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ROAD WARRIOR
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7-9 NEWS
REPRESENTING UW-Madison scientists head for Paris climate talks.
TEEN TALK
Adolescents teach health care providers how to communicate effectively.
10 TECH LAURA JONES
LARRY KAUFMANN 12 OPINION THIS WEEK WE say thanks and farewell to Larry Kaufmann. A believer in small government and the free market, he has penned opinion columns for us since 2010. He is moving to Austin, where he will continue to work as a business consultant and write on a variety of topics. He reflects on his nearly three decades in Madison in his last column.
21 MUSIC LAURA JONES HAS been writing about the arts for Isthmus since 2012. Her children’s book, A Polar Bear Christmas, has just come out and is available on Amazon. After writing this week about the struggles of local musicians, she says she promises she’ll always tip the band.
A CORNFIELD FAR, FAR AWAY
Finding Dane County’s remotest place.
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SOUTHBOUND
Columnist trades Dairy State for Lone Star State.
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21, 30-31 MUSIC Support your local musicians.
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL World of Beer struggles to stand out.
TOUR DE FRANCE
Baraboo baker teaches classes, leads trips to Paris.
28 RECREATION
Bucky Badger officially opens the skating rink at the Edgewater hotel, with daylong festivities, culminating in a tree-lighting ceremony conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Claus at 6 pm. Time to polish that triple Axel-double Lutz combo.
ON THE RIGHT TRACK
University Ridge to open for cross-country skiing.
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TEMPLE OF DOOM MARY ELLEN BELL 9 NEWS MARY ELLEN BELL retired a few years ago after a long career in communications at UW-Madison and UWExtension. Now she writes, travels, volunteers and plays with her three rescued cats and one rescued dog. She says what she loved about writing about the PATCH program was the “passion and idealism the teen educators bring” to their work.
The “Indiana Jones of climate change” warns of global crisis.
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LABOR OF LOVE
Industrial musicals prove there’s no business like show business.
VOW OF SILENCE
Spotlight exposes Boston priest scandal.
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City sidewalks, busy sidewalks Fri. & Sat., Nov. 27 & 28, downtown, 9:30 am-4 pm
Family comes first at the Downtown Holiday Open House, with trolley rides, grab bags, crafts at DreamBank and the Madison Children’s Museum, and “Bubble Wonders” and the Cash Box Kings at Kids in the Rotunda. And holiday merch.
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Stories from the story man
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11 MADISON MATRIX 11 WEEK IN REVIEW 12 THIS MODERN WORLD 13 FEEDBACK 13 OFF THE SQUARE
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Takin’ it to the streets Tues., Dec. 1, UW Discovery Building, 7 pm
UW urban and regional planning professor Alfonso Morales talks about the societal benefits of street markets at this “Crossroads of Ideas” lecture.
Let’s talk climate change Thurs., Dec. 3, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 10:30-11:30 am
As world leaders prepare to meet in Paris to ratify a new universal climate change agreement to lower carbon emissions, a panel of Wisconsin experts will discuss the historic conference and their hopes for its outcome. (See page 7.)
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Award-winning journalist Alex Blumberg distinguished himself at This American Life and Planet Money before launching the podcast network Gimlet Media. You’ll want to hear what he has to say about the power of a well-told story.
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Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2009, Autumn Neugent is able to stay active and independent thanks to an adaptive Toyota Sienna.
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Autumn Neugent hadn’t adapted fully to the sensitivities of her new 2015 Toyota Sienna when she picked me up on a recent Friday afternoon for a spin around Madison’s north side. We’d barely gotten underway when we lurched to a halt. “Soooorrrrry!” she apologizes as we’re thrust forward and then flung back into our seats. “The brakes are touchier than I’m used to.” It’s a gorgeous fall afternoon; North Sherman Avenue is awash in sunshine, and students from Shabazz High School are streaming jubilantly into the weekend. As we approach cruising speed, Neugent, 35, cracks a wide grin when asked if she is pleased with the vehicle. “It’s amazing!” A new ride is always a big deal. But for Neugent, who has multiple sclerosis, the panache of this adaptive black smart-vessel is second only to the assurance it will get her from here to there with relative ease. “You don’t realize how you take for granted things like being able to just jump into a car,” she says, “until you can’t do it.”
Since 2009, the year she was diagnosed with MS, the hard-charging athlete with once boundless energy has gone from dependence on a cane, to walker, to crutches, to a wheelchair as her legs became increasingly unreliable. “Sometimes they work; sometimes they don’t,” she says. A degenerative autoimmune disease, multiple sclerosis impedes communication between the brain and central nervous system by destroying the protective sheathing that is to a nerve fiber what rubber insulation is to an electric wire. Her body’s circuitry, in essence, is short-circuiting. “Up until a year ago, I was driving the 2010 Honda CRV I bought the day I was diagnosed,” says Neugent. “It would freak out the valet’s at St. Mary’s Outpatient to see me in my wheelchair with no adaptations in the car.” The Sienna is among a new generation of adaptive vehicles that, unlike their finicky predecessors, are as sleek and sophisticated as they are safe and sound. “They’ve improved drastically, and keep improving every year,” says Brian Williams, a salesman with Waukesha’s Mobility Works. “These days, there isn’t much we can’t do.”
They can also be prohibitively expensive, even for working folk like Neugent. Fortunately, the state Department of Workforce Development’s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation footed the vehicle’s $65,500 tab, allowing her to manage a schedule that, in spite of her condition, includes a full-time job, medical appointments, a 16-year-old daughter and a variety of sports, including rock climbing, kayaking and softball. Multiple sclerosis has sapped her energy, but not her drive. “Physical activity is so important to your mental health,” she says. “Moving around was my identity.” She retired her Honda last year after raising $10,000 for an 11-year-old Dodge minivan with hand controls, swivel seat and ramp, but it didn’t fit her needs. “The first trip we took in it, to Indiana, the throttle cable broke, so there wasn’t any acceleration,” she says. The tow truck driver hitched up the van, but wouldn’t let Neugent hitch a ride due to liability issues around her using a wheelchair. A good Samaritan eventually gave her a lift to a gas station, where she was met by a friend.
“There are a lot of roadblocks when it comes to using a wheelchair,” she says. Not that roadblocks or rules have ever stopped her. Neugent didn’t think much of it when her feet, hands and front torso suddenly went numb during East High School’s 1994 volleyball season. The numbness subsided, but returned periodically over the next 16 years, each time with a new doctor-confounding symptom, until the telltale scar tissue was discovered on her brain after a softball injury failed to properly heal. “It wasn’t stopping me from doing anything, so I kind of got used to it,” she says of the symptoms. “It was just one of those things that life throws at you. I adapted and went on.” n
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Acting globally Several UW scientists will urge movement on climate change in Paris BY DENISE THORNTON
ment, they will be part of the large body of supporting researchers, nongovernmental organizations and businesses hoping to influence the negotiations. It’s no surprise that Dr. Jonathan Patz will be in Paris, where he will be attending meetings of both the World Health Organization and the Global Climate Health Alliance. Starting in the mid-’90s, Patz was one of the first medical doctors to dive into the issue of climate change and public health and introduce the topic of health effects of climate change to the Environmental Protection Agency. As director of the UW’s Global Health Institute, he has been active in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for 15 years, and he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with his IPCC colleagues and Al Gore.
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Caitilyn Allen has had an early glimpse at the devastation climate change might bring. A professor of plant pathology at the UW-Madison, Allen studies how climate change is likely to increase disease in crops and other plants. The possibilities aren’t pretty. “Diseases likely to be worsened by the likely effects of climate change range from Stewart’s wilt, which threatens corn here in the upper Midwest, to coffee rust, which is decimating coffee plantations in Central America, thereby increasing prices and reducing availability of our favorite stimulant,” Allen says. This is awful not just for coffee lovers, she adds. “The coffee rust epidemic has a terrible social impact in Central America,” Allen says. “UW-Madison students saw this firsthand last January when I taught a field
course in Guatemala. We talked with smallscale organic coffee growers who were losing their land, and with poor itinerant coffee pickers whose kids were going hungry.” Allen is one of several UW scientists taking her expertise and concerns to Paris for the global climate conference starting Nov. 30. The goal of this year’s summit, the 21st United Nations-sponsored event, is to ratify a new climate change agreement among nations that will put in place policies to lower global carbon emissions, not just stop their growth. Representatives from more than 190 countries agreed last year to make commitments to limit global warming ahead of time to build momentum for the Paris meeting. UN executive Christiana Figures has called these commitments “a down payment on a new era of climate ambition from the global community.” While none of the UW-Madison faculty and Wisconsin green business leaders in attendance will be negotiating this historic agree-
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Patz has been hard at work trying to make a case for action in Paris. His research zeroes in on how people’s health would benefit from a concerted effort to stop climate change. “We’ve run numbers on what would happen if other countries had transportation like the Netherlands, where so many people bike and walk to work — what would that mean to overall health,� he says. Also heading to Paris is Nathan Schulfer, who helps manage the master’s program in environmental conservation at UW’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Schulfer has been involved in a Central Africa initiative to help build bridges between expertise on the Madison campus and on-the-ground conservation in the Congo Basin, a critical tropical forest system that has so far escaped the development pressures now threatening forests in the Amazon and Indonesia. “This is a rare chance to build on our current partnerships and become a part of a much larger network of organizations including private, public and nonprofit,� says Schulfer. “We want the Nelson Institute to continue and grow its collaborations working on the tremendous challenges of climate change.� “I’m hopeful,� Schulfer adds. “One of the coolest opportunities about the Paris talks is how many diverse groups of people are coming together in one space at the same time. The solutions are going to come from these shared ideas and objectives.� Sumudu Atapattu, a senior lecturer at UW Law School, plans to push representatives in Paris to consider how climate change will affect human rights. She is concerned because countries that have done the most to cause the problem are not the ones that will feel the worst effects.
“Particularly for these small island states,� Atapattu says, referring to several Pacific island countries like Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands that might vanish under rising sea levels. “Their contribution is pretty minimal, but they will be losing the most.� “We just drafted a declaration on climate change and human rights that we will be disseminating to a lot of groups in Paris,� Atapattu adds. “We are trying to contact individual negotiators and include them in a network of supporters.�
“One of the coolest opportunities about the Paris talks is how many diverse groups of people are coming together in one space at the same time.� — Nathan Schulfer, UW Nelson Institute Atapattu is cautiously optimistic about the talks. “For a long time climate change was sidelined as an environmental issue, and that is one of the reasons why it did not receive the attention that it required,� she says. “People are starting to see that it’s a public health issue, it’s a security issue. It’s really huge.� She sees momentum building for the Paris talks. “Right now there are 158 states that have made commitments,� she says. “The majority of states representing 91% of all greenhouse gas emissions have made commitments.� The United States has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% in the next 10 years, which would put emissions at 28% below 2005 levels. Since the 1990s climate scientists have been warning that it is essential to keep av-
erage temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times in order to avoid the more catastrophic effects of climate change. The current worldwide commitments to reduce emissions won’t be enough to stay within that 2 degree threshold. But Atapattu hopes the goal is still attainable. She compares the current attitudes to the mood after World War II when the United Nations was formed. “It’s possible that...there will be something positive,� she says. “I’m very hopeful, but you never know with world leaders.� An interactive panel discussion with many of the UW-Madison participants in Paris will be live-streamed to the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Moderated by Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute, the panel will include Atapattu, Patz and Schulfer, as well as Clay Nesler, vice president of global energy and sustainability at Johnson Controls, headquartered in Milwaukee; and Jeffrey Thompson, CEO of Gundersen Health Systems, based in La Crosse. The discussion will take place on Thursday, Dec. 3, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the Town Center of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. It’s free to the public, but registration is required. It will also be recorded for later viewing. The Wisconsin Academy, which is sponsoring the interactive discussion, created an initiative on climate and energy in 2012 and decided to use the Paris talks to raise awareness, says Jane Elder, executive director. “We want to highlight people in Wisconsin who are already leading the way to a cleaner, healthier Wisconsin,� Elder says. “So many global conferences seem like a group of experts doing something obscure somewhere else. But the Paris conference is very relevant to our lives right here in Wisconsin, and it could be one of the more significant agreements in history. It’s important for us to be engaged, and this will open the window.� n
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Talk real to me Teens train health care providers in nonjudgmental communication BY MARY ELLEN BELL
A few weeks ago a group of area high school students carpooled to Herzing University for a workshop with nursing students. Rosie Rodriguez, a junior at East High School, kicked off the session. “I’m bisexual,” said Rodriguez by way of introduction. “I didn’t know anything about it or whether the way I was feeling about myself was a real thing or if it was all in my head. No one ever explained to my health care provider how to talk to me, what to say, how to say it, and how to communicate with me. So I had a lack of resources available to help myself stay healthy.” Rodriguez is a teen educator with PATCH — Providers and Teens Communicating for Health. Founded in 2010 by the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health, the program trains teens to teach health care providers how to most effectively communicate with their young patients on a variety of sensitive topics. On this November morning, Rodriguez, Song Kim, a West High School senior, and Eliette Soler, a junior at East High School, lead the nursing students in 90 minutes of interactive activities, skits and question-and-answer sessions. In one role-playing exercise, a trainer asks: “If an adolescent comes in with a parent or guardian, that adult can stay during the appointment. Myth or fact?” Many of the nursing students thought the adult could stay. “Myth!” the trainer replies, following what is widely considered to be a best practice in the medical community; that is, ask a guardian or parent to leave the room so adolescents can discuss any concerns confidentially with their providers. The trainer playing the role of the health care provider shows how to address the “adult”: “I
appreciate it that you care enough to bring your teen in, but I really need to speak with her alone and have you wait outside.” When the adult refuses to leave, the health care provider gives it another shot: “Your teen will soon be an adult and needs to learn to negotiate her health care on her own. Please allow us to have some time alone together.” The “adult” leaves. “See, it doesn’t have to be a confrontation. And you can do this!” a trainer assures the class. The nursing students are a bit shy about participating at the beginning of the session, but by the end they are buzzing with questions about how to work with transgender teens and talk to teens who might not be forthcoming about their sexual history. Teens are at great risk for all kinds of healthrelated problems, from experimenting with drugs and alcohol to pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Yet, they are also the age group least likely to seek health care services. And when they do, they frequently feel they are being talked down to, misunderstood and judged. “Effective communication is critical,” explains Amy Olejniczak, director of PATCH, adding that if providers want kids to trust them, they have to trust the kids. “We teach our teen educators to teach doctors, nurses, physician assistants and other providers how to facilitate nonjudgmental, effective communications so they can provide better care.” PATCH started with a $10,000 grant from the National Institute for Reproductive Health and is modeled on a similar program in New York City. Still under the auspices of the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health, it has an annual
Each year 12 high school students are chosen for the PATCH program. They go through extensive training and earn $10 an hour.
budget of roughly $80,000 a year, garnered through a patchwork of small grants. The program has been able to hire a second staff member and is preparing to start a second program in Milwaukee. Each year 12 high school students are chosen for the program. They go through extensive training and earn $10 an hour. “It’s important that they get paid,” Olejniczak says. “It makes it a real job, and they take it very seriously.” Olejniczak says the teams are as diverse as possible. “We have teen educators of all races, ages and sexual orientations.” This year’s team includes students from all four Madison high schools as well as high schools in Verona, Sun Prairie and Oregon. In addition to their outreach to health care providers, the teens present workshops for their peers on privacy rights, the impor-
tance of being honest when seeking care and how to access health care without insurance or if they don’t want their parents involved. The teen educators say they learn a lot themselves from being in the program. “I want to be a doctor one day,” Kim says. “So this is such a great experience. I get to be with medical students and doctors and see them in the position I want to be in the future.” She says she has also learned about grant writing by applying successfully for funding for PATCH. Rodriguez says that being involved in PATCH has been great for her self-esteem. “A few weeks ago we spent two days in Wausau where we led nine workshops in two days. It was exhausting,” she says with a laugh. “But after each one I had the feeling of ‘Wow! I just did something really good. I may have changed someone’s life.’” n
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Getting away from it all Dane County’s remotest place sometimes gets a little crowded BY LIZ MERFELD
If you could pick one place in Dane County to get away, off the grid, far from the hum of any highway or city glow, where would you go? To the middle of some vast, forgotten field in Primrose or a nameless Mazomanie forest? Turns out, you don’t even have to fill up your gas tank to get to the remotest spot in the county. Florida-based conservation biologists Rebecca and Ryan Means would not be surprised. They are concerned, like many, that natural spaces are being gobbled up by roadways. “The U.S. road network fills the national landscape so fully that it is no longer possible to be more than 5 miles from a road within the vast majority of the conterminous 48 United States,” according to their website, Remote Footprints. So the couple set out to find and travel to the wildest patch in each state to document the “ecological and physical conditions” in order “to increase nationwide awareness about the importance of preserving our remaining roadless wildlands — forever.” They call it Project Remote, and all across the country, folks like me are imitating their methods for defining and finding “remote” locales, curious about more close-to-home frontiers. The project’s quantitative definition of remoteness is the point that is the farthest straight-line distance from a road or town, which they calculate using Geographical Information Systems (GIS). In September the scientists, with daughter Skyla in tow, visited Wisconsin’s most outlying point — 17.2 miles from the nearest road, on the far northern tip of Outer Island, the northernmost and easternmost island of the Apostle Island Archipelago in Lake Superior.
U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Jeff Nourse, who runs Nourse Charters and has been navigating these waters for nearly four decades, gave them a ride there. He wasn’t all that surprised when they contacted him, given how secluded the area is. “When the park was created,” he says, of the lakeshore becoming a state-protected area in 1970, “it kept people from privatizing the island.” “I fired up the GPS and cruised the shoreline,” Nourse says. After about 90 minutes, traveling between 25 and 29 mph, “the northeast wind kicked up, but we found the spot,” a rock outcropping with white waves slapping and slipping over it. “It’s a wondrous place,” Nourse says, home to bears, foxes, geese, sandhill cranes and mergansers, skirted by clear, cold water filled with lake trout and salmon. “The park kind of speaks for itself. It just happens to be my backyard and happens to have a lot of history.” It also happens to have cell phone reception, the Means were disappointed to note. “Why can you go to the remotest spot and get cell service when I can’t even get it at my house?” Nourse quips. They stayed for about 45 minutes, taking photos and recording observations.
I began my journey to locate Dane County’s remotest location by creating a free trial account on ArcGIS.com, which offers a suite of mapping apps I had no idea how to use. I wanted to replicate the Means’ calculation by using the Euclidean Distance tool. But to do that, I learned, I would need access to ArcGIS Desktop and the Spatial Analyst Extension. And possibly a few university prerequisites. To my great relief, when I reached out to the Wisconsin State Cartographers Office for support, program specialist Codie See viewed my query as an exciting opportunity to “engage some of our student lab in service learning.” In two days he shared their analysis of the single most remote square meter within Dane County. The result was this spot: 43°12’40.5”N 89°07’00.4”W (aka 89.116771 43.211244 decimal degrees). “Interesting and surprising, I think!” Cody wrote in an email. I clicked on the coordinates. I could see East Towne Mall on my screen. The pin was dropped in a green shape on the map labeled Deansville State Wildlife Area, a 14-mile jaunt from said shopping mall. See pointed out that their analysis “uses roads and bike paths as a basis” for remoteness and that they removed “hydro” — otherwise my destination would have been the middle of Lake Mendota. On a recent Saturday morning I drove there, my dog Marshall riding shotgun. The GPS routed us via I-94 to Highway N. I passed the Oaks Golf Course in Cottage Grove and followed County Highway TT until it turned into County Road TT. Rounding a corner at a dairy farm, the paved road abruptly becomes gravel.
Streams on either side of me, choked with duckweed, nearly reached up and touched my wheels. I felt like I was scouting locations for The Walking Dead. There was one truck ahead. “Drive 1.5 miles,” Siri instructed, “then prepare to park and walk 350 feet.” I parked in a gravel lot used to access the wildlife area and I rolled down my car window. “Pop-pop-pop!” I spied a speck of blaze orange moving toward my square meter. I looked at my outfit — blue jeans and black winter coat. I looked at my dog, the world’s most bang!-boom!-blast!weary pup. We sat and listened. A few cars whirred by. Another bullet cracked the air. I peered into the brush, gauging my mood. My tolerance for gunfire, which on a scale of 1-10 typically hovers around 0.5, was not at its peak. A blue jay complained in the distance. Black-capped chickadees played musical chairs with tree branches, singing, ti-ti-tifee-bee. A helicopter thumped overhead. Conflicted, I rolled up the window and pulled away, 350 feet shy of the most isolated speck of Dane County. On this day, Dane County’s remote wilderness was just a little too crowded for me. n
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THURSDAY, NOV. 19 n Gov. Scott Walker’s fa-
vorability remains in the gutter. The latest Marquette Law School Poll shows just 38% of respondents approve of his job performance. That’s not only one of the worst ratings of his governorship — it’s among the lowest of any governor in the nation. n The taxpayer cost for private lawyers who defended state officials targeted in the secret John Doe investigations has topped more than $1.2 million, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
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things couldn’t get any worse for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that Walker’s embattled jobs agency awarded $21 million in tax credits without legal authority.
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n OPINION
“Ardent small-government guy” moves on Larry Kaufmann reflects on nearly three decades in Madison BY LARRY KAUFMANN
When I first arrived in Madison, I got lost looking for my apartment. I stopped into an auto repair shop just off the Capitol Square to ask for directions. It was a typical-looking place, with cars suspended on racks as drills whirled rivets into sheet metal. The mechanics were also blasting one of the loudest radios I ever heard — to classical music. This, I thought, is going to be an interesting place. It was August 1988. Tommy Thompson was governor, Ronald Reagan was president, and Madison was a sleepier, grittier town. My east-side neighborhood was pocketed with machine tool shops, paint factories and dairy processing plants, now nearly all gone. The Square felt like the humble commercial center of an overgrown small town, not the chic entertainment and dining destination it is today. Corn fields and dairy farms rolled west of the Beltline without interruption. Like many Madison newcomers, I came to get a degree. I never intended to stay after graduation but, like many UW students, I did. Bonds develop with places just as they do with people and, like any long-term relationship, my connection to Madison has had its ups and downs. One significant “down” moment occurred the morning of May 7, 1989, when I discovered snow on the ground. Though I’m from St. Louis, I’ve still never fully adjusted to the long winters of the upper Midwest. I also think the city has lost some of its famously quirky and fun-loving spirit. Just one example: The Onion was launched here at almost the exact time I arrived. Would that still be possible in today’s Madison? These are quibbles, though, because my time in Madison has been overwhelmingly positive. Since depositing my thesis at Memorial Library in 1993, I ended up building a life here that has been personally and professionally satisfying, with more fun, friends and adventure than anyone could
reasonably ask for. The “professional” part included helping launch a Madison-based business consulting on energy and regulatory issues, a venture that has lasted 15 years and led to work in much of the U.S. and over a dozen other countries. While it wasn’t exactly what I expected when I came here 27 years ago, life never is. But all things must pass, and the reason for this brief trip down memory lane is my Madison experience will soon be coming to an end. In fact, by the time you read this, I’ll be in my new home in Austin, Texas. Why Austin? Suffice it to say that people sometimes get too settled in the grooves they’ve established, regardless of how comforting they may be. And there’s nothing more quintessentially American than “lighting out for the territory” when you need new challenges. One of the more unexpected and, mostly, enjoyable things I ended up doing here was writing for Isthmus. It began with a curious invitation in autumn 2010 from then news editor Bill Lueders to write an opinion piece. Bill evidently liked what he saw (although many readers, then and now, begged to differ), and
he made an even more surprising offer to become a regular contributing columnist. Over the last five years, it’s been a genuine pleasure to work with Bill and, after he left, editors Dean Robbins and Judith Davidoff. They have all unfailingly welcomed and encouraged my contributions, even though I’m sure they rarely if ever agreed with them. That’s never been a problem for me, since expressing opinions comes naturally to consultants, and I’ve had my share of doing so in forums that are less hospitable than the Isthmus
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op-ed page. It’s been both challenging and fulfilling to provide a free-market, smallgovernment perspective to a skeptical audience, especially during such a contentious and important time in Wisconsin’s history. My approach was always to appeal to reason and keep the nudity tasteful. There’s also no other Madison paper I’d rather write for. I’ve always thought Isthmus was the best-written paper in town. It also captures the day-to-day rhythms of life here better than any other publication. Culture, food, family and neighborhood all matter more to our actual lived experience than politics, and rightly so. That’s one of the reasons I’m such an ardent small-government guy: We’d all be much happier if politics occupied less of our time, money and attention, and each person was left to cultivate his own garden. In preparing for the move, I couldn’t help but notice that there are a lot of songs about leaving. None, however, is better than the great Townes Van Zandt classic, “To Live Is to Fly.” As Townes sang, “where you been is good and gone/all you keep is the getting there.” The Madison I discovered back in 1988 is long gone, but I’ll be keeping a trunkload of memories from the time I spent here. And since “to live is to fly,” after 27 good years “it’s time to go again/ and think of all the poetry and the pickin’ down the line.” So, as they say in Texas, happy trails. n
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Building bridges In a recent online column (Citizen Dave: “The Democrats Deserve to Be in the Minority,” 11/16/ 2015), Dave Cieslewicz made several disparaging comments towards Democratic legislators who provided crucial votes to reduce delay on vital road construction projects and ensure the timely maintenance of our state’s highways and bridges. The South Central Building Trades Council could not disagree more with those assertions. On behalf of the citizens of Wisconsin — those who work on the roads, travel the roads and rely on the roads — those legislators absolutely did the right thing. While the solution, approving $350 million in bonding without increasing revenue, was far from ideal, keeping major highway projects moving forward and ensuring that necessary repairs are made to our roads and bridges was crucial for our state’s economy, our citizens’ safety, and for maintaining well-paying jobs in a volatile sector of the economy. The notion that Democrats got nothing in exchange is petty. In a time when partisanship is at a historic high and common-sense solutions to real problems seem impossible, these legislators didn’t try to horse trade on an opportunity to do the right thing, and that should be commended. Their willingness to support a temporary fix while providing strong criticism of the lack of a long-term solution did at least receive a promise from
crats who showed enormous leadership in this situation and made sure this important funding authorization passed. Let’s get past the political games and work towards solutions that benefit our state. Dave Branson Executive director Building and Construction Trades Council of South Central Wisconsin (via email)
Voodoo economics the Joint Finance Committee co-chair to lead discussion towards revenue increases to support transportation funding before the next budget. That’s more than anyone has gotten so far. Wisconsin’s roads are ranked third worst in the nation. Bad roads hurt the economy and jeopardize safety. Supporting infrastructure funding creates jobs, helps the economy and keeps people safe. Democrats did the right thing, and we applaud their willingness to stand up for working men and women in Wisconsin. To give in to political notions that would rather let the state’s infrastructure crumble in hopes that voters will lay blame and vote the other party out come November is both shortsighted and dangerous to the citizens of Wisconsin. We need to thank the Demo-
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BY ALAN TALAGA & JON LYONS
Citizen Dave raises valid points (“Scott Walker’s Job Strategy Is a Failure,” 11/12/2015). The Republican mantra and strategy is that tax cuts will fuel growth and keep businesses from leaving our state. Supplyside economics, labeled voodoo economics by Bush 41, was a Republican strategy that was supposed to create a ripple effect from the top down, generating new business, growth, jobs and good wages. What it really created was an environment for mergers and acquisitions, which just redistributed income back to the top. Case in point: Oscar Mayer. Instead of cutting taxes, how about a strategy that encourages small and medium-size business to stay in Wisconsin with tax credits, as well as apprenticeship programs, training and mentoring, green production and buying local? Republican tax cuts and small government redistributes wealth to the top, which doesn’t benefit middle-class Republicans, Democrats or independents. If Wisconsin was “open for business,” how could anyone let Talgo walk away? Is Miller next? The Republican-controlled Legislature is more concerned with building its infrastructure and not our transportation infrastructure. Governor Dave? Brent Wood (via email)
new oil and gas development. Boom towns grow where there’s petroleum in the ground, but the jobs don’t go to local people, and the development strains local infrastructure and social structure. Moreover, the conclusion of boom is always bust. The same environmental degradation and public health issues accompany all extractive technologies. In addition, in the case of fossil fuels, there’s the inexorable march toward a climate disaster that can’t be turned back unless we leave that black stuff in the ground. Don’t look into the earth for black gold. Look into the sky for wind and sunlight. Put a tax on the fossils and return it to the people. Carol Steinhart (via email)
Boom and bust Marc Eisen’s comments about the metal mining industry (“The Great Snipe Hunt,” 11/19/2015) apply equally to fossil fuels. Yet we are continually bombarded with inflated promises of “jobs, jobs, jobs” and economic prosperity from pipelines, shipping terminals and
Separated at birth I didn’t know that Barry Alvarez was really a Sontaran — at least he looks like one on this week’s cover! Cynthia E. Olson (via email)
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n September we put out a call to Isthmus readers to submit haiku about Madison. We suggested a few categories and subjects — including Gov. Scott Walker and local celebrities — that we thought would stoke the creative fires of local poets. We received about 240 submissions, not a bad haul at all. To guard against any bias, we assigned each haiku an ID number, omitting the author’s name from the judging process. A crack team of four Isthmoids pored over the submissions, first to make sure each had the correct number of syllables (haiku must follow the 5-7-5 syllable format),
The Isthmus Haiku Contest and then with a more critical eye. We picked the ones we felt were the most creative, witty and reflective of the Madison we know and love. Brenden Carpenter takes home the top prize for his haiku about one of Madison’s favorite eccentrics, Thong Cape Scooter Man. Robert Sundling and Jude Toche tie for second place with their respective haiku about one
of Madison’s least favorite persons (at least based on your haiku submissions), Scott Walker. Here they are, along with some of the others that caught our fancy. ➡
W I N N I N G HA I KU:
Thong Cape Scooter Man Not the hero we need, but the one we deserve — B R E N D E N CA R P E N T E R
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Local celebrities An engine hums and then I see him putter by — Thong Cape Scooter Man — Alais Fortier-Meyer
Thong Cape Scooter Man Proudly riding through the wind Embracing freedom — Joe Vande Slunt
Marques Bovre still singing from lonesome county Take care of my soul — Jeffrey Johannes
Charlie Shortino You are a ray of sunshine on my cloudy day
Lost in Wisconsin, few see my true soul. Only cheese understands me — Andy Howard
We like our cheese curds Almost as much as we like Denouncing Walker — Hillary Mitchell Warden
Favre’s last Packer pass a four-letter word frozen on everyone’s lips — Jeffrey Johannes
Wisconsin treasure large block of aged sharp cheddar always in my fridge
— Alais Fortier-Meyer
Robin Vos looks like an angry butternut squash that just needs a hug — Treena Lahey
Scott Walker Right eye gazes right Look, a state worker to blame Left eye does not move — Caitlin Tefft
Governor Walker spends his Kohl’s cash better than the state’s tax money — Alais Fortier-Meyer
He was a fighter But now leaves the arena Intimidated
— Liz Pelton
Winter morning treat frosting welcome as the sun kringle yumminess — Michelle McKiernan
On a morning walk The day after the big game Don’t step in vomit — Mike Rausch
From above, red ants Streaming to their grassy church. Touchdown: Camp Randall — Molly Wesling
Typing from a bar, Yes, I’ll have another one. I’m not doing sh*t — Natasha Florian
— Ellen Schneider
Eating humble pie In his Capitol office Walker returns home
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Wisconsin passions
Paul Soglin
Slicing through Wingra A canoe slips silently Emitting no smoke
Rebellious in youth Time advances, mustache grays... Now curmudgeonly
— Darren Bush
Wisconsin is where when life hands us lemons, we pour a beer, instead — Deb Tetzlaff
Brandy Old Fashioned Two Walleye Filets, Coleslaw Supper Club Friday — Eric Selje
— Timothy Schwartz
When you have such an Affable mustache you can Police bench sleepers — Andrew Kachel
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SECOND PL AC E H A IKU (T IE) :
When things get too hard In college or a campaign God tells me: “Drop out” — RO B E RT S U N D L I N G
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Critters Japanese beetles marching through in brash armor garden Samurai — Mary Batterman
Cud chewing bovines Roam pastures of lushest green Dairy nirvana — Gail Pergande
Large, lumbering fowl Stop traffic on Monona Gobble, waddle, walk
Local landmarks Green roof, white bay doors; coxswains’ calls echoing out — under morning dark — Emily Setton
Before “Madison” Taychopera meant four lakes Effigies remain — Susan Padberg
paradox of death Jackson Oak’s lifeless limbs still draw us to her dance — Joan Halpin
Sweet Lake Mendota sunset. What more could one need? A friend with a boat — Molly Wesling
Sitting in my car Westbound Beltline super slow Late for work again — Linda Ladwig
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— Charles Mortell
Lilacs in the spring, Mosquitoes in the summer; Gotta love the Arb — Darren Bush
Cows on the Concourse Spinach spills its crinkly green Madison in spring!
— Rachel Glaza
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A swollen cattail Mendota swallows the sun frogs sing till morning — Pamela Dempsey
State Street is awesome! It should be a promenade No cars. Just people — Becca Jurek
— Darwin Tichenor
Bristling with stone warts, The Dick Outside Camp Randall Confuses us all — David Fisher
The Farmers’ Market Fresh fruit, hot spicy cheese bread Ouch! That was my heel — Jordan Martin
Bike to work happy No cars on the path, I smile Say hi to turkeys — Tara Tschillard
Mixing shade and sun Ice cream, beer, and duck droppings The Union Terrace! — Will Clifton
It’s not just a bar All roads lead to the Plaza Quick, grab us that booth! — Gina Chirichella
S ECO N D P L AC E H A I KU ( T I E ) :
God called me to lead And then lead by not leading He’s Taoist as hell — J UDE TO C H E
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Tapped out? World of Beer struggles to stand out in a crowded market BY KYLE NABILCY
Fare like a steak and blue cheese flatbread with balsamic reduction or French onion soup definitely have a place in a beer-centric joint. They’re comfortable and salty, which often inspires another round. But familiarity can’t lead to laziness. I’m sure the French onion soup never saw the underside of a broiler, nor were the onions very soft. The flatbread is drowned in a sticky, overpowering balsamic syrup. Standards should be done well, and it’s not happening here. Ultimately, World of Beer is more bar than restaurant, which makes the uneven bar service all the more frustrating. Bar snacks are also uneven. The large German pretzel is satisfying, and the Tavern Taters come smothered with sour cream, bacon, and slightly gummy nacho cheese. They’re exactly what you’d expect, a little messy but perfect for sharing. A plate of four chimichurri meatballs would be great with even a kiss of brown crust; instead, they’re oddly smooth, both in surface and in the grind of the meat. They are, at least, impressively inexpensive if ordered during happy hour, when most of the “Tavern Shares” menu is reduced to $5 per item. World of Beer will probably be a draw for local office workers at lunch and happy hour. But craft beer fans have come to expect more than just bar stools and tap lines, and World of Beer is struggling to differentiate itself in a crowded market. n
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Forget the old “restaurants per capita” chestnut. Someone should calculate how many miles of tap lines now run through the greater Madison area. World of Beer, located in a tidy parcel of new retail development near Middleton’s Greenway Station, is neither as big as some of its direct competitors, nor as high-profile. It does travel in similar territory, though: sprawling beer menu, global comfort foods and a “clubhouse for grownups” feel. One feature the Tampa-based World of Beer has in common with rival HopCat is a conspicuous “no minors after 9 p.m.” policy. To people in Tampa, or Grand Rapids, or any other non-Wisconsin place in the country, this probably seems obvious. In Wisconsin, though, where tavern culture doesn’t always exclude children, this policy stands out as a bit more restrictive than we’re used to. But if you’re looking to enjoy a late pint with fewer rugrats on the loose, maybe World of Beer is your jam. World of Beer prints its tap menus daily, which still can’t entirely prevent the “I’m sorry, we’ve run out of that one,” but it goes a long way. The list itself isn’t populated with many rarities, but instead highlights custom creations. A couple beers are brewed specifically for World of Beer; there are beer infu-
sions (peanut butter porter, anyone?) and beer cocktails ranging from boozy to fruity to sour. As with most beer hall-style menus (the Old Fashioned, Mr. Brews, HopCat), the World of Beer kitchen focuses on sandwiches, and in particular a house specialty burger. Here, it’s the Chimay Burger, which adds to the standard mushroom and Swiss by including (nominally) caramelized onions and swapping Swiss for Chimay Grand Classique, a cheese made by Belgian brewer Chimay. It’s a gooey blanket to be sure, and the burger patty is seared nicely and aggressively seasoned. Ultimately, it might be overkill for the average burger-and-a-beer meal, but at least there’s a lot of overkill for your $12.50. If only the other sandwiches held the same value. The turkey club is tall, but the bread is untoasted, and the ample meats are mediocre. The same is true for the Reuben. A steak sandwich with pickled red onions and goat cheese performs better, with a good balance of toppings and steak that doesn’t fight back against each bite. Brunch sandwiches include an ancho-chipotle bacon and egg that comes off like the best option at a convenience store’s hot case. A fried chicken and Belgian waffle “sandwich” probably should have been served open face, but it did contain a startlingly good piece of fried boneless chicken — hot and a little greasy, just how I want it.
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Versatility and variation The Hot Sake Toddy at Umami The hot toddy is a simple drink — liquor, sugar and hot water, sometimes served with a lemon. It hails from a time (the 1700s) when rooms were drafty, and it was wise, if not necessary, to imbibe warm liquids in order to fortify oneself against the howling winds. That, and water was suspect — heating it and adding liquor seemed the healthiest option. There’s nothing picky about toddys; they were made with Scotch or brandy or gin or whatever moonshine was handy. In Colonial America, they were originally made with rum or applejack. The sweetener would have been honey, maple syrup or, if you were flush, imported sugar. There are newfangled toddys with everything from ginger liqueur, mandarin oranges and green tea to smoky numbers with mezcal. At Umami Ramen & Dumpling Bar, 923 Williamson St., a welcome fall special is the Hot Sake Toddy. Employing Ozeki Junmai sake — which lends itself to being served warm anyway — this house toddy blends local honey with cloves and cinnamon. Served in a well-shaped tea mug, it’s pure comfort in liquid form. The sake makes for a cleantasting and well-balanced drink that’s an ideal accompaniment to a steaming noodle bowl. This is the second year this popular variation has appeared on the menu, and it’s a worthy way to rid yourself of November chills.
Fortify yourself against the howling winds. (Hint: It’s not tea.)
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Belgian golden strong ales are light- to medium-bodied, golden, with lots of effervescence and a complex blend of fruity and yeasty esters. One of the most well-known beers in the style is Duvel, made with a distinctive combination of hops and Belgian yeast, which lends hints of pepper and dryness. But fans of the style might want to sample this homegrown version from Lucette Brewing of Menomonie. It’s an imperial version of the style, a strong beer at 8.5% ABV. “Its biggest difference from other Belgian goldens is its being made entirely with Columbus hops,” says brewery founder Mike Wilson. The Columbus produces an assertive blend of earthy-musty, herbal and citrus flavors. The hops come in fairly early and stay around throughout. As the beer warms the flavors soften and blend nicely, with a hint of spicy clove and alcoholic warmth.
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Don’t dwell too much on comparisons with Duvel. Double Dawn is its own take on an imperial Belgian golden, with a unique American hop twist on the style. It sells for around $9/750 mL bottle. (Carefully “roust” the bottle by gently swirling it to ensure you get a mixture of the yeastiness throughout the pour.) — ROBIN SHEPARD
The sweet life A little bit of Paris...in the Baraboo Hills Holding sold the idea for her book at the UW-Madison Writers’ Institute, pitching to an editor who immediately loved the conParis has a funny way of casting a spell cept. “The first run sold out the week before on those who visit. Its magic is something Christmas.” that is not easily forgotten, even long after Following the success of her cookbook, the trip. And the recent attacks have only Holding organized a “Little French Bakery” renewed the strength of that sentiment in trip to Paris this year, in which 23 particilovers of Paris far and wide. pants toured markets, visited Le Cordon Author Susan Holding knows these feelBleu and, of course, tasted delightful French ings. She transformed them into a sort of treats while Holding played host. “It was Parisian life right in her hometown of North so much more fun than Freedom, Wis., with I ever expected,” she the establishment of says. Holding is planning her business, The Little a second trip to Paris for French Bakery, in 1999. 2016 in conjunction with Holding is also the Burkhalter Travel, and is author of The Little French not letting recent events Bakery Cookbook, which get in the way. “People was published just over are still very interested, a year ago. She spends and as long as there’s most of her life in the interest, let’s go!” says garage-turned-kitchen Holding. An informaon her property. Stepping tional meeting will be into the kitchen, you half THE LITTLE FRENCH BAKERY held at Burkhalter Travel, expect the ghost of Julia 6501 Mineral Point Rd., Child to suddenly apS5811 Sugar Rd., North Freedom on Dec. 15 at 6:30 p.m. pear. Traditional French 608-522-4981 “It was really fun to bistro chairs surround a littlefrenchbakery.com show people all these welcoming table where By appointment only things,” says Holding. cooking class participants She plans to expand the enjoy the fruits (or rather, market section of the next tour to do more the pastries) of their labor. The fully stocked tasting and visit more shops. commercial kitchen is an assemblage of Holding’s cooking classes at her kitchen stand mixers, rolling pins and bottles of cookaverage around five to 10 sessions a month ing wine. Customers can also order pastries for about six people. Upcoming classes and pick them up at the bakery, by appointinclude “Croissants and Pain au Chocolat,” ment only. “French Breads,” “Variations on Eclairs” Holding received professional culinary and “Macarons.” Registration is through training at Paris’ famous Le Cordon Bleu cookher website. ing school, and in the late ’90s began to dab After a croissant class, she says, “people ble in making wedding cakes. Which turned leave with armloads.” And that may be the into teaching cooking classes at her kitchen. next-best thing to being in Paris. n Which became a blog, and then, a cookbook. SUSAN HOLDING
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Three pies to eat this week Blueberry pie Nick’s Restaurant, 226 State St.
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Of the hand pies house made at the lobby diner at the Graduate Hotel, it’s the beef short rib we most recommend. Rich, tender meat, fine-dice potatoes and a potent but not-too-potent horseradish dipping sauce that’s as flavorful as the pie itself.
Southern peach cobbler Humble, 10 S. Allen St.
You’ll find an ever-changing variety of pies, hand pies and pie bites in the glass case at this near west coffee-and-bakedgoods shop, but we always hope for the homey peach cobbler. Chocolate chess with Yahara Bay cocoa liqueur whipped cream makes for a satisfying alternative.
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Turkish coffee from Kabul Getting a cup of Turkish coffee at Hüsnü’s, Madison’s only Turkish restaurant, used to be a favorite ritual. Now that Hüsnü’s is gone, though, you can still get a demitasse of Turkish coffee nearby — at Kabul, upstairs at 540 State St. Turkish coffee is not a kind of bean; it’s a method of preparation. And an ancient one. You know the grocery store bean grinder’s setting on the far, far right? That’s the setting for Turkish coffee, the finest grind available. The brew is made without a filter, with the boiling water mixed with the coffee until the grounds sink to the bottom. A good cup
should have a decent layer of foam on the top, and the rest should not be gritty. The grounds will settle at the bottom of the cup. Do not drink the grounds. Kabul’s new digs make a nice space to sip a cup midafternoon, maybe at the pleasant bar, accompanied by a slice of baklava and a book. The cup is made fresh and takes a little while. The result is thick but not chalky, sweet but not too sweet, and not at all bitter. It’s less potent than a shot of espresso, less sweet than a flavored latte. Kabul’s cup is mellow: an invitation to sit, think, and enjoy.
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Join the Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW) and Julia Wong of the Wisconsin Historical Society for a presentation about the archive’s historical menu collection. Examples range from a banquet menu in honor of Buffalo Bill Cody, 1885, to menus from Madison’s hippie era. It’s at the Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa St.
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When backers of a University of Wisconsinowned golf course were pushing the project some two decades ago, they promised to open the property during the winter months for cross-country skiing. Offering groomed ski trails to the public was intended to counter criticism that University Ridge, the Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed layout on 560 scenic acres west of Madison, would cater only to well-heeled golfers. But once the course opened in 1991, skiing was put on the back burner — although a few hardcores ignored the “no trespassing” signs and blazed their own way around the hilly back nine anyway. Now, with the blessing of UW athletic director Barry Alvarez, University Ridge is finally ready to regularly groom 17 kilometers of trails for both classical and skate skiing. Plans include opening the clubhouse daily to skiers from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and serving hot food in the “W Bistro” over the lunch hour. The pre-Thanksgiving snow that fell last weekend added to the enthusiasm among local cross-country skiers, who encountered the season’s first groomed paths at the course. The golf course staff worked with
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Green Bay Packers fans, who only one week earlier were booing at Lambeau Field, celebrated Thanksgiving five days early this year. When the Packers marched into TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on Sunday, Nov. 22, and beat the NFC North-leading Minnesota Vikings, 30-13, they halted a three-game skid that saw the team lose to a pair of unbeaten teams (Denver and Carolina) on the road and a one-win team (Detroit) at home. The Lions had not been victorious in Wisconsin since 1991, when Brett Favre was a first-round draft choice for the Atlanta Falcons. Two-thirds of the way through the 2015 season, Green Bay appeared to be falling apart. And granted, the team is not completely back together again. But running back Eddie Lacy found new life in Minnesota after sitting out the Detroit game with a groin injury, rushing for a season-high 100 yards on 22 carries. Green Bay’s defense sacked Minnesota quarterback Teddy Bridgewater six times. And kicker Mason Crosby was on target all afternoon, booting five field goals. No wonder quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who hasn’t smiled much lately, raised his arms high above his head and let loose an epic grin after Sunday’s post-game interview with Fox Sports sideline reporter Erin Andrews.
That said, the Vikings outgained the Packers in total yardage. Injured wide receiver Jordy Nelson continues to be missed, as wide receiver Randall Cobb caught only two passes (and dropped at least that many). Time of possession for both teams was almost identical. “It’s a game of ebb and flow,” Packers coach Mike McCarthy told Packers.com. “There are a lot of variables that go into being successful each week. Our guys rose above the challenges today. We played well, but I’m not naïve to the fact there are things we can do better.” If the Packers are to win the NFC North for the fifth consecutive year — as of Sunday, Green Bay and Minnesota are each 7-3 — they must play more consistently. The renewed march to a division title begins with a prime-time Thanksgiving night showdown at Lambeau Field against Chicago. The Packers have dominated in the previous three meetings with the Bears, but the stakes are higher this time. Ashton Green Bay’s schedule over the season’s final six weeks is more favorable than Minnesota’s, which means the Packers need to establish early leads and sustained drives in games against struggling teams like Dallas, Oakland and, especially, Detroit. Everything could come down to the final regular AIRPORT RD. season game, a rematch between the Packers and Vikings in Green Bay on Jan. 3. Let’s hope RodgersMIDDLETON is still flashing that grin. n Town of Middleton
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University Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of George Fahrquharâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Beauxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stratagem is a quintessential Restoration comedy, complete with wigs and waistcoats, robbery and romance, discussions of class and the dangers of hasty marriage, mistaken identities, and characters hiding behind furniture to overhear othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scheming and subterfuge. The excellent adaptation by Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig makes the story and the language clear to a modern audience while preserving the antics and tropes of the genre. The play, which runs at the Mitchell Theatre through Dec. 13, opens with two of Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bon vivants, without title or fortune, arriving in a small English country town determined to woo wealthy women and marry for money so they can return to their high life. Disguised as a lord and his footman, Aimwell (played by an enthusiastic Daniel Millhouse) and his friend Archer (the charming Michael Jahn) must abandon their Machiavellian plan almost instantly, after they fall in love with the daughter and daughter-in-law of the wealthy and eccentric Lady Bountiful (a pitch-perfect Barbara Clayton). When their initial ruse is revealed, they prove their nobility and devotion by thwarting a robbery, masterminded by a devious minister (the comically conflicted Kyle Wessel). The large cast â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including undergraduates, alumni, Ph.D. candidates, community actors and a former professor from the department â&#x20AC;&#x201D; showcases a wide range of talent and ability. Anne Guadagnino gives
a standout performance as the lovely ingĂŠnue Dorinda, who approaches marriage warily, even after she has fallen madly in love with the mysterious stranger Aimwell. And as Scrub, Lady Bountifulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief servant and assistant in her ill-fated medical practice, Steffen Silvis is perfectly stiff, delivering delightfully dry commentary on the strange proceedings. Barbara Clayton shines as Bountiful, the matriarch and misguided physician who kills as many patients as she cures. The character is wrong about everything in the play, from the true nature of her alcohol-swilling son (a convincingly scruffy Alex Wehrle) to her frightening medical prescriptions. Yet Clayton delivers Bountifulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pronouncements with the thrilled certainty of a scientist who has just made a new discovery, lighting up the stage with every entrance. The production is also elevated by a magnificent set, designed by UW professor emeritus Joe Varga. Featuring a series of towering wooden beams that support an unseen roof, it transforms (slowly) from a rustic country tavern to a grand mansion and back again. Models of the buildingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; exteriors are an ingenious touch to signify each setting. There are some missteps, including a few performances that are entirely too broad or emotionally shallow. And though they are essential elements of the comedy, the sword fighting and requisite dancing at the end of the play seemed wooden at the preview. But overall, this romantic romp is an enjoyable evening that entertains as it unmasks heroes and villains alike. n
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Restraint in the mix The focused pop of Beat Connection BY AARON R. CONKLIN
Tech is the foundation for Seattle-based Beat Connection’s burgeoning electropop empire — and we’re not just talking about the synthesizers that fuel the band’s upbeat, head-nodding sound. Band co-founder and producer Reed Juenger started out composing beats in GarageBand during his college days in the late ’00s, and it was online response to their first EP, 2010’s Surf Noir, that snared the group their first record deal. Still, Juenger, who’ll thump the Frequency with vocalist Tom Eddy, drummer Jarred Katz and bassist Mark Hunter on Dec. 4, approaches technology the same way he does music composition — thoughtfully and with caution. It took the band nearly two years to sift, polish and winnow the 11 tracks that make up their latest release, Product 3. “We want the art to speak for itself, not just run through a constant cycle of trying to get people’s attention,” says Juenger, calling from the road a few days after the sold-out San Francisco launch of the band’s current tour. That said, Beat Connection is acutely aware of the social-media-driven environment in which they’re working. The title of the band’s latest release is no accident, while songs like “Ad Space” and “Reality TV,” neither of which are actually about mass media, reflect that awareness. “A lot of our songs are fresh and shiny on the outside,” says Juenger. “On closer listening, there’s a remorse or guilt that cuts through that pop sugar.” True that: Several of the songs on Product 3 touch on the possibility of second-chance relationships, while others front the irony therein. A throbbing tune about the spark
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of a nightclub connection is titled “Illusion.” It’s a contemporary echo to one of Beat Connection’s earliest singles, “Silver Screen,” the song that first brought Eddy’s vocals into the fold. Juenger and his bandmates, a self-described group of “music nerds,” have also paid careful attention to the history and trajectory of modern electronic pop. Juenger’s especially drawn to artists like Britain’s Jai Paul, the electro-soul beatmaster with a confounding and unorthodox approach. “It’s starting to move away from EDM and back to a pop thing,” says Juneger. “It’s not as much about ‘here’s the biggest kickdrum and the shiniest synthesizer.’ Hopefully, we’re in the right place at the right time to take advantage of that.” n
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ing to a packed house only to walk away with an envelope containing three onedollar bills. “It’s a rigged game. Our culture just isn’t valuing arts and music.” Rearick’s solution is to create additional opportunities outside our cash-based economy. As with her earlier venture, the Dane County TimeBank, Rearick’s Mutual Aid Network helps match people who can trade time and services doing things they love in exchange for help on projects of their own. “It’s important for people to get paid to make music and make a living doing what they want,” says Rearick. But using the network, you have other resources you can use so you don’t have to tap into your money for things like promotion or travel.”
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says most local musicians are making far less.) Wolf believes the city needs to seriously consider ways to help musicians make a living. “[Music and musicians] bring a lot of ancillary benefits to Madison. It makes sense to have a plan in place because [music] draws tourists and furthers economic development,” she says. Wolf is brainstorming a variety of plans, some of which address related issues like parking for entertainment venues and affordable housing. She is also looking at developing a fair trade music plan similar to Seattle’s, where on designated days, club owners agree to provide musicians a living wage. Other ideas are already in the works. A national music conference on songwriting and music-making, like CD Baby’s recent DIY event in Chicago, will most likely happen in Madison next summer or the year after. The city has already set aside $25,000 in room tax revenues to help fund the conference, says Wolf. One small but direct line of revenue is the Yahara Music Library, a project launched by the Madison Public Library; it pays select local musicians $200 for a five-year licensing agreement that allows library cardholders to stream their music. But some people feel more radical restructuring is required if Madison wants to retain talent. Stephanie Rearick is both a venue owner — she co-owns Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse — and a musician who has been performing since 1993. During that time, she has toured extensively, including internationally, and been featured on 27 albums. She sees both sides of the dilemma. “As an owner, you’re in this situation where you’re sacrificing money to put on the art that you like,” Rearick says. But she also remembers the sting of play-
Dave Adler is one local musician who is living his dream. But he would tell you it’s been in part because he has been able to adapt and diversify. Adler says most of his income used to come from composing, but it now comes from playing live shows; he has played with the Gomers since 1986, among many other bands. Gigging that frequently is more of an option for Adler, a seasoned, in-demand player, than it is for many local musicians. Adler calls himself “lucky” to make a living doing what he loves. “I’m very grateful for every gig I have. I don’t take anything for granted,” he says. Adler also takes additional work, such as conducting Dracula for the Madison Ballet, and looks beyond the city, booking shows around the state. Tvedt says despite the challenges, local artists still feel driven to perform. “I think a lot of musicians would say, ‘I don’t care how much money I make. I do it because it’s important to me.’” Adler agrees. “I’m in a feast-or-famine business,” he says. “I think if you’re young and you dig music, you should rock your ass off. I would never try to talk anyone out of it. I love my life. If anyone can get that together for themselves that’s great. If you feel called, answer that call.” n
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Indiana Jones of climate change Explorer Eric Cline connects an ancient collapse with today’s global disasters BY JAY RATH
Eric Cline is a real-life Indiana Jones — an author, archaeologist, National Geographic Society explorer, and professor of classics and anthropology at George Washington University. Even though he specializes in ancient history, Cline’s work is extremely timely. On the eve of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, Nov. 30 through Dec. 11, Cline will visit Madison to talk about his recent book, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, which outlines disturbing parallels between Bronze Age history and contemporary events. Isthmus caught up with Cline to ask what it’s like to play the dual role of adventurer and doomsayer. What are the questions you field most often? Where’s Noah’s Ark? Where’s the Ark of the Covenant? Did Joshua actually capture Jericho? And where are the 10 lost tribes of Israel?
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You show that the Bronze Age was much more complex and interconnected than most of us knew. There was trade, nationalism and communication throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. How is the collapse of that civilization cautionary? You don’t want to push the analogies or the parallels too much, but we are intertwined today. We’re dependent on oil like they were dependent on tin, and I would argue — some might disagree — that there is climate change today. There are earthquakes today. And I ask, “Are we suffering the same things today?” I go through a checklist, and the only thing that we don’t have today are the Sea Peoples.
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Are you referring to the mysterious invaders mentioned in Egyptian records who sacked the Mediterranean and set refugees, such as the Philistines, in motion? I would argue that ISIS are the Sea Peoples. That’s our version. I mean look at them: They’re destroying the Middle East right now. An even better parallel is all of the refugees now that are flooding into Europe. Those are the Sea Peoples. It just happens that ours are peaceful for the moment. But, you know, it’s the exact same thing. That’s why the Sea Peoples in antiquity started moving, because of drought and famine and war — and that’s why these people are flooding Europe. So I actually think that our situation now and their situation after 1200 B.C. are very, very similar. No difference? I would say that the big difference is they had no idea what was happening or why it was happening. The Hittites didn’t know why there was a drought; all they knew was there was no rain. The real takeaway for me is the realization that every civilization to date has collapsed. Why should we be invulnerable? I don’t know that we’ll collapse next week or even next year, but we will collapse at some point. That’s why I would say that history has lessons to teach us, if we’re willing and interested enough to learn. Why don’t we do something so that we don’t disintegrate? I’m sorry, but since I have you, I have to ask about the Great Pyramids being used to store grain [an assertion put forth by Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson]. Yes or no? [Laughs] Are you kidding? Of course you had to ask. No. Pyramids were not used to store grain. Nor are they built by aliens, nor are they built by people from Atlantis. Yikes! n
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Shows you were never meant to see Former Letterman writer brings “The Lost World of Industrial Musicals” to the Majestic BY CATHERINE CAPELLARO
The general public was never meant to see the irresistibly titled musical The Bathrooms Are Coming. But thanks to Steve Young — a happily obsessed veteran comedy writer who spent 25 years writing for Late Show with David Letterman — Bathrooms and other equally bizarre and obscure corporate musicals are seeing the light of day. Back in 1990, Young was hired by the Letterman team to spearhead a segment called “Dave’s Record Collection. “I was going to thrift stores looking for the raw material, and I began coming back with souvenir albums from these corporate events,” says Young. “They were musicals selling tractors or diesel engines. I loved the collision. I fell into an alternative universe.” This side project grew to epic proportions as Young collected albums, began interviewing cast members and writers, and started tracking down rare film clips. He gathered enough material for a book, Everything’s Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals. And he’s working on a documentary, which he hopes will see a release in the next year. On Dec. 2, Young will screen clips from his favorite vintage industrial musicals at the
For the uninitiated, what’s an industrial musical? A show that superficially might seem like a Broadway show, but the subject matter would not be on Broadway — how great it is to work at a certain company and how exciting it is to sell a new line of tractors, air conditioners, bathrooms or soda. While often extremely elaborate and well produced, you were only allowed to see this if you were a company insider. They were not publicized, not reviewed; it was a hidden world of show business. What was the quality of these shows? Some of them aren’t great. Some are terrible, and I kind of love those too. But the top layer was astonishingly well done. The big corporate musical was a prestige thing. I talked to one of the composers who did this for a long time. His musical introduced the ’57 Chevrolet line. It toured around to different states. The budget was several million — much larger than the budget for putting up My Fair Lady on Broadway.
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And you found that well-respected composers were doing this work. I had an album of a Ford tractor musical. I showed it to my friend, who turned it over and his eyes widened. He said, “Do you know who these people are?” It was by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock. They wrote the music and lyrics for Fiddler on the Roof. I have since gotten to meet and talk to Sheldon Harnick. Writing these shows was a wonderful way for up-and-coming Broadway writers and performers to work in the business, make really excellent money. Corporations were spending at a furious clip. Sheldon said as he began getting a toehold on Broadway he hoped he would still get to do industrial musicals.
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Pursuing the horrible truth Spotlight is a tense investigative thriller BY CATHERINE CAPELLARO
Growing up in a small-town newspaper family, I became fascinated early on with the idea of the city newsroom — a place where tenacious guys (and occasionally gals) in trenchcoats would dog sources, dig for the truth and use the power of the pen to make the world a better place. It’s this journalism that’s on display in Spotlight, the extraordinary new film based on the true story of The Boston Globe investigative team that exposed the Catholic hierarchy for protecting abusive priests. We’ve been hearing about sexual abuse scandals for so long that our society has almost become numb to the news. Spotlight brings just the right amount of focus to the damaged and fragile victims who persevered year after year, trying to let people know that some of their most trusted authority figures — priests — had raped and molested them, right under the noses of a church that shuffled pedophiles from parish to parish, putting more vulnerable children in harm’s way. Spotlight is a taut, pulse-pounding thriller. The all-star cast delivers realistic and transformative performances, among them Liev Shrieber as Marty Baron, the new editor who quietly insists that the investigative team drop its current project to start looking into whether the church’s top officials knew about the abuse. The reporters begin to dig, methodical-
Mark Ruffalo as driven reporter Mike Rezendes.
ly and furiously, and learn about the phenomenal cover-up that protected nearly 90 priests. The level of complicity among Bostonians was shocking; under-the-table settlements were paid to mostly low-income Bostonians whose children were hushed, offered up for sacrifice. As rumpled reporter Mike Rezendes, Mark Ruffalo is pitch-perfect. He’s a bundle of nerves, darting through the streets to chase down the story and becoming increasingly angry as the truth unfolds. Yet he displays utter compassion when listening — truly listening — to the heartbreaking stories of victims. Spotlight is full of memorable performances and lines, but one incisive comment from the lawyer representing victims, Mitchell Garabedian (Stanley Tucci), cuts to the chase: “If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.” n
The film list New releases Brooklyn: A young immigrant (Saoirse Ronan) departs Ireland in the early 1950s for a better life and hopeful future. Aided by cinematographer Yves Bélanger’s vital visual sense, director John Crowley reimagines the period beautifully, evoking a romanticized time and place that likely never existed except in memory. Creed: Former champion boxer Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) mentors the son of his former rival Apollo Creed (Michael B. Jordan). The Good Dinosaur: Animated story about a world in which dinosaurs never went extinct. Trumbo: Biopic about the writer blacklisted by Hollywood during the ’50s Communist scare, portrayed by Bryan Cranston. Victor Frankenstein: Mary Shelley’s horror story retold from the point of view of Igor (Daniel Radcliffe).
Recent releases The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2: Reluctant hero Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) finds herself on the brink of a civil war in the final installment of the series based on the young adult novels. Love the Coopers: Family get-togethers every December may be the times that try men’s and women’s souls, but not in the fabricated manner depicted here.
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Secret in Their Eyes: The murder of an FBI investigator’s daughter has long-range implications. It’s a tightly wound thriller that will keep viewers guessing until the very end — unless they’re familiar with the source material: the book by Eduardo Sacheri or the Oscar-winning 2009 Argentinean film. In that case, it may seem like a better-than-average police procedural that features tamped-down performances by previous Oscar winners and nominees.
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Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden sexual fantasies go awry for a doctor (Tom Cruise) and art curator (Nicole Kidman) in this controversial final film from director Stanley Kubrick. Central Library, Dec. 3, 6 pm.
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Punch Brothers Tuesday, Dec. 1, Overture Hall, 7:30 pm Chris Thile and his Punch Brothers bandmates have established themselves as one of the nation’s most inventive bluegrass acts, combining a traditional sound with elements of classical and rock. Thile is a busy guy: The mandolin virtuoso is a member of two critically adored bands (he’s also in Nickel Creek), a former MacArthur Fellow, and in 2016, he will take over A Prairie Home Companion from the retiring Garrison Keillor. With Gabriel Kahane.
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Lakeside Street Coffee House: Madison Classical Guitar Society Showcase, free, 7 pm. Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, New Orleans piano, free, 6:30 pm Fri.-Sat & 6 pm Tue.-Wed.
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Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse: Joshua Powell & the Great Train Robbery, avant-folk, 8 pm.
MUS I C Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm.
FOOD & DRINK Thanksgiving Buffet: 15 percent of proceeds donated to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, 11 am-2 pm, 11/26, Dorf Haus, Roxbury. $17.25. RSVP: 643-3980.
Latin Music Festival Wednesday, Nov. 25, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm
Madison’s hottest Latin outfits will ensure that you burn enough calories for a guilt-free Thanksgiving. Grupo Candela (pictured), Tony Castañeda’s Latin Jazz Band, Orquesta SalSoul del Mad and DJ Rumba will get you out on the dance floor and keep you there until it’s time to turn on the oven.
Free Thanksgiving Meals: 11 am-1 pm, 11/26, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church-Raymond Rd. (271-6633); 11 am-3 pm, 11/26, Calvary Gospel Church (249-6445); Noon-3 pm, 11/26, First Congregational United Church of Christ (233-9751); Annual event, noon, 11/26, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church (251-8405); Annual event, noon, 11/26, Lakeview Lutheran Church (244-6181); 4:30-6 pm, 11/26, Luke House. (256-6325).
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Vienna Boys Choir Friday, Nov. 27, Overture Hall, 7 pm
The boys are back! Voices of more than 100 choristers from 30 countries, ages 10-14, will ring out on this special night. Austrian folk songs, classical standards and holiday favorites are all on the bill. You’ll never want to go back to listening to grownup singers.
Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Middleton: Johnny Widdicombe & Cliff Frederiksen, jazz, 6 pm. Tempest: Compact Deluxe, free, 9:30 pm. Up North Pub: Pat Ferguson, free, 8 pm.
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The Bayou: DJ Chamo, free, 10 pm Fridays. Brink Lounge: Nightrod (CD release), Not Dead Yet, Joey Broyles, Gods in the Chrysalis, 9 pm. Brocach Irish Pub-Square: The Currach, free, 5:30 pm Fridays.
Edgewater Hotel-Boathouse: Mike & Jamie McCloskey, folk/rock/swing, free, 7 pm.
Monona Terrace: Little Vito & the Torpedoes, ‘50s-’60s, free, 5:30 pm.
Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: Riled Up, 8:30 pm.
Alchemy Cafe: Tani Diakite & the Afrofunkstars, free, 10 pm.
Club Tavern, Middleton: Josh Becker Band, rock, 9 pm.
Mickey’s Tavern: Simply Saucer, free, 10 pm.
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After returning from a tour of the Middle East and Africa in 2008, this endearing and socially conscious reggae group played a welcome back show the day after Thanksgiving. Seven years later, the Black Friday performance has become an annual tradition for the band. With the Mustache, Fatbook, DJ Trichrome.
Claddagh, Middleton: Lucas Cates, free, 8 pm.
Lazy Oaf Lounge: Saturday Morning Cartel, 10 pm.
The Wisco: Damsel Trash, SheShe, Campfire Cassettes, 10 pm.
Friday, Nov. 27, High Noon Saloon, 9 pm
Cardinal Bar: Samba Novistas, free, 5:30 pm; VO5, Compact Deluxe, WORT benefit, 8 pm.
Heritage Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, free, 8:30 pm.
Tricia’s Country Corners: Universal Sound, 8 pm.
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Buck and Honey’s, Sun Prairie: Kevin Andrews, free, 6 pm.
Essen Haus: Brian Erickson, free, 6:30 pm Wednesdays.
Opus Lounge: Teddy Davenport, free, 9 pm.
Natt Spil: DJ Bruce Blaq, free, 10 pm. Northside Family Restaurant: Richard Hassler, piano, free, 5 pm Fridays.
Essen Haus: Gary Beal Band, free, 8:30 pm. Fisher King Winery, Mount Horeb: Scott Wilcox, free, 6:30 pm. Fountain: Richard Shaten, piano, free, 7:30 pm Fridays. The Frequency: Malcomexicans, Sir! No Sir, Meat Faucet, Painted Zeros, 9:30 pm. Great Dane-Hilldale: DJ Audiomaxx, free, 9 pm. Ivory Room: Anthony Cao, Katy Marquardt, Jim Ripp, dueling pianos, 8 pm.
Finding Human Friday, Nov. 27, Bartell Theatre, 8 pm
Following its inaugural production at Broom Street Theater in January, StageQ has remounted Finding Human, Madison playwright Dan Myers’ candid production about the realities of prison life. Recommended for mature audiences only. ALSO: Saturday, Nov. 28, 2 pm. Don’t Hug Me: Driftless Area Repertory Theater dinner theater musical comedy, 6:30 pm on 11/27, 1 pm on 11/28 and noon, 11/29, Dorf Haus, Roxbury. $40. RSVP: 643-3980. A Christmas Carol: The Musical: Dinner theater, 11/11-12/27, Palace Theater, Wisconsin Dells. $59.95-$49.95. dellspalace.com. 253-4000.
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radio staple “Bound for the Floor,” can rock harder than bands with twice as many members. Combine that with their notoriously high-energy live shows, and Local H becomes a band you don’t want to miss out on. With Madison garage punkers the Hussy and Dumb Vision. Alchemy Cafe: The Beat Chefs, free, 10 pm. Badger Bowl: Fighting For, rock, 9:15 pm. Brink Lounge: Honky Tonk Lagoon, 7 pm.
Dwayne Kennedy Friday, Nov. 27, Comedy Club on State, 8 & 10:30 pm
He may not be a household name (yet), but Chicago native Dwayne Kennedy has one of the most impressive résumés in comedy. He’s done guest spots on Seinfeld and Martin, performed on Letterman and Conan, and in 2002 won the Jury Award for Best Standup at the Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Most recently Kennedy served as a writer and actor on the dearly departed FX series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. With Jeff Horste, Kevin Bozeman. ALSO: Saturday, Nov. 28, 8 & 10:30 pm.
sat nov 28
Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm. Claddagh, Middleton: Shekinah King, free, 7 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Blue Olives, blues, 9 pm. Come Back In: The Lower Fifth, free, 9 pm. Crystal Corner Bar: Devil’s Fen, The Flavor That Kills, Northern Hooks, Guy Weatherspoon, rock, 9:30 pm. Essen Haus: Gary Beal Band, free, 8:30 pm. Fisher King, Mount Horeb: Tyler Preston, 6:30 pm. Harmony Bar: Charlie Brooks & the Way It Is, 9 pm. Ivory Room: Taras Nahirniak, Katy Marquardt, Josh Dupont, dueling pianos, 8 pm. Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Widdicombe & Cliff Frederiksen, jazz, free, 6:30 pm. Mickey’s: Brennan Connors & Stray Passage, 10 pm. Middleton-Cross Plains Area Performing Arts Center: Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, holiday concert with guest vocalist Aaron Thompson, 2 & 8 pm. Paoli Schoolhouse: Mike McCloskey, free, 6 pm. Pooley’s: Madison County, country, 9:30 pm. Tempest Oyster Bar: The North Westerns, 9:30 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Kristy Larson Trio, free, 10 pm.
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You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown: House Theatre youth production, 2 & 7 pm, 11/28, Edgewood High School. $15. housetheatremadison.org.
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They may only have two members, but you wouldn’t know it listening to Chicagoarea rockers Local H. The group, whom you probably know from the ’90s rock
Baroness Sunday, Nov. 29, The Frequency, 8 pm
Since releasing Yellow and Green in 2012, Savannah, Ga., sludge metal crew Baroness have had an interesting go of it. Not only have they endured several lineup changes, they survived a bus crash in England that left several members seriously injured. But in true metal fashion, Baroness didn’t let that slow them down. In fact, if “Chlorine and Wine,” the lead single from this year’s Purple, is any indication, they might just have gotten better. With Earthling.
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At the top of a promising young indie rock class sits Chicago’s NE-HI and Seattle’s Car Seat Headrest (pictured), two bands that embrace lo-fi aesthetics in their own way. Where Car Seat Headrest tends closer to the verbose rock of Guided By Voices, NEHI is more psychedelic and instrumentally focused. With Madison’s Trophy Dad.
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mon nov 30 MUS I C Glass Nickel-Atwood: David Landau, kids’ concert, 5:30 pm. High Noon Saloon: Wrenclaw, Leopard Hound, Gin Mill Hollow, Americana, 8:30 pm.
Distant Cuzins Sunday, Nov. 29, Harmony Bar, 3-6 pm
With a classic-rock-meets-rockabilly sound, this quartet from Oregon High School has roots in a fourth-grade surf-rock duo that guitarist Sam Miess formed with drummer Ben Lokuta. Distant Cuzins was the runnerup at this year’s Launchpad state finals, and the band’s influences range from ska to Rush. With Precocious, Foundry Rock Band.
December 4, 5, 6
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Bright Red Studios: Linear Downfall, 9 pm. High Noon Saloon: The Fauxtons, Honor Monsters, El Valiente, 6 pm.
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MADISON SYMPHONY CHORUS Beverly Taylor, Director
MADISON YOUTH CHOIRS
Michael Ross, Artistic Director
Emily Fons, Mezzo-Soprano
Natt Spil: DJ SiLas Be, free, 10 pm. Sequoya Library: White Birch Ensemble, “Folkloric Russia,” music/lecture, free, 6:30 pm. Up North Pub: Derek Ramnarace, free, 7 pm. UW Humanities Building-Morphy Hall: UW Jazz Standards Ensemble, Latin Jazz Ensemble, free, 7:30 pm.
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Java Cat: Nick Matthews, free, 9:30 am Sundays. Liliana’s: Cliff Frederiksen,free, 10:30 am Sundays. Oakwood Village-University Woods Center for Arts & Education: Oakwood Chamber Players, annual “Christmas Lights” concerts, 1 & 3:30 pm. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church: Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, chamber music, 3 pm. Strictly Discs: Baroness, free, 2 pm.
David Govertsen, Bass-Baritone
MT. ZION GOSPEL CHOIR Tamera and Leotha Stanley, Directors
Malt House: Willie Jones, free, 7:30 pm.
John DeMain, Conductor
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SP ECIAL EV ENTS
Mythbusters: Jamie & Adam Unleashed Sunday, Nov. 29, Overture Hall, 7:30 pm
Fans of the long-running Discovery television series will surely not want to miss this live spectacle that includes on-stage experiments, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and a healthy amount of audience participation. And with the next season of Mythbusters slated to be the show’s last, you might not have many more opportunities to see Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman turn science into eye-popping edutainment.
ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS
Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls Tuesday, Dec. 1, Majestic Theatre, 8:30 pm
With a reputation as one of the nicest guys in music and a relentless touring schedule, it’s not surprising that Frank Turner has gained an enthusiastic cult following. The English folk-punk, who’s played stages from Glastonbury to Coachella to the Olympics (seriously), released his excellent sixth album, Positive Songs for Negative People, this year. Harmony Bar: Treemo, Pinney Library capital campaign fundraiser, 4 pm. High Noon Saloon: Tone Cluster, Tone Madison podcast recording, free, 6 pm; Gomeroke, 9 pm Tuesdays. Overture Center: The Punch Brothers, 7:30 pm. See page 36. Up North Pub: The Wang Show, free, 7 pm.
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Kevin Revolinski: Signing “Wisconsin’s Best Beer Guide,” his new book, 5 pm, 12/1, Grumpy Troll Brew Pub, Mount Horeb (437-2739). Also: 5 pm, 12/3, Octopi Brewing, Waunakee (620-4705).
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Overture Galleries Fall Exhibition Overture Center’s Promenade Lounge, exhibited Sept. 5-Nov. 29
2014 Latino Art Fair of Dane County competition winners Rolando Cruz and Yvette Pino (work pictured) are joined by Brian Bartlett and Katie Markson and Ray Zovar and Mark Pflughoeft in three galleries showing an eclectic range of visual art exploring themes of identity, spirituality and social struggles. Viewers are invited to consider the artists’ journeys, perceptions and realities in the exhibits entitled “CelebrARTE,” “Ubiquitous Shadows” and “Polarization.”
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Nicholas David Wednesday, Dec. 2, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm
This soul singer-songwriter from St. Paul was a finalist on the third season of NBC’s The Voice. Opening is Chicago Farmer, the stage name of John Prineinspired folk musician Cody Diekhoff.
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Kid Cudi Wednesday, Dec. 2, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm
Since releasing his debut mixtape A Kid Named Cudi in 2008, Scott Mescudi, aka. Kid Cudi, has been at the forefront of alternative hip-hop. The rapper, actor and general Renaissance man has put out four albums of trippy, psychedelic rap, and one of trippy alt-rock. Not bad for a geeky stoner from Cleveland. Speedin’ Bullet to Heaven, his sixth album, is set to be released on Dec. 4. 1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove: Ken Wheaton, fingerstyle guitar, free, 6 pm Wednesdays.
Essen Haus: Big Wes Turner’s Trio, Americana, free, 9 pm.
High Noon Saloon: Tani Diakite & the Afrofunkstars, Los Chechos, annual Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation benefit, 8 pm. Ivory Room: Luke Hrovat-Staedter, Josh Dupont, dueling pianos, 9 pm. Kiki’s House of Righteous Music: Jim White, Paul Fonfara, house concert (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com), 8 pm. Lakeside Street Coffee House: Music Theatre of Madison, “Crappy Holidays” revue, 7 pm. Majestic Theatre: Buckcherry, Saving Abel, Full Devil Jacket, Sons of V, rock, 8 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, French swing, 5:30 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Beast of Bray Road, free, 10 pm. Oakwood Village-University Woods Center for Arts & Education: VSA Wisconsin Choir, free, 7 pm. Orpheum Theater: Home Free, country, 8 pm.
Claddagh Irish Pub, Middleton: Robert J, free, 6 pm.
Paoli Schoolhouse: Dan Kennedy, free, 6 pm.
Heritage Tavern: Dave Stoler Trio, jazz, free, 8:30 pm.
UW Humanities Building-Morphy Hall: UW Blue Note Ensemble, Jazz Composers Septet, Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, free, 7:30 pm.
Ivory Room: Vince Strong, piano, free, 9 pm. Knuckle Down Saloon: Rock Jam, free, 8 pm Wednesdays.
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Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 5:30 pm Wednesdays. Luther Memorial Church: Bruce Bengtson, organ recital, free, noon Wednesdays. Natt Spil: DJ Phil Money, free, 10 pm.
T H EAT ER & DA N C E Xmas ‘15: Holiday variety show, 12/3-12, Broom Street Theater, at 8 pm Thursdays, 8 & 10 pm Fridays and 8 pm Saturdays. $11. 293-4999.
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ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS Stick Vega: “Explosions & Whiskey,” 12/2-1/31, Waypoint Public House, Monona (reception 6-11 pm, 12/2). 222-0224. Holiday Bazaar: Annual hand-crafted gift sale, 9 am-3 pm, 12/2-4, St. Mary’s Adult Day Health Center, 2440 Atwood Ave. 249-4450.
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Cameron Esposito
Industrial Musicals
Cameron Esposito is a highly lauded performer whose sophomore album, Same Sex Symbol, earned a spot on many critics’ best-of-2014 lists. She also hosts a weekly standup show at L.A.’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and counts Jay Leno among her fans; he called her “the future of comedy.” With Dusty Slay, Patrick Tomlinson. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), Dec. 4-5.
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It’s 1967 and you’re an executive at Purina Dog Food. You’ve been tasked with marketing your product’s value to your employees. How? Well, you commission a song-and-dance number for the stage, of course! Curated by former Letterman writer Steve Young, this evening will feature a mind-boggling array of “internal corporate musical propaganda,” real films that were never meant to be shown to the public. It’s a bizarre slice of ’50s through ’80s Americana that few have ever seen. See page 34.
Thursday, Dec. 3, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm
S PO K EN WO RD Poetry Open Mic: 7:30 pm, 12/3, Central Library. 266-6350.
S PEC I A L EV EN TS Get Festive with Agora: Free carriage rides, music & refreshments, 4-8 pm, 12/3, Agora Center, Fitchburg. Donations encouraged for Agrace HospiceCare. 277-2606. Governor’s Mansion Holiday Tours: Free 30-minute tours, noon-2 pm on 12/3-4 & 9-10 and 9 am-noon, 12/5 & 12, 99 Cambridge Rd. Donations of nonperishable food items encouraged (for Second Harvest Foodbank). Groups RSVP: 246-5501.
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Stay on your toes this holiday giving season! Clockwise from upper left: Madison Ballet/Just Coffee beans, Li Chiao-Ping logo knit hat, Dane Arts desk calendar, Wisconsin Film Fest tickets, MadStage T-shirt and Ingrid Kallick owl logo coffee mug for Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre.
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Giving is an art. It can also support art. Gifts that support local organizations range from the expected (tickets, a donation in your name) to more unexpected products and memorabilia. Why not breakfast like a ballerina? Madison Ballet sells several signature coffee blends, including “Nutcracker Suite” and “Class at 10 a.m.,” roasted locally by Just Coffee Co-op. “The coffee idea came about when we were looking for merchandise that would fit with our goal to shake up people’s notions of what ballet could be,” says general manager Gretchen Bourg. “Our performances, like Dracula, were very different from the tutu-and-tiara ballets that one might expect, and we wanted gift items that would appeal to those patrons who want something out of the ordinary.” “Class at 10 a.m.,” a breakfast blend, is “sort of a ballet inside joke. Dancers aren’t typically morning folks, so company classes often start at 10 a.m.,” says Bourg. Also available are signed pointe shoes (those tippy-toe slippers), posters, music and apparel, available at madisonballet.org. Or, gift
certificates valid for items or tuition at School of Madison Ballet can be purchased by calling 608-278-7990. Madstage.com, the performer’s essential source for news of jobs, openings, auditions, classes and more, has a new online store at zazzle.com/madstage, featuring a T-shirt bearing the Madstage logo of the Comedy/Tragedy masks, with Comedy wearing a cheesehead. “Find your strength, build your core and boost your flexibility — and your artistry,” says Lisa Thurrell, co-artistic director of Kanopy Dance. Its “Class Cards” are good for 10 lessons; $250 adult, $150 college student/dance professional rate. “It’s never too late,” says Thurrell. These need to be ordered by Dec. 15; call 608-255-2211. Apparel in adult and youth sizes — hooded sweatshirts, yoga pants and sweatpants — are also available for a limited time, $28 to $45, at kanopydance.org/category/ news. Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre has cards, mugs, show posters, T-shirts and hooded sweatshirts available, featuring the work of award-winning designer Ingrid Kallick, at cafepress.com/kathie.
The Dane Arts desk calendar, a favorite Madison stocking stuffer, is back for 2016 featuring local artists including Linda Hancock, Linda Koenig and Peter Patau. This year’s theme is “The Shining Lights.” It’s available at the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission Office in the CityCounty Building and numerous other area gift shops, bookstores, and museums. See danearts.com for the whole list. This is the 25th anniversary of nationally renowned Li Chiao-Ping Dance. The company has apparel, totes and other items, and an upcoming concert Dec. 10-12 at the Overture Center for the Arts. “Proceeds help us do a range of things — from program printing to paying our company members for the hard work they do,” says communications director Spencer McAfee-Gundrum. See lichiaopingdance.org and look for the “shop” tab under “support” to find fun stocking caps (with the Li Chiao-Ping logo, $7) and the dynamic “Riot of Spring” T-shirt. Arts Wisconsin, the state nonprofit advocacy organization, sells T-shirts, totes
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My girlfriend of six months hooked up with one of my buds. They were both drunk at a party, and I was out of town for a sports thing. I wasn’t angry when she “confessed.” I thought it was hot and said we should maybe have a threesome with the dude. I’m not interested in being with a guy, but I’d be down with a M/M/F threesome. So now my girlfriend is furious with me for not being angry. She literally just texted to say she’s not sure she can stay with me because she doesn’t want to be with a guy who wouldn’t care if she slept around on him. What the fuck am I supposed to say to that? The Wronged Party “Bye.” I love that you use the term “cocksucker” only in a nonpejorative way. I don’t know if you’ve said so explicitly, but I imagine your aim is to remove its negative connotation. As the owner of a cock, I think cocksucking is WONDERFUL! Therefore, cocksuckers are wonderful as well. There needs to be more cocksucking in this world! Following your example, I am trying to use the term only in its literal sense and only in a posi-
cause of their son. It works for me because he’s the most incredible lover I’ve ever had, and he doesn’t bother me or demand attention when I’m busy being a mom. I do have strong feelings for him but no expectation of him leaving his wife to be with me. Does this meet your “okay to cheat” criteria? Loving Isn’t Always Really Simple
tive light. Do you have a good substitute word for a person one is not pleased with? Changing Language Is Terrific How about “kochbrother,” CLIT? Same number of syllables, same explosive/percussive “K” sound at the start, same “er” ending — and our democracy (and our environment) would be a lot better off if there were more cocksuckers out there and fewer Koch brothers. Gay 20-year-old boy here. I want some ideas on what kind of anal toys are best for beginners like myself. I’ve already used my fingers, but I want to move up to an actual toy before moving on to an actual boy. A recommendation from you would be great! Boy Undertaking Tushy Toys They’re not glamorous or groundbreaking, BUTT, but the old reliable butt plug is still the best bet for anal-play newbies — gay, straight or bi. They look like tiny lava lamps, they fit neatly in butts, and anal sphincters hold them firmly in place — freeing up your hands for other things, from jacking yourself off to swiping left or right to writing advice columns. I would like some clarification. Does my situation fall into the “when it’s okay to have an
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