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Artist restores ancient artifacts.

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STATION BREAK

Will Madison ever get a bus facility?

TROUBLE BREWING

Arcane law stymies craft beer industry.

SMART MOVE

Women STEM students find a space of their own.

ALLISON GEYER

MIKE IVEY 8 NEWS MIKE IVEY resigned from The Capital Times in June after a 30-year tenure, but you wouldn’t know it from his Twitter feed, @MikeIveyXC. Once a news hound always a news hound. In his first piece for Isthmus, the award-winning business reporter delves into claims that a 2011 state budget provision is slowing the growth of Wisconsin’s craft beer industry.

18 COVER STORY ALLISON GEYER entered UWMadison in 2009, just two years after a mass shooting left 32 dead at Virginia Tech, but the prospect of gun violence at her alma mater did not consume her days. More shootings since then, however, have sparked a national push to eliminate gun-free zones on college campuses, as she reports in her cover story.

16 OPINION

JERSEY SHORE

Republicans are tarnishing our state’s clean reputation.

18 COVER STORY

SAFE OR SORRY

Allowing guns on campus is a divisive issue.

23, 35-36 MUSIC

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25-30 FOOD & DRINK

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Fri.-Sun., Nov. 6-8, various sites, talesfromplanetearth.com The organizers of this year’s “Tales from Planet Earth” environmental film fest believe issues don’t move people to action, stories do. The event, which screens 40 films, opens with a roundtable on “The Power of Belief: A Conversation on Faith, Environment and Social Justice” (Fri., 7 pm, Union South Marquee Theater).

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ALL ABOARD KATE NEWTON 4 SNAPSHOT ART RESTORATION is a meticulous process, as Kate Newton aptly describes in her piece this week on Donna Page, who quietly works her magic out of her Monona Bay home studio. Newton also writes this week about a program at UW-Madison that supports female students who major in technology and the sciences.

Railroaders documents lives of laborers after Great Depression.

38 SCREENS

BOND BOMBS

Spectre gives up the ghost.

44 EMPHASIS

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IN EVERY ISSUE 10 MADISON MATRIX 10 WEEK IN REVIEW 16 OPINION & FEEDBACK 16 THIS MODERN WORLD 17 OFF THE SQUARE

Madison is on the hot seat at this free symposium on racial justice, “Incarceration and Segregation in the ‘Creative City.’” The event, cosponsored by YGB Coalition, features speakers Cedric Robinson (Fri., 5:30 pm, Elvehjem L 160) and Jamala Rogers (Sat., 9 am, Pyle Center); panel discussions (Sat., Pyle Center); and “We the 350,” a narrative performance based on interviews with local black activists (Sat., 8 pm, and Sun., 2 pm, Overture Hall).

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Keep an eye on your local elected officials as they debate final amendments and vote on Madison’s proposed $290 million operating budget. Hot topics include funding for programs to help the homeless, youth employment, city employee pay and a new Midtown Police Station.

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In a studio near the shores of Monona Bay, Donna Page sits back and studies several thousand years of history sitting on her bookshelf. A mix of personal possessions and pieces sent to her from around the country for repair and restoration, the lineup more or less dictates Page’s agenda for the day. A 2,000-year-old terracotta head from Nigeria and an encrusted wood samana mask from Mali (she asks me to point out the spot she’d repaired, but the surface betrays no breaks or irregularities) will be sent back to their owners shortly. She turns her attention to the work at hand, a wood figure from the Baule culture of the Ivory Coast sitting on her desk. “It’s like a rotating museum in here, and I appreciate that because I love looking at pieces,” Page says. “You never know quite what’s going to turn up.” A distinct smell — a combination of art supply store, museum and archeological site — permeates the air in the studio, a former liquor store that Page purchased, gutted and repurposed as both her work and living space. A native of Green Bay, Page returned to Wisconsin in late 2007 after a nearly 30year career in New York studying and restoring African art, with a focus in wood and terracotta sculpture. Many of her clients, primarily dealers, collectors and museums scattered across the U.S., stayed with her after her move, and Page still relies entirely on word of mouth — no website, no advertising — to expand her business. After nearly eight years in the building, she still hasn’t had any encounters with her neighbors about her work. “I think they go by the window and wonder, ‘What’s going on in here?’” she says with a laugh. In order to stay true to a piece’s cultural origin, Page relies on her extensive knowledge and collection of indigenous materials that she’s accrued over the years. Dozens of jars of these materials, including clays, dyes and pigments brought to her from around the world, populate almost every flat surface of the studio. Depending on the work that’s needed, Page can combine various materials to re-create more or less every shade and texture applied to the piece at its making. Today, Page is using kaolin, a soft white clay that is an ingredient in china and porcelain, combined with darker pigments, to restore the surface of the Baule figure, the female of a pair referred to in the culture as “asie usu,” or spirit spouses. Her original finish had been polished off, and the owner wanted her appearance to match the more authentic shades of the male figure. Page mixes the clay and pigments with a small brush, blending and adding ingredients to darken and lighten as needed. Holding the figure on her lap almost as if in an embrace, she paints and dabs deliberately over the surface, rotating slowly until the figure is fully

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In her studio near Monona Bay, Donna Page helps restore ancient art to its original glory.

coated. She works steadily and, most of all, patiently. “When you mix the pigment, you kind of have to guesstimate, and then try it out, let it dry, and then try it again,” she says. A hair dryer helps speed up the process, as the exact color will have to be achieved in layers. When she’s restoring a piece, Page says she often feels like she’s retracing the path of the original artist. “You almost get into the mind of the person that made it in the first place, and I really like that process,” she says. With that, she turns back to her work, preserving the past to ensure its future. n

BOOKS SHE’S CO-AUTHORED: Surfaces: Color, Substances, and Ritual Applications on African Sculpture (2009) and African Art in African American Collections (2015), which will have an accompanying exhibition at Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History in April.

EDUCATION: Earned her MFA at UW-Madison and taught basic design and ceramics at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Ill., Drew University in Madison, N.J., and Queensborough College-CUNY in Bayside, N.Y.

OLDEST PIECE IN DONNA PAGE’S COLLECTION: A small piece of pottery from Sudan, circa the Neolithic period and approximately 3,000 years old.

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Waiting for a bus station Lack of facility called “embarrassing” for Madison BY JOE TARR

On a recent bus trip to visit her daughter in La Crosse, Gerrie Martini came across what would be an amazing sight for many in Madison: a modern, indoor bus station. Although La Crosse has a population of only 50,000, people waiting to catch a bus there have a comfortable place to get out of the elements. “There’s a person there. Can you imagine, a real person that sells you bus tickets?” she says. “And there are bathrooms and machines with refreshments and drinks.” Not so in Madison. Here, buses pick up and drop off on the curb in front of the Chazen Museum of Art on University Avenue and at the Dutch Mill Park and Ride on the city’s southeast side. Martini doesn’t understand why Madison can’t have something similar. “It just seems that with all the students we have we should have a place to get out of the weather,” Martini says. “At the Chazen, there aren’t even benches. You have to sit on the retaining wall. It’s just deplorable.” Martini isn’t the only one who feels this way. “It’s embarrassing that Wisconsin’s capital city has no inner-city bus station of any sort,” says Ald. Mike Verveer. “If it wasn’t for the Chazen and Dutch Mill Park and Ride, the buses would be stopping at a street corner here and there.” Since the Badger Bus Depot on West Washington Avenue closed in August 2009, Madison has been without a station where people can wait for buses to take them to other cities. The main bus companies serving the city — Badger

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Since then, city officials have turned their attention to the city’s own property. The Madison Parking Utility garage located at Lake Street near the campus end of State Street is slated to be rebuilt in five to 10 years. “The idea is, why don’t we incorporate a bus terminal and put parking above that and maybe even apartments above that,” says Trowbridge. “There’d be parking for half a dozen to 10 buses. There’d be a waiting area separated from the fumes, maybe even a coffee shop, who knows?” For now, the idea is very much just a concept, with no formal proposals on the table, and more importantly, no funding identified. The parking utility is currently focused on replacing the Government East garage, as part of the Judge Doyle Square project. It is expected to kick in about $20 million for that. The replacement of the Lake Street garage has been delayed by at least five years because the city proposes building a new, 600-stall garage on East Washington Avenue to accommodate development there, Verveer says. Nice bus depots with amenities like the one in La Crosse are usually built by municipalities, not bus companies, which “show no interest in pursuing a facility,” he adds. For now, bus riders in Madison will be forced to wait for the bus on the sidewalk of University Avenue, in the rain, heat, cold and snow. “It seems that we’ve all agreed we have no better option for the foreseeable future,” Verveer says. “Until we get one again, [the bus stop] will remain the Chazen.” n

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Craft brewery slowdown Owners says an arcane 2011 state law is impeding growth BY MIKE IVEY

By most accounts, Wisconsin’s craft beer industry is still booming. It’s an economic development bright spot in a state struggling to create new jobs and boost private-sector investment. But unfortunately, the number of new breweries opening in Wisconsin is now lagging the rest of the nation by some 50%, according to the latest figures from the Brewers Association, based in Boulder, Colo. And some entrepreneurs are blaming lawmakers for arcane rules slipped into the 2011 budget that make it harder for smaller players to expand or grow their business. “Wisconsin likes to think of itself as the home of brewing but the fact is other states are a lot more friendly,” says Peter Gentry of Madison’s One Barrel Brewing. Gentry had to stop selling wine and liquor at his tap room at 2001 Atwood Ave. in order to comply with the new law. Gentry opened his “nanobrewery” in 2012 with the modest goal of producing about 250 barrels of beer annually. (A barrel is 31.5 gallons or about 125 pints of beer.) The 1,300-square-foot facility also featured an in-house bar serving beer, wine and spirits, which provided some badly needed revenue to the fledging operation. In fact, business has been going so well that Gentry has run out of capacity at his eastside location and wanted to start contract brewing One Barrel beers at other facilities. This is a common practice among brewers today that allows for growth without a major capital investment in new equipment. But in order to legally contract brew under the new state rules, Gentry had to switch the official classification of his business from “brewpub” to “brewery” — a move that also forced One Barrel to give up its license to sell wine and liquor, although it can still offer beer. That change alone, Gentry estimates, will cost $15,000 in lost sales. Meanwhile, other breweries operating prior to 2011 are

still permitted to hold the Class B licenses that allow retail liquor or wine sales on premise. “They’ve made the playing field very uneven, especially if you want to expand,” says Gentry. The changes in state law, which were backed by the powerful Tavern League of Wisconsin, made big news in Milwaukee recently when celebrity chef Justin Aprahamian, owner of Sanford restaurant and a James Beard award winner, announced he will open his Like Minds Brewery in Chicago instead of Milwaukee as first planned. The owners anticipated hiring 40 employees off the bat, but these jobs now seem headed to Illinois. That story caught the eye of state Rep. Dale Kooyenga (R-Brookfield), who calls it “embarrassing” that a prominent Wisconsin businessman is being forced out of state because of rules designed to protect bars and taverns from competition from small breweries. “I’m a free market guy, and this is just wrong,” says Kooyenga who put some of the blame on the state Department of Revenue for what called an overly aggressive approach to regulation. Kooyenga, who has championed deep tax cuts in Wisconsin as a way to spark business growth, is now planning to introduce legislation that could ease some of the brewing restrictions in the name of growing the state economy. “We should be helping entrepreneurs in the state, not making it more difficult,” he says. The rules that block a brewery owner from holding a retail liquor license are part of the state’s longstanding “three-tier” distribution system that legally separates alcohol manufacturers, wholesalers and bar owners from each other. The patchwork of laws, which has been tweaked and changed at various times, is designed to prevent monopoly control of the alcohol industry.

Peter Gentry estimates he’s lost $15,000 in sales because he can no longer serve wine or liquor at One Barrel Brewing.

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The three-tier system was adopted across the nation following the lifting of Prohibition in 1933 and was intended to prevent a return to the old “tied house” scenario where brewers could squeeze out the competition by forcing taverns to only serve their products. Each state enacted its own set of laws and a system to collect liquor taxes. But rather than preventing large breweries from dominating local markets, the tied house laws today are obstacles to newer players looking to get started, says Bart Watson, an economist with the Brewers Association, which represents the nation’s 3,400 craft brewers. The trade group broadly defines “craft brewers” as small, independently owned operations producing less than 6 million barrels annually.

“We should be helping entrepreneurs in the state, not making it more difficult.” — Rep. Dale Kooyenga (R-Brookfield)

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Wisconsin did see the number of craft brewers increase from 73 to 97 from 2011 to 2014, a jump of 32%. But other states like Minnesota, Illinois and Colorado have enjoyed three times that growth rate over the same period. “You’ve definitely seen a slowdown,” says Watson. “That’s unfortunate because most of the growth in the industry is coming from smaller places that need to operate a tap room to stay profitable.” To that end, the owners of Madisonbased MobCraft Brewing Company have run into snags trying to open a new brewery in Milwaukee’s redeveloping Walker’s Point neighborhood. MobCraft wanted to include a Roman Candle pizza restaurant in their new venture but were told they couldn’t because the pizzeria holds liquor licenses for its five other locations in Wisconsin. MobCraft owner Henry Schwartz is still hoping to work out something with regulators but says the complicated state laws regarding alcohol sales and distribution are outdated and cumbersome. “We’re even one step further removed from what the guys at Sanford (restaurant) ran into,” he says. “It’s just crazy.”

than 5,000 retail establishments in the state that could potentially lose business if breweries enjoy more freedom to sell alcohol on site. A loosening of Wisconsin’s tied house laws would also have to get past Rep. Rob Swearingen (R-Rhinelander), who chairs the Assembly Committee on State Affairs and Government Operations, which oversees alcohol policy. Swearingen is a restaurant owner and past president of the Tavern League. Longtime Tavern League lobbyist Scott Stenger says the current system is working well and is one reason Wisconsin has maintained its many small bars and restaurants in the face of national competition. He notes that all other states have tied house laws and no one has yet to come up with a better system for regulating alcohol sales and distribution. “A few years ago you’d be hard pressed to find a bar with more than five different tap lines. Now you have places with 40,” says Stenger. In fact, Stenger says the number of different breweries operating and the wide choice of beers available points to the success of Wisconsin’s regulatory climate. “I just don’t see any evidence this is keeping anyone from opening a brewery,” says Stenger, who also lobbies for MillerCoors, the brewing behemoth created by the merger of SABMiller and Molson Coors in 2007. But Mark Garthwaite, executive director of the Wisconsin Brewers Guild, which represents about 60 state craft brewers, can recount a dozen cases where smaller breweries are running into roadblocks under Act 32, which was included in the 2011 Republican budget with no debate or discussion. He notes, for instance, how the Wisconsin Brewing Company in Verona, which opened in 2012, is losing business because it cannot legally serve wine or spirits under the new law. “They would love to host weddings, but you can’t toast the bride with champagne and the guests can’t have a brandy Old Fashioned because a brewer can no longer hold a Class B [liquor] license,” says Garthwaite, who is also chairman of the Great Taste of the Midwest beer festival and former president of the Madison Homebrewers and Tasters Guild. Garthwaite acknowledges the initial intent of the three-tier system of the 1930s but questions whether tiny breweries today really pose a monopoly threat or a return to the days where hard-nosed brewers could throw their financial muscle around. “What we need is a more dynamic system that reflects the changes that have come to the brewing world,” he says. “Consumers have made it clear they want more choices, and if Wisconsin is really open for business we shouldn’t be putting up these kinds of obstacles.” n

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UW System President Ray Cross comes under fire for backtracking on his promise to preserve campus-specific tenure policies.

Did a short-order cook score well enough on the state civil service exam to get an interview for a financial examiner job? Gov. Scott Walker cited this case as an example of why civil service reform is necessary, but no records can back up his story, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.

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Ryan (R-Janesville) takes his oath of office, becoming the first House speaker from Wisconsin and the youngest to hold the position in nearly 150 years. n Gov. Scott Walker’s administration admits that Capitol Police did not maintain complete records of visitors to the governor’s mansion. The liberal group One Wisconsin Now submitted a records request to see who Walker was meeting with as he planned his run for the presidency, but a Walker attorney says the visitors log records are transitory.

Doyle Square development project and will instead expand its headquarters at University Research Park on the west side, company officials announce. Who could have guessed that a biotech startup would be so volatile? n Members of the UW-Madison Faculty Senate approve a new campus tenure policy, which narrows the set of conditions under which professors may be fired. The measure now moves to the UW System Board of Regents for approval, but that might not happen until next year. TUESDAY, NOV. 3 n Assembly Repub-

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When UW-Madison sophomore Stefanie Henry and some of her classmates were told by an engineering professor to “cut their losses” after scoring poorly on a difficult exam, Henry knew she had two options. “I could let him encourage me to get out of this class, or I can stay and prove him wrong,” Henry says, adding. “I haven’t dropped the class yet.” But as an African American woman majoring in biomedical engineering, Henry knows that one careless comment can be the tipping point for students who feel like “there’s already so many things working against them” in the pursuit of a career in STEM, the acronym for science, technology, engineering and math. Women represent 47% of the national workforce, but only 27% of STEM jobs. Minority women are employed in fewer than 10% of these jobs, according to 2013 data from the National Girls Collaborative Project. “The more you move up in engineering, the fewer women you see [and] less diversity in regard to race and ethnicity as well,” Henry says. “There may have been maybe 20 girls in my lecture of 300, and now [after that incident] there may be just 10 or 15.” Fortunately, students like Henry have access to a resource dedicated to their success from the moment they arrive on campus. The learning community known as WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) places incoming students declaring STEM majors onto a designated floor in a residence hall, where they live, study and work together. It makes “this really big institution feel like a much smaller community,” says Kristyn Masters, WISE’s faculty director and an associate professor of biomedical engineering. Housed in Sellery Hall, the program’s 64 residents create a communal space where they can build upon the common ground they share: an interest in science and technology that they hope will, in just a few short years, lead to a career. Though passionate about their fields and with often higher grades than their male peers, female STEM students must cope with “a lot of messages” that can make them think they don’t belong. A supportive environment like WISE can help counter those messages and keep women on their path. According to Masters, 74% of WISE women who declared STEM on their UW application graduate with a degree in a STEM field, compared to 52% of women in the general UW population with similar grade point averages. Along the same lines, 52% of “underrepresented minorities” living at WISE graduate in STEM, compared to 35% of minority women in the general population. In overseeing the program’s weekly seminar course, Masters helps integrate students into the STEM community within and outside the university, connecting

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them with female mentors in their field of study for “one-on-one, personal attention.” “The female STEM faculty on this campus are extremely generous with their time, because we’ve all gone through...difficult situations that really don’t let up,” Masters says. Students are also paired with peer mentors who lived in WISE as freshmen. “Everybody has something to contribute,” says Julia Loosen, a 19-year-old sophomore studying neurobiology. “[WISE] really is a support system because if you’re doubting what you’re doing, you always have people there who [support] you.” Students also benefit from research and outreach opportunities. The program provides two fully funded summer scholarships for incoming freshmen, allowing them to get a foot in the door in their chosen field. Students also conduct their own outreach projects — connecting with Madison-area schools and Boys & Girls Clubs, as well as community science institutions like the UW Space Place and the Geology Museum — to engage children in science at an early age. “If you go into their high schools and elementary schools and have girls see [women] doing things [in STEM], they’re more likely to do it,” says Amanda Beltrame, a biochemistry senior who oversees WISE’s mentorship team. The program is now 20 years old, but a renewed public awareness of gender inequality in the workplace has reinforced its importance. “For a couple years...among younger people, there was a feeling of, ‘Is WISE really still needed? Aren’t we over this sexism in science thing?’” Masters says. “It’s simultaneously depressing and motivating to see [it in] the news more and more, but at the same time I think it’s good for younger people to be hearing this because if you’re ignorant to it, you can’t tackle it.”

Fatima Nizamuddin, an 18-year-old freshman studying biochemistry, appreciates the honest approach. “I wanted to join a community that... didn’t just show the good side of STEM, but also showed that it is difficult and you do have to put in a lot of work to stand out,” says Nizamuddin. “Hearing at the weekly [seminar] dinners that “[faculty members] also struggled as undergraduates and overcame that, was also really empowering.” Next fall, WISE will relocate to Elizabeth Waters Residence Hall, where it began in 1995. Because Sellery tends to exclusively attract freshmen, Masters says she hopes the move will encourage residents to remain in WISE housing, where they can retain a sense of community while benefitting from partnerships and programming. While the program’s capacity will decrease to 60 women in Waters, WISE program coordinator Ann Haase-Kehl says they expect to expand into adjacent parts of the building the following year. “We’re very excited about moving back to [Waters], because we feel that we will rebuild a very robust upper-year student program and really support students much longer through their STEM career,” HaaseKehl says. Henry is looking forward to the move and recently submitted her application to serve as the program’s live-in house fellow next year. She says strong support from family and the university community is crucial to moving the needle on racial and gender disparities. ““Having those mentors from when you’re small, and then [continuing] to surround yourself with people who want to see you do well, I think that’s how you get the change.” n

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Just as you’ve been clearing out your gutters and putting a cover over the airconditioning unit, Dane County has been preparing the lakes for winter. To prevent shoreline ice damage and to allow for flood storage capacity after spring runoff, water levels are being drawn down in the Yahara River chain of lakes: Mendota, Monona, Waubesa and Kegonsa. (Lake Wingra is connected to Monona but is not considered part of the chain.) The state Department of Natural Resources governs our lake levels. During summer months, the county keeps them within a certain range. “Each lake has a different elevation, but in terms of the range it’s six inches,” says John Reimer, county stormwater engineer. Reimer says the county plans to “operate to the midrange,” keeping fluctuations to within three inches. The county also operates the 10 weedharvesting vessels often seen near shore. A “weed scout” precedes them, observing and forecasting potential problems. Besides presenting aesthetic concerns, weeds can be a nuisance to navigation, but that’s not the main reason for their removal. “We remove lake weeds to make sure flow is maintained in the rivers, so if we ever do get flooding, the rivers aren’t choked off by vegetation,” says Reimer. “We try to be proactive about that.” The Tenney locks closed Oct. 31, and Dane County has already removed more than 160 buoys in the Yahara chain. “If peo-

ple are using the lakes, be aware of any hazards that would be out there,” warns Reimer. With lower lake levels “some of the hazards out there can become more exposed.” Lake prep got a bit more complicated with the recent discovery of zebra mussels in Lake Mendota. The county is asking anyone who will be removing piers, docks and boats from the water to check for attached zebra mussels. A class of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates found the mussels in October. The good news is that an Oct. 22 survey suggests the damaging invasive species is not in Lake Monona — yet. Their absence in that lake is one of several mysteries surrounding the discovery. “They’re at Picnic Point, Maple Bluff, Tenney Park, University Bay, Frautschi Point — they are widespread,” says professor Jake Vander Zanden of the UW Center for Limnology. Zebra mussels can encrust piers, boats and motors and clog water intakes and pipes, and their shells can cut swimmers’ feet. Vander Zanden estimates that they’ve been in Mendota for three years, but so far they’re hard to find — something like one per square meter. “Typically when we see zebra mussels in an invaded lake, we see thousands or even hundreds of thousands per square meter,” he says. “When they’re at those really high abundances, they have huge impacts. We may have captured it really early on in the invasion process.” Zanden says it’s “sort of remarkable that they’ve only just appeared.” he says. Zebra

mussels have been spreading in southern Wisconsin since the 1990s. At the moment they’re hiding in Mendota’s nooks and crannies, not on rock surfaces. “That could suggest that fish are feeding on baby zebra mussels,” says Vander Zanden. “I think there could be some ecological sources that are holding them back. Do I have evidence of that? No.” Colin Smith, a graduate student at the Center for Limnology, led the Oct. 22 scuba search of six sites in Lake Monona. Smith was surprised the search turned up no zebra mussels. “For me, these results generated more questions than relief,” he says. “Why did we not find them at the survey sites? Would we have found them at other sites in the lake? Are they located deeper in the lake? Is Monona not suitable for their establishment? What’s next?” Vander Zanden warns that other invasives may be on the way, including quagga mussels, red swamp crawfish and bloody red shrimp. As for zebra mussels? “I really don’t think there’s anything we can do, other than see what we can learn,” he says. If you find zebra mussels in lakes other than Mendota, the DNR would like to hear about it. If possible, note the location and take a digital photo of the animal and its setting; collect up to five specimens of varying sizes; place in a jar with water; put on ice and transport to a refrigerator. Then contact Susan Graham at the DNR, susan.graham@wisconsin. gov.n

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The Situation Wisconsin clean government goes the way of New Jersey. BY RUTH CONNIFF Ruth Conniff is editor of The Progressive magazine.

When I was a kid, my dad, who moved to Wisconsin from New Jersey, used to derive endless amusement from reading about what passed for political corruption in the local news. A story about former Madison Police Chief David Couper kissing his wife on board an official police boat generated headlines for days. Another local official was the subject of a major scandal when it was revealed he’d made $15 worth of personal phone calls from his office. Bribery, corruption and intrigue involving the mob were daily fare back in my dad’s hometown. Wisconsin, with its tidy farms and super-clean Midwestern political culture, was a breath of fresh air. Times sure have changed. Just in the last two weeks, our state Assembly has passed bills to do away with John Doe investigations of corrupt public officials; double the amount of money donors can pour into political campaigns; water down disclosure requirements; replace the nonpartisan board that oversees elections and ethics rules with a group of partisan appointees; and eliminate the objective civil service test, so politicians can install their cronies in public jobs. The raft of pro-corruption bills pushed by Gov. Scott Walker since he dropped out of the Republican presidential contest is so impressive, The New York Times saw fit to comment on it in an editorial headlined “The Revenge of Scott Walker.” Walker may have made a lackluster candidate for president, but his sheer chutzpah in dismantling democratic institutions and paving the way for unfettered corruption stands out nationally. “It is a relief that Mr. Walker won’t be able to impose his warped ideas about democratic accountability on the rest of the country,” the Times’ editors opined. “But for the Wisconsinites who are stuck with him until 2018, America’s gain is their loss.” Goodbye, Midwestern nice. Hello, Newark. The assault on clean government doesn’t just mean less democracy and more money buying elections (although it does mean that).

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There is a direct connection between political corruption and the corruption of our environment. Get ready for the next phase of the New Jersey-ification of our state: pollution of our air, land and water. Opening the door to more corporate money in elections also means dirty energy firms like G-TAC and Enbridge have more flexibility to write their own rules, as The Progressive’s Rebecca Kemble has pointed out. How did we lose so much public accountability in such a short period of time? Part of the problem is our toxic, siloed media atmosphere, where Walker and his supporters have simply chosen to opt out of any shared sense of reality. They feel free to ignore stories they don’t like, and tar reporters and watchdogs as out to get them and therefore unreliable. Don’t like the information reporters dig up? Don’t like ethics investigations by nonpartisan agencies? Shoot the messenger! State Republicans argued with a straight face last week that John Doe criminal investigations of bribery, extor-

tion and other violations of campaign laws are a threat to good government. The John Doe, led by a Republican prosecutor, which turned up evidence of campaign law violations by Walker’s closest aides and associates, and resulted in jail sentences for six of them, was a “partisan witch hunt” and grossly unfair, they said. For the protection of politicians suspected of wrongdoing in the future, such investigations will not be allowed. Likewise, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board is a “failed experi-

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ment,” according to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester). Since it approved the so-called partisan witch hunt in the John Doe, not to mention the recall election against Walker, for the sake of accountability and transparency, this panel of retired judges must be replaced by two separate boards composed of political appointees. “I believe strongly this will lead to significant corruption in Wisconsin,” Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) said of the break-up of the GAB. But for the hyper-partisan Walker supporters, the facts don’t matter. They declared open season on open government the moment they took power. Hey, it works for the Republican presidential campaigns. The candidates, unhappy with what they considered rough treatment in last week’s debate (where both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio were caught in outright lies), threatened to boycott further debates until they can seize control of the format and get rid of tough questions once and for all. You have to wonder what it takes for the public — including voters who support Republicans and Democrats alike — to reject this kind of selfdealing. At least in New Jersey, scandals like Bridgegate are investigated, and the public has a chance to decide whether to keep politicians like Gov. Chris Christie in office. If Walker gets his way, corruption will go unchecked in Wisconsin, and the public won’t have a clue. Just fuhgeddaboudit. n

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BRENT EISBERNER GENERALLY FEELS safe on the UW-Madison campus. But the possibility of an attack is always on the law student’s mind. A former Marine Corps captain and concealed carry instructor, Eisberner selects his seats in classrooms and lecture halls based on what position would best allow him to react to an active shooter. “I always have a plan,” he says. “I’m not sure if it’s the military training or just the reality of today’s world, but wherever I go I have a plan should something occur.” Still, he says he’d feel a lot safer if concealed weapons were allowed inside university buildings. Wisconsin’s 2011 concealed carry law allows permit-holding residents age 21 and older to carry a hidden weapon almost anywhere in the state, including the grounds of public universities and colleges. An exemption in the statute permits schools to prohibit firearms inside campus buildings. But as mass shootings continue to occur with alarming frequency on college campuses, gun rights advocates across the country are proposing to eliminate such gun-free zones at public institutions of higher education. And Wisconsin has jumped on the bandwagon. State Rep. Jesse Kremer (R-Kewaskum) and Sen. Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) introduced a bill on Oct. 12 that would preclude public colleges and universities from banning concealed weapons anywhere on campus. The proposal came less than two weeks after a mass shooting on a campus in Oregon. “Allowing our public campuses to ban concealed weapons in buildings puts our students at greater risk of becoming victims of crime,” Kremer said in a press release. “It is our hope that with this legislation, we can see a decrease in violent crime on and around our public campuses.” In response, three Madison Democrats — Terese Berceau, Melissa Sargent and Chris Taylor — have introduced a bill that

would make carrying a weapon on campus a Class I felony. The “College Campus Dangerous Weapons Ban” has little chance of advancing in the Republican-controlled Legislature, but Taylor says she believes the majority of Wisconsin residents support gun safety laws. “If guns reduced crime, the U.S. would have the lowest homicide rate in the industrialized world,” Taylor says. “People want us to do more in promoting gun safety measures — not less.” REACTION FROM CAMPUS OFFICIALS and students to the bill has been swift and largely negative. The UW-Madison student government, the University of Wisconsin Police Department, the UW System Chancellors and UW System President Ray Cross have all voiced public opposition. But some on campus, including Eisberner, have welcomed the proposal. He believes that the ability for colleges and universities to ban guns in campus buildings “effectively disarms students,” putting them at risk in the event of an attack. Further, supporters of campus carry laws contend that gun-free zones make colleges and universities “soft targets” — places that are vulnerable to acts of violence because individuals are not permitted to arm themselves for self-defense. “This law benefits everybody,” says Afton Olson, the Wisconsin director for the national group Students for Concealed Carry. “It puts in the mind of [a potential shooter] that they could be stopped by anybody.” Wisconsin members of Students for Concealed Carry worked with Kremer and LeMahieu to draft the campus carry bill, which was in the works before the Oregon shooting occurred. The group argues that the proposed legislation would put the state’s public colleges and universities on even footing with other public facilities, which already allow concealed weapons. Olson, who learned firearm handling from his father and completed three and

a half years in the Army National Guard, compares a concealed weapon to a fire extinguisher — a tool to be used in case of emergency. He also points out that Wisconsin’s concealed carry law already requires permit holders to be 21 or older, meaning that only a small percentage of college students would be eligible and most would not likely to be living in school dormitories. “I think [the bill] is very fair,” Olson says. “It respects the Wisconsin laws, but it also respects the rights of students.” The bill’s future is unclear, however, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told the Associated Press he doesn’t plan on bringing it up for a vote, though he supports campus carry. But he added that he is open to discussing the proposal. IN JUNE, TEXAS BECAME THE MOST recent state to adopt campus carry. Idaho passed a similar law in 2014, as did Kansas and Arkansas in 2013 and Mississippi in 2011. Utah became the first state to legalize campus carry in 2004, though the University of Utah continued banning guns until 2006. In all, there are eight states — including Colorado, Oregon and Wisconsin — that have passed campus carry in some form. Lawmakers in Michigan, Ohio and Florida are also debating campus carry bills. Over the last four years, anywhere from 12 to 20 states have introduced legislation to allow concealed weapons on campus in some form, says Suzanne Hultzin, a policy specialist with the National Conference for State Legislatures who tracks the issue of guns on campus. Each year, one or two states have approved legislation. The campus laws take many forms — some uniformly ban universities from prohibiting concealed weapons, others allow guns on campus but allow universities to maintain weapons bans in places like dormitories and sports stadiums. But it’s not always clear who has the power to dictate policy — campus officials, or state legislators.

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ons to highlight the juxtaposition of the law allowing guns and a section of the Texas Penal Code that prohibits the display of obscene materials, such as dildos. A prominent UT-Austin emeritus professor publicly resigned in protest of the legislation, saying it would increase the risk of a shooting by a disgruntled student. “Applying this law broadly,” Daniel S. Hamermesh wrote in a letter to university administrators, “will detract from both faculty well-being and from the national and international reputation of this university.” FACULTY AT UW-MADISON ARE EQUALLY troubled by the prospect of guns in school buildings, says Kevin Helmkamp, UWMadison associate dean of students. He has heard from colleagues who say they are pondering a move if campus carry goes into effect. “Obviously that’s a huge step for people to take,” Helmkamp says. “But people have made similar comments to me in regards to this legislation.” Donald Downs, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of political science, is a strong supporter of concealed carry and the right to bear arms. But he also says those opposed to campus carry have “valid concerns” about the bill’s impact on campus safety and academic freedom. “Universities are special places — places of free inquiry and wide-open discussion,” says Downs, who is known for his First Amendment work. He worries that students carrying weapons in class could

Freshman Eliana Locke: “I wouldn’t feel safe...[in] a lecture knowing that someone has a gun in their backpack.” have a “chilling effect” on scholarly debate. “If that’s so, I don’t want them.” Ann Althouse, a UW-Madison law professor who writes a popular conservative blog, has authored numerous posts over the years about gun control, concealed carry and weapons on campus. In one, Althouse, who did not respond to a request for comment, expressed disdain for President Barack Obama’s 2013 gun control proposals and the surrounding liberal rhetoric. But in a more recent post, she allows that professors may be justified in feeling anxious about “students who impulsively become violent and, because they have a gun with them, do far more damage than if they were unarmed.” She argues that carrying a concealed weapon is voluntary behavior and points out that schools impose limitations on behavior in classroom settings all the time — student dress codes or rules about talking, for instance. She wrote: “It’s not the case that teachers must learn to tolerate students exercising their personal freedoms in the classroom.” THE COLLEGE DEMOCRATS OF UW-MADIson recently hosted a forum on Wisconsin’s proposed campus carry legislation — an issue that UW-Madison sophomore August McGinnity-Wake calls the “newest hot button” on campus.

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“It gets more tricky the more you dive into some of these statutes,” Hultzin says. In two recent cases, state supreme court rulings have struck down longstanding university system policies that banned guns on campus. The courts in Colorado and Oregon ruled that only the state legislature had the statutory authority to regulate firearms, meaning that university officials had overstepped their authority in issuing weapons bans. Nineteen states ban concealed weapons on campus, and 23 states leave the decision up to individual colleges and universities. As campus carry advocates push their agenda in statehouses across the country, there have been some counter-efforts to strengthen existing gun regulations. Since 2013 five states have introduced bills to ban concealed weapons on campuses. All were unsuccessful until this October, when California approved a ban. Hultzin says the issue of guns on campus is one of the most contentious policies being debated at the state level. Those strongly in favor of campus carry tend to be “students for gun rights” groups, and those opposed tend to be university faculty, deans, chancellors and presidents. In Texas, where campus carry goes into effect in August 2016, the issue has prompted significant outcry in the academic community. Student activists at the University of Texas at Austin organized a widely publicized “#CocksNotGlocks protest, urging students to carry sex toys instead of weap-

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“Pretty much everyone we’ve talked to is opposed to [campus carry],” he says. One such student is Eliana Locke, a UW-Madison freshman. Locke was a high school senior in Baltimore when a classmate was arrested with a stolen gun, homemade bombs and a plan to commit a school shooting. Though Baltimore is notorious for violent crime, Locke grew up in an affluent suburb and had little exposure to gun violence. She remembers receiving an email alert from school officials assuring students that “everything was okay” on campus — but the message came before she and her classmates were even aware that a shooting plot had been uncovered. “[The plot] came out later in the day — we were all obviously terrified,” she says. “Our school really didn’t handle it well.” The police intervened before the student could act, but the incident was deeply disturbing, says Locke. “It became so real to me,” she says. “I realized how much of an issue [gun violence] was.” Since then, Locke has become a passionate supporter of strengthening gun regulations and improving mental health care in order to prevent violence. The arrested student, she says, had been a victim of bullying. “He obviously needed help,” she says. Locke feels safe at UW-Madison. But the idea of allowing concealed weapons inside campus buildings brings up the same fear she felt last year in Baltimore.

“We are a safe campus. We don’t need civilians carrying guns,” Locke says. “I wouldn’t feel safe going into a lecture knowing that someone has a gun in their backpack.” Law enforcement officials are also wary. Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, says that public opinion on the issue of gun violence is too complicated to be addressed with narrowly focused solutions. “It’s disappointing in the wake of these high-profile tragedies that interest groups and lawmakers — frankly on both sides of the aisle — rush to promote a single-issue initiative,” he says. He favors a “cumulative, broad-based approach” — one that focuses on gun control, mental health treatment and awareness about violence against women and social justice issues. The police association has not taken a formal position on the “campus carry” legislation, but Palmer expressed disappointment that lawmakers did not reach out to his organization for input before introducing the bill. The University of Wisconsin Police Department released a statement Oct. 13 opposing the bill. Department spokesman Marc Lovicott said in an email that lawmakers did not contact his department for input either. “That was disappointing for us,” Lovicott says. BUT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUE, PEOPLE seem to agree on one thing: Gun violence in the U.S. — and particularly on college campuses — has reached a point of crisis.

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There have been nearly two dozen incidents in 2015 alone, according to Everytown for Research Support Fund, a group that tracks school shootings. An Oct. 1 rampage at Umpqua Community College in Oregon was the third-deadliest in U.S. history, leaving 10 dead, including the shooter. The violence continued the following week, with two separate campus shootings occurring within hours of each other on Oct. 9, leaving two dead in Texas and Arizona. The era of college mass shootings began in 2007, when a gunman killed 32 people and later committed suicide at Virginia Tech. Often called “the 9/11 of higher education,” that deadly rampage forced schools to confront the devastation that gun violence can have on campus communities and spurred them to enact policies to prevent and prepare for similar tragedies. Numerous task force reports authored in the wake of Virginia Tech recommended that schools focus on identifying warning signs from potentially troubled students and intervening before a situation escalates to violence. Like many schools across the nation, UW-Madison established a multidisciplinary Threat Assessment Team late in 2007, which has since performed hundreds of interventions. “It is a lot easier to interact with a student who is struggling before they [act out],” says Helmkamp, the former co-chairman of the threat team. “The goal is to prevent the action and not just be picking up the pieces.” It’s difficult to measure the effectiveness of the threat team, says Chris Cole, UWPD’s director of threat intervention services. That’s because the team’s success is based on what doesn’t happen.

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But Cole, who came to UWPD after more than 30 years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Marine Corps, says the threat team has “absolutely had a positive impact” on campus. In the last two years alone, the threat team has responded to more than 120 cases. And UW-Madison is safe — individuals are less likely to be victims of violent crime on campus than they are in the rest of Wisconsin, according to 2014 FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data. Since 2010, there have been no murders on campus, according to university police crime data. There have been seven weapons arrests on campus since then, 11 arrests for aggravated assault and 85 arrests for rape or “forcible sex offenses.” Gene Deisinger, deputy chief of police and director of threat management services for Virginia Tech, is a nationally known higher education consultant and author of Handbook for Campus Threat Assessment & Management Teams. He’s trained numerous colleges and universities across the nation on how to prevent mass shootings, but he doesn’t consider campus carry a viable solution. “Of all the things a community could focus on,” he says, “[campus carry] would not be my priority.” Instead, he promotes a holistic approach — one focused on improving campus communication, conflict resolution, delivery of mental health services and training for mental health providers. “When we foster a climate of engagement and a sense of personal responsibility,” he says, “it’s simply harder for a threat to continue to evolve.” n

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German-only pressing of Steeltown, the 1984 overlooked second album from the Scottish pop-rock band Big Country; a copy of an early album from the now-defunct local band Clear Blue Betty, featuring 19-time Madison Area Music Association award-winning singer-songwriter Beth Kille; and Hayseed Dixie’s A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC, because it was 50 cents and I wanted to hear what a bluegrass version of “Hell’s Bells” sounds like. Meanwhile, I passed up deals on what appeared to be just about everything Don Henley, Seal, R.E.M. and the Dave Matthews Band ever released, as well as an album by the rap act Giraffe Nuts called Eat Them. Before you begin to wonder whether I’m writing this on a typewriter with a Sony Disc-

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On Friday nights, the dining room is furiously busy, with every table booked as well as the bar. The beer-battered cod yields easily beneath a crunchy exterior. (Cod is also available baked, and there’s fried and panseared walleye as well.) As with the other recipes, the fish fry is not an exact replica of the original Avenue Bar fare, but it’s close. It’s probably true that the Avenue was overdue for a reinvention, sad as it is to say goodbye to a local icon. But this may not be such a good trade. While the supper club-by-way-of-Mad Men concept is sound, the execution simply isn’t there when the menu strays from such mainstays as eggs, hamburgers and the fish fry. That’s a shame, as East Washington is the hottest avenue in town, and this could have been spectacular. n

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Once upon a time in Wisconsin, our hardy forebears would brave fierce rains, howling winds and freezing temperatures for the reward of grilled steak, pickled vegetables, a brandy Old Fashioned, conversation and community at the local supper club. Madison’s Avenue Bar & Grill was part of this heritage, a place where old-timers would eat batter-fried bluegill and walleye chased by pitchers of beer on Fridays. Some would return on Saturday morning for a Bloody Mary and plate of corned beef hash and fried eggs. After the Zach family sold the venerable bar to the Food Fight restaurant group in 2011, the interior and menu stayed mostly the same for four years. But this summer, a major overhaul took place. The bar reopened in August with a new look and a new menu as the Avenue Club and the Bubble Up Bar. The bric-a-brac and rusted farming implements adorning the walls are gone (probably a good thing), and the wall that used to separate the bar from the main dining room now has three large inset windows to connect the rooms. Specialty mixed drinks showcase champagne and sparkling wines — “Bubble & Bitters” matches sparkling rosé with a cherry bark vanilla-soaked sugar cube, for instance. Manhattans are made from scratch with Jim Beam bourbon and kegged, thereby available on tap. The retro-styled “Bubble Up” sign, wrought of metal and wire with sparking inset light bulbs, oversees the curved blond-and-auburn wooden bar that snakes through the south side of the room. While the new bar is a step up, the main dining area has become drab and dispiriting. The color scheme is a flat and lifeless deployment of beige and gray, unimproved by muted ochre and teal blue accents. But the service brightens the experience considerably with uniformly excellent performance. Brunch is packed, so call ahead for a reservation — and that’s true in general, as the new Avenue is seemingly always busy. Eggs are fluffy and light, chunked potatoes are firm and sparingly seasoned, slightly crisped bacon is seared but not charred. Strawberry jam comes in a pot and pairs winningly with toasted white bread. A cinnamon roll could have been more generously slathered with frosting and felt doughy in its interior; still, it disappeared in minutes. Pancakes and French toast with butter and maple syrup always please kids. Here the Avenue wisely sticks to its brunch history. For a light lunch, the iceberg wedge salad snaps with red onion, bacon, radishes, chunks of blue cheese and cherry tomatoes. It’s flanked by two dressings: smoked paprika-French and buttermilk blue cheese. A fine turn on a classic.

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With the ink barely dry on their business license, the owners of Ma & Pop Catering decided on a whim to throw their hat in the ring for the Taste of Madison this past summer. “We figured we wouldn’t get in because no one knew us, but at least we’d get to learn about the application process,” says Jasmine Brey, who co-owns the company with her boyfriend, David Spittel. Not only did they get in, they walked away with a few awards. Their Pop’s popper, a bite-sized, deepfried mashed potato snack with a sour cream and buttermilk sauce, won them third place in the appetizer category. Their jambalaya quesadilla, which comes with a sriracha and basil pesto white wine cream sauce, scored second place in Southern-style cooking. They also took home the spirit award for showmanship during the sweaty, ridiculously busy two-day food fest. “It was an insane way for us to get started — absolutely crazy, but great,” says Brey, who has served drinks and food for more than 15 years and currently works at the Statehouse at the Edgewater and in customer service at UW-Madison. With that trial by fire — or trial by deep fryer, rather — behind them, Brey and Spittel plan to cater a few events this fall, then spend the winter working on marketing and the business side of things. They hope to hit

the music festival circuit and warm-weather catering season full force next year. The Ma & Pop name speaks to the type of food customers can expect from the couple, who have been dating for five years but are not actually anyone’s ma or pop. “We wanted a simple name that gets people thinking about the comfort food they had growing up,” says Spittel. “And that’s what we’ll be offering — simple, flavorful food. Anything from finger food to prime rib.” “Food gets too fancy sometimes,” adds Spittel, now the personal chef for a UW sorority with former stints at the Old Fashioned, Roast Public House and Green Life Cafe. “Sometimes, all you need is a burger or a taco.” Recent appetizers have been a falafel made with both garbanzo and black beans, and chocolate-covered bacon. In addition to typical event catering, the two also hope to carve out a different niche for themselves: business breakfasts with a focus on lighter fare. “No one wants to eat a bunch of heavy, greasy food first thing in the morning then go sit through a conference,” says Brey. Their full catering menu is still in the works and will debut with the launch of their website sometime this fall; in the meantime, call 608-354-9015. “Customization is key,” says Spittel, adding that they plan to use organic and local ingredients “whenever possible and when it makes sense.” n

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Noosh, the eagerly awaited second restaurant by Laila Borokhim, will officially open Nov. 12 at 1920 S. Park St. Borokhim has served dinners there already, and will host a special dinner featuring lamb from Mapleton Mynd Shropshires of Stoughton on Nov. 5, but regular hours won’t kick in until next week. Noosh will be open 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed.-Fri., 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Sat., and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sun. for brunch. Borokhim’s other restaurant, Layla’s Persian Food at 141 S. Butler St., will continue to be open for lunch weekdays and for Friday and Saturday dinners. On the restaurant’s Facebook page, Borokhim describes Noosh’s cuisine as “Fresh, locally sourced Sephardic Jewish cuisine,” but in a phone interview, she expands on that definition: “To a lot of people, that means Spanish food, but Sephardic Jews also ended up in Iraq, Iran, Turkey.” Noosh will have a “Jewish fusion” menu, says Borokhim, avoiding both Jewish deli staples like corned beef sandwiches and Middle Eastern standards like hummus and falafel. Instead, look for a lamb bacon sandwich, chicken under a brick, and stuffed grape leaves — “not totally typical Middle Eastern,” Borokhim says. Noosh’s site, a former Taco Bell, appealed to Borokhim as easy to reach from campus, east, and west sides, with plenty of park-

ing, and in a corridor that’s been a traditional stronghold for immigrant cuisines. It’s just a little over a mile south of the restaurant-heavy 400-900 blocks of South Park, and next door to Taqueria El Pastor. Downtown, the storefront that was once home to Charley’s Chocolates as well as various incarnations of the Baker’s Window at 122 State St. is reopening as a fast-food Caribbean restaurant serving pulled pork, jerk chicken and other island dishes, says building owner Harold Langhammer. Hours for the new restaurant, which does not yet have a name, have yet to be determined. Langhammer describes the restaurant as being a part of the Fountain, the Wisconsinthemed eatery that opened in 2011 at 122 State St., which became known for hosting live music as well as political meetings. The Fountain has recently been closed Sundays through Tuesdays; Langhammer says that they have been “searching for the hours we want,” but reiterates the restaurant and bar is open Wednesday through Saturday and continues to host live music. The SoHo Gourmet Cuisines cart has opened a brick-and-mortar restaurant at 2990 Cahill Main in Fitchburg (the shopping center that's also home to the Great DaneFitchburg). n

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Successful bands typically follow a familiar trajectory — you know, the whole buildthe-buzz-and-audience thing followed by breaking it big and having everything transformed by fame. “I’d like to demystify the concept,” says PHOX guitarist Matt Holmen as he fields a call from the band’s tour van near Nashville. “Things are more like they were before the band started. I moved out of Madison, and I live in my mom’s basement now.” Holmen’s kidding about some of that — the mom’s basement part is true, at least. Although it’s clear the six members of PHOX have remained grounded — “I pay fifth-graders to come up and ask me for an autograph,” jokes lead singer Monica Martin — it’s been a steady climb for the Baraboo alt-folk sextet since things began to blow up for them two years ago in the run-up to the release of the band’s first full-length album in early 2014. This year has only added more steps to the ladder, including six major festival gigs, topped off by playing to a raucous and massive crowd under a metal barn roof at Justin Vernon’s Eaux Claires festival in July. “It’s been this crazy whirlwind of lots of hard work and surreal happenings,” says Martin, whose ethereal pipes have helped make tunes like “Slow Motion” and “1936” staples of many a playlist. Holmen describes it as “a life of high contrasts.” This Saturday, Nov. 7, it culminates in a big ol’ PHOX homecoming, as the band plays the Overture Center’s Capitol Theater. Given that the group’s members are friends who met in high school and that Martin has become a fixture at locales such as Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse, the night could end up feeling like the best home game ever. “It’s going to feel really special, and really weird to see familiar faces,” says Martin. “These are the people from Johnson Public House, your bartenders from Mickey’s who have seen you drunk.” In addition to fan faves from the full-length, Martin promises a

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peek at two new songs and mentions something in passing about a Justin Timberlake cover. Yep, it’s gonna be anything goes. The Capitol Theater show is the last one before PHOX goes into what Holmen’s calling a self-imposed “full hibernation” to continue the serious work of writing, polishing and recording the group’s second album. “We’re set up for moving forward,” says Martin. “We’re better now at communicating with each other about what we want, and that leads to a greater clarity in the songs. It’ll still be PHOX, but it’ll be different.” And yeah, with the raised national profile, the band might face some additional pressure. Martin talks about not being able

to unhear what industry execs have said about expectations and when and how to release the next disc for maximum effect, but she and her bandmates have become skilled at tuning it all out. “It’s not worth it to rush anything,” says Holmen. “Deadlines can light a fire, but all of us are ready to create on our own timelines. What we produce will be perfectly reflective of what we want to say.” Martin’s on the same page. “I never did my homework in high school,” she confesses. “I’m good at dodging people’s expectations.”

No word on whether PHOX also plans to create a follow-up to Amor Fati, the quirky 45-minute mockumentary film the band put together while touring. (Fans who caught them at Eaux Claires had ample opportunity to watch it.) When I suggest videogames as the next medium for them to try, Holmen and Martin jokingly float the notion of creating a podcast of the two of them playing Call of Duty while talking about relationships. “It’s all supplemental to the music,” Holmen says. “You have to have the music in the first place, and it’s the music that matters.” n

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that perfectly encapsulated the music of that era: Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet, John Mellencamp’s The Lonesome Jubilee, Elton John’s Live in Australia and Amy Grant’s Lead Me On. I still own those four CDs. And — just like any self-respecting vinyl collector — I also can tell you when, where and how I acquired nearly every title in my collection. Try remembering anything about that MP3 you clicked on earlier today. n

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With a reputation as a gifted teacher, violinist Soh-Hyun Park Altino will get to practice what she preaches at her Nov. 13 Madison debut recital in Mills Hall. The UW School of Music’s new violin professor will share the stage with pianist Martha Fischer in a demanding program that includes Bach’s Sonata No. 3 in C major for solo violin, Brahms’ second violin sonata, Ives’ Violin Sonata No. 2 and the soaring “Romance” by Amy Beach. Each piece has knotty terrain that requires advanced technical and interpretive skills. In the Bach sonata, melody lines that crisscross have to remain clear and distinct. The Ives piece has thorny polyrhythms and quick mood shifts. The Brahms sonata requires delicate balance between lyricism and virtuosity, while “Romance” demands sweet, effortless playing as the music lingers in the violin’s difficult high range. Altino has performed around the globe to critical acclaim. Gramophone magazine praised a 2013 recording of Brahms and Debussy by Altino and the Ceruti Quartet for its “physically emotional power.” A

sensitive interpreter of contemporary music, Altino has worked closely with such influential composers as Kamran Ince and Paul Desenne. The School of Music is excited to have reeled Altino in to the faculty, where standards are high for performance and teaching. “Soh-Hyun is a tested pedagogue, someone with a real history of strength in teaching as well as performing,” says Susan Cook, director of the School of Music. “Her playing is beautiful, and it has a quiet strength and determination. When she auditioned here, she played a Bach partita for solo violin that gave me goosebumps.” Cook says Altino’s enterprising ideas were instrumental in her hire, including suggestions for expanding the school’s online presence. “I was excited to hear her ideas about recruiting students and ways to help students develop and mature,” says Cook. “Having been trained in Korea and the U.S., she will also bring a cosmopolitan experience to the university.” Altino grew up in a musical family in Seoul. Her mother taught piano, and her grandparents directed a musical kindergarten. “Since there was no string player in my family, I thought it would be a good instrument to study,” says Altino.

Over the years, she has developed a specialty in addressing overuse injuries. “Playing the violin does not always look and feel natural,” says Altino. “Violinists can overexert and even injure themselves by prolonging a poor posture or repeating unnecessary movements while playing.” She came to the U.S. in 1989 at age 16 and studied under Violaine Melançon, an awardwinning violinist, at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. “Soh-Hyun has a rare talent for teaching,” says Melançon, who credits Altino with building the violin program at the University of Memphis, where she taught for 14 years. Altino received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate from the Cleveland Institute, where she studied with Donald Weilerstein, who currently teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School. “Soh-Hyun is exceptionally adept at finding ways to develop her students,” Weilerstein wrote in an email to Isthmus. “She does this by defining ways to help them fully express the music they’re playing, as well as pinpointing solutions to technical problems they may be having. She is an excellent violinist and a wonderful person.” n

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RAILROADERS: JACK DELANO’S HOMEFRONT PHOTOGRAPHY Edited by John Gruber University of Wisconsin Press

Railroaders documents our steam-powered past BY JAY RATH

Some of us just go goofy for trains. And not just any trains, but the clanking, steaming behemoths from the past. Railroaders: Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography is a fascinating new book that is sure to entrance all readers, not just buffs like me. The book journeys back to the waning days of rail, documenting the lives of Midwestern laborers as they emerged from the Great Depression. That would be an ambitious book in itself, but Railroaders goes much further: It adds drama and social history by publishing interviews and images of the photo subjects’

families today. The handsome volume accompanies an exhibit running at the Chicago History Museum through August 2016. Jack Delano’s career as a photographer began in the 1930s with the federal Farm Security Administration. He photographed migrant workers, coal miners and life in Puerto Rico, where he later relocated, taking up a second career as a composer. When World War II broke out, he and many other photographers moved to the Office of War Information, where he was assigned to document the influence of railroads on U.S. culture, primarily in the Chicago area. Some of Railroaders is portraiture. Much of it is poetic, revealing dignity in the most common

of laborers and in the intimate settings of shadowed stations. Often it’s stark, with smoke and grit staining men, sky and snow. Delano’s work covered all aspects of rail, from ticketing and depot life to cabooses, shops and switching. Delano’s son, Pablo, has extended his father’s work by tracking down the descendants of the book’s subjects. Interviews and essays round out a social history of what once were called “railroad families.” We meet the children and grand-

children of a department store clerk who became a tower man; a brakeman who barely finished eighth grade; an engineer whose brother rode the rails as a hobo; a yardman with a secret family; and many more. Each is a worthy short story. Because Jack Delano’s work covered all of rail life, many of his images feature African Americans, who otherwise tended to be overlooked by government photo agencies. Some of the 1940s images are in rich, deep color, but most are dramatically lit black-and-white. Railroaders serves as an affecting testament to a way of life that has all but vanished, and as tribute to a photographer whose work still intrigues. n

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Bond goes backward Spectre loses momentum for the retro franchise BY MARYANN JOHANSON

The opening gambit of Spectre — the fourth outing for the 21st century’s James Bond — is absolutely spectacular. It begins with a long and apparently uncut sequence in which the secret agent and a lady friend wend their way through raucous Day of the Dead revelers in Mexico City. They are dressed for the mock morbid mood, and we catch that funereal contagion: If soaking in this gruesome funk doesn’t make you want to instantly sign up for a Halloween trip to Mexico, you may actually be dead inside. And then it graduates to authentically thrilling, as Bond leaps out the hotel window and across rooftops to do a Secret Agent Thing. This is where I started to doubt if it had actually been shot in one take, but no matter — however it was crafted, we are powerfully in the moment with Bond as he goes to work. There is atmosphere to spare here and humor and action-movie grace. If this is how Spectre begins, what amazing goodies does it have up its sleeve? As it turns out, not much. Spectre never reaches that same pinnacle of joy again;

it’s as if director Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition, American Beauty) departs once the opening has unspooled, leaving the rest of the movie to an understudy. After the brilliant Skyfall (also directed by Mendes), I suspected that perhaps there was a grand unifying theory coming together to wrap all these new Bond adventures into one big tale, and a way to move a dated and unpleasantly retro franchise forward. Yet Spectre only moves Bond backward. In the immediate aftermath of the events of Skyfall, Bond (Daniel Craig) has gone rogue, chasing hints of a big bad guy around the globe, while back in London, the new M (Ralph Fiennes) is battling with C (Andrew Scott), who is about to launch a new blanket electronic surveillance scheme that will replace the 00 program: something about drone warfare being more efficient than spies with a license to kill. Everyone might as well be enacting a Bond puppet show, which sometimes descends into that unpleasantly retro ickiness, as in the sequence with Monica Bellucci. For all the astonished to-do over a Bond “girl” being an actual contemporary of Bond, instead of a woman young enough to be his daughter, Bellucci’s character is completely superfluous except as someone for Bond to mechanically bed: They’ve

barely met before they are engaging in the unsexiest grappling imaginable, and then her character is completely forgotten, never spoken of again, even though the movie drags on for an unforgivably long two and a half-hours. Even the second-best section of the film trips over itself with awkward Bondian self-consciousness. It starts out all desert romanticism, classy and smart and funny, as Bond and the daughter (Léa Seydoux) of one of his old enemies travel in and around Tangiers in search of Spectre’s HQ. The mood is lost with the deployment of what is perhaps meant to be a sort of punchline, but might as well be a placard that reads Insert Obligatory Sex Scene Here. (Seydoux, at 17 years younger than Craig, is almost young enough to be his daughter.) Of course the sex is as empty and as bloodless and as tween-friendly as the violence, which is a particular problem here when there’s nothing but old-school Bond sex and violence on offer. And yet little here works on the level of nostalgia, either. It just feels trite and tired. Which is a particular disappointment for a series that had, until now, avoided that trap. n

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Master of None

Aziz Ansari is moving toward a more mature and thoughtful persona.

The funny thing about Aziz Ansari is that I’ve missed him terribly and he hasn’t even gone anywhere. His most famous role as an actor has been his portrayal of government employee turned “mogul” Tom Haverford in the warm, fuzzy comedy Parks and Recreation. That show came to an end last winter after seven lovely seasons. Since then, Ansari recorded a Netflix standup comedy special at a sold-out Madison Square Garden and wrote a book, Modern Romance, a cross-pollination of sociology and comedy. In

Master of None, a 10-episode Netflix series set to release Nov. 6, Ansari plays a 30-year-old actor living in New York City who’s trying to figure everything out. Viewers might initially anticipate a Tom Haverford/Tommy Timberlake-type character, but Ansari is moving toward a more mature and thoughtful persona. I can’t wait for this new show to arrive so that audiences can see what he’s capable of when it comes to both writing and acting. — ALEX CLAIBORNE

The film list New releases Coming Home: A Chinese couple is separated by the Cultural Revolution and an accident that causes memory loss. Jimmy’s Hall: An exile returning to Ireland due to the U.S. Great Depression decides to reopen the dance hall that originally caused him to be deported. The Peanuts Movie: For those who faithfully read the beloved comic strip, this loving tribute will comfort like a blue security blanket, bringing back wonderful memories of lovable loser Charlie Brown and his gang. Suffragette: Historical drama about the fight for women’s equality in early-20th-century England.

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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 a long time.

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Our Brand is Crisis: A retired campaign manager is enticed back to the fray with a gig in Bolivia. Sandra Bullock nails the maniacal nefariousness of the political hired gun and the toll it takes on the individual, and Billy Bob Thornton is almost her equal as a rival strategist. But politics is a dirty business, and the film keeps its hands far too clean. Truth: Writer/director John Vanderbilt dramatizes the controversy surrounding the 2004 60 Minutes story about President George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service. Its entire premise is that what actually transpired is the only thing that really should have mattered — not how the journalists involved gathered and vetted their story.

More film events Amy: An accomplished and devastating look at Amy Winehouse, addiction and its horrific costs. Union South Marquee, Nov. 12, 9:15 pm. Autism in Love: Documentary follows four adults on the spectrum navigating the dating world. Central Library, Nov. 12, 6:30 pm. Hidden Away: Spanish teen Rafa and Moroccan immigrant Ibrahim become more than friends, despite threats both cultural and legal. OutReach, Nov. 11, 6:30 pm. Killer of Sheep: Charles Burnett’s 1977 film is a collection of vignettes about a slaughterhouse worker in Watts. Union South Marquee, Nov. 12, 7 pm. Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco: Documentary about ultrarunning legend Micah True. Barrymore Theatre, Nov. 10, 7 pm. Tales from Planet Earth: Free UW Nelson Institute environmental film festival. For schedule, see nelson.wisc.edu/tales. Chazen, MMoCA, Cinematheque and Union South Marquee, Nov. 6-8. The Wonders: A family of beekeepers find their lives disordered by a teenage farmhand and a reality show competition. MMoCA, Nov. 11, 7 pm. The Yellow Ticket: A young Jewish woman (Pola Negri) fights the odds to study medicine in Russia. Cinematheque, Nov. 6, 7 pm.

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Thursday, Nov. 12, Capitol Theater, 7:30 pm

Hailed by the Americana tastemakers at No Depression as “the best songwriter you’re not listening to,” Kellogg has quietly become one of the genre’s mainstays, steadily releasing albums and performing more than 1,500 concerts in the past decade. This year’s fourpart LP South, West, North, East was recorded all over the map, from Colorado to Tennessee to New York. With Miranda Mulholland (Great Lakes Swimmers), Brooks Hubbard.

When Jason Isbell left Drive-By Truckers in 2007, his future seemed uncertain. Now, the singer-songwriter has arguably become the face of a new era of country music as his fifth solo album, this year’s Something More Than Free, continues to garner almost universal praise, and rightfully so. With Elizabeth Cook.

Yo La Tengo Friday, Nov. 6, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

For more than 30 years, Yo La Tengo has been one of indie rock’s most beloved bands. Here the members will turn back the clock on their career, reuniting with guitarist Dave Schramm for an acoustic evening in support of new release Stuff Like That There, their first with Schramm since 1990’s Fakebook.

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Michael Perry & the Long Beds Thursday, Nov. 5, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm

A New York Times bestselling author and humorist, New Auburn native Michael Perry’s roughneck country folk band is influenced by legends like John Prine and Waylon Jennings. Brink Lounge: Carolyn Carter, folk, 7 pm. The Frequency: Luke Redfield, The Holy Broke, 8:30 pm. High Noon: David Wax Museum, Anthony D’Amato, 8 pm. Majestic: Hippo Campus, Bad Bad Hats, Fargo, 8:30 pm. Mickey’s: Mal-O-Dua, 5:30 pm; Chieftain, free, 10 pm. Mr. Robert’s: State Maps, Winning Ugly, Modesty Blasters, free, 10 pm.

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UW Humanities-Mills Hall: Wisconsin Brass Quintet, Wingra Woodwind Quintet, free, 7:30 pm.

B OO KS / S P O K EN WORD Patrick S. Tomlinson: Discussing “The Ark,” his new novel, 6 pm, 11/5, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888. James DeVita: Reading from “A Winsome Murder,” his novel, 6 pm, 11/5, McFarland Library. RSVP: 838-9030. Michael Stanley: Discussing “A Death in the Family,” new mystery by the team of Michael Sears & Stanley Trollip, 7 pm, 11/5, Mystery to Me. 283-9332. Poetry Open Mic: 6:30 pm, 11/5, Central Library. 266-6350.

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Silent Sky Thursday, Nov. 5, Overture Center Playhouse, 7:30 pm

Lauren Gunderson’s play, produced by Forward Theater Company, explores the realities of women working in the world of science. Henrietta Leavitt takes a job as one of Harvard’s astronomy “computers” (a data-entry clerk) and becomes determined to unlock the mysteries of the night sky. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (7:30 pm), Sunday (2 pm) and Thursday (7:30 pm), Nov. 6-12. Through Nov. 22. The Game of Love and Chance: Marivaux’s 18th century tale of betrothal trickery, 10/30-11/22, American Players Theatre-Touchstone Theatre, Spring Green. $74-$45. americanplayers.org. 588-2361. Big Expectations: Written/directed by Ray Olderman, 10/23-11/14, Broom Street Theater, at 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $11. 244-8338.

S PECI AL EV ENTS A Night of Leadership & Artistic Performance: Defy Inertia fundraiser, 7-9 pm, 11/5, Concourse Hotel, with music, dance & theater, fashion show, refreshments. Donations. eventbrite.com/e/18519028914.

Friday, Nov. 6, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm

Young the Giant’s last release, 2014’s Mind Over Matter, paints them as indie music’s answer to Van Halen — a relentlessly upbeat, danceable band that really knows how to rock. And frontman Sameer Gadhia has an onstage swagger that could make even David Lee Roth jump. With Wildling.

Wyatt Cenac Thursday, Nov. 5, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Well known for his role as a correspondent and writer on The Daily Show, Wyatt Cenac has developed an enviable career beyond satirical news. He’s appeared in acclaimed indie films like Sleepwalk with Me and Medicine for Melancholy, and his most recent comedy special, Brooklyn, premiered on Netflix last year. With Esteban Touma. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), Nov. 6-7.

ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS PhotoMidwest Human Interest Group: Social issues photographs, noon-4 pm Sundays, 11/8-29, PhotoMidwest (reception 7-9 pm, 11/5). photomidwest.org.

The Main Squeeze Friday, Nov. 6, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm

This Bloomington, Ind.-born funk, soul and rock ’n’ roll quintet describes its sound as “feel-good musical gumbo.” Now based in Chicago, they have played shows all over the world, from Bonnaroo to Rolling Stone’s Super Bowl pre-party. With Charlie Kim. Alchemy Cafe: Grupo Balanca, Brazilian, free, 10 pm. Badger Bowl: Denim ‘n Leather, 9:15 pm. The Bayou: Cajun Spice, free, 6:30 pm. Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: QUEST, classic rock, free, 9 pm. Cardinal Bar: Dave Stoler Trio, jazz, 5:30 pm; DJ Lovecraft, Veronica Smash, burlesque, 9 pm.

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UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Wind Ensemble, works by alumni composers, free, 7:30 pm. UW Memorial Union-Fredric March Play Circle: Becca May Grant & Rivers of Madison, free, 7:30 pm.

The Clean House Friday, Nov. 6, Bartell Theatre, 7:30 pm

Matilde, a Brazilian housekeeper who dreams of becoming a standup comedian, is at the center of The Clean House, a Madison Theatre Guild production. A finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, Sarah Ruhl’s play tackles issues of class, identity and love. ALSO: Saturday and Thursday (7:30 pm), Nov. 7 & 12. Through Nov. 21.

Madison Hip-Hop Awards Madison has a thriving hip-hop scene, and its best and brightest will be out for this sixth annual awards ceremony. The show will include performances by previous winners Amy Alida (pictured), Trilogy, K.I.N.G. Kronos and Play Fair Cypher, plus the East Madison Community Center Breakers, whom the event will benefit.

Theron Ris: “Beloved Animals,” 10/19-11/20, West High School (reception 6-8 pm, 11/6). 255-0972. Romano Johnson: Paintings, 11/6-12/30, Central Library (Night Light reception 6-10 pm, 11/6, with Madison Storytellers). 266-6300. Rina Yoon, Sandra Byers: “Between In and Yeon” and “The Nature of Things,” solo exhibitions, 11/6-12/27, Overture Center-James Watrous Gallery (reception 5:30-7:30 pm, 11/7). 265-2500.

R EC R EAT I O N & G AME S Gamehole Con: Fantasy tabletop gaming convention, 11/6-8, Alliant Center-Exhibition Hall. $30/$25 per day ($45 weekend). gameholecon.com.

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Sunday, Nov. 8, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Masked Intruder Saturday, Nov. 7, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

This Madison four-piece, known as much for their run-ins with the law as they are their songs, will be hosting the Punk Rock Maskerade — a masquerade ball for people who love breakneck pop-punk songs about crimes and misdemeanors. With Smoke or Fire, the Copyrights, Not Scientists, Help Desk.

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Bone Dance: Spooky & comic skits & musical numbers by Madison College Performing Arts, 7:30 pm on 11/6-7 and 2 pm, 11/8, Madison College-Truax Mitby Theater. $8. 243-4000.

Wine & Choice: Annual NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin fundraiser, 6-8:30 pm, 11/6, Winedown, with speakers, music, refreshments. $75 ($35 low income). RSVP: prochoicewisconsin.org. 287-0016.

Rise Against Saturday, Nov. 7, Orpheum Theater, 7 pm

Rise Against are perhaps the most unlikely rock stars in contemporary music. A vocally anti-establishment band that features members of 88 Fingers Louie and Only Crime, they now sell out venues worldwide. Tim McIlrath is just as angry as ever, and last year’s The Black Market is loaded front to back with righteous, poppy melodic punk. With Killswitch Engage, letlive.

Madeleine Peyroux Saturday, Nov. 7, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm

This American-born jazz chanteuse is often compared to the great Billie Holiday. Peyroux got her start performing on the streets of Paris, and she will take a look back with this retrospective show that will span her lengthy, legendary career.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Jo-Z, Otimo Dance, Luis Armacanqui, Katherine Wilson, Kooy Dani-el-Buie, 8 pm.

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This benefit for the Keep Wisconsin Warm/Cool Fund returns for a second year with a lineup of local and national

So Percussion is part of a small collection of contemporary classical ensembles that have been able to penetrate popular consciousness. From using non-instruments such as amplified cactus to collaborating with Wilco’s

Edgewood College-St. Joseph Chapel: Edgewood Chamber Orchestra, 2:30 pm. First Unitarian Society: Dan Broner, 3 pm.

Harmony Bar: Hanah Jon Taylor, Gramophone, 5 pm.

First Unitarian Society: Festival Choir of Madison, “The Romance of Music,” 7:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Cash Box Kings, Music con Brio students, free, 11 am.

Frequency: Fister, Thorr-Axe, AZIZA, Lotus Ash, ATTALLA, Galactic Hatchet, Tyranny is Tyranny, Dos Males, 5 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Charlie Brooks Medical Benefit, donations, 4 pm.

Harmony Bar: Wrenclaw, Americana, 9:45 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Melharmony Festival, with student performances & talks, 9 am2:30 pm; finale concert by Chitravina N Ravikiran & the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, 7 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Reverend Raven, blues, 9 pm. Lazy Oaf Lounge: The Civil Engineers, free, 10 pm. Midvale Community Lutheran Church: Madison Flute Club Fall Recital, free, 2 pm. Stoughton High School: Yahara River Chorus, Off the Record, “Wanted: Wed or Alive” concert, 2 pm.

UW Old Music Hall: Karlos Moser, New Hyperion Orchestra, New Hyperion Jazz Babies, Opera Props 35th anniversary benefit concert, 7:30 pm.

Tuvalu Coffee, Verona: The McDougals, 6:30 pm.

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UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Low Brass Ensemble, free, 4 pm; Pro Arte Quartet, free, 8 pm.

Good Shepherd Parish Fall Festival: Annual event, 8 am-4:30 pm, 11/8, St. James Catholic Church, with bake, book & rummage sales, kids’ games, chicken dinner 11 am, silent auction/raffle. 268-9930.

BOOKS Lisl H. Detlefsen: Discussing “Time for Cranberries,” her new novel, 1 pm, 11/7, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

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Saturday, Nov. 7, High Noon Saloon, 5 pm

Cargo Coffee-E. Washington: Jamie Guiscafre, 2 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Cash Box Kings, blues, 9:30 pm.

ArtWorks: Fine arts/crafts, 10 am-9 pm on 11/7 and 11 am-6 pm, 11/8, Hilldale. artworksmadison.com.

Saturday, Nov. 7, Shannon Hall, 8 pm

Alliant Energy Center-Coliseum: tobyMac, 7 pm.

The Frequency: Milo, Safari Al, Chris LaBella & the Theftones, Conscious Object, 10 pm.

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Known to many as a former America’s Got Talent runner-up, Cas Haley has spent the past 10 years introducing himself to the rest of the world as one of the most laid-back, easygoing guys in music. His first release for Jimmy Buffett’s Mailboat Records, More Music, More Family, is also his first since a skiing accident nearly robbed him of his voice. You’d never know it, though, because Haley’s just as upbeat as ever, and his sunny reggae pop shows it. With Collin Hauser, TUGG.

Chocolaterian Cafe: Cajun Spice, free, 7:30 pm.

Tim Flannery: Discussing “Atmosphere of Hope: The Search for Solutions to the Climate Crisis,” his new book, 5:30 pm, 11/7, UW Discovery Building. 229-2081.

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After an unnaturally busy last couple of years that saw them gracing stages from Lollapalooza to Conan, Madison-via-Baraboo indie pop upstarts PHOX return home (see page 35). They’ll be joined in support by Cougar, a long-running and critically acclaimed Madison post-rock act.

Stoughton Opera House: Wood Brothers, 7:30 pm.

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Saturday, Nov. 7, Capitol Theater, 8 pm

Mr. Robert’s: Ladyscissors, Yeh-Hup (Radio Birdman tribute), Stephanie Rearick, free, 10 pm.

UW Union South-Sett: Gentle Brontosaurus (CD release), The Flavor That Kills, Little Legend, 9 pm.

Glenn Kotche and playing pieces by Steve Reich and the National’s Bryce Dessner, So Percussion has never been afraid to move percussion music in a progressive direction.

Polish Christmas Bazaar: Annual Polish Heritage Club event with traditional food & crafts, music & demonstrations, 9 am-3 pm, 11/7, Knights of Columbus Hall. Free admission. 239-0398.

HOM E & GARDEN Madison Herb Faire: Madison Herb Society’s annual fair, 9 am-3 pm, 11/7, Olbrich Gardens, with vendors, workshops, demonstrations & presentations. Free. madisonherbsociety.org. 467-7785.

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Bereft Monday, Nov. 9, The Wisco, 8:30 pm

Recently signed to Prosthetic Records, Madison’s Bereft take the stage to perform a unique brand of blackened doom metal, traversing both heavy and sparse sonic territory and combining slow, lurching riffs and atmospheric textures with scorched vocals and booming drums. They’ll be joined by local metal heroes Tubal Cain and Bay Area bruisers Castle, who released Under Siege on Prosthetic in 2014.

Brink Lounge: Noel Paul Stookey, folk, 7 pm. The Frequency: yOya, Color Me Once, 7 pm. Heritage Tavern: Gerri DiMaggio, jazz, free, 5 pm. Up North Pub: Gin Mill Hollow, Americana, 7 pm.

A RT EX H I B I TS & E VE N TS MFA Students Open Studios: 11:30 am-1:15 pm & 4-7 pm, 11/9, UW Humanities Building-Seventh Floor Gallery; 11:30 am-1:15 pm & 4-7 pm, 11/10, UW Art Lofts. 262-1660.

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comic book geek and staunch gay rights advocate who occasionally plays in a rock band with a member of Bad Brains. But Murs is also an underground rap legend who’s released nine solo albums, including this year’s Have a Nice Life. With Red Pill, King Fantastic, Noa James.

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The Frequency: Chris Webby, Dogs of War, 9 pm.

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Heritage Tavern: Susan Hofer, jazz, free, 8:30 pm.

Thursday, Nov. 12, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

High Noon Saloon: The Flavor That Kills, We are the Wild Things, rock, 5:30 pm.

Not many bands can trace their roots to the Chernobyl disaster, but New York gypsy punks Gogol Bordello are a direct result of it. Frontman Eugene Hutz’s family fled their Ukrainian hometown and bounced around Europe before settling in the U.S., where Hutz would go on to form this beloved and influential band whose sixth studio album, Pura Vida Conspiracy, was released in 2013. With Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas.

UW Humanities Building-Morphy Hall: UW Guitar Ensemble, free, 7:30 pm.

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Babe’s Restaurant: Robert J, Americana, 6:30 pm. Brink Lounge: Mike Massey & Francie Phelps, 7 pm. The Frequency: Passafire, Lionize, T.U.G.G., 9 pm. High Noon Saloon: MOVITS!, Sidewalk Chalk, 8:30 pm. Majestic Theatre: The Travelin’ McCourys, Andy Thorn & Drew Emmitt, Old Salt Union, 8:30 pm.

Craig Ferguson Robert DeLong Tuesday, Nov. 10, Majestic Theatre, 8:30 pm

Robert DeLong has been keeping a beat nearly his whole life. His dad was a drummer, he played drums in several high school bands, and he studied drums in college. Now, DeLong has turned that passion into an electronica act that, as he says, has “the sort of overdriven hi-NRG tempos that would make Basement Jaxx drool.” In the Cards, his most recent album, was released in September. With Coleman Hell. Brink Lounge: Robert J, Americana, free, 6 pm. Cardinal Bar: Darren Sterud Orchestra, jazz, 7 pm. The Frequency: The Toasters, ska, 9 pm. High Noon Saloon: Bing Bong, High Falootin’, 6 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Em Jay, Heather Sawyer, 10 pm. Up North Pub: The Lower Fifth, free, 8 pm.

Wednesday, Nov. 11, Capitol Theater, 7:30 pm

Since vacating his seat as host of The Late Late Show last year, Scottish comic Craig Ferguson has found himself with a lot more time on his hands. And what better way to use it than to return to his standup comedy roots? On his “New Deal” tour, there will be just one man, one mic and an audience in stitches.

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Overture Center-Capitol Theater: Jason Isbell, Elizabeth Cook. Americana, 7:30 pm. See page 40. Overture Center-Lobby: Annabel Lee, free, 6 pm. UW Memorial Unon-Fredric March Play Circle: Four Seasons Theatre Cabaret with Amy Welk, 7 pm.

THEATER & DANCE That’s What She Said: Head Noise: Original stories by local raconteurs, 7:30 pm on 11/12 and 8 pm, 11/13, Brink Lounge. $15. 358-9609.

Richard Haas: The Madison Projects Thursday, Nov. 12, Chazen Museum of Art, 5:30-6:30 pm (lecture) and 6:30-8 pm (reception)

In this exhibit, visitors will view presentational drawings from Spring Green-born artist Haas for two Madison commissions: One was created for a private residence, depicting the Capitol and UW campus and Wisconsin scenes. The other more famous one is for the now-obscured (essentially destroyed, in the construction of the Monona Terrace Convention Center) large-scale Olin Terrace trompe l’oeil work. Haas’ architectural acumen and serene use of color shows us impressions of our town and countryside in a lovely, pastoral light. Exhibited through Jan. 10.

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WisPolitics.com Anniversary Celebration: 15th annual event, 6-8 pm, 11/11, Orpheum Theater, with Chuck Todd (“Meet the Press”), music by Cliff Frederiksen & awards for top Republican and top Democrat of 2015. $35. RSVP: wispolitics.com. 206-0476.

FUN D RAI S ERS The Rent Event: Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center gala benefit, 5:30-8 pm, 11/11, UW Union South, with music, silent auction, food. $50. safeharborhelpskids.org. 251-9233.

Willy Street Pub/The Wisco: Dave Arcari, 10 pm.

A RT EX H I B I TS & E VE N TS Calvin McFarlane: “Hope and Healing,” paintings, 11/10-30, Cargo Coffee-East Washington (reception 5-7 pm, 11/10). 709-1309.

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Wednesday, Nov. 11, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

Hip-hop is a genre full of eccentric personalities, but few are as eccentric as Murs. The Los Angeles emcee is an unabashed

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Floral arrangements with an international touch are Alina Poletskova’s specialty. RED SQUARE FLOWERS

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Red Square Flowers’ roots are in earth and nature BY TAMIRA MADSEN

Alina Poletskova brings an international touch to Red Square Flowers, her new 2,000-square-foot shop on the corner of Mifflin and Broom streets in Metropolitan Place. The name is a nod to UW-Madison red as well as to Poletskova’s home country of Russia. “I wanted the name to be catchy and have a little part of my heritage,” she says. She’s originally from the northeast city of Chelyabinsk. Poletskova opened the shop there on Sept. 8 after operating for two years at Fitchburg’s Agora Pavilion on East Cheryl Parkway. She anticipates increased pedestrian traffic at the

new location, with its proximity to students, corporate customers and downtown residents. While still in Russia, Poletskova earned a degree in mechanical engineering. She then moved to Europe, where she learned floral arrangement techniques while living in Holland. That expertise is on full display at Red Square Flowers. “[European] design is a little more organic and thoughtful,” she says. “There are a lot of hands involved, weaving to create all these textures.” At Red Square, she often uses twigs and other natural materials. After her time in Holland, Poletskova returned to Russia for six months. She arrived

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in Wisconsin nine years ago and was set to take a job that would put her mechanical engineering degree to use. But her creative side pulled her toward nature and memories of time spent on her grandparents’ farm. Red Square Flowers’ huge refrigerated case is full of colorful blooms from South America, Holland, Hawaii and California — parrot tulips, orchids, peonies and brodea, to name a few varietals. “We [regularly] carry flowers that a typical florist would special order,” Poletskova says. When working with greenery, she likes to incorporate a Filipino and Hawaiian method of braiding palm leaves in arrangements and plants.

Economical gifts include cacti in magnetic pots ($13) and succulents in hanging cubes ($15). Pottery imported from Belgium will be in stock in time for the holidays. These handmade earthenware pieces have a cracked, matte glaze, with prices ranging from $35 to several thousand dollars for large pieces. Poletskova also embraces a European sensibility with regard to giving flowers and plants. She’d like Madisonians to pick up the habit. “In Europe, people go to each other’s homes and bring flowers; they don’t necessarily bring wine,” she says. “Wine also, but usually flowers or plants. It’s an expression of love and admiration and gratefulness.” n

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First Congregational Church has provided a free Community Thanksgiving Meal since 1993. The meal is served from 12:00-3:00pm but volunteers are needed from 9:30am5:00pm to help prepare, serve, or deliver Thanksgiving Dinner . Even if you are not able to volunteer you are still welcome to join us for a meal and fellowship! Help care for the UW’s biggest classroom— the Lakeshore Nature Preserve. Meet new people, learn about native ecosystems, get exercise, and enjoy the outdoors! Activities may include removing invasive plants, planting native species, maintaining trails, collecting trash, and cleaning fire circles. Groups and minors allowed with advance notice.

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Recognizing outstanding volunteers for their work in our community

Carrie Vanderford Sanders Rape Crisis Center Carrie Vanderford Sanders began at Rape Crisis Center (RCC) as a crisis line volunteer six years ago. She now has a leadership role, serving as Chair of RCC’s Board of Directors. Her compassion and professionalism toward clients and staff have been invaluable in helping RCC navigate a time of substantial transition.

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For more information about Rape Crisis Center or to volunteer, visit www.danecountyrcc.org or call 608.251.5126.

Jean Wells 1000 Friends of Wisconsin Jean Wells has been on the 1000 Friends of Wisconsin’s Board of Directors since 2007, serving as board treasurer. She’s not only willing but eager to assist—in meetings, on program field trips, and even helping new staff learn the ropes.1000 Friends staff say they’re so fortunate to have Jean on their board and as a friend.

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Community Shares of Wisconsin supports and funds 68 member nonprofits. Many people, many dreams, one community—Community Shares of Wisconsin.