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They say you can’t take it with you. Usually it’s meant in a metaphysical sense, i.e. “...to the great beyond.” When singer/songwriter Jim Schwall says it these days, he means it literally, as in “...when you’re moving out of the two-story house you’ve inhabited for 15 years and into a 26-foot RV.” So what do you do when you really can’t take it with you? If you’re Schwall, you give it away. You invite a bunch of friends and strangers to the Harmony Bar, the east-side neighborhood joint where you’ve hung out and played music countless times, and tell them to just take whatever they want, while you serenade them from the stage with your time-tested brand of blues and folk. After calling Madison home for over 20 years, Schwall is hitting the road. He’s moving out of his house in August. He plans to do a couple of shows around the Midwest
after that, then make his way down to New Orleans in October to hang out and maybe play some Cajun music. Then he’ll spend the winter in Mesa, Ariz., where he has a bartending gig lined up at a luxury RV resort. After that, who knows? Maybe he’ll end up back in Madison. Maybe not. He has no idea. “I’ve always wanted to just go on the road,” Schwall says. “There’s nothing holding me here anymore.” Schwall had a nice run in the national limelight in the late ’60s and early ’70s as coleader of the Siegel-Schwall Band, one of the groups that sparked the blues revival of that era. The band called it quits in 1974 while still near the height of its popularity, though there have been occasional reunions. Meanwhile, Schwall has continued to perform regularly with his own band, and in recent years as a member of other groups including So Dang
Yang (fronted by the late, great Marques Bovre) and, currently, the Cajun Strangers. The crowd at the Harmony on this day is decidedly middle-aged and exhibiting more than a touch of gray on top. I recognize a handful of local musicians kicking around. One of them is guitarist Andy Ewen, a longtime Schwall friend and collaborator. “Cartoonist extraordinaire Pete [P.S.] Mueller introduced us when Jim moved here in about 1993 or so,” says Ewen. “Jim said he was looking for a guitar player and heard I could play that kind of music. So we started playing together then, and developed a magical interaction and friendship.” A lot of musicians make a big chunk of their money at gigs by selling CDs, T-shirts and such. Today, Schwall has several tables set up, displaying not just his CDs and T-shirts featuring his own original photographic
work, but household knick-knacks, art, telephones, boxes of electrical junk. It’s like a garage sale in a bar, only instead of selling his junk, Schwall is giving it away (though donations are welcome). “Please, take it home, because whatever you don’t take is going to St. Vinnie’s tomorrow,” he says from the stage between songs. By then, a well-used Boss ME-50 multi-effects pedal sitting amid the clutter on one of the tables had caught my eye. I tell myself that if some real guitarist (not a hack like me) hasn’t nabbed the pedal in 30 minutes, it’s mine. A half-hour passes, and I giddily whisk Jim Schwall’s Boss ME-50 multieffects pedal out to my car, delighted to have helped him lighten his load and be like a rolling stone. n
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Doug Moe describes his reaction as “surprised but not shocked.” Surprised because there was no warning, and not shocked because, well, this is the newspaper business. Last Thursday afternoon, Moe was called in by Wisconsin State Journal editor John Smalley for a bad-news conversation. As Moe recalls, “He talked about budgets and the need to hit some better numbers.” Moe, who has written columns for the paper since 2008, when he was wooed away from the jointly owned Capital Times, was being laid off. Effective immediately. “This was certainly not how I would have desired to end it,” he says. Moe, whose long career includes eight books and a stint as editor of Madison Magazine, says he was told his performance was not an issue. Year after year, he’s been named by readers as the paper’s favorite reporter. “I have the 2014 award hanging in my kitchen,” he says. Also laid off last week were sports writers Andy Baggot, who has worked at the paper since 1978, writing a regular column for more than two decades, and Dennis Semrau, who has worked for The Capital Times and State Journal since 1991, mainly covering prep sports. Like Moe, both have large followings and deep experience covering their beats. Brandon Storlie, who has worked as a reporter and sports copy editor since 2009, was also laid off, as was reporter Dan Simmons, who covered higher education. Sources say Simmons’ layoff, unlike the others, was voluntary. These departures come on top of the loss of veteran reporter Dee Hall, who left for a job with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, and part-time books editor Jeanne Kolker, who is leaving to run her own business, Insight Counseling & Wellness. The understanding in the newsroom is that these positions will not be filled. The paper will be left with about 50 bodies, down from 80 in 2009.
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cutting his job in the process. He says the exodus “creates a lot of holes,” which remaining staff will be hard-pressed to fill. “It’s going to put a lot of pressure on people.” Semrau, whose position at the State Journal was officially part time, exudes gratitude for the years he’s spent covering high school sports, especially his profiles of more than 1,000 student athletes. When he cleared out his desk area last Saturday, he filled 12 boxes with old programs and other mementos — “all personal stuff” — accumulated over the years. “I had a great run, 25 years with both newspapers,” he says. “My job as a high school sports reporter was to document memories, and the thanks and appreciation I’ve received over the years is priceless.” He chokes up as his says this, crediting the athletes, the schools, his family. Semrau, 60, describes his career using sports metaphors. He was picked up by the Cap Times, eventually traded to the State Journal, spent a few weeks on the disabled list with a health problem, and “now I’m a free agent.” He has a master’s in educational administration, and hopes to find work in high school sports, as an athletic director or communications specialist. Baggot, 57, is sorry that he was not able to write a farewell column “to thank all of the people who were part of this.” He’s not sure what he’ll do next: “There are no fish lines in the water.” Moe, 59, admits that after 18 years of writing multiple columns each week he’s looking forward to catching his breath. But not for too long. He is co-writing former Gov. Tommy Thompson’s autobiography for the UW Press. He’s also writing a one-actor play about Chicago columnist Mike Royko, the subject of one of Moe’s books, “set at the Billy Goat Tavern, of course.” And Moe is writing a farewell column — to be published in Madison Magazine. n
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lette and two each from East and way [the Madison district] does Memorial high schools. To be elithings.� gible, students must be freshmen Murray’s mother is an educator, at a Madison high school who come working toward a doctorate at UWfrom “diverse backgrounds.� There’s Madison with hopes of becoming an emphasis on students of color, a professor. Murray remembers but low-income students are also having her as a substitute teacher considered. Students must have at and says her mother inspired her least a 2.75 grade-point average in to pursue an education career. math, science, social studies, Eng “I’ve always wanted to, in some lish and world languages. Fifteen way, inspire children to get better,� students applied to be part of this Murray says. “Teaching is one of year’s TEEM program. the best ways to do it.� “I was part of the selection com The Forward Madison project mittee, and I can tell you, there were is supported for three years by times when my UW partners and I CUNA Mutual and UW-Madison, got very emotional,� says Rodney but this year former Madison Thomas, special assistant to the suteacher Jan O’Neill and her husperintendent. “I honestly could say band, Hank Kuehling, pledged [that] this cohort brings an affinity additional funding to the “Grow and a passion to want to be educaOur Own� program as well as the tors.� TEEM scholars. The TEEM students this week “There are so many people in started a three-week summer training our community who care so deeply session at UW-Madison put on by the and who really know that educaPEOPLE Program for low-income and tion is the key,� says O’Neill. “It’s a minority students. In the fall, TEEM wonderful way to start to address sophomores will explore the impact equity issues in our community.� of teaching in the classroom and the O’Neill says she was motivated community, Thomas says. to donate the money — an in The second year focuses on the heritance from her mother-in-law Madison school’s “Great Teaching — after learning about racial disMatters� framework, which emphaparities in Madison via the Race to sizes culturally responsive practices. Equity report. But with nearly 400 In the third year, when the students minority teachers needed to bring are seniors, they will shadow a teachthe district’s teacher demographic er to observe educational practices in in line with the students, O’Neill a classroom setting and will cap the knows that more funding is needed year by teaching a lesson on their to sustain the diversity programs. own. That’s why she’s encouraging PAULIUS MUSTEIKIS From there, the TEEM scholars Dianna Murray, a 15-year-old West High student, hopes to community members and local will apply to college and continue be a teacher to “inspire children to get better.� nonprofits to commit to supportto receive support from the school ing ongoing diversity initiatives district as well as UW-Madison. within the school district. “We’ll definitely form a tight bond,� “We’re going to have to build this out, College scholarship money is a goal, but has not yet been finalized. The hope is the Murray says of her cohorts. “We’re gonna and it’s going to take a long time,� O’Neill students will eventually become Madison become close and do some pretty amazing says. “We as a community should step up things together. We’re going to change the to that challenge.� n teachers.
Up until last year, Dianna Murray had never had a teacher who looked like her. The Madison school district’s teachers are about 88% white. The student body, on the other hand, is only about 44% white. “White teachers don’t seem like they know how to handle people of color,� says Murray, a 15-year-old West High School student. “They have low expectations and low standards [for minority students]. They don’t push them to be their best.� Murray says there’s only one culture in her school: white culture. “It just doesn’t work,� she says. But thanks to a new teacher training program in the Madison schools, Murray has a chance to be part of a solution. She’s one of 11 students selected for the first class of an initiative called Tomorrow’s Educators for Equity in Madison, or TEEM, which is designed to increase diversity among teachers in Madison schools by training current students who could one day teach in the district. Similar teacher training programs, known as “Grow Your Own� initiatives, are in place throughout the country. Last year, Madison launched “Forward Madison� in partnership with the UW-Madison School of Education with the goal of training and retaining staff through mentoring and professional development. TEEM is an offshoot of this project. “Diversity is a real challenge in Madison,� Madison school superintendent Jennifer Cheatham says. “We have a strong group of teachers that I definitely believe in, but they are majority white, female teachers.� Cheatham says that white staff are able to “teach all students well,� but believes that increasing diversity would help provide role models for students of color and help foster “deep, meaningful relationships that help challenged students.� The first TEEM cohort includes four students from West, three from La Fol-
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One of UW-Madison’s change agents, David Krakauer, is departing on June 30, proud of his work as head of the edgy and multidisciplinary Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, but deeply frustrated by his dealings with the campus bureaucracy. “They like to use the word ‘innovation’ a lot, but they don’t want to act on it,” he says. “I think this is a culture that is really intolerant of taking risks.” He adds: “The UW is very large. Things move slowly. It’s very difficult to respond nimbly and build up roots quickly to address a particular problem.” Still, Krakauer is careful to note that the WID “had some dispensations. We had freedoms. We didn’t cleave exactly to the dominant culture. We did a lot of good stuff. It was very unorthodox.” Krakauer offered his parting thoughts a few weeks ago at the WID offices in the gleaming $210 million Discovery Building, 330 N. Orchard St. Handwritten in crayon on his office window high above Campus Drive was an aphorism of the master Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges: “Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.” Prints of cartoonist Art Spiegelman (Maus, Raw) hung casually on the walls
— courtesy of fellow cartoonist Lynda Barry, who was one of Krakauer’s unconventional (and widely applauded) recruits to the WID creative team. Krakauer, 47, an English-trained evolutionary theorist, will become president of a far-ranging think tank known as the Santa Fe Institute. He had been an SFI faculty member for nine years when he was recruited to be the Discovery Institute’s first permanent director in late 2011. The institute shares space with the Morgridge Center for Research in the Discovery Building. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation operates an open-door, youthfriendly outreach program called the Town Center on the main floor. When they opened in December 2010, the three overlapping operations were celebrated as a 21st century attempt by the campus to break out of the traditional silos of academic study and speed efforts to commercialize the UW’s vaunted research engine. Success, it would seem, has been so-so. Morgridge has had three CEOs, and, according to Krakauer, the institute’s bioscience focus has shifted away from entrepreneurialism. A retired UW administrator says Krakauer hasn’t helped by keeping his distance from Morgridge. Former Chancellor John Wiley, on the other hand, says Morgridge and WID have worked together “pretty well.”
A lot is at stake. UW-Madison may do many things well, but capitalizing on its academic research for startups is not one of them. When I profiled Krakauer for Isthmus in January 2013, he was unabashed in seeing the Institute for Discovery as an experimental laboratory. It would be a safe haven for the university to pull together the sort of crossdisciplinary teams that increasingly seem at the cutting edge of research and product development in a high-tech world. Public outreach, particularly to business, would be part of the agenda. “What I told John Wiley and David Ward [the interim chancellor] when I first came out here is that WID cannot be like UW-Madison,” he said at the time. “It can reflect the culture, but it cannot replicate it, because if it does it will be a failure.” He added: “There are forces that say, ‘No, conform to our norms’ — that’s a fight I take to work every morning.” Clearly, those battles exacted a toll. Krakauer fleshed out eight research endeavors including the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, co-led by his academic collaborator and wife Jessica Flack, who holds a Ph.D. in evolution, cognition and animal behavior. 4C, as it’s known, will relocate to Santa Fe. Epigenetics focused on the
chemical triggers that turn genes on and off. The Games Learning Society cohort drew national attention for its efforts to connect video games to science learning. WID also sponsored 4C’s monthly lectures featuring nationally known scientists, brought together business leaders and academics for brainstorming sessions, sponsored humanities hackathons and assembled a team of 403 professors, researchers, students, fellows and scholars. Total grant dollars for those researchers? More than $61 million. What brought the biggest smile to Krakauer’s face wasn’t the bean counting but the memory of WID’s undergraduate fellows crowd-funding a wild and controversial experiment to build a microbe-powered light bulb. “It generated a huge amount of public interest,” he says. “I thought it was fantastic because it was so outrageously ambitious. Of course it couldn’t work. But along the way they made discoveries. They were doing fundamental genetic research. That made me very happy.” Wisconsin’s bruising and debilitating political conflict isn’t a factor in Krakauer’s departure. He is, by his own description, not a political animal. “Our job is to defend empirical rationality,” he says of the scientific imperative. But that noncombative approach puts him at odds with colleagues outraged by the Republican attack on tenure, the historic bedrock of academic freedom. They want to fight to defend it; Krakauer doesn’t. He wants to study and revamp tenure. “I don’t think being polarized is a good defense,” he says. “I think being reasonable, rational and empirical is a good defense. I think the public would see that. That’s what we stand for. I’m never giving up on that.” There is passion in his voice when Krakauer says this. To his thinking, the tenure system is flawed. It’s not fair to junior faculty (tenure review is a form of hazing, he says bluntly) or to women and minorities. Nor is it important to researchers like himself in the natural or computational sciences. They function as academic entrepreneurs raising grants and moving from university to university for a better position. (That’s the new norm, he argues.) Tenure is much more important for the humanities, which can tackle controversial issues that don’t bring in big research grants. “I wish we could have this conversation,” Krakauer says. That same frustration comes across when he talks about the campus bureaucracy thwarting his plans for WID.
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“If you ask me where my primary obstacles lie, it’s not with the faculty. It’s not with the chancellor either. It’s at some office — it could be HR, grants, compliance, or in the grad school. Someone at a middle-tier position who’s so fearful of an audit that without analyzing the options will simply say no.” Those risk-averse decisions were almost all made without empirical evidence, he says, by people who feel they don’t have the authority to think through their decisions. That’s what stalls progress. It’s not even their fault, he adds. The system doesn’t allow them to experiment, and they grow complacent. “These are people who have been here for decades, who think they know how things should run, because that’s how they ran 10 years ago,” he says. “They haven’t really absorbed what’s happening in the world.” Krakauer says he knew his ambitions would not be realized here, and if he stayed, “I’d be neutralized. I would gradually become accustomed to the safety of academic life.” The Santa Fe Institute, nestled in the New Mexico high desert “like a Shaolin monastery,” offers him an entirely different opportunity, Krakauer says. Founded by three Nobel laureates wanting to make a constructive impact on global culture, it draws on a faculty from all over the world. “It’s about the best leadership position I could ever have,” he says. Christopher Bradfield, a UW-Madison professor of oncology, will replace Krakauer as WID’s interim director on July 1.
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Patricia Brennan is one of the fresh thinkers Krakauer pulled into the WID orbit. A professor of both nursing and industrial engineering, she leads WID’s Living Environments Laboratory, which uses virtual-reality and 3-D technologies to improve home healthcare. “David became the kind of leader we needed,” Brennan says. Krakauer’s skill set, Brennan says, “is in nimbleness, quick thinking and fast responses” — traits rarely associated with bureaucracies. Yet they are intrinsic to the startups that successfully spin off from university research. “Administratively I think he stumbled with all the complexity of the campus. This is a big and messy place, and I think it annoyed him at times,” she says. “He would sometimes wail at our traditions. Some of us kind of like them even if they’re quirky and more time consuming than they need to be.” But, she adds: “His experience in innovation pushed us in a way we could not have gotten without him.” n
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Crony capitalism at the Capitol BY LARRY KAUFMANN Larry Kaufmann is a Madison-based economic consultant.
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Although it’s less transparent, opposition to repealing Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law is also driven by cronyism. The prevailing wage law sets minimum wages that must be paid on state and local government construction projects. This may seem like a sop to organized labor, and it is, but it also benefits large, established contractors at the expense of smaller competitors. The reason is that the prevailing wage calculation is complex, and, in the words of Harvard historian Niall Ferguson, “complexity is not the friend of the little man. It is the friend of the deep pocket. It is the friend of cronyism.” Large contractors can afford the specialized expertise necessary to file the paperwork demonstrating compliance with prevailing wage laws, while many smaller firms cannot. Prevailing wage laws therefore create barriers to new competition from the small fry. This, in turn, allows big labor and big business to benefit from the higher costs of public construction projects. These large contractors and unions have been behind the effective lobbying efforts in support of the prevailing wage, convincing enough Republicans they will face electoral doom if they support “bold” prevailing wage reform.
It’s not surprising that conflicts involving crony capitalism are primarily taking place within the Republican Party. Although plenty of Democrats have spoken out against the Bucks deal, in reality most Democrats are comfortable with cronyism when it’s devoted to causes (and cronies) they consider righteous, like “green” energy or expanding “access” to health care. Few Democrats are opposed in principle to partnering with private-sector companies to achieve what they consider socially desirable policies. If these
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If you ever doubted that politics makes strange bedfellows, take a look at the Wisconsin Legislature’s current efforts to finalize a state government budget. Two contentious issues standing in the way of an agreement are proposals to repeal the “prevailing wage” and to build a new stadium for the Milwaukee Bucks. Bipartisan coalitions have developed that are resisting each initiative. These two issues may appear to be very different, but they share a common bond: Both are examples of crony capitalism. And unless last-minute negotiations lead to dramatic changes, the cronies are likely to get most of what they want in each case. The cronyism behind the Bucks stadium is obvious. If the billionaire owners of the Bucks don’t build a new arena in Milwaukee by autumn 2017, the NBA has the right to buy the franchise from them for $575 million. This is less than the team is worth, but the owners don’t want to pay all of the $500 million projected costs of building a new stadium. Gov. Scott Walker recently announced a plan for state and local governments to fund half the project’s costs through a complex mix of new borrowing, TIF credits and more aggressive state collection of debts owed to municipal governments (no, really). He was joined on stage by two prominent Milwaukee-area Democrats: Mayor Tom Barrett, who Walker twice defeated in gubernatorial elections, and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele. All were trumpeting a proposal that will ultimately increase taxes on ordinary Wisconsin citizens in order to ease the financial burden on the Bucks’ billionaire owners (also Democrats, by the way). Although Walker said the public costs would be less than the revenues generated by keeping the Bucks in Milwaukee, he didn’t release any specifics to support this dubious claim, and even Republican leaders say they haven’t seen all the details of the proposed deal.
partnerships require government subsidies or mandates imposed on the public to be successful, most Democrats will support them regardless of the impact such favoritism has on other, less well-connected firms. Unfortunately, many Republicans are the same. They may talk a good game about the value of free markets, but if a political supporter approaches them seeking special tax or regulatory treatment, they are all too eager to oblige in the name of “constituent” service. Other Republicans do take principled stands in favor of economic liberty and true capitalism rather than its cronyist aberration. On both prevailing wage and the Bucks arena, they have been supported by nearly every right-of-center blogger, free market advocacy group and think tank in the state, which have been admirably consistent and principled on these issues. Although the situation is highly fluid, Republican leadership appears to favor a weak rather than bold reform of prevailing wage and some type of public financing for the Bucks arena. It may be misjudging the political calculus on both issues, especially the arena deal. The public is increasingly aware of the nature of crony capitalism and hungry for government that works in the public interest, not for special interests. If the GOP wants to respond to this desire, it should abolish the prevailing wage, strip the Bucks deal out of the budget and subject it to a separate up-or-down vote. Let the public see how each state representative and senator votes on this deal; it will then get a chance to register its opinion in November 2016. n
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Kudos to former Madison Police Chief David Couper for his humanist views regarding use (or non-use) of “center mass” shootings when an officer is reacting to a potentially escalating situation (“Critics Want Madison Police to Change Their Deadly Force Policy,” 6/4/2015). I believe he was 100% accurate that, once adrenaline and testosterone are fired up, it can be too easy to overreact, and “shoot-to-kill” scenarios are the unfortunate results. When you couple this with semiautomatic weapons and the now accepted practice to “shoot until the threat is stopped,” why would we expect any other results? It’s time to rethink some of these current policies and practices; maybe the “old ways” of the ’70s and ’80s should be revisited. Christine Raschick (letter)
Re “Wisconsin State Journal Axes Veteran Journalists” (Isthmus.com, 6/19/2015): Wondered when this was going to happen. And while raising subscription rates. Pretty soon the State Journal will be written solely by the national news service rather than local. Maggie Carrao (via Facebook)
Free Shakespeare! We enjoyed your interesting story about Fermat Theater and its upcoming production (“Free Theater,” 6/11/2015). The article emphasized the group’s plan to offer free admission to its show, and described that as a unique concept for Madison theaters. We were surprised, however, that your arts writer and editors were not aware that the Young Shakespeare Players — which Isthmus readers selected as Madison’s Favorite Theater Troupe for 2014 — has been providing free admission to all its productions for the past 35 years, and continues to do so. This policy is well known to Fermat founder David Simmons, who acted in several of our productions. Richard and Anne DiPrima Founders and artistic directors, the Young Shakespeare Players (via email)
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Doug Moe is a legend; so sad to see him cut. Paul J. Kloster (via Facebook) We need businesses to see the big picture, that the purpose of media is not to serve as their mouthpiece but to be the watchdog of government and foster open discussion of issues. The ads and supplements and banner ads, etc., do help attract business but so much more critical is that they support smart and forward-thinking journalists who care about their community, county, state and nation and the well-being of all their fellow citizens — not line the pockets of shareholders. Further, we need citizens who value their local media enough to pay for good and ethical reporting of important local and regional issues. That is a tall order in the online world. No one has figured it out yet locally, obviously, and more enormous talent and priceless experience just circles the drain. Mary Mink (via Facebook) And, of course, there is no age discrimination in layoffs that focus on higher-paid employees with years of experience. Edna M. Kunkel (via Facebook) Continued further decline in local “real people” reporting and investigation. Doug was a great treasure to Madison! Michael Meyer (via Facebook) Yet I suppose they kept crotchety grumpus Chris Rickert. Miriam Frost (via Facebook) So Doug Moe goes and Chris Rickert stays. Where is the justice? Judy Fuller Sikora (via Facebook)
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s I write this, my refrigerator contains two packages of Oscar Mayer “Deli Fresh” turkey and two of roast beef. In my freezer are three packages of Oscar Mayer wieners. It’s not just that I like to buy on sale. Oscar Mayer is ubiquitous. Its familiar yellow and red labels can be found in almost every grocery and convenience store. Oscar Mayer is practically a staple unto itself. But it’s important to Madison for more than a quick sandwich. The 122-year-old company came to the city in 1919 and has been a key piece of the local economy ever since. We’ve been its headquarters since 1957. Could it ever leave us? “There are people who say, you know, that’s in jeopardy,” says Ald. Larry Palm, who represents the district where the company resides. Oscar Mayer is the largest manufacturer in Dane County. Sales of just its pre-made Lunchables are estimated to earn $1 billion a year for parent company Kraft Foods Group Inc. Even if you don’t eat Oscar Mayer products now, you likely did as a kid. “It was the Epic of its day — except the employees stuck around for 40 years, bought houses and raised families,” says east-side historian Ann Waidelich. “Generally a company the size and scope of Oscar Mayer brings a lot of family-supporting jobs to the area,” says Katy Pettersen, vice president of marketing for Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce. Waidelich says there were over 4,000 office and plant employees in the late 1970s. There are now just 1,200, thanks to downsizing, but “the fact they have been here for so long is a testament to the company’s dedication to the community, and proof they have loyal employees dedicated to ensuring the company’s success,” says Pettersen. That dedication to the community, though, will be tested as Kraft
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Foods prepares for a massive merger. The new company’s leaders could decide to move the Madison corporate offices or production facility. “Hopefully that will not happen,” says Bob Drane, who worked at Oscar Mayer from 1979 to 1999. “But you never know. That’s just the way it works today. Everybody’s going to consolidate and downsize, and it’s a pretty difficult world to live in.”
Rumors of Oscar Mayer’s departure bubble up every few years. The possibility now seems more likely than ever, as H.J. Heinz Co. prepares to merge with Kraft. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is putting up some of the money, as is 3G Capital, which will take control of management. The deal is tentatively scheduled to conclude during the second half of this year, pending U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission review.
Alexandre Behring da Costa, 3G’s managing partner, will chair the new Kraft Heinz Co. Current Heinz CEO Bernardo Vieira Hees will become its CEO. Both men are Brazilian; 3G is a Brazilian investment firm based in Rio de Janeiro. Kraft Heinz Co. will be the third largest food and beverage company in North America and the fifth largest in the world. For now, Heinz is based in Pittsburgh, Kraft in Chicago. Word is that will stay the same, though SEC filings make no promises. The proposed Kraft Heinz Co. will incorporate in Delaware. “I think, typically, that kind of globalization has not been good for communities and workers. In some cases, it’s not even good for former owners,” says Chuck Collins, a great-grandson of company founder Oscar F. Mayer. “The greater the distance you put between owners and operations, the worse it’s going to be for everybody except absentee owners.”
Berkshire Hathaway and 3G have promised Kraft shareholders that they will cut $1.5 billion in annual costs to the combined company by the end of 2017. That’s a deep cut, even compared to Kraft’s price tag of $46 to $49 billion (accounts vary). To realize those savings, Oscar Mayer could be divested: sold off. Processed meat is not exactly on everyone’s menu these days, and CNBC predicted divestment last June, well before a merger was considered. “Kraft may divest Oscar Mayer,” the New York Post predicted in October. The Wall Street Journal suggested it in December. The merger was announced March 25. Mayor Paul Soglin will not speculate. “The city is familiar with the merger involving Oscar Mayer,” he says. “We are excited to see what opportunities it could bring to the Madison region. I, and other city staff, are in contact with Oscar Mayer’s Madison leadership.”
In the 1980s, Oscar Mayer observed several trends: Processed meats were under attack for health reasons, following studies that linked consumption to an increased risk of cancer. Also, more and more women were working outside of the home, and they had less time to pack lunches. And kids found a day-after-day diet of cold cuts boring. The company began an effort to “broaden and contemporize.” It acquired Louis Rich, a turkey company. It also began to study packed lunches, recalls Bob Drane, who served as head of strategy and new business development at Oscar Mayer. Lunchables were the result: a line of prepacked meals, with foods in separate sections — meat, crackers, cheese and other items — for a child to combine on the spot. The tray was the key, the gimmick. It made the meal into a sort of game. “From the beginning, [health] was an issue,” Drane says. “I tried fruit mix. I tried white meat with no-fat items. None of the attempts to build nutritionally better better-for-you products have ever worked very well. So it is what it is.” Despite this, Lunchables have been made healthier over the years. Drane adds that they were never meant to be consumed every day. Like them or not, Lunchables answered a need, and they were a stunning innovation when introduced to the public in 1988. In their first year, sales were $317 million. That they remain so popular may explain why Kraft doesn’t break out Oscar Mayer sales in its quarterly or annual reports, but includes Lunchables — along with cold cuts, bacon, liver sausage and so on — under the category of “refrigerated meals.”
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the Chicago World’s Fair. Countries around the world built their own representative buildings for the event, and the celebration helped popularize wieners, which Mayer served at a concession in Germany’s exhibit hall. By 1900, the Mayers had 43 employees. Believe it or not, their success was due to what we now call “foodies.” “Meat was a commodity before that,” says Drane. Explains Collins, “It was not marked [with a label] and branded.” Then as now, if you wanted to know the source of your meat, you had to go to a trusted butcher. Today, “Oscar Mayer” is a brand name. In 1904, the idea of branding anything at all was new. That year, however, the Mayers began selling their sausages and other meats under the name “Edelweiss.” It was an industry first. “They basically vouched for their products,” says Collins. “So this wasn’t mystery meat. Somebody stood behind this meat and the claim. That was essentially what grew the company.” Use of “everything but the squeal” in hog processing was a brag of competitor Gustavus Swift, but never of the growing Mayer family. The public, outraged over the working and sanitary excesses described in The Jungle — men fell into stockyard rendering vats and were
Oscar Ferdinand Mayer founded Oscar Mayer as a small meat market on the north side of Chicago in 1883. unintentionally boiled down for lard — demanded government inspection. So did the Mayers. “They were involved in lobbying for government regulation of the meat industry,” says Collins. “Oscar Mayer was on the right side of the whole USDA government inspection [movement]. They as a company, and family members as leaders, basically said, ‘We welcome oversight, regulation.’ And that distinguished Oscar Mayer from some of the
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other meat barons who were just, like, ‘business as usual.’” Regular introduction of such innovation became a company hallmark: 1924, introduction of packaged, sliced bacon; 1929, placement of bands around wieners, identifying them as Oscar Mayer’s; 1936, introduction of a permanent parade float, the Wienermobile; 1940, a gnomish advertising character was made real in the form of “Little Oscar,” a little-person chef; 1942, quality control department established; 1949, plastic packaging introduced; 1959, “100% approval” from the American Humane Association for slaughter improvements; 1960, resealable plastic packaging; 1962, vacuum-packed bacon; 1971, another industry first, placing “open by” dates on packages. Oh, and one more important date: 1919, the company’s first expansion — purchase of a small, bankrupt farmer’s cooperative meat packing plant on the outskirts of Madison.
The Madison plant was attractive to Oscar G. Mayer, son of the founder, Oscar F., because it was cheap. He saw it while visiting relatives, told his dad, and they bought it. Over time, expansion continued beyond Chicago and Madison. Today there are seven Oscar Mayer plants, in California, Missouri, Iowa, Ohio and South Carolina. In terms of flexibility and future use, the Madison plant appears to be limited. According to Kraft’s 2012 SEC filing, “some of our plants are dedicated to the production of specific products or brands — our Madison, Wisconsin plant, for example, manufactures only Oscar Mayer products — other plants can accommodate multiple product lines.” These days the Madison plant makes hot dogs, sliced turkey and ham, hard salami and liver sausage, says Doug Leikness, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 538. He represents 670 of Madison’s Oscar Mayer employees. The company’s official fact sheet claims that there’s an additional 530 headquarters staff here.
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Lunchables has been key to the company’s success since its beginning. Oscar Ferdinand Mayer was born in Bavaria in 1859. He immigrated to Detroit at the age of 14 and found work as a butcher’s apprentice. He moved to Chicago at 17 and briefly worked for another market. The next period in Mayer’s life is skipped in many biographies and glossed over in others. In what would appear to be a backwards move, he went to work in Chicago’s Union Stockyards for five years. Fans of Westerns adore the romance of cowboys driving steers down the long trail to railheads. Those cattle wound up in Chicago at what, essentially, was hell, for both animal and man. As anyone who has read Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle knows, the stockyards were a loud, roiling, manurefilled 375-acre collection of pens for beef, hogs and sheep waiting for slaughter. It also appears to have been critical training ground for Mayer, who worked there for the giant Armour and Swift meatpacking companies. They were to serve as examples to Mayer in the years ahead. In 1883 Oscar and his brother Gottfried opened a meat market on Chicago’s heavily German north side. Ten years later came
Women work in the casing department at Oscar Mayer & Company’s Madison meat packing plant, 910 Mayer Ave., in 1939.
Employment peaked at 4,000 in the 1970s. The following decade saw a flurry of mergers that brought about giant food conglomerates that proceeded to gobble each other up. In 1981, Oscar Mayer was bought by General Foods, which was acquired in 1985 by Philip Morris Companies, which acquired Kraft in 1988 and then shifted Oscar Mayer under that banner. Philip Morris changed its name to Altria Group Inc. in 2003, and Kraft Goods Global Inc. was spun off as an independent company in 2007. Kraft Goods Global then renamed itself Mondelez International and retained that name for operations outside North America while splitting off a freestanding company the same year, Kraft Foods Group Inc., for operations within the United States. Until the mergers, Oscar Mayer was very definitely a family operation, thanks in equal parts to dedication and longevity. Founder Oscar F. Mayer died in 1955 at the age of 95. His son, Oscar G., died in 1965 at the age of 77. His son, also Oscar G., also lived 95 years, dying in 2009. They ran the company for decades, along with a welter of nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws who are difficult to keep track of without resorting to diagrams. The Oscar Mayer company “was a very family-oriented operation, and there was a culture very much attuned to that,” recalls Pat Richter, athletic director for the UWMadison from 1989 to 2004. He went to the UW from Oscar Mayer, where he started in 1972. His last position there was vice president of human relations. (Incidentally, Richter credits his experience at Oscar Mayer and lessons he learned from Drane for his subsequent success leading UW sports.) “You could just tell it was a great organization,” says Richter. “People had that certain sense of appreciation for others. It was basically the mantra that the family brought to the organization, and it was pervasive throughout the whole organization.” All the Mayers shared several common characteristics. For example, they all started at the bottom, “on the line.” “They did. That is true,” says Dolores Ebert, an employee who started in 1963 or ’64 and worked there for more than 30 years. And the Mayers “knew everyone by their first name. That’s pretty unique.” “My own father worked, when he was in his 20s, on the line,” says Collins. The greatgrandson of the first Oscar Mayer was born in Madison, lives in Boston, and directs studies of fiscal inequality at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies. “My cousins who were in the [Madison] community worked on the line. Even the founder, Oscar F., always spent a day on the floor, partly because he understood, to be a good manager, you had to be really understand the business from the bottom up.” Former workers tell the same story over and over: Any employee, from anywhere in the plant, could go up to one of the Mayers and share a problem. And it would get fixed. “That’s just a remarkable, remarkable family, particularly around their business values and ethics,” says Drane. “They believed you not only needed to make money, you also had to really take care of your em-
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ployees and your community.” Care for others was codified in the family’s 11-word rule for living, passed down from generation to generation. Collins recalls it: “Lifelong personal development, generous consideration for others, do service to society.” Though they have nothing to do with the company today, many Mayer family members still live in the Madison area. Their charitable works are legendary among company veterans, but also sketchy when it comes to details. The Mayers are all averse to publicity. This makes the extent of their philanthropy difficult to assess, except for two examples. They gave $250,000 to the Madison Civic Center, predecessor of the Overture Center for the Arts, and Collins, at the age of 26, donated $500,000 to several foundations. “They were the ethical high ground,” observes Drane. “Giving something back to the community was an essential part of being an employee there.” Perhaps the best tribute to the Mayers’ commitment to community is READI, “Retired Employees Are Dedicated Individuals,” an organization of former Madison employees founded in 1993 to keep in touch, says Ebert, “and to continue the volunteering and community support that was part of our lives at Oscar Mayer.” The group numbers 300 today, and it works with a broad variety of area charities, including the Salvation Army, Second Harvest Food Bank, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and at events such as the Art Fair on the Square. Which brings us to today.
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from 1970 to 1996, heading the company’s public relations. He’s philosophical regarding the pending Kraft-Heinz merger and its potential impact. “If you look at it from a layman’s point of view, when you have takeovers like that, things change and you reduce overhead, you reduce duplication,” he says. “If there’s somebody at Kraft, for example, who does the same thing that you have at other companies, then you say, ‘Well, do we need that other person or other department?’ That’s pretty normal stuff. You may be mad, but that’s what happens.” The Kraft-Heinz merger has been fasttracked. According to the Reuters news service, quoting Kraft CEO John Cahill, 3G first approached Kraft at “the end of January. The discussions picked up in the second half of February.” The proposed merger was announced March 25. That same day, Reuters quoted food industry consultant Bob Goldin regarding 3G Capital, the prospective owner of Kraft and its subsidiary, Oscar Mayer. “Mature businesses look for cost cutting,” he said. “3G takes cost cutting to a different level.” The current president of Oscar Mayer, Mark Magnesen, is known for his cost-cutting prowess. He was named president in early March. His undergraduate degree is in accounting, and his master’s is in management, marketing and strategy. He continues to also serve as executive vice president at Kraft, based in Northfield, Ill., near Chicago. Magnesen’s LinkedIn profile says he lives in the “greater Chicago area.” Sydney Lindner, Kraft associate director of corpo-
rate affairs tasked with representing Oscar Mayer, wrote in a May 29 email that Magnesen “works in Madison but does not live in Madison.” On June 1 she corrected herself: “Mark has an apartment in Madison. He actually lives there the majority of the time.” According to Magnesen’s official Kraft biography, he previously “led the finance functional work streams to prepare for and execute” the spinoff of Kraft from Mondelez. The bio also notes that at Kraft subsidiary Planters nuts, he “integrated Lean Six Sigma practices,” a trendy cost-cutting methodology that awards various “belts” to its practitioners, as in karate. Given his background, a reasonable person might assume that Magnesen is preparing Oscar Mayer for a change of headquarters or even divestment from Kraft. Neither the H.J. Heinz Co., nor 3G Capital, nor Kraft responded to requests for comment. Lindner had scheduled interviews with Oscar Mayer executives for this article, but she cancelled them on May 26, instead requesting that all questions be submitted in writing. Isthmus declined. Also on May 26, four shareholder suits protesting the Kraft-Heinz merger were consolidated in a Virginia federal court. The lead plaintiff, Steven Leitz, alleges that the deal is “designed to ensure a transaction with Heinz on terms preferential to Heinz, and to subvert the efforts of [Leitz] and the other public stockholders of Kraft,” according to the website Law360. Stockholders also accuse Heinz and Kraft of failing to disclose required financial information. They protest that, by terms of the merger agreement, Kraft cannot entertain any other purchase offers. Kraft bylaws were changed a month earlier to ensure that all litigation would have to be filed in Virginia. Virginia does not recognize class action lawuits; the four plaintiffs can sue only for themselves. None of the plantiffs’ law firms responded to requests for comment.
So who knows what will happen? Ald. Palm suggests one future path. He looks at Lunchables, and notes that their content includes not just Oscar Mayer meat, but a cornucopia of other Kraft products. “It could become the Kraft Lunchable,” he says. And that’s one possibility: stripping Oscar Mayer of its most profitable line and selling what remains of the company. Drane remembers when this sort of thing began, back in 1988. “Kraft was very much into finance and profitability and margins and all of those things,” he says. “There was a definite cultural shift. A lot of that was going on with Wall Street. It was the age of corporate raiders, and the corporate raiders put really intense pressure on CEOs and boards of directors to generate rapid profit growth, quarter after quarter. That was probably the most noticeable and profound change that I experienced. “And that’s the age that we’re now in, by the way. Right? It’s more savage capitalism than it used to be by a long shot.” n
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Soul singer Charles Bradley got his break at 62 BY MICHAEL POPKE
Charles Bradley was 62 years old. Since then, Bradley has released two albums, been the subject of a documentary film and performed at the same venue in which he first saw Brown. Now he’s coming to Madison on June 27 to headline the inaugural Shake the Lake — a free event that replaces the long-running annual Rhythm & Booms. It also will feature food, family activities and fireworks on John Nolen Drive between Broom and Blair streets. Bradley and his Extraordinaires will play at 8:45 p.m. “I am going to open my heart to Madison,” Bradley, now 66, says in a voice as soulful and raw as his music.
Close your eyes while listening to either one of Bradley’s critically acclaimed albums — 2011’s No Time for Dreaming or 2013’s Victim of Love — and you’ll swear you’re listening to the original “Godfather of Soul.” Bradley’s voice drips with gut-churned emotion and decades of far-fromeasy livin’. The man even looks like James Brown. On No Time for Dreaming, the singer revisited his troubled past, which includes running away from home as a teen and sleeping in subway cars. His brother was murdered, and Bradley himself almost died from a penicillin allergy. He also hitchhiked across the country, all the way to Alaska and California, where he eked out a living working odd jobs and playing small gigs.
“Those songs were already written deep down in my soul,” says Bradley, who often co-writes with producer Tom Brenneck, former guitarist for Sharon Jones & the DapKings and leader of Bradley’s studio band, composed of other Daptone musicians. “I was just singing what I actually lived.” “How Long?” is about decades spent chasing that elusive big break, in both music and life, while “Heartaches and Pain” chronicles the moments following his brother Joe’s killing: “I woke up this mornin’ / My momma she was cryin’ / So I looked out my window
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When he was a teenager, Charles Bradley saw James Brown at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Soon after he began mimicking the singer’s performances at home, in Brooklyn, using a broomstick as a microphone stand. Bradley eventually parlayed that talent into a career, performing in a James Brown tribute act under the name Black Velvet. That’s probably as far as Bradley would have gone were it not for Gabe Roth. The cofounder of Daptone Records, a Brooklyn-based independent funk and soul label that’s home to Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Antibalas and the Budos Band, discovered the singer toiling in a Brooklyn club and offered him a record deal.
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Salty and sweet The Wiener Shop serves creative haute dogs BY LINDA FALKENSTEIN
ute more to the architectural aspirations of the space than any kind of botanical softening. The menu is similarly focused: 11 gussied-up versions of hot dogs, plus a create-your-own option. The single side dish is tater tots, with a chili-cheese upgrade option. But there are a couple of tricks to the menu that make it feel larger than it is. A Bandung tempeh dog can be substituted for the standard all-beef wiener, and for any dog, a soft corn tortilla can be substituted for a bun. And the weekly specials might introduce a new meat — a chorizo sausage or a Polish or a pickled wiener. There might be one-off condiments, too, like a smoked blue cheese sauce or even caramel corn. Thirty add-ons range from the expected (raw onions) to the uncommon (arugula, tomato chutney). You can dream up a dog with any theme you want. And the friendly owners often do just that, on a whim adding an even more limited special to the weekly special. The smartest combinations play the saltygreasy essence of the all-beef dog against a sweet vegetable condiment. In the Madison Shop Dog, that interplay is augmented by the addition of bacon, up against the shop’s excellent sweet onion jam. This one’s topped off with the almost unnecessary but really tasty beer cheese sauce, worthy of its name, with a dusky aged cheddar flavor that’s a long way from cheapo nacho cheese.
The Vancouver Asian dog also plays salty against sweet with excellent sesameginger slaw, wasabi mayo and sweet soy sauce. The weak link is the avocado, which was underripe and unappealing when I had it. Still pretty much a win, though. The Seattle dog, with sriracha, cream cheese, pickled jalapeños and onion jam, is another winner, with house-pickled jalapeños a big improvement over the standard grocery store jar. A weakness is the bun. Billed as “locally baked,” they’re actually from S. Rosen in Chicago. While these are a standard for Chicago dogs in Chi-Town, they’re more like convenience-store buns and on the cottony side at that. They might taste better if they spent a little time on the grill. But, good news, ordering any of the shop’s dogs in a corn tortilla (actually two corn tortillas) is an excellent option. The fresh tortilla offers a hint of corn flavor that works even set off against the Asian notes in the Vancouver dog, and of course works with the chili dog, especially the RaleighDurham dog that pairs chili and slaw. That brings us to the vegan tempeh dog. It was a longtime vegetarian who first recommended the Wiener Shop to me. He loved the tempeh dog right off the bat, and the shop owners say they’ve had an enthusiastic response from vegans and vegetarians. I thought it was too salty and a little bit liver-ish — your mileage may vary. The Wiener Shop may not be on par with headliners like Chicago’s legendary Hot Doug’s, but it delivers a worthy haute dog that’s right for its home. #feelgooddogs #onionjamrocks #lovethevancouver #westgilmanasheck. n
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There are spots in Madison that seem to me like they’re from other cities. The 400 block of West Gilman between University Avenue and State Street is one such place. There’s something about the mix of buildings — that little bit of Old World charm from the former Grimm Book Bindery and the Mediterranean pink back to Portabella — that reminds me of a charming if slightly run-down side street in the East Village, or perhaps Boston near Fenway Park. For years, nothing much changed on West Gilman. Rocky’s closed and became an Asian restaurant, then another Asian restaurant. Jocko’s became the Blue Velvet, a significant upgrade. Master Hall, that weird buildingblock experiment of an apartment building, got a new coat of paint. Second-hand clothing emporia came and went. But Rainbow Bookstore and Amy’s Cafe were stalwarts. Now, though, the block is poised for change. Amy’s Cafe is now Mezze, which is revolutionary enough, but that pales in comparison to the looming — literally — presence of the Hub apartments, which will have one towering wing backing up to the block. The new Hub dwarfs the Wiener Shop, a smart re-do of a used clothing store that fits right in to Gilman’s cozy hodgepodge. The tiny space is stripped down to basics, but in a design-forward way. A counter for ordering, a cooler for drinks and a chalkboard wall announcing the weekly special are joined only by two light wood counters at standing height, for on-site eating. These are brightened by two spiky green plants that contrib-
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Madison may well be the epicenter of craft beer in Wisconsin. But could the city soon face a glut of pubs? There has been an explosion of new neighborhood nanobreweries, specialty brewers and taphouses, as well as an influx of new national and regional craft beer bars featuring 50 to 100 taps. On the plus side, it’s becoming easier for just about anyone to walk home from the nearby tap. Here’s a handy compilation of the latest pubs, those in progress and several proposed projects. FUNK FACTORY GEUZERIA
WORLD OF BEER
Producer of sours and lambics. Open now, but only for occasional tastings and art shows.
Large national chain. This new location will offer more than 40 tap beers and 500-plus bottles in the coolers. Sandwiches, appetizers, flatbreads. Target opening date: August 2015.
1640 Gilson St.
VIKING BREWPUB
211 E. Main St., Stoughton
8225 Greenway Blvd., Middleton
Beer currently being made at House of Brews will soon be produced in-house. Three or four house brews are on tap along with a handful of other Wisconsin craft brews. Appetizers, sandwiches. Opened: August 2014.
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Taproom with 4-6 taps, concentrating on locally grown hops. Opened: April 2015.
Burger and beer bar chain that’s opened outlets in Middleton, Verona and Waunakee over the past year and a half. Expect 45-50 beers on tap. Downtown location opened June 2015. Target opening date Monona: Fall 2015.
6818 Canal St., Paoli
PARCHED EAGLE BREW PUB 5440 Willow Rd., Westport
Nanobrewery with a half-dozen taps from brewmaster Jim Goronson. Small menu of appetizers. Opened: May 2015. HOP HAUS
231 South Main St., Verona
Brewmaster Phil Hoechst hopes to maintain about a half-dozen house beers on tap. Opening: June 24, 2015. GREENVIEW BREWING COMPANY 1808 Wright St.
Greenview currently produces glutenfree Alt Brew at House of Brews but will be moving to this new brewing facility and tasting room. Target opening date: August 2015.
222 W. Gorham St.
Michigan-based taphouse chain specializing in burgers and beer. HopCat commonly offers over 100 tap beers. Target opening date: July 2015. 305 W. Johnson St.; 103 W. Broadway, Monona
FREIBURG GASTROPUB 2612 Monroe St.
German-style gastropub with an emphasis on German foods. Target opening date not specified. ROCKHOUND BREWING COMPANY 444 S. Park St.
Homebrewer Nate Warnke hopes to specialize in ales and lagers. Target opening date: 2016.
Proposed
10-barrel brewpub with plans to serve 10 house beers at a time, plus other craft brews and local foods. Target opening date: January 2016.
A NEW VINTAGE BREWPUB IN SAUK CITY Madison’s west-side brewpub is developing plans to locate along the Wisconsin River in Sauk City. It would be the second brewpub for Vintage, which also runs the Woodshed Ale House in Sauk City. Target opening date: 2016.
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Octopi will brew its own beers and brew under contract for other brewers. Construction on the 16,000-squarefoot facility is well under way, and brew house installation may take place next month. Plans are for an indoor taproom for 60 as well as outdoor patio space. Target opening date: late summer or early fall 2015. 4539 Helgesen Dr. at House of Brews.
Mark Cook of Marshall and Jim Jorgenson of Fort Atkinson are working with Madison’s House of Brews to make their Bent Kettle brands. Their first beer, Insolence (IPA), just appeared on local taps. Produced first beer: June 2015.
Rod Ripley of the current Lucky’s Bar & Grille is proposing a brewpub for the Foreign Car Specialists site along with an apartment building. In planning stages. PRAIRIE BREWING & SMOKEHAUS Sun Prairie
Plans for this Sun Prairie brewpub have hit a roadblock. Brian Benzine and Ron Dombroski announced last fall that they were negotiating to buy the Sun Prairie Knights of Columbus building with the dream of constructing a brewpub, banquet facility and catering business. That deal has since fallen through, putting the brewpub on hold for now. Benzine says he’s still looking for a suitable location in Sun Prairie. n
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Sunset pairs well with a range of cheeses; I like an aged Gouda or an Asiago. It’s also a wonderful companion to a ribeye on the grill. I recommend it as a great summer brew. It’s available in single 22-ounce bomber bottles for around $6. This past April, Joseph opened a small taproom in Paoli where Sunset is on tap alongside other Hop Garden brews. — ROBIN SHEPARD
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A new drink menu at Red Sushi, 106 King St., is full of original drinks and well-executed riffs on classics. The Ginger Sour is a take on the venerable Whiskey Sour, and arrives nicely frothed from egg whites for that signature lush mouthfeel. It’s a must-try with fried crab or something smoky like salmon skin, with citrusy notes and hot bourbon. Ginger liqueur provides the flavor bridge to the food menu. Equally engaging is the Parapluie (French for umbrella), which balances slightly bitter Aperol and sweet elderflower liqueur for a robust drink based on gin and topped with a dash of Prosecco. It’s served up with a twist of lemon, and not, as one might guess, with a cocktail umbrella. On the lighter side, Violet’s Daiquiri is a classic recipe made more interesting by using blueberry rooibos tea. The blueberry is subtle, and works well with the fresh lime and quality Plantation rum. It’s full-flavored and shows a deft hand by bartender Sean Lauterbach.
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The kindest nosh Mad City Vegan Fest wants to turn everyone on to the animal-free lifestyle BY MICHAEL POPKE
Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s say youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re an omnivore looking for something free to do on Saturday, June 27. Dave Friedman hopes youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll wind up at Mad City Vegan Fest at the Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa St. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even for someone who has no interest at all in changing his habits, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty common for people to have family members or friends who are vegan or vegetarian,â&#x20AC;? says Friedman, one of the organizers of the festival, now in its fourth year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a good way to find out more about their lifestyle.â&#x20AC;? Indeed, Mad City Vegan Fest, which runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., can be an eyeopening experience for everyone from the curious to the committed. In addition to a vegan food court and plenty of free samples, the event will provide information about protecting animals, the environment and human health, as well as a cooking demonstration and a colorful lineup of national speakers and exhibitors. A complete list of participants and activities can be found at veganfest.org. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fest will feature several new vendors, including Bit Baking Company of
Michigan, the Cheeze Factory Restaurant of Wisconsin Dells, the Herbivorous Butcher (meatfree meats made in Minneapolis) and Madisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Yumbutter. Among the six scheduled speakers will be Matt Ruscigno, a registered dietician from Los Angeles who will focus on veganism for athletes, and Kristin Lajeunesse, who set out to eat at every vegan restaurant in the United States and then wrote a book about her adventure. The distinction between â&#x20AC;&#x153;vegetarianâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;veganâ&#x20AC;? is an important one, says Gina Stuessy, president of the nonprofit Alliance for At the Alliance for Animals and the Environmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s table at Animals and the Environment, the the 2014 fest, Marina Drake discusses a vegan cookbook. lead sponsor of Mad City Vegan Fest. Vegetarians donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat meat; sidered more extreme, more radical.â&#x20AC;? Today, vegans donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat eggs, dairy products or any veganism is gradually becoming more common other animal-derived ingredients or products. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; although, anecdotally speaking, Stuessy and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just five years ago, it really was unusual to Friedman say vegetarians still far outnumber be a vegan,â&#x20AC;? says Friedman, who also oversees vegans in the Madison area. the 1,500-member Madison Area Vegetarian Despite the increasing number of â&#x20AC;&#x153;veg festsâ&#x20AC;? Meetup Group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vegetarianism was seen as around the country, vegan events like Mad City more mainstream, while veganism was con-
Vegan Fest are still evolving, and Friedman and Stuessy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both longtime vegetarians who each went vegan within the past five years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; claim there is nothing else like it in Wisconsin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure what to expect that first year,â&#x20AC;? Stuessy says, referring to 2011â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inaugural festival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had 1,331 attendees. That blew us away.â&#x20AC;? They expect attendance this year to top 2,000. Stuessy cites a testimonial from a 2014 attendee that she says is indicative of the impact Mad City Vegan Fest can make. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Becoming a vegan is an idea Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve often toyed with but have been too frightened to try in the past,â&#x20AC;? the attendee wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But visiting some of the booths at the fest made me feel like it is much more possible than I realize.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do,â&#x20AC;? Stuessy says. n
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Simply smashing! Who’s on court at this year’s Wimbledon? BY MICHAEL POPKE
Is it weird that I associate the Fourth of July, that most American of holidays, with a sporting event renowned for its very Britishness? As a kid I played tennis, and had visions of becoming the U.S. version of Bjorn Borg. Back then, in the early 1980s, the Wimbledon Championships began earlier, and the men’s finals frequently fell on Independence Day. I preferred watching Borg vs. John McEnroe from the comfort of my parents’ home in Plover, Wis., than hanging around outside as mosquitoes mauled me. Much of the attention at this year’s Wimbledon, which begins Monday, is focused on Serena Williams, an athlete nearly as polarizing as McEnroe was back in the day. Since her appearance on the U.S. tennis scene in 1997 at age 15, Williams has won 20 Grand Slam events (the sport’s most important annual tournaments: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open). Winning all four events also is called a Grand Slam, and doing so over the course of a playing career isn’t easy. But it’s certainly more common than winning a calendar-year Grand
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Stanley vs. Blanche
Shakespearean obsession
American Players Theatre’s Streetcar is a triumph
An unusual preoccupation anchors A Winsome Murder
BY AMELIA COOK FONTELLA
If you know A Streetcar Named Desire from the 1951 film version, American Players Theatre’s production of Tennessee Williams’ classic play will reveal a few surprises. Streetcar was first performed in 1947, but APT’s interpretation is set in the summer of 1963. With this fast-forward comes a whole new set of cultural relevancies. As director William Brown points out in the program notes, the early ’60s were “a time of epic struggles and fierce hope.” It’s that hope — in complicated variations — that drives Streetcar. Kevin Depinet’s gorgeous set captures Streetcar’s setting — summer in New Orleans — perfectly. Shades of green dominate. Tropical plants and ferns fill the stage and colored lights hang from a balcony, transporting the audience from APT’s On the Hill amphitheater to the French Quarter. As the lights come up, life is good. Stella, played by Cristina Panfilio, is ebullient. She bursts onto the stage, physically conveying the optimism and lustfulness of her character. As Stella’s sister, Blanche, in town for an unexpected visit, Tracy Michelle Arnold brings out the melodrama of the role, but also allows Blanche’s brokenness to come through. This results in a character who’s
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Eric Parks and Cristina Panfilio have loads of onstage chemistry as Stanley and Stella Kowalski.
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complicated and manipulative, but who still garners genuine sympathy. Rachel Anne Healy’s costumes don’t just complement the characters; they communicate something about who they are. Blanche first appears in a suit worthy of Jackie Kennedy, looking prim and proper. This is in stark contrast to Stella, who sports lime green short-shorts and a floral crop top. Stanley, Stella’s husband, appears shirtless most of the play, with a pair of pants slung salaciously low. Eric Parks’ portrayal emphasizes Stanley’s animalistic and passionate nature. He and Stella are madly in love. Their onstage chemistry is
great, which should be no surprise as, off stage, Parks and Panfilio are married to each other. Streetcar is a challenging play — to produce, to watch and to process after the curtain falls. It tackles a wide swath of troubling topics: rape, domestic abuse and mental illness, to name a few. Yet Williams’ genius and poetry shine intensely, and there’s a resilience that runs through every moment, resulting in a play that’s tremendously satisfying. Even without the marginally happier ending most people know from the film, APT’s Streetcar captures the hope that propels each character. The result is a triumph. n
Frothy merriment Brian Mani delights as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor
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In Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, gracing the outdoor stage at American Players Theatre, the English hamlet is transformed into a scene of classic Americana — a small-town summer celebration at the turn of the century, where The Music Man’s Harold Hill might have stopped to sell band instruments. The squabbles and romances of mostly middle-class folks do not amount to much. The offenses are petty, the insults mostly imagined, and the ne’er-do-wells are invited to dinner after their deeds are exposed. There was a theory in dramatic lit circles that The Merry Wives of Windsor was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I because she was crazy about the character of Falstaff, who appears in the two Henry IV plays. Allegedly she wanted to see the enormous rogue in love, and she gave the Bard two weeks to complete the new script. True or not, it’s easy to see why this backstory stuck. Merry Wives is primarily a showcase for the boisterous hedonist Falstaff, as he schemes to line his purse and satisfy his
baser desires by approaching two upstanding women of Windsor, proposing illicit trysts. In this frothy comedy, hilarity ensues, as the characters engage in deception upon deception to expose jealousy and knavery of every kind. The play feels hastily plotted and packed with gags that are purely meant to entertain, while showing (over and over again) that the women of this town are much smarter than their male counterparts. In this town full of characters, there are many charming performances. Sarah Day plays the local busybody Mistress Quickly with bawdy glee. Robert Doyle is a hilariously awkward milquetoast, Master Slender, who can barely speak to Anne, let alone propose to her. Jonathan Smoots is entertaining as the flamboyant French doctor who also vies for the girl’s love. And as Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, Deborah Staples and Colleen Madden are expert dissemblers, manipulating the men around them for their own amusement. But the show belongs to Brian Mani as the rotund and mischievous knight Falstaff. He revels in the role, patting his generously padded belly, waddling from his tankards of sack to his imagined amorous encounters with laughable over-
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Sarah Day’s Mistress Quickly eggs on Brian Mani’s bawdy Falstaff.
confidence in his prowess as a lover. Though he is a much more experienced schemer than any of the residents of Windsor, Falstaff lets his appetites and his fantasies get the better of him repeatedly. For all his character’s bombast, Mani plays him as a charming but misguided rascal, who is happy to come to dinner, even if the joke is on him. Under the direction of Tim Ocel, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a perfectly pleasant and often entertaining play that adds up to a merry evening. n
I’ve been trying to recall the last time I saw James DeVita kill someone — as he played a Shakespearean character, of course. I’ll certainly never forget him as the treacherous murderer Iago in American Players Theatre’s fine 2004 staging of Othello. I enjoyed watching that production as the corpses piled up, in the Shakespearean way. I thought of DeVita’s experiences with stage bloodletting as I read his enjoyable mystery thriller A Winsome Murder, in which the corpses likewise pile up. Can you guess how one of the region’s most prominent Shakespearean actors writes a crime novel? I’ll tell you: He throws in tons of Shakespeare. The book’s hero, Chicago police detective James Mangan, is obsessed with Shakespeare. I love this. I love that this everyday guy reads Titus Andronicus. It’s a populist vision of what enjoying great literature means, and it’s fitting for DeVita: In addition to numerous stage works, he has written two novels for younger readers. The detective investigates a series of grisly murders. All the victims are women. The first is troubled Deborah Ellison, from the fictional town of Winsome, Wis. Then a magazine editor is killed, and then a journalist who’s writing about Deborah’s case. Mutilated body parts show up here and there, and a series of ominous messages appears, written in all caps. As everyone who’s ever used the Internet knows, all caps means THE WRITER IS ANGRY. Mangan doesn’t just read Shakespeare. A defining conceit of A Winsome Murder is that lines from the Bard’s plays bubble up into the detective’s consciousness incessantly. Sometimes the quotations reflect the twists and turns of his investigation. Sometimes they provide him with insight. “Mangan,” DeVita writes, “found Shakespeare’s plays a great way to study the psychology of evil: power, jealousy, insanity, revenge, the motives of thwarted ambition and sexual jealousy.” In end notes, DeVita meticulously documents the Shakespeare references, a device I find distracting. Still, I do not doubt that people who immerse themselves in Shakespeare see the playwright’s world all around them. DeVita is good at evoking a sense of place — in Chicago and, especially, in small Wisconsin towns. The titular burg, for example, boasts three churches and four bars. People who live in the Badger State have at least driven through a place just like that. n A WINSOME MURDER By James DeVita Terrace Books
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Teaching with rap Hip-hop artist F. Stokes embarks on an educational mission BY ANDY MOORE
Hip-hop artist F. Stokes, aka Rodney Lucas, aims to shrink the achievement gap — with rap. His new Kickstarter campaign introduces the world to “Rappin’ Ricky,” an animated character intended to be a classroom ally to disadvantaged youth. Lucas had a bird’s-eye view of the struggles that keep children of color from achieving academically. His school years at Randall Elementary, Wright Middle School and West High were interrupted by an all-too-familiar checklist of challenges: homelessness, father doing time, poverty, hunger. Speaking from his current home of Oakland, Calif., Lucas says he feels fortunate to have had some excellent teachers. “In fact, I wanted to be a teacher at one point in life. But as great as those educators were, seeing my best friends killed and father imprisoned completely fucked me up as a child.” “Rappin’ Ricky” will be a for-profit endeavor, with a marketing strategy that includes product giveaways in selected low-income neighborhoods. Ricky will be the main character in Lucas’ first audio e-book, which is in its final production stages. Kickstarter dollars will provide source funding to build the music catalogue and create animated webisodes and supportive merchandise. Lucas steers clear of the word “curriculum” when describing what one will find in the Rappin’ Ricky toolbox. Still, Ricky will definitely touch some traditional curricular bases, from the ABCs to healthy eating and personal hygiene.
To launch the effort, Lucas has surrounded himself with some sterling, like-minded talent. Rappin’ Ricky’s illustrator will be Theodore Taylor, best known for his most recent work on Shaquille O’Neal’s children’s books. Lucas also enlisted help from web designers and Madison residents Jim Remsik and his wife, Jen, who run the YWeb Career Academy located in the YMCA Empowerment Center in Fitchburg. Those who know F. Stokes’ work know that themes of empowerment and hope drive much of his own rap. Lucas’ Kickstarter goal is $25,000 with an end date of July 1. As of this printing, he has pledges totaling more than $23,000, including $15,000 from a donor who wants to remain anonymous. Even if the Kickstarter turns out to be a no-starter, Lucas says he won’t give up: “I’m a scrappy kid from the ghetto, so it’s difficult for me to ever truly lose at something. Even when I lose, I win, because the message still gets out there.” n
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has recorded unusual covers of Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold” and Nirvana’s “Stay Away.” A new album is expected next year, Bradley says, and it, too, will be full of songs inspired by his life and his search for light in dark places. “The world is looking for love,” he says. “We are all on this planet together. What can I do for the world to make it a better place?” Bradley is known to throw some Otis Redding and Bobby Womack songs into his live sets and, if he “gets in the spirit,” some classic James Brown, too. His favorite Brown songs to perform include “There Was a Time” and “I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me).” “That’s one of my nasty ones,” he says with a laugh. But the primary focus now is on his own material, as Bradley seeks to push his lateblooming career as far as it will go. “I feel very bittersweet about my success, because I’d been beggin’ and cryin’ for this opportunity,” he says. “I wish I would have had this opportunity when I was in my 20s or 30s or 40s.” n
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/ Police lights was flashin’ / People was screamin’ / So I ran down to the street / My friend grabbed my shoulder / And he said these words to me / Life is full of sorrow / So I have to tell you this / Your brother is gone.” Victim of Love features happier songs that boast greater diversity, best exemplified by the horn charts, psychedelic soul and fuzzy guitars of “You Put the Flame On It,” “Confusion” and “Where Do We Go From Here?”. Bradley sings every lyric on both records as though they may be his last words, with an emotional depth today’s younger soul and R&B stars seldom reach. “When my heart is hurting, I need the music to soothe it,” he says. Despite the musical changes between No Time for Dreaming and Victim of Love, Bradley wants to continue evolving. “I know that I need more dynamics in my music,” he admits. “I can do soul; soul is where I came from. But I want to do more rock and country-western and put it with my own style. I love the lyrics in country-western music.” Bradley already
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Magic Mike XXL: The Kings of Tampa hit the road for one last stripping performance.
There are legends of children raised by wolves far away from civilization, and tales of princes and princesses kept hidden away in towers looking down upon worlds they cannot know. These two classic stories meet in the entrancing documentary The Wolfpack. The wolf princes in question are the Angulo boys, six brothers confined for 14 years to an apartment in a high-rise housing project on Manhattan’s Lower East Side where their preferred pastime was filming remakes of their favorite films (we get to see their takes on Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan). Just like the storybooks, where tales end with heroes taking a furtive step back into the world, the film shows the Angulo boys venturing out into the Bowery. We get the thrill of watching these six learning to navigate a world we take for granted. Mukunda is the first to escape when, at the age of 15, he sneaks out for a couple of hours of weird freedom. He wears what might be the most conspicuously terrifying costume possible. After the police bring him home, the parents agree to allow the boys a little liberty. Outside their family, “real life” has always consisted of distant figures walking down Delancey Street far below. They have been isolated for so long that they are amazed by trees and amused by the pervasive use of the word “like.” First-time director Crystal Moselle was given remarkable access to their tiny household
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: A high-schooler’s perspective on life is changed after becoming friends with a classmate who has been diagnosed with cancer. Terminator Genisys: Kyle Reese is sent back to 1984 again, to find a different landscape...and the Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
Recent releases Any Body Can Dance 2: Hindi-language film about the rise, fall and redemption of a Mumbai dance troupe. Inside Out: In this animated Pixar film, a Midwestern girl transplanted to San Francisco navigates her new world, guided by her conflicted emotions.
The Angulo brothers’ favorite pastime was remaking their favorite movies.
and their old home movies — all the more amazing considering the family’s reclusive tendencies. She is not as flashy as her subjects’ favorite directors, but she is a master at capturing small moments. She allows a support beam to bisect a shot separating one of the boys from the people he’s trying to mingle with, and frames another brother in his Dark Knight costume in a window looking down at the city, like so many Batmen before him. The Wolfpack is not without sorrow and bitterness. But Moselle mainly captures the brothers’ joy in their newfound freedom and in their togetherness, whether it’s going to Coney Island for the first time or cooking with their mom in the kitchen.
Moselle clearly feels for the mother, who is herself removed from the world, but the director’s greatest trick is building an air of mystery around the father, Oscar. Paradoxically, he kept his children confined to protect them from a world he sees as a prison. He is not visible for the first half of the film, yet we feel his presence shuddering the walls of the apartment. It makes us wonder if the boys are braver for getting out or for coming home. Underscoring it all is a love for movies. Film fans can see themselves reflected in the way the boys quote lines and mimic characters (they have a spot-on Buscemi and Travolta) and view life through the prism of film. We are allowed to be with them for the first time they go to a movie theater. What wonder! n
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Navigating between bad and worse choices.
the gangbangers on another street. Lured in by Dom (A$AP Rocky), Malcolm acts as a gobetween to deliver a message to Dom’s wouldbe girlfriend Nakia (Zoë Kravitz), who turns out to be struggling with some math problems. The three high-schoolers end up at Dom’s birthday party, where a raid sends everyone scrambling, and the next day Malcolm discovers drugs and a gun in his backpack where books ought to be. Thus begins the caper.
Ted 2: The living teddy bear and his human wife want to have a baby.
More film events Big: The 1988 comedy about a man who becomes a boy again after visiting a fortune-telling game at a carnival. Pinney Library, June 27, 2 pm. Do the Right Thing: An overheated Sunday in a Brooklyn neighborhood exposes racial tensions and the potential for violence. Central Library, July 2, 6:30 pm. The Fast and the Furious: The initial entry in the Vin Diesel-led action franchise introduces street racer/ex-convict Dominic Toretto and crew. Memorial Union Terrace, June 29, 9 pm.
Port of Shadows: Atmospheric tale of an army deserter’s attempt to escape the country and free a 17-year-old from her “protector” and other potential suitors. Cinematheque, July 1, 7 pm.
Dope is a coming-of-age story set in a rough neighborhood
Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is caught in the middle. Growing up in the Bottoms, the roughest area of the black community of Inglewood, Calif., hasn’t been easy for Malcolm and his best pals, Jib (Tony Revolori, the bellhop in The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons). They’re nerds who are focused on getting good grades and attending Ivy League colleges, and geeks for ’90s hiphop culture, BMX bikes, Game of Thrones and other things associated with white tastes. Dope seems to start out as a comingof-age movie, but quickly transitions into a peppy caper film. Writer/director Rick Famuyiwa throws in a little bit of everything so that Dope moves along at a rapid clip, allowing little time for reflection. Life in the Bottoms is “a daily navigation between bad and worse choices,” explains Malcolm. One day Malcolm, Jib and Diggy bike past the neighborhood drug dealers in order to avoid
Max: A war dog is adopted by his handler’s family.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: Robert Morse and Michele Lee star in this 1967 Hollywood adaptation of the Tony-winning musical satire. Cinematheque, June 26, 7 pm.
A nerdy caper BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Jurassic World: Loaded with half-explored sub-plots and gender politics that were retro when Jurassic Park came out, this follow-up simply shrugs its massive shoulders at trying to be anything but a nostalgia-pandering, stilloccasionally-fun product that will be appearing on T-shirts at Universal Studios this summer.
With Dom in jail, the kids decide to sell the MDMA themselves online, using Bitcoin for payment. Amusing sequences with the white dreadlocked hacker they met at band camp (Blake Anderson) and a scene-stealing Molly moocher (Chanel Iman) pay off handsomely. Other sequences, such as the Risky Businesslike throwback to an interview with a Harvard recruiter, are less satisfying. The third act gets a little preachy, and the film ends with Malcolm orating full-on to the camera. Although there are too many story strands, Rachel Morrison’s cinematography and Lee Haugen’s editing keep the film fluid and buoyant. The ubiquitous Pharrell contributed music to the film and is an executive producer; Forest Whitaker serves as the story’s narrator. Messages about learning to be comfortable in one’s own skin and the hypocrisy of the ruling class are delivered with genial humor and mild pokes. Curiously, the tone of Dope is at a far remove from the gritty world portrayed in films like Boyz n the Hood and Juice, works grounded in the ’90s hip-hop culture that Malcolm so loves. n
Scouts Honor: Inside a Marching Brotherhood: Documentary following three members of Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps. Barrymore Theatre, June 26, 7:30 pm. Slow Movement: Rooftop Cinema screening of short films by Bruce Conner, Morgan Fisher, JJ Murphy and John Smith. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, June 26, 9:30 pm. The Third Man: An American pulp novelist in postwar Vienna pursues the murderers of his vanished friend (Orson Welles); an iconic thriller scripted by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed. Cinematheque, July 2, 7 pm.
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Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, Mike Massey, dueling pianos, 9 pm. Kabul Restaurant: Acoplados, folk/Latin, free, 9:30 pm. Merchant: Old Soul Society, free, 10 pm. Mr. Robert’s: EZ and Friends, free, 10 pm. Nau-Ti-Gal: Roots Collective, free (patio), 5:30 pm. Quaker Steak & Lube, Middleton: Vintage Red, 5:30 pm. Rotary Park, Stoughton: Mike and Mike, free, 6 pm. UW Memorial Union-Fredric March Play Circle: Bazseva Folk Band, Hungarian folk, with guest vocalist Gabriella Tinter, dancers Dezso Fitos and Eniko Kocsis, 7:30 pm. UW Memorial Union: Down From the Hills, free, 5 pm. Warner Park: Ladies Must Swing, free, 6 pm.
The Suffers Thursday, June 25, Memorial Union Terrace, 9 pm
If there ever was a band to fill up the Terrace stage, it’s the Suffers. The Gulf Coast soul sound of this 10-piece out of Houston is made even bigger by frontwoman Kam Franklin’s commanding pipes. The group appeared on Late Show with David Letterman in March and have drawn acclaim from national publications like Spin and Paste. With DJ Phil Money.
S PECI AL EV ENTS Americans with Disabilities Act Legacy Tour: 25th anniversary commemoration, 11 am-3 pm, 6/25, Overture Center, with displays, music, food. wisconsinadastories.org.
B OOKS Jim Draeger: Discussing “Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars and Breweries,” his book, 5 pm, 6/25, 30 on the Square. top-of-state.com. Mary Grace Foxwell and Alan Guebert: Discussing “The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey,” their book, 6 pm, 6/25, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.
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Jim Adkins Sunday, June 28, The Frequency, 8 pm
Wayne Hancock Thursday, June 25, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm
Wayne “The Train” Hancock is a honkytonk throwback whose music is the gritty type of roots/country you’d expect to hear at a dirt-road juke joint. With Earl Foss & the Brown Derby. Babe’s: Acoustic Alloy, free (on the patio), 6 pm. Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Metal Gonz, rock, free, 6 pm. Brink Lounge: Madison Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 pm. Brocach-Square: Sean Michael Dargan, free, 8 pm. Capital Brewery: Kyle Henderson Blues Invasion, 6 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm.
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Coliseum Bar: The Last Revel, Isthmus Brews and Bands with free Blue Moon beers (ticket required: isthmusevents.strangertickets.com), 5:30 pm. Come Back In: Teddy Davenport, free (patio), 5 pm. Crystal Corner Bar: Beat Road Blues, 7 pm. Essen Haus: Jason Rowe, free, 9 pm. The Frequency: Evergreen, Porky’s Groove Machine, Vein Rays, 9 pm. Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Just Merl, free, 6 pm. Harmony Bar: Old American Junk, Dylan tribute, 8 pm. High Noon Saloon: Whitney Mann, free (patio), 6 pm.
Avenue Q Thursday, June 25, Middleton Performing Arts Center, 7:30 pm
What do you do with a B.A. in English? Move to Avenue Q! This Tony Award-winning musical follows the life of Princeton, a recent college graduate who’s settled into the craziest neighborhood in New York. Upbeat, Sesame Street-esque puppets and R-rated comedy make this a show you’ll be singing for years to come. ALSO: Friday (7:30 pm) and Saturday (2 pm), June 26-27. Through July 5.
Pride and Prejudice Thursday, June 25, American Players Theatre (Spring Green), 7:30 pm
This is a stage adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. The Bennet family makes an honest living, but alas, with five unwed daughters, they have no heirs! When a well-to-do bachelor and his abrasive friend visit their village, the Bennets find themselves juggling conflicting class values and blossoming young romances. ALSO: Saturday (8 pm) and Tuesday (7:30 pm), June 27 & 30. Through Sept. 26.
Jimmy Eat World isn’t named after lead singer and guitarist Jim Adkins, but don’t tell him that. Adkins, who’s heading out on his first solo (and acoustic) tour of the band’s 21-year career, will be stopping in states Jimmy Eat World often overlooks to perform new material, band favorites and maybe a cover or two. With Spitalfield’s Mark Rose.
Shrek: The Musical
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The tale of everyone’s favorite irritable ogre and talking donkey, in full musical form. When droves of homeless fairy tale characters end up in Shrek’s swamp, he appeals to Lord Farquaad for help. Farquaad sends Shrek on a journey to rescue the imprisoned Princess Fiona. But not all is as it seems — after all, ogres have layers, like onions. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (7:30 pm), June 26-27.
ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS Building Bridges: Our School of Human Ecology in the Real World: 11 am-3 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 6/25-8/7, UW Nancy Nicholas Hall-Design Gallery. 262-8815. Redesigned: A Fashionable Art Show: Gallery 99 exhibit, 6/25-8/1, UpShift, 836 E. Johnson St. (reception 6-9 pm, 6/25), with works by Mary Jane Connor, Kyira Hauer & Sara Meredith. galleryninetynine.com.
Thursday, June 25, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm
Jenny Zigrino’s performances are packed with witty observations, hilarious anecdotes and, most importantly, brutal honesty. The standup comedian hails from Boston and was named one of Comedy Central’s “Comics to Watch” in 2013. She made her late-night debut last month on Conan. With Kevin Kinner, Anthony Siraguse. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), June 26-27.
FA I RS & FEST I VA L S Bhakti Fest Midwest: Yoga & kirtan music festival, 6/25-29, Alliant Energy Center-Willow Island, with entertainment, workshops, food. $375/weekend ($125/day). www.bhaktifest.com. 408-460-0504.
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Capital Brewery, Middleton: Reloaded, free, 6 pm. Cardinal Bar: Samba Novistas, free, 5:30 pm; DJs Jesse Saunders, Wyatt Agard, Lovecraft, Milhouse, 9 pm. Chief’s Tavern: Jim Schwall, blues/folk, 6:30 pm. Claddagh, Middleton: Ethan Cox, free (patio), 8 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: East Wash Jukes, free, 9 pm. Come Back In: After School Music Class, free, 5 pm. Delaney’s: Bob Kerwin and Doug Brown, jazz, 6 pm. Edgewater Hotel: Mark Croft, free (on plaza), 6 pm. Essen Haus: Tom Brusky, free, 8:30 pm. Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Briana Hardyman, 6 pm.
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Halverson’s, Stoughton: Frankie Lee, Beverly Jean Lewis, Tom McCarty, Tom Dehlinger, Kenny Koeppler, 7 pm.
Friday, June 26, Live on King Street, 6 pm
High Noon Saloon: Mad City Jug Band, free, 6 pm; Steely Dane, tribute to the Dan by local musicians, 8:30 pm.
The free summer concert series kicks off its new season with this Chicago-based Grateful Dead tribute band. Dark Star Orchestra formed in 1997 as a result of co-founder John Kadlecik’s idea to perform complete shows pulled from among the nearly 2,500 concerts the Dead played from 1965 to ’95. Dark Star shows often presents the complete original set list, song by song and in order. A free afterparty follows featuring Madison’s the Grasshoppers (Majestic, 11 pm).
Ivory Room: Kevin Gale, Eben Seaman, Peter Hernet, dueling pianos, 8:30 pm. Knuckle Down: Moondog Medicine Show, 9 pm. Lakeside Street Coffee House: Madison Classical Guitar Society Showcase, free, 7 pm. Locker Room: Cool Front with Jon French, 9 pm. Lucky’s, Waunakee: Brandon Beebe, free, 7 pm. Merchant: DJ Vilas Park Sniper, free, 10:30 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Automatically Yours, Nervosas, Proud Parents, free, 10 pm. Monona Terrace Rooftop: The Jimmys, free, 7 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Voice of Addiction, free, 10 pm. Pizza Oven, Monona: Chad Anderson, free, 7 pm. Pooley’s: Small Blind Johnny, free (on the patio), 7 pm. Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: Universal Sound, 8:30 pm. Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Middleton: Johnny Widdicombe and Cliff Frederiksen, jazz, 6 pm. Sprecher’s Restaurant: Ron Denson, free, 7:30 pm.
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The Helio Sequence Friday, June 26, The Frequency, 8:30 pm
For their sixth album, this Oregon-based duo went back to basics. First, they laid down drum sequences, keyboard melodies, guitar riffs and bass lines. Then, they shaped their raw musical material into motifs and songs. The self-titled album consists of the 10 best tracks of the 26 they created, and represents a mellow but insistent approach to indie rock. With Lost Lander, Becca Stevens.
True Coffee, Fitchburg: Noah Guthrie, folk/pop, 8 pm. Up North Pub: The Lower Fifth, free, 8 pm. UW Memorial Union: The Goodie Two Shoes, 5 pm. VFW-Lakeside St.: Northern Comfort, 6 pm. Wisconsin Brewing Co., Verona: Strawberry Jam, 6 pm.
T HE AT E R & DANCE First Act Children’s Theatre: “Mary Poppins”: 4 & 7 pm, 6/26, Edgewood College-The Stream theater. $7 ($5 ages 10 & under). 358-9572. American Players Theatre: “A Streetcar Named Desire”: Tennessee Williams drama, 8 pm on 6/26 and 7:30 pm, 7/1, APT, Spring Green. $74-$45. 588-2361.
B OOKS Patricia Skalka: Discussing “Death at Gills Rock,” her new book, 7 pm, 6/26, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.
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ART E X HI BITS & EV ENTS UW Memorial Union: Heather Brammeier: “She Defines Herself,” through 8/11, Class of 1925 Gallery; Roberta Condon: “Reflections,” paintings, through 8/11, Lakefront on Langdon Gallery; and Irineo Medina: “Safe In Sound,” through 7/23, Porter Butts Gallery (reception 6-8 pm, 6/26). 262-7592.
Friday, June 26, Memorial Union Terrace, 9 pm
Catch Kid is an up-and-coming Madison rock trio. Blending piano, percussion and guitar with a voice that won singer Nate Rusch 100 free Chipotle burritos courtesy of UW-Madison’s All-Campus Idol, the group has already performed at Freakfest and shared a stage with Aaron Carter.
Overture Center: Found in Translation: Gallery I; Mark Arnold, Karen Watson-Newlin, Brian McCormick: “Eye on the Land,” paintings; Gallery II; Felice Amato and Andrea Woito Murray: “Second Glance,” Gallery III, all through 8/30 (reception 6-8 pm, 6/26). 258-4169.
S PECTATOR SP ORTS Blake Geoffrion Hockey Classic: UW Health Burn Center benefit with former Badgers skaters, 6:30 pm, 6/26, LaBahn Arena. $20 ($15 ages 2-18). 262-1440.
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Jackson Pollock, Convergence, 1952 (detail). Collection of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1956. © 2013 Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ Artists Rights Society, New York. Photograph by Tom Loonan.
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S PECI AL E V ENTS Friends of Pheasant Branch Celebration Day: 7 am2:30 pm, 6/27, Orchid Heights Park, Middleton, with guided bird walk 7 am, 10/5K run/walk 8 am ($25), kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities 11 am, picnic & music by Bluegrass Tea & Company noon, guided walks 1 pm; afterparty with music 4-7 pm, Capital Brewery. Free. www.pheasantbranch.org. Ghana Association of Madison Family Picnic: Annual event, 3-9 pm, 6/27, Garner Park. 422-9310.
Mad City Vegan Fest: Annual event, 10 am-5 pm, 6/27, Goodman Community Center, with food samples, speakers, cooking demonstrations, exhibits, raffle. Free admission. www.veganfest.org. 257-6333.
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The replacement for Madisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Rhythm & Booms festival has some big shoes to fill, so theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re bringing in some big feet: Shovels & Rope (above, 7 pm) is a critically acclaimed American folk duo that took the Emerging Artist of the Year award at the 2013 Americana Music Awards, and Charles Bradley (8:45 pm; see page 23) is a â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s-styled musician whose funk and soul prowess made him the subject of a 2012 documentary.
Sunday, June 28, Majestic Theatre, 8:30 pm
Harlem Renaissance Museum: Caitlin McGahan Trio, 7:30 pm. Harmony Bar: The Family Business, rock, 9:45 pm. High Noon Saloon: Dub Foundation with Red Rose, Perspective Heights, Kaahele, Tropical Riddims, 9 pm.
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Cold Fusion, Middleton: The Art Brothas, free, 9:30 pm.
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Claddagh, Middleton: Ian Gould, free (on the patio), 8 pm.
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Northside Family Independence Day: 10:30 am-3:30 pm, 6/27, Warner Park, with childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parade 11 am, kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; games & activities, nature walks 12:30 & 2:30 pm, pontoon boat rides 1:15 & 2:15 pm, music (at the shelter), food. Free admission. northsidemadison.org.
Brink Lounge: Johnny Likes Noize, rock, free, 9 pm.
Moondog Medicine Show
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Overture Center: Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, 7:30 pm.
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Mickey’s Tavern: Quarterbacks, Tarpaulin, free, 10 pm.
Christine Keleny: Discussing “Will the Real Carolyn Keene Stand Up?” her new book, 3 pm, 6/28, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.
David Landau: Family concert, $3, 5:30 pm, 6/29, Glass Nickel Pizza-Atwood Ave. 245-0880.
Taliesin-Hillside Theater, Spring Green: Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, 2:30 & 6:30 pm. True Coffee, Fitchburg: Andrew Tufano, Alex Carlson, Joel Campnell, Kayla Selvaag, folk/pop, 8 pm.
SP EC I A L EV EN TS Hava Nagila Jewish Community Picnic: Annual celebration, 10:30 am-1:30 pm, 6/28, Goodman Jewish Community Campus, Verona, with open swim, lawn games, kids’ activities, music, dancing, food & more. Free; all welcome. jewishmadison.org. 278-1808.
FUN D RAISERS Arts Darts Fundraiser Jam: Know Better Productions benefit, 10 am-4:30 pm, 6/28, High Noon Saloon, with art show (submissions RSVP: brian@kbprod.org), music by Ben Doran 10:30 am, Karen Wheelock 11:30 am, Untamed 12:45 pm, Joey Broyles 2:30 pm, Devil’s Share 4 pm, speakers, silent auction, dart/pool tourneys. $9 ($4 adv.). www.kbprod.org. 332-3763.
Jessepalooza: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation fundraiser in memory of Jesse Alswager, 3-10 pm, 6/28, Capital Brewery, Middleton, with kids’ activities, live animals from Zoozort, music by Honeyshot. Free/donations. www.jessepalooza.org.
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Stevan Mokranjac Serbian Dance Ensemble: With music by Old Serbian Sounds, 7 pm, 6/28, UW Memorial Union-Fredric March Play Circle. $20. 265-2787.
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With backgrounds ranging from former beauty queen to amateur sex therapist, and with work published in Playboy and adultswim.com, these six comics have performed all over the world, including spots at the coveted TBS “Just for Laughs” festival. Featuring Ali Clayton, Greg Bach, Phil Davidson, Liz Ziner, Geoffrey Asmus and host Ryan Mason.
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This Texas-raised country maverick has a smooth baritone, a honky-tonk vibe and a kiss-off song dedicated to Blake Shelton that includes the lyric “I’d rather be an old fart than a new country turd.” He’s also one of the most authentic performers on the stage today, alternating swigs of Lone Star beer with crowdpleasing tunes in his trademark “Ameripolitan” style. With Pearls Mahone.
Tuesday, June 30, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm
Cardinal Bar: DJs Equator Club, Stones, 9 pm.
Mezze: Charlie Painter and Friends, jazz, free, 9 pm. Up North Pub: Gin Mill Hollow, free, 8 pm.
Capital Brewery, Middleton: Madison Malone, 6 pm.
Warner Park: Midlife Crisis, free, 6 pm.
Capitol Square: The Mascot Theory, free, noon.
The Frequency: Hawking, Be The Young, Post Social, We Are The Wild Things, rock, 9 pm. High Noon Saloon: Circus Fires, Tesla’s Revenge, Lawsuit Models, 8 pm. Kiki’s House: Darren Hanlon, Marty Finkel (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com), 8 pm. Malt House: Tomb Mammals, Buried Valley Boys, Willie Jones, free, 7:30 pm.
Dale Watson & His Lone Stars Wednesday, July 1, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm
In the more than two decades since this alternative Christian metal group formed, they’ve sold more than 12 million records, received three Grammy nominations and inspired countless think pieces on the relationship between hard music and Christian values. Their latest album avoids the controversy altogether by eschewing rap-metal in favor of reggaederived acoustic tracks and theology-based lyrics. With Islander, From Ashes to New.
Come Back In: John Masino, free (patio), 5 pm.
Sunday, June 28, High Noon Saloon, 7:30 pm
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Earth Partnership for Families: “The World Underground,” drop-in activities, 12:30-3:30 pm, 6/28, UW Arboretum Visitor Center.
Babe’s: Carleen Wild Reunion Band, 6:30 pm.
Capital Comedy Show
tue june 30
Frequency: Clyde’s on Fire, The Matchsellers, 8:30 pm. High Noon Saloon: Eddie Ate Dynamite, 6 pm. Olbrich Gardens: Trapper Schoepp & the Shades, 7 pm. Up North Pub: The Lower Fifth, free, 8 pm.
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Crystal Corner Bar: The N’achos, jam, 8 pm. DreamBank: Wicker Crickets, rock, free, 5:30 pm. Mickey’s: Get Set, Matchless, Samantha Glass, 10 pm. Quaker Steak and Lube: Birddog Blues Band, 5:30 pm. Strictly Discs: Dale Watson, free, 5:30 pm.
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Pushmi-Pullyu Thursday, July 2, The Frequency, 8:30 pm
The brainchild of singer/songwriter and Mine All Mine Records founder John Praw Kruse, Pushmi-Pullyu pays close attention to sonic detail. A pop rock band with an experimental bent, the Madison act pairs sunny vocal melodies with ambient textures and varied instrumentation, giving guitars, keys and horns each a chance to speak and creating songs that breathe and grow. With Bailiff, William Z. Villain. Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Retro Specz, free, 6 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: John Masino, free, 9 pm. High Noon Saloon: The Lewis Brothers, free (on the patio), 6 pm; The Black Poets Society, Tim Yancey, DJ Vilas Park Sniper, hip-hop/soul, 9 pm. Immanuel Lutheran Church: Handbell Week Closing Concert, free/donations, 7 pm.
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Majestic Theatre: Midwest Jam Collective, New Speedway Players, Flowpoetry, free, 9 pm.
Wednesday, July 1, The Shitty Barn (Spring Green), 7 pm
Mr. Robert’s: The Melon Heads, free, 10 pm.
The five multi-instrumentalists of Cereus Bright came together in the Southern heartland of Knoxville, Tenn., to begin putting out energetic folk-rock akin to the Avett Brothers and the Head and the Heart. With the Sudden Lovelys.
Quaker Steak and Lube: Katie Scullin Band, 5:30 pm.
Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Get Up Get Down, free, 6 pm. Brink Lounge: Beth Kille, Jessi Lynn, 7 pm. Capitol Square: Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra’s Concerts on the Square, with guest vocalists Amanda Huddleston & Andrew Clark, free, 7 pm.
Nau-Ti-Gal: The Feralcats, free (on patio), 5:30 pm. UW Memorial Union: The Blackberry Bushes, 5 pm.
S PEC I A L EV EN TS Fireworks: 9:30 pm, 7/2, Elver Park, with park open for picnics 7 pm. 266-4711. National Women’s Music Festival: 40th annual event, 7/2-5, Marriott-West, Middleton, with workshops, films, silent auction. Headliners (7 pm): Thursday: Lucie Blue Tremblay, Tret Fure, Nedra Johnson, Alix Dobkin, Jamie Anderson, Kristin Lems. $340/weekend ($125-$75/day). wiaonline.org.
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Inspiration from the past Mes Amies brings back the almost forgotten concept of “the dress shop” BY TAMIRA MADSEN
Casey Plasch began filling her new boutique, Mes Amies, with dresses a couple weeks before the store’s opening. Soon potential customers were peeking in the window, asking if they could please buy a dress. Plasch simply couldn’t turn away a woman who was having difficulty finding a special outfit to celebrate her 40th birthday. “I let her come in and she did take something, and I told her we’d figure the price out later,” says Plasch. “She ended up getting a dress, was so excited, and it made her day.” Mes Amies (“my girlfriends” in French), a 1,400-square-foot boutique that officially opened its doors June 12, is one of a handful of new stores on the newly redeveloped open-air east-west plaza at Hilldale. It specializes in dresses inspired by vintage styles from the 1920s through the 1950s Plasch, 32, operated Mes Amies for three years in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood but began considering relocation. “In Chicago, it’s really hard to effectively run a small business,” says Plasch. “There’s not too much support from the neighborhoods and community.” She considered sites as far afield as Tennessee and Texas. But Hilldale’s expansion and the excitement of being associated with a corps of new tenants were persuasive reasons that drew her to Madison, as well as the fact that her mother moved to the area 13 years ago. “People are more laid-back, in general, and friendlier,” Plasch says of Madisonians. “They do have an appreciation for small business.” They also appreciate small, independent designers, she says. Plasch often wears pieces she stocks at Mes Amies, including dresses from Squasht MES AMIES
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Boutique, a collection by Lesley Timpe, who designs and handcrafts all her apparel in Chicago. She also tries to stock designers who have an eco-friendly focus. Stop Staring, Maggy London and Blue Platypus are some of the other dress lines at Mes Amies; the shop also carries tops, skirts, jewelry and scarves. Plasch says her customers range from teenagers to seniors. “That’s my favorite part of it — that it’s not a single type of customer. We have professionals of all kinds, from corporate to teachers.” Designs often feature the drop-waist styles of the 1920s, pin-up and structured dresses of the 1940s and circle skirts of the 1950s. Plasch says much of her inspiration comes from the 1950s. “That’s when women were going to dress stores, and you would come home with a dress box,” she says. “It was a big deal to shop.” n n
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Thanks to the May issue of the Union Labor News, we discovered the Algoma Net Company, makers of fine hammocks right here in Wisconsin and, moreover, made by members of United Food & Commercial Workers. The company is located in Algoma, a town of about 3,000 east of Green Bay on the shores of Lake Michigan; it produces traditional rope, fabric and quilted hammocks; hammockstyle swing chairs; seat cushions; butterfly-style chairs and camp chairs;
wood park benches; and a sport couch (essentially a fabric lawn chair loveseat). Rope hammocks come in polyester or cotton, single or double. (Some products are made outside of the United States, so check for the Made in USA label.) Algoma Net Company hammocks are for sale locally at Farm and Fleet, Kohl’s and Menards.
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Housing 3770 BIRCH TRAIL, CROSS PLAINS ‘Getting away from the hustle bustle’ is ridiculously easy if you own this beautiful soft contemporary, Prairie inspired, 3600 sq ft home: just 10 mins from Madison, with complete privacy and plenty of room to work, play, entertain. Gorgeous views of bucolic countryside from nearly every room! Interesting use of natural materials. Oversized garage with separate woodworking shop. Beautiful in every way! Did I say NO subdivision??? $549,000. MLS 1743154 PAT WHYTE 608-513-2200 5738 CEDAR PLACE, CRESTWOOD Open Sunday, June 28, 1-3 pm ‘The Bird House’ is what the sellers affectionately call their property: by keeping the land wild and natural they are inviting every bird that crosses Wisconsin to stop at this property! Lovely environmentally aware neighborhood emphasizes healthy life for humans and critters! Looking forward to meeting those of you with values compatible with living in the woods! Price? Being decided upon! PAT WHYTE 608-513-2200
Great rural properties to check out in Stoughton! Open Sunday 6/28! 1979 Williams Dr- Open 12-2. Contact Larry Eifert, Coldwell Banker Success. 608-206-1178 / 2614 County Road B- Open 1-3. Contact Jill Hocking, Pat’s Realty. 608-921-3305 / 201 Taylor Ln. Contact Ruth Wangerin, Keller Williams Realty. 608-444-5360. Lovely updated farmhouse, 2.2 acres near Stoughton. Private, mature lot w/fruit trees. Big-ticket items done, ready to move in. Open 6/28. Ruth Wangerin, Keller Williams Realty. 608-444-5360.
Buy-Sell-Exchange Matching people and property for over 20 years. Achieve your goals! Free consult. www.andystebnitz.com. Andy Stebnitz 608-692-8866 Restaino & Associates Realtors Fish on beautiful Rowleys Bay, on the quiet side, northern Door County. Kayak/canoe famous Mink River; stones throw from our private beach. Kayak/canoe rentals from our property. Swimming; fire-pits; modern, spacious, clean accommodations. COLES Rowleys Bay CABINS. 920-421-1257 rowleysbaycabins@gmail.com ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates.com! (AAN CAN)
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I am getting married to my partner next month. I’m super pumped. Her family is awesome and supportive. I’ve had a long back and forth with my family about the wedding — including inviting them and saying how much it would mean to me if they would come. I’m trying to be the bigger person, even though they have never been supportive of me as a queer person. I suspect some of them are not coming, as I got a pretty intense email from my sisterin-law about how my family can’t support my engagement because blah blah Catholic blah. Yesterday was the RSVP due date, and none of them have responded. So it is now to the point where I’m going to have to call and outright ask if they’re coming and potentially absorb all their rejection personally. Here’s the kicker: I found out through Facebook that my brother, who I used to think was my ally (he said that he and his GF were going to try to make it to
my wedding), is getting married seven days after we are! And he forgot to invite me?! So with this knowledge, what am I supposed to say when I call asking for RSVPs? Please Please Please Help You are not going to absorb your shitty family’s rejection personally, PPPH, because you are not going to call each and every shitty member of your shitty family to personally ask each individual shit if they’re coming to your wedding. The shits aren’t coming — adjust your seating charts accordingly. And you know what? You don’t want these shits at your wedding. You don’t want to see your shitty sister-in-law’s sour face when you look out at your guests. You don’t want to see your shitty brother’s face — the shit throws you noncommittal shitty scraps and then in a shit move fails to invite you to his own wedding — when you cut the cake. You want people at your wedding who love and support you, who love and support your relationship — and your shitty family has made it abundantly clear that they are incapable of loving and supporting you.
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My boyfriend and I have been together almost two months. Lately, he doesn’t seem that interested in investing in our relationship, but when I talk to him, he says the opposite. We are a bit long-distance (he lives an hour away). Two weeks ago, he went home to visit his parents. I was going to see him when he got back, but he said he wasn’t feeling well. Then last week, he went to his best friend’s wedding. Now he tells me he’s got to go back home this weekend to get his laptop. Through all this, his texting responses have gone down to where I am lucky to get a reply. If we are on the phone and the call drops, he doesn’t try to call me back, and he never answers when I call him back. I’m just trying to keep the lines of communication open, especially since we don’t see each other all the time, but he is making it difficult. What would be the best way to approach this? Boyfriend’s Absences Worry Lonely & Invested New Girlfriend
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Don’t call or text your boyfriend for two weeks. If he doesn’t call or text you in that time — and he won’t — then you cancel your three-month anniversary party. My hunch is that this relationship has been over for a while, BAWLING, but your boyfriend lacks the decency to put you out of your misery. Looking on the bright side: You won’t have to waste any of your money on a traditional three-month anniversary present — a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos — or any more of your time on this guy. n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or find him on Twitter at @fakedansavage on Twitter.
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It’s worse than that: Your shitty family has made it clear that they will seize any opportunity to wound you. So stop creating those opportunities. Don’t send any more invitations, don’t make any more phone calls, unfollow the fuckers on Facebook. Devote a week to grieving your loss — this kind of rejection is painful — and then resolve to focus on your wifeto-be, your education, your friends and your career. Focus on the life you and your fiancée are embarking on together. She’s your family now.
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