew him very very well.”

Despite this creative license, there is great emotional honesty in the film. The love shared

by Laurel, Hardy and audiences in the dark comes across clearly.

Cook is delighted that great-grandfather Stan may be finding new audiences. “I think he would be very happy to see the younger generations bonding with the older to watch the films,” she says. “Without the younger generations around the world, their clean classic humor will sadly die. We need more love and kindness and family unity in this world.” ■

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Stan & Ollie, the film that was No. 1 at the box office in Great Britain, is being released in the U.S. gradually. As stated by critics elsewhere, Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly don’t just perform the iconic Laurel and Hardy roles; they uncannily inhabit them.

“We love the film,” says Cassidy Cook, Laurel’s great granddaughter, who Isthmus reached in Los Angeles, where she works in real estate investment and brokerage. “The new movie is a chance for people who never knew who Laurel and Hardy were to seek out their old films and learn how proprietary and revolutionary their comedy was, and how it has affected films and the industry to this day.”

The feature swings between Laurel and Hardy’s peak filmmaking years in the 1930s to the twilight of their careers, the last of several live tours of Great Britain. The 1953-54 visit would see their last-ever performances. In the film, illness and each partner’s resentments threaten to derail the tour, and perhaps even the team.

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I want to eat your pancreas: Coming-ofage anime tale. Point, Feb. 7, 7 pm (subtitled) and Feb. 10, 12:55 pm (dubbed).

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Power duo DJs Dillon Francis and Alison Wonderland team up for a co-headlining tour. Francis is based in L.A. and is known for fusing house music and reggaeton and producing huge Latin music releases. Australian Wonderland was No. 1 on the Billboard charts with her electro-pop, which earned her the highest-ever billing for a female DJ at Coachella. Florida-based DJ Diablo opens.

Art In Gallery: Mortality Play, Ren Edstrand, Cheyne Trost, The Bitter Nothings, 7 pm.

Bos Meadery: Tent Show Troubadours, donations, 7 pm.

Brink: Madison Red & the Band That Time Forgot, 8 pm.

Brix 340, Waunakee: Sam Ness, free, 7:30 pm.

Cafe Coda: Hanah Jon Taylor, John Schaffer & Matthew Endres, jazz, 8 pm.

Gates of Heaven: Karmen Stendler, classical guitar, 7:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Post Animal, Ron Gallo, Bunny, 8:30 pm.

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Clean Lakes Alliance’s midwinter party at the Edgewater combines free outdoor activities for all ages with ticketed, themed events to raise funds for the nonprofit.

This year’s Fat Bike Race (Friday, check-in 5:30 pm) and 5K (Saturday, check-in 9 am) were moved to alternate locations before the deep freeze, but are now back on Lake Mendota as originally scheduled. The Saturday night fundraiser theme is Carnaval. For complete details: cleanlakesalliance.org. More opportunities for outdoor fun include the UW Memorial Union Winter Carnival, Jan. 31-Feb. 2 (union. wisc.edu/wintercarnival), Winter Bike Week, Feb. 1-8 (madisonbikes.org), and Madison Winter Festival, Feb. 2-3, Elver Park (winter-fest.com; see story, page 4).

Ohio Tavern: Tony Castañeda Latin Jazz, free, 7 pm.

Tornado-Corral Room: Richard Shaten, 9 pm Thursdays.

Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, free, 9 pm Thursdays.

UW Memorial Union-Play Circle: Yves Tumor, DJ Speedsick, free, 9 pm.

THEATER & DANCE

Bos Meadery: Pleezer, Weezer tribute, donations, 7 pm.

Appliqué to Zardozi: A Celebration Sampler: 1/30-4/14, UW Nancy Nicholas Hall-Ruth Davis Design Gallery (reception 5-7 pm, 1/31). 262-8815.

Brix 340, Waunakee: Moxie, free, 7:30 pm.

Cafe Coda: John Mesoloras Trio, jazz, free, 5 pm; Orquesta SalSoul del Mad, 8 pm.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: Ken Wheaton, free, 6 pm.

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Chief’s: Frankie Lee, Chuck Bayuk & Tom Dehlinger, free, 6:30 pm.

MUSIC

Come Back In: Wood Chickens, free, 9:30 pm.

Common Ground, Middleton: Dark of the Moon, 6 pm.

Crescendo: Frances Luke Accord, J. Hardin, folk, 7 pm.

Drumlin Ridge Winery, Waunakee: Nick Matthews, free, 3:45 pm.

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: Sun Prairie Civic Theatre musical, 7:30 pm on 1/31-2/2 and 2 pm, 2/3, Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School, Sun Prairie. $16. 837-8217.

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First Unitarian Society: Noon Musicale, ViolMedium, 12:15 pm.

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A Serpent’s Tooth: A King Lear Musical: Are We Delicious? adaptation, 7:30 pm, 1/31 & 2/1-2, Bartell TheatreDrury Stage. $25. arewedelicious.com.

FRI., FEB. 1, HIGH NOON SALOON, 9 PM

Mythical Creatures: Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre short plays, 1/25-2/9, Bartell Theatre-Evjue Stage, at 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Sundays. $20. krasstheatre.com.

High Concept: 7 pm, 1/31, Nomad World Pub with Brittany Tilander, Carly Malison, Deon Green, David Louis, host Mike Jonjak. $5. vaultcomedy@gmail.com.

Chris D’Elia: 8 pm, 1/31, Orpheum Theater. 250-2600.

BOOKS

Nick Petrie: Discussing “Tear it Down,” new novel, 7 pm, 1/31, Mystery to Me. 283-9332. NOTE: Moved to 2/7.

Dr. Joshua Mezrich: Discussing “When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon,” new book, 7 pm, 1/31, Middleton Library. 283-9332.

No popular artist quite captures the tension between the heart’s desires and life’s logistics like this Nashville-born artist. On 2018’s Golden Hour, a best-of list darling, Musgraves tenderly extracts the shards of her past and present relationships, urging us to see our own romantic pasts reflected and refracted in brilliant light. Songs such as “Space Cowboy” are as devastating as they are revelatory. With Liza Anne. Sold out.

Bandung: DJs Diva D, Hysteria, free (includes buffet), 8:30 pm.

ART EXHIBITS & EVENTS

Heisenberg: Forward Theater Company: A kiss changes two lives, 7:30 pm on 1/31-2/2 and 2 pm, 2/2-3, Overture Center-Playhouse. $47-$20. 258-4141.

COMEDY

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Arts + Literature Lab: Lucas Kohler Combo, jazz, 8 pm.

Majestic: The Devil Makes Three, 8:30 pm. Sold out.

North Street Cabaret: T’Monde, 8 pm.

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Art In: Bent Antenna, Flavor Crystals, The Sunken Lands, 8 pm.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Jim Erickson, 6 pm Thursdays.

Mickey’s: Mal-O-Dua, French/Hawaiian, free, 5:30 pm.

Like a 1920s vaudeville show stuck in the Matrix, DJ Vourteque creates a wild neo-vintage dance experience showcasing the best in glitched-out electro swing. This party also features live burlesque and variety performances from Lady Lennox Antibiotix, Mercury Stardust-Deville and Luna Nyx; and DJs Mr. Automatic and Sloth Brigade.

Sam Ness

FRI., FEB. 1, NORTH STREET CABARET, 7 PM

Sauk City native Sam Ness visits Madison with a new EP. If this release is anything like his 2017 release, Whispered On The Wind, attendees are in for a sumptuous Hornsby-esque blend of Americana. The album’s title track melds blues, folk and gospel. It’s all combined with horns and choral arrangements, and anchored by Ness’ own hearty vocals. With Nate Meng & the Stolen Sea, Corey Mathew Hart.

A “holler” could refer to an Appalachian mountain valley, or perhaps the impassioned calls of fieldworkers. The Portland, Maine-based quartet Ghost of Paul Revere coined the term “holler folk” to describe their not-quite-bluegrass, not-quite-country sound. With beloved Minnesota blues-folk artist Charlie Parr; and Pat Ferguson.

Madtown Mannish Boys

FRI., FEB. 1, KNUCKLE DOWN SALOON, 8 PM

Celebrate the release of Live at the Knuckle Down Saloon with this bluesy Madison sextet. Helmed by the vocals of Andy Smith and Paul Schwoerer, who also plays the harmonica, MMB recalls the style of greats like Muddy Waters, injecting it with fresh vital-

High Noon Saloon: The Sundogs, free, 5 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Universal Sound, classic rock, 9 pm.

Majestic: Bianca Lynn Breeze, Karizma Mirage, Bryanna Banx$, Regina Lynn Taylor, Kayos Mirage, DJ Nick Nice, drag, 9 pm.

Mickey’s: The Apologists, Reverend Rectifier & His Sinners, 10 pm.

Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: QUEST, rock, 8 pm. Also Sat. Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Middleton: Robert J, free, 6 pm.

Tandem Press: UW Jazz Composers Group, Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble, free, 5 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Rathskeller: The North Westerns, 5 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall: Imani Winds, classical, 7:30 pm.

UW Union South-The Sett: Pat McCurdy, free, 6 pm.

VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Frank James, country, 7:30 pm.

Wil-Mar Center: Jim Barnard, Benjamin Scully, 7:30 pm.

The Wisco: Eric Paul, Riffs Poser, Miss Christine, rock, 9 pm.

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Hemisemidemiquavers

FRI., FEB. 1, BROOM STREET THEATRE, 8 PM

To open their 50th anniversary season, the folks at Madison’s iconic black box theater have put together six short plays. Each is about music in one way or another, but taken in completely different directions, some silly and some sublime. As directed by Doug Reed and Suzan Kurry, they’re sure to reveal vital truths about humanity’s most revelatory art form. If you haven’t had a Broom Street experience yet, you have nothing to lose: To celebrate the 50th anniversary, all shows are free. And you can carry in drinks.

ALSO: Saturday, Feb. 2, 8 pm. Through Feb. 9.

The Tillers

SAT., FEB. 2, UW MEMORIAL UNIONDER RATHSKELLER, 7:30 PM

The Cincinnati string band visits Madison off the heels of their 2018 self-titled album. Their first release since 2012 and 10 years after their debut, this album contains sweet anthems such as “Like a Hole in my Head” and bitter elegies such as “The Old General Store is Burning Down.” The best song on the album may be “All You Fascists Bound To Lose,” mining the rich reservoir of revolutionary folk. With Georgia Rae.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Angels & Outlaws, country, 9 pm.

Brink Lounge: Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, 8 pm.

Brix 340, Waunakee: Ryan Mauer, free, 7:30 pm.

Cafe Coda: Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, jazz, 8 pm.

Chocolaterian, Middleton: LuLu Quintet, Gypsy swing, 7 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Scott Ellison Band, blues/rock, 8 pm.

Come Back: Lackin’ Some Direction, Grateful Dead tribute, 9 pm.

Common Ground, Middleton: SlipJig, 7 pm.

Crucible: Order Of Unukalhai, Livid, Living Through Ghosts, Black Frost, 9 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: The Pine Travelers, Zoo Funk You, 9:30 pm.

Harmony Bar: Wurk, The Science Project, 9:45 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Bongzilla, Tubal Cain, Ruin Dweller, Decarabia, metal, 9 pm.

The Winter’s Tale: Fair Verona Area Shakespeare Company, 7 pm on 2/1, 1 & 7 pm on 2/2 and 1 pm, 2/3, Verona Area High School. $7. fairveronashakespearecompany.weebly.com.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Country Wide, country/rock, free, 9 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee House: Kristy Larson Trio, 7:30 pm.

Dave Durbin’s Dirty Delights: Are We Delicious? short plays about sex, 10 pm, 2/1, Bartell Theatre. $10. arewedelicious.com.

Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Paul Filipowicz, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

COMEDY

Majestic Theatre: Sixteeen Candles, ‘80s, 9 pm.

Liquid: Habstrakt, bass house, 10 pm.

One Funny Mother: One-woman show by Dena Blizzard, 8 pm, 2/1, Overture Center-Capitol Theater. $40-$30. 258-4141.

Mickey’s Tavern: Ka-Boom!Box, free, 10 pm.

Jenny Slate: 8 & 10:30 pm, 2/1-2, Comedy on State. $30. 256-0099.

Plan B: DJs Mike Carlson, WhiteRabbit, Leather & Lace, 8:30 pm.

BOOKS/SPOKEN WORD

Marilyn Annucci, DeWitt Clinton: Reading poetry from “The Arrows That Choose Us” and “At the End of the War,” respectively, 6 pm, 2/1, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888. See story, page 23.

Evening of Storytelling: UW American Indian Studies event, 7 pm, 2/1, UW Discovery Building. 263-5501.

Madtown Poetry Open Mic: With Matthew Charles, host Kelli Miner, 8 pm, 2/1, Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse. 259-1301.

ART EXHIBITS & EVENTS

Who Matters Volume 2: Intergenerational photo exhibit, 2/1-28, Central Library & Madison Senior Center (reception 5-6:30 pm, 2/1, Senior Center, and 6:30-8 pm, 2/1, Central). 258-4169.

Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse: Yid Vicious, klezmer, 8 pm.

Gender Fest

SAT., FEB. 2, BOS MEADERY, 6 PM

This celebration of gender diversity showcases an appropriately eclectic mix of artists and genres. Come out for music from queer-punk cuties Gender Confetti (pictured); R&B singer, rapper and UW-Madison First Wave scholar Dequadray; hip-hop artist KiloSkitl’z; plus spoken word and comedy sets from Call them Q members Ameer(a), Cal Smth and Lev Simmons.

Hit up the after party at Black Locust with DJs Saint Saunter and Kalycho starting at 10 pm.

Alison Saar: “Printmaker,” 2/1-4/6, Tandem Press Apex Gallery (reception 5-7 pm, 2/1). 263-3437.

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Calling all dancing queens. Take a chance on this world-renowned ABBA tribute act from London. Performers faithfully recreate the ABBA experience, right down to staging, lighting and effects. Come early for drinks, snacks and a special performance from Madison disco royalty VO5 in the lobby at 6:30 pm.

THEATER & DANCE

R Wee Delicious: Are We Delicious? shows for children, 1 & 4 pm, 2/2, Bartell Theatre-Drury Stage. $10. arewedelicious.com.

ART EXHIBITS & EVENTS

Selia Salzsieder: Reception, 5-8 pm, 2/2, Communication. 467-2618.

Miss Madison Scholarship Pageant: Annual Miss Wisconsin qualifier, 4 pm, 2/2, East High School. $15. 204-1603.

UW Women’s Tennis: vs. Marquette, 4 pm, 2/1; Iowa State, 11 am, 2/2; vs. Northern Illinois, 4 pm, 2/2, Nielsen Stadium. 262-1440.

SAT., FEB. 2, OVERTURE HALL, 8 PM

The Wisco: The Sunken Lands, Therapy Drones, El Donk, 9 pm.

Sun Prairie Groundhog Day: 7 am, 2/2, Cannery Square, Sun Prairie. More events: facebook.com/downtownsunprairie.

SPECTATOR SPORTS

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Verona Woods: David Hecht, free, 6:30 pm.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Winter Bike Week: Madison Bikes events, 2/1-8, throughout Madison. Schedule: madisonbikes.org/winterbikeweek.

MUSIC

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Pro Arte Quartet, free, 8 pm.

John Harbison & His Music: Exhibit as part of the 80th birthday celebration of the composer, 2/1-28, UW Memorial Library. 262-3343.

Winter Carnival: Outdoor activities & more for all ages, 1/31-2/2, UW Memorial Union area. Schedule: union.wisc.edu/wintercarnival.

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Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Karl, 8:30 pm.

Functional Pottery Showcase: Ephraim Pottery open house, 10 am-5 pm, 2/2, Studio Gallery, Lake Mills. 920-648-3534.

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UW Men’s Basketball: Maryland, 8 pm, 2/1, Kohl Center. 262-1440.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church: ViolMedium, “Façades & Duplicities,” viola da gamba duo, 7:30 pm.

Mural Unveiling: Slow Food UW reveals new basement dining room art, 5:30-8 pm, 2/2, The Crossing, with dinner buffet. $36$9. RSVP: facebook.com/slowfooduw.

Night Light: 7-10 pm, 2/1, Central Library, with exhibit by Ariel Wood, artist-in-residence Rodney Lambright II. 266-6300.

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Bandung: Mideast Salsa, free (includes salsa lesson), 7:30 pm.

Darren Jay & the Delta Souls

SAT., FEB. 2, KNUCKLE DOWN SALOON, 9 PM

Orchid Quest: Annual Madison Orchid Growers Guild show/sale, 9 am-4 pm on 2/2 and 10 am-3 pm, 2/3, Olbrich Gardens, with seminars, raffle, silent auction. Free admission. orchidguild.org.

The Knuckle Down continues to expand its reach beyond the regional blues scene, and this weekend brings visitors from Memphis: Darren Jay & the Delta Souls. Jay is a fluid guitarist and soulful singer with a strong original repertoire, mixing blues and soul with a bit of good time rock ‘n’ roll, and the band’s music should keep the dance floor hopping.

Madison Camper & RV Show: 2/1-3, Alliant Center-Exhibition Hall; Gravedigger’s Prize is Right game 10 am Sunday ($10; Gilbert Brown Foundation benefit). $9/day. madisonrvshow.com. 222-1507.

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Bockfest: Annual celebration featuring local breweries, noon5 pm, 2/2, Great Dane-Hilldale. $45 ($40 adv.; $10 designated driver). RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/52682616123. 661-9400.

The pop metal purveyors return to Madison ahead of Shock, a new, original album due out this year.

Though the band has shifted its musical direction and its members since their debut in the ’80s, the album’s titular track and sole single thus far is a vintage offering from the Sacramento band. With pugnacious lyrics and swampy guitar licks, this song is an indicator that the members of Tesla still have that same jolt running through their songwriting. With Year of the Locust.

Souper Bowl: Annual UW Habitat for Humanity benefit, noon6 pm, 2/2, West High School cafeteria, with soup & salad dinner, entertainment. $15 ($35/family). facebook.com/habitatuw.

Alchemy Cafe: Sortin’ the Mail, bluegrass, free, 10 pm.

The Wizards’ Goblet of Fire: Cambridge-Deerfield Players Theater Harry Potter-themed fundraiser all-ages dance, 6-9 pm, 2/2, Cambridge Historic School. $5. cdplayerstheater.com.

SAT., FEB. 2, THE SYLVEE, 8 PM

American Players Theatre, Spring Green: The Honey Pies, Jud Swenson, Touchstone, Rural Musicians Forum benefit, 7:30 pm.

Madison Winter Festival: Outdoor recreation & competitions for all ages, 2/2-3, Elver Park. Schedule: winter-fest.com.

FOOD & DRINK

Battle of the Salsas: Free samples, 11 am-3 pm, 2/2, Metcalfe’s Hilldale (238-7612) & West Towne (829-3500).

FUNDRAISERS

Grilling for Peace: Annual Savory Sunday fundraiser (feeding the homeless), 10:30 am-2:30 pm, 2/2, on Lake Wingra (near Vilas Beach), with a gigantic peace sign formed by grills during cookout. $35 to grill. RSVP: grilln4peace.org.

Blizzard Blast: Dane County Council of Snowmobile Clubs fundraiser (for Easter Seals Wisconsin), 4-9 pm, 2/2, Red Mouse, Cross Plains, with buffet 5-6 pm, auction 8 pm. $20. 237-1370.

KIDS & FAMILY

Kids in the Rotunda: Black Star Drum Line, 9:30 am, 11 am & 1 pm, 2/2, Overture Center-Rotunda Stage. Free. 258-4141.

Saturday Science: “Badgers Athletics: Strength of the Body & Mind,” free activities, 10 am-noon, 2/2, UW Discovery Building. 316-4382.

Daddy/Daughter Dance: Annual Madison Parks event designed for ages 5-12 & fathers, 3 or 6 pm, 2/2, Warner Park Community Recreation Center, with DJ, games, refreshments. $25. RSVP: 266-4711.

SUN FEB 3

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Common Ground, Middleton: Jeff Larsen, guitar, free, 10 am.

First Congregational United Church of Christ: Con Vivo, “Winter Warmth,” chamber music concert, 7:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Black Cat, Dumb Vision, Usufruct, punk, 9 pm.

Immanuel Lutheran Church: Madison Sacred Harp Singers, 2 pm.

Octopi Brewing, Waunakee: Derek Ramnarace, Kelsey Miles, noon.

THEATER & DANCE

Women Playwrights Speak Out

SUN., FEB. 3, TAPIT/NEW WORKS, 7 PM

Women’s voices are grossly underrepresented on stages around the nation, and here in Madison. This second annual event, organized by TAPIT and Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre, features 10-minute excerpts from new works by Madison’s up-and-coming female playwrights.

Opera Up Close: Talk about “A Little Night Music,” 1 pm, 2/3, Madison Opera Center. $20. 238-8085.

SPOKEN WORD

Winter Festival of Poetry: “Limbo vs. Bunny Hop,” by Tim Walsh, Sarah Sadie, Patricia Freres, Guy Thorvaldsen, Gene Gilbert, F.J. Bergmann, 2 pm, 2/3, Common Ground, Middleton. 242-7340.

SPECTATOR SPORTS

UW Women’s Basketball: vs. Michigan, 2 pm, 2/3, Kohl Center. $7/$5. 262-1440.

RECREATION

Learn to Cross Country Ski: Free Madison Parks workshop, 10 am, 2/3, Elver Park. RSVP: 266-4711.

FUNDRAISERS

Super Puppy Bowl: Fetch Wisconsin Rescue fundraiser, 4-10 pm, 2/3, Lone Girl Brewing Co., Waunakee, with adoptable dogs, training advice from Wunderdog. 10 percent of proceeds donated. fetchwi.org.

MON FEB 4

MUSIC

High Noon Saloon: Vundabar, Paul Cherry, Slow Pulp, 8 pm.

Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Edgewood High School Jazz, free, 6 pm.

Malt House: Grandpa’s Elixir, free, 7:30 pm.

THEATER & DANCE

The Moors: Reading of play by Jen Silverman, 7 pm, 2/4, APT-Touchstone Theatre, Spring Green. $20. 588-2361.

LECTURES & SEMINARS

Dream Week: Unity: Opening ceremony & keynote by Edgewood College Center for Multicultural Education director Phyllis Esposito, 4 pm, 2/4, Predolin Humanities Center-Anderson Auditorium. Free. 663-2333.

POLITICS & ACTIVISM

Mayoral Candidates Forum: Teal, Gold & South Madison Voters Organizing Teams event, 6:30 pm, 2/4, Oakwood Village-University Woods Center for the Arts. 238-6429.

SPECIAL INTERESTS

Great Lakes Small Streams: How Water Shapes Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society exhibit, 1/24-2/19, Verona Library (talks: “Wisconsin Lighthouses” authors Ken & Barb Wardius 7 pm, 2/4; “Bacteria in Freshwater” by Alexandra Linz 7 pm, 2/6). 845-7180.

RSVP for All Dressed Up: Annual Junior League event, 3/9, Madison College-Truax, with high school girls invited to shop for prom dresses & accessories at no charge. Free. Sign up 2/2-17: .juniorleagueofmadison.org.

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Malt House: The Cajun Strangers, free, 7:30 pm.

Ohio Tavern: Bill Roberts Combo, free, 7 pm.

Sconniebar: Pat McCurdy, pop, free, 7 pm.

Up North Pub: Derek Ramnarace, free, 8 pm.

ART EXHIBITS & EVENTS

Milwaukee’s Beer Line: Center for Railroad Photography & Art exhibit on the connection between brewing & railroad industries, 2/53/3, Capital Brewery, Middleton (reception 6-9 pm, 2/5). 836-7100.

POLITICS & ACTIVISM

Board of Education Candidates Forum: Grandparents United for Madison Public Schools forum, 6:30 pm, 2/5, Christ Presbyterian Church. madcitygrumps.com.

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ence and his own catalog. This solo show begins with a full performance of the classic Tom Petty album Wildflowers. Tedesco will also mark the 10th anniversary of his debut disc, Starin’ at a Green Light, with his current interpretations of that album’s songs.

Brink Lounge: Old Oaks, 8 pm.

Cafe Coda: Hanah Jon Taylor, Alex Wang, jazz, 8 pm.

Crucible: Gretta Grimm-Deville, Garnet Grimm-Deville, Amethyst Von Trollenberg, Jasper Madison, Lola Grimm-Deville, “Hysteria: Queen of Hearts,” drag benefit for LGBTQ+ organizations, 9 pm.

Kiki’s House of Righteous Music: Ben De La Cour, house concert (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com), 8 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee House: Richard Wiegel, free, 6:30 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, free, 5:30 pm.

North Street Cabaret: Bad Philosopher with Tony Barba, 8 pm.

Ohio Tavern: Boo Mullarky, hokum, free, 7 pm.

Overture Center-Overture Hall: Rock of Ages, 10th anniversary tour of hard rock revue, 7:30 pm.

Art In Gallery: Dystopian Echo, Fake News, 7 pm.

The Wisco: Desmond Jones, FlowPoetry, 9 pm.

Bandung: Louka, free, 7 pm.

THEATER & DANCE

Bos Meadery: Teddy Davenport, free/donations, 7 pm.

High Noon Saloon: JD Simo, Thompson Springs, 8 pm.

Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Stan Godfriaux, jazz, free, 5:30 pm.

Malt House: The North Westerns, Western swing, free, 7:30 pm.

Me and Julio, Fitchburg: Bill Roberts Combo, free, 6 pm.

Up North Pub: The Pine Travelers Duo, Americana, free, 8 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Daniel Grabois, 7:30 pm.

BOOKS/SPOKEN WORD

The Ultimate Tribute

The Odd Couple: Verona Area Community Theater musical (male and female leads alternate shows), 7:30 pm on 2/7-8 & 2/14-15 and 2 & 7:30 pm, 2/19 & 16, Verona Area High School. vact.org.

A Voice for the Voiceless: Fermat’s Last Theater Company staged reading of poems, songs and scenes by Bertolt Brecht, 7:30 pm, 2/7-8, Arts + Literature Lab. Free. fermatstheater.org.

COMEDY

Demetri Martin

THU., FEB. 7, BARRYMORE THEATRE, 8 PM

Comedian Demetri Martin is something of a king of all media: a bestselling author of both prose (This is a Book) and art (If It’s Not Funny It’s Art); film director (Dean); and, of course, stand-up comedian (the current “Wandering Mind” tour). He’s even been spotted playing guitar accompaniment, as on a November appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, so can a band be far behind?

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Dan Cummins: 8 pm on 2/7 and 8 & 10:30 pm, 2/8-9, Comedy on State; also, “Timesuck” podcast recording 5:30 pm, 2/9. $25-$18. 256-0099.

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BOOKS

WED., FEB. 6, CENTRAL LIBRARY, 7 PM

Nigerian-born author Chigozie Obioma reads from his newest novel, An Orchestra of Minorities. It’s an epic in the Homeric tradition, narrated by a guardian spirit called a chi, following a young poultry farmer who sacrifices his prized chickens to save a woman from jumping off a bridge.

James Roberts, Marilyn Taylor: Poetry reading, with a “love affairs” theme, 7 pm, 2/6, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

LECTURES & SEMINARS

SPECTATOR SPORTS

UW Men’s Tennis: vs. Chicago State, 5:30 pm, 2/6, Nielsen Tennis Stadium. Rescheduled from 1/30. 262-1440.

POLITICS & ACTIVISM

Mayoral Candidates Forum: Northside Planning Council event, 6 pm, 2/6, Warner Park Community Recreation Center. facebook.com/events/359133981546598. 204-7015.

THU FEB 7

MUSIC

Dan Tedesco

THU., JAN. 31, HIGH NOON SALOON, 8 PM

Iowa singer-songwriter Dan Tedesco’s winter tour takes a moment to look back at both a major influ-

Ha Jin

THU., FEB. 7, CENTRAL LIBRARY, 7 PM

Ha Jin, an acclaimed novelist who left China in 1985 and is now a professor at Boston University, stops by the Wisconsin Book Festival to read from his newest novel, The Banished Immortal. It’s a literary biography of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai (aka Li Po). Jin is a master storyteller; his exquisite 1999 novel, Waiting, chronicled a love story set amid the brutalities of communism — and garnered the author a National Book Award.

Matt Geiger: Discussing “Astonishing Tales,” new essay collection, 7 pm, 2/7, Middleton Library. 827-7402.

ART EXHIBITS & EVENTS

Nathaniel Mary Quinn: “This is Life,” mixed media, 12/1-3/3, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (“Time, Memory & the Notational Self” talk by TL Solien 1 pm, 2/7). 257-0158.

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The Globe has an encompassing philosophy when it comes to its menu, with dishes from Nepal, India, Thailand, Korea, the American South, Japan, Korea and the Middle East. The owner and the cooks, however, are originally from Nepal, and those are the dishes diners should look to first.

The menu starts with soups, and this winter, owner Ashim Malla has been giving complimentary cups of soup to all customers, even anyone coming in to pick up a takeout order. That’s a good move, because it puts The Globe’s best foot forward. The two soups are the best dishes on the menu.

It’s hard to choose between the 14 bean soup and a coconut cauliflower curry “chowder.” You can’t go wrong, really. The 14 bean soup may remind dal aficionados of the delicate variety served at Himal Chuli. This soup has more beans than Himal Chuli’s, and more varieties of them. Yet the delicate ajwain seed flavoring makes it clear these soups are siblings. Although some of the larger beans were slightly undercooked (on two visits), it wasn’t enough to be a problem.

It’s a perfect cup or bowl on a chilly day.

The chowder is very rich, buttery and slightly sweet. Potatoes and corn don’t really compete with the rich broth or the light Thai spicing; it’s all about the coconut milk.

This is a very loveable soup.

There are several winning traditional Indian and Nepalese appetizers. The bhajji, fried minced vegetables with chickpea batter, are very good, served with a yogurt sauce that’s slightly sweet, almost like lassi, and a tart achar (tomato) sauce. The bhajji are crunchy and salty, all you need for a good appetizer sometimes; the “assorted vegetables” are mostly potato and onion.

The menu suggests the bhajji also come with a sweet tamarind sauce, but I haven’t seen any on my visits.

The Nepalese dumplings called momos are available in chicken or vegetarian. They come with the tomato sauce, along with a garnish of grilled onions and pepper. The chicken momos, steamed (they’re also available fried), are good and spicy and the tasty grilled veggies are more than just a garnish; they’re more of a condiment.

Less successful are the entrees. The Indian Tic Tac curry seems to be no particular curry variety, just a tomato-based gravy,

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Indian Tic Tac curry is a specialty of The Globe.

kidney beans (as in rajma), carrots, broccoli (a vegetable I have never before encountered in an Indian curry) — and bland white meat chicken. A requested “three” on the one-to-five spiciness scale was not hot.

Another problem: The Indian curry is served on plain white rice instead of basmati. I’m guessing that’s so the restaurant doesn’t have to cook two different kinds of rice, since it’s also the base for the south Asian dishes like the grilled Korean barbecue (available with tofu, chicken or pork) and the Thai Coconut Curry Hurry (available with tofu, chicken or shrimp). But it would be worth it to have basmati.

The grilled Korean barbecue seems to be a popular dish; I saw and heard multiple orders for it. It’s pleasant enough, with a sweet, spicy sauce (a “four” was finally spicy) over stir-fried vegetables. The Thai coconut curry,

my pick from among the entrees, is better, reminiscent of the fabulous soup.

Other Asian dishes round out the menu: fried rice, a chili buff, soba noodle salad and a ramen soup. Occasionally, specials crop up, like the jambalaya, which wasn’t up to the standard of New Orleans Take-Out. I would love to see the Globe build on its strengths and serve more Indian or Nepalese dishes and add more soups, where the flavors really pop. The Globe has big ambitions, which is great, but sometimes there’s magic in your own backyard. n

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Belgian Delight heralds Peter Schroder, new brewmaster at One Barrel

BY ROBIN SHEPARD

Peter Schroder took over brewmaster duties in December at One Barrel Brewing from Matt Gerdts, who moved to Bayfield to start his own small brewery, Adventure Club Brewing.

Schroder, originally from the Netherlands, moved to Wisconsin in 2004.

Not long after, his wife, Becky, told him that he needed a hobby and bought him a homebrew kit. After a a few batches, Schroder never looked back. “I’m somewhat of an experimental brewer while keeping [style] guidelines in mind,” says Schroder.

“A nice thing about One Barrel is that it’s kind of like homebrewing, but scaled up.”

Schroder has been making a name for himself as a brewer for the past few years, from Madison to Milwaukee. He’s a past president of the Sun Prairie Wort Hogs Homebrew Club and has won several competitions, some of which have turned into commercial releases for MobCraft.

He’s marking his debut at One Barrel by releasing a series of Belgian beers: a blonde, a saison, a tripel and a dark strong ale. He chose Belgians because his wife loves them, and One Barrel hasn’t offered many in the past. It’s a good way for him to let folks know he’s now running the brewhouse.

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Pay what you can restaurant heading to Madison Chef Dave Heide works on a new concept in sustainable dining

BY LINDA FALKENSTEIN

Chef Dave Heide and his youngest, “Little John,” namesake to his latest venture.

Metcalfe’s does currently donate good food that it can no longer sell to the River Food Pantry and Purple Cow Organics of Middleton, which makes compost, Heide notes.

Little John’s will provide culinary training to military vets, with a six-month long paid training program, says Heide. These are skills that are much needed in the area as “the restaurant scene in Madison keeps on growing,” Heide notes. “We need more people excited and happy about cooking.”

Heide is just back from the recent One World, Everybody Eats conference in New Orleans. This organization is the driving force behind a chain of nonprofit cafes. The organization was started by Denise Cerreta, who opened the first pay what you can venture, the One World Cafe in Salt Lake City.

According to the One World website, there are five such cafes in the works for Wisconsin, in Wausau, Oshkosh, Marshfield, Milwaukee and “northern Wisconsin.”

Little John’s will be on the west side.

Although Heide considered a downtown site, there were some problems with that plan, including the cost to transport the waste

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What if someone told you that you could have a chef-driven restaurant with entrees made with perfectly good food that would otherwise go to waste, that would train unemployed veterans in the kitchen (and thereby help solve the area’s current cook shortage), and feed for no or low cost those who don’t know where their next meal is coming from?

That’s the concept driving Little John’s, the latest project from chef Dave Heide (Liliana’s, Charlie’s on Main.) Little John’s will be a “pay what you can” restaurant, part of a small but growing movement around the globe intended to get good food to those who otherwise could not afford it and grow community by also attracting customers who can pay market price — or more — for their meals.

Little John’s will address “three major pillars,” says Heide, “food sustainability, food access and job training.”

Little John’s will have a leg up over other pay what you can eateries. Little John’s is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit; its space will be donated, and most ingredients will be donations from area grocery stores, food that has reached its sell-by date but not its expiration date. Thus, Little John’s also addresses sustainability and the huge problem of food waste.

The idea was born a couple years back when Heide and restaurateur Patrick DePula were participating in a food sustainability conference at Madison College. Heide asked Tim Metcalfe, of Metcalfe’s Market, to donate one day’s worth of waste product from the Hilldale store. “We had 600-plus people at the conference and made more than 3,600 portions of food for them, and you could barely tell that we had touched what Metcalfe donated,” says Heide. “That’s what sparked it — all that food, and how terrible it is that we have people going hungry.”

food from the donating markets to the restaurant site. Plus, due to multiple meal sites, food access is less of a problem in downtown Madison (shelter is the more scarce resource there). In many other areas of the city, there is great “food insecurity,” says Heide.

People may be living “three families to a hotel room” and with limited transportation.

Or they may be spending the bulk of their income on housing, leaving little for food.

The goal with pay what you can restaurants is to get 6 percent of customers paying market value for their meals, 20 percent paying over market value and 20 percent paying less.

There is currently no set opening date for Little John’s while some details with the

lease are ironed out. After that’s settled — soon, Heide hopes — the build-out should take about another three months.

Eventually, Heide hopes to add a couple of food carts that will take food to neighborhoods designated “food deserts,” like Allied Drive, where it’s been hard to get to a large supermarket or restaurant without a car.

With two other restaurants to run, how does Heide have time for this laborintensive project? “I have amazing staff at Liliana’s and Charlie’s on Main,” Heide says, freeing him to devote time to a restaurant that will served the community in multiple ways. “I won’t be around forever. What do I want to leave behind as a legacy?” ■

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desserts and soft buttery cheeses, which complement the dark fruit sweetness.

This beer also showcases how Belgian yeast plays with the dark chocolate- and caramel-flavored malts to create a rich harmony of flavors with depth and spicy complexity.

The Belgian candi sugar accentuates that accent of roasted caramel sweetness.

This is Schroder’s strongest beer so far in the One Barrel brewhouse. Be aware that the sweetness tends to mask the warmth of its 8.9 percent ABV. Belgian Delight sells over the bar in a 10-ounce glass for $7. It is expected to rotate with the other three Belgians in the taproom over the next month. ■

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“Birth coaches” negotiate the roles of everyone in the birthing suite

BY SARAH WHITE

Amy Gilliland believes that a positive birth experience has a lasting effect on the lives of both mother and baby. Gilliland should know: As a research fellow in the U.W.-Madison’s School of Human Ecology, she studies and teaches about the psychological needs of people during the birth experience.

In October 2018, Gilliland self-published The Heart of the Doula: Essentials for Practice and Life to share best practices from three decades as a doula practitioner and trainer.

Doulas are trained professionals who provide physical, emotional and informational support to women and their families throughout a birth experience.

“It’s one of the most complex jobs on the planet,” says Gilliland. “You’re part negotiator, part counselor, part cheerleader, part consoler and part loving parent — and best friend — all at once.” Doulas are adept at managing the needs and negotiating the roles of everyone in the birthing suite while maintaining the focus on the laboring mother.

Gilliland has interviewed more than 60 doulas for her research on the effect of doulas on the birth process. She’s gathered a wealth of first-hand experience “about

getting along with nurses and When I saw my first birth, I doctors, what clients really wondered: Why is childbirth need from their doulas, and knowledge offered only to pregwhy some things that may seem nant women? Everybody deserves natural, like sharing your [own] support. That’s the number one birth story, are not helpful to message of my book.” the doula-client relationship,” Gilliland’s work training Gilliland says. doulas and offering continuing The Heart of the Doula education on doula labor support, draws on these interviews to women’s sexual experiences, complement and reinforce infant mental health and the what Gilliland teaches doulas psychological needs of people in training sessions. during the birth experience is In October 2017, she began drawing attention across the interviewing a new generation English-speaking world; people of doulas to add to her study from Mexico, Canada, Australia, sample. Her current research the U.K. and South Africa have is taking her deeper into the attended her workshops.

Gilliland: Doula training is for “anyone curious about birth.” role of oxytocin in attachment.

Anyone considering becoming (Oxytocin is often called the “love horthrough four colleges over 10 years, with a a doula is Gilliland’s intended reader for The mone” because of its role in sexual arousal pause for the birth her own daughter in 1985.

Heart of the Doula. Social workers would also and social bonding.) With this research, “If I hadn’t already known about the birth benefit from reading it, she says, especially Gilliland hopes to learn more about the system in the U.S., I probably would have the chapter on the transformational power of brain structures of experienced doulas and blindly participated in it,” she says. “But I did prenatal visits and nonjudgmental support. how they become better at recognizing and know, so I sought out a midwife and a birth Her next workshop in Madison is Introinterpreting the emotional content of othcenter. From that I became a doula.” duction to Childbirth for Doulas on March ers’ behaviors.

Gilliland says that doula trainings are 2, followed by Birth Doula Workshop March Gilliland’s route to a doctoral degree in for “anyone curious about birth — not just 8-10. More info is available at her website, human development and family studies led for people who want to become doulas. amygilliland.com. ■

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BY DAN SAVAGE I’m a 21-year-old woman, and I have an IUD. I’ve had sex with quite a few men, and one thing seems to be almost constant among them: trying to fuck without condoms. Many of the men I’ve been with seem to be perfectly fine and terribly eager to have sex without condoms. This has always angered me. They generally assume or make sure I’m on birth control, which they immediately take to mean condom-free sex is welcome. I don’t want to have sex without condoms without being in a committed relationship. I know people cheat and monogamy doesn’t mean STIs won’t happen, but it’s a risk I’m comfortable with. I’m so annoyed by how often men try to get out of using condoms (it’s often persistent, even with people I’ve been seeing a while) that I want to start lying and say I’m not on birth control. The risk of a baby seems to be the only STI most men are concerned with. Is it all right for me to lie and say I’m not on any birth control and explain why I lied later on if things get serious?

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the event with their partner afterward, and most also reported feeling emotionally stressed about it. A majority also considered stealthing to be a form of sexual assault. These results suggest that stealthing is not a rare occurrence and we would do well to study it further.”

The researchers didn’t ask heterosexual men about being stealthed and, as Lehmiller points out, there are some scattered reports out there about women poking holes in condoms before sex or retrieving them after sex. We don’t need a study to tease out the motives of these women — they want to have a child and don’t care whether their partners do (and that is not okay) — but we could use a study that asked heterosexual men about their motives for stealthing. One question we should put to these assholes: Are they more likely to “go stealth,” i.e., to sexually assault a woman, if they know her to be on some other form of birth control?

Or are they just so wrapped up in their own momentary sexual pleasure that they don’t give a shit about babies or any of the other STIs? Moving on to your actual question…

Can you lie? Of course you can. Should you lie? In the case of a casual sex partner who might not have your best interests at heart, i.e., some total rando you want to fuck but aren’t sure you can trust, I think you can lie and should lie. This lie doesn’t do him any harm; it’s not like you’re telling him you’re on birth control when you’re not. And if telling this lie inspires some rando to be more careful about keeping the condom on (sometimes condoms fall off by accident), then it’s a lie that made the sex safer for you and for him.

And if you get serious about someone you initially lied to about having an IUD and he reacts badly when you tell him the truth, just say (or text) this to him: “I could have waited to fuck you until I was sure you were a good guy. But then you would have missed out on all the awesome sex we’ve had up to now. Would that have been better? And by coming clean now, I’m basically saying that I think you’re a good guy that I can trust. I know that now, but I didn’t always know it because I’m not psychic. Now, do you want to raw-dog me or do you want to complain?” n

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Let’s get this out of the way first: You’re right, IUD, sexually transmitted infections (STI) do happen to people in monogamous relationships. People cheat, people lie, people contract, people transmit. A 2015 study found that people in consensually non-monogamous (CNM) relationships were no more likely to contract an STI than people in monogamous relationships. The reason? If a person in a monogamous relationship screws around and doesn’t use a condom, they can’t ask their partner to start using condoms again without drawing attention to their infidelity. If someone in a CNM relationship asks their primary partner to start using condoms again — because a condom broke or fell off or didn’t wind up on a cock for some other reason — they’re drawing attention to their fidelity. Moving on….

Right again, IUD: Babies do seem to be the only STI many men are worried about. Australian researchers conducted a large study about stealthing — the deeply shitty, rape-adjacent practice of surreptitiously removing the condom during intercourse — and they were shocked to discover how common this practice seems to be.

“The researchers estimated in advance that approximately 2 percent of the sample would report having been stealthed,” sex researcher Justin Lehmiller wrote in a blog post looking at the results of the study. “In fact, 32 percent of the women and 19 percent of the men surveyed reported having experienced stealthing… A majority of both groups reported discussing

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