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■ ITINERARY

TH ANNUAL NELSON INSTITUTE EARTH DAY CONFERENCE

Don’t miss this debate! Thursday, March 19, Barrymore Theatre, 6:30-8 pm, doors open at 6

DAVID GAMBLE

With the mayoral election looming on April 7, this is one of the last opportunities to hear candidates Mayor Paul Soglin and Ald. Scott Resnick go head-to-head.

K E Y N OT E S P E A K E R

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON ASTROPHYSICIST AND AUTHOR

Play it forward

Get inspired

March 21, West High, 30 Ash St., 1 pm

March 25, Barrymore Theatre, 7 pm

Madison Police and Madison high school basketball players meet on the court in this fundraiser to benefit the Black Student Union College Tour.

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival presents short films that connect us with the breathtaking beauty of the fragile planet and the activists devoted to preserving it.

Thanks for the memories

Planet of the geeks

March 21, Wil-Mar Center, 7 pm

March 25, 111 N. Fairchild St., 2nd Floor, 5-7 pm

Dredge up your past or come for the schadenfreude at this Madison Story Slam. Stories should be 5-10 minutes long on the theme of “childhood memories.”

If you’re a tech entrepreneur who wants to hobnob or a neophyte who wants to meet tech geeks, check out this Spring Tech Kickoff. Plus MobCraft and Karben4 beer!

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March 22, Overture Center, 1-4 pm

March 26, Cargo Coffee East, 5-7:30 pm

Celebrate water’s central role in our lives at World Water Day in the James Watrous Gallery, with members of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and a Waterways exhibit.

OPEN Madison has invited city and county officials and candidates to a meet-andgreet to discuss how LGBTQ professionals can get more involved in civic affairs.

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Ministering to Oakhill inmates

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On a foggy winter night, thick tree trunks lining the long road into Oakhill Correctional Institution cast a chilly vibe that gets colder at the sight of razor wire atop the fenced entrance to the 685-inmate facility. In the lobby, a guard has me stash my keys, phone and wallet in a locker. I’m soon joined by nine members of Madison Pentecostal Assembly. The last to arrive is Bishop Eugene Johnson. His GPS got him lost in southern Fitchburg, so the group’s running a half-hour late. We pile in a van that drops us at the northeast corner of Oakhill’s 100-acre grounds. There, 60 inmates are waiting inside an A-frame chapel built in 1965, when this property housed the Wisconsin School for Girls. Scattered across 11 rows of pews, they’ll have to wait a little longer. A small group assembles in a room off the sanctuary, where Oakhill’s chaplain has

instructed inmates to fill a baptism tub constructed of blue tarps and an aluminum frame. Johnson leads a prayer while an inmate named Leo stands shirtless at the foot of the tub, waiting to be baptized. A dozen men, both inmates and clergy, encircle him and murmur encouragement. Johnson invites Leo to stand in the water. He pinches his nose shut, cups the back of Leo’s head with his other hand, then dunks him. The men clap, shout and sing loudly. “I don’t care what the world say about me,” the song goes, “I been down in Jesus’ name.” The service begins. Speakers take turns reading Scripture, praying or leading Christmas carols like “Joy to the World” and “Silent Night” while three inmates play bass guitar, piano and drums. Two ex-cons, now members of MPA, talk about the greener pastures awaiting these men some day. One wears a bright red suit accented by red-and-white wingtips — a festive contrast to the prisoners’ green uniforms. During songs, he struts the aisle in time to the music and fist bumps the congregation.

The mood is light, happy. If security guards are present, I don’t see them. The service was arranged by Rev. Emmanuel Okoye, Oakhill’s chaplain since 2004. Born in Nigeria, the son of a train conductor, he became a Pentecostal minister in his early 30s. In the late 1990s, he was “called” to a church in Milwaukee before settling in Wisconsin for good with his wife and kids. As chaplain, Okoye often has to deliver bad news to inmates — about relatives who have died or girlfriends who have left. “Sometimes I have to wait while they sob, give them Kleenex,” he tells me. After the two-hour service, several inmates shake my hand and thank me for being there. Asian beetles caromed against the overhead lights; one landed on my shoulder. A short man in his 40s picked it off gently and let it go. “Thanks.” “No problem,” he says, pulling on his coat before walking outside. “God bless.” n

OAKHILL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, OREGON, WIS. Inmates: 685 Chaplain: REV. EMMANUEL OKOYE Chapel capacity: ABOUT 110 Average weekly attendance: 60-70 Number of major religions served at Oakhill: SEVEN

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About 1,000 people attended Tony Robinson’s funeral on March 14 at East High School.

The life and death of Tony Robinson Uncle, friends remember the teen in all his complexity

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BY ALLISON GEYER

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It is impossible to talk or write about the life and death of Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. without acknowledging the profound complexity of each. Through the polarized lens of public opinion, the unarmed 19-year-old shot and killed by Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny on March 6 was either a violent felon who attacked a cop and paid the ultimate price or a martyr who died at the hands of an unjust system. To the thousands of demonstrators who have mobilized to protest his death, he is a symbol of police violence against African American men. To the media, he is a story that continues to capture the nation’s attention as it unfolds. But to the community he left behind, Robinson was more than a headline or a hashtag — he was a son, a brother, a nephew, a friend. Those who knew him best remember him as kind, smart, funny and eager to please — a young man on the threshold of adulthood grappling with mistakes from his past while striving for his dreams. He was disadvantaged. He grew up poor. He identified as African American, but his ethnicity was both black and white. Living in both worlds, he struggled to fit in. “There’s something so beautiful about being a black kid in America trying to make it against all odds,” his uncle Turin Carter says. “He was so close.” Robinson’s birth was unexpected — his mother, Andrea Irwin, was 17 years old and

still in high school when he was born. In many ways, mother and son grew up together, says Carter, Irwin’s brother, who considered his nephew more like a little brother. His father, Tony Robinson Sr., was in and out of prison for much of his son’s life, Carter says, and his absence contributed to the lack of structure during the younger Robinson’s formative years. When Robinson was 5 years old, the family moved to Stoughton — a small, rural, predominantly white community outside of Madison. The family experienced prejudice, Carter recalls. “Terrell had no friends,” he says, calling Robinson by the name close family used for him. “The neighbor kids couldn’t hang out with him because he was black.” As with other shootings involving unarmed men of color, the issue of race has been central to the Robinson narrative, but Carter says his nephew’s biracial heritage makes the situation unique — and largely misunderstood. The fact that Robinson was initially described by police as black based on his appearance reinforces America’s black-white racial binary paradigm. “To say Terrell is black based on his appearance is to uphold Plessy v. Ferguson,” Carter says, referencing the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine in a time when the “onedrop” rule applied to those with black ancestry. Early experiences with prejudice underscored Robinson’s desire for acceptance, Carter says. Later, the family moved back to Madison and lived in the Allied Drive neighborhood on

the city’s west side. Carter describes the area as a “stereotypical ghetto” with high rates of poverty, unemployment and crime. “There were things that we shouldn’t have had to witness,” he says. After a few years, the family moved to Madison’s east side to be closer to family, but Robinson’s tumultuous upbringing continued as he changed schools several times before graduating from Sun Prairie High School in 2014. In his teens he was a caregiver for his mother, who had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and a role model for his younger siblings. But he also found his way into trouble, participating in a home invasion last April and pleading guilty to armed robbery. This conviction has been cited by some as indicative of Robinson’s character — an assumption those close to Robinson find offensive. Carter says the crime had been planned by others, and Robinson got a call asking if he wanted to participate. He went along with the group and paid the price — three years on probation. “He was trying to fit in,” Carter says. “It was a choice he made, and he paid his debt.” Court documents from the case show that Robinson had been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and depression — problems that Carter says has little to do with his nephew’s identity or the events leading up to his death. He offers an alternative diagnosis: Robinson was a “modern, 21st century kid” with access to massive amounts of information and expansive social networks but who struggled to know how to express himself.

Tony Robinson with his mother, Andrea Irwin.

Robinson found acceptance in a closeknit group of friends who called themselves the “Splash Mob,” says Jordan Chester, a friend of Robinson’s and a student at East High. The two met in a middle school youth football league and would later explore the streets of Madison on their skateboards. The group’s unofficial headquarters on Willy Street — the main artery of what many consider Madison’s most liberal neighborhood — was the house Robinson had been living in with his friends, brothers Javier and Anthony Limon. That house was the scene of the fatal shooting. Says Chester: “I don’t think I can ever go back inside there.” n

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key study — removing newborns from their mothers to study anxiety. He insists the decision has nothing to do with public outcry against the study following a joint investigation by Isthmus and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, but because other research shows the separation doesn’t increase anxiety. Turns out being a research monkey is horrible even if you’re with your mother.

pic Systems founder E and CEO Judy Faulkner pledges to leave most of her stock holdings in Wisconsin’s largest information technology company to charity. The 71-year-old is reportedly worth more than $2.8 billion, but, as she says, “it was never about the money.�

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The Badgers men’s basketball team earns the No. 1 seed in the West Division of the 2015 NCAA Tournament, where they’ll have a fighting chance to win their first national title since 1941.

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Republican strategist Liz Mair resigns just a day after it was announced that Walker hired her to lead online communication efforts for his political action committee, Our American Revival. Her abrupt departure was fueled by criticism of a series of scathing tweets in which she criticized the Iowa caucus. She also says “fuck� a lot.

Uncle confirms nephew took hallucinogenic mushrooms The dangers of substance use can be compounded by inexperience, Schroeder adds. “A person who is using a hallucinogen for the first time trusts others as far as dosing and the potential effects,� he says. “They believe that it will be fun, the effects will wear off, the consequences will be few and they won’t be the guy who loses his life.� Robinson apparently reacted badly to the drug. Fearing for his safety and unable to handle his reaction, his friends called 911 to get him help. It’s unclear from the police radio transmissions whether or not authorities knew Robinson was under the influence of drugs, but the Madison Police Department has a special Mental Health Liaison program. “Because it is impossible to predict when and where a mental health crisis may erupt, the Madison Police Department trains each and every officer to respond to persons with mental illness with compassion, to utilize appropriate communication/de-escalation skills, and to work collaboratively toward an effective resolution,� the program pamphlet states. Carter has said repeatedly that he respects law enforcement and trusts officials to investigate the shooting fairly and thoroughly. But he is angry that Robinson was shot by a police officer instead of treated by a medic. “In society, don’t we want our children to be able to call for help when a situation has gone wrong?� he asks. — ALLISON GEYER

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On the last day of his life, Tony Robinson had hoped to make a spiritual journey. He asked his grandmother, Sharon Irwin, to “cleanse� him earlier in the day, says Turin Carter, who is Irwin’s son and Tony’s uncle. She burned sage and drew a bath with sea salt for her grandson. What his family didn’t know is that Robinson’s journey involved taking hallucinogenic mushrooms. “It was a terrible choice,� Carter says, adding that Robinson was inexperienced with the drug. Carter confirms what’s been reported in other media — attributed to anonymous sources — that Robinson had been high on mushrooms the night that he was killed by a Madison police officer. The state Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating the Robinson shooting. DOJ spokeswoman Anne Schwartz could not provide a toxicology report on Wednesday. An adverse reaction to the mushrooms may have caused Robinson’s behavior on March 6, when he reportedly attacked two people and ran out into traffic on Willy Street. “Recreational use of hallucinogenic drugs can cause disturbances in orientation of self, perception and cognition,� says Adam Schroeder, a substance abuse counselor and program manager with Community Partnerships, which serves individuals with mental health issues. “Violent behavior might be an aggressive response to anger, or it could be a natural defensive response to disturbed perception.�

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Community braces for dental clinic’s closing Max W. Pohle center has offered services for poor, disabled for 40 years BY SETH JOVAAG

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For months, Morgan Ernest lived in fear of the next infection. Only 35, her teeth were rotting. She recalls waking up a year ago with pain from abscesses “10 times worse than a toothache.” At the time, Ernest had a part-time job as a janitor but minimal dental insurance. She couldn’t afford co-pays for major procedures. With neglect, her problems got worse. “There were things I wanted to eat that I couldn’t,” she says. “I was losing weight. It was affecting my health.” Looking for better jobs felt hopeless, too. At interviews, she sensed the eyes of potential employers fixate on her mouth. “You can just tell by the look on their face,” she says. “They assume there’s something wrong with you. Do you use drugs? Do you have bad hygiene?” But last year, Ernest, who is currently homeless, found help at Madison Dental Initiative, a three-chair clinic inside the Salvation Army’s family shelter at 630 E. Washington Ave. Over the next six months, MDI’s volunteer dentists extracted what remained of her upper teeth and fitted her for dentures, free of charge. The pain was gone, and her smile returned. “People treat me different,” she says. “They treat me as an active part of society, even though I have been for years.... It’s unfair, but it’s how it is.” Ernest’s smile is a rare success story. Dental care is hard to come by for the uninsured or low-income patients covered by BadgerCare Plus, the state’s largest Medicaid program. Some fear it’s about to become even harder to find with the closing this summer of the Max W. Pohle Dental Clinic, in Meriter Hospital, 202 S. Park St., which has served low-income residents for almost 40 years.

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Medicaid reimbursements to Wisconsin dentists are among the nation’s lowest and don’t begin to cover dentists’ costs, so most dentists turn away patients covered by the program or strictly limit how many they take. MDI, which relies on volunteer dentists and a combination of grants and fundraising, was founded in 2009 as an antidote to a growing problem. By 2010, concerns over gaps in dental care prompted city and county health officials to team up with dental experts to issue a 2012 report about Dane County’s “oral health crisis.” It contained a raft of scary data. n Between 2005 and 2010, annual visits to

local emergency rooms for dental pain surged 65%, to nearly 2,600, at a cost of more than $1.6 million, even though ERs only provide pain relief and don’t fix the root problems.

After receiving upper dentures from the Madison Dental Initiative, Morgan Ernest (above) got her health and confidence back. Below, Dr. Grace Wenham works on a patient at the clinic inside the Salvation Army’s shelter on East Washington Avenue.

n In one year, roughly 3,300 absences at Dane

County middle and high schools were due to dental pain. n Inadequate

care was more common for people of color. For example, 39% of Hmong students and 26% of black students had not seen a dentist in more than a year, compared to 6% of white students

The report concluded: “This problem is larger than one organization, entity or group can address.” Recently, there have been signs of improvement. Between 2010 and 2013, ER visits for oral care at local hospitals dropped 22%, says Debi DeNure, dental health coordinator for Public Health of Madison-Dane County. That tops statewide declines of 6% over a similar period, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. DeNure couldn’t pinpoint an explanation for the decline but guesses the expansions of MDI and Access Community Health Centers, which operates two dental clinics for uninsured or Medicaid patients in Madison and two more in Sun Prairie and Dodgeville, have helped a lot. “We’re very lucky to have as many good dental providers as we have here,” she says. Last August, however, an announcement by Meriter-UnityPoint Health again shook up the dental community. The Max W. Pohle Dental Clinic, a mainstay in providing oral care to lowincome folks since 1977, would close in June.

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Named for a former Madison dentist who died in 1951, Max Pohle serves about 1,800 patients a year. But it was bleeding money, losing about $530,000 in 2014, says Meriter spokeswoman Leah Huibregtse.

Most of that loss was due to a small — and rare — program that serves about 100 patients a year who require full sedation before dental work because of severe developmental disabilities or other conditions. “That was one area where we thought it’s just not sustainable to keep any longer,” Huibregtse says. Statewide, only Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee offers a similar program, but it’s limited to people 21 and under. “I have been struggling to find colleagues who can help out and take over for these folks,” Dr. Stanley Brysh, Max Pohle’s dental director, told Wisconsin Health News last month. “When we go, I don’t know what is going to happen to these folks.” (Brysh declined to comment for this story). Max Pohle’s closing will also end the state’s only hospital-based residency program that trained young dentists to conduct operating room procedures. Again, no replacement has been identified. Losing both programs “delivers two major blows” to area dental care, said Dr. Thomas Reid, former president of the Greater Dane Dental Society, in a letter last December that urged Meriter to reconsider its decision. But a separate concern — that Max Pohle’s June 25 closing would flood nonprofits like Access and MDI with uninsured or BadgerCare patients — might not be as dire.

In advance of the closing, Meriter transferred the clinic’s $1 million endowment to Access, which has already hired three new dentists and is in the process of transferring more than 1,600 Max Pohle patients to its clinics, Huigbregtse says. In 2010, Access had 8,300 dental patients. Now it serves more than 14,000, and that could climb to 19,000 within 18 months, says Access spokesman Paul Harrison. That doesn’t include the thousands of low-income or uninsured kids given free dental screenings at 24 grade schools through the growing “Celebrate Smiles” program, which Access also manages. As a “federally qualified health center,” Access receives about $2 million annually in federal support to treat uninsured patients, and reimbursements for Medicaid are higher than for private practices. But the nonprofit has its limits. Access hasn’t taken new walk-in patients in Madison since last June, partly due to the looming transfer of Max Pohle clients, but also because it is linking more of its current medical patients with its dental programs, Harrison says. MDI, which doesn’t receive federal funding, is comparatively small. Last year, 29 dentists offered about $333,000 in free care to 700 patients. But demand has grown about 30% annually, and executive director Aaron Warren worries the trend — and Max Pohle’s closing — could overwhelm the small clinic. “2015 could be a hard road,” he says.

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David Gundersen, a Fitchburg dentist and president of the Oral Health Coalition of Dane County, says he’s confident Access “is doing everything it can” but will need help tackling “the hidden epidemic” of inadequate oral care. Gunderson is optimistic, though. While Max Pohle’s closing is a “moment of chaos,” he says, “that may offer opportunities.” Case in point: MDI is launching a new phone service that could become like a 211 service for people seeking affordable dental care, DeNure says. The coalition has pledged $30,000 this year and could chip in another $45,000 through 2017 to fund the community care dental coordinator position. Efforts like that could help all providers — both private practices and nonprofits — “pull together” and address the crisis, she says. Max Pohle’s closing “is scary because it’s unknown,” DeNure says, “but everyone is trying to figure out how to fill in the gaps. I’m hopeful.” n

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Saturday, March 21 “Honoring a Commitment” Advanced Screening The saga of finding, identifying and bringing home the remains of PFC Lawrence Gordon. Q&A with Jed Henry, Filmmaker 3:30 p.m., Genetics/Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall

“Particle Fever” movie

2 p.m., The Marquee, Union South, 1308 W. Dayton Street

“Amazing Microscopes” Tour, Laboratory for Optical & Computational Instrumentation 2:00 p.m., Animal Science Building, 1675 Observatory Drive

“Sweet Science, Sweeter Research” by Amy DeJong of “The Amazing Race” 2:30 p.m., Genetics/Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall

“Energy Innovation: UW and Beyond” by Alan Carroll 2:30 p.m., Wisconsin Energy Institute, 1552 University Avenue

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Inside UW-Madison’s Internet of Things Lab, Robert Scott Carson (left) and Shawn Bartel work on projects, including a smart helmet to gauge trauma.

A ‘technology sandbox’ UW lab examines how everyday objects can interact with the web BY ADAM POWELL

What is the Internet of Things? If you have a “smart” thermostat made by Nest, you’re already part of it. The Internet of Things (IoT) connects uniquely identifiable devices to the Internet. A networked smart appliance can text you if things are out of the ordinary, track usage and accept programming changes sent from a smartphone. Leveraging new tools that live on the Internet, objects that had seemed fixed in form are being reimagined all around us. This wave is coming fast and hard, but the Internet of Things Lab at UW-Madison is on top of it. In 2014, three UW mechanical engineering students outlined their plans for a smart football helmet that measures brain waves and communicates with medical staff in case of a possible concussion. It’s a lot better than “you see three fingers? Okay, get back in there, kid!” Sandra Bradley, director of research at the lab, is excited about the possibilities. “Our idea was to open up a technology sandbox and see what happens,” she says. “And it blew us away how much interest there was on campus and in the business community.” As Bradley explains, there are three legs to the IoT Lab’s platform. The first is handson student experience with exploring the latest technologies. The lab runs 15 projects with 40 students each semester. “We’re on the engineering campus, but we have psychology, communications and biomedical talent, which provides an interesting confluence of ideas.” To Bradley that’s the future of work, cross-functional teams that come together for a specific goal. The second leg, academic research, extends the reach of the platform. Bringing

faculty together around the student projects is “very powerful,” Bradley says. “This is a longer path and a different audience, but a critical part of the process.” The third leg is local companies: the startup community, small business and big business. “What we do is part of the Wisconsin Idea — that the university can have an impact beyond the school borders,” says Bradley. “So the question here becomes, what can the university do to bring value to the business community? It turns out that businesses have been extremely interested, particularly in what’s coming next in technology. They also see access to talent as very important.” The IoT lab is not funded by the university. Instead, it depends upon partnerships: Experiments and projects are funded by individual companies that are interested in the outcomes. “We are neck deep, in a good way, in organizations who have an interest in the lab,” Bradley says. “The bicycle theft prevention project came from the campus police approaching us.” A bike recovery network — consisting of bike racks that are able to identify stolen bikes and then notify you and the police — sounds good for everyone in the public and private sectors. “The students come in with a lot of ideas, and they don’t have those blocks, like ‘we’ve tried that and it doesn’t work,’” says Bradley. “They tend to respond with ‘what if we turn it upside down? What if we try this?’ instead.” The IoT lab had more than 100 students and 500 attendees at its last open house, so clearly it is on to something big, and all eyes are on the kids. n

WATERWAYS SARAH FITZSIMONS, MARSHA MCDONALD, & JOHN MILLER An exhibition of paintings, prints, sculpture, and video works that investigate water’s substance, actions, and powerful, poetic voice.

MARCH 10 – MAY 10, 2015 On Sunday, March 22, 1–4:00 pm, join us for a reception and celebration of World Water Day, with talks by the artists and a performance of Handel’s Water Music by the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. To learn more, visit wisconsinacademy.org/gallery

John Miller, Across the Cove (detail), 2014. Four color screenprint.

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Ironically, a company that barely existed at the time of Madison’s last mayoral election is central to the current election. The company is Uber, an app-based “ridesharing” service that allows users to book transportation to desired destinations using mobile phones. The entire transaction is arranged and settled through the Uber app, and no money changes hands between passenger and driver. Research shows that wait times for Uber cars are dramatically shorter than for typical taxi dispatch, and fares can be as much as 40% to 50% below traditional taxi rates. Uber also allows customers to choose from a variety of options and thereby customize their riding experience. The combination of lower prices, greater convenience and more options has made Uber remarkably successful, expanding to over 200 cities in at least 53 countries since December 2011. Madison, however, is not one of those cities. Although you can book an Uber ride here, ridesharing services remain illegal. The Transit and Parking Commission is currently considering whether Uber and other ridesharing firms (such as Lyft) should be allowed to operate in the city, and some local officials are taking a hard line against the newcomers. Leading the charge is Mayor Paul Soglin, who treats Uber as if it were the spawn of Satan, or at least the Koch brothers. The Paul Soglin for Mayor website describes Uber as a “company headed by a devotee of Ayn Rand” that makes “conscious decisions to destroy full-time jobs.” The mayor likens Uber to a “new form of serfdom,” which might be accurate if medieval serfs used smartphone apps and complex, back-end routing algorithms to find rides to their masters’ fields. His mayoral challenger, Scott Resnick, takes a different view. The first item on his campaign’s site declares that Uber, Lfyt and other ridesharing firms “are here and they are not going away.” Resnick believes cutting-edge ridesharing technology can help “devise innovative solutions that meet our city’s transportation needs.” Nevertheless,

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he wishes to load a number of regulations onto Uber and similar firms that currently apply to taxis, including licensing by the city, background checks on drivers, insurance requirements and restrictions on “surge” pricing during high-demand times. Resnick’s position is more reasonable than the mayor’s, but it still doesn’t recognize how technology and Uber’s business model make such mandates unnecessary. Uber does its own background checks on drivers, and each Uber ride can be tracked in real time. Passengers can also review Uber drivers (and vice versa); new customers can check the reviews before accepting a particular driver. Such crowd-sourced reviews create transparency and “reputational effects” that help keep drivers honest and courteous. Uber rides are also entirely cashless, which greatly reduces potential dangers. These unique features actually improve the safety of Uber rides compared with traditional taxis, and none would be enhanced by an additional background check. Just who is covered by Uber’s insurance policy — and when — has been controversial nationally, but the company is a well-capitalized firm that can absorb potential liability from accidents.

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“Surge” pricing is critical for ensuring that the demand for Uber cars does not exceed available supply. Unlike conventional taxis, customers see what Uber intends to charge before they accept or reject a potential ride, so pricing that reflects demand does not exploit customers. All of this may, or may not, be interesting, but it raises the question: Why is a new ridesharing service a salient political issue? Since when do elections depend on taxis, rather than taxes? The reason is Uber is symbolic of a new and broader development called the “sharing economy” or “peer to peer” (P2P) networks. A central idea behind the sharing economy is us-

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ing technology to unite a diffuse network of consumers to share or exchange underused assets. Uber does this by allowing people to rent unused space in existing cars. Other examples of P2P include housing (e.g. AirBnB, which rents unused rooms in houses), publishing, music and credit. The sharing economy and P2P networks are tremendously appealing to tech-savvy young adults. This demographic is growing in Madison and is increasingly concentrated in new housing on or near the isthmus. These are also Uber people; I’d wager that nearly every Epic employee hired in the last 10 years is an Uber fan. The isthmus and near east side is also Scott Resnick’s base, so it’s not surprising that he’s identified himself, more or less, as the pro-Uber candidate in the mayor’s race. Doing so puts Resnick on the side of a new, P2P vision for economic development, in contrast to what may be perceived as Soglin’s stodgier, TIF-centric approach. Even if it is mostly symbolic, this is smart politics, highlighting Resnick’s own tech background, and it could extend his appeal to technophiles throughout the city. Will it be enough to put him over the top on April 7? Of course Soglin is a heavy favorite, but he’s lost before, and motivation is critical in low-turnout elections. Whatever happens, this probably won’t be the last time Uber or other P2P issues play a role in Madison politics. n Larry Kaufmann is an economic consultant based in Madison.

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When I was growing up, I watched reruns of the original series, and it just didn’t seem that far away. We already had big silver and white spaceships like the Enterprise: NASA’s Saturn V moon rockets were blasting off all the time, with crews going farther, staying longer. I figured that by the time I was an adult, we’d have licked the solar system and gone looking for Vulcans. It seemed reasonable. I nagged my mom to buy Pillsbury Space Food Sticks. I drank Tang — the astronauts’ favorite! — and saved the labels to send in for a plastic moon buggy. I had a Sears geology set, so I would be ready to study moon rocks. Best of all, I had the Action Cape Kennedy Carry-All Play Set, a sort of metal suitcase with an air base inside, filled with plastic rockets and spring-loaded launch pads. Yes, they could put your eye out, but astronauts are accustomed to risk; I wanted to go to the moon. Eventually, I had to face reality. Star Trek had been canceled by the time I discovered it. Then Apollo was canceled, too. Barring an encounter with a flying saucer, I was forced to accept that I would not be leaving this planet. Then, a few years ago, noodling around online, I discovered that many of the Apollo lunar samples had vanished. The U.S. missions returned 837.87 pounds of lunar material. Three Soviet Union robotic missions returned an additional 11.5 ounces. That’s all there is in the world. Even the smallest amount is impossibly precious. Two sets of lunar samples, from Apollo 11 and 17, the first and last manned missions to the moon, were awarded by President Richard Nixon to 135 countries, five U.S. territories, and all 50 states. They’re termed the “goodwill moon rocks,” and are the ones that tend to go missing. NASA’s responsibility ended when they were turned over to the Nixon administration, though the agency is belatedly trying to track them. Last fall I checked to see where Wisconsin’s rocks are. Turns out, they were missing. Maybe it wasn’t too late for me to hold a piece of another world in my hands. Maybe I could look for moon rocks...on the Earth.

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missing moon rocks, the best place to start is with Joseph Gutheinz, an attorney and former Army intelligence officer. He previously served as senior special agent at NASA’s Office of Inspector General. “Back in 1998 I created an undercover sting operation to find counterfeit moon rocks,” he says by phone from his law firm in Friendswood, Texas. “That was a pretty big business. People were involved in it all over the world.” The NASA sting was called Operation Lunar Eclipse. His team set up a bogus firm and advertised that it was buying moon rocks. The idea was to trick con artists with fakes into coming to Gutheinz. Surprisingly, a man in Miami seemed to have the real thing: 1.142 grams of lunar material. The asking price was $5 million. Assessing the value of moon rocks is difficult, since they can only be sold on the black market. “There was only one legitimate sale of rocks or dust brought back from the moon,” Gutheinz tells me. “That was from Luna 16, a Soviet Union unmanned robotic mission. They sold .2 grams in 1993 for $442,500.” The Miami seller claimed to have almost six times that. To work the sting, Gutheinz’ team needed $5 million. They got Texas billionaire and former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot to put up the money. It took two months of negotiation to make a deal.

Harrison H. Schmitt (left), a UW-Madison professor, scoops debris into a bag held by Eugene A. Cernan during a mock lunar surface training exercise conducted at the Kennedy Space Center. Schmitt later repeated the task on the moon as part of the Apollo 17 landing in December 1972. Samples of the moon rocks were given to Wisconsin by President Richard Nixon.

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One of his readers related a story about finding rocks presumed missing in a different state: “I found it. It’s in the back room,” the person wrote. “They’re not displaying it because they thought it didn’t look very pretty.” Pearlman says: “So it became somewhat of a crusade to not only find these rocks but to restore the understanding and appreciation for why they were here and deserve to be in the spotlight.” As of this writing, Apollo 11 samples given to five states and 97 foreign countries and U.S. territories are unaccounted for. Five Apollo 17 state samples are missing, as are those awarded to 81 foreign countries and territories. So where have missing goodwill moon rocks been found? Most have been right where they were supposed to be, but there was no paper trail. Others have strayed far. A dentist had West Virginia’s Apollo 17 rock. Alaska’s Apollo 11 rock turned up in Texas. Colorado’s governor took his state’s Apollo 17 rock home with him in 1975 and didn’t return it until 2010, long after he had left office. Canada’s Apollo 17 rock was in a warehouse. Malta’s Apollo 17 rock was stolen. Ireland’s Apollo 11 rock wound up in a landfill. There was no expectation that moon rocks would become as rare as they are. While Apollo

was the beginning of manned lunar exploration, no one anticipated that it would also be its end. “The bottom line was that, back in the Apollo days, they just thought, ‘Gee, we’re just going to keep on going to the moon. This is the start. After this initial group [of landings] we’ll have a permanent manned presence on the moon and all of that kind of stuff.’” says Gutheinz. “And [the rocks] weren’t safeguarded as well as they should have been.” So whatever happened to Wisconsin’s moon rocks? Nobody seemed to know.

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was exceptionally clear. UW-Madison professor Harrison Schmitt and a coworker, Gene Cernan, decided to go for a walk. They were on the moon — and were the last humans to have walked on it. Schmitt hadn’t yet joined the UW, but he is the only scientist to have visited our nearest neighbor in the solar system. All other Apollo crew members were military pilots. He has a doctorate in archaeology, and his friends call him Jack. “Jack started [with us] in the late ’80s, and he has been working with us ever since,” says Gerald Kulcinski, director emeritus of the UW Fusion Technology Institute, part of the College

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It turned out to be a goodwill lunar sample from Honduras. It was seized and returned to that country, and Perot got his money back. In 2002, Gutheinz created the Moon Rock Project at the University of Phoenix. He put his graduate students on the track of lunar samples worldwide. They’ve found 78 so far. They work with collectSPACE, a website that is the last word on space news, collectibles and goodwill moon rocks. Journalist and space historian Robert Pearlman is the site’s creator, editor and lead writer. The website began in 1999, but its roots go back further. “When I was 6 years old, I wanted to be an astronaut,” Pearlman says by phone from Houston, near the Johnson Space Center. He covered Operation Lunar Eclipse and became excited to find goodwill rocks himself. He initially searched only for other countries’ Apollo 17 goodwill rocks, because he wasn’t aware there were more out there. That’s how little information there was at the time. “I didn’t have any luck in finding more than a handful,” he says. “It became obvious that this was a problem — that a number of them were lost to history.” Almost as bad, some were purposefully kept hidden.

of Engineering. “We actually made a couple of proposals to NASA for a lunar lander, and Jack was the lead on that for the university.” As adjunct faculty, Schmitt visits campus several times a year from his home in New Mexico, where he served as a U.S. senator from 1977 to 1983. In 1972 he was an Apollo 17 astronaut. He blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 7. “The launch went exactly as I expected and was trained for, other than the fact that you don’t train for the extremely heavy vibration that comes from the five big engines of the first stage,” he tells me from his home in Albuquerque. “If you’ve ever driven your pickup truck down the ties of a railroad track, it’s a little bit like that. The gauges and dials in front of you are unreadable because of that vibration.” During the trip to the moon, Apollo 17’s crew took the famous “Blue Marble” photo, one of the very few images of the entire Earth without shadow. It later became a postage stamp. No one recalls who exactly took the photo, but many believe it was Schmitt. The lunar surface was “a beautiful place to be,” Schmitt recalls. “A deep valley, deeper than the Grand Canyon, brilliantly illuminated by a sun brighter than any you experience here on Earth, because there’s no atmosphere on the moon.” As on this planet, stars are not visible during the day on the moon. “The mountains on either side of the valley are outlined against an absolutely black sky,” he says. “That probably is the hardest thing to get used to: a brilliant sun and a black sky.” During their three days on the moon — the longest of any Apollo mission — he and Cernan collected 243 pounds of rock and dust, another Apollo record. By contrast, during Apollo 11 in July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin collected a little more than 47 pounds during the two hours and 31 minutes they spent outside their lunar lander. One 2,957-gram rock Schmitt found was later tagged “Lunar Basalt 70017.” It was selected just before they left to rendezvous with their command module and return to Earth. “It was in the rock debris layer that covers the moon,” he says. “This particular rock was right near the lunar module. It was pretty good size.” Back at Apollo Mission Control in Houston, 80 “youth ambassadors” from around the world had gathered as part of a NASA promotion. Transmitting from the moon, Cernan told the children, “When we return this rock

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The Wisconsin Historical Society’s Paul Bourcier (right) stands next to moon samples from Apollo 11 and Apollo 17. The rocks are in storage at the society and there are no plans to put them on display. A close-up (left) of Wisconsin’s ‘good will’ moon sample from Apollo 17. .

or some of the others like it to Houston, we’d like to share a piece of this rock with so many of the countries throughout the world.” “That had been planned,” Schmitt tells me. “At the end of our stay on the lunar surface, we would pick up a rock and dedicate it specifically to the children of the Earth, and it would be cut up into pieces and distributed to museums around the world.”

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work out that way. At least one of the goodwill samples cut from Lunar Basalt 70017 was actually awarded by Nixon to a youth ambassador, a 13-year-old from Canada. And Wisconsin’s? “I hope that you find them,” Schmitt tells me. “New Mexico’s governor at the time took our state’s moon rocks, but finally returned them. Arkansas’ were found in with some of Clinton’s papers, I believe.” Schmitt has one suggestion: “They might be at the geology museum on the university campus.” They aren’t, though the museum previously displayed moon rock replicas. Nor are they at UW Space Place, the astronomy department’s education and public outreach center. I continued to identify and eliminate suspects. For a time, some space buffs believed that one of Wisconsin’s samples was at the charmingly named Deke Slayton Memorial Space and Bicycle Museum in Sparta, the self-proclaimed “Bicycling Capital of America.” Donald Kent “Deke” Slayton (1924-1993), one of the town’s favorite sons, was a Mercury astronaut and, later, chief of the Astronaut Office, overseeing astronaut selection and training. The museum web-

site states that “it is home to Wisconsin’s only piece of the moon,” but it’s a different sample, on loan from NASA, not one of the goodwill pieces gifted by Nixon. “I sent your inquiry to a few people here — but no moon rocks at Milwaukee Public Museum, and no one has heard about the samples to Wisconsin,” Bob Bonadurer emailed me. He’s director of the museum’s planetarium. “If you do find anything, I would be curious about your results.” Schmitt’s mention of governors offered clues, however. The Wisconsin governors during Apollo were Warren Knowles and Patrick Lucey. Knowles died in 1993, and Lucey died last year at the age of 96. It was too many years later to ask anyone from their administrations, even if I could find them. But perhaps newspapers of the day had reported ceremonies at the Capitol, during which Apollo samples were awarded. I checked the public library’s clipping files for each governor. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, Knowles had been given a Wisconsin flag by Slayton and Jim Lovell, a UW engineering alumnus most famous for commanding Apollo 13 (“Houston, we’ve had a problem”). But their meeting with Knowles was in 1966, three years before the first moon landing. The flag was from Lovell’s Gemini VII mission, part of the first rendezvous in space. I had a little better luck with Lucey. According to the October 1973 issue of the UW’s Wisconsin Engineer magazine, astronauts Charles Conrad and Paul Weitz had visited campus “last week” to address 400 students at Union South, after which they visited the Capitol. (Earlier that year Conrad and Weitz had crewed Skylab II, a space station program that made use of leftover pieces of Apollo rockets.)

There was no mention of it in the article, but the headline read, “Skylab II Astronauts Defend Space Research; Astronaut Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad presents Gov. Patrick Lucey with a small piece of moon rock.” That was all. But was it a moon rock from Apollo 11 or 17? And where was it now?

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day not long ago, I trekked to the headquarters of the Wisconsin Historical Society at the foot of State Street. I killed time in the marble lobby by looking at a temporary exhibition honoring Increase Lapham, a significant early explorer, not of the moon but of Wisconsin. I was joined by Paul Bourcier, chief curator, division of museums and historic sites. A kind man, I got the sense that he was gently humoring someone he thought was a bit mad. He had me sign in, checked my ID, and then escorted me into a secure area. It was dim, filled with dark, institutional cabinets. A single employee was hunched over some kind of report. And there they were. There were Wisconsin’s lunar samples, encased in acrylic and mounted, lying bright on top of a cloth laid over a broad work table. I measured them. I asked and was allowed to hold them. I took off my glasses to put my eyes as close as I could. I’m afraid I looked an embarrassingly long time. Pieces of another world. Wisconsin’s Apollo 11 display consists of four rice-sized pieces of stone totaling about 50 milligrams, encased in a flattened acrylic globe about the circumference of a Gatorade cap. The rounded casing serves to enlarge the samples but, even so, it’s difficult to make out any special detail. However, their material is assuredly remarkable; analysis of Apollo 11 lunar samples revealed the existence of three minerals that

were — excuse the sci-fi cliché — previously unknown to science: titanium-rich armalcolite; tranquillityite, a silicate; and pyroxferroite, formed at extremely high temperatures. All were subsequently discovered on Earth, usually in association with meteor impact sites, tranquillityite only three years ago. The Apollo 11 presentation piece containing the lunar sample is a small podium made of stained, fine-grained wood. It includes a nylon Wisconsin flag that was carried to the moon and back. Wisconsin’s Apollo 17 display consists of a small, rough cube of rock, encased in a Lucite sphere slightly larger than a golf ball, similarly mounted on a fine-grained, stained wooden plaque. The sample is about the size of the nail on your small finger, and is estimated to be 3.7 billion years old. Its dark gray-black surface is curious, like dense steel wool or a broken piece of charcoal, with reflective flecks of silverblue. This display also includes a Wisconsin flag, carried to the moon and back. According to Historical Society records, Wisconsin’s Apollo 11 display was received by Gov. Knowles in December 1970. He turned it over to the society while cleaning out his work area. His successor, Gov. Lucey, took office the next month. Lucey received the Apollo 17 display in 1973, just as Wisconsin Engineer magazine suggested, but it wasn’t delivered to the society until 2001, 28 years later, by Gov. Scott McCallum. Wisconsin Historical Society records suggest it was on display in the Capitol at “some point.” The society has no record that the Apollo 11 display was ever publicly exhibited anywhere. It has no current plans to exhibit either display.

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I’d found Wisconsin’s lunar samples. But I hadn’t rediscovered them. The final clue, if it can be called a clue, came when Gutheinz called me the day after we’d spoken. He thought he remembered that they were at the Historical Society. Pearlman verified that; the collectSPACE webpage just hadn’t been updated yet. (NASA’s tracking webpage still shows no Wisconsin samples at all, anywhere.) Though I hadn’t known it, last October Eric Ray, the curator of the Museum of the Coastal Bend at Victoria College, in Victoria, Texas, was working on a space exhibit that opened this month. He got in touch with Pearlman. “In learning about the moon rocks and the search we were doing,” said Pearlman, “he got really excited and spent a couple of days and, through his contacts, reached out into the museum community to see what ones he could find.” Ray found one in Kansas, one in South Carolina, and both of Wisconsin’s. My search did do one valuable thing, at least. “The important thing is to go and actually make sure they’re there,” Gutheinz had warned me. “We’ve had cases where we’ve gone to look, and they haven’t been.” So I went. And they were. It didn’t feel like enough. I hadn’t done anything special.

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a new, bolder lunar dream. But, unlike my Apollo childhood, his vision seems certain to stretch beyond my life. “I think that NASA’s way for human beings to get to Mars is to go by way of the moon, for a whole bunch of different reasons, not the least of which is that it’s going to take a couple generations of young people to make all of this happen,” he tells me. “You’ve got to remember that Apollo, as with most of humankind’s major projects, are efforts conducted by young people. They have to develop the new base of experience,” he says. “We do not have a young generation with nearly the diversity of experience necessary to work in deep space. They’ve definitely been doing a great job with the [International Space Station, in close-Earth orbit], but deep space is a much less forgiving experience.” “We’re just going to have to get a new generation of young people to do that.” It’s a fascinating dream, but not one I could be a part of. Space travel will always be a distant fantasy for me. The morning after I examined Wisconsin’s moon rocks I was up early, taking my recyclables out to the dumpster. I looked up and it hit me in the face. The moon. Bright, serene, centered in a ghostly winter’s mist. It was cold. I stood there awhile. It would be dramatic to say that I shivered, but I didn’t. I simply chucked my garbage. Michigan’s Apollo 17 rock is still missing, and it was time to get to work. n

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A tale of perseverance Author Steven Salmon has cerebral palsy but creates manuscripts using Morse code BY MARY ELLEN BELL type on a standard computer. Instead he taps out each word in Morse code using a special headset — a painstakingly slow process. Yet he spends hours each day at his computer: composing, editing and rewriting. “Not being able to speak is not the same as not having anything to say” is his motto, and in his case, what he has to say is that his disability doesn’t define who he is. “I’m just like everyone else, but with a handicap,” he explains. Salmon has published a children’s book, Cat’s Tail, and two novels, The Unusual Writer

and Buddy Why. He is finishing his fourth, Just a Regular Kid Like You, aimed at a young-adult audience. His work draws on his own experiences and is intended to help readers better understand people who have cerebral palsy. Salmon’s big break happened when he met his agent, Tina Schwartz, at the University of Wisconsin’s annual Writers’ Institute two years ago. The program is a three-day weekend crammed with workshops on topics ranging from how to write a cliffhanger to composing a query letter. It also offers writers a

chance to pitch their books to professional literary agents. The 2015 event is March 27-29 at the Madison Concourse Hotel. Salmon has attended the last eight Writers’ Institute programs and says it is the highlight of his year. “It is a chance for me to meet with other writers, with agents, publishers and booksellers,” he says. “I learn so much from everyone, and it’s my chance to get out into the world. Writing

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Steven Salmon has some advice for aspiring writers: “Just go get it.” The author of three books, with a fourth in final revisions, understands that many writers struggle to become published authors. But he says if he can do it, anyone can. After all, Salmon has overcome many hurdles to achieve his writing success: Diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy as an infant, he speaks with great difficulty and uses a wheelchair to get around. Unable to control his hands, he cannot

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The brutal Wisconsin winter is fading outside, and sun streams through the windows of this warm and comfortable cafe on the far west side. A woman coos to her newborn. An elderly couple play cards. A wiry, bespectacled man strokes his neatly trimmed beard, engrossed in a novel in a comfortable-looking chair. The bookshelf includes a manga collection and Nick Hornby’s About a Boy. Locally produced art, available for purchase, adorns the walls. TnT’s Coffee & Cafe feels of a piece with the immediately adjacent Alicia Ashman Library, both relaxing places to settle in for a while and contemplate life. The friendly staff doesn’t seem to mind if you linger — so how about a cup of joe? Colectivo is the house bean, and it keeps TnT’s firmly grounded in the coffee house tradition. That’s a big part of their thing: coffee drinks for miles. You can get a black eye (a shot of espresso in coffee), café miel

(espresso with honey and cinnamon), café mocha with white chocolate, or a latte macchiato topped with a drizzle of caramel. Beyond coffee fare, these folks have an interesting menu of breakfast sandwiches, Belgian waffles and breakfast burritos. And home-stewed pulled pork with sliced red onion and tomato on a pretzel roll. But let’s start with the stupendous surprise, the astonishing array of Belgian waffle recipes. TnT’s 23 versions of this breakfast concoction range from the obvious (dotted with berries, chocolate chips, sliced bananas, whipped cream) to the unanticipated (a chocolate waffle topped with crushed peanut butter cups). The waffles, crunchy on the exterior and light and fluffy inside, are dusted with confectioner’s sugar. I like them especially set against tart, firm strawberries and chilled whipped cream, as in the “Tooty Fruity.” A standing menu item of dark chocolate waffles smothered with raspberries and tiny nuggets of white chocolate feels rich and life-affirming. Irregular edges speak to the homemade nature of each plate; the batters for the Belgian waffles are

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The ‘other red meat’ Roast turtle is on the Dorf Haus menu for Lent BY KYLE NABILCY

It’s fitting that an old-old-old-school restaurant like Roxbury’s Dorf Haus would be the one in the area to serve snapping turtle. It’s such a throwback food item, one that very few people under 60 in America would even think to turn to as a red meat alternative. My stepfather recalls his father teaching him how to butcher a turtle when he was a kid in northeastern Wisconsin — this would have been not long after the Dorf Haus opened, back in 1959 — but it was a tradition already slipping away at that point. The dish is served only on Lenten Fridays, and each platter will set you back about $16. This is a fair price, as the platter includes a heap of roast turtle and gravy, mashed potatoes and more gravy, and simple cooked carrots. A salad bar trip is optional, and extra. Somehow, Dorf Haus’ annual turtle cookery escaped my notice until last month, and I’m the guy who has eaten lutefisk and raccoon for Isthmus’ Fringe Foods column. I scheduled a road trip almost as soon as possible, but by the time my roughly two-hour wait was up on Feb. 27, that week’s supply

of turtle had run out. More turtle had been sold in the first 45 minutes of service that day, I was told, than in the entirety of the first Friday of Lent. Part of the complication is that Dorf Haus also serves one of the best fish fry dinners in south central Wisconsin. All-you-can-eat fried haddock is the main draw, and rightly so. It did give me something delicious to eat after that long wait — there are no reservations at Dorf Haus, except for parties of eight or more — but I was determined to go back and avoid that whipcrack of disappointment by having a portion reserved for me the following week. (This is something any turtle aficionado can do; one needn’t be a food writer.) And it worked, though by this Friday business had settled down and there would have been plenty. Dorf Haus co-owner Rebecca Maier-Frey recognized my face — among so many, how? — when I arrived at her hostess station. Our excellent server, Beth, mentioned finally having her first taste of turtle the previous week, after three years of working at the Dorf Haus. Roasted turtle is so much like red meat it’s no wonder the Dorf Haus has confirmed with religious authorities that it conforms with

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Lenten rules on red meat abstinence. The texture is never mushy, but rather like the most tender pot roast you’ll ever encounter. There are, however, the occasional bites that are distinctly lakeshore, as fish-tasting as anything with fins and scales would be. It’s an unusual but not unpleasant juxtaposition. The wait is long at the Dorf Haus, but the

beers are hearty and Germanic, and the old fashioneds are made from scratch. You could do a lot worse than killing an hour or two at one of the Dorf Haus’ two bars before settling in for some excellent fish. Or, if you’re up for the challenge, like Beth and me, snap up some turtle before Lent is done. n

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Hot plates What to eat this week A different kind of Irish bar Whole Foods, 3313 University Ave., 608-233-9566

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DLUX localizes the minty ice cream treat, adopting Sassy Cow vanilla as a base, blended with a housemade mint syrup. It’s topped with a sprinkling of Lucky Charms. Obviously, it’s magically delicious, and on the menu through the end of March.

Drinking the espresso miel at Fair Trade Coffee House, 418 State St., is like kissing your high school girlfriend for the 13th time. It’s warm and comfortable with just a hint of sweetness, but not quite thrilling enough to hold your complete attention. You’re holding Betty, but Veronica lingers in the back of your mind. I tasted my first sip in front of the barista, at her request. “Very tasty,” I told her honestly, licking the foam from my mustache before retiring to a small table amid the bustle of Fair Trade’s inexplicable 4 o’clock Sunday rush. The espresso miel is a latte enhanced by a few squirts of honey and a shake or two of cinnamon, which blended nicely into the steamed milk. Fair Trade’s espresso roast is a blend of Ethiopian, Peruvian and Nicaraguan beans, but there’s little hint of those far-flung exotic places in the final product, which is gentle

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Winter Smash segues into spring Happy hour menu at Nostrano For those who like a little nosh with their cocktail, Nostrano has upped the stakes in the downtown after-work scene. The restaurant’s “aperitivo” happy hour, from 4 to 6 p.m., sports a menu that ranges from marinated olives to game bird skewers to a sampler platter of Elizabeth Dahl’s famed pastries, all for under $11. The drinks are a big draw, too. An always-rotating cocktail employing seasonal jam (called, appropriately, the Jam Session) keeps the options fresh. There’s also an elegant, brightly flavored Winter Smash based on North Shore’s Distiller’s Gin No. 11. The botanicals in the gin play well with Aquavit and grapefruit (as well as the addi-

tional barrel-aged Genever gin), to highlight a wonderful carawayinflected flavor. It is a crisp segue from late winter to spring. For die-hard cocktail geeks, the highlight of the menu could be a barrel-aged Martinez — the precursor cocktail to the Martini that uses Old Tom gin (think of a sweetened version of the London dry style) and orange bitters (Nostrano uses tangerine), as well as sweet vermouth instead of dry. Smoothed by time in oak, the drink is an uplifting bit of history, perfect for relaxing after a day at the office. — ANDRÉ DARLINGTON

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Sunday, March 22

The fifth SloPig celebration of heritage pork and craft punch will feature chefs Chris Pandel of the Bristol in Chicago; Thi Co of Buckley’s and Justin Aprahamian of Sanford in Milwaukee; and Daniel Bonanno of A Pig in a Fur Coat and Tory Miller of L’Etoile, in Madison. 5 pm at the Madison Club, 5 E. Wilson St. $100/VIP $150, tickets available at isthmustickets.com.

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Fresh off its MACN Week chef-driven bagel menu success, Gotham New York Bagels and Eats will guest-chef at UW Slow Food’s Family Dinner Night. The emphasis is on local ingredients, and the cost is just $5 for three courses. It’s best to pre-pay at squareup. com/market/slow-food-uw. 6:30 pm (arrive 6:15 pm), 1127 University Ave., lower level.

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East’s unexpected trip to State BY MICHAEL POPKE

Until late Saturday night, it appeared as if the Madison area would not boast a representative in the 100th edition of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Boys’ State Basketball Championship, which tips off Thursday at the Kohl Center. Other area schools had been eliminated from the playoffs by the time the Madison East Purgolders — driven by talent, adrenaline and sheer emotion following a tumultuous week — crushed Kenosha’s Indian Trail High School, 65-39, to advance to the state tournament for the first time since 1990. Madison East plowed through three Big Eight Conference rivals en route to its meeting with Indian Trail, while the community mourned Tony Robinson, the 19-year-old unarmed biracial man shot and killed by a Madison police officer March 6. In fact, the shooting caused the rescheduling of East’s regional final against Middleton from March 7 to March 10. Many East students knew Rob-

inson, including senior guard Jordan Chester, who told those gathered at a March 8 vigil that the Purgolders would dedicate the rest of the season to Robinson’s memory and predicted East would advance to the state tourney. Senior forward D’Angelo Millon, interviewed by a Milwaukee reporter later in the week, indicated that this streak is about a lot more than basketball. East players and fans wore “Black Lives Matter” T-shirts during the team’s emotional run, and more than 1,000 people packed East’s field house and secondary gymnasium for Robinson’s funeral Saturday, just JENEENE OLSON-MCCONLEY hours before the Purgolders earned a trip to the Kohl Center Purgolder pride builds as the team prepares to play Germantown on Friday. with that convincing win over Indian Trail. On the court, the Purgolders, led by junior East — a number 4 seed heading into the play Madison Memorial has been the dominant boys’ guard Tre’Vone Irby and senior guard basketball team in the area, winning three state titles offs. The Purgolders won their two sectional De’Shawn Burks, will face three-time degames by 30 and 26 points — something I’m since 2005 and making the finals seven of the past fending state champion Germantown (and not sure anybody saw coming. eight years. But when the Spartans fell to Indian Trail its 26-0 record) on Friday at 8:15 p.m. East’s challenges aren’t over yet, though. in this year’s sectionals, they left the door open for

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can be lonely, and I am not able to get out of the house very often.” Salmon is a popular guy at the Writers’ Institute, notes its director, Laurie Scheer. “He is very outgoing, and everyone is very friendly and welcoming,” she says. “He always has another writer accompanying him to help him get around and help to interpret questions and interactions,” she said. “I think other writers are inspired by his dedication and passion for writing.”

Tina Schwartz, Salmon’s agent, says she was immediately impressed by his determination and attitude. “I could tell he was a hard worker and a furious writer. Every year he had another book out,” she says. Last year, Schwartz suggested to Salmon that he try writing a book for young adults. “He had a first draft for me in four months,” she says. Schwartz says Salmon is effective at marketing his books, getting reviews in newspapers and magazines, placing his books in local bookstores, listing his work on Amazon.com and promoting the books on his website and blog. Salmon names some of his influences as Stephen Hawking, mathematician and author of books including A Brief History of Time; Christy Brown, the author and painter depicted in the film My Left Foot; and a junior high school special education teacher with cerebral palsy who inspired him to go to college. “Hopefully other severely physically disabled people will follow in my footsteps,” he says. n

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Salmon, 47, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was seven months old. He grew up on a farm outside Racine and knew he wanted to be a writer, but school wasn’t easy for him. “I had physical, occupational therapy and speech therapy for years growing up,” says Salmon. “Speech therapy didn’t change my speech impediment, and physical therapy didn’t do much good due to my tight muscles.” Realizing he could not do much about his body, he decided to focus on his brain and made getting an education his priority. After being mainstreamed into regular school when he started seventh grade, he was bullied frequently. The bullying of people with disabilities is an important theme in his latest manuscript. And his physical disability made doing schoolwork challenging at a time when computers for the disabled were still in early development. “When I was an adolescent, I used to type using a pencil in my mouth,” he says. “My drooling gummed up the typewriter keyboard, and my teeth bit pencils in two. So I dictated to my aides, teachers and parents.” At age 18, he graduated from Racine Case High School and visited the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR), an agency that assists the disabled in finding jobs and purchasing specialized equipment. “They told me I was unemployable,”

Salmon says. “I was hurt. It made me very angry, since all that I wanted was to go to college. After sitting at home for two years, I vowed that I would succeed in college and prove DVR wrong.” Determined to move forward, in 1989 he moved to Madison and attended MATC, now Madison College, for five years before transferring to UW-Stevens Point. Finally, in 1998, he received his bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in writing. “Steve was a very good student,” says Larry Watson, Salmon’s former writing teacher at Stevens Point. “He always got his work in on time, and he was always prepared for class. And because I said that participation in discussions was a requirement, that meant he had to be prepared to speak up in class. He did, and it wasn’t easy for him,” says Watson.

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Masterful discography Willy Porter has three decades of recording under his belt BY ANDREW BRANDT

A Wisconsin native with a discography that’s as varied as it is good, Willy Porter is now in his third decade of playing rock, blues and folk tunes. Porter’s latest release, Human Kindness, showcases his charming songs and masterful guitar work. Figuring out where to dive into a decadeslong body of work can be a daunting task. If you’re intent on familiarizing yourself with Porter’s music before his March 28 performance at the High Noon Saloon, the following songs are excellent entry points: “Cool Water,” The Trees Have Soul, 1990 Sometimes the most reasonable place to start is at the beginning, with the first track on Porter’s label debut, The Trees Have Soul. Though the lyrics focus on secrets and cloudy skies, “Cool Water” feels instrumentally relaxed — truly as cool as its title implies.

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“Jesus on the Grille,” Dog-Eared Dream, 1994 This is arguably one of the funkiest offerings from Porter’s long career. Built on a groovy bass part and drum rhythms that straddle the line between reggae and mainstream country music, the track became a crowd-pleaser dur-

ing the Porter’s days on the national touring circuit in the mid-1990s. And while the song offers religious commentary, it maintains a fun, light tone. “Paper Airplane,” Falling Forward, 1999 At first, “Paper Airplane” feels like a simple love song. Strumming an acoustic guitar and accompanied by a string section, Porter details all the ways he wants to show his affection for a nearby lover. Yet as the song progresses, the instrumentation picks up and Porter’s lyrics become a tad eerie, melancholy and sappy. “All Fall Down,” Willy Porter, 2002 Willy Porter’s self-titled record again finds the musician taking steps forward as a guitarist and a songwriter. This album standout is boosted by a backing choir, a wailing organ and one of Porter’s strongest vocal performances. As with much of his work, the lyrics are riddled with doubt, but the drumbeat remains relaxed, and the guitar chords ring with optimism. “Sleepy Little,” Available Light, 2006 Available Light was the first record Porter released on his own label, Weasel Re-

cords, and it’s no stretch to guess that his newfound musical freedom helped to bolster the album’s intimate feel. “Sleepy Little” sits smack-dab in the middle of the 10-track effort, which was mixed by Grammy-winning producer Neil Dorfsman. A meditative, polished instrumental, the song displays not only Porter’s intricate guitar work but also his ear for arrangement. “How to Rob a Bank,” How to Rob a Bank, 2009 In “How to Rob a Bank,” Porter critiques Wall Street and the recession that was still going strong in 2009. Both playful and immensely critical, it finds Porter channeling his inner Bob Dylan. A mournfully delightful horn section blasts throughout the choruses. “Chippewa Boots,” Human Kindness, 2015 From its full-band feel to its Kickstarter funding, Human Kindness exudes collaboration. The record’s second track, the radiant “Chippewa Boots,” commits wholly to that communal attitude: whistling, vocal harmonies, flute and that wailing organ all make appearances here. After 25 years in the game, Porter is still willing to let the good times roll. n

Symphonic delights Maestro John DeMain announces Madison Symphony Orchestra’s 90th season

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The Madison Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 90th anniversary this 2015-16 season with a mix of mainstream favorites and once-favorites that deserve restoration. Many of the concerts feature visiting soloists — some new, others cherished old friends. Maestro John DeMain discussed the upcoming season over lunch, pointing out his desire to offer solid satisfaction and excitement in the well-established format of eight programs, each performed in three weekend concerts. The Sept. 25-27 program spotlights the orchestra. The soloist comes from within MSO ranks: The brilliant principal clarinetist Joseph Morris will play Aaron Copland’s jazzy Clarinet Concerto. In addition, the MSO will play Beethoven’s “Leonore Overture No. 3” and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s rousing “Symphony No. 4.” On Oct. 16-18, MSO balances Haydn’s elegant “Symphony No. 85” with Sergei Rachmaninoff’s dazzling “Symphonic Dances.” The Canadian-born violinist James Ehnes will mark his first Madison visit by reviving Max Bruch’s colorful “Scottish Fantasy.” The program for Nov. 20-22 will combine Maurice Ravel’s witty “Valses Nobles et Senti-

Clarinetist Joseph Morris (from left), violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Emanuel Ax will be featured soloists this season.

mentales” with “Symphony Fantastique,” Hector Berlioz’s masterpiece. Another newcomer to the MSO stage, cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio, will play the brilliant and influential “Cello Concerto No. 1” by Camille Saint-Saëns. The MSO finishes out the year with “A Madison Symphony Christmas” Dec. 4-6, with the Madison Symphony Chorus, Madison Youth Choirs and Mt. Zion Gospel Choir. The season resumes Feb. 12-14, offering Tchaikovsky’s beloved “Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture” and the Second Suite from Ravel’s ballet “Daphnis et Chloe.” Beethoven’s “Violin Concerto” will be performed by the Russianborn, British-trained violinist Alina Ibragimova.

The March 11-13 program opens with a relative novelty, the dashing overture to Dmitri Kabalevsky’s opera “Colas Breugnon.” DeMain returns to a favorite composer, Gustav Mahler, for the composer’s understated (for Mahler) “Symphony No. 4.” An always-welcome guest, the versatile pianist Emanuel Ax will bring out of the shadows not one but two neglected masterpieces, “Symphonic Variations” by César Franck and “Burleske,” composed by the restless young Richard Strauss.  The April 1-3 program, “Ohlsson Plays Brahms,” will feature the recent “Symphony No. 1” by the rapidly rising young American

composer Steven Stucky. It will stand next to Richard Strauss’ bravura symphonic poem, “Don Juan,” featuring visiting master pianist Garrick Ohlsson.  The season finale (April 29-30, May 1), will combine Respighi’s blockbuster “Pines of Rome” with the rousing “Carmina Burana” of Carl Orff, welcoming three visiting vocalists and the Madison Symphony Chorus.  It will, indeed, be a solid and satisfying season. And Maestro DeMain, now in his second decade with the MSO, says he looks forward to how the orchestra and audiences will react to his choices of repertoire. n

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Graceful fortitude Li Chiao-Ping Dance celebrates 20 years in Madison BY KATIE REISER

Looking refined even in red Badger sweatpants, UW-Madison dance department professor Li Chiao-Ping coaches dancer Emilie Rabbitt through a solo in a rehearsal at Lathrop Hall. Three other company dancers, Rachel Krinsky, Janelle Bentley and Liz Sexe, count through movement phrases loaded with challenging jumps. Li explains to Rabbitt, “The turns are just to get you there sooner; don’t make it about the turns.” Later, when Rabbitt repeatedly pokes at her chest with her hands, Li talks about the emotions that might be behind the gesture: “Nagging...maybe blame.” They are rehearsing “Venous Flow: States of Grace,” the first full-length work that Li, in collaboration with her husband Douglas Rosenberg, a video artist/director, created after the two were involved in a near-fatal accident on their way to campus in January 1999. Li’s recovery from the accident has taken on mythical proportions in Madison’s arts history. After doctors considered amputating her foot, the dancer and choreographer underwent numerous surgeries and a rigorous rehabilitation program. “Venous Flow” refers to the test measuring blood flow to her damaged appendage. “Venous Flow” is being revived for Armature: Bodies of Hope, a celebration of Li Chiao-Ping’s Dance’s 20th anniversary of performing in Madison, at Memorial Union’s Fredric March Play Circle Theater March 26-28. Armature opens with “Venous Flow” and the solo “Grafting,” which Li created

pelled her into “old age” ahead of schedule. “As part of my own recovery I was doing rehab with people that were recovering from heart surgery and other issues,” says Li. “We were all together doing our own exercises and had this kinship.” She began teaching dance at the Madison Senior Center in 2001 and began inviting seniors and other “community dancers” to dance in her productions. Company dancer Sexe, who teaches ballet in the UW dance department, praises Li’s approach with the community dancers: “She really understands who they are and what skills they bring.”

Janelle Bentley, who graduated with a BFA in dance from UW in 2012, is back in Madison performing with Li’s company after dancing professionally in Israel. She values what NARAYAN MAHON she learned from Li. “I think I took her skills for granted,” says Bentley. Rachel Krinsky will perform Li Chiao-Ping’s ‘Grafting’ in Armature: Bodies of Hope. “I thought everybody in other dance departments knew how to do handstands and the struggle she faced to return to mobility, soon after the accident; Krinsky will perform other athletic feats, but I realized what she dexterity and artistry. it. Newer works will follow: “Bonesetting” with gave us is pretty unique.” UW dance majors; “Tendrils,” created for the The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Li Overture Center’s 10th anniversary; and “Bodgrew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and Bentley says she also appreciates the way ies of Hope,” which features company memwas a gymnast in her youth. Aside from Li infuses art into in all aspects of her life. She bers and community dancers. one year teaching at Mills College in 2006, recalls sitting in a departmental meeting where she has lived and worked in Madison since individuals were given items to play with as At 51, Li is in impressive form, able to pop 1993. “Madison is a great community for my stress relievers. She looked over at Li, who had up into a shoulder stand, hold precarious balwork,” says Li. “A lot of people really apprecreated a “ridiculously complex thing out of ances and seamlessly handle the demanding ciate and understand what I’m doing. That pipe cleaners...she is always artful, always thinkfloor work that is a hallmark of her choreogkeeps the work alive and keeps me working.” ing about things.” raphy. Without the striated scars that wrap around her foot, there are few outward signs of Li says she felt the 1999 accident pro The dancers involved in “Bodies of Hope” all reference Li’s high expectations, using words like perfectionist, clear, decisive and strong to describe her. The piece is about change and transformation among women, and the performers share their own stories. In the end, says Bentley, much of Armature is about surviving. “I really appreciate [Li’s] resilience, and that’s something we’ve been exploring in the new work and in restaging that Mormonism might be an escape from the BY CATHERINE CAPELLARO ‘Venous Flow.’ I think even from the beginning, daily grind of poverty, violence and AIDS. Alexshe knew she would dance again. That’s so andra Ncube is phenomenal as Nabulungi, the Why are mainstream audiences still thronging theaters beautiful and so telling about her personality for The Book of Mormon? It’s wickedly funny. The creators, young girl who dreams of escaping to “Sal Tlay Ka and her strength.” Siti” (Salt Lake City). Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the geniuses behind South “Armature” can refer to protection armor Park, write sharp satire and hilarious lyrics. Nothing is off- The living dioramas illustrating the bizarre asor naturally occurring structures like shells or limits in Parker and Stone’s smart yet puerile humor. pects of the Mormon tradition are some of the best horns, or as it’s used in sculpture — an underlyparts of the show. Another standout is the Ziegfeld But even as the show, which played which pering skeletal framework that supports the work. Follies-style number “Spooky Mormon Hell Dream.” formed to sold-out audiences in Overture Hall March “It’s about our core, our fortitude,” Li says. In 10-15, heartily skewers the tenets of the Mormon Although flawlessly executed, Robert Lopez’s score fact, many years ago she tucked away an ad for religion, it has a remarkable sweetness at its core. contains few surprises. He deftly harnesses Broadway a plastic surgeon she clipped from The New York The musical’s storyline propels the good-looking and clichés, but in aggregate, the songs are unmemorable, Times depicting scaffolding supporting parts self-centered Elder Price (Billy Harrigan Tighe) and the with the important exception of Stone and Parker’s lyrics. of women’s bodies — this was long before her nebbish Elder Cunningham (A.J. Holmes) from mis Even the real Mormons approaching theater patrons injury required an external fixator, screwed into sionary school in Utah to their posting in a tiny village in outside the Overture Center were happy about the show. her tibia and foot, to help her heal. Uganda; they are good people, and they get better. Elder Baird, a smiling, young fellow who looks like he was On this artist’s anniversary, her work will plucked from Central Mormon Casting, offered me a free The cheery Mormons dance their way through not be a requiem for what was or could have copy of the real Book of Mormon. He says the only thing numbers urging them to squelch their feelings, includbeen, but rather a celebration of what keeping him from seeing the show is its crude humor: ing same-sex attractions. And the profanity-loving vilis — performed for and with the people of “I’ve heard that it’s a very funny play.”n lagers shock and delight, even as they start to believe Madison. n

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Roadmap of regret Sean Penn plays a resilient and troubled former mercenary in The Gunman BY STEVE DAVIS

Bare: A Pop Musical features Catholic school love. DAN MYERS

LGBT love and legacy on stage BY CONLAN CARTER

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This month, two Madison theater groups highlight LGBT love and its tenacity over the past century. The premiere of 10 Dollar House at Broom Street Theater (March 20-April 11) offers a piece of Wisconsin history. Co-authors Martha Meyer and Rick Kinnebrew were inspired to write the play after touring Pendarvis, a historic cottage located in Mineral Point. During the height of the Great Depression, Bob Neal and Edgar Hellum (partners in love and business) purchased a ramshackle stone house with a vision of turning their $10 investment into a fully restored home. That purchase sparked the preservation of many of the iconic Cornish stone houses that draw tourists to the region to this day. Broom Street Theater artistic director Heather Renken says when she first read the script she was struck by the dual struggles the characters faced: “What I took away was the perseverance of these guys, to not only continue the work they thought was important, but to preserve a relationship that wasn’t openly accepted in society.” She says the play is also a testament to Wisconsin’s progressive culture: “Wisconsin has always been in favor of personal freedoms, and I think people are quick to forget that.”

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Meanwhile, the Bartell Theatre offers another perspective on love and acceptance in its production of Bare: A Pop Musical (March 20-April 4). Set in in a 1990s Catholic school, this rock musical revolves around the secret relationship of two closeted boys: Peter and Jason. As the boys attempt to reconcile their feelings for one another, secrets become currency. Who has feelings for whom? And who else knows? The musical (recommended for ages 16 and older) deals with many hot-button issues, including sexuality, body image, drug abuse and suicide. Director Steve Noll says the show’s themes are relevant for today’s audiences. “Teen suicide is still more often than not related to issues of sexuality and coming out,” says Noll. Despite the heavy subject material, Bare’s music is full of energy, and Noll says local singing and dancing talent will be on full display at the Bartell. n

Sean Penn’s craggy face in The Gunman is a roadmap of regret for a man haunted by a dark and shameful past. An ex-mercenary who pulled the trigger in the assassination of a high-ranking official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo almost a decade ago, the reformed operative has returned to the African nation for humanitarian reasons, ostensibly to wash away the guilt of the murderous deed that further plunged the troubled country into social and political chaos. When a death squad searching for the “white man” attempts to kill him, however, it’s clear that yesterday’s sins have finally caught up with him. What ensues in The Gunman is an international game of cat and mouse that hopscotches from central Africa to London to Barcelona to Gibraltar, one in which Penn’s beleaguered Jim Terrier tries to piece together the identities of his would-be assassins while protecting the woman he loves from the danger sparked by his nefarious past. The bone-crunching, bloodletting action sequences in this thriller from the director of Taken keep the adrenaline flowing, despite the implausibility of Terrier’s continued survival amid the volley of semiautomatic bullets and thrown punches. While the film’s amped-up violence keeps your attention, its core conflict — Terrier’s

Sean Penn evades a vengeful death squad.

anguish over the man he was versus the man he is — never really gels. Try as Penn may, his character’s before-and-after transformation never takes because you’re only fleetingly acquainted with the cold-blooded killer who appears in the film’s first 20 minutes. Likewise, the movie’s veiled indictment of multinational corporate interests that generate unrest in Third World nations for their own financial gain (undoubtedly a factor motivating Penn’s participation in the film) also falls somewhat flat, taking a

back seat to the shoot-’em-up histrionics. As Terrier’s former conspiratorial colleague and romantic rival, however, Javier Bardem knocks it out of the ballpark with his all-too-brief performance as a weakwilled, insecure man who allows his emotions to trump rational behavior. He’s mesmerizing in all his messy humanity. When Bardem is onscreen, the emotional stakes are high, engaging you in a way the principal storyline fails to do. It’s a masterful turn by a masterful actor, one that’s blissfully on-target in The Gunman. u

Straightforward chase thriller Liam Neeson is a washed-up hitman in Run All Night BY WILLIAM GOSS

Prone as the film industry is to cycles of success and stagnation, it hardly surprises that the mere novelty of Liam Neeson, action star, has all but exhausted itself in the six years since the original Taken hit in a big way. With each diminishing sequel has come a handful of superior genre efforts unfairly contaminated by that same sense of staleness, among them an informal trilogy of pulpy collaborations between the hulking Irishman and director Jaume Collet-Serra: Unknown, Non-Stop and their latest, Run All Night. The closest thing to a common thread between these films is Collet-Serra’s predilection for casting Neeson as more of a sad bastard than a superhero. In this case, Neeson plays Jimmy Conlon, a washed-up

Liam Neeson, reclaiming asskickery.

hitman and neglectful father whose quick draw saves the life of his estranged son Mike (Joel Kinnaman), but puts them both in the crosshairs of longtime criminal compatriot Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris), a New

York kingpin with no shortage of dirty cops and deadly assassins at his disposal. A fairly straightforward chase thriller ensues, with Brad Ingelsby’s script finding plenty of fatherly sins from Jimmy’s past to fall on his son’s unwitting shoulders. Screen vets Neeson and Harris bring equal weight to their regret-strewn exchanges, and Collet-Serra’s usual directorial flair is relatively reined in, save for borough-hopping transitions between scenes. Given its endearingly dingy depiction of presentday NYC, the film often calls to mind the stripped-down machismo of Walter Hill’s earlier films, full of growling men (an uncredited Nick Nolte included) and growing menace. The result is a well-cooked serving of meat-and-potatoes action filmmaking, but its main failing is an ultimate inability to distinguish itself by more than minor flourishes. However, in a year in which Taken 3 already struggled to clear a low bar for Neeson-led asskickery, Night puts up a relatively good fight. n

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Now playing: Chappie: Director Neill Blomkamp made a splash when his first feature District 9 aligned explosive spectacle with timely sociopolitical concerns. Now he returns home for an uneven showcase of impeccable visual effects and lackluster emotional affect. Cinderella: An earnest retelling of the fairy tale via the Disney animated classic. The problem is that it is faithful only to certain things at the expense of the things that would have brought the whole enterprise to life. Insurgent: Tris Pryor (Shailene Woodley) returns to continue fighting against an alliance trying to destroy society in this Divergent sequel. Leviathan: Vladimir Putin’s Russia is taken to task in this masterpiece: an excoriating portrait of the state’s hunger for control in a far-flung northern fishing community on the Barents Sea. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: This sequel moseys along for two overstuffed hours, hoping you think the characters’ rote fumblings are endearing. It is love, but it’s neither exciting nor new. What We Do in the Shadows: This uproariously funny mockumentary examines vampires of modest means. The filmmakers understand that the qualities we associate with scary movie vampires — solemnity, vanity, obsession with control — make excellent comedy fodder.

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Special screenings: Brand X: Sketches poking fun at television and commercials starring Taylor Mead and various counterculture figures. Cinematheque, March 21, 4 pm. Citizenfour: Documentary filmmakers travel to Hong Kong to meet whistleblower Edward Snowden in one of the most disturbing political documentaries in several years. Union South Marquee, March 21, 6 pm. For a Woman: A filmmaker reconstructs the story of her parents’ marriage. Ashman Library, March 20, 7 pm. It Happened Here: Documentary following five survivors of sexual assault; a panel discussion led by UW PAVE follows. Union South Marquee, March 25, 7 pm. Journey to Italy: A look at the deteriorating relationship of a vacationing couple (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders). Cinematheque, March 21, 7 pm. La Petite Chambre: An older man and his nurse learn to confide in each other and become friends. Ashman Library, March 23, 2 pm.

Touki Bouki: The debut film from Senegal cinema legend Djibril Diop Mambety is is a morality tale crossed with fantasy about a man who dreams of leaving Dakar for Paris. Cinematheque, March 20, 7 pm. Wisconsin’s Mining Standoff: Short film (aired on the series Fault Lines) exploring open pit mining proposals in Ashland and Iron counties; producer Devin Cupery will answer questions after the screening. Central Library, March 26, 6:30 pm.

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Bone ThugsN-Harmony Saturday, March 21, Majestic Theatre, 9 & 11:30 pm Just four months after the 1995 death of their mentor, friend and producer, Eazy-E, this Cleveland hip-hop group released its iconic memorial E. 1999 record. The album sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Now, 20 years later, the five original members will perform their groundbreaking record in its entirety — a not-to-be-missed event for fans of classic hip-hop and R&B. With David Yang, Sincere Life.

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Cardinal Bar: DJ Jo-Z, Latin, 10 pm. Christy’s Landing: Open Mic with Shelley Faith, 8 pm.

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Thursday, March 19, Bartell Theatre, 7:30 pm

Club Tavern, Middleton: Pat McCurdy, 9 pm. Essen Haus: The Midwesterners, free, 9 pm. The Frequency: Red Rose, Null Device, Endless Blue, 10 pm. Great Dane-Downtown: DJ Mike Carlson, 10 pm. Harmony Bar: Backroom Harmony Band with Andy Moore, 8 pm. Hody Bar and Grill, Middleton: Cross Town Drive, 9 pm.

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Over the past 20 years, this Omaha-based emo band has made some of the most concept-laden, lyrically heavy music in a genre that’s essentially defined by those parameters. This tour reunites the band with a cellist and finds them pulling heavily from their 2003 opus, The Ugly Organ. With Dylan Ryan Sand, See Through Dresses. 1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove: Eric Joseph, 6 pm. Alchemy Cafe: Double Dubbs, 10 pm. The Bayou: Johnny Chimes, piano, 5:30 pm. Brink Lounge: Alison Margaret, jazz, 8 pm. Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: The Wrong Omar, 8 pm. Capitol Rotunda: Longfellow Middle School 8th Grade Concert Band, Wisconsin Music Educators Association concert, free, noon.

Inferno: DJs Spade One, Super Ego, Boombox Saints, Diva D, Stickee Fingazz, Chuck Torris, Techsmith, 9 pm.

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Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, Michael Massey, 9 pm.

Thursday, March 19, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Knuckle Down Saloon: Blues Jam with Tate & the 008 Band, 8 pm. Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Ken Wheaton, 5:30 pm. Louisianne’s, Middleton: Jim Erickson, jazz piano, 6 pm. Merchant: Gin Mill Hollow, 10 pm. Middleton Library: Take the King, Red Velvet Rope, Blossom Punch, Flash Drive, free teen bands concert, 6 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: DJ Evan Woodward, free, 10 pm. Mr. Robert’s: One Strong Army, free, 10 pm. Natt Spil: DJs Dr. Lobster, Rob Sandheim, free, 10 pm. Nottingham Cooperative: Tony Robinson Family Benefit with Boots, Ze, Fern Mayo, $5 donation, 8 pm. Segredo: DJ Jean Le Duke, free, 10 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Kurt Funfsinn, guitar, free, 9:30 pm. Tofflers, New Glarus: The Jimmys, free, 8 pm.

More than anything, stand-up comedian Rich Vos is a master at working a crowd. Aside from being the first white comic to perform on Def Comedy Jam, he finished third on season one of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, wrote jokes for the Chris Rock when he hosted the Academy Awards and has released two Comedy Central specials. With Rob O’Reilly, Nick Lynch. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), March 20-21. Jimmy McHue, Mike Preston, Dan Hopkins: 8 pm, 3/19, Watertower Chop House, Sun Prairie 608-318-1858.

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

Maureen Cummins: “Social Conscience,” book art, through 6/30, UW Elvehjem Building-Kohler Art Library (“Artist as Archivist” lecture by Cummins 11:30 am, 3/19, Memorial Library-Room 126). 608-263-2256.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Symphony Strings, free, 7:30 pm.

Thursday’s Artists: Through 4/30, Sequoya Library. 608-266-6385.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Frank James & Bobby Briggs, country, free, 8 pm.

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In 1876, the self-taught crusading lawyer Lavinia Goodell was denied admission to the bar of the Wisconsin Supreme Court because she was a woman. Local playwright Betty Diamond has penned a biographical drama on Goodell’s extraordinary battle for equality. One weekend only. ALSO: Friday (7:30 pm) and Saturday (2 & 7:30 pm).

S P EC TATO R S P O RTS WIAA State High School Boys Basketball Tournament: Tip-off party 11 am; games 1:35 pm & 6:35 pm on 3/19; 9:05 am, 1:35 & 6:35 pm on 3/20; 3-point challenge 9 am, championship sessions 11:05 am & 6:35 pm, 3/21, Kohl Center. 715-344-8580.

S P O K E N WO R D Justin Bigos, Hannah Gamble, Kyle McCord, Rich Smith: Poetry reading, 7:30 pm, 3/19, Central Library. 608-266-6300. Timothy Walsh, Catherine Jagoe: Poetry reading, 7 pm, 3/19, Mystery to Me. 608-283-9332. Open Mic: Middleton Action Team spoken word/music event, with music by Malcom Shabazz City High School old time fiddle class, speakers including Eric Finch & Karen McKim, 6 pm, 3/19, Craftsman Table and Tap, Middleton. 608-836-8577.

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When DJs Lovecraft and Wyatt Agard were offered a prime hosting gig, they immediately established House of Love, Madison’s hottest weekly house music party. Now they’re pulling out all the stops to fete the one-year anniversary of the event, and will be spinning deep grooves alongside Milwaukee-based DJ partnership Shadow People at this celebratory shindig. With Boba Swett.

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Old Songs Night, aka Songs from the Club de Wash Years, aka Songs from the Vinyl Years Friday, March 20, Brink Lounge, 7:30 pm

The Berrymans have been playing together in Madison for 35 years. For this event, they’ll dust off some of the early works that helped propel them to national fame. Their tuneful and subversive repertoire represents all that is silly and wonderful about Wisconsin.

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Please also join us for Rousseau’s Confessions in Wisconsin Student Conference: Wednesday, March 25, 8:30 am - 3:15 pm Keynote conversation with Danielle S. Allen: 11:00 am VARSITY HALL, UNION SOUTH

Lil Dicky Friday, March 20, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

Lil Dicky is a rapper, comedian and writer from Philadelphia who launched his rap career with the viral music video “Ex-Boyfriend� and his subsequent 2013 mixtape, So Hard. Early last year, he signed to the Pop-Up Music label and began preparing his debut full-length album, Professional Rapper, set to release this month. With Saint Millie, Charles Grant. 1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove: Robert J., 7 pm.

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Known for his virtuoso playing and engaging performance style, this Israeli cellist has toured across the continents and developed into a sought-after pedagogue. Come watch as he uses his historic instrument, a nearly 300-year-old Goffriler, to bring to life a selection of pieces by English composer Frank Bridge, Schubert and Mozart.

Alchemy Cafe: DJ Trichrome, reggae, free, 10 pm. Bandung: Jeff Alexander & Anapaula Strader, The Oudist Colony, Brazilian/Middle Eastern, free, 9 pm. The Bayou: DJ Chamo, Latin, free, 10 pm. Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: DJ Steve Rogers, 9 pm. Brocach Irish Pub-Square: The Currach, Irish, free, 5:30 pm. Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: Ernie Hendrickson, 8:30 pm. Capitol Rotunda: Shawano Community High School Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Music Educators Association concert, free, noon. Cardinal Bar: Samba Novistas, free, 5:30 pm. Chief’s Tavern: Frankie Lee, Tim Haub & Doug DeRosa, free, 6 pm. Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Michael Alexander, free, 8 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Madison County, country, 9 pm.

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Cold Fusion, Middleton: The Wells Division, free, 10 pm. Crandall’s: DJ Danny One, salsa/bachata, 10 pm. Essen Haus: Tom Brusky, free, 8:30 pm.

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Friday, March 20, Overture Center’s Promenade Hall, 8 pm

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Please visit wyso.music.wisc.edu or call 608-263-3320 for more information

Stephanie Jutt — UW Music professor, professional flutist and artistic director at the Overture Center’s Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society — puts on a one-time-only concert featuring music from Latin America and Spain with the help of Orlando Pimentel, Yanzelmalee Rivera and Thomas Kasdorf. The evening will also feature spoken word, dance, tango and an original art installation.

Fisher King Winery, Mount Horeb: Old Farm Dog, free, 6:30 pm. Fountain: Richard Shaten, piano, free, 7:30 pm. The Frequency: Bomblastica with Dogs of War, Eddie Ate Dynamite, Devil to Drag, free, 9 pm. Great Dane-Hilldale: DJ Landology, free, 9 pm. High Noon Saloon: Rock Star Gomeroke, audience invited to sing with The Gomers, 5 pm. Hody Bar and Grill, Middleton: Trailer Kings, free, 9 pm. Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Peter Hernet, Anthony Cao, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

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This Mercury Players Theatre and OUT!Cast Theatre co-production is a rock musical that touches on themes of sexuality, drug abuse, suicide and pregnancy (see page 34.) ALSO: Saturday, March 21 (8 pm) and Thursday (7:30 pm), Friday and Saturday (8 pm) and Sunday (4 pm), March 26-29.

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In what might be the only play featuring gay love and historic preservation, Rick Kinnebrew and Martha Meyer’s boundary-pushing drama tells the true story behind Mineral Point’s renaissance (see page 34). ALSO: Saturday, March 21 (8 pm). Through April 11. DART Entertainment’s “Flanagan’s Wake�: Dinner theater interpretation of an Irish wake, 6 pm, 3/20-22, Old Feed Mill, Mazomanie. 608-795-4909. Edgewood High School’s “Mary Poppins�: Disney musical, 7 pm on 3/20-21 and 2 pm, 3/22, Edgewood High School-Sister Kathleen O’Connell Auditorium; Sing-along performance 1 pm, 3/21. 608-257-1023.

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Join local musician Cris Plata and his group Extra Hot for the release of their latest album, Migration Road. Plata draws on the country singer-songwriter tradition as well as the Mexican styles of NorteĂąo, conjunto and ranchera, which come from his Mexican-American heritage and childhood in Southern Texas.

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SP EC IAL E VE NTS Science Expeditions: Annual free events for all ages, 3/20-22, at UW campus venues, with talks, tours, open houses & more; hands-on exploration stations at Discovery Building. Schedule: science. wisc.edu. 608-265-2420. Wisconsin Beard-Off Competition: With ZZ Top tribute by Velcro Fly, 9 pm, 3/20, High Noon Saloon. Competitors RSVP: goo.gl/forms/aM2MgI4s9v. 608-2681122. RSVP for Women’s History Month Celebration: Wisconsin Women of Color Network event, 10:30 am-2:30 pm, 3/28, Madison College-Truax Campus, with speakers on health/wellness topics, Youth Achievement Award recognitions, buffet brunch. RSVP by 3/20: wwocnagc@gmail. com. 608-244-6581.

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Sharon Isbin and Isabel Leonard Saturday, March 21, Memorial Union Shannon Hall, 8 pm

These two female powerhouses have only been playing together since 2014, but they have the chops to guarantee a night of classical music bliss. Isabel Leonard (pictured) is a world-renowned opera vocalist, and Sharon Isbin is a multiple Grammy-winning guitarist, subject of an American Public Television documentary and director of guitar programs at the Juilliard School. Alchemy Cafe: DJ Vilas Park Sniper, dancehall, free, 10 pm. Barrel Inn, Marshall: DJ Albert, 4 pm; David Marshall Band, 9 pm. Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Quest, 9 pm. Brink Lounge: Kidlinks Benefit with Michael Bell, Christopher Powers, 7 pm; Moondance, rock, 8:30 pm.

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SPECI AL E VE NTS Madison Area Doll Club Show & Sale: Annual event, 9 am-3 pm, 3/21, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall. www.facebook.com/pages/Madison-Area-DollClub/191471804222743. Mad Theory 2: Madison Performance Philosophy Collective symposium, 9 am-7:30 pm, 3/21, Central Library, with interdisciplinary lecture performances, art, workshops, discussions. Free. madtheory2015.wordpress. com. 608-266-6300. Singles Night: 9 pm, 3/21, Inferno, with comedy by Erik Dersch, Martin Henn, David Freeburg and Vickie Lynn, burleque by Lili Luxe, Veronica Smash, Lily Violet and Ariel LeBron, DJ Radish. www.clubinferno.com.

ART E X H IB ITS & E VE NTS Fun-A-Day Madison Community Art Show: 3-7 pm, 3/21, Rainbow Bookstore/Infoshop. 608-257-6050.

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Marcia Légère Play Festival Saturday, March 21, Memorial Union Play Circle, 7:30 pm.

This free event celebrates local theatrical talent through three short plays that are produced and performed by UWMadison students. The annual festival, now entering its 24th year, commemorates a UW student who jumpstarted her career as a screenwriter through a campus playwrights competition in the 1940s. ALSO: Sunday, March 22, 7:30 pm. Children’s Theater of Madison & Theatre LILA’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Shakespeare adaptation for ages 8 & up, through 3/29, Overture CenterPlayhouse, at 2:30 & 7 pm Saturdays and 2:30 pm Sundays. 608-255-4141. University Theatre’s “At the Ark at Eight”: Theatre for Youth production (ages 8 & up) about a trio of penguins with a plan to sneak all aboard Noah’s Ark, 7:30 pm on 3/21 and 2 pm, 3/22, UW Vilas HallMitchell Theatre. 608-265-2787. Oregon Straw Hat Players’ “The Giver”: Adaptation of Lois Lowry’s book, 7:30 pm on 3/21 & 26-28 and 2:30 pm, 3/22 & 28, Oregon High School Performing Arts Center. oshponline.org. 608-835-9126.

It Might as Well Be Spring Sunday, March 22, Overture Center’s Promenade Hall, 2 & 4 pm

Long recognized as one of the most vibrant partners of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the volunteer-powered Madison Symphony Chorus has prepared the perfect antidote to the winter blues: a joyous program showcasing the muchanticipated season change. Get your spring on at this 60-minute performance, which features selections by Brahms and Rodgers and Hammerstein, among others.

K IDS & FAM ILY Kids in the Rotunda: Magic Morgan & Liliana, 9:30 & 11 am and 1 pm, 3/21, Overture CenterRotunda Stage. Free. 608-258-4141. Spring Extravaganza: Madison School & Community Recreation event for all ages, 11 am-2 pm, 3/21, Toki Middle School, with kids’ fitness activities, West High School Okinawan Taiko, Drummers, Dairyland Diamond Dancers, Maynard the Mallard, food. Free. 608-204-6732.

SP EC TATO R SP O RTS Mad Rollin’ Dolls: 6 pm, 3/21, Alliant Energy CenterExhibition Hall. A portion of proceeds benefits Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center). madrollindolls.com. Play it Forward: Basketball game between Madison Police Department members & Madison high school all star team, 1 pm, 3/21, West High School. Benefits MMSD Black Student Union groups trip to Washington. nehemiah.org/pif.

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“The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show” has returned to North America with the Space & Time World Tour, a no-holdsbarred tribute performance and light show celebrating 50 years of Pink Floyd. The band will perform songs from all of Pink Floyd’s hit albums, including The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall and their newest album, 2014’s The Endless River. Brocach Irish Pub-Square: An Blas, Irish, free, 5 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJs Fresh Perks, Ginjavhitis, Nickle, Dyreckt, Project Eros, 9 pm. Crossroads Coffee, Cross Plains: Jeff Larsen, 2 pm.

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Until the release of last year’s Awake, Tycho was the solo ambient project of Scott Hansen. Now a three-piece, the synthesizerbased act is churning out their greatest tracks to date, fully realized visions that capture the energy of their live performances — songs Hansen has been reaching toward for the last decade. With Beacon.

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The public is invited to hear the final round of the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s contest for young musicians. See what these Madison kids can do. Free. 1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove: Ken Wheaton, guitar, free, 6 pm. Brocach Irish Pub-Monroe Street: Gypsy Swing Open Jam, free, 8:30 pm. Brocach Irish Pub-Square: Irish Open Jam, free, 8 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJs Wyatt Agard, Dub Borski, 9 pm. Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Ron Denson, free, 6 pm. Essen Haus: Brian Erickson, free, 6:30 pm. The Frequency: Lizzy Diane, Karen Wheelock, Meghan Rose, 8 pm. Genna’s Lounge: Open Mic, free, 9 pm. High Noon Saloon: The Low Czars, classic rock, 5:30 pm. Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, free, 8 pm. Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 5:30 pm. Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, New Orleans piano, free, 6 pm. Luther Memorial Church: Organ Recital: Organ recital by Bruce Bengtson, free, noon. Mickey’s Tavern: Fire Retarded, Sharkmuffin, free, 10 pm. Natt Spil: DJ Evan Woodward, free, 10 pm. Segredo: DJ BigKu, free, 10 pm. Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm. UW Memorial Union-Der Rathskeller: Open Mic with Ben Cameron, free, 8 pm. UW Old Music Hall: UW Jazz Orchestra, free, 7:30 pm. VFW Post 7591-Cottage Grove Road: Jerry Stueber, free, 6 pm.

S P EC I A L E V E N TS The Purple Carpet: End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin benefit, 5 pm, 3/25, Brink Lounge, with music, refreshments, raffle, door prizes. $50 ($40 adv.). wcadv.org. 608-255-0539. Wild & Scenic Film Festival: Short films on people’s relationship to the environment, 7 pm, 3/25, Barrymore Theatre. 608-257-2424.

CO M E DY Open Mic: 9 pm Wednesdays, Comedy Club on State. $2. 608-256-0099.

L EC TU R E S Great World Texts: UW Center for the Humanities symposium, 8:30 am-3 pm, 3/25, UW Union South-Varsity Hall, with keynote by Institute for Advanced Study Professor Danielle Allen 11 am. Free; all welcome. Schedule: www.humanities.wisc.edu. 608-263-3412.

K I D S & FA M I LY Early Childhood Resource Fair: Madison Area Early Childhood Council event, 5 pm, 3/25, Central Library. 608-204-2063.

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Thursday, March 26, Memorial Union Play Circle, 7:30 pm.

Li Chiao-Ping moved her dance troupe to Madison in 1993, where she’s been performing ever since — even after being severely injured in a 1999 car accident. The troupe celebrates 20 years in Dane County with this performance (see page 33). ALSO: Friday, March 27, 7:30 pm.

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Adam Cayton-Holland Thursday, March 26, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm.

In 2012, Adam Cayton-Holland was chosen by Esquire as one of their “Comics to Watch.� He made his television debut shortly thereafter on Conan in 2013, and has performed at SXSW in Austin, Texas, the last two years. He also wrote a column for Denver’s alt-weekly Westword from 2003 to 2008. With Mike Stanley. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), March 27-28.

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Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Frank James & Bobby Briggs, country, free, 8 pm. Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, free, 9 pm.

KI D S & FA MILY MMSD Vision 2030: Madison schools community input session, 6:30 pm, 3/26, Lussier Community Education Center. 608-663-1879.

Dane County CDBG Commission: Public hearing on 2014 CDBG & HOME program performance, 5:30 pm, 3/26, Town of Middleton Town Hall, 7555 W. Old Sauk Rd., Verona. cdbg.countyofdane.com, Dane County Board of Supervisors: Meeting, 7 pm, 3/26, City-County Building-Room 201. 608-266-5758. n

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Madison has a new bed-and-breakfast, nearly in the shadow of Camp Randall. Named after the full name of UW-Madison mascot Bucky Badger (Buckingham U. Badger), the Buckingham Inn has been open since January. Because of its location and nomenclature, you might expect it to be full of rah-rah spirit, and there is some of that. But what the Buckingham Inn primarily offers is a stunning Arts and Crafts-style restoration. The three-story home, at 1615 Summit Ave., is Prairie Style. It was built in 1911 as a three-flat rental property catering mostly to Progressive Era faculty and staff. Nearby are many of University Heights’ finest homes, including the chancellor’s official residence and Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1908 “airplane house.” Current owners Heidi and Tom Notbohm had dreamed for a decade of starting their own B&B. She’s a retired school speech pathologist, and he’s a transportation engineer. “One of our sons lived here when he went to school,” recalls Heidi. “We dropped him off one time and the building was for sale.” They bought it, in 2006. They moved in, continued to rent two of the flats, and began to examine possibilities. “Because we were living in the building, we could imagine how we would divide it up into guest units,” says Tom. “It seemed very

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Is it your opinion that a girl can love a man but also want an open relationship? Or does wanting an open relationship mean that the girl doesn’t love her man? (I’m the girl in this situation.) Perplexed Over Lusty Yearnings Wanting to fuck other men isn’t proof that a girl (or a boy or a SOPATGS*) doesn’t love her man. When two people make a monogamous commitment — which should be an opt-in choice, not a default setting — they’re promising not to fuck other people. But both will still wanna fuck other people. If you can’t see yourself sleeping with just one man for the rest of your life — or being in a relationship with just one man at a time — then a monogamous commitment isn’t for you, POLY. And if the man you’re with wants a monogamous commitment — if being with him means you can’t sleep with other men — then he might not be for you either. * Some other point along the gender spectrum.

I’m a gay man married to a wonderful man. For most of our 12-year relationship, we’ve had a boring sexual script that is all about him getting blown. He just doesn’t seem interested in much else, and although we’ve talked about it over the years, nothing has really changed. He is selfish in bed. He’s a wonderful husband otherwise, and I love him deeply. Recently, he was out of town, and in a weak moment, I ended up meeting an experienced spanking Dom. We’ve met several times, and I’m counting the days until he whales on my butt again. Not in my wildest imagination could or would my husband ever do something like this with me. He just doesn’t have it in him. I am more sexually fulfilled than I have been in a decade. I’m also lying and cheating. I’m deeply torn. If I tell my husband, my guess is that he won’t take it well. It could cause our marriage to unravel. If I keep lying, I bear the moral burden of the lie, and he could find out anyway. Still Professing A Normal Kink We all have sexual limits, we’re all entitled to our sexual limits, but expecting your spouse to do nothing but blow you for 12 years isn’t a limit. It’s bullshit, SPANK. Your husband’s

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spanking. But whatever the fallout might be — the end of your marriage or renegotiated terms that allow you to get some/most of your needs met elsewhere — is better than the status quo. Tell him. n Listen to Dan at savagelove.net, email him at mail@savagelove.net and find him on twitter at @fakedansavage.

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