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Bogged down in cranberry country.
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THE BIGGER, THE BETTER DNR woos factory farms.
11 OPINION
STICK A FORK IN HIM? Scott Walker’s not done yet.
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COVER STORY MARC EISEN has been a freelance writer and editor since 2008, when he wrapped up a twodecade-long tenure as editor of Isthmus. Lately he has been laser-focused on chronicling the rise of Dane County’s 21stcentury economy. A practitioner of explanatory journalism, he interviews scores of people before penning meaty investigations that tell a lively story, provide context and have a distinct point of view, but include contrary voices. His cover story this week is on the commercialization of research at UW-Madison.
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CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER
MMoCA exhibit is a trip down the rabbit hole.
21-26 FOOD & DRINK
FRENCH CONNECTION
Le Petit Croissant brings Paris to strip mall.
MIXOLOGY
Bittercube expands to include elixirs, syrups.
29-30 SPORTS & RECREATION
INTO THE WILD
Six fall getaways that are close to home.
OFF THE SQUARE
JON LYONS AND ALAN TALAGA met as freshmen at UWMadison on the eighth floor of Chadbourne Residential College. They later founded a
Affordable housing
Theatre LILA explores our garbage culture.
FULL DISCLOSURE
Deconstructing the Brits’ new album.
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RECREATION A LIFELONG WRITER, Marcelle Richards also practices shamanic healing, which she says has inspired her creative process and relationship with nature. This week she takes readers along on some of her favorite nearby forays into nature.
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Number of cranberries it takes to make a gallon of juice: 4,500 How the fruit got its name: SANDHILL CRANES LOVE ’EM, SO THEY WERE CALLED CRANEBERRIES Year the cranberry was named Wisconsin’s official fruit: 2004 Dental tip: CRANBERRIES HELP RETARD DENTAL PLAQUE, A LEADING CAUSE OF GUM DISEASE How do you tell a good cranberry: IT BOUNCES
How about those cranberries? STORY AND PHOTO BY BILL LUEDERS
that controls much of the market, keeps prices depressed by deliberate overproduction. Our visit began with a tour of cranberry bogs. Our excellent volunteer guide, Warrens resident Jeff Butzer, passed around cranberries cut in half, so we could see that they have four air pockets, “which is why they float.” Contrary to popular belief, cranberries don’t grow underwater, but the bogs are flooded to make them easier to harvest. Cranberry juice, Butzer notes, is not artificially colored, so makers get color samples to ensure consistency. We stopped to inspect one of the bogs. A farmer explained how sand is applied every few years to promote new growth. This same sand is now in demand for frac sand mining, for which Wisconsin also leads the nation. Then it was off to the festival, where we had about four hours to wander. My first stop was a tent filled with such cranberry-related merchandise as bike lights, scouring pads, choke collars for dogs, tennis balls, bungee cords and socks. There were acres of such tents, including one called “Spatula City,” block after block of
arts and crafts, and at least a mile of food vendors, selling everything from cranberry maple syrup to “gourmet flax” to deep-fried Oreos. One food vendor with long lines had banners proclaiming “Sex olives.” These, it turned out, were ordinary olives with the word “sex” attached. “Oh, sex olives,” one passersby announced, knowingly, as she joined the lines. In one tent, former Green Bay Packers great Jerry Kramer was signing autographs. Another advertised its services with a sign revealing the “most likely cause” of health problems ranging from asthma to cancer: “Your home electrical wiring.” Now I know. Ducking for relief onto a vendor-less street, I heard a woman explaining her plans to leave later that day, the festival’s first. “One day’s enough,” she told her companion, adding, “It takes three days to see it all.” I made my way to the Cranberry Discovery Center, where I discovered...more things to buy: a whole floor of them. But there was also a basement museum full of old cranberry crates, packaging and harvesting equipment.
A video said cranberries create 7,200 jobs and contribute $350 million a year to the state economy. I’m not sure if this includes the sex olives. Of course I bought stuff, including bungee cords and socks. My fellow travelers bought things too. (About halfway back to Madison, I realized that the people I thought were sitting on the seat behind me, who weren’t there during the ride in, were giant bags.) After seeing everything I cared to see, I looked at my watch. It was noon. There were three hours left. I set out to get a photo for this story. I snapped the Bible church with a huge ATM banner. I climbed a twostory inflatable kids’ slide for a crowd shot. But what did these have to do with tiny, red, tart fruit? And then I saw it: an orange balloon above the vendor information booth, set against the sky. Something about it said cranberry, at least to me. n
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The bus pulled out of Warner Park a few minutes before 7 a.m., the scheduled departure time. Our destination was two hours away, and, with so much to do there, to tarry would be tragic. We were off to the annual Warrens Cranberry Festival, 110 miles northwest of Madison. It was the first of five fall day trips offered by Madison School & Community Recreation. (Yet to come are jaunts to historical neighborhoods in Milwaukee, bluffs in La Crosse, casinos in Iowa and stores in Chicago.) Founded in 1972, this three-day celebration of the tiny, red, tart fruit annually draws 100,000 people to a village of less than 400. Wisconsin leads the nation in cranberry production, accounting for about two-thirds of those consumed in the U.S. About 250 cranberry farms in 20 Wisconsin counties produce some 5 million barrels of cranberries a year, to meet the demand for cranberry juice and craisins. But some farmers allege that Ocean Spray, a cooperative
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Would you like retail with your beer and fries? Bars and eateries crowd out stores on State Street, studies confirm BY JAY RATH
Now that State Street’s french fry war is over, who won? Was the mayor’s battle with the Common Council justified? Have we turned our most famous thoroughfare into a restaurant district? And if so, is that bad? “I understand that, for the customer, it’s a good thing: more choices,” says Dino Christ, owner of Nick’s Restaurant, a longtime fixture at 226 State St. “But at the same time it’s so much more competition. The downtown is becoming one huge food court, and I don’t think that is good unless you also mix in more retail stores.” Until recently this has been a battle based on perception, but two new reports add a bushel of facts, making clear that the war for State Street and downtown is just beginning. Mayor Paul Soglin kicked off the fight during the Common Council’s consideration of a beer license for Mad City Frites, 320 State St. It became a flashpoint. The mayor argued that we’re losing State Street’s retail stores to bars and food, and enough was enough. “The issue was never about any specific restaurant,” says Soglin. “The issue is State Street and the $100 million investment in the Mall and the Capital Concourse. I question whether it is wise to spend this kind of money — funds focused on strengthening retail and residential — on liquor-focused businesses.” Only one alder voted against the license. Soglin vetoed, and he was overridden Sept. 29. But the issues remain. They include a retail environment that’s moving increasingly online, differing socioeconomic models and even the definition of “downtown.” “I think it’s important to look at this as a positive,” says Susan Schmitz, president of Downtown Madison Inc., whose mission is to
forge public and private partnerships to keep the downtown economically vital. DMI’s 2015 “State of the Downtown” report, released Sept. 29, details changes to the central Business Improvement District, roughly bounded by, but not including, Regent and Park streets, lakes Monona and Mendota and, four blocks east of the capitol, Franklin Street. Within that area, the percentage of food and drink businesses has actually remained somewhat consistent: 35% in 1998, 39.5% today. What has changed is the mix: Retail is way down and the number of service businesses — hair salons, for instance — is way up. In 1998, retail and service accounted for 50% and 12% of businesses respectively. Today it’s 25% and 35%. Percentages can be misleading, however, and some may find the raw numbers alarming: There were eight coffee shops/cafes in the district in 1998. Today there are almost twice as many, 15. There were 20 bars/taverns/pubs then, 27 today. In 1998 there were 47 restaurants and specialty food/drink establishments. Today there are 99. A draft city study released Sept. 21 documents similar contrasts. It looks at square-foot ground-floor use over time, but only through 2014. It therefore does not include large, recently completed mixed-use developments such as the 100 Block Foundation Project, near the Overture Center for the Arts; Ovation 309, on West Johnson Street near the corner with State; or the massive Hub Madison project, on the 500 block of State Street. Among its findings: In 1989, food and drink establishments accounted for 21% of all State Street ground-floor space. That doubled by 2014, to 42%. On the Square and one block off, food and drink skyrocketed from 8% to 24% of total ground-floor space.
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Technology’s part of all this. More of us shop online, which has contributed to the decline of local retail all over the country, not just in Madison. There is also a new population of millennials in Madison, thanks to tech companies like Epic Systems Corp. Young and affluent, these tech workers like to live and play downtown. “These residents require services in their immediate area that are convenient and social,” notes Margaret Watson, CEO of Steve Brown Apartments. “This includes entertainment venues, restaurants, shopping, yoga studios, museums, arts, sporting arenas, etc. [But] there still are ‘basic goods needs,’ such as cellular stores, bike shops and grocery.” “Restaurants and bars are certainly an important part of it,” observes Edward Shinnick, co-owner of Porta Bella restaurant, 425 N. Frances St. “But so is retail, and from what I’ve personally seen in the 50 years I’ve been doing this, we’ve lost a lot of the retail presence. To me, that’s a big consideration if I’m looking for someplace to live.” And then there’s what started this debate: alcohol. “I have for a long time urged the city to have limits on alcohol outlets in all business areas, but not many city council members support this,” says Sandi Torkildson, co-owner of A Room of One’s Own books and gifts, 315 W. Gorham St. There’s no city database to determine how the number of liquor licenses has changed over time. However, because of the high number of alcohol-related calls for emergency service, city staff previously recommended a plan setting aside State Street as a special alcohol management district, identifying it as “the only area [in the city] where we can justify an outright prohibition on certain types of alcohol beverage licenses.” Last July, the city created an Alcohol Overlay District, restricting any new tavern or retail sales of alcohol in a small area roughly bounded by State, University, Lake and Broom. The district went into effect just as the city’s alcohol license density ordinance, or ALDO, which prevented new taverns in a much larger area of downtown, expired.
Many approved city planning documents hammer at the importance of diverse downtown retail and service business. It’s mentioned, for example, in six of the 10 specific recommendations for State Street in the 2012 Downtown Plan, which advises “discouraging overdevelopment of similar types of establishments [of any kind] that could collectively diminish State Street’s overall attractiveness as a destination for a broad range of users” — presumably more than the thirsty and hungry. Schmitz believes the situation will correct itself naturally. Take Exact Sciences and the Judge Doyle Square project. “Once they’re built and they have 400 people working there making an average of $70,000$75,000, well, there you’ve got a market for more businesses, and so businesses will be interested in coming to the downtown.” Sam Chehade, owner of the Michelangelo’s and Fair Trade coffee houses, 114 and 418 State St., is less optimistic. His business is good, he says, and he doesn’t want to gripe, but he’s deeply concerned about predatory chains, “Chicago prices for some of the retail spaces” and, most of all, sustainability. “People say, ‘Well, Madison is just growing.’ Yeah, but growth has to be responsible,” he says. “It can’t be like the old Wild West. There has to be discipline.” He echoes Christ at Nick’s. “It’s like a food court. It’s like a feeding frenzy,” he says. “You see [restaurants and bars] come and you see them go. This trend might accelerate in the next year or two. All of this growth without any checks and balances is just going to make it worse down the road.” Even Schmitz says that action may perhaps be desirable: “I do think we need to be ready for other businesses — maybe help solicit other businesses to come.” Balancing the competing interests won’t be easy. But Chehade says the stakes are high. “The downtown is becoming more and more impersonal,” he warns. “The little funky stores are going to be disappearing.” n
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DNR to factory farms: How can we help? Project seeks to ease the permitting process for operators BY BILL LUEDERS
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, charged with protecting the state’s environment, is creating a website portal to help large-scale developers and the operators of factory farms. “The purpose of the [project] will be to assist businesses and other customers through the complicated permitting processes while recognizing internal efficiencies,” states an internal memo obtained by Isthmus through a records request. The DNR says the undated memo was produced in September. To help in its effort to improve the permitting website, the DNR has recently convened two focus groups. The first group, which included “eight consultants that assist farmers with submitting permits and plans for concentrated animal feeding operations,” or CAFOs, met in Green Bay on July 30, according to a summary of meeting highlights also obtained through this request. The summary states that the participants had all been involved in getting permits for “large dairy farms (1,000+ animals)” during the last three years. A second focus group of individuals who work on large-scale development projects convened in Fitchburg on Aug. 4. DNR spokesman Jim Dick says the agency “is working to fully define the scope” of the business portal project and does not know when it will be done or how much it will cost. He calls a DNR analysis obtained by Isthmus that projected a $185,625 cost to create the portal plus $55,685 a year to maintain it “an early and preliminary estimate” that is no longer valid.
approved without one. But she believes the agency lacks the funding or staff “to do what’s necessary to monitor 26,000 animals.” Besides concerns over animal welfare, CAFOs are controversial because they generate huge quantities of fecal waste, which can contaminate the air and water, and adversely affect human health. For this reason, they are subject to stricter permitting rules and more stringent regulation.
State regulators are creating a website to court concentrated animal feeding operations.
Kimberlee Wright, executive director of Midwest Environmental Advocates, was unaware of the portal project prior to a reporter’s inquiry: “This is the first I’ve heard of it.” Her nonprofit law center makes extensive use of the factory farm data posted on the DNR website. “It’s disturbing to not be thought of as a stakeholder” in this discussion, Wright says, given that her group has invested “a significant amount of time and money to ensure that information on CAFOs is available to public health officials, citizens and industry.” Dick’s response: “As the name suggests, this is a business portal. It is designed to help businesses stay in compliance with the law.” Input was solicited not on environmental standards or rules, which “are not changing.” Rather, the goal was to get “feedback from the business stakeholders who will be using the system to get the information they need so they can remain compliant with current law.”
While other states have more CAFOs than Wisconsin, the number here has grown steadily in recent years, especially large dairy farms. A DNR chart shows there were more than 200 dairy CAFOs in Wisconsin last year, up from less than 50 in 2000. But the DNR’s efforts to ease the process for CAFO operators, presumably as part of Gov. Scott Walker’s “Open for Business” ethic, does not sit well with some Wisconsin residents. “I think the DNR should not be a partner with any industry which has a track record of massive environmental problems,” says Mary Dougherty, a member of a citizens group opposing the siting of a massive pig farm in Bayfield County. Dougherty believes DNR staffers are trying to do a good job in response to the proposed pig megafarm, which as proposed would consist of 7,500 sows, 18,750 pigs and 100 boars. It has agreed to require an environmental impact statement, even though the project could have been
While the focus groups were specifically devoted to CAFOs and large-scale developers, Dick says the purpose of the portal is to assist “all types of businesses in getting through the permitting process,” and help them stay in compliance with existing laws. “It will also increase the efficiency of our permit writing staff who can arrive at permitting decisions quicker since customer questions can be answered online before an application is submitted.” But the DNR faces other critics to its plan besides anti-CAFO activists. “The general mood/tone of participation of the CAFO focus group was fairly skeptical about the usefulness or value of an enhanced Business Portal,” states the DNR summary. “In fact, some participants called into question whether the Department was simply striving for a ‘high gee-whiz’ factor rather than addressing what they perceive to be the real issues: 1) lag time in permit approvals and 2) subjectivity in permit requirements for certain projects.” The summary said that both the CAFO and large-scale development focus groups “do not see a new Business Portal as a solution to all of the problems or frustrations they experience with the current permitting process. It will, therefore, be important to communicate appropriately about the Business Portal.” n
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UW-Madison alumnus William Campbell wins a Nobel Prize for discoveries that helped lower the incidence of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.
American Transmission Company grapples with sea change in the electric industry
UW-Madison grad Matthew Desmond wins a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” for his work studying the impact of evictions on poor families in Milwaukee.
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A new loitering law goes into effect making it illegal for people to sleep outside the City-County Building. Slumber party at Mayor Soglin’s house, anyone?
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How the mighty have fallen: Gov. Scott Walker goes from schmoozing with billionaires to attending the Cow of the Year presentation at the World Dairy Expo.
The Madison Police Department schools two Daily Show correspondents about the reality of implicit bias among police officers and the department’s training procedures.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30 n Gov. Scott Walker’s approval falls to 37% in the latest Marquette Law School Poll. It’s the first survey since Walker’s exit from the presidential race and a new low for the governor. Welcome back!
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THURSDAY, OCT. 1 UW-Madison officials want to lift the cap on the number of out-ofstate students who can enroll at the university. But is the extra tuition revenue worth compromising on a commitment to educate the people of Wisconsin?
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hree people have applied to T fill the remaining 10 months of Justice Patrick Crooks’ term on the state Supreme Court: Appeals Court Judge Rebecca Bradley, Dane County Circuit Judge Jim Troupis and Madison attorney Claude Covelli. Bradley is one of three people who have announced plans to run for a full term on the high court, but the other two aren’t applying for the appointment out of principle. Voters get to decide in 2016.
SATURDAY, OCT. 3 n After a Wisconsin football loss to Iowa, a Badger fan reportedly punches a 15-year-old Hawkeye fan in the face. Police are looking for a suspect, described as a male in his 20s wearing a red shirt. Good luck with that one. TUESDAY, OCT. 6 State Rep. Jesse Kremer (R-Kewaskum) and state Sen. Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) propose a bill that would bar transgender students from using school bathrooms and locker rooms assigned to the gender with which they identify.
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Madison’s Beltline — the major thoroughfare that cuts through the city — is flanked by massive metal structures transmitting electricity faster than the moving cars they tower over. These high-voltage electric transmission lines were planned, built and are managed by the American Transmission Company (ATC), a stand-alone transmission company that services most of Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and parts of Illinois and Minnesota. Bob McKee, manager of Regulatory Relations and Policy at ATC, describes his company as a middleman. “We deliver energy from where it’s generated to where it’s used,” says McKee. “We are the link between generators and load-serving entities like Madison Gas and Electric — a customer of ours.” But the electric industry is being disrupted, as new forms of power generation, like solar panels and wind turbines, begin to replace coal and gas power plants. These new power sources tend to be decentralized, scattered throughout a community, which fundamentally changes the grid makeup. These generational changes will be part of a panel discussion during the 2015 Energy Summit, hosted by the Wisconsin Energy Institute at Union South on Oct. 13. Flora Flygt, ATC’s strategic planning and policy adviser, will be one of the panelists, along with Jeffrey Ripp, the administrator of the division of energy regulation at the Public Service Commission, and others. In Wisconsin, coal remains king, generating 62% of the state’s net electricity in 2013. Only 6.9% of the state’s electricity came from renewable energy resources like wind, biomass and hydro. The Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan is pushing states to adapt new energy sources. It gave Wisconsin a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 32% from 2005 levels by 2030. While Gov. Scott Walker has criticized the plan, McKee says his company is staying neutral. “In terms of the merits of the Clean Power Plan, we’re not taking a position,” says McKee. “Our primary position has been that we want to ensure, with whatever approach is taken, that reliability of the electric grid is preserved.” ATC’s Flygt explains that the transmission is not tasked with deciding how Wisconsin will meet the Clean Power Plan’s goals. “Utilities are the ones that will determine how to meet the Clean Power Plan’s goals,” says Flygt. In doing so, they may shut down coal plants, build new natural gas plants or even tap into wind farms. These are the decisions ATC will be tracking. “When you close down a power plant, it has an impact on the grid because you’re
no longer putting power into the grid at that point, and when you build a new plant you have to interconnect it to the grid,” Flygt says. “Those are the sorts of transmission issues we want to understand as soon as we can.” Andy Olsen, senior policy advocate at the Environmental Law and Policy Center, says that transmission companies can do a lot to ensure that cleaner forms of energy are utilized. “Transmission is one of many strategies to help develop renewable electricity and increase the total share of renewable power,” he says. “Along with that, we also need local renewable energy production — and support for distributed generation like rooftop solar.” According to both McKee and Flygt, it’s not the requirements of the plan that pose a challenge — it’s the timeline. “The actual building of the transmission once you have the permit takes one to two years,” says Flygt. “But the planning and the permitting process can take anywhere from three to eight years.” Regardless of how electricity is generated, once it reaches transmission it’s all the same. “An electron is an electron,” says McKee, laughing. “Our job hasn’t changed because of the Clean Power Plan,” says McKee. “The Clean Power Plan certainly poses some challenges, but we’ll always face challenges. Today it’s the Clean Power Plan, but tomorrow it’ll be something else, so we’ll use the approaches we’ve relied on historically to address those and meet the needs of our customers.” n
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Scott Walker is not finished His national fail tells us nothing about his prospects in Wisconsin BY BRUCE MURPHY
the cost of running a national campaign is huge. He’s unlikely to have any problems garnering gazillions from donors outside Wisconsin, because plenty of wealthy conservatives support his agenda here.
Bruce Murphy is editor of UrbanMilwaukee.com.
Liberals across Wisconsin are shouting “I told you so” at the unsightly collapse of Scott Walker in the Republican presidential race. He’s been found out, they say; his collapse proves he’s a paper tiger, shows he’s finished as a politician. I remember when many of these same folks were certain the governor would be recalled, and later predicted he wouldn’t be reelected. Democrats have repeatedly underestimated Walker. Nationally there have been countless columns (most of them not very illuminating) trying to explain his epic, pre-primary collapse. Easily the best (and most modest) I saw was by Washington Post reporter Jenna Johnson, who covered Walker’s campaign. You can tick off all the reasons Walker failed, and you won’t find much that applies to Wisconsin or another reelection bid for governor, should he decide to run. They include: 1. Walker was undone by Donald Trump. Nope, the Donald won’t be running here.
10. His personal debt made him vulnerable, which may be why he shut down the financially imperiled campaign operation so suddenly. That might be a reason for Walker to cash in with a high-paying nonpolitical job à la Sarah Palin. But if he still has that fire in the belly — he’s wanted to be president since he was a teen — that won’t happen.
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of probing questions he received, even from conservative reporters at Fox, leading to an endless series of evasions, slip-ups and contradictions that badly damaged his campaign. But Walker won’t need the “free press” enough to give the infinitely smaller state press corps the same access he gave the national media.
3. Was unprepared to discuss foreign policy. George W. Bush, an intellectual lightweight, studied up with international experts for two years, while Walker did no preparation, resulting in frequent flubs that undermined his campaign. But foreign policy is not an issue in the governor’s race.
6. Was often exhausted on the campaign trail. He was trying to handle being governor during six months of budget deliberations while running for president and boning up on international issues. When he runs for reelection, the Legislature won’t be doing much, and he will have only the campaign to focus on.
4. Was unprepared for the national media. In Wisconsin, Walker could count on fawning coverage from conservative talk radio and could generally control when and what kind of interviews he did with the far-fromrobust print and TV media. But Walker couldn’t control the national media and seemed unprepared for the sheer onslaught
7. Was anything but “Unintimidated” in his national campaign. Walker’s core image of the fighter who won’t back down from tough issues was repeatedly undermined by his flip-flops on the issues. Johnson offers an intriguing take on Walker, suggesting he is actually personally averse to confrontation, but so far that has helped him in Wisconsin, softening his hard
8. The union issue didn’t catch on. The reality is federal unions don’t have the power that state and local unions have (and once had in Wisconsin). This could be a soft spot to probe in Walker’s run for reelection (on an issue like right to work), but there’s no evidence a majority of Wisconsin voters want to roll back Act 10. 9. Overspent on his campaign. Walker arguably did a poor job of managing his staff, but
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2. Overemphasized Iowa in his campaign strategy. Not applicable to Wisconsin.
5. Tried to run his own campaign. Not a good idea running for president, but he’s developed his own campaign strategy twice running for governor, and look at the results.
edges. He repeatedly lost his steely discipline — perhaps his greatest asset as a campaigner — but absent the continual interruptions of the national media, that’s much less likely to happen.
Has Walker been damaged in Wisconsin by his run for president? Yes. That’s clear from the recent Marquette University Law School poll, which found just 37% of respondents approve of the job he is doing, with 59% disapproving. Just 35% want Walker to seek a third term as governor in 2018, while 62% do not. Daunting numbers. But the next governor’s race is three years from now. That’s a lifetime in political terms, and gives Walker plenty of time to mend fences, tour the state and rebuild his image. And there remains the huge issue for Democrats: their thin bench. If Walker faces another weak opponent for governor, his likelihood of winning reelection rises significantly. So don’t cry for Scott Walker. He’s anything but a spent force in state politics. n
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Exact Sciences boondoggle It seems a bit insane to hinge this project on the new headquarters of Exact Sciences (“Soglin Saves the Day,” 10/1/2015). Look up their financials. Why is the city giving money to a company that’s already losing money? They’ve lost money every year since 2011. How long does the city expect them to stay solvent? Or is this going to end up another boondoggle? Neil Gilmore (via email)
Whose seat? Our seat! Re “Rematch” (10/1/2015): I’m definitely a Russ Feingold fan, and I imagine it’s an innocent usage, but I don’t really like the terminology of “his Senate seat.” It’s not “his”; it belongs to Wisconsin (or maybe more accurately, its voters). Ryan Schumacher (via Facebook)
Dear Citizen Dave: I stopped reading your blog back when Isthmus decided to eliminate the comment section, because responding to your posts was pretty much the only reason I read it in the first place. But I did manage to stop by and read your piece on Hillary and how you don’t really like her, but feel that should be beside the point (Dave Cieslewicz, “I Don’t Care About Clinton’s Emails,” Isthmus.com, 10/5/2015). I know what you are saying. But it seems you are mystified by her bad poll numbers. Allow me. Your voting life is not much shorter than mine (I’m 62 years old.) So during all those years did you ever vote for somebody you truly didn’t like? I know I haven’t. I have voted for the one I preferred less, but only because my preferred candidate didn’t win the nomination. You can call it the lesser of two evils, but I think most people have a real problem pulling the lever for people they don’t like, trust or respect. Hillary’s problem is not so much that she is unlikable, even Obama said she was “likable enough.” It’s that respect/trust thing that is making her numbers tank. For example, it was really bizarre when her team defended her by saying there was “no smoking gun.” It had escaped their attention that saying there is “no smoking gun” is not a denial. If the police find you next to a dead body and ask you about it, it will not suffice to say, “Aha, but you have no smoking gun.” Hillary lies even when the truth would serve her better. And here’s the truth: Unlike Bill, she lies poorly.
All of which makes her Sgt. Schultz defense on technology matters all the more ludicrous. But her real problem is she can’t even keep her little lies straight. She had her own server because she didn’t want to carry two devices. Except that she had multiple devices. She said so herself earlier. Then she claimed the server was set up by Bill when he left office. Except he claims to have sent two emails in his entire life. Then the carefully worded “nothing classified” was changed to “nothing marked classified” where being “marked” is irrelevant. Then, when absolutely forced to apologize, she offers an insult instead: “I’m sorry for the confusion I caused,” which is almost saying “I’m sorry you’re all so stupid.” You see, Dave, it’s not just her likability, it’s her character, or lack thereof. It’s hard to vote for somebody you don’t like. It’s even harder when you also neither trust nor respect them. Patrick O’Loughlin (via email)
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Outcasts Re “Move Along” (Isthmus.com, 10/2/2015): The steps of the City-County Building are not a homeless shelter or a campground. People shouldn’t sleep, poop, do drugs, smoke or store their stuff there any more than any other front porch. Yes, we need to build more shelters. Let’s concentrate on that. Maggie Carrao (via Facebook) Try sleeping outside tonight and then get back to me on how it’s okay to do this. How about building shelters instead! Christina McCoy Langdon (via Facebook) Unless Isthmus would like to invite all these displaced homeless folks to now make a permanent camp on their building entrance, how about dropping the sanctimonious trolling and offering a solution idea instead? John Estey (via Facebook)
BY ALAN TALAGA & JON LYONS The cartoon has been running in Isthmus for five years this week.
Meanwhile, cowriter and artist Jon saw a weird bug.
While the cartoon has been successful, there have been setbacks. Alan and Jon have tried at least a dozen times to get the Pissin’ Calvin bumper sticker into the cartoon.
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Jon has had to draw Scott Walker approximately 200 times. Here are his pro tips on how to capture that signature Walker look:
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UW is (finally) learning how to push its research to market BY MARC EISEN
neering and antibiotics aren’t involved. But unleashing the animal’s inherent disease-fighting antibodies is. With the university’s help and encouragement, the duo has formed a company — AB E Discovery — to commercialize their research. “Timing is everything. The market is ready,” says Sand, citing the public commitment of fast-food giants McDonald’s, Panera, Chipotle and others to eliminate or greatly reduce antibiotic-laced ingredients in their menus. UW alum Chris Salm, whose Denmark, Wis., company pioneered ready-to-eat wholly cooked sausages and hotdogs, has joined the duo as the company CEO. Salm brings connections to the executive suites of the food industry. He calls the public’s preference for antibiotic-free meat “hugely significant” for farming. Describing what he believes is a transformative technology for farmers to produce antibiotic-free beef, chicken and other animal meat, Cook says: “This is a game-changer.”
A game-changer is what UW-Madison sorely needs. Historically one of the nation’s leading research schools, the campus secures more than $1 billion a year in research grants. Yet between 2009 and 2014, Wisconsin ranked 42nd among the states in patents issued, according to federal data. And we were dead last in a survey of entrepreneurial activity taken by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Reality is that despite Dane County’s techled boom, the Wisconsin economy is in parlous condition. The state suffered the largest percentage decline of middle-class households in the nation between 2000 and 2013, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts study. Median Wisconsin household income in this period dropped from $60,344 to $51,467 in inflationadjusted dollars. Obvious questions follow: Why isn’t all this UW research igniting a wave of business and tech startups across the state? Why hasn’t the UW dynamo reversed the state’s economic decline?
UW-Madison, it’s fair to say, is feeling the heat. The hostility of the ruling Republicans at the Capitol is as plain to see as the UW System’s $250 million budget cut and Gov. Scott Walker’s initial plan to gut the Wisconsin Idea, the university’s once sacrosanct pledge that its “beneficent influence” would extend statewide. But that notion of “the boundaries of campus are the boundaries of the state” draws a sharp retort from skeptics who think UW-Madison’s reach seems to abruptly end at the Dane County line. Local folks may be proud that Dane County claims 73% of the new jobs created in Wisconsin over the last 10 years, but outstate observers see this as evidence of how UWMadison beneficence is highly parochial. Tom Hefty, the retired head of the old Blue Cross-Blue Shield United of Wisconsin, is a persistent critic, seeing an abject failure of the university to lead the state on economic growth. “UW-Madison has it backwards,” he says. “It tries to educate business on the advantages of the UW, while ignoring the real problem — educating faculty on how to work with business. That starts with hiring pro-growth entrepreneurial faculty.” These expectations aren’t exclusive to UW-Madison. Walter Valdivia, in a Brook-
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This could be big for UW-Madison. It’s exactly the sort of transformative discovery you would expect from a great research university. Like Harry Steenbock fortifying the vitamin D content of milk. Like James Thomson unlocking the mystery and promise of stem cells. In this case, two UW researchers have pioneered a breakthrough that could end of the flood of human antibiotics into animal feed. This is a huge issue for the food industry and for public health. U.S. health officials blame the overuse of antibiotics in human and animal care for the spread of dangerous drug-resistant pathogens that infect two million people a year and kill at least 23,000. Hard to believe, but a stunning 80% of the antibiotics used in the U.S. isn’t for curing human disease, but prophylactically for preventing diseases in ostensibly healthy chickens, cattle and hogs raised for the American plate. Enter Mark Cook and Jordan Sand. Cook, 59, is a celebrated UW-Madison professor of animal sciences. Sand, 32, is a UW-Madison animal research scientist with a doctorate in molecular and environmental toxicology. Their team has figured out a technique used by nature that activates an animal’s compromised immune system to repel common barnyard diseases like coccidiosis (diarrhea) in chickens and bovine respiratory disease in steers. Genetic engi-
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ings Institution study about technology transfer, says political pressure is mounting on all universities to become engines of economic development. Policymakers, he writes, “want universities to be more responsive to market forces, more entrepreneurial and more attuned to the needs of industry.” Cook and Sand basically agree with the critics. “We have done very little in taking university innovations with commercial relevance and turning them into enterprises,” says Cook. Sand says of the 150 or so patent applications coming yearly from UW-Madison, around four will prompt creation of a new company. “There is an enormous amount of intellectual property sitting on the shelf,” he says. He admits that a lot of his fellow researchers aren’t interested in becoming entrepreneurs. “They didn’t come to the university to be a CEO,” Sand says. “That’s the biggest thing. They like where they’re at. They love what they do. It’s a giant pain in the butt to [start a company].” That pain isn’t quite so acute these days.
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At UW-Madison, the pressures to commercialize research prompted Chancellor Becky Blank’s Discovery to Product (or D2P) program, which has been mentoring Cook’s and Sand’s biotech baby. Dizzily varied in their ambitions, the other two dozen or so D2P mentees range from medical to industrial to virtual reality undertakings. Even the UW’s long-running Dictionary of American Regional English investigation, struggling to find a commercial application in the digital age, has participated. As D2P’s director John Biondi describes it, the goal is to take the campus’ most marketable research, workshop it to refine its commercial appeal (called “de-risking” and finding “the value proposition” in tech-speak), arrive at a preliminary business plan, and — assuming a viable strategy is determined — nudge the founders to incorporate the business and produce results all within 18 months. This is a challenging agenda for a venerable academic institution. “There is still very definitely a distinct disdain for commercialization from a lot of people at the university,” Laura Strong, chief operating officer of Madison-based Quintessence Biosciences, told the Badger Startup Conference held on campus in August. Strong, who has a doctorate in organic chemistry from UW-Madison and is a coinventor on four patents, said the idea permeates campus “that research is somehow good and pure, and that development is all about money and greed.” Rock Mackie, an acclaimed UW-Madison researcher/entrepreneur who helped found the medical imaging company TomoTherapy and the data analytics company HealthMyne, said the problem is with the entrepreneurial indifference of mid-level campus administrators. He and Strong were part of a high-powered panel addressing the question: “Can UW-Madison become a 21st-century entrepreneurial university?” The chancellor’s office gets the importance of technology transfer, Mackie said.
So did his faculty colleagues. (Mackie is an emeritus professor in the departments of human oncology, medical physics, biomedical engineering and engineering physics.) But the deans and department chairs didn’t see entrepreneurial activism as part of their charge and wouldn’t do so, he argued, until they were held accountable for the number of startups in their bailiwicks, the amount of investment they spurred, and the business-minded activities of their students. “We will not have an entrepreneurial university,” Mackie said flatly, until the deans and chairs got with the program. His comments echoed David Krakauer’s when he left the director’s post at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery earlier this year.
“We have done very little in taking university innovations with commercial relevance and turning them into enterprises.” — Mark Cook, UW animal sciences professor Krakauer told me that midlevel university administrators sometimes stymied his changeoriented agenda. “These are people who have been here for decades, who think they know how things should run, because that’s how they ran 10 years ago. They haven’t really absorbed what’s happening in the world.” Kevin Conroy, the CEO of high-flying Exact Sciences, offered his own take on the UW problem at the Forward Festival tech gathering at Monona Terrace, which was held the day before the Badger Startup session. Ticking off his agenda for growing the state economy, Conroy, whose company is heading downtown if the Judge Doyle Square project comes to fruition, pointedly said the UW System and its patenting and licensing arm — the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation — need to be held accountable for their roles in job creation and business startups in Wisconsin.
Asked in a subsequent interview how the campus was doing on startups, Conroy said it didn’t appear to be a top priority, which he felt was perhaps understandable given its academic mission. But he added, “If the UW was perceived statewide as being an economic engine for this state, it probably would have been in a better position to handle the funding crisis in the last budget cycle.” Some of his complaint is based on firsthand experience. Exact Sciences, whose breakthrough product is a noninvasive test for colorectal cancer, has turned to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas to research and test cancer-fighting tools. “Historically, it has been challenging to do clinical trials with the UW Medical School,” Conroy says. “The process to make it through the clinical trial review board has typically taken a long time. Too long for companies operating at the speed of light.” Both Anderson and Mayo are easier to work with than UW, he says. This is a touchy matter. Investors have pumped nearly $700 million into the Dane County biomedical company, which in 2014 secured federal approval — after extensive medical testing at Mayo Clinic — of a stool-based cancer test. Conroy’s complaint about UW clinical testing drew a diplomatic reply from med school associate dean Marc Drezner. “We have good evidence that things are improving,” he says of the review process for clinical trials. “Are they perfect? No. Could they be better? Yes. Are we working to make them better? Absolutely.” That said, Drezner notes that the UW’s goal isn’t to be the quickest medical institution in assessing proposed health trials, but “to be as good as we can be within the limits of assuring patient safety.” John Biondi, the gray-haired D2P maestro, is unfazed by the hubbub surrounding the UW efforts. “Universities are huge bureaucratic, hierarchal institutions. That provides challenges. But you work around them,” he says matter of factly during an interview at D2P’s unglamorous but functional space in the old Luther’s Blues building, 1403 University Ave. “This is a scientific Xanadu here,” he says of the campus faculty and their laboratories. “Universities have amazing resources and incredibly smart people. Our job is to minimize the negatives and work with the positives. “The challenge is to get them to look at their technology through the mind of the customer and not just as a step to their next experiment,” he explains. “Cool technology without a market is just a cool toy. It has got to be something that somebody will write a check for.” “Figuring that out sometimes is very hard,” he admits. Biondi, 67, has the unflappable style of a startup veteran. He spent 15 years at the old Ohmeda Inc., the anesthetic device company now part of GE Healthcare Worldwide, before helping launch a series of science-heavy tech companies. (He also runs a cider-apple farm with his wife near Mineral Point.)
“I have no teaching mission,” he says of his D2P charge. “My job is strictly commercialization. It makes it easy to focus.” For Biondi, D2P is just one more startup striving for success before the money runs out. D2P’s funding — for three years only — is split evenly at $1.6 million apiece by the university and WARF. The state delivered a critical “igniter” grant of $2.4 million to be split among the projects for their pre-startup costs. Individual grants have ranged from $50,000 to $200,000. D2P is just finishing up its second class of mentored projects. A third will commence in February 2016. “We’re not looking for ideas,” he says of D2P’s projects. “We want innovations that are [already proven]. We work at what it takes to
“We’ve got cool stuff here at the university. We just have to continue to make companies out of it.” — John Biondi, director Discovery to Product make these innovations commercial, what it takes to make them competitive.” Of the first two classes of mentored projects, about a dozen and a half are deemed to show promise of becoming startups or have already launched. Standouts include hard-core biotech projects AIQ, StemPharm, BrainExell and BiopsyAssure, which, respectively, involve 3-D bone imaging, new cell culture tools, neuro stem cell discovery, and a prostate cancer test. Mobius, in contrast, is an app for smart phones that enables multiple numbers to be used from a single phone. The no-goes include the Dictionary of American Regional English. Efforts to license its one-of-a-kind content have yet to find any takers. The D2P team — including life-science specialist Trevor Twose, IBM veteran David Ertl, lawyer/ MBA-holder Adam Sherman and veteran project manager Will Robus — follow a program known as the lean startup methodol-
ogy. They offer business plan advice, staffing suggestions, market insights, financing contacts and general handholding. Not incidental to their work is the creative camaraderie that arises from aspiring entrepreneurs trading advice and sharing experiences.
John Neis, a 30-year venture investor in Madison tech, is impressed. “Mark [Cook] is one of the great innovators on campus,” he says. “He knows his markets really well, too. He’s stepping forward with this technology at a moment of tremendous opportunity, because at the end of the day antibiotic-free meat is something that consumers are demanding.” The challenge is that supermarket meat suppliers are “a very concentrated universe of customers,” Neis says. “They are very cost conscious. It’s a market where pennies and fractions of pennies wind up being very important.” Chris Salm, the startup’s CEO, makes the same point, explaining that the top 10 poultry producers control 70% of the market and raise — astonishingly — from 100 million to 2 billion chickens apiece each year. “They all have their processes down. If you tell them to change, they tell you to go away.” But Salm has worked in the industry for 30 years and says he can talk to the one person — the CEO — who can make an operational change of this magnitude. “I can paint a picture of the future that the CEOs will like,” he says confidently. Now that AB E Discovery has incorporated and entered the startup phase, it’s stepping away from the campus laboratories that birthed it. Cook, Sand and Salm funded the early operation out of their own pockets, along with the WARF grant. The campus licensing giant also helped the researchers secure six patents, which should put a moat around their intellectual property for years to come. As for future plans, including the search for venture investors, lips began to seal as publication for this story approached. But it’s known that several large corporations are very interested in AB E Discovery. A major announcement may be a month or two away. UW-Madison could use a big win on the startup front to hush the critics. In an expansive moment, Biondi summed up the university’s challenge and its promise. “We’ve got cool stuff here at the university. We just have to continue to make companies out of it,” he said. “You know, we’re learning. We don’t have it figured out yet, but we’re putting some stuff out that’s pretty damn cool. It’s not just another mobile app or a consumer doodad. It’s stuff that makes a difference for society.” n
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The surprise is how people working on wildly different projects can still help one another. I sat in on a check-in meeting of the second class this summer where the novice entrepreneurs gave status reports to the group. Todd Asmuth, whose med-tech project with Scott Reeder involves creating calibration devices (called phantoms) for medical imagery, suggested a Wisconsin manufacturing contact for two young engineers working on a novel industrial-adhesive mixing device. One of those engineers, in turn, prodded nature photographer Lisa Frank, who wants to translate her elaborately detailed photo mosaics into virtual reality content. Eric Ronning asked Frank why she saw gamers as her target audience. Why not aim for the general public and emphasize the mental health benefits of her striking nature tableaus washing over the viewer in a 3-D environment? (Frank later told me she initially had the same idea, but through D2P coaching realized it was smarter to aim her virtual reality product at early tech adapters like gamers.) “Oh, my gosh, people are really engaged and want to help out,” says Brian Pekron, Ronning’s fellow engineer and business partner. “It seems like every time we meet the momentum builds,” Ronning adds. “Everybody contributes, so you get that crosspollination of perspectives.” Cook and Frank, who were part of the first class, share Ronning’s and Pekron’s upbeat enthusiasm for D2P. Cook has three other startups on his resume, including 10-year-old Isomark, which is developing a device that can detect life-threatening infections by analyzing a person’s breath. Because of their experience with D2P and an earlier WARF commercialization program, Cook feels AB E Discovery is much farther down the road to generating revenue than his other startups were at this point. He credits Sherman’s pricing advice and Twose on the technology end for “asking the right questions to make sure we didn’t make really dumb mistakes.” Sand adds, “It doesn’t matter if you have great technology. What matters is who is going to buy it.” That’s the challenge facing AB E Discovery. In a nutshell, here’s the discovery that Cook and Sand want to commercialize to fight livestock disease. Instead of nuking, so to speak, harmful pathogens in the animal intestine with antibiotics (and possibly producing scary drug-resistant superbugs), the duo figured out how the microbes close down an animal’s resistance by manipulating a protein called Interleukin 10, which functions as an “off-switch” for the immune system. Their breakthrough was finding the naturally created antibody that could block
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way finds a place in her massive body of work, assembled tableaux, “scenes” or juxtaposed elements distilled — one or two at a time, always separated by boundaries and borders — into new forms through her singular, elegant vision. “The object itself opens a door,” Nicholson says after greeting me at MMoCA with a warm smile. She leads me into the Thinking Room, where we begin viewing her collection of contemporary pieces alongside objects that are 10,000 years old. Among the oldest are stone Macedonian spindle weights, from 4000 to
3000 B.C., which Nicholson used to make a necklace. Other ancient things include concretions, hard mineral formations that build up over time like pearls. “I’m elevating the common, and sometimes I’m taking junk and elevating it to a whole new level,” says Nicholson. Nicholson’s remark about “junk” speaks to the humorous nature of many of the works, such as “Number Nine,” a tin and
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Natasha Nicholson’s new exhibit at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is a magically overflowing, ever-changing and ambitious show composed of four rooms painstakingly transplanted from Nicholson’s Madison home. For more than 50 years, Nicholson, now 70, has been the builder and inhabitant of a world of wonder and delight in common and uncommon objects. She collects discarded
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It’s always been an eclectic little shopping center. You can buy fishing lures at Dorn’s Hardware, check in for acupuncture at the Internal Medicine and Pain Clinic or deal with pain in another fashion at Le Tigre Lounge. Le Petit Croissant appeared with little fanfare earlier this year in what felt like a long, slow soft opening that’s still evolving. The restaurant officially completed a remodeling in early September, but while the new warm and welcoming red-and-purple look is lovely, offset by patterned wallpaper depicting châteaux and fruit, the room still doesn’t look done. The floors are scuffed, the cream and sugar station less than spic-and-span, and a general sense of France by way of Bolivia pervades. But maybe that’s okay. It remains of a piece with its offbeat strip mall companions. Le Petit Croissant is the venture of a couple with a storied tradition in Madison cuisine: Oscar Estrada, a pastry chef, and Claudia Soto, a baker. Both spent many years at La Brioche honing their respective crafts. The two have created a sandwich shop and bakery with a short, focused menu by adapting and modifying many of the recipes from their alma mater and designing another half of entirely new creations. And that La Brioche heritage shows. Those rich, textured, warm-from-theoven pastries! If Le Petit Croissant did nothing but baked goods, they would still be a godsend to this no man’s land next to the Beltline/Verona Road interchange. Cinnamon rolls are firm and plump and glazed with heavy cream and confectioner’s sugar. Sticky buns melt away on the tongue. A cherry compote-filled pastry is at turns tart and stickily sweet. I don’t drink lattes much anymore — the stigma is worse than eating kale at this point — but I used to make them, and I know a good latte. This is a pretty good one. While the line of espresso separating hot milk from hot milk foam could be harder, the taste profile is European, with mildly nutty coffee bean permeation. Along with the pastries and scones, crepes are served in two varieties: sweet (Nutella) and savory (ricotta cheese). Both are airy and graceful; close your eyes and you will feel like you’re in the French countryside. Then there’s French toast, quiche and frittatas, so we are talking about a fullon French destination here, at least in intent. A clever breakfast sandwich is actually a bacon omelet folded into a fluffy croissant. That’s surprising in a good way, as is the “grilled cheese” sandwich that arrives with pesto, red onion, avocado and tomato. The
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Beyond bitters Milwaukee’s Bittercube expands its products as customers expand their uses BY ALLISON GEYER
Since its beginnings in 2009, Bittercube, an artisanal bitters company, has grown far beyond what founders Nicholas Kosevich and Ira Koplowitz imagined. The two-man operation expanded its Milwaukee-based operation in early 2015, opening its own apothecary space at 2018 S. 1st St., where a collection of handcrafted bitters is produced. The staff has more than quadrupled, and they’ve trained more than 350 bartenders. They’ve amassed 13 consulting clients in the U.S. and Costa Rica. And within the next few months, they’ll launch a new product line that has expanded to include elixirs and syrups. “It’s been some amazing growth,” Kosevich says. “It’s been a really exciting time.” For the uninitiated, bitters is a highly concentrated liquor flavored with herbs and spices. Perhaps most famous is Angostura bitters, a key ingredient in one of Wisconsin’s favorite cocktails, the old fashioned. Bittercube started by making six variet-
When the company first launched, the founders assumed they would be making bitters to supply high-end establishments. But as customers became more educated about cocktail culture and interested in making drinks at home, the market for unique ingredients, like artisanal bitters, expanded. Now, Bittercube’s customers have incorporated the product beyond the bar, using bitters to flavor vinaigrettes, baked goods, sodas and ice cream. “We’ve seen so much creativity out there,” KosBitters may come in small packages, but can transform a cocktail. evich says. And as amateur mixologists continue to seek new and interesting ies and now has eight available year-round that products to stock in their home bars, Bittercube span an array of flavors, from a sweet and arois branching out into nonalcoholic drink additives matic cherry bark vanilla bitters to a spicy Jamaithat provide the complex flavors of craft cockcan bitters, flavored with ginger, black pepper and tails without all the hassle of getting out a bunch allspice. “It’s like a spice rack for your cocktail,” of bar tools. “We’re listening to the customer, Kosevich says.
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Sweet assertion Waypoint’s Blinker is a clever take on a classic The now-famous Blinker cocktail first appeared in Patrick Gavin Duffy’s The Official Mixer’s Manual in 1934, its origin unknown. Then in 2009, drink historian Ted Haigh revived and improved the recipe. Haigh substituted raspberry syrup for grenadine, and the switch brought the drink alive — the mix of raspberry (1 teaspoon), grapefruit (1 ounce) and rye whiskey (2 ounces) is now considered classic. The Blinker is one of the primary fruit-forward drinks that rye whiskey lovers imbibe, of a short list of combinations like the Scofflaw, the Ward 8 and the Derby. The key for rye aficionados is the spicy, assertive flavor imparted by the grain. Paired with fruit, it’s magic.
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Say yes to the roast Yes Coffee Roasters concentrates on quality Granted, a small wine shop is probably not the first place you’d think to look for small-batch specialty roasted coffee beans. Neither is a barber shop. But Square Wine Company, 5 N. Pinckney St., and Ritual Barbers, 11. S Fairchild St., are currently Madison’s two sources for the beans of Yes Coffee Roasters of Monroe, Wis. The duo of Daniel Finkelstein and Tony Ciske started Yes about a year ago. They concentrate on obtaining very high-grade coffees from very small farms, roast one or two coffees at a time, and change their varieties about once a month, says Finkelstein. The beans go to market within two days of the roast date. This month’s current offering, Finca El
Valle from the Waykan region of Guatamala, is light and lively, with mild acidity. Nut and cherry tones are understated. Grind your beans and do a simple pour-over at home for a morning cup that’s flavorful but not too in-your-face. Finkelstein says that Yes has been holding coffee “popups” with their mobile equipment and espresso machine, but he and Ciske are working on opening a Madison cafe to open this fall, next to Merchant on South Pinckney Street.
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Lakefront head brewer Marc “Luther” Paul says pumpkin beers can be tricky to make: “You can overdo the spices and it becomes one-dimensional, so balance is a big thing.” This one starts off as a robust amber ale; toward the end of the boil phase Paul adds cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and a little bit of ginger. After the beer finishes primary fermentation, it’s aged in brandy barrels, along with a small number of Madagascar vanilla beans. All those rich pumpkin pie spices are up front. However, the sweetness of brandy blends and softens things quite nicely. As
the spices taper off, the brandy/spirit warmth emerges. Sip it slowly and allow it to warm up so the sweetness of the brandy and oak have more of a chance to emerge from the flavors. Lakefront also makes Pumpkin Lager this time of year. This imperial version is much richer in its spicy qualities, and the brandy barrel aging distinguishes it from the more balanced lager version. Lakefront Imperial Pumpkin ale finishes at 9.5% ABV. It’s sold in four-packs of 12 ounce bottles for $11-$12.
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At Waypoint Public House, 320 W. Broadway in Monona, the Blinker is part of a tight cocktail list featuring other classics like the Boulevardier and the Gold Rush. It’s made with grapefruit liqueur instead of fresh juice, making the drink a bit sweet, but the appeal of the combination is the same. Try it with a burger, where the whiskey and the raspberry play off the fats in the beef to remarkable effect. The cocktail is a great segue into rich, winter flavors, and if you’re not a rye fan already, you’ll be converted.
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Isaac Showaki will make two versions of each beer for his own 3rd Sign label.
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Octopi Brewing brews first batch, preps for grand opening
Octopi Brewing of Waunakee fired up its brew kettle on the first day of October to make its first official batch of beer, expected to be released later this month. The new brewery is the creation of Isaac Showaki, who has an ambitious goal: “We want to be the premier contract brewery for the Midwest,” he says. Moreover, he wants to set a better standard for contract brewing. “We are targeting breweries that make between 2,000 and 15,000 barrels per year, and if need be we can help with marketing, packaging questions, artwork, permitting and distribution,” he says. Showaki is best known for his launching and co-ownership of Chicago’s 5 Rabbit Cerveceria, which he left in 2013. The new brewery, located on Waunakee’s southeastern edge at 1131 Uniek Drive, makes beer in a 50-barrel brewhouse capable of producing about 13,000 barrels/year immediately. However, it can ramp up to around 65,000 barrels annually with minor modifications to its equipment. Over time, should demand support it, 150,000 barrels/year could be possible, which would put it among Wisconsin’s largest craft breweries. Octopi will specialize in making beer for others under contract, but also brew its own beer under the name 3rd Sign Brewery, which will brew two versions of each beer it makes. The first beer will be an English Mild, made in two renditions — one called Madagascar Vanilla Mild Ale (made with vanilla beans and lactose for a smooth, creamy body), the other called Sumatra (made with cold-pressed Sumatran coffee, for mild bitterness and toasty coffee flavor). Also on
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the docket: two IPAs — Forest IPA (piney West Coast hops) and Jungle IPA (grapefruit and tropical flavor hops). These beers should be available at the Octopi grand opening, set for Oct. 24. 3rd Sign beers will be sold primarily in fourpacks of 12-ounce bottles, with the occasional special releases in 22-ounce bombers, and on select tap accounts. In the taproom, patrons will find reclaimed wood from Chicago’s Navy Pier and Wisconsin’s Badger Army Ammunition Plant. It seats about 70, features 14 taps, plus a beer engine for hand-pulled brews. Showaki has hired Michael Krause as his head brewer. Krause came to Octopi from O’so Brewing in Plover and has also brewed at the Blue Heron Brewpub in Marshfield.
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World of Beer opened Sept. 29 at 8225 Greenway Blvd. The upscale taphouse chain, based in Florida, offers 50 beers on tap and more than 500 in the bottle. Opening night featured a special firkin of brown ale called “Respect Your Elders,” made with elderberries, by Madison’s Vintage Brewpub. Middleton Mayor Kurt Sonnentag grabbed a hammer and, with the help of Vintage brewmaster Scott Manning, tapped the ceremonial first keg for customers. World of Beer intends to highlight special beer releases from local breweries and brewpubs.
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The three restaurants share a single building, with beautiful contemporary decor and a restful side patio set off from noisy East Washington Avenue. All three — known collectively as Robinia Courtyard — are open, but so far only A-OK is serving food (as well as coffee and draught beer). In the morning, check out the biscuits and gravy; pastries are made in house by Aaron
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Growing up in California, I would travel with my family “to the snow,” where the Golden State shoulders up against Nevada. I knew, then, of two extremes — spikes of cold and bursts of triple-digit heat. But I went 19 years without experiencing autumn in full expression, with its ochre, vermilion, rust, sepia and umber. A Wisconsin resident now for 12 years, I have to remind myself of the specialness of something that has now grown familiar. Though some grumble that autumn is just a precursor to our long, cold winters, this is the season that most teaches us to appreciate the beauty of the moment. With work commitments, I often have to stay close to home to get my doses of nature. But as Walt Whitman wrote in his preface to Leaves of Grass, “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” There are plenty of soul-satisfying spots nearby. The Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s Wisconsin Fall Color Report at travelwisconsin.com is a user-friendly resource that tracks fall colors by county. Madison is anticipated to peak the third week of October. UW-MADISON ARBORETUM
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Anne Topham, the now-retired goat cheese maker of Fantome Farms fame, once urged me to take a short detour on my way home from her farm, to follow Highway F until I reached a vista at the nose of Brigham Park. It’s one of her favorite places, and it’s become one of mine. Find yourself a perch at the bend in the road — you can’t miss it — and gaze north toward the Wisconsin River Valley.
This has become my favorite place to take my dog. We particularly enjoy the Woodland Trail, a one-mile path with gentle inclines through oak savannah. Here I can feel immersed in nature in no more time than it takes me to get to a mall. If you squint just right, you can sort of crop out the lakefront homes from view. Go down to the shore to see downtown Madison and campus from a different perspective.
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My favorite fire pit is here, nestled near the warming house. It makes for a cozy spot to land after taking a walk in the forest, emerging to see a rolling horizon. As the hue of trees dims with the approach of dusk, close your eyes and feel — the prickling breeze, the warmth of the flames, the freedom of open air. Smell. Listen. You get the idea. Fall is multi-sensory — more than just colors, it is an all-enveloping experience if you pay attention.
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I almost hesitate to share Frederick’s Hill on the north side of the conservancy; it’s no secret, certainly, but it has truly become a special place for me. Park in the gravel lot and follow a winding trail up the hill ahead. In this area, Native Americans built effigy and burial mounds. The springfed streams of the Pheasant Branch, visible in the distance, were believed to be gateways to the lower world where souls entered the land of the dead. The hill symbolized a bridge between the lower and upper world, a destination for souls before the next life. For a mere mortal, there are glimpses of otherworldly beauty. I enjoy taking a pause about halfway up the hill on a bench beneath a lone oak tree. Climb up to the hill’s pinnacle and feel your own connection to sky and earth — it’s a great place to catch a rejuvenating gust of wind. Tread gently and respect the trails. The grasses are important nesting territories for birds.
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This park makes my list for the very reason that it is such a delightful swath of land to find smack-dab in the middle of a residential neighborhood. This spot would make a great lunchtime destination for those in the area looking for an inspirational place to refuel perhaps in the middle of a workday. People all have their own places that call out to them; when you are deeply moved, pay attention — there is something to be learned. For all that you receive, consider giving back. Budgets for parks are tight, from cities to the state. Join a friends group, donate your time for restoration or trail building, or take the initiative to be a DIY steward on your own. n
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Gazing upon Curtis Prairie, the oldest restored prairie in the world, I am moved by the expansiveness of the space. I jokingly say it’s “my favorite side of the Beltline.” The tree line buttresses the prairie from the big road, muffling much of the noise. The Arboretum also holds a good series of public events — join a naturalist for a fall colors stroll, or roam the more coifed turf of Longenecker Horticultural Gardens at the “Featuring Fall” event Oct. 10.
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When I was in college, my favorite journalism professor was Gene Hintz, who covered the Green Bay Packers during the Vince Lombardi years. He would insert stories from that era into his lectures, emphasizing how his relationship with the coach made him a better reporter. Hintz died in 2003 at age 71, but I thought of him Saturday night while watching Lombardi — a regional production at the Palace Theater in Wisconsin Dells of the Broadway play about a young reporter from Look magazine sent to cover the coach and his Packers during one week in 1965. Written by Academy Award-winning documentarian Eric Simonson, Lombardi is based on the 1999 book When Pride Still Mattered, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss. “It’s a play that regional theaters like to perform,” Maraniss recently told me, adding that at least 40 of them have staged productions over the years. “Actors love to play Vince and his wife, Marie.” New York City-based Edward Furs convincingly portrays Lombardi as an endearing, inspirational and complicated grouch constantly in pursuit of perfection. He doesn’t like reporters and takes issue with the writer who originally called Lambeau Field the “Frozen Tundra.” “It’s redundant,” Lombardi barks. Lisa Franklin portrays Marie Lombardi with engaging, stressed-out sass. The play begins with Lombardi’s hiring in 1959, after the Packers hit rock-bottom the previous season with a 1-10-1 record, then quickly jumps to 1965 as Green Bay prepares for a critical game against an unnamed rival. Three Packers players — Jim Taylor, Paul Hornung and Dave Robinson — round out the six-character cast, which performs on a large but sparse stage. The Super Bowls, Lombardi’s eventual departure from Green Bay and his 1970 death from colon cancer are mere footnotes. Archival footage provided by the National Football League, along with one-liners about Green Bay, the community-owned Packers and
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board abstraction that seems to represent the serene nature of a collapse or comic repose. But the breathtaking beauty and simplicity of the compositions themselves — she prefers the term assemblages — speak of something strange, poignant and commanding of respect. “It takes a long time to do something simple,” she says. “There’s no place to hide.” I’d seen photographs of Nicholson’s work prior to my visit, but I wasn’t prepared for the sheer buoyancy of the clean lines and her uncanny sense of balance and order. An exuberant, authoritative energy seems to create its own unifying field. There is so much to take in here, so many compelling assemblages to visit and so many suggested stories contained in each arrangement. The artist, critic and art historian Linda R. James has written of the “grace” and the “peerless craftsmanship” Nicholson displays in the veneration of found objects “Her art is her studio is her home is her art,” writes James. At times, Nicholson can be found working and reading in various rooms of the gallery’s exhibit. Other scholars have noted a spiritual aspect to her work, particularly in the use of articles of faith, such as statuary of the Buddha and Christian icons. “I have a passion for sacred objects,” she says. Nicholson possesses the ability to find the sacred in ordinary objects. She found her St. Sebastian — for centuries a frequent subject of homoerotic renderings in art — in a determinedly squat chunk of old wood, prickly with nails. Antique rusting dental pliers, oxidized angel wings, shimmering engraved prints and postcards, pencil shavings, manuscript
pages, fabric and stone, handmade (by the artist) necklaces in labradorite and onyx, shadow boxes housing cast iron and glass — the catalogue of treasures seem in scope and curiosity like something out of the wilder shores of Salvador Dali’s or Marcel Duchamp’s visions. “I owe a debt to the surrealists,” Nicholson says. The feast for the senses is like a visit to a far-away culture or a lost time, or to a secret and strangely familiar world until now just beyond our own sights. And, perhaps, our own understanding. Nicholson’s assemblages allow viewers to search for their own meanings. “I like it when people don’t know what they are looking at,” Nicholson says. “Things stand on their own regardless of whether you know the story.” Nicholson offers us the freedom of discovery she has embraced since deciding as a girl, growing up in Missouri under the rigorous tutelage of Catholic nuns, that she would not only be an artist, but that she would live in an environment of constantly changing artistic creation. None of the assemblages is completely fixed. Even during the run of the exhibit she will continue to make changes. “I prefer a term used in England for curator, which is keeper,” she tells me as we stand in the Studiola, amid the circles and boxes, bell jars and shelved cabinets in pale green, the traditional color for cabinets of curiosity since the Renaissance. “I don’t own these things. I’m only taking care of them for a brief time.” And, she adds, as we make our way to a final room, “It’s not how much you have, but what you can make from a little.” n
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What’s left behind Trash offers a hopeful vision amid the detritus BY LAURA JONES
Last season, Theatre LILA staged Suitcase Dreams, a show about the things we take with us. This year — their second season — the company presents Trash, which is all about what we leave behind. The format is the same: loose vignettes composed of music, text and dance that aim to illuminate key issues around loss, waste and what remains. Some things we lose through our own carelessness. Some losses stem from our arrogance. Either way, the world is swimming in post-apocalyptic garbage. Trash’s vision is bleak, yet the show is filled with dark humor and glimmers of hope.
Director Jessica Lanius and scene designer Mike Lawler have filled the stage with heaps of debris. Clothes, mattresses, pizza boxes, broken umbrellas and nonbiodegradable plastic bags not only litter the floor, they consume it. Watching the actors lie down in this pile as if it’s a green, fragrant meadow makes for a powerful image. We don’t need much more to get the picture. But the text screams out a mind-boggling run of statistics: overpopulation, resource waste, how many tons of garbage are discarded each year by each person (two, if you’re counting). We even learn of a dump so large you can see it from space.
A gay old time The Boys in the Band is a poignant relic of the pre-Stonewall era BY LAURA JONES
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Turning pain into parody: Joshua Paffel (left) and Duane Campbell.
amusement of the story so far. But this is precisely what makes it resonate. The LGBT community has mastered turning pain into parody. Even so, we can’t underestimate the pain and occasional violence that continue to define our realities. The show encapsulates the resilience of the community along with the joy. As an ensemble, the cast works so well together it’s easy to imagine them as the best of friends, lovers and occasional rivals. Yadon captures Michael’s casual philosophy, which turns to embittered bullying as he drinks. He’s the moral center of the play, but a center that cannot hold. On opening night, Michael Bruno, the show’s producer, explained that Boys is not a musical, a common misconception. There’s no band in The Boys in the Band, but as one audience member shouted out, “There are boys!” There are. Richly textured ones so fun and unforgettable, you’ll want to come for a drink and stay for the party. n
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StageQ’s The Boys in the Band is a gay old time. It’s also an old gay time. What I mean by that is the play was written, performed and set in pre-Stonewall 1968. Some of the characters are broad and might be viewed as stereotypical. But let’s be honest: There’s nothing too dated here beyond the midcentury couch and touchtone phone. Gay men can still be bawdy, campy and downright fun. It’s partly how gays and lesbians survived some of the harshest degradations society could dole out. Watch an episode or two of RuPaul’s Drag Race and you’ll see all that wry humor alive and well in the present day. Boys, which plays at the Bartell Theatre through Oct. 10, tells the story of a birthday party thrown in a Greenwich Village apartment by Michael (Dennis Yadon) for his frenemy Harold (Donnovan Moen). All of their mutual gay friends are invited, including Donald (Greg Hudson), Michael’s mopey, psychoanalysis-obsessed weekend lover. But before the party gets started, Michael gets a call from his college roommate, Alan (Edric Johnson). Alan is an upper-class bigot, and Michael has never told him he’s gay. Despite Michael’s protests, Alan insists on crashing the party. When Michael’s flamboyant friends attempt to butch it up to maintain Michael’s secret, high jinks ensue. Of course, Boys is not all fun and games. The play shows the hatred and homophobia that I wish I could say was a relic of the past. When the delightful Emory (played by the equally delightful Joshua Paffel) prances around and aspirates his S’s, Alan punches him squarely in the mouth, threatened, the play implies, not just by Emory’s gayness but by his own. The beat-down Emory receives is startling, particularly given the light
So what are we to do with all this outof-control filth? The best of the pieces imply that, even within the rubbish, we are human beings who, like the best trash-pickers, find value among the muck. “Sorting the Trash” by Gwendolyn Rice is a lyrical monologue delivered by a doctor from the World Health Organization fighting Ebola in Africa. The plastic boxes she brings with her are conscientiously multipurpose. They become desks, chairs, even clinic walls, representing her efficiency and a desire to bring order. Later, they metamorphosize into a bassinette for a lost baby and finally become a coffin. Playwright Amelia Cook Fontella also DAN MYERS offers a portrait of beauty among the Playwright and actor Karl Iglesias in ashes. In “From the Bottom,” a little girl “Shakespearean Trash.” growing up in a Central American trash pile knows nothing beyond her fetid, ugly world. But in her hands, an abandoned gallon jug still remain, shouted out at the audience. But transforms into a full moon. A bent box is reborn the point of theater, LILA’s strong ensemble as an empty beach. The piece gives us hope that, suggests, is not to solve a problem, but to even as we drown, imagination and art bubble up pose it. Like the refuse on the stage, it’s what to the surface. remains. n Trash isn’t offering a solution to our probEditor's Note: Playwrights Gwendolyn Rice and Amelems. By the end of the show, those statistics lia Cook Fontella review theater for Isthmus.
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A lament of loss The Getaway Drivers balance heartache with a poppier sound BY BOB JACOBSON
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The way it looks now, Disclosure may have to reckon with their hit “Latch” for the rest of their career. Despite its long odds — a house music-inflected dance track created by a pair of teenage British brothers and sung by their sad, lonely mate — the single went to No. 7 on the Hot 100 and reached No. 11 in their native U.K. The challenge of overcoming the unlikely and delayed commercial success of “Latch” and debut album Settle — which came out in 2013, but didn’t chart until 2014 — is all over Caracal, Disclosure’s sophomore album, which was released on Sept. 25. Critics are saying the group has gone more “pop” — whatever that means in 2015 — and that Caracal doesn’t boast a song as indelible as “Latch.” That is probably true, but it doesn’t mean it’s time to despair. You can judge for yourself when Howard and Guy Lawrence bust out their new material at their Oct. 14 show at the Orpheum Theater. Caracal might be a little overloaded, but it has some jams that should get you up and dancing when heard live. Here are six of them:
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“Omen” featuring Sam Smith One could argue that singer Sam Smith, now a multi-Grammy winner, benefited more from “Latch” than Disclosure did. “Omen” is an obvious attempt to replicate “Latch,” but is that ultimately a bad thing? No one actually ever got sick of hearing that song; it just stopped being a track anyone chose to buy or play on the radio. “Omen” is a wilting, sensitive song that somehow works as a dance floor anthem. “Moving Mountains” featuring Brendan Reilly Reminiscent of the duo’s work on Mary J. Blige’s The London Sessions, this R&Btinged ballad is a bonus track on Caracal, but it should have been part of the main event. It’s overwrought, melodramatic and perfect. “Magnets” featuring Lorde When this collaboration was announced, it was intriguing to imagine Disclosure turning Lorde into a dancing queen, but the result is an expansive and sonically adventurous Lorde song. This one will provide a luxurious comedown from the fist-pumping heights of the rest of Disclosure’s catalog.
“Good Intentions” featuring Miguel The easiest gimme in recorded music in 2015 is putting Miguel on a track, so even an empty one with Miguel talking for three minutes would have been a guaranteed best track on Caracal. So, it’s a bonus that Miguel proves he’s ready for a career as a hook singer on any and all EDM opportunities available to him. “Holding On” featuring Gregory Porter This one is basically the sequel to Settle’s “When a Fire Starts to Burn,” with jazz singer Gregory Porter wailing and warbling over a Detroit house jam laid down by Disclosure. When the results are this jubilant, who cares if it feels like checking an item off the sophomore album checklist? “Nocturnal” featuring the Weeknd Disclosure couldn’t have picked a better time to squad up with the Weeknd: His summer album Beauty Behind the Madness has gone gold, and he has something like 400 songs on the Billboard charts right now (it’s actually three, but listen to 93.1 Jamz for two hours and you’ll swear it’s 400, too). “Nocturnal” finds the Weeknd stepping into Off the Wallera disco, going glittery over Disclosure’s forever cresting synths; the song is practically a GIF of a sunshine over Ibiza observed while dancing on a beach. This is as good as Disclosure get on Caracal. n
The Getaway Drivers’ new album evokes a sense of hope in the face of the knowledge that things sometimes deteriorate. Collectively, Bellatopia’s attitude is something like, “Sure, things are bleak, but maybe having everything fall apart wouldn’t be the worst thing.” The Madison band will simultaneously celebrate their 10th anniversary and the CD release of Bellatopia, their fourth studio recording, at the Brink Lounge on Oct. 10. Getaway Drivers founder Bob Manor says Bellatopia is a bit of a departure sonically from their previous recordings. “What we’ve been historically is acoustic guitar-driven Americana with electric guitar as an undercurrent,” says Manor. “On this record we switched to a little poppier style with a lot of piano and a lot more layering.” The Getaway Drivers’ sound on Bellatopia is most clearly defined by the vocal harmonies of the husband-wife team of Manor and Sheila Shigley. When Shigley joined the band in 2006, they were only casual acquaintances. The pair bonded over the songwriting process, eventually getting hitched in 2012. “For us, the record is a lament, in some ways, of loss,” Manor says. This is most evident in the fifth track, “Signs,” which is about seeing and hearing people you’ve lost in everyday things. The loss he was thinking about while writing the lyrics to “Signs” was of the band’s cellist, Steve Pingry, a popular local musician who died in 2011. Bellatopia was recorded at Manor’s home studio and at DNA Music Labs on Winnebago Street, with DNA’s Brian Daly handling mixing and production duties. Daly also plays on a few of the tunes and will be sitting in with the band at the CD release party. The set will be structured chronologically, with former members guesting on tunes from the band’s earlier history, culminating in the current band playing the new album in its entirety. n
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Monsters within Goodnight Mommy is fascinating and nasty BY KENNETH BURNS
If there’s anything more unsettling than creepy kids in a horror movie, it’s creepy kids in a horror movie...who sing. That much is made clear near the end of Goodnight Mommy, a fascinating and rather nasty piece of work by the Austrian team of Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, who wrote and directed the film together. This isn’t really the kind of scary movie in which the monsters lurk in the shadows. Almost everything is drenched in sunlight. That might remind you of Stanley Kubrick’s horror freak-out The Shining, in which sunlight pours through the windows of the Overlook Hotel as shocking events unfold. What else might remind you of The Shining? The arty camera setups, for one thing. Oh, and also: those disturbing twins. True, these twins don’t invite people to join them in hell the way the menacing Grady daughters do in The Shining. Lukas (Lukas Schwarz) and Elias (Elias Schwarz) are appealing kids, age 10 or so, and they pass the time as you’d expect. They run around in the woods. They play games and roughhouse. They collect bugs and snakes, and in one endearing scene, they crack each other up with a burping contest.
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Home is an unhappy place for Lukas and Elias, who suspect their mother is not who she says she is.
They seem to be having a wonderful summer. Except that home is an unhappy place. The boys’ mother (Susanne Wuest) appears to be recovering from a medical procedure, and her face is almost completely hidden by bandages. She needs rest, and she announces that there must be silence in the house. Nothing can be brought inside. The blinds must be kept closed. She sternly sets down these rules, and she completely ignores Lukas with what appears to be great cruelty. It’s not clear what he has done to deserve this treatment. “You should apologize,” Elias tells him. If you like nonstop mayhem in your horror flicks, Goodnight Mommy might initially
seem draggy. There’s a teasing quality to the way Fiala and Franz develop their terrifying story, and they don’t always make clear what’s real and what isn’t. Some scary images seem to emerge from the boys’ imaginations. In one case, the twins explore a cave, as young boys will do. They find a cat and name it Leo. It will be the perfect addition to their menagerie. They don’t seem to notice or care that they are surrounded by human bones and skulls. As with other more dramatic and disgusting effects in the film, we only glimpse the remains, which makes their impact all the more powerful. The plot hinges on the boys’ suspicions. They claim — loudly — that their mother is not who she says she is, and this could just
be typical kid behavior. (I was reminded of when I was a lad and demanded proof from my parents that I wasn’t a foundling.) The twins’ uncertainty is partly because of Mom’s bandages, which evoke imagery from horror-cinema classics like Eyes Without a Face and the 1933 Invisible Man. Even after the bandages come off, Lukas and Elias have their doubts, and they devise a way to get a good, close, uninterrupted look at the woman’s face. I won’t say much more about this, but I will note the grand horror tradition of rotten kids being really mean, in films like The Omen and The Bad Seed. I thought of that tradition as I watched the final scenes of Goodnight Mommy. n
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William “Dub” Lawrence reads trajectories. He studies impact marks at crime scenes to map out the paths of bullets. He learned the skill when he was the sheriff of Farmington, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. He also studies the trajectory of law enforcement’s recent history: Cops have been militarized, causing them to treat criminals as enemy combatants, which in turn makes it more likely they will use excessive force. That is to say, kill people. The documentary Peace Officer follows this retired lawman as he investigates a number of cases involving the “imbalance of justice.” As is the case with all good cop movies — and this is a good cop movie — he has a personal stake in the matter. His son-in-law was killed in a
stand-off with the very SWAT team that Lawrence himself founded. Directors Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber allow the victims (and there’s no convincing anyone who sees this movie that they are not victims) or their surviving families to narrate their tales, while also letting the police tell theirs. Despite that, the cops still look bloodthirsty. Lawrence is crucial in this mix. Without this civilian lawman standing astride both worlds, the movie would plunge into despair, but he remains positive and driven. The sheriff’s aim is true, and in his small way, he is helping to restore balance to the criminal justice system. Peace Officer is showing on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 7 p.m., in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s lecture hall. n
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Bully Sunday, Oct. 11, The Frequency, 8 pm Bully hails from an uber-talented Nashville scene, and just may be the top rock band to come out of it. Produced, engineered and fronted by Alicia Bognanno, the four-piece makes punk that’s at once snarling and winking at you. Their debut full-length, Feels Like, may be heavier than their previous garage-influenced tracks, but their tight-knit live performances are even more powerful. With Heat, Fake Limbs.
picks thu oct 8 MU S I C Brink Lounge: The Stellanovas, jazz, 8 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Madpolecats, free, 9 pm. Essen Haus: WheelHouse, free, 9 pm. The Frequency: Conscious Object, Eyenine, Farout, Worthless Righteous, 7 pm; S, Fern Mayo, Tarpaulin, 11 pm. Geneva Campus Church: Steuart & Michelle Pincombe, Kangwon Kim, spirituals & shape-note music, 7:30 pm. High Noon Saloon: Saint Motel, Greeting Committee, 8 pm. Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Michael Massey, 9 pm. Merchant: Chris Plowman, free, 10:30 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, French swing, 5:30 pm; Asumaya, Curt Oren, Dubb Nubb, Vein Rays, free, 10 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Kill Matilda, Everyone’s My Enemy, 10 pm. Overture Center-Overture Hall Lobby: The Big Payback with Clyde Stubblefield, Fred Wesley, Jabo Starks & Fred Thomas, Black Star Drum Line, rock/funk, free, 6 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Kurt Funfsinn, guitar, free, 10 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Back 40, 8 pm. The Wisco: Glostick Willy, Why Not Zoidberg, 10 pm.
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sion, is no exception. In addition to his work on the show, where he interviews wrestlers, comedians and other performers, the witty standup has notched a No. 1 comedy album on iTunes and performed in clubs across the country. With Kristen Toomey.
cello-centric collective performs both classical and popular styles and has put out music on vaunted record label Kill Rock Stars, toured with Buckethead, collaborated with the Dandy Warhols and performed on A Prairie Home Companion.
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Karaoke and Broadway may sit on opposite ends of the success spectrum, but here they’re one and the same. To sing along to your favorite musical theater tunes, simply bring your voice; there will be a pianist and song books on hand. Trash: Theatre LILA, 7:30 pm on 10/8-9, 2:30 & 7:30 pm on 10/10 and 2:30 pm, 10/11, Overture CenterPromenade Hall. $29-$15. 258-4141. The Boys in the Band: StageQ, 8 pm on 10/8-9 and 2 pm, 10/10, Bartell Theatre. $20/$15. stageq.com. Compañia Flamenca José Porcel: 8 pm, 10/8, UW Memorial Union Shannon Hall. $40-$27.50. 265-2787. Invasion of the Jesus Snatchers: 8 pm, 10/8-10, Broom Street Theater. $11. 244-8338.
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John Steadman: Discussing “H.P. Lovecraft and the Black Magickal Tradition,” his new book, 6 pm, 10/8, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888. Chaos & Cookies: Robin Chapman reads poetry, plus info & illustrations of fractals, 4 pm, 10/8, Madison College-Downtown Gallery 211. 258-2437. Immigration, Trans* Rights and Challenging Obama: UW Latin@/Chican@ Heritage Month lecture by activist Jennicet Gutierrez, 6 pm, 10/8, Red Gym. 265-5228. Academy Evenings: “The State of Wisconsin’s Forests,” talk by David Mladenoff, 7 pm, 10/8, Overture Center. RSVP: wisconsinacademy.org. 263-1692.
Friday, Oct. 9, Memorial Union Play Circle, 7:30 pm
The second season of the InDIGenous Jazz Series, a musical showcase for top-notch Midwestern artists, kicks off with a free performance by trumpeter David Cooper and his quartet. Cooper is a professor of trumpet and jazz studies at UW-Platteville, and he received his doctorate right here in Madison.
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Marty DeRosa Thursday, Oct. 8, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm
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Brooklyn’s LVL UP is a band out of time. With a slacker rock vibe that recalls Pavement and Built to Spill, their sound is a bit anachronistic. But that doesn’t really matter when you write songs as good as “Blur,” the swirling guitar jam from this year’s Three Songs EP. For anyone wondering whatever happened to alternative nation, look no further. With the Midwestern Charm, Lover’s Spit.
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The Mousetrap Friday, Oct. 9, Bartell Theatre, 7:30 pm
Perhaps the most celebrated murder mystery of all time, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap hit its 25,000th performance in 2012. Centered on a blizzard and a group of characters in a boarding house with a murderer among them, the play asks the ultimate question: Whodunit? ALSO: Saturday (7:30 pm), Sunday (2 pm), Wednesday and Thursday (7:30 pm), Oct. 10-15. Through Oct. 24. Walk with a Vampire: Encore Studios drama, 10/2-17, Mary Dupont Wahlers Theatre, at 8 pm Fridays and 2 & 8 pm Saturdays (8 pm only, 10/17). $15. 255-0331.
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Intent on spreading a message of peace, love and unity, South Bay six-piece Fortunate Youth is one of the most distinctive acts in modern reggae. Yes, the mellow island vibes are still there, but now they’re surrounded by intricate keyboard lines and face-melting guitar solos. They released their most recent album, Don’t Think Twice, earlier this year. With Stranger, SensaMotion. Alchemy Cafe: Nuggernaut, funk/jazz, free, 10 pm. Brink Lounge: Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Lou & Peter Berryman, 7 pm; Gypsy Jazz All Stars, 9 pm. Cardinal Bar: Gerri DiMaggio, jazz, free, 5:30 pm; DJs Chad Mindrive, JP Blanchet, Wyatt Agard, 9 pm. Delaney’s: Bob Kerwin & Dan Flynn, jazz, free, 6 pm. Essen Haus: Pieptone!, 8:30 pm. Also 8:30 pm Sat. Fair Trade Coffee House: Duo Violão, free, 4:30 pm. First Unitarian Society Auditorium: J. Adam Shelton & Rayna Slavova, free, 12:15 pm. Kiki’s House of Righteous Music: Owen Temple, (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com), 9 pm. Knuckle Down Saloon: Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, blues/rock, 9 pm. Liquid: Cashmere Cat, Yacht Club, Dense City, 10 pm. Locker Room: Prognosis Negative, free, 9 pm.
Al Madrigal Friday, Oct. 9, Comedy Club on State, 8 & 10:30 pm
This San Francisco-raised comedian has been inching toward the spotlight for more than a decade, but his biggest breaks came in 2011 and 2013, respectively, when he scored a correspondent position on The Daily Show and a supporting role on NBC’s About a Boy. ALSO: Saturday, Oct. 10 (8 & 10:30 pm).
B O O KS / L EC T URES Pinney Mini Book Fest: Open mic, 6-8 pm, 10/9; local authors, 1-9 pm on 10/10 and 1-4 pm, 10/11, Pinney Library. Schedule: wisconsinbookfestival.org. 224-7100.
Majestic: Mason Jennings, Anna Vogelzang, 9 pm.
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Mickey’s Tavern: Hyperslob, Transformer Lootbag, Novagolde, rock, free, 10 pm.
Talking Spirits: Annual walking tour with focus on Civil War history, 8 am-3 pm on 10/8-10 and 11 am-5:30 pm, 10/11, Forest Hill Cemetery, with reenactors, artwork. Tours every 90 minutes. wvmfoundation.com. 267-1799.
Mr. Robert’s: Magma Carta, The Dont Bees, 10 pm. The Red Zone: Angels or Insects, The Faith Hills Have Eyes, We Are Legion, Gods In The Chrysalis, 8 pm. Tempest: Don’t Spook the Horse, free, 9:30 pm. UW Union South-The Sett: Joe Hertler & the Rainbow Seekers, Vundabar, free, 9 pm. Wil-Mar Center: Patchouli, Wild Hog concert, 8 pm. Winnequah Park, Monona: Lo Marie, free, 6 pm.
A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Remembrance & Celebration: Los dias de los muertos community altar project; and Rafael Francisco Salas: “World without End,” 10/9-11/6, Edgewood College-The Stream Gallery (reception with music 5-7:30 pm, 10/9). 663-3252.
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Come Back In: Mighty Groove Masheen, free, 9 pm.
UW Men’s Hockey: vs. Northern Michigan, 7 pm, 10/9-10, Kohl Center. $24/$20. 262-1440.
Gates of Heaven: Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, 8 pm.
Madison Capitols: USHL vs. Green Bay, 7:05 pm, 10/9, Alliant Center-Coliseum. $20.50-$12.50. 267-3955.
Knuckle Down Saloon: Tweed Funk, 9 pm.
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Titus Andronicus Saturday, Oct. 10, The Frequency, 9:30 pm
Throughout a 10-year career, the ambitious and hard-working Titus Andronicus has channeled punk rockers, guitar gods and Civil War ghosts. Their most recent, The Most Lamentable Tragedy, doesn’t disappoint: A five-act, 29-track rock opera that draws on frontman Patrick Stickles’ own mental health experiences, the record, like the rest of the band’s legendary output, is imperfect but built to last. With Spider Bags, Baked.
Harmony Bar: Bonobo Secret Handshake, 9:45 pm. Lakeside Street Coffee House: The McDougals, Mississippi Flanagan, free, 6:30 pm. Mother Fool’s: Elks Teeth & Rabbits Feet, rock, 8 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Karate School, The Deeps, free, 10 pm. Paoli Schoolhouse: Mike McCloskey, free, 6 pm. Plan B: DJs Mike Carlson, WhiteRabbit, L&L, 9 pm. Sprecher’s Restaurant: The Sparks, ‘60s rock, 8 pm. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church: ensemble 135, 3 pm. Stoughton Opera House: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin with The Guilty Ones, Americana, 7:30 pm. Tempest: Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, 9:30 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Medicine Man, rock, free, 10 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners: MadCity Radiators, 9 pm.
T HE AT E R & DANCE Hansel and Gretel: “Garage opera” performances by Fresco Opera Theatre: 2 pm, 10/10, 21 La Crescenta Circle; 2 pm, 10/11, 3301 Derby Down. Free/donations. frescooperatheatre.com. Dance Wisconsin: 7:30 pm, 10/10, Madison CollegeTruax Mitby Theater. $20. 221-4535.
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Cribshitter Saturday, Oct. 10, Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm
Madison’s favorite musical jokesters are masters of making straight-faced comedy pop. The genius of Cribshitter, though, is the ability to make music that sounds earnest. For all of the lyrical craziness, there are some dense textures, catchy melodies and unexpected arrangements. Read about new album Acapulco at isthmus.com/music. With Heavy Looks.
Christopher Titus Saturday, Oct. 10, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm
One thing has become clear throughout Christopher Titus’ 20-year career: He doesn’t shy away from troubling topics. Divorce, abuse, suicide and failure have made themselves at home in his standup sets. As dark as that may sound, the results are often hilarious. With Rachel Bradley.
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Alchemy Cafe: No Name String Band, free, 10 pm. Bright Red Studios: Lovely Socialite (CD release), Lundberg/Packard/Pireh, Throwaway, 8 pm. Brink Lounge: The Getaway Drivers (CD release), Brian Daly, American Feedbag, 7 pm. See page 34. Cha Cha: DJ Roadmaster, country record sale, 7 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Madison County, 9 pm.
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Whose Live Anyway? Saturday, Oct. 10, Overture Hall, 8 pm
Even though “everything’s made up and the points don’t matter,” the regular performers on TV’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? take the craft seriously, and they’re rightly regarded as some of the best improvisers in the world. Featuring Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Joel Murray and Jeff B. Davis.
B OOKS Walden West Festival: Annual August Derleth Society event, 1-5 pm, 10/10, Sauk Prairie Community Center, Sauk City, with special guest Michael Perry. Free. derleth.org.
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This bill boasts three of Madison’s best rock ’n’ roll bands, headlined by Meghan Rose’s most recent and excellent project. With alt-rock rulers Devil to Drag and the Anderson Brothers, a classic-rock influenced trio who released their debut, Saints Don’t Sell, this past summer.
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n ISTHMUS PICKS : OCT 10 – 15 A RT EX H I B I TS & E VE N TS Natasha Nicholson: “The Artist in Her Museum,” installation, 8/22-11/8, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (reception 6-9 pm, 10/10, with artist talk 6:30 pm, music by Trap Saturn, $10). 257-0158.
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above the late-night thumping of a downstairs discotheque whose energy, according to drummer Pat McGee, “motivated us to out-throb the throb.” With Geographer.
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Cargo Coffee-East Wash.: Jamie Guiscafre, free, 2 pm. Frequency: Bully, Heat, Fake Limbs, 8 pm. See page 38.
Monroe Street Festival: Annual event, 10 am-5 pm, 10/10, along Monroe Street, with entertainment, kids’ activities, sidewalk sales, library book sale, wellness fair. monroestreetfestival.com. 255-8211.
Harmony: Cajun Strangers, 7 pm (dance lesson 6 pm). High Noon Saloon: Soggy Prairie Boys, Danny Fox, Jeffery James Show, Yid Vicious, Yammer, The Gomers, Bron Sage, Government Zero, Oudist Colony, Madison All-Star Bernie Band, Bernie Sanders campaign fundraiser, 3 pm.
AppleFest: Annual NESCO fundraiser, 9:30 am3:30 pm, 10/10, Warner Park Community Rec. Center, with entertainment, kids’ carnival, bake sale, lunch, raffle, used book sale (also 4-7 pm on 10/8 and 9 am-5 pm, 10/9). nescoinc.org. 243-5252. Monona Fall Fesival: 10/10-11, Winnequah Park (unless noted). Saturday: Arts & crafts fair 9 am-3 pm, Chili festival/cook-off 11:30 am-3 pm. Sunday: Family fun day 11 am-4 pm. More events: mymonona. com/443/Fall-Festival. 222-4167.
SP EC TATO R S P O RTS UW Women’s Hockey: vs. Ohio State, 2:07 pm, 10/10-11, LaBahn Arena. $5. 262-1440.
UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Adam Rapa & Elizabeth Vik, free, 7:30 pm.
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One Sky One World Kite Festival: Annual event, 11 am-4 pm, 10/11, McKee Farms Park, Fitchburg, with regional kite-flyers, sport kites, kite-making for kids, demos & displays. Free. 271-8265.
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Brink Lounge: The Huntertones, jazz/rock, 8 pm. Cardinal Bar: Darren Sterud Orchestra, jazz, 7 pm; New Breed Jazz Jam, free, 9 pm Tuesdays. High Noon Saloon: The Pine Barrens (album release), 6 pm; Rock Star Gomeroke, 9 pm Tuesdays. Overture Center-Overture Hall: Celtic Woman, 7 pm. Up North Pub: The Lower Fifth, free, 8 pm.
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Disclosure Wednesday, Oct. 14, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm
It’s been a fast five years for brother-duo Guy and Howard Lawrence. Since popping up on Myspace in 2010, Disclosure has released a game-changing full-length, Settle, and spawned some of the most recognized dance-based tracks around. Their second album, Caracal, dropped on Sept. 25. See page 34. With Claude VonStroke, Pomo. Note: This concert has moved from the Alliant Energy Center’s Exhibition Hall.
Up North Pub: Gin Mill Hollow, free, 7 pm.
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Madison’s maddest and most talented ensemble is at it again with Family Saga, an eye-opening exploration of the intersecting lives of our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers and distant relatives. As always, the work was conceived, written, rehearsed and performed by the ensemble of eight within a span of one week. ALSO: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 8 pm.
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Corb Lund & the Hurtin’ Albertans Wednesday, Oct. 14, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm
In a genre populated by grizzled knockaround guys, Corb Lund still manages to stand out. The Alberta native is a former punk rocker who now makes his living writing honky-tonk rabble-rousers about everything from “goth girls to survivalists, bovines to Bibles, antique pistols to vintage motorcycles.” With WheelHouse.
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Brooklyn-based dreamgaze band DIIV has remained musically quiet since the release of its debut, 2012’s Nirvanainspired Oshin, but frontman Zachary Cole Smith has penned a sophomore album, the double-disc Is the Is Are, that is reportedly slated for release later this month. With No Joy, Sunflower Bean.
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Cleo Tucker and Harmony Trividad are nothing if not efficient: The duo excels at pulling big emotional punches out of their small sound. Composed solely of guitar, bass and the women’s voices, their 2015 debut Before the World Was Big is charming, curious and unassumingly powerful. With Trophy Dad, Tarpaulin.
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Cardinal: DJs Fabe, Aliens at Work, Andy Ash, 9 pm. The Frequency: Mayday, Kap Kallous, 9:30 pm. Heritage Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, French swing, 8:30 pm. Opus Lounge: Tyler Preston, free, 9 pm. UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, free, 7:30 pm.
B OOKS Don Sanford: Discussing “On Fourth Lake: A Social History of Lake Mendota,” his new book, 6:30 pm, 10/14, University Book Store-Hilldale. 238-8455.
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As part of the collective Beast Coast, along with Pro Era and Flatbush Zombies, the Underachievers duo represents one of the highest rungs on the New York hip-hop ladder. Issa Gold and AK create a psychedelic brand of rap that sounds like a second, albeit more aggressive, coming of De La Soul. With Pouya and the Buffet Boyz, Kirk Knight, Bodega Bamz. Brink Lounge: Alison Margaret Quintet, free, 8 pm. Essen Haus: Big Wes Turner’s Trio, free, 9 pm. The Frequency: Undlin & Wolfe, Seasaw, Christopher Gold, 9 pm. Harmony Bar: Backroom Harmony Band, Josh Harty, Americana, 8 pm. High Noon Saloon: Dub Foundation, 9 pm. Merchant: Prognosis Negative, rock, free, 10:30 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Dixie Duncan, Chunkhead, free, 10 pm. UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall: Joyce Yang, piano, 8 pm.
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Huckleberry & Persimmon, 5956 Odana Rd., is a new play and activity center offering options for families with children ages 1-5. The grand opening on Sept. 19 featured games and face-painting, a photo booth and information about forthcoming classes in subjects such as art, movement, Spanish and science. Director Lee Alliet took some time to tell us what parents can expect from activities here. What made you decide to start your own kid-centered business? With our first child, we enjoyed parent-baby groups at Happy Bambino in Monona. We’re a west-side family, so it was a lot of time
in the car, but we managed it because of how much we liked going there. When our second child was born, though, I knew I couldn’t be in the car that much. And trying to find west-side activities that were both available and affordable was a struggle. Huckleberry & Persimmon features “playbased” classes. What does that look like? Some resemble a traditional educational setting with an instructor up front, kids quietly listening, everyone doing the same thing. But asking a young child to sit still that long doesn’t always work. So while our classes still have an instructor and lesson plans guiding what we’re doing, there are always different options kids can choose from.
What can parents expect from the “Mayhem Open Play” sessions? That 5:30-7 p.m., after-work, before-bedtime period is not always the most fun. So here, there are riding toys, trampolines, hula hoops, balls and mats for kids to burn off energy during that pre-bedtime hour. You have workshops geared toward parents, too. What topics do you plan to cover? We’re working with a local sex therapist to put on a workshop about maintaining intimacy between parents — not just sexual intimacy, but also about how your marriage survives having young kids. And one I’m really excited about is on helping kids deal with transitions, both big and small. All of the parent workshops are targeted toward
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participation and involvement. You learn from the person presenting, but also from each other. We want to help families build a community through being involved in the kids’ classes and parent workshops together. How does the name “Huckleberry & Persimmon” reflect your philosophy of childhood learning? The name comes from the old saying, “a huckleberry over my persimmon” — meaning something just out of reach. To me, the huckleberry signifies a young child’s ability to grow and learn. And it means being respectful of what young kids are able to do, and what they’re not, what’s just a huckleberry away, and what’s too far beyond that. n
Coloring books for grownups More than a fad, they’re an aid to meditation, relaxation and creativity found symbols to unlock the castle door and reveal the secret hidden within.” Others, like Coloring for Calm: 100 Mandalas for Relaxation in Minutes are aiming to be more of a chill pill for the harried denizens of the 21st century. Anthology, 218 State St., carries a selection of the most artistic of the books and has even created and printed its own Wisconsin-themed coloring book, featuring designs both scenic and political, which should be in stock soon.
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If you have trouble staying within the lines when you’re coloring in your nephew’s Despicable Me coloring book, you’ll really have to concentrate to stay in the lines with books like Joanna Basford’s Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest, filled with intricate (though not impossible) scenes. Basford’s books bring together the allure of a treasure hunt and the puzzle-solving of Myst-era gaming (“Travel through the forest and find the nine hidden symbols along the way. At the end of the book you must use your nine
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Buy-Sell-Exchange Matching people and property for over 20 years. Achieve your goals! Free consult. www.andystebnitz.com. Andy Stebnitz 608-692-8866 Restaino & Associates Realtors NEAR EAST 1 Bedroom. Sunny upper flat, den/office. Open floor plan, vaulted ceiling, carpeting, private entry, garage, on busline. No laundry, no pets. Res neighborhood. Owner occupied. $700. Call 608-244-4433 leave message. SHORT-TERM RENTALS Luxury furnished apt with resort hotel services, everything incl in rent. “All you need is your toothbrush.” 1, 2, 3 bdrms from $375+/wk or $1495+/mo. Countryside Apartments. 608-271-0101, open daily! www.countrysidemadison.com ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates.com! (AAN CAN)
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Jobs On the Busline Dishwashing and housekeeping needed for Monroe St. business. Hotel or restaurant experience a plus. Part-time, days. 238-2981. Commercial Cleaning Company is looking for General Cleaners in the Madison and surrounding areas! Permanent,Part-Time Evening Hours starting after 5pm, M – F, 3 to up to 5 hours a night. NO WEEKENDS! Must be independent, reliable and detail oriented. Must have own transportation. Pay rate starts at $9.25 an hour. Apply now in person at 2001 W. Broadway, call 608-222-0217 if you have questions or fill out an online application at: www.programmedcleaning.com A Woman’s Touch is hiring a FT Retail Clerk & Sexual Health Educator (32-40 hours). Includes the retail work of exceptional customer service, point of sale operation, general store support and educating customers on a variety of sexual health topics. Requires excellent detail skills, comfort with a wide range of people, ability to learn quickly, and a relaxed mature attitude. Associate degree required, must be well-organized, hard working and a team player. Schedule is Tuesday - Saturday including one evening til 8. Includes extensive training, no sexual health education experience is required. Retail experience or a health/biology background a big plus. Includes paid time off & a high quality, fully-paid health insurance. To apply, send a hand-signed letter describing why you want to work at A Woman’s Touch, the skills you bring to the position, your available start date and your minimum salary requirements, along with a resume or job history, to:
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Chiropractic Office Hiring. Tinnen Family Chiropractic is looking for an energetic, personable office assistant for a part-time position at our east-side office. Duties include reception, office work, billing, patient interaction. We’ll train you, but computer skills and attention to detail are necessary. Great place to work on Willy St. with proximity to the co-op and bike path. 16-24 hrs/week. $10-$12/hr depending on experience. Accepting applications through Oct 20. PLEASE APPLY IN PERSON, bring resume and references, 8-6 M-F and Sat 10/10 & 10/17 from 10-12. 1234 Williamson St, Madison. Private duty RNs/LPNs needed for a nonvent individual on the south side of Madison. Night/Weekend hours available. Also seeking PRN shift help. Call (608) 692-2617 and ask for Jill. Eastside woman w/disability needs assistance with personal care (inc pivot transfers), chores, meal prep & errands. Looking for weekend support (Fri 12 pm to Sun 5 pm) preferably female at $100/nt. Contact Liza at (503) 960-3970.
RECENTLY RETIRED & LOOKING FOR EXTRA INCOME? Isthmus needs a delivery driver one day per week - Thursday. This job requires an easygoing, physically fit individual with an eye for detail and a good driving record. Your vehicle must be a van, pick-up truck with a cap, or medium to large SUV in good running order with up-to-date insurance. The route takes about 3 hours to deliver. Base pay is $52 including mileage allowance. Please contact Circulation Manager via email: tomd@isthmus.com No phone calls please. Isthmus is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Volunteer with UNITED WAY Volunteer Center Call 246-4380 or visit volunteeryourtime.org to learn about opportunities The Aging and Disability Resource Center is in need of volunteers to participate in Language Enriched Exercise Plus Socialization (LEEPS), a program designed to reach out to people living with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Volunteers will be matched with an individual in the community to provide socialization, language activities and exercise with the goal of helping the individual remain independent as long as possible. Training and ongoing support provided. Madison Area Bus Advocates writes a monthly column for a news website maintained by UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is always looking for grassroots material about our bus, especially material that informs newcomers or includes an unconventional perspective that might not get aired elsewhere. Share them with others and stimulate constructive discussion and change. Looking for a way to volunteer in the beautiful fall weather? Consider joining the guest services team at the Henry Vilas Zoo. Opportunities include: driving the Zoo Train, helping guests feed the goats, sharing a welcome and a smile, providing directions and watching guests at the carousel. Volunteers age 16+ are eligible for most roles, while youth 10+ may be able to volunteer with an adult.
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I’m a gay man who is ready to start cheating on my boyfriend. We’ve had a wonderful three-and-a-half-year relationship full of respect, affection, support and fun. I love everything about our relationship, and our sex life was great...until he moved in eight months into the relationship. At that point, he lost all interest. I’ve tried everything: asking what I can do differently, being more aggressive, being more passive, suggesting couples therapy, getting angry, crying and breaking up twice. (Both breakups lasted only a few hours because I honestly don’t want to leave him.) When I bring up an open relationship, he just goes quiet. I’ve moved past most of the anger, frustration, hurt, embarrassment and sadness. But I won’t accept a life of celibacy. I would like to get some discreet play on the side. My boyfriend is very perceptive, and I’m a bad liar. I don’t want to get caught — but how should the conversation go if (when) I do? I’m leaning toward something like this: “I’m sorry it came to this, and I know we agreed on monogamy, and I gave you monogamy for three and a half years, but part of agreeing to monogamy is the implicit promise to meet your partner’s sexual
needs. Everything else about our relationship is wonderful, but we couldn’t fix this one thing, so instead of continuing to push the issue, this is what I decided to do.” Good enough? Can’t Help Exploring Another Tush The speech you’re planning to give after you get caught is lovely, CHEAT, but you should give it before you get caught. Tell your boyfriend you love him — you would have to, considering what you’ve put up with for nearly three years — and that you have no desire to leave him. But while your relationship is wonderful in many ways, it’s not sexual in any way. And while you’re willing to settle for a companionate relationship, you’re not willing to settle for a sexless existence. Rather than being threatened by your occasional, discreet and safe sexual adventures, CHEAT, your boyfriend should be grateful for them. Because those sexual adventures, and your boyfriend’s acceptance of them, will make it possible for you to stay together. Hopefully he’ll see that the men you’ll be fucking on the side aren’t a threat to your relationship but its salvation. If your boyfriend can’t see that, if he insists that your relationship remain monogamous and sexless (wouldn’t that technically mean he’s the only person you don’t have sex with?), give breaking up another try. The third time might be the charm.
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I’m a woman in a hetero marriage. My husband and I enjoy skimming the Craigslist “casual encounters” section. It’s like people-watching, but NSFW. We recently stumbled on an ad posted by a male friend. The ad was soliciting gay mutual BJ/HJ, with the stipulation that the first one to come (the loser?) gets fucked in the ass by the other (the winner?). Other than the concept of winners and losers during sex, I’ve got no issues. The thing that gnaws at my conscience is this: Our friend is a young guy, bi-curious and impulsive. Once I got over the giggles of glimpsing a dick pic that was not intended for my eyes, I began to worry about our friend’s risky behavior. Do I say something? I care about this guy, but I don’t want to come off as “mommy” or “creepy.” Dude’s Extremely Risky Plan Elevates Stress
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You gotta live it every day
My first impulse was to tell you to mind your own business — or MYOB, as the late, great Ann Landers used to say (google her, kids) — because you don’t actually know if your friend is taking foolish risks. He could be using condoms, taking Truvada, and carefully vetting his play partners. But if I spotted a friend’s dick on Craigslist in an ad that left me the least bit concerned for his safety, I would say something. I don’t mind coming off as “mommy” (meddling mommy impulses are a requirement for this gig), and if looking out for your friends is “creepy,” then I’m a creep. I’d go with something like this: “I spotted your ad — and your cock — on CL. What you’re looking for sounds hot. But I hope you’re being safe: using condoms, being choosy, taking Truvada. And speaking from experience, getting fucked right after you come sounds sexy in theory, but it’s not much fun in reality. So I hope you’re taking a refractory-period-length break — maybe for ice cream? — before the loser gets fucked.” n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or find him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.
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