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Lecture, Performance and Workshop, Jim Erickson Quartet 7pm
Film: “The Girls in the Band”
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Historical Documentary of Women in Jazz, sponsored by the Madison Jazz Society 9pm
Susan Hofer and Friends 4:30pm High School All Stars 6:30pm Sweet Minute Big Band 8pm Joel Paterson Trio featuring Chris Foreman 10pm
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Maverick is sitting on a bench when he spots Chris Collins. He hits him up for a spare nickel. Collins has a counteroffer: How about $1 if he can take his picture? Maverick — whose full name is Charles Dennis Masini — is happy to oblige. “Reporting for duty, sir,” Maverick says, saluting as Collins begins to focus his camera. On any given night — actually, on almost every single night — you can find Collins wandering downtown Madison, looking for different perspectives, captivating images and new friends, like the 70-year-old Maverick. Maverick is sprawled on a bench on the Capitol Square, at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. While Collins is quick with his camera, he isn’t just snapping pictures. He’s also chatting and listening to Maverick’s stories about his travels, his military service in Vietnam, his battle with cancer, and his long gray hair, which has miraculously survived 36 sessions of radiation (his equally long beard, Maverick laments, was not so fortunate). When Maverick claims to be the brother of the late activist Ben Masel, Collins’ ears perk up with recognition.
“I came back for the fourth anniversary [of his] burial yesterday,” says Maverick, explaining why he’s in Madison. He spreads out some framed photos of Masel and says proudly, “That’s my brother.” “You can go to the jail. I was there for 12 days. You can [go to the jail], in the cell block, 623D, and you’ll find etched in concrete with Kool-Aid — the stuff they feed you — ‘Maverick Masini loves Ben Masel.’” After about 15 minutes, Collins heads to the Walgreens down the street to print some photos he just snapped. He returns with some for Maverick, who by then is tucked into his sleeping bag, nearly asleep. But he’s thankful for the gift. “I love you,” says Maverick. Collins doesn’t hesitate: “I love you too.” “People walk by the homeless downtown every day and don’t even take the time to acknowledge them,” Collins says later. “When I take a picture of someone, whether they’re homeless or not, I want to let them know I care about them as an individual.” Collins began his exploration of Madison in earnest on Jan. 1, 2009, with his “365 project” —
it’s a challenge that photographers take, endeavoring to get out and shoot at least one photo every single day for a year. Collins loved the routine. He’s kept his run going, this week topping 2,350 consecutive days. He shoots whenever traveling, but mainly works in Madison, especially around State Street. He hasn’t found a reason to stop: “Madison is ever changing, and I like to see that and share it with people.” Collins has another photography project going — “100 Strangers.” The idea is to go out and find 100 people you don’t know, take their picture and write a little something about who they are. Maverick was either stranger number 299 or 300. This project, Collins says, has helped him overcome his shyness. “I used to be a shy, quiet guy in a distance with a telephoto lens.” Now, the photos have become almost secondary to the conversation. “There have been days I’ll sit down and talk to someone for an hour before I say, ‘Oh, you mind if I take a picture of you?’” n
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Who will have a say in campus policy? Students rights could take a hit if shared governance is removed from state law
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Three years ago then-Interim Chancellor David Ward made his customary request to student government for funding for recreational sports and the Wisconsin Union, which are supported by student fees. The Associated Students of Madison turned him down. Ward ignored the vote, so ASM filed a notice of claim against him, the Board of Regents and the UW System itself for “raising student fees without proper student input.” At the core of the students’ legal argument was the concept of shared governance — the cherished protection enshrined in Wisconsin State Statute 36.09 that, according to ASM’s interpretation, guarantees student involvement in university policy and gives students the right to oversee the disposition of student fees. “For over 40 years, students at UWMadison and across the state have been robbed of their statutory right to oversee their student fees,” ASM chair Andrew Bulovsky said in a statement announcing the potential lawsuit. But UW officials disagreed, saying that student fees fall into two categories: allocable and non-allocable. Students only have the authority to oversee the allocable dollars, which are used to fund student organizations. Non-allocable fees, which are used to fund things like building projects and University Health Services, are not distributed by students. The distinction, however, originates in UW System Board of Regents policy — not in state statute. “It’s troublesome,” says Mark Hazelbaker, a lawyer and UW-Madison alumnus who was prepared to take ASM’s case. “Over the years, [the university] has taken the position that the rights of students are whatever the university says they are.” The United Council of UW Students set aside $100,000 from its legal defense fund to pursue the lawsuit, but no charges were ever filed — an outcome Hazelbaker attributes to the inevitable lack of continuity in student government that comes when key leaders graduate. With the threat of the lawsuit unfulfilled, controversy over student fee allocation waned. But the issue lurks in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, which proposes removing shared governance, along with tenure, from state statute. Critics have assailed the proposed changes to tenure, arguing it will have a chilling effect on academic freedom, stifle research and lead to a brain drain from Wisconsin. But students stand to lose as well. In addition to the allocation of some segregated fees, shared governance guarantees student representation on a variety of university committees. There are about 70
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at UW-Madison, ranging from the Arboretum committee to search and screen committees. “There’s so much uncertainty,” says Morgan Rae, outgoing chair of ASM’s shared governance committee. “That’s our biggest concern. We want to make sure student voices are still heard.” Walker’s biennial budget proposed sweeping changes to higher education — an unprecedented $300 million funding cut, a plan to spin the UW System off into a quasi-public authority, as well as removal of tenure and shared governance from state statute. The shared governance language in the UW System omnibus motion approved last month by the Legislature’s budget writing committee reflects a significant shift in power, diminishing the role of faculty, academic staff and students to essentially an advisory role, “subject to the powers of the Board, President, and Chancellor.” “[W]ith regard to the responsibilities of the faculty, academic staff, and students of each institution, ‘subject to’ means ‘subordinate to,’” the motion reads. The regents have already responded to Walker’s proposal to strip tenure and shared governance from state law by forming task forces to develop a plan to protect them both and promising to add them to board policy. But critics have pointed out that regent policies do not carry the same weight as state
statutes. Plus, the regents are unelected officials appointed by the governor. Giving them ultimate power over the UW System could be seen as an avenue for an executive power grab. “People have made an investment of many, many billions of dollars in this institution,” Hazelbaker says. “Why in the world should we give it away to unelected people who are not accountable to anyone?” UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and UW System President Ray Cross have vowed to preserve both tenure and shared governance in regent policy. Students, however, are demanding that the statute remain unchanged. ASM released a statement this week urging Blank to back them on this. “With the changes in the omnibus motion, all decisions made by ‘shared governance’ bodies will be subordinate to you, our chancellor, and thus non-allocable units across campus could have more power to spend our money frivolously and use that money in areas students do not feel benefit the greater UW-Madison community.” If the changes are approved by the full Legislature in the coming weeks, the legal question Associated Students of Madison asked three years ago about the scope of student rights under shared governance would be decisively answered. “If the budget goes through and they repeal [the statute], the last thing students have
to protect these rights will be gone,” says Milwaukee lawyer Gary Grass. “If the law is gone, there will be nothing left.” Grass is representing Mohammad Samir Siddique, a UW-Milwaukee student politician who clashed with administrators over his role in an unrecognized student government established after university officials threw out the results of a student election in 2013. Administrators contended that the 2013 election process did not adhere to the UWM Student Association’s bylaws, so they voided the results and instituted a new “board of trustees” student government. Siddique says it’s a “puppet regime” created to retaliate against students who asserted their statutory right to allocate roughly $26 million in segregated fees. Grass says that Wisconsin Statute 36.09 not only guarantees students and faculty the right to be involved in shared governance, but that it gives them a primary role. It also allows violations of shared governance to be addressed in court. But if the language is stricken from state statute and transferred into regent policy, the avenue for legal recourse from an outside authority would disappear. “If the regents are not held [accountable] by some outside authority...and they get to decide what the policy is, what do you have?” Grass asks. “You appeal to the regents, they decide they were right?” Members of the statewide student advocacy group United Council of UW Students have been fighting to restore the integrity of shared governance in the UW System, says Lamonte Moore, the group’s senior legislative liaison. “There is a long history that has been tainted,” he says of previous shared governance violations. But that work has been more difficult since the Joint Finance Committee voted to alter the group’s funding mechanism in 2013. Prior to the change, UW System students automatically paid $3 to support United Council with the option to “opt out” of the fee. Now, students must opt in to provide funding. As the biennial budget makes its way through the Assembly and Senate, Moore says the best hope for preserving the shared governance statute is to put pressure on Walker to use his veto power. In the last biennium, Walker used a partial veto to block a proposal to freeze the allocable portion of student segregated fees — a move that may indicate Walker supports students’ rights, Moore says. “That veto gives some hope,” Moore says. “If he’s trying to run for president, [protecting shared governance] would show that he stands with students.” n
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After the new Central Library opened in September 2013, library officials began looking at other parts of the system to see where investments could be made. Some novel ideas were put into practice. Libraries are now feeding children and reaching out to parents in their homes for literacy training. One of the first big capital projects after the Central Library renovation was a new Meadowridge Library. It now shares a common space — including a community kitchen — with the Meadowood Neighborhood Center. “We just opened that up,” says Greg Mickells, library director. “We have a lot of students coming from Tokay Middle School. They might get to the library and the neighborhood center around 3 o’clock, right after school, and they’ll stay until 9 o’clock when
we close. For a lot of those kids, the last meal they’ve had was lunch.” Another innovation is the result of a partnership between the Madison Public Library and the city and county’s shared department of public health. It’s called Parents as First Teachers. “When you’re dealing with the 0-to-5 age range, particularly with underserved populations, a lot of time those families don’t make it into a library, or they’re not aware that a library is available to them,” Mickells says. Nurses already visit the homes of young families to provide nutrition and child development instruction. Librarians are now also training the health care workers so they can add literacy to their mission. “The visiting nurses are really excited about it, we’re really excited about it,” he says. “That’s what’s really key.”
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The library is searching for funding so that nurses can leave packages of structured literacy materials. Fundraising also continues for a new Pinney branch library, currently at 204 Cottage Grove Road. A new, expanded library will be a few blocks away, at the intersection of Cottage Grove and Dempsey roads, in the Royster Commons development. As part of that work, another program, Tell Us, is being rolled out on the east side. It will soon expand to the entire city. A problem in the past has been that meetings about libraries take place in libraries, and therefore reach only people who already use them. Instead, the library now sends out packets to churches and community groups, soliciting feedback. “This is a new process that was developed by our library planner to gather community input rather than having a meeting in the library,” says Tana Elias, library digital services and marketing manager. “We know that there are populations in Madison that we are serving well. We know that there are populations in Madison that we could be serving much better. It’s a matter of finding those populations, making sure that we’re accessible to them.” Finally, a new strategic plan is in its early stages. It will “provide some guidance and some benchmarks for us, so we can identify areas that we need to work on as we go forward, and will help us implement some operational aspects,” says Mickells. “You might have a great idea for a program, but you only have so many resources. This really gives us a tool so that we can determine which kind of programming we might be doing — or not.” n
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Jamey Weichert delves into science fiction to describe the cancer-fighting technology he’s developing with his company, Cellectar Biosciences. “Do you remember in Star Trek when they would use a little handheld monitor that diagnoses everything that’s wrong?” he asks. “I’m not saying we can do that, but we’re getting kind of close — seriously.” Weichert, an associate professor of radiology at UW-Madison with affiliations in medical physics and pharmaceutics, is an expert in cellular and molecular imaging. He formed Cellectar, a biotech startup with close ties to UW-Madison, about 15 years ago with the aim of developing a method to distinguish between malignant and benign tumors. But Cellectar’s research has since expand- A new technology that finds and ed to include an optical imaging agent that illuminates tumors. can assist surgeons during tumor removal and a therapeutic agent that can deliver targeted doses of chemotherapy for cancer treatment. Fast-tracked by the U.S. Food and Drug “See? Look at this,” he says, pulling out Administration, the technology is currently a binder from the inaugural meeting of the being tested in a series of clinical trials taking American Society of Image Guided Surplace throughout the U.S. gery, which took place Feb. 6, 2015. “The “We never would have envisioned that society is just forming. This is all new stuff.” we could have done half of this stuff when Cellectar’s agent can identify at least 60 we started,” says Weichert, who is Cellectar’s types of cancers, and when bound to a fluochief scientific officer. “The technology is just rescent molecule, it can “literally make the tuamazing.” mor glow” under near-infrared The technology works light, allowing surgeons to pinthanks to a unique property point the exact margins of the of malignant cells: a high cancer while they’re operating. concentration of lipids, or Better yet, the technolfat molecules, in the cells’ ogy has proven effective in plasma membranes. Celleccancer stem cells, which tar’s cancer detection agent play a major role in cancer is injected into the body, reoccurrence and are notowhere it then seeks out these riously difficult to eradicate, cells and becomes trapped says John Kuo, an associate inside. Healthy cells, on the professor of neurosurgery other hand, break the agent at UW-Madison who studJOHN MANIACI down until it’s eliminated. ies the molecular biology of UW-Madison scientist Once Weichert realcancer stem cells. Jamey Weichert founded ized the agent could stay in “I was skeptical at first,” Cellectar Biosciences in tumors for long periods of Kuo says. “Of course, I was time, he knew it could aid 2003. proven wrong.” treatment. Pharmaceuticals Kuo is leading a phasespend billions of dollars on cancer-fighting two clinical trial of Cellectar’s diagnostic drugs that “don’t quite make it,” so Cellec- imaging agent, testing at 10 sites across the tar began experimenting to see if its agent country to evaluate the technology’s effeccould carry one of the failed chemotherapy tiveness in detecting brain cancer. Other drugs right into the malignant tumor cell. upcoming trials will include breast cancer “I call it diapeutics,” Weichert says. “It’s and multiple myeloma. In a best-case scediagnostic imaging and therapy combined.” nario, Kuo predicts the drugs will be on the The term is so new that Science Transla- market within five years. tional Medicine wouldn’t let Weichert use it While the FDA and researchers alike when his research was featured on the cover are excited by the promise of this technolof the academic journal last summer, since the ogy, Weichert wants to be clear: It’s not goeditors had never heard of it before. In fact, the ing to work in all cancers. But hopefully it whole field of image-guided cancer treatment will work in some. is so new, Weichert says, that the “FDA doesn’t “We’re not curing cancer,” he says. “But even really know how to treat it yet.” we’re making a dent.” n
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Size matters Downtown retailers rankled by restrictions on craft beer BY NOAH PHILLIPS
Since 2009, almost every downtown liquor store has unknowingly been violating its license. “I walked in on Saturday afternoon last week, and one of the other guys here...gave me the scoop on it,� says Matt Bents, general manager of Riley’s Wines of the World. “It’s something that I think was overlooked by pretty much everybody downtown.� In 2006, in an attempt to mitigate public drunkenness downtown, the Alcohol License Review Committee adopted language restricting the sale of beer in volumes less than that available in a six-pack, with exceptions for microbreweries and imports. In 2009 the ALRC decided that there were too many loopholes and got rid of the exceptions. But downtown stores continued operating under the pre-2009 rules. “Apparently it’s been this way for a while, but nobody really knew,� says Bents. “No one was really informed of the changes that were made in the licenses, or that it would have this effect.� “Unbelievably, no one ever noticed for these last six years that there were new conditions,� says Ald. Mike Verveer, who sits on the ALRC and represents part of downtown. The issue surfaced with the granting of a liquor license for a Monroe Street Kwik Trip last year. It had convinced the ALRC to grant a more relaxed license allowing the sale of beer in smaller sizes. “Apparently, as soon as they opened,� says Verveer, “salespeople from some of the distributors notified other area stores that Kwik Trip was able to sell single cans of anything they wanted, with almost no restrictions.� Within a few months, a nearby 7-11 and the Kelley’s market filed applications to have their conditions relaxed as well. This prompted a global examination by the ALRC of all volume restrictions in the downtown area. They found that popular stores such as Riley’s and Capitol Centre Market had been violating the restrictions since 2009.
“After many months of delay,� says Verveer, “we finally had to deal with this issue head-on because we found ourselves at liquor license renewal time.� While stores have been quick to adjust their policies since becoming aware of violations, they’re not happy with the restrictions. These changes were originally put in place in 2006 and 2009 to discourage “habitually intoxicated individuals� from purchasing inexpensive quantities of alcohol, but retailers are concerned that it will have a greater impact on microbrew consumers, a significant slice of the Madison beer market. “There are so many craft breweries that have packaging of four-packs, because they’re either very seasonal or because of price point,� says Kristie Maurer, store director at Madison Fresh Market. “We also sell the bomber size, which is pretty big in the craft movement...and so we won’t be able to sell that either.� Maurer uses the example of Alt Brew, a small Madison-based brewery that produces gluten-free beer exclusively in a bomber size. She says she will need to pull the brand from her shelves until the brewery grows to the point where it could produce its product in larger packages. Bents has similar concerns. “There have been a few people that have walked out because they weren’t able to buy the single bomber or whatever that they would normally buy,� he says. “The only people it’s affecting are the craft beer consumers.� He hopes that the restrictions will change in the next few weeks as the ALRC hears from downtown retailers about the rules they have only just been made aware of. His store is working with city officials to find a solution. Verveer wants to develop new language balancing retailers’ concerns with the spirit of the 2009 regulations. “I have been in conversation after conversation every day since late last week,� he says. “In my estimation [the language] on these liquor licenses is more broad than it needs to be.� n
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A sign at Riley’s Wines of the World informs customers that it cannot sell beer in smaller packages -- sizes that are popular among craft brewing companies.
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n WEEK IN REVIEW WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 n Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny is exonerated after an internal investigation found he followed department policy in the use of deadly force against 19-year-old Tony Robinson. Kenny will eventually return to duty, but won’t be patrolling the streets for a while. SUNDAY, JUNE 7 The Associated Press reports that the state Department of Natural Resources scientists targeted by the GOP in funding cuts have spent 2,800 hours studying climate change and undertaken 13 projects involving pollution research in recent years. That’s one way to piss off Republicans.
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MONDAY, JUNE 8 n You know the Legislative Audit Bureau? The one responsible for uncovering the numerous problems with Gov. Scott Walker’s troubled jobscreation agency over the years? Two Republican Assembly members, David Craig (Big Bend) and Adam Jarchow (Balsam Lake), propose getting rid of it. Even Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) thinks it’s a dumb idea. TUESDAY, JUNE 9 At a UW-Madison Faculty Senate meeting, UW-Madison Chancellor Becky Blank, the UW System Board of Regents and President Ray Cross all say tenure and shared governance need to remain in state law.
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The Wisconsin Legislature begins a new session, and guns and abortion are high on the agenda. The Senate approves a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks, and the Assembly approves a bill eliminating the 48hour waiting period for handgun purchases along with another that eases restrictions on concealed carry for former police officers. Both houses also pass a bill to allow off-duty and retired cops to carry guns in schools. Yee-haw!
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Republican contempt for women is ruining Wisconsin BY RUTH CONNIFF Ruth Conniff is editor of The Progressive magazine.
One of the most striking themes to emerge from the current, destructive era in Wisconsin government is a pervasive and toxic contempt for women. It was the backdrop to Gov. Scott Walker’s initial attack on public employees, including teachers, who are, by and large, women. Lots of people, including Matt Damon and Jon Stewart, both of whom have teacher moms, struck back at the sheer meanness of the suggestion that teachers are lazy and overpaid, appealing to a common feeling of warmth and appreciation for the women who helped raise us. But the attacks didn’t end there. Walker and other politicians followed up with more cuts to teachers’ pay and benefits, an attack on the dignity of the profession that strips away teacher certification requirements, and a proposal that will ratchet up stress in the classroom by threatening to fire teachers if they don’t raise the test scores of underperforming students. This targets in particular teachers who work with lowincome kids and English language learners. Over the last couple of years, hundreds of gray-haired, retired teachers, including my own beloved sixth-grade teacher, have turned out for hearings to stick up for highquality public education, only to be made to wait all night long as Republican-led committees cynically delay debate until after midnight. Former state Sen. Glenn Grothman, who once proposed defining single motherhood as a form of child abuse, strolled through the hearing room during one extended latenight session, saying he “just wanted to see what the weirdos look like.� They look like your mother, your grand-
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mother, your favorite teacher. The contempt for women continues with a policy that requires women seeking abortion to have an ultrasound (Walker justified the measure by saying ultrasounds are “just a cool thing�) and a proposed 20-week abortion ban that will endanger the lives of medically fragile pregnant women. You could see the contempt for women up close at the Capitol last week in the joint health committee hearing on the 20-week ban, where, as one woman who testified pointed out, 10 of the 11 committee members were men. Over and over, tearful women testified
about pregnancies gone horribly wrong — wanted babies with no brains and with terminal illnesses, and their own health and lives at risk if they carried to term. Every medical organization in the state opposes the so-called Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, on the grounds that it is dangerous to women, is based on bad science, and threatens doctors who perform medically necessary abortions with years in prison. Emily Kaminski, a social work student at UW-Madison, testified about her experience working with stressed-out women at the local rape crisis center and in a former job at Planned Parenthood. “Every woman has a different story,� she said, choking up. “I’ve held a lot of women’s hands and listened to them.� “Women are struggling,� she added — financially, in their personal lives, through all kinds of difficult circumstances. The 20-week ban, she said, would only make those struggles worse. “This bill is an opinion being made into law that isn’t right for everyone,� Kaminski said. “This bill doesn’t respect the fact that women are smart.� Rep. Joe Sanfelippo (R-West Allis), clearly unmoved by Kaminsi’s emotional testimony, demanded that she tell him whether Planned Parenthood would counsel women to consider adoption. Despite her protests that she no longer works for Planned Parenthood and cannot speak for the organization, Sanfelippo persisted. “I’m just trying to ascertain what types
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of options you present to people,� he said. “Once a child is feeling pain or viable, what options do you present to women?� Democrats on the committee objected that Sanfelippo was badgering Kaminski. But he ignored them. He was too busy attacking her as a representative of the political opposition to see her as a real person who was trying to get him to understand the circumstances of other real people. All of the Republicans on the committee seemed deaf to the wrenching personal testimony of the women in front of them. They were lost in their own ideological war. That deafness is the root cause of a lot of what’s going wrong in Wisconsin. The Republicans don’t want to hear that their aggressive, punitive “reforms� are doing nothing but damage. Women who are forced to carry dead and dying fetuses to term — and then be subjected to unwanted grief counseling — will not be saved. There is no “saving� fetuses from the mothers who carry them. And there is no “saving� children from their teachers by replacing a supportive, nurturing environment with fear and punishment. As Sheila Plotkin, a retired teacher who testified against the 20-week ban, put it, “This bill is not about preventing real human pain. It’s about control.� Any good teacher will tell you that respect, cooperation and connection are the building blocks of human development and progress. Trying to control people just drags us backward. n
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Karben4 is to be congratulated for rediscovering Caramalt and Kent Goldings hops, but somehow they think that 5.3% ABV makes a session beer (“Sessionable!” 6/4/2015). WRONG. Session beers are meant to keep one from ending up legless during an evening of boozing. And they are never over 5% ABV. Actual session beers run 3%-4% ABV, as any true real ale drinker knows. What is this fascination with high alcohol content among craft brewers? Are they feeling inferior because American pints are smaller than English pints? Gene Rankin (via email)
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A DIRTY SECRET Big box stores put the squeeze on contract cleaners By Noah Phillips
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Woodman’s is advertised as “employee owned,” but none of these custodial workers are Woodman’s employees. Their aprons and timesheets both say “Midwest Maintenance Group,” the name of an Illinois-based contracting company. But technically they don’t work for MMG either. On paper, they are independent contractors, the final link in a tangled and informal chain of out-of-state contractors and subcontractors. Raul Sanchez was one such worker. “I was never under a contract,” says Sanchez, an undocumented worker who has been given a pseudonym for this article. “When we started,
we filled out an application with Midwest, but then our checks were coming with a different name.” This largely hidden Dane County workforce, the norm at most big-box retailers, works for low pay and no benefits, and has tenuous legal recourse when workplace violations occur. “That story is about the employers that are essentially willing to move around the rules, and the employers that have to compete with them,” says Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center On Wis-
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store is visible from U.S. Highway 151. The size of a mega-church or a shopping mall, the building glows in the suburban midnight gloom as you approach. Every night around this time, four workers pull into the nearly empty parking lot and enter through the gleaming double doors. Their first stop is to the left, near the customer service counter, where they sign in. Then they slip into the maze of brightly lit aisles, sweeping, mopping and scrubbing the store until 8:30 a.m. They work between five and seven nights a week.
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Raul Sanchez left Mexico City
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13 years ago to join his niece in Madison. Like many other immigrants, he was looking for a better life, although he did not have any particular profession in mind. “I worked in different companies, hotels and restaurants [in the Dane County area],” Sanchez says in Spanish, through an interpreter. “We have to find a way to work, so sometimes we have to find papers that aren’t ours.” In April 2012, a former co-worker of his told him that there was work at Woodman’s. Sanchez first worked at Woodman’s East. After a few weeks the store was visited by a supervisor for Midwest Maintenance Group, a company owned by William Grundhoefer and based in Schaumburg, Ill. The supervisor had Sanchez fill out an application with MMG and assigned him to Woodman’s new Sun Prairie location, with three other undocumented workers. But Sanchez received his first paycheck, in May 2012, from a company called Commercial Janitorial Services, based in Burr Ridge, Ill. The checks kept coming from Commercial Janitorial Services until May 2014. During that period, Sanchez never worked fewer than 40 hours per week. Forty-three of those weeks Sanchez worked 48 hours, and 18 of those weeks he worked 56 hours, translating to a shift every night of the week.
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He was paid a rate of $69 per night (the equivalent of $8.62 an hour) for working from midnight until 8:30 a.m., with two 15-minute breaks. His job consisted of cleaning bathrooms, scrubbing, sweeping and mopping the store. At first Sanchez was supervised by two other MMG workers, but after about six months Woodman’s assigned its own employee, Martin, to tell Sanchez and his peers where and what to clean. In May 2014, for unclear reasons, Midwest Maintenance Group terminated its relationship with CJS, which is no longer in business, and Sanchez’s checks began coming from a company called Northern Illinois Janitorial Services (NIJS), based in Rockford, Ill. “They were telling us that there was going to be a new company and that we had to fill out some paperwork,” remembers Sanchez. Sanchez and his co-workers hoped this might now mean they would receive benefits. But they were told that would not be the case, since they were considered independent contractors.
Although he wasn’t getting benefits, Sanchez did get a slight raise from NIJS. He was now paid a nightly wage of $72, or $9 an hour. Twice a month, Sanchez and other cleaners reported by text message how many hours they had worked. Although Sandro Aguirre, of NIJS, signed his checks, Sanchez only met Aguirre once, dealing instead with his supervisor, a man named Ray. Ray and Sanchez got along at first, but after a few months some tensions developed, and Sanchez thought Ray was trying to fire him. He went to the Workers’ Rights Center in Madison to learn about his options. The center’s advisers told him that since he was working more than 40 hours a week, he should be getting overtime pay. But since he had no pay stubs, it was impossible for him to know what he was being paid for. On Sept. 29, 2014, in cooperation with the Workers’ Rights Center, Sanchez sent a letter to William Grundhoefer asking for unpaid wages and overtime pay. He received no response. In October, Sanchez filed a Labor Standards complaint against MMG with the state’s Department of Workforce Development, and in November Sanchez and three co-workers petitioned Aguirre, asking Midwest Maintenance Group for an hourly wage of $10 per hour, rather than a flat nightly wage. They also asked for pay stubs, health insurance and vacation time. In early December, NIJS responded to one of the other petitioners, asserting that the workers were independent contractors, not employees (the Department of Workforce Development later refuted this claim). Furthermore, because their Social Security numbers did not match IRS records, NIJS began immediately deducting 28% from their wages. Eventually these withheld wages were returned.
Sanchez believes that the withholding was retaliatory, although he admits that the Social Security number he was using was not valid. NIJS responded to the workers’ complaint in a letter to the Department of Workforce Development, claiming it had a “verbal agreement” with Sanchez, who they say “refused to fill and sign” a written contract. Sanchez denies that he was ever offered a contract.
On Dec. 31, Sanchez and the other petitioners were given a letter from MMG addressed to the “R&G Cleaning Work Crew,” stating that after Jan. 19 MMG would be ending its contract with a company called “R&G Maintenance,” of which no further record can be found. The workers had never heard of this company and were getting paid by NIJS. Sanchez believes they were fired in retaliation for filing a labor standards complaint. However, MMG’s attorney, Craig Brown, claims the opposite. In an email to Isthmus he says “Northern Janitorial has never had an agreement of any kind with Midwest Maintenance Group.” When asked about NIJS checks sent to custodial workers at Woodman’s Sun Prairie location, Brown expresses surprise. “That is news to us,” writes Brown, who understood R&G Maintenance had been doing the work. “We have a contract with R&G that does not allow further subcontracting.... We are not jumping to any conclusions, but we are concerned.” In a response to an inquiry from Maegan Evans at the state’s Department of Workforce Development, Grundhoefer denied any relationship with the workers. “The persons listed in the documents do not now, nor have they ever been employed by Midwest Maintenance Group.” Furthermore, the letter adds, “We have been in business for over two decades and have never had any issues such as this, either directly or pertaining to any of the contractors we have worked with.” The Department of Workforce Development shifted its attention to Northern Illinois Janitorial Services, eventually extracting a check for Sanchez of $171.65. Although Sanchez believes he is owed more, he did not push it further. He now works at a downtown hotel.
Woodman’s turned to subcontracted maintenance work around 10 years ago, when the regional chain underwent a major expansion. “We had six stores 15 years ago; now we have 15,” says Clint Woodman, vice president of the family-owned business. “As you become a bigger company you become more specialized.... As you grow you concentrate.” That specialization led Woodman’s to begin contracting out many routine jobs, such as sweeping the parking lot, doing the laundry and cleaning the bathrooms. “We employ people to sell groceries,” says Woodman. “If it’s more specialized, then someone else can do it and manage it better than we can.”
Clint Woodman thinks highly of the men and women who clean his family’s stores. “We have a steady workforce that does our janitorial, and they’re great guys, they get along with all of our employees at our stores, and what I know is that they’re paid very well,� says Woodman, who did not know the specific rate workers make. But he doesn’t view them as his responsibility. Asked about Woodman’s custodial workers working 13 or 14 nights every twoweek period, Woodman replies, “That’s not our business, so I wouldn’t know how their employees are set up.� A worker at Woodman’s customer service desk shows Isthmus documents with its pay rates, with the starting wage for a third shift “utility clerk,� or maintenance worker, being $9.95 an hour, with a 50-cent raise after six months. Based on this figure and not accounting for contractors’ overhead, Woodman’s saves approximately $79.20 per night on custodial work at each store, compared to the $69 a night wage Sanchez was earning. Woodman is unaware that MMG subcontracts out its work. He also “couldn’t speak to� questions about any cost parameters Woodman’s sets for its custodial contracts. “I think it’s a market price,� says Woodman. “They have to charge what they need to run their business and be competitive in that marketplace.... You have to be competitive to run a business.� Hickey is unsympathetic. “The big-box stores can kind of shrug their shoulders and say, ‘well, we’re not breaking the law, we’re just doing what you do in the economy; we’re not responsible for the fact that we have these undocumented workers who are cleaning our stores, and who are not earning enough or getting any benefits to survive on.’� Dresser understands the market logic of this system, where companies “do what they do best, leaving those other things to other people.� But she says it also creates problems. “Leaving those things to other people means allowing others to break the law so you don’t have to, or degrading a kind of standard that we should have been upholding,� she says. When a company allows workplace standards to degrade, it makes it easier for competitors to do the same, she adds. “The theme I try to emphasize is the structure of demand,� adds Dresser. “We make people desperate so that they must take these jobs. There were desperate people 40 years ago, but we didn’t run the bottom of our labor market like this.�
Midwest Maintenance Group denies responsibility for any infractions that may occur at its client sites and views itself as a facilitator. The company is a small contracting firm, with about 200 client sites and between 800 and 1,000 people working indirectly for them through their subcontractors.
“The whole point is that we go out, we get the contracts with the various sites and facilities, and we make sure we’re able to fulfill those contracts,� says Brown, MMG’s attorney. He acknowledges that there is a very high turnover rate for MMG’s subcontractors, or “affiliates,� in the Madison area. “Madison has an extraordinarily low unemployment rate, and your labor pool relative to the number of jobs has diminished significantly,� says Brown. “A lot of former affiliates simply don’t have the headcount to fulfill what’s required of them, so that’s causing more turnover than anything else.� So who does Brown think is responsible for worker conditions and pay? “The immediate employer of that worker would have that direct liability,� says Brown. “As business models go, it’s more cost-effective to do it this way.� No subcontracting companies known to have overseen work at Woodman’s could be reached for comment.
Martin, a short man with a pompadour and a thin mustache, one night this spring walks the sprawling Sun Prairie Woodman’s store wearing the grocery’s bright red uniform shirt. As a Woodman’s employee, his job is to supervise the custodial workers directly, a role that undermines the argument that these workers are truly independent contractors. Martin — who would not give his last name — remembers Sanchez and the others who were fired at the same time as good workers, and is unclear about what led to their departure. Unlike Martin, “Jose� and “Rosa� wear the navy blue aprons of Midwest Maintenance Group. They believe they work for Midwest Maintenance and are unaware of any subcontractor that might be involved, even though Midwest doesn’t directly oversee any janitorial workers. Jose and Rosa have each worked at the Woodman’s in Sun Prairie one month, after the last cohort of employees all left. Jose’s timesheet — which is visible near the customer service desk — says he was here at midnight, although this reporter saw him cleaning at 11:40. In Spanish, Rosa says her biggest problem with this work is the low salary, but still she is glad for the work. Dresser understands. “In almost any instance, you can never say, ‘The world would be better tomorrow without these jobs,’� says Dresser. “But, societally, there are questions about what we tolerate.� n
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Woodman’s is not alone in using subcontractors, and there’s nothing illegal about the practice. “I’m fairly confident that the majority of large retailers do their janitorial and maintenance services this way,� says Brown, the attorney with Midwest Maintenance Group. This prevalence of contracted labor was facilitated by an influx of immigrant labor from Latin America, says Dresser. “There was a growing population of workers who maybe didn’t understand that they did have rights [or] what those rights would be,� Dresser says. “Even if they understood the rights perfectly, their fears about documentation status made them hesitant to pursue their rights as workers.... They could be taken advantage of because they weren’t in a position to demand things from their employer.� Dresser says these changes are not limited to immigrant workers but extend to all low wage earners doing work for temp agencies. There is also a risk, says Dresser, of employers using contractors as a way to drive down labor standards without being liable. Stores hire contractors for their custodial needs; these contractors then subcontract out their work to companies who hire workers often misclassified as “independent contractors.� “There’s a consistent obfuscation of employment relationship that is happening down at the bottom,� says Dresser. “[Companies have] these people who clean, but they don’t work for [those companies], they work for this agency...and then both [companies] are like ‘no, you control the terms of employment,’ ‘no, you control the terms of employment.’ And the employee has a hard time even really knowing where the fight is.� Patrick Hickey, director of the Workers’ Rights Center, is more brutal in his assessment. “Rather than pay their employees a decent wage, [a lot of companies] get temp agencies to compete for who can pay the least, and charge the least, for landscaping or food service or janitorial service or things like that,� says Hickey. The subcontractors are technically responsible for worker conditions, but the companies that work with them bear responsibility as well, Hickey says. “[Big-box companies] don’t even accurately assess whether the contract that they’re bidding out can be done legally for the amount that they’re willing to pay,� adds Hickey. These problems can be compounded for workers when their immediate supervisors, the subcontracting companies, turn over frequently. Some companies, Hickey claims, will change names frequently. “They may have a bunch of wage claims or worker’s comp claims against them, then they just switch,� Hickey says. “All the liability, and all the problems, just disappear with that company, and you see the same players have half a dozen companies that they might be running, as a way to play this game, and get away with this stuff.�
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Les Hoffman was skeptical when he heard about the idea for Make Music Madison. A singer-songwriter who plays in two traditional New Orleansstyle jazz groups, Hoffman went to one of the initial organizational meetings for the event, which features free concerts by local musicians in locations throughout the city. “I expressed some concern that this is going to be taking away from money-paying gigs, jobs that musicians have to hustle for anyway.” After participating in the event despite those initial misgivings, his perspective shifted. “Now I see it as more of something for underserved musicians in Madison, people who have a lot of talent and musical abilities who don’t really have a supporting musical venue where they can play.” Hoffman’s change of heart was so dramatic that he wrote a song especially for Make Music Madison, which will be unveiled at this year’s event on June 21. It’s called “It’s in Us,” and everyone’s invited to join in. For people who read music, there’s downloadable sheet music for 23 instruments orchestrated by high school band director and UW-Platteville music teacher Nancy Fairchild. But all are welcome to show up to play the song together. It’s that spirit that drives Make Music Madison’s “mass appeal” events. Whether it’s the “It’s in Us” performance, a massive choir sing, One Hundred Harmonicas (a free lesson where the first 100 people get a free harmonica), a ukulele orchestra or a drum circle, the event organizers strive to make music as participatory as possible. Make Music Madison is part of a larger festival that takes place in more than 450 locations around the globe, and, at least according to the numbers, Madison has embraced it wholeheartedly. The city’s participation is second only to New York’s, with this year’s celebration including almost 400 concerts at more than 100 locations.
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Add crispy bacon to the huge, dense cheese sandwich that comes on a sourdough baguette. This one is carb-heavy but a chewy classic and perfect for two kids to split. The haddock tacos with homemade coleslaw and shredded cheddar were surprisingly delicate and crisp. An especially nice side of pickled cucumber is made with vinegar, jalapeños and sugar, a wonderfully subtle sweet-and-sour combination. The menu is a little scattered, but there are a lot of interesting ideas. Hydro Street elevates the usual raft of bar food to a fresher, more exciting level. Calling out local sourcing on the back of the menu, while a little strained at this point, underscores the surrounding environment, the fertile farmlands of southern Wisconsin. Hydro Street is a fun place to lounge with a large group. And it’s a good fit for James Street. n
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Columbus, Wis., is situated on the Crawfish River about 40 minutes northeast of Madison. It’s a spot that can take you on a journey back to a simpler time, almost as if you’re visiting a movie set. Indeed, several Columbus locations were used for 2009’s gangster drama Public Enemies, which was set in the Great Depression. If you’re looking for antiquing, dining, a bank or most any other kind of commercial entity, head for James Street, the main drag. With a population just shy of 5,000, Columbus is not a Wisconsin destination of note, but the people of Hydro Street Brewing Company hope to change that. Translucent fabrics are draped across the windows, but plenty of light streams through, throwing multicolored patches across surfaces. That light helps to illuminate tables in the front. Away from the windows, it feels more like a bar and less like a cozy restaurant. But there’s plenty of space to work with, for different vibes. The stereo plays The La’s “There She Goes.” The warehouse-like space holds a large collection of thrift store furniture, a
pool table in the back near the kitchen and an enormous bar. The menu is as wacky and sprawling as the space: jalapeño cheese spread with crackers, liver pate, a smoked trout platter, “spent grain” breads (reusing material from the brewing process) and “loaded pots” (aka pub chips). The latter comes with plenty of cheddar cheese and bacon. Don’t overlook a smoked sausage platter, tabouli and haddock po’ boys. Homemade cream soda and root beer are light, ephemeral and noncarbonated. The root beer smacks of licorice. Beer is made on-site, lately with a three barrel system. Expect seven house beers and a few guest taps. A fascinating yarrow beer isn’t even technically beer; it’s made with flowers and no hops and tastes lemony, salty and a bit sour. Potato chips, also homemade, are still warm as they hit the table with any one of a dozen sandwiches. The soup of the day, crab bisque, was mild, smoky, rich and hearty. The Hydro Street pizza is a winner, with a light and flaky crust topped with garlic, Parmesan, Alfredo sauce, basil, red peppers and tender, lightly peppered chicken. A chicken sandwich with creamy garlic sauce and red pepper and the not-too-salty potato chips makes an entirely satisfying plate of food.
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Q: What’s better than pizza? A: Fresh wood-fired pizza at the farm bakery that makes it roomy earthiness and olive umami. This was outdone by an asparagus and Sitka salmon pizza with a creamy bÊchamel standing in for the usual tomato sauce. The asparagus was still crisp but charred, and a balsamic reduction drizzle made the elements sing. But save room for the Spring Fling, a dessert pizza featuring rhubarb, mascarpone, fresh strawberries, and the clincher — little bits of streusel sprinkled on top. It’s all sweetness and satisfying crunch. There’s a musical line-up for the Cress Spring nights, which has skewed folk and bluegrass, and there’s a good wine list, as well as an ever-expanding list of craft beer options. The offerings keep changing, but the current feature is Bos Meadery Pomegranate Pyment Mead. Dinners will run through the end of October. Bring your own plates and utensils, chairs and blankets. The best way to stay informed about pizza on the farm is to join the Cress Spring mailing list at cressspringbakery.com, which sends out a weekly menu with updates. n
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Pizza! On the farm! At last, after a year’s wait, Cress Spring Bakery has launched its Wednesday evening pizzeria. The dinners are in full swing — and selling out. “We’ve had over 160 people the last two weeks,� says Jeff Ford, owner and baker at Cress Spring. “It’s been a huge success, if a little daunting.� Cool, sunny weather has brought customers out in droves, with groups arriving for hot pizza fresh out of the woodfired oven, as well as house-made cookies and ice cream sandwiches (filled with Sassy Cow vanilla). The farm at 4035 Ryan Rd., outside of Blue Mounds, has no indoor seating, but customers can take a pizza to go or have an impromptu picnic on the lawn. The menu features eight pizzas, with an option to build your own. On a recent evening, a pie called the Real Fungi was a vegan stunner, featuring a perfectly blistered sourdough crust topped with tapenade, shitake mushrooms and toasted walnuts. It was rich and complex, with a great balance between mushPull up a hay bale and have some pizza.
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When the sign went up at the former Cosi at 250 State St. on May 29, no one immediately noticed that the sign was on the outside of the window. More arresting was the somewhat bizarre concept for “Porkestra� — a Southern-style barbecue spot to be paired with “classical music and atmosphere.� The logo was a sideways stringed instrument with pig’s trotters coming out the side. A call to the Mullins Group, which was leasing the space, revealed that it had not rented it — to anyone. As if the city’s hard-working food reporters do not already have enough work tracking down the stories behind actual restaurants that are opening, now they have to track down fake restaurants as well? Hrrmph. Whether the prank was conceptual art, a guerrilla marketing campaign or just a practical joke is still unknown, as no one
Jenna Carol hopes that Winedown, her new wine and beer lounge planned for 118 State St., will offer a more relaxed, “upscale but not stuffy� atmosphere, where young professionals, graduate students and state workers can gather over drinks, board games and live music. “I’m really going for a living room type lounge,� she says. “You go in and you feel like you’re at a friend’s house.� Carol plans to serve a rotating variety of wines and beers, as well as specialty cocktails made with wine and beer and frozen wine and beer — aHappy slushy treat whose formula and conHour sistency she says she perfected through “lots of Mon-Thu 4-7food, but patience.� Winedown will also serve the offerings will $7.99 be “minimal� — local breads, jams and cheeses. Lunch Special Winedown is taking over the former home includes drink of Diego’s Mexican Bistro, which closed in January.
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The Wisconsin Rugby Club doesn’t get as much attention as it should. Neither, for that matter, does the Wisconsin Women’s Rugby Football Club. But it’s time to start giving these two hard-fighting teams, composed of highlevel amateur players, credit where credit is due. After all, both the men’s and the women’s teams have advanced to the USA Rugby Emirates Airline Club Division II National Championship Finals this weekend in Glendale, Colo. This is the Super Bowl of the rugby world. The women’s team will play the Sacramento (Calif.) Amazons for its first national title Sunday at 2:15 p.m. Central Time at Infinity Park Stadium. The men — who are chasing their third national title following championships in 1998 and 2013 — will battle the Life West Gladiators from Hayward, Calif., at 4:15 p.m. USA Rugby will stream the matches live. Both Wisconsin club teams reached this point by dominating their Midwest competitive league opponents over the past several weeks and then continuing their impressive running and rucking at the USA Rugby National Quarterfinals and Semifinals the last weekend in May in Charlotte, N.C. The women’s club, in particular, made a loud statement with a 41-12 semifinal victory over the Augusta (Ga.) Furies to advance to the title game. In fact, the women held the Furies scoreless until minute 69 in the 80-minute game. The men knocked off Atlanta Old White, 24-15, by taking an early lead and never relinquishing it to earn their berth in the finals. Rugby, played with 15 players per side (or sometimes seven, to make matches
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shorter), originated in England in the early 19th century and has become the de facto national sport in at least six countries. Rugby was an Olympic sport in the early 20th century before disappearing for decades, but it will return in the form of rugby sevens for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Here in the United States, USA Rugby has introduced the sport to more than five million kids during the past five years through its programs, and more than 700 Senior Club teams are active within the national governing body’s ranks. Founded in 1962 and 1975, respectively, the Wisconsin’s men’s and women’s teams practice and compete at the Wisconsin Rugby Sports Complex, 4064 Vilas Rd. in Cottage Grove. If you’re interested in participating, no experience is required. n
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The one and only Lily Tomlin The comedian chats about co-star Jane Fonda, peyote and her classic characters BY STU LEVITAN
Lily Tomlin is on a roll. Netflix has already renewed the series Grace and Frankie, in which she and Jane Fonda set aside a longtime rivalry when their law-partner husbands (Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen) reveal they’re gay and have plans to marry. And she’s the lead in the Sundance festival hit Grandma, where she plays a lesbian poet coping with the death of her partner. It opens in August. The beloved actor and comedian returns to the Overture Center Friday for an evening of classic monologues featuring her iconic characters in new settings and vintage video clips. Stu Levitan talked to the 2014 Kennedy Center Honoree for his radio show Books & Beats on 92.1 The Mic. How have your characters endured for two generations? It’s keeping them current. I just believe they live — not in my house, but maybe next door. And they complain to me all the time about what I put them through. How do you and [wife and longtime partner] Jane Wagner create characters collaboratively? When Jane wrote The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe, she just wrote characters to the paper. Then I was expected to physicalize them. She would always complain that she had to face the blank page, and I would say, “Hey, I have to face the full page!”
How much have you and Jane Fonda changed in the 35 years since you made 9 to 5? I don’t think we’ve changed much at all. Jane is still kind of an innocent, totally in earnest. She wants to make it, wants to get the gold star in ballet class. And it’s something I’ve loved about her from the beginning.
nea than I even think I am. That was one of Bob’s gifts — casting. And Bob was just so human and so available. That’s why the actors who worked with him all the time just loved him. When we were making Nashville people would get just loaded every night while the whole cast watched dailies [unedited footage]. I was heartbroken when he died.
Do you feel any special responsibility for the way the gay characters are portrayed on Grace and Frankie? If people are being debased in any way, it’s hard for me not to speak up. And there have been a couple of lines that I’ve argued about. There’s not much of it, and I haven’t always succeeded. That’s water under the bridge. But it’s not, really, because it’s taped and will go on in perpetuity.
Your website has a section on your movie memorabilia. Is all that true? Yeah! I got Betty Grable’s bobby pin when I was 12. She was in Detroit with her husband, the bandleader Harry James. My girlfriend Suzie and I would go all over the city for autographs, just for the adventure of it. We’d find out what hotels they were at and sneak in. We got up to Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis’ suite one time, and we could see him around, doing stuff. Janet Leigh’s cigarette was Parliament, and I got Tony Curtis’ handkerchief. Later, I was on Laugh-In with Tony Curtis, and got a picture to send to Suzie. She still lives in Michigan.
How high were you in the peyote scene in the pilot episode? Well, Jane and I did do a little trial peyote so we’d know roughly how people might behave. But it wasn’t much different from anything else we knew. Talk about the experience of making three films with Robert Altman, starting with Nashville in 1975. I secretly had wanted Barbara Harris’ part because it was quirky and funny and closes out the movie. But when I got to Nashville and saw how right everybody was, I said, well, I’m much more Lin-
Do you like it when fans quote old punch lines and catchphrases, or is that lame? I’ve got fans who can reference lines I’ve forgotten. I like it. Unless it’s a line I’m embarrassed by. Anything you know now that you wish you had known when starting out? Be bold, always. But take responsibility for your boldness. n
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What are the origins of Trudy the Bag Lady? We’d see a lot of these women on the street in LA. I would go upstairs to where Jane worked and improvise, creating [Trudy’s] voice and her physicality. I said I’ve got to do this character, because I just felt drawn to it. So finally, Jane, just to shut me up, wrote a more definitive monologue, and that was the basis for Trudy in Appearing Nitely. And then she invented the Trudy who was much more fully realized, who was the connective tissue for The Search.
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Distant Cuzins
The future of rock Four local high school bands battle it out in the Launchpad competition
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Les Paul — the godfather of guitar-based rock ’n’ roll — would be proud to see his legacy lived out onstage by energetic high school musicians. The inventor and guitarist would have turned 100 years old on June 9, which makes this year’s Launchpad State Finals extra-special. One of 13 high school garage bands, including four finalists from the Madison area, will battle it out Saturday, June 13, at the Sett inside the UW’s Union South for the prestigious Les Paul Launchpad Award. The winning band will also perform at the Les Paul Centennial Birthday Party in the guitarist’s hometown of Waukesha on Aug. 6. “Some of the best places where original music comes from are unknown high school bands,” Paul told a Wisconsin journalist two years before his death in 2009. (A pioneer of the solid-body guitar, which helped define rock, Paul began his career well before high school.) Music for the Launchpad competition begins at 2 p.m., and admission is free. A panel of judges (musician and journalist Rick Tvedt, Broadjam founder and CEO Roy Elkins and 19-time Madison Area Music Association award winner Beth Kille) will evaluate each band on expression and creativity, technique and synergy. In addition to the written evaluations, bands receive a private verbal critique. All bands already have won regional competitions earlier this year and secured 45-minute sets on Summerfest’s Johnson Controls World Sound Stage in Milwaukee. The overall winner and one runner-up also will perform 60-minute sets at the BMO Harris Pavilion on July 5, opening for Kansas.
And the overall winner will receive a professional recording session and a Yamaha equipment package for the band’s school. As the only program of its kind in the country, Launchpad is open to all genres and seeks to extend the reach of music education in Wisconsin by giving students a chance to start groups outside of traditional music classrooms. But that doesn’t mean music teachers aren’t crucial, says Dennis Graham, a longtime music promoter and the producer of Launchpad: “So many bands in Launchpad’s first 11 years have been formed because of the support of their music teacher.” Indeed, Launchpad, which is sponsored by the Wisconsin School Music Association, has given developing artists the push they need. Gabe Burdulis, who fronted the Gabe Burdulis Band, winner of the 2014 Launchpad competition, recently moved from Madison to Nashville, where he finished recording his first full-length CD. “I’m just blown away at how talented some of these young bands are,” Graham says. “They display such a mature grasp of playing their instruments that often belies their age. I have seen thousands of bands in nearly 50 years of checking out shows, and Launchpad’s have ranked as some of the best.” Here are short profiles of the four Madisonarea bands competing in this year’s Launchpad State Finals:
After the Rain This is the second Launchpad finals for the relentless retro-rock power trio from Madison West. They cite influences such as Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Smashing Pump-
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kins and Stone Temple Pilots. “Grunge definitely describes our sound,” says vocalist and bassist Dominic Cannarella-Anderson. “But at the same time, we consider ourselves ‘post-grunge.’”
Disq Although Disq performs live as a quartet, the band is officially an eclectic duo featuring Isaac De Broux-Slone from Madison’s Shabazz City High School and Raina Bock from Youth Initiative High School in Viroqua. A self-professed “recording geek,” De Broux-Slone is influenced by the warmth of classic-rock production. “That ’70s drum sound is one of my favorite things,” he says. Disq is the state competition’s “wild card” band, selected from all Launchpad entries via a worldwide vote of listeners on Broadjam.com.
Distant Cuzins Distant Cuzins was a 2014 Launchpad state finalist and — as guitarist Sam Miess says — “we
want to make the audience think they’re at a major rock show.” With a classic-rockmeets-rockabilly sound, this quartet from Oregon High School has roots in a fourthgrade surf-rock duo Miess formed with drummer Ben Lokuta, and its influences range from ska to Rush. Distant Cuzins closed the regional competition in April with a dramatic hotshot guitar-solo battle between Miess and Nate Krause.
The Whyskers Another band from Madison West, this heavy-rock power trio has officially been together for only about six months and takes inspiration from “Hendrix, Zeppelin and all the good stuff,” says vocalist and guitarist Oliver Gerber. “But a lot of what we do is actually just winging it.” The Whyskers also have been known to throw a song by the late Chicago bluesman Howlin’ Wolf into their sets. n
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substantial tips at their concerts. “Most of the audience members recognize that the people that are hosting aren’t paying the musicians, so the people are a little more willing to open their pockets and give some money,” Kember says. “I would say a lot of performers do make a lot of money that day.” For some aspiring artists, getting in front of an audience is an important first step. Amateur musician Kristine Beck will perform at Make Music Madison for the second time. Last year she sang with her duo Still Jaded After All These Years. Since then she started the Harwood String Quartet, in which she plays the cello. “It was really great to have an easy way to get out here and have an audience,” Beck says. “The whole vibe of the event felt very open and friendly. It was really a blast.” And having a date with the public spurs creativity, too. It was only after she and Joe Bauer, her partner in the duo, signed up for Make Music Madison that they really started getting their repertoire together. “Putting live music in all corners of the city,” says Kember, “is an awesome way to encourage people to connect with their neighbors.” n
Get in on the action There is still time to sign up for some of the “mass appeal” events for Make Music Madison, including performing “It’s in Us,” One Hundred Harmonicas, Ukeleles Unite!, drum circle and ’60s rock band, at makemusicmadison.org/mass-appeal. For details on other performances and venues see makemusicmadison.org.
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Yet some remain dubious about how much professional musicians actually gain from participating in the event. Rick Tvedt, president of the Madison Area Music Association, says it was initially billed as a boon for professional artists, which “left a bad taste in a lot of working musicians’ mouths.” “I’ve always felt that the drawback of Make Music Madison was that it was rolled out as a music initiative,” says Tvedt, who labels it more of a community and cultural event. “I was also a bit annoyed at first with how much money the city spends, and almost all of it goes to the administration, not musicians.” For the first two years of the festival, the city of Madison contributed $25,000; this year it gave $20,000. Tvedt allows that the event provides important opportunities for amateurs and young musicians, but Jamie Kember, a music instructor at Madison College, says it has benefits for people playing at all levels. “Whether they are new to an instrument or whether it’s someone who is retired and looking for an excuse to bust out their guitar, and all the way to a professional musician — it helps connect everyone to some kind of performance space.” Kember makes much of his living as a musician, playing trombone in several Latin and African bands and with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. “The biggest supporters of live music are those who actively practice it,” Kember says. “Make Music Madison will undoubtedly lead to more people engaging with live music throughout the year, which is a win for musicians who make any portion of their living from performing.” Kember says having 100 stages set up all over the city opens the door to creating more venues for musicians to play, and some professional groups do actually negotiate payment, sell merchandise and collect
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Gillian Cotter (left) as a winsome Rinaldo and Caitlin Cisler as the fierce Queen Armida.
Fresco Opera Theatre sets Handel’s Rinaldo in a galaxy far, far away BY JAY RATH
There are not a lot of operas with Wookies in them. None, actually, until now. Fresco Opera Theatre’s setting of Handel’s Rinaldo in the universe of Star Wars was absolutely brilliant. Rinaldo and the Galactic Crusades premiered to a delighted audience Friday, June 5, at the Overture Center for the Arts. It was an inspired choice to merge the story of a galaxy far, far away with the Catholic Church’s first crusade to wrest control of Jerusalem from Islam long, long
ago — A.D. 1096 to 1099, to be specific. The original 1711 opera featured good guys, bad guys, mysterious magical forces and a sorcerer’s wands. In this production, the wands became lightsabers, and the two sides were Princess Leia’s rebels and Darth Vader’s imperial army. The Force remained, and the laughs were plentiful. The cast, directed by musical director Melanie Cain, was uniformly strong, particularly Gillian Cotter as Rinaldo/Skywalker and Chadley Ballantyne as Argante/Vader. Cotter has a strong, clear voice and suitably winsome presence, and Ballantyne practically channeled
Free theater Fermat’s Last Theater Company crowdfunds an edgy tale of class, sex and power BY CATHERINE CAPELLARO
In an ideal world, theater tickets would be free. But they rarely are. Fermat’s Last Theater Company, however, is experimenting with a new crowdsourcing model that, if successful, would mean free admission to its next show. The group’s Kickstarter campaign is less than $1,000 from its goal. The classical theater group’s upcoming
production of Miss Julie, Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s controversial 1888 play about the fallout after an upper-class woman initiates sex with a servant, opens July 30 at the Fredric March Play Circle at the Memorial Union. Founded by production manager David Simmons in 2013, Fermat’s Last Theater Company is a relative newcomer to Madison. Its first two productions were Shakespeare plays: The Merchant of Venice and a circus-themed,
James Earl Jones, whether singing or not. Emily Roach was excellent as Goffredo, but the standout was soprano Caitlin Cisler as Armida, the evil queen. Immensely powerful, she owned the stage every time she appeared. The costumes were inventive and suitably authentic, and the makeup, by Jim Henson Company vet Lyn Marie Neuenfeldt, wonderfully bridged George Frideric Handel and George Lucas. Everything in the production was so strong that the staging, by contrast, sometimes ap-
for a company that wants to do plays with social-justice connections. “Miss Julie is all about class and privilege,” he says. When it came to the choice to offer tickets for free, Simmons says there are companies in other cities offering free shows on a regular basis, such as Oracle Productions in Chicago. Simmons says he hopes the new model will succeed so the company can focus on creating quality proMARIE SCHULTE ductions instead of worrying about ticket sales. The valet (David Sapiro) attends to Miss Julie “At some point the philosophical (Kelsey Yudice), while the cook (Cricket Gage) looks and the practical merged,” he says. on. “One of the missions of the theater is to build a new and younger and gender-bending Troilus and Cressida, in which more diverse audience, and cost is an issue. Helen of Troy was a drag queen. I had this crazy idea: Why don’t we just do Simmons says Miss Julie is a fitting choice the show for free?” n
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Planning sketch of the Little Free Museum concept.
Science and technology in a front yard near you Madison to host the first Little Free Museum cally a glass box on top of a wooden base. But unlike the gallery, the museum will have removable glass sides to allow for Soon, Madison residents and visitors will greater visitor interaction. This potential for be able to go to a library, an art gallery and a touching and manipulating objects is one museum of science and technology, all within of the strategies for making the exhibits one city block. And there will be no problem accessible to a wide range of ages, Matt with downtown parking. The 1900 block of explains. East Mifflin between First and Second streets The Hirsches suggest that exhibits be is about to become one of the most cultured aimed at 10- to 14-year-olds, but they hope in Madison, albeit on a miniature scale. to offer material that appeals to both kids A Little Free Museum, the first of its and adults. kind, is set to debut on the block July 11. One of the biggest After a neighbor erected challenges of designing a Little Gallery in addition exhibits for a freestanding to the block’s Little Free unmanned museum, Marisa Library, coming up with says, is that the compothe museum was an “obvinents have to be sturdy, ous next step” says Matt weather-resistant and either Hirsch, who is hosting the tied down or restockable. museum in his front yard, “We expect, unfortunately, along with his wife, Marisa a certain degree of vandalHirsch. ism,” she says. “I think it’s neat to have The pair were inspired that sort of inspiration to create the science just come upon you,” Matt museum after seeing Neil says, perhaps while somedeGrasse Tyson speak at one is just strolling down a the Nelson Institute’s Earth sidewalk. The museum will Day conference. “He talked feature a monthly rotation The wood for the first about how daily exposure of science and technolmuseum’s base, cut and to science motivates invenogy exhibits. The first ready for assembly. tion,” says Marisa, who involves nanotechnology has a degree in library and nature, Matt says. He information studies. She said the famous also plans to feature famous women and astronomer shared “alarming stats” about minority scientists. how many fewer inventions come out of the Matt has already contacted some UW United States now compared to the past. professors and plans to connect with sci “It’s not just technology, it’s that inence teachers at nearby East High School to quiring nature — trying to ask ‘why’ and recruit people to design and build exhibits. discover ‘why,’” adds Matt, who works as a “The goal is for me to create as few of the software engineer at Epic. “It’s a main tenet exhibits as possible,” he says. of what I do in my work life — try to answer The couple intend to get the first Little the question ‘why,’” he says. Free Museum running sustainably and then encourage others to start their own in other lo- Even before it’s open, the Little Free cations. They raised over $1,500 on Kickstarter Museum is attracting attention, with a mention in Smithsonian magazine, as well as to launch the project. The bulk of those funds in a student paper in Perth, Australia. The went to a local metal worker to construct the Hirsches imagine people developing little museum’s frame. The couple also went doorscience museums in other places, maybe to-door in the neighborhood seeking support. even other types of mini-museums as well. In addition to the website, littlefreemu“I feel like there’s a lot of people with a lot seum.org, there’s a Facebook page and Twitof weird passions and interests, and if they ter account (@LFMuseum) for the museum. get inspired, I could see a lot of little stuff in The museum’s structure is based on the Madison,” Marisa says. n design of the block’s Little Gallery — basiBY JULIA CECHVALA
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Aging exquisitely
New releases Dope: Coming-of-age story about a nerdy high school senior from a tough Inglewood, Calif., neighborhood invited to a hip L.A. party — and making choices that will affect his future.
Blythe Danner illuminates I’ll See You in My Dreams BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Old people and dogs are my Kryptonite, so I probably should have just closed my notepad and excused myself from critical duties when I’ll See You in My Dreams opened with both, snuggling in bed. Blythe Danner — now 72, and eternally luminous — plays Carol, a longtime widow particular in her ways and wary of anything that might complicate her routine, which involves long walks with her aging dog, garden work, golf and cards with her best gal pals, who keep needling Carol to give up independent living and move into their comfortable retirement community. A series of disrupters threatens Carol’s ordered living: an invading rat, a pool boy, a truly magnificent mustache. The pool boy is Lloyd (Martin Starr), a thirtysomething failed poet who becomes Carol’s unlikely drinking buddy. The mustache is attached to a senior suitor, Sam Elliott’s Bill, whose seduction prowess is so smooth he might as well be whipped with butter. I don’t know if I’ll See You in My Dreams is a great movie — but it moved me. It shouldn’t be such a novelty to see the inte-
rior life of a septuagenarian explored onscreen. What’s even more novel is that the script, co-written by Marc Basch and director Brett Haley, mostly avoids the more common, pat comedy of aging of the Grumpy Old Men philosophy. This is largely a movie about talking. Not monologuing, and not smirking about Viagra. What we see instead is like the real-life back-and-forth between new acquaintances, old friends. On the subject of the latter: The movie doesn’t make too big a deal out of it, but it does nicely depict the circle-of-life arc for elderly women — doomed by their Danner plays a longtime widow who is particular in her ways. gender’s longer life expectancy — to return to the female-friendshippossessed to pander. But Danner’s even betprimacy of childhood. ter on her own, as she honestly, even angrily, Danner gets to bounce off a lot of different wrangles with the raw rub of life: that it sucks people here, and I especially liked her rapport to be alone, and it’s scary to try not being alone. with Starr; they’re both underplayers, too selfShe’s exquisite. n
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Jurassic World: Ten years after the opening of the dinosaur theme park, a new promotion goes horribly awry.
Recent releases Aloha: Cameron Crowe tries to pack a mini-series worth of plotting into this disjointed effort at romantic dramedy. Bradley Cooper stars as a civilian military contractor on assignment in Hawaii, where he reconnects with an old flame and finds a new spark with his Air Force escort. Occasionally, when people stand still long enough to exchange banter, you get a glimpse of the emotional honesty that once earned Crowe his fandom. Entourage: Surprising no one, the boys are back, effortlessly transitioning from the HBO small screen to cinema’s big screen. The movie plays like an extended TV episode, rarely lingering longer than the time it takes to land a few low-bro love jabs before moving on to the next scene. It’s a completely unnecessary film, but hey, when has that been a Hollywood concern? Insidious: Chapter 3: The original screenwriter of the horror franchise assumes the directing reins for this supernatural prequel. Love and Mercy: Director Bill Pohlad largely eschews biopic formula to focus on two primary points in Brian Wilson’s life and career. While he loses his way in his younger years, Wilson is portrayed by Paul Dano; as the Beach Boy cautiously finds it again in middle age, he’s played by John Cusack. All involved are cast in the shadow of Dano’s wide-ranging performance, capturing Wilson at his most ecstatic and his most hopeless. Spy: Although Melissa McCarthy’s analystcum-inadvertent superspy feels somewhat less brazenly comedic than previous outings, there are enough laugh-out-loud moments to make this femme-centric parody of James Bond and Mission: Impossible one of the better yuk-fests of the early summer movie season.
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ABC, premieres Thursday, June 18, 7 pm
It’s difficult to think of a more beautifully chaotic TV show than Orange Is the New Black, thanks to heated interactions — dramatic and comedic — among the most unique cast of characters in the medium. At the end of the second season, everything has fallen apart at Litchfield Penitentiary, though series creator Jenji Kohan thankfully tied up many of the season’s loose ends. SPOILER ALERT: Red (Kate Mulgrew) ratted out main antagonist Vee (Lorraine Toussaint) after some convincing from Sister Ingalls, but it’s a bit too little too late. Just when we think Vee has escaped, we see Rosa (Barbara Rosenblat) do something that had “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” branded into our brains for quite some time. Hopefully in this third season, viewers will get to see some of the characters they know and love make a return. Also, we’re itching for another Alex/Piper interaction.
After the end of Mad Men, ABC is hoping to capitalize on period-piece withdrawal. This new drama series is based on a Lily Koppel novel about the wives of the Mercury Seven, the original American astronauts. It stars JoAnna García Swisher (Reba), Evan Handler (Californication) and Odette Annable (House) and focuses on the interactions among the wives and their relationships with the astronauts. The series was originally scheduled to air last year but was pushed back for revisions, implying perhaps that it’s just not good enough to have a place in ABC’s regular season schedule or that the network wants to try it out against lesser competition. Astronaut Wives does do something right, however, in that it combines viewers’ interest in space (think of recent films Gravity and Interstellar) with nostalgic period pieces (Mad Men, Downton Abbey).
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God’s Slave: Based on the true story of an Islamic terrorist and Israeli agent who crossed paths after the 1994 bombings in Buenos Aires. Ashman Library, June 12, 6:45 pm. Mac and Me: A boy in a wheelchair befriends an alien trying to escape the clutches of NASA. Central Library, June 18, 6:30 pm. One Good Year: Documentary about the community of medical marijuana growers in Humboldt County, Calif. High Noon Saloon, June 14, 4 pm. The Powers of Light and Space: Rooftop Cinema screening of short films by Charles and Ray Eames, Larry Gottheim, Norman McLaren and John Smith. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, June 12, 9:30 pm.
Still in theaters Avengers: Age of Ultron Cinderella
Penguins of Madagascar
Far from the Madding Crowd
Pitch Perfect 2 Poltergeist
Furious 7
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picks Marquette Waterfront Festival Saturday and Sunday, June 13-14, Yahara Place Park, 11:30 am-9 pm The family-friendly neighborhood festival features 14 artists from a variety of musical genres. Last year’s folk stage has been rechristened the Cottonwood Stage and boasts a schedule headlined by Minneapolis country act the Cactus Blossoms. At the main stage, Herencia Musical (Puerto Rico) and festival veterans Le Vent du Nord (Quebec) bring music from around the globe on June 13, while Windy City-based Maps & Atlases and Birds of Chicago supply rock ’n’ roll on June 14.
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thu june 11 MU S I C Babe’s: Acoustic Alloy, free, 6 pm. Also: 6 pm, 6/18. Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Pilot, rock, free, 6 pm. Brink Lounge: Dan Hubbard, 8 pm. Capital Brewery, Middleton: Wells Division, free, 6 pm.
Summer Frolic: Annual Parks & Recreation Department fundraiser, gates 5 pm on 6/11-12 and 8:30 am, 6/13-14, Grundahl Park, Mount Horeb, with carnival, beer tent, youth baseball tournament. Friday: Cherry Pie 9 pm. Saturday: Norsk walk/run 8:30 am ($18), Union Suits 5 pm, Madison County 9 pm, fireworks 10 pm. Sunday: Parade noon, Staff Infection 3 pm. mthorebsummerfrolic.com.
The Frequency: Bird’s Eye, Lazydeadpoet, The Family Business, 8:30 pm. Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Just Merl, free, 6 pm. Harmony Bar: The Lewis Brothers, 5 pm. High Noon Saloon: JP Cyr and His Radio Wranglers, free (on the patio), 6 pm. Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Mike Massey, 9 pm. Merchant: The Melon Heads, free, 10 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, swing, free, 5:30 pm.
B OOKS Book Sale: 5-8:30 pm on 6/11 ($6 adm.), 9 am-8:30 pm on 6/12 and 10 am-3 pm, 6/13, Pinney Library. 224-7100. Alex Bledsoe: Discussing “Long Black Curl,” his new novel, 6 pm, 6/11, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.
FUN D RAISERS
Nau-Ti-Gal: Crosstown Drive, free (on patio), 5:30 pm.
Attic Angel Sale: Annual fundraiser, 1-7:30 pm ($15 admission) on 6/10, 8 am-6:30 pm on 6/11 and 8 amnoon, 6/12, High Point Church. 662-8900.
Quaker Steak and Lube, Middleton: Grey Matter Mechanics, free, 5:30 pm.
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Mr. Robert’s: Anderson Bros., Save the Population, 10 pm.
Red Rock Saloon: Jon Pardi, country, 9 pm. Rennebohm Park: Capitol City Band, free, 7 pm. Tempest Oyster Bar: Evan Murdock and the Imperfect Strangers, Seasaw, free, 9 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Mario Sibaja, free, 9:30 pm. Tuvalu Coffeehouse, Verona: Beth Kille & Michael Tully, Verona Area Needs Network benefit, raffle, 6:30 pm.
American Players Theatre: “An Illiad”: Homer adaptation by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, 7:30 pm on 6/11 and 3 pm, 6/13 (Touchstone Theatre); “The Merry Wives of Windsor”: 7:30 pm on 6/11 and 8 pm, 6/13, APT, Spring Green. $74-$45. 588-2361. Held: A Musical Fantasy: Dark musical by Kelly Maxwell and Meghan Rose, 5/29-6/20, Broom Street Theater, at 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $11. 244-8338.
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Festa Junina: Gondwana Edition: Brazilian celebration, 8:30 pm, 6/11, High Noon Saloon, with Metabaque, Grupo Balanca, Madison Choro Ensemble, Otimo Madison Brazilian Dance, Immigre, Samba Novistas. $12 ($10 adv.). 268-1122.
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UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Buried Valley Band, bluegrass, free, 5 pm; Whosah, Oh My Love, free, 9 pm.
Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm. Come Back In: Teddy Davenport, free (on patio), 5 pm.
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Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, Americana, free, 9 pm.
Kevin Bozeman Thursday, June 11, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm
On the second track of this Wisconsinraised comedian’s album My First CD, he reminds the listener that there’s more to our great state than just cheese: There’s also Jeffrey Dahmer. In other words, Bozeman’s a master of surprising setups and pop-culture punchlines. With Clark Jones, Tracey Schroeder. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), June 12-13.
SP ECTATOR SP ORTS WIAA State Softball Tournament: Sessions at 9 am, 1:30 & 6 pm, 6/11-12 and finals 10:05 am, 12:35, 3:05 & 5:35 pm, 6/13, UW Goodman Softball Diamond. $8/session; $6/game finals. 715-344-8580. Madison Mallards: vs. Lakeshore Chinooks, 7:05 pm, 6/11-12, Warner Park. $44-$8. 246-4277.
Cheap Girls Friday, June 12, Memorial Union Terrace, 9 pm
Cheap Girls are three men from Lansing, Mich., who love big melodies and bright guitars. Balancing pop and punk with tunes that could have charted on your favorite ’90s college rock station, Cheap Girls have steadily released material since 2007, including last year’s Famous Graves. Opening is Milwaukee’s favorite acoustic troubadour/tampon jingle writer, Brett Newski. Brink Lounge: Mad City Jug Band, 8 pm. Capital Brewery, Middleton: The Jimmys, free, 6 pm. Cardinal Bar: Golpe Tierra, free, 5:30 pm; DJs Wyatt Agard, Lovecraft, Foshizzle Family, house, 9 pm.
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Claddagh, Middleton: Stop the Clock, free, 8 pm.
Goodman Pool Open for Season: Free admission for first 500 kids, noon, 6/11, 325 Olin Ave. For regular hours: cityofmadison.com/parks/pool. 264-9292.
Come Back In: After School Music Class, free, 5 pm.
Club Tavern, Middleton: Universal Sound, free, 9 pm. Delaney’s: Bob Kerwin and Doug Brown, jazz, 6 pm.
Essen Haus: Steve Meisner, 8:30 pm. Also: 6/13.
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The Frequency: Czarbles, Hardcore Crayons, Control, rock, 10 pm. High Noon Saloon: Something to Do, The Periodicals, 5:30 pm; Fringe Character, Son Contrabando, 10 pm. Ivory Room: Hernet, Ripp & Seaman, pianos, 8:30 pm. Kabul: Anapaula Strader and Jeff Alexander, 10:30 pm. Lakeside Street Coffee House: Madison Classical Guitar Society Showcase, free, 7 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: The Drain, Negative Example, Passerby, rock, free, 10 pm. Mother Fool’s: Starving in the Belly of the Whale, Original Mechanical Mouse, folk rock, 8 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Beast of Bray Road, free, 10 pm. Overture Center-Playhouse: Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, 7:30 pm. Also: 7:30 pm, 6/13. Pooley’s: Daniel Anderson Trio, free (patio), 7 pm. Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Middleton: Johnny Widdicombe and Cliff Frederiksen, jazz, 6 pm. Sprecher’s: The Sparks Band, ‘60s rock, free, 8 pm. Tempest: The North Westerns, free, 9:30 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Tani Diakite & Afrofunkstars, 10 pm. True Coffee, Fitchburg: Tyler Preston, 8 pm. Up North Pub: Teddy Davenport, free, 8 pm. UW Memorial Union: Ben Ferris Quintet, free, 5 pm.
Kyle Dunnigan Friday, June 12, Majestic Theatre, 7:30pm
This talented comedian may not be a household name yet, but it’s only a matter of time. After scoring notable roles as a regular on Cedric the Entertainer Presents and as serial killer Craig on Reno 911!, he now hosts the popular Professor Blastoff podcast with Tig Notaro and writes and acts on Amy Schumer’s hot-right-now Comedy Central sketch series. With David Freeburg.
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Violet Friday, June 12, UW Music Hall, 7:30 pm
Madison’s newest theater company, Capital City Theatre, is mounting its debut production with this musical set in the 1960s about a young woman’s quest for beauty. Facially disfigured in a childhood accident, Violet hopes that a televangelist in Oklahoma can heal her. She hops a Greyhound bus, and the adventure begins. With a cast that’s front-loaded with Broadway credits, the leads should definitely dazzle. ALSO: Saturday (2 & 7:30 pm), Sunday (2 pm) and Thursday (7:30 pm), June 13-14 & 18. Through June 20.
Queer Shorts 10 Friday, June 12, Bartell Theatre, 8 pm
StageQ celebrates the 10th anniversary of Queer Shorts with the theme of “Remembrance.” Enjoy a night of 13 short plays of all kinds, each with its own take on remembrance. ALSO: Saturday (8 pm), Sunday (2 pm) and Thursday (8 pm), June 13-14 and 18. Through June 20.
A Streetcar Named Desire Friday, June 12, American Players Theatre (Spring Green), 8 pm
Left of Left Center: “Spirits to Enforce”: Superheroes hold a telethon to fund a Shakespeare production, 7:30 pm, 6/12, Watertower Chop House, Sun Prairie; 7:30 pm, 6/13, I’m Board, Middleton; 3 pm, 6/14, TAPIT/new works. $10 donation. leftofleftcenter.com.
FUN D RAI S ERS RSVP for Wine Auction and Dinner: Annual Tandem Press grad student fellowship fundraiser, 6-10:30 pm, 6/18, Promega Corporate HQ. $125. RSVP by 6/12: info@tandempress.wisc.edu. 263-3437.
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Stop Making Sense: A Talking Heads Dance Party Friday, June 12, Majestic Theatre, 10 pm
The drum loop intro. The big suit. The lamp. There’s no mystery as to why the concert film Stop Making Sense has been called one of the greatest rock movies ever made, especially since it paired famed director Jonathan Demme with one of the 1980s’ most exciting bands. Come, and you’ll be burning down the house with your best dance moves all night.
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Segredo: DJ Nick Magic, 10 pm. Sprecher’s Restaurant: Old School, free, 8 pm. Tempest Oyster Bar: Lesser Lakes Trio, free, 9:30 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, 10 pm.
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Saturday, June 13, Bright Red Studios, 8 pm
Tuvalu, Verona: John Duggleby, Dave Hopper, 7 pm.
In a musical landscape that increasingly fuses concert and pop styles, Jonah Parzen-Johnson stands out. A baritone saxophonist and NYU jazz graduate, he blends solo saxophone with electronics to create minimal, droning textures and simple, haunting melodies in a way that more traditional forms of music don’t generally allow. Madison experimenters Tar Pet (Taralie Peterson of Spires That in the Sunset Rise) and Lovely Socialite Mrs. Thomas W. Phipps round out the bill.
UW Memorial Union-Terrace: John Mark Nelson, Luke Mathison, free, 9 pm.
FUN D RAI S ERS RSVP for Concert on the Green: Madison Symphony Orchestra League’s annual fundraiser, 4:45 pm, 6/22, Bishops Bay Country Club, Middleton. $120 (Also: Golf tournament 10 am; $1,200/foursome includes entire day). RSVP by 6/13: madisonsymphony.org.
S PECI AL E V ENTS Dane County Breakfast on the Farm: Annual June Dairy Month event, 7:30-11:30 am, 6/13, Kick A Boo Farms, Waunakee, with farm tours, mini-expo, music by the Soggy Prairie Boys, kids’ activities. $7 ($4 ages 3-11). www.danecountydairy.com. 577-8990. Beach Party: Annual Downtown Middleton Business Association event, 9 am-4 pm, 6/13, Parmenter Street & Hubbard Avenue, Middleton, with beer tent, kids’ activities, art fair, music by WheelHouse noon. www.downtownmiddleton.com. 836-5559.
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Saturday, June 13, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm
The first thing you should know about this experimental trio is that they’re far more “explosion” than “blues.” The second is that they have a 25-year history, a funkified alternative sound and a new party-starting album full of New York tales and swaggering guitar riffs. If they don’t rock your socks off, it’s only because you wore flip-flops to the show. With Daddy Long Legs. Brink Lounge: Patchwork Monkey, 9 pm. Captain Bill’s, Middleton: Tyler Wied, free, 6:30 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, 10 pm. Claddagh, Middleton: Michael Tully, free, 8 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Sam Lyons Band, free, 9 pm. Cold Fusion, Middleton: Bill Roberts Combo, 9:30 pm. Come Back In: The Earthlings, free, 9 pm. Dutch Mill Sports Club: Cool Front w/ Jon French, 9 pm. First Unitarian Society: Jeremy Kienbaum, Micah Behr and Andrew Briggs, classical, 7 pm. The Frequency: I Saw the Creature, Ex Bombers, Kinda Good, The Wild Things, rock, 9 pm. Friends Meeting House: Anna Fritz, folk, 7 pm. Harlem Renaissance Museum: Jan Wheaton, 7:30 pm. Ivory Room: Peter Hernet, Mike Massey, Eben Seaman, dueling pianos, 8:30 pm.
Marquette Waterfront Festival: Annual celebration/ fundraiser, 6/13-14, Yahara Place Park, with music, sports, kids’ activities, food. Saturday: Dandelion Dash 5K 8:30 am (registration 7:15 am, $5 donation). Main stage: El Clan Destino noon, Painted Caves 1:30 pm, John Jorgenson Quintet 3:15 pm, Herencia Musical 5:15 pm, Le Ven du Nord 7:15 pm; Cottonwood Stage: Winn Dixie 12:30 pm, Whitney Mann 2 pm, Hayward Williams 4 pm, Cactus Blossoms 5:30 pm. Sunday: River Alliance of Wisconsin Fools Flotilla costume paddle (9:30 am, from Tenney Park); Fat Babies 11:30 am, Canoe race noon, Maps and Atlases 1:30 pm, Jarekus Singleton 3:30 pm, Birds of Chicago 5:15 pm, Bottle Rockets 7:15 pm. Free. marquette-neighborhood.org. 241-7143. Taste of the Arts: Annual event, 9 am-4 pm, 6/13, Sheehan Park, Sun Prairie, with 100+ arts & crafts vendors, demonstrations, kids’ activities, entertainment. Free admission. 837-4547.
B OOKS Madison Comic Book Convention: 10 am-4 pm, 6/13, Badger Bowl. Free admission. 309-657-1599.
ART E XHI BITS & EV ENTS ArtWorks: Outdoor show, 10 am-5 pm, 6/13, Hilldale Shopping Center (Price Place). 712-3440.
FUN D RAI S ERS Breakfast Fundraiser: 7:30-11 am, 6/13, American Legion Post 501-Dempsey Road. 241-7588. Duck Dash: Clean Lakes Alliance benefit canoe/ kayak/paddle race, 8:30 am, 6/13, from Vilas Beach to Wingra Boats, followed by 8K or 2K run. $65-$25. www.wingraboats.com. 233-5332.
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Mr. Robert’s: Stone Room, Kill Junior, free, 10 pm. Nau-Ti-Gal: Mark Croft, free (on the patio), 5:30 pm. Pooley’s: Nine Thirty Standard, free (patio), 7 pm.
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Take Steps for Crohn’s and Colitis: Annual Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America fundraiser walk, 3 pm, 6/13, Warner Park, with entertainment & kids’ activities beginning 2 pm. Pledges encouraged. RSVP: cctakesteps.org/madison. 414-475-5520. Charity Yard Sale: Center for Veterans Issues and YMCA of Dane County benefit, 9 am-2 pm, 6/13, YMCA-West. chris.gelinskey@1800gotjunk.com.
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Summers are short in Canada, but the members of Toronto band July Talk bring memories of booze-soaked nights and blistering, youthful rock â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll to life every time they pick up their instruments. The garage-meets-blues quintet released a self-titled debut in 2013, which garnered a nomination for Breakthrough Group of the Year at the 2014 Juno Awards. With Purple, the Traveling Suitcase. Capital Brewery, Middleton: Dave Larson Jazz Quintet, Madison Malone, Sam Lyons, Dan Law and the Mannish Boys, WORT benefit, donations, noon. Frequency: Scattered Hamlet, Hard Fall Hearts, 11:30 pm. High Noon Saloon: Raquel Rodriguez, The Big Payback, 8 pm. Taliesin-Hillside Theater, Spring Green: Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, 2:30 & 6:30 pm.
SP ECIAL EV ENTS Dog Fest: Annual Mounds event, 10 am-4 pm, 6/14, Angell Park, Sun Prairie, with rescue group info, contests & games, snacks, demonstrations. Free admission; dogs six mo. & older welcome. moundspet.com.
ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS Madison Art Guild: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Summer Salon,â&#x20AC;? member show, through 7/25, UW Hospital & Clinics (reception 6:30-8 pm, 6/14). 263-5992. ISTHMUS.COM JUNE 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;17, 2015
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Family Shakespeare Night: Free UW Department of Continuing Studies and Young Shakespeare Players performances and activities for all ages, 5-7 pm, 6/15, Central Library. RSVP: www.shakespearemooc.info.
Olivia Chaney Tuesday, June 16, High Noon Saloon, 7 pm
Olivia Chaney is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for her powerful folk originals as well as her knack for rearranging established songs into captivating new works. A graduate of Chethamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Music in Manchester and the Royal Academy of Music in London, Chaney released her stark debut, The Longest River, this spring. With Jordan Hunt. Capitol Square: Universal Sound, free, noon. Cardinal Bar: Ben Sidran, Louka Patenaude, Nick Moran, Todd Hammes, 5:30 pm; New Breed Jam, 9 pm. Crystal Corner: David Hecht & Who Dat, 9:30 pm. Frequency: Filter Free Radio, The Rashita Joneses, The Minotaurs, Tarpaulin, rock, 9 pm. Up North Pub: The Lower Fifth, free, 8 pm.
B O O KS Lori Horvitz, Lee Ann Roripaugh: Discussing â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Girls of Usuallyâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dandarians,â&#x20AC;? 6:30 pm, 6/16, A Room of Oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Own. 257-7888.
K I D S & FA MI LY Dora the Explorer: Free meet & greet with the Nick Jr. character, 11 am-1 pm, 6/16, East Towne Center Court (244-1387); 4-6 pm, 6/16, West Towne (833-6330).
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Nashville-based JEFF the Brotherhood is two brothers who have been making partyfavorite power pop music together since 2001. They were dropped from Warner Bros. Records just before the release of their latest album, Wasted on the Dream, but they got to keep the songs and release them on their own label, Infinity Cat. With Fire Retarded, Cowboy Television.
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This indie-Americana singer-songwriter has it all: effortless cool, deep country roots and a voice that’s earned respect from Mark Knopfler. She brings her unique sound to Madison and performs tracks from her latest, 2014’s Paradise Outlaw, which was recorded at Justin Vernon’s Wisconsin studio and contains, in her words, “a lot of love.” Bowl-A-Vard: Grey Matter Mechanics, 6 pm. Brink Lounge: The Deconunisms, 8 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJs Brook, Siberia, fetish, 9 pm. Claddagh, Middleton: Ian Gould, free, 6 pm.
Little Hurricane Thursday, June 18, The Frequency, 8 pm
Bent Knee Thursday, June 18, Bright Red Studios, 8 pm
Courtney Swain’s massive vocals anchor this Boston art rock ensemble’s expansive sound, driving Bent Knee’s emotionally raw, heavily orchestrated aesthetic. Rarely does a band exhibit such structural complication and visceral energy, and Bent Knee does it with an unpretentious yet detailed blend of strings, keys, guitars and drums. With Big Gay, Nonfinite, William Z. Villain.
Segredo: Dillon Francis, Antics, 9 pm.
Little Hurricane formed via Craigslist in 2010, and the California-based duo have since been making waves with their brand of dirty blues rock. Their latest record, Gold Fever, isn’t only a testament to the staying power of vintage equipment, but also to the power that music can have on a soul. With Young Buffalo.
Warner Park: Madison College Big Band, free, 6 pm.
S PEC I A L EV EN TS Imagination Celebration: Performances, visual art and other exhibits, 3-7:30 pm, 6/18, Waunakee High School, with concert by Waunakee Community Band 7:30 pm. Free. 850-8500.
East Side Club: Trapper Schoepp and the Shades, Simon Balto Trio, rock/Americana, 6 pm. High Noon Saloon: Anna Vogelzang, free (patio), 6 pm.
Prairie Rhapsody: Annual benefit concert by Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, 5:30 pm, 6/18, Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton, plus refreshments, silent auction. $50. RSVP: 836-1631 ext. 124.
Come Back In: Whiskey, Water and Blues, 5 pm. Frequency: Satsang, Perspective Heights, 8:30 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Battling Giants, After the Rain, Stone Room, free, 10 pm. Quaker Steak and Lube, Middleton: The Sparks Band, ‘60s rock, free, 5:30 pm. Uno Chicago Grill-Mineral Point Rd.: Nine Thirty Standard, free (on the patio), 6:30 pm. Whole Foods Market: Buried Valley Band, 5 pm.
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Kathie Wagner is the president of VSA Wisconsin, whose gallery showcases the works of artists like Dan Stace (far left) and Robert Hanneman (below).
Taking art seriously VSA Wisconsin’s gallery and gift shop BY CANDICE WAGENER
The gallery here is not as big as what’s at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art or the Chazen, but the art space and gift shop at VSA Wisconsin on Madison’s north side has a big heart and soul. VSA (it stands for Very Special Arts) is an international organization founded by Jean Kennedy in 1974. VSA Wisconsin dates back to 1985; it has offices in Madison and Milwaukee, and programs in 25 cities statewide. VSA’s mission is to help create self-confidence and a better quality of life for individuals living with a disability by offering programming across all age and disability categories in five art mediums: visual art, dance, drama, music and creative writing. “I like to say we use the arts to change lives,” says Kathie Wagner, president of VSA Wisconsin. The VSA office, located across the parking lot from the Dane County Job Center at the Northgate Shopping Center, opened in January 2011 with dedicated space for
a small gallery and gift shop in addition to the offices and classroom spaces. Having a permanent gallery helps recognize the talents of artists with disabilities. In the gift shop, original artworks in different mediums are for sale ranging anywhere from $3 to $150. Of note are the Boonducks, hand-carved wooden decoy ducks created by D.S. Sully, an artist working with vision loss due to early-onset macular degeneration. Other art is reproduced on cards and T-shirts. The gallery space displays artwork created by students in VSA’s classes, hosted on weekday evenings in the same building. At other times, the gallery highlights solo artists or group shows. Forty works from Robert Hanneman, a part of VSA for many years, will be featured in the gallery through July. Hanneman’s love of color and pattern, as well as the inspiration he draws from working in a local greenhouse, is evident in his poster-sized drawings. Many of his im-
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We are looking for families to participate in a study about programming for young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The study has two goals: 1) promote the development of advocacy and social skills in young adults with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 2) enable families to support their adult children in achieving educational and employment goals. To participate, individuals with ASD must meet the following criteria • t he adult must provide ASD diagnosis documentation (either from a health care or educational professional) • t he adult with ASD has not been diagnosed with an intellectual disability • t he adult must be 18-30 years old • t he adult must live at home with his or her parent(s) • t he adult works less than 10 hours per week • t he adult spends less than 10 hours a week in degree-seeking post-secondary education program To find out more, please contact Renee Makuch at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (608) 2624717 or makuch@waisman.wisc.edu. Volunteer with UNITED WAY Volunteer Center Call 246-4380 or visit volunteeryourtime.org to learn about opportunities Madison School & Community Recreation will host Learn 2 Ride on June 14 at Warner Park. This program, teaches children ages 4+ easy, hands-on techniques to get them riding solo on two wheels. We hope to serve 250 children but can’t do it without volunteers like you to assist with registration and serve as Bike Course Trainers, Bike Inspectors (Wrenchmen) and Bike Runners. Help distribute food to as many as 100 families at The Catholic Multicultural Center. A group of volunteers is needed on July 2nd to ensure the pantry can effectively serve guests. Assist with setup, distributing food, clean up, and more. Some moderate to heavy lifting is required. Knowledge of Spanish or Nepali is helpful but not required. Do you have a passion for computers and data entry? Yes? Then, NAMI Wisconsin needs you. Help us track our members in a nationally developed, web-based database. If you have other computer skills, we could also use help with general computer maintenance, updates, troubleshooting, backup, etc. EARN $500 A DAY As Airbrush Makeup Artist For: Ads . TV . Film . Fashion. HD. Digital. 35% OFF TUITION - One Week Course Taught by top makeup artist & photographer. Train & Build Portfolio. Models Provided. Accredited. A+ Rated. AwardMakeupSchool. com (818) 980-2119 (AAN CAN)
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A big congrats to Caitlyn Jenner on her big reveal and lovely Vanity Fair cover! But I am having a crisis of conscience. On one hand, I support a person’s right to be whoever the heck they want to be. You want to wear women’s clothing and use makeup and style your hair? You look fabulous! You want to carry a pillow around with an anime character on it and get married to it, like a guy in Korea did? Congrats! You want to collect creepy lifelike dolls and push them around in a stroller, like a woman on Staten Island does? Great! But I’m confused where we draw the line. When a thin person believes they’re “fat” and then dangerously restricts their food intake, we can have that person committed. Most doctors won’t amputate your arm simply because you feel you were meant to be an amputee. But when a man decides that he should be a woman (or vice versa), we will surgically remove healthy body parts to suit that particular desire. Of course, we modify/enhance/surgically alter other body parts all the time. I guess I’m confused. Could you shine some light on this for me? I want to be less conflicted about sex-reassignment surgery. No Surgery For Me
personal or mental-health issues that may exist. You seem pretty concerned about the surgical removal of healthy body parts. To which I would say: Other people’s bodies — and other people’s body parts — are theirs, not yours. And if an individual wants or needs to change or even remove some part(s) of their body to be who they are, or to be happy or healthy, I’m sure you would agree that they should have that right. Again, not all trans people get surgery, top or bottom, and many trans people change everything else (they take hormones, they get top surgery) but opt to stick with the genitals they were born with. (The ones they were born with tend to work better than the ones that can currently be constructed for them.) But unless you’re trans yourself, currently sleeping with a trans person or about to sleep with a trans person, NSFM, it’s really none of your business what any individual trans person elects to change. For me, it boils down to letting people be who they are and do what they want. Sometimes people do things for what can seem like silly and/or mystifying reasons (marry pillows, grow beards, vote Republican), while sometimes people — sometimes even the same people — do things for very sound and serious reasons (come out, alter their bodies, vote Democrat). Unless someone else’s choices affect you in a real, immediate and material way — unless someone wants to marry your pillow or wants to surgically alter your body or wants to persecute you politically or economically — there’s no conflict for you to resolve. Accept that you won’t always understand all of the choices that other people make about their sexualities or gender identities — or their partners or their hobbies or their whatevers — and try to strike the right balance between minding your own business and embracing/celebrating the infinite diversity of the human experience. n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or find him on Twitter at @fakedansavage on Twitter.
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Gender identity, unlike marrying a pillow or pushing a doll around in a stroller, is not an affectation or an eccentricity or plain ol’ batshittery. Gender identity goes to the core of who we are and how we wish to be — how we fundamentally need to be — perceived by others. Take it away, Human Rights Campaign: “The term ‘gender identity,’ distinct from the term ‘sexual orientation,’ refers to a person’s innate, deeply felt psychological identification as a man, woman or some other gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned to them at birth.... Transitioning is the process some transgender people go through to begin living as the gender with which they identify, rather than the sex assigned to them at birth. This may or may not include hormone therapy, sex-reassignment surgery and other medical procedures.” Unlike people who have healthy limbs amputated (which some doctors will do, if only to prevent people with “body integrity identity disorder” from amputating their own limbs) or thin people starving themselves to death because they think they’re fat, transgender people who embrace their gender identities and take steps toward transitioning are almost always happier and healthier as a result. That said, transitioning is not a panacea. Just as coming out of the closet isn’t the end of a gay person’s struggles or troubles, transitioning — which may or may not involve surgery and/or hormones — won’t protect a trans person from discrimination or violence, or resolve other
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