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JV football is the last hurrah for many players.
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NO VOTE FOR YOU
State’s voter ID laws may disenfranchise students.
MUM’S THE WORD
State keeps east-siders in the dark on new archive building.
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OPINION IT’S AWKWARD TO write about your own profession, which could explain why so few reporters cover the media in this state. Or it could be that joint ownership, in the case of The Capital Times and Wisconsin State Journal, or consolidation, in the case of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, precludes the option. But Bruce Murphy, editor of Urban Milwaukee, has long trained his eye on the subject. This week he predicts what Gannett’s purchase of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will mean for the coverage of government statewide. His assessment is not pretty.
COVER STORY PERHAPS THE CAPE Kennedy model set, with rockets and plastic astronauts, had something to do with it. A lover of all things space-related since he was a kid, veteran journalist Jay Rath says he only gets nervous when interviewing NASA stars, which is what he did for this week’s cover story on UW-alum, William Borucki, aka the “planet hunter.”
PEACEABLE KINGDOM
City foxes and coyotes go along to get along.
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THE BIG CHILL
Will Gannett purchase of Journal Sentinel curtail government scrutiny?
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ANYBODY HOME?
“Planet hunter” gives impetus to search for alien life.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Will rocker Meghan Rose depart for the Big Apple?
MAKE IT WORK
A busy Colin Hay is having a very good year.
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What do we want? Brains! Fri., Oct. 30, Madison Children’s Museum, 6-10 pm Touch real human and animal brains, get glamified or greenified at the Wicked makeup station, watch fright films with live music, scarf down pizza and quaff craft beer at the museum’s adults-only “Monster Mash-up.” Costumes encouraged.
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Rub elbows with entrepreneurs and investors at the inaugural Wisconsin WOMEN reception on Friday, and the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium on Saturday and Sunday. Learn what’s new in the Wisconsin startup scene, make connections and practice your elevator pitch.
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Madisonians are great at recycling, right? But with state cuts to recycling grants and the city’s delay of an innovative biodigester project, we could be doing better. Come talk solutions with local experts (George Dreckmann alert!) at this League of Women Voters of Dane County event.
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Get rid of art supplies gathering dust and freshen up your supplies at the 10th Re-Art SWAP. Just show up with something to swap and bags for your haul and and you can browse for free. Nothing to swap? Pay $5 and make your artsy-crafty dreams come true.
Canine meet-and-greet Nov. 1, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall, 10 am-4 pm
The 27th Annual Wisconsin Dog Fair presented by the Badger Kennel Club gives dog lovers a chance to meet more than 100 breeds. Also check out breed rescues, dog sport demos and some special humans, including David Frei, “The Voice of Westminster.” Ironic note: no pets allowed.
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Brad Lutes considers himself “blessed.” The head football coach of the Sun Prairie High School junior varsity football team hasn’t lost a game the past two years. In the final game of the season — held on a sunny but windy Thursday afternoon against Madison East at Demetral Field, against a backdrop of drive-time traffic on Packers Avenue — the Sun Prairie Cardinals crushed the Purgolders, 41-16. Lutes made sure every player on his team saw action that day. After all, it might have been a kid’s last chance. Junior varsity sports are weird that way. By the time athletes reach this stage, they’ve hit a tipping point: For most of their formative years, there were plenty of youth teams to go around, with rules ensuring playing time. Even at the high school freshmen level, some sports often include more than one team. The weeding-out process begins in earnest at the JV level, as athletes who grew up loving the game and hoping to star for the local high school team realize that dream is coming to a cruel end. Even on JV and varsity squads that don’t cut players (such as Sun Prairie), there’s no guarantee they’ll play.
That’s a harsh reality. “We try to make it as positive and exciting of an experience as possible, with the understanding that our job is to get boys ready to play at the next level,” says Lutes, who recently completed his third season as the Cardinals’ JV head coach. “I love the fact that maybe this will be a kid’s last football experience, because we have a chance to make it his best experience.” That JV football experience varies from school to school. Sun Prairie and Middleton play their home games at Ashley Field and Breitenbach Stadium, respectively — the same venues where the varsity teams play under Friday night lights — and weekly fan support at Thursday afternoon JV games is strong. Contrast that with other Big Eight Conference schools, whose JV teams compete on patchy practice fields, with no locker rooms, no lights, no public address announcer, no bleachers and not even a scoreboard. Crowds at some JV games are even sparser than before; two years ago, the Big Eight moved those games from Friday afternoons as part of a doubleheader with varsity games to Thursday afternoons. Lutes says conference officials made that switch to
help smaller varsity teams fill out their depth charts on Friday nights by suiting up JV players. This has not kept guys from playing JV football for Sun Prairie, though. This season’s 54-player squad was one of the largest in recent memory. “I enjoy it because I feel part of something,” says 16-year-old Jack Haraldson, a 5-foot-6, 180-pound sophomore fullback for Sun Prairie who’s played organized football since fourth grade. “You don’t get to play the sport too long, especially if you’re my size. After high school, that’s it.” Haraldson admits his size could have forced Lutes to look past him if he hadn’t proved himself on and off the field. “It’s all about the effort,” Haraldson says, recalling a recent 41-0 Cardinals victory. “We went back the next day and watched film to point out our mistakes. We always strive for perfection, and I like that.” Lutes and Haraldson each predict as many as 75% of this season’s JV players will move up to the Cardinals’ no-cut varsity roster next year. As Haraldson says, “The more the merrier in football.” Still, the game clock for most of these kids keeps ticking. n
Number of Sun Prairie High School JV football players at the start of the season: 54 (50 SOPHOMORES, 4 FRESHMEN) Number of players at season’s end: 49 JV head coach Brad Lutes’ record over three seasons: 19-8 Number of rushing yards by sophomore Collin Fluno: 1,261 (9 GAMES) Estimated percentage of high school football players who will play in college: 6.5% Estimated percentage of college football players who will play professionally: 1.6%
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Other UW campuses, including Green Bay, are changing their student IDs to meet requirements. Rick Warpinski, director of UW-Green Bay’s University Union and Shorewood Golf Course, wrote to legislators that the cost will be negligible. The school has about 500 out-of-state students. “We realize that after the first round of IDs expire, there will be some replacement costs, but that’s a cost we’re willing to pay to support the students’ access to vote,” says Warpinski. Berquam tells Isthmus that it would be too expensive to adopt the same approach at UW-Madison, costing as much as $2 million over five years and creating security risks. “What it boils down to is a cost issue,” she says. “We’re considerably larger than Green Bay. Our IDs are also used for access control, access to labs, into buildings...debit card accounts. It’s a little bit more detailed process than merely, here’s your new ID card.” Warpinski says the Green Bay campus’ cards are also used for these functions. The UW-Madison announced it will instead issue a separate ID card that can be used for voting but won’t be used for other UW functions. “This will just be a plastic card with photo, expiration date and a signature. The [Government Accountability Board] has approved the cards,” Berquam says. “It’s somewhere between 35 and 50 cents a card.” But Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell says creating a new, single-purpose ID for voting is a terrible way to get students to the polls. “We don’t like the secondary ID because you have to have it on you, an ID that does nothing, for several months. The chances of that getting lost or misplaced are pretty high,” he says.
Young students typically don’t think about voting until the last minute. “It’s only when they get into the last week that they think, ‘Oh, this election is important, I get to vote,’” McDonell says. “Then, do they have to have the ID they use for everything else, or do they have to have this other ID? Where do they find that other one? It’s just a flawed strategy.” Berquam’s office said it would recruit and place volunteers outside of major student polling places to help students understand what they need to vote. But McDonell says that’s illegal. “You can’t have people by polling places instructing voters. Why wouldn’t the Republican Party want to do the same thing? Or any other group?” he asks. “We’ve had that happen, and we send police to stop that stuff.” “They need to talk to people who do this for a living,” McDonell adds. “I wouldn’t go talk to the janitor about how to design a course. That’s what they’re doing.” Miller fears that if Wisconsin experiences a close election outside agitators will pour into the state to try to suppress turnout among likely Democratic voters, like students. And he worries that whatever replaces the Government Accountability Board, which the Legislature is in the process of dismantling, might not approve of the UW-Madison’s special voter IDs. “It’s an obligation of the university to facilitate a student’s ability to vote in every way it can. The additional expense of issuing a card for two years versus five years is well worth it when you consider the important lesson it provides,” he says. “I really think the university is shortchanging its students and it’s shortchanging our democratic principles.”n
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Madison Laning, the chair of UW-Madison’s Student Leadership Council, spent last election cycle hustling to make sure her classmates were registered to vote. She estimates that she helped register about 3,000 of them. Getting the necessary documentation was sometimes a hassle, and many complained that the process was taking too long. Now that the state has instituted voter identification requirements, she fears even more will be discouraged. “There’s going to be a lot of students who will be turned away,” Laning predicts. “If they’re not able to get the proper identification and it’s going to take them another hour to get it, a lot of them won’t go back to the polls.” And out-of-state students will be among the hardest hit by the state’s new voter ID requirement. At the UW-Madison campus alone, there are 14,000 such students. That number is big enough to swing even major races. For instance, Justice David Prosser beat JoAnne Kloppenburg by slightly more than 7,000 votes to retain his seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And in the 2000 presidential election in Wisconsin, Al Gore nudged out George W. Bush with fewer than 6,000 votes. “Republicans in the state Legislature aren’t stupid,” says Ald. Mike Verveer, who has worked for years as an election clerk on the UW-Madison campus. “They realize college students vote overwhelmingly Democratic.” Many critics of the new law are also disappointed UW-Madison officials aren’t taking bigger steps to protect students’ voting rights. Says state Sen. Mark Miller (D-Monona), “The university is avoiding irritating the Republicans.” Last week, UW-Madison officials announced plans to create a separate voter identification card for students who need it, as an attempt to help them navigate the state’s new requirement that all voters have valid photo IDs to cast a ballot. “To ensure students have the broadest awareness of the voter ID requirements, we’ll be expanding the way in which we get the cards into the hands of the students who need them,” Lori Berquam, vice provost for student life and dean of students, said in a news release. The new law requires a photo ID and proof of residency to cast a ballot. For most people, a current state driver’s license (or a passport or military ID) will do the trick. But the campus’ out-of-state students will need some other form of ID in order to cast a ballot in Wisconsin because out-of-state driver’s licenses aren’t valid under the new law. Standard student IDs won’t work because the voter ID needs to be one that is good for only two years, and includes a signature and photo, along with issue and expiration dates.
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Sam Breidenbach, owner of TDS Custom Construction, specializes in the remodeling of older homes. As such, he has to deal with stringent regulations for dealing with substances like lead paint. “When we don’t comply with those leadsafe guidelines, we expose ourselves to very serious five-digit fines,” Breidenbach says. “We’re compelled to uphold the law, and we’re happy to do it, because it’s good for our clients and our employees.” Regulations require Breidenbach to inform his customers about the risks and hazards of lead paint and how he will deal with it. It’s one reason Breidenbach is miffed about how the state Department of Administration is handling the demolition of a 100-year-old building behind his company on Madison’s east side. The building, located between Dickinson and Thornton streets along the Capital City bike trail, is being demolished to make way for a new state archive facility. “The state is basically not meeting our simple request for setting up a meeting,” Breidenbach says. “When people don’t understand the process, that uncertainty breeds a lot of fear, speculation and anger.” The building has been a foundry, a munitions factory and an appliance factory as well as the home of UW Tandem Press. As such, it is known to contain remnants of numerous hazardous materials, including asbestos, PCBs, PCEs, heavy metals, lead and more. Several neighbors are worried about the way these hazardous materials are being contained and disposed of. There are fears about dust created when parts of the facility are razed. Many are also worried about runoff into the nearby Yahara River. Matthew Miller, who calls himself a “citizen scientist” and has experience working in soil testing, lives less than a mile downwind
from the site. He and others have been trying to determine what types of water, soil and air testing the state has done, and what those tests have found. The state has not been forthcoming. “When people don’t have information, they tend to worry, and the human mind goes towards the worst-case scenario,” Miller says. “Having more testing would alleviate angst.” Fears about what pollutants might be spread with the dust as walls are knocked over were fueled this week, when O’Keeffe Middle School was evacuated on both Monday and Tuesday after several children complained about coughing and sore throats. Although there’s no evidence to link the evacuation with the demolition, a neighbor had spotted a cloud of dust coming from the demolition site Monday morning. “There are lot of upset parents talking about not sending their kids to school tomorrow,” John Coleman, whose son attends O’Keeffe, said Monday night. “It’s not clear the demolition was the cause, but there needs to be documentation about what was going on during that period.” WISC-TV later reported that a child was seen on security cameras using pepper spray at the school. The Madison Fire Department’s hazardous materials team was called in and took air samples for testing, the station reported. Coleman, who works in water quality testing, says the DOA project needs to be handled sensitively, because so much could go wrong. “I try to maintain a naïve hopefulness about these sorts of projects. But my experience has been that there are always mistakes,” he says. “Mistakes when you’re right in the middle of a population center and in the middle of two lakes are inexcusable.”
He’s concerned about the lack of indepth plans to control both dust and water runoff. There are also concerns about the design of the new facility, says Anne Walker, a Marquette Neighborhood Association board member who lives about a block from the site. “My impression is it’s a nice pole barn, and I like pole barns,” Walker says. “But I’m not sure this is the right place for it.” Mostly, residents are exasperated that they cannot get anyone from the state to answer questions about the project. Residents have set up a Facebook page as a clearinghouse for information on the project. “There’s some who would really like to see it paused,” Walker says. “There should have been an opportunity for the neighborhood to comment. The state is an experienced developer. A project constructed in the heart of a neighborhood is one you’d want to have neighborhood input on.” State Rep. Chris Taylor, whose Madison district includes the site, has been acting as a go-between for the state DOA. Taylor says that DOA officials told her if they held a public meeting on this project, they would have to hold one for every project. She wishes officials would simply meet with residents and answer their questions directly. “It’s a good project that has some merit, but the way DOA has handled communications with the neighborhood has been horrible,” Taylor says. “They’ve refused to hold a community meeting. Every time a question arises, residents have to contact our office, and we have to contact the DOA, which is a really inefficient use of everybody’s time.” Neither the DOA’s Cindy Torstveit, a facilities management administrator, nor spokesperson Tristan Cook returned calls from Isthmus for comment. n
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THURSDAY, OCT. 22 n A state Senate committee approves two controversial elections bills: One would dismantle the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board, forming two bipartisan commissions, and another would overhaul Wisconsin’s campaign finance laws. n UW-Madison professors are concerned that efforts to protect tenure will be voided by statewide rules, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. A draft of UW System policy says administrators can discipline or fire professors for “underperforming.”
votes 5-2 to approve the district’s English language learner plan. Some parents and educators remain concerned about the impact of expanding the dual-language immersion program. n Scientists at Yale University announce the discovery of a new species of giant Galapagos tortoise, but, as it turns out, UWMadison’s Zoological Museum already had a specimen.
yer, pastor, social justice activist and the director of community relations at UW-Madison, announces his intent to run for Dane County Circuit Judge Amy Smith’s open seat in the April election. n The New York Times editorial board slams Gov. Scott Walker for his efforts to eliminate watchdog measures such as John Doe investigations and the GAB. n Dane County Executive Joe Parisi is not on board with a $500 million plan for a public-private partnership to redevelop the struggling Alliant Energy Center, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
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Canid relations Researchers want to know how foxes and coyotes are coexisting in Madison BY LIZ MERFELD
In the winter of 2014, some unusual freshmen were spotted on the UW-Madison campus — a family of red foxes, denning under a building on Linden Drive. “They were kind of the Hollywood stars for that spring. Everybody would walk out of class and see the foxes playing,” says Marcus Mueller, a UW graduate student in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology studying urban canids. Students’ curiosity grew. What are they doing downtown? What can we do to keep them here? Do they bite? Around the same time, dog walkers in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve discovered their pups weren’t the only canids enjoying the trails. Reports of roaming coyotes picked up, along with more questions. For answers, the public turned to David Drake, a UW-Extension wildlife specialist. While safety was — and is — on the minds of caring canine and feline companions, something additional piqued his interest: Foxes and coyotes rarely share a landscape, let alone an urban one. Historically, when coyotes arrive, they drive out or kill resident foxes. Drake wanted to know how these so-called incompatible species were sharing Madison. Enlisting the help of an undergraduate student, Drake caught and outfitted a fox and a couple of coyotes with radio collars to begin collecting data on how they’re using the area. That pilot grew into a full-fledged study, the UW Urban Canid Project. Mueller was brought on in January 2015 to help. Interestingly, he says, “We don’t see that same level of aggression [to foxes] from the coyotes. We don’t see the level of mortality on the foxes that you traditionally see in the rural areas.” Like Drake, Mueller is interested in their “interspecific interaction,” or how they’re tolerating one another. Are they separating themselves spatially? Are coyotes eating one food while foxes are eating another? They’ve got their work cut out for them, but luckily they have help: citizen scientists. “Anyone and everyone” is invited to
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take part, Mueller notes, whether you want to report a sighting on the project’s iNaturalist.org page, collect scat, invite researchers to set live traps in your yard or tag along on a trap check to watch them “process” an animal. This involves sedating it, giving a physical exam and collecting blood, nasal and fecal samples to check for disease. Before it wakes up, researchers attach a radio collar. Once collared, an animal’s location is tracked using radio telemetry once a week for five hours. But there’s more to public participation than free help for scientists. Researchers want to know where people are seeing animals to map out potential “hot spots” for conflict. It also clues them in to where they should set traps. “If we know there are a lot of foxes in an area but we don’t have any collared out there, we can increase our sample size.” Perhaps most compelling, by comparing their telemetry data with citizen-generated
data, they hope to be able to tell if it’s a reliable estimate for where you might find foxes and coyotes on a much broader scale across an urban area. Mueller explains, “If we can find a way to use this free citizen-generated location data, it’s going to go a long way for folks trying to manage wildlife in urban areas.” Much of managing wildlife, Mueller points out, involves managing people. This is not breaking news for folks in the Madison area whose dogs have been preyed on by coyotes. Mueller says that in some circumstances coyotes’ “scary stigma” is justified, but not in most. “The problems that come with coyotes in urban areas can be avoided if you take certain precautions,” he notes. He warns that the knee-jerk reaction a landowner or resident might have to coyotes — kill them or trap and relocate them — usually backfires.
“In the majority of cases,” Mueller says, “simply taking an animal out of a situation doesn’t address the main problem: why the animal is there in the first place.” If a coyote is using your yard, it’s probably because there are ample food resources there — a garden, compost pile, fruit tree, backyard chickens. “If you take away that coyote, all of those resources are still going to be available,” he says. “Studies have shown that another coyote will just take its place almost instantly.” What’s more, he adds, coyotes have been shown to increase their reproduction to counteract lost pack members. “By killing off certain members of the pack, that basically puts them into a cycle where they’re going to have more pups and potentially try to increase the number of animals on the landscape due to this increased source of mortality.” Trapping and releasing isn’t a humane alternative. “Studies show that it’s not good from a survival standpoint,” Mueller explains. “Being dropped into an unfamiliar area, they don’t know how to find food or water, and they may be in another animal’s territory... the end result usually isn’t too pretty.” Based on 75 reported sightings on iNaturalist. org and the data collected by tracking six additional coyotes and four foxes between January and March 2015, researchers have learned that coyotes tend to stick to the fringes of urban areas, like parks or golf courses, avoiding humans, pushing the foxes into the city. They’ve also learned that both species, but coyotes in particular, are managing to stick to a natural diet. They’re not dumpster diving like some might expect. This year’s trapping season is right around the corner. It’s slated to start in November and run through April, to coincide with predicted snowfall, since canids are infinitely easier to track if researchers have pawprints to follow. If you’d like to get involved, visit the UW Canid Project’s iNaturalist page, like them on Facebook, or visit their website, uwurbancanidproject.weebly.com. n
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How the Journal Sentinel will shrink Gannett’s all-but-certain cuts will mean less scrutiny of government statewide BY BRUCE MURPHY Bruce Murphy is the editor of Urban Milwaukee.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editor George Stanley loves to be a crusading journalist. No sooner did his newspaper’s reporters learn that Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislators were quietly trying to pass a law to end open records in Wisconsin than Stanley pounced on the issue, using the state’s largest newspaper to alert the citizenry. There were front-page stories, blaring headlines and prominent bylined editorials by Stanley himself excoriating these politicians. And in just a couple days, the Republicans backed off. Yes, many others in the state media also jumped on this issue. But the Journal Sentinel still has more clout when it comes to setting the political agenda, and its ferocious defense of open records made a big difference. Which is why the announcement that Gannett will be purchasing Journal Media Group and its flagship Milwaukee newspaper is so worrisome. Gannett is famous for cutting the budget and staff of newspapers it buys. The changes won’t just affect the Milwaukee metro area; they could have a negative impact on journalism statewide, resulting in less scrutiny of government. The Journal Sentinel still has two fulltime Capitol reporters, Patrick Marley and Jason Stein, whose stories help everyone, including others in the media, understand what’s going on in Madison. (Their coverage of Act 10 and the resulting protests was so in-depth it resulted in a book they co-authored.) Daniel Bice’s “No Quarter” column — a kind of bipartisan dirt patrol — was by far the best source of information on the John Doe investigation of Walker. Veteran journalist Craig Gilbert does the best analysis of electoral trends in Wisconsin. The newspaper also has another dozen or so “watchdog” reporters, who have done in-depth stories or series on such issues as the zebra mussel invasion of Lake Michigan
and inland lakes, uneven property tax assessments, the health risks for workers in coffee roasting companies, how federal laws protect gun store owners and the extreme level of political polarization in Wisconsin. Over the years, countless of their stories have had an impact on state policy making. How much of this will be lost? Gannett CEO Bob Dickey declared that his company intended to let the “local editors make local decisions on coverage,” including the level of journalist staffing. But Gannett has never operated that way. Jim Hopkins worked for Gannett for 20 years and then did an excellent blog covering its operations for six years. He documented the extraordinarily high profit margins of Gannett’s newspapers back before the Great Recession, with the Green Bay Press Gazette leading the pack with a 43.5% profit margin. Many Gannett papers had profit margins between 20% and 35%. These fat profits were achieved mostly through lean staffs, but in the years since then,
as the full brunt of print’s economic demise was felt, the company still slashed its staff almost in half. “From 2008 to 2012 Gannett reduced total employment by 20,000 positions out of 45,000 positions,” Hopkins notes. “The vast majority were age 45 and up because they were the highest paid.” Gannett owns more than 90 daily newspapers — and will add 14 more with the purchase of Journal Media Group. It implements a similar editorial approach at every paper. To get a sense of how much the Journal Sentinel’s staff might be cut, I compared its current editorial staff (editors, writers, photographers, designers and online staffers) of 117 people with Gannett papers in two mid-sized cities. Louisville’s Courier-Journal, DAVID MICHAEL MILLER in a metro area of 1.3 million, has just 63 total staff covering these same functions. The Indianapolis Star, in a metro area of 1.76 million people, has 89 staff covering these functions. Given Milwaukee’s metro population of 1.55 million, the staffing could fall somewhere between the other two cities, meaning the Journal Sentinel loses 35 to 40 staff. These will likely be the most veteran staff, those most knowledgeable about the community — and state — they’re covering.
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And that will likely include many enterprise reporters. “That’s going to be a luxury,” Hopkins says. The Indianapolis Star lists just one investigative reporter. The Louisville paper lists two, but one sounds like a beat reporter. Considering Gannett also owns 11 other newspapers in Wisconsin (more than in any state but Ohio), it seems certain there will more consolidation of Capitol coverage between the Milwaukee paper and the 11 smaller publications. Even as it sheds serious reporters, the Journal Sentinel will likely add more lightweight beats. Gannett papers have all these quaint-sounding jobs that will need to be filled like the “quality of life content strategist,” “senior content coach,” “beverage reporter,” the “working for equality, celebrating diversity” reporter (the Louisville paper has two of these!) and the all-important “give back and pay it forward” reporter. And no, I am not making these titles up. Hopkins, who lives in Louisville and watched how Gannett changed the Courier-Journal, describes the impact this way: “There’s never been a better time to be a crooked politician or businessman, because so few reporters are keeping an eye on them.” n
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Why place the onus on the Madison Metropolitan School District to solve the problem of sleep deprivation among its students (“At the Crack of Dawn,” 10/22/2015)? May I suggest the more practical (not to mention obvious) solution of earlier bedtimes? The middle-schooler quoted in the story wants to stay up later now that he’s older. What a great life lesson it would be for him to learn to prioritize his health and education over his frivolous desires. Go to bed earlier on school nights, son. You can stay up late on the other 180 days of the year. And you’ll develop self-discipline and healthy habits that will serve you well for the rest of your life. Knute K. Knutson (via email)
Just picked up a copy of your newspaper after having not looked at it for a while. Flipped through it and found the “Off the Square” cartoon (10/22/2015). I understand that there will always be differing opinions and that it isn’t the opinion of the publication for things posted there. Do you not have any quality control, though? Poor taste, shallow assessment of the issue and an ignorant display of the topic at hand. The cartoon, in four panels, goes from a quote about guns being tools to people in their early 20s committing suicide. Not only is the author ignorant, but so is your publication for allowing this message to be spread. Spare me the lesson on political cartoons. Poor taste is poor taste, no matter the format. Ethan Hussong (via email)
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Why is John Barker doing your classical reviews (“Idiomatic Eloquence,” 10/22/2015)? I’m an amateur, a dilettante. But even I know Rachmaninoff embedded Dies Irae in everything he wrote, from his first symphony to his Symphonic Dances. I have the sense he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. Tim Dougal (via email) Editor’s note: John Barker did note in his review that “Rachmaninoff was recurrently obsessed with the plainchant Dies Irae melody.”
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I was so proud of my dad at that moment. He was still who he had always been, and he was going to leave this world with a guffaw and not a sigh. My dad’s unstated life goal was to show people through humor what was important and what was not. Mission accomplished. As I fretted my way through life, my dad would often say to me, “It’s all small potatoes, kid.” This lesson was never brought home more clearly than when I was given the honor of being his caretaker. Dishes in the sink and an overgrown lawn were not worth my attention. What was important was the feel of my dad’s hand in mine; listening to the sound of his laughter as I told him the same story for the 30th time; knowing the care he selflessly gave to me as a child was, I hoped, being repaid to him now. I still believe the majority of people who decide to be a dementia caregiver would not do so if they knew in advance what was involved. And I’m so glad they don’t. There’s something we learn about ourselves as we wade through the quicksand, something significant. My journey would not be complete if I hadn’t discovered how much or how selflessly I could love someone else. And for that reason, I say, my dad never stopped raising me, until the day he died. n Yvette Ferris is currently writing a book on her experiences being a caregiver for her dad. She lives in Madison, Wis.
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I believe the majority of people who decide to be a caregiver of a loved one with dementia would not do so if they truly knew what was involved. There will be long, thankless hours. There will be embarrassing showers to give, bodily fluids to clean up. You may feel abandoned by family and friends. They don’t call or visit because you’re no longer the fun one, the available one or the energetic one. Webster’s needs to come up with a new word for the type of tired that goes along with caregiving. During the time I took care of my dad, I grabbed impromptu naps, mostly by accident, while waiting at the drive-through, standing in line at the grocery store, and in a public bathroom stall. I wouldn’t even remember closing my eyes before someone would rouse me, a mere 10 winks into my 40. There were months on end of going only from work to home to the pharmacy to home to the grocery store to home; of perfecting the five-minute shower; of spending more time in doctor’s waiting rooms than in my bedroom. But, I wouldn’t give it up for a second. A brief tutorial about my dad: He was the best. He taught me at age 10 how to change the oil in a car. He said it would be nice to have a guy take care of his youngest daughter, but he wanted to make sure she knew how to take care of herself first. He took me to my first day of kindergarten, my first day of Girl Scouts, and my first (and
only) day of ballet class. He took me shopping for every fancy dress I ever wore. He was my champion, my backbone, my conscience. The least I could do was make sure he kept his dignity and sense of humor until the end. Speaking of, there’s a level of humor that comes only when humor is all you have left. In my family, there was no crisis so great you couldn’t find a joke hiding in it somewhere. The only exception to that was when my mother died. In my dad’s eyes and those of her children, that was the day the cardinals stopped singing and the hummingbirds’ wings stilled. Other than that, there was nothing that wasn’t fair game. This was my father’s doing. My dad spent the last six weeks of his life in hospice, to keep him safe as he traversed the descending physical and mental rollercoaster of Alzheimer’s. One day I received a call from the hospice administrator. My heart stopped. There was no good outcome that came to mind as her name flashed across my cell phone screen. She said, “Ms. Ferris, I wanted to let you know I heard something today that is unusual for us here at hospice. When the noise grew louder, I stepped into the hall to see where it was coming from. I realized it was in your dad’s room.” Not good, I thought, wondering whether my dad was dead or evicted. “I walked into his room,” she continued, “and saw every staff member standing around his bed as he entertained them with his humorous stories. Some were crying...crying from laughter. This is very unusual for us. I just wanted you to know.”
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William Borucki, who earned a master’s from UW-Madison in 1962, is known as the “planet hunter.” In his career at NASA he helped identify more than 1,000.
growing up in Delavan, he would look up at the stars and wonder what — or who — might be out there. “I wanted to build a spaceship, explore our galaxy, and meet new life forms,” Borucki says. “My brother and I would try to launch little rockets, and by the time we were in high school we were pretty good at it.” He never did make the journey beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. But some people are speculating the UW grad’s remarkable career at NASA may have given humans their first glimpse of alien life. Borucki spearheaded the building of the Kepler Space Telescope, which he also helped design. Orbiting the sun since 2009, it recently captured images that scientists are at a loss to explain. A few suggest the images provide evidence of a sophisticated “alien megastructure” orbiting a distant star. Borucki is quick to point out that there may be other explanations. Whatever NASA’s Kepler telescope has found, it’s surely remarkable, and another
achievement for Borucki, who is known as “the planet hunter.” Borucki is not the only distinguished scientist who has been scanning the vast universe to see what might be lurking out there. In fact, his alma mater has been playing an active role in the search for extraterrestrial life since at least 2007, with the establishment of the Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Consortium. But Borucki may have had the greatest impact. Over his long career, his team at the NASA Ames Research Center in California has discovered 1,030 planets outside our solar system, as well as 4,696 unconfirmed planet candidates. His is a life in space.
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He enrolled at UW-Madison and became the first person in his family to attend college. “I certainly knew that I wanted to be in science: physics, astronomy, things like that.” Space exploration remained a special interest. “You know, you read the science fiction books,” he says, laughing. “You say, ‘Gee I’d like to go and build a spaceship and go and do all these things.’ And you’re young enough not to recognize that building a spaceship is not a one-man task!” One of the things he liked best about the UW was that he was able to declare a major so late. “And so you learn about geology, you learn about music, you learn about art — just all these different areas. So when you’re ready as a junior to say ‘I know what I want,’ you do know what you want. You’ve had a chance to sample all these other wondrous areas.” He had an explorer’s spirit, joining Hoofers, the sailing club at the Wisconsin Union, and becoming an instructor. “I would swim from campus to the end of Picnic Point,” Borucki says. Doing the breaststroke, he considered it perfectly safe. Others disagreed. One time he was halfway out when the university’s lake patrol noticed him. “They came roaring out and said they were here to rescue me,” he says. “Well, I didn’t want to be rescued. I just wanted to swim to Picnic Point.” In the classroom, his attention remained fixed on the stars. One treasured memory is an image of a nebula, glimpsed through a UW telescope. “It was absolutely stunning,” he says. “It’s 50-some years since then, and I haven’t forgotten the image.” He also met his wife, Josephine Joyce, at the UW. They were married at St. Paul’s. He recalls Madison and the campus as “a special place. It was a wonderful experience, going to the University of Wisconsin. I go back every few years to see it.” Borucki received his master’s in physics from the UW in 1962 and joined NASA Ames the same year. For 10 years he worked on research related to heat shields on Apollo missions. He studied hypervelocity shock waves and lightning on Earth and other planets. He developed models of the Earth’s atmosphere and published papers predicting a decrease in ozone at the planet’s poles. In the 1980s, he focused on searching for planets by looking for their transits. He submitted five proposals in 10 years. Finally, the Kepler mission was approved. It would search for Earth-like planets. Borucki was confident of what his space observatory would discover. “When you go to NASA headquarters and say, ‘I want $600 million to build a mission,’ you damn well better be able to tell them what you’re going to find,” he says. “Of course, the objective of the mission is to find out what you’re going to find, but you have to tell them anyway.” Long used to such bureaucracy, to convince NASA he set about building a predictive model of the galaxy, and it had to be based on fact. Fortunately, “I knew of a star which we could use to measure the existence of planets,” he says. “It’s called the sun.”
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“‘Alien megastructure’ could explain mysterious new Kepler results.” USA Today: “Has Kepler discovered an ‘alien megastructure’? FOX News: “An alien sighting?” Yahoo!: “Signs of alien life?” “My understanding is that what they’ve identified in this particular star is unique. So whatever is causing it is highly unusual,” says Jim Lattis, director of UW Space Place, an education and outreach center. “We’re going to learn something interesting, one way or the other.” It’s impossible to count out the possibility of alien life. “With billions of sun-like stars in the ‘habitable zones’ that encircle various galaxies, a very high probability exists that life has evolved on Earth-like planets orbiting some of those stars,” says Harrison Schmitt, astronaut and UW adjunct professor of engineering, the second-to-last man on the moon. But, he warns, “Whether we will ever have definitive knowledge of such life is another question entirely.” The Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Consortium, now eight years old, is funded by NASA. It is one of only a dozen National Institute of Aerospace research teams. The consortium’s 57 scientists in eight countries are drawn from the fields of geology, microbiology, chemistry and engineering. The team “is focused on the detection of biomarkers and biosignatures in both ancient and modern planetary environments,” says Richard Quinn, Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Consortium co-investigator. He’s also a senior research scientist at NASA’s SETI Institute, an acronym for Search for Extraterrestrial Life. The consortium works to develop methods for life detection. How might the simplest organic life forms arise and leave records of their existence? Research subjects include: microbial ecology in deep- and shallow-wa-
ter environments; organic survival over geologic time; geochemistry in volcanic environments; and the roles of oxygen and methane as related to microbial evolution. They’re not expecting Klingons, Wookies or even workaday Martians. Instead, they expect to find biomolecules, microbes and microfossils.
Kepler has found something much, much larger than a microbe. The space observatory is named for a Renaissance astronomer. The $600 million it cost to build is peanuts, compared to manned missions. It was expected to last three and a half years but it’s still in service six years after its launch, though it’s experiencing severe mechanical problems. Kepler orbits the sun, completing one circuit every 371 days. “It looks constantly at a certain patch in the sky and makes images with a very big detector, over and over again, and looks for any change in brightness of any of the hundreds of thousands of stars in that field,” says Lattis. “If a planet moves in front of a star, that’s an eclipse or transit or ‘occultation.’ And that’s what it’s looking for. Kepler was designed to be a planet finder.” The Royal Astronomical Society paper that began the excitement was submitted by Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian. With the help of volunteer citizen-scientists, she analyzed Kepler data from a distant star named KIC 8462852. She noticed what appeared to be unusual transits. The unlikely bombshell she delivered was: “Over the duration of the Kepler mission, KIC 8462852 was observed to undergo irregularly shaped, aperiodic dips in flux down to below the 20% level.” To understand why that’s such a big deal, consider this: Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. If it were to orbit KIC 8462852, it would dim the star by only 1%. Therefore, something awfully big is out there, blocking the distant sun. Boyajian shared her data with Jason Wright, a Pennsylvania State University researcher,
who put forward the theory of a massive, orbiting structure designed to collect the star’s energy. This would potentially explain why the star is regularly shaded from Kepler’s gaze. The idea comes from science fiction and is called a Dyson sphere (Scotty saved Capt. Picard from one in Star Trek: The Next Generation). Borucki is wary of offering his own theories. “It’s certainly a very interesting variation of the star’s brightness. That’s very clear,” says Borucki. He thinks there are better explanations than a Dyson sphere or anything like it. “The diameter of the sun is nearly a million miles,” he notes, pointing out construction difficulties. “So if you say, ‘Well, gee I would like to block out a quarter of that,’ you know you need something that’s a half-million miles by half a million miles.” He suspects scientists will eventually settle on a no-nonsense explanation for the anomaly. “It’s interesting to ask yourself what could produce such a signal,” he says. “There’s a lot of explanations that are reasonable. They are not necessarily probable, but they are reasonable.” It could be a disk of matter that has yet to coalesce into planets, blocking our view, or a gas cloud passing in front of KIC 8462852, or perhaps the glowing disc of a comet’s head, its ‘coma.’ “That’s something that can be as big as a star,” says Borucki. “Could a coma explain that particular star? I don’t know.” Fortunately, Borucki judges the signal variation to be so large that ground-based telescopes will be able to follow up. “So I wouldn’t be surprised to find that we get more data in the coming year.” Still, as Mr. Spock has pointed out many times, “there are always possibilities.”
A lifetime immersed in the scientific method has not eradicated Borucki’s boyhood fantasies about alien beings. “My experiences have convinced me that the universe is much more wonderfully complex than I ever imagined,” he says.
Although he’s yet to see any proof we share the universe, he doesn’t dismiss the possibility. “I think that the potential for life on other planets is high because the elements needed for the generation of life are so plentiful,” he says. “However, because we have no evidence for or against life on other planets, the actual existence of such life is pure speculation.” These days Borucki is taking life a little easier. “I retired on the 4th of July — my day of liberation,” he says. At his retirement, former astronaut John Grunsfeld, head of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, celebrated Borucki as a pioneer. “Bill’s unique leadership, vision and research tenacity has and will continue to inspire scientists around the world. He retires on such a high note that he leaves a legacy of inquiry that will not only be celebrated, it will be remembered as opening a new chapter in the history of science and the human imagination.” Yet Borucki stays involved, going into Ames a few days a week, unpaid. “I said I did not want to be a civil servant anymore,” he says. “I will work for free, but I will not work for money.” He continues looking at Kepler-related material. One of the problems with the telescope’s mission goes back to the predictive model of the galaxy Borucki built. It turns out that our local star, the sun, is quite a bit younger than most others, and therefore more intense. That affects the model, and “that’s made it more difficult to find Earths,” he says. “Now, how can you do a better job of finding Earths? Well the answer is look for a longer period of time. We need a mission that operates eight years, 12 years, something like that, doing exactly what Kepler did: looking in exactly the same spot with a telescope that’s identical.” “Ultimately people will have to build one,” he adds. “I’ve been thinking about it.” n
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taught by some of Madison’s best female musicians, has given her a platform from which to do that. Rose describes a powerful recent experience with one of her Girls Rock Camp students, a smart high-schooler going through a period of self-discovery and reexamination of the societal norms that make her feel like a freak. “She really connected with my music, and she’s writing her own material now.... That’s the real reason why I want to be a writer and a performer and scream on stage and take no prisoners and write honest, provocative lyrics — because a kid can listen to it and be inspired and relate and feel like it’s going to be okay.” Rose grew up in La Crescent, Minn., on the banks of the Mississippi opposite La Crosse. A music fiend from the start, she started studying classical piano at age 4 and got her first guitar at 16. She came to Madison for college and ended up joining a short-lived ska band called Skaput! A series of other bands followed — Strange Talking Animals, A Catapult Western, and Turbo Loogie, through which Rose connected with many of the musicians who remain her chief
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Bee bold Madison’s Hivecraft makes spicy honey a reality BY KATE NEWTON
Vanessa Jambois can relate to the notorious productivity of bees. The Madison resident launched her business, Hivecraft, in just two months. The company produces Brave Bee Spicy Honey, which is infused with a blend of chili peppers. Jambois, an associate business analyst at American Family Insurance, began thinking about starting a food business only recently, though she cooked with her family from an early age, and has been making sauces and desserts at home for fun over the past several years. Her mother had long encouraged her to consider cooking as a potential career rather than a hobby, and after experimenting with a spicy honey infusion that earned rave reviews at a friend’s party, Jambois felt she was on to something. She attended Madison’s Edible Startup Summit in August. Seeing the number of successful speakers and businesses there motivated her to make the dream a reality. “Having a food startup would be a lot more difficult in a lot of other places, but people here are so willing to help share information,” Jambois says, adding that the FEED Kitchens, the commercial kitchen facility where she produces her honey, has been especially helpful in providing “a roadmap of all the things you need to do” before officially launching a food business. Just weeks after fine-tuning her recipe for spicy honey, made with raw, unfiltered honey from Gentle Breeze Honey in Mount. Horeb, Jambois launched her business. Brave Bee Spicy Honey is now on shelves at both Metcalfe’s locations and will be available shortly at both Willy St. Co-op locations.
Jambois offers two versions, medium and hot. They’re made with different pepper blends, which changes the heat level. While the bold pairing of sweet and spicy can be foreign to a lot of consumers, Jambois says a few tips on how to use the honey on some of their favorite foods can serve as an easy introduction. “It’s really good [drizzled] on top of pizza, on fries...in chili, on ribs,” Jambois says. Those who try her honey at product demonstrations often pitch their own recipe ideas to her, she says, like adding it to homemade jerky or incorporating it into craft cocktails. Her goal is to expand into more Madison-area grocery stores and restaurants, and eventually to Milwaukee. She hopes that additional flavors, like her homemade vanilla bean and ginger honey infusion, will be coming as well. Jambois typically spends her days off cooking and bottling batches of more than 100 pounds of honey at a time. She conducts all of Hivecraft’s sales, marketing and accounting in her spare time. Her passion for the product and her family’s support are crucial to keeping the business on track, she says. That’s true even from a distance — Jambois’ mother has been in Puerto Rico for the past six months caring for her own mother and has yet to even try the honey. “She can’t wait to help me with demos, and it’ll be fun to have her cook with me,” Jambois says. She’d even like to encourage her mom to finally start her own food business now that she has some of her own wisdom to share. “I can’t wait until she’s here and she can see it all. I know she’s going to go crazy just to see it on the store shelf!” For more on Brave Bee Spicy Honey or to place an order online, see hivecrafthoney.com. n
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Try it on nitro or in a Crowler Gobias black ale from Oliphant Brewing Oliphant, a nanobrewery in Somerset, Wis., makes its beer in three-barrel batches. Yet recently it’s been able to enter the Madison market via 32-ounce cans, or “Crowlers.” I found the brewery’s Gobias black ale, more or less an imperial porter, at Riley’s. It’s based on co-owner Trevor Wirtanen’s homebrew recipe; he describes it as “a big, muddy blend of dark roasted malts and coffee. At the heart of this strong black ale is a coarse-ground roast of coffee from
River Moon Coffee of River Falls, Wis. Wirtanen adds about three pounds of coffee for every three barrels of beer. The coffee is steeped, cold, in the fermenter for about three days. Wirtanen expects Gobias to remain one of the brewery’s most produced beers and hopes to keep stock on Madison store shelves. Gobias is definitely well worth watching by those who like coffee beers. Just last week Gobias
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Reduce the beer (use 3 to 4 12-oz. bottles) in a saucepan on medium-high heat for 3040 minutes until there’s 1/3 of the original volume. Remove from heat, and add an equal part sugar to the remaining liquid (most accurately done by weighing both the sugar and the beer, but if you have, say, a cup of reduced beer remaining, simply add a cup of sugar). Stir, and voilà! It will keep a few weeks in the refrigerator. Also try it as a marinade.
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Halloween at Capital Brewery in Middleton features a fundraiser beer for bats. On Oct. 30 the brewery will be offering Bat-Oberfest beer on tap, combined with a special showing of the film Battle for Bats, which documents the effect of white-nose syndrome on the bat population in North America. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the beer through Saturday will go to the Wisconsin Bat Conservation Fund. “Bats are a big part of Halloween fun, and this party is a way people can learn more about bats and give back,” says Paul White of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Bat-Oberfest is a version of Capital’s Oktoberfest, an easydrinking lager made with Munich, caramel and honey malts alongside German noble hops. It’s also a beer with a nice amber-orange color that
seems perfect for Halloween. Bat-Oberfest is only available at the brewery on tap this week. The Capital Beer Stube opens at 3 p.m. on Friday, with the party beginning at 5 p.m. Costumes are encouraged. Bat-Oberfest is the sixth beer in Capital’s “Sustainability Series,” which has included a number of beers to benefit area environmental groups, from the Driftless Land Conservancy to Trout Unlimited. Capital brewmaster Ashley Kinart meets with the group or organization to talk about appropriate beer style, label design and release strategy. Bat-Oberfest was suggested by Capital employee Ben Stading, who also works with the DNR on bat conservation. The event will be attended by two straw-colored fruit bats and a native big brown bat to give BatOberfest drinkers an up-close look at the animals.
ROBIN SHEPARD
TUESDAY
Beer syrup
Beer syrup has appeared on a few Madison cocktail lists this season, most notably in a hibiscus-beer syrup at Mezze by manager Dave Biefer, and also at Merchant, in Thor Messer’s drink Stupid Sexy Flanders. This latter is a heady combination of St. George Botanivore gin, lemon juice, egg white, cream and bitters mixed with syrup made from Duchesse de Bourgogne red ale. To know this ale from Belgium is to obsess. On the nose, it smells at first reminiscent of balsamic vinegar or Worcestershire sauce, but then gives way to dark stone fruit and strawberry. It’s also a bit funky, and a sweet finish balances the overall impression of sour puckery-ness. If that sounds like a lot, it is — the beer hits a number of notes. As a syrup, the complexity collapses a bit, until it’s revived in drinks. The beer’s complexity then releases in gin or, my personal favorite, rum. Experimenting with beer syrups is not only great fun, but simple to do at home.
turned up at Hop Cat in downtown Madison on a nitrogen tap line for $8 (tulip/glass). The extra softness from the nitrogen really accentuates the sweetness of the chocolate malts and how well they blend with the coffee. It’s at its best when found on nitrogen. Gobias finishes at 8.5% ABV and sells for $12/Crowler.
— ROBIN SHEPARD
Octopi Brewing grand opening Some 500 people turned out to sample beers from the area’s newest brewery on Oct. 24 when Octopi Brewing of Waunakee held its grand opening. Two house beers and a variety of guest taps were on hand; Forest IPA and Madagascar Vanilla Mild Ale were the brewery’s first offerings. The Forest IPA is a solid bitter-dry American version of the hoppy style with piney-resiny aroma. The Madagascar is a mild ale with a strong vanilla aroma that blends with the sweetness and depth of the malt. Both beers should start turning up around Madison soon on tap and in bottles. The brewery, with its 14-tap tasting room, is on Waunakee’s southern edge at 1131 Uniek Drive. Taproom hours are expected to be 4:30-10 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and 3-10 p.m. Sat.
Beers to watch for Bell’s 30th Anniversary Ale This special-edition imperial stout just started turning up in several of Madison’s more well-stocked beer stores. This is a bold full-bodied stout that finishes strong and warm at 11% ABV. It’s sold in single 12-ounce bottles for around $3-$4. Sprecher’s Fresh Hop Wisconsin Pale Lager Wisconsin-grown cascade hops are a highlight of this draughtonly beer available in select taphouses and Sprecher Pub and Restaurant in Middleton. — ROBIN SHEPARD
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The Power of Belief: A Conversation on Faith, the Environment, and Social Justice (75 min.)
Gregg Mitman, Katharine Hayhoe, Godfrey Reggio, and Mike Wiggins, Jr. explore the power of belief to mobilize action on behalf of environmental and social justice.
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Anima Mundi
Godfrey Reggio, U.S. (1992, 28 min.)
Who is looking at whom? In this animal close encounter we f i n d that humans are no t the o n l y member o f the vast and curious kingdom of life.
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Cesar’s Last Fast
The Wild Life
Notes on Blindness
Into Great Silence
Peter Middleton, James Spinney, U.K./ U.S./Australia (2014, 13 min.)
Philip Gröning, Germany (2005, 169 min.)
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Can you see what it feels like to be blind? This astonishing re-creation of a British theologian’s diaries about the process of losing his sight will dazzle your senses.
Life in a silent-order monastery is one of ritual: repetition creating sacred patterns in space and time. 4 V I G I H I H F ] H M W G Y W W M S R S R WMPIRX TVEGXMGI F] .SLR *VERGMW Planetwalker.
Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby, Canada (2011, 14 min.)
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Still Life
All the Time in the World
Richard Ray Perez, Lorena Parlee, U.S. (2013, 100 min.)
Johannes Krell, Florian Fischer, Germany (2014, 12 min.)
At age 61, labor activist Cesar Chavez performed a near-fatal 36-day fast to raise awareness of pesticide exposure. What drove him to take on this challenge?
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NoBody’s Perfect Niko von Glasow, Germany (2008, 84 min.)
Vultures of Tibet Russell Bush, U.S./Tibet/China (2013, 21 min.)
If you are born with limb abnormalities due to expos u r e to t h a l i d o m i d e , h o w d o you get comfortable with your body? Make a RYHI calendar!
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The Tibetan practice of “sky burial” – sharing bodies with vultures – is threatened by tourists’ cameras, turning the sacred into a spectacle.
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Killers in Eden
Klaus Toft, Australia (2005, 52 min.)
For years, wild killer whales near Eden, Australia actively partnered with humans to hunt other whales. Then they suddenly stopped.
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Pad Yatra
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The first film in the award-winn i n g t r i l o g y a b o u t “ l i fe o u t o f balance” and our spiritual disconnection from the world. *MPQQEOIV WGLIHYPIH XS EXXIRH
In 2010, in response to climate change a Buddhist monk leads 700 people on a 500-mile pilgrimage across the Himalayas.
Valerie Berteau, Philippe Witjes, India/ Belgium (2011, 66 min.)
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Wendy J.N. Lee, India/Nepal/U.S. (2014, 72 min.)
Godfrey Reggio, U.S. (1982, 86 min. + Q+A)
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Even as many die trying, today immigrants desperately flood into Europe. Can one Moroccan man cross the Mediterranean, windsurfing his way to a better life?
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Toxic: Amazon
Felipe Milanez, Brazil (2011, 65 min. + Q+A)
4:00 p.m. Fran Lambrick, Vanessa De Smet, U.K. (Work-in-Progress, 54 min. + Q+A)
Hannah Espia, Philippines (2014, 93 min.)
Saira Rahman, Nilufer Rahman, Canada (2013, 79 min. + Q+A)
Jan-Willem van Ewijk, Luxembourg/ Belgium/Morocco (2014, 94 min.)
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Angel Azul
Marcelina Cravat, U.S. (2014, 72 min. + Q+A)
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Containment
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Unogumbe (Noah’s Flood)
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The Great Invisible
Margaret Brown, U.S. (2014, 93 min.)
An opera in an environmental film festival? You better believe it! The story of Noah’s Ark set in South Africa and gloriously sung in Xhosa.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the worst in U.S. h i s to r y. I t s a f t e r m a t h i n v i s i b l y r i p p l e s t h ro u g h t h e G u l f R e g i o n e v e n 5 y e a r s l a t e r. Winner of prizes at 7<7; ERH *YPP *VEQI
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Mark Dornford-May, South Africa (2013, 35 min.)
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Sepideh – Reaching for the Stars
Butter Lamp
Clan Mother
Sun Come Up
May Allah Bless France!
Berit Madsen, Denmark/Iran/Germany (2013, 91 min.)
As a teenager, life can feel like a world of “no’s.” When you’re an aspiring female astronomer in a conservative Iranian society, it may actually be one.
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Hu Wei, France/China (2013, 16 min.)
Finn Ryan, U.S. (2013, 5 min.)
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Molly Miller didn’t seek to be a tribal “clan mother.” But after tragedy struck, she had to help others heal in order to heal herself.
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The Edge of Heaven
Roots of Heaven
Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey/Italy (2007, 116 min.)
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In the Light of Reverence
John Huston, U.S. (1958, 121 min.)
A German man travels to Turkey to make amends for a tragic misunderstanding at the same time a Turkish woman travels to G e r m a n y. 2 E Q I H E XS T J M P Q F] X L I N e w Yo r k T i m e s .
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Walking the Camino
Polluting Paradise
For over 1000 years, pilgrims have walked the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. Follow six travelers through blisters, aches, spats, and romance to find out why.
W h e n a Tu r k i s h t o w n f i g h t s against a new garbage dump, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll discover just how hard it can be to be resilient. But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll a l s o l e a r n the value o f c o m ing together as a community.
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Fatih Akin, Germany (2013, 93 min.)
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Above All Else
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A retreat lasting 3 years, 3 months, and 3 days. Could you handle it? Under a Buddhist teacher, six students are about to find out.
The only thing David Daniel doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t respect is a bully. So when he is bullied over access to his land by the owners of the Keystone Pipeline, how will he fight back?
A 66-year cicada climbs a tree. An ear thquake, a tsunami, and some radiation. A 66-year c i c a d a t r i e s to c l i m b a t r e e.
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Niko von Glasow, Germany (2012, 30 min.)
When you harvest wild rice, you not only take the plant you also take part of its spirit. One Wisconsin man reflects on a ricing life.
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Lazy Lama
Finn Ryan, U.S. (2014, 5 min.)
3:30 p.m. Lydia Smith, U.S. (2013, 84 min.)
Christopher McLeod, U.S. (2002, 73 min. + Discussion)
Morel is a quixotic man trying to save elephants. No one cares except a drunk and a prostitute; until the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s media makes his quest into a spectacle. Co-starring Errol Flynn and Orson Welles.
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Chai Jing, China (2015, 75 min. + Discussion)
John Fiege, U.S. (2014, 95 min.)
Isamu Hirabayashi, Japan (2012, 8 min.)
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Notes on Blindness / NoBodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Perfect
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Toxic: Amazon
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Into Great Silence
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
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In a forbidden landscape of radioactivity, a group of grandmothers stubbornly persists, guided by their faith and love of home.
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Roots of Heaven 1:00 P.M.
Polluting Paradise 3:30 P.M.
Lazy Lama / Walking the Camino 3:30 P.M.
Holly Morris, Anne Bogart, U.S. (2015, 72 min.)
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Above All Else 3:30 P.M.
3:30 P.M. 663114 / T Babushkas The of Chernobyl
5:30 P.M.
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Clan Mother / Butter Lamp / Containment B Arctic Mosque + Q&A Transit + Q&A
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MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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The Edge of Heaven 1:00 P.M.
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Angel Azul
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Keynote: Climate Change & Faith
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A visit to the newest coffee shop on the UWMadison campus yields more than just a great cup of coffee. A Just Brew, located in the lower level of the Pres House at 731 State St., is a name-your-own price cafe founded last winter by UW-Madison students Dan Mackett, Alex Baumgartner and Stephen Matthias. All the proceeds go to the International Justice Mission, a global organization working to protect the poor from violence and exploitation.
Stepping into the cozy subterranean space, patrons are greeted by a throng of ultra-friendly volunteer baristas eager to take your order and share information about the charitable mission. Hours are 8-11:30 a.m. Mon.-Fri. I stopped in last week and had a pourover of the Don Manuel, a Guatemalan roast named after the farmer who grows the beans. Sweet and mellow with notes of
walnut and fig, this brew was warming and invigorating with a bright, fruity finish. The varieties of coffee offered change frequently, but they’re all sourced from Huckleberry Roasters of Denver, Colo. The menu is limited, but it’s the stuff you want to drink: pour-overs, AeroPress and French press. Sure, it takes a little longer than your typical grab-and-go, but let’s be real — it’s worth it.
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Southwestish This one stars everybody’s favorite supergrain — but the sweet corn, quinoa and black bean salad doesn’t stop there. Avocado, tomato and cilantro continue the Southwest flavors, and the serrano orange vinaigrette adds a sweet-spicy punch. In its pure form it’s vegan; steak and chipotle mayo add-ons aren’t necessary for satisfaction, but are delicious nonetheless.
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Think you know Brussels sprouts salad? 43 North torques the tradition with its burnt honey vinaigrette and pickled onions. The grain here is barley, a first cousin to quinoa in fiber and protein.
Mark your calendars for offal week at Osteria Papavero, 128 E. Wilson St. Chef Francesco Mangano will be featuring dishes made with liver, heart, sweetbreads and other offal at lunch and dinner, all week. For more info, call the restaurant at 608-255-8376.
Attention lutefisk lovers Nov. 7
There are five seatings at the Western Koshkonong Lutheran Church’s annual lutefisk and meatballs dinner starting at 11:30 a.m. and going until 6:30 p.m. Dinner-hour seatings can sell out, so consider reserving a spot ahead of time (info at westernkoshkonong.org; $16 in advance, $17 at the door). Mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberries, coleslaw and home-made pie round out the menu. 2633 Church St., rural Stoughton.
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Learn to cook on a wood stove from expert Steve Keip at Schumacher Farm County Park, 5682 Hwy. 19, Waunakee. Pork and root vegetable stew, chicken patties and gravy, onion pie, braised kale, farmhouse sourdough bread and pineapple upside down cake are on the menu, and you get to eat what you cook. Register for the class at schumacherfarmpark.org/event-2067128, $50 members/$65 non-members.
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This weekend, high school runners — including several from the Madison area — will converge on the Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids for the boys’ and girls’ state cross country meet. Thirty years ago at the state meet, on Nov. 9, 1985, at Yahara Hills Country Club, a record 6.8 inches of snow fell on Madison. Suzy Favor from Stevens Point Area Senior High won a record fourth straight cross country title and was on her way to becoming one of greatest distance runners in U.S. history. Another cross country story that year also involved Stevens Point and is gloriously told in a new book, The Animal Keepers: The Story of an Unlikely Hero and an Unforgettable Season (KCI Sports Publishing). Written by longtime Stevens Point cross country coach Donn Behnke, who was in his ninth year in 1985, this stranger-thanfiction tale focuses on Scott Longley, an unlikely factor in the high school’s state title that season. Longley lived in a group home and suffered physical, cognitive and emotional challenges, but that didn’t stop him from finding his place on the team and earning the playful nickname “The Animal” — inspired by the Muppets character
and Longley’s thick, wild hair and frenzied enthusiasm. He also was obsessed with Survivor’s song “Eye of the Tiger.” “I can still hear Scott’s voice,” Behnke, now 62 and still Stevens Point’s cross country coach, told me last week. “Some of the conversations from that season I remembered almost verbatim.” Behnke, a former social studies teacher, didn’t consider himself a writer. “I had to become a writer,” he says. “I knew, even at the time it happened, this was a story I had to get out there. The question was: Could I tell it well enough?” The answer is, most definitely, yes. In fact, someone needs to purchase the film rights to The Animal Keepers. As a movie, this story would leave McFarland USA in the dust. Today, Longley is 48 years old and lives independently in Texas; Behnke visited him over the summer. “Time has been unkind, and his memories were not as vivid as I hoped,” Behnke says, then foreshadows one of the book’s final and most cinematic scenes, which took place at the awards ceremony at La Follette High School on that snowy day 30 years ago. “The greatest part of his life was as a high school athlete. I take some comfort knowing that in the few months he spent with us he had a great time.” n
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A man still hard at work Colin Hay is having a banner year BY AARON R. CONKLIN
Colin Hay is in a thoughtful mood when he picks up the phone in his L.A. home, having just returned from touring in England and Scotland. “I don’t feel particularly weary,” the Aussie singer-songwriter says. “My knees are shot from playing soccer when I was younger, but you fake it. You push through.” There’s no question Hay’s had himself an eventful, even milestone year. February saw the release of Next Year People, his 12th solo album since those halcyon ’80s days when he fronted Men at Work. He spent the summer touring with Violent Femmes and Barenaked Ladies, a pair of musical survivors who also have multiple decades under their belts. In August, Waiting for My Real Life, the documentary based on the tumultuous twists and turns of Hay’s musical and TV career — you remember those guest stints on Scrubs, right? — debuted at the Melbourne International Film Festival. And we haven’t even gotten to the Oct. 31 gig he’ll be playing at the Barrymore. Hay’s latest disc is a 10-pack of tunes that marry regret and world-weariness with hardwon wisdom and optimism. The title track is about Depression-era farmers who endured a decade of droughts and dust storms. Hay is personally partial to “(Did You Just Take) The Long Way Home?,” a song about a failing relationship that actually incorporates memories of his own childhood — in particular, the way his mother would always pick the wrong fork of a five-way intersection in Melbourne when making the weekly drive to buy eggs. “I would never say anything,” Hay recalls. “I just enjoyed taking the time to be in the car with her, talking.” It’s those hopeful notes that have fueled Hay’s songwriting throughout a threedecade solo career that’s seen him clash with his old bandmates and steadily build a dedicated audience.
Hopeful notes have fueled Hay’s songwriting.
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“I feel hopeful about being alive,” says Hay, who turned 62 this spring. “The hopeful thing is useful for people, and it’s useful for me. The tendency is toward melancholia — that’s part of the human condition.” Hay admits he’s found his own exacerbated by the current state of world events, including the recent Republican presidential debates. “There’s this feeling of what you suspected might happen years ago has happened,” Hay says. “The people running the world are going nuts. But when you’re [getting older], you have to enjoy yourself. You can imagine those last 20 years — it can go by really quickly. You’d better get on with it.” Solo gigs like the one he’ll do at the Barrymore give Hay the freedom to interact with
his audience and dig a little deeper into his extensive song catalogue. The Men at Work tunes still dot the set list — “Overkill” and “Down Under” are the usual suspects — but the shadow those songs cast is neither long nor imposing. “You embrace it. You take it with you,” says Hay of the ’80s-era fame. “Part of achieving longevity is to not have that as your yardstick.” As for whether he’s planning anything special for the fans who’ll be skipping trick or treating and/or Freakfest to hang with him on Halloween, Hay opts for cryptic rather than creepy. “Well, let’s just intimate that the show may be a little more frightening than usual.” n
of the Year and Bassist of the Year for her work with the currently dormant I Saw the Creature. Damsel Trash, her punk duo with drummer Emily Mills, took both Song of the Year and Album of the Year honors in the Hard Rock/Punk category. What impresses Mills, one of Rose’s closest friends and most frequent musical partners, is not so much the awards and adulation as the sheer determination and commitment Rose applies to her music. “I’m so impressed at her ability to work as hard as she does at it,” says Mills. “She’s a creative storm.” Now it looks like this creative storm might be tracking away from Madison toward New York
in the spring, along with boyfriend and I Saw the Creature bandmate Jake Ripp-Dieter. But not before we get to see more performances out of Damsel Trash and Rose’s solo vehicle Meghan Rose & the Bones, not to mention another Halloween turn at High Noon, this time fronting a Fleetwood Mac tribute band. And if New York doesn’t work out? “I’ll come back, and hopefully I’ll have learned something,” Rose says. And, she says, she might pour her energies into helping Girls Rock Camp grow and support more future rock stars. “I want to be a fearless role model who goes after the big fish so more women can believe they can do it too.” n
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into Love’s music and psyche. It was a transformative experience. Once bashful on stage, Rose learned to how to scream and cut loose as a performer. While it hasn’t translated into financial success, Rose’s career has soared locally since she threw herself into music full-time. This past February she released a solo album, In Your Bones, recorded over 10 days in the Ontario studio of Neko Case’s producer, Darryl Neudorf. The album shows clear hints of the two women Rose most often cites as influences, Love and Fiona Apple. Rose was all over this year’s Madison Area Music Awards winner list. She was named Female Vocalist
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A delightful Marriage University Opera opens season with Mozart BY JOHN W. BARKER
Morganna Grim (from left), Christen Cook and Jordan Humpal at the bowling alley.
Dickensian mashup Big Expectations is less than the sum of its parts BY GWENDOLYN RICE
Big Expectations, a reboot of a 1983 play written and directed by Ray Olderman, is an homage to many things: Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, science fiction, the great American musical, Pygmalion, mobster movies and Fred Astaire. It tackles multiple themes: ethnic prejudice, greed, political ambition and the fickle nature of love. The result, which runs through Nov. 14 at Broom Street Theater, is a jumble of ideas and styles presented haphazardly. The cast of 11 easily fills Broom Street’s tiny stage with enthusiastic, sometimes exaggerated performances. The play follows a Hungarian immigrant and orphan, Stoogie Lucotch, who longs to rise above his station. The fresh-faced, earnest young man (played with heart by Mitch Taylor) is belittled and overshadowed by his World War II vet brother Ed (a blustery Tom Amacher), and generally labeled as a no-good louse by the neighborhood, populated by people who sound like they’ve all stepped out of a Jimmy Cagney movie. At the bowling alley where Stoogie is a pin-setter and pool shark in training, the entire cast breaks out in song and dance, celebrating “No Leagues Tonight,” a well-
choreographed and lively number that has nothing to do with the play. In a back alley, Stoogie encounters the gangster Helen Cantwell (the solid Vanessa Vesperman), who presses him to help her steal a car, then gives him a long lecture about how to treat women. Then Stoogie takes a job running errands for a pair of wealthy spinster sisters, including the bewildered Faye Holdbe (an excellent Peggy Rosin), who believes she is a World War I nurse waiting for her soldier to return from France. Stoogie becomes instantly infatuated with the elderly ladies’ charge, Teresa (played with cold indifference by Christine Chang), even though the girl rebuffs him. When an anonymous benefactor bankrolls Stoogie’s education and puts him on the path to a better life, the newly christened “Stuart” works hard to become a cultured lawyer so he can someday win Teresa’s love — or become a dancer. (Insert several awkward dance breaks.) Stuart renounces the old neighborhood to work with the 1972 Nixon campaign in California (a reference that probably confuses any audience member under 50). And in this imagined near future, dominated by One World Corporation and its army of robots, both success and love elude him. The audience can at least take comfort in the fact that robots have not taken over our society, as predicted when this play debuted. n
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Handsomely traditional (from left): Tia Cleveland as Marcellina, Joel Rathmann as Figaro, Anna Whiteway as Susanna and Thomas Weis as Bartolo.
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On Friday, Oct. 23, University Opera launched its 2015-16 season with a staging of The Marriage of Figaro that delighted the eyes and ears. For the four performances of this production, almost every role was doublecast, and Friday’s fine singers demonstrated the quality of students drawn to the School of Music’s vocal and opera programs. Benjamin Schultz and Gavin Waid were somewhat light of voice (for Figaro and the Count, respectively) but confident in their roles. Yanzelmalee Rivera sang eloquently, if sometimes heavily, while Erin K. Bryan was a deftly girlish Susanna, Figaro’s bride. Alaina Carlson was simply a delight as the puberty-ridden page Cherubino. Meghan Hilker as Marcellina and Thomas Weis as Bartolo were both perfect in every way for the characters who turn out to be Figaro’s parents, and conductor James Smith, as always, drew fine sounds from the UW Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to satisfying musically, the production worked extremely well dramatically. Figaro also opens the second season of visiting director David Ronis, who has a flair for drawing gestures, expressions, movements and interactions out of his singers, making them genuine actors who flesh out their characters. The result was a fine realization of the humor in the libretto and the music, without overstepping into rowdy vulgarity. Particular credit is due to set designer Dana Fralick, whose elegant but movable units provided charming context. I must express some disappointment, however, with the surtitles, which were not always well synchronized with the music and often dropped out unnecessarily. Mozart’s opera, to Lorenzo da Ponte’s libretto, was a somewhat softened treatment of the original caustic play by Pierre Beaumarchais, filled with strong criticism of a society just on the verge of the French Revolution. In his program notes, Ronis points up its messages for our own times, but without banging away at them. The production, indeed, was handsomely traditional. n
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Wyatt Cenac? BY TOM WHITCOMB
With his laconic delivery and offbeat sense of humor, Wyatt Cenac’s standup is closer in spirit to a barroom storyteller than a working comedian. But Cenac has been a working comedian for more than a decade now — and between his masterfully crafted jokes and large cult following, it shows. Isthmus caught up with Cenac, a former Daily Show correspondent, in advance of his Nov. 5-7 headlining run at the Comedy Club on State to learn more about his life and career.
Dallas is where I grew up, but I’ve always felt a connection to New York, in big part because of my grandmother and the time that I would spend there [with her] as a kid.
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I wanted to study TV and film, but there wasn’t necessarily a TV/film department, so it was all kind of wrapped up in communications. I’m very grateful for my time there, and I think the lessons I learned at that school were probably way more outside of the classroom than inside. I had an opportunity to go to NYU, but I turned it down. Sometimes I look back at that like, “You know, that might have been a smarter thing if you wanted to do this professionally” — but it all worked out.
ca. 1980: Moves to Dallas with his mother and stepfather and becomes childhood friends with future acclaimed comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan.
[Brian and I] would play Batman and Robin. Whenever car dealerships were having some big event, they would get those floodlights and shoot them in the air. We would see that and think it was the Bat Signal and just go running around the yard. That definitely made it okay to love comic books.
1994-1998: Attends the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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I got offered a job at SNL as a receptionist, and I thought, “Well, I’d love to work on SNL, but I don’t know how many people go from receptionist to cast member.” I felt like maybe I needed to go to L.A. and make my bones there, and if I worked hard enough a job would bring me back to New York. In my head, it seemed like maybe it would take me a couple of years. It took about a decade, but that was always the thought — that L.A. is just kind of an investment to get back to New York.
1996: Interns at Saturday Night Live.
I was an intern in the research department. If a cast member was doing an impression of a politician, I’d go down to the Today show and get some video clips for them. And for Weekend Update, they would do a lot of stuff with Associated Press photos. I would go to the AP and get a stack of those photos, and then the Update writers would look at them to come up with jokes. I got to kind of watch and absorb, and it was a very cool experience.
1998-2008: After graduating from college, Cenac lives in Los Angeles.
I auditioned for [the job] a few times because they would always have auditions in L.A. The year I got it, they had asked me to write my own thing as well as perform a piece that they had written. And that piece was for John Oliver, so it was a little weird because there were a lot of references to being English. The piece I wrote was actually the first thing I ever got to do on the show. It was about how the Democratic primaries weren’t that interesting and that I wished they were a bit more like the television show Lost.
2003-2005: Works as a writer and story editor on King of the Hill.
The first [episode] I wrote was called “My Hair Lady,” where Bill gets a job at a fancy, trendy hair salon — but to get the job, he had to pretend to be gay, and, once there, he’s sort of living this life that he’s never lived before where women are opening up to him and aren’t repulsed by him.
2008: Becomes a writer and performer on The Daily Show in New York City. He leaves the show in 2012.
2013: Contributes to Marvel Comics’ Now What? e-book with fellow comedian and future Daily Show head writer Elliott Kalan.
We wrote five or six one-page stories called “Wy-Ifs,” which were like the What-If comic books — but instead of what, we asked why, with “Wy” also being short for Wyatt. Elliott is a much more knowledgeable comic book reader than me, so they were just silly questions I had about comic books that he would answer. Those were a blast to do.
Oct. 21, 2014: His second and most recent standup special, Brooklyn, premieres on Netflix.
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Nov. 5-7, 2015: Cenac will play Madison for the first time since performing the same night (but different venue) as Dave Chappelle in 2014.
When you think about it, a televised special is not the ideal way to experience standup. The best way is to be at the show, and second best is probably just to listen to it, because you can focus in on it. If it’s on television, you’re listening but you can also check your phone or walk away to make a sandwich. So I felt like [I should do] something visually to add to the televised experience of it — and that was puppets. I’ve always been a fan of puppets, and I thought, “Oh, I have a puppet of myself. This might be a fun, cool way.”
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In plain sight Discovery of a Frank Lloyd Wright home attracts worldwide attention BY JAY RATH
Internationally, some of the biggest news out of Madison this year has nothing to do with Scott Walker or presidential politics. Instead, the recent discovery of a previously unknown Frank Lloyd Wright home has gone viral and global. Interest has come from the BBC and publications in Rome and New Delhi, and the news has hit blogs and social media in at least 15 countries. “It seems phenomenal,” says Mary Jane Hamilton, the Madison-area architectural historian who did the detective work. “I’m not a publicity person. I just do what other people would consider boring — researching things.” Boring? Her research into the house at 2107 West Lawn Ave. on Madison’s near west side has all the excitement of a hidden treasure tale. Nearly 30 years ago, a friend first called Hamilton’s attention to the home’s possible significance. But there was no proof, and it seemed unlikely; a Wrightian side en-
trance with an un-Wrightian band of dark brick? Over the decades she kept hearing rumors. After searching Madison building permits and records at Taliesin West, she finally found the proof in a 1917 builder’s advertisement. As a result, retired teacher Linda McQuillen hit the jackpot: Her 1917 home (bought for $100,000 in 1989) was designed by one of the world’s most famous architects. But what’s the significance to Wright scholarship and to Madison? In the 1910s, Henry Ford’s pioneering assembly line was viewed as promoting positive social change. Industries of all sorts were quick to adapt, including housing. Builders and even Sears, Roebuck & Company began offering “kit homes,” with plans and pre-cut materials. (Sears sold at least 70,000.) Wright saw an opportunity. Between 1915 and 1917 he designed a series of “American System-Built Homes,” which he intended to be built by franchised dealers. “He was thinking, ‘How can I design a beautiful house that everyone can afford to live in?’” says Mike Lilek, curator of four American System-
The west-side home was part of the architect’s experiment in prefab design.
Built homes in Milwaukee owned by Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin, a preservation nonprofit. Wright called it organic and democratic design. “This is really his first and broadest gesture to a really wide audience,” says Lilek. Although the architect is best known for huge projects such as New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, his innovations carried over to his prefab designs. “There isn’t a thing about these homes that would subtract from Wright’s thinking on architecture,” says Lilek. One American SystemBuilt home, for example, though just 805 square feet, has 33 windows. Wright partnered with a Milwaukee man to organize the builder network and package ma-
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terials into kits. They had a falling out over bookkeeping, and some of the homes were “lost.” Sixteen are known to have been built, and 14 still stand. One was discovered in Milwaukee’s Shorewood district last June. Wright also built three prefab homes in Madison during the 1950s, so the discovery “connects the beginning of Wright’s thinking of housing for everybody and the end of Wright’s thinking of housing for everybody,” says Lilek. “It gives Madison a unique distinction that no place else in the world has.” The West Lawn home is private, and is not open to the public. Lilek and Hamilton ask that the owner’s privacy be respected. n
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Truth is a defensive look at a journalistic botch job BY SCOTT RENSHAW
The title of Truth feels like it should be spoken with an exclamation point. You can almost hear Tom Cruise saying it with righeousness, the way he does when demanding the truth before Jack Nicholson’s famous monologue in A Few Good Men. Except that this movie doesn’t understand how righteousness is often misplaced. Writer/director John Vanderbilt’s dramatization of the controversy surrounding 60 Minutes’ 2004 story about President George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service is based on a memoir by Mary Mapes, the producer of that story. Its entire premise is that what actually transpired during the course of Bush’s service (or lack thereof) circa 1968-1973 is the only thing that really should have mattered — not how the journalists involved gathered and vetted their story. That premise is so false that it becomes virtually impossible to take seriously anything that Truth tries to say. Vanderbilt does an effective job of setting the stage for Bush’s tightly contested 2004 reelection battle with John Kerry, where anything might tip the balance one way or the other. Into that fray tread Mapes (Cate Blanchett) and her research team when they get a bombshell tip. Retired Lt. Col. Bill Burkett (Stacy Keach) claims to have documents that prove Bush was AWOL from his National Guard posting, which will be tied into a story — anchored by CBS News veteran Dan Rather (Robert Redford) — showing that the Bush family used political connections to keep George W. out of Vietnam and in the National Guard. That story eventually blows up in everyone’s face. The bulk of Truth then becomes a story about the fallout, as CBS News scur-
Robert Redford as beleaguered anchor Dan Rather.
Freaks of Nature: Humans, vampires and zombies have developed a peaceful society...until aliens show up. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse: The last scouting outing for three teens is marred by a zombie outbreak. Suffragette: Historical drama about the fight for women’s equality in early-20th-century England. Cinematheque, Nov. 3, 7:30 pm (sneak peek).
Recent releases Jem and the Holograms: An underground video sensation becomes a global pop star in this adaptation of the 1980s cartoon series. The Last Witch Hunter: Vin Diesel is all that stands between humans and a horde of evil beings.
ries to cover its ass, and other media outlets pile on the allegations of shoddy journalism initiated by conservative bloggers. Mapes is at the center of it all, and Vanderbilt has trouble shaping a consistent characterization. Blanchett is effective at conveying Mapes’ bulldog tenacity, but there’s an uneven attempt to incorporate her history as a survivor of childhood beatings by her bullying father. It’s even more puzzling when we watch Mapes read comments on conservative websites, and react with pearl-clutching alarm at seeing threats and insults directed at her — an oddly naïve response, given that she had already produced the story revealing the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The larger problem with Truth is that it never really confronts the allegations of journalistic sloppiness as worthy of legitimate concern. In one of the film’s most intriguing bits of background, we watch as Mapes is forced by the network’s schedule to choose between rushing the story into a slot just days away or waiting until too close to the election. Despite the number
of speeches we get from people lamenting the fate of hard journalism in the face of corporate concerns, Truth doesn’t take on the potentially enlightening premise of, “Yeah, the story was a botch job, but here’s why, and why that matters.” Instead, the narrative is built on the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy — and while that conspiracy absolutely and positively exists, it’s a dodge in this case. The film’s references to the “Swift Boat Veterans” attacks that damaged the Kerry campaign are relevant, because they demonstrate what’s supposed to be the difference between real journalism and a smear campaign: an almost scientific dedication to results that can be duplicated. Truth ignores that journalism is built on the same old saying that applies to prosecutors: It doesn’t matter what you know, it matters what you can prove. The title alone demonstrates a focus completely different from what it would have been if the title had been, say, Proof. When it comes to understanding that journalism demands that higher standard, Vanderbilt can’t handle the truth. n
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Steve Jobs: Writer Aaron Sorkin has engineered the perfect conduit for his oratorical lashings: a visionary and a jerk, not unlike the last tech giant he tackled, to the tune of an Oscar: Mark Zuckerberg in 2010’s The Social Network.
More film events Dead of Night: Five chilling tales for Halloween. Cinematheque, Oct. 31, 7 pm. Hell Drivers: An ex-con tries to go straight as a truck driver in this action flick from director Cy Endfield. Cinematheque, Oct. 30, 7 pm. Hocus Pocus & Halloweentown: Family-friendly double feature. Hawthorne Library, Oct. 31, 12 & 2 pm. The Lusty Men: A moody “triangle drama” from director Nicholas Ray, with a poetically observed, richly detailed rodeo background. Chazen Museum of Art, Nov. 1, 2 pm. Oklahoma!: Back on the big screen in a 60th anniversary restoration. Palace & Point, Nov. 1 (2 pm) and Nov. 2 (2 & 7 pm).
T(ERROR): Documentary following an FBI counterterrorism operation. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Nov. 4, 7 pm.
Sandra Bullock squares off against Billy Bob Thornton “Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” That’s a maxim from artful warrior Sun Tzu, whose bellicose playbook is referenced many times over in the course of Austin-based director David Gordon Green’s semi-comedic, overtly cynical drama about soulless American political strategists spinning a Bolivian presidential election into a personal grudge match. Sandra Bullock is “Calamity” Jane Bodine, a retired campaign manager who, in the wake of a series of disastrous personal adversities (alcoholism, depression, etc.) has removed herself from the duplicitous realm of politics to putter around her tidy
Rock the Kasbah: Bill Murray plays a washed-up music manager/agent who discovers, in a cave in Afghanistan, the first young woman to sing on that country’s version of American Idol. The dialogue feels overly scripted, and audiences will probably come away disappointed at how notweird this oddball film actually is.
Predestination: Sci-fi tale of the final case for a temporal agent. Ashman Library, Oct. 30, 6:45 pm.
Hired guns BY MARC SAVLOV
Burnt: Bradley Cooper stars as a diva chef trying to recover after destroying his career with drugs. This is TV innovator John Wells’ third feature film, and he’s always shown real finesse in finding magic moments for even the smallest part in his elbowing ensemble casts. Cooper’s character, however, is one of the most dislikable leading men to grace movie screens in ages.
little home in the Colorado Rockies. She’s enticed back to the fray, however, when she learns her spin-doctor nemesis, Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), has also taken a gig in Bolivia, helping to elect the opposing candidate. The candidate she’s off to manage, the hulking egomaniac Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida), is 28 points down in the polls and looking like the darkest of dark horses. He’s an IMF-courting plunderer in the making. Bullock nails the maniacally creative, winat-all-costs nefariousness of the political hired gun, and Thornton is almost her equal as her rival. But political comedy has always been a difficult task to pull off, and this is no Wag the Dog. It’s funny in an uncomfortable sort of way whenever Bullock’s on screen (which is most
Varian and Putzi: A Twentieth Century Tale: Documentary about anti-Nazi activism in the 1940s. Cinematheque, Nov. 5, 7 pm (with director Richard Kaplan). Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the WereRabbit: Nick Parks’ magical stop-animation treat. Union South Marquee, Oct. 30-31, 6 pm; Nov. 1, 3 pm.
Also in theaters Ant-Man
Jurassic World
Bridge of Spies
The Martian
Crimson Peak
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Everest The Exorcist
Bullock (left) with Joaquim de Almeida.
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Freakfest Saturday, Oct. 31, State Street, 7 pm The city-sanctioned, ticketed Freakfest that replaced Madison’s wild and lawless Halloween affairs of yore has become the new normal, celebrating its 10th year this fall. An all-country music stage on Gilman Street will complement the Capitol Square and Frances Street stages. And for those looking to show off — or gawk at — fantastic costumes, there’s really no better place to be. For a preview, see isthmus.com/music.
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Broadway smash hit Jersey Boys was a dramatic look at the onstage and behind-the-scenes lives of the Four Seasons, bringing Frankie Valli and company’s story back into the public eye. As the Midtown Men, four stars from the original Broadway cast put the focus on the tunes, performing in concert with a seven-piece band.
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Tea: University Theatre drama, 7:30 pm on 10/29-31 and 2 pm, 11/1, Vilas Hall-Hemsley Theatre. $23. 265-2787.
Paoli Schoolhouse: Mike McCloskey, free, 6 pm.
Wicked: Broadway tour, 7:30 pm on 10/29, 8 pm on 10/30, 2 & 8 pm on 10/31 and 1 & 6;30 pm, 11/1, Overture Center-Overture Hall. $135-$45. 258-4141.
Ski’s Saloon, Sun Prairie: Ryan Casey, free, 7:30 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Compact Deluxe, free, 10 pm. UW Humanities Building-Morphy Hall: UW Blue Note Ensemble, Jazz Standards Ensemble, free, 7:30 pm. Verona Area High School Performing Arts Center: Verona Area Concert Band, “Snapshots of Childhood,” free/donations, 7:30 pm.
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To say that Douglas Appling has had a busy 2015 would be an understatement. In the past 10 months, the trip-hop producer known as Emancipator has released a live album, a remix album and a new studio album. To top it off, he’s toured relentlessly, bringing his trance-like sets of beats, samples and violin to new heights. With Wax Tailor, Yppah. Brink Lounge: March of the Meanies, free, 8 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, 10 pm. Central Library: Red Rose, “Music and the Macabre,” readings from horror fiction & music, 6:30 pm. Crystal Corner Bar: Beat Road Blues, free, 8 pm.
Catch your favorite local artists playing tribute to ’80s metal and such classic bands as the Rolling Stones, the Clash, Fleetwood Mac, the Cars and Billy Joel. ALSO: Saturday, Oct. 31, 8 pm.
Dave Rawlings Machine Friday, Oct. 30, Capitol Theater, 8 pm
Dave Rawlings Machine presents a classic no-frills brand of songwriting that pleases old-time country recordheads and indie-leaning NPR listeners alike. Acoustic plucking, vivid lyrics and the heartwrenching vocal harmonies of Rawlings and Gillian Welch lay the groundwork for this haunting and delicate roots group.
Houndmouth Friday, Oct. 30, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm
Bryan Morris Thursday, Oct. 29, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm
Bryan Morris spent a decade honing his improv and comedic skills in Madison before shipping off to New York City last fall. The standup’s witty, sometimes absurd observational humor won him the title of “Madison’s Funniest Comic” in 2012. With Stacey Kulow. ALSO: Friday, Oct. 30, 8 & 10:30 pm.
Zedd Friday, Oct. 30, Exhibition Hall, 7 pm
Russian-German electro house producer/ DJ Zedd seems to have figured out a thing or two about how to write a tremendous EDM banger. The 26-year-old hitmaker is only on his second tour, but this Halloween Eve bash is, by most metrics, going to be the biggest EDM concert Madison sees all year. With Dillon Francis, Alex Metric.
Since forming in 2011, Houndmouth has frequently garnered comparisons to the Band. And while that may seem lofty, it’s also the most fitting way to describe the Indiana quartet. Everyone in the band sings, and they all sing well. Their effortless blend of folk, country and rock gives them a classic sound that’s rarely been heard since Robbie, Levon and company took their last waltz. With Cicada Rhythm.
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Any show by Stevens Point bluegrass outfit Horseshoes and Hand Grenades is a must-see, but this show is described as a “Halloween hootenanny,” with costumes “strongly encouraged.” Plus, they’ll be getting support from Milwaukee’s Dead Horses, another Badger State band on the brink of stardom. With Stevens Point’s Dig Deep.
Dancing vampires? Yes. This acclaimed stage show is heralded as “a fusion of dance and drama that heightens the suspense and seduction of Bram Stoker’s classic novel.” ALSO: Saturday, Oct. 31, 7:30 pm.
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High Noon Saloon: Shred Eagle (‘80s metal tribute), Beat of Burden (Rolling Stones), Elephant Riders (Clutch), Tory Crimes (The Clash), Descendaints (Descendents), 8 pm.
This zany, action-packed comedy written by Danielle Dresden of TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater sets the zombie apocalypse in a coffee shop, lampooning our cultural obsession with the undead. ALSO: Saturday, Oct. 31, 7:30 pm.
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Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see young Nicaraguan dancers performing folkloric dances from that country’s Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Plus, short videos documenting “Women in Action,” a community development group that works on education, health and arts projects in impoverished Managua, Nicaragua. Beta Blockers: The Refill: Short comedic plays by Left of Left Center: 7:30 pm, 10/30, Watertower Chop House, Sun Prairie; 4 pm, 11/1, Porta Bella; 7:30 pm, 11/2, High Noon Saloon. $10 donation. leftofleftcenter.com.
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B OOKS Don Sanford: Discussing “On Fourth Lake: A Social History of Lake Mendota,” with Doug Moe, 7 pm, 10/30, Mystery to Me. 283-9332. Sarah Vowell: Discussing “Lafayette in the Somewhat United States,” 7 pm, 10/30, Central Library. 229-2081.
Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Dan Barker, 6:30 pm. Merchant: DJs Vilas Park Sniper, Nate Zukas, free, 11 am; DJ Lauren Franchi, free, 10:30 pm. Mickey’s: Sons of Atom (Minutemen tribute), YehHup (Radio Birdman), Love Czars (Love), free, 10 pm. Plan B: DJ Cover Gurrl, 9 pm. Tempest Oyster Bar: Evan Murdock and the Imperfect Strangers, Americana, free, 9:30 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Winning Ugly, Nate Meng, 10 pm. Watertower Chop House, Sun Prairie: Nine Thirty Standard, rock/country/blues, free, 7 pm.
Adult Swim: 6-10 pm, 10/30, Madison Children’s Museum, with “Monster Mash Up” theme, costume contest, craft activities, movies, beer, more. $15 ($12.75 adv.; 21+ only). 256-6445.
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Lift the Mask: Annual Canopy Center Healing & Family Support Services benefit masquerade, 7-10 pm, 10/30, Madison Turners Hall, music by Josh Becker Band, emcee Leigh Miills, food, silent auction. $45 ($20 students). canopycenter.org. 241-4888.
Saturday, Oct. 31, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm
’80s vs ’90s Halloween Costume Ball
Colin Hay Saturday, Oct. 31, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm
Known to some as the frontman for ’80s radio staples Men at Work and to others as that guy who followed Zach Braff around with a guitar in a few episodes of Scrubs, the majority of Colin Hay’s career has been spent as a prolific solo artist. The Scotch-Australian troubadour has released 12 solo albums, most recently this year’s Next Year People. See page 34.
Christian Dior Saturday, Oct. 31, Bright Red Studios, 8:15 pm
Christian Dior rides the line between dreamy and anxious on its double EP, Patriot Glass / Dioria. The noisy Madison two-piece returns home from its Midwest tour in time for this eclectic DIY show, where they’ll be joined by local jazz experimenters the Lovely Socialite, Madison R&B crooner Mr. Jackson and Michigan electro-hopper Jerry Gari. 1855 Saloon, Cottage Grove: David Hecht, free, 7 pm. Alchemy Cafe: Red Rose, free, 10 pm. The Bayou: DJs WhiteRabbit, Siberia, 10 pm. Brink Lounge: The Begowatts, Johnny Likes Noize, Stereo Side Effect, rock, 9 pm. Cardinal Bar: Primitive Culture, Primates Inc. fundraiser, 3:30 pm; DJ Chamo, Latin, 9 pm. Claddagh, Middleton: Shekinah King, free, 8 pm. Come Back In: The Lower Fifth, free, 9 pm.
Essen Haus: Mike Schneider Band, free, 8:30 pm. The Frequency: Mad Trucker Gone Mad, Pachinko, Transformer Lootbag, Droids Attack, 10 pm. Harmony Bar: The Jimmys, blues, 9:45 pm. High Noon Saloon: Oak Street Ramblers, Brother Rye, Jeff Burkhart, Jeff Burkel, Literacy Network/Lowell Elementary benefit family cocnert, 2:30 pm; Gold Dust Women (as Fleetwood Mac), The Scars (Cars), BJ Experience (Billy Joel), Faux Gerties (Creedence Clearwater Revival), No Class (Motorhead), 8 pm.
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ART E XHI BITS & EV ENTS Artful Women Show/Sale: Annual Wisconsin Women’s Network & UW Hospital Art Fund benefit, 10/31-12/5, UW Hospital & Clinics. 263-5992. Fine Art & Craft Sale: Madison Weavers Guild event featuring Wisconsin & Minnesota craftspeople, 10 am-4 pm, 10/31-11/1, Olbrich Gardens. 238-3425.
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Featuring keynote Sunday, Nov. 1, Memorial Union Play Circle, and 3 pm Human Race
Race and Human Rights to the public in the U.S. and Beyond: What Do We Compare Questions? Contact Sumudu Atapattu at Bourbon Street Grille, Monona: Madison Jazz Jam, When We Compare? free (all ages), 4 pm. Sumudu.atapattu@wisc.edu or visit Music Festival. Since forming in 2004, the four men haveFree mesmerized and audiopen ences around the world and collaborated with tenor Placido Domingo.
November 5, 2015, 4 p.m. law.wisc.edu/gls/new_politics_conference.html
Broom Street Theater: “Oscar’s Hits & Misses,” Andrew Miller-Rhoads with vocalists Terry Christopher, Kurtis Hopp, Terry Kiss-Frank, Jan Levine Thal, Bob Moore and Heather Renken, free/donations, 7 pm. Coliseum Bar: Milwaukee Connection, jazz, 1 pm. First United Methodist Church: Ken Lonnquist & Dave Adler (CD release), 2 pm.
Hody Bar, Middleton: Reloaded, rock, free, 9 pm.
High Noon Saloon: Charles Grant, DLO, Tre 2 Times, Typhon, Dil, DJ Pain 1, 4 pm.
Ivory Room: Taras Nahirniak, Anthony Cao, 10 pm.
Mickey’s Tavern: Young Jesus, free, 10 pm.
Knuckle Down Saloon: Valerie B & the Boyz, 9 pm.
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Come Back In: WheelHouse, free, 5 pm Tuesdays.
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The Frequency: Jukebox Romantics, 8:30 pm.
Mike Rausch: Photographs, 11/1-12/31, UW Fluno Center. 441-7117.
High Noon Saloon: Gomeroke, free, 9 pm Tuesdays.
Wisconsin Water: Photographs from UW Sea Grant College Program and Water Resources Institute, 11/1-30, Middleton Library. 831-5564. Re-Art SWAP: Trade, donate or buy usable art & craft supplies, 9 am-3 pm, 11/1, Wil-Mar Center. 347-0267.
Essen Haus: Brian Erickson, free, 6:30 pm Tues.-Wed. Free House Pub, Middleton: The Westerlies, Irish, free, 7:30 pm Tuesdays.
Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, free, 8 pm Tuesdays. Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Vitale, Marilyn Fisher & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 5:30 pm Tuesdays. Mason Lounge: Five Points Jazz Collective, 9 pm Tuesdays. Threshold: Jaap Blonk, FOMA, vocal works, 7:30 pm. Up North Pub: The Wang Show, free, 8 pm.
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UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Mark Hetzler, Martha Fischer, trombone-piano duo, free, 7:30 pm.
B O O KS M USIC The Frequency: Sweet Delta Dawn, FlowPoetry, Newport Jam, The Green Banditos, AJ Binash, Spencer Houghton, jam rock, 9 pm. Glass Nickel-Atwoodl: David Landau, 5:30 pm.
James DeVita: Discussing “A Winsome Murder,” his novel, 7 pm, 11/3, Waunakee Library. 849-4217.
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Up North Pub: Pat Ferguson, free, 7 pm.
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The Front Bottoms Tuesday, Nov. 3, Majestic Theatre, 7:30 pm
Though they began as a modest folkpunk act on frontman Brian Sella’s breaks from college, New Jersey’s the Front Bottoms seem poised for bigger things. The band recently signed to Fueled by Ramen, the label that turned fun. and Paramore into megastars. With the Smith Street Band, Elvis Depressedly.
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As guitarist for the Strokes, Albert Hammond Jr. became a rock star when the group’s 2001 debut album, Is This It, launched them into the musical stratosphere. But on his own, Hammond is just as deserving of his star status — his latest solo release, Momentary Masters, is a collection of angular art rock songs that proves he’d be a household name even if “Last Nite” never happened. With Walking Shapes.
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Milk Carton Kids Tuesday, Nov. 3, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm
With endorsements from the likes of T Bone Burnett, Billy Bragg and even Garrison Keillor, it’s safe to say Milk Carton Kids are pretty good at what they do. And what they do is make timeless folk music. 2013’s The Ash and Clay scored a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album, and established the duo of Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan as one of the premier acts in the genre. With the Goodbye Girls.
KEN mode Wednesday, Nov. 4, Dragonfly Lounge, 9 pm
Winnipeg’s KEN mode has some strong opinions, and the three-piece band expresses them with a brutal intensity. Mocking conventional notions of making it big on their new LP Success, KEN mode rips through pummeling tunes, using sludge guitars and Jesse Matthewson’s challenging lyrics and sing-yell delivery to build a raw and anxious aesthetic. With Lo-Pan, Zebras, Coordinated Suicides, stand-up by Garrett Jamieson.
S PECTATOR SP ORTS UW Men’s Basketball: vs. UW-River Falls, 7 pm, 11/4, Kohl Center. $41-$26. 262-1440. UW Men’s Soccer: vs. Northwestern, 7 pm, 11/4, McClimon Track/Soccer Complex. $5. 262-1440.
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Chants Wednesday, Nov. 4, Cardinal Bar, 10 pm
With his solo music project Chants, Jordan Cohen makes slippery, atmospheric music located somewhere near the intersection of electronica, R&B and pop. Texturally focused with occasional indecipherable lyrics, Chants manages to crank out the hooks despite walls of synths. This show celebrates the release of Cohen’s new album We Are All Underwater. With Norwei, Chaz.
Magic Trick Buy-Swap-Trade: Madison Magicians Club event (all welcome), 6-8 pm, 11/4, Bourbon Street Grille, Monona. $5 admission ($10/table; RSVP by 11/1: magic@waynethewizard.com). 274-9411.
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1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove: Ken Wheaton, fingerstyle guitar, free, 6 pm Wednesdays. Alchemy Cafe: Boo Bradley, blues, free, 10 pm. The Frequency: Dang Dang, Instead We Smile, 8 pm. Heritage Tavern: Chris Wagoner, jazz, free, 8:30 pm. Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, piano, free, 8 pm. Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 5:30 pm Wednesdays. Luther Memorial Church: Bruce Bengtson, organ recital, free, noon Wednesdays. Monona Terrace: Liam Ford Band, free, 5:30 pm. Opus Lounge: Alison Margaret Jazz Trio, free, 9 pm. Up North Pub: Lost Highway All-Stars, free, 8 pm. UW Discovery Building: Clocks In Motion, Transient Canvas, 7 pm. UW Union South-The Sett: Open Mic with Ben Cameron, free, 8 pm Wednesdays (new location).
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David Wax Museum Thursday, Nov. 5, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm
A combination of American folk and Mexican son music, David Wax Museum plays upbeat, acoustic-oriented tunes centered around whimsical melodies and lush orchestration. Using the jarana (a stringed instrument from Mexico) as his primary instrument in place of a guitar, David Wax is serious about his references to world cultures, carving out a unique niche in a musical landscape saturated by pop-minded folk outfits. With Anthony D’Amato.
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B OOKS David Maraniss: Discussing “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story,” with Doug Moe, 7 pm, 11/4, HotelRED. 283-9332. John Garofolo: Discussing “Dickey Chapelle Under Fire,” his new book, 7 pm, 11/4, Barnes & Noble-West Towne. 827-0809.
Though Hippo Campus was voted the second-best new music act in Twin Cities alt-weekly City Pages in 2014, it’s had a first-rate 2015. This year the four-piece, whose members straddle the legal drinking age, has been recognized by Rolling Stone, performed at Lollapalooza and appeared on Conan. Their two EPs are full of poppy, laid-back rock and recall Vampire Weekend and Phoenix in equal measure. With Bad Bad Hats, Fargo. Brink Lounge: Carolyn Carter, Madison Folk Music Society concert, 7 pm. Merchant: Johnny Chimes & Gatur Bait, free, 10 pm. Mickey’s: Mal-O-Dua, 5:30 pm; Chieftain, 10 pm. Stoughton Opera House: Michael Perry & the Longbeds, Americana, 7:30 pm.
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Hair care professionals are used to dealing with the angst of clients growing their hair out. But stylists Lyndsy Showers and Nicole Nilson recently experienced some growing pains of their own — positive ones — when their business, Bang Salon, in Madison’s Bay Creek neighborhood, outgrew its original space. For years, Showers and Nilson worked together at an established Madison salon and tossed around the idea of striking out on their own. “We both really wanted to work for ourselves, to be able to make our own hours,” says Showers. “We didn’t want to work every weekend anymore. Not even every other weekend.” But their entrepreneurial plans remained a pipe dream until the spring of 2012, when Nilson spied a quaint 400-square-foot space on Lakeside Street. “We both fell in love with the location,” says Showers. They opened in August of that year and soon began seeing a steady stream of clients, excited to have a salon within walking distance. “We see lots of families, of course,” says Nilson (the salon is across the street from Franklin Elementary School), “but the area has lots of grad students and young professionals who work for the hospitals, too.” The neighborhood has been so good for business, in fact, that less than three years after opening, the partners expanded to a new space just down the block, doubling the size of the salon. Bang 2.0, which opened its bright red door in February at 330 W. Lakeside St., boasts a clean white paint palette, skylights and glass block walls that afford lots of natural light (“essential for good hair coloring,” says Nilson). “Eight hundred square feet is still pretty small,” Showers says with a smile, “but we really appreciate the challenges of minimalism.”
The proprietors continue a streamlined approach when it comes to product lines, carrying only label.m and Schwartzkopf Professional. They also sell a selection of hair care accessories and earrings from artist Tami Reschke, who ran the Bohemian Bauble, a gift shop that was formerly right down the street. The fashion-forward salon continues to grow. This past July, Bang added a third stylist, Jennifer McGowan, to the roster. But the salon’s fourth chair, which Showers and Nilson optimistically installed during construction, remains unfilled. “We’ll know when the time is right to expand,” says Nilson. “It’s kind of like going from long hair to a pixie. You need to think carefully about the best time to make a change.” n BANG 330 W. Lakeside St. 608-561-2264 n bangmadison.com 10 am-7 pm Tues.-Fri., by appt. Sat.
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Livestream your kids’ trick-or-treating How can you best participate in your kids’ Halloween fun? Walk along with the sweetsgrubbing tykes? Or livestream their trick-ortreating adventures via a smartphone they carry? Yeah! That sure beats following them in the minivan! The Airelive app “allows kids going trick-ortreating this year to earn their freedom while livestreaming their entire Halloween experience with their parents just one livestream away,” announces a press release from the company.
“Entire families can FaceChat, allowing up to four users to livestream at the same time. This allows for kids to communicate with their parents in real time should any questions arise.” Like, “Mom, can I take this homemade popcorn ball?” Granted, Airelive is not touting the app for use with toddlers. It’s for parents to keep an eye on their teenagers. Hey, why are teenagers trick-or-treating anyway? Can’t they buy their own goddamn candy?
The release continues: “Parents can view the livestream and assess the situation should a teen ever be in need of assistance. Converging all participating users’ data streams, families can use up to a fourth less of their data plan than if they used competing services.” Take that, Michael Myers! My mom is watching you right now. — LINDA FALKENSTEIN
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I am a straight, married, 38-year-old woman. My husband and I have two children. I have been with my husband for 12 years, married for six. Three years after we were married, we found out that he was HIV positive. We had both had multiple tests throughout our relationship because of physicals and the process we went through to get pregnant. Both of us were negative then, but only I am now. Needless to say, he was infected as a result of him cheating. We worked through that and remained married. Recently I saw a message from a woman saying, “Call me or I am calling your wife.” I identified myself, and she and I spoke briefly. I asked her how long they were having a relationship, and she told me since January. I did not mention his status. I confronted him, and he claims she is a crazy stalker. He says there was a brief flirtation but then she became clingy and “crazy,” and he did not know how to tell me without compromising our relationship. He blocked her calls and emails. He is undetectable, and we use condoms. He has never tried to not use a condom when we have had sex. In the state where we live, a positive person who does not inform a person of their status before having sex faces up to five years in prison. I have brought this to his attention. He is sticking to his story that he did not have sex with her. I do not believe him. We met with a therapist last week, only for a placement consultation. We did not mention his status. This is my biggest issue: I don’t think we can work through our problems without honesty. I need him to come clean and admit to me — and our therapist — that he had sex with this woman. If he does, I believe the therapist will be legally obligated to report his behavior to the police. I am preparing myself for divorce, something he doesn’t know, and while I don’t want to have him arrested, I feel we need the therapy in order to respectfully co-parent — and lying to a therapist or omitting the full truth seems crazy. Seeking Truth About This Unpleasant Situation
But since you don’t want to call the police yourself — you don’t want your fingerprints on this — you want to con your husband (with my help!) into telling “the full truth” to a therapist, who will have to call the police. “STATUS really does appear to be plotting her revenge here,” says Staley. “Divorce, checking her state’s HIV criminalization laws, drawing her husband into making a confession that could land him in prison.” And the instrument of your revenge — laws that require HIV-positive people to disclose to their sex partners—are unjust and unworkable. “I stand with every public health organization, including UNAIDS and the World Health Organization, in abhorring HIV criminalization laws like the one STATUS cites,” says Staley. “We already have laws on the books that can adequately deal with someone who knowingly and intentionally transmits HIV to someone else. Adding additional laws around HIV disclosure, especially when no transmission occurs, ends up causing more harm than good. Stigma rises. Fewer people disclose. Jilted partners use the laws to lash out.” That’s exactly what you sound like, STATUS: a jilted partner who hopes to use an unjust law to lash out at her soon-to-be ex-husband. And while you have cause to be angry (serial adulterers suck), you don’t have grounds to destroy your husband’s life. And you can’t rationalize your plot based on the “danger” your husband presented to the other woman. Your husband is taking his meds and has an undetectable viral load. That means he’s effectively noninfectious. “There’s a great organization called SERO (seroproject.com) fighting these laws,” says Staley. “Their website is filled with frightening cases of people with HIV rotting in jail for supposed nondisclosure, even when no transmission occurred. There are no similar convictions for nondisclosure of hepatitis C, HPV, syphilis, herpes, etc., some of which can kill. People with HIV are being singled out by legislatures trying to ‘protect’ the public from ‘AIDS monsters’ created by local TV stations looking for ratings.” n Email Dan Savage at mail@savagelove.net or tweet him at @fakedansavage.
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“Where to start?” asks Peter Staley, the legendary AIDS activist, founding director of the Treatment Action Group, and longtime board member of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. “I’ll leave the relationship issues to you, Dan, but isn’t the level of distrust here the most toxic part of the story?” The level of distrust does strike me as toxic — but seeing as your husband cheated, STATUS, and not for the first time, your distrust is understandable. What I don’t understand is your desire to see your husband sent to prison. You don’t want honesty (he doesn’t seem capable of that), you don’t want to “work through your problems” (your marriage is over), you just want your soonto-be ex-husband to rot in jail.
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