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Faris, Hamed and Tim exit the building. It is sunny on the Capitol Square this winter midday, but bitterly cold. Standing on the pavement with his back against a large glass windowpane, Hamed takes out a pack of Marlboro Blacks and removes two cigarettes, handing one to Faris. Tim has a pack of Davidoffs covered in Arabic script — when he flew back to Madison from his home in Saudi Arabia after his winter holidays, he packed four cases of 10 packs each, totaling 800 cigarettes. Faris Altamimi, Hamed Alyami and Tim Alruwaili are among the 131 students this term at the Wisconsin English Second Language Institute, better known by its acronym WESLI. These three are all from Saudi Arabia, which is WESLI’s most well represented country, but there are also students from China, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, Colombia, Congo, Thailand and others. These three estimate that 95% of WESLI’s students smoke, which is why it’s common to see students puffing on cigarettes on the Square. Businesspeople walk hurriedly past WESLI as the three Saudis chat about what they’re doing in Madison. Tim, who has been in the U.S. one year, is paying for his student fees with a scholarship from the Saudi government. He is 20 years old and hopes to attend UW-La Crosse to study nuclear medicine. His mother didn’t like the sound of that at first, but Saudi Arabia is short on radiologists, so in time she assented. He is from northern Saudi Arabia. Tim says that the year he’s spent in the States has been the best of his life. He enjoys the coed classes, although he’s still uncomfortable speaking directly to Saudi women, and he likes critical thinking, which he says is not taught in Saudi Arabia. Hamed, 29, is from the south. In his country he takes care of camels, which are popular for entertainment and racing. He came to WESLI with his nephew, and anticipates returning to the prosperous camel trade. From inside the building, the receptionist, Rebecca, watches the smokers warily. She wishes smoking wasn’t so ubiquitous among WESLI’s clientele — when the ash can catches fire, and the smoke and stench pours inside, it’s her job to put it out. “I just don’t like smoke,” she says. She also doesn’t like what smoking does for WESLI’s image. Inside, the building feels like a youth hostel. A smattering of young people lounge on black leather sofas, practicing American idioms. They insert phrases like “keep your shirt on” and “off the cuff” into their sentences. “I brought some snakes from McDonald’s,” says one student. He laughs when he’s informed the correct word is “snacks.” Back outside, a Madison Metro bus pulls to a stop as Hamed shivers in his brown sweatshirt and Tim finishes his Davidoff cigarette. It’s time to go inside. n Faris Altamimi (left) and Tim Alruwaili take a smoke break outside WESLI on the Capitol Square.

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One of the most startling things about the Supreme Court contest between Justice Ann Walsh Bradley and challenger James P. Daley, the chief judge in Rock County, is that neither would play a role in a deciding the most watched case pending before the high court: the secret John Doe probe into whether special interest groups illegally coordinated with the campaigns of Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislators. But the reasons each gives for not participating runs counter to expectations. Bradley, who is called a “liberal activist� by her opponent, says she can’t hear the case — which would determine whether the John Doe investigation can continue — because her son is a lawyer working for a law firm that represents the conservatives; Daley, whose campaign is funded in part by a donation from the Republican Party, is among the “liberal� defendants trying to pursue the investigation. “I can’t participate in that because I am a defendant,� Daley says in a phone interview with Isthmus, declining to comment further. He notes a secrecy order prevents him from discussing whether he has had a change of heart or whether he still believes that Walker’s campaign might have violated election laws and that the investigation should proceed. Daley’s conflict has flown below the radar during much of this quiet race, although the special prosecutor involved in the secret investigation has called on at least four justices to disqualify themselves. Judicial ethics has emerged as one of the key issues in the race. For decades, Supreme Court elections have been the dullest of dull. Justices often were appointed by the sitting governor to fill a portion of a 10-year term left vacant because of retirement or death. Those running for re-election rarely faced opposition. As for the issues, most judges declined to talk about cases they might have to decide, citing ethical concerns. All that changed within the past two decades as political parties and special interest groups have poured millions of dollars into Supreme Court races around the country. “In recent years the Wisconsin Supreme Court has offered the most dramatic illustration of what happens with courts suffering from too much politics,� writes Billy Corriher, director of research at American Progress in Washington D.C., in a 2013 report. Why target the courts? Elections, says Corriher, “offer the opportunity for litigants and attorneys to influence the judges hearing their cases through campaign contributions or independent spending in judicial campaigns. The resulting conflicts can be more harmful than attempts to curry fa-

Justice Ann Walsh Bradley: ‘Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s right.’.

vors with legislators because the decisions of judges, unlike those of legislators, can impact a single individual or corporations.� Mordecai Lee, a former Democratic legislator and professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, puts it this way: “It can get ideological wins on the cheap.� Wisconsin’s high court was once deemed the most progressive in the nation, issuing decisions that predated the U.S. Supreme Court by decades on matters such as requiring a poor person charged with a crime the right to a defense lawyer. In a 1966 speech at Marquette University, William O. Douglas, then associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, said, “We are just trying to catch up with the Wisconsin Supreme Court. We are almost at the point it was at 30 years ago.� But there is now a clear conservative majority on the court, with special interest groups spending millions in recent years to elect justices. And while the Bradley-Daley matchup has been quiet so far, that may soon change. “I’m expecting a huge advertising onslaught in the last two weeks,� says Matthew Rothschild, executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. “It’s unlikely the WMC [Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce] will

hold its fire. The tsunami of outside money in judicial races is leaving a stain on the entire state.� In 2008, Michael Gableman defeated former Justice Louis Butler in a race that saw $6 million in spending, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, the elections watchdog group. Special interest groups spent $4 to every $1 spent by the campaigns. Gableman received $1.76 million in support ads from the WMC and another $987,000 from two other groups, compared to the $1.45 million Butler got from the Greater Wisconsin Committee. Gableman won but later faced an ethics charge related to ads he ran. The independent Judicial Commission sent the charges to the Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide. Gableman could not vote, and the others six split 3-3 on whether to proceed. That divide among the justices is now often the norm: Bradley, N. Patrick Crooks and Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson in one corner, and Gableman, David T. Prosser, Patience D. Roggensack and Annette Ziegler in the other. “Polarized,� “politicized� and “dysfunctional� are the adjectives often applied to the court in recent years.

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The increase in spending from special interest groups raises questions about whether justices who receive special interest aid — directly and in the form of advocacy ads — should have to recuse themselves on cases involving these very same groups. Daley does not think so. “If it is a legal donation, they should not have to step aside,” he says. Bradley, though, says justices should recuse themselves from cases where they have received substantial contributions from the litigants. She cites a U.S. Supreme Court involving a mining executive who formed a notfor-profit that allowed him to skirt campaign laws and donate some $3 million to a candidate for the West Virginia Supreme Court; the incumbent ultimately was defeated. By a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the recipient of the money — most of it in the form of advocacy ads — created a probable bias and that the West Virginia justice should have stepped aside. That would have left the West Virginia high court tied, 2-2. In 2010, in a split vote, the Wisconsin Supreme Court adopted a rule that reflects Daley’s position. It was written by the WMC and the Wisconsin Realtors Association. “We now allow campaign committees to solicit direction from those with an interest before the court,” said Bradley at a forum sponsored by the Milwaukee Bar Association. When should a judge not hear a case? At the same forum, Daley said judges should only recuse themselves on a case brought by a personal friend or by an organization to which the judge belongs. Money doesn’t matter as long as the donation is legal. But, countered Bradley, “Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s right.”

The current rule is unacceptable, added Bradley. “You can look at the roster of the cases before you and tell your campaign manager ‘let’s get campaign donations from those parties who are before the court.’” At the forum Daley also pooh-poohed the charge that he is blatantly biased in favor of the GOP. He acknowledged that he had received $7,000 from the party but said it is an “in-kind” donation of office staff that hardly covers the full cost of office support his campaign needs. He countered charges that he has been campaigning almost exclusively at Republican events by asserting that Bradley met secretly with Democrats. She noted that a bipartisan group that includes former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson’s wife Sue Ann sent a letter in her support to news outlets. Daley has also criticized Bradley for her dissent from the majority in rulings that found Act 10 and voter ID constitutional. Laws legitimately enacted are presumed constitutional, he said. Asked if he could make that call without having heard the case, he replied: “I read the decisions.” The election is April 7. If the past is an indication, voter turnout will be low. In the hotly contested 2011 race between Prosser and challenger Joanne Kloppenburg that was so close it resulted in a recount, fewer than 20% of the eligible voters turned out. Mordecai Lee, the political science professor, notes that Republicans turn out in greater numbers in low-turnout elections. “Wisconsin politics have revolutionized Supreme Court races,” Lee says. “Not so long ago you could faintly recognize a candidate’s leanings, but that’s all changed. I don’t know why we still call them nonpartisan races.” n

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Dane County judge refuses to block A Wisconsin’s new “right-to-work” law, leaving the Republican-backed legislation intact while union groups challenge the statute. n The family of Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny – who fatally shot unarmed teen Tony Robinson earlier this month – releases a statement expressing sorrow for the killing. They also defend Kenny’s character, citing his exemplary work record and personal integrity. n

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‘Politically, the DA can’t win’ Ismael Ozanne to take up charging decision in officer-involved shooting

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Soon all eyes will be on Ismael Ozanne. The Dane County district attorney is tasked with sorting through the investigation conducted by the state Department of Justice into the March 6 officer shooting death of Tony Robinson, an unarmed 19-year-old biracial man. Ozanne will be the one to ultimately decide whether to charge Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny with any crime related to the incident. The shooting, which took place at the apartment of a friend of Robinson’s on Williamson Street, has launched angry protests across the city, with members of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition calling for Kenny, who is white, to be criminally charged and dismissed from the police department. Frustrated protesters have compared the incident to shootings in Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere, where young unarmed, young black men have been shot in altercations with police. Attorney Hal Harlowe, who served as Dane County district attorney from 1983 to 1989, says this context almost certainly weighs on Ozanne. The state’s first black district attorney, Ozanne has campaigned on reducing racial disparities in the criminal justice system. “There is enormous pressure from the community to demonstrate decisiveness by issuing a charge,” says Harlowe. Traditionally, says Harlowe, district attorneys have been under a different kind of pressure. “When a district attorney, particularly amid a flurry of public concern, is asked to determine whether a police officer acted improperly, it is extremely tempting to demonstrate your decisiveness by quickly announcing that you’ve reviewed all the investigative reports and have determined there was no wrongdoing on the part of the police.” Harlowe says the rush to conclude these probes is done to “restore confidence” in law enforcement. “There is a strong inclination to do that.” Attorney Brian Brophy, who served as Dane County district attorney between 1997 and 2000, says he doesn’t think political pressure will have much influence on Ozanne’s decision. “The reason I say that is that this is a situation in which politically, the DA can’t win,” says Brophy. “He’s got pressure from more than one side of the community.” There have been public displays of support for Kenny and the police department in general, and media reports portraying the officer as a compassionate, dedicated and decorated officer, says Brophy. But there is also “pressure from a long disenfranchised community that has got plenty of tinder from the recent shootings of unarmed black men nationally.”

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Whatever Ozanne ultimately decides, Brophy says, “He can expect that somebody is going to criticize his decision.” Anne Schwartz, spokeswoman for the Department of Justice, says she expects the Division of Criminal Investigation report to be forwarded to Ozanne this week. A 2014 state law now requires that investigations into officer-involved shootings be led by an outside agency rather than the police department itself. Harlowe says the independent probe should “increase the faith that people have in the report itself.” “It’s essential that police-involved shootings be removed from their parent agencies,” he says. “That was rife with conflict.”

On March 12, Attorney General Brad Schimel announced the investigation already included more than 100 investigative reports and 60 witness interviews, as well as interviews with “40 separate households as a part of the neighborhood canvass.” Ozanne, nevertheless, could ask for more evidence to be gathered once he reviews the reports, says Harlowe. Ozanne did not return a call seeking comment. Harlowe says Ozanne’s office would approach this case like any other. “The general standard for a DA in making a charging decision is to first determine if there is probable cause for the issuance of a complaint,” says Harlowe. “People think probable cause means it’s likely that a crime

was committed. But the standard requires only that it be possible.” Beyond that, the DA needs to be comfortable that, if the matter were to go to trial, there is “sufficient admissible evidence that could result in a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.” In determining whether to charge, the district attorney would need to consider the state’s homicide statutes, the department’s policies on use of force and whether Kenny violated any written protocols, says Harlowe. A central question will be whether the officer thought he was facing a threat of great bodily harm or death. “As the DA evaluates the case, he will take into account the likelihood of the defense being not only raised, but of it being successful [at trial].” When Ozanne announced he would not be issuing charges against the police officer involved in the 2012 deadly shooting of Paul Heenan, who was also unarmed, he noted in a statement that, “Under Wisconsin law, which applies equally to members of law enforcement and to those who are not, any person may use deadly force to respond to a genuine fear of deadly force to that person or any other person. In this case, the officer believed he was going to be disarmed by a suspect from a potential burglary.” Harlowe says some community members might want to see Ozanne issue charges even if the likelihood of prevailing at a jury trial is slim. That, says the former prosecutor, would be an abdication of duty. “An important part of a prosecutor’s job is to exercise discretion.” Another factor likely to be considered by the district attorney is whether Kenny believed he was on a rescue mission when he was called to the Williamson Street residence of Robinson’s friend, says Harlowe. “Did the officer believe he was entering that residence to intervene in an attack?” Harlowe says. “If the officer reasonably believed he was entering to prevent someone from being injured — not Tony but a victim of an attack — then that certainly explains and excuses him having walked in. It actually authorizes his entering under exigent circumstances.” Robinson’s friend had reportedly called police to say Robinson was acting erratically and running in traffic. Other 911 calls said that Robinson had tried to batter someone outside of a Williamson Street restaurant. According to the police, once back at the friend’s house, Robinson punched Kenny in the head and knocked him down before Kenny shot him. Turin Carter, Robinson’s uncle, later confirmed to Isthmus that Robinson had

taken hallucinogenic mushrooms that day and was having a bad reaction. Assuming the officer indicates he was being attacked with considerable force and acted to save his life, says Harlowe, Robinson’s reported use of hallucinogens — and adverse reaction — would “give any prosecutor great pause to issue charges.” On the other hand, says Harlowe, if “the prosecutor believes that the officer had other options and chose to use deadly force, not out of fear of his imminent death or injury, but because he was frustrated or angry, then it would be appropriate to put that before a jury. “ Brophy says it will all boil down to the “reasonableness of the officer’s actions given his situation and his training.” “Did the officer believe he was in imminent danger of death or bodily harm? Did he act to stop someone from the commission of a felony? Was the force he used reasonable?” Harlowe says there is no question that whites and blacks, in general, experience contact with law enforcement differently. “If you are African American and have an encounter with police, you are more likely to be arrested and more likely to be charged, and once charged, you are more likely to end up with a record and a record for a more severe offense than if you are not African American.” He says he understands why young black men might be fearful when approached by police and hopes Robinson’s tragic death results in an examination of how African American young men are treated in Dane County by the police, by the district attorney’s office and by the court system. But Harlowe says the district attorney’s charging decision must only be driven by the facts in the case. “If the district attorney concludes that Officer Kenny acted recklessly or with malicious intent, then I certainly want to see him prosecuted,” says Harlowe. “But if that’s not the case, then it would be a travesty for him to be prosecuted as a political casualty of Ferguson.” n

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Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, who heads the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, is on the hunt for wasteful use of government funds. As part of the search, the Republican demanded the National Science Foundation show paperwork on selected research grants. One project that caught his eye is the Paleobiology Database project, which is currently maintained by the UW-Madison’s Department of Geoscience. According to Ars Technica, a technology news website, “Most of the grants that were picked out seemed to be judged primarily on whether their titles sounded silly to people unfamiliar with the field.” But when the congressional committee targeted the Paleobiology Database, it evidently did not take notice of one of its heavy users. “The energy industry uses it because fossils come from sedimentary rock, and that’s where fossil fuels are found,” says Shanan Peters, Dean L. Morgridge Professor of Geoscience, who is steward of the database. “Dean Morgridge got his master’s degree from our Geosciences Department in 1954. He then led the team that discovered the Prudhoe Bay oil deposits in Alaska, which is one of the largest oil fields in North America.” The database is a computerized record compiling field and museum research on fossils uncovered by paleontologists from all over the world. “It’s a crown jewel of the discipline and has contributed to scientific research and the energy industry,” says Peters. The database has had several physical homes over the past 15 years. During that

time around 300 volunteer paleobiologists have read more than 40,000 documents and entered data by hand. “Paleontologists spend their careers studying specific fossil groups, documenting where and when they occur and describing new species,” Peters adds. “But if you want to answer the question of how many species were alive on the planet 10 million years ago, and how biodiversity on the planet has changed in response to climate perturbations and asteroid impacts and so on, then we need to have the work of all these individuals aggregated into one place so we can ask questions about the large-scale history of life.” But there are hundreds of thousands of publications on fossils out there. Humans can’t read and enter them fast enough. Peters has found a way to speed up the process. That’s one of the reasons the fossil database has found a home at UW-Madison. Peters has been working with Miron Livny and other scientists at the Center for High Throughput Computing on campus, who are racing to perform increasingly sophisticated data analysis using a system called DeepDive to extract data including facts buried in sources like the text, tables and figures of scientific journals. Together they are building an infrastructure that will support machine-reading across many sciences. According to their recent article in the Public Library of Science, DeepDive is often more accurate than humans, and it is much, much faster. Says Peters: “It is a natural to use the Paleobiology Database as a test case for pitting the DeepDive machine against human experts.” n

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In the biblical story of the loaves and the fishes, Jesus fed the multitude simply because they were hungry. That was naive, it seems, as we are now learning from a Baptist minister’s son, Gov. Scott Walker. Walker and Republicans will soon implement a law passed in 2013 that will disqualify any able-bodied adult without children who works less than 80 hours per month from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP program. Walker argues that just $123 month in food stamps, as they’ve long been called, discourages people from getting a job. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says the new approach gives people an incentive to find jobs and move off SNAP. What Walker and Vos are arguing is that giving a person $123 month or $1,476 per year to spend on food makes them so comfortable that they won’t look for work. But how then do they afford to rent an apartment, buy clothes and other necessities? The new policy, says Sherry Tussler, executive director of Milwaukee’s Hunger Task Force, “is going to create a whole new class of poor people.” Statewide, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, some 836,000 people get SNAP assistance, and more than 62,000 are able-bodied adults without children. The analysis predicted that half of this group, or some 31,000 people, will quickly be thrown off the SNAP rolls. Exact figures are not available for Dane County, but based on its percentage of statewide SNAP recipients (about 6.3%), around 3,900 adults could be in danger of losing their SNAP benefits. “It’s going to drive up the need for food at food pantries and meal sites,” says Kris Tazelaar, communications manager for the Madison-based Second Harvest FoodBank of Southern Wisconsin. “Because where are these people going to go?” Under the new rules, SNAP eligibility for able-bodied adults is limited to just 90 days in any three-year period. The days needn’t be consecutive. When you hit the 90th day

in a three-year period where you haven’t been working, you are terminated. For felons who have great difficulty getting jobs, for low-income people who have better luck getting an off-the-books job in the underground economy, for anyone fired who has trouble getting another job within 90 days, too bad: They will be dropped from the program. The state has allocated more than $58 million to administer this program, whose goal is to stop some $92 million in SNAP assistance from going to the targeted recipients. “We are spending state dollars to forfeit federal money,” Tussler laments. But the cost will likely involve more than state tax dollars. As those dropped from SNAP look elsewhere for food, that will cause a drain on charitable dollars in Wisconsin. “Those local pantries are going to have to raise more money to buy food,” Tazelaar notes. “And we at Second Harvest are going to have to raise more money to provide the food.” Nor does the loss end there. Research by the federal Department of Agriculture shows that every $5 in SNAP assistance generates $9 in economic activity, meaning the $92 million in lost SNAP assistance equals a loss of $166 million in economic activity in Wisconsin. The new program aims to increase “opportunities for education, vocational training and active engagement in the workforce” for FoodShare recipients, says Claire Yunker, a spokes-

woman for the state Department of Health Services. But the state is projecting about half of all able-bodied adults getting food stamps will drop out almost immediately. Most of the new program’s activity will involve determining which recipients aren’t working the 80 hours and then terminating them. The program started in April 2014 as a pilot in three counties, but there is no data available on how many targeted recipients got jobs. Wisconsin’s past experience with such work requirements, however, has not been good. In 2011, its FoodShare Employment Training program cost $19 million to administer and had 6,021 participants, but only 179 people got jobs, at a cost of more than $8,900 per job. Yunker confirms this data is no longer available on the health department’s website.

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“I don’t snore!” I said years ago when I started snoring. That’s for grandpas. Whose grandpa doesn’t snore? Nobody’s! That’s because they all have sleep apnea. Fact is, 12 million Americans have it — a disorder where breathing stops and starts over and over again and is evidenced by loud snoring. If you don’t think that takes a toll on couples, if you doubt that the disorder can drive a spouse to acts of violence, consider this: That’s the exact number of people who cycle in and out of local jails each year. The home test kit came in a sturdy nylon zip bag in the shape of an oversized lunch box. I was assigned to the home study rather than a stay-over at the clinic. That was fine with me. The theory is, with take-home technology, subjects are more likely to sleep through the night in their own beds. You know. At the scene of the crime. The kit came with an instructional DVD. The video’s producer didn’t miss a trick, right down to casting. The demo dude looked like he hadn’t had REM sleep since R.E.M. topped the charts. I felt pretty bad for him. He looked under great duress as he donned all the cords and wires, like someone was standing just off-camera holding a gun on him.

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Also, it appeared that he was going to bed in a snazzy wool sweater. His test bedroom, obviously at the sleep clinic, wasn’t anything to write home about, either. The room was clean but it had the grim, undecorated motif of a church retreat center. Say your prayers, dude. Given all that, I was glad to be at home, in my own bedroom, threading, plugging in and inserting, with the help of Nurse Peggy. It was like hotwiring a car, really. Or setting up a timed explosive. Or preparing for a lie detector test. All of which is, on the adventure scale, far more exciting than mummifying yourself with circuitry just to knock off for the night. Nurse Peggy was patient. Nothing short of a board-certified electrician could have snapped this rig together in less than half an hour. The centerpiece of the gear was a cuckoo clock that you wear around your neck. You’re supposed to push the big, Fisher-Price-sized reset button in the middle of it if you need to get up for “an event,” which makes it sound like going to a Mallards game might be on tap in the next eight hours. The final instruction on the DVD: “Go to sleep.”

Nurse Peggy gave me a kiss and retreated to a safe harbor sleeping chamber down the hall. I picked up a book from the night stand and tried to act as natural as a test subject can. When you think about it, the words “test subject” are really just dressed-up versions of less insulting but more accurate descriptors like “lab rat” or “victim.” For a moment I considered getting up and putting on a soundtrack that would put me to sleep. Like some James Taylor or maybe streaming a PBS NewsHour episode. But I didn’t want to press the giant, Fisher-Price reset button so early in the night. So I laid there on my back, reading. Two sets of monitor spikes were attached to my nostrils. When I reached to turn the pages of my book they’d pop out and I had to replace them. I turned off the light and considered what I had learned about sleep apnea treatment. The literature cheerfully proclaims that the disorder

is “very successfully treated.” That was good news until I read further and discovered that the treatment includes sleeping every night for the rest of your life with a device on your melon as big as a Division I college mascot head. But a boy’s gotta do what a boy’s gotta do. And by the way, Dad, thanks a lot. I mean I appreciate the good looks and all, but this other stuff is starting to stack up. High cholesterol. Joint disease. Rotten hearing. I’m no doctor, but I know you had sleep apnea because I’m so smart about it now and because the mortar of our brick home cracked away when you snored. I fell asleep thinking about his snoring. I woke up at 2:10 a.m. Time to pee. I swung my feet to the wood floor. The street light comes through an unshaded window in our room. As I sat there on the bed I could see myself, just barely, looking back at me from the dresser mirror. I looked like a marionette. I drew my finger to the button in the center of the dream-killer machine around my neck. I gave it a vigorous push. Then, I stood and smiled as the bittersweet words of the late Warren Zevon came to mind: “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” u

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The politics of ridesharing I just finished reading Larry Kaufmann’s “The Politics of Ridesharing” (3/19/2015). The practice is very old: undercut a current business — here, taxi service — eventually destroy it, and once the market is cornered, the new system can charge what it wants. Meanwhile, the unemployment numbers, already too high, will be even higher. I hope that persons who need transportation will think twice before they turn to this new service. The locally owned grocery stores, pharmacies, department stores, farms, you name it, have disappeared in similar fashion, and with them the jobs that are necessary for a healthy society. I am certain that this is how, with some earlier governing support, the disparity in wealth destruction got its start. On this issue, ignoring other issues, Paul Soglin is right. Luba V. Gordon (via mail) Larry Kaufmann’s column on the so-called sharing economy, rideshare and Uber as a major issue in the mayoral race between Scott Resnick and Paul Soglin is without a doubt the most disingenuous and poorly researched piece I have read in Isthmus concerning the matter. Kaufmann’s political and economic diatribes are a mix of baseless talking points that Uber’s lobbyists have repeatedly tried to feed Madison’s city council and his own equally unsubstantiated brand of bunkum. Over the last year Uber and other socalled sharing economy companies have

caused a constant stream of political and economic damage not just in the U.S. but worldwide. This is something Paul Soglin knows well, while Scott Resnick has offered only half-truths and run-on tech talk, with little actual insight or planning. For factual information on rideshares and Uber, see Madison’s publicly funded and publicly run transit safety website ridesafemadison.net. Ride Safe Madison is not affiliated with any cab or commercial transit company, lobbying group or union. Justin La Plante Associate editor, Ride Safe Madison (via email)

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As Madison gets ready to select a mayor for the next four years, it’s worth asking the question: What does the mayor actually do? And what skills are needed to be a good one? The questions don’t necessarily have obvious answers. For instance, the mayor is responsible for putting together the budget each year, but works off of proposals from each of the city’s 26 departments. And there’s also a finance department with 38 full-time employees to help him or her with the finer points of budgeting. With more than 2,700 full-time employees and an operating budget topping $283 million, the city is in some regards a well-oiled machine, capable of running just fine on its own, at least for a little while. So what do we need a mayor for, anyway? This year’s race, which will be decided on April 7, is between an incumbent, Paul Soglin, who has held the job longer than anyone, and a challenger, Ald. Scott Resnick, who is not yet 30, but has already co-founded a successful company. Both have similar ideas about what the job entails. Soglin says he spends an inordinate amount of time dealing with day-to-day personnel and financing issues. When it comes to setting an agenda, he says, the mayor needs to be able to marshal city staff and resources to the task and make hard choices about priorities. For instance, Soglin says, the mayor often must decide “Do we do need a police station or a street reconstruction?” Resnick, who is chief operating officer of Hardin Design & Development and a two-term council member, echoes that sentiment. “When you look at any major initiative, it takes a whole host of individuals [to make it happen],” he says. “So the skill sets required for that is someone who can bring multiple people to the table.” In 2011, Soglin’s vision included two main goals: reduce borrowing and fight poverty.

He claims to have made significant progress on both goals, while his detractors say he’s fallen short. At campaign functions, Soglin often opens by telling people that he decided to run once again for mayor when he realized how much childhood poverty had grown in the city. Soglin says he’s done a lot to alleviate poverty, including reinstating neighborhood resource teams, which corral staff from various departments to help identify and find solutions to problems in struggling neighborhoods. He says the teams helped bring bus service to Owl Creek, a low-income neighborhood created on the far southeast side of the city 10 years ago, and prepared the city to “deal with the food desert at Allied Drive,” when Walgreens closed. Soglin also points to a number of jobs initiatives. The city stopped asking job applicants for information about criminal records when they applied for jobs (although the city still does background checks). Soglin also helped create a summer jobs program for youth, named after the mayor’s longtime administrative assistant, Wanda Fullmore, who retired last year. The mayor says the city has also made efforts to open up recruitment for seasonal work with the city. “Seasonal employment is a major entry way to permanent employment,” he says. The mayor also believes that his efforts are responsible for a reduction in the number of children receiving free or reduced lunches through the school system. According to the Madison school district, the number of students getting free or reduced lunches grew from 38.6% in 2006 to almost 50% last year. In 2015, the number fell to just under 48%. “I think that’s a consequence of what we’ve

done,” Soglin says. “If it’s improving here but not taking place in other parts of the region, obviously something is happening locally.” If reelected, Soglin says he’ll prioritize employment issues and opportunities for youth. But Resnick says he’s seen very little progress on poverty. He notes that homelessness has grown more than 40% during Soglin’s term. Based on the city’s January “point in time” survey of both sheltered and unsheltered people, the homeless population has grown from 573 in January 2011, three months before Soglin was elected, to 808 people as of this January. “I’m actually trying to think of what Paul has done above and beyond his predecessor,” he says. “The jobs program was a step in the right direction; however, the United Way and Urban League deserve equal if not more credit.” Resnick accuses the mayor of not keeping on top of the problems. “Cities that are really addressing issues of poverty collect good data regularly. They see what programs work and which ones don’t work. The mayor doesn’t collect data in that way,” he says. “Any data sets he disagrees with he rejects.” Resnick has his own ideas for fighting poverty and has made confronting the digital divide a cornerstone of his campaign. He also wants to fund early childcare to ensure “the students who enter the Madison school district are on equal footing.” He would create impact fees for developers building luxury housing, and use the funds for affordable housing and improving public infrastructure. “We’re creating a downtown Madison that is too expensive to live in,” Resnick says.

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While Soglin may care most about fighting poverty, the issue that’s dominated his last four years has been the largest development project the city has ever contemplated: Judge Doyle Square. The project includes rebuilding the Government East parking ramp, constructing another hotel to complement Monona Terrace, and developing some mix of housing, retail and office space. The city was at one time contemplating a proposal from developer Bob Dunn that called for almost $80 million in city funding. Unable to bring down the cost, the city sent the project back out to bid earlier this year. Both Resnick and Soglin supported the project. Resnick now attacks Soglin for his leadership on it, while Soglin complains that he never supported the most controversial element of it, a full-service hotel. In a February meeting with Isthmus, Soglin blamed Ald. Mark Clear for pushing for a luxury hotel, while saying he supported a much simpler, cheaper project. “I repeatedly said in these discussions that we did not need a full-service hotel,” he says. “I support the project, meaning the development of the block. I’m still convinced it can be a viable project, with the kind of hotel some of us envisioned...which is not the traditional full-service, convention-oriented hotel.” But if he was pushing back against a fullservice hotel, he did so in private. Throughout the process he routinely dismissed critics of the project and set aside money for it in the city’s capital budgets. In an interview with Isthmus on Oct. 9, 2013, Soglin was asked why the project is needed. “The key thing is the finding that was done in that study four or five years ago, that indicates we need more hotel rooms to attract conventions,” he said at the time. The study that Soglin referred to, by Hunden Strategic Partners, called for what is by any definition a luxury hotel: 400 rooms, two ballrooms, three restaurants, an indoor pool, a fitness center, a spa and a concierge desk. Even after a committee had selected Dunn’s proposal for the project and began negotiating with him, Soglin showed little interest in slamming on the brakes. At the Feb. 17, 2014, Board of Estimates meeting, Ald. Lisa Subeck asked why the city didn’t go back out to bid for the project after it became clear that the two main developers vying for it had proposed projects the city couldn’t afford. Soglin answered: “You had two committed developers, both of them wanted to go forward, both of them had committed minimally, in our estimation, a quarter of a million dollars,” he said. “Given that we worked with them, they had as good an understanding as anyone as to what we wanted and what we wanted in transition. Given their commitment, we thought it was best to continue working with them.” Both developers had proposed luxury products. Ald. David Ahrens — a longtime opponent of the project who is supporting Resnick — finds the mayor’s claims disingenuous. Last year, Ahrens calculated that the

city had already spent more than $1 million in consulting fees and staff time planning for the project. “[Soglin’s] senior staff spent months hiring consultants, negotiating what they knew would be a luxury hotel requiring a large city subsidy,” he says. “The notion that his senior staff somehow did this at a cost of more than $1 million dollars without his approval and encouragement and support is absurd.” “This was the biggest project they worked on over the past four years,” he adds. “And the explanation now is he was not in favor of it?” Although Resnick has criticized the project and the mayor’s handling of it, he’s also supported it with most of his votes on the Common Council. He says was willing to let negotiations unfold, to see if an affordable deal could be reached. But when it wasn’t, he voted to pull the plug. He faults Soglin for making the project a priority. “We’ve put most of our eggs in the Judge Doyle Square basket instead of asking ourselves, is this the right project for the city of Madison?” Resnick says. Soglin has in turn attacked Resnick for a different luxury hotel project, the redevelopment of the Edgewater. Under former Mayor Dave

‘I repeatedly said in these discussions that we did not need a full-service hotel.’ Cieslewicz, the council bitterly fought over the project, finally awarding it $16 million in tax incremental financing (TIF). The project is widely seen as having played a role in Soglin’s victory over Cieslewicz in the 2011 election. Back in office, Soglin drastically cut the TIF for the project. Resnick says simply: “I made a mistake.” “What did I learn from that project is to avoid trying to fund luxury hotels,” he adds. “We’ve turned around and done it again with Judge Doyle Square, only for more money this time.” When a Madison police officer shot and killed unarmed Tony Robinson on March 6, it had immediate implications for the mayoral race. Although economic and racial disparities were already a hot topic here, the issue gained more traction in the campaign. Protesters with

the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition began to noisily demonstrate at forums, demanding to know what the candidates planned to do about the killing. (The shooting remains under investigation by the state Department of Justice.) Resnick has called for a complete review of the city’s use-of-force policies, as well as the way the city polices neighborhoods. He cautions that he’s not criticizing or attacking the police. “This isn’t a dichotomy about whether you side with the police department or Tony and his family; it’s talking about where reforms are needed,” he says. “It’s about creating the most accessible force in the country. You get there by reviewing and holding critical the policies and procedures that are in place.” Resnick says he’d like to see data on arrest records — with breakdowns by race, age and class of those encountering police — readily accessible to the public. “You can find this information in other communities, but you can’t seem to find it in Madison,” he says. “If you don’t know if the programs you’re putting in place are working, how do we know if we’re going in the right direction?” Soglin too wants the city needs to act, but says the problem relates to the greater criminal justice system, not the Madison police. He doesn’t question the city’s use-of-force policy, saying “use-of-force policy is fairly uniform around the country.” However, Soglin says more sensitivity training and more conversations between youth and police would help. “One of the things I want our officers to do is imagine they’re a 17-year-old African American teen who is undergoing a traffic stop and the kind of fear they may have,” he says. “Our officers have extensive training, which includes understanding and controlling inherent bias,” he adds. “But anything we can do that expands their awareness of what a person is thinking and how they’re responding can only be to everyone’s benefit. And conversely, the public should understand what the officer is going through.” He would also like to help minority youth get more help if they get in trouble by expanding the restorative court recently created in the south precinct. “A middle-class white kid will get diversion the very first time there’s an incident, and most times it will work and the kid won’t get into trouble again,” he says. “An African American kid won’t get that support.” People who don’t like Soglin tend to complain about the mayor’s style. Resnick has made this a centerpiece of his campaign, saying Soglin has gotten so cantankerous and rigid that he’s unable to work with others, holding the city back. Even some supporters agree the mayor’s an odd duck. “He’s a curmudgeon,” says former Ald. Satya Rhodes-Conway, a strong Soglin backer. “He has strong opinions and not a whole lot of patience for people he feels are not thinking well or just playing politics or don’t have the best interest of the city.” Ahrens finds it more troublesome. “He likes

‘We’ve put most of our eggs in the Judge Doyle Square basket instead of asking ourselves, is this the right project?’

to humor it and call it being grumpy, but it’s really being argumentative and conflictual. And it doesn’t work,” he says. “He feels comfortable in a relationship like that. That’s the relationship he’s fostered with the council.” More troublesome to Ahrens is that he doesn’t see Soglin getting fired up about any particular issue. “When you think about where Soglin has taken a strong position on something, where he actually says, ‘I’m for this’ — it’s really almost nothing.” The mayor dismisses complaints about his style. “It’s not a question of leadership,” he says. “What they’re really talking about is the way I negotiate.” Madison has no shortage of issues to grapple with at the moment: poverty, racial disparity, homelessness, booming development, transportation planning, cuts to state and federal aid, education, economic development and food policy, among many others. And yet, this mayor’s race has gotten scant attention. It is, by several accounts, flat-out boring. Joe Sensenbrenner — who was Madison’s mayor for much of the 1990s — has been surprised by the lack of interest. “Many people have concluded there’s not a great deal at stake,” says Sensenbrenner, who has not endorsed anyone. “The level of interest is not very high, by my observation. People are concerned about various things in the community, but that has not translated to close scrutiny of...the candidates.” Rhodes-Conway believes that Soglin’s dominance in city politics simply kept tough opponents out of the race. “There is a feeling it’s a foregone conclusion, so why even bother,” she says. “Most folks reading the tea leaves in advance thought if Soglin wants another term, it’s his. So if you’re serious about running for mayor, you’re not going to run this time; you’ll run next time.” n

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asking these strangers who didn’t know me to come to America,” says Collins. Hozier-Byrne and Reilly say they didn’t find it creepy, but they wondered if the offer was real. “I thought it was a prank by our roommate,” says Reilly. “Even at the airport in Madison, I briefly thought no one was coming to meet us.” The Irish comedians are no strangers to adventure. They traveled to the south of France where they screened a short film at the Cannes Film Festival, and Reilly has performed stand-up in London and New York. Hozier-Byrne recently accompanied his brother to the 2015 Grammy Awards. “But we’ve never traveled halfway around the world just to drink beer and play

board games,” says Hozier-Byrne. Yet that is exactly what Beer and Board Games is. The Blame Society crew films two episodes per shoot, and each show features one board game and three different beers, meaning performers drink at least six beers over the course of the night. Yonda says they play the more complicated game first because of the inevitable inebriation. “We do drink a good amount, but safety is the first priority,” says Yonda. “We make sure everyone has a way to get home at the end of the night. No one drives home.”

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A cold beer, a board game and a few friends make for a great Friday night. But most game nights don’t require a trip through customs, as was the case for Jon Hozier-Byrne and David Reilly. The filmmakers and comedians traveled from Dublin, Ireland, to Madison in mid-February to tape two episodes of Beer and Board Games, a popular web series where four people (you guessed it) drink beer while playing a board game. Beer and Board Games is the latest project from Blame Society Productions, formed by Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan, creators of the breakout Chad Vader, a sketch series showcasing the adventures of Darth Vader’s gro-

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The menu at Whitewater’s Second Salem Brewing Company claims the soft pretzel is “bigger than you can imagine.” My table was ready to call the writer’s bluff, and we ordered it. Then it arrived, as big as a catcher’s mitt, fat twists of shiny dough shaped into a face with mustard- and nacho cheese-tub eyes. We were in awe. The big pretzel also happened to be quite good, tasting like a pretzel and not just egg-washed dinner roll. The thin honey mustard sauce had sinus-clearing, Chinese mustard-level heat, bringing more than one of us to tears. This pretzel exemplified the surprising bona fides of Second Salem, a young nanobrewery turning out earnest and housemade food alongside a lineup of solid craft beers. The beer is what drew me 40 miles southeast of Madison to Second Salem, which celebrated its grand opening in December of 2014. Its Bone Orchard India Pale Ale won an audience award for hoppy beers at the Isthmus Beer and Cheese Fest in January of this year. With this success, plus a big menu that includes weekend breakfast, Second Salem has earned itself some attention. The name Second Salem refers to a 20th century nickname for Whitewater stemming from rumors that witches met at the town’s Starin Park water tower, aka the Witchtower. Many of Second Salem’s beers are named after southeastern Wisconsin’s spookier legends. There’s a nice selection of Second Salem beers on tap, shifting slightly from week to week as kegs run dry and new batches are brewed. Old Main Golden Ale — order it as “OMG” — is sweet and okay if you desire a lighter beer. The Beast of Bray Road is an amber ale with a lot of sticky caramel sweetness, but a welcome lash of bitter hops to balance things out. Hops show up big in Witchtower too, an American pale ale that has a great citrus nose. Second Salem’s darker and less filtered beers can get a little off the rails, however.

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The porter delivers a huge puff of smoke that isn’t anywhere in the description; it’s fine, but unexpected. That smokiness also seems to have seeped into the Full Sleeve India black ale, which has an ashy bitterness that undermines what could be a solid IBA otherwise. I don’t know where Reaper, Second Salem’s trial-run wheat beer, gets its black olive flavor, but it’s...odd, to say the least. More work is required; it’s a great name, though. The aforementioned Bone Orchard, on the other hand, is a hazy golden winner. A big tropical nose leads into prominent mango notes, pretty ideally situating Bone Orchard as an almost-imperial IPA. Co-owner Christ G. Christon shares in food menu design responsibilities with recently hired chef Cyril Simon, and the kitchen makes more items in-house than is usual for a small-town brewpub. A lazier kitchen could sleepwalk through potato skins, but these have plenty of bacon, cheese and fresh jalapeño. The potato is slightly dried out, but there’s enough added moisture to compensate. The Greek nachos — an idea so obvious, a combination so natural that it’s a shocker everyone isn’t doing it — is a fun starter, salty and messy and perfect for sharing. The Wisconsin mac and cheese, on the other hand, is too reminiscent of the boxed dinner version of this dish.

The Wisconsin burger piles on cheese curds, cheese soup (it’s very thick) and applewood-smoked bacon — it’s a mess atop a decent burger. The mediocre onion ring corralling all the meltiness doesn’t do the sandwich any favors. The burger patty was cooked to a requested medium, and other meats at Second Salem are handled well, too. The Harvest Pork sandwich is loaded with smoky pulled pork, apples and sauerkraut. Cheese may have been the standout ingredient on the NY Deli Roast Beef sandwich, but the beef was tender and ample. It’s not all sandwiches and burgers and ridiculous pretzels. The porter batter on the fried cod, available every day, actually tastes like porter; the cod itself is meaty and flaky. Meatloaf comes out in two medallions, an unusual presentation that maximizes the caramelized crusty bits that everyone loves about meatloaf. Candied tomato slices are strongly spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg flavors, and there’s plenty of fragrant whole fennel seeds in the meatloaf. You might not expect a remote college town brewpub to put together such a culinary flavor profile, but Second Salem is making a habit of exceeding expectations. n

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Mark your calendars Updates on new restaurants BY LINDA FALKENSTEIN

Joshua Berkson and Patrick Sweeney are planning to open a pizzeria down the block from Merchant, the restaurant they opened in 2010. Managing partners in the new venture will be Tom Dufek and Maddy Van Elzen, according to a liquor and beer license application filed with the city of Madison. The new eatery, to be called Lucille, is planned for 101 King St., currently the home of Isthmus. Lucille will be centered around a “huge tiled artisanal Neapolitan dome pizza oven in the middle of a beautiful wrap-around bar and mezzanine,” according to a description of the project filed with the city. Lucille is projected to have 150 to 175 seats. Seating will be on the first floor along with the bar and kitchen, in the triangularshaped mezzanine area overlooking the bar, and in the basement. No menu is currently available, but the restaurant’s inspirations include the farmers’ market as well as “old-school Wisconsin tavern culture,” according to the license application.

The building, which was owned by former Isthmus publisher Vince O’Hern, was sold to Urban Land Interests. Isthmus offices will be moving to new digs at 100 State St. in May. Merchant co-owner Patrick Sweeney noted that a meeting with the neighborhood will be scheduled in early April. The Alcohol License Review Committee meets next on April 15. Some highly anticipated Madison restaurant projects have taken longer to open than originally projected. Construction has recently stopped at the former Savidusky’s Fur Quarters at 829 E. Washington Ave., set to host Julep, a Southern restaurant; Barolo Wine Bar; and A-OK Coffeehouse. Jon Reske of Fourcap Real Estate, who is coordinating the project, says that he’s “learned his lesson about giving out hard dates” — the restaurants were originally slated to open in November 2014. Reske has been filling in financing after one investor pulled out, but he believes they’re all on track to open “within the next three months.”

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PaintBar, headed to 1224 Williamson St., had projected a January opening. “The build-out, the bar, the bathroom, it all took longer than we anticipated,” says co-owner John Salituro. He’s hopeful that PaintBar will open in two to three weeks. A mix between a bar and an art studio, PaintBar will offer painting classes of two to three hours each, as well as open hours where artists will be on hand to give advice on your project. Canvases, smocks, easels and brushes, as well as wine and beer, coffee, soda, flatbread pizzas, panini and soup will all be available. Graft, a wine bar/small plates restaurant to be located at 18 N. Carroll St.,

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projected a March opening in its original paperwork for an alcohol license; work on the space is still in the early stages. Middlewest, a forthcoming venture from Underground Food Collective at 811 Williamson St., is undergoing a major build-out. The restaurant was first proposed back in 2012. Jonny Hunter of UFC says that the target opening is sometime in 2015, though he’s “not ruling out 2016.” Work is taking a long time because everything being done is custom, says Hunter, right down to building its own chairs. “This is an important project for us,” Hunter says. Sushi Tora, a Japanese restaurant to open in the former Electric Earth, 546 W. Washington Ave., is also lagging behind its original anticipated opening date of late February. Owner Nick Lee hesitates when asked to give an opening date: “We’re still remodeling; I’m not so sure.” n

Eats events Frokost = Brunch Saturday, March 28

“Frokost” translates roughly into “brunch,” and a smorgasbord of smoked salmon, herring, ham, sausages, boiled eggs, cheeses, breads, traditional pastries and fruit soup will be laid out by the members of the Sons of Norway Idun Lodge. A bake sale will provide additional items to take home, from coffee cakes to lefse. 9 am-noon, 2262 Winnebago St., 608277-8190. Adults/$12, kids 6-12/$6.

The 2015 annual meeting of the Madison chapter of Slow Food will occasion a review of last year’s activities and brainstorming for upcoming events. Local vendors will provide food and drink. Meet the board and fellow members; non-members are welcome. Noon-2 pm at the Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa St. 608-616-0736. Free, but you must order a ticket; see the Eventbrite link on slowfoodmadison.org.

Have a cuppa Wednesday, April 1

The Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin, better known as CHEW (no, this is not an April Fool’s joke) welcome Dr. Judith Fisher to speak on “The Empire of the Tea Table: The Social and Literary Life of Tea in Victorian England” for their monthly program. Fisher will discuss how tea became the drink of English women, its relationship to class, and more. Of course, there will be tea and scrumptious accoutrements. 7:15 pm, Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa St. chewwisconsin.com.

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Fandemonium! Grateful Red’s release is well-timed for the Badgers’ appearance in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Brewmaster Ashley Kinart says that offering a hoppy red has been the plan for some time, but with the Badgers in the NCAA Tournament, the tap release was pushed up. Bottles and cans won’t be on shelves until April. The beer gets much of its reddish tint from a specialty grain called Best Red X. The hoppy flavor comes from a combination of Warrior, Apollo, Simcoe and an experimental hop that is so new it only has a number and not an official variety name. All of the hops are U.S.-grown. While there is strength to this beer, at 5.3% ABV it’s at the lower end of the alcohol spectrum for IPAs, though it’s solidly hopped (at 65 IBUs). A sharp, piney hopforward bitterness becomes more complex and spicy, with a nice maltiness that offer a bit of balance. Grateful Red reminds me of hoppy American red/amber ales common on the West Coast.

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in the 25-second range, which prevented the beans from tasting bitter and kept the smooth and slightly chocolatey characteristics intact. While a regular latte allows those flavors to come through, the salted caramel latte is not as successful. The caramel and espresso never quite blend — the caramel syrup is very sweet and tends to overshadow the flavor of the beans. And it might be too much to ask that the salt could hold up to both coffee and thick caramel. — NOAH PHILLIPS

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Badger tenacity BY MICHAEL POPKE

About five minutes into the University of Wisconsin’s slow-starting first game in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament Friday night in Omaha, Neb., against No. 16 seed Coastal Carolina University, my 15-year-old son proclaimed that the rest of the country might be wondering why the Badgers are a No. 1 seed in the West region. But before too long, senior center, Big Ten Player of the Year and Naismith Trophy finalist Frank Kaminsky found his groove, scoring 27 and grabbing 12 rebounds. The Badgers eventually cruised to an 86-72 victory. That’s a lot of points for this team, which through March 20 was averaging 72.3 points per game. On Sunday night, during UW’s round of 32 game against Oregon, it sometimes appeared as if the Badgers would join the ranks of Villanova, Virginia and Kansas — No. 1 and 2 seeds that fell hard earlier in the day. Kaminsky struggled on his way to scoring 16, while junior forward Sam Dekker led the team with 17 in the 72-65 victory. Sopho-

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mores Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig stepped up in a big way, too, scoring 14 and 12, respectively. The win over Oregon, which sent the Badgers to the Sweet 16 for the fourth time in five years (and the seventh time in 14 years), wasn’t necessarily pretty. Nor was it as thrilling as UW’s come-from-behind nail-biter last year against the Ducks in the tournament’s third round at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee. But, as senior guard Josh Gasser told Madison.com on Sunday night, “You just want to win.” Now it’s off to Los Angeles, where the Badgers will take on another formidable opponent, No. 4 seed North Carolina — Dekker’s favorite team as a kid, he admitted to CBS’s Lewis Johnson in a brief postgame interview. Wisconsin will need greater contributions from its bench, particularly senior forward Duje Dukan and sophomore guard Zak Showalter, especially if Kaminsky starts slowly again. And wouldn’t it be nice if senior guard Traevon Jackson, who broke his foot on Jan. 11 at Rutgers and finally was cleared to practice last week, could see at least a little playing time against the Tar Heels? n

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How was working with producer Ben H. Allen III (Cee-Lo Green, Deerhunter, Animal Collective), and what did his presence bring to the record? It was great. He brought an awful lot to it. He did quite a bit of programming and actually added parts to the songs, which I don’t think a producer had ever done on our records before. In terms of the vibes that he created in the studio, Ben made it a lot of fun for everyone and gave everyone a lot of freedom to express and enjoy themselves. With the rapidly increasing availability of music today, have you felt pressure to release material faster? In all honesty I can’t say that we have, because we’ve had four- or five-year breaks in between the last couple of albums, whereas back in the early days of the band we were banging them out once every six months. I think the one definite desire everybody’s got is to not leave such a big gap between records as the last couple. I think we’re hoping that we’ll stay active. n

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It has already been an exciting year for fans of indie rock from the early 2000s. Sufjan Stevens has made a much-anticipated return to folk with Carrie & Lowell, and Modest Mouse released their first record since 2007. And in January, critical darlings Belle and Sebastian put out their first album in five years. Led by frontman Stuart Murdoch, the Scottish sextet have dabbled in prototypical indie and pop styles throughout a 19-year career. And though the band’s new album, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, favors grooving rhythms over their characteristic twee sound, the song lyrics still read like the pages of a wallflower’s diary.

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There’s something compelling about teen angst. Audience members of any generation can relate to the self-discovery, doubt, fear, lust and rebellion that makes comingof-age stories — from Romeo and Juliet and Catcher in the Rye to The Hunger Games and Glee — irresistible. Adding to that genre, Mercury Players and OUT!Cast Theatre have collaborated on an energetic and satisfying production of Bare: A Pop Musical, a collage of teen troubles set against the backdrop of Catholic condemnation and homophobia.

Bare, directed by Steve Noll, revolves around recognizable high school types, including the girl struggling with body image issues (Katie Cass); the closeted gay theater geek (Aaron Insko); the badass drug dealer (Annemae Collins); the prom queen with a reputation for promiscuity (Sami Sobaski); and the jock who is still trying to figure out who he is (Kurtis Hopp). The script tries to cover too much ground and the songs are pleasant but forgettable. But this production is filled with beautiful, compelling performances. Insko is heartbreaking as Peter, who wants to come out to his mother, be accepted by his church and have the freedom to kiss his boyfriend in public. Hopp brings equal

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parts swagger and insecurity to the role of Jason, Peter’s confused beau. Their duets are some of the most touching and musically interesting parts of the show. As Jason’s other love interest, Ivy, Sobaski builds, both vocally and emotionally, to her stunning solo “All Grown Up” in the second act. The direction is heavy-handed at times, particularly in reinforcing the indictment

of Catholicism that is already present in the script. But with the help of Lyn Pilch’s bouncy choreography and Meghan Rose’s music direction, Bare is an emotional — and definitely angst-filled — look at young people coming of age at the beginning of the new millennium. Bare: A Pop Musical plays at the Bartell Theatre through April 4. n

Cello magic Amit Peled reveals tremendous talent in Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra concert BY JOHN W. BARKER

Cellist Amit Peled plays on an 18th-century instrument that once belonged to the great Pablo Casals. Whether it is the instrument’s power or its inspiration, Peled’s playing is stunning. The soloist’s work paired with the excellent ensemble work of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in a March 20 concert at the Overture Center. The WCO string section again showed off its admirable sheen and precision in the first item, a four-movement “Suite for String Orchestra” by Frank Bridge, who is better remembered today as the teacher and mentor of Benjamin Britten. This score, composed in 1909, five years before Britten’s birth, provides early evidence of the string expertise that Bridge would pass on to his pupil. Although not quite memorable, the suite is an agreeable Edwardian novelty. The audience’s excitement ramped up with the soloist’s arrival. Though the IsraeliAmerican Amit Peled is not a household name, and has yet to build a great reputation through recordings, he revealed himself as a musician of tremendous future promise. As his vehicle, Peled boldly chose a work rarely given its due: the “Cello Concerto in A Minor” by Robert Schumann. This is a work from the composer’s final, troubled years, and is too often shrugged off as inferior. But Peled made a powerful and eloquent case for it, creating a big sound, but a richly songful one, even in florid passages. Peled may not

yet be considered the heir of Casals, but he clearly knows how to make wonderful music on the master’s instrument. The encores came, in effect, after the intermission. First, the WCO tackled the Casals arrangement of the Catalan “Song of the Birds,” a signature piece, and then a Tarantella by the 19th-century cello master, David Popper. Maestro Andrew Sewell continued to demonstrate his understanding of late-18thcentury symphonic works by conducting, without a score, Mozart’s famous “G-minor Symphony No. 40.” It would have been fun if he had used the original version of the work, which does not include clarinets, but he made the conventional choice. Sewell took all the repeats, stretching things out to a full 30 minutes in an interpretation of unusual force and intensity. The piece stressed the darkness of the “tragic” G-minor tonality with a remarkable propulsiveness, particularly notable in the fast-and-furious finale. Even the gentle, slow movement was given unsettling ambiguity. With this interpretation, Sewell made clear how much this score, and the subsequent “Jupiter” Symphony, laid the foundations for Beethoven. n

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Forward’s Pulitzer score Local company brings Annie Baker’s prizewinning play The Flick to Madison BY CONLAN CARTER

Forward Theater just announced its 2015-16 season, including the 2014 Pulitzer-winning play, The Flick, demonstrating the six-year-old company’s commitment to plays that inspire thought-provoking questions about the human condition. The Wisconsin Wrights New Play Festival opens the season in September, featuring readings of three new plays by Wisconsin-based playwrights. Forward’s artistic director Jennifer Uphoff Gray says putting new works in front of audiences is key to the development process. “The Madison audience is really smart,” says Gray. “When art is created in a community, it has more relevance. I think things just resonate.” In November, Forward will host the Midwestern premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky, based on the true story of Henrietta Leavitt, the woman responsible for one of the most critical breakthroughs in modern astronomy. Before women were allowed to operate an observatory telescope, Leavitt was hired at Harvard University’s Observatory as a “computer,” recording star observations from pictures. After making an important discovery, Henrietta must balance feelings of love, obligation and righteousness as she fights for recognition in a male world. It is a “girl-power play,” says Gray, that “beautifully merges art and science and history.”

Forward has formed a partnership with UW Space Place and the Wisconsin Science Festival to present Silent Sky, and the groups are hoping to bring in the playwright to speak at the festival. Gunderson has been a prominent voice in the movement to bring science and art closer together in the past decade. The Flick by Annie Baker, which opens in January, follows the lives of three employees at one of the last movie theaters in Massachusetts to run 35-millimeter film. “What I really appreciate with [The Flick] is bringing in bigger issues through the dramas of day-to-day life,” says Gray, adding she thinks the play is a perfect fit for Madison. “Madison audiences are hungry for authenticity — as long as they’re not being preached to.” Closing Forward Theater’s season will be Mr. Burns (A Post-Electric Play). The play takes place immediately following the catastrophic failure of the world’s nuclear plants as several of the survivors try to remember a specific episode of The Simpsons. The play fast-forwards seven years, then 75, and what started out as a simple conversation evolves into the mythos of a new society. Because it is staged in three separate time periods, Gray says Mr. Burns is an ambitious undertaking. Despite the play’s fantastic physical challenges, Gray says she is excited by the questions the play raises: “What do we save? What do we keep from right now?” n

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Harlem Renaissance revisited The founders of a new museum hope to foster arts and community dialogue BY CATHERINE CAPELLARO

Inspired by the period in the 1920s and ‘30s when literature, visual art, music and politics flourished in New York City’s most famous African American neighborhood, the world’s first Harlem Renaissance Museum is set to open on Madison’s east side. The museum, which will host a grand opening on March 28, is located in the former Great Big Pictures building on East Washington Avenue, near Fiore Shopping Mall. The museum is a labor of love for a diverse group of board members hoping to honor the history and spirit of the Harlem Renaissance while highlighting some littleknown connections between the Madison area and some of the period’s most influential figures. In addition, the board members are planning programming that will foster the same types of cross-fertilization that made the era so culturally rich. The first exhibit is “Harlem in the Heartland,” and the founders say they hope to include more museum content, including manuscripts and artifacts, as the effort progresses. The museum will showcase live performances and will have a liquor license. Peter Brooks, a poet and Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric and composition at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, serves as unofficial academic adviser to the group. He is creating a curriculum for the museum’s educational programs and will give a lecture at the grand opening about the importance of the Harlem Renaissance today. Brooks says many people today know very little about the period and its connections to the Midwest. For example, the novelist and poet Jean Toomer, who was of mixed racial heritage, spent some of his college career at the UWMadison. In 1931, Toomer married Margery Latimer, a white Wisconsinite, prompting scandals over “race mixing” and the spiritual commune the two helped organize in Portage. Philosopher Alain Locke, often referred to as the “dean” of the Harlem Renaissance, was once a visiting professor at the UW.

Locke was also gay. Brooks says the Harlem Renaissance contained early seeds of the gay liberation movement. Brooks believes public intellectual battles that took place during the Harlem Renaissance provide positive examples for communities working through conflict and dissent. “The Harlem Renaissance was not a utopia; it was not a perfect place where everyone agreed,” says Brooks. “You had scholars and writers on one side saying you need to adapt and conform, and other writers, artists and performers saying we need to be who we are, we need to be genuine.” Brooks says it is important to create a space for the community to wrestle with today’s issues. “The Harlem Renaissance is an example of how conflict can help people learn more about each other and bring people together,” says Brooks. “You had a very public expression of everything that is good flowing into the streets. African Americans were able to talk about slavery, violence and poverty — and not just to black audiences but white audiences as well. David Hart, a local attorney and museum board member, is glad to see the 12-year effort to create the museum reach fruition. Hart facilitates monthly poetry slams at Genna’s for Madison’s Urban Spoken Word collective and says the spoken word movement owes a great debt to the Harlem Renaissance. “Most of the things that we are able to do today are possible because of that movement,” says Hart. “We really always use the Harlem Renaissance as a framework.” Why locate a museum named after a New York phenomenon in Madison? “Everyone’s heard or is familiar with the Harlem Renaissance, but it was interesting that there was no museum ever, anyplace, and so why not us?” says Tom Farley, who also serves on the museum board. “I’m glad somebody had the wherewithal to do it here.” Farley, brother of the late comedian Chris Farley and a former director of marketing for the Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau, says the museum will be a great addition to the East Washington corridor, which he calls the “future of Madison.” He says the opening gala will demonstrate the diversity of the museum’s

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Harlem Renaissance Museum Grand Opening Saturday, March 28, 7 pm, 1444 E. Washington Ave.

Featuring music by the Caitlin McGahan Artet, lecture by Peter Brooks, J.W. Basilo (National Poetry Slam winner) and Martel Chapman, the artist who created the exhibit of oil paintings called “Harlem in the Heartland.” programming. In addition to a performance by J.W. Basilo, a world champion poetry slam finalist, the event will feature jazz, visual art and Brooks’ lecture. “All these different mediums coming together in one space, people will get the sense it’s going to be a place where you can come and learn,” says Farley. Hart says the museum will create a welcoming space for everyone, regardless of race,

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Arts beat Deliciously Queer Are We Delicious? Ensemble Theatre pairs up with StageQ to create short plays on the themes of “coming out” and “commitments.” Actors and writers spend seven intense days writing and rehearsing the plays, and the result is always raw and exhilarating. On most nights you can also catch StageQ’s All Queer Variety Show, a one-hour show featuring music and comedy. All performances are at the Bartell Theatre.

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March 27-28, 8 pm: Deliciously Queer: Coming Out & The All Queer Variety Show April 3-4, 8 pm: Deliciously Queer: Coming Out & Commitments April 3-4, 10:30 pm: The All Queer Variety Show April 9-11, 8 pm: Deliciously Queer: Coming Out & Commitments April 9-10, 10:30 pm: The All Queer Variety Show

On April 10, the Madison Symphony Orchestra will host a concert and afterparty for Madison’s LGBTQ community and allies. The 7:30 pm concert at Overture Hall features pianist Christopher Taylor playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Concerto No. 4 for Clavier” and Franz Liszt’s “Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major.” MSO will finish with a firsttime performance of Anton Bruckner’s “Symphony No. 7.” A post-concert hangout with musicians includes drinks and appetizers. Tickets: 608-2573734 or madisonsymphony.org/out.

gender, background or sexual orientation. “We wanted to make a lasting impression on the arts landscape in Madison. The urban art forms, or the Harlem Renaissance art forms are thriving even today,” says Hart. “We sought to make those arts as respectable and relevant as any other art form that exists here in Madison, like the opera or the ballet.” n

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Perversely entertaining Wild Tales is an anthology of cinematic madness BY STEVE DAVIS

Snap! That’s the crack of people teetering on the verge in each of the six segments in the perversely entertaining Argentinian film Wild Tales, a more-than-deserving recent Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language film. From the jaw-dropping opening episode in which passengers on a commercial flight realize they all share one thing in common — a soured relationship with a mentally unstable man named Gabriel Pasternak (think of him as the Latin Keyser Söze) — to the freewheeling final episode displaying love’s absurdities at the wedding reception from hell, this inspired anthology firmly puts its talented screenwriter/director Damián Szifrón on the map of filmmakers to watch. (It’s not surprising the Almodóvar brothers, Pedro and Agustín, co-produced this film. The same of kind of cinematic madness courses in their veins.) In addition to his flawless camerawork, Szifrón demonstrates an astute literary

sense in this film. Each tale in the sextet is selfcontained, crafted in the Munro short-story tradition (both H.H. and Alice) of ordinary people and unordinary twists. While each segment stands on its own, all six are thematically linked by a shot of vengeance served up with a karma chaser, a quenching gulp of human lunacy. None of the episodes disappoints, though The Argentinian director Damián Szifrón links six bizarre stories with extraordinary flair. you may favor some over others, depending over something stupid.) This centerpiece blind machismo, giving us a brutally funny and on your view as to what constitutes the best frightening portrayal of two grown men fighting sequence is Spielberg meets Darwin on a revenge. The most accomplished of the lot, secluded ribbon of road somewhere in the like children on a playground, except the showhowever, is indisputable: the segment entitled Patagonian Steppe, and it’s a showstopper. down here is to the death. (Watching these idi“El Más Fuerte” (“The Strongest”). Set on a It’s just not a wild tale. It’s a fucking insane ots trying to even the score may trigger a pang lone desert highway, this brilliantly compact one in this thing we call la vida loca. n of regret over the last time you lost your shit tale of escalated road rage evinces the folly of

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Matt Sloan (left) and Aaron Yonda have moved on from Chad Vader.

that’s fun. When a game is bad, we can make jokes about it, sometimes suggest how it could be better, and that’s fun too,” says Yonda. Aside from the presence of Hozier-Byrne and Reilly and a bit of St. Patrick’s Day decoration, the Feb. 20 shoot proceeded as usual: Yonda’s dining room transformed into the Beer and Board Games set. The small crew hung lights and set up cameras to cover multiple angles. Sloan stacked board games to build a wall to hide Yonda’s kitchen. Hozier-Byrne and Reilly contributed a beer from Irish brewery Wicklow Wolf that’s not avail-

able in the States. They tried to sneak it into their luggage to get past customs, but airport security found it. “It’s a good thing; it turns out it wasn’t illegal to bring the beer,” says Hozier-Byrne. The Irish visitors joined Sloan and Yonda in playing Class Struggle, essentially Communist Monopoly. It’s rigged so the lower classes can’t win. It is also really boring. “It’s a lot of rolling, a lot of moving, a lot of reading, and then nothing happens,” says Sloan. Instead of letting the tedium bleed into the episode, the four comedians started inventing backstories for their player avatars.

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The board games featured on the show range from the well known (Pictionary, Munchkin) to more obscure titles, including VCR games, an awful remnant from the early ’90s. They’ve also played games that aren’t available to the public yet. Game creators have turned to Beer and Board Games to promote their Kickstarter campaigns, including the game Snake Oil from Wisconsin’s own Out of the Box Publishing — the makers of Apples to Apples. Yonda says he appreciates the simple premise of Beer and Board Games, saying it gives comedians room to play. “A few years ago, my brother and I were sitting around, having a few beers, playing a board game and cracking jokes. We were just riffing on and on about the game. I thought, this could be a show,” says Yonda. With its simple set and small cast, Beer and Board Games is also infinitely easier to produce than Chad Vader, which featured many actors, detailed scripts and impressive special effects — broadcast-quality stuff. Making the show was time-consuming and expensive, Yonda says, and Youtube’s algorithms reward people who put up a lot of content. Yonda says the quality of the game matters little. “When a game is good, we can really get into it, get a little competitive, and

Over the course of three hours, the crew taped two episodes in a row. Sloan later edited each episode down to its final 15-minute length; dedicated fans watched a livestream of the entire taping. According to Collins, the live chat is often filled with several dozen people from three or four continents. Hozier-Byrne says he understands why the show has international appeal. “At their best, board games are a social catalyst. There are rules and mechanics that are the same even if the languages are different,” he says. “And beer is pretty universal too.” Reilly says he and Hozier-Byrne appreciate being the first international guests on Beer and Board Games. “We are not taking this honor lightly,” says Reilly. “Madison is wonderful. Wisconsin is beautiful. It reminds me a bit of Ireland, lots of lakes and sectarianism.” And the Irish comedians seemed to fit in well with the Madison cast and crew. “We visited for a few days before the filming, and that helped us get to know the guys, get a sense of each other’s humor,” says HozierByrne. Yonda took the visitors to Brocach, Madison’s version of an Irish pub. “Which was hilarious, with the ‘authentic’ tikka masala and the Calcutta mash,” says Hozier-Byrne. “Just like Mum used to make,” says Reilly, deadpan. n

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Richard Attenborough stars as charismatic thug Pinkie Brown in this 1947 film noir.

A studly Los Angeles jazz deejay (Clint Eastwood) attracts a persistent fan (Jessica Walter); Eastwood’s 1971 directorial debut seethes with erotic tensions in the first half but gradually becomes a more conventional slash-‘em-up shocker, with male and female roles reversed.

La Haine Central Library, April 2, 6:30 pm

Vinz (Vincent Cassel) pledges to kill a cop if his friend, beaten badly by racist police officers, dies.

Mini Film Festival Pinney Library, March 27, 6 pm

Screenings of Before You, Round Barns of Vernon County and Mazzo-man-nee, three shorts from the 2014 Wisconsin Film Festival.

Pharaoh (Faraon) Cinematheque, March 27, 7 pm

Polish epic about the clash between Ramses XIII and Egypt’s clergy.

Still Mine Ashman Library, March 30, 2 pm

James Cromwell and Genevieve Bujold star as a couple fighting family and regulations to build their final home.

What is Normal? Central Library, March 31, 6:30 pm

Documentary following the lives of five Madison residents who are developmentally disabled. Producer Mary Jo Oathout will attend the screening.

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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 those that would have brought the whole enterprise to life. Get Hard: When a Wall Street tycoon (Will Ferrell) is arrested for embezzlement, he recruits his previously unnoticed car washer (Kevin Hart) to train him to withstand the rigors of life in prison. Topical, interracial, fish-out-of-water laughs ensue. Well, not really, unless you find homophobic, racist and just plain idiotic gags a hoot.

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Tedeschi Trucks Band Saturday, March 28, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm Nine years after the marriage of Grammy-nominated blues singer Susan Tedeschi and superstar slide guitarist Derek Trucks, they decided to take things to the next level by pressing “pause” on their solo acts to create this 11-member blues rock ensemble in 2010. The result? Two awardwinning albums and electric stage chemistry you’ll have to see to believe. With the Sharrows.

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Club Tavern, Middleton: The Gomers, 9 pm.

Thursday, March 26, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Essen Haus: Jason Rowe, 9 pm.

In 2012, this standup comedian was chosen by Esquire as one of its “Comics to Watch.” He made his television debut shortly thereafter on Conan, and has performed at SXSW the past two years. The multitalented Cayton-Holland also wrote a column for Denver’s alt-weekly Westword from 2003 to 2008. With Mike Stanley, David Freeburg. ALSO: Friday & Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), March 27-28

Froth House: Hoot ‘n Annie, 7 pm. Great Dane-Downtown: DJ Phil Money, 10 pm.

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High Noon Saloon: Primates Inc. Benefit with Stone Barone and the Mad Tones, Rock Paper Sinners, 5:30 pm; Dub Foundation (CD release), Red Rose, Bird’s Eye, Dub Messengers, Captain Smooth, 8 pm.

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Hody Bar and Gril, Middleton: Troye Shanks, 9 pm.

Thursday, March 26, Stoughton Opera House, 3 & 7 pm

Knuckle Down Saloon: Tate’s Blues Jam, 8 pm.

1855 Saloon: Eric Joseph, free, 6 pm. Alchemy Cafe: Jon Hoel Trio, jazz, 10 pm. The Bayou: Johnny Chimes, piano, free, 5:30 pm. Brink Lounge: Madison Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 pm. Buck and Honey’s, Sun Prairie: The Sparks Duo, ‘60s rock, 6:30 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm.

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Claddagh, Middleton: Kilkenny, free, 6 pm.

The Frequency: Growing, Bound for Severance, Disappearance, 9 pm.

Nashville-based recording artist Maggie Mae hails from Oxford, Wis., and her yodeling and country music has a big fan base. She performs regularly on the “Midwest Country Show,” and her infectious toe-tapping country has made her a staple at theaters, dances and fairs across the country.

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Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Mike Massey, 9 pm. Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Ken Wheaton, fingerstyle guitar, free, 5:30 pm. Louisianne’s, Middleton: Jim Erickson, piano, free, 6 pm. Mason Lounge: bpmTrio, jazz/funk, 8:30 pm. Merchant: Prognosis Negative, 10 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, French swing, 5:30 pm. Natt Spil: DJ Foundation, 10 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Frank James and Bobby Briggs, country, free, 8 pm. Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, 9 pm.

BOOKS Hilary Klein: Reading from “Companeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories,” her book, 7 pm, 3/26, Chocolaterian Cafe. 249-1156.

Li Chiao-Ping Dance’s Armature: Bodies of Hope 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. ALSO: Friday (7:30 pm) and Saturday (2:30 & 7:30 pm), March 27-28. Oregon Straw Hat Players’ “The Giver”: Adaptation of Lois Lowry’s book, 7:30 pm on 26-28 and 2:30 pm, 3/28, Oregon High School Performing Arts Center. $17. oshponline.org. 835-9126. Mercury Players Theatre & OUT!Cast Theatre’s “Bare: A Pop Musical”: 3/20-4/4, Bartell Theatre-Drury Stage, at 7:30 pm Thursdays and 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, plus 4 pm, 3/29. $20. 661-9696. Broom Street Theater’s “10 Dollar House”: Love and historic preservation collide when two men buy a crumbling house in Mineral Point, 3/20-4/11, Broom Street Theater, at 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $11. 244-8338.

K I D S & FA M I LY MMSD Vision 2030: Madison schools community input session, 6:30 pm, 3/26, Lussier Community Education Center. 833-4979.

LG BTQ Meet Your City & County Officials & Candidates: OPEN Madison event, 5-7:30 pm, 3/26, Cargo Coffee-East Washington Avenue. $20. RSVP: openmadison.org.

P U BL I C M E E TI N G S State Budget Public Hearing: 9:30 am-4 pm, 3/26, Reedsburg High School. Written comments: budgetcomments@legis. wisconsin.gov. 266-5830. 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, www.countyofdane.

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What Tyrants Saturday, March 28, The Frequency, 10 pm

Willy Street Pub/The Wisco: Gentle Brontosaurus, The Holy Alimonies, Wood Chickens, Zinky Boys, 9 pm.

This Minneapolis-based garage pop band deliver a face full of punk energy and scrappy guitars on their debut album, No Luck, just released this week. We’re willing to bet that their raucous sound and deep-cutting observations will translate well to the stage. With Modern Mod, Great Duck War.

Friday, March 27, Overture Center’s Capitol Theater, 8 pm

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You’ve seen her in such Brat Pack classics as Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, but did you know that this former teen icon also has some serious pipes? A jazz pianist’s daughter, Ringwald has been immersed in the genre from an early age, which you’ll hear when she performs standards from her 2013 debut album, Except Sometimes.

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Saturday, March 28, The Frequency, 7:30 pm

Viking Brew Pub, Stoughton: David Hecht, 6 pm. Wil-Mar Center: Bill & Bobbie Malone, Wild Hog in the Woods concert, 8 pm.

Brink Lounge: Emerald Grove, Kyle Smith, 8 pm.

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VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Frank James, country, 8 pm.

The Bayou: DJ Chamo, Latin, free, 10 pm.

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Up North Pub: Lost Highway All-Stars, 8 pm.

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Brocach-Square: The Currach, Irish, free, 5:30 pm. Capitol Rotunda: Whitnall High School Orchestra, Wisconsin Music Educators Assn. concert, noon. Cardinal Bar: Alison Margaret Jazz Quartet, 5:30 pm; DJs Wyatt Agard, Chuckl3, Hate Led, Apple Country, house, 9 pm. Chief’s Tavern: Robert J, 6:30 pm. Chocolaterian Cafe: Harris Lemberg, piano, free, 7:30 pm. Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: David Mazzie, 8 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Kings of Radio, ‘80s, 9 pm. Crandall’s: DJ Danny One, salsa, 10 pm. Essen Haus: Jason Rowe, 8:30 pm. First Unitarian Society Auditorium: Noon Musicale, Consuelo Sanudo, soprano, Jeff Gibbens, piano, 12:15 pm. Fisher King Winery, Mount Horeb: Mad City Jug Band, 6:30 pm. The Frequency: Filter Free Rodeo, Bron Sage, Spaceship Parts, The Rashita Joneses, 9 pm. Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Just Merl, 6:30 pm. Great Dane-Hilldale: DJ Audiomaxx, 9 pm. High Noon Saloon: Generals & Majors, XTC tribute, 5:30 pm; DVS1, techno/house, 10 pm.

Friday, March 27, Bartell Theatre, 8 pm

The Delicious Ensemble Theatre specializes in collaboration: They conceive, write, rehearse and perform an hour-long compilation of short plays in a single week. Watch as they take on their latest challenge, a funny, honest look at the ideas of coming out and commitment in the queer community. ALSO: Saturday, March 28 (8 pm). Through April 11.

This Louisiana-bred musician went from Baton Rouge to New York City and back again, honing her bluesy Southern rock and gravelly vocals along the way. Her February release, Create Your Own Mythology, explores the new frontiers and shifting paradigms of the American Dream through vivid musical storytelling. With Anderson East.

Opera Novice: Discussing opera & cartoons, 6 pm, 3/27, Madison Opera Center. 238-8085.

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Wisconsin-based guitarist Willy Porter has been dazzling rock and blues fans with his twisting songs for the last 25 years. Porter’s backing band will accompany him as he plays familiar classics as well as cuts from his new record, Human Kindness.

Madison Storytellers: Listen to or share stories about pets, 7 pm, 3/27, Arboretum Cohousing. 229-7906. Story Slam: 7 pm, 3/27, Johnson Public House. 347-0483

K IDS & FAM ILY Just Between Friends: Maternity & kids’ clothing/gear consignment sale, 9 am-7 pm on 3/27 ($3 admission), 9 am-5 pm on 3/28 and 9 am-2 pm, 3/29, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall. Consignment info: www.danecounty.jbfsale.com. 574-7078. Royal Stories & Crafts: Kingly activities for ages 3-6, 11 am, 3/27, Fitchburg Library. 729-1760 Flashlight Egg Hunt: MSCR event for grades 5-8, 8 pm, 3/27, secret location near South Towne. $10. RSVP: www.mscr.org. 204-3000.

SP EC TATO R SP O RTS Kids’ Folkstyle Wrestling State Tournament: Wisconsin Wrestling Federation annual event, 3/27-28, Alliant Energy Center-Coliseum. $10 ($5 ages 5 & up). www.wiwrestlingfederation.com.

Saturday, March 28, High Noon Saloon, 7 pm

Barrymore Theatre: John Hiatt, Sam Llanas, 8 pm. Brink Lounge: Madison Area Music Awards Finalists Party with Gin, Chocolate & Bottle Rockets, Lazydeadpoet, Lucas Cates Band, silent auction, 8 pm. Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: Bill Camplin Band, 8:30 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, 10 pm. Carp’s Landing, Lake Mills: The Stage Hoggs, 8 pm. Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: The Sparks, 8 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Pilot, 9 pm. Come Back In: The Blues Party, 9 pm. Crystal Corner Bar: Derp, Juggernauts, Exploding Sons, 9:30 pm. Dutch Mill Sports Club: Cool Front with Jon French, 9 pm. Essen Haus: Jason Rowe, 8:30 pm.

Hody Bar and Grill, Middleton: Rascal Theory, 9 pm.

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Ivory Room: Peter Hernet, Vince Strong, Nicky Jordan, 8 pm.

Fourth Friday Milonga: 8 pm-midnight, 3/27, Italian Workmen’s Club. $5. 238-2039.

Harmony Bar: Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound, 9:45 pm.

ARTS NOT IC E S

Hody Bar and Grill, Middleton: Midlife Crisis, 9 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: The Blues Disciples, 9 pm. Lakeside Street Coffee House: Small Blind Johnny, blues, free, 7 pm. Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Hanson Family Jazz Band, 6:30 pm. Locker Room Sports Bar: The Chromaphones, 9 pm. Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, piano, 6:30 pm.

Madison Area Music Awards Voting: Final round, 3/305/29. $5 membership fee. themamas.org. Make Music Madison Registration: Performers and venues sought for annual outdoor event (set for 6/21), through 5/8: makemusicmadison.org.

Froth House: Blues Jam with Rich Kessler, noon. High Noon Saloon: WheelHouse (CD release), T.U.G.G., Americana, 10 pm. Inferno: DJs Mindphaser, Psych0tron, 9 pm. Ivory Room: Peter Hernet, Vince Strong, Nicky Jordan, 8 pm. Lakeside Street Coffee House: Gail Becker, cabaret songs, free, 7 pm.

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Overture’s Rising Stars Regional Audition: Annual talent search program welcomes auditions by ages 6 & up, 10 am-2:30 pm, 3/28, Goodman Community Center. RSVP: overturecenter.org/risingstars. 258-4177.

Tricia’s Country Corners: Wild Heart, country, 9 pm.

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Kids in the Rotunda: The Figureheads, 9:30 & 11 am and 1 pm, 3/28, Overture Center-Rotunda Stage. 258-4141.

Tuvalu Coffee, Verona: Casey & Greg, folk, 7 pm. Tyranena Brewing Company, Lake Mills: Boo Bradley, blues/roots, 7 pm.

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Emerge Gala: Urban League of Greater Madison programs fundraiser, 5:30 pm-midnight, 3/28, Inn on the Park, with award presentations to young professionals & organizations contributing to the community, dinner, dance. $45. RSVP: www.ulgm.org. 729-1268.

Harlem Renaissance Museum Grand Opening: 7 pm, 3/28, 1444 E. Washington Ave., with “Harlem in the Heartland” art exhibit by Martel Chapman, music by Caitlin McGahan Artet, poetry by J.W. Basilo, lecture by Peter Brooks. Free. 239-0921.

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Madison Blaze Benefit: 6-10 pm, 3/28, Plan B, with MC Cooper Talbot, comedy by Dina Nina Martinez, music by Ronnie Nyles, Blaze Boiz Kings Show. $10. www.facebook.com/MadisonBlazeFootball.

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A RTS N OTI C E S

Paoli Schoolhouse: Mike McCloskey, free, 6 pm.

Tofflers, New Glarus: The Family Business, 9 pm.

BARRYMORE

Art Glass & Bead Show: 75+ vendors, exhibits & classes, 10 am-5 pm on 3/28 and 10 am-4 pm, 3/29, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall. $7/day, $11/ weekend. www.beadshowmadison.com). 838-8011.

Whad’Ya Know?: Live broadcast with host Michael Feldman, 9:30 am, 3/28, Monona Terrace. 261-4000.

Tempest Oyster Bar: No Name String Band, 9:30 pm.

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Young at Art: Works by Madison K-12 students, 3/28-5/10, Madison Museum of Contemporary ArtState Street Gallery. 257-0158.

Overture Center-Capitol Theater: Four Bitchin’ Babes, 8 pm. Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: Universal Sound, 8:30 pm.

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All Guild Invitational Spring Art Show: Annual event, 10 am-9 pm on 3/28 and 11 am-6 pm, 3/29, Hilldale. www.artworkswisconsin.com.

Norwegian Frokost: Traditional brunch ($12; $6 ages 6-12) & bake sale, 9 am-noon, 3/28, Sons of Norway-Idun Lodge. 277-8190.

ART E X H IB ITS & E V E N TS The Dream Collectors: Participatory art project curated by Megan Marsh-McGlone, Andrew Salyer & Katie Schaag, through 3/30, Central Library (workshop noon, 3/28), with visitors invited to draw/write/record dream accounts. 266-6300.

Casey Day: Stories & music, 9 am Saturdays, Froth House. Free. 231-0100. Swing Into Spring: Aldo Leopold Nature Center activities & demos, 10 am-1 pm, 3/28, DreamBank. 286-3150. Project HUGS Parent Support Group: 10 am, 3/28, Trinity Lutheran Church. 249-8527. Donuts with Dad: 10 am, 3/28, Sequoya Library. 266-6385. Dinosaur Encounter: Fossils & replicas, 10:30 am, 3/28, Pinney Library. 224-7100. R.E.A.D. to a Dog: Reading Education Assistance Dog, 11 am, 3/28, South Madison Library. 266-6395. LEGOs at the Library: Ages 5 & up, noon, 3/28, Fitchburg Library, Fitchburg. 729-1760.

P O L I TI C S & AC TI V I S M Wisconsin Grassroots Festival: Annual gathering, 8 am, 3/28, Wisconsin Heights High School, Mazomanie, with speakers, entertainment, workshops. $20 donation; carpooling from Madison available. www.wisconsingrassroots.net. 220-0139.

DA N C I N G Wisconsin Tango Social: With DJ Marcus Childs, 7-10 pm, 3/28, Cardinal Bar. 257-2473.

R EC R E ATI O N & G A M E S Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz: “Star Trek” topic, 3 pm, 3/28, Buck and Badger. 230-7999.

S P EC I A L I N TE R E STS Spring New & Now: Fashion/beauty show, 9 am, 3/28, Boston Store-West Towne, with host Dani Maxwell of WKOW. $10. RSVP: bostonstore.com/ newandnow. 833-9799. Computer Backup Strategies: Free class, 11 am, 3/28, Lakeview Library. 246-4547.

sun mar 29 MUSIC

Four Other Brothers Sunday, March 29, Coliseum Bar, 1-4 pm

The nonprofit Madison Jazz Society has been “keeping jazz alive” since 1984, an accomplishment they’ve been celebrating with special events for the past year. This concert, which features the Illinoisbased group Four Other Brothers on jazz standards and standouts, caps off the festivities and kicks off another 30 years.

K I D S & FAM ILY

Walk the Moon Sunday, March 29, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm

This indie rock quartet from Cincinnati rose to fame in 2010, largely due to the massive success of their single “Anna Sun.” In December they released a sophomore album pumped with the same sort of infectiously catchy pop tracks designed to make you dance, sing and sweat. With the Griswolds. First Unitarian Society: Maurice Durufle’s “Requiem,” by Society Choir with vocal soloists Paul Rowe & Heather Thorpe, Sheri Masiakowski, organ, 3 pm. The Frequency: Off with their Heads, Pears, The Moguls, 9 pm. Funk’s Pub: Mudroom’s Open Jam, 8 pm. Java Cat: Jeff Larsen, fingerstyle guitar, 1 pm.

Boogie with Bernie’s Saturday, March 29, High Noon Saloon, 2-5 pm

Kids, polish up your “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and prepare to join the riotously entertaining Gomers onstage. This live “Kiddieoke” event is a fundraiser for Bernie’s Place, a nonprofit day care center.

E NVI RONME NT UW Arboretum Walk: “Early Migrants” topic, 1 pm, 3/29, UW Arboretum Visitor Center. 263-7888.

Maduro: DJ Nick Nice, 10 pm.

SPECI AL INT E RE STS

Mickey’s Tavern: Open Mic, 10 pm.

Flea Market: Annual event, 10 am-4 pm, 3/29, Barrymore Theatre. Free admission. 249-9584.

Natt Spil: DJ Prince of Ravens, 10 pm. Olbrich Gardens-Evjue Commons: JP Cyr & His Radio Wranglers, western swing/honky tonk, 2 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Open Mic, 9 pm.

S P ECIA L EVENTS

Maple Syrup Fest Sunday, March 29, Aldo Leopold Center, 1-4 pm

Get sticky at this annual event celebrating the age-old art of tree-tapping. Demonstrations and hands-on activities show how Native Americans, pioneers and today’s tappers produce maple syrup and sugar. Sweet! RSVP: aldoleopoldnaturecenter.org or 608-221-0404. Spring Festival: Polish Heritage Club event, 10 am3 pm, 3/29, Immaculate Heart of Mary School, with historical exhibits, bake and craft sales, music, lunch. Free admission. 244-2788. Camp Bingo: Annual AIDS Network fundraiser, 1 pm, 3/29, Sheraton Hotel, with “Big Gay Wedding Bingo” theme, host Cass Marie Domino, emcee Michael Bruno, celebrity callers Marian Haberman & Eric Paulsen of Discover Wisconsin. $20 (ages 18+). 252-6540.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sunday, March 29, Overture Center’s The Playhouse, 2:30 pm

F U N DRA ISERS Palm Sunday Brunch: Fundraiser, 8 am-noon, 3/29, St. Bwwernard Catholic Church, 2450 Atwood Ave. $7 ($4 kids 5 & up). 249-9256.

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ZZ Top Monday, March 30, Overture Hall, 7:30 pm

This Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted trio of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and (beardless) Frank Beard has managed to stay intact for over 45 years. Fans can expect cuts from their newest album, 2012’s La Futura, plus classics like “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Legs” and “Tush.”

Cymbals Eat Guitars Monday, March 30, The Frequency, 8 pm

Few current acts that get labeled “indie rock” deserve the tag, but this foursome from Staten Island represent the genre’s traits to a tee. On their 2014 album LOSE, the band members penned their most heartfelt and hard-hitting rock songs to date, culminating in a work that should really only be described as a WIN. With Split Single, Julian Lynch. Alchemy Cafe: DJ Samroc, 10 pm. Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Bluegrass Jam, 6:30 pm. High Noon Saloon: Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90), documentary screening, with DJ El Serpentine, 7 pm. Malt House: Stanton is Real, The Fiddle Sisters, 7:30 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Open Jam, 9:30 pm. Natt Spil: DJ Bruiser as in Eric, 10 pm. Up North Pub: Shelley Faith, 8 pm.

ART E XHI B ITS & E VE NTS Edna M. Kunkel: “My Verona Exhibit,” paintings, 3/30-4/14, Verona Library. 845-7180.

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This is the final performance of a highly physical and steampunk-inspired Theatre LILA and Children’s Theater of Madison version of the Bard’s comedy about a chaotic summer night. The play centers on a group of love-struck teens and bumbling actors who enter a forest outside of ancient Athens, where they fall victim to a feud between a fairy king and queen. ALSO: Saturday, March 28, 2:30 & 7 pm.

Flower Mandalas: Free Pinterest workshop, noon, 3/29, DreamBank. 286-3150.

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Cardinal Bar: New Breed Jazz Jam, 9 pm. Come Back In: WheelHouse, 5 pm. Essen Haus: Brian Erickson, 6:30 pm. The Frequency: One Last Run, “The Jimmy K Show” podcast recording, free, 7 pm.

Andrea Gibson Monday, March 30, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

This award-winning poet and activist espouses the idea that the personal is political through cutting-edge spoken word. Gibson delves into issues like gender, white privilege and sexuality with striking lyricism, captivating audiences from rock venues to C-SPAN. Her third full-length collection of poems, Pansy, was released on March 12. With Jesse Thomas.

Madison Area Music Awards Voting: Final round, 3/30-5/29. $5 membership fee. themamas.org.

PU BL IC M E E T INGS Madison Parks Public Meeting: Discussing proposed Brittingham Park playground improvements, 7:30 pm, 3/30, Bayview Community Center. 261-9671.

FOOD & DRINK Northside Sunday Supper: Irish stew, 4-6 pm, 3/29, Warner Park Community Recreation Center, with spoken word/music performances, kids’ activities. Free/donations. Volunteers also needed: 230-1221.

POL I TIC S & AC T IVISM Reach Out Wisconsin: Discussing the science of climate change, 6:30 pm, 3/30, The Rigby. reachoutwisconsin.org.

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Inferno: Super Bob, Left of Reason, Dogs of War, 8 pm. Ivory Room: Vince Strong, 9 pm. Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Vitale, Marilyn Fisher & Ken Kuehl, jazz, 5:30 pm. Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, 6 pm. Mason Lounge: Five Points Jazz Collective, 8 pm. Natt Spil: DJ Umi, 10 pm.

T H E AT E R & DANC E Madison Opera’s “The Barber of Seville” Preview: 7 pm, 3/31, Waunakee Library. 849-4217.

wed apr 1 MUS IC

From Indian Lakes Wednesday, April 1, The Frequency, 7:30 pm

Like a number of bands that got their start in the late 2000s, From Indian Lakes formed around a couple of Myspace demos. In the six years since its inception, the band has released three studio records that blend boyish vocals, melodic guitars and offkilter rhythms for a sound that feels both forward-moving and totally still. With the Soil & the Sun, Lemolo, Circus Fires. Alchemy Cafe: Boo Bradley, blues, 10 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJs Fortune, Jason Allen, Niki Kitz, Radish, 9 pm. Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Troye Shanks, 6 pm. Crystal Corner Bar: Earl Foss & the Brown Derby, honky tonk (final first Wednesday show), 9:30 pm. Essen Haus: Brian Erickson, 6:30 pm.

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Knuckle Down Saloon: Bluegrass Jam with Ad Hoc String Band, 8 pm. Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen & Tine Asmundsen, jazz, 5:30 pm.

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Brink Lounge: Aaron Williams and the Hoodoo, 8 pm.

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League of Women Voters of Dane County Issues Forum: “Making Wisconsin Government Work in the 21st Century” panel discussion, 7 pm, 4/1, Capitol Lakes-Grand Hall. 283-2000.

Free House, Pub, Middleton: The Westerlies, 7:30 pm.

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P O L I TI C S & AC TI V I S M

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, 6 pm.

Tuesday, March 31, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

Malt House: The North Westerns, 7:30 pm.

It’s no coincidence that this indie pop outfit’s name evokes nostalgic images of high school football games. In fact, frontman Jack Antonoff (of fun.) designed the project with a warm throwback vibe in mind. Come relive — or reinvent — your John Hughesian teenage years with this megawatt vocalist and his killer band. With Joywave, Night Terrors of 1927.

Monona Terrace: Fuzzy Side Up, 5:30 pm. VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Jerry Stueber, 6 pm.

FO O D & DRINK Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW): Meeting, with talk “The Empire of the Tea Table: The Social and Literary Life of Tea in Victorian England,” by Judith Fisher, 7:15 pm, 4/1, Goodman Community Center. 836-1368.

Har-di-Har Thursday, April 2, The Frequency, 9 pm

There’s no defining what exactly husbandand-wife duo Julie and Andrew Thoreen are doing (they call it experimental dream pop, freak-folk and more), but it’s a delight to listen to. The duo uses a bizarre and impressive method of instrumentation by sharing a drum kit, which will be on full display during this set. With Lover’s Spit, Double Ewes. Alchemy Cafe: DJs Radish, Dr. Funkenstein, 10 pm. Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: Bobby Long, 8 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Jo-Z, Latin, 10 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Pat McCurdy, 9 pm. High Noon Saloon: Kind Country, Double Dubbs, ILmograss, 9 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Beast of Bray Road, 10 pm. Tofflers, New Glarus: Eugene Smiles Project, 8 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Frank James and Bobby Briggs, country, free, 8 pm.

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Shane Mauss Thursday, April 2, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

This stand-up comic hails from La Crosse, but he began his comedy career in Boston in the early 2000s. Since winning the Best Stand-up Comic Award at HBO’s Comedy Arts Festival in 2007, Mauss has brought his hilarious insight to Conan O’Brien’s various late-night talk shows five times. With Steve Gillespie, Toler Wolfe. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), April 3-4.

S P O K E N WO R D Poetry Open Mic: 6:30 pm, 4/2, Central Library. 266-6300.

K I D S & FA M I LY Make Your Own Alien: UW Space Place project for grades K-5, 2 pm, 4/2, South Madison Library. 266-6395.

P O L I TI C S & AC TI V I S M RSVP for Humane Lobby Day: Humane Society advocacy day, 9:15 am-3:30 pm, 4/7, Concourse Hotel. RSVP by 4/2: action.humanesociety.org/site/ Calendar?id=114761.

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4% COMMISSION!! We will list and sell your home for as low as 4%! Lori Morrissey, Attorney/broker. HouseReward.com. Call 608-381-4804 THE SURF Lake Mendota / Downtown / Campus Adult Gated Community on Lake Mendota! Beautiful one bedrooms with quality finishes: Brazilian granite, cherry or dark maple kitchen cabinets and floors throughout, stainless steel appliances, panel interior doors, ceramic tile bath, your own balcony and more! Enjoy the best view Madison has to offer; lake/sunset or city lights! Rent includes your heat, electric, water, internet, cable T.V. and quality furnishings if desired. ($1,250 - $1,500). Call Mary at 608-213-6908 or email surf@surfandsurfside.com SHORT-TERM RENTALS Luxury furnished apt with resort hotel services, everything incl in rent. “All you need is your toothbrush.” 1, 2, 3 bdrms from $350+/wk or $1395+/mo. Countryside Apartments. 608-271-0101, open daily! countrysidemadison.com

All real estate advertised is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, or status as a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking; or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. Isthmus will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are on an equal opportunity basis.

Village of Cross Plains 2/3 acre lot 48 in SFX sub division. Will build your new home, have plans, can still make changes. Dan Laufenberg & Sons Construction LLC Cross Plains, (608)444-2290. 23 ACRES beautiful wooded building site with approved driveway and perk. Brewery Road, north of Cross Plains (608)798-4114 Dan. E. Washington. Partially furnished 1 bdrm, heat included, deck, finished floors, 650 sq ft. On busline. Must see! $700 mo. Avail Now! 608-241-5859 or 608-906-5001 ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates.com! (AAN CAN) MADISON, WI OFF OF TODD DRIVE. Arbor Hills Apartments. 1 bath. 1 bdrm., Gas heat. Well-maintained. 695/month due first every month. Sublet for End of April to end of June. Call 937-869-2491 if interested. REGENT STREET RETAIL space avail. today. 1,926 sq. ft. ready for build out. Below 500 student residents, next to Camp Randall, potential for outdoor seating, recently remodeled. Perfect for retail or restaurant! $21.00/SF NNN. Call SBA Mngmt. at 608-255-7100 for details.

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Jobs Start your humanitarian career! Change the lives of others while creating a sustainable future. 1, 6, 9, 18 month programs available. Apply today! www.OneWorldCenter.org 269-591-0518 info@oneworldcenter.org LIVE IN HOUSE SITTER, over 18, up to $927/month +car +tuition assistance, one child ok, to work in a Christian home, 713 538 8635 or LM201133@HOTMAIL.COM AVIATION Grads work with JetBlue, Boeing, NASA and others- start here with hands on training for FAA certification. Financial aid if qualified. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN) Man with physical disabilities on the south side of Madison needs personal care assistance every other week from Mon-Thurs nights 10 pm-6 am. Pay rate $40.52 per night. Must pass criminal background check. Call (608) 663-5839 to apply. Active male quad on Madison’s West Side is looking for an Attendant. AM and PM hours available. Experience preferred, but will train. Car required. Call (608) 616-2078. Live-in, overnight caregiver needed. $45/ night, free rent and free utilities. 7 days/ week 10 pm to 7am. Every other Saturday and Sunday off. Experience necessary. Any questions, please call David at 608-215-7619.

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NATURE’S BAKERY, a worker collective, is looking for a new full time member. We are seeking individuals with skills and experience in production work, small business management, computer knowledge and coop organization. You must be self-motivated and have diligent work habits. Applications can be picked up at our store front at 1019 Williamson St, Madison. Volunteer with UNITED WAY Volunteer Center Call 246-4380 or visit volunteeryourtime.org to learn about these and other opportunities The Farley Center Farm Incubator offers unpaid internships each semester for students and non-students who want to volunteer while gaining experience at a nonprofit that supports beginning organic farmers, particularly recent immigrants and people of color farmers. Interns should have a strong interest in agriculture. We particularly seek interns who speak Hmong, Spanish or Nepali. Volunteers are needed to staff the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Madison Affiliate Information Table at the Dane County Farmer’s Market on Saturdays from Apr-Nov. Volunteers will hand out information describing our services, events, and volunteer opportunities. United Way 2-1-1 is seeking new volunteers to staff our telephone lines, answering questions about resources available in the service area. Training is provided. If you are looking for an opportunity to learn more about community resources and would like to assist people in finding ways to get and give help, United Way 2-1-1 may be the place for you!

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I recently started dating a girl who likes to be submissive. It’s more of a psychological thing than a pain thing. She opened up about her kink, and I was all for it, thinking myself the ultimate GGG lover. Thing is, I find being a dom quite boring. I love getting her off, but I just can’t get into the role. I’m not sure if this is funny or horrible, but the other day, she was strapped to the bed and just as she was reaching a climax, I stopped. I uncuffed her, told her I was leaving the room, and ordered her not to take the blindfold off or touch herself. She loved it, but I did it so I could go to the toilet and check my phone. I’d say something to her if I found it gross or it wasn’t working, but she enjoys it to the point where she has little interest in doing anything else. Even when regular intercourse takes place, there are still clear submissive overtones — to have vanilla sex at all, I basically have to lecture her first about her dirty ways to get her going. I like more “mutual” activities like 69ing, massages, etc. She seems open to it but then steers it back to her submissiveness. I enjoy sex with her, but this dom/sub thing is a roadblock to me getting off. Am I just being self-centered? Dom Only On Demand All BDSM tops — all masters, mistresses, pro-doms, switches, vanilla-but-GGG partners of submissive types — occasionally check their phones, go to the toilet, take a snack break, etc., while their subs wait blindfolded or hooded back in the bedroom/playroom/dungeon. The sub gets to tremble in anticipation; the dom gets to relax for a second. So taking a quick toilet/ phone break doesn’t mean you are a lousy dom, DOOD, but I definitely see why you’re bored: BDSM isn’t your thing; you’re doing it for her, and she’s taking you for granted. You’re being GGG (and indulging all her kinks); she’s not being GGG (she’s making it all about her kinks). Tell your girlfriend that she’ll have to lecture herself about her dirty ways when you two are having vanilla PIV sex, 69ing or swapping massages, if that’s what it takes to get her going, because you

don’t want to have to play at being dominant every time you have sex. I suspect the dom/sub play will feel like less of a roadblock, DOOD, if every sexual interaction with your girlfriend isn’t colored by it. I want to thank you for your constant advice to explore fantasies, communicate desires and get thorough consent in a sexy way. I’m a bi-ish college girl and used to be in a sexually unsatisfying long-distance relationship. Then I started saying, “What would Dan do?” Now I’m friends-with-BDSM-benefits with my ex — he buys me sexy lingerie and bath products while I remind him what a naughty boy he is — and I’m currently planning a super-hot threesome with a rugby player and his girlfriend! Yahtzee! And none of it would have happened without you! Satisfied Lady I feel conflicted about your letter, SL. Let’s say your ex suddenly violates the terms of your friends-with-BDSM-benefits arrangement and starts presenting you with unsexy PJs and dishwashing soap. Or let’s say that rugby player is a lousy lay who can’t find your clit and his girlfriend is a loony nut who keys your car in a fit of post-threesome jealousy. If I had previously taken credit for all the awesome sex you’re currently having and/or looking forward to — and that’s what I would be doing if I accepted your thanks without qualification — then I would have to take responsibility for the unsexy PJs, the dishwashing soap, the lousy-in-bed rugby player, the damage to your car, etc. So instead of accepting your thanks, SL, I’ll just say this: I’m happy you’re happy, and I’m pleased my column was helpful, but the adventurous sex you’re having and/or looking forward to now? You always had that in you. Reading my column may have helped you tap into your adventurous spirit, but the credit for your sex life — and the responsibility for your sex life — ultimately rests with you. n Catch Dan’s podcast every week at savagelovecast. com. Listen to Dan at savagelove.net, email him at mail@savagelove.net.and find him on twitter at @fakedansavage.

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