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Do you hear the people sing?

4 SNAPSHOT

URBAN ADVENTURES

Paddling Starkweather Creek.

6-8 NEWS

CITY HALL CRACKDOWN

Soglin focuses on the homeless.

10 OPINION

Mon., Aug. 17, Orpheum Theater, 7:30 pm

EXTRA! EXTRA!

The case for a public newspaper.

12 COVER STORY

Raise your voice along with the People’s Choir, a community chorus made up of 90 professional musicians and groups (including the Isthmus Brass Ensemble, Ken Lonnquist, the Wisconsin Chamber Chorus, the Madison Symphony Chorus, to name just a few) plus church choirs and current and former homeless individuals and advocates. The sing-in is a benefit for Porchlight’s new housing project. “Imagine all the people, sharing all the world.”

TRANSFORMERS

Are SWAT teams changing the face of local cops?

CRAIG JOHNSON

17 ART

SCAVENGER HUNT

NATHAN J. COMP

12 Cover story LONGTIME ISTHMUS CONTRIBUtor Nathan Comp first became interested in police SWAT teams decades ago, when as a little boy, he was evacuated from his home at 4 a.m. after a neighbor and his buddy got drunk and began shooting guns. Cops responded, and the neighbor barricaded himself inside him home on a near 100-degree day in July. Twelve hours after Comp’s family was evacuated, the tactical unit succeeded in forcing the neighbor’s surrender with tear gas. It turns out he was stockpiling an arsenal of weapons. The police response to protests in Ferguson, Mo., last year reminded Comp of that incident some 30 years ago. “With everything going on nationally, I wondered what Madison’s SWAT team has been up to, so I put in a request for the reports that form the basis for this week’s cover story.”

17 Art

Finding Madison’s hidden treasures.

CRAIG JOHNSON IS RELATIVELY new to the pages of Isthmus but likely well known to our readers. He writes and acts (Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager); performs with the improvisational comedy troupe Monkey Business Institute; and reviews movies for his web series, Welcome to the Basement. This week he scopes out unexpected art around the city. He hopes it will encourage others, including business owners, city officials and residents, “to take chances with art.”

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25 SPORTS

DAMAGED GOODS

Preseason Packers are plagued with injuries.

31 MUSIC

Help our friends in Nepal

BIG TENT

Africa Fest brings music, ethnic food, immigrant history to Central Park.

Sun., Aug. 16, Lussier Family Heritage Center, 5-8 pm

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Enjoy Nepali cuisine from Dobhan, Himal Chuli and Mirch Masala and beautiful Nepali music while supporting earthquake relief efforts in the Himalayan nation. Organizers are raising funds to rebuild a school that was destroyed in the devastating April quake.

Madison’s Faux Fawn draw inspiration from unusual sources.

34 SCREENS

YOU’LL LAUGH, YOU’LL CRY

Infinitely Polar Bear is an emotional roller coaster.

44 EMPHASIS

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN Willy Street gets a general store.

Brought to you by the letter P Sat., Aug. 15, Paoli Park, 9 am

Paoli pulls out all the stops with its Paddle & Pig Out, including canoe and kayak trips down the Sugar River (9 am, noon and 3 pm), pizza, cake and other vittles, brewskis from the Hop Garden and a raffle (including a new kayak and paddle). Pretty peppy party, pal.

IN EVERY ISSUE 8 MADISON MATRIX 8 WEEK IN REVIEW 10 THIS MODERN WORLD 11 FEEDBACK 11 OFF THE SQUARE

36 ISTHMUS PICKS 45 CLASSIFIEDS 46 P.S. MUELLER 46 CROSSWORD 47 SAVAGE LOVE

PUBLISHER Jeff Haupt ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Craig Bartlett BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Mark Tauscher EDITOR Judith Davidoff

A family affair Thurs., Aug. 13, CUNA Mutual Conference Center, 5:30-8 pm

Join Family Service Madison at this aptly named fundraiser, with entertainment by Marcy & the Highlights and the kick-ass MadHatters a cappella group (think Glee), plus food, drink and raffle.

NEWS EDITOR Joe Tarr ASSOCIATE EDITOR Michana Buchman FEATURES EDITOR Linda Falkenstein ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Catherine Capellaro MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Jon Kjarsgaard STAFF WRITER Allison Geyer CALENDAR EDITOR Bob Koch ART DIRECTOR Carolyn Fath STAFF ARTISTS David Michael Miller, Tommy Washbush SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS John W. Barker, Jeff Buchanan, Kenneth Burns, Dave Cieslewicz, Nathan J. Comp, Ruth Conniff,

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An urban paddle

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STORY AND PHOTO BY ALLISON GEYER

A small flotilla of canoes and kayaks shoves off from the Olbrich Gardens boat launch on a Friday morning in July, each vessel containing curious children ready to discover the winding waters of Starkweather Creek. The explorers are fourth- and fifthgraders from the Goodman Community Center, who team up with volunteer guides recruited by Friends of Starkweather Creek to supervise a journey into the urban watershed. “This creek is a magical resource,” says Carl Landsness, who is on the board of the friends group. “The vast majority of people who never get out of their cars never get to experience this.” Landsness organized the excursion, but perhaps organized is too strong a word — the youthful paddlers are the real leaders, forging ahead through the unfamiliar waters to investigate all the hidden ecosystem has to offer. With the boats in the water, a brief lesson in paddling ensues — the students learn essentials like forward, reverse and the all-important j-stroke that corrects the canoe’s natural tendency to turn. “Are there rapids?” asks Henrik Carlson, an incoming fifth-grader at Lowell Elementary. “Well, I don’t think so,” says Dominic DeSano, an experienced paddler who volunteered his time and his canoe for the youth excursion. “But I think this is still going to be pretty exciting.” Fed by the waters of Lake Monona, Starkweather Creek flows more than 20 miles through one of Madison’s most urbanized areas. The surrounding watershed is Madison’s largest, encompassing most of the city’s east side. Once home to Native Americans, the watershed was quickly developed by European settlers. The wetlands were drained and the creek was straightened to meet the needs of large-scale farming operations; with urbanization came pollution, erosion and flooding. Citizens concerned about the creek’s degradation organized to form Friends of Starkweather Creek 13 years ago, and since then, the advocacy group has worked with city officials on a number of restoration projects, including stream bank reconstruction and native plant reintroduction. “It’s been a real community effort,” Landsness says. The restoration has begun to transform the creek from a hazard to a treasure, but there’s still much to be done. The ecosystem remains a study in contrasts — stands of ancient oak trees sit across from heaps of automobile salvage at a repair shop; turtles, fish and waterfowl dodge piles of floating garbage. It’s a space shared by Madison’s homeless and transients as well — paddlers bid

Henrik Carlson, 9, explores the urban watershed of Madison’s Starkweather Creek with a group of fourth- and fifth-graders from the Goodman Community Center.

good morning to one man enjoying a creekside coffee and come upon another sleeping soundly on a discarded couch under a bridge. “It’s actually a pretty good setup he’s got there,” DeSano observes. Canoes travel in single file as the creek narrows near Darbo Drive and Worthington Avenue, but a recent rainfall makes it possible to press on further east. Explorers paddle past residential neighborhoods, navigate

dark tunnels under major roadways and emerge amid the commercial developments north of East Washington Avenue. Someone spots a mulberry tree and shakes the branches — within moments, a cascade of red and black berries come tumbling into the canoes and the kids gobble them up. “Hey, these are really good,” Carlson says, his hands soaked with juice. “I wonder if this stuff stains?” n

FRIENDS OF STARKWEATHER CREEK Founded: 2002 Total urban watershed area: 23.9 SQUARE MILES Creek length: 20 MILES TOTAL; SPLITS INTO A WEST AND EAST BRANCH AT SHERRY (O.B.) PARK Next paddle with the Friends: SATURDAY, AUG. 22, 10 AM AT OLBRICH PARK BOAT LAUNCH

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The mayor vs. the homeless Soglin alarms council with escalation of crackdown BY JOE TARR

Abigail Julius has been in Madison about a month. The 54-year-old came to Madison from Menominee looking for help. “There were no resources up there like they have down here.” Since she’s been here, she’s staked a spot out in front of the City County Building, where she keeps her stuff and sleeps on a concrete bench each night. Although she feels safe, she does worry about people taking her things. Sometimes, drunk people will steal her bedding, she says. Julius has grown increasingly wary of another person, as well. Mayor Paul Soglin has escalated his campaign against a segment of the homeless population, pushing draconian measures intended to disperse them. He’s proposed an ordinance that would limit the time spent sitting on public benches or sidewalks in downtown to one hour between 5:30 a.m. and 1 a.m., with a $100 fine for a first offense. And on Monday, he ordered city workers to remove the art installation in Philosopher’s Grove at the top of State Street, where many homeless individuals and others congregate. Julius wishes he’d spend his energy aiding the homeless, instead of hassling them. “Being the mayor, he has the authority to at least try to help the homeless people,” she says. “There are empty buildings just sitting there while there are people sleeping in the streets.” The mayor counters that the city spends millions each year on homelessness, but that it needs to also enforce rules and order. In a news conference Monday, he described this as the “Rights and recognition of the dignity of a homeless person, but with rules and responsibilities.” He added: “There’s got to be some responsibility on the part of the homeless community and, more importantly, those who are servicing them.”

Although Soglin returned to office in 2011 on a platform of fighting poverty, his tenure has been marked by clashes with the homeless community. This included a spring 2012 dust-up with Occupy Madison, which had a temporary encampment on East Washington Avenue. Occupy members asked the city to let it stay permanently — either there or on some other vacant city parcel. Soglin, and the Common Council, refused. The city later fined a property owner who let the group camp on his land. Of late, the mayor has taken to lecturing the council about the issue. He sends emails to alders that include photographs he’s taken of drunk people passed out in public spots or news reports of fights and assaults. Ald. Ledell Zellers, who represents part of downtown, finds these emails unproductive. “I probably see this stuff more than most people because I’m walking through the downtown several times a day,” she says. “I absolutely agree that there’s a problem. I’d like to see more collaboration on a strategy. I’m not sure the mayor’s approach is going to get us there, with the banning of sitting on city benches.” Soglin also vetoed the council’s action declaring the homeless a protected class of citizens. In a June 16 debate on whether to override the veto, Soglin reiterated his message that “compassion without rules is a failure.” He went on to note that picnic benches had recently been removed from behind the Municipal Building, because people have been caught having sex on them.

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Palm also finds the behavior odd. “I walk into his office to talk to him, his screen saver is a picture of a vodka bottle,” says Palm. “It’s a liter vodka bottle he found on the grass [and photographed].” “He’s obsessed about this,” Palm adds. “He has mental capacity that is broad. So I don’t think he [can only] focus on one thing. But he’s spending an inordinate amount of time on homelessness.” Although the mayor has few allies on the council with his DAVID MICHAEL MILLER homeless strategy, he has at least one. “If you and your partner enjoy it on the Ald. Paul Skidmore, who works as a security kitchen table after the kids have gone to bed guard for several downtown businesses, supor are gone for the day, that’s just fine,” Sog- ports Soglin’s approach. lin told the council. “But I really don’t think “I’m somewhat amazed that my colleagues it’s appropriate to do it on someone else’s feel the way they do. This is an issue of behavior,” Skidmore says. “We don’t tolerate this table.” Ald. David Ahrens finds Soglin’s rheto- behavior anywhere else in the city; why do we ric bewildering. “The points to which he tolerate it downtown?” obsesses about — the same talk over and In doing his late-night, early-morning over again about defecation and fornica- rounds of State Street businesses, Skidmore tion — it’s weird. It’s simply weird,” he says. says he’s seen all manner of awful behavior. “It’s this very moral values-laden judgment In addition to fighting and aggressive panhanthat really does nothing to address what the dling, he’s seen “used condoms, feces, urine, urine on the wall, in the doorway.” problem is.” “Is this something new that drunken Cracking down on these actions, Skidmore people act terribly sometimes and com- adds, doesn’t mean officials are heartless. “If we mit crimes?” Ahrens wonders. “He’s been control bad behavior by a handful of individumayor of the city for 40 years; is this new?” als, we’re not turning our back on the homeless.” Ahrens isn’t alone in finding the mayor’s He notes that the city is working on providing affordable housing with an emphasis behavior bizarre. Several council members — including on “housing first,” including a 60-unit project Larry Palm, Zellers, Ahrens and council presi- being built on Rethke Avenue on the city’s east dent Denise DeMarb — say the mayor regu- side. Skidmore says he’d like to see a similar larly watches live feeds of security cameras development in every aldermanic district and the city has installed at places where home- is pushing for one in his own. less people tend to congregate, including Phi- While others give the mayor credit for losopher’s Grove, Lisa Link Peace Park and funding the Rethke development, they wish the “concrete park,” which is the area where he would do more planning and collaboration and less lecturing. Frances Street ends at State Street. Brenda Konkel, a former alder and “We really need to come up with a strong homeless advocate, has seen the mayor positive plan that does the carrot then the watching the video as well. “Every time I stick,” Palm says. “We can’t say ‘you can’t stay go to the [mayor’s] office, he watches the here and then later on we’ll come up with a video of the police cameras then stops the place to put you.’” meeting and points out what is happening Konkel fears the mayor’s constant comand has crazy stories about what he thinks plaining about the homeless will make it more difficult to site shelters and affordable housing. is going on,” she says. Konkel knows people Soglin points out “The neighborhoods are going to be concerned and says her knowledge of their situation because he’s saying terrible things about the doesn’t match the mayor’s stories. “He as- homeless,” she says. sumes people are doing drugs when they In his news conference Monday, Soglin says he’s committed to funding projects like probably have a mental illness.” “This is really bizarre behavior for the Rethke, but the help can’t come without strings leader of a city,” Konkel adds. “It’s not ratio- attached. He called out homeless advocates as nal, and it’s not the values he typically shows. enablers of bad behavior. Normally when there’s a problem, he talks to “Those who are acting to support the homethe stakeholders. [With this] he can’t seem to less, you’ve got to insist that if you want our help, there has to be changes in behavior.” n listen to anybody.”

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Making information “free” Open access policy aims to make research easily shared BY JENNY PEEK

An online subscription to the Journal of Coordination Chemistry costs more than $12,000 a year. Multiply that by the hundreds of similarly expensive scholarly journals UW-Madison libraries subscribe to, and their budget disappears quite quickly. UW-Madison Libraries has the secondlowest budget of CIC schools — an academic version of the Big Ten — with a $10.9 million budget in 2013-2014, compared to the University of Michigan libraries’ $23 million budget. The high cost of accessing scholarly journals can impede ongoing research, says Karl Broman, a professor in UW’s Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics. “From the researchers’ point of view, you can’t proceed without knowing what other people are doing,” he says. “You need access to the latest work by other scientists in the world.” With massive cuts to the university in Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget, UWMadison Libraries is looking to open access as a way to cut costs and ensure that faculty, students and the public can retrieve the state-of-the-art research the university conducts. Open access makes research

available free to anyone via the Internet. Broman discovered the high cost of scholarly work in the late 1990s. “When I was a postdoc in ’97-’98, online publications were just starting, and I was surprised to learn that authors were paying to publish their work as well as paying after the fact for a subscription to the journal or buying individual articles outright,” says Broman. To make sure people have access to research, Broman and the University Library Committee formed a working group to develop an open access policy for UW-Madison. The draft policy aims to give the university the automatic right to freely distribute pre-prints of all published journal articles. Current UW policy leaves all ownership of scholarly work to faculty, students and staff. According to Carrie Nelson, a public services and instructional content librarian at College Library, as part of the CIC, researchers can fill out an author addendum that allows faculty to publish articles into open access repositories. While the addendum is available online through UW-Madison Libraries, researchers must take the initiative to fill it out and give it to the publisher prior to signing the contract. Without the addendum, publishing companies control the rights — and access — to the research.

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A system-wide open access policy would automatically let the university assert rights over faculty work, instead of making faculty fill out an addendum. Even with the policy in place, they would be able to opt out if a publishing company refused to publish their work. For Broman and Nelson, the biggest barriers to getting the policy adopted is convincing faculty that it won’t hinder their ability to get tenure and that open access does not equate to low quality.

“I think that some faculty would say, ‘Open access, that must be junk,’” says Nelson. “And to a certain extent, if you want to get tenure, you want to publish in highprofile journals.” But Broman says the perception that open access is junk is faulty. “There are quite well respected open access journals,” says Broman. “They’re not Science and Nature, but they’re very good.” The state created new wrinkles for faculty when it eliminated both tenure and shared governance in its most recent budget. UW’s Board of Regents the UW System’s 18-member governing body — is set to come up with new policies regarding both. Broman is more concerned about changes to shared governance, a previously protected policy in state statute that gave staff, faculty and students a voice in decisions concerning the operation of the university. Until the effects of the budget shake out, Broman hopes to raise awareness of the issue of open access. “I think more faculty will understand what their rights are and what they’re giving away by signing certain copyright releases.” n

n WEEK IN REVIEW BIG CITY

Gov. Scott Walker plays it safe and boring in the first Republican presidential debate.

Speaking of Scooter, newly released court filings show that John Doe investigators had probable cause to believe Walker and others committed felony misconduct while in office. So much for not being a target.

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Mayor Paul Soglin continues his crusade against the homeless and calls for the removal of the Philosopher’s Grove stones at the top of State Street.

A bill banning the use of aborted fetal tissue in medical research moves forward despite opposition from UWMadison scientists.

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n In other John Doe news,

nal reports that a hostile takeover is in progress at Promega Corp., one of the Madison area’s oldest and most successful biotechnology companies. Two shareholders are trying to buy out founder and CEO Bill Linton.

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tigation target speaks out. Political consultant Deborah Jordahl tells conservative radio host Charlie Sykes she believes the purpose of the 2013 search of her Middleton home was to “harass,” “intimidate” and “humiliate” her family.

Milwaukee prosecutors ask a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit alleging they violated the civil rights of Cindy Archer, a former aide to Gov. Scott Walker, when they had police search her home in 2010. Last week, an audio recording of the search was released, contradicting Archer’s description of the “raid.” Her attorneys say it was still traumatic.

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tists debate the ethics of using fetal tissue for medical research during a hearing of the Assembly Criminal Justice and

Public Safety Committee. A bill banning its sale and use, proposed by Rep. Andre Jacque (R-De Pere), would halt essential medical research, say UW-Madison researchers. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12 n Walker, a champion of

fiscal conservatism, approves using $250 million in public funding to build a new Milwaukee Bucks arena. But wait, there’s more! Including $174 million in interest, taxpayers will actually end up paying $400 million over 20 years. The contribution from the team’s two billionaire owners? $150 million.

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Time for a Wisconsin Public Newspaper BY DAVE CIESLEWICZ Dave Cieslewicz is the former mayor of Madison. He blogs as Citizen Dave at Isthmus.com.

Let’s face it. In many markets the size of Madison, the daily newspaper no longer works as a private business venture. As Isthmus has reported, Madison’s one and a half daily papers (The Capital Times tries to be the equivalent of an online daily) have been shedding staff again in another demoralizing downsizing. At the Cap Times, the staff has been reduced to under two dozen, down from about 65 just seven years ago. This summer even the popular longtime columnist Doug Moe got a pink slip from the Wisconsin State Journal. Apparently, it wasn’t that people stopped reading Moe but that Moe was being paid too much by journalistic standards — which is to say he was probably getting something that kept him above the federal poverty line. We can’t know for sure why Moe and others were let go because the editors never gave their readers any explanation at all. The same is true over at the Cap Times, where longtime and well-respected reporter Mike Ivey left and others were let go or had their hours cut back without explanation to the paper’s loyal readers. All we get is silence and the occasional editor’s column claiming that everything is really just better than ever. It’s the kind of stonewalling and obfuscation that those same editors would blast in a politician. There are lots of challenges for print media these days: the cost of newsprint and the presses, the competition from online sources and the generational shift away from reliance on traditional news sources, just to name a few. But newspapers are vital to democracy and to the life of any community. It’s a void that radio and television can’t fill. If you’ve

ever printed out the script from even a very good radio news story, like one from Wisconsin Public Radio, you must have been surprised by how brief it is compared to the same story that might have appeared in a newspaper. And blogs are usually not sources of real news at all. As a blogger myself, I know that I rarely do any kind of original reporting. My blogs are opinion pieces built from information that I have gleaned from hard news sources. Without those primary news sources I could write about my dog — and he is kind of interesting! — and that’s about it. All of which leads me to a modest proposal. If the free market is not producing the objective, high-quality professional journalism that is crucial to the health of democracy, then is it right to just accept the market’s determination?

We make these kinds of market-override choices all the time. Left just to the free market there would be no Overture Center for the Arts, no Monona Terrace Convention Center, no professional symphony, no Dane Dances. All of that is publicly and privately subsidized because there aren’t enough paying customers to justify any of it as a for-profit business venture. But how many of us would say we want those amenities to go away simply because they couldn’t survive on their own in a pure free market environment? There is already precedent for such a model. Two of the best sources of information in our

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state are Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television. Both are funded by a mix of taxpayer and donor support. The government subsidy does not seem to affect content. For an even better example of quality journalism unaffected by its funding source, look to the British Broadcasting Company. The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is based on a similar concept, though it is entirely funded by private grants and donations. It produces some excellent work that it distributes for free to other media outlets. Ironically, the charitable arms of the Cap Times and the State Journal have contributed to the center. Finally, The Progressive magazine has long been a nonprofit that accepts donations in addition to subscriptions. So, why not a Wisconsin Public Newspaper? Essentially it would apply the concept of WPR and WPT to a daily newspaper or online news source. Just like public radio and television, it could be funded in part by the government and in part by individual contributors. And, if it were just an online presence, it wouldn’t have the need for expensive printing costs or studios or broadcast facilities. Money could be invested in journalists and editors. What a concept. The free market can be a wonderful thing. It can spark creativity and greater productivity and increase societal wealth. But the market doesn’t produce everything we want as a society. Sadly, the market is now failing to produce enough high-quality journalism. Good reporting is just too crucial to a good democracy to accept the market’s verdict. n

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Re Citizen Dave, “Where Was Scott Walker?” (Isthmus.com, 8/7/2015): I didn’t see the debate but the question that needs to be posed to Walker in front of a national audience is this: “You described your strategy in Wisconsin as divide and conquer, which you followed through on. Would you pursue a similar strategy as POTUS?” Jay Campbell (via Facebook)

Re Citizen Dave, “What Hillary Can Learn from the Donald” (Isthmus. com, 8/4/2015): Trump’s casino went bankrupt! Hillary has more experience than all the GOP candidates combined! But who needs facts....? Christina McCoy Langdon (via Facebook)

Let it go, Citizen Dave. Michael Hanson (via Facebook) The loony left of Dane County will never let it go, or their Soros-funded obsession with Koch. Pierro Wipperfurth (via Facebook)

Close Planned Parenthood Alan Talaga wrote that the anti-abortion group has one “deceptively (and poorly) edited video” (“The Crusade Against Planned Parenthood,” 8/6/2015). Come on, Isthmus. The words were there as we watched her swill her wine and eat her salad. And so far there are five videos, with disgusting, outrageous dialogue. Babies are being murdered for parts. I used to support Planned Parenthood. Now I want it closed. Mindy Portmann (via email)

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Maybe Walker now sees the value of just showing up. Maybe he sees the logic of saying as little as possible. Better to be silent and thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt. Maybe he’s saving his speeches for another forum. Citizen Dave, start making a list of questions and send them off to the next GOP debate. Maybe the moderator will question Walker about how he has governed Wisconsin. You’re part of the press. Wanda Bischoff (via Facebook)

Money talks I refuse to let Larry Kaufmann get by with putting ActBlue on a political contribution par with the Koch brothers (“In Defense of Democracy,” 7/30/2015). The billionaire Kochs are one family. ActBlue takes small contributions from people like me and directs them to candidates of our choice. That our $35 and $50 contributions somehow equal the Kochs’ many millions is ludicrous. Bill Dunn (via email)

Corrections Last week’s article on Filament Games erroneously referred to the Smithsonian Institute, rather than the Smithsonian Institution. In the What to Do list, ESPN reporter Christina Kahrl’s name was misspelled.

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was mowing his lawn on June 16, when, just after noon, four police officers wearing military khaki and armed with assault rifles cut purposefully across his yard. “It happened extremely quick,” recalls Humphrey. “I swung the lawn mower around when I reached the edge of the property...and there they were.”

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As Humphrey, 53, tried to make sense of it, more heavily armed officers began to spill out of the rear of an unmarked van on Paterson Street. They moved into the residential backyards between Spaight and Jenifer streets, falling into position with the tactical precision of Army commandos, as an armored vehicle resembling a small tank stopped in front of the Jenifer Street house where many in the neighborhood suspected drugs were sold. Over a loudspeaker, police ordered anyone inside to exit with their hands up, as a SWAT entry team prepared to storm the residence. Neighborhood resident Bill Scanlon, 68, who lives a few blocks away, worries that these types of raids unnecessarily escalate the threat of violence. Humphrey, on the other hand, was impressed by the professional show of force. “It’s a different climate out there for police these days,” he says. “They have a right to return home from work safely, like we all do.” No-knock raids, where a warrant is obtained but police do not announce themselves, have become a primary function of SWAT teams. Journalist Radley Balko is a critic of the approach. “Today in America SWAT teams violently smash into private homes more than 100 times per day,” writes Balko in Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces. “The vast majority of these raids are to enforce laws against consensual crimes.”

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Madison Police have been criticized for acquiring an armored truck in 2013. It is used primarily by the department’s SWAT unit.

According to an Isthmus investigation of Madison SWAT activation reports from Jan. 1, 2010, through Dec. 31, 2014, the city’s SWAT team conducted more than 30 “no-knock raids” during that time period in residential neighborhoods in and around the city. Obtained through an open records request filed with Madison Police Department last fall, these reports illuminate incidents in which police commanders felt it was necessary to call in a higher level of force. Isthmus also obtained reports from Jan. 1, 2001, to Dec. 31, 2003, for a comparative analysis that sheds light on how the city’s SWAT team has changed over the last 15 years. Both sets of reports bring the issue of police militarization into sharper focus, providing a glimpse into the inner workings of Madison’s SWAT unit, the weapons and tactics they use, and the types of incidents they respond to. They show that SWAT call-ups, in several instances, are beyond reproach. In others, like a no-knock raid where less than a gram of marijuana was seized, the justification for the risks are less obvious.

help.” That is, they step in, presumably, when traditional police capabilities fall short. According to Isthmus’ investigation, Madison’s SWAT unit has been activated 88 times in the past five years, although not all of these generate reports. It was SWAT officers, for example, who performed the October 2012 tactical clear of a Huron Hill apartment following the death of a 67-year-old woman who had stockpiled more than 50 weapons. On a half-dozen occasions SWAT negotiators have helped citizens threatening suicide, like a young man in February 2011 who was taken into custody atop the UW-Madison’s Van Hise building while speaking with a negotiator. But “positive outcomes” aren’t guaranteed, as evidenced by the young woman who slid in despair from the roof of a Langdon Street residence less than three months later. SWAT teams, however, tend to be proactive by nature, planning and executing deliberate enforcement actions. “Once you have a SWAT team and they’re highly trained, you don’t just leave them waiting for the odd occasion there is an active shooter,” says Stephen Hill, a UWEau Claire political science professor who has researched the issue. The June 16 raid that Humphrey witnessed underscores the importance of preparing for the unexpected. That operation involved 24 tactical officers who targeted Kendall Ragland, a 36-year-old suspected of drug trafficking. Prior to the SWAT entry platoon executing the search warrant, Ragland unexpectedly left his Jenifer Street residence. Once the SWAT obser-

vation team signaled Ragland was on the move, a containment team followed Ragland, while a separate entry team moved on his home. As Ragland was nabbed in a tactical traffic stop on South Carroll Street, between the City-County and Public Safety Buildings, police on Jenifer Street seized 32 grams of heroin and and 14 grams of cocaine from his home. A majority of SWAT call-ups are to apprehend citizens or execute high-risk search warrants on behalf of the detectives or federal agents whose cases need a tactical touch. SWAT call-ups are intended to minimize risk to both officers and suspects. Scouting teams relay real-time information on suspect movements or target buildings; an entry team executes no-knock raids; and sniper teams provide cover. In July 2011, when a suicidal man armed with a shotgun refused to surrender, police sniper Edward Marshall was ready to kill the man if necessary. “I did align my crosshairs on the subject and was prepared to engage...with deadly force should he make a threatening gesture toward my position or other officers’ positions,” he wrote in his incident report. While search warrants and apprehensions allow time for threat assessments and planning, spontaneous events often do not. Options were limited when Terence McCarville refused to exit his East Washington Avenue apartment after allegedly threatening officers with a knife when they came to take him into custody on Jan. 17, 2012.

Later that evening, a SWAT entry team stormed McCarville’s bedroom with guns drawn and bullets chambered. When the 51-year-old, who was “sitting on a chair in the middle of the room with his hands outstretched,” disobeyed orders to get face-down on the ground, the lead officer plowed into him with a ballistic shield, known as a vertical stun. McCarville remained defiant, yelling obscenities and exerting “resistive tension” even as he was forcibly brought to the floor. Peppered throughout each officer’s report are concerns McCarville had squirreled away weapons he would use to resist arrest. Sgt. Jason Ostrenga wrote that in order to gain control of him, “I immediately gave direct knee strikes to McCarville’s rib cage,” as McCarville attempted to rise on all fours. McCarville was placed in protective custody, but the reason police were initially dispatched has been redacted. Police placed into evidence a pair of pruning shears, but the knife that sparked the SWAT activation wasn’t found, according to the report. Due to their emphasis on professionalized violence, Hill suggests that SWAT teams are antithetical to the communityoriented style Madison police have helped pioneer since the 1980s. But MPD’s SWAT captain, Vic Wahl, disagrees. He notes officers went door-todoor explaining the situation following the Jenifer Street raid: “If you dig deeper you will see...that we’re still doing community policing in a tactical situation.”

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SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) teams were formed in response to 1960s-era civil unrest. Once exclusive to specialized units within big-city police departments, militarism has spread throughout small-town America, including places like Blue Mounds and DeForest, where police arsenals include military-issued M-16 assault rifles. Madison has acquired its own cache of military paraphernalia, including a surplus armored vehicle. As polyester garb, billy clubs and shotguns have been replaced by military khaki, Tasers and assault rifles, even the department’s rank-and-file members no longer resemble your friendly neighborhood police officers. “They look like something different,” says former Madison police chief and community-policing pioneer David Couper, “and the different is that they look like they’re militarized.” The SWAT team, according to a bumper sticker, is “Who police call when they need

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“Militarization” means different things to different people. Capt. Wahl suggests it is “professionalism” by another name. “We’re much more restrained in our tactics than we used to be,” he says. “Back in the ’90s our motto was to get in as quickly as we could. You’d hit the door and try to have as many cops in the building as quickly as you could. We just don’t do that anymore.” Madison SWAT unit typically has between 20 and 25 members. Try-outs for the team are held when there are vacancies due to retirements or when officers either step down from the team or are promoted to a supervisory rank, Wahl says. In addition to monthly training in tactics and firearms, team members often become certified instructors in specific areas. The team as a whole often cross-trains with tactical teams from other agencies or what Wahl describes as “specialty groups,” which may include military special forces. “What we’re trying to do is get the best outcome in these high-risk situations and provide the best service we can to the community,” he says. Isthmus’ review of SWAT reports found that Wahl, who was promoted to SWAT captain in 2010, has all but ditched some tactics considered reckless by critics, including nighttime raids and using stun grenades. Occasionally, nighttime operations are unavoidable.

On the night of Feb. 8, 2012, SWAT officers searched two residences and kept another under surveillance in pursuit of murder suspect Edgar Salinas-Leal, until cornering him inside a Raymond Road apartment. While nighttime raids might be down under Wahl, no-knock search warrants are not. A 1997 study by policing experts Peter B. Kraska and Louis J. Cubellis, Militarizing Mayberry and Beyond: Making Sense of American Paramilitary Policing, found that in cities with populations between 25,000 and 50,000, the number of no-knock raids rose from an average of 3,000 per year in 1981 to more than 50,000 per year by 1995. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office typically handles tactical situations outside of Madison, though Madison’s SWAT unit has assisted officers in Monona, Fitchburg and the town of Madison as well as UW Police. The Dane County Clerk of Courts doesn’t break down search warrants by type, so hard numbers to show how no-knock warrants have trended locally aren’t readily available. But as recently as 2003, MPD’s Emergency Response Team (renamed SWAT in 2008) referenced in its reports “the no-knock provision” of the warrant it had executed while providing context for why it was necessary. By 2009, “no-knock” in police parlance had evolved from an adjective to a noun. Explanations for why the no-knock provision was necessary also disappeared. Based on the MPD reports, the department’s SWAT unit has executed 33 no-knock

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raids since 2010. Of these, 16 were drug-related, with the rest to assist apprehending fugitives or suspects of violent crimes. The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of no-knock raids, but critics and police scholars argue they often create risk. The Cato Institute has identified more than 40 instances where innocent civilians have been killed in botched no-knock raids mistaken for criminal intrusions. Wahl says MPD avoids scenarios that have a higher chance of these fatal errors. “We’re not smashing in the door at 3 a.m. and bum-rushing a residence,” says Wahl. “When we’re doing a search warrant I don’t want any confusion [from suspects] about whether it’s a drug rip-off or an intruder. We have to be diligent about that in this society, because a lot of people have guns in their homes.” Madison police have a department-wide system of checks-and-balances for vetting information, Wahl explains. A loudspeaker is sometimes used to give occupants a chance to surrender before the residence is breached. Still, the risk no-knock raids pose to innocent civilians is never completely eliminated. Last December MPD SWAT unit executed a federal no-knock warrant on the 4300 block of Britta Drive. In this situation, police decided not to announce their presence ahead of time, believing the suspects might be armed and put up a fight. As the entry platoon advanced on the building, officers monitoring the perimeter observed

people jumping from a second-floor balcony as others opted for the front entrance — police suspect someone from the neighborhood might have tipped the suspects off when police were seen approaching. “[This] added an element of danger, as it is never advantageous for officers executing a search warrant to have the...targets know of our presence beforehand,” wrote Detective Matthew Nordquist. Ordered to proceed, officers stormed the upstairs apartment. During the tactical clear, Nordquist and another officer breached a locked bedroom at the end of the hallway with a hard kick. As the door swung open, officers were greeted by “an aggressive” 50-pound “pit bull running full speed in our direction.” Nordquist, a pit bull owner himself, had neither the time nor the space to fire a “tactical round.” He opened fire on the animal, discharging numerous rounds from his Colt M4 long rifle before it dropped dead at their feet. By the time the dog had closed in on him, Nordquist was shooting almost straight downward, creating what he described as “an extremely dangerous situation for anyone...directly below us.” Fortunately, no one was home in the apartment beneath them. The officer who entered to check for potential victims noted several bullet holes in the hallway ceiling. A media release posted on the department’s website the following day mentioned an aggressive pit bull, but not the errant bullets. “We try to have contingencies in place to avoid shooting dogs,” says Wahl. “Sometimes we’re just not going to know, and sometimes there just isn’t any way around it.” No-knock warrants often evolve out of concerns for officer safety. The target in this particular raid, wanted for selling heroin, was considered armed and dangerous, although no firearms were found in the apartment. Many other reports make vague references to information about firearms or a target’s violent history, yet weapons aren’t discovered during most searches. That’s not to say guns aren’t a real threat. During an August 2013 raid on a Femrite Drive property, police seized an Israeli Desert Eagle machine gun, two Winchester rifles and a couple of pistols. During a raid on a pair of Columbus Lane apartments following a May 2012 shooting, police found an AK-47 assault rifle, .40 and .38 caliber handguns, and a .22 caliber rifle. “We live in a violent culture, and there are a lot of guns out there,” says Wahl. “When those are used in crimes or homicides, we’re the ones expected to go resolve those situations, so we have got to have the tools to do it.”

“WE’RE MUCH MORE RESTRAINED IN OUR TACTICS THAN WE USED TO BE.” — CAPT. VIC WAHL

from the program over the last 10 years corroborates Wilson’s statement. Occasionally all-terrain MRAP (mine-resistant ambushprotected) vehicles or night-vision goggles become available. Numerous law enforcement agencies, including the Dane County District Attorney’s Office, have obtained military-issued M-16 assault rifles, along with smaller service weapons. The program came under fire last year when it was discovered that the Waunakee Police Department acquired a grenade launcher through the program in 2010, which can be used to volley canisters of tear gas, Wilson says. Police scholars often point to Richard Nixon’s 1971 launch of the War on Drugs as the watershed moment when civilian policing began its philosophical drift toward militaristic law enforcement. Stamping out illegal substances would require a new kind of police officer to help reassert the political commitment to a drug-free America. “Most of the increases in paramilitary deployments began in 1988, at the apex of drug war...hysteria,” write Kraska and Cubellis. But the controversial aspects of SWAT teams often overshadow the fact that cities occasionally need a highly trained tactical force to diffuse volatile situations in the field. Of the last five years, 2012 had the most SWAT activations due to an uptick in armed standoffs. A trained police dog stopped a man on Old Middleton Road from forcing police to shoot him, while a mentally ill East Mifflin Street man was taken into protective custody after threatening neighbors with a machete. Standoffs are never easy, but officers involved in apprehending Steven Boyle likely agree some are more taxing than others. Boyle, 51, was wanted on a felony warrant when he barricaded himself inside his Berwyn Drive residence after police attempted to arrest him in September 2013. For 12 hours, Boyle thwarted every police attempt to flush him out, while he fortified his residence against a SWAT team entry. Around 3:30 a.m., an entry team began a tactical clear of the first floor when Boyle hurled a gallon of paint at them from the basement.

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Moments later, officers descended the basement staircase, but Boyle prevented their entry into the basement using his body weight to barricade the door. Using a special tool, officers made a hole through the wood large enough to Taser Boyle not once, but twice, to no effect. As officers began breaking the door apart, Boyle retreated farther into the basement. A police dog was deployed. Boyle was cornered, but not finished. With rifle-mounted flashlights, the entry team, wearing gas masks, moved through the unlit basement until Boyle appeared, as if an apparition, in the haze of tear gas. “He’s choking the dog!” an officer yelled. Boyle had both hands around the dog’s neck when an officer delivered a vertical stun using his ballistic shield. Another “began to deliver knee strikes...to Boyle’s torso.” Boyle fought back, delivering blows with one hand while maintaining his chokehold on the dog with the other. A third officer joined the fray, “strik[ing] Boyle with a closed fist in the side torso and rib area.” Boyle was handcuffed moments later. Some officers struck a reverent tone in writing about the standoff. Boyle, one officer writes, displayed “the most violent and committed level of resistance I have observed in my 13 and a half years on the Madison Police Department SWAT team.” “The aggression and strength he exhibited was nothing short of extraordinary.” Although Madison has avoided some of the most controversial uses of its SWAT unit, there is a growing perception that MPD is becoming a militarized force. This is epitomized by reactions to the department’s 2013 acquisition of an armored vehicle, which is primarily used by the SWAT team. When people are asked to talk about the city’s SWAT operations, the conversation inevitably turns to the armored truck as evidence the department is out of control. Former Police Chief Noble Wray applied in 2011 for the armored vehicle through the Wisconsin 1033 program, arguing Madison had a “significant need” for it. In addition to

“potentially high-risk targets,” like Monona Terrace, the state Capitol or any of the UWMadison campus buildings, Wray wrote, there were the many large special events and protests, “some of which have historically resulted in public disorder.” Wray was no longer chief when the vehicle arrived, leaving his successor, Mike Koval, to take the heat for it from citizens like peace activist Block, who has pushed the department to get rid of it. Before that, Madison was an outlier among cities its size for not having its own armored truck. It often borrowed the sheriff ’s office’s vehicle. Wahl says it would be professional negligence to not have the vehicle. “I’m certainly not going to look at my officers and say, ‘I expect you to go out into harm’s way without an armored vehicle,’” says Wahl. “Ultimately, it’s just a truck.” But in other people’s minds, it’s a tank and the police are “playing soldier.” In this narrative, Robinson and Paul Heenan, an unarmed man killed by police in November 2012, are casualties. “People around here are still angry those two guys aren’t with us anymore because of cops who act like we’re the enemy,” says Bill Scanlon, who lives near the raided Jenifer Street house. “I think that armored tank, the guns, all of it, actually encourages people to fight back.” But that was not the scenario when police arrived at a Frisch Road residence last October to investigate a domestic disturbance. Robert Carder Jr., 53, opened fire on officers, activating a SWAT call-up. Without an armored truck, police weren’t able to block Frisch Road without exposing themselves to Carder’s line of fire. Instead, they blocked nearby intersections in case he attempted to drive away. An hour later, as members of the entry platoon began to arrive, it appeared Carder was preparing to exit his residence. The armored truck — dispatched to prevent him from entering his vehicle — blocked his driveway. Carder was sitting near the front door, shirtless with his hands up, ready to surrender. But as he waited, an armed SWAT team stealthily slipped out the back of the truck and quickly surrounded him, aiming their assault rifles directly at him. Instead of getting face-down on the ground as ordered, Carder began to argue. Fearing he might try re-entering the residence, officers closed in to apprehend him. Feeling betrayed by the negotiator who talked him from the house, Carder shouted from the back of the squad car at police that next time things would be different. “Next time he was not going to cooperate,” an officer reported him saying. “Next time he was going to shoot and kill anybody that tried to come into his house.” n

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Madison doesn’t have a full-time SWAT team so its members spend most of their time working as detectives or patrolling the streets, as Matt Kenny was the night he shot and killed an unarmed 19-year-old. His second “justified” homicide as a police officer, Kenny fired seven rounds into Tony Robinson after the teenager allegedly assaulted him in a dark staircase hallway, before backup arrived. As national news was made of yet another officer-involved shooting of a young man with dark skin, some questioned whether SWAT-style militarism, where suspects become targets, was creeping into Madison’s police mainstream. Was Kenny, highly trained in using force (he completed SWAT sniper training a month earlier), a victim of his own battlefield vigilance? “How police respond to [situations] are things we need to think about more,” says Madison peace activist Bonnie Block. “We really do have this mentality that somehow we solve problems by using force. I think that the police killings of people are one of the ways it plays out.” In Militarizing Mayberry and Beyond, Kraska and Cubellis blame the for-profit industry that supplies SWAT teams for reinforcing the “seductive powers” of, or the prestige that comes from, being part of a tactical team. “The techno-warrior garb, heavy weaponry, sophisticated technology, hyper-masculinity, and ‘real-work’ functions are nothing less than intoxicating for paramilitary participants and those who aspire to work in such units.” Slipping into a bulletproof vest, by itself, changes an officer’s mindset, former Chief Couper says, with perhaps an even more aggressive posture encouraged by each new piece of high-tech gear. “The attitude is, ‘We’ve got new toys and we’re going to play with them,’” he says, perhaps explaining why the armored tactical vehicle police acquired last year has been deployed for nearly as many public events as tactical operations. Police agencies nationwide receive a fair amount of new toys through the 1033 project, a 25-year-old military-surplus program established by the U.S. Department of Defense. Bill Wilson, who administered Wisconsin’s 1033 program for nearly a decade until it was taken over by the state’s Office of Emergency Management in June, says most of what the program makes available to police are practical items, like the box of tourniquets in Wahl’s office. “It’s stuff that saves the taxpayers’ money,” he says. An inventory provided by Emergency Management of what law enforcement agencies in Dane County have received

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The intricate painting of a naked, tattooed lady takes up one side of a building at the corner of First Street and East Washington Avenue.

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No poet has ever said “As beautiful as a storage locker.” This makes the Fordem Avenue Storage Facility all the more exciting. Where once stood a drab gray wall, an expressionistic green landscape has bloomed. Owner Gary Poole says that artist David Gutkowski’s work is still in progress, but it is already a nice Compared to the major public art that decorates Madison — the mosaics of the Capitol or the Dr. Evermor “Dreamkeeper” birds on Paterson Street — the wall may seem insignificant. But like other bits of unexpected art around the city — some hidden and others in plain sight — it brings a thrill to the people who find it. Once discovered, this unexpected art does not easily blend back into the cityscape.

istrator, the mural was nearly nixed because of regulations banning murals from being “a graphic representation of what is going on at the property.” That is to say, it couldn’t advertise that tattoos were available inside. Artists Seneca Marks, Zack Bartell and Joe Starkweather solved this problem by removing the needle working on the woman’s back. By removing the depiction of tattooing and the company name or logo (it now sports the message “Support Your Local Artists”) the painting fit within city regulations. SuperCharge, a juice bar/urban farm, now leases the space.

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Curry! The word sets salivary glands afire with longing. It’s one of the world’s great food export stories; there are 8,000 curry houses in Britain alone. This venerated cuisine has been around for a very long time. Archeological evidence shows that people have been eating curry for 4,500 years, as far back as 2500 B.C. The word itself probably derives from the Brits’ borrowing of the Tamil word “kari” — which just means “sauce” — for the dizzying array of dishes they discovered in India. So what we call curry is a set of richly varied, sophisticated, and malleable “sauces” from many countries across Southeast Asia and the subcontinent. Most of the dishes at Curry in the Box on University Avenue, a new sibling of the original Fitchburg location, are Thai-inflected, but the menu adopts flavors from India and even Japan. A summer roll is the perfect starter on a hot day, and while the rolls could have been more tightly compressed (they started to fall apart after repeated dipping into the excellent peanuthoisin-chili-garlic sauce), they disappeared in a jiffy. The cucumber salad is also nice: Fresh, crunchy cucumbers are soaked in sweet rice vinegar, sesame and garlic sauce. Skip the limp, lifeless and doughy pot stickers, though. A pot sticker without a crisp

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ruffling my hair. Curry shares a single patio table with neighbor Starbucks — there’s not much of a view, but Madisonians have to take advantage of nice weather when we get it. From the dinner menu, a bowl of tom kha coconut milk soup with chicken was underwhelming. There wasn’t all that much of it, and the lime juice, lemongrass, kaffir lime-galangal brew was overpowered by too many onion slices and cherry tomatoes. It doesn’t come close to the best version in town, at the Weary Traveler. But overall, the menu is strong and doesn’t sacrifice quality for a fast-casual environment. Dense, robust pad Thai with chewy, thick rice noodles stir-fried with shredded cabbage comes with chicken or tofu; both are excellent. The seasoning was oh-so-slightly CAROLYN FATH out of balance — tamarind and lime bested by a smoky fish sauce — but that barely diminished this classic, topped folded exterior is just a depressing mush. The with bean sprouts, cilantro and ground peacrab rangoon is another miss. More Indiannuts, as it should be. flavored appetizers include samosa and roti. Envy Green Curry — what a name! This Curry in the Box has solid lunch specials, green curry sauce is shot through with basil with plenty of bang for $7-$8. I enjoyed the and has a long after-burn on the back on the beef and broccoli curry with bamboo shoots tongue. The bamboo shoots, peas and onand a mild red sauce while dining al fresco on ions work well with beef as a textural couna perfect day of 78 degrees with a mild wind terpoint, though that’s also true for tofu or chicken, which, along with beef, are options for most of the curries served here. Sweet potato curry chicken is good for kids and first-time curry eaters. Sweet poParched Eagle Brewpub’s Grainne’s Special Bitter tato, broccoli, onions, zucchini and yellow curry-simmered chicken breast with rice is a The Parched Eagle Brewpub opened in the comfort food sensation. (The default rice is town of Westport in April and has quickly Thai jasmine; brown rice is available for an established itself as a place to find good extra 50 cents.) beer. On my most recent stop there, it And the winner: It’s hard to enthuse was Grainne’s Special Bitter, an ESB, that enough about the panang chicken curry — convinced me this is a brewery not to just chicken breast with a tiny hit of heat and watch but to visit more often. The ESB is a just enough peanut sauce, alongside sliced derivation of the British bitter. It’s a deep zucchini and squash, green peas, carrot and copper to bronze colored beer, with malty, bamboo shoots. Ladled over rice, it may be sweet flavors and mild hoppiness. A good the cure for all our ills. This standout won ESB should be balanced — that’s its signapraise from everyone at the table, young and ture. old, and went so fast we ended up ordering The Parched Eagle’s version uses all another round. English hops: Challenger, Goldings and This location is well-suited to Curry in wonderful blend of flavors. Northdown, and the British malt Maris Otthe Box. Hilldale Mall and nearby Shoreter, known for giving beer an orange-copper Grainne’s Special Bitter (ESB) is sold wood village have fostered a whole ecosysin pints for $5 at the brewpub. It finishes color, along with bready and nutty flavors. tem of fast-casual to upscale eateries. But at 6.6 % ABV and around 45 IBUs (Inter The malt is at the center of the flavor, while Fuzzy’s Tacos collapsed in the same national Bitterness Units). It’s available in yet it doesn’t overwhelm the profile. The space, this curry house can certainly chalEnglish hops still do what they were intend- limited supply into, possibly, August, but lenge the well-established Noodles & Comwill likely be back this fall. ed to do, complement the smooth bready pany right across the street. n base of Maris Otter malt. The result is a — ROBIN SHEPARD

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During the inaugural MACN (Madison Area Chef’s Collective) week in March, fans responded so enthusiastically to Gotham Bagels’ sandwich contest that owner Joseph Gaglio promised a repeat performance. He made good on that vow, soliciting another round of ideas from area chefs. The names of the sandwiches, which will be available at Gotham Bagels, are as inventive as the ingredients. The “Kathy Bates” features fried green tomatoes, bacon, marinated cherry tomatoes, pickled red onion, chili aioli, baby arugula and fresh market herbs, and is the brainchild of Dan Fox of Heritage Tavern. “Ain’t No Challah Back Girl” from Jason Kierce at the Hillel Foundation, calls for Kosher Glatt brisket, giardiniera, arugula, heirloom tomato, charred onions and horseradish on challah. The chef who sells the most sandwiches wins big: an all-expenses paid trip to Napa Valley for two and a meal at the French Laundry.

It’s easy to tell who has the best stuff at the Dane County Farmers’ Market — just look to see which vendors have the longest lines. The same way hungry market-goers queue up in droves to score a loaf of still-warm-from-the-oven spicy cheese bread from Stella’s Bakery, coffee lovers of all sorts flock to the JBC Coffee Roasters cart in front of the Wisconsin Historical Museum. Serving super-premium, socially conscious Gotham Bagels’ Joseph Gaglio (right) samples Tory Miller’s bialy sandwich, featuring a spicy fried chicken thigh and pickled cukes.

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Last year’s inaugural Yum Yum Fest from the Madison Area Chef’s Network was arguably the surprise culinary hit of 2014. This year’s version, with 24 participating restaurants offering small plates and drinks, promises to be at least as tempting. Admission is a $10 ticket, which can be purchased in advance via isthmustickets.com. Once inside the event, each plate or drink is $5.

roasts sourced from sustainable farms all over the world, this family-owned business is well worth the hype. Yes, the lines are long, but it’s fun to peoplewatch, and local musician Catfish Stephenson sets up next to JBC to serenade customers as they wait. Wanting to experience pure, unadulterated goodness, I ordered the Aeknauli Sumatra, one of two drip coffees available last weekend. The coffee is wet-hulled — a technique typical among Sumatran coffees that involves stripping the pulp, skin and parchment from the bean before drying. This gives Sumatran coffees their uniquely funky flavors — they can be heavy, earthy, spicy and herb-y. The Aeknauli Sumatra from JBC has subtle yet noticeable flavors of orange and chocolate balanced by a bit of spice and overall earthiness with light acidity. In fact, it was one of the few cups of coffee I’ve ever had where I’ve clearly tasted the things you’re supposed to taste.

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Pupusas, a Salvadoran dish made of a thick corn tortilla filled with beans, cheese and meat, have been unavailable in Madison since La Zacatecana Latin American grocery closed in 2014. But lovers of Mesoamerican cuisine will have a chance to eat their fill on Sunday, Aug. 16, at the fourth annual Pupusa Fest hosted by Maggie Felker and Mike Byrd at their home, located at 5725 Bittersweet Place on Madison’s west side. The event runs 1-4 p.m. and includes live music, entertainment from the Atlas Improv Company and a silent auction of Ecuadorian crafts. Suggested donation is $25 for individuals, $35 for families. The pupusas are handmade by a family friend who lives in Chicago; she fled from El Salvador in the 1980s. The event is a fundraiser for David’s Educational Opportunity Fund, a program that provides support for university students with limited financial resources in Quito, Ecuador. Felker and Byrd started the organization to honor their son, David Felker Byrd, who disappeared while studying abroad on an exchange program in Ecuador 13 years ago. After his semester abroad ended, David

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suffered a concussion during this year’s first practice. A history of head injuries has the Packers proceeding with caution, leading some observers to doubt that Abbrederis will make this season’s final roster. Finally, let’s pause to consider the emotional state of Andrew Quarless. The tight end, who caught 29 passes for 323 yards and three touchdowns last season, missed the first two days of training camp this year after he and his girlfriend lost their daughter during childbirth. Earlier in the month, Quarless was arrested for allegedly firing a gun during an argument in a Florida parking garage, and he feared McCarthy would release him. That didn’t happen, though, as Quarless joined his teammates at camp last week amid the kind of support that makes Green Bay, well, Green Bay. “Whatever he needs, we will help him out with,” cornerback Micah Hyde told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “We’re a family in here. I know a lot of teams say that, but we are. We are with each other all the time to hang out. It’s not like we’re in... name a big city. It’s literally Green Bay, so we don’t have much to do here.” Except focus on football. And that might be just what Quarless needs right now. n

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Now that the Green Bay Packers are done revisiting the past, inducting Brett Favre into the team’s Hall of Fame last month with reverence and class, it’s time to focus on the present. The Packers open their preseason schedule Thursday against the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. While it’s easy to dismiss exhibition games as meaningless, this one’s still worth watching. Since training camp began July 30, at least 14 players have gone down with injuries, including six outside linebackers — ProBowler Clay Matthews among them. As a result, head coach Mike McCarthy and his staff are making continual adjustments in practice. Adjustments, of course, are what training camp and pre-season football are all about. Perhaps more disconcerting to fans was news that through six days of practice, reigning NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers threw five interceptions during 11-on-11 play. He threw that many picks during the entire 2014 regular season. Meanwhile, former Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Jared Abbrederis, who last year missed all of his rookie season with Green Bay when he tore his ACL in training camp,

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THE WEARY TRAVELER’S MEN’S ROOM Soon after Chris Berge opened the Weary Traveler in 2002, the walls of the men’s room at the Willy Street gastro-pub suffered water damage. Rather than repaint the room, Berge grabbed maps and memorabilia from his travels and used them to cover the stain. Then he kept going until the walls, stalls and ceiling became the most entrancing piece of collage art in town. Over the years he and co-owner Bregan Fuller continued the process, using glossy magazines, Brazilian newspapers, charts, posters and old yearbook pages. Berge says that certain spots in the room have material “six layers thick.” The collage encourages creative forms of men’s-room graffiti. As is to be expected, there are some snarky or lewd comments, but on occasional spots on the maps, patrons have drawn circles, pointing out their travels. At other restrooms, people scribble on the wall, “I was here.” At the Weary, travelers say “I was there.” Due to the sheer quantity of ever-changing material, a man could get lost in there for hours. On a side note: The ladies’ room, having suffered no damage, kept its original décor. It’s nice enough, but not nearly as interesting as the men’s room.

In some places in the men’s room at the Weary Traveler, the materials are six layers thick.

With the building of Monona Terrace, only part of Richard Haas’ 3-D mural is still visible.

THE OLIN TERRACE MURAL In 1985, the city of Madison decided to finally grace the Monona lakeshore with the work of a world-famous artist from Spring Green. Not Frank Lloyd Wright, who 40 years prior had conceived of a massive structure on the same spot, but rather the muralist Richard Haas. Haas took a towering slab of a wall and created a 3-D grotto flanked by two false windows looking “out” to a view of the rooftop of Wright’s never-built pipe dream. The painting mocked Madison’s lack of guts for refusing an ambitious work by Wisconsin’s own genius architect. If Madison wouldn’t build the Monona Terrace, then Haas would create it with paint. A little over a decade later, Madison built Monona Terrace, and in doing so hid Haas’ work from the world. The mural could not be moved, because it is attached to a retaining wall, so there it remains, stuck in a thin shaft — a sad piece of greatness deposed by progress and irony. Only part of it is still visible, either from the parking lot above or by commuters stuck in traffic on John Nolen Drive.

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The origin of the Hoyt Park Pyramid remains a mystery.

it remains, obscured by bushes, waiting to confound those who happen upon it. There is no plaque explaining its origin, which is for the best. Having no signage and being off the beaten path gives visitors the sensation that they are the first to see it in centuries. Karin Wolf, arts program administrator for the city of Madison, says she enjoys taking children to the park “to explore for the pyramid.” Explorers young and old can spend a few moments feeling like Indiana Jones. How many pieces of art do that? No instructions will here be given on how to find it, because that would take away the fun of finding it. The search is part of the magic. n

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THE HOYT PARK PYRAMID What ancient people carved out the Hoyt Park Pyramid? It lurks off a trail, 5½ feet tall, 6 feet wide at the base, with strange codes, patterns and small faces pressing out of the stone on one side. The official story — what little there is of it — is that it was built by staff and children from the Preschool of the Arts, with the assistance of a UW grad student, sometime in the 1980s. The faces emerging from the pyramid are masks created by some of the young artists. When the preschool moved from its location adjacent to the park, the concrete sculpture was too heavy to move to its new home on Science Drive. So there

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Homegrown artists Wisconsin Regional Art Program celebrates a long tradition BY JAY RATH

In 1936, the UW College of Agriculture embarked on a bizarre experiment. No college or university anywhere had ever done anything like it before, let alone an ag school. It hired an artist in residence. That experiment has continued ever since. Formalized a few years later as the Wisconsin Rural Arts Program, today it’s the Wisconsin Regional Art Program, or WRAP. It celebrates its 75th anniversary with an exhibition opening at the Pyle Center on Aug. 13. The work of more than 200 amateur visual artists from across the state will be featured at the show, which runs through Sept. 26. The pieces were chosen by two dozen professional artists, who judged local exhibits held all around Wisconsin. The first state exhibit, in 1940, was judged by the ag school’s artist in residence, the legendary regionalist John Steuart Curry. The dean at the time, Chris Christensen, explained that his school “must be broad and must include the cultural side of life as well as practical training in the methods and devices for better farming and more satisfying rural living.”

But to say Curry was “in residence” was a bit of a misnomer. He didn’t sit still, but traveled extensively, teaching and working with farm families in their own communities. His successor, Aaron Bohrod, continued the mission. “When I was a kid in high school, I came and visited Bohrod’s studio when he was artist in residence,” recalls Madison watercolor artist Helen Klebesadel, whose work was recently featured in Isthmus. (The studio, next to the Stock Pavilion, is threatened with demolition.) “I actually think his work influenced mine. I remember meeting him and being so impressed as a rural farm kid.” Today Klebesadel is director of WRAP. Over the years the program has moved from the College of Agriculture to UW Extension, and is now part of the UW’s Division of Continuing Studies. Its reach today goes beyond farming communities. “It’s rural and urban,” she says, “because there’s as much need for the arts, if not more need, in urban areas.” There is also no longer a single artist in residence, but instead 24 programs of workshops and exhibits covering Wisconsin. Thousands of residents have participated, and anyone 14 and up can take part for a small fee, so long as they

On exhibit at the Pyle Center: Jan Woods’ Ace In The Hole (Acorn Woodpeckers).

consider themselves amateur. Some over the years turned professional, such as Nick Engelbert, Harry Nohr and Lois Ireland Zwettler. “Lois worked with Curry when she was 14 and went on to have an art career, and as an 86-year-old artist is still doing art,” says Klebesadel. One of Zwettler’s pieces is currently displayed in the window of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Vina Yang, another Madison artist, also came late to making art. “Besides working as a research scientist, art brought me a lot of joy, peace and free feeling to create,” she says. Klebesadel and Maryo Gard Ewell, daughter of the late crusading regionalist Robert Gard, will deliver a Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters talk on “Visual Art and the Wisconsin Idea: 75 Years Encouraging Wisconsin Artists” at 7 p.m. Sept. 24, at the Overture Center for the Arts. The WRAP exhibition concludes with an annual conference on Sept. 26, including an awards presentation. With help from the program’s nonprofit partner organization, the Wisconsin Regional Artists Association, selected artists will receive more than $5,000 to support their continued development. n

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Fiction and folklore Unconventionality drives Faux Fawn’s serene aesthetic BY PAUL SMIRL

Faux Fawn bandlander Paul Otteson writes songs that retell literary classics, spin tales of Midwestern minutiae and reflect on the dark and dramatic. “It’s like reading good poetry. Every time you go back to it, it becomes something new,” says multi-instrumentalist Doug Brown, the Madison band’s newest member. “The subject matter is drawn from all sorts of things, and it’s always expressed in ways you’d never expect.” Unconventionality has always been central to Otteson’s work in Faux Fawn, a project that first emerged on record with 2011’s February Fables. After moving from Oshkosh and collaborating with Madison songwriting stalwart Jeremiah Nelson, Otteson enlisted a crew of musicians to flesh out his hard-crafted tunes, creating unpredictable melodies best understood after repeated listens. The Wisconsin-centric LP Robin Red came out in 2012, the locally themed EP Prairie du Chien in 2013, and late last year marked the release of Faux Fawn’s latest fulllength Lonesome Loon, a collection of dusky

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songs about love, nature and morality. This included a reimagining of Sinclair Lewis’ novel Babbitt in “Poor Babbitt” and an examination of deeds in “In Matters of Sin.”

Entrenched in literary fiction, regional folklore and his own personal experience, Otteson believes there is endless subject matter available for Faux Fawn’s next work, which may pull

from stories about Iowans. “I look [for] a story or something that speaks to [me] and try to connect it with myself in some way.” Connecting to these stories is key for Faux Fawn’s ensemble members as well. Otteson and vocal harmony-mate Audre Krull have to be precise to properly execute Faux Fawn’s delicate songs, which require close attention to vocal inflection. There is a lot of artistic diversity behind Faux Fawn’s serene aesthetic, and members bring different influences to the table: Otteson is an elementary music teacher; drummer Luke Bassuener has an expansive, beat-driven solo project called Asumaya; and Brown plays in an array of jazz, orchestral and bluegrass settings. Faux Fawn members say the intense, down-tempo music is best served up in an intimate, homey environment like that of Spring Green’s Shitty Barn, where they will open for Minneapolis band Peter Wolf Crier on Aug. 26. “There’s a community that surrounds that venue,” says Krull, who played her first Faux Fawn show there. “It’s very inviting. When you walk in you feel like you’re at a family reunion, even though you don’t know anyone in the room.” n

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Vincent van Gogh, La Maison de la Crau (The Old Mill), 1888 (detail). Collection of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buﬀalo, NY. Bequest of A. Conger Goodyear, 1966.

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Building community Africa Fest aims to celebrate culture and bridge divides BY STEVEN POTTER

An interactive exhibit, a world-renowned musician and a new downtown location are some of the changes organizers hope will draw crowds to the 17th annual Africa Fest. In addition to festival staples — food from different African regions, goods from craft makers and free information on the varied cultures of the continent — this year’s event will be held at Central Park Aug. 15 and will feature West African musician Bassekou Kouyaté, known for his feverish plucking of the ngoni, an ancient lute instrument that a first glance resembles a stringed canoe paddle. A new exhibit will also give attendees the chance to experience a traditional African market. Dubbed “The Market of Africa’s Creative Bounty,” it will feature “woven baskets full of fruits, artifacts, assorted fabrics and a fashion display signifying how casual clothes are worn to the market,” says Ray Kumapayi, president of the African Association of Madison, which organizes the festival. “Folks will learn of how we create hand-woven fabric, how baskets are woven and how traditional markets are laid out.” All of the festival’s attractions help build and bridge communities by teaching about other cultures, says Kumapayi. “Attendees will be educated in the cultures and traditions of Africa from Africans themselves. [Africa Fest] is a cultural event [created by] by African immigrants who may be your neighbor, co-worker [and local] students,” he says. “The more we all learn of other cultures, the more we can bridge the divide and all get along for the betterment of the future of Madison.” The need to celebrate our different cultures and backgrounds is especially important now as racial tensions here and across the country are high, adds Kumapayi.

Bassekou Kouyaté (second from left) and his band Ngoni Ba headline the festival.

The fest’s musical headliner this year, Bassekou Kouyaté and his band Ngoni Ba from the West African country of Mali, will perform their mix of fast-paced, up-tempo African rock, blues and jazz songs that showcase Kouyaté’s mastery of the ngoni.

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Speaking through a French translator, Kouyaté likens African musicians to oral historians and griots. “A griot’s role in Malian society is to be the guardian of history,” he says. “The traditional songs that we play and perform relate

our history over the past centuries and explain to our people and also people of other countries where we come from.” The purpose of his current tour, which will take him across Europe and America, is to “expose African culture through music,” he says, adding that “African music is at the base of more recent musical styles [like] blues, rock and jazz.” Kouyate’s wife, two sons, two brothers and a nephew share the stage with him. Other performers will include the Jam Ak Jam Afro-Dance Theatre from Senegal and local drummer and singer Mandjou Mara, originally from Guinea, who performs with Madison Afro-pop band Kikeh Mato. Mara, who has played the Africa Fest every year since 2008, sees the festival as a chance to provide equal parts entertainment and education. “It creates a space for cultural understanding and respect, [and it] highlights the diversity of the continent,” he says. Attendees will be also able to fill up on both traditional and celebratory dishes from across the continent. Lucy Brewoo, who leads the Taste of Africa catering company, plans to offer staples from her homeland of Ghana, including jollof rice, a spicy, tomato-based side dish, as well as fried plantains, goat, baked chicken and West Africa’s version of a doughnut. For immigrants, Africa Fest is a chance to get a taste of home; for others, it’s a chance to try something new. “We don’t have this food here in Madison,” she says. “You have to travel to get it.” Other vendors will be offering dishes from Gambia in Western Africa, the southern United States and Jamaica, whose food is heavily influenced by African cooking techniques and spices. As in recent years, the fest will open (at 10 a.m.) with “Strides for Africa,” a 5K run/ walk for all ages that will benefit water well projects in rural Ethiopia and Liberia. n

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Noël Coward’s comedy Private Lives opened Saturday night at American Players Theatre. The play, which deals quite bluntly with a caustic divorced couple and their still smoldering attraction for one another, must have caused quite a stir back in 1930. Elyot (Jim DeVita) and Amanda (Deborah Staples) were married for three tumultuous years and divorced for five. Now they are freshly remarried — Elyot to the younger Sibyl (Kelsey Brennan), who is obsessed with her husband’s ex, and Amanda to Victor (John Taylor Phillips), a solid citizen who shares a similar fixation on his wife’s first marriage. The two British couples end up honeymooning at the same posh seaside hotel in Deauville and, in a contrivance that is lucky for us, end up in rooms with balconies next to each other. We first encounter Elyot and Sibyl, then Amanda and Victor, and it’s clear they have both been chosen as antidotes to the poison of their first marriage. As their new spouses prepare for dinner, the divorcees discover this ludicrous proximity and separately implore their respective mates to immediately depart to

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Reunited former spouses Amanda (Deborah Staples) and Elyot (Jim DeVita).

Paris, to no avail. Instead, the original Mr. and Mrs. Elyot Chase sneak away together to the City of Lights. DeVita as Elyot is undeniably funny, as is Staples. If only my own marital squabbles were as clever and glamorous. Both leads deftly employ physical flourishes that shape their

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characters in large and small ways. Staples’ knowing cock of the head when discussing Sibyl with Victor reveals her core — cutting and charming at the same time. Elyot and Amanda are of course outrageously selfish, but their self-awareness helps make them more palatable as the protagonists. Brennan and Phillips acquit themselves well, and both have nice moments, especially the first time Brennan utters her rival’s name or when Phillips breaks his veneer of manliness to confess his undying love for his bride. Alejo Vietti’s costumes hit the right notes, especially Amanda’s slinky bias-cut gowns and Sibyl’s smart suits and dresses. Andrew Boyce’s scenic design is also pitch perfect. Director James Bohnen has a deft touch, and when things descend into spousal violence, its pitched broadly and slapstick-y enough to keep the audience from pondering real-life domestic violence. Coward’s writing is dazzlingly witty, but things can get a little tedious with the constant canoodling and quarreling. Performed by a lesser cast and staged by a lesser theater company it might become tiresome, but as done by APT it’s like the perfect summer beach book, frothy and fun. n

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Watching Infinitely Polar Bear, I kept thinking of comedian Paul Gilmartin’s excellent podcast The Mental Illness Happy Hour. Gilmartin and his guests mine profound truths about life with depression, anxiety and other disorders, their own and those of family members. The show is sobering but also funny, and that’s the balance director and screenwriter Maya Forbes successfully strikes with Infinitely Polar Bear, which is based on her 1970s childhood in Cambridge, Mass. The entertaining, moving film centers on Cam (Mark Ruffalo), a public television lighting designer who belongs to a prominent Boston family, the kind of people whose ancestors had their portraits painted by John Singer Sargent. Cam has bipolar disorder, and in opening scenes we see him in the midst of a manic episode. He has just been fired from his job, but he and his two young daughters, Amelia (Imogene Wolodarsky) and Faith (Ashley Aufderheide), seem to be having a lot of fun as they run around in the woods near their house in the country. The episode turns frightening, though, and his wife, Maggie (Zoe Saldana), locks herself and the girls in the family car for safety. There is a lot of screaming in this scene, and in many subsequent scenes. Cam goes to a mental hospital and then a halfway house, and Maggie and the girls move to a small apartment in Cambridge. They descend into genteel poverty, which begins to look like just plain poverty. Cam’s blue-blood ties are no help, because money is a fraught topic in his family, and the first rule seems to be: Never ask for money. Maggie devises a plan. She will study business at Columbia University in New York City, and Cam will move into the Cam-

Mark Ruffalo is marvelous as a dad struggling with bipolar disorder.

bridge apartment and take care of the girls. Most of the film deals with the 18 months that follow, during which Cam proves only marginally competent at looking after a family. There are triumphs, as when Cam sews a funky flamenco costume for Faith’s school project. And there are disasters, as when Cam leaves the children sleeping, late at night, so he can get hammered at a bar. Forbes handles Cam’s mental illness compassionately, but some developments not related to it made me think: First World problems. Among them are the plight that makes Maggie weep: Once she finishes her Ivy League MBA, she will face challenges at

her job in Wall Street finance. True, as a woman of color in the 1970s, she faces especially daunting challenges. As you’d expect, much of what happens is seen from the children’s perspective. (Wolodarsky is Forbes’ daughter.) That has a lot to do with the tone Forbes establishes, which is more sentimental and lightly comedic than I might expect given how dire some of the events are. The biggest laughs owe to Ruffalo, who is quite marvelous as this troubled man. I’m glad he’s still appearing in quirky, intimate films like this one, even as the Avengers movies have made him a superstar. n

Television Is Show Me a Hero the next great HBO drama? Show Me a Hero has all the pieces of the puzzle to achieve Emmy perfection. The program is created by David Simon (The Wire, Treme), directed by Paul Haggis (Crash) and will air on HBO. Talk about a heavy-hitting team. The six-part miniseries premieres on Aug. 16 (7 p.m.) and is based on the book by former New York Times writer Lisa Belkin. It’s about the desegregation of middle-class white Yonkers, N.Y., in the ’80s and ’90s and hits on Simon’s ultimate strength of highlighting race and class tensions in an urban environment. Remember, he’s the dude who gave us The Wire. It stars

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The film list New releases Brothers: Hindi language action tale of two estranged brothers who face off in a mixed martial arts championship. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: Do we really need another movie version of an old television show? Do we really need another spy movie? Finding a distinctive tone can go a long way toward shaking that sense of overkill, and director Guy Ritchie brings to this film a frisky refusal to take anything all that seriously. Sinister 2: Yet another family moves into yet another wrong house. Straight Outta Compton: A biographical drama about the rise and fall of hip-hop group N.W.A.

Recent releases Fantastic Four: In Hollywood’s third attempt at successfully bringing the Marvel stalwarts to the big screen, a teleporting experiment is responsible for the quartet’s new abilities. For a little while it seems to be on an original path focused on a generation of idealists trying to avoid the rapaciousness of their elders, but there’s never enough time permitted for the characters to breathe and interact. The Gift: A chance encounter with a high school acquaintance leads to unwelcome revelations about a husband’s past. The film can’t decide if it wants to be serious drama or a salacious thriller, so it’s nowhere near enough of either. Ricki and the Flash: Meryl Streep stars as a woman who left her family years earlier for a music career that never evolved beyond bar gigs. She’s pulled back when her ex calls with news that their daughter is reeling after being dumped. Director Jonathan Demme, writer Diablo Cody and a great group of actors make a familiar concept seem fresh. Shaun the Sheep Movie: The stop-motion animation may be retro and the storyline sentimental, but it’s those quaint throwback qualities that make this one baaaaaadass movie. There’s something refreshing about the old-fashioned way in which it entertains, a mix of silly slapstick and sight gags combined with a gentle heart. Srimanthudu: A multi-millionaire with everything adopts a village.

More film events 101 Dalmations: Cruella de Vil plans a very bad use of the titular pups in this Disney animated feature. Central Library, Aug. 18, 6 pm. Grease Sing-a-Long: Grease is the word, and so is singing along. Sundance, Aug. 19, 2:05 & 7:40 pm; Palace & Point, Aug. 16 & 19, 2 & 7 pm The Green Slime: Astronauts unwittingly bring back goo that turns into electricity-eating monsters. Central Library, Aug. 20, 6:30 pm. Hotel Transylvania: Count Dracula runs a secluded getaway for scary creatures and shelters his teen daughter from danger until a human accidentally intrudes. Palace & Point, Aug. 16-17 & 19, 10 am. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Johnny Depp plays a disgraced pirate in charge of a crew of the undead. Memorial Union Terrace, Aug. 17, 9 pm.

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Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: The New Pioneers, 7 pm. Capital Brewery, Middleton: Scott Wilcox Band, 6 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, 10 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Madpolecats, free, 9 pm. Come Back In: Jesse Hendrix Experience, free, 5 pm. East Side Club: Kristin Diable & the City, Corey Mathew Hart, Americana, 6 pm. Essen Haus: WheelHouse, free, 9 pm. The Frequency: Mary Bue & the Holy Bones, Black Tape, Rebels, Stephanie Rearick, 8:30 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: The Voodoo Fix, free, 10 pm. Nau-Ti-Gal: Crosstown Drive, free (patio), 5:30 pm. Quaker Steak and Lube, Middleton: Zac Matthews, free, 5:30 pm. Red Rock Saloon: Wrenclaw, Isthmus Brews and Bands, with free Leinenkugel’s beer (ticket required: www.isthmustickets.com), 6 pm. Rotary Park, Stoughton: Rusty Hearts, free, 6 pm. UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Steel City Jug Slammers, free, 5 pm.

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Miss Saigon Thursday, Aug. 13, Middleton Performing Arts Center, 7:30 pm

Based on Madame Butterfly, Puccini’s famous opera, Miss Saigon takes place in 1970s Vietnam. On his last night there, an American soldier falls in love with a call girl. Three years later, the soldier is back in the United States and married when he learns he has a son. He returns to Vietnam in search of his child and his ex-lover. From Middleton Players Theatre. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (7:30 pm), Aug. 14-15.

Othello Thursday, Aug. 13, American Players Theatre (Spring Green), 7:30 pm

Performing Shakespeare outside is an age-old practice that American Players Theatre excels at. In Othello, viewers are thrust into the brooding, tumultuous mind of the heroic title character as he struggles to reacclimate himself to a warless life with his wife Desdemona. Tricked by villain-extraordinaire Iago into thinking Desdemona has been unfaithful, Othello becomes unhinged. ALSO: Saturday (8 pm) and Tuesday (7:30 pm), Aug 15 & 18. Through Oct. 3.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Thursday, Aug. 13, Oregon School District Performing Arts Center, 8 pm

A musicalized tale from the Old Testament. Joseph was born a dreamer, but when his elder brothers sell him into slavery, Joseph must win his masters over to make his way in the world. From Oregon Straw Hat Players. ALSO: Friday (8 pm) and Saturday (2 & 8 pm), Aug. 14-15. Kanopy Dance, DanzTrad, Sadira & Riad Dance, Madison Irish Dancers, SolStars, Omulu Capoiera: Modern dance performance, 5 pm, 8/13, 30 on the Square. Free. www.top-of-state.com.

It’s hard to determine what’s most impressive about this up-and-coming comic: his work in the short-lived ABC comedy Mixology, his role in the Yahoo! series Sin City Saints (starring Malin Akerman) or his prodigious red leg hair which earned him the nickname “Cheeto.” Decide for yourself when the proud ginger brings his best jokes to Madison. With Ian Erickson. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), Aug. 14-15.

S PEC TATO R S PO RTS UW Women’s Soccer: Exhibition vs. Marquette, 7 pm, 8/13, UW McClimon Complex. $5. 262-1440. International Gay & Lesbian Football Association North American Championships: Through 8/15, Reddan Soccer Complex, Verona. visitmadison.com/iglfa.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS #BeMadison Launch Party: Crowd-sourced photo website, 9 pm-midnight, 8/13, The Bayou, with DJ Vinyl Richie. Free. bemadson.com. Warbirds & Classics over the Midwest: Annual remote control air show, 9 am-4 pm, 8/13-8/16, Wellnitz Field, Fond du Lac. $8 per car admission/weekend. midwestwarbirds.com.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Sophia Voelker: 8/1-31, The Gallery at Yahara Bay (reception 5-10 pm, 8/13). 275-1050.

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Stoughton Coffee Break Festival: Annual celebration, 9 am-4 pm, 8/15, Mandt Park, Stoughton, with car show, arts & crafts, kids’ activities, music. Free admission. www.stoughtonwi.com. 873-7912. Agora Art Fair: 100+ artists, 10 am-5 pm, 8/15, 5500 E. Cheryl Pkwy., Fitchburg, with kids’ art yard, music, food/beer. Free admission. 277-2606. Gandy Dancer Festival: Annual music fest, 11 am8 pm, 8/15, Westland Promenade, Mazomanie, with kids’ activities, exhibits. Main Stage: Cris Plata 11 am Krause Family Band 12:30 pm, Dang-Its 2 pm, Patchouli 3:30 pm, Anne Hills 5 pm, Steel Wheels 6:30 pm. gandydancerfestival.org.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Waunakee Artists & Crafters Studio Tours: 9 am4 pm, 8/15-16, Waunakee area; maps at Ace Hardware, MnM’s Coffee & Neil’s Liquor. joann1@chorus.net.

H O ME & GA RD EN Wisconsin Daylily Society Sale: 10 am-4 pm on 8/15 and 11 am-3 pm, 8/16, Olbrich Gardens. 221-1933. Urban Horticulture Day: 10 am-2 pm, 8/15, UW West Madison Agricultural Research Station, Verona, with tours, garden samples, exhibits. Free. ars.wisc.edu.

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one winner. Sample and vote on 5 homebrews. The winning brewer will advance to the finals at Isthmus Beer & Cheese on Jan 16th at the Alliant Energy Center. The finals winner will be the next Isthmus beer brewed by WBC.

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Saturday, Aug. 15, American Players Theatre (Spring Green), 3 pm

Farmhouse ale Competition

This Pulitzer Prize-winning Edward Albee play focuses on two couples — one human and one reptilian — and the question of whether we are an evolving species or a devolving one. ALSO: Sunday (6 pm) and Wednesday (7:30 pm), Aug. 16 and 19. Through Oct. 18.

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This fundraising concert benefits the Urban League of Greater Madison and Project 1808 and features Tani Diakite and Andy Ewen, the Joel Paterson Trio with Jim Liban, the Jimmys, Lurrie Bell’s Chicago Blues Band (pictured) and headliner Bassekou Kouyaté and Ngoni Ba, who also play at Saturday’s Africa Fest (see page 32).

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Africa Fest Saturday, Aug. 15, Central Park, 11 am-10 pm

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An interactive exhibit, a world-renowned musician and a new downtown location are some of the highlights of this 17th annual festival. Headliner Bassekou Kouyaté (pictured) and his band Ngoni Ba, from the West African country of Mali, will perform their mix of fast-paced, up-tempo African rock, blues and jazz songs that showcase Kouyaté’s mastery of the ngoni. Attendees will be also able to fill up on traditional and celebratory dishes from across the continent. (See page 32.)

Saint Asonia Sunday, Aug. 16, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

If Saint Asonia’s name doesn’t sound familiar, don’t let that fool you. The band formed just last year and is made up of members from some of modern rock radio’s biggest names: Three Days Grace, Staind and Finger Eleven. The group released its debut in July, a collection of songs rawer and more focused than any of their other projects has put out in years. With Alice Drinks the Kool Aid.

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n ISTHMUS PICKS : AUG 17 - 18 Blue Velvet Lounge: Aarushi Fire, Karen Wheelock, Ebola Survivor Corps benefit, 5 pm.

Come Back In: Field & James, free, 5 pm.

Brocach-Square: McFadden’s Fancy, free, 4:30 pm.

McKee Farms Park, Fitchburg: Miles Nielsen, Madison Music Foundry Rock Band, free, 6 pm.

Cardinal: The Sessions, 6 pm; Los Chechos, free, 9 pm. Frequency: Corina Corina, Angi3, DJ Boyfrriend, 9 pm. High Noon: Girls Rock Camp Showcase, 1 pm; Troy Schafer & BC Grimm, CJ Boyd, Lundberg/Packard/Pireh, 8 pm. Wisconsin Brewing, Verona: Cherry Pie, 3 pm.

SP ECIAL EV ENTS Pupusa Fest: Annual David’s Educational Opportunity Fund benefit (for students in Ecuador), 1-4:30 pm, 8/16, 5725 Bittersweet Pl., with Atlas Improv Company, music, auction, food. $25 donation ($35/family). davidsedfund.org. Nepali Earthquake Relief Dinner: Nepali American Friendship Association event, 5-8 pm, 8/16, Lake Farm County Park-Lussier Family Heritage Center, with music by Pawan Benjamin & Anirudh Challa. $50. RSVP: samparka.nafa@gmail.com. 957-1800.

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Prairie Tour: 6-8 pm, 8/16, start at southwest bike path intersections with Odana Road or Prospect Street; free butterfly weed & milkweed from Wild Ones. 255-4195.

High Noon Saloon: PROG, 8:30 pm.

Orpheum: The People’s Chorus, donations benefit Porchlight homelessness initiatives, 7:30 pm. Up North Pub: Gin Mill Hollow, free, 7 pm.

B O O KS John Scalzi: Discussing new novel “The End of All Things,” 7 pm, 8/17, Central Library. 266-6300.

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Looking Glass Bakery SPONSORED BY: Green Owl Cafe River Bakery GREAT DANE BREWING CO. • MADISON MAZAZINE Looking Glass Bakery UW HEALTH & UNITY HEALTH INSURANCE Mad Maiden Shrub MGE FOUNDATION • UW CREDIT UNION River Bakery Gail Ambrosius Chocolatier GROUP HEALTH COOPERATIVE Mad Carl F. Statz & SonsMaiden • Culligan Water Shrub • Purple Cow Organics Just Bakery A ZERO-WASTE EVENT – Gail –Ambrosius Chocolatier Info & Ticket sales: Just Bakery www.communitygroundworks.org