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ALTERED STATES

A visit to a float center.

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LIFE IN THE FAST LANE

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COVER STORY SINCE JOINING Isthmus in January as staff writer, Allison Geyer has deftly covered everything from swingers conventions to cocktails to politics. In this week’s cover story, she analyzes how some of the top presidential candidates brand themselves through their campaign swag. She also writes a first-person account about taking the plunge in a sensory deprivation tank. When she’s not soaking in Epsom salts, Geyer, a 2012 UW-Madison journalism school graduate, enjoys long bike rides, extrarare steaks and FOIA requests.

SAVAGE LOVE CRAIG WINZER’S promotional mailer hit the right chord with Isthmus art director Carolyn Fath. “Since his card made me laugh, I thought there’s a good chance he’d make our readers laugh about butt plugs and anal beads,” she says. And that’s how Winzer, who works as a graphic designer in Kent, Ohio, became the illustrator for the often explicit Savage Love columns that run in Isthmus. “I think a little more abstract and use symbolism if I can,” he says of his approach.

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EASY PREY

Book explores campus sexual assault.

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BRAND X

What candidates’ swag says about them.

17, 28-29 MUSIC

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Honoring the Funky Drummer.

19-22 FOOD & DRINK

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Siblings make documentary on race relations.

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IN EVERY ISSUE

17 MUSIC BOB JACOBSON, who pens this week’s piece on local drummer and legend Clyde Stubblefield, says he abandoned his dreams of becoming a rock star after starting a family. But he continued to make music, playing his trumpet with local salsa and klezmer bands. Jacobson says he likes to associate with “real musicians,” and writing about them is one way to do that.

9 MADISON MATRIX 9 WEEK IN REVIEW 10 THIS MODERN WORLD 11 FEEDBACK 11 OFF THE SQUARE

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

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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The Ironman triathlon is the ultimate spectator sport. You’ll hardly break a sweat as you watch the fittest of the fit make their way through 140.6 grueling miles of scenic Madison and environs. Want to dress like an Ironman? Check out the merch at the Race Expo at Monona Terrace (Thurs.-Sun.). Also Ironkids fun run on Sat., Sept. 12, 9 am.

Pajama party Tues., Sept. 15, City-County Building, 7:30 pm

The Common Council sometimes makes for fascinating and exasperating viewing. Such could be the case Tuesday, when it takes up the Judge Doyle Square project. Attend the meeting to give your two cents or watch on City Channel with your favorite cocktail. But be warned: This meeting could go all night.

Be the change Tues., Sept. 15, Health Sciences Learning Center, 7-9 pm Wed., Sept.16, Gordon Commons, 7-9 pm

Want a say in how the UW campus is being developed? Then get thee to one of two public open houses for a presentation on the campus master plan.

I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay Tues., Sept. 15, Wisconsin Historical Museum, 7 pm

Folklorist James P. Leary provides a glimpse into the rare folk music history of Midwest lumberjacks. Leary is releasing a new book and remastered compilation, which includes tunes on “fierce cold, cheerful toil, sudden death, bad food and sportin’ houses.” BRENDA BAKER, KEVIN GIESE & MARK IWINSKI

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Mark Iwinski; Ghost Spruce, 200 years old (detail); 2014.

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Maria Welch leads me into a soundproof room where a huge, white, egg-shaped pod is waiting. I’m supposed to get inside this thing, which is emitting a bright blue light from within and is filled with 160 gallons of water and about 1,000 pounds of dissolved Epsom salt, heated to skin temperature, about 94 degrees. The salt bumps up the water’s density to the point at which it can suspend a human body. It’s supposed to be relaxing, euphoric, meditative. To me, it looks more like a space coffin. “People go in and they’re not sure,” says Welch, who owns Float Factor on Madison’s west side. “They come out with a big smile.” The original float pods were isolation tanks developed in the 1950s by John Lilly, a neuropsychiatrist who was studying the effects of sensory deprivation while under the influence of psychedelic drugs like LSD. Commercial float centers rose to popularity among New Age hippie types in the ’70s and ’80s. Devotees say the therapy can soothe sore muscles, decrease stress and anxiety, improve sleep and creativity and boost the brain’s “theta waves.” There was a float center in Madison on (of course) Williamson Street briefly in the ’90s. Now the movement is seeing a resurgence in popularity in Wisconsin and elsewhere. In addition to Float Factor on the west side,

a business called Float Madison is opening up on East Wilson Street in October. Floating, as it turns out, is indeed “a thing,” one that costs $79 per hour-long session. But for many it’s worth it — a friend of mine claims that floats have helped him recover from hangovers and jet lag. Welch says before she opened, some of her local customers used to drive hundreds of miles to float centers out of state. After I sign a waiver, watch an educational video (theta waves, man!) and get a quick briefing from Welch (who assures me I won’t get locked inside), it’s time to strip naked, shower off and take the plunge into roughly 10 inches of warm, salty water. It’s filtered three times between uses and sanitized with UV light. Once I close the lid behind me, it’s actually not so bad. The pod is surprisingly wellventilated, and it’s kind of fun to be buoyant. Bathed in blue light and serenaded by New Age pan flute music pumping through underwater speakers, I kind of get the appeal. Floaters have the option to keep the lights and music on, but in the interest of fearless journalistic exploration into the true sensory deprivation experience, I opt for dark and silent (go big or go home, right?).

In a world constantly illuminated by iPhones and computer screens, the total absence of light is strange. The silence is stranger still; with ears submerged, I can hear the brittle sound of clicking joints and the echo of a churning stomach. The video warned I might get nauseous. What happens if I barf in the pod? My body is light, but my neck is strangely heavy. I slosh around a bit. I’m pretty sure I’m doing it wrong. With all outside stimuli removed, the mind is supposed to go blank and drift off into a blissful oblivion. This is perhaps possible for a non-neurotic person (or a veteran floater), but my inner monologue persists. How long have I been in here? How am I going to write about this? I’m literally doing nothing. Target is across the street; I need some items. I wonder if my cat loves me as much as I love her. Why can’t I keep a man around? This continues for some time until a woman’s voice tells me my float is over. I’m not sure, but maybe for a moment my snarl of thoughts became white noise, like om, the vibration of the universe. When I emerge, I feel...well, I feel something. That’s for sure. I’m buzzed. I scrape salt out of my ears. The feeling lasts all day. Must be the theta waves. n

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Goodbye Community Car Zipcar takes over Madison’s homegrown auto-sharing company BY JAY RATH

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Madison’s Community Car was a pioneer in car-sharing services, appealing to people concerned about the environment as well as those who don’t want to buy a car or can’t afford one. Now, a national company is taking it over. Zipcar announced last week that it has acquired the company. It’s not clear how the transition will work for Community Car’s 1,300 members, some of whom have paid as much as $1,500 in advance for discounted driving plans. Although the companies charge different rates, “Zipcar will honor Community Car balances and roll them into the member’s new Zipcar account,” says Katelyn Chesley, public relations specialist for Boston-based Zipcar. “Additionally, all Community Car members will receive free membership for the first year and $35 in driving credit.” Zipcar declines to tell Isthmus what will happen if Community Car members request a refund instead of transferring, but says all queries will be handled “on a case-by-case basis.” “For any member, our goal is to ensure the best member experience possible,” says Chesley. “For those that were Community Car members, and those that we hope to become Zipcar members in the future, we’ll fully make sure everyone is satisfied.” Community Car members paid an annual membership fee in order to rent cars at hourly rates, which covered gas and insurance. The basic rental rate was $10 an hour. Discounted rates were available with advance payment or by paying an extra flat monthly rate. Members who purchased a 12-month “Smart Advantage” plan for $1,500 got a $7.50 rate. “Freedom 500” members paid $500 in advance for an $8 rate.

According to its website, Zipcar’s Madison rates range from $8.50 to $10.50 an hour. Zipcar also offers prepaid plans. None are apparently yet available in Madison, but Chesley cites Milwaukee’s. That city’s most generous prepaid Extra Value Plan offers hourly rates that start at $7.65 Monday through Thursday, and $8.50 Friday through Sunday. Community Car founder Sonya Newenhouse dismisses concerns about the varying rates. “That’s just semantics,” she says. “[Zipcar] doesn’t have the same [prepaid] plans that we do, right? So if they are buying our company, they actually can’t offer our plans, right? Because it’s not in their system. But what they are honoring is to have the best solution for each customer, so no customer is going to pay more.” Community Car began in October 2003. At its peak, the company had 19 vehicles. At the time of its sale it had 12 vehicles and a staff of four. Zipcar started in Cambridge, Mass., in 2000 and opened in Madison in 2011. Avis Budget Group bought it in 2013 for roughly $500 million. Zipcar is “in 31 major metro markets,” says Chesley. “Globally, we’re in seven different countries. We have over 10,000 cars in our global fleet.” Both Chesley and Newenhouse decline to disclose Community Car’s purchase price, which does not include the cars, which will be sold. Zipcar will increase its number of vehicles here from 20 to 30. “We are only acquiring certain assets, including Community Car’s member base, their parking locations and their fleet manager,” Chesley says. Newenhouse initiated sales talks with Zipcar in late winter/early spring. Why not find a local buyer or — as has been done in other instances — offer

members the chance to organize as a coop? “Zipcar was the best choice because they’re up and running,” she says. “They’re the world’s leading car-share organization.” Newenhouse will not disclose how many Community Car members had prepaid plans. Chesley will not disclose the number of members Zipcar has in Madison or in Wisconsin. Newenhouse is confident about the transition. “They’re actually hand-contacting, they’re physically calling, it’s not just email — they’re calling every single person that has a prepaid plan and finding the best solution for them,” she says. Zipcar was sued in 2009 for allegedly charging customers five kinds of “excessive or hidden” fees, according to The Boston Globe. All the fees but one were found to be legal, and the case was dismissed in 2010.

On its face, a provision in Community Car’s Member Handbook — written to prevent customers from sharing memberships — appears to forbid the sale of the company until prepaid contracts expire. Item 8.2 specifies that rights “are not assignable or transferable to third parties, in whole or in part.” Zipcar could be interpreted to be a third party. Jerad Albracht, spokesman for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, notes that his department has no regulatory authority over the companies. However, if his department “receives a complaint alleging a violation of consumer protection statutes, [it] would investigate the complaint and take appropriate action, which may include mediation or other methods of resolution.” n Editor’s note: The author has been a Community Car member since 2010.

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Raising speed limit lowers revenue Bill’s fiscal estimate did not address potential funding loss BY BILL LUEDERS

The number of speeding tickets issued by the Wisconsin State Patrol has fallen significantly on highways where the speed limit was recently increased from 65 to 70 mph, data obtained by Isthmus shows. In July, the first full month after the limit was raised on about 800 miles of state highways, the State Patrol issued 3,085 citations for violating the speed limit on roads posted 65 and 70 mph. This compares to 3,436 citations issued in July 2014 on roads posted 65 mph. That’s a 10% decline, and 351 fewer fines. For August, the State Patrol issued 2,528 tickets on roads posted 65 and 70 mph, down from 3,576 tickets issued on roads posted 65 mph in August 2014. That’s a 29% decline, and 1,048 fewer fines. The vast majority of July and August 2015 citations, 5,000 of the 5,643 total, were on roads with a 70 mph limit, reflecting that the speed limit has been raised on most state roads formerly posted at 65 mph. Speed limits in Wisconsin are enforced by hundreds of county and municipal law enforcement agencies. But the State Patrol, with about 350 active troopers engaged primarily in traffic safety and enforcement, is by far the largest such agency. Fewer tickets means less revenue, which could affect a range of entities. “The revenue generated by traffic citations is not kept by the Wisconsin State Patrol,” says a state Department of Transportation website. “Rather, the revenue is distributed to various state and county agencies.” Assuming an average citation of $200, the two-month decline of 1,399 citations

would translate into a revenue loss of $279,800. But time not spent issuing speeding tickets in 70 mph zones can go to writing up other violations, such as operating while intoxicated or driving an unregistered vehicle. In fact, the overall number of citations issued by the State Patrol rose about 1% in July from the same month the year before, to 11,796 citations. For August, though, this comparative sum was down 20%, to 9,051 citations. State Patrol Staff Sgt. David Harvey, who provided these numbers to Isthmus, cautions that other factors besides the incidence of speeding may affect variations in enforcement. “There is some variability in our staffing,” Harvey says, as troopers are reassigned from traffic enforcement to other duties. A reduction in the incidence of speeding was an anticipated result of raising the limit on many of the state’s major highways. “A 5 mph increase will not automatically result in motorists traveling 5 mph faster,” state Sen. Devin LeMahieu (R-Sheboygan), the bill’s lead Senate sponsor, told a legislative committee in February. “Any increase will be far less than that.” But the bill’s fiscal estimate, prepared by the state Department of Transportation, deals exclusively with signage costs, and not citation revenue. The estimate puts the one-time total cost of this

new signage at $238,663, less than the actual decline in speeding revenues for just the first two months under the new limit. DOT spokeswoman Peg Schmitt says the loss of revenues from traffic citations was not reflected in the fiscal estimate “because revenue generated from traffic citations issued by the Wisconsin State Patrol

are not kept by the State Patrol.” LeMahieu did not respond to an interview request. Nick Jarmusz, a spokesman for AAA Wisconsin, which opposed the speed limit increase, says that for his group, safety was a key concern. “Any time you have cars moving faster, it makes it more difficult for them to stop and maneuver in emergency situations,” Jarmusz says. “And if you get into a crash, it’s going to be more severe.” Jarmusz says it’s very difficult to correlate speed limits to data on crashes and fatalities, since so many factors are in play. In some states, he notes, crashes have declined after the speed limit was increased, but it would be wrong to conclude that driving faster is safer. Without the change, he says, “it could have been a larger decrease.” Schmitt says “we do not have corridor-specific data,” meaning she cannot check for whether accidents and fatalities are going up or down on roads in which the speed limit has been increased to 70 mph. In July, the state recorded 39 traffic fatalities, three fewer than in July 2014 and the lowest total for this month since 1943. In August, Wisconsin had 61 traffic fatalities, more than any other month this year. But that was still seven fewer than in August 2014. n

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n WEEK IN REVIEW WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2 n Caleb Johnson, a Madison police officer, is surrounded by an angry crowd after intervening in a street fight on the southwest side. The department reports that some yelled “We need to start killing these officers.” Johnson was not seriously injured; two women were charged in the altercation. THURSDAY, SEPT. 3 n Gov. Scott Walker names

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mates meeting, Police Chief Mike Koval complains that a new midtown police station has been delayed by at least five years in Mayor Paul Soglin’s capital budget.

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Did the idea come from being out in the garden pruning, as I imagine? I’m actually a pretty terrible gardener/arborist in real life, although I’m trying to get better! Prune got its start by accident with a tweet from a friend about a simple tree generator. I started tinkering with the code and thought there must be a game in there somewhere but I couldn’t quite figure out what that game would be. Then, a week or so later I happened to see a tree that had partially fallen, and that’s when it clicked. I had quit my job as designer at Raven Software six months earlier and had been prototyping a bunch of ideas. I had a few promising leads, but I was looking for a nice, short project that could help me get my feet wet. When I landed on Prune I thought it’d be a perfect project for me to complete in a month or two and release on the App Store to test out the waters. Of course, I was a little bit off in my prediction of how long the game would take.

How does Madison suit you as a place to create games? Madison is great because it has both young talent coming from the university and veterans of the game industry coming from the larger studios like Raven. There’s a small but growing indie scene here in Madison that is really exciting to be a part of. Plus, it’s really nice that with Madison’s size and bike friendliness I can just hop on my bicycle and get to pretty much any coffee shop in the city within a half hour. The downside of having a hit app is that suddenly you’ve got to spend all this time dealing with the bugs that inevitably arise, doing updates, and answering queries, of course. I was definitely swamped by the amount of incoming emails and support requests that came in, especially in the first week. I guess it didn’t surprise me too much since I was anticipating that I’d need to spend 100% of my time supporting the game for a couple weeks. It’s not something I would necessarily want to do all the time, but so far I’m enjoying going through the process of learning how to do new things like localization, customer support, etc. What’s next? For the foreseeable future I’ll be working on Prune updates and porting it over to the other mobile platforms. I can’t wait to get back to prototyping, though. n

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Mark Hogan, a retired bank executive, the head of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. Hogan, who has donated nearly $25,000 to Walker’s campaigns over the past 10 years, will make $195,000 a year.

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Joel McDonald, Madison resident for nine years, released his first indie game, Prune, to the Apple App Store in July. Since then it’s been picked by the store as an Editor’s Choice and featured as best new game. The goal in the game is to grow your tree into the sunlight. As branches spread out into the light, flowers start to bloom. On each level the number of flowers you need to “win” is portrayed by the stars in the sky. A ghostly score accompanies subtle clues to nudge you on. The game is filled with beautiful abstract designs: a sun with a darkened halo, delicate tree branches, flower petals floating upwards to merge with stars fixed in the sky’s firmament. It’s gorgeous to look at. Snipping away at the branches encourages flowers into bloom (the total extent of violence is trimming trees) and makes Prune as compulsive as any first-person shooter. Isthmus talked to McDonald about his big international win.

Who did the relaxing and quasi-ambient soundtrack? Kyle Preston did the excellent score. He’s a composer based in Seattle that I was lucky to meet online. His musical style pretty much perfectly matched the mood and tone I was going for in Prune.

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Coming soon to a campus party near you: rape BY BILL LUEDERS Bill Lueders is associate editor of The Progressive.

Here’s a sadly safe prediction: Some of the people starting school this fall at the UWMadison are going to become victims of rape. Others will become rapists. But to appreciate the full horror of the situation, here’s one more prediction to ponder: Neither the victims nor the perpetrators may recognize what happened for what it is. That’s one of the many disconcerting realities driven home by Jon Krakauer’s new book, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. Krakauer, known mainly as the author of adventure tomes including Into the Wild, is a superb reporter, as shown in his unsparing dissection on the Mormon Church, Under the Banner of Heaven. Missoula is not on a par with these earlier achievements. But it is nonetheless an important work in that it attacks the problem of “date rape” at its core—our societal tolerance for these shocking crimes of callousness and opportunity. The book recounts a series of sexual assaults in Missoula, Mont., from 2010 to 2012, that prompted a U.S. Department of Justice investigation. But Krakauer concludes that there is nothing extraordinary about what happened in this place during this time. He crunches numbers to show that the 350 sexual assaults reported to Missoula police during a 52-month period were “slightly less than the national average.” (In 2013, a mandatory state report found 122 sexual assaults reported to UW-Madison police; UW police departments statewide reported 362.) More shocking still is Krakauer’s insights into the mindset of campus rapists, often

serial predators. He describes a fraternity member explaining how he and others would seek out “easy prey” — young women who “wouldn’t know anything about drinking, or how much they could handle,” or “anything about our techniques.” Then they would ply them with alcohol to get them so incapacitated they could be “fucked” without their knowing what was going on. The young man telling this story was completely impervious to the idea that what he was describing was rape. For the women, too, who emerge in Krakauer’s book as heroes, recognizing the truth of what happened and accepting the burden it puts on them is a painful and protracted process. Krakauer focuses on cases involving members of the University of Montana football team, who enjoy the full presumption of innocence. “I don’t think a problem exists,” declares one gridiron booster, as the star quarterback faces trial for rape on the heels of another player pleading guilty to raping a childhood friend as she slept. And then there’s Missoula prosecutor Kirsten Pabst, who not only declined to charge one alleged campus rapist but showed up at a college disciplinary hearing to put in a good word for him. Pabst becomes a defense attorney who gets another accused rapist off the hook, then wins election as Missoula County district attorney. Krakauer’s account of the revictimization of rape victims was no surprise to me. Between 1998 and 2006, I wrote dozens of stories for Isthmus, as well as a book, about a

female prosecutor who proclaimed that the police who used lies and coercion to get Patty to recant “ought to be proud of what they did,” eventually apologized. Others, including the lead detective, Tom Woodmansee, now a police lieutenant, never did.

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case in which a legally blind woman was raped, disbelieved by Madison police and pressured to recant, then charged with a crime for going back to her original account. The woman, Patty, fought for years to vindicate herself, and eventually succeeded when her rapist was convicted based on DNA evidence. In that case, the entire local justice and political system turned against Patty. She was vilified and berated. Some of the players in her drama, like the

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No violation is more profound, or more routinely unpunished, than sexual assault. Only a small percentage of rapes are reported, and only a small number of these lead to successful prosecutions. Rape victims are rightfully reluctant to report. You may get a cop who disbelieves you. You may get a prosecutor who won’t go to bat for you. You may get a judge or a jury more sympathetic to your rapist than to you. But the takeaway message is not “Don’t report.” It’s “Protect yourself.” The local Rape Crisis Center (608-2517273) can provide an advocate to be present for the sexual assault exam and any questioning by police. That is absolutely a good idea. Patty’s story and the cases in Krakauer’s book offer another, more optimistic message for victims of sexual assault: You can do it. You can stand up to people who think it’s okay to have sex with someone unconscious. You can withstand the indignities that the justice system heaps upon you. And maybe, in the process, you can help make the world a safer and less ignorant place. n

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Critical thought

Sour notes I have a question for your staff in regard to the “Fall Music Preview” (9/3/2015). Do you bozos actually know anything about local bands here in town, or do you just support them at your own convenience? If you really want to do a story about live music in Madison, give the local bands some press. They work harder than any of you could possibly imagine and they deserve it. Nathan Relles Major oversight in your “Fall Music Preview”: On Monday, Oct. 19, White Mystery, the brother-sister garage/psych duo from Chicago, make their High Noon Saloon debut along with local favorites Cowboy Winter and the Midwest Beat. Fred Schepartz

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I find it interesting that Larry Kaufmann rails about the importance of reading a wide variety of diverse authors...and then lists several white, European male authors as the most important thinkers of our time (“Avoid a Coddled, Closed Mind,” 9/3/2015). But I suppose pointing out such a glaring gender/racial disparity is proof that my mind has been “coddled” with notions that a university should be a welcoming place for all ideas, even when (or especially when) that includes pointing out aggressions that the ruling class of white male baby boomers consider “micro.” Additionally, I find the graphic accompanying this article to be insulting — a woman wearing pink fashion glasses with a dopey expression on her face as she stares at a chalkboard filled with math equations? Yes, those are the

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definitely the stereotypes we should be reinforcing alongside these pedantic and cliche complaints about a “PC culture.” Personally, I know I always seductively chew my bottom lip when confronted with that nemesis of every woman, MATH. Bridget Sharkey I sympathize with Larry Kaufmann’s dismay at the trend in higher education that prefers catering to students’ tender sensibilities rather than exposing them to the intellectual rigor that can only be found by studying what Matthew Arnold called “the best that has been thought and written.” However, Kaufmann fails to acknowledge that the “best” works — those that have built the grand edifice known as Western civilization — were written largely by dead white males: i.e., the untouchables of today’s academy. I’d wager it’s easier for an undergrad at the UW to enroll in a course in African folklore than in one offering the works of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Rousseau or anyone else in Mr. Kaufmann’s pantheon of defunct heroes. Colleges long ago abandoned any pretense of training students to become critical thinkers (though they continue to pay lip service to the concept). Their function now is to promote a politically correct ideology while systematically shielding students from anything that might cause them to question that ideology. It’s no wonder colleges boast of being”safe spaces” where students are urged to indulge every grievance, resentment and vulnerability — real or imagined. How this will prepare them for a world of struggle, challenge and risk is a question colleges seem unable or unwilling to answer. Gary L. Kriewald

I am a previous resident of Bill Levy’s, and he is currently withholding my security deposit to paint walls, which is considered normal wear-and-tear (“Brentwood Village Residents Cry Foul,” 9/3/2015). Reading the article literally brought tears to my eyes. I lived this nightmare for three years. And now he is punishing me and my family. He is even denying my move-in checklist that his employee signed. I would like to join anyone who is fighting against him. Jawana Echols

Protect our waters As your “Urban Paddle” article pointed out (Snapshot, 8/15/2015), one of the special attributes of Madison is its wealth of urban waterways. Starkweather Creek offers a special refuge for kids. But our creeks and lakes can only be clean if we protect the waters that feed them. That’s why it’s such great news that on Aug. 28, the Clean Water Rule took effect and finally restored Clean Water Act protections to streams and headwaters here in Wisconsin and across the nation. This summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took the single biggest step forward for clean water in more than a decade. This fall, we’ll need Sen. Tammy Baldwin to continue her strong environmental leadership so that all of Wisconsin’s lakes and streams remain protected by the Clean Water Act. Elizabeth Rose Hansen Wisconsin Environment campaign organizer

Correction In last week’s paper, writer Jennifer Peek’s byline was omitted from the article “Mining the Data.”

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My critical thinking includes reading Kaufmann’s submissions. This latest is about critical thinking in college. He’s for it. A conservative preaching critical thinking is rare and not to be ignored, at least by me. However Kaufmann breaks with the tone of the article by singling out Karl Marx and only Karl Marx as a negative force in history. The student reader is supposed to reach or not reach that conclusion on their own, if I understood the article correctly. About Karl Marx, how’s capitalism doing these days? Craig Wehrle

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also gives candidates insight about their supporters through data collection on their purchases. As campaigns have become more sophisticated, so has the campaign swag, with the 2016 candidates’ offerings moving beyond traditional T-shirts, yard signs and coffee mugs to include more creative lifestyle items like a cross-stitched throw pillow from Hillary Clinton’s camp, which declares “A woman’s place is in the White House,” or a bafflingly unbranded $75 guacamole dish from Jeb Bush. With the rise of the idea of candidates as brands, it makes sense for them to have products associated with them, says Dee Warmath, an associate professor in the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology who studies consumer behavior. “Bringing retail into the campaign trail is not to sell a product, but to connect people to movements and ideologies,” Warmath says. “They’re beginning to infiltrate the consumer’s life in different ways.” So what does it all mean? What does a candidate’s swag say about his or her political strategy? Let’s start with Walker. From a branding standpoint, O’Guinn says Walker’s strategy is “fairly underwhelming — and not particularly good.” His merchandise offerings — T-shirts, a baseball cap, a fleece pullover and some basic

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In the early months of the presidential primary season, Scott Walker has peddled his narrative as the “aggressively normal” candidate. He stumps about shopping the discount rack at Kohl’s. He tweets about haircuts and hot ham sandwiches. He’s applied his famous normcore brand of conservatism to his political strategy, playing it safe (and often boring) on the campaign trail and in the first GOP debate. So far, pundits seem to agree his approach has been fairly consistent — and consistently bland. But with a jam-packed field of 16 GOP hopefuls that includes contenders with last names like Bush and Trump, what will it take to sell the Walker brand to primary voters? “This is always a classic problem for brands in a crowded market,” says Tom O’Guinn, a professor of marketing in the UW-Madison School of Business. “You’re always caught between trying to differentiate yourself and not excluding too many people from the market.” The marriage of politics and marketing is nothing new. From the Lyndon Johnson campaign, which hired a New York advertising agency to create the famous “Daisy” television spot to defeat rival Barry Goldwater in 1964, to Barack Obama’s team beating out companies like Apple and Zappos to win Advertising Age’s marketer of the year in 2008, candidates have used the power of branding to win the hearts and minds (and votes) of the American people. “We’ve all kind of become more or less comfortable with the idea of politicians as brands,” says O’Guinn, who studies the intersection of consumer behavior and politics. And with that trend has come the creation of the campaign store, which allows voters to make political donations in exchange for wearable advertising and

n COVER STORY The Donald’s swag leaves “no mistaking who he is.”

signage — are sparse compared to other top-tier candidates. And the imagery — limited to his name in block letters with the letter “E” stylized as an American flag — is far from iconic. “It’s consistent with what he’s offering,” O’Guinn says. “He’s not taking any chances.” Adds O’Guinn: “But that’s kind of Walker — nobody’s going to call this guy Mr. Excitement.” It’s an approach that has served the governor well in the early stages of the race, when he consistently polled at or near the top of the Republican pack, both nationally and in key primary states like Iowa. But with real estate mogul Donald Trump gobbling up media attention with his Twitter tirades and controversial position statements while continuing to surge in the polls, perhaps Walker needs to take a more decisive approach. “If I were running [Walker’s campaign store], I would be leveraging what he does best,” O’Guinn says. Because like him or not, Walker certainly has positions — he’s the tough, no-nonsense, anti-union conservative who uses phrases like “big and bold” and “unintimidated” to describe his ideals. “You would expect to see more imagery that emphasizes that kind of persona than what you’re seeing in the store,” O’Guinn says. As Walker continues to slide in the polls, he’s been scrambling to regain ground — and in doing so, has taken more than a few cues from Trump.

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The Democratic front-runner has an “evolved product strategy” but takes no “big risks.”

Until a few weeks ago, his campaign store was an afterthought — probably because the businessman already had his own signature line of merchandise, selling everything from menswear to “natural spring water.” Now, anyone who wants to “make America great again” can show their Trump support with one of his famous rope-brimmed hats or a “Team Trump” T-shirt. Just don’t wear your Trump swag while you’re out committing racially motivated hate crimes. The Donald wouldn’t like that.

The previously inconceivable rise of the real estate mogul and reality television star has baffled pundits and rankled his opponents as the GOP field has been forced to contend with his bombastic — and, to some, offensive — rhetoric. “There’s no brand like Donald Trump,” O’Guinn says. “There’s no mistaking who he is.”

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, in comparison, has an expansive campaign store with dozens of shirts, accessories and signs, all carefully curated to reflect her persona and politics. With a modernist design that evokes comparisons to Target and CB2, Clinton’s merchandise appears to be targeting young, stylish, upper-middle-class voters, O’Guinn says, while still reflecting diversity with an extensive LGBT section and multicultural models. There’s an element of fun to her

swag — the pantsuit T-shirt embraces her iconic and oft-parodied fashion choices, the “Chillary Clinton” can koozie and “Grillary Clinton” barbecue apron make good use of puns. “Hillary has the most evolved product strategy by far,” Warmath says. “Her merchandise is much more about creating a connection between what people value and her candidacy rather than just being a campaign product.” Clinton has maintained widespread favorable ratings despite national troubles with an email scandal, a crowded field of GOP challengers and significant grassroots support for Bernie Sanders among progressive Democrats. But with her merchandise, she’s making her case by appealing to a wide range of potential voters while asserting her status as a likely Democratic nominee. “This is a front-runner’s website,” O’Guinn says. “But it’s safe. There are no big risks here either.” Jeb Bush’s campaign store has a remarkably similar feel to Clinton’s — another legacy politician with a big budget to hire web and product design experts to create a high-end experience for customers (er, voters).

a context when you’re engaging with other consumers,” she says. “It makes Jeb Bush a part of the event.” Plus, who doesn’t love guacamole?

He’s also got diversity among products and multiethnic models, though unsurprisingly, the Republican candidate has no LGBT section. But his tagline, “All in for Jeb!” reads with an air of inclusivity, O’Guinn says. “He’s more inclusive than most of the people he’s running against, and I think that fits the narrative of his brand,” O’Guinn says. “He looks like a front-runner; he looks presidential.” Perhaps in an attempt to court moderate or millennial voters, the Bush team also embraces elements of fun with the merchandise. He’s got a flat-brimmed hat like the ones that cool urban youth seem to like wearing and a hipster-esque Tshirt that pays homage to George Bush Sr. and the family’s macho Texas roots: “My dad is the greatest man I’ve ever known, and if you don’t think so, we can step outside.”

Jeb’s products are a nod to both his presidential family and inclusivity, with an unbranded guacamole dish.

But perhaps the most brilliant item in the Bush campaign store is a simple guacamole dish, available for $75. At first glance it seems ridiculous — it’s not even branded! But it sends another subtle message of inclusivity and reminds voters of his Mexican-born wife. And perhaps most importantly, it creates a conversation, Warmath says. “I can just imagine the dinner party — you’re using [the guacamole bowl] in

Even Sen. Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democratic Socialist from Vermont and the anti-establishment champion of Progressives everywhere, isn’t above selling a few T-shirts. His campaign store takes a characteristically stark, no-frills approach to its design and inventory — shirts, stickers, drinkware and yard signs, all at very low prices. But in recent weeks, as Sanders has continued his notable surge in popularity, the store has expanded to include more items bearing his grassroots slogan, “Feel the Bern” (which works particularly well on a coffee mug). “It has authenticity — one of the most important things a brand can be,” O’Guinn says. The unadorned website and simple designs underscore Sanders’ aversion to corporate greed and vulgar spending. Another candidate who gets high marks for authenticity is Ted Cruz — even though his logo, a star-spangled flame inside the letter “C,” is a near-perfect ripoff of the Christian Broadcasting Network emblem. But just like the candidate himself, Cruz’s merchandise is big on personality. Take his print, titled “Blacklisted & Loving It,” that depicts the Texas senator shirtless, ripped and tattooed with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He also plays up his devotion to the U.S. Constitution and uses grandiose

Ted Cruz plays up his rebel image as a truth speaker.

taglines like “Courageous Conservatives.” His book is lavishly titled A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America. “Out of all the websites, [Cruz’s] has more call to personality than any of the others,” O’Guinn says. “It’s saying, ‘I’m Ted Cruz, and I have the truth.’” And for the young neocons, there’s even a Ted Cruz coloring book. n

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Clyde Stubblefield Day and present Stubblefield with a key to the city. Stubblefield is going to present some drumsticks, photographs and other artifacts to the Wisconsin Historical Museum to be preserved for future generations. The live soundtrack for the occasion will be provided by Clyde Stubblefield & Friends, an all-star collection of musicians anchored by the Big Payback. They will be joined by Stubblefield himself as well as some of his former bandmates from his days with James Brown: fellow drummer John “Jabo” Starks, trombonist Fred Wesley and bassist Fred Thomas. Black Star Drum Line, a project of Stubblefield’s longtime friend and protégé Joey B. Banks, will also be performing. Two other events, both fundraisers for the Clyde Stubblefield Scholarship Fund, will precede the Overture gala. The scholarship will benefit a Madison-area student planning to major in music in college. The first event was an Aug. 30

kickoff party at the High Noon. The second takes place at the Barrymore Theater on Sept. 11. Both of those fundraisers feature the Clyde Stubblefield All-Star Band, featuring a mighty lineup of some 30 mostly-Madison musicians who have played with Stubblefield over the years. Together, the series of three events is dubbed, appropriately, “Give the Drummer Some.” “Give the Drummer Some” is being orchestrated by the Coalition for Recognition of Clyde Stubblefield, an ad hoc group that sprang out of the Madison Blues Society. “Several years ago we did a memorial to Luther Allison, and it turned out really nice,” says Shari Davis, Madison-based vocalist and secretary of the Blues Society. “It got me thinking, why don’t we honor a musician while they’re still alive rather than memorialize them later? So we tossed that idea around for a couple years, and last August we decided to do it this year, and we chose Clyde for our honoree.”

Stubblefield grew up in Chattanooga, Tenn., where he taught himself how to play the drums by absorbing the percussive industrial sounds that surrounded him. “I had no training at all. I just taught myself how to play and how to feel,” says Stubblefield. “There was a factory there that puffed out air — pop-BOOM, pop-BOOM — hit the mountains and came back as an echo,” says Stubblefield. “And train tracks — click-clack, click-clack. I listened to all that for six years, playing my drums against it.” One day around 1960, Stubblefield was playing music down in Macon, Ga., when James Brown passed through town, heard Stubblefield play, and dug the groove. He invited Stubblefield to sit in at a show as a quasi-audition. A couple weeks later, Brown summoned Stubblefield to North Carolina

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There are plenty of funky drummers out there. But there is only one Funky Drummer. Clyde Stubblefield is best known for propelling many of James Brown’s greatest hits, but for the last 40-plus years he has dwelled among us right here in Madison. He’s been a fixture on the stages of local clubs, playing with his own band, which features a revolving cast of local talent. And in spite of a litany of health problems that have plagued him in recent years, he’s a happy man. “I just sit back and enjoy life,” Stubblefield says. Stubblefield is quick to talk about how much he loves Madison. This fall, Madison is going to collectively return the love; or, in James Brown’s immortal words, “give the drummer some.” The main event of the love fest will take place Oct. 8 at Overture Center in the Overture Hall main lobby, where Mayor Paul Soglin will proclaim

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On a cool late-summer night, the 666 Chili paired with one of Daisy’s grilled cheese sandwiches makes for great comfort food. The Grilled Three-Cheese Sandwich is perfectly put together: Swiss, Gruyere and cheddar melt into a gently grilled sourdough bread. More adventurous is one with roasted veggies, served with Daisy’s yummy tomatillo-avocado sauce. Burgers are my top pick for carnivores. A generous patty is grilled to order and served with a side of slaw, edamame salad, breakfast potatoes or chips. The Wisconsin Pride burger is especially hard to resist, topped with cheese curds and bacon. The curds are a wonderfully gooey way to turn a burger into a cheeseburger, but the bacon, while tasty, wasn’t very crispy. Daisy Cafe and Cupcakery is the kind of place to go on the night you just don’t feel like cooking, but still want something that seems like it came out of your own kitchen. Every dish isn’t perfect, but all of them are full of heart and made with fresh, quality ingredients. n

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You likely know Daisy Cafe and Cupcakery, 2827 Atwood Ave., for cupcakes or as a popular brunch spot. But since opening six years ago, it has expanded its menu to include dinner. This isn’t new, but the extended hours still feel like a bit of a secret. Daisy’s not a late-night joint by any means; dinner service runs only until 8 p.m. Still, it’s a chill spot for a casual, early meal. “Eclectic” is the word that comes to mind when looking at the dinner menu (which also includes the full lunch menu). Two pages are packed tightly with a wide range of options from cassoulet to cheeseburgers. Somewhat surprising is a cluster of Mexican-inspired dinner entrees including fish tacos and enchiladas. Curious, I had to start there. The roasted vegetable enchiladas, filled with such seasonal veggies as corn, squash, zucchini and red pepper, came with a housemade tomatillo-avocado sauce. The vegetables didn’t show signs of actually being roasted, but were fresh and delicious. Served with a side of flavorful, longsimmered black beans and a steamed rice pilaf, this made a hearty, healthy meal. For a boost of protein, there’s an option to add chicken or Daisy’s homemade chorizo. My only complaint: The tortillas didn’t hold up well, crumbing at first bite.

Fish tacos were less successful. Here too, the tortilla wasn’t up to the job. A generous filet of wild-caught cod puts a small, single corn tortilla to an unfair test. The fried fish was nicely breaded in panko, but inside, it was chewy and bland. The tacos were garnished with a smear of tartar sauce and a sprinkle of tomato and lettuce. A few wedges of lime and a cabbage-based slaw would have helped brighten the dish. Fans of fish might want to try one of the salmon entrees or a cod fish fry that’s available all week long. Served with garlic Parmesan potatoes, “fiesta” veggie slaw and tartar sauce, the fish fry can be a good choice. However, devotees of the classic Wisconsin fish fry might be slightly alarmed to see only one iPhone-sized piece of fish on their plate instead of two or three. Where Daisy really excels is with vegetables. A perfect place to experience this is with a soup. The Cornucopia soup — more of a stew, really — was loaded with veggies (zucchini, red pepper and carrot). It was hearty and earthy, like something your hippie aunt would make. The chunky, veggie-heavy 666 Chili starts off completely vegan (though adding chorizo is an option). It’s also completely delicious, loaded with six vegetables, six kinds of beans and six spices. Here, vegetables shine again. Red pepper, sweet corn, carrots and tomatoes all tasted garden-fresh, tender and not overcooked.

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Dealer’s choice

Mezze adds a little mystery the cocktail mix Mezze, the reboot of Amy’s Cafe, has recently abandoned its regular cocktail menu in favor of offering exclusively “dealer’s choice” drinks. This is the process whereby the customer puts his or her trust in the bartender to craft a bespoke drink to personal specifications. Bar manager Davin Beefer asks wouldbe imbibers a series of questions to arrive at the perfect fit: What base spirit? Sweet, sour, tart or strong? If you should choose, say, “tequila” and “tart,” you might end, as I did, with a play on the margarita. But rather than use the typical triple sec or curacao, Beefer instead shakes the drink with orange peel. The result is a drink redolent of orange oil, with a heady perfume and refreshing flavor. The choices of “whiskey” and “sour” resulted in a very pleasant take on the Gold Rush. Created by T.J. Siegal at the original Milk & Honey location in New York, the drink is bourbon, lemon juice and honey. Simple, but nevertheless a beautiful summery drink with a bit of kick.

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Beefer says switching to dealer’s choice allows him to have more customer interaction, and it’s not as difficult as one might think to create bespoke drinks on the fly: “After the series of questions, I run through a few hundred recipes in my head and tweak one a bit if I have to.”

— ANDRÉ DARLINGTON

Take a load off A good post-Labor Day beer Grant Pauly, brewmaster and owner of 3 Sheeps Brewing, loves his job, despite the occasional hard day at the office. His Paid Time Off, an imperial black wheat ale, is well-suited to remember, and toast, the recent Labor Day weekend and the arrival of cooler weather. Paid Time Off is part of 3 Sheeps’ Nimble Lips Noble Tongue series, “beers we name after things we enjoy,” says Pauly. It’s an imperial version of the brewery’s Baaad Boy Black Wheat, which means it’s bigger, stronger and bolder. Pauly uses Midnight Wheat to give the beer its vidid black color. He infuses it with cocoa nibs, cocoanut and walnuts, which impart sweetness and an earthy chocoalte flavor, with hints of grainy-nuttiness. This is a good beer to enjoy all on its own. Allowing it to slowly warm up and breathe gets rid of some of the carbonation and brings out even more of the sweetness of coconut and the dry earthy nuttiness. Paid Time Off is especially nice for just relaxing in the evening with your feet up. With its bold, robust flavors and alcoholic strength, it might be better suited to the cold nights of winter. Still, it’s a nice nightcap for the cooler days of September. Paid Time Off is strong, at 10% ABV. It’s sold in 22-ounce bomber bottles for around $10. It recently won a Gold Medal at the 2015 US Beer Open Championship in the specialty beer category.

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Oktoberfest stars A six-pack of the best of the brews

The Badger Bash, Madison’s biggest tailgate, returns to Union South for the season — with the UW Marching Band. The event is open to the public. And yes, there will be brats.

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Black Husky Brewing, Pembine

Jodlerkönig is brewed as an ale; but forget the style police — it has that fall personality drinkers look for in an Oktoberfest, with solid caramel-malt flavor, yet balance. At 7.1% ABV, it is at the stronger end of these seasonal brews. The name is a reference to the German tradition of crowning a yodel king in fall festivals.

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This is a great new beer appearing for the first time on local shelves. It’s a straightforward märzen with smooth maltiness accented with Liberty hops for balance. It offers a pleasant caramel sweetness, clean finish, and, at 5.5% ABV, it’s easy drinking.

Sept. 19, 11 am-7 pm

The ever-popular Rib Fest at the East Side Club, 3735 Monona Drive, is traditionally a hot ticket. The house rib dinners are served first from 11 am-1 pm, then there’s a rib contest with judging at 2 pm; a separate ticket buys you samples, with beer, music and more food to follow. Advance tickets and more info at 608-279-1234.

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What to eat this week. Creamy and rich Crema Cafe, 4124 Monona Drive

The Artimelt sandwich, with artichokes, sweet onions, spinach, melted Farmer John’s provolone and mayo on a baguette is cream y, rich and meat-free.

Oaktober Ale Karben4, Madison

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October, the onslaught of Oktoberfests (or märzens) actually began in late July. It’s a seasonal creep that seems to occur earlier every year. “Distributers tell us that the Germans start flooding the market with their märzens in early August, so if you don’t have yours out, you might get lost in the shuffle,” says Wisconsin Brewing’s Kirby Nelson. My 2015 “six-pack” of Oktoberfests stars some returning favorites and a few new entrants into the Madison market.

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Bull Falls Brewery, Wausau

I’m most excited about this Oktoberfest appearing for the first time locally. Brewmaster Mike Zamzow uses traditional German decoction techniques during brewing that involve heating the wort to accentuate the crisp dry maltiness for which Oktoberfests are known. That extra attention to detail, coupled with German hops and Vienna malt, adds authenticity to the flavor. The beer has a smooth caramel maltiness and a medium-bodied softness that stands out among Wisconsin Oktoberfests. It’s really an exceptional version of the style; this is at the top of my Oktoberfest favorites.

Staghorn New Glarus Brewing, New Glarus

Brewmaster Dan Carey makes Staghorn a beer with a rich maltiness, yet it remains balanced and clean. It’s hard to think of fall in Wisconsin — or in Germany — and not consider this seasonal brew among the best of the batch.

Sweet and fruity Indie Coffee, 1225 Regent St.

Spicy and satisfying Green Owl Cafe, 1970 Atwood Ave.

The Cajun blackened tofu sandwich is stuffed with the blackened tofu you have been trying to make at home and haven’t quite managed. The secret might be the lemon marinade — or the chipotle rémoulade. This one’s vegan.

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Oktoberfest Spaten, Munich, Germany

If you’re looking for a German standard for the märzen style, one that’s often mentioned by brewers as a reference beer is Spaten’s. Some will find it lighter in body that its American counterparts; however, it has such smooth maltiness it takes only a sip to understand why this beer is an icon among German festival beers.

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The honey, fig and goat cheese sandwich covers ground from offbeat breakfast to late-night snack. The crowning touch — it’s served on sweetish cinnamon raisin bread.

First offered in 2013, this fall beer may bend the rules of tradition for the style, but it’s a not-to-miss treat. That’s because brewmaster Ryan Koga makes it as an ale, then adds American and French oak chips to the fermenter. There are nice caramel and biscuit tones of malt, with an ending wave of soft sweet vanilla and oak. I picked this as my favorite beer of 2013. Look for it to appear on draught at the brewery and on tap at a select few local tap houses in late September.

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A campus perk The café latte from Java Den is a hidden gem in the heart of UW territory

PHILIP ASHBY

It’s just a teeny alcove in the lobby of the Grand Central apartment building, but don’t be fooled: Java Den brews some of the best coffee on campus. I stopped by the 1022 W. Johnson St. location on the first day of the semester and felt a pang of nostalgia watching students flip through syllabi as I waited in line. This is a magical time, kids. Savor it like you would a good cup of coffee. Speaking of which, I order a café latte — a gateway drug of my college years that opened the door to the beautiful world of coffee culture. At Java Den, the execution is

perfect — rich, velvety high-quality espresso topped with steamed milk and a bit of foam. It’s smooth, balanced and slightly sweet, just the way a latte should be. Java Den gets its beans from Kickapoo Coffee Roasters, a Viroqua-based roaster known for single-origin beans and eco-friendly practices. I think they’re one of the best roasters in the state, but I might be a little biased since I too hail from the Driftless Region. The Espresso Crema, with subtle hints of fruit and chocolate, is perfect with milk or by itself.

— ALLISON GEYER

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Hooked on hurling BY MICHAEL POPKE

Despite its unfortunate name, the sport of hurling boasts a long and storied tradition that a small group of Madison-area athletes are striving to keep alive in the capitol city. This ancient Irish field sport originated in Celtic culture and is thought to predate Christianity. It also happens to be high impact, high intensity and high scoring, as well as exceptionally social and inexpensive. “If you ever played baseball, basketball, soccer, lacrosse, rugby, American football or hockey, you’ve probably developed a skill that is used in hurling,” says Bill Jones, a Madison-based lawyer who began hurling at age 38 and is still going strong at 46 as the oldest active member of the Hurling Club of Madison. “People have probably been practicing for this sport their whole lives and don’t even know it.” But don’t think you can just go out and buy a wooden stick (known as a hurley) and a small cork-and-leather ball (called a sliotar) and become a hurling hero this weekend. First, the equipment isn’t easy to find and often must be imported from Ireland. Second, to the inexperienced spectator, hurling appears to be one of the most difficult and physically demanding sports ever invented.

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The high-scoring, high-intensity game is 3,000 years old and has roots in Ireland.

With a history dating back more than 3,000 years, hurling has been called the world’s fastest field sport on grass and involves two teams of 15 players (13 in the United States), each using a hurley to hit the sliotar between the opponent’s goalposts. Points scored vary depending

on whether the sliotar goes over the crossbar (1 point) or under it into a net guarded by a goalkeeper (3 points). The sliotar can be struck in the air or on the ground, and it can also be caught and carried, but for no more than four steps. A player who

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wants to carry it for more than four steps has to bounce or balance the sliotar on the end of the hurley, and it can only be handled twice while in that particular player’s possession. Players are always male, and they wear helmets but little else in the way of protective gear. Still curious? The Hurling Club of Madison will host the Midwest Hurling Tournament on Sept. 19 at the Wisconsin Rugby Sports Club Complex, 4064 Vilas Road in Cottage Grove. There’s no charge, and free beer, burgers and brats will be available for all participants and fans. Some of the region’s finest hurling teams, including those from Milwaukee and the Twin Cities, will compete, along with others from Chicago; the Fox River Valley; Naperville, Ill.; and possibly Akron, Ohio — tying the record for the greatest number of tournament participants. The Hurling Club of Madison began in 2007 with four members. They included Jones, who met Jason and John Kenney while the brothers were hitting a sliotar with a hurley on the Capital Building’s

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n SPORTS lawn after the 2007 Madison St. Patrick’s Day Parade. A year later, the club hosted the first Midwest Hurling Tournament at Olbrich Park. Today, a long list of club sponsors includes Brocach Irish Pub, the Coopers Tavern, Bristled Boar Saloon & Grill in Middleton, Tullamore Irish Whiskey and Babe’s. Club members pay annual membership dues of $100 and practice Thursday nights at Madison Memorial High School, which is also where the club’s own teams play. The club participates in monthly tournaments and has stretched the sport into the winter months, with early Saturday morning sessions at Middleton’s Keva Sports Center. Over the Labor Day weekend, a team from the Hurling Club of Madison won the North American “Junior C” title at the North American County Board Championships at Chicago Gaelic Park in Oak Forest, Ill. The NACB is the organization that over-

sees the Gaelic Games in the United States. Although hurling remains huge in Ireland — Jones recently visited the country and calls the sport as ubiquitous there as Little League in the United States — it’s still evolving here. The men who play the game, though, can’t seem to stop. “I love the game for a few reasons,” says Heath Moore, 45, a former president of the Hurling Club of Madison. “The physicality would be first. Second would be that it is more serious than a beer league of some sort, with our club competing regionally and nationally. Staying competitive is a great motivator for keeping fit — and it’s certainly more fun than running on a treadmill at the gym.” “This is not a Thursday night softball league,” adds Jones, who’s already been there, done that. “There’s really nothing common about hurling in America. But nearly everybody who tries it is hooked.” n

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Rivalry replay Green Bay to meet Chicago in regular season opener BY MICHAEL POPKE

The Green Bay Packers’ preseason was full of surprises both good (third-string rookie quarterback Brett Hundley threw for 551 yards and six touchdowns in two games) and bad (All-Pro wide receiver Jordy Nelson tore his ACL against Pittsburgh in August and will be out all season). Now with Green Bay’s final 53-man roster set, the team will play its archrival, the Chicago Bears, at Soldier Field in Sunday’s regular season opener. The two teams will be meeting for the 191st time — the latest chapter in an iconic history dating back 94 years to 1921. Collectively, Green Bay and Chicago have won 22 NFL championships and five Super Bowls. Green Bay has the edge in both categories, although Chicago has three more members in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Bears (barely) lead the series, too, 93-91-6. With numbers like those, it’s no surprise there have been many memorable meetings between the teams. For nostalgia’s sake, here are three of them — one from each of the past three decades:

Nov. 5, 1989: Dubbed the “Instant Replay Game,” this thriller at Lambeau Field came down to the final minute, when Green Bay quarterback Don Majkowski was penalized for stepping over the line of scrimmage on a touchdown pass to Sterling Sharpe that would have tied the game at 13. After a delay of several minutes, the call was reversed, and Chris Jacke kicked the extra point for a 14-13 win — the Packers’ first against the Bears in five years. Oct. 31, 1994: The Halloween night temperature at Soldier Field was 44 degrees, winds gusted up to 45 miles per hour, rain was gushing down and the Packers — wearing their yellow-and-white throwback uniforms from the 1960s — dominated, 33-6, in a fun one to watch on TV. Brett Favre, by the way, rushed for a career-high 58 yards. Dec. 22, 2008: Christmas came early for the Bears in the coldest game ever played in Chicago (2 degrees, with a minus-13 wind chill). California boy Aaron Rodgers proved he could play in frigid weather, throwing for 260 yards and two touchdowns. But a blocked Mason Crosby field goal attempt helped give Chicago a 20-17 win. n

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context. I boiled down a multi-month period into about 20 minutes of music. I remembered the key points and key emotions.... I use those memories, those little experiences, to contextualize the whole feeling of the time period. You said you wanted to do a concept album about something relatable and avoid diving into fantasy. Do you have anything against fantastical concept albums? I have absolutely nothing against it. It’s awesome. Using the hero’s quest or classic tropes — those people are summarizing a novel into a concept record and I’m sure have their own meaning and context behind it. But I felt it would be [closer to] what I’ve established in making records [under] my own name to keep it personal and not fantastical. It’s not the craziest or most explosive plot ever, but it kind of holds its own weight. Like a

breakup or a problem with a friend or feeling anxious about something you have to do in the future. Those aren’t the biggest stories in the world, but stringing all those together is a real, relatable life that everyone goes through. Sometimes concept albums get so convoluted that the artist ends up having to tell everyone what it’s about. Mastodon has Rasputin flying through wormholes on a record, and in the end, the band had to explain that it’s actually about something really personal. Yeah, there’s really only one character in mine, and that’s me. It’s maybe an unfortunate story, but it’s not a devastatingly heartbreaking story. It’s a thing that happens, and these things that happen are what normal lives are made out of. n

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to join up with his band. Upon arriving, Stubblefield found that Brown had no fewer than five drummers on board. Brown soon trimmed the drum roster down to mainly just Stubblefield and Jabo Starks, with whom Stubblefield has remained tight ever since. Stubblefield went on to tour with Brown all over the world, including a memorable trip to Vietnam to perform for the troops in 1968. Stubblefield left Brown’s band in 1971 and, after short, not particularly happy, stints in Washington, D.C., and Detroit, settled in Madison, a town with which he quickly fell in love. “I didn’t know nothing about Madison,” he says. “My brother was here from the Air Force, and I stayed with him for a few weeks until I got my own place. I love Madison. It’s a great place, and the people are great here.” Stubblefield’s life partner of 23 years, Jody Hannon, concurs. “He just absolutely

fell in love with Madison. This is where he wants to end up.” Millions of people have heard Stubblefield’s licks millions of times on such James Brown classics as “Cold Sweat,” “Mother Popcorn,” “Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud),” and, of course, “Funky Drummer.” Millions more have heard him play as part of the house band on Michael Feldman’s popular public radio show, Whad’Ya Know? And even more millions have heard Clyde’s distinctive patterns secondhand as samples employed by some of the world’s best-known hip-hop artists and rappers, including Public Enemy, Run DMC, Beastie Boys and many more. In fact, it’s quite possible that Stubblefield is the most sampled musician in history. Unfortunately, he has supplied most of that material involuntarily; royalties have been few and far between. Clyde is featured prominently in the PBS documentary Copyright Criminals, which explores the issue in depth.

Health issues prevent Stubblefield from playing as much as he’d like these days. Kidney disease requires him to undergo dialysis three times a week, which saps a lot of his energy. He survived bladder cancer in 2000. More recently, he burned his thumb on a skillet, and ended up having it amputated after complications, probably related to his dialysis, prevented it from healing. You’d think a missing thumb would be a big problem for a drummer, but Stubblefield has adapted. He fashioned a special drumstick using the thick padding from a maraca handle, and can still play without missing a beat. Through it all — the health problems, the royalty ripoffs and everything else life hurls at him — he remains remarkably upbeat most of the time. “I never expected all the stuff I’ve experienced,” Stubblefield says. “I just play from my soul and heart and feelings, and I love it. Like I say, I’m a very happy man.” n

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Is there anything daunting about bringing her experiences to the stage? “Sure,” says Gee. “There’s nervousness. What if I forget a line? What am I going to do in front of an audience? It’s just me and the spotlight up there.” Gee says she hopes the show attracts a diverse audience, including survivors and partners of survivors, young people and even perpetrators or potential perpetrators: “They need to hear about the effects, the life-long effects that their actions can have. I want them all there.” Proceeds from the performance will benefit Lilada’s Livingroom. “You know, I’m tired of those dry chicken dinner fundraisers,” says Gee with a laugh. “I thought a one-woman show would be a great way to raise some money and raise awareness in the community about this issue.” After the performance there will be an informal reception where representatives from the Dane County Rape Crisis Center and Journey Mental Health Center will offer information and support. Members of the Fountain of Life Family Worship Center will also be on hand. n

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Lilada Gee has dedicated her life to healing and preventing childhood sexual abuse, in part by sharing her own empowering message as a survivor. And now she’s adding a new medium: The dynamic community advocate will present her one-woman show, I Can’t Live Like This Anymore, based on her autobiography of the same name, Sept. 12 in the Overture Center’s Playhouse. Under threat, Gee kept the abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepfather a secret. She struggled in her teen years with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and low self-esteem. When she reached her early 20s, Gee finally began to tell her story in her church, the Fountain of Life Family Worship Center, where her brother, Alex Gee Jr., is currently the minister. She was shocked by the number of women and girls in the congregation who had similar stories. That experience helped her see that speaking publicly could be a powerful and effective way to reach out to other victims. “Being a sexual abuse survivor is like being

on a boat in the middle of the ocean,” she says. “You’re looking for anything to hang on to. And having a shared understanding of darkness makes you a confidante.” After she spoke about her experiences, women and girls began showing up at her house, coming into her living room to talk, to pray and to relay their stories of abuse. In order to reach a wider audience, Gee self-published her autobiography in 2006, the same year she started Lilada’s Livingroom, which provides African American women and girls a culturally sensitive, safe place to heal from sexual abuse. Although writing comes naturally for her, Gee calls it “a painful joy. Very painful and very cathartic. There were times when I had to step away from it.” She describes her writing process as “a conscious decision to be completely exposed. It [feels] like walking down the street naked.” Her stage performance, which she also directs, “is a whole new way of communicating,” she says. “I embrace communication in all forms — that’s a gift I have. This is my story. Don’t give power to fear, give power to confidence.”

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Filming a changing city Siblings set out to document Madison’s difficult conversations on race BY JAY RATH

An upcoming documentary on racism in Madison began as a breakfast conversation between a brother and sister back in 2013. Jonathon Leslie-Quam, a Dallas-based filmmaker, was discussing Madison with his sister Jamie Quam, a Madisonian (the siblings are Sauk City natives). “I was longing for the days of when I lived in Madison, and that city as I remembered it,” says LeslieQuam. “She kind of jumped in and started running down the list of, ‘Here’s what’s really happening. Here’s what you’re not seeing. Here’s what you’re not reading. You have a skewed view.’” Quam shared some provocative material on racial disparities in Madison. It included “Race to Equity,” a report issued in October 2013 by the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families. She also gave her brother a then-recent article from The Capital Times by the Rev. Alex Gee, headlined “Justified Anger.” The two set out to document the work groups are doing to address the issues brought to light in the report. They share directing and producing duties and have titled their film Forward: Anger Into Action. “The main focus for us is this broad view of Madison during this time of crisis,” says Leslie-Quam. They began work on the film in January 2014, well before the controversial shooting of 19-year-old Anthony Terrell (Tony) Robinson by Madison police officer Matt Kenny on March 6 of this year, which sparked national news coverage and ongoing protest. “We started to talk about what was going on here in the community and what type of skills that we had and ways that we could contribute to providing support for the social justice work going on here in the community,” says Quam. “And we kind of ran with it,” adds Leslie-Quam. “We did want to see Madison become a better city, the city that I remembered. I wanted it to become the city that I had in my head, and Jamie did as well.

Directors Jonathon Leslie-Quam and Jamie Quam want to show how grassroots action leads to policy changes.

Quam moved to Madison in 2008, graduating from the UW in 2012 with bachelor’s degrees in political science and life sciences communication. She recently left Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, a Dane County nonprofit that serves domestic violence survivors, to begin work on a master’s in public health at Johns Hopkins University. Leslie-Quam is a professor of documentary filmmaking at Midwestern State University, near Dallas. He’s worked on documentaries including Blood Brothers, which he wrote and directed, and which has been featured at the Wisconsin Film Festival. He attended UW-Stevens Point and lived in Madison from 2007 to 2009. He received a master’s degree in documentary production from the University of North Texas in 2012. Quam and Leslie-Quam are white, as are two others on their film crew; one other is biracial. Content producer Sheba McCants is a Madison native. She has a 2006 degree in visual and performing arts from New York University and

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Sometimes we just want a nice getaway at the lake. And sometimes what we get instead is a shattering, claustrophobic chamber drama. That’s the lesson of Queen of Earth, which stars Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) as Catherine, an emotionally fragile woman who’s reeling from a recent breakup and the death of her father, a successful art-

ist whose affairs she looked after. She retreats to the family lake house of her friend Virginia (Katherine Waterston), but the visit proves disastrous. Relations between the women are tense, not least because Virginia starts getting cozy with a young man (Patrick Fugit) who’s staying at a house nearby. Queen of Earth was written and directed by Alex Ross Perry, and the film reunites him with Moss, who costarred in his previous film, Listen

also works at DAIS. Joe Brown, co-producer and director of photography, teaches filmmaking at Marquette University. Chance Cork, production coordinator, is a student at Madison College. Area organizations that will be featured in the film include the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development, Race to Equity, Voices Beyond Bars and the YWCA of Madison. Leslie-Quam says the mostly white production team has been welcomed by these groups, and that the filmmakers’ roles extend beyond mere observation. “On a couple of occasions [the groups] have allowed us to actually just participate with the organization — put the cameras down and sit down, and help develop a stronger understanding of what this work is, and what goes into the development of the individuals who are going out and doing the work in the schools, marching on the street, building up new coalitions.” Ananda Mirilli, YWCA restorative justice director, says she is impressed with the film-

makers. “I think they’re amazing,” says the former school board candidate, who also appears in the documentary. “Jonathon did an amazing job on understanding where I was coming from as a person.” Fundraising efforts for the film production continue. The team estimates a total budget of $35,000, with lots of additional “in-kind” contributions in the form of volunteer hours. A crowdfunding campaign netted $1,800 earlier this summer, and they’ve received a grant of $1,500 from the Madison Arts Commission. The filmmakers expect production to total three years, with completion scheduled for May 2017. “We don’t expect to see a 180-degree turn on the disparities over the course of three years,” says Leslie-Quam. “The idea is to show how to meet disparities [by] taking ground action, and how that grassroots action makes its way toward policy changes.” n

Moss plays a woman reeling from a breakup and her father’s death.

Up Philip. That was an enjoyable if troubling comedy of manners about insufferable intellectuals, in the Woody Allen or Noah Baumbach mode. There are many fewer laughs in Queen of Earth, a spiky psychological thriller whose elliptical dialogue and jagged chronology are unsettling. Moss is triumphantly good as Catherine, especially in a chaotic party scene where she seemingly tips over into madness. n

The film list New releases Un gallo con muchos huevos: An undersized, timid young chicken must save his family from an evil rancher. The first Mexican CGI-animated feature to receive a wide U.S. release, it’s every bit as goofy-smart as one would hope. The Perfect Guy: Thriller in which a woman’s rebound relationship may be too good to be true. The Prophet: Animated adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s book of prose poetry essays. The Visit: Things go wrong after a visit to Grandma’s house, in writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s latest.

Recent releases Meru: Climbers attempt to scale a legendary Himalayan mountain. You know a documentary is working when you see its subjects talking about events that have already happened, yet you’re still anxiously wondering if they’ll make it out alive. Phoenix: A World War II concentration camp survivor — unrecognizable after facial surgery — searches for her husband, who may have given her up to the Nazis. Shattering and intimate, it examines the aftermath of one of history’s most hideous crimes. The Transporter Refueled: In this crass Jason Statham-less reboot, Frank Martin is the getaway driver for a quartet of hookers who are robbing their Eastern European gangster boss. A Walk in the Woods: Robert Redford and Nick Nolte employ their respective personas as stoic outdoorsman and grizzled troublemaker to charming effect in this book adaptation about an attempt to hike the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.

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Remorques: Jean Gabin stars as a tugboat captain who becomes entangled with a woman after a rescue at sea. Cinematheque, Sept. 12, 7 pm.

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The Thurston Moore Band Friday, Sept. 11, High Noon Saloon, 9 pm Even though Sonic Youth is no longer with us, its former members have remained active, and perhaps none more so than the legendary guitarist Thurston Moore. Since the group’s 2011 split, Moore has released two albums, the most recent being 2014’s The Best Day, a collection of noisy guitar jams that more than fills the void left by Sonic Youth. With Mikal Cronin (see page 28).

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UW Volleyball: Badger Classic Invitational: Georgetown vs. Kent State 4 pm and UW vs. Georgia 7 pm, 9/10; Georgia vs. Georgetown 2 pm and UW vs. Kent State 7 pm, 9/11, Field House. 262-1440.

Hailing from Milwaukee and Minneapolis, respectively, two of the Midwest’s best headline this free concert. Field Report’s Chris Porterfield has received national acclaim for his lyrically dense, musically bare-bones brand of folk. The sonically diverse Solid Gold hasn’t released an album since 2012’s Eat Your Young, but the electro-pop band’s live show is one of the Twin Cities’ most well-oiled. With Anna Vogelzang, Simon Balto.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Madpolecats, free, 9 pm. Essen Haus: WheelHouse, free, 9 pm. High Noon Saloon: Winn Dixie, free, 6 pm.

Thursday, Sept. 10, Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall, 8 pm

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Taras Nahirniak, dueling pianos, 9 pm.

What do you get when two of the biggest names in banjo team up? Well, in the case of this powerhouse pickin’ couple, you get a successful marriage, a 2-year-old baby boy and an inspired album of duets that features Fleck’s out-ofthe-box flair while accentuating Washburn’s traditional clawhammer style and lovely vocals.

Liquid (formerly Segredo): Black Tiger Sex Machine, Dub Borski, Zero Gravity, Get Wrekd, 9 pm. Majestic Theatre: Granger Smith/Earl Dibbles Jr., Morgan Evans, country, 8:30 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, free, 5:30 pm. Natt Spil: DJ Jamie Stanek, free, 10 pm.

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LECTURES & SEM INARS Sustainable Future: Designing Buildings to Harness Energy: UW Global Health Institute lecture by architect Mark Krawczynski, Room 1345, 6 pm, 9/10, UW Health Sciences Learning Center. 265-9299.

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Proud Parents and DJ Evan Woodward. Whether you’re in the mood for synth pop, garage rock, funk, surf rock, dance or “horror electronics” music, this show has something for you.

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ProbCause Thursday, Sept. 10, The Frequency, 9 pm

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High Five Til It Hurts! is the name of this likeable comedian and classically trained pianist’s 2013 release, and it also describes the feeling you get from watching his witty, feel-good musical standup. Not only is his relaxed act fun to watch, but it’s also scored him everything from late-night gigs to roles in TBS’s Sullivan & Son and Spike’s reality series Bar Rescue. With Shane Copland, David Fisher. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), Sept. 11-12.

Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest Friday, Sept. 11, Art in the Barn (5927 Adams Rd., Fitchburg), 7 pm

Snake on the Lake Friday, Sept. 11, Union South’s The Sett, 6 pm

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The gypsy swing sound pioneered by Django Reinhardt in the 1930s is celebrated at this annual festival. The lineup includes Harmonious Wail, Ameranouche (pictured), Hot Club of Philadelphia and more. ALSO: Saturday, Sept. 12, 2 pm.

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Chief’s Tavern: Shari Davis & the Hot Damn Blues Band, 8 pm. Claddagh, Middleton: Michael Alexander, free, 8 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Ron Denson, 9 pm.

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Great Dane-Hilldale: DJ Audiomaxx, free, 9 pm. High Noon Saloon: Thurston Moore Band, Mikal Cronin, Cairo Gang, rock, 9 pm. Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Josh Dupont, Eben Seaman, dueling pianos, 8 pm. Knuckle Down Saloon: Pops Fletcher & the Hucksters, 9 pm. Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Hanson Family Jazz Band, 6 pm. Locker Room Sports Bar: Ghostbuskers, free, 9 pm. Merchant: DJ Nick Nice, free, 10:30 pm. Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse: Stephanie Rearick, Andrew Mazur, 8 pm.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Middleton: Johnny Widdicombe & Cliff Frederiksen, jazz, 6 pm.

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Mr. Robert’s: Ray-Guns, free, 10 pm.

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Essen Haus: Steve Meisner, polka, free, 8:30 pm.

This mostly instrumental electronic duo have been creating psychedelic and dreamy beat-driven tunes since 2004, when they dropped their self-titled debut release to glowing reviews. The Brooklynbased pair’s new fifth album, Magnifique, continues in the same vein by blending everything from disco-flavored rhythms to spaghetti western steel guitars into a rainbow of sound. With Hot Sugar.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse, Verona: Madison Songwriters’ Guild Showcase with Nancy Rost, Jim Barnard, John Duggleby, plus open mic, free, 7:30 pm. Wisconsin Brewing Company, Verona: Scream N Gene, free, 6 pm.

T H EAT ER & DA N C E The Boy Friend: Sandy Wilson’s send-up of Roaring ‘20s musicals, 9/11-26, Bartell Theatre, at 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays (2 pm on 9/26) and 2 pm, 9/20. $20. 661-9696.

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Friday, Sept. 11, Overture Center’s James Watrous Gallery, 5:30-7:30 pm (reception)

Using sculpture, printmaking, texts and photographs, these three artists present an organic, visceral approach to Wisconsin’s historic, commercial and aesthetic relationship to its forests and wood. The beauty of wood in its most simple forms can emerge here like abstract imagery, or natural objects rooted deeply in an ancient collective memory. The impact of clearcutting and modern sustainable forestry practices are considered in this meditation on our state’s primal legacy. Exhibited through Oct. 26.

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n ISTHMUS PICKS : SEPT 11 - 12 Artisan Gallery: Paintings by Gregory Schulte; ceramics invitational; and Memory Cloth Circle, 9/11-11/1, Paoli (reception 5-9 pm, 9/11). 845-6600.

30 on the Square: PoohG, Sincere Life, Worthless Righteous, LIFE, Baby Flame, Cory Park, Dude’Da Deffinition, free Top of State/UCAN concert, 5 pm.

Katie Gamb: Illustrations, through 9/30, Hatch Art House (reception 6-9 pm, 9/11). 237-2775.

Alchemy Cafe: No Name String Band, free, 10 pm.

Poonam Rao: Paintings, 9/11-29, UW Health Sciences Learning Center-1st Floor Atrium. 263-5992.

Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: Brett Newski, 8:30 pm.

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Claddagh, Middleton: Shekinah King, free, 8 pm.

Sandy Stark, Sarah Sadie: Poetry reading, 7 pm, 9/11, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Razor’s Edge, free, 9 pm. Grace Episcopal Church: The Dang-Its, free, noon.

Madison Storytellers: Listen to or share stories heard from others, 7 pm, 9/11, Old Sugar Distillery. www.facebook.com/madstorytellers.

Harmony Bar: Electric Spanking, 9:45 pm.

SP ECIAL EV ENTS Night Light: Music by Clocks in Motion, art exhibit openings featuring TetraPAKMAN & Carli Ihde, refreshments, 8-11 pm, 9/11, Central Library. 266-6300.

FAIRS & F ESTIVALS Quilt Expo: Annual Wisconsin Public Television event, 9 am-6 pm on 9/10-11 and 9 am-5 pm, 9/12, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall. $9/day ($17 weekend). wiquiltexpo.com. 866-297-6545.

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Hody Bar, Middleton: Wild Heart, country, 9 pm. Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Eben Seaman, Leslie Cao, dueling pianos, 8 pm. Knuckle Down Saloon: Cash Box Kings, 9 pm. Lazy Oaf Lounge: Honeyshot, rock/pop, free, 10 pm. Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Stan Godfriaux & Laurie Lang, jazz, free, 6:30 pm. Merchant: DJ Bruce Blaq, free, 10:30 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Seven Seasons Deep, Cold Black River, free, 10 pm. Natt Spil: DJs MindTwerk, Chaz, free, 10 pm. Sprecher’s: Devil’s Fen, rock/funk/reggae, 7:30 pm. Tempest: Lesser Lakes Trio, jazz, free, 9:30 pm. Tofflers, New Glarus: Birddog Blues Band, free, 8 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Nite Fire, 9 pm.

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I Can’t Live Like This Anymore! Saturday, Sept. 12, Overture Center’s Playhouse, 7 pm

The White Buffalo Saturday, Sept. 12, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm

Unlike the Lakota legend this Americana act is named after, the White Buffalo and its music has been popping up everywhere lately. Aside from sharing stages with artists like Jack Johnson, Ziggy Marley and Grace Potter, the band was named as an “artist to watch” by NPR in 2012 and performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in late 2014. With Christopher Gold & the New Old Things.

Lilada Gee makes her dramatic stage debut in this one-woman show that aims to challenge your perceptions of black women in America. See page 29. Majestique: Burlesque/vaudeville/circus arts, 9 pm, 9/12, Majestic Theatre. $10. 255-0901.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Best of HUMP!: Highlights from annual homemade, sex-positive film fest curated by Dan Savage, 7:30 & 10 pm, 9/12, Barrymore. $20 ($18 adv.). 241-8633. Thirsty Troll Brew Fest: Tastings of local microbrewery offerings, 1-5 pm, 9/12, Grundahl Park, Mount Horeb, with music by The Feralcats, Jim Curley, food. $50 ($40 adv.; $10 designated driver). trollway.com. The Dilly Dally: Sample local brewers/distillers, 3-6 pm, 9/12, Karben4 Brewing lawn, with music by Oak Street Ramblers, food. $35. dillydallymadison.com. 241-4811. Good Food Garden Party: Community GroundWorks benefit dinner with locally-sourced dishes, 4:30 pm, 9/12, Troy Gardens, plus craft brews. $125. RSVP: communitygroundworks.org. 240-0409.

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Providence surf punks GYMSHORTS make searing, rip-your-face-off rock. Seattle’s Scott Yoder plays stripped-down country folk and was previously the lead songwriter in garage heroes the Pharmacy. With locals Proud Parents, a heavy, upbeat pop band with driving melodies, and Tarpaulin, a new Madison outfit making sparse, emotionally driven indie rock.

The Weary Artist: 12 artists, kids’ activities & more, 6-10 pm, 9/12, Art In Gallery; art also on display 11 am-4 pm, 9/13. Proceeds benefit Boys & Girls Club of Dane County. pb.supercherie@gmail.com. Art in the Garden: 9 am-3 pm, 9/12, America’s Best Flowers, Cottage Grove. Free admission. 222-2269. 14 South Artists Fall Studio Tour: 10 am-4 pm, 9/1213, at locations in Belleville, Brooklyn, Fitchburg, Oregon, Stoughton & Verona. Free. 14southartists.com.

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Waisman Center Children’s Theater: Experiments & fun with Mad Science, 1 pm, 9/13, 1500 Highland Ave. $2 ($1 kids). 263-5837.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: The Feralcats, 6 pm.

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Oktoberfest: Annual outdoor event, noon-8 pm, 9/12, Essen Haus, with music by Zweifel Brothers noon, Dorf Kapelle 4 pm, Art on the Side show, kids’ activities, games, traditional food; Steve Meisner inside at 8:30 pm. Free admission. 255-4674.

KI D S & FAM ILY Trucks & Treasures: Madison Parks event, 9 amnoon, 9/12, Warner Park, with kids to kids garage sale, “Big Rig Gig” display of city vehicles. 266-4711.

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MisterWives Monday, Sept. 14, Majestic Theatre, 7 pm

Get familiar with this rising NYC-based indie pop band ahead of their upcoming Freakfest appearance. Free with online registration. With CRUISR. The Frequency: Bonehart Flannigan, Oedipus Tex, Old Soul Society, rock, 7 pm.

sun sept 13

Pundamonium: 7 pm, 9/14, High Noon Saloon. $6. 268-1122.

Cargo Coffee-E. Washington: Jamie Guiscafre, guitar, free, 2 pm. The Frequency: The Crew of the Half Moon, Elks Teeth and Rabbits Feet, Honor Monsters, 8 pm. Harmony Bar: Cajun Strangers, 7 pm. High Noon Saloon: The Civil Engineers, Ian & the Dream, Karen Wheelock, 8 pm. Wil-Mar Center: Highland Soles Trio, Scottish/Cape Breton music/dance concert, 3 pm (also, stepdance lesson 2 pm, open dancing 4:15 pm).

FAI RS & F ESTIVALS Viva Mexico Festival: Noon 9/13, Alliant Energy Center, with music, folkdance, contests, exhibits & more; meet 10 am, Villager Mall, for car caravan to fest. Free admission. lamovidaradio.com. 441-3768.

Malt House: The Kissers, Irish, free, 7:30 pm. Up North Pub: Gin Mill Hollow, free, 8 pm.

SP OKEN WORD SP ECIAL EV ENTS John Tuschen Poet Laureate Memorial Fund Benefit: Music, poetry & more, 4:30-10 pm, 9/14, Cardinal Bar, with Stephanie Rearick, Cat Capellaro and Andrew Rohn, Paul Soglin, Angela McJunkin, Tony Castaneda, Lynnette Margulies & many others. Donations. 257-2473.

ARTS NOTICES The Kitchen Krewe: Taping of WYOU show, 5 pm, 9/14, Meadowridge Library. Free. Tickets: thekitchenkrewe. brownpapertickets.com.

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Capital K9s Dog Paddle: Annual Madison Police Department canine unit benefit, 10 am-4 pm, 9/13, Goodman Pool, with dog contests, prizes. $25/dog ($20 adv.). RSVP: www.capitalk9s.org. 514-1618.

ART E XHIBITS & EV ENTS Nikki Mokrzycki: Watercolors, 9/1-30, Mother Fool’s (reception 5:30 pm, 9/13). 259-1301. Jordan Peschek: “The Art of it All,” acrylic & marker, 9/1-12/31, Steep & Brew State St. (reception 5-7 pm, 9/13). 256-2902.

Newsies Tuesday, Sept. 15, Overture Hall, 7:30 pm

Known to many as “the Christian Bale paperboy musical,” Disney’s Newsies has since become a Broadway smash, racking up critical praise as well as a few Tony Awards. The show’s national tour will enjoy a six-day run as part of the “Broadway at Overture” series. Open the gates, seize the day and get your tickets while they’re still available. ALSO: Wednesday and Thursday (7:30 pm), Friday (8 pm), Saturday (2 & 8 pm) and Sunday (1 & 6:30 pm), Sept. 16-20.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS The Art of Printmaking: Creations from Tandem Press & Jean Dibble, 9/15-12/31, BioPharmaceutical Technology Center-Promega Gallery (reception 4:30-6:30 pm, 9/15, with music by Jan Wheaton). 274-4330.

DA N C I N G FOOT-Loose: Friends of Olin-Turville open dance with Madison Tango Society, 6-8 pm, 9/15, Olin Park Pavilion. Free. 239-4299.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin Luncheon: 10th annual event, 11:30 am-1 pm, 9/15, Monona Terrace. $100 donation. RSVP: endabusewi.org. 237-3448.

S PECI AL EV ENTS Ironman: Triathlon, 7 am, 9/13, starting with with swim (by Monona Terrace), bikes returning to Monona Terrace (leaders approx. noon) & run finish on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (approx. 3:30 pm). Also: Race expo 9/10-14, Monona Terrace; IronKids fun run 9 am, 9/12, MLK Jr. Blvd. (registration 7:30 am, $15); awards ceremony 9:30 am, 9/14, Monona Terrace. ironmanwisconsin.com.

Malt House: Onadare, Irish, free, 7:30 pm.

Up North Pub: The Lower Fifth, free, 8 pm.

Heritage Tavern: Gerri DiMaggio, jazz, free, 5 pm.

Brocach-Square: The Currach, Irish, free, 5 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Driveway Thriftdwellers, Kyle Rightley, 6 pm; Rock Star Gomeroke, 9 pm.

Oregon Library: Jeff Pockat, Gaelic harp, 6:30 pm.

Puppet Fest: Drop-in for large-scale puppet construction & performances by Puppet Farm Arts, 11 am-4 pm, 9/12-13, Madison Children’s Museum; annual Kids for Peace concert by Suzuki Strings 1 pm, 9/12. Free with $8 admission. 256-6445.

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Natt Spil: DJ Vaughn Marques, free, 10 pm.

Fall Family Festival: Free events, 9/12-13, Edgewater plaza, with kids activities 10 am-2 pm daily, Badgers football post-game tailgate 3 pm Saturday, “Big Hero 6” screening 8 pm Saturday. 256-9071.

Yahara Riverfest: All-ages activities, 1-7 pm, 9/12, Conservancy Commons Park, DeForest, with 5K run 1 pm (registration noon, $20), outdoor activities, music, wine walk. yaharariverfest.com.

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SZA Tuesday, Sept. 15, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

As one of the few members of the influential Top Dawg Entertainment, SZA seems primed for greatness — it is, after all, the label that spawned Kendrick Lamar. But the Jersey-bred singer isn’t riding anyone’s coattails. She has a unique sound that, though it’s most often categorized as “PBR&B,” also incorporates elements of jazz, chillwave and neo-soul. With Lizzo, Povi.

Academy Evenings: “’It’s All About the Pinery Boys:’ Historic Sounds From Northwoods Lumber Camps,” talk James Leary, 7 pm, 9/15, Wisconsin Historical Museum. RSVP: wisconsinacademy.org. 263-1692.

PUB L I C MEET I N GS UW Campus Master Plan: Open house discussing “Analysis Observations & Framework Planning,” 7-9 pm, 9/15, Health Sciences Learning CenterRoom 1325; 7-9 pm, 9/16, Gordon Dining & Event Center-Sonata Room. masterplan.wisc.edu.

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The Wisconsin Room Fundraiser Show Wednesday, Sept. 16, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

The International Folk Alliance Conference gathers more than 2,500 music-minded individuals annually in Kansas City to showcase music, network with peers and learn from the best. This fundraiser to help pay for a showcase room for Wisconsin talent at this year’s conference features performances by Josh Harty, Anna Vogelzang, Myles Coyne and others.

Yonatan Gat Thursday, Sept. 17, The Frequency, 9 pm

Former Monotonix member Yonatan Gat is a world-class guitarist and improviser who references an array of western and non-western genres in his psychedelic whirlwind-like pieces. Shredding without getting too showy or indulgently jammy, Gat hovers somewhere between blues and math-rock, maintaining a singular guitar tone while expressively creating and destroying complex rhythms and riffs. With Lover’s Spit, Minotaurs. Alchemy Cafe: Double Dubbs, free, 10 pm.

30 on the Square: The Sharrows, rock, free, 5 pm.

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Club Tavern, Middleton: Pat McCurdy, free, 9 pm.

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Crescendo Espresso Bar: Laura Joy, Dana Perry, 7 pm.

The Frequency: The Bergamot, Karen Wheelock, Werewolverine, folk rock, 8:30 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Beat Road Blues, free, 8 pm.

Heritage Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, free, 8:30 pm. Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm.

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Tofflers, New Glarus: The Jimmys, blues, free, 8 pm. UW Extension Pyle Center: That Sax Guy, free, 4 pm.

Carly Aquilino + Jenny Zigrino Wednesday, Sept. 16, Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall, 8 pm

On MTV’s Girl Code, Carly Aquilino (pictured) became an unwitting voice of modern feminism, showing the world that yes, women are in on the jokes they know you’re making, and they can make jokes about you, too. She’ll bring her razor-sharp observational wit here with fellow comic Jenny Zigrino in tow, a woman who describes herself as having “the sweetness of the Midwest and the iron balls of the East Coast.”

T H EAT ER & DA N C E University Theatre: “Fugitive Songs”: An exploration of life choices and transitions, 9/17-27, UW Vilas Hall-Mitchell Theatre, at 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Sundays. $23. 265-2787.

CO MEDY Sean Patton, Zack Martina, Greg Berman: 8:30 pm on 9/17 and 8 & 10:30 pm, 9/18-19, Comedy Club on State. $15-$10. 256-0099.

B O O KS Kathleen Ernst: Discussing “A Settler’s Year: Pioneer Life through the Seasons,” her new nonfiction book, 7 pm, 9/17, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

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Volunteer with UNITED WAY Volunteer Center Call 246-4380 or visit volunteeryourtime.org to learn about opportunities The AmeriCorps Achievement Connections program is seeking service-oriented people to serve in school-based tutoring centers dedicated to supporting 9th grade students in mathematics. With the right support, all students can succeed. You can be that support! MTILP needs volunteers to accompany our clients and staff on short trips in the Madison area. Common trips are: Music events, Badger Bowl, parks, stores, Humane Society, Monona Terrace, Olbrich Gardens, and Henry Vilas Zoo. Volunteers will need to be able to volunteer for 1-2 hours and push a client in a wheelchair during the community outing. Colonial Club Senior Activity Center in Sun Prairie is in need of a volunteer with computer skills that could spend a couple of hours per week in our computer lab providing assistance to older adults to answer their basic computer questions. Day and time are flexible. University of Wisconsin – Madison, Research Specialist This position is responsible for research functions related to the Transgenic Animal Facility (TAF) whose mission is to provide various genetic engineering technologies and related support to University of Wisconsin-Madison investigators. Experience in animal husbandry, rodent colony management, Microsoft Word and Excel is required. Minimum BS in Biology, Animal Sciences, Zoology, or related areas of biological sciences. View full position description and how to apply: http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/WebListing/ Unclassified/PVLSummaryPrint.aspx?pvl_ num=83882

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I’m a good-looking, fit, younger guy living in Southern California. I’m getting older, though, and have never been in love or had any kind of serious relationship. I’m straight, but in the past five years I discovered that sexuality is gray, not black or white. I learned this when I accidentally dove into the world of trans. I go on Craigslist and other sites and find local trans girls to engage with in sexual activity. It’s hard to describe why I’m into it, but I just am — maybe it satisfies a sexual side of me that women don’t? Regardless, I’ve felt like this is an issue getting in the way of my quest to find a great woman and start a family, which I’d like to do in the next few years. I’m caught between thinking my sexual addiction is hindering my advancement toward a family life and enjoying the rush and sexual gratitude I’m inundated with when I meet up with trans girls. Is it something I definitely need to put an end to, or has it become a part of me that I can’t deny and hide? Rocks And Hard Places Trans women are women, RAHP, and some of them are great. (And some of them,

like some of everybody, are not so great.) You could date a trans woman, you could marry a trans woman, and you could have kids with a trans woman (through adoption or surrogacy). The only thing that stands between you and being with the kind of person you’re most attracted to (a trans woman) and having the other stuff you want out of life (marriage, kids, family life) is you. I’m a straight man, age 33. I was in a mutually unsatisfying relationship with a woman in my 20s. I told her not long after we got together that I didn’t want to eat her pussy because I didn’t like her smell. I’d eaten other vulvas before and loved them. She wasn’t a week-between-showers kind of woman, and she was rightly hurt. Years later, I started listening to you and got religion. (And since she didn’t want to hear from me, I made my apologies by treating the women I date now better.) Since then, I’ve loved the smell of every woman’s pussy I’ve been fortunate enough to stick my nose in. But the question haunts me: How could I have handled that situation instead? How would I handle it again? What’s a sexpositive way to tell a pussy-having person their smell turns you off? As someone who feels imbalanced in a sexual relationship if I’m not eating my partner’s pussy, should I just

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quietly end things and say nothing? Seems like there’s a middle way. I first thought of your advice for smelly dicks — tell him to take a shower — but for Americans, the smell of a vulva is tied up as much in hygiene as misogyny. I’m not sure how to approach this. Wondering How I Fill Females In Now Graciously Telling someone with a pussy that their genitals smell funky is more complicated and fraught, as you’re already aware, than telling the same thing to someone with a dick. The culture has been telling women — and, yes,

that tiny percentage of men who have pussies — that their genitals are unclean and stinky since basically forever. But there are legitimate medical issues that can make someone’s junk smell funky (and just not pussy-style junk), WHIFFING, and sometimes we need the people who can actually get their noses into our crotches to give us a heads-up. A bad vaginal odor can be a sign of bacterial vaginosis or even cancer. Here’s how you approach it: You ask yourself if you’re the problem — think they smell bad? You’re the problem — and then you ask yourself if sexual chemistry is the problem. (Don’t like this person’s particular smell and taste? Keep your mouth shut about their smell and taste and end the relationship.) If you think it might actually be a medical issue, you say something like this: “Please don’t take this the wrong way, but your vagina and labia smell funky. That’s not an easy thing to hear, I know, and it’s not an easy thing to say. I know the misogynistic zap the culture puts on women’s heads about this — but I’m worried that it might be a medical issue, and I’d rather risk your anger than your health.” n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net and find him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

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