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BYE-BYE, BINARY

At Williamson Magnetic, analog’s the only way to go.

6-10 NEWS

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM

Arguing over the future of the Alliant Energy Center.

SEE ME, HEAR ME

Pols ignore nonbelievers at their peril.

COURTLY BATTLES

Bradley, Kloppenburg to duke it out.

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BILL LUEDERS 18 COVER STORY

Musician and writer Andy Moore recently welcomed a turntable back into his home.

He says it’s been heavenly listening again to the warm sounds of vinyl, so he jumped at the opportunity to record in analog. He writes about his experience at Williamson Magnetic Recording Company in this week’s Snapshot.

UW project maps brains to understand epilepsy.

Bill Lueders says he was struck by how the people involved in putting together an exhibit of inmate art at the Overture Center were deeply moved by the show and persuaded of its importance. He says the exhibit has truly inspired people, including the inmates.

It is a testament, he adds, to the power of the humanities to change lives.

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FLYOVER REVOLUTION

Fuhgeddaboudit, coasties; Midwest is best.

17 COVER STORY

UNLOCKING CREATIVITY

Inmate art opens hearts and minds.

23 ART

POWER TO THE PRINTMAKER

Thursday, Feb. 25, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 6-9 pm Sample sauerkraut, jam, applesauce and other canned items made by Porchlight residents at Farm to Chef’s Table, a fundraiser for the group, which provides housing and services to people who are homeless and/or battling substance abuse or mental illness. The products will be paired with appetizers and desserts prepared by local chefs, and there will also be a live auction. Can’t make the gig? Hy-Vee, Willy Street Co-op and Metcalfe’s Market carry Porchlight products.

Prof tackles racial politics via art.

24-28 FOOD & DRINK

MADELEINE, ANYONE?

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RISE OF THE MACHINES

Tues., Feb. 23, Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall, 7:30 pm

Menu collection is a trip down memory lane.

Burrito Box, for the now generation.

Spend an evening with Welsh gonzo journalist, humorist and documentary filmmaker Jon Ronson, whose book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed explores the rebirth of public humiliation in the Internet age. Bring on the tar and feathers!

30 SPORTS

BONSPIEL, BABY! Curling’s the cure.

32 STAGE

TIME WARP

The Rocky Horror Show is familiar, sexy.

ERIC TADSEN

ANDY MOORE 4 SNAPSHOT

TEST PATTERN

Shine a light

TINA RATAJ 4 SNAPSHOT Tina Rataj and her husband, Nick Berard, took a two-month trip in an RV around the country to kick off their photography business. They returned with 20,000 photos to sort.

Three years in, the two work together under the umbrella of TNT Studio, specializing in lifestyle, editorial and product photography.

34-35 MUSIC

GROWING GAINS

Twin Peaks double down on sound.

36 SCREENS

Serenity now

WILD HORSES

Fri. & Sat., Feb. 19 & 20, Allen Centennial Gardens, 5:30 pm

CREEP FACTOR

The botanical wizards at UW have set up six lantern installations lit by luminarias designed to cast light on the quiet beauty of the gardens on a winter’s night. Warm treats and bonfire too.

Mustang is a powerful story of captive girls.

The Witch will haunt your dreams.

44 EMPHASIS

TOY STORY

Bricks & Minifigs is ground zero for Lego lovers.

IN EVERY ISSUE 10 MADISON MATRIX 10 WEEK IN REVIEW 14 THIS MODERN WORLD 15 FEEDBACK 15 OFF THE SQUARE

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ISTHMUS PICKS CLASSIFIEDS CROSSWORD P.S. MUELLER SAVAGE LOVE

Divided we fall Fri., Feb. 19, Madison Central Library, 7 pm

John Nichols and Robert McChesney discuss the effects of the digital divide on the future of democracy and the need for a new economy in this book launch for People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy, a WORT fundraiser.

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If you like trains (and who, besides Scott Walker, doesn’t?), the Mad City Model Railroad Show is the place to be this weekend, with vendors, clinics and 90,000 square feet of layouts. Cute kid photo op.

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That old-time music

Tessa Echeverria and Mark Haines (from left, control booth) record Andy Moore and Louka Patenaude at the Williamson Magnetic Recording studio.

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A bakery is as good a place as any to record a song, and the customized, lower floor of Nature’s Bakery on Willy Street happens to be the best place in town to cut a record. An analog record that is.

Williamson Magnetic Recording Company opened its doors last November. It’s the only Madison studio cooking up analog recordings and mixes.

Its back-to-the future methods are attracting a growing number of musicians drawn to a place where songs are treated as music, not information.

Jazz guitarist Louka Patenaude and I arrived there to work one frozen night last week. Stepping out of the cold and moving down into the studio was like entering the burnished hold of an antique ship.

A spray of rugs arranged themselves like big playing cards across the dark hardwood floor. Lamplight set the old room aglow. Two empty chairs waited in the center of the space surrounded by a grove of stands with antique mics that looked like they could have been on loan from a museum. I would have paid an hourly rate just to sit there and read a book.

Co-owners Mark Haines and Tessa Echeverria got to know one another working side-by-side upstairs in the bakery. In the studio space they move together like surgeons in an operating room: handing one another a mic, dressing long cords, commu-

nicating telepathically, quietly focused on the next moment of the music’s need. A veteran engineer, including a long stint at Smart Studios, Haines has deep chops that are in demand beyond these parts.

On the evening of our session he had just returned from Chicago, where he oversaw location recording for ’30s jazz revivalists the Fat Babies.

It seemed serendipitous that the song we were there to record was our arrangement of the Beatles’ “Mother Nature’s Son.” This recording is a prelude to the analog production of some of Louka’s original music.

Musicians like Louka get philosophical when it comes to the difference between digital and tape.

“Analog sound is like 3D compared to flat reproduction of the digital medium,” he says. “I feel like I can reach out and touch it. Real sounds traveling through the air to the microphone are rich and complex in a way that gives the listener more each time they hear it.”

Haines calls analog “emotionally convincing.” He describes a physical commitment to the format that runs parallel to the artistic one.

“I’ve always enjoyed working on a console and with tape, as opposed to using a computer. The direct physical connection to the equipment feels

rewarding and immediate to my sensibilities. Looking at a computer monitor for extended periods of time is way less fun.”

Indeed, I could feel Haines’ eyes on us through the control room window as we laid down our first takes. It was reassuring. I’ll nerd-out to tell you that hearing my banjo played through a Nady RSM5 Ribbon microphone made me lose control of my saliva.

We wanted to be true to McCartney’s version of “Mother Nature” while at the same time taking liberties to emphasize the instrumental tricks we planned for the song, especially with Louka’s two-guitar parts.

Some tension, of a positive sort, came from the knowledge that we invested in a single, 30-minute Ampex tape on which to record our entire three-hour session.

This keeps you on your toes and focused in ways that recording to endless, disposable, digital googlespace does not.

After a few takes, Haines and Echeverria invited us into the control room to hear what we had so far.

This space was also warmly lamp-lit, accentuated by light filtering in from Willy Street through glass block windows overhead.

The twin-spooled, eight-track machine made a wonderful “whooooosssh!” when Haines punched it to life. That’s us in there! n

AVERAGE AGE OF GEAR AT MAGNETIC: 31 years.

TEMPERATURE IN ADJACENT BATHROOM: About the same as outside, but Haines says “we’re working on it.”

HARDEST PART OF ANALOG RECORDING: Lifting the equipment.

FIRST ANALOGRECORDING-TO-VINYL PROJECT AT THE STUDIO: Madison rock ’n’ rollers Gonzo Rongs.

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Pols split on future of Alliant Energy Center County Board to vote on master plan Feb. 18

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BY ALLISON GEYER

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As a mayoral candidate in 1995, Al Matano staunchly opposed the construction of Monona Terrace because of the $60 million public subsidy that the project required.

“It was sold as a panacea that would make downtown wonderful,” Matano says. “But it never quite happened.”

Convention center proponents, including Mayor Paul Soglin, who defeated Matano in the election that year, argue that Monona Terrace helped catalyze a downtown development boom and has generated millions for the city. But there are signs that the facility could be doing better: City officials have proposed spending millions more in public funds to redevelop Judge Doyle Square and bring a hotel downtown to drive more business to Monona Terrace.

Matano, who now serves on the Dane County Board, has similar fears about a controversial plan to overhaul the Alliant Energy Center. A “political lefty” but a fiscal conservative, Matano believes that “the business of government is government” and questions the use of public funds to support the center’s redevelopment.

“I don’t think the county should go down the road of being in the convention center business,” he says. “Giving out subsidy upon subsidy? It never seems to work out.”

The board will vote Feb. 18 on a resolution that would authorize county officials to create a master plan for the “redevelopment and reinvestment” of the entire Alliant campus. The plan is based on the most aggressive of three options outlined in an October study by Hammes Company, which calls for a “comprehensive campus redevelopment,” including a new event venue and “destination-oriented ancillary development.” The overhaul would require up to $120 million in public investment and up to $400 million in private investment, and would in turn provide a total annual fiscal impact of $30 million to $40 million, according to the study.

The proposal was unanimously approved by the County Board’s Alliant Energy Center Strategic Design Study Committee last month and has since been recommended for approval by a handful of other committees. Despite opponents like Matano, supporters say the plan would help position the center as an economic driver for the region.

The Alliant Energy Center is believed to be the only facility of its kind in the U.S. operating without a public subsidy. That’s the way the business model was set up from day one, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi says, and it’s a major point of pride for the county.

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“The board’s proposal would take us on a complete opposite [path],” he says.

Parisi wrote board members earlier this month urging them to reject the redevelopment proposal. He favors a more deliberate, incremental approach to the campus improvements, focusing on lower-cost, high-impact projects. He points to the construction of the New Holland Pavilions, which replaced nine outdated agricultural barns, as an example of the work his office has done, adding that the improvement helped secure a long-term agreement with the World Dairy Expo, which had been courted by other cities.

“We see a path forward that certainly does not include spending $120 million of taxpayer dollars and asking for an additional special tax in order to turn things around,” Parisi says. “We can get where we need to be for one-tenth of what [the board] wants to spend.”

But Dane County Board Chair Sharon Corrigan, who has been a major proponent of the redevelopment, says the resolution is more about forming a master plan than it is about committing to expensive construction projects.

Corrigan says the amount needed for a public subsidy is unknown but will be determined once the master plan is complete. She acknowledges that the center has done well operating with its own resources and is pleased with the improved 2015 revenue estimates, but she says more support and investment is needed to keep the facility viable.

“This discussion about a master plan and the market study really goes beyond the next five years and asks, ‘Where are we going to be in the future?’” Corrigan says. “We certainly don’t want to be in the position of eating through reserves and cutting into core county services.”

Dane County can’t take advantage of tools like tax increment financing or room taxes, so Corrigan and others are hoping that partnerships with private and governmental entities can help generate revenue. The resolution calls for city and county officials to push for the state Legislature to establish a special tourism or exposition tax district as another funding source.

Supv. Robin Schmidt, chair of the county’s public works committee, says a master plan would help determine where the county should focus its resources to support the campus.

“I don’t think the county should go down the road of being in the convention center business.”

— Supv. Al Matano “I think eventually we’ll all come to a solution that will be best for not only the county, but for the property and the future of that gateway into the city,” Schmidt says. “People have different paths, but eventually we’re going to get there.”

Parisi doesn’t deny that the Alliant campus — and particularly the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which has had 15 years of deferred maintenance — is in need of attention. But he says the Hammes report is “flawed” because it uses financial projections based on old data.

The study cites net operating deficits between $300,000 and $500,000 in recent years and notes that the facility’s reserve fund has been depleted. But Parisi notes that business has picked up

since the recession and that the facility made money in 2015.

“Hammes burst on the scene and said, ‘The sky is falling,’” says Parisi. “It came somewhat out of left field.” He fears that the Hammes report “paints an unrealistically negative picture” of the campus, which could impede county efforts to attract events and to sell naming rights for the facility.

“My fear is that their negativity is going to become a self-fulfilling prophecy,” Parisi says.

Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell, chair of the strategic design committee that approved the proposal in January, says that Parisi’s incremental approach has not generated enough revenue. “We just get farther behind,” he says, adding that a master plan would help officials explore future funding options.

Says McDonell: “And even if there is an incremental approach, how can you have an incremental approach without a plan?”

Supv. Dennis O’Laughlin supports forming a master plan and isn’t opposed to the idea of a subsidy — particularly because the exact amount and where it will come from has yet to be determined. But he says he will vote against the measure because of a clause in the resolution that directs county staff to develop a “plan b” that would remove them from the exposition market completely, offering up the Alliant grounds for a bid from private, public or quasi-public entities for commercial and/or residential development.

He fears that if the resolution includes such language it could impede center staff from working with clients on long-term contract negotiations or on building naming rights.

“I don’t think that’s a good business practice,” he says.

The center is in the town of Madison, but the area will be annexed by the city by 2022. With an eye on that eventual transition, Mayor Soglin says city officials have a “very deep concern about the site’s development” and has pledged to work with the county on the project.

Soglin declined to endorse the county’s proposal or comment on the economics of the redevelopment, saying, “We simply don’t have the data.” He cited the need for a community conversation about the future of the site that would include input from residents of the nearby neighborhoods, the convention and tourism industry, land use developers, transportation experts and environmentalists. But he also expressed optimism about the project’s potential to enhance downtown Madison into the next century.

“This could be something really spectacular,” he says. “I wouldn’t put any limitations on what we could do at this juncture.” n

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The secular vote Group reminds politicians that not all voters are religious

BY JOE TARR

As the caustic 2016 election season heats up, there’s one group that feels decidedly left out.

“Nonbelievers, atheists and agnostics have to pinch ourselves to remind ourselves that we exist, because nobody is talking to us, nobody is courting our vote, trying to woo us or please us or anything,” says Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

“We’re just ignored. And yet, we’re the fastest-growing segment in the population.”

While there are a number of reasons for this slight, Gaylor says one big one is that nonbelievers have generally been “too polite.”

But the Foundation is trying to counter that with a national campaign, “I’m Secular and I Vote.” The aim is to encourage nonreligious people to be more vocal, so as not to be overlooked by politicians during campaign season.

The group will buy national ads, do outreach to college students and promote

the secular Reason Rally on June 4, 2016, to be held in Washington, D.C. “We want the public officials to acknowledge our existence, which is not a really radical notion, and yet it doesn’t happen,” she says. “Candidates feel free to totally ignore us. I think it’s because they haven’t heard from us. So we want to change that.”

A recent Pew Research survey found that 23% of the U.S. population is religiously unaffiliated. They now number more than Catholics, which make up just under 21% of the U.S. population. Only Evangelical Christians make up a larger segment, at just over 25% of the population, according to the survey.

Gaylor says the growth in nonreligious people is particularly noticeable among millennials, the generation that reached adulthood around the turn of the century. More than 30% of millennials consider themselves religiously unaffiliated.

Despite these numbers, politicians rarely address the concerns of nonbelievers, Gaylor says. Appeals to faith

have become so prevalent that spirituality appears to be a litmus test for office.

“We want them to worry about their electability if they’re not including a quarter of the population that’s not religious,” she says. “All they care about is appeasing the Evangelical vote, but what about us?”

The Foundation did a survey of its 23,000 members recently that 8,000 responded to, Gaylor says. It showed that 97% of its members are registered to vote.

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Issues that rank high in importance include abortion rights, women’s rights, environmental issues and death with dignity.

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Just about everything about Tuesday’s primary election for state Supreme Court was small.

The election, which narrowed the field from three to two candidates, was a low-key affair. The candidates barely interacted with each other; they had just a few joint appearances and no traditional debates. Turnout was low — about 565,000 people, in a state with 4.4 million eligible and 3.4 million registered voters.

Justice Rebecca Bradley and Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg, the two victors, said little about how they would do the job, proclaiming their commitment to impartiality — which is not what some of their most ardent supporters believe about them, or want. Milwaukee County Judge Joe Donald, who had billed himself as “the candidate in the middle,” was eliminated.

Donald’s campaign manager had predicted Bradley would get 55% to 60% of Tuesday’s vote, leaving his candidate and Kloppenburg vying for the rest. In fact, the two did much better, with Kloppenburg getting 43% to Donald’s 12%. That left Bradley with 45%.

Bradley, 44, was appointed to the Supreme Court last October by Gov. Scott Walker, the third time in as many years he tapped her for an open seat. She is seen as the fifth conservative on the seven-member court, and her election to a 10-year term would ensure conservative control of the court for years to come.

Kloppenburg, 62, narrowly lost her bid for the Supreme Court in 2011, in a race polarized by the battle over Gov. Scott Walker’s undermining of public employee unions.

She was elected to an appeals court the following year.

The stakes in the April 5 general election are anything but small. Court cases dealing with a huge range of issues — from police powers, to landowners’ rights, to the ability to sue companies that cause injury — are often decided along ideological lines. That makes state Supreme Court elections worth fighting for.

“Since I’m a lawyer, I really see how each of those votes can make a difference,” said Madison lawyer Marilyn Townsend, at Kloppenburg’s small election night party in Madison on Tuesday night. She

thinks Kloppenburg showed “grace under pressure” in the 2011 race, which went to a recount, and believes she will decide cases impartially. On the other hand, “I’m very concerned that Gov. Walker’s nominee will not display that kind of demeanor, based on what she’s said and written.”

Bradley can expect major backing from ideological conservatives. One group, the Wisconsin Alliance for Reform, has already aired $1 million worth of campaign ads on her behalf, using footage she thoughtfully posted on her campaign website — a nifty way to get around her pledge to not coordinate. The group, like Bradley herself, has significant ties to state Republicans.

Kloppenburg likes to highlight these connections, as in her speech Tuesday, where she framed the election as being about the future of the court and state. “Who will call the shots?” she asked. “Unregulated special interests or the people of Wisconsin?”

But to win the election, given Bradley’s base of support, Kloppenburg will almost certainly need help from outside interest groups that back liberals, like the Greater Wisconsin Committee, which has pumped millions into prior state Supreme Court races.

That’s more than a little ironic.

As in other recent Supreme Court elections, spending by interest groups will likely dwarf that by the candidates and their campaigns. But a look at candidate finances is still instructive.

Both Bradley and Kloppenburg each raised a little more than $300,000 as of the last reporting period, but Bradley spent a great deal more: about $213,000 to Kloppenburg’s $74,000, campaign disclosure reports show. Kloppenburg was left with a lot more cash on hand, $269,000 to $107,000 Why would Bradley be more willing to spend down her reserves? Maybe it’s because she knows there’s more money to be had. Her campaign has already spent nearly $50,000 on direct mail, a key way to raise more money. Kloppenburg’s reported direct-mail spending: $0.

On Jan. 15, Kloppenburg’s campaign got an $18,000 contribution from Madison Teachers Inc., a labor union. On Feb. 1, Bradley’s campaign got the same amount from the conservative Wisconsin Realtors Association. n

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Gov. Scott Walker issues an executive order barring state agencies from preparing to comply with the Clean Power Plan.

The order is in effect until the expiration of a stay granted Feb. 9 by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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The campaign account of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson mistakenly tweets a picture of actor Ed Gero with a message honoring late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Gero portrayed Scalia in a play last year called The Originalist. It’s the thought that counts, Ron.

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Ever wanted to snooze with the snakes at Henry Vilas Zoo? No? Well, if you change your mind, the zoo will host six sleepovers in 2016, allowing guests an after-hours look at their favorite animals. #SocialMediaFails: A 20-year-old Madison man is arrested Feb. 13 after posing for a Snapchat photo with a BB gun in the East Towne Mall parking lot. That same day, a Madison teen is robbed at gunpoint after meeting with a man she knew from Facebook.

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We have our best people on it. UW-Madison researchers announce plans to study the effects of the disease using monkeys.

The mosquito-borne illness has been linked to widespread birth defects in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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abuse scandal continues. The FBI is now leading the investigation into alleged abuses at the state’s youth prison, the Wisconsin State Journal reports, and state Department of Corrections Secretary Ed Wall has resigned and will be replaced by former DOC Secretary Jon Litscher. n Gov. Scott Walker signs a sweeping bill that rewrites the state’s more

than century-old hiring and firing practices. Republicans say the civil service reforms will help the state recruit and retain talent, but Democrats are fearful of cronyism. The changes go into effect July 1 and will affect about 30,000 state workers.

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tial primary isn’t until April 5, but some of the state’s most powerful Democrats have already pledged to support Hillary Clinton, the AP reports.

The former secretary of state has locked in five of Wisconsin’s 10 superdelegates, including U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore of Milwaukee and former state party chairwoman Martha Love.

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tany Zimmermann, a 21-year-old UWMadison student slain in her West Doty Street apartment in 2008, releases a statement “confirming” a DNA match in the homicide investigation. Madison Police won’t comment on an open investigation, nor have they made an arrest.

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Past projects have imaged the brains of normal, healthy individuals. “To expand the study, the NIH has been soliciting research from so-called disease groups,” says Dr. Bruce Hermann, a professor in the Department of Neurology in the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

“Wisconsin is fortunate to have strong research centers at both the Medical College of Wisconsin and here, where epilepsy research is a major interest with a large network within the medical school involving multiple departments,” Hermann says.

“Wisconsin is going to lead the way on this.”

Brain scans will take place in both Milwaukee and Madison, blending academic and private medical centers in the project. “People will undergo sophisticated imaging and take cognitive behavioral tests,” says Hermann.

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but it will also get uploaded to the Human Connectome Project main website so investigators from around the world can have access to this data. We are pretty jazzed about this.”

“We will be examining 200 patients,” says Beth Meyerand, chair of the UW-Madison Department of Biomedical Engineering. “Our hope is that patterns will reveal themselves in a larger group study so we can see any abnormal connections that are related to seizures.”

“I love taking care of people and making their lives better, but I never wanted to be a doctor because I also really love math and engineering. Research in biomedical engineering is the perfect match,” says Meyerand. “I was interested in creating imaging studies for epilepsy because there are so many unknowns and so many epilepsy patients.”

Between 2.2 million and 3 million people are being treated for epilepsy nationwide. The symptoms and seizures we recognize as epilepsy may affect any part of the body, but the electrical events that produce them occur in the brain.

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Meyerand and Hermann have been working together for 15 years. “NIH would only have awarded a grant of this size to a long-term program with positive results,” says Meyerand.

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ate physical images of body tissues. As an engineer, she develops new ways to display the connectivity maps of the brain. “We will be creating brain maps for each patient.”

Using a mirror placed to let the patient inside an MRI machine see a screen at their feet, patients will respond to different shapes moving on the screen and perform memorization tasks. The study will focus on tasks that researchers expect people with epilepsy to have trouble with.

By mapping the flow of oxygenated blood while patients do mental tasks or respond to a stimulus, brain connections can be followed in real time. Meyerand and the research team expect to learn how the extent and severity of abnormal connections are related to the number and severity of seizures.

The Epilepsy Foundation says having seizures and epilepsy affects more than the patient’s health. It can affect safety, relationships, work, transportation and much more. The stigma is also a serious and unwelcome side effect.

“Epilepsy affects people of all ages from infants to seniors,” says Hermann. “And it’s an expensive disorder to treat. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates it costs Americans $15 billion a year.

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Radical Midwest It’s time to get militantly comfortable with who we are

BY DAVE CIESLEWICZ Dave Cieslewicz is the former mayor of Madison.

He blogs as Citizen Dave at Isthmus.com.

A few weeks ago I spent an unscheduled long weekend in Washington, D.C. Trapped by the big East Coast storm of 2016, I was forced to drink cocktails and eat my meals at the cozy old Tabard Inn near DuPont Circle for three full days.

Stuck with other travelers, I spent a lot of time unable to not overhear conversations. Near the sitting room fire, people from all over the world — Germany, South Africa, England, California — talked about all kinds of things and places. None of them mentioned the Midwest, except for one reference to Flint, Mich.

What struck me about it wasn’t what I heard, but what I didn’t hear. My informal and unscientific observations — not just this time but whenever I travel — tell me that the Midwest isn’t so much dismissed as it is disregarded. It just doesn’t enter the consciousness of a lot of people from major metro areas.

The Midwest is like the subject of the best put-down in film history. One of the characters in Casablanca says to Humphrey Bogart, “You despise me, don’t you, Rick?”

And Bogart responds, “Well, I suppose I would if I gave you any thought at all.”

Still, so much of what passes for economic development in these parts is all about trying to replicate something that’s happening on the coasts, usually in Silicon Valley. We talk about angel investors and maker spaces and high-tech this and that.

It all feels a little stilted as we clumsily try to import ideas and trends that were big in California a decade ago. Burning Man Oshkosh. Be there.

So what if we just stopped trying to be one of the cool kids and got comfortable with who and what we are? In fact, militantly comfortable with that. Radical Midwest.

Telling the coasties to just keep on flying over us, thank you very much, may sound

crazy. After all, don’t we need their money, if not their attention? Well, we have two commodities that are going to be increasingly valuable: water and security. We have more freshwater than anyplace on earth, and we are relatively insulated from the worst impacts of global climate change. The hurricanes and sea level rise that are threatening the coasts don’t reach this far inside the continent. And as a bonus, apart from one spot in southern Illinois, earthquakes are not something we need to worry about.

You would think that water and geography are two things that our state governments couldn’t screw up, but they’re trying. Bills introduced this session in the Wisconsin Legislature aimed to make it easier to hand over local municipal water systems to private companies, dredge water bodies, fill wetlands and build structures on shorelines. And Oklahoma, while not exactly in the Midwest, has become the earthquake capital of North America thanks to that state’s passionate embrace of fracking.

Still, the kind of security that comes with geographic insulation can’t be exported. You

have to live here to live in its protection. Water could be exported, so we have to fight hard to make sure that the only way it leaves our states is mixed with hops and barley and packaged in brown bottles, as former Wisconsin Gov. Lee Sherman Dreyfus said.

Like security, if people want Midwest water, they can have it, but they have to move here first.

So, everything the Midwest needs is already here. It just needs to be recognized, nourished

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and protected. In that light, bills in any legislature that make it easier to privatize, pollute or waste water should be thought of as direct attacks on the most golden of Midwest geese. Institutions that already exist, like the International Joint Commission, which has a lot to say about Great Lakes water law, should be invested in and strengthened if needed.

Likewise, the Midwest’s greatest human-created asset — its public land grant university system — should be expanded, not pummeled as Wisconsin has done to the UW. In his great book, Caught in the Middle, Richard Longworth points out that the Midwest has the greatest concentration of large research universities in the country. We should take his advice and do a better job of linking them together.

We shouldn’t forget art. The Midwest has long been known for its writers, but we should do all we can to encourage the making of theater and music and visual arts that reflect the Midwest landscape, history and sensibilities. We are a lot more than Fargo.

The Midwest will never have the West Coast’s weather or the East Coast’s government and media power centers. But we have our own, native advantages. We should better recognize them, protect them, celebrate them and speak up for them. Unapologetic, unrelenting, indestructible and well-hydrated, radical Midwest. n

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People power I agree with many of the points made by Adolf Gundersen concerning the recent action of Madison Gas and Electric and its failure to become what it claims to be, “a community energy company” (“MGE Snubs the Community,” 2/11/2016). The document MGE prepared to introduce Community Energy Conversation (CEC) participants to the process was biased and leading, pointing to their own desired end. Even with this biased document as introduction, the CEC participants overwhelmingly favored cleaner generation and fair rates as their top priorities. The results of the CEC were never fully analyzed to show how they might or might not support the unilateral 2030 Framework. Nor were the results made public of a random sample phone survey (paid for by MGE about the same time) that framed essentially the same questions asked of CEC participants.

I agree that the 2030 Framework should be rejected by the public until further analysis of the above-mentioned results are available, until MGE allows for a truly open public discussion of the results, and announces the formation of the promised Community Energy Partnership (that embodies all the things mentioned by Mr. Gundersen). I say this partly because, even though the proposed 2030 goals for renewable generation and carbon reduction sound good, the goals are below levels pledged by several utility peers across the nation.

MGE also needs to step back from the rate structure adopted in the last rate case, a very regressive rate structure, opposed by their customers, the staff at the Public Service Commission and one of the three commissioners (in a minority opinion).

CEC respondents gave this subject the second-highest number of comments (cleaner generation/less carbon being the first) , yet the 2030 framework only promises not to make it more regressive in the next rate case.

MGE needs to get out of lock step with the PSC and the other Wisconsin investorowned utilities, none of which profess to be a “community energy company.” It needs to get in step with what its customers have asked for and in step with where its customers live by embracing the Energy Plan developed by the city of Madison and the efforts of Dane County.

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Food for thought

Crossing a line

I was disappointed to read your recent articles on what will happen to the Sherman Plaza grocery store across from Warner Park. Linda Falkenstein (“Here Comes the Neighborhood,” Madland, 1/26/2016) and Alan Talaga (“Diverse Options for a Diverse Neighborhood,” 2/4/2016) seem to care more about increasing their property values and drawing “destination” shoppers than working toward food equity in the community. We need lower prices on Madison’s north side — not management consultants or store remodeling. We need lower prices.

I work in the deli at Pierce’s and have shopped there since I moved to Madison. A new grocery store cannot continue to balance its budget on the backs of poor workers, poor customers and poor farmers. It should have affordable staple foods and offer sizable discounts based on income.

Those at the top of the sliding scale would have to pay more.

Madison’s north side needs a true community market, like the Regent Market Co-op or the new Allied Community Co-op that Willy Street is funding and advising. Both these cooperatives formed when neighbors came together to take ownership of their own food sources.

Let’s take this opportunity to create a real community-based project, instead of relying on an outside entity to try to adapt to meet our neighborhood’s needs.

Jackson Foote (via email)

I am a dedicated weekly reader. I use your newspaper to advertise my music performances and rely on your paper.

But this past week’s cover story went too far (“Stroke of Genius,” 2/11/2016)!!!

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Taralie Peterson (via email)

Correction In last week’s story “An Intentional Effort,” it was incorrectly reported that Angela Russell became CUNA Mutual’s diversity and inclusion coordinator in May 2014. It was May 2015. Additionally, it was CEO Bob Trunzo who added “inclusion” to the company’s corporate values.

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Insider art Oakhill inmates unleash their creativity

BY BILL LUEDERS

If the purpose of art is to inspire, then

the upcoming “Artists in Absentia” exhibition at Madison’s Central Library is already a smashing success. It has inspired the prisoners whose work is represented, the instructors they worked with behind prison walls and the folks who pulled the show together. This isn’t just an art display, they all agree.

It’s a tool for changing public perceptions.

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“I learned that individuals who have been deemed criminals in the eyes of society are capable of making me laugh and making me think,” says Spring Greeney, a history grad student at UW-Madison who co-taught an art class at Oakhill Correctional Institution that generated some of the pieces in the show.

“Life is long, and the person you are one moment in your life is not the person you are later in your life,” adds Elizabeth Scheer, a doctoral student in English who co-taught the class.

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the exhibition underscores how creative experiences are able to transform both the artist and the audience.

In addition to paintings and drawings, “Artists in Absentia” includes poetry and other writing, video snippets from prison drama classes and recorded music — from rap to heavy metal to love songs (including one to Jesus Christ). All were produced at Oakhill Correctional Institution, a minimum-security prison on the outskirts of Madison, in the village of Oregon. The prison, a former reform school for girls, looks very much like a liberal arts college campus. It even has a music room equipped with electric guitars and drums.

The Madison Public Library will host the exhibition from March 3 (opening reception 6 p.m.) to March 31; then the works go on the road to other libraries.

As part of the project, local filmmaker Marc Kornblatt has produced a series of short videos (see refugefilms.net/artists-in-absentia) showing work from the represented artists, as well as a 21-minute documentary that will air a few times during the exhibition, including at the opening.

Kornblatt, whose previous work includes the hour-long documentary Dostoevsky Behind Bars, also shot at Oakhill, takes a long view of the exhibition and of its transformative potential. “It’s not really just about arts,” he says. “It’s about social justice. It’s about giving voice.”

He plans to shoot fresh footage at the opening to add to the film. That’s in part so that the show can be experienced by the artists, most of whom will be locked in behind barbed wire fences miles away. “The film was born out of a desire to give them a place at the exhibit,” he says.

José Vergara, a UW graduate student in Slavic languages and literature who helped organize the show, realized over his years of volunteering at Oakhill that “there was some amazing work these guys were producing, and some of them were really talented. I just wanted to share it.”

The goal, he stresses, is not to advocate for prison reform but to let the public see “a different side of the prison system,” one where inmates are allowed to express their humanity through the humanities. “They really do want to be heard and be seen, to show their creativity, to show they are doing something constructive and useful at this tough time in their lives.”

The pieces for the exhibition came from the Oakhill Prison Humanities Project, which works with Madison-area educators, including

“The Dreamer and the Dreamed,” Ryan B. UW graduate students and staff, to teach classes in literature, writing, drama and art. A brochure for the program stresses its value as a corrective tool, saying classwork and assignments “improve communication and literacy skills that prove crucial for successful reentry into the workforce upon release,” and noting that educational programs have been shown to reduce recidivism.

In Dostoevsky Behind Bars, then-Oakhill warden Daniel Westfield elaborates: “Ninety-eight percent of these people are going to be returning to the community as our neighbors. I think society would probably be much worse off if we were not to provide educational opportunities and programming.”

Vergara notes that what’s happening at Oakhill is part of a national trend. “More and more terrific prison education programs are popping up,” he says. “People are paying attention to this issue. There’s been the slow reintroduction of Pell Grants for inmates, and the Obama administration clearly wants to reform the way we approach incarceration.”

A directory produced by the Education Justice Project, run out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, lists more than 90 programs throughout the U.S. Two are in

Wisconsin: the Shakespeare Prison Project at the Racine Correctional Institute and the Oakhill Prison Humanities Project.

The program in Racine is a partnership between the prison and UW-Parkside. It produces an annual Shakespeare play as well as “original autobiographical performances” by inmates.

Rebecca Ginsburg, Education Justice Project director, says there are many other prison arts and education programs that did not make her group’s list. It included only larger programs that operate mostly independent of departments of correction.

She applauds the Oakhill exhibit for “bringing out the voices and expression of people behind bars and making them more visible and present” to others.

The Oakhill Prison Humanities Project launched in 2013, using grants obtained by Judith Kornblatt, Marc’s wife, emeritus professor in the UW-Madison Department of Slavic Languages and Literature. It built on various course offerings that UWMadison graduate students had been providing at the institution for years. Currently the program is offering five classes: a history class on 20th-century migrations, a narrative class featuring works by writers including Anne Lamott and Gertrude

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Spring Greeney (left) and Elizabeth Scheer, UW-Madison graduate students who taught art classes for inmates.

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Stein, a fiction reading class, a drama and performance class and an introduction to philosophy.

Lois Davis, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corp. who has studied the impact of prison education programs, recently told National Public Radio, “This population is one with low education attainment. About 40 percent of [prisoners] lack a high school education. Sixteen percent of state prisoners have a high school diploma. Education can have a huge effect in really helping them to gain the skills they need and prepare them to be employed.”

Claire Mason, a doctoral student in the UW-Madison theater department who serves as coordinator of the Oakhill Prison Humanities Project, calls the inmates “incredible students who constantly encourage me to rethink my own understanding of the scripts and performances brought to class.” She says the experience has taught her to “carefully examine the structures of our society and the emotional and spiritual freedom one can find in imagination and play.”

Greeney and Scheer taught a class every Wednesday night last fall for 15 weeks. Both received special training and had a device they could use to summon guards, who were

not in the room. “We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into,” Scheer recalls. But “any feelings of trepidation evaporated pretty quickly.” As the documentary shows, the inmates are attentive and grateful students, eager to learn.

Their class, which involved writing as well as producing drawings and paintings, sought to get inmates to use art to rethink their personal narratives. One exercise was to create visual alternatives to their mugshots — which, Scheer says, “too often becomes the culture’s sole image of that person.”

One of the pieces to emerge from the class, by inmate Michael K., portrays a grinning face amid swirled text messages including “I live life like the captain of a sinking ship,” with teeth made up of letters that say “God Loves Ugly.” In a letter from prison, Michael K. says the piece was produced using pens, lead and colored pencils, Sharpies and water colors. He has done some painting in the past but it was with “spray cans, using buildings and other structures as canvass.”

Another painting, “Past, Present, Future: Dreamer and the Dreamed,” by Ryan B., includes images of a sleeping man, a broken heart, and a mother and child being em-

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braced from behind by a figure represented in dotted lines, not really there. Ryan B. writes that it is “My attempt to illustrate how personal tragedy begins with the breakdown of family and community ties. And just as importantly, how the hope for ‘someday,’ where love lives, endures.”

The arts class at Oakhill was not the first time Ryan B. has painted. That was in kindergarten with fingerpaint, and he remembers it vividly: “The idea of being able to move color around amazed me!” He praises his instructors at Oakhill for their “compassion and insight.” He writes in his letter that, “for art to happen, three elements must be present, regardless of ratio.” He supplies a diagram:

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Being included in “Artists in Absentia” is a big deal to Ryan B.: “To have a voice, and to possibly be heard. To be understood. It means everything.” He ends his letter with a P.S.: “Wish I could be at the show!”

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In response to written queries from Isthmus, Terrence K. — who contributed a selfportrait of himself as he imagines he’ll look as an old man — relayed his thoughts on the exhibit through his mother, via phone: “Everybody has art talents, somehow, if they would just believe in themselves and give themselves a chance.”

Scheer and Greeney had planned to teach new classes at Oakhill early this year, but those plans fell through. Nevertheless, they both say their experiences at the prison have proven life-changing.

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This is art produced within a prison, subject to prison rules. All of the pieces in the exhibit had to be approved by Oakhill officials, says Kornblatt, who needed three signed releases from everyone he filmed.

Two pieces were rejected, including a song that made reference to a shotgun.

The song was about making good choices, Kornblatt notes, but the decision to exclude it wasn’t challenged. As he puts it, “When you’re in behind bars, you play by their rules.”

The documentary explores this theme, noting that inmate artists self-censor while also testing the limits of what they can do.

A volunteer instructor explains that John G., the inmate whose song was rejected, was “trying to figure out what that line is between what is going to get allowed and what’s not.” Then John G. belts out a shattering song about what it’s like to be in prison.

“Talking to the walls, the bricks you count them all,” he sings. “It’s concrete floor and pacing, and thinking more of what went on before. I hit the concrete floor.”

Also in the exhibition, as both written text and a recorded reading, is a poem called “Free,” by Andron L., in which he longs to be “Free of my cage that holds me in this place of pain / caged like a bird whose wings have been clipped / longing to fly” and comes around to realizing “This cage — has a door!”

Some of the art deals with other themes, like a terse essay from Michael B., a Native American, about past efforts to separate Indigenous children from their language and customs: “Your intent was to get us to forget our identity.”

And then there’s the clip from a drama class in which an inmate playing a young girl asks, “Daddy...how much longer until we can be a family?” “Five more years, baby,” he answers. “Five more years.”

“That’s it?” she answers. “Five years isn’t very long.”

Another video short features an inmate named George A., talking about how he overcame his insecurities about his artistic ability: “When I first started class, I sat between two of the best artists in the whole joint. It’s just like when you were going to school, and you sit next to the smartest kid in the school. And, ah...you get a little intimidated. For a while that kind of bothered me, but then I began to use that as a challenge. During the course of trying to work through it, I started having fun.”

George A. contributed a visual work he called “Sleeping Beauty.” It’s a beautiful black swan, with finely rendered feathers, resting on snow, accomplished by drawing white lines on a black sheet of paper. As he notes in the video. “It turned out okay.”

Greeney agrees, recalling the praise George A. bestowed during the final class: “You made me want to try.”

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dience in the Midwest,” says Abdu’Allah, whose work often challenges stereotypes. “People are under the impression that because me and somebody else share the same skin tone, we share the same philosophy, and that’s not the case. There are many people out there who do not in any way look like me, yet we share the same spirit and same moral compass — almost like brothers from another mother.”

He also has a work in the upcoming Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition — a once-every-four-years event at the Chazen Museum of Art that has been a UW tradition since 1974.

Abdu’Allah’s piece in the exhibit features the story of the 1921 race riots in Tulsa, Okla., etched in white on a discarded classroom black-

board and featuring a stunning final sentence that suggests there was more to the riots than previously reported.

“Faisal is giving people access to art they might not otherwise experience,” says Russell Panczenko, longtime director of the Chazen.

“He’s extremely intelligent and very articulate.

When you have somebody who, in addition to creating high-level work, also has the ability to rationally communicate about it, that’s a big plus.”

The artist’s best-known work locally is probably “Squad: The Calling of the Common Hero,” which was on display at the Chazen for two months in 2015. Developed collaboratively with four of his UW-Madison students and an art print studio in Oakland, Calif., he created 10-foot-tall portraits of the students, along with

seven other individuals chosen by Abdu’Allah and his students (including members of Madison’s Black Lives Matter movement).

“Squad” was meant to “articulate the belief that everyone is capable of being extraordinary,” according to the 62-page book that accompanied the exhibition.

Abdu’Allah also collected samples of participants’ hair and blended them into a powder that he used to create smaller silkscreen portraits of them.

The human hair element of the “Squad” project was critical. “Essentially, it was bringing their DNA, their identity, into the work,” says Abdu’Allah, who also happens to

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Faisal Abdu’Allah has not shied away from controversial topics since joining the UWMadison faculty.

“I think my work has actually gotten better since I’ve been here,” says Abdu’Allah, 46, an associate professor of printmaking since 2014 and one of the rising stars in the UW-Madison art department.

The London transplant’s work in Madison has addressed the city’s racial divide and the fatal shooting of 19-year-old African American Tony Robinson by a white Madison police officer in March 2015.

“There is a level of bravery in the work that I don’t think was there before. I’m able to challenge myself in knowing that I’m communicating to a completely different au-

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For better or worse, the burrito vending machine has arrived

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A machine that makes burritos at the push of a button. Such Star Trek-like technology seems like a dream.

Yet Burrito Box, a vending machine that serves burritos cooked hot after you press that button, tries to make that dream a reality.

The concept launched in California only two years ago and is quickly spreading to college towns across the country — i.e., the places where people are often drunk enough to order a vending machine burrito.

Madison’s first Burrito Box recently arrived at Capitol Centre Market, 11 W. Mifflin St. The downtown grocery store, open 24 hours a day, is a smart location. It is near all the Miffland and Bassett student apartments, where there are few options for hot food after bar time.

The Burrito Box is prominently displayed in Cap Centre’s entryway, right next to the shopping carts. The machine itself is a garish orangeyellow color, and the entire front panel is a giant touchscreen. You press the touchscreen to pick either one of four burritos or tortilla chips. You are then given the option to add “sides” — aka condiments — salsa, guacamole, sour cream and hot sauce. The sides are reasonably priced, except for hot sauce — 25 cents for one small packet seems a bit excessive.

It takes a minute for the machine to “cook” the burritos. The machine plays a music video to keep the patron entertained. However, this Burrito Box’s speaker has been turned off, so I watched the first minute of “Hotline Bling” without sound.

The cooking mechanism in the Burrito Box is a closely guarded company secret, but the burritos come out very hot, as though they’ve been both steamed and microwaved. The condiments drop down separately from a refrigerated compartment.

A few friends and I decided to take on every option the Burrito Box had to offer.

I started with steak. The grilled steak and cheese burrito was sub-par even compared

to a frozen grocery store microwave burrito. The steak was practically nonexistent — this was mostly flour tortilla, corn and rice, an indistinguishable mush of flavorless carbs.

On a side note, you want to unwrap your burrito right away when it comes out of the Burrito Box. I ended up waiting about two minutes and a bunch of the tortilla ended up sticking to the wrapper.

The chipotle chicken and black bean burrito fared better. There were identifiable bits of chicken, and the black beans retained a bit of texture. It still wasn’t amazing; Taco Bell would win out in a taste test. But it was better than I expected from a vending machine.

Two breakfast burrito options are available: bacon, egg and hash browns; and sausage, egg and hash browns. I don’t eat pork, so my friends tried these, and they enjoyed them; so if you eat pork, this may be the way to go. They did THOMAS DEVILLERS note that the eggs were what you Trouble in paradise...the Burrito Box is would expect from a pre-cooked out of commission. egg product — a little rubbery.

The only non-meat option availchasing condiments can raise that price by a able is the toasted tortilla chips. Luckily, the dollar or more. And at $6, we’re approaching chips are the best thing the Burrito Box has to offer. Whatever science or magic this vending Chipotle prices for gas station quality.

The vending machine also has stocking machine uses made for delicious hot chips issues. It was out of at least two sides on that taste remarkably like the basket of chips each of my visits. A friend of mine said she they drop off as an appetizer at many familytried to buy a burrito out of curiosity after an style Mexican and Tex-Mex places. At 95 Overture show only to find that the machine cents for the chips and 65 cents for the salsa, it made for a good snack. The guacamole was was completely sold out.

The Burrito Box is exactly what it sets out what you would expect, though: green mayo to be: a way of getting hot food to college stuwith a thickening agent. dents. Though for five bucks, I’d advise those While the chips are a good value, the four students to walk the extra 20 feet into Capitol burritos are a bit overpriced at $4.95, higher Centre Market and pick up a frozen pizza. n than the price of most Taco Bell burritos. Pur-

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Why settle for one meatloaf when you can have six to choose from? There’s ground beef with bacon; turkey, pesto and feta; chorizo and pepperjack; chicken, gorgonzola and leek; Reuben; and a vegetarian version. Hint: A Reuben is almost never a bad idea.

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Madison Soup is back, Sunday, Feb. 21 The micro-granting soup dinner is back for 2016. Share a meal, hear several pitches from community members looking for funding for projects that will do good, vote. Proceeds from the dinner go to fund the project. At Sector67, 2100 Winnebago St., 4-6 pm. Tickets ($10) must be purchased in advance through the Sector67 website or email madisonsoup@gmail.com.

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These days, many people endorse Meatless Monday, which encourages diners to give up meat one day a week to improve their health and the environment. It’s often thought Meatless Monday became popular only recently, when the concept was endorsed by “eat food, not too much, mostly plants” author Michael Pollan during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

But going meatless one day a week for the greater good is not a new idea. It became popular during World War I, says Julia Wong, who oversees the Wisconsin Historical Society’s menu collection. Back then, the Government Food Administration created “Meatless Tuesday,” encouraging people to conserve beef and pork for the troops.

Restaurants complied with this governmental request too, including Milwaukee’s Gargoyle Cafe and Restaurant. A menu in the collection shows the cafe’s “Meatless Tuesday” fare: vegetarian dishes like potato dumpling with red cabbage and stuffed noodle roulade polonaise.

That’s just one example of how menus can be an important piece of social history.

The rise and fall of various foods can be tracked by looking at menus. Turtle soup was a common offering in the late 1800s and early 1900s, but has all but disappeared from our diets.

Other food trends, like the local take on the farm-totable movement, are documented in the menu collection. In Madison the emphasis on locally sourced ingredients was pioneered by Odessa Piper of L’Etoile, who started naming the farms and farmers who provided the food for dishes on her menus. Many menus for L’Etoile special dinners over the years are included in the collection.

There are hundreds of menus in the collection, most of them from Wisconsin. About 30% are available for perusal through an online image gallery.

The collection includes menus from long-gone Madison institutions including the lunch counters at the Rennebohm Drug Stores and the original Ovens of Brittany. There is also a hand-penned 1974 menu from Ella’s Deli, then on State Street.

Wong received her M.A. from the UW-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies in 2009. She grew up in Minneapolis in a restaurant family; her father also opened a grocery store, a noodle manufacturing company and a bean sprout growing operation. “I remember helping out on Saturdays in the store my parents operated [near] the University of Minnesota campus,” Wong says. “One of my jobs was weighing out bags of dried black mushrooms.”

After Wong began working at the historical society developing other image galleries, she came across the menu collection in the visual materials stacks. She found the graphic elements on many of the menus appealing, and “the actual menu listings were intriguing,” she says. “What was ‘moulded egg in gargoyle sauce’?” she wondered.

“I suppose my family background also played a part.”

Wong would like to put together an exhibition of historic menus. She’s also currently working on further digitizing the menu collection and improving the ways that users can access the material so that there would be a better view of individual pages (currently there is no way to zoom in to read smaller print) and that menus would be text-searchable — say for a particular ingredient or dish name. “We hope this expands the possibilities for research into various aspects of food history for a wider audience,” says Wong. In the meantime, users can visit the archives reading room in the historical society building at 816 State St. and request collection materials for viewing in person. n

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Not every Starbucks has a Clover, though, so while passing by the Capitol Square branch at 1 E. Main St., I ducked in to give it a try.

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I chose Cameroon Mt. Oku beans from west central Africa. The in-store chalkboard bills them as having “soft, spicy notes with a chocolate aftertaste,” while the Starbucks web page describes them as having “herbal, floral layers and notes of black pepper and tea.”

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Kinart is still working on the complete lineup, which will feature new offerings well into fall. Among the beers she’s willing to offer hints about will be a twist on the brewery’s Munich Dark that will be made with all-local malts and hops. Munich Dark was Capital’s very first product back in 1986.

Kinart also has plans for releasing a new pilsner in May, a Kolsch in July and a beer that will fit the Oktoberfest theme in September.

Capital will also discontinue its fourpacks, known as the Capital Square series, and de-emphasize the use of 22-ounce bottles while expanding the brands it offers in 16-ounce cans. One of the most notable will be the popular Blonde Doppelbock, beginning with its annual debut this month (February).

And tickets are on sale for Capital Bockfest on Feb. 27. This year the brewery is also offering a special VIP ticketed event on Friday night before the main festival.

Back in bock The Great Dane Pub and Brewery-Hilldale will celebrate the seasonal release of the bocks this year from noon to 5 p.m. on Feb. 20 with its Bockfest. It’s expanded this year with the addition of 10 other local brewers for a broader festival atmosphere: Vintage, Wisconsin Brewing, Capital, Lakefront, Karben4, Next Door, House of Brews, and Metropolitan Brewery and Break Room of Chicago are scheduled.

The event originally grew out of a Boxing of the Bocks challenge between Great Dane brewmaster Rob LoBreglio and Wisconsin

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Brewmaster Ashley Kinart is planning multiple celebratory brews.

Brewing’s Kirby Nelson. This year, the Hilldale pub will offer at least 14 different bocks of its own, and 16 or more other bocks and doppelbocks will be on hand from others, along with a few oddball IPAs and Scotch ales.

Serious fans of the bock will appreciate the presence of Freiburg Gastropub. They’ll be tapping Kulmbacher Eisbock, considered among the best of the eisbocks on RateBeer and Beer Advocate. The Great Dane’s Velvet Hammer Bock fares well on those sites too, at number 14 on the BeerAdvocate’s best bock list. Tickets ($35) are available via Eventbrite. More details at info@greatdanepub.com.

New neighbor The beers of Barley John’s Brewery are expected to start turning up in the Madison area this week.

Barley John’s got its start in 2000 as a small brewpub located in New Brighton, Minn.

After years of building a following, owner John Moore decided it was time to expand. However, Minnesota laws prevent a brewpub owner from also owning a commercial production and packaging brewery. The answer was to create a separate company. The new production facility and taproom opened last August just over the state line in New Richmond, Wis.

Moore will initially offer four brands locally. The Little Barley is a session-style American ale similar in style to an Extra Special Bitter. Old 8 Porter is a black ale with a bold chocolate malt backbone. On the hoppy side, 6 Knot IPA is assertive with its estimated 50 IBUs. And, there’s Moore’s signature beer, his wild rice amber called Wild Brunette. This one’s complex, with Minnesota wild rice, lots of chocolate and caramel maltiness, hints of vanilla and a spicy hoppy finish.

Moore also expects some of his rare brews to find their way to Madison. One of those is the Dark Knight, a robust Baltic porter that’s aged for at least six months in 45th Parallel Distillery bourbon barrels. He’s also planning seasonal releases of Maibock, Oktoberfest and Wheat Wine.

Beers to watch for 3rd Sign Brewery, the in-house brand of Octopi Brewing, is out with the first of its oneoff beers. Beatrice Chocolate Cherry Porter features dark maltiness and cherries; Abandon All Hope is a robust toasted-coconut porter made with pasilla pepper. Both are available in 22-ounce bombers.

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While bocks and doppelbocks are now available year-round, there remains a strong seasonality to the release of most. Madison’s Great Dane Pub and Brewery takes the season so seriously that it’ll turn out more than a dozen versions of the style, which will be tapped at its annual Bockfest. One of my favorites in that lineup is the Oktoppelbock, a beer that combines rich maltiness with the session-like qualities of an Oktoberfest. Oktoppelbock is made with all German malts and Hallertau Mittelfrüh hops.

This is a great one to pair with German food from sausage to schnitzel. Italian entrées with slightly sweet sauces are another

good choice. For cheese, look for a style that offers cow’s milk and creamy sweetness, even better if it has a slight nutty sweetness, like accents of almonds and hazelnuts (Roth Kase Private Reserve is one suggestion).

Oktoppelbock has a smooth, seductive maltiness with caramel and biscuity sweetness. It finishes clean, with a latent warmth over the course of a pint. It’s actually deceptively strong, far from a real session beer. It finishes at 7.7% ABV and sells for $6/pint, $8/crowler and $14/growler (refill).

This is definitely a beer you’ll want on your short list of bocks to celebrate the season.

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When Eau Claire’s Mike Peplinski, a member of the 1998 Winter Olympics United States Curling Team, was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease and underwent a transplant later that year, the Eau Claire Curling Club organized two tournaments to raise money for the National Kidney Foundation.

A year later, a member of that club — Jennifer Krug — moved to Dane County and joined the Madison Curling Club. When breast cancer struck a fellow member, Krug remembered her days in Eau Claire: The Curl vs. Cancer Bonspiel was born.

Now in its 15th year, the bonspiel — the word curlers use to refer to a tournament — has raised more than $128,000 for the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center since 2002. This year’s bonspiel, featuring at least 18 teams and an opportunity for spectators to see an often-misunderstood sport free, up close and in person, happens Feb. 20-21 at the Madison Curling Club, 4802 Marsh Rd. in McFarland.

“It’s a disease that’s everywhere,” says bonspiel organizer Krug, who lost both of her parents to cancer.

Teams of four will participate in this weekend’s tournament. Each team is required to pay $240 or raise money through pledges; one woman consistently collects $5,000 every year, Krug says. At least two university cancer researchers will compete, as will a team composed of 14- and 15-year-olds.

Spectators are welcome, too.

“There’s always somebody here who’s willing to share strategies and explain curling,” Krug says. “Curling is a lot harder than it looks. That’s something a lot of people don’t understand.”

I do. Six years ago, I found myself face-down on the Madison Curling Club’s ice sheet during an open house with my wife and kids. The core muscles and balance required to powerfully (and accurately) throw a polished 42-pound granite stone across textured ice with a piece of Teflon-like material called a slider underneath one shoe is no simple task.

Wisconsin has long been a curling haven. Madison’s Rich Lepping is the president of the United States Curling Association’s board of directors, and Mark Swandby, another Madison resident, was team leader of the men’s and women’s U.S. curling teams at the 2010 Winter Olympics and also is on the USCA board.

“This is the curling community raising money for the UW Cancer Center. There are no outside sponsorships. It’s the true definition of a grassroots event,” says Krug, who knows the money is put to good use.

“If researchers find a cure for one type of cancer, they will find a cure for all of them. I really believe that.” n

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A tale of two cities A Madison-Milwaukee collaboration addresses police violence

BY KATIE REISER

The Mojo and the Sayso tackles a timely topic: police violence in African American communities.

The upcoming production is the result of a rare collaboration between companies in Madison and Milwaukee, cities whose arts and culture scenes rarely connect so directly.

The play — which opened to rave reviews Jan. 28 at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Stiemke Studio and moves to Overture Center’s Promenade Hall Feb. 18-21 — is a co-production of the Madisonbased Theatre LILA and Milwaukee’s Bronzeville Arts Ensemble.

When planning for the 2015-16 season, LILA’s artistic director Jessica Lanius and former LILA co-director Mike Lawler sought works that reflected current issues. They read a December 2014 American Theatre article, “The Ferguson Theatre Syllabus,” which was essentially a call to artistic directors across the country to consider plays that deal with race and justice.

Lanius began reading the plays mentioned in the article and was drawn to the imagery and poetry of The Mojo and the Sayso, written by Aishah Rahman, an African American playwright. The 1989 work is based on the true story of a 1973 shooting death of 10-year-old Clifford Glover by New York City police.

Lanius had worked previously with Malkia Stampley, Bronzeville’s producing artistic director, on a 2015 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, co-produced

by Theatre LILA and Children’s Theater of Madison; Lanius directed and Stampley starred as Titania.

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Eager to collaborate again, Lanius proposed a partnership between the two companies. “Organizationally, our company is primarily white, and Bronzeville is primarily African American,” says Lanius. “We asked each other, how do we work together to do more work that is important for the community?”

As part of that mission, Theatre LILA held workshops at the Overture Center, the Goodman Center and Middleton High School

where people wrote and shared their own stories about race. Selections from these workshops, Real Stories about Race, will be presented on Feb. 20 at 5 p.m., between the matinee and evening performances of The Mojo and the Sayso.

Lanius says she left the workshops feeling uplifted, even though some of the participants’ stories were hard to hear: “People showed up and shared a little piece that we don’t talk about enough.”

Three performances of The Mojo and the Sayso aimed at high school audiences will include talk-back sessions; these are already sold out.

Stampley says the collaboration with LILA has been a fruitful one. “One of the biggest lessons I’m reminded of while working together is that even when you have challenges, by respecting each other and thinking about what’s most important — the community and the story — you can get through it.” n

Infectiously fun The Rocky Horror Show is a sexy and delightful romp

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Just as the hapless young couple Brad and Janet may never be the same after wandering into the Frankenstein Castle at the beginning of The Rocky Horror Show, audiences may never be same after seeing this coproduction from Mercury Players Theatre and OUT!Cast Theatre, playing at the Bartell Theatre through Feb. 27. Filled with sequins, smoke machines, suggestive choreography, sci-fi and sex, it’s a silly romp that is as infectiously fun as its signature dance number, “The Time Warp.”

As the audience finds their seats, a large movie screen that dominates one side of the cleverly designed set (Erin Baal) runs clips of iconic black-and-white movies, perfectly

setting up the parody of disaster/horror flicks.

Trixie the Usherette (a brassy Katie Cass) sings dreamily about a “Science Fiction Double Feature” before inviting us to experience the mad world of Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his pleasureobsessed Transylvanian entourage.

When Brad (Michael Costanzo, perfectly nerdy) and his blushing fiancée, Janet Weiss (Katie Debs), arrive at the castle after getting a flat tire on a rainy night, they meet Dr. Frank-NFurter, a gorgeous transvestite (Kurtis Hopp), clad in a sparkling gown and red leather thighhigh boots with stiletto heels.

Clad in only their underwear, Brad and Janet are escorted by the mad scientist and castle butler Riff Raff (Robert Helfinstine) to the laboratory where they meet his latest creation, Rocky — a hunky man with bulging muscles

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and only half a brain (the delightful Alex Van Handel). For the rest of the night, Rocky runs from his creator, and Brad and Janet are tempted to “give over to their absolute pleasure.”

Deftly directed by Steve Noll with creative choreography by Lyn Pilch, this Rocky Horror features a fantastic cast; dozens of intricate, exquisite, and over-the-top outfits created by

costume designer Jenni Schwaner Ladd; and vintage video clips designed by Ron Collins and Karl Reinhardt. (They also get props for the absolute best pre-show message about silencing cell-phones I have ever seen.)

Above all, don’t miss this terrific ensemble’s invitation to “do ‘The Time Warp’ again.” n

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Hey, Madison: Wouldn’t you love to escape to someplace warm and sunny, where you can catch a gnarly wave? Or perhaps you prefer to lie on a blanket beneath a palm tree hung with glowing coconuts?

StageQ’s Psycho Beach Party, running through Feb. 27 at the Bartell Theatre, offers that kind of kitschy vacation. Written by playwright and drag performer Charles Busch, the show is more a passport to a camp ’60s beach party than your standardissue Great American Play.

Busch’s play is a mashup of Gidget and Sybil, surfer girl meets psychopath. Young Chicklet (Andi Joyner) longs to catch a wave, clamoring to learn from stoner Kanaka (played by a shaggy-haired Noah Koebe). She meets closeted gay surfers, a loud-mouthed philosopher and Star Cat (Edric Johnson, looking like Frankie Avalon in a bad black wig). Then starlet Bettina Barnes (Donnovan Moen, in drag) shows up, while Chicklet’s crazy-eyed mom, Mrs. Forrest (Terry Christopher) stalks the background.

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be a barber. “Our hair carries a trace of who we are, and it is extremely political. In the history of post-colonialism, the straighter your hair was, the higher up on the chain of respect you were.”

Abdu’Allah began cutting hair when he was a student in London, and he trained as a barber while an exchange student in Boston.

He’s even turned the act into a piece of performance art called “Live Salon,” where he and an audience member wear microphones that capture the conversation that takes place while Abdu’Allah cuts that person’s hair.

But he laughs when asked if he holds a barbering license. “No,” he says. “I just invent as I go along. Cutting hair is like jazz for me.”

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Abdu’Allah was born Paul Duffus and grew up in a Pentecostal family before becoming a Muslim in 1991 and changing his name.

Some of his most compelling works are rooted in religion. For example, he has depicted Jesus Christ’s Last Supper with disciples dressed as gang members and Muslims.

Although he lives in Madison, his wife and three children — ages 10, 12 and 21 — still reside in London but plan to relocate here soon.

Despite Madison’s lack of diversity in the arts, Abdu’Allah says he likes it here. “Back

when I was a student, I was the only black face in the class,” he says. “When I traveled extensively, I was the only person in the room who looked like me. Ninety percent of my circle in my field never looked like me. If that was going to be problem for me, then I would not have gone into the arts.”

In addition to his role on campus, Abdu’Allah is also undertaking a project with teens from underserved neighborhoods under the umbrella of The Bubbler, a creative extension of the Madison Public Library. The students are working with Abdu’Allah in his studio to create a public art piece that will be on display in the library beginning in May. “Young people’s faces are always stuck in an iPhone,” Abdu’Allah says. “They don’t connect, they’re not present. I think it’s very important that they have a voice and that we nurture their creativity. How do we get young people into that creative space and make them realize that the arts are the foundation for everything? Design, architecture, fashion. Everything that you see and touch is from the hand of an artist.” n

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You say you want an evolution Twin Peaks’ new sound is more polished

BY AARON R. CONKLIN

When you’re close to something, it’s sometimes a little harder to see it. Maybe that’s why Cadien Lake James, the guitarist/lead singer for the ’60s-inspired garage rockers Twin Peaks, is still sorta wrapping his head around the evolution he and his Chicago-based bandmates have undergone over the past few years. After all, they were green 19-year-olds the last time they toured, in support of their 2014 rough-‘n’-ragged second album Wild Onion. Now those formative years are having an effect — the sound the band’s fronting on its forthcoming third album, Down in Heaven (it’s due out in midMay) is both deeper and more polished.

“It struck me that people are calling it smoother, sharper,” says James, who’ll bring his band to the Frequency on Feb. 24 for a set with Uh Bones and the Rashita Joneses.

“I guess we just made it sound nicer.”

Some of that has to do with the circumstances under which the band’s new disc was recorded. Instead of locking themselves in a studio and rushing through recording 16 songs in 14 days, as they did for Wild Onion, the band spent a luxurious summer month recording at a friend’s house in Massachusetts. The influences are, naturally, ’60s-based, but these have shifted, too: Where James was bingeing on glam-rock when he wrote the songs for Wild Onion, Heaven is informed by a

heaping helping of classic, Americana rock.

When Spin magazine recently noted that the albums James cited as influences on Down in Heaven — things like the Kinks’ Village Green Society and the Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet — are all from 1968, he was surprised.

“It felt a lot more purposeful,” says James of the experience of creating Heaven. “It wasn’t as giddy. We gained assets with the second album, but we lost the sense that this was our piece of art. We wanted that back.”

It sounds like they’ve got it. The bigger factor is the band’s new fifth member — keyboardist Colin Croom, a longtime friend of the band who helped engineer and coproduce Twin Peaks’ second album while gigging with his own band, Sister Crystals.

Croom’s a full-time Peaker now, and his contributions are immediately evident on tunes like “Walk to the One You Love,” the first single from Down in Heaven. His piano and organ work both broadens the band’s musical horizons and sends it deeper into Kinks and Cream territory.

But don’t think for a second that the album’s more polished sound translates to the band’s live performances — this is still an outfit with strong garage and punk-rock roots, and they like to get as down and dirty as possible on stage.

“I’ve always held in high regard bands who can make you shake your ass,” says James. “We just always want to keep the energy high.” n

Romantic works, mixed results Madison Symphony Orchestra features guest conductor

BY JOHN W. BARKER

The Madison Symphony Orchestra achieved mixed results presenting a romantically themed program, Feb. 12-14 at Overture Hall.

Maestro John DeMain was replaced by guest conductor Daniel Hege, whose opening assignment was Tchaikovsky’s “Overture-Fantasy” from Romeo and Juliet.

Hege worked up the orchestra to considerable passion, though on Friday he seemed to take the slower passages more slowly than is typical, somewhat reducing the organic flow.

Next the orchestra played the second of the two concert suites that Maurice Ravel derived from his 1912 ballet, Daphnis et Chloé. The full ballet score is one of Ravel’s longest compositions, on which he lavished his mastery of orchestral color and sonorities in sumptuous fashion. Hege controlled all these resources with considerable skill. But again, the orchestra suffered from slow pacing until Hege propelled the final movement to its full potential.

The guest soloist this time around was the 30-year-old Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova. She has made a stir internationally, and is an undoubted talent; Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is one of her favored vehicles. Never-

theless, I confess I was underwhelmed by her performance. Her playing is technically masterful, but, I think, interpretationally misguided.

Ibragimova’s tone is smallish to begin with, and rather pinched much of the time. Her sense of dynamic contrast ranges from mezzo-forte to super pianissimo. She seems to want to miniaturize her parts, introducing a sweetness that is not nuance but merely prissiness. Hege did his best to give stylish support, but mostly he needed to tamp the orchestra down to minimal volume so as not to overwhelm the soloist. n

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Trapped in a “wife factory” Mustang is a powerful story of girls held captive by family So that their virtue can be preserved, they are forbidden to leave the house. The doors are locked, and their schoolroom education ceases. They surrender contraband, including a telephone. They wear shapeless dresses and are taught how to cook and sew. “The house became a wife factory,” Lale says.

At first, the girls retain some connections to the outside world. They have secret conversations with boys who stand outside the house.

A drainpipe proves useful for shimmying down from a bedroom.

The girls sneak out to attend that soccer match, and it proves to be a turning point.

When their guardians learn about the escapade, they tighten security even more. “Now the house really did look like a prison,” Lale recalls.

One by one, the sisters prepare to be married off. They do not choose their husbands; the marriages are arranged by the men of the families. Calamity awaits.

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Mustang is a powerful tragedy, but midway through it has one of the most joyful sequences I’ve ever seen in a movie. At a soccer match in Turkey, music blares and confetti flies as five young sisters laugh and dance. They are ecstatic. Their celebration in the stands looks like wild abandon, total freedom. If you’re like me, you’ll watch that scene with a big smile on your face.

Not much else will make you smile. The debut feature of Turkish-French director Deniz Gamze Ergüven, the Oscar-nominated Mustang is harrowing. It stars five remarkable young actors as a group of adolescent sisters. The youngest, Lale (Günes Sensoy), tells their story in voiceover narration.

As the film begins, school is ending, and Lale bids her teacher an emotional farewell. The sisters, who are orphans, join a group of boys and girls at the beach, romping innocently in the surf. Back at home, the girls’ grandmother (Nihal G. Koldas) and uncle (Ayberk Pekcan) are furious. A neighbor has reported that the girls were being sexually provocative. The girls are taken to be medically examined, and that is the first of many humiliations they endure.

The sisters are prepared to be married off in this harrowing Oscar-nominated film.

mind me of the 1979 Clint Eastwood movie Escape from Alcatraz, of all things. Reading the production notes, I was amused to discover that Ergüven watched Escape From Alcatraz as she worked on Mustang. So that explains that.

I remain captivated by Lale and her sisters, who are played by Tugba Sunguroglu,

Elit Iscan, Doga Zeynep Doguslu and Ilayda Akdogan. Together they are almost like a single, rambunctious being. In numerous shots they are seen with their bodies playfully intertwined, their heads touching. They are victims of terrible abuse, yet they support each other with love and impish humor. n

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Put simply, The Witch is a near-masterpiece of creeping dread and hallucinatory imagery.

Eggers’ previous work was as a production designer and art director, and he puts those skills to exquisitely realized work here.

The less you know going in, the better — it’s that kind of movie — but the surface story follows a Puritan family cast out of their village for vague, superstitious reasons. Relocating to a barren little farmhouse on the edge of a great and ghastly forest, father William (Ralph Ineson), wife Katherine (Kate Dickie, who plays Lysa Arryn on Game of Thrones) and their five children face not only the privations of the wilderness (both geographic and spiritual), but an apparent supernatural threat.

Eldest daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) is watching her infant brother Samuel, but

Anya Taylor-Joy plays the eldest sister.

she turns away for a moment and realizes the child has vanished. This incurs the wrath of William, and as the eerie first half of the film unspools, there are somnambulant moonlit walks in the foreboding woods, toddlers talking to the family goat, Black Philip, and a Pandora’s box of subtly composed, weird, witchy goings-on. All of this is backgrounded by Mark Korven’s brilliantly paranoiac score and dialogue spoken in Old English.

Steeped in bleak, ominous atmosphere and period-perfect costumes and design, this is one of those rare genre films that get under your skin and stay there. The ending will likely arouse ire from viewers who demand a certain amount of explanatory summation, but to Eggers’ credit, no easy way out is offered; he instead gives the viewer plenty to think about, and even more to keep them up nights for days afterward. n

The film list New releases Race: Track and field star Jesse Owens prepares to compete at the 1936 Olympics in Germany.

Risen: The biblical story of the Resurrection is given a sort of police-procedural treatment.

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Recent releases Deadpool: Loaded with sass, sex and sadistic violence, this is not your youngster’s comic book origin story. The film is as post-modernly selfreferential as it gets, which should be a hoot for the average viewer and nirvana for connoisseurs of the Marvel Universe.

The Lady in the Van: Maggie Smith stars as a cantankerous and decidedly malodorous woman living in her vehicle parked in a writer’s driveway.

Where to Invade Next: Michael Moore travels to various countries around the world — places where different aspects of social utopianism and progressive programs are actually working — to “claim” them in the name of the United States.

Zoolander 2: Dueling supermodels turned buddies and men of action (Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson) return for more adventures.

More film events The Brothers Grimsby: The top agent for the British secret service uncovers a dangerous plot and goes on the run, which is complicated by the arrival on the scene of his long lost brother.

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Clouds of Sils Maria: A veteran actress (Juliette Binoche) starring in a revival of the play that launched her career encounters an uncomfortable flashback via the starlet taking on her old role (Kirsten Stewart). Union South Marquee, Feb. 19-21.

For one day, 70 local nonprofits will be raising money to shape our community’s future for the better.

The Danish Girl: Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne delivers another physically transformational performance as one of the first patients to undergo sexual reassignment surgery. Hawthorne Library, Feb. 19, 7 pm.

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Men in War: A lieutenant (Robert Ryan) must deal with a truculent sergeant (Aldo Ray) while getting his men through a sniper field. Cinematheque, Feb. 19, 7 pm.

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A Sinner in Mecca: Documentary by gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma, who risks his life by filming his heartfelt pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

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Port of Call: Very early Bergman, adapted from an Ole Lansburg story and shot on location in the port city of Gothenberg in a style that borrows heavily — and consciously — from Roberto Rossellini. Chazen Museum of Art, Feb. 21, 2 pm.

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Out in the Night: Documentary about the “New Jersey Four,” a group of young African American lesbians charged and convicted as a gang after defending themselves against a violent attacker.

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Lizzo Friday, Feb. 19, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm The Twin Cities are fertile ground for hip-hop, and Lizzo is the region’s newest breakout talent. With a powerful singing voice and largerthan-life personality, she pounds out bars with ferocious energy and charm. Madison was treated to Lizzo’s jubilant performance style at last year’s Yum Yum Fest, where she sported backup dancers, a DJ and a commanding stage presence that paired perfectly with her enthralling songs. With DJ Sophia Eris, Cavanaugh (Open Mike Eagle + Serengeti), Me En You.

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An Evening’s Affair 2: Shakespeare’s Betrayals: Scenes

by Madison Shakespeare Co., 7:30 pm, 2/18, Capital Brewery, Middleton; 7:30 pm, 2/19-20, MercLab; 7:30 pm, 2/24, Bartell Theatre. $10 donation. aea.mobi.

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El Ten Eleven Thursday, Feb. 18, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

El Ten Eleven is an instrumental rock duo that creates songs using only a double-necked bass/guitar, drum set and looper/effect pedals. Based in L.A., musicians Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty have released six records and garnered comparisons to Caspian and the Album Leaf. With Shallou, Neens.

Rodney Carrington is a country musician and comedian who’s been performing his original songs and jokes for over 25 years.

In that time, he’s released a Christmas album, six studio recordings and even starred in his own ABC sitcom, Rodney.

Carrington’s most recent special, Laughter’s Good, examines the little things in life.

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

Thursday, Feb. 18, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Hop Haus Brewing Co, Verona: TeA with Dave, free, 7 pm.

Heavily influenced by Neil Young & Crazy Horse yet original and captivating enough to stand on their own, Futurebirds blend country and rock like few outfits tour-

Merchant: Johnny Chimes & Gatur Bait, free, 10:30 pm.

Mickey’s: Jessica Lee Wilkes, New Villains, Roboman, 10 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Compact Deluxe, Allez Allez, The Vipers, The Smells, free, 10 pm.

Madison Musical Idol: Free Four Seasons Theatre event, 8 pm, 2/18, UW Memorial Union-Play Circle.

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Monster Boogie: Spoken word/children’s records acted out on stage, 2/12-3/5, Broom Street Theater, at 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $11. 244-8338.

Doug Bradley & Craig Werner: Discussing We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, their new book, 5 pm, 2/18, UW Union South-Varsity Hall. 262-3193.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, 10 pm.

Harmony Bar: Backroom Harmony Band, 8 pm.

The Rocky Horror Show: Mercury Players revives the original, 2/12-27, Bartell Theatre, at 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays (4 pm on 2/27), plus 4 pm, 2/21. $25/$20. 661-9696.

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Essen Haus: Big Wes Turner’s Trio, Americana, free, 9 pm.

The Mojo and the Sayso: An African American family is tested by tragedy when a white police officer kills a family member, co-production by Theatre LILA and Bronzeville Arts Ensemble, 7:30 pm on 2/1819, 2:30 & 7:30 pm on 2/20 and 2:30 pm, 2/21, Overture Center-Promenade Hall; also, “Real Stories about Race” 5 pm, 2/20. $29. 258-4141.

Psycho Beach Party: StageQ production, 2/12-27, Bartell Theatre, at 8 pm on Thursdays-Saturdays (2 pm, 2/27), plus 2 pm, 2/21. $20. 661-9696.

Badger Bowl: Scott Wilcox, Julia McConahay, 8 pm.

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comics to watch in 2012, appeared last year on Late Night with Seth Meyers and is a regular on MTV’s Girl Code and MTV2’s Guy Code. With Brian Aldridge, Charlie Kojis. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), Feb. 19-20.

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Andy Frasco & the U.N. Andy Frasco & the U.N. is a jazz-blues group, though their music is much more uplifting than those tags may suggest.

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Yellow Rose Gallery Showcase: Works by 20 artists, music, refreshments, 7-11 pm, 2/18, 122 State St. #201. artonstate.com.

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Terrence Reese: “Reflections: African American Icons,” photographs, through 3/4, UW Education Building-Commons Gallery (reception 4-6 pm, 2/18). 265-5228.

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It’s a triple-threat: A one-man show based on the works of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, performed by British actor Julian Sands (A Room with a View, Leaving Las Vegas, 24) and directed by the one and only John Malkovich.

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UW Humanities Building-Morphy Hall: Parry Karp, Frances Karp, Christopher Karp, free, 8 pm.

Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra with Dionne Jackson Friday, Feb. 19, Capitol Theater, 8 pm

Dionne Jackson is a flutist, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and an associate professor at the University of Connecticut. The Chicago native will perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Nielsen’s Flute Concerto, Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1 and Haydn’s Symphony No. 79 with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra.

Alchemy Cafe: Nuggernaut, funk/jazz, free, 10 pm.

Bandung: Jeff Alexander & Anapaula Strader, The Oudist Colony, Brazilian/Middle Eastern, free, 9 pm.

Brink Lounge: Sweet Delta Dawn, Desmond Jones, Flowpoetry, Grateful Dead tribute, 8 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Louka, free, 5:30 pm; DJs Niki Kitz, Dimetri Nocturnal, Foshizzle Family, 9 pm.

Chief’s Tavern: The Roddys, free, 6 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Eugene Smiles Project, 9 pm.

First Unitarian Society: Noon Musicale: Four Seasons Theatre presents “The Best of Broadway,” 12:15 pm.

Frequency: Tiny Riots, Brett Newski, rock, 9:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Rock Star Gomeroke, 5 pm; The Jimmys, Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, 9:30 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys, blues, 8 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee House: Madison Classical Guitar Society Showcase, free, 7 pm.

Lucky’s, Waunakee: Country Wide Rocks, free, 7:30 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Ming Kurray, Knüte, Queenager, DJ Stamp Collector, free, 10 pm.

Plan B: Kim Chi, Karizma Mirage, Sasha Daniels, Bianca Lynn Breeze, Tempest Heat, DJ Tim Walters, drag show with “RuPaul’s Drag Race” contestant 9 pm.

The Red Zone: Kicksville, Keon Andre Band, Gabe Burdulis, Future Stuff, 9 pm.

Rex’s, Waunakee: Nine Thirty Standard, free, 8:30 pm.

Tandem Press: UW Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, Latin Jazz Ensemble, free, 5 pm.

Tempest: Don’t Spook the Horse, free, 9:30 pm.

Tip Top: Lonesome Red & the Blue Strings, free, 10 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners: Universal Sound, 8 pm.

Marriage-ability: Musical comedy from Encore Studios, 8 pm, 2/19-20, Mary Dupont Wahlers Theatre. $15. 255-0331.

The Me Show: Multi Story Theatre Company UK, 8 pm, 2/19, Edgewood College Anderson Auditorium. Free/donations. 255-2211.

B O O KS Bob McChesney & John Nichols: Discussing “People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy & a Citizenless Democracy,” their new book, 7 pm, 2/19, Central Library. Sales benefit WORT-FM. 266-6300.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Simone and Max: “Select a World,” through 2/19, Arts & Literature Laboratory (reception & artist talk 6-9 pm, 2/19). allgallery.org.

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Zor Shrine Circus: 7 pm on 2/19, 10 am, 2:30 & 7 pm on 2/20 and 1 & 5 pm, 2/21, Alliant Energy CenterColiseum. $21/$18. shrinecircusinfo.com. 274-9884.

Greater Madison Golf Show: Annual event, 2-7 pm on 2/19, 10 am-6 pm on 2/20 and 10 am-4 pm, 2/21, Alliant Center. $8 (free ages 12 & under). 843-0014.

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The Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a concert full of specially commissioned pieces. In addition to performances by three orchestras, a string orchestra, a brass choir and percussion and chamber ensembles, nearly 400 musicians will take on a unique arrangement of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” Sold out.

eight members of the Minnesota collective incredibly talented musicians, they also employ two live painters on stage, crafting one-of-a-kind paintings that they auction off every night. And even if you don’t get to take the art home, you’re still treated to live music from one of indie rock’s most consistently inventive bands. With BBGun. 1855 Saloon, Cottage Grove: Roger Beck, free, 7 pm.

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Saturday, Feb. 20, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm

Brink Lounge: The Civil Engineers, rock/soul, 9 pm.

Sierra Hull has accomplished more at 24 than most musicians do in a lifetime.

The bluegrass wunderkind began playing the mandolin when she was 8, has performed with Alison Krauss — who co-produced her first album — at the White House, released four studio albums and received Berklee College of Music’s much-coveted Presidential Scholarship.

Fetty Wap Saturday, Feb. 20, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm

Even if you don’t know the name Fetty Wap, chances are you know “Trap Queen.”

The Jersey-bred rapper’s debut single was a catchy jam and a leading contender for 2015’s song of the summer.

But the performer, born Willie Maxwell II, is more than a one-hit wonder. His self-titled debut album is filled with similarly infectious and assured trap bangers. With Post Malone. Sold out.

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Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, 9 pm.

Chocolaterian Cafe: Dead Sea Squirrels, free, 7:30 pm.

Come Back In: Ryan McGrath Band, free, 9 pm.

Crescendo: Maury Smith & the Orchestra Bordenave, 350 Madison Tar Sands Action Team benefit, 7 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Madpolecats, Pony Ver, JP Cyr & His Radio Wranglers, 9:30 pm.

Essen Haus: David Austin Band, polka, free, 8:30 pm.

Fountain: Christopher Plowman, free, 8 pm.

The Frequency: Alannah McCreedy, Gunner Scott Band, 7 pm; Sexy Ester, Fuzzy Machete, Devil to Drag, Dash Hounds, rock, 9:30 pm.

w/ DJ FERNANDO 9PM ____________________ TUESDAY 2/23

JAZZ JAM

High Noon Saloon: Lucas Cates Band, Ajaminus, 6 pm; Earl Stardust & the Stone Derby Pilots (Stone Temple Pilots tribute), Uzi Ferrari, The Gran Fury, 9:30 pm.

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Grace Episcopal Church: Kangwon Kim & Seungwha Baek, violin/piano duo, free, noon.

Harmony Bar: The Big Payback, 9:45 pm.

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Ivory Room: Kevin Gale, Steve Watts, 8 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Tweed Funk, 9 pm.

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Stan Godfriaux, 6:30 pm.

BBGUN

Majestic Theatre: Mike Stud, OCD: Moosh & Twist, Futuristic, 7:30 pm.

Merchant: DJ Nick Nice, free, 10:30 pm.

Mezze: Charlie Painter & Friends, jazz, free, 9 pm.

Mickey’s: The Flavor That Kills, Novagolde, 10 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Les Maurice, Honolulu Zoo, free, 10 pm.

The Red Zone: Ditchrunners, 20 Watt Tombstone, Chaos Revolution Theory, The Rotten Tommys, 8 pm.

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w/ DJ Sophia Eris featuring Cavanaugh Me eN You

Sun Prairie High School: Sun Prairie JazzFest Concert, high school ensembles & guest clinicians, 7 pm.

Tavernakaya: DJ Boyfrriend, free, 10 pm.

Tempest: Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, 9:30 pm.

Noura Mint Seymali Saturday, Feb. 20, Memorial Union Play Circle, 8 pm

Noura Mint Seymali is a singer and harpist from Mauritania. Raised in a family of musicians — her stepmother is Dimi Mint Abba and her father composed many of her songs — Seymali began singing at the age of 13 and is now touring the globe performing Moorish music with a pop twist. She plays with her husband, guitarist Jeiche Ould Chighaly, and an excellent rhythm section.

Saturday, Feb. 20, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

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Tuvalu Coffeehouse, Verona: Deep Pool, free, 7 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Wind Ensemble, free, 7:30 pm; Morphy Hall: Jessica Johnson, classical piano, free, 8 pm.

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Watertower Chop House, Sun Prairie: Nine Thirty Standard, rock/country/blues, free, 6:30 pm.

Wendigo, Stoughton: Helen Avakian, Dave Irwin, free, 8:30 pm.

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Goodnight Moon

Capitol Theater Saturday, April 2

Saturday, Feb. 20, Overture Center Playhouse, 1:30 & 4 pm

It’s been nearly 70 years since Margaret Wise Brown first published Goodnight Moon, and the illustrated children’s tale continues to bring joy to young readers and their families. For this Children’s Theater of Madison production, Chad Henry has created an imaginative adaptation of the simple tale of a bunny saying goodnight to everything. Warm and fuzzy addition: a preshow reading of Goodnight Moon by Police Chief Michael C. Koval. ALSO: Sunday, Feb. 21 (1:30 & 4 pm), Friday (7 pm), Saturday and Sunday (1:30 & 4 pm), Feb. 26-28.

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Tip Top Tavern: Miguel McQuade Trio, free, 10 pm.

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Madison Story Slam: All welcome to share “road trips” themed stories, with host Adam Rostad, 7 pm, 2/20, Wil-Mar Center. 395-4095.

FOOD & DRINK Bockfest: Annual celebration featuring local breweries, noon-5 pm, 2/20, Great Dane-Hilldale. $35.

RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/19755985685. 661-9400.

Distill America: A Celebration of American Distilling: Annual spirits tasting to benefit Wisconsin Distillers Guild, 6-9 pm, 2/20, Edgewater Hotel, with discussions with distillers, appetizers. $55 ($65 with 5 pm entry). distillamerica.com.

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Celebrated UW Pianist

Mad Rollin’ Dolls: 6 pm, 2/20, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall. $15 ($12 adv.; $6 ages 4-10). madrollindolls.com.

Christopher Taylor

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General Public $15 Students Free. Tix 265-2787 Also sold at door. www.music.wisc.edu

2016 Gardens Summit: Gardens Network event, 9 am-2 pm, 2/20, Warner Park Community Recreation Center, with workshops, storytelling, music, raffles, food. $15. danecountycommunitygardens.org.

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Royal Brat Sunday, Feb. 21, Williamson Magnetic Recording Company, 8 pm

Heart-pumping Minneapolis fuzz punks Royal Brat bring their tour through Madison for this all-ages show, playing quick and dirty songs and slinging mouthfuls of lyrics.

They’ll be joined by local power poppers Heavy Looks, who are riding the wave from their 2015 full-length Waste It Right.

And Heather Sawyer of Madison garage rockers the Hussy goes solo for this one, playing as Heather the Jerk. With Jonesies.

Asbury United Methodist Church: Hymn Sing, 3 pm.

The Bayou: DJs Psych0tron, Lady Business, “Labyrinth” masquerade/bondage ball, 8 pm.

Brink Lounge: Greg Abate, Dave Stoler Trio, 3 pm.

Edgewood College-St. Joseph Chapel: Edgewood Chamber Orchestra, 2:30 pm.

The Frequency: Plateau Below, Karen Wheelock, Vanessa Silberman, 8:30 pm.

Gates of Heaven: Ches Smith Trio, Lundberg + Packard + Pireh Trio, experimental/improv, 7 pm.

Harmony: Cajun Strangers, 7 pm (dance lesson 6 pm).

plays Bach, Brahms, and Scriabin - Fri, Feb 26, 8 PM - Mills Hall

High Noon Saloon: Jonny T-Bird & the MPs, 1 pm; Valley Forge, No Name String Band, 7 pm.

Olbrich Gardens: Old Farm Dog, 2 pm.

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Shawn Colvin

T H EAT ER & DA N C E

Sunday, Feb. 21, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm

Best known for her multi-Grammy-winning 1997 song “Sunny Came Home,” this South Dakota-born musician hasn’t slowed down much in the years since. Shawn Colvin has released five studio albums since her breakout A Few Small Repairs, penned a memoir and was nominated for a Grammy for the 2009 concert record Shawn Colvin Live.

An acoustic guitar-slinging, lyric-driven songwriter, Colvin is a favorite for fans of folk, storytelling and warm, timeless voices.

Dropkick Murphys Sunday, Feb. 21, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm

From their beginnings in the basement of a Boston barbershop to their current status as one of punk rock’s best-known acts, Dropkick Murphys have every right to celebrate 20 years together. The Celtic punk crew puts on a notoriously energetic live show and will likely have some colorful things to say about Wisconsin’s governor. Scott Walker’s use of “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” as intro music at an Iowa rally last year led the band to tell him “we literally hate you!!!” on Twitter. With Tiger Army, Darkbuster.

Mummenschanz: The Musicians of Silence Sunday, Feb. 21, Capitol Theater, 3 pm

Mummenschanz is German for mummery, and for more than 40 years the company has provoked, confused and brought joy to audiences worldwide — all without speaking a word. The Swiss troupe was spoofed on Late Night with David Letterman and appeared on The Muppet Show.

Their use of masks, props and costumes in movement performances is unparalleled.

S PO K EN WO RD Winter Festival of Poetry: Readings by David Scheler, Marilyn Taylor, Richard Merelman, Lewis Bosworth, Rita Mae Reese, Angela Voras-Hills, 2 pm, 2/21, Fountain. 242-7340.

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SP ECI A L EV EN TS Miss Madison Scholarship Pageant: Miss Wisconsin qualifier, 4 pm, 2/21, East Side Club. $15. 516-1966.

mon feb 22 MU SI C High Noon: Clyde Stubblefield All-Star Band, 6 pm.

Stoughton Library: The Poets of Tin Pan Alley, Four Seasons Theatre performance/lecture, free, 6:30 pm.

Up North Pub: The Apollo Affair, free, 7 pm.

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the UW. Hear the tubas and euphoniums roar and rumble as the quartet of internationally touring players (and UW alums) lands back in Madison to solo in a concert featuring 130 student performers.

Jukebox the Ghost Tuesday, Feb. 23, Majestic Theatre, 8:30 pm

For just over a decade, Jukebox the Ghost has quietly put together an enviable career as one of music’s best-kept secrets. The piano rock trio has released four albums and toured relentlessly, playing shows with everyone from Ben Folds to Ingrid Michaelson and the Lollapalooza main stage. Fans of unabashedly catchy power-pop won’t want to miss this one. With the Family Crest.

Tuesday, Feb. 23, James Madison Memorial High School Buchhauser Auditorium, 7:30 pm

One of the world’s leading low brass ensembles has its origins right here at

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Tim Cullen: Discussing “Ringside Seat: Wisconsin Politics 1970 to Scott Walker,” his new book, 6 pm, 2/24, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

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Wednesday, Feb. 24, The Frequency, 9 pm

Malt House: Dollar Bill & the Bucks, free, 7:30 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Em Jay, Bobby Hussy, free, 10 pm.

Alchemy Cafe: Jon Hoel Trio, jazz, free, 10 pm.

Up North Pub: Paul Matushek, free, 8 pm.

Brink Lounge: Stephen Lee Rich, T. Burns, Joe Vosen, 7 pm; Andreas Kapsalis, guitar, 7:30 pm; Zachary Lucky, 9:15 pm.

Frequency: The Jimmy K Show, Max Ink Radio podcast recording with Skizzwhores, Grateful Dead Kennedys, free, 7 pm.

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Twin Peaks This Chicago-based band is known for highenergy live sets and a catchy, youthful brand of garage rock. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the last time Twin Peaks headlined a bill in Madison, they turned the Frequency into a basement party. Last month, they premiered “Walk to the One You Love,” the first single off their upcoming new record, Down in Heaven. See page 34. With Uh Bones, the Rashita Joneses.

Leftover Salmon Thursday, Feb. 25, Majestic Theatre, 8:30 pm

B OOKS

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, piano, free, 9 pm.

Roger Reeves: Reading from “King Me,” poetry, 7 pm, 2/23, Central Library. 266-6300.

Marshall Library: Four Seasons Theatre, “The Poets of Tin Pan Alley performance/lecture, free, 6:30 pm.

L ECT URE S & SEM INARS

Middleton-Cross Plains Area Performing Arts Center: Middleton Community Orchestra, 7:30 pm.

Leftover Salmon’s blend of bluegrass, country and rock ’n’ roll has been synonymous with the term “jam band” since the group formed in Colorado in 1989.

Their eighth and most recent album, High Country, was released in 2014, but the real joy of Leftover Salmon lies in their unpredictable live shows. With Bonerama.

Opus Lounge: Madison Malone, free, 9 pm.

Brink Lounge: Madison Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 pm.

Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm.

High Noon: Evergreen, Spare Change Trio, 9 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Jazz Orchestra with Mike Davison, Cuban, free, 7:30 pm.

Overture Center-Lobby: The Gomers, free, 6 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Western Percussion Ensemble, free, 7:30 pm.

Sotto Voce Quartet

Earl Lewis: UW Center for the Humanities McKay Lecture in the Humanities by the historian, 5:30 pm, 2/23, UW Elvehjem Building-Room L140. 263-3412.

Jon Ronson: Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series features the “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” author on bullying, 7:30 pm, 2/23, UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall. 262-1143.

Cardinal Bar: DJs Wyatt Agard, Dub Borski, 9 pm.

Join us at any or all of these three Wisconsin Academy Talks, which are free and open to the public with advance online registration For event information and registration, please visit wisconsinacademy.org/calendar.

Join us for the free series of Wisconsin Academy Talks

Writing Wisconsin’s Future

Writing Wisconsin’s Climate Tuesday, February 23, from 7–8:00 pm UW–Madison Biotechnology Center Auditorium, 425 Henry Mall In her “Writing Wisconsin’s Future” series talk, UW–Madison journalism scholar and science communicator Sharon Dunwoody discusses the evolution and influence of stories about climate change.

Writing Wisconsin’s Waterways Tuesday, March 22, from 7–8:30 pm Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Lecture Hall, 201 State Street Environmental journalist Peter Annin and author Jerry Apps share the story of water in Wisconsin—where it’s been and where it’s going—for their “Writing Wisconsin’s Future” talk.

Writing Wisconsin’s Communities

This spring, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters is looking at our state through the lens of writing. Under the theme “Writing Wisconsin’s Future,” we are hosting a series of talks in Madison with poets, authors, scholars, and journalists whose writing can help us imagine a brighter future for Wisconsin.

This series is made possible through the generosity of Wisconsin Academy members, donors, and the following program sponsors: The Great Performance Fund at Madison Community Foundation

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Tuesday, May 3, from 7–8:30 pm Wisconsin Studio in Oveture Center for the Arts, 201 State Street For Writing Wisconsin’s Communities, Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser leads a panel of poets in a discussion about how creative writing can engage—and energize—a community. Panelists include: Fabu Carter, Dion Kempthorne, and Timothy Yu.

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The store sells everything Lego, from completed collectible sets to decapitated minifigs.

Bricks & Minifigs is a new and used Lego headquarters

BY CANDICE WAGENER

The Bricks & Minifigs store in Fitchburg may give older shoppers pause. Just what is the place selling? Yard pavers and small fruit trees?

But Lego fans will know immediately that, as the name implies, the shop sells bricks (the basic Lego pieces that build structures, vehicles and just about any other object you can think of) as well as minifigs (mini-figures, the Lego characters whose body parts are completely interchangeable).

The shop, which opened in October 2015, is one of a nationwide franchise with a dozen locations. Local owner Dan Jacobsohn knew the concept would fit well in Madison: “What’s exciting about being here is there’s such focus on recycling and reuse.” (The store’s motto is “Rebuild, reuse, reimagine!”)

Bricks & Minifigs is your one-stop shop to buy, sell or trade Lego pieces. While the store

sells some brand-new Lego sets, more than half the store is dedicated to used sets, many already assembled, some of which haven’t been on the market in years. The Harry Potter, Mars Mission, Knights’ Kingdom and pre-The Force Awakens Star Wars sets, just to name a few, are collectible. Several other shelves carry “used” sets still unopened and unused in their boxes.

In-store, four bulk tables contain bricks sorted by color, from which you can fill various sizes of take-out containers or bags for $8-$60, with any pieces you want. Another bulk table concentrates on minifig parts, with different sections for heads, hats, torsos, legs and arms, allowing you to custom-design as many minifigs as you’d like for $8 apiece.

Jacobsohn says some customers can spend hours at this spot.

Many items have been brought in by customers to sell or trade. The store will buy anything that’s a Lego product, whether it’s

a bucket of bricks, minifigs or complete sets.

Jacobsohn recommends customers bring in sets already built, with instructions, for better resale value.

What you get back (in cash or store credit) depends on the state the Lego pieces are in, the piece’s current popularity and the store’s inventory.

The store also hosts birthday parties, which have been booking out about a month in advance. So far, they’ve celebrated kids from 4 to 45. Jacobsohn says they’re considering the possibility of doing workplace parties eventually.

“For me, making sure that there’s space for everybody in their lives to play is incredibly important,” says Jacobsohn. “It’s so easy nowadays to be completely caught up in work and all those other distractions. This kind of physical play is something that I think is necessary and a great way for people to connect.” n

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Health & Wellness Volunteer with UNITED WAY Volunteer Center Call 246-4380 or visit volunteeryourtime.org to learn about opportunities Join other volunteers on Feb 21 to help care for the UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve. Winter activities include removing invasive plants, maintaining trails, collecting trash, and cleaning fire circles. Tools and gloves provided. Groups and minors are okay with advance notice.

Disability Pride Madison is seeking a Social Media Ambassador. Invite folks to events through your Facebook, post pics, tweet out our fundraisers create links. Help create disability pride and culture in cyberspace.

A couple of times each year St. Mary’s Adult Day Health Center has a chance to host the Retro Swing Band. Their music is lively and very danceable but the clients will never get out on the dance floor without an able-bodied partner to “lead” or “guide” them. You could be that person!

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Happenings The Wisconsin Vintage Guitar Show will Be Sunday March 20th from 10am-5pm at Madison Turners Hall 3001 S. Stoughton Rd. BUY,SELL,TRADE,BROWSE! All Guitars, basses,banjos, and mandolins are welcome!

Admission is $7, $6 if you bring a guitar to show or sell,$5 for kids.

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65 He wrote, directed, and starred in the 2003 cult film “The Room” 67 Short cleaner?

68 Jouster’s outfit 69 Ferrell’s cheerleading partner on “SNL” 70 Antlered animal 71 Bumps in the road 72 Loch of legend DOWN

1 Major uproar 2 Time-half link 3 Asian capital nicknamed the City of Azaleas 4 Fork over 5 “According to me,” in shorthand 6 Small bite 7 Less caloric, in ads 8 Neighborhoods 9 Prison chief

10 Best Actress nominee for 2015’s “Room” 11 Alaska’s ___ Fjords National Park 12 Blow off 13 Club crowd-workers 17 Masc. alternative 21 Canter or trot 23 Fish served on a cedar plank 25 “Huckleberry Finn” transport 26 Johnny ___ (“Point Break” character) 27 He played a part in 2000’s “Boiler Room” 29 Maurice and Robin’s brother 30 In storage 34 Wrestler’s objective 35 H, as in Greek 37 Apple MP3 player 38 P, in the NATO phonetic alphabet 41 “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” publisher 44 “___ know what it’s like ...”

48 Olympics broadcaster Bob 51 “___ Fideles” 52 Architectural rib 53 Tennis champ Rafael 54 Primrose protector 56 Use 62-Down 58 Austen title matchmaker 59 Skyline haze 61 Right turns, horsewise 62 Sculling needs 63 “Rapa-___” (1994 Easter Island film) 66 2222 and 2468, e.g., briefly LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

Isthmus seeks an

Advertising Executive

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This is a great opportunity to start or advance your sales career

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Ideal candidate will: • Enjoy working with local business owners and agencies.

• Be outgoing and not fear rejection.

• Be goal oriented and organized.

• Desire to work for the best company in Madison (as voted by Isthmus staff).

You will focus on selling a range of advertising products into a cross-platform media mix, including print, digital and special events, while maintaining a professional image and a strong commitment to customer satisfaction.

No experience necessary, but media sales experience is a plus. Bachelor’s degree is preferred.

Your reward is competitive compensation and good benefits.

This position is available immediately.

PLEASE SEND LETTER & RESUME by email to: Chad Hopper, Advertising Manager: hopper@isthmus.com Subject: Advertising Executive. No phone calls, please.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY / AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER

n SAVAGE LOVE

The past is never dead

BY DAN SAVAGE

is telling you the truth about those other men being her ex-husband’s idea/fantasy and not hers.

As for whether she’s testing you: That’s a pretty easy test to fail, CINOVA. Open your mouth and say, “Cuckolding isn’t something I would ever want to do. The thought of you with another man isn’t a turn-on for me. Not at all.” It’s an easy F. What should you do? If you can’t let this go, if you can’t get over the sex your girlfriend had with her ex-husband and those other men, if you can’t hope she had a good time regardless of whose idea it was, if you can’t take “I’m not interested in cuckolding you!” for an answer — if you can’t do all of that — then do your girlfriend a favor and break up with her. She just got out from under a shitty husband who pressured her into “cheating.” The last thing she needs now is a shitty boyfriend who shames her for “cheating.”

My new girlfriend blurted out that she had a cuckolding past with her ex-husband.

She says her ex badgered her into arranging “dates” with strangers and that he picked the guys. Her ex would then watch her having sex with a guy in a hotel room.

The ex only watched and didn’t take part.

I am really bothered by her past. She says she did it only because her ex pressured her into it and she wanted to save her marriage, so she agreed. But I suspect she may have enjoyed it and may have been testing me to see if I wanted to be a cuck.

What should I do? I am really torn by my feelings toward her.

Confused In NOVA You suspect she may have enjoyed fucking those other men?

I hope she enjoyed fucking those other men — and you should too, CINOVA. Because even if cuckolding wasn’t her fantasy, even if she fucked those other men only to delight her shitty ex-husband, anyone who cares about this woman — and you do care about her, right? — should hope the experiences she had with those other men weren’t overwhelmingly negative, completely traumatizing, or utterly joyless.

And, yes, people will sometimes broach the subject of their own sexual interests/ fantasies using the passive voice or a negative frame because they’re afraid of rejection or they want an easy out or both. (“My ex was into this kinda extreme thing, and I did it because I felt I had to.” “That’s gross.” “Yeah, I totally hated it.”) But cuckolding is almost always the husband’s fantasy — it’s rare for the wife to initiate cuckolding scenes/relationships — so odds are good that your girlfriend

CRAIG WINZER

My husband is Native American. I’m white. We’ve been together 16 years, raising a couple kids. We love each other very much, so this isn’t a deal breaker. I’ve got a thing for his long black hair. He’s a drop-dead gorgeous man, and while I gave up asking that he wear leggings or a breechcloth once in a while, I wish he would grow out his hair. I’m willing to wear (and do) anything he asks. He’s somewhere to the left of Sherman Alexie when it comes to this stuff, but could you tell me why I’m so wrong? He keeps his hair short, and the one time I made enough of a fuss, he grew it out and never washed it just to spite me. A long time ago, he participated in a sun dance, and he looked incredible. So I guess that makes me a blasphemous pervert, but really? Is asking for a couple of braids really so wrong?

Whitey McWhite Wife

I forwarded your email to Sherman Alexie, the award-winning poet, novelist, essayist and filmmaker. Your question must have touched a nerve, WMW, because Alexie’s response arrived while my computer was still making that woooosh-sending-email sound. Now I’m going to step aside and let Alexie answer your question.

“What does ‘to the left of Sherman Alexie’ mean in this context? I doubt there are very many Native dudes more leftist than me! And long hair on Indian men is more conservative and more tribal, anyway — more ceremonial. More of a peacock thing, really. And a lot of work! My Native wife certainly misses my long hair. But I don’t miss the upkeep, and I don’t miss answering questions about my hair. I mean, I cut my hair 13 years ago (more than 25% of my life ago), and some people still ask me about it! Thirteen years! Also, Native men tend to cut their hair as they age. Long hair is generally a young Indian man’s gig, culturally speaking.

“I would venture that Native dude is tired of being romanticized, ethnocized, objectified. We Indians get enough of that shit in the outside world. Maybe this dude doesn’t want that in bed. Or maybe he just likes the way he looks with shorter hair.

Because I am getting so gray, long hair would make me look like a warlock having a midlife crisis. Maybe this Indian dude is just sick of all the sociopolitical shit that comes with long hair. Maybe it kills his boner. Talking about it has certainly killed my boner.” n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net, or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

n P.S. MUELLER

Uncle Gene has been in Vegas placing bets on who will be first lady

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