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Arrayed on the desk are eight fountain pens and one dip pen. Brad Bodart looks at his customer, then at the pens, and makes an offer: “We’re looking at $1,000.” The customer, Jim Long, knows his pens. He appreciates their quality, their beauty, their role in his life. A good fountain pen, he says, “makes the journey as enjoyable as the destination.” He relied on them from college until 2007, when he came to Madison to work as an urgent care physician. Then, electronic medical recordkeeping made them unneeded. But not unloved. “Can you bump it up a little?” asks Long. This is the first customer of Bodart’s second day of buying brand-name pens (no disposables) at the new Madison office of his business, Daly’s Pen Shop. On day one, he had 11 customers and bought 50 pens. But none were as special as what Long has brought in. Bodart, 49, was born with ink in his veins. He worked at his parents’ Wauwatosa store, Pen and Pad, buying out its only Milwaukee-area competitor, Daly’s, in 1999. His parents’ shop has since closed, and Daly’s has moved from downtown Milwaukee to that city’s north side. It is “America’s Oldest Pen Shop,” established in 1924. Daly’s sells dozens of brands of new fountain pens and 300 colors of bottled ink. Business is good, Bodart says: “We’ve been enjoying a resurgence of the under-30 crowd.” Most of the pens are priced under $50. Bodart also buys used pens, which he sells on the Internet and to collectors. “I love the hunt of a pen,” he says. Last fall, a customer came in with a first-edition 1927 Parker Senior Mandarin Yellow pen with apparent original handpainting, the only one of its kind in the world. The find drew a three-page spread in the March issue of Pen World magazine. Bodart has offered it for sale at $2,995. Now Bodart is reaching out to pen sellers in Madison, through newspaper ads. His office in the Clock Tower Office Park on the city’s west side is open Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Bodart weighs Long’s question about bumping up the price. “Where would you like to be?” he asks. Long answers: “Twelve hundred dollars?” There is a long pause. Bodart sells the pens he buys at only about a 30% markup, so he can’t offer too much. But he really wants these pens. “I can probably do $1,100,” he says. Earlier, before making an offer, Bodart asked Long if any of the pens had sentimental value. Yes, Long answered, they all do. There is the dip pen, from the late 1800s, still in its original box. It belonged to Long’s grandfather, passed on to his father, and then to him. It’s not worth much despite being old because dip pens, Bodart explains, involve a complicated three-step process: “Dip in ink, write sentence, repeat.”
Brad Bodart owns “America’s oldest pen shop,” Daly’s, which was established in Milwaukee in 1924. It now has a Madison location.
There is a Waterman Edson, two Pelikans, a Montblanc Meisterstuck LeGrand 146, a Pilot from Japan, a Montegrappa from Italy, a Limited Edition Montblanc and a Parker 51 Special Edition. None are terribly old, but some cost hundreds of dollars. Most valuable is the Limited Edition Montblanc, honoring the writer Marcel Proust, numbered 1,570 of just 2,100 worldwide. Some were gifts from Long’s children, some gifts to himself. Long says these “beautiful writing instruments” often served as a conversation starter with patients. They represent a connection to history, and to his own past. And yes, he’s kept a couple for himself. “Okay,” says Long. Before writing the check, Bodart makes a promise: “I’ll find good homes for them.” n
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Housing the homeless Salvation Army expansion hits roadblocks BY JOE TARR
When Darcia Bell-Roosevelt moved to Madison in September 2012, she was trying to get her family out of a bad neighborhood in Chicago. “I knew I needed a change of scenery,” she says. “To run your daughter to school because they’re out there shooting at 7 in the morning is really bad.” But at first, Madison wasn’t any better. The family was unable to stay where they had hoped so Bell-Roosevelt, her fiancé and daughter were all out on the streets. “We came with $20 in our pockets and had nowhere to lay our heads,” remembers Bell-Roosevelt, 33. “I thought, for the rest of my life this is where I’ll be, going from house to house and car to car.” The family found a lifeline at the Salvation Army on East Washington Avenue. The Salvation Army offered more than just beds. “The first thing they had to do was calm me down. I had never been to a shelter before, and I had my daughter,” she says. “They calmed me down and let me know that anybody could [end up] here.” The organization then outlined the steps needed “to get out of here, and be in a stable situation,” she recalls.
By that December, the family had found an apartment. Bell-Roosevelt now works for the Salvation Army, helping other families get on their feet. The Salvation Army would like to improve its facilities, with a major renovation and expansion of its East Washington Avenue shelter. But plans are in limbo as the organization works its way through the city planning process. The Salvation Army of Dane County currently operates two facilities, its shelters at 630 E. Washington Ave. and a facility at 3030 Darbo Drive, where it offers community services. The group had intended to sell the East Washington property — where a development boom is currently under way — and use the proceeds to help pay for expansion and consolidation at the Darbo location, says Brad Zeman, one of the group’s board members. “We don’t need to be on East Washington Avenue,” Zeman says. “We need to be in a neighborhood where we can serve people. We’re willing to forgo that prime real estate.” However, the city dissuaded the Salvation Army from this plan, he says. “The mayor felt we were best suited for East Washington Avenue. There was a change in the zoning code [at
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60 units of supportive housing for women in its parking lot behind the East Washington building, at an unknown cost. The organization is eying a fall 2016 groundbreaking, although plans are still being developed. It plans on applying for tax credits from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) next year. But the expansion is happening without a major fundraising campaign, he says. The reason, Zeman says, is that it would take too long. “It would take us two or three years to get that [campaign] into motion,” he says. “We feel we don’t have time to wait.” Instead, board members are looking for wealthy donors — either individuals or companies — to help pay for the project. Erdman has been meeting with Salvation Army officials to help shepherd the project, which will likely need a special conditional-use permit. Zellers — whose district includes the East Washington site — says that she supports the Salvation Army’s mission and agrees there’s clearly a need for more affordable housing. However, she says some in the neighborhood have concerns about the expansion and that she cannot support it until she learns more details. “[Expansion] would have to be done with good communications with the neighborhood, some reassurances about management and how that would go forward,” she says. “Until many, many things are done, I can’t say ‘yes, go ahead.’” Before she needed the Salvation Army’s help, Bell-Roosevelt didn’t know much about the organization or what it did. “It was amazing to me when I came down here and saw they were actually willing to help,” she says. Two weeks ago, the Salvation Army took a simple step to help boost its profile, by painting its building in its iconic red, a step to broadcast its presence to the city. “We see ourselves as the quiet nonprofit. People only know us for the kettle campaign,” Zeman says. “We’ve always been really quiet about our mission and realized we need to be more vocal.” n
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Workers broke ground earlier this month on a first-of-its-kind supportive housing comHomelessness can happen to anyone. plex on Madison’s east side that will provide It’s a lesson Gina Watanabe learned in studio apartment homes and supportive ser2012 after her husband of eight years — a vices for the chronically homeless, including military man — developed schizophrenia. at least 25 veterans. The four-story, 60-unit When the marriage ended, she and her building behind the Aloha Inn on Rethke Avthree young children had to leave the army enue will be ready for occupants by early next base in Colorado where they had been livyear and will provide onsite mental health ing. They moved in with Watanabe’s aging and case management services. The project involves the combined remother in her small apartment in Middlesources of the city of Madison, Dane County ton, but the arrangement didn’t last. “When we left my mom’s place, we had and the Wisconsin Housing and Economic nowhere to go,� Watanabe says. “We were Development Authority, as well as Heartland completely homeless.� Housing, Heartland Health Outreach, U.S. For about a year, the family of four lived Bank, BMO Harris, the Federal Home Loan out of their car and on friends’ floors and Bank of Chicago, the Home Depot Foundacouches around the Madison area. Sometion and Enterprise Community Partners. The Rethke project is the first of several times Watanabe would drive all night while Housing First developments on the children slept, looking for a the horizon. Dane County has safe place to park. She would drop earmarked $2 million in funds for her oldest children, now ages 8 housing initiatives and is in the and 9, off at school in the morning midst of a request-for-proposal — often in clothes they had been process focusing on affordable wearing for days. During the day, rental housing, more cooperative she passed time in the car with her housing and transitional housing youngest daughter, now 3, singing for criminal offenders reentering songs and playing games. “We weren’t living day-tosociety. day,� she says. “We were living   “This is part of a comprehensive approach that we have on so many minute-to-minute.� Watanabe tried looking for levels,� Dane County Executive Joe part-time jobs that offered child Parisi says. “There’s no one solucare, but a medical condition simtion, and no one entity can handle ilar to narcolepsy makes it difficult it by themselves.� ALLISON GEYER   Brenda Konkel, a housing activfor her to be a reliable employee. ist and homeless advocate, calls She briefly went back to school for Gina Watanabe and her children Paisley, Toby and Autumn the momentum behind Housing legal studies and was doing well in (from left) are off the streets thanks to Housing First. First the “biggest step in the right her classes until her ex-husband found out where the family was living and Council on Homelessness. Individuals in per- direction� that the city has taken in addressattempted to get custody of the children. manent housing with supportive services cuts ing homelessness in the last 20 years. But more work is needed. Unable to afford a lawyer, Watanabe put the cost to about $20,000 per year. her legal skills to work. She got to keep her Mayor Paul Soglin has long been a proponent “For Housing First to work, a lot of things children, but her resources were exhausted. of Housing First, adopting various elements of have to come together,� she cautions. “This “The more we tried to hold on,� she re- the model over the last several years as the city can’t just be the homeless service providcalls, “the more it all fell apart.� invested in affordable housing initiatives. ers. This really has to be the hospitals, the As the nights started getting colder, But Soglin says a number of factors prevent landlords, the mental health, alcohol and Watanabe panicked. She checked into a fully implementing a Housing First approach drug treatment providers.� shelter at the Road Home Dane County here — the difficult of acquiring closed-out For Watanabe, the local commitment to and learned of its one-year program that funding from tax incremental funding (TIF) Housing First has helped her family achieve provides homeless families with rent as- districts, the challenge of getting tax credits in a sense of security and community in their sistance and supportive case management place and the process of reviewing developers new home near South Towne Mall. Their neat, sunny apartment overlooks a courtyard services. Rapid Rehousing is a collabora- and submissions. tion with YWCA Madison, the Salvation Beyond the administrative challenges, local jungle gym where the kids can play. WataArmy and the United Way of Dane County. efforts to combat homelessness have focused nabe loves the privacy and freedom that It follows the Housing First model — an on supporting individuals living on the streets comes from finally having her own space. evidence-based approach to combating and operating temporary shelters, Soglin says. They are just getting settled in — the homelessness that has proven successful “The strategy of supporting people on the kids still need dressers, and a stack of family in numerous communities nationwide. It’s streets without effective rules has two impacts photos is sitting on a coffee table waiting to that are adverse,� Soglin says. “First, it attracts be hung on the walls. Other belongings rea model that’s now gaining traction here. the chronically homeless, very troubled people main packed in bags — a remnant of shelter The Housing First approach focuses on to the city; and second, it’s contrary to what we living, Watanabe says. She’s not sure where the family will be in a year, but when the getting people into stable, permanent know are the effective practices.� Road Home program ends, she knows she’ll housing as quickly as possible while providing comprehensive services to support But Housing First efforts gained momentum have a good reference. them as they get back on their feet. With- this summer, with city and county officials “For now, it feels awesome,� Watanabe out the stress of life on the streets or in a partnering with state, federal and private part- says, seated in her new living room. “We feel safe.� n shelter and with a support system in place, ners to build new facilities. people are better equipped to recover from the challenges that led them to homelessness in the first place. The United Way was the first local agency to adopt a Housing First approach, about eight years ago, says Martha Cranley, the United Way’s Housing First coordinator. And the program is a success — close to 80% of families are able to stay housed after the program ends, and more than 70% after the second year. “That’s really tremendous for any kind of practice,� Cranley says. The approach also has fiscal benefits. Numerous studies have shown that providing housing for the homeless is actually less expensive for taxpayers. 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Gov. Scott Walker files papers with the Federal Election Commission to establish his presidential campaign committee. The big announcement is expected July 13.
Liberals and conservatives briefly unite in outrage over proposed changes that would have gutted state open records laws.
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Walker welcomes President Barack Obama to Wisconsin with a smile and a handshake and then proceeds to troll POTUS on social media. Art Fair on the Square is back this weekend for its 57th year. RYAN MYERS
Independence Day celebrations at Memorial Union Terrace are cut short after police get a call about a possible gunman at Helen C. White library.
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n WEEK IN REVIEW WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 n More than half of Wis-
consin’s 424 public schools will receive less state aid next school year, according to estimates from the Department of Public Instruction. Crystal ball says this trend is likely to continue.
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mittee approves a provision that drastically scales back the state’s open records law, making it harder for the public to oversee the legislative process. GOP members push the measure through right before the July 4 holiday weekend. Way to honor democracy.
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tially repeal Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law, exempting up to 90% of public projects. Disagreement on prevailing wage, or the minimum salary for construction workers on public projects, had waylaid the budget process for more than five weeks.
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Disrupting gender norms Nudging girls toward STEM careers BY ADAM POWELL
Ellen Weaver immediately took to technology when she was a girl. “It all started with the Atari 2600,” remembers Weaver, now in her early 40s. “Then we got a Commodore 64, and I could write and play games with my siblings.” Weaver, now an IT manager at CUNA Mutual Group, found her way into a technology career despite rigid gender roles that continue to this day. “This all happened at home,” Weaver says. “Back then there was no one in school encouraging me to learn about technology.” American culture continues to cling to antiquated notions concerning gender-appropriate interests for young people. As a result, there remains a depressing male/female imbalance in careers related to STEM. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math. Those areas traditionally skew male, the result of generations of cultural norms that push boys towards LEGO and girls towards... LEGO hair salons and shopping malls. That is changing. It’s widely recognized that these are the “fields of the future,” fulfilling critical needs for the next generation of Americans. In February 2013, President Barack Obama announced a program to assist educators in getting more girls interested in STEM careers. “We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields and that means that we’ve got a whole bunch of talent...not being encouraged the way they need to,” Obama said. Despite this presidential push, Wisconsin women continue to lag behind their male counterparts in STEM at advanced levels, according to the 2014 Status of Girls in Wisconsin report by the Alverno College Research Center for Women and Girls. “Unfortunately, with societal standards and expectations, young girls tend to avoid STEM-related careers,” says Katie Cook of UW-Madison’s Society of Women Engineers. “This is upsetting to me, a female undergraduate at UW-Madison. When I was in ele-
mentary school, engineering was not even on my radar for a dream job. But once I took a design and construction class in middle school, I was hooked. Young girls do not know that topics like thermodynamics, fluids and circuits even exist, but once they simply ask ‘how does that work?’ or ‘why does that happen?’ they may become fascinated. It really depends on what career resources a child has when growing up.” It will take a sustained effort to unbend the warping of gender expectations. But in Madison, corrections are under way. Many girls feel more encouraged to pursue a degree in engineering after attending Engineering Tomorrow’s Careers Summer Camp, Cook says. This weeklong camp, which just wrapped up, is organized by two members of the UW-Madison Society of Women Engineers. It puts 80 high school girls together with professors from the College of Engineering and STEM-related company representatives, who discuss their experiences. “At camp, being surrounded by other girls and looking up to successful female engineering students makes engineering look more realistic,” Cook says. And Madison resident Kacie Conroy will be hosting a forum at the UW-Whitewater Cybergirlz tech camp, a free day camp for sixth, seventh and eighth grade girls on July 22. “The camp gives middle school girls the ability to see what IT actually is and understand all the great career opportunities,” she says. “We see a nearly 75% spike in interest just by having a one-hour conversation.” Beyond summer programs, the UW Precollege Program operates year-round. It offers field trips and afterschool programs — a search function helps people find specific programs they’re looking for. At Edgewood College, STEM is the watchword for Pathways to Satisfaction: A Girls Journey, which concentrates on putting high-risk females on track for a post-secondary education. The Kennedy Heights Girls Inc. Operation SMART program operates various after-school programs for girls — with a special focus on low- and middle-income girls — each tackling a different area of STEM. n
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After Walker loses, then what? BY DAVE CIESLEWICZ Dave Cieslewicz is the former mayor of Madison. He blogs as Citizen Dave at Isthmus.com.
God has, apparently, spoken. Gov. Scott Walker has said that he has been waiting for the Almighty — and the Joint Finance Committee — to tell him if and when he should run for president. Last week Walker filed papers with the Federal Elections Commission indicating his intention to take the plunge, with a formal announcement planned for Monday. It’s not clear whether God has totally decided or if He might change His mind in the next few days. If you pray, you might want to put in a word with Him before it’s too late. In a sense it doesn’t matter. There is no chance that Scott Walker will be the next president of the United States and, in fact, little chance that the eventual GOP nominee (I’ll bet on Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio) can win. The big demographic glacier moves inexorably to make the nation blue in presidential years, and the Republicans have sealed their fate with their treatment of Hispanic Americans. Thank you, Donald Trump. If you’re a Democrat, don’t get too smug about this. The party gets pasted in the off-years because its voters just don’t bother to show up when there’s no presidential race. That’s why the GOP controls Congress and a record number of statehouses. Back to Walker. It looks to me like he’s not running for president at all, but for the second spot on the ticket. By remaking himself into the candidate of the far right he hopes to force the ultimate nominee to take him on the ticket in order to placate the base and increase enthusiasm. But that means he has to win Iowa to establish himself as the real thing, and I would
not put my money on him. He peaked too soon and made a heavy bet on that state, dominated by very conservative Evangelical Christian caucus goers. In order to capture those votes he moved too far to the right to make him electable in a general election, and the big-money GOP establishment recognizes that. Moreover, in doing whatever it takes to win Iowa, he changed his positions on too many hot button issues. People who are against gay marriage and immigration want their candidates to have been against them always and forever, not just since the guy won his last gubernatorial election. Walker’s Republican opponents have been pointing out his flips and flops on issues that you would think should be part of the man’s core values, and they’ll continue to do so. With everything wagered on Iowa, Walker has to win there. If he doesn’t, he’ll be gone immediately thereafter.
So what do you do with a governor after he stops being a viable national figure? The man displays no interest in actually being governor of Wisconsin. To make matters worse, his approval ratings are worse than ever, and he’s burned every bridge he ever had with the Republican majorities in the Legislature. Among many other things, they resent the fact that he put them in a terrible box on the transportation budget and then refused to offer them any way out. What the Democrats need to be thinking about right now is how to navigate the postWalker era. He’ll either resign before his term
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ends in order to cash out at Fox News and on the speaker circuit or he just won’t run for a third term in 2018. He has left so much damage in his wake — with the lowest job growth in the Midwest, we are among the top 10 states people are moving out of — that it shouldn’t be hard for a Democrat to win back the governor’s office then. But it will be. Back in the late 1960s, Democrats joined Republicans in deciding to place the gubernatorial election in between presidential years. They did it for a noble reason — they wanted the public to focus on Wisconsin, not who the next national leader would be. But that has proved a fatefully bad deal for the Democrats. Liberal voters just vanish in the off-years, leaving the election to an older, whiter and more conservative electorate. That’s how a blue state votes twice for Barack Obama and yet elects Scott Walker and an overwhelmingly conservative Legislature. So the great project for the Democratic Party is not so much winning the presidency. That will happen and her name will be Hillary Clinton. No, the big task for Democrats is to figure out how to get their voters to the polls in every election and how to win back some white male voters whose economic interests align with the party’s policies. I have no doubt that God has a wonderful plan for Walker, but it involves getting rich on the lecture circuit, not leading the free world. The more interesting question is if the Democrats can find a way to win his office back and start rebuilding the state he has all but destroyed. n
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“The Flowers Are Burning” is a collaborative exhibit by painters Helen Klebesadel (left) and Mary Kay Neumann.
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saw hundreds of sunflower starfish in the West Coast tide pools she’s been visiting for two decades. “So many that you had to step carefully around them, even on the rocks,” says Neumann, over a glass of red wine with her fellow artist-activist, Helen Klebesadel. “This last time, I didn’t see even one starfish,” Neumann says, recounting a spring visit to the once-thriving habitat on Vancouver Island. “They are dying in the millions.” “Like the bees and the passenger pigeons,” adds Klebesadel. “The loss of keystone species at the top of the food chain is one of the most threatening consequences when nature is falling out of balance. Things we love are disappearing.” Neumann and Klebesadel have collaborated on an exhibit of watercolor paintings that is a life-affirming, luminous response to the catastrophe of climate change. “The Flowers Are Burning: Incandescent Watercolors” opened July 3 at the Overture
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Center’s Playhouse Gallery. The painters call their approach “a distilling” that uses beauty to inspire change. The large-scale, color-saturated paintings in “The Flowers Are Burning” are teeming with detailed and softly blended and blurred flowers, photorealist birds, bees, fire and fields that glow at times like a candy-bright collage. The result is a dazzling and sumptuous display of masterful technique and draftsmanship. The works are float-mounted under museum glass in natural cherry wood shadow boxes. The paintings are for sale, and the artists have pledged 10% of the profits to environmental activist organizations. The exhibit is built to travel, the artists say, and they are negotiating with other venues. “We want people who see our work to think about what they love in nature that is also disappearing,” says Klebesadel. “To stop and pause and notice.”
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just spent much of the day working with gallery staff on the lighting and other technical details of the exhibit. It’s been raining all afternoon, but inside Barriques, just off the Capitol Square, the mood is cozy and convivial. Even though our conversation “ice breaker” is about the alarming global loss of biodiversity and its multiple causes, from acidification of the oceans to fossil fuel emissions and myriad forms of pollution, Klebesadel says that “hopefulness for change, not gloom and doom” is at the heart of the philosophy she shares with Neumann. She cites her ethereal “Prairie Fire,” a dramatic dazzler in vibrant flowing yellows, reds and lapis lazuli-hard blues, as an example of this duality. “The fire, which can be frightening and destructive, is also restorative. We’re bringing a sense of purpose and of the possible to the table, too.”
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“Prairie Fire II” by Helen Klebesadel: “The fire, which can be frightening and destructive, is also restorative.” Neumann underscores this with a favorite quote from the writer Charles Eisenstein: “The more beautiful world our hearts know is possible,” a sentiment representing the life-blood of their ambitious aims and fire-charged brushes. “The Flowers Are Burning” consists of 15 paintings, individual works and some that Neumann and Klebesadel painted together. They are the result of two years of intense exploration of their natural, organic subjects and of the nature of their artistic collaboration. This is their first exhibit together. Both Madison artists have painted and shown their work separately for well over a decade. In addition to continuing their solo works, they plan to build on their collaboration in the future. And they emphasize they want to show this exhibit as widely as possible, in the hopes of inspiring action. Klebesadel, 62, also has paintings currently on exhibit at the Yahara River Gallery on Winnebago Street, in a new group show called “Dream.” For nearly 20 years she showed regularly at the Grace Chosy Gallery on Monroe Street, which closed in 2013 after 34 years. Neumann, 60, had her very first solo exhibit around the time she met Klebesadel in 2005. Klebesadel taught (and still teaches, after 18 years) a weeklong watercolor course at Bjorklunden (Swedish for “birch grove of the lake”) on Lake
Michigan in Door County, affiliated with Lawrence University, where she chaired the art department for 10 years. It was during that idyllic summertime arts workshop that the artists’ friendship was sparked. “Mary Kay impressed me with her courage to break out of traditional forms with watercolor,” Klebesadel says. “She wanted to go in this free-flowing, expressive direction that struck me. Generally, if I like the art, I like the person.” For Neumann, Klebesadel’s reputation preceded her. “Helen has helped and supported so many artists, and is so respected as a community builder, I just wanted to stay in touch with her,” she says. Klebesadel helped Neumann with her 2005 exhibit and has been a close colleague ever since. “She helped me build confidence in trusting my own eye and to think about the overall theme of the show and what I was trying to convey,” says Neumann. The artists, both avid gardeners, now live four blocks from one another and have developed bonds with their families, circle of friends and even their pets.
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that they find integral to their beliefs and their art. Klebesadel currently serves as director of the Women and Gender Studies Consortium at the UW System and the Wisconsin Regional Art Program at UW Continuing Studies. “My art making is one
of the ways I think about the issues I am concerned with and start to give those thoughts form in the larger world,” says Klebesadel. “My jobs allow me to help other people to do the same.” In addition to serving in those leadership positions, her popular watercolor workshops have taken her across the United States, up to Alaska and down to Texas. Neumann is a psychotherapist specializing in trauma. She pioneered a womancentered practice 27 years ago “when there was no other place doing that.” She says the challenges of working with vulnerable and wounded people have given her greater faith in the human spirit, which she expresses in her art. “The resilience of human beings is always inspiring to me,” she says. “Pain can be transformed.” The artists say their professional partnership began during a point of difficulty in their respective approaches to their art. Each of them found themselves at an impasse, “stuck” on paintings that they weren’t sure how to complete. But as a result, a breakthrough occurred. Though they had known one another since that meeting in Door County in 2005, they both felt shy about sharing difficult work — especially works in progress — with a painter working in the same medium. After overcoming that initial wariness, they found they shared a passion for justice and a deep feminist perspective (“Let’s get the F-word in there,” Klebesadel says
wryly). They also found they could help each other grow as artists. After exchanging, adding to and sometimes completing details in each other’s individual paintings, they struck on the idea of creating some purely collaborative works. “We wanted to paint great big bright flowers with the vividness of Van Gogh’s sunflowers, with the same kind of emotional impact and visual power,” Neumann says, citing Vincent Van Gogh as one of her primary influences. She has studied and reread his voluminous letters for years. “I won’t say obsessively,” she says, laughing, “...but with something like that.” Klebesadel says that choosing flowers as a key subject is also a conscious, femi-
nist approach. Despite the renown of such exquisite flower painters as Van Gogh and Rembrandt (to name only two among hundreds of men), women who painted flowers were often dismissed as decorative dabblers, she says. Even the now-globally acclaimed works of Sun Prairie area-born artist Georgia O’Keefe, and her revolutionary bursting red poppies and blue-limned white jimson weeds, were initially dismissed by the stuffy guardians of the art world. Neumann also cites the German expressionist Emil Nolde (1867-1956) as a major influence on her approach to color and form. Both artists name the Canadian painter Emily Carr (1871-1945) as a beloved touchstone. It’s easy to see why. Carr produced swoon-worthy paintings in
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environmental disasters — from floods in Texas to drought in California — there are signs of hope, including Pope Francis’ stinging encyclical on climate change, “Laudato Si.” With this plea he brings unprecedented moral pressure to bolster the scientific conclusions showing that human actions have consequences, large and small. It brings attention to the larger economic policy issues, such as the dominance of the fossil fuel industry, but also the choices individuals can make to reduce their carbon footprints. Beginning in 2013, Neumann and Klebesadel began to devote their painting hours to this personal approach to the Big Problem, focusing on the impact on the natural world around us. The direct and positive approach befits these warm, funny, down-toearth women. (“I’m a Wisconsin farm girl,” Klebesadel says. “I still go back to the farm, in the Driftless Area of Southwestern Wisconsin where I grew up.”) The work soon began pouring out, both in solo paintings and collaborations. And given that both women were used to working alone, it was a surprisingly genial process: “It flowed,” Klebesadel says. “It’s a pleasure.” When they collaborate, one starts a painting and the other adds or makes changes. Along the way, they discuss the process and product. Importantly, they grant each other veto power on all the collaborative paintings. And what happens when they disagree, as happens in any joint creative enterprise? “I’m a detail freak,” Klebesadel says to me, shooting a glance at Neumann. “You have to trust each other,” Neumann says. “We worked hard,” Neumann says. “Some of the paintings didn’t cut the mustard. But when it’s flowing the moments are so transcendent.” Klebesadel adds: “Collaboration is a metaphor for what we all have to do if we’re going to save our world, and ourselves.” n
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A new documentary looks at the tragic life of soul diva Amy Winehouse with Britain’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and she cites jazz singers like Bennett and Dinah Washington as influences. But later she declared jazz elitist, and she embraced a robust retro-soul sound on her breakthrough work, the 2006 album Back to Black. She was a gifted, inventive lyricist, and Kapadia pays fitting attention to her songwriting. When her songs are played, her words flash on the screen. The camera lingers over verses she scrawled in notebooks. She says, ominously, “I write songs because I’m fucked up in the head and I need to get it out.” At one point, Winehouse utters a throwaway line about her writing craft — and it lingers with me: “You have to remember what his neck smells like.” There is a paradox here. Addicts tend not to be good at self-examination, but Winehouse clearly knew how to draw on vivid experiences for her songs about disap-
pointment, uncertainty, defiance. Given her songwriting prowess, I’m disappointed that over the course of this 128-minute film, we don’t hear one song in its entirety. Her best-known song was the jaunty single “Rehab.” Its lyrics seemed impish and funny in 2006: “They tried to make me go to rehab, and I said no, no, no.” Now they make us cringe, because Amy mainly is a film about addiction and its horrific costs. At one point Winehouse describes her first apartment, and the freedom of living on her own. “I could get up and smoke weed all day,” she says gleefully, and that also makes us cringe. We learn when she first tried crack. We note the first mention, in passing, of heroin. At one point she spent six months on the Caribbean
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Near the end of the documentary Amy, the troubled pop star Amy Winehouse records a duet with Tony Bennett. She is subdued, apparently sober — and impatient. She was an ardent Bennett fan, but in the studio with him, she can’t record a take she likes. Bennett is warm and supportive, and in his presence she looks girlish, shy, respectful. The sequence is moving because we know, too well, that a few months after this 2011 session, she died of alcohol poisoning at age 27. The film provides ample, painful evidence that her life was in chaos. She struggled with drugs, alcohol and bulimia. The paparazzi hounded her. Amid her difficulties, she canceled shows and melted down onstage. But in the Bennett sequence, we see an exacting
artist applying her skill. Her voice was a remarkable instrument, and being in the studio with her idol seems to inspire her to work hard. “She was a natural, a true jazz singer,” Bennett says. An accomplished, devastating film, Amy was directed by Asif Kapadia, whose previous feature documentary, Senna, chronicled another too-brief life, that of Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna. In Amy, Kapadia combines off-screen interviews with footage from Winehouse’s life. We hear from her mother and father and her soft-spoken husband, Blake Fielder. Friends share tearful remembrances. We hear from Nick Shymansky, Winehouse’s first manager, who remarks on her capriciousness: “She could make you feel so important, and then so unimportant,” he says. Winehouse had a complex relationship with jazz. At the beginning of the film, we hear an early recording of her singing “Moon River”
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I can’t think of an area restaurant that has bigger, more visible exterior signage than Waypoint Public House — which makes sense, because it’s one of the most difficult restaurants to access in the Madison metro. You can see it from the Beltline, but drivers have to head down Broadway, then find Lottes Lane to actually reach it. Once you’re in the Tresta apartment parking lot, walk the path along the water; Waypoint is the last storefront on the left. Thanks to the chops of its operators, though, Waypoint makes the navigation worth it. Waypoint is the newest restaurant from the team that brought the Free House to Middleton and Flying Hound to Fitchburg. Their experience is reflected in Waypoint’s excellent bar and tap list, and it should draw diners to the Broadway area of Monona. The bar is an obvious centerpiece, three sides of a rectangle dominating the dining space. A fan of liquor and cocktails won’t leave disappointed, but like Free House and Flying Hound, Waypoint’s impressive tap list is the focus. Among the early offerings was this year’s Central Waters Peruvian Morning bourbon barrel-aged coffee stout, and the list of 30 taps has since been punctuated with other highlights like Bell’s Le Contrebassiste (a lightly tart bière de garde) and Ballast Point’s Habanero Sculpin IPA. The menu includes a list of upcoming beers, always nice for the repeat customer.
With the exception of its brunch menu, Waypoint’s kitchen doesn’t step too far outside of the sandwich and salad zone. Appetizers take up a lot of real estate, both on the printed menu and on the plate. A smoked pork quesadilla’s physical presence practically says stuffed pizza; the pork is above average, and both onions and sliced jalapeños deliver a punch to clear out the rich, fatty flavors. Our server asked if we were saving room for dinner when it looked like our excellent pimento cheese dip was moving slowly. (We were, but it also happens to come in a deep ramekin, and it’s not light fare to begin with.) I saw a plate of nachos go by that looked like a science fair model volcano. Portion size is usually generous, almost to a fault. A walleye po’boy was more like po’boys, plural; a nearly foot-long baguette halved, with each half containing a whole walleye fillet, is about twice as big as the order needs to be. If the fish hadn’t been a touch overcooked, I might have been happier about the bounty. Tilapia tacos show promise, but the crispness of the batter is undermined by too much wet pineapple salsa and not enough shredded cabbage. From the lengthy salad menu, a pickled beet and goat cheese salad was dominated by a mass of greens. Even the side salads overrun the plate. However, an avocado BLT and a deviled egg and bacon sandwich were surprisingly skimpy. The brunch menu is substantial. There are 11 items, six of which come with greens or excellent fried potatoes, tossed in a sriracha-
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Imagine a hybrid between a ramped-up witbier, an India Pale Ale and a lager. Historically witbiers were made with spices, before hops became a common component in beer. Today’s versions are still far from hoppy. But this beer, though inspired by the wit, features a unique blend of hops that lends it a distinctive bitterness, and it’s fermented with a lager yeast. The blend of hops is reminiscent of a white IPA, and includes U.S.-grown Amarillo and the more hard-to-find Nelson Sauvignon, a New Zealand variety. With its light fruity orange flavor, this beer goes great with a mild feta cheese and a fruit plate. Add a wafer or cracker that’s made with black pepper to discover the coriander and crisp hoppy dryness coming through. This beer comes off initially as light, but at 7% ABV, this is not a lawn-mower beer. There’s a lot going on, so pay attention to the crisp fruitiness of orange combining with the grape winelike flavors of the Nelson Sauvignon hops and the dry hop finish. Blister in the Sun sells in four-packs for about $8-$9.
Up to 2,000 tickets at $40 each will be available online; each comes with a commemorative glass and two drink tickets, good for one 6-ounce sample of the Imperial Stout (one for the Belgian style, the other for the British). The only way to buy bottles of the beer will be with an additional $40 ticket (online, advance only) that buys a 22-ounce bottle of each brew, available for pickup at the event. The Ferment Dissent party will feature other Ale Asylum beers on tap, including many aged and vertical flights; these are paid for by the pour. The headlining musical group will be the Reverend Horton Heat.
Back to the stone age Wisconsin Brewing Company, 1079 American Way, Verona, will host Depth Charge on July 12 beginning at 11 am. This event celebrates the old method of brewing called Stein Bier, in which the wort is boiled by tossing in a superheated rock. Here, after being heated in an outdoor fire pit, the stones will be dropped by crane. The rock drop happens at 1 pm. The
Will there be Dissent? This is the beer event that’s so big it had to be pushed from June to August for more planning. It’s the first go-round for what is expected to become a major annual Madison beer release party for Ale Asylum. “Ferment Dissent” will be held Aug. 29; tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on July 13 through aleasylum.com. The party will mark the brewery’s release of its Russian Imperial Stout, a robust, full-bodied style made for the czars of Russia in the 18th century. Brewmaster Dean Coffey has made two versions of this big (10% ABV), boldly flavored brew. One is called Impending Descent, a traditional take on the style made with British yeast. The other is Impending Dissent, made with Belgian yeast.
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When she returned home, she read The New French Baker and perfected author Sheila Linderman’s three-page recipe for chocolate caramels. “The caramels were amazing. I just kept remaking them and serving them at parties and potlucks, and realized I really liked making chocolates.” International chocolates and beans are a priority for Hile, who participated in a seven-week internship in Ecuador during a master’s program with Ecole Chocolat, a professional chocolatier program based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She strives to create intriguing flavor profiles to challenge a person’s palate, and uses organic dairy and other natural ingredients in recipes. One treat she’s particularly proud of is a Hawaiian chocolate ganache with mission figs soaked in tawny port wine. Another, spotlighted in the summer share, is Hawaiian lavender ganache, with a Venezuelan and Ecuadorian chocolate blend on the outside. Says Hile: “I really like to see the joy on somebody’s face when they eat a chocolate.” n
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The future of Futpong Madison soccer coach invents addicting new skills game BY MICHAEL POPKE
Two newly replaced sidewalk squares in the 2600 block of Chamberlain Avenue on Madison’s west side served as the inspiration for “Futpong,” a new skills-based game that former soccer player and coach Curt Bjurlin thinks could become a nationwide sensation. In fact, he’s midway through a Kickstarter campaign in which he hopes to raise $50,000 to manufacture and distribute the game. Futpong, a cross between soccer, tennis and pingpong, is played with a mini soccer ball and a 16-inch-high net that stretches across six feet. Designed to help soccer players increase foot skills, balance and coordination while also appealing to general users, Futpong can be played on any hard surface — including sidewalks, garage and basement floors, and parking lots during tailgate parties. The game evolved last summer out of frustrating sessions Bjurlin spent with his twin 13-year-old sons, Teddy and Ziggy, trying to juggle a soccer ball. They decided to incorporate the new sidewalk squares, which were lighter in color than the older ones, as a boundary. Then they placed a two-by-four in the middle as a wooden “net” and kicked the ball over it and to each other. The trio tested the new game at a block party, which initially led to some weird looks from neighbors. “There’s a little bit of a barrier to entry for people who have never played soccer,” says Bjurlin, an environmental consultant who has assembled a business-development team that includes son Teddy, Montana-based entrepreneur Dave Wager, and Rick Davis, a retired soccer
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player and former captain of the U.S. National Team in the 1980s. “Still, we ended up playing the game for six hours at that block party. I couldn’t even get on the court.” That kind of early reaction, along with successful Futpong challenges he’s conducted with area youth soccer players, makes Bjurlin confident his team will reach its Kickstarter goal. As of July 6, the campaign had raised more than $9,600, and supporters have the option to donate a Futpong set to south Madison’s Millennium Soccer Club or the Milwaukee Soccer Development Group. The project closes on July 24. “If this takes off, it will change the way youth players develop and control their skills,” Bjurlin says, adding that a neighborhood soccer culture does not exist in this country the way it does in other soccerfueled nations. “A lack of juggling skills is probably the number one reason why the United States has not created the elite soccer players we should.” n
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Intimate and elegant Jessica Pratt sings about turbulent love affairs with wistful resignation BY MICHAEL POPKE
Jessica Pratt’s voice is almost child-like.
punker Tim Presley in San Francisco. He had some studio time, and she had some music. “I never thought of them as a bunch of songs I would release,” Pratt says. “I just thought of that project as sort of a time capsule. I only liked two of the songs at the time.”
She posted the songs on MySpace before Presley created Birth Records specifically to release those songs as Pratt’s self-titled debut in late 2012. The album’s first pressing sold out in less than two weeks. “Tim’s brain is a barometer,” she says. “And I was pleased he liked the
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The first thing you notice about Jessica Pratt’s songs is her voice. Almost child-like, it belies the understated elegance of her intimate lo-fi music. Pratt’s warm acoustic guitar and quirky voice inhabit sad songs that could have been recorded in a bedroom loft in 1972 or a swank coffeehouse yesterday. She sings about turbulent love affairs with wistful resignation, and her music often has been associated with the freak folk movement — which includes elements of avantgarde music, baroque pop and psychedelic folk, accompanied by an offbeat vocal style. In Pratt’s case, comparisons to Joni Mitchell, Joanna Newsom, Sibylle Baier and even David Crosby are common. Not surprisingly, indie music criticism and commentary websites such as Pitchfork and Stereogum adore her. As part of a short tour of the upper Midwest, the 28-year-old Los Angeleno will visit Madison for the first time for a July 15 gig at the Frequency. Pratt’s story is a good one: She was “just messing around” in 2007 when she recorded several songs with psychedelic
material. We had no idea how the album would do, and it did much, much better than we anticipated.” Pratt worked in a cafe and had, until that point, considered music only a hobby. But she realized that if she applied herself, bigger things would happen. And they did, in the form of a record deal with Drag City, home over the years to artists as diverse as Pavement, Ty Segall and Presley’s White Fence solo project. The Chicagobased independent label put Pratt on the road, where she’s more or less been since the release of On Your Own Love Again in January. On stage, Pratt plays a nylon-string acoustic and is accompanied by an electric guitarist, Cyrus Gengras, to create dreamy, mesmerizing tones. And on Pratt’s merch table, in addition to CD and vinyl versions of On Your Own Love Again, you might find a cassette copy, too. “They’re very cheap to manufacture, and people like them,” she says, adding that many of her fans under the age of 30 opt to buy a tape rather than a CD. “They sound really warm and feel less disposable.” Just like Pratt’s songs. n
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“Staring Death in the Face” by Todd Hartwig.
Art through trauma An exhibit offers veterans a chance to heal BY JAY RATH
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A downtown museum’s massive new art exhibit features an impressive range of media — painting, mosaic, sculpture and quilting — and pain. Lots of pain. “WAR : RAW — Healing Military Trauma Through Expressive Art,” currently showing at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, includes more than 50 works of art created by Wisconsin military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and/or traumatic brain injuries. Some of the works are blunt and uncomplicated; others are delicate, complex, layered. Reds and yellows recur throughout, as do tears and hands. A very few are seemingly peaceful, even whimsical. Much of the art is abstract, perhaps because many of the exhibition’s artists cannot — or will not — verbalize their messages. “They were not really willing to talk at length about their wartime experiences,” recalls Tim Mayer, executive director of Appleton-based Artists for the Humanities, a nonprofit that combines group therapy and art therapy to help former members of U.S. Armed Forces. The artists in the exhibit are program participants. “I come from somewhat of a military family,” says Mayer, who founded the organization. “I had also remembered how our veterans were treated when they returned from the Vietnam War. I was also a trained artist. I thought it would be a good thing to do to honor the fallen and all of our veterans.” Mayer first teamed with Green Bay psychotherapist George Kamps in 2009 to offer community-based art therapy sessions. “It was so helpful to many of the veterans,” says Mayer. “They were able to disclose their trauma by using pictures.” He stresses that the work of Artists for Humanities is about helping vets. Rather than creating for an audience, the act of expression is an end to itself. “This is really a form of visual storytelling,” he says. “We ask them to tell a story
on their own terms, with their own work, without judging them, in a safe and tranquil environment.” Most of the veterans represented in the museum exhibit were not artists previously. Todd Hartwig was. The Prescott, Wis., resident served in the Army and National Guard, and was in Iraq from 2004 to 2005. He has 10 pieces in the show. “I do a variety of media: blown glass to oil paintings, pastels. Did some carvings. Just pretty much everything,” he says. “I’ve been doing art all my life pretty much.” But a few years ago he found new inspiration. “Actually, what got me to produce more was PTSD,” Hartwig says. He encountered Mayer and Artists for the Humanities at a Veterans Administration PTSD clinic in Tomah four years ago, and has been participating ever since. Janet Skenandore Malcolm has three mosaics in the exhibit. She served in the Army from 1965 to 1968. She’s a Native American grandmother and seamstress who resides near Green Bay, in the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. Most of her art is abstract and includes imagery from her Medicine Bear Clan. “It takes my mind off [PTSD]. It’s really relaxing, and I’m focused on the artwork itself.” Artists for the Humanities now has five programs around the state. One, in Milwaukee, is especially for Native American veterans. Mayer has yet to offer sessions in the Madison area, but he hopes to someday. Working with PTSD survivors is extremely rewarding, says Mayer, though the work has obvious challenges. “Every time I think I’ve heard the worst story possible, I hear something that rivals that,” he says. “But you kind of learn to put those stories in a separate place so you can do the work effectively.” WAR : RAW will be on exhibit at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum on the Capitol Square through May 2016. n
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Escaping adulthood Madison author Jason Kotecki tosses out the rules BY MICHAEL POPKE
If you love Mondays, eat breakfast for dinner or have 5,738 emails cluttering your inbox, congratulations. These are signs that you, perhaps unwittingly, have escaped “adultitis” — which, according to Jason Kotecki, is “a sinister epidemic that transforms people into zombie-like doo-doo heads and makes the Black Death look like a trip to Disneyland.” The Madison-based author, artist and speaker is on a mission to help grownups avoid burnout, embrace their creativity and achieve an enviable work-life balance. His new book, Penguins Can’t Fly + 39 Other Rules That Don’t Exist, is a gorgeous yet whimsical collection that debunks some of the most useless so-called rules anyone over the age of 21 feels a social obligation to follow. “The stuff I’m talking about is not rocket science,” Kotecki says. “But I remind people it’s okay to escape adulthood.” Kotecki, who is “39 going on 12,” lives on Madison’s northeast side with his wife (a former kindergarten teacher) and their three kids (all under the age of 7). He previously created greeting cards, drew a cartoon strip and self-published several books while amassing a collection of 150 rules that don’t exist and incorporating them into speaking engagements. Then along came Sun Prairie-based literary agent Michelle Grajkowski, who helped Kotecki pitch a book about those rules to publishing houses in New York; editors at St. Martin’s Griffin responded enthusiastically, and Penguins Can’t Fly went on sale June 23. “When you write a book about rules that don’t exist, there’s pressure to not do a normal book tour,” Kotecki says, which is
why the 25-city, 13-state #Notarule Tour includes stops at five zoos, at least two ice cream socials and Madison’s Art Fair on the Square. Kotecki will appear at American Family Insurance’s DreamBank, 1 N. Pinckney St., on July 11 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Unconventional activities will include breaking rules that don’t exist, including decorating ugly cookies and drawing on kids. That’s one of Kotecki’s favorites, by the way: “If you’re a parent and you’re not using that power to draw on your children, you’re totally missing out.” Penguins Can’t Fly is similar to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series — only way cooler, with a square-shaped design, playful artwork, fun fonts and 236 warm and colorful pages. “Art has always been my first love, and I look at myself as an artist first,” Kotecki says. “That leads into everything else. And hopefully, my work will make you laugh or think.” Or both. n
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New body, tired film A director’s distinctive style is lost in the rote thrills of Self/less BY SCOTT RENSHAW
The name Tarsem Singh may be unfamiliar to you, but you’ve probably seen the director’s work, going all the way back to his iconic music video for R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion.” He’s made movies that, no matter what you thought about their overall quality, were never wanting for visual imagination: The Cell, The Fall, even his more mainstream work like Immortals and Mirror Mirror. And yet we have this science-fiction suspense yarn, which begins with a multi-millionaire New York real estate tycoon named Damian Hale (Ben Kingsley) who’s dying of cancer. He’s willing to use his money to destroy the careers of rivals in the interest of preserving his empire, so it’s no surprise that he’s willing to consider using that money to prolong his life — even if that means considering an experimental procedure in which his consciousness is transferred into a new, genetically engineered host body. But when Damian wakes up in his new body (Ryan Reynolds) and receives his new identity of Edward Kitner, he begins to have hallucinations that suggest someone else might have once occupied that body.
Rote conspiracy thriller elements ensue, and the “mystery” of Damian’s new identity is resolved fairly quickly, leaving little more than the visceral effectiveness of a few chase sequences or hand-to-hand combat moments to keep you watching. That empty space easily could have been occupied by a more interesting central performance, but it’s not clear how much of that problem is Reynolds’ fault. It’s true that he makes little effort to mimic Kingsley’s mannerisms in a way that seems consistent with the way we see other beneficiaries of this procedure behave, or to convey Damian’s supreme master-of-the-universe confidence now that he’s also a physical specimen. Screenwriters David and Alex Pastor seem only vaguely interested in digging into the socioeconomic side of this “business.” Self/ less didn’t require a sermon, but it could have used something to anchor the story more firmly as an allegory with a conscience. It could have used more of Tarsem’s distinctive Tarsem-ness, as well, especially in a story with a similar “living in another person’s mind” hook as The Cell. The look of Self/less remains mostly functional, push-
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Ryan Reynolds (foreground) makes little effort to mimic Ben Kingsley’s mannerisms.
ing the story forward without much attempt to expand the concept of a person absorbing another man’s life. Then again, maybe there’s something metaphorically appropriate about that. If this was ever meant to be a cautionary tale about the
human cost of valuing corporate “creators” over those who facilitate that creation, maybe we’re seeing the effects in action. Self/less finds a unique filmmaker’s personality buried beneath something that seems to have no greater goal than continuing to exist. n
Amy Winehouse
Kapadia and his interview subjects examine Winehouse’s life for clues to her addiction. The pressure of fame is blamed, and it looks awful. Also blamed: the circumstances of her childhood in North London, and especially the influence of her father, Mitch. He is presented as the villain of this story, along with her enabling manager, Raye Cosbert. In fact, Mitch does seem as interested in promoting his own career as his daughter’s. But at one point Mitch says, “You can’t force someone into treatment,” and he’s right. I think he is meant to sound defeatist at best, cynical and manipulative at worst, but it’s actually the film’s most potent insight. Even if Amy Winehouse had spent more time in rehab, it might not have saved her. n
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More film events About Elly: The disappearance of a young teacher in Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her follow travelers. Cinematheque, July 10, 7 pm. Curious George: Animated adaptation of the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book series. Palace and Point, July 12, 13 and 15, 10 am. Deadly Eyes: Contaminated grain breeds overgrown killer rats in this 1982 horror film. Dachshunds were dressed up as rats for the special effects. Central Library, July 16, 6:30 pm. Mommy: A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household. Ashman Library, July 10, 6:45 pm. A Pig Across Paris: Two unlikely companions must smuggle black market meat across Nazioccupied Paris in this 1956 black comedy. Cinematheque, July 15, 7 pm. Spaceballs: Parody of Star Wars and other sci-fi movies, from writer-director Mel Brooks. Sundance, July 15, 2:10 & 7:45 pm. Tepepa: A Mexican guerrilla leader and his gang fight against the chief of police in this 1969 spaghetti western co-starring Orson Welles. Cinematheque, July 16, 7 pm. Terminator 2: Judgment Day: A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her young son from a more advanced cyborg made out of liquid metal. Majestic Theatre, July 14, 8 pm. Thelma & Louise: An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a â&#x20AC;&#x2122;66 Thunderbird. Memorial Union Terrace, July 13, 9 pm.
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La Fête de Marquette Thursday, July 9, Central Park, 8 pm Now in its 10th year, La Fête has become a mainstay of the Madison’s summer festival season, bringing in artists from all over the world and happy Francophiles from all over the city. Now that it’s moved to Central Park, the antique Ferris wheel ($2 on Friday) brings an Old World feel and there’s plenty of food, drink and elbow room for dancing to music from Louisiana, Haiti, North Africa and, of course, France. ALSO: Friday (4:30 pm), Saturday (12:30 pm) and Sunday (10 am), July 10-12.
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Monona Terrace Rooftop: Madison County, free, 7 pm.
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Mr. Robert’s: The Nearbyes, Stone Room, free, 10 pm.
Lucy Sanna: Discussing “The Cherry Harvest,” her new novel, 7 pm, 7/9, Capitol Lakes. 283-9332.
Nau-Ti-Gal: Drive By Night, free (on the patio), 5:30 pm. Quaker Steak & Lube, Middleton: Dave Steffen Band, 5:30 pm.
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UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Northern Comfort, free, 5 pm; The Mighty Fox, Tall Walker, free, 9 pm. The Wisco: The God Damns, Bath Salt Zombies, rock, 10 pm.
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Melvins Thursday, July 9, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm
This metal-cum-punk band has been in a near-constant state of evolution since forming in small-town Washington over three decades ago, changing line-ups like most people change pants and, most recently, merging with a couple members of Butthole Surfers to record 2014’s Hold It In. What hasn’t changed, however, is the iconic group’s dedication to crashing guitar riffs and King Kong-sized drum lines, even if they traded in some of their signature sludge on their latest. With Le Butcherettes.
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Ceremony’s recently released The LShaped Man finds the band exploring new emotions and yet another new sound. The five-piece represented the hardest of hardcore punk bands a decade ago. Now they’ve stopped screaming and started sounding much more like Joy Division, one of their primary influences. With Pity Sex, Tony Molina, Tenement.
Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line Thursday, July 9, East Side Club, 5-9 pm
This singer-songwriter was weaned on traditional bluegrass, having spent her youth in her father’s family band. The 30-year-old now leads her own group, whose video for “Let Go,” from their 2015 album Wake, was praised by Rolling Stone for “shattering societal pressure.” With Anna Vogelzang. Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Falcon, rock, free, 6 pm. Brink Lounge: Tom Gullion Quintet, jazz, 8 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Jo-Z, Latin, 10 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Madpolecats, free, 9 pm. Come Back In: Teddy Davenport, free (on the patio), 5 pm. Dean House: Yahara River Chorus, free/donations, 7 pm. Essen Haus: WheelHouse, free, 9 pm. Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Just Merl, free, 6:30 pm. Harriet Park, Verona: Dan Law & the Mannish Boys, free, 6 pm. High Noon Saloon: Milkhouse Radio, free (on patio), 6 pm. Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Michael Massey, piano, 9 pm. Merchant: Charlie Painter & Friends, free, 10 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, French swing, free, 5:30 pm. Middleton Library: The Figureheads, free family concert, 6 pm.
La Fete de Marquette: 7/9-12, Central Park. Thursday: Willy Street Co-op meeting 4-8 pm, Lost Bayou Ramblers 7:30 pm, The Revivalists 9:30 pm. Friday: Main Stage: Vishten 5:30 pm, Lyrics Born with the Heard 7:30 pm, Dumpstaphunk 9:30 pm. Musique Electronique stage: lil blaQ & Glynis 5 pm, Jared Perez 5:50 pm, Kiazma 6:40 pm, Derek Plaslaiko 7:30 pm, Claude Young 9:30 pm. Le Bistro Tent: Johnny Chimes 4:30 pm. Saturday: Main Stage: Jeffrey Broussard & the Creole Cowboys 3:30 pm, Feufollet 5:15 pm, Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen 7:15 pm, Sonny Landreth 9:30 pm. Musique Electronique stage: Foshizzle Family 3:30 pm, Bumbac Joe 5:30 pm, Golden Donna 6:30 pm, Fortune 7:30 pm, Iz 8:30 pm, Francois K 9:30 pm. Le Bistro Tent: Robin Pluer with Mrs. Fun 12:30 & 1:30 pm. Sunday: Main Stage: Belo 2:30 pm, Lodo 4 pm, Paris Combo 6:15 pm, CJ Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band 8:30 pm. Le Bistro Tent: Belo 10:15 am, Feufollet 11:30 am, Mal-O-Dua 2:45 pm, Otimo Madison Brazilian Dance 1:45 pm. Free admission: www.wil-mar.org. 257-4576.
FO O D & D RI N K Isthmus On Tap Next: Free public tasting/voting for IPA competition (winner will be next Isthmus beer brewed by Wisconsin Brewing Co.), 5-7 pm, 7/9, Mr. Brews Taphouse-Downtown. Tickets: isthmusevents. boldtypetickets.com/events/25873605. 251-5627.
S PEC TATO R S PO RTS Madison Mallards: vs. Kenosha, 7:05 pm, 7/9; vs. Battle Creek, 6:05 pm on 7/11 and 4:05 pm, 7/12; vs. LaCrosse, 11:35 am & 7:05 pm, 7/13; vs. Lakeshore, 7:05 pm, 7/16-17, Warner Park. $44-$8. Daily promotions: www.mallardsbaseball.com. 246-4277.
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Brad Williams Thursday, July 9, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm
Although this raucous standup has appeared on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he’s better known for his stature than his bits. And he’s best known for his bits about his stature, since this dwarf comedian has no problem exploring the peculiarities of being his size. As he puts it, “Dwarves make everything better...like bacon!” With Mike Paramore, Nick Ledesma. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), July 10-11.
THEATER & DANCE Inherit the Wind: Upstart Crows Productions, retelling of the “Scopes Monkey Trial,” 7 pm, 7/9-11, First Baptist Church. $15 donation. 827-9482.
Lenka Friday, July 10, The Frequency, 7 pm
“I got a glass half full and I’m making a toast to you,” croons this Australian singer on her latest release, 2015’s The Bright Side. “I got a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, too.” Find your own treasure trove at her sweeter-than-pie live show, where the former actress’ unrelenting, endearing positivity is sure to win fans, melt hearts and soothe souls. With Nick Howard.
Locker Room: The Nearbyes, Chunkhead, free, 9 pm. Louisianne’s: Johnny Chimes, piano, 6:30 pm Fridays. Lucky’s, Waunakee: The Sparks Band, ‘60s, free, 7 pm. Merchant: DJ Vilas Park Sniper, free, 10:30 pm.
Mother Fool’s: Vedic Eden, folk-pop, 8 pm. Mr. Robert’s: The Anderson Brothers, Novagolde, Veal Chair, free, 10 pm.
Friday, July 10, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm
This grave-shakin’ funk band knows a thing or two about “banging out solid fly grooves, y’all.” What’s less clear is the identity of the members, who play their high-energy tunes in full mummy get-up. This hasn’t stopped the band from opening for acts like P-Funk and Al Green, nor has it diminished the fun they bring to the stage. With Heatbox.
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Red Rock Saloon: Broseph E. Lee, 10 pm. Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: The Corvettes, 8:30 pm. Sprecher’s Restaurant: Bill Roberts Combo, 7 pm. Tempest Oyster Bar: John Christensen Trio, 9:30 pm. Tip Top Tavern: The Lurk Hards, Banjo Allie Rose, folk/rock, free, 10 pm. Tuvalu Coffeehouse, Verona: Dave Schindele, Meghan Owens, John Duggleby, plus open mic, free, 7:30 pm. Up North Pub: Teddy Davenport, free, 8 pm.
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Dead Horses Friday, July 10, Harmony Bar, 9:30 pm
Raised on Bible hymns by her preacher father, Dead Horses frontwoman Sarah Vos’ backstory sounds more like that of an old bluesman from the Mississippi Delta than a young folk singer from the Fox Valley. But despite their youth, the Milwaukee-via-Oshkosh folk trio has crafted a timeless sound, informed as much by modern folk as it is by the classics; “Glitterbug” wouldn’t sound out of place in a Nickel Creek set. With the Last Revel. Avanti, Verona: American Standard, rock/country, 8 pm. Badger Bowl: Cool Front with Jon French, free, 8 pm.
Lake Monona Water Walk: Water awareness events for all ages, 7/10-13, Frost Woods Beach, Monona (unless noted). Friday: Fundraiser concert by Bill Miller plus speakers 7 pm (Monona Grove High School; $40-$10 donation). Saturday: Talks & workshops noon-9 pm. Sunday: Water blessing 7 am, walk around the lake 9:30 am, community dinner 4:30 pm. Free. lakemononawaterwalk.org. 279-5225. Gravity and Ghost Stories: Night Light horrorthemed activities, 8-11 pm, 7/10, Central Library, with talk by author/screenwriter Adam Rockoff on his book “The Horror of It All” at 9 pm, costume contest, trivia, crafts, refreshments. 266-6300. Home Garden Tour: Annual self-guided jaunt to benefit Olbrich Gardens, 10 am-4 pm on 7/10 and 9 am-3 pm, 7/11, Middleton Hills area. $14; day-of tickets at Bock Community Garden. olbrich.org. 246-4550.
T HE AT E R & DANCE Pudding: Broom Street Theater production of Michael Tooher’s postmodern romantic comedy, 7/10-31, BST, at 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $11. 244-8338.
Bayou: DJ Chamo, Latin, free, 10 pm Fridays.
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Brink Lounge: Lucas Cates, Strangebyrds, Katie Scullin, 8 pm; Brandon Maddox, country, free, 9 pm.
Madison Storytellers: Listen to or share stories, 7 pm, 7/10, Hudson Park. facebook.com/madstorytellers.
Brocach-Square: The Currach, free, 5 pm Fridays. Buck & Honey’s, Sun Prairie: Kevin Andrews, 6 pm. Cardinal Bar: Capitol Hill Collective, 5:30 pm; DJs Syphonic & Gigantor, Wyatt Agard, 9 pm. Chief’s: Shari Davis & the Hot Damn Blues Band, 8 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Dead End Moves, free, 9 pm. Come Back In: Extra Credit Music Class, free, 5 pm; State Maps (CD release), Flavor That Kills, free, 9 pm. Crossroads Coffee, Cross Plains: Darcie Johnston & Doug Brown, jazz, 7 pm. Delaney’s: Bob Kerwin & Dan Flynn, jazz, free, 6 pm. Edgewater Hotel: Mike McCloskey, free (plaza), 6 pm. Essen Haus: David Austin Band, polka, free, 8:30 pm.
ART E XHI BITS & EV ENTS Polka Press Printmaking Cooperative: Through 7/31, Hatch Art House (reception 6-9 pm, 7/10). 237-2775. Sandra Klingbeil: Reception, 5-9 pm, 7/10, Fat City Emporium. 422-5128.
KI D S & FAM ILY First Act Children’s Theatre: “The Legend of the Lion King”: 4 & 7 pm, 7/10, Edgewood College-The Stream theater. $7 ($5 ages 10 & under). 358-9572.
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The Frequency: Feral States, rock, 10 pm. Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Jonny Maach, 6:30 pm.
Alchemy Cafe: Chuck Burns & Ty Rone, B. Forrest & the Bodhi Band, No Name String Band, free, 10 pm.
Ivory Room: Eben Seaman, Vince Strong, Nicky Jordan, dueling pianos, 8:30 pm.
Babe’s: Rose Canyon Band, free (on the patio), 8 pm.
Knuckle Down Saloon: Pops Fletcher & the Hucksters, blues, 9 pm.
Brink Lounge: Antique Nouveau, jazz, free, 8 pm.
Lakeside Street Coffee House: Madison Classical Guitar Society Showcase, free, 7 pm.
Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Robert J, free, 6 pm.
Liliana’s: Hanson Family Jazz Band, free, 6:30 pm.
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High Noon Saloon: The Gran Fury, Eddie Inc (Iron Maiden tribute), rock, 5:30 pm; Claude Young, Tinhead, Musique Electronique afterparty, 10:30 pm.
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Come Back In: Chunkhead, The Low Czars, The Many Moods, rock, free, 9 pm.
Kashmira Sheth: Discussing “Sana and the Wedding Game,” 11 am, 7/11, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.
The Frequency: Fea, Kristeen Young, Skizzwhores, Nester, rock, 9 pm.
Jason Kotecki: Discussing “Penguins Can’t Fly: And 39 Other Rules That Don’t Exist,” plus various activities based on the book, 1:30-3:30 pm, 7/11, DreamBank. RSVP: 286-3150.
High Noon Saloon: Kicksville, Joey Broyles, Meghan Rose, 4:30 pm; Francois K, Lovecraft, 10:30 pm. Ivory Room: Eben Seaman, Jim Ripp, piano, 8:30 pm. Klassik Tavern, Verona: Acoustic Alloy, free, 5 pm.
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Legends: Cool Front with Jon French, free, 3 pm. Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Stan Godfriaux, 6:30 pm.
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Mickey’s Tavern: Hello Dmitri, Invisible Mansions, Trophy Dad, rock, free, 10 pm. Mother Fool’s: Brennan Connors & Stray Passage, 8 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Devil’s Share, Johnny Likes Noize, A-DROIT, free, 10 pm.
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Overture Center-Capitol Theater: Skylar Stecker, 6 pm. Pooley’s: Rascal Theory, free (on the patio), 7 pm. Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub: Devils Fen, 8 pm. Strictly Discs: Sonny Landreth, free, 4 pm. Tempest Oyster Bar: bpm Trio, free, 9:30 pm.
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Tricia’s Country Corners: Eskimo Brothers, 9 pm. True Coffee: Casey & Greg, Dan Tedesco, folk, 8 pm. Tuvalu Coffee: Jim Barnard & Dana Perry, free, 7 pm.
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UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Jacob Powell, 9 pm. Witwen Park: Harmonious Wail, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.
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FUN D RA I S ERS Cannonball Run: Annual 10/5K or 1 mile dash benefiting Cambridge EMS, 7:30 am, 7/11, from Fire Station (registration 6:30 am). $35 ($27 adv.). www.caemscannonballrun.com. Ron Boylan Motorcycle Ride: Annual Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center benefit 100-mile ride through Dane County, noon, 7/11, beginning/ending Badger Harley-Davidson (registration 10 am). $30 ($25 adv.). www.safeharborhelpskids.org. 661-9787. Remembering Robert McGuigan: Parents of Murdered Children benefit, 12-7 pm, 7/11, Callahan’s Sports Pub, with raffle, silent auction. Free admission; a portion of food/drink sales donated. pomc.com. Bowling for the Zoo: Vilas Zoo fundraiser, 3-9 pm, 7/11-12, 7/18-19 and 7/25-26, Badger Bowl. $10 includes 3 games and shoes. 274-6662. Books and Brews: Fitchburg Library fundraiser, 6:30-9:30 pm, 7/11, Fitchburg Library, with beer tastings, music, food, silent auction, raffle. $40. 729-1788.
K I D S & FA MI LY WheelFest: 11 am-4 pm, 7/11, Madison Children’s Museum, with Mad Rollin’ Dolls meet & greet 11 am, hoop making 11 am, hooping workshop noon, unicycle demo 1 pm, Hoop Jam/pinewood races 1 pm, pottery demo 2 pm. Free with $8 admission. 256-6445. Firefly Hike: All ages, 7:30 pm, 7/11, Indian Lake County Park, with crafts & marshmallow toasting. $5 ($15/ family) benefits kids’ nature programming. 358-8314.
S PEC TATO R S PO RTS Mad Rollin’ Dolls: Dairyland Dolls vs. Minnesota Nice, 6 pm, 7/11, Keva Sports Center, Middleton, plus Team Unicorn vs. Mississippi Massacre. $15 ($12 adv.; half-price ages 4-10; a portion of proceeds benefits Fetch Wisconsin). www.madrollindolls.com.
Art Fair on the Square Saturday, July 11, Capitol Square, 9 am-6 pm
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Check out the exhibits of more than 450 artists featuring paintings, photographs, sculptures, jewelry, clothing and accessories — while meeting the creators up close. There’s art aplenty plus food, music and entertainment. No wonder more than 200,000 visitors flock to the annual event. ALSO: Sunday, July 12, 10 am-5 pm. Art Fair off the Square: Wisconsin Alliance of Artists & Craftspeople’s annual showcase, 9 am-6 pm on 7/11 and 10 am-5 pm, 7/12, Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. & the Monona Terrace esplanade. artcraftwis.org. Bacon, Brew & BBQ Fest: Park playground & Gigi’s Playhouse fundraiser, noon-5 pm, 7/11, Angell Park, Sun Prairie, with food & beer samples, three music stages. $65 ($60 adv.; $85/$80 VIP; 21+ only). bbbfest.com. 243-9593.
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Matthew Sweet Sunday, July 12, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm
This Nebraska-born power pop maestro first rose to prominence in 1991 with the release of his album Girlfriend, which The A.V. Club later called the best power pop album of the decade. Recent years have found Sweet consulting for the film Big Eyes and writing a track for an episode of The Simpsons, as well as continuing his musical output with 2011’s Modern Art and a more recent album of ’80s covers. With the Orange Peels.
The Gala of the Royal Horses: 7:30 pm, 7/11, Alliant Energy Center-Coliseum. $87.25-$31.65. 267-3995.
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Come Back In: John Masino, free (on patio), 5 pm. Malt House: The Kissers, Irish, free, 7:30 pm.
Sunday, July 12, Overture Center’s Capitol Theater, 6 pm
Mezze: Charlie Painter and Friends, jazz, free, 9 pm.
Madison’s own version of the Grammys is produced by the Madison Area Music Association, a nonprofit that provides resources for youth music education programs. This year’s show kicks off with a red carpet event and features award presentations and performances by local up-and-coming acts. And it’s MAMA’s biggest fundraiser of the year.
Warner Park: Davis Familiy Band, free, 6 pm.
Up North Pub: Gin Mill Hollow, free, 8 pm. Winnequah Park, Monona: WheelHouse, 6:30 pm.
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Meredith Arwady contralto
Harold Meers tenor
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Essen Haus: John “Elvis” Lyons & Jon Lyons, 4 pm. The Frequency: Dischordia, Squidhammer, Cast In Fire, metal, 8:30 pm.
SP ECIAL EV ENTS Depth Charge: Rocks dropped for scotch ale brewing 1 pm, 7/12, Wisconsin Brewing Company, Verona, with music by Jon Dee Graham & the Fighting Cocks 2 pm. Free. 848-1079.
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Sunday, July 12, Overture Center’s Playhouse Gallery, 1-4 pm (reception)
Madison artist-activists Mary Kay Neumann and Helen Klebesadel have collaborated on 15 color-saturated paintings that ask us to stop, pause and consider the things in nature we love that we are losing as a result of pollution and climate change. Their elegant, flowing and expressionist flowers, birds, plants and burning fields speak powerfully to the threat to our planet’s biodiversity, in an exhibit that is not only a testament to beauty from a feminist perspective but an opportunity to join in the fight for a solution. (See page 17.) Through Sept. 2.
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The Mekons Tuesday, July 14, Mineral Point Opera House, 7:30 pm
Of all the punk bands to emerge from England in the late ’70s, the Mekons might be the hardest to pin down. Self-described as a “fundamentalist punk rock art project,” the band has also incorporated elements of folk and country, creating a sound that’s as much Gram Parsons as it is Graham Parker. They’re appearing at the Mineral Point Opera House as part of a rare full band tour. Breese Stevens Field: Mark Croft Band, The Jimmys, Madison Parks Foundation benefit, free, 6:30 pm. Capitol Square: Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, noon. Crystal Corner Bar: Bing Bong, rock, free, 8 pm. Fireman’s Park, DeForest: Soggy Prairie Boys, 6:30 pm. High Noon Saloon: The Tillers, Americana, 6:30 pm. Malt House: Jim Schwall, free, 7:30 pm. Olbrich Gardens: The Whiskey Farm, folk rock, 7 pm. Up North Pub: Driftless Sisters, free, 8 pm.
S PEC I A L EV EN TS South Madison International Community Night: Free Urban League event, 5-8 pm, 7/14, Villager Mall, with performances by Intemperance Collective, Wisconsin Surma, Madison Eskrima Martial Arts, Handphibians, kids’ activities, food. 262-9224.
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“Trap pop, because it’s like trap beats but with pop music.” That’s how lead singer Ryan Spencer described this Detroit-based foursome’s sound to Paper magazine. Not that the band’s genre-bending aesthetic is easy to classify: Its newly released second album is as musically diverse as it is thrilling, incorporating elements of electronic, hip-hop, goth and indie rock. With Made Violent, Cold Fronts.
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Jessica Pratt Wednesday, July 15, The Frequency, 8 pm
San Franciscan Jessica Pratt has been one of the key songwriters carrying the torch this year for esteemed folk label Drag City. Her intricate and affecting songs recall classic folk acts as well as her contemporaries and labelmates Bill Callahan and Joanna Newsom. (See page 30.) With Julian Lynch.
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The Hussy Wednesday, July 15, The Shitty Barn (Spring Green), 7 pm
Madison rock ’n’ roll provocateurs the Hussy are a no-nonsense band, with punishing drums, walls of fuzzy guitar, shrieking vocal and songs as sharp as knives. Fresh off the release of their new LP Galore for Southpaw Records and armed with a lengthy back catalog brimming with 7-inches, splits and tapes, the Hussy make compellingly bare music that revels in its “trash” aesthetic. With Tree Blood.
Mr Twin Sister Thursday, July 16, Memorial Union Terrace, 9 pm
Mr Twin Sister may have added a “Mr” to their name in 2014, but their music has remained as captivating and dreamy as it did when they formed in 2008. The Terrace, with its sunset-over-Lake Mendota backdrop, looks to be the ideal venue for this free concert. With Moon King. Frequency: Bad Luck, Sudden Suspension, 8:30 pm. Harmony Bar: Benefits of Being Paranoid, rock, 8 pm. High Noon Saloon: Faux Fawn, free (on the patio), 6 pm; Midnite on Pearl Beach, Tight Tiger (EP release), The Young Revelators, 8 pm. Monona Terrace Rooftop: Start Making Sense, 7 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Swill, Ken Barely Band, rock, 10 pm.
Melt-Banana + Torche Wednesday, July 15, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm
This double bill crosses not only musical borders but continental ones as well. Featuring Tokyo’s hyper-punk duo MeltBanana and Miami, Fla.’s heavy metal act Torche (above), this show will surely be a treat for those attracted to the stranger side of rock ’n’ roll. With HOT NERDS, Zebras. Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Elements, free, 6 pm. Capitol Square: Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra’s Concerts on the Square, “Ole!” free, 7 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJs Brook, Siberia, fetish night, 9 pm.
UW Extension Pyle Center: Sparks Band, free, 4 pm.
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Oklahoma! Thursday, July 16, Cambridge Historical School Museum, 7 pm
The original Rodgers and Hammerstein smash hit musical is a cowboy classic. Romance and revolvers abound on the old Oklahoma Territory — but who will win whose hand in marriage? Both fresh and experienced musical fans “cain’t say no” to this Cambridge-Deerfield Players Theater production. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (7 pm) and Sunday (2 pm), July 17-19.
Claddagh, Middleton: Philly & Cheese, free, 6 pm. Come Back In: Whiskey, Water & Blues, free, 5 pm. DreamBank: Ryan McGrath Band, free, 5:30 pm. Heritage Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, free, 9 pm. Malt House: Don’t Spook the Horse, free, 7:30 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: No/No, rock, free, 10 pm.
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Quaker Steak and Lube: Angels & Outlaws, 5:30 pm. True Coffee Roasters, Fitchburg: Band of Lovers, Shawn Neary, folk/pop, 8 pm. Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm. UW Memorial Union: No BS Brass Band, 8 pm. Whole Foods Market: Northern Comfort, free, 6 pm.
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FA IR S & F EST I VA LS Dane County Fair: 7/15-19, Alliant Center; Main stage headliners (7 pm unless noted): Madison County, 7/15; Flyleaf, Art of Dying, Devour the Day, 7/16. $8/day ($3 ages 6-11). danecountyfair.com. 224-0500.
Fugitive Songs Thursday, July 16, UW Mitchell Theatre, 7:30 pm
This University Theatre production is a musical about people on the run. Mixing traditional and contemporary genres, the play gives voice to the roaming spirit of America, offering diverse voices and touching stories. Directed by Karen Olivo. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (7:30 pm), Sunday (2 pm) and Thursday (7:30 pm), July 17-19 and 23. Through July 26.
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Blooming Butterflies: Live insects, 10 am-4 pm, 7/15-8/9, Olbrich Gardens’ Bolz Conservatory, plus display of preserved specimens. $7 ($3 ages 3-12). Related events: olbrich.org. 246-4550.
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A natural approach to birth control Madison educator helps women become more in touch with their cycles BY AMELIA COOK FONTELLA
If she had it her way, Ashley Annis’ office would be located in a women’s restroom. “In my ideal world, I would be able to go into a public restroom and the people around me would feel comfortable saying, ‘Oh hey, fertile fluid over here!’ or ‘I’m having a terrible period, who’s with me?’ or whatever,” says Annis, a fertility awareness educator. “We are so ashamed of our bodies, and I don’t think it needs to be that way.” In 2013, Annis started Lovely Fertility, a small business based in Madison aimed at educating women about their bodies. Her work focuses on cycle awareness and fertility awareness, a natural approach to family planning. Annis, 27, first became interested in fertility awareness in 2011. She was in a new relationship and not satisfied with the standard menu of hormone-based birth control options. So she began researching alternatives. After reading Toni Weschler’s Taking Charge of Your Fertility, Annis says she “fell in love with the idea of charting your cycle.” “It blew my mind,” she says. “It changed the way I thought of myself.” Annis says she realized how disconnected she was from her own body as well as well as how the topic of cycles, birth control, fertility and sexuality are rarely discussed openly. Today, after two years of fertility awareness teacher training and four years of personal experience using fertility awareness as her own birth control method, Annis is sharing her knowledge with other women. Certified as a fertility awareness educator by the Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals, Annis started teaching last year and currently offers online and in-person classes.
Most often, the women she advises are looking for a natural birth control option, but others are trying to conceive. Annis stresses that working with women struggling with infertility isn’t her area of expertise: “I’m not a fertility doctor and I’m not a ‘natural fertility specialist.’ Birth control is my thing.” At the heart of fertility awareness is getting to know one’s own body. Daily observance of basal body temperature and monitoring of cervical fluid are essential. Annis’ website, lovelyfertility. com, provides charts for keeping track of this data throughout the month. By understanding the natural changes that occur each month, women learn to understand when they are, and aren’t, fertile. Fertility awareness isn’t the same as the “rhythm method,” which has a reputation for being ineffectual. “The rhythm and calendar methods are based on the idea that all women ovulate around day 14 and have 28-day cycles or the idea that your cycle doesn’t change from month to month,” Annis explains. None of these notions are true, she says. Instead, fertility awareness claims to monitor fertility in “real time,” which allows women to know, on a daily basis, whether or not they are fertile. No guesswork needed. Annis knows that getting started with fertility awareness can seem overwhelming. “It’s a big commitment,” she says, emphasizing that it comes with a learning curve. “It takes a little time to get in the habit of taking your temperature every day, of looking for cervical fluid and remembering what you saw,” she adds. “But then, after a while, it just becomes part of your daily life.” In addition to presentations for student groups and such organizations as Planned Parenthood, Annis offers individualized classes for women interested in learning more about their bodies and natural birth control.
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Her fees work on a sliding scale, but for about $150, women (and their partners) can take a one-on-one class with Annis. This twopart class begins with building a thorough understanding of the menstrual cycle. In the second class, Annis explains how to observe and record two important fertility signals, temperature and cervical fluid, and talks through using the data gathered. Afterwards, her clients monitor a cycle or two and report back, sending her their completed charts for Annis to review. In addition to her classes, Annis provides educational resources to women at no cost, including a month-long email course focusing on understanding the menstrual cycle. On July 11, she’s also hosting a free introductory workshop on natural birth control at Rainbow Bookstore. “I believe this information is our right; it should be available to whoever wants it,” Annis says. “I consider myself more of an activist, and that mindset gives me more freedom. I get to give away information, my website is full of information on natural birth control, and I think that’s how it should be.” n
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Ashley Annis advocates fertility awareness: “We are so ashamed of our bodies, and I don’t think it needs to be that way.”
Look, look up! What you need for a night of stargazing clearer west of Governor Dodge, from the town of Clyde west to the Wisconsin River, with the exception of the area right around Boscobel. No need to buy a telescope. The occasional skywatcher can see a lot with a pair of binoculars. This time of year the Milky Way — the band of stars that makes up the center of our spiral galaxy — is easily visible. The Star Walk app (for smartphones, iPad or Kindle) will tell you exactly what you’re looking at — constellations, planets, individual
stars, nebulae. A bottle of natural oils-based Bug Ban should keep the bitey insects away and not leave you reeking of Deep Woods Off! as you hit the clean sheets after your star-spotting session. Pick your gazing spots with the Light Pollution Atlas at djlorenz. github.io/astronomy/lp2006 and zoom in on southern Wisconsin.
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Increasingly, it’s difficult to see much in the way of stars while in the city of Madison or even its environs. The online Light Pollution Atlas, updated in 2006 by David Lorenz of the UW’s Center for Climatic Research, shows on Google Maps the extent to which light pollution affects our personal night sky. East of Madison, things just get worse, with Milwaukee’s lights brightening the heavens. Best to head to points west of the city — Governor Dodge or Yellowstone Lake state parks have clearer skies than Devil’s Lake, for instance, but the skies are even
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Housing 5738-5742 CEDAR PLACE Madison, WI 53705 MLS 1750837 Two properties adjacent to each other on a wooded culdesac, backing up to Crestwood woods and Owen Conservancy. This is a house which will appeal to Nature Lovers: wood stove heats most of the house, lots of south facing glazing adds solar gain in the winter. Hot tub for relaxing after cross country skiing right out your door. Community gardens next door! It will take a special buyer to understand the special features that are valuable; this house does not appeal to everyone! Easy to show. PAT WHYTE 608-513-2200 Beautiful 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom home on Oakridge Avenue between Lake Monona and Lowell School. House has been totally renovated including kitchen and bathrooms, and has newer mechanicals: central air, furnace, hot water heater and water softener. Very well maintained home in a great neighborhood! Asking $347,500. Additional photos at fsbomadison.com. 608-249-9105 3770 BIRCH TRAIL CROSS PLAINS MLS 1743154 Lovely soft contemporary home, no visible neighbors, no subdivision and only 10 mins from Westowne. If you are a writer, artist, craftsman or curmudgeon, you will love this place. Wonderful oversized garage with workshop; fabulous huge Game Room for rowdy competitive ping pong tournaments or billiards! Owners retiring but are sad to leave. $549,000. PAT WHYTE 608-513-2200 Open Sunday-July 12th 1:00-3:00 MADISON - 6234 Thornebury Dr. Westside 4 BR, 3-main level, 2 BA, 1886 sqft ranch with LL exposure 2-car garage & fenced yard. Newer roof, windows, siding, washer/ dryer, flooring & more. Close to Manchester Park, incl 1 yr home warranty. MLS#1749972 $269,000 Kathy Tanis (608) 469-5954 Bunbury & Associates Realtors
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Jobs Residential Services Coordinator Create-Ability, Inc, is looking for a positive, creative, team-oriented and organized individuals to work w/ adults who have developmental disabilities in their homes and community. FT positions available M-F Responsibilities incl: coordinating consumer supports such as staffing, finances, medical appts., community activities, etc; staff supervision; direct support work; liaison w/ consumer, family/ guardian, broker, other support agencies Requirements incl: experience working w/ adults w/dev. disabilities and supervisory exp. highly preferred; Degree in related field or combo of experience and collage coursework; excellent oral and written communication skills; valid driv. lic; access to insured vehicle. Competitive salary with excellent benefits incl. health, dental, life ins., earned time off, and more. Please send cover letter and resume with last two years of salary history and salary expectations no later than July 13, 2015 Tom Griffin Create-Ability, Inc 122 E. Olin Avenue, Suite 255 Madison, WI 53713 608-280-0206 ext. 255 tomg@create-ability.org EOE/AA Private duty RNs/LPNs needed for a nonvent individual on the south side of Madison. Night/Weekend hours available. Also seeking PRN shift help. Call (608) 692-2617 and ask for Jill. Volunteer with UNITED WAY Volunteer Center Call 246-4380 or visit volunteeryourtime.org to learn about opportunities Encourage children to read throughout the summer! United Way of Dane County is partnering again with the Madison Metropolitan School District and the Madison Public Library to sponsor Read Up with the Madison Public Library: Preventing the Summer Slide. Volunteers are needed to assist staff in facilitating traditional day camp activities with a literacy twist—helping participants put on plays, read treasure hunt clues, follow recipes, etc. Volunteering at Concerts on the Square is a wonderful way to meet new people, enjoy the outdoors and hear great music presented by the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Over 80 volunteers are needed each week to sell programs and balloons, work in the merchandise booth, greet patrons at the table area and assist staff with security. We hope that you will join us. Are you looking for a great way to build your marketing and social media skills while giving back to the community? Volunteers are needed to help market and promote the Out Run Asthma! 5K run/walk for Asthma Awareness on August 15. Tasks include flyer distribution, social media marketing, and contacting local businesses to see if they will help market the event.
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I entered into a civil union with another woman in Vermont in 2000. My ex and I were together until 2003, when we decided to go our separate ways. It is now 2015, and my new partner (who happens to be male) and I are expecting a baby and talking about getting married. We live in Texas. I know that there are ways to dissolve my civil union in Vermont, but I can’t get ahold of my ex (ex-wife? Ex-CUer?) to sign any of the forms. Neither do I want to, because frankly it was an abusive relationship and I still bear emotional scars. She threatened my life, encouraged my suicidal thoughts, and told me I was a loser who didn’t deserve to live. I feel I have finally found peace, but now that it has become an issue again, I don’t know. I have intense thoughts of wanting to kill her if I should ever see her. Thank goodness she lives in another state! She used to stalk me until she finally moved back to the Pacific Northwest. Is there a way to dissolve my civil union without having to directly contact my ex? Undoing Niggling Compact In Vermont Isn’t Legally Uncomplicated
Vermont played a groundbreaking role in the fight for marriage equality in the United States. (Spoiler alert: We won the fight on June 26, 2015.) A little history... Way, way back in 1999, before same-sex marriage was legal anywhere in the United States, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples were entitled to the same “benefits and protections” as opposite-sex couples. Vermont’s highest court ordered the state legislature to come up with a solution. Instead of allowing same-sex couples to marry — a simpler fix legislatively but a more explosive one politically — in 2000, Vermont’s lawmakers created a separate-but-equal compromise, aka “civil unions.” Full marriage equality came to Vermont in 2009, making it the fourth U.S. state to allow same-sex couples to wed. So what became of your civil union after 2009, UNCIVILU? Did it become a marriage after same-sex marriage became legal in Vermont, like domestic partnerships did in Washington State? “Our marriage law didn’t automatically convert CUs to marriages,” says Elizabeth Kruska, an attorney in Vermont who handles family law. “And although civil unions were (and are) legal in Vermont, other states did not have to recognize them as legal unions. That’s where UNCIVILU has a problem. Her civil union is still legal and on the
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Even if Texas doesn’t recognize your Vermont civil union — and it probably wouldn’t — Vermont would recognize your Texas marriage. “That would create a situation where the letter writer, at least in one state, would have two legal spouses,” said Kruska. “And that’s not legal. So the smartest thing for UNCIVILU to do is to dissolve her Vermont civil union. The last thing she wants is to try to get married to the new person and for the marriage later to be found void because she had this other union out there.” Kruska suggests that you contact legal service organizations in Vermont to find a lawyer who can help you. And if you don’t want to contact your ex, or if your ex won’t respond to you, she recommended that you file for a dissolution and let the court serve your former partner. “UNCIVILU and her ex may both be able to participate in the hearings by telephone, since they live in other states and it would be burdensome for them to travel back to Vermont,” says Kruska, “and as an added bonus, UNCIVILU wouldn’t have to see her ex in person.” n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or find him on Twitter at @fakedansavage. Elizabeth Kruska works at rivercitylawyers.com in White River Junction, Vt., and blogs about legal issues at scovlegal.blogspot.com.
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