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URBAN OASIS

Look who turned a parking lot into a thriving garden.

8 NEWS

PARKING ON THE CHEAP

A city subsidy for Judge Doyle Square could cause trouble for Madison’s own parking utility.

ABORTION BAN

Lawmakers fast-track measure in advance of Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential announcement.

18 COVER STORY

DAVID MICHAEL MILLER

18 WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED that Gov. Scott Walker would officially join the presidential sweepstakes on July 13, staff writer Allison Geyer started batting around ideas for coverage. In consultation with news editor Joe Tarr, art director Carolyn Fath and staff artist David Michael Miller, we decided to take readers on a visual journey through Walker’s record. Miller, who is the genius behind many of the infographics, maps and charts that appear in Isthmus and on Isthmus.com, created the game board for this week’s cover story and made all the pieces fit. Miller started freelancing for Isthmus in 1986 and was hired the next year.

FORMER GREEN BAY PACKERS teammates Brett Favre and Mark Tauscher, now a coowner of Isthmus, caught up by phone last week. Read what Favre had to say about playing for rival Minnesota Vikings and retirement in Mississippi. Reported by Isthmus sports columnist Michael Popke.

GAME ON!

Now that it’s official, how did Scott Walker do as governor? Throw the dice and see.

21 SPORTS

COMING HOME

Brett Favre talks to Mark Tauscher and Michael Popke in advance of his Wisconsin visit.

24 FOOD & DRINK

CIDER RULES

Small, local hard cider brands are springing up.

PORTAGE PI

Hand pies are the way to go here.

32 MUSIC

PLAYING WITH LEGENDS

Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams release their first album together.

34 STAGE

PEER PRESSURE

Sky Painted Brown puts spotlight on high school bullying.

36 SCREENS

WHERE’S AMY?

Trainwreck lacks Amy Schumer’s unconventional brand of comedy.

Paddle power

Fri., July 17, 5-8 pm, and Sat., July 18, 7 am-4 pm (races begin at 9 am), Olin Park Isthmus Paddle & Portage has joined forces with the Midwest Standup Paddle Festival, morphing into a two-day human-powered extravaganza. Both days are chock full of music, food, craft beer and clinics, but the main event is Saturday’s 1.5-mile paddle from James Madison Park, 1-mile portage around the Capitol and 1.5-mile paddle from Monona Terrace to Olin Park. Bring plenty of Bengay.

47 EMPHASIS KATE NEWTON

24 IN HER DEBUT PIECE for Isthmus, Kate Newton takes a look at the growing number of hard cider producers in Wisconsin. A 2014 graduate of the University of Arizona-Tucson, Newton moved to Madison in October. Why Madison? It’s a familiar story, she says. Her boyfriend works at Epic.

Happy (or noisy) trails to you

CHOOSE US!

Joanna Ivey helps craft profiles for adoptive parents.

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MADISON MATRIX WEEK IN REVIEW OPINION & FEEDBACK THIS MODERN WORLD OFF THE SQUARE

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Tues., July 21, Mount Horeb High School, 5-7 pm

Help develop a sustainable trails network plan for Blue Mound State Park by sharing your thoughts at this public meeting. The State Department of Natural Resources wants input on trail conditions and improvements, especially whether to reopen the park to snowmobiles.

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Expect stiff competition at the Midwest Beard and Mustache Championship. There are contests in categories like “freestyle” and “whiskerina.” And all proceeds benefit Gilda’s Club.

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Raise awareness about mental illness in minority communities by participating in the Diversity in Motion Flash Mob with NAMI Wisconsin. To be a dancer, RSVP to NAMI’s Facebook event and learn the routine on YouTube. Or just stop by and watch the fun.

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The uneven gravel driveway points toward the interior of a residential block squeezed between East Gorham and East Johnson streets, where distressed concrete and indifferent weeds accent the real estate holdings of absentee landlords with all the charms of a cinder block. “This way,” directs Nancy Risser, a retired Madison high school Spanish teacher. As instructed, I follow her and her husband, Fred, America’s longest-serving state legislator. The senator has anticipated rain on what has, until then, been a sunny Friday afternoon. He has brought along umbrellas for everyone just in case. From the street the driveway appears to abruptly end several yards beyond the aging rental flats. But this is an illusion. The driveway is actually a path that ends somewhere different, a place where the Rissers — to quote Joni Mitchell in reverse — have made paradise by unpaving a parking lot. Literally. In a few short steps, the gravel turns into a crimson brick road that ribbons the lush and elegantly contoured 3,000-square-foot garden rising from the gray urbanscape. Here, a few blocks from their Wisconsin Avenue residence, the Rissers spend most evenings — planting, hosting or relaxing in the shade of the trees that peek over the fence from an adjacent lot. “It’s an absolutely delightful place to spend time,” says Nancy. “We call it ‘our oasis.’” Their oasis is created on a deal struck years ago between Fred and developer Michael Matty, who needed Fred to sell a property he owned on the 600 block of East Johnson in order to advance a redevelopment project. Matty could raze the house, but the Rissers didn’t want to part with their tiny garden. “He told us he would find us a place to garden,” Fred recalls. “I wasn’t so sure, but he said he would make magic happen.” Matty kept his promise, giving the Rissers what then was a small tenant parking lot where old car tires and beer cans passed time beneath the box elders. The Rissers initially envisioned rows of vegetables and flowers, but both quickly realized they had the opportunity to do more than raise a garden — they could create a habitat. The seeds of this idea took root after consulting with longtime friend Steve Lesch, a landscape architect. The parking lot was busted up and removed, and topsoil was spread over the freshly sculpted berms. Their son-in-law, Randy White, built a shed, while Fred and Nancy, married 30 years this August, busied themselves with planting. Seven years on, they couldn’t be more proud of their botanical masterpiece and its diversity of plant life. A variety of Japanese cultivars, like Moonrise maple and gingko, coexist with hummingbird-attracting honeysuckle and weeping cherry trees. Tucked away in a corner is the colony of

State Sen. Fred Risser and his wife, Nancy, transformed a paved parking lot into a 3,000-square-foot garden.

bees that use these exotic nectars to make their honey. The bees came from former state representative and honey bee farmer Robert Lorge, a Republican. “We called it bee-partisanship,” Fred jokes. “They produce great honey.” But the Rissers are perhaps most excited about the guerrilla gardening campaign they’ve undertaken beyond the fence Matty built. On the neglected properties surrounding their oasis, irises bloom where weeds once reached waist height. There are black-eyed Susans, ornamental oat grass and numerous other botanicals. They’ve planted mint for the neighbors who drink mojitos and lemon balm for those who prefer tea. Fred has planted hundreds of tulips and daffodils. “We’ve kind of taken the area over,” Nancy says. “But no one is complaining.”

Their most recent addition is a garden teeming with basil, epazote — a Mexican mint — zinnias, tomatoes and shiso — a Japanese herb. “It’s not a bad deal for an absentee landlord, is it?” says Fred, with mischievous delight. Back inside the oasis, Nancy stops to admire the irises that returned with her from Texas following her father’s memorial service, transplanted from her late grandmother’s ranch near Abilene. “You should have seen us,” she says. “There we were, in our best clothes, digging in the dirt for the iris rhizones.” She looks out across the oasis, its colors as quiet as the afternoon. “A garden is a living thing,” she says. “It has changed so much.” n

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VIP parking downtown? Critics worry a Judge Doyle Square subsidy could hurt Madison’s parking utility BY JOE TARR

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The Judge Doyle Square project calls for a hefty city investment of around $63 million. The bulk of that money — an estimated $40 million — will pay for the construction of 1,250 parking spaces. It’s a cost the city is being asked to pay in order to bring a marquee corporate headquarters, Exact Sciences, to downtown. Even champions of the project admit they have some concerns about giving a private company essentially free parking, which it could use to compete with the city’s own parking utility. “There’s a lot of factors to consider: one is obvious fairness to other organizations, other developers and companies that are already downtown that don’t have the same advantage,” says Ald. Mark Clear. “It makes the whole thing really complicated.” Others say the plan isn’t complicated at all. Ald. David Ahrens, a critic of the project, predicts catastrophe, saying the city “is financing private parking that bankrupts the parking utility.”

The city has been trying to develop Judge Doyle Square for years. The city property includes the half block behind the Municipal Building and the aging Government East parking ramp across Pinckney Street. The city wants to leverage this valuable property to spur private development, including a hotel to complement the Monona Terrace Community & Convention Center. The city is currently negotiating with a development team that includes Bob Dunn of Hammes Company and Exact Sciences, a biotech firm that has developed a colon cancer screening test. The team proposes a roughly $200 million project that would include 250,000 square feet for Exact Sciences’ corporate headquarters, a 210- to 250-room hotel, a bicycle center, a health club, retail and other uses. While a city subsidy for a hotel has long been controversial, this time around, it’s the subsidy for parking that is raising eyebrows among skeptics. The current plan calls for most of the 1,250 parking spaces to be underground. Six hundred of these would be allocated to the parking utility as a replacement for the city’s Government East ramp. Another 600 spaces are earmarked for Exact Sciences and the remaining 50 for hotel guests. The parking utility, which is entirely self-funded by users, would contribute $17.9 million from its roughly $26 million reserves to build the public spaces. The city would also kick in another $1.3 million for spaces for its fleet vehicles. The city would also contribute $20.8 million in tax incremental financing to pay for 650 parking spaces that would be used by Exact Sciences and the hotel — about $32,000 per space. (The developers originally wanted

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The Judge Doyle Square project calls for 1,250 parking spaces, including 600 that would be owned by the city and 650 that the private developer would control. JDS DEVELOPMENT, LLC

850 spaces, but decreased the request by 200). Although these spaces would be owned by the city, the developer would get to use them for a bargain. It has proposed renting the spaces for a total of $40,000 a year — the equivalent of $5 per month per space. In contrast, the city currently rents spaces at Government East — the most expensive of its garages — for $250 a month. According to a July 7 memo from the city’s negotiating team to the Common Council, Exact Sciences proposes to have 300 people working in the facility when it opens on July 1, 2017, and increasing that number to 400 by Jan. 1, 2019. It anticipates having 600 employees by 2023. Until then, that leaves at least an extra 200 to 300 parking spaces. Some fear the developers would rent the spaces out, undercutting the city’s parking utility. “What’s going on with the other 200 spaces? Given the way it’s structured, they’d be in direct competition with the city’s garages. That worries me,” says Ald. Rebecca Kemble, a member of the city’s Transit and Parking Commission. “It seems a little crazy that we would subsidize a competitor to our own utility.” Kemble would like the utility to own and control all of the spaces, perhaps renting some of them to Exact Sciences at a discount. Clear agrees the current proposal raises concerns and offers another alternative. “Any excess the private development doesn’t need should probably be managed by the parking utility,” he says. “That’s a complicated thing to figure out and a moving target, because nobody really knows what Exact Sciences’ growth rate will be.” Isthmus could not reach Bob Dunn for comment. Exact Sciences did not make Kevin Conroy, its president and CEO, available for an interview. The company’s spokesperson, JP Fielder, took all questions. Fielder declined to say what the developers would do with these extra spaces or who would control them. “We outlined the numbers of what we need,” he says. “In the midst of negotiations it wouldn’t be good to talk more specifics. The numbers we need are the numbers we need.”

The July 7 memo from the city’s negotiating team to the council notes that the developer proposes giving the city a 20% cut of whatever profits it makes from parking. It estimates that will amount to $75,000 a year — meaning its own take from parking would be $300,000 a year. Scott Lee, assistant manager of the city’s parking utility, doesn’t like this arrangement. Even if the developer doesn’t undercut the city’s parking rates, he says, it will still take business away from the utility. “A good portion of that money [will come] at the expense of the parking utility,” he says. “And we’ll only get 20% back.” Lee also worries that the project will encourage more driving into an already congested area, with no incentive for employees to ride buses or bikes. “City employees are given free bus passes, but we don’t get free parking,” he notes. “So if I choose to drive in, it’s an added cost to me. We try to encourage our employees as a city to use alternative transportation. This plan does not in my estimation put anything toward that effort. They’re supplying one stall for every employee that they have.” Ahrens notes that the city has asked for a bicycle center, which it will fund to the tune of $1 million. But with the city building so much parking, he ask “Why would someone ride their bike when they can park for free in a climatecontrolled parking venue?” Lee has other concerns. He worries that no parking will be available for 18 months during construction — which will inconvenience residents and cost the utility millions in revenue. He wonders how motorists will be able to figure out which spaces are public and which private. And he’s concerned that most of the cars will enter and exit the garage on Wilson Street, backing up traffic at rush hour. And depleting all but about $8 million of the utility’s $26 million reserve does not give him comfort either. “We won’t be able to build our reserves up to this current level in time to pay down the next garage replacement,” Lee

says. “It’ll have to involve some borrowing on behalf of the utility.” Other concerns relate to design. Under the current plan, the first level of parking will go underneath both block 88 (behind the Municipal Building) and block 105 (where Government East is). Block 105 will include four more levels of parking below that. But excavating that deep could put the structure into the water table, meaning the city will have to constantly pump water. “It’s an operating cost,” Lee says. “These structures will last 70-plus years. So for the next 70 years, we’ll pay an increased operating cost for that. And it’s an unknown.” A better design, Lee thinks, would be to have three levels of parking under both blocks, which would keep the structure above the water table. However, the developer has said because Exact Sciences needs to occupy its offices by mid-2017, it does not have time to dig deeper on Block 88. Brad Binkowski, one of the principals of Urban Land Interests, downplays the concern about water drainage. ULI is not involved with the Judge Doyle project, but it developed Block 89 across the street from it, which includes five levels of underground parking. Binkowski says that all parking structures have drainage systems, but the operating costs are not that high. “We have pumps, but they only run when the basins get filled,” he says. “It’s not a big deal at all.” More broadly, Lee frets about the pressure the city is under to make a decision. The developer wants an agreement signed by Sept. 1. “If they’re expecting a decision in six to seven weeks, are we going to have sufficient time as a city to thoroughly vet this?” asks Lee. “They’re telling us what they’re going to build, and we’re going to own part of it and maintain it, yet we’re not involved in the discussion to design it,” he adds. “It makes me very nervous that we will have as high a functioning a facility that we can.” n

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Wisconsin Public Radio’s July 3 episode of Central Time on WHSF featured a story on Back to the Future, celebrating the movie’s 30th anniversary. Movie buffs have noted that the second film in the trilogy, set in the year 2015, features flat-screen TVs, smart glasses and hover boards. But something is missing: radio. The omission could seem unimportant, until you compare it to the first film. From the opening lines (a radio commercial) to the clock radio that welcomes Marty McFly back to 1985, radio broadcasting gets more screen time than his iconic orange-red vest. We can see now that radio hasn’t gone the way of feathered hairstyles and banana clips. “I keep hearing about the ‘death of radio,’ but at the same time I keep hearing things like “98% of all U.S. residents listen to the radio at least a few times per week,” says David Klann. Klann, along with business partner Todd Fisher Wallin, started a company in April in response to a new wave of organizations eager to get on the air. A former WORT-FM

volunteer, Klann says he and Fisher Wallin are “passionate about using technology to enable people outside the mainstream media to be heard; to ‘give voice to the voiceless.’” In 2010, five years after moving from Madison to the Driftless area, where he learned computer-based audio processing, Klann helped build the Viroqua radio station, WDRT. Since then, he and Fisher Wallin have dreamed of “helping stations and saving them money along the way.” Last August, at the Grassroots Radio Conference in Ames, Iowa, several people asked them to do just that. Their answer: Phantom Machine Works. From its base in Viola, the company serves clients ranging from full-power noncommercial stations like WDRT (on the low end of full-power stations) and KMUD in Garberville, Calif., to low-power FM (LPFM) stations scattered throughout the country. To qualify for an LPFM license, the licensee must be a nonprofit, and the station must have a maximum output of 100 watts and a broadcast antenna no higher than 30 meters above the surrounding terrain. While the LPFM class has existed since

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The model uses off-the-shelf, readily available hardware. “People can use our ‘recipes’ and ALEXEI VELLA build things themselves, or they around 2000, a spike in new stations followed can acquire turnkey, supported systems passage of the 2011 Local Community Radio from us.” They also offer support contracts Act, which removed some restrictions and al- to stations that build systems themselves. Here in the Madison area, the company lows for more stations to operate. There’s a learning curve that comes with has helped numerous LPFM stations, instarting your own radio station. It involves cluding Lussier Community Education fundraising, organizing, energizing volunteers, Center’s forthcoming neighborhood radio and dealing with technical, legal and regulatory station, which will allow community memissues. Then there’s this added pressure: Once bers, organizations and schools to broadcast the FCC grants an organization a “construction their own content. “People are clamoring for permit,” the clock starts ticking. Groups have 18 outlets where they can get involved and feel months to get the station on the air and opera- as if they’re making a difference,” Klann says. They eventually hope to support larger tional or they lose their license. To help LPFM stations meet this deadline, noncommercial, community and even comKlann and Fisher Wallin build and integrate commercial stations, as well as online streamplete computer audio systems by taking opening-only stations. Regardless of station size, source software and configuring and packaging it. Klann believes that attention to local issues is “Unlike most commercial broadcast audio the key to retaining and growing audiences. equipment vendors, we publish the hardware As for radio’s future, Klann predicts that, specifications and the software configurations more and more, it will drift to the Internet. to our GitHub site and our wiki, opensource- “But the aspect that won’t change is the immediacy and locality of live ‘radio.’” n radio.org,” says Klann.

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Gov. Scott Walker finally signed a new budget, just in time to announce that he is running for president. The budget was 12 days late, garnered more “no” votes from Walker’s GOP colleagues than any other budget he has tried to pass, and was described by at least two Republicans in the state Legislature as “crap.” But never mind all that. Walker is embarking on another round of visits to early primary states. Wisconsin is in the rearview mirror for him. Walker is busy impressing the right-wing base with his “bold,” “unintimidated” assaults on education, health care and the environment in his home state. The budget he signed reflects the two main themes of his political career: destroying public institutions, from schools to parks, and eliminating oversight and accountability when it comes to spending public funds. Here is a prime example: The state budget expands a school voucher program that, after 25 years, has not improved academic outcomes for children in Milwaukee. Instead of demanding better results, the new budget eliminates the requirement that voucher school students take the same standardized tests as students in the regular public schools. Walker’s economic development record in Wisconsin, including his key promise to create 250,000 new jobs, has been a massive failure. He didn’t even make half of his goal, and has developed a severe case of amnesia about that job-creation promise. Wisconsin lags the nation and is at the bottom of our region in job creation, and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., the agency Walker put together to help create those jobs, has been better at giving away money

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velopers: taking away local control over water quality in our community. No more local efforts to deal with the runoff that pollutes our lakes. The state is in charge now, and we can’t have higher standards than those set forth in state law. Walker will be travelling and won’t have to smell the results. The rest of us are going to have to live with the fallout from a state budget Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) aptly described as throwing the people of Wisconsin under Walker’s campaign bus. Thousands of citizens from all over the state turned out to object to the sustained, historic cuts to K-12 education in Wisconsin. Thanks to the massive cuts to the university

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Railroad executive and top Walker donor William Gardner is charged with two felonies after a secret John Doe investigation reveals he funneled more than $60,000 in illegal campaign contributions through his employees over five years. 4/11/11

Walker signs a law legalizing the concealed-carry of handguns, saying “We are making Wisconsin safer for all responsible, law-abiding citizens.” 7/8/11 h unc s la tion, t n e ti t pon all pe o ous p O rec g t om a pin r fr /11 ho alke 11/4 W ce. offi

Walker signs a bill that rewrites mining laws in an attempt to pave the way for construction of a $1.5 billion open pit iron mine in northern Wisconsin. 3/11/13

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LAND Walker fires Palmisano after it’s revealed she made racist tweets regarding Latinos. 12/3/13

Prosecutors in a secret John Doe investigation allege that Walker was at the center of a “criminal scheme” to illegally coordinate fundraising and campaigning activities to beat back recall efforts in ’11 and ’12. 6/19/14

Walker campaign worker Taylor Palmisano sends a letter asking supporters to donate to Walker instead of buying their children Christmas gifts. 11/29/13

Walker announces $100 million in property tax cuts, saving the average homeowner $33 over two years. 10/10/13

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Former top Walker aide Kelly Rindfleisch reports to jail to serve a six-month sentence for misconduct in office and doing campaign work on taxpayer-funded time. She’s one of six people convicted in a secret John Doe investigation into Walker aides and associates. 4/1/15

Walker’s plan to expand voucher schools could cost public schools $800 million over the next decade, estimates show. 5/28/15

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Walker’s executive budget proposes major cuts to the UW System, drug testing for people receiving benefits, and a radical shift in the UW’s mission from one of public service (the “Wisconsin Idea”) to serving the state’s “workforce needs.” 2/3/15

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Days after a mass shooting in Charleston, S.C., Walker signs two bills loosening gun control in Wisconsin. 6/24/15

Walker calls the U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage “a grave mistake.” 6/26/15

After months of “testing the waters” and raising funds, Walker announces his presidential candidacy, becoming the 15th Republican to join the race. 7/13/15

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Seeking to further restrict abortion access, Walker affirms that he will sign a bill banning the procedure after 20 weeks — with or without an exception for rape or incest. 6/1/15

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Walker scraps his proposed merger of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority hours after an audit reveals rampant dysfunction within the governor’s flagship jobs creation agency. 5/8/15

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In a first formal step toward a presidential run, Walker forms a political action committee called “Our American Revival.” 1/16/15

Walker admits he won’t meet his campaign promise to create 250,000 jobs in his first term, saying, “My goal wasn’t so much to hit a magic number.” 8/26/13

Walker is elected governor the third time in four years, beating Mary Burke. 11/4/14

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But No. 4 will make a much-heralded return to Wisconsin this weekend. On Saturday, Favre will be inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. The ceremony, which includes the retirement of his jersey number, will be broadcast live by the Packers TV Network and the NFL Network and streamed live on packers.com. The event also will be shown on the TundraVision video boards at Lambeau Field. An estimated 67,000 tickets to view the festivities from inside the stadium went on sale for $4 each in May and sold out in eight hours.

On Sunday, Brett Favre’s Legends Game, a flag football showdown between Packers legends and former National Football League all-stars, will kick off at Camp Randall Stadium. The Packers roster includes Favre, Mark Tauscher, Antonio Freeman, Dorsey Levens, Frank Winters, Al Harris, Eugene Robinson, Gilbert Brown, James Lofton, Mark Chmura and Bryce Paup. The NFL all-stars include Donovan McNabb, former Wisconsin Badger Ron Dayne, Favre nemesis John Randle and Ed “Too Tall” Jones.

Net proceeds from the Legends Game and Hall of Fame viewing will benefit the Favre 4 Hope Foundation, which directly assists several charities, including Make-A-Wish, Special Olympics, Rawhide Boys Ranch and Ribbon of Hope. “I’ll be glad when it’s all over,” Favre told Isthmus in a phone interview last week. “And I don’t mean that in a negative way. But I look forward to just getting back to whacking weeds or cutting grass or digging a hole.”

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Apples to alcohol Southern Wisconsin hard cider producers aim for a more authentic product CAROLYN FATH

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So much as utter the words “Angry Orchard” around these local hard cider producers and risk being charged a blasphemer. The big brands — like Angry Orchard, Woodchuck, REDD’s — may be largely responsible for hard cider’s rapid growth in the beverage market share. But consumers with a preference for craft beer have learned to look for small-batch, authentic, fresh product, and they want that in hard cider, too. As with craft breweries, small cideries are springing up. Southern Wisconsin has four hard cider producers with exciting new ventures.

LEAD SHOT HARD CIDER Vines and Rushes Winery began producing Lead Shot under the name Wiley Cider two years ago, when owner Ryan Prellwitz partnered with friends and cidermakers Tim and Lynsey Scottberg. The Scottbergs recently scaled back their involvement, and the winery, less than a mile from its namesake Rush Lake outside Ripon, rebranded the cider as Lead Shot — an homage to Rush Lake’s duck-hunting past. All fruit and other ingredients found in the cider are “100% Wisconsin-grown,” Prellwitz says. The winery maintains a four-acre apple orchard (with Cortland, Golden Delicious, Lodi and other varieties) and works with at least seven other local growers to produce its cider and wines. All four varieties of Wiley Cider — semisweet, raspberry, strawberry and dry — should be on shelves at the winery by the end of the month. Vines and Rushes increased production of its cider from 300 gallons in the first year to about 1,500 gallons this past year, Prellwitz says. The increase in product — and marketing — will improve visibility and

awareness, “and that helps every other cidery in the state,” Prellwitz notes. Madison vendors won’t be carrying the cider in the immediate future, but bottles can be ordered online at vinesandrushes.com; the winery ships to addresses in Wisconsin and 20 other states, as well as Washington, D.C. Or visit the winery’s tasting room at 410 County Rd. E in Ripon, Sunday through Thursday noon-5 p.m., and Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Call 920-748-3296 for more information. CIDER HOUSE OF WISCONSIN Jim and Barb Lindemann’s orchard, 20 minutes south of Madison near McFarland, boasts 220 trees known as “antique cider cultivars,” which bear unpalatable fruit you wouldn’t want as part of your lunch. But bitter, European-style cider apples possess natural tannins and acids ideal for hard ciders both sweet and dry, and can be blended with sweeter apples for a more accessible taste. Two varieties from their Cider House of Wisconsin are currently on shelves: Pooch, a semi-sweet cider, and Black Dragon, a spiced, dry cider. The apples are pressed, the cider brewed and bottled in-house. They also make a brandy and a cyser (cider blended with honey) from their crop. The Lindemanns say they hope to have their new variety of cider, Meoweewowee — a sweet hard cider with notes of ginger — on the market by the end of the month. Despite the steadily growing presence of local cider producers for the better part of the last decade, the Lindemanns say Wisconsin’s cider market still lags behind the coasts and neighboring Michigan. After all, this is beer country, but Jim is optimistic that with the right push, Wisconsin consumers may yet flock to cider. “The challenge is to get in front of people and redirect tastes to something that we think is a lot more authentic,” he says. Pooch and Black Dragon can be purchased at the Willy Street Co-op Middleton, Star Liquor and other locations on a seasonal basis. The Lindemanns say they aim to distribute their

ciders to more area retailers and restaurants in the coming months. For more information and a full list of retailers, see ciderwis.com. THE CIDER FARM Deirdre Birmingham and John Biondi’s hard cider has been a long time in the making — 12 years, to be exact. After planting an orchard full of English cider apple varieties, they harvested their first commercial crop in 2011. Birmingham and Biondi partnered with Yahara Bay Distillers to produce small annual batches of apple brandy; this year’s batch, out Oct. 15, is already 65 % reserved. The long-awaited cider debuts this year, though test batches have already been sampled and served at several restaurants. Produced by Fox Valley Winery in Oswego, Ill., the cider allocated for the Madison market will be released later this month. Birmingham says they plan to increase this year’s production of 1,600 gallons to approximately 9,000 next year. The winery exclusively uses the Cider Farm’s certified organic, true cider apples, to produce a naturally effervescent drink that strays far from the often sickly-sweet taste of mass-produced cider varieties. Three new cider blends, titled simply with the numerals IV, VII and IX, will be available in kegs for restaurants, while individuals can purchase the ciders in 750 mL bottles through theciderfarm.com. IV (6.7% ABV) is a dry cider featuring a blend of three English bittersweet apples — Chisel Jersey, Brown’s Apple and Ellis Bitter — balanced with an American tart apple variety. VII (5.7% ABV) features a selection of four English cider apple varieties blended with American tart apples for a crisp, rich taste. And IX (5% ABV) is a dry style blending such apples as Somerset Redstreak, Major and Tremlett’s Bitter. Madison restaurants including Graze, Harvest, the Coopers Tavern and the Old Fashioned will carry the Cider Farm’s ciders on draft. If any cider is remaining, Birmingham says, they’ll look into distributing it to area retailers as well.

Birmingham recalls conducting a market survey for cider back in 2004 and was daunted by how little Wisconsinites knew about the beverage. In the time it took to build her orchard, awareness has caught up. But, she says, the work isn’t over: “Ten years later, you don’t really need to introduce cider to many people anymore. Now, it’s introducing them to a finer cider.” MERSHON’S ARTISAN CIDER Joseph Baird’s cidery will celebrate its first anniversary in October. Mershon’s Artisan Cider is already a staple at area brew festivals. In the fall, Baird partners with an orchard in Stoughton, using fresh-pressed apple juice and local Verona honey, with no other ingredients. He also orders apples from Michigan farms to keep his supply stocked year-round. Mershon’s labels each bottle of cider with which varieties make up that particular blend. Mershon’s current blend includes Fuji, Gala and McIntosh apples. These change frequently depending on availability and Baird’s inclination towards experimentation. He plans to release a dry cider with a higher alcohol content within the next month, to be called Mershon’s Death Valley Dry Cider, as well as a small batch made with all-Wisconsin maple syrup instead of honey. “I think it’s underestimated how many people enjoy cider; it appeals to a broad range of people,” Baird says. “Even the beer drinkers can appreciate a good cider. It’s a good change of pace.” Mershon’s is on tap at locations in and around Madison, including Mr. Brews Taphouse locations, the Side Door Grill and Tap and the new HopCat. Mershon’s plans to expand into Festival Foods locations later this year, and ordering can be done through mershonscider.com. n

Champagne of the North Berliner Geist from Vintage Brewing Company The centuries-old Berliner Weisse style is making a comeback due to the rise in popularity of sour beers. Vintage Brewing Company just released its first attempt at one, and it lives up to Napoleon’s description of the style as the “Champagne of the North.” Vintage’s Scott Manning enjoys the challenge of developing unique beers based on historical beer styles. Berliner Geist required a 36-hour brew day. After initially cooking the grains, he stopped the brew kettle, added lactobacillus, then sealed the kettle air-tight, because lactobacillus doesn’t like oxygen. He checked it every eight hours while the bacteria did their job to make things sour. Then he reheated the brew kettle to kill the bacteria and completed the brewing using a more common ale yeast. The result is a beer with a light sour body that’s sharp and tart without being over the top, with a light grainy wheatiness in the finish. It’s an approachable and friendly introduction to the style and to sours. Berliner Geist finishes at 4.7% ABV, a bit strong for the style. It’s available only at the west side Vintage, $5/glass and $14/growler (refill), and it should be available through

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There are special dishes and deals to be had at the 50 participating restaurants during Madison Summer Restaurant Week, with $15 prix-fixe lunches, $25 prixfixe three-course dinners and some $30 and $35 dinner options. Generally, dinners feature three options for each of the three courses. Menus at channel3000. com/madison-magazine/ restaurant-week.

Chef Neeta Saluja will teach a cooking class focusing on everyday Indian meals, including a pan-fried tilapia, blackeyed peas and spices, rice pullav, and fresh tomato salad. Register ($20/$30 non-members) by calling 608-251-6776.

Troll rolls and more Saturday, July 18, 9 am-2 pm, Mount Horeb

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The Sons of Norway Kaffe Stue at the Mount Horeb Community Center, 107 N. Grove St., will feature classic Norwegian foods like lefse (potato-based flatbread), rommegrot (sour cream porridge), sandbakkel (cookies), smorrebrod (open face sandwiches), sotsuppe (dried fruit soup) and more, including the less traditional Troll rolls and Troll balls. Items are available a la carte. More at vennelag513.com.

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Brett Favre continued from 21

During this time of celebration, Favreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retirement saga, and the way in which it divided Packer Nation, feels like ancient history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The great thing is, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re beyond that,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better than anyone could have hoped at this point.â&#x20AC;? Favre may be right. But his indecisiveness in 2008, when he came out of retirement and was traded to the New York Jets â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and then a year later, when he unretired again to play for the Minnesota Vikings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; caused major turbulence among fans and some individuals within the Packers organization. Favre almost called it quits once more after that 2009 season but returned one final time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the latter part of my career, all I cared about was winning,â&#x20AC;? Favre says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the downside of that was when I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win, I kind of felt like it was a wasted year, even though that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the case. The Vikings came close to making the Super Bowl [in 2009], and there was no reason to think that we wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come close again.â&#x20AC;? As many Packers fans will recall, a visit to Mississippi in the summer of 2010 by three of Favreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vikings teammates (including former Packers kicker Ryan Longwell) sealed the deal for Favre. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give it another try, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to always regret that you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take that chance. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always wonder, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What if?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Favre says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were right, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimately what made me go back. After the fact, you can say it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the year anyone was expecting. [Minnesota went 6-10 and missed the playoffs.] But at least I know what happened. So if I had to do it all over again, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d do the same thing. It just wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meant to be, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m okay with that.â&#x20AC;? Favre likens his own struggle to leave the game with that of 39-year-old quarterback Peyton Manning. Manningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current team, the Denver Broncos, lost to his old team, the Indianapolis Colts, in the playoffs last year. After contemplating retirement, Manning signed a reduced contract with

Denver in March and is expected to begin his 18th season this fall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a devastating position to be in,â&#x20AC;? says Favre, who played 20 seasons in the NFL. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You think you still can play, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting up good numbers. But youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re older, and you know that next year is not going to be any easier. But if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try, is it going to eat at you for the rest of your life? You want to exhaust every option possible.â&#x20AC;? Favre now realizes all of his options are exhausted. This makes it even tougher for him to understand why NFL players in the prime of their careers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including former University of Wisconsin linebacker Chris Borland and his former San Francisco 49ers teammate Anthony Davis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are leaving the game over concerns about potential traumatic brain injuries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have to admit Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a little surprised that those guys are doing that,â&#x20AC;? says Favre, who in 2009 responded to a reporterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s question about how many concussions heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suffered with â&#x20AC;&#x153;a lot.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The collection of players I played with and played against â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I just never thought there would be this keen awareness within that individual to say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know, I need to look out for myself.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Football players are sort of careless and think more of what they can get out of the game from a monetary standpoint and worry about the injuries later. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way I looked at football. And to see these guys prematurely retire because of the potential long-term effects â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that would happen. Football is an addictive sport. You get the crap beat out of you day in and day out, but yet you go back for more.â&#x20AC;? Favre has admitted to some memory loss that might be the result of multiple head injuries but says he â&#x20AC;&#x153;feels greatâ&#x20AC;? today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say I know what normal feels like,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I know I fight an uphill battle just based on what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done. Not to mention, the older I get, the tougher it becomes. Right now, though, I really feel pretty good.â&#x20AC;? n

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Mark Tauscher and Brett Favre talk Hall of Fame, Minnesota Vikings and that tense Packers Family Night Scrimmage in 2008 I was fortunate to play eight years with Brett Favre leading us out of the tunnel every week. It was comforting knowing you were in a great position to win every time because you had an elite quarterback behind you. My former teammate returns to Wisconsin this weekend for his induction into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame on Saturday and to star in Brett Favre’s Legends Game at Camp Randall Stadium on Sunday. I’ll be on Brett’s team one more time, along with such former Green Bay greats as Dorsey Levens, James Lofton, Gilbert Brown and Frank Winters. We’ll be competing in a flag football matchup against the likes of Donovan McNabb, Ron Dayne and John Randle — who during his NFL career sacked Brett more times than any other quarterback. During a phone interview last week, Brett and I talked about his departure from Green Bay, what he’s up to now and his upcoming weekend in Wisconsin. We also had a little fun at the expense of Winters and Randle. — MARK TAUSCHER

Mark Tauscher: Frank Winters is introducing you at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony. I can’t wait to hear that. Is he censoring it? Brett Favre: Has he ever censored anything? Trying to get Frank to bleep out certain things is going to be interesting. This will be a little bit bigger crowd than he’s used to. Were you surprised that so many people bought tickets to watch the ceremony at Lambeau? I really didn’t know what to expect. I anticipated maybe 10,000 or 15,000. My daughter, Breleigh, came home from school, and she’s like “Dad, did you hear it sold out?

They must really like you!” Even I was shocked. If there were any doubts from anyone before, there aren’t now. The contention between you and Green Bay was probably at its highest when you came back for the Packers Family Night Scrimmage in 2008, after you announced your retirement. Earlier in the day, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reinstated you, but you didn’t play that night. We, as players, were sitting in that locker room thinking, “What the heck is going on?” What was going on in your mind at that time? I felt the same thing. I was like, “How did we get to this?” You look at my career, and you think “Green Bay.” After playing for so long, and having so much success there, to feel that I was not necessarily welcome in the building anymore was awkward — very awkward. That was a tough time. It was so tense in the locker room. That whole scenario was just crazy how it played out. It really was. And it was unfortunate that everybody had to go through that: you guys, the organization, myself. The fans, too. They have a bigger vested interest in the organization than anybody. Then you went to New York and eventually to Minnesota. What was it like when you came back to Green Bay as a Minnesota Viking for the first time [on Nov. 1, 2009]? You guys beat us, 38-26. That experience had to just be surreal. Coming out of that tunnel, I had never been as nervous and excited at the same time in my entire career — Super Bowls included. Of course, I wanted to play better than great. Considering the circumstances, I thought, “Boy, anything less than spectacular is going to be a bust.” I had never heard boos that loud, ever, at

Packers fans felt betrayed when Favre went to play for the Vikings.

JIM BIEVER

Lambeau, and I’ve heard some pretty loud ones. But in a strange sort of way, I felt honored by that. Of course, I’d been coming out of the other tunnel for 16 years, hearing the loudest cheers, which made me think, “Wow, they really like me!” This was totally the opposite, times 100. When the game was over I could not have been more pleased with the way I played, but I never expected that going into it. What can the fans expect to happen at the Legends Game, besides [former All-Pro defensive tackle] John Randle sacking you?

Boy, I sure hope that doesn’t happen. You know John: He may short-circuit out there and just kill Frank [Winters], which would not be anything different than what’s happened before! I wouldn’t expect any midseason-form playing, but I don’t think people are coming to see that. These are guys who were damn good in their day but just look kind of normal now. n Edited by Michael Popke. Mark Tauscher is a co-owner of Isthmus.

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A marvel at 13 Rising pop star Skylar Stecker delights at Overture Center

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BY JAY RATH

Skylar Stecker is a young singer with a big, big voice. She’s also one of our own. Stecker discovered the power of her voice as a third-grader, when she auditioned for a Middleton school talent show. She’s come a long way since, with 280,000 subscribers on YouTube, a new deal with Cherrytree Records/Interscope (her debut full-length album is scheduled for September release) and a recurring role on the Disney Channel’s Austin & Ally. Stecker’s just 13, so it was a little scary to see her so slick and so polished Saturday evening, delighting around 700 fans

at the Overture Center for the Arts; too many Disney-blessed starlets have later gone off the rails, notably Miley Cyrus and Lindsay Lohan. Fingers crossed. Stecker wrote or helped write all 10 songs in the show, which was, in a word, “sassy.” She tends toward first-person: “In My Way,” “Save Me Now,” “Keep Me Down.” And frankly, her voice is a marvel, with strength, strong support and vast range, and impressive sustaining power. Musically, her songs are highly danceable, and there’s no question that she knows her audience. The Capitol Theater was full of spellbound tweens and patient parents, with a good supply of younger kids, too. Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan or his twin was in attendance.

There were no fancy sets or outlandish costumes, unless you consider tank tops and bare midriffs on Stecker and her peer dancers outlandish. Nor were there many moments of intimacy. An acoustic number would have been welcome and even fascinating. There was one soft ballad. The closer, “Rooftop” was the most original, combining call-and-response with a Middle Eastern melody. As she grows — and she has a lot of time for that — Stecker will hopefully sample forms other than pop, and incorporate other rhythms and instrumentation into her sound. She’s been so blessed with vocal talent that she could even take on opera, if she wanted. Maybe by the time she’s 15? n

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Married...with music Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams reflect on playing with legends BY STU LEVITAN

Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams are the first couple of roots Americana. Campbell is a multi-instrumentalist musical director and producer of three Grammy-winning albums for the Band’s late Levon Helm. He toured for seven years with Bob Dylan and with the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh, among other career highlights. Williams is a powerful singer from Peckerwood Point, Tenn., who originated the role of Sara Carter for the musical about the Carter Family, Keep on the Sunny Side. Twenty-seven years after they wed under a tree her great-great-grandmother planted in a yard on the road to Shiloh, they’ve finally released their first album — a self-titled offering getting rave reviews. Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams opens with the warm and funky “Surrender to Love” and never loses its infectious way through eight originals and three well-chosen covers. Campbell is a skilled songwriter, capturing the wry and roguish in “Aint’ Nobody for Me” and “Bad Luck Charm.” The album closes with an achingly beautiful version of “Attics of My Life,” the Grateful Dead classic the band played as its last encore for its final concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 5. Campbell and Williams spoke with Isthmus in advance of their seated show at the High Noon Saloon on July 17. What was your musical upbringing like? Teresa Williams: We kind of made our own music. My mother would play classical piano, teaching herself, and my daddy played guitar. We’d harmonize in the living room after supper. Somebody was always playing music; my brother would even strap a radio to his belt for when we were in the field hoeing together. Larry Campbell: My parents were broad thinkers, with deep artistic tastes. And their

The couple’s debut album is getting rave reviews.

existed, a synchronicity that you didn’t even realize you were aiming for. And there’s no feeling in the world like that. I’ll always enjoy working with Phil just to hunt down those moments again. Is it true you initially turned down the offer to join Dylan’s band? LC: Yeah. I had just come off a tour with k.d. lang, and I didn’t want to be on the road anymore. I wanted to be a studio musician and producer in New York City. So of course the guy I wanted to work with more than anybody in the world calls me up and offers me a job. And I thought, no, I can’t do this, I’m staying here. Then I woke up the next day and thought, wait a minute — what did I just do? So I called back and said “Okay, I think I’ll do this.” And in that conversation they offered me more money. So I was playing hardball without even realizing it.

record collection was incredible, from mariachi to opera. There was music all day long. One of the album’s vocal highlights is the Rev. Gary Davis’ classic “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning.” It’s got a pretty apocalyptic feel. What are you thinking while you’re singing? TW: I was asked to address some Rev. Gary material by Jorma [Kaukonen, guitarist for Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna] or I wouldn’t have approached it, out of reverence. But it kind of took hold of me, like the Baptist revivals my mother would take me to as a child. Everybody says it’s apocalyptic, but to me, it’s joyful.

Playing with Phil Lesh & Friends, did you pick up any pointers about making music in the moment? LC: Certainly unconsciously. The beauty of playing with Phil is the latitude you get as a musician. I came to Phil pretty soon after those years with Bob, and as chaotic as it could be sometimes with Bob, there usually was a definite structure in what we were doing. With Phil, I immediately found he wanted everybody to take chances. And I had to forget all self-imposed rules I had put on myself and follow the music rather than lead the music. And man, it really... made a better musician out of me. You’d hit this thing as a band that you never even knew

You were with him for seven years. What was that experience like? LW: It was interesting — I can tell you that. It was as fulfilling and as benumbing as you can imagine. The great moments were wonderful, the low moments were low. It was certainly a roller-coaster ride. I’m very grateful for the experience. And when it was time to go, it was time to go. What a joyous experience it must have been to make music with Levon Helm. LC: Everything with Levon was a fulfillment of all my aspirations as a musician. And for Teresa, too. And we were together and playing music for the best reason, just the enjoyment of playing music. TW: It was music utopia, and I cherish every moment of it. n For more on Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, listen to the July 7 broadcast of Books and Beats with Stu Levitan on 92.1 The Mic.

New kids on the block Willy Street Chamber Players are a welcome addition to the summer classical scene

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A group of terrifically talented young musicians has created the Willy Street Chamber Players, a welcome addition to Madison’s summer music scene. The players, most of whom are recent UW School of Music grads, launched the project with a concert on Friday, June 10, at Immanuel Lutheran Church on Spaight Street. They offered a one-hour, early-evening program that began with an instrumental version of Mozart’s late motet, “Ave verum

corpus,” played suavely by violinists Paran Amirinazari and Eleanor Bartsch, violas Rachel Hauser and Beth Larson, and cellos Mark Bridges and Lindsey Crabb. Then Amirinazari and Hauser ripped into Johan Halvorsen’s fiercely difficult “Passacaglia for Violin and Viola,” adapted from a set of keyboard variations by Handel. Finally, for the main course, the ensemble played the second of the two string sextets by Johannes Brahms, that in B-flat, Op. 18. The piece is a rich combination of Classical form and Romantic expression as only the young Brahms

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could devise — superlatively beautiful and engaging music. Violinist Suzanne Beia, of the Pro Arte Quartet and more, joined in as a collegial gesture. They played their hearts out in a performance that would make any chamber ensemble proud. If this concert is any indication of the future, this ensemble is off to a rousing start. Willy Street Chamber Players has scheduled a series of Friday performances at Immanuel. The next, on July 17, will be at noon. The other two, on July 24 and 31, will be at 6 p.m. n

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Jazzing up the south side “Strollin’” offers music in unconventional spaces BY BOB JACOBSON

There was a time when South Park Street was a destination for jazz in Madison. But Mr. P’s is long gone. R Place filled the role for a while, but it, too, is history. On Saturday, July 18, the south side will once again be alive with jazz, thanks to “Strollin’ South Park Street,” the latest edition of the Greater Madison Jazz Consortium’s series of neighborhood jazz showcases. Strollin’ South Park Street is this season’s second Strollin’ event, and the fifth overall. The Strollin’ concept sprang from the Madison musician community through a series of town hall-style meetings the consortium convened two winters ago. The idea is to do a sort of gallery night, but for jazz instead of art. The neighborhoods strolled so far are Schenk’s Corners (twice), Monroe Street and First Settlement. This year’s series will wrap up in September with Strollin’ Hilldale. One challenge is that Madison doesn’t have many venues that routinely book live jazz. The solution, says bassist Nick Moran, one of the event’s coordinators, is to partner with venues that don’t ordinarily host jazz and to share the financial commitment. The results have been promising, and have led to more opportunities for local jazzers.

“The venue pays an act, and the consortium matches that payment to hire additional acts,” Moran explains. “And then we collect audience donations, and all that money goes directly to the band, so it subsidizes the payment.” Many of the Strollin’ events take place in unconventional places. Venues for Strollin’ South Park Street are the Villager Mall parking lot, which will feature the Madison Music Foundry Student Jazz Ensemble, the Fountain of Life Ensemble, and Black Star Drum Line; the Urban League Community Room, where the Rick Flowers Quartet will perform; and the South District police station, which will host Mad City Funk and Golpe Tierra. The event will conclude with an after-party at Mason Lounge — quite a ways north of the other locations, but an actual, active jazz venue — featuring bpmTrio and the Five Points Jazz Collective. Moran thinks a lot of the appeal of Strollin’ is its low-key flavor. “It’s a really grassroots thing, and you can see that when you’re at the event,” Moran says. “We don’t have big sound systems or anything like that. It’s just jazz musicians coming together for the community. Each event has had the character of the neighborhood, and I’m really excited to see what South Park Street’s going to be like. I think it’s going to be a great family, neighborhood party.” n

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High school hell A Sky Painted Brown tackles the issue of bullying

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A Sky Painted Brown invites the audience to witness the high school hell of bullying victim Camille St. Vincent. “Bullying affects whole communities,” says Jan Levine Thal, artistic director of the Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre, which is producing the play in cooperation with StageQ. The collaboratively written play premieres this month at the Bartell Theatre. A Sky Painted Brown follows St. Vincent (Emily Morrison-Weeks), her boyfriend, Charlie Rogers (Ashton Lareau), and his crew of friends, who belittle Camille for not being good enough for Charlie. Camille is taunted on social media, her picture is photoshopped onto the body of a dog, and, eventually, she is physically attacked. The play explores the disconnect between victims and support systems, showing what the Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre calls in a news release “well-meaning but misguided responses” from Camille’s friends, parents and teachers.

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“Some teachers and parents miss the extent and intensity of the harassment and feel helpless in face of destructive behaviors,” Levine Thal says. And when adults lack clear strategies for helping bullied children, victims can be isolated, potentially leading to depression, anxiety and suicide. “For a victim to become a survivor she or he needs allies. But knowing who and how to

ask for help is not always easy,” she adds. The play draws upon the real-life bullying experiences of seven local playwrights and synthesizes them into a fictionalized one-hour play, aiming to use Camille’s high school as a microcosm for society’s bullying problem, which sometimes extends into adult workplaces. Director Naomi Bielefeldt first urged the production company to produce a play on bullying after attending the group’s annual fundraiser. The members agreed it was a topic worth examining and put out an open call for playwrights. Bielefeldt and Levine Thal steered a seven-person writing team, which also included Nancy Craig, Clarice LaFayette, Donnovan Moen (the company’s first male playwright), Gail Sterkel and Morrison-Weeks. Staged with a cast of women and men of varying ages, races, religions and sexual identities, A Sky Painted Brown strives to leave no one out. The company will also host talkbacks after each performance and has developed an online forum where people can write, share and publish their own experiences as bullying survivors or perpetrators.

Levine Thal says the company is eager to further the community dialogue around bullying using multiple media. A new recording of country singer Mark Wills’ anti-bullying song “Don’t Laugh At Me” was specifically produced for A Sky Painted Brown, and the play will also showcase local musician Joey Broyles performing his song “Freak.” The playwrights have also created Facebook profiles for the characters in A Sky Painted Brown where they interact with each other, providing a cyber-glimpse into the fragile and multidimensional world within the play. An excerpt from a poem on character Amy Brown’s Facebook page reveals insights into the character’s response to bullying: And I would just close my eyes but I’ve been hearing some things Some things I can’t un-hear like the laugh that fills the hallway with every corner I turn never knowing if it’s for me but my ears know and tiny needles prick my neck in waves cause I wish I took up less space. A Sky Painted Brown runs July 24 through Aug. 1 at the Bartell Theatre. n

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Missing Amy Trainwreck derails Schumer’s unconventional brand of comedy BY SCOTT RENSHAW

About midway through Trainwreck, Amy Townsend (Amy Schumer) gets a particularly emotional moment — sad, darkly funny and shot through with the messiness of her character. And all I could think was, “Where the hell is the whole movie that’s actually about this character?” In addition to starring, Schumer wrote the script for Trainwreck, casting herself as a monogamy-averse magazine writer who doesn’t know quite how to handle herself when she gets involved in a real relationship with an interview subject, nice-guy sports orthopedic surgeon Aaron Conners (Bill Hader). The story is predicated on the complicated relationship between Amy and her alcoholic father (Colin Quinn), and it’s clear that Schumer wants to say something about the familial baggage that can damage our chance for happiness. But the directing chores were handled by Judd Apatow, whose sensibility — as funny as it can be in movies that he writes for himself, like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up — feels all wrong here. His

The story is buried in random gags.

is a loosey-goosey, throw-every-punch-lineyou’ve-got-at-the-wall approach, resulting in a prominent role for LeBron James as Aaron’s improbably sensitive guy-pal and cameo appearances in a kind of excruciating relationship “intervention.” As much as Schumer occasional tries to subvert the idea that this is a conventionally structured romantic comedy,

Trainwreck keeps stubbornly turning back into a conventional romantic comedy. It’s still occasionally very funny, with outrageous set pieces involving awkward “sexy talk” between Schumer and Jon Cena, and Schumer’s feminine-hygiene-centric rant about relationship deal-breakers. The frustration comes from seeing a genuinely spiky story bur-

ied beneath the urge to indulge every improvisational tangent. Each time Trainwreck seems about to show us how much work it will take a messed-up woman like Amy Townsend to have her happily-ever-after, it steers us into a parade of random gags. She’s more interesting when she’s crying than when we’re laughing. n

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Denis Leary’s new show finds him returning to FX, the home of his most known screen work, Rescue Me. This time around, Leary comes bearing rock ’n’ roll. S&D&R&R stars Leary as a middle-aged rock “star” still trying to achieve the excessive fame and fortune of the 1980s. The characters seem like a good balance between perfectly pathetic and appropriately nostalgic, and the supporting cast boasts interesting figures like the perennially handsome good guy John Corbett (Sex and the City) and the ultimate villain for ’90s girls, The Parent Trap’s Elaine Hendrix.

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Netflix, premieres July 31 (8 episodes)

If this series had buzzwords, they would be “cult classic” and “celebrity cameos.” This prequel to David Wain and Michael Showalter’s satiric film, First Day of Camp has the potential to capitalize on nostalgia as only Netflix can. Hands down, First Day has the best cast of any show this summer, with Amy Poehler, Jon Hamm, Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd and Kristen Wiig, to name a few. It also has the entire original cast reprising their roles. Expectations are high, but just in case, we should take a cue from Amy Poehler and “lower our expectations.” — ALEX CLAIBORNE

The film list New releases Ant-Man: Paul Rudd dons the suit in the latest superhero tilt from Marvel Studios. Bajrangi Bhaijaan: A man helps a speechimpaired girl from Pakistan return home. Mr. Holmes: An aged Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) looks back on his life and revisits an unsolved case that forced him into retirement. Paper Towns: Based on the 2008 novel of the same name, a young man and his friends take a road trip to find a missing neighbor. Pixels: Aliens attack the Earth after misinterpreting video feeds of classic arcade games as declarations of war. Southpaw: A boxer (Jake Gyllenhaal) fights his way to the top, only to find his life falling apart around him.

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Recent releases Amy: An accomplished and devastating look at Amy Winehouse, addiction and its horrific costs. Director Asif Kapadia combines off-screen interviews with footage from the late pop star’s life, paying fitting attention to her remarkable voice and gifted songwriting abilities. Baahubali: The Beginning: The story of a dispute between two brothers in ancient India. The Gallows: 20 years after a tragedy during a small-town-play production, a revival in honor of the victims resurrects more than the students bargained for. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: A highschooler’s perspective on life is changed after becoming friends with a classmate who has been diagnosed with cancer. The young and relatively unknown cast deliver impressively raw and organic performances. Minions: Animated tale focusing on the titular trio from Despicable Me as they search for a new villain to serve. Self/less: An older man with too much money and too much cancer pays to have his consciousness transferred into a healthy body with mysterious origins.

More film events Black Magic: Orson Welles as the sinister Italian magician Caglioiostro in a movie that indulges its star’s own passion for magic, which he said exceeded his passion for cinema. Cinematheque, July 23, 7 pm. Double Indemnity: A seductive woman manipulates an insurance agent into murdering her husband and staging the crime as an accident. Sundance, July 22, 2:15 & 7:55 pm. Independence Day: Mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. Majestic Theatre, July 21, 8 pm. Mr. Freedom: A crass superhero goes to France to stave off the advances of the mysterious antifreedom organization in this 1969 satire of U.S. foreign policy. Cinematheque, July 17, 7 pm. A Summer’s Tale: French romance film about a man torn between three women. Cinematheque, July 22, 7 pm. WALL-E: Pixar story about a trash-compacting robot who’s every bit as cute and lovable as E.T. Memorial Union Terrace, July 20, 9 pm.

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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 is as captivating and dreamy as it was 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.

Bad Luck + Sudden Suspension Thursday, July 16, The Frequency, 8:30 pm

This co-headlining bill features two of pop punk’s most promising up-and-comers. Like the best bands of the genre (see: the Wonder Years, Modern Baseball), both Bad Luck and Sudden Suspension gather their teenage troubles and angst and wrap them in catchy, shout-along songs. Babe's Restaurant: Acoustic Alloy, free, 6 pm. Bayou: Johnny Chimes, piano, free, 5:30 pm. Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Vinyl Thunder, rock, free, 6 pm. Brink Lounge: Aaron Williams and the Hoodoo, blues/rock, free, 8 pm. Capital Brewery: Dave Larson Jazz Quintet, free, 6 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm. Christy's Landing: Open Mic w/ Shelley Faith, 8 pm. Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Kilkenny, free, 6 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Pat McCurdy, free, 9 pm.

Quaker Steak & Lube: Mark Croft Band, free, 5:30 pm. Rennebohm Park: Capitol City Band, free, 7 pm. Rotary Park, Stoughton: The Material Boys, free, 6 pm. Tofflers, New Glarus: The Jimmys, blues, free, 7 pm. Tricia's Country Corners: Frank James & Bobby Briggs, country, free, 8 pm. Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, free, 9 pm. UW Extension Pyle Center: The Sparks Band, free, 4 pm. UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Boo Bradley, bluegrass, free, 5 pm. Mr Twin Sister, Moon King, free, 9 pm.

Elvis Costello & the Imposters Thursday, July 23, Overture Hall, 7:30 pm Though Elvis Costello may have begun his career as a snotty pub-rocker whose controversial antics got him banned from Saturday Night Live in 1977, the English musician has grown up a lot in the past four decades. Lately, he’s been collaborating with artists as disparate as the Roots and Burt Bacharach. But with his band, Costello bridges the gap between his brash younger self and his wiser, more eclectic older one.

Wando's: DJ Drewski, 10 pm.

S PECI AL EV ENTS Blooming Butterflies: Live insects, 10 am-4 pm, 7/15-8/9, Olbrich Gardens’ Bolz Conservatory, displays of preserved specimens. $7 ($3 ages 3-12). www.olbrich.org. 246-4550.

FAI RS & F ESTIVALS Madison Early Music Festival, 7/16-18, full schedule at www.madisonearlymusic.org. 265-2787. Dane County Fair: 7/16-19, Alliant Energy Center. $8/day ($3 ages 6-11). Full schedule at www.danecountyfair.com. 224-0500.

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Oklahoma! Thursday, July 16, Cambridge Historical Gym, 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 (7pm) and Sunday (2 pm), July 17-19.

Come Back In: Jesse Hendrix Experience, free, 5 pm. Dean House: Madison Accordion Band, 7 pm.

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Edgewater Hotel: Bill Roberts Trio, free, 6 pm. Essen Haus: The Midwesterners, free, 9 pm.

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Great Dane-Downtown: DJ Mike Carlson, free, 7 pm. Harmony Bar: Benefits of Being Paranoid, rock, 8 pm. Harriet Park, Verona: Chicken Bakin', free, 6 pm. High Noon Saloon: Faux Fawn, free, 6 pm. Midnite on Pearl Beach, Tight Tiger, The Young Revelators, 8 pm. Hop Garden, Paoli: Acoustic Alloy, free, 5 pm. Ivory Room: Katie Marquardt, Jim Ripp, 9 pm. Knuckle Down Saloon: Blues Jam, free, 8 pm.

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Liliana's: Ken Wheaton, free, 5:30 pm.

Louisianne's, Etc.: Jim Erickson, jazz, free, 6 pm. Merchant: Gin Mill Hollow, free, 10:30 pm. Monona Terrace: Start Making Sense, free, 7 pm. Mr. Robert's: Swill, Ken Barely Band, free, 10 pm. Natt Spil: DJ Jamie Stanek, free, 10 pm. Nau-Ti-Gal: Baby Rocket, free, 5:30 pm. Otto's: Michael Hanson Jazz Group with Cliff Frederiksen, John Schaffer, free, 5:30 pm.

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 music 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 17-23. Through July 26. Pudding: Broom Street Theater production of Michael Tooher’s postmodern romantic comedy, 7/10-31, 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $11. 244-8338.

B O O KS Madison Writers Studio: Readings by local authors, 6 pm, 7/16, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Thursday, July 16, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Reyna Grande: Discussing “The Distance Between Us,” 7 pm, 7/16, Central Library. 266-6300.

Australian comedian Wil Anderson performs, on average, more than 200 standup shows per year. And even though he must come up with ample material to satisfy his many crowds, Anderson still finds the time to properly name his tours, which have included titles such as “GoodWil,” “Licence to Wil” and “Who Wants to Be a Wilionaire.” With Jeff Arcuri, Colin Bowden. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), July 17-18.

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Mary Mack, Tim Harmston, Andrew Wegleitner: Standup, $12 ($10 adv.), 8 pm, 7/16, Brink Lounge. 661-8599.

Rob Evison: “Back in Australia, the most East of the West,” performance poetry, 7 pm, 7/16, 29 & 8/5, Wyoming Valley Church. $15 donation. 815-4418828.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Suzanne Cody, Jacqueline Zakrzewski: Drawings/ paintings, 7/17-18, Wyoming Valley School Cultural Arts Center, Spring Green (reception 5-8 pm, 7/16). 588-2544.

LGBTQ Summer Social Picnic: LGBT Senior Alliance event, 4-7 pm, 7/16, Vilas Park west shelter, with cookout, folk music sing-along. $10 donation. 255-8582.

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The New Pornographers Friday, July 17, Live on King Street (Martin Luther King Blvd.), 6 pm

This free concert showcases early 2000s-era indie rock heroes and one of Canada’s greatest musical supergroups. The septet includes A.C. Newman, Neko Case, Dan Bejar (of Destroyer fame) and four others performing infectious power pop like nobody’s business, though Case and Bejar were absent from the band’s recent Summerfest show. With Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, an altfolk act best enjoyed on an early summer night, and Bully, one of punk’s most tight-knit and exciting new bands.

Detroit five-piece Growwing Pains call their music “anxiety pop.” It’s melodic, but not exactly catchy; exuberant, but not quite happy. Vocally focused with blazing guitars and reverbed-out wails, the group pack a lot into their quick tunes. Indiana all-female trio Thee Tsunamis bring fuzzed-up doo-wop punk to the stage, pairing cutting call-and-response vocals and gritty guitar work in short, to-thepoint songs. With Fire Retarded, Proud Parents. Badger Bowl: Exmoor, free, 8:30 pm.

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Bandung: Jeff Alexander, The Oudist Colony, free, 9 pm. Brink Lounge: The Volcanics, blues/rock, free, 8 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJs Computer Controlled, Poor Boy Rich, Wyatt Agard, Lovecraft, Foshizzle, house, 9 pm. Come Back In: The Rascal Theory, free, 5 pm. Edgewater Hotel: Madison Malone, free, 6 pm. Essen Haus: Tom Brusky, free, 8:30 pm. Frequency: Government Zero, Not Dead Yet, Doctor Noise, punk, 9:30 pm. Ivory Room: Katie Marquardt, Kevin Hernet, Leslie Cao, dueling pianos, 8:30 pm. Locker Room: County Line Band, free, 9 pm. Mickey's: The Arge, The Arkoffs, The Apologists, rock, free, 10 pm. Mother Fool's Coffeehouse: Faun Fables, 8 pm. Mr. Robert's: Chaos Revolution Theory, free, 10 pm. Natt Spil: DJ Lauren Franchi, free, 10 pm.

Shinedown

Pooley's: Nine Thirty Standard, free, 7 pm.

Friday, July 17, Overture Hall, 8 pm

Sprecher's Restaurant: The Dang It's, 7:30 pm.

All hail the kings of radio rock! For the last 15 years, Shinedown has ruled the FM airwaves, selling six million copies of their four studio albums along the way. Though the band’s concerts usually showcase their loud grunge sound, this performance will consist of deep cuts, acoustic takes and new material. With Nothing More.

Red Rock Saloon: McKenzies Mill, country, 10 pm. Tempest: Lucas Koehler Combo, free, 9:30 pm. Tip Top Tavern: The Sessions, free, 10 pm. True Coffee Roasters, Fitchburg: Martha Burnett 8 pm. Tuvalu Coffeehouse: Jeffrey Powers, free, 7 pm. Up North Pub: Just Merl, free, 8 pm. UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Johannes Wallmann Funtet, free, 5 pm. The Vespers, free, 9 pm.

T HE AT E R & DANCE

The Mikado Friday, July 17, UW Music Hall, 7:30 pm

Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams wed in the 1980s and have since shared stages and studio time with artists such as Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, Paul Simon and Mavis Staples. In June they released a long-awaited collaborative debut, a harmonious blend of Americana and soul. (See page 32.) With Whitney Mann.

2014 PRESIDENT’S AWARD WINNER

Show & Tease: Burlesque showcase, 8 pm, 7/17, Brink Lounge. $20 ($15 adv. $30 VIP). 661-8599.

COME DY Alphabet Soup: Stand-up by Jonny McGovern, Ali Clayton, Adam Guerino, 7:30 pm, 7/17, Plan B. 257-5262. Todd Barry: $15, 8 pm & 10:30 pm, 7/17-18, Comedy Club on State. 256-0099.

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JULY 16–22, 2015 ISTHMUS.COM

Friday, July 17, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm

This Gilbert & Sullivan opera classic is set in exotic Japan, where a traveling musician comes to the town of Titipu in search of his beloved — but she is set to marry the town executioner that day. How can our hero win her back when flirting with women is punishable by death? From the Madison Savoyards. ALSO: Saturday (7:30 pm), Sunday (3 pm) and Thursday (7:30 pm), July 18-23. Through July 26.

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S PEC I A L EV EN TS Midwest Mustache & Beard Wearer’s Championships: 1 pm, 7/18, Orpheum Theater. Free for spectators, $25 for competitors, registration noon. Benefits Gilda’s Club. 250-2600.

CO MEDY Frank Caliendo: 8 pm, 7/18, Ho-Chunk Casino, Baraboo. $58.50. 800-746-2486.

B O O KS Ann Marie Waterhouse: Discussing “Missing Jim: Perfect and Steadily Improving,” 1 pm, 7/18, Farley Center, Verona. 845-8724. Lori Rader-Day, Susanna Calkins: Discussing “Little Pretty Things” and “The Masque of a Murderer,” 7 pm, 7/18, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Natalie Prass Saturday, July 18, The Frequency, 8:30 pm

Natalie Prass spent years performing with Matthew E. White and Jenny Lewis, and her music is a thing of muted brilliance. Her terrific Richmond, Va.-based band propels her songwriting, exuding country charm, chops and magic. With In Tall Buildings and Hannah Luree.

The English Beat Saturday, July 18, High Noon Saloon, 9 pm

One of the best known and most loved bands of ska’s second wave, the English Beat (or simply the Beat in their native country) comes to Madison with original singer and guitarist Dave Wakeling at the helm. Expect a set list packed with the band’s hits, as well as a few cuts from General Public, the new wave band Wakeling formed with former Beat bandmate Ranking Roger. With support from long-running Milwaukee ska crew Something To Do. Brink Lounge: Mike Massey, Francie Phelps, 8:30 pm. Bristled Boar: March of the Meanies (Beatles Tribute), free. 9 pm.

S PO K EN WO RD Urban Spoken Word: New writers welcome, 7 pm, 7/18, Genna’s Lounge. 332-4643. Michael Da Costa: “Ebb and Flow,” poetry, 7 pm, 7/2223, Wyoming Valley Church. 815-441-8828.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS

Gone Wild: David McLimans Saturday, July 18, Overture Center’s James Watrous Gallery, 4-7 pm (reception)

Beloved Madison-based artist, illustrator, sculptor and award-winning children’s book author David McLimans seemed to conquer the world before his untimely death in 2014 at age 66. His witty and sophisticated editorial illustrations graced the pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly and The Progressive. In addition to the books on display, a generous sampling of his buoyant collages of insects and animals, his found-object sculptures and his breathtaking editorial illustrations are showcased in this virtuosic exhibit. Exhibit July 17 through Aug. 23. Mount Horeb Art Fair: 150+ exhibitors, 9 am-5 pm on 7/18 and 10 am-4 pm, 7/19, Main Street Trollway, music, food, silent auctions & more. www.trollway. com. 437-5914.

sun july 19 MUS I C

Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, 10 pm. Come Back In: Black Friday, free, 9 pm. Essen Haus: Brewhaus Polka Kings, free, 8:30 pm. Harmony Bar: Overserved Gentlemen, 9:45 pm. Ivory Room: Katie Marquardt, Kevin Hernet, Josh Dupont, dueling pianos, 8:30 pm. Knuckle Down Saloon: Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, blues/rock, 9 pm.

ISTHMUS.COM JULY 16–22, 2015

Mickey's Tavern: Us Today, rock, free, 10 pm.

Mother Fool's Coffeehouse: Shawn Neary, 8 pm.

Indigo Girls

Mr. Robert's: Honor Monsters, Vespa Woman, free, 10 pm.

Sunday, July 19, Overture Center’s Capitol Theater, 7:30 pm

Natt Spil: DJ Zukas, free, 10 pm. Nau-Ti-Gal: The Sparks Band, free, 5:30 pm. Pooley's: US Silver Dollar Band, free, 7 pm. Tempest: Don't Spook the Horse, free, 9:30 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners: Drive by Night, 9 pm. Tuvalu Coffeehouse: The McDougals, free, 6:30 pm.

One word to describe folk rock duet Indigo Girls would be “prolific.” Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have released 14 albums since forming in 1985; they’re recognized as two of the genre’s most influential artists and are among the most outspoken sociopolitical voices in music. With Michelle Malone.

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n ISTHMUS PICKS : JULY 19 – 22

Shamir Sunday, July 19, Memorial Union Terrace, 8 pm

Shamir Bailey burst onto the scene just over a year ago when he released Northtown, a five-track treat of disco, funk and pop. The 19-year-old Nevada native didn’t earn his one-name status until May, though, when he released his fun ’n’ stun album Ratchet, receiving praise from outlets like NPR and Pitchfork.

The Appleseed Cast

S PECI AL EV ENTS

Sunday, July 19, The Frequency, 8 pm Throughout the Appleseed Cast’s nearly two-decade career, the band has experienced over a dozen lineup changes and almost as many stylistic ones. Yet the Kansas rock band’s output — which has shifted from sweeping emo to melancholy post-rock to atmospheric songs with unconventional structures — has remained consistently great, from the career-defining LP Low Level Owl to 2013’s Illumination Ritual. With Annabel, Adjy.

Ragtag Market: Local art, crafts & vintage, 10 am-3 pm, 7/19, High Noon Saloon. Free admission. 268-1122.

thu jul

Midnite On Pearl Beach Tight Tiger

Summer Patio Series

Faux Fawn

(EP Release)

Wisconsin Artists Showcase: 6/20-9/27, Jura Silverman Gallery, Spring Green (reception 2-5 pm, 7/19). 588-7049.

S PECTATO R SP ORTS Brett Favre’s Legends Game: Flag football by former Packers and NFL players, 4 pm, 7/19, Camp Randall Stadium. $55$34 benefits Favre 4 Hope Foundation. 262-1440.

FRIDAY 7/17

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ISTHMUS.COM JULY 16–22, 2015

Cardinal Bar: Ben Sidran, Louka Patenaude, Nick Moran, Todd Hammes, jazz, free, 5:30 pm. Crystal Corner Bar: David Hecht & the Who Dat, 9 pm.

BEAT ROAD BLUES

The Frequency: The Rotten Tommys, “The Jimmy K Show” taping, free, 7:30 pm. 3rd Dimension, Yung Saint, Moxie, Red, Charles Grant, Aprofit, 9 pm.

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SHAKEY 5:30pm $6

9:30pm $17 adv, $20 dos

(Neil Young Tribute)

Whitney Mann

ENGLISH BEAT

DreamBikes Mobile Repair Station: Free basic safety checks for all ages, 11 am-3 pm, 7/21, Hawthorne Library. 246-4548.

LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC SHOWCASE 9PM ____________________ SATURDAY 7/18

Something To Do

RAGTAG MARKET Music Trivia Presented By Strictly Discs & High Noon 6pm FREE

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We Should Have Been DJs Other Colors Tarpaulin 9pm $5 18+

EX HEX Tweens / Uzi Ferrari

Dolores (Final Show) Modern Mod The Walters

w/ DJ FERNANDO 10pm ____________________ SUNDAY 7/19

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LOS CHECHOS

9-11PM

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Ben Sidran ’s Patenaude, Nick Moran Salon w/Louka and Todd Hammes 5:30 FREE

THE NEW BREED 9PM - FREE!

Musicians, Poets, Singers & EmCees welcome!! ____________________ WEDNESDAY 7/22 9PM

8pm $5 18+

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Rock-lifer Mary Timony has been part of a lot of great bands. But her latest, Ex Hex, may very well be the best. The trio of Timony, Laura Harris and Betsy Wright makes fun, swagger-fueled rock ’n’ roll; their debut, Rips, is 35 minutes of pop-punk perfection and one 2014’s most replayable records. With Tweens, Uzi Ferrari.

H EA LT H & FI T N ESS

8pm $13 adv, $15 dos 18+

wed jul

Tuesday, July 21, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

This indie-pop band makes uplifting, world-influenced music grounded in the idea that anything can happen. Which should come as no surprise: The band formed after Hurricane Katrina forced its two founding members back home to Lafayette, La., and their first show as a five-piece was a completely improvised performance. With Aero Flynn.

LARRY CAMPBELL & TERESA WILLIAMS

10am-3pm

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Ex Hex

Monday, July 20, The Frequency, 8:30 pm

Willy Street Pub and Grill/The Wisco: Valkyrie, 9 pm.

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The Young Revelators

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ART E XHIBITS & EV ENTS

418 E. Wilson St. 608.257.BIRD cardinalbar.com 701A E. Washington Ave. 268-1122 www.high-noon.com

mon july 20

Summer Patio Series

The Sparks Band 6pm FREE

Dub Messengers Dub Foundation Heavyweight Dub Tropical Riddims Sound System / DJ Kayla Kush 9pm $5 adv, $7 dos

JOBS

Yoga: Free Friends of Olin-Turville class, 5:30 pm, 7/21, Olin Park. 239-4299.

Monday, July 20, Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm

Mindfulness Meditation: 5:45 pm Tuesdays, First Unitarian Society. Free. 233-9774.

They have jazz educations, are signed to a “new classical” label, play rock instruments, make industrial noise, are championed as leaders of Brooklyn’s experimental scene, and have a member living in Madison. The impossible-toclassify JOBS likes to surprise audiences with a combination of dense layers, aggressive grooves and textural, spoken, whispered and shouted vocals. With Czarbles, Julian Lynch, Native Eloquence.

High Noon Saloon: We Should Have Been DJs, Other Colors, Tarpaulin, rock, 9 pm. Malt House: Oak Street Ramblers, free, 7:30 pm. Natt Spil: The Real Jaguar, free, 10 pm.

THEATER & DANCE Broom Street Theater Auditions: For September production “ It’s Pat! The Unauthorized Stage Biography of Pat Robertson,” 7 pm, 7/20-22, Wil-Mar Center. brian.wild@charter.net. 244-8338.

BOOKS Wesley Chu: Discussing “Time Salvager,” his novel, 6 pm, 7/20, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

David Landau: Family concert, $3, 5:30 pm, 7/20, Glass Nickel Pizza-Atwood Ave. 245-0880.

MA DI SO N ’ S C L A S S IC DA N C E B A R

MUS I C

Come Back In: Field & James with Bill Rushmore, Delores Jenison, free, 5 pm.

KIDS & FAM ILY featuring STEVE SIPHONIC & CHAZ with WYATT AGARD, DUB BORSKI

wed july 22

Chocolate Olympics: For grades 6-12, 6 pm, 7/20, Fitchburg Library. 729-1763.

Joshua James Wednesday, July 22, The Shitty Barn (Spring Green), 7 pm

Like many folk artists before him, Joshua James’ music reflects loss and rebirth, living out on the open road. Yet this Utah-based singer-songwriter uses these tropes not as musical destinations but as jumping-off points, infusing elements of rock ’n’ roll, country and world music into his heartland folk. With J.E. Sunde.

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Sean Donnelly Thursday, July 23, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

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Sean Donnelly is one of the most exciting comedians to come out of one of comedyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most exciting scenes, New York. In addition to appearances on Late Show with David Letterman and Last Comic Standing, the selfdeprecating funnyman can be seen on the first season of House Party on Comedy Central. With Jonathan Pfendler, Gena Gephart. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), July 24-25.

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Dolores Wednesday, July 22, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

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B O O KS Nick Chiarkas: Discussing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weepers,â&#x20AC;? his new thriller, 7 pm, 7/23, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

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This Brooklyn-based trio makes dreamy pop music with a touch of shoegaze and a hint of punk. Both NME and Stereogum have highlighted Lazyeyesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; infectious guitar riffs and hooks. The band released its second EP, New Year, at â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you guessed it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the beginning of the year. With the Teen Age. Bayou: Johnny Chimes, piano, free, 5:30 pm. UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Heaters, rock, free, 9 pm.

Elephant & Piggie Party: Activities, crafts & snacks based on Mo Willems books, 10:30 am, 7/23, Meadowridge Library. RSVP: 288-6160. Circuit Blocks: Electricity basics for grades K-5, 1:30 pm, 7/23, Central Library. RSVP: 266-6300. Science Thursdays: Free workshop, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Totally Turtlesâ&#x20AC;? topic, 6 pm, 7/23, Wingra Boats. 233-5332. American Girls Save the Day: Grades K-5 celebrate historical heroism, 6:30 pm, 7/23, Lakeview Library. 246-4547. Fountain of Uke: History, songs & more for all ages by Lilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rev, 7 pm, 7/23, Ashman Library. 824-1780.

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The chosen ones Joanna Ivey helps craft profiles for adoptive parents BY AIMEE OGDEN

Initiating the adoption process is a challenging time, practically as well as emotionally. How can prospective adoptive parents condense their entire lives into a few printed pages that will make birth parents want to choose them? Now, adoptive families don’t have to navigate this process alone. Madison’s Joanna Ivey and her team at Our Chosen Child (ourchosenchild.com) help families create such profiles. Few understand those needs better than Ivey, who is both an adoptee and adoptive mother herself. Where do you start with a family looking to set up an adoption profile? The first step is to get to know them a little bit. I have questionnaires that I have them fill out, and I give them lists of the types of photos I need them to submit. And after they do that we chat on the phone: about what their concerns are for the adoption process in general, what their profile is going to look like. It’s not just graphic design; there’s a big counseling piece that goes along with it.

How long does the profile creation process take? On average, I work with clients for about a month. It’s all done over phone, email and using the cloud. I actually rarely see my clients in person. But that means I can work worldwide, with agencies in Canada, in Puerto Rico, in Malta and all over the United States. What one piece of advice would you give someone starting work on their own profile? Take a camera with you everywhere you go! People don’t take enough pictures, but photos go a long way toward telling your story. So as you live your life, take a camera with you. What led you to start Our Chosen Child? After we adopted our son, I went to work for a local adoption agency. While I was there, I started doing profiles for the agency’s clients. To see people who have waited for years suddenly get chosen right away because they had this new strong profile — that was the turning point when I realized this was something I wanted to do on my own. So I started this business, and it was just me, working out of my laundry room. When my clients called I had to shut off the washer and dryer behind me so I could take the call!

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Can you tell me about the challenges you faced when putting together your own adoption profile? It seemed like an impossible task. You have to explain everything in your heart to a person you’ve never met, and hope that she chooses you to raise her child. How do you put that all together, knowing that a birth mom might be looking at 20 other families at the same time? Does it help you during profile creation that you’ve experienced the process from both sides? Not just both sides, but really all sides: I’m adopted too, and I know my birth mother now as an adult. I know that adoption is a sacred process, and I’m here to help couples tell their stories with honesty. That way, a birth mom picks out a family she really knows, that she’s comfortable placing this child with. Knowing my birth mother makes it important to me that we’re not just putting one over on birth parents. We’re helping adoptive parents tell their story in an authentic way. What is your favorite part about working with adoptive families? When people come to me, they’re so worried that they’ll never be selected. They say, “I’m so ordinary!” I’m able to show them what’s really exciting and cool about them. The other best part is when clients place and send me birth announcements — that’s pretty special, too. n

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Housing MADISON – 402 S Segoe Rd. UPDATED home offers great space – updated kitchen, finished basement, 2 full bathrooms and 2-car garage, on bus line. Don’t miss out on this one! MLS# 1750834 $249,900 Nicole Bunbury Sjowall (608) 354-2551 Bunbury & Associates Realtors Airy Warner Park ranch, 3 bdrs, 1.5 baths. 1289 sqft. Large fenced yard. Nature at doorstop -Walk to dog park, Mallards, Lake Mendota. 2301 Monterey Drive. $169,900. Betty Long, Century 21. 920-623-2555. bettylong50@gmail.com. MADISON – 102 Ponwood Cir. Lovely southern exposure, 1st floor open floor plan. 990 SF 2BR, 2BA w/ many newer SS appliances plus washer/dryer. Patio to grill, 1 underground parking & off street. Close to bus & shopping. MLS# 1752089 $101,900 Kathy Tanis (608)469-5954 Bunbury & Associates Realtors OPEN HOUSE: Small ranch home on 11 wooded acres S. of Mt. Horeb. 2bed/1ba, 925sqft, 8 yrs new, no stairs, open concept, 10’ceilings, AC, super low taxes. High speed internet, garden, wildlife. Private, easy access to Epic & Madison. Only $245,000 Sunday 7/19 11:00-1:00pm. 9659 E. Perry Center Rd, Mt. Horeb. 608-767-2868

Buy-Sell-Exchange Matching people and property for over 20 years. Achieve your goals! Free consult. www.andystebnitz.com. Andy Stebnitz 608-692-8866 Restaino & Associates Realtors 4% Listing Commission! We list homes for as low as 4%. Locally-owned, full-service brokerage. Lori Morrissey, Attorney/broker. HouseReward.com Tel: 608-381-4804

Fish on beautiful Rowleys Bay, on the quiet side, northern Door County. Kayak/canoe famous Mink River; stones throw from our private beach. Kayak/canoe rentals from our property. Swimming; fire-pits; modern, spacious, clean accommodations. COLES Rowleys Bay CABINS. 920-421-1257 rowleysbaycabins@gmail.com THE SURF - Luxury Lake Living. 1 & 2 bedrooms with balcony. Free heat, Free *electric, Free water, Free Cable Internet, Free Cable TV. Enjoy the best view Madison has to offer: lake/sunset or city lights! THE SURF is a special gem hidden in the hub of it all! The best value for your dollar. Pet Friendly too! *electric not included in 2-bed & ac electric in 1-bed. Call 608-213-6908 Mt Horeb 1 bedroom, 1 bath, unfurnished. convenient to 18/151, Epic Spacious. Private patio. 1-yr lease. Washer/ dryer. Utilities included. attached garage with additioanl workspace or space for additional vehicle Wi-Fi included Recently remodeled! $995 608 520-2419 MONONA BAY - LAKESIDE ST. Large sunny 2 bdrm, upper flat, hardwood floors, heat included, pets considered. Call 608-251-7951

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Large 1 bedroom, air, heat and washer/dryer included. Off the street parking. Rent $725 a month, available September 1st. 608 255-1916 or 608 658-5743 EDGERTON: Victorian brick 3 bdrm, den, enclosed porch, fireplace, laundry hook up, nice yard, super clean, $690.00. 262-203-2940 SHORT-TERM RENTALS Luxury furnished apt with resort hotel services, everything incl in rent. “All you need is your toothbrush.” 1, 2, 3 bdrms from $375+/wk or $1495+/mo. Countryside Apartments. 608-271-0101, open daily! www.countrysidemadison.com ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates.com! (AAN CAN)

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MADCAT SEEKS FULL/ PART-TIME service rockstars. must have retail experience, strong work ethic, love people and pets. Normal business hours include weeknights and weekends.Position requires a selfstarter with a drive to provide relentless service. Learn about companion animal nutrition and behavior and use your communication skills to help clients make informed decisions concerning their pets wellbeing. Love cats? Awesome. Can you lift and carry at least 50 lbs? Good. Can you be friendly and attentive to multiple clients at the same time? Rock on. Detailed and personalized cover-letters and resumes accepted at all locations. Pay: $10-$15

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I have been happily married for 12 years. I’m deeply in love with my wife — she’s amazing, very sexy and gorgeous. I used to be jealous, but about six years ago, I lost my feelings of jealousy. In their place, I developed a strong desire to share my wife with other men. It’s my only fantasy. She knows about this, but she says it’s wrong. I never asked her to actually do it. Am I wrong for feeling this way? A Shamed Husband, A Marital Erotic Deadlock Objectively speaking, ASHAMED, there’s nothing wrong with your fantasy — hell, there would be a fuck of a lot right with your fantasy if your wife were turned on by it. So when your wife says, “It’s wrong,” try and hear what she should be saying: “It’s wrong for me.” And if you’re the optimistic type, ASHAMED, you can opt to hear, “It’s wrong for me at the moment.” There are lots of women out there happily cuckolding their husbands — or happily playing the role of hotwife — who rejected the idea when their husbands first shared their fantasies. Don’t allow yourself to be shamed — “It’s not wrong, honey, but I understand it’s wrong for us” — and don’t pressure your wife to do it, and she may surprise you one day.

Always nice to hear from the exception that proves the rule — typically, husbands get straight couples into cuckolding — but you’re not a cuckold, TIMID. Cuckolds are men. Women who are turned on when their husbands cheat on them are cuckqueans. (Credit to Annie W., a former coworker, who introduced me to that term.) Okay, TIMID, let’s make a list of everything your husband would lose if he dumped you: love, stability, history, family, intimacy, hot sex and someone to co-tackle the dayto-day crap (cleaning, bills, dinner) that he would otherwise have to tackle all by himself. He would also lose a wife who’s happy to let her husband fuck other women — lots of other women — and those wives are few and far between. I’m not saying you’re wrong to feel insecure, just that you have more leverage — and more value — than you seem to realize. Inform your husband that these feelings of jealousy and inadequacy — which are fueled by his thoughtlessness and inconsideration — are putting your arrangement and maybe even your marriage at risk. Your cuckquean marriage, which he ought to regard as a paradise, is only gonna work so long as you feel included (in the fun) and secure (in his commitment). Tell him he has to cut way, way back on the sexting, which has gotten way the fuck out of hand, and that he has to make an effort to include you more, or he risks getting cast out of paradise. Mom came for a week and snooped. She found our bondage stuff, just a set of cuffs and a blindfold, and completely lost her mind. What do we say to her? My Outraged Mom’s Madly Yelling “It’s a hotel for you next time.” Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or find him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

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I am a wife and a cuckold. I’m turned on when my husband sleeps with other women. I have wanted to pursue these fantasies pretty much for as long as I have been in serious relationships. My husband and I have been married for four years, and we worked hard to get to where we are today, learning how to communicate and setting rules. Lately, though, I feel like my feelings are changing. While we do all our communicating with other women in group-chat settings, my husband has more free time than I do. Some days I wake up to literally hundreds of message exchanges, and I can’t keep up or get a word in. Making it worse: I oftentimes have to talk to him about mundane things, like bills and what we are having for dinner, while his conversations with other women revolve around hot sexts. We have better sex than ever, and I come harder, faster, and more often after he has been with another woman.

But I am not sure how to reconcile these feelings of jealousy and inadequacy. I worry that he’s thinking, “What am I doing with her when I could be by myself and get all the pussy I want?” I do not want him to quit seeing other women (see the bit about hot, hot sex), but I do not know how to balance my fears and jealousy. Trouble In My Intense Desires

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