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A mischievous dog protects penguins from fox attacks in this heartwarming comedy.

4 PM –THE CROW’S EGG India | 2014 | 91 min

2:15 PM – SHORTER AND SWEETER More family friendly shorts from around the world.

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Two young brothers growing up in the slums of Chennai have only one dream: to someday eat a slice of pizza.

Recommended for ages 10 and up

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CATTLE CALL

Finding fresh fodder for MTV’s Real World.

6-9 NEWS

BRAIN DRAIN

What does weakened tenure mean for UW faculty?

READY FOR OUR CLOSE-UP

Presidential campaign arrives in Madison.

DARIEN LAMEN 6 NEWS

LAURA JONES 15 COVER STORY SINCE GRADUATING FROM NEW York University’s prestigious film school in 1992, Laura Jones has spent a career working in film and television. She jumped at the chance to profile the legendary David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. “I knew them both as scholars who quite literally wrote the book (and many books) about film, but I was surprised at how dynamic, friendly and passionate they both were,” Jones says.

Reporting the story uncovered lots of surprises, including the fact that Thompson reads hieroglyphics.

WITH A PH.D. IN ETHNOMUSIcology, Darien Lamen moved to Madison in 2012 to teach at the University of Wisconsin. Now working at WORT-FM as the interim assistant news director, he remains interested in academic issues and is committed to the survival of critical thought inside the university and out.

This week he looks at how the weakening of tenure protections at UW is affecting faculty.

10 TECH

Love at 33 1/3 rpm Sat., March 26, High Noon Saloon, noon-3:30 pm Replenish your vinyl stock and support your local community radio station at the same time at WORT-FM’s Record Riot.

Quaff your favorite suds while grooving to WORT spin-meisters.

WEIGHT CONTROL

Football coaches are early adopters of fitness device.

12 OPINION

PAY FOR PLAY

NCAA b’ball players should get a piece of the action.

15 COVER STORY

MOVIE STARS

UW scholars are the ultimate film buffs.

21 ARTS

CROSS-POLLINATION

Visionary artist creates farm-art-academics mashup.

23-26 FOOD & DRINK

HEARTY AND HEARTFELT

Holstein Kitchen knows its meat and potatoes.

FELINE GROOVY Cats lovers flock to kitty cafe.

28 SPORTS

We love a parade

NEVER SAY DIE

Badgers in fighting form for Sweet 16.

Sat., March 26, Capitol Square, noon

Grab your Easter bonnet and your kids and head for the 14th Annual Easter Hat Parade. No hat, you say? There’s a hat-making workshop at Capitol Kids 10-11:30 am (as well as baby chicks and lambs — awwww). Joining the parade are Wild Rumpus Circus stilt walkers and music by Yid Vicious and friends.

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MUSICAL SCORES

Clara celebrates the life, and loves, of Clara Schumann.

CANDIDATES’ ANSWERS THIS ISSUE MARKS ANOTHER annual tradition for Isthmus: publication of the voter guide compiled by the League of Women Voters of Dane County.

We’ve been designing and inserting the questionnaire in our print issue since 1998, but the League does all the hard prep work. And it has been doing it for at least 45 years, according to Mary Bean, a longtime League member who looked through her stack of questionnaires and found the oldest was a mimeographed copy from 1971.

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HAPPINESS IS THE TRUTH

Alt-rockers Mutemath bring an upbeat message.

33 BOOKS

RITES OF PASSAGE

White Dresses recounts a difficult Midwest childhood.

34 SCREENS

HOLIDAY HORROR SHOW

Krisha is a searing look at family, addiction.

44 EMPHASIS

COMFORT ZONE

The Bodgery welcomes all makers.

IN EVERY ISSUE 9 MADISON MATRIX 9 WEEK IN REVIEW 12 THIS MODERN WORLD 13 FEEDBACK 13 OFF THE SQUARE

One turns 10 Tues., March 29, Winedown, 118 State St., 5:30 pm

Toast the activist group One Wisconsin Now (motto: “Fighting for a Wisconsin with Equal Economic Opportunity for All”) as they celebrate their 10th anniversary, with featured guest U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan. Bringing a gift?

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Photo-provocateur Tues., March 29, UW Memorial Union Shannon Hall, 7:30 pm

Sally Mann’s haunting, large-scale black-and-white photos of teenagers, her family and decaying Southern landscapes (At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, Immediate Family, What Remains) have at times invited controversy. Find out why at this lecture by the award-winning photographer and author.

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Join Wisconsin Bike Fed executive director (and Isthmus blogger) Dave Cieslewicz for a discussion of the symbiotic relationship between bikes and cities, followed by a group ride around the Capitol Square. Don’t forget your helmet!

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Scores of aspiring reality TV stars wait in line at Union South to audition for MTV’s Real World.

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Erica Tessmann’s biggest fear in life is dying with regrets.

This is the first thing that the 21-year-old UW-Madison student tells me when I sit down next to her in a third floor conference room at Union South, where she and dozens of others are lining up to audition for a shot to be on the cast of MTV’s Real World.

“When I’m lying in my bed with 20 breaths left, I don’t want to be thinking, ‘Dang, I really should have done that,’” says Tessmann.

Real World can be credited — or blamed — for launching the modern reality television genre. First aired in 1992 and now in its 31st season, the show puts a diverse group of twentysomethings together in a house and lets the drama unfold.

Part social experiment, part unscripted soap opera, the series was revolutionary in its early seasons as cast members grappled with issues like sexual orientation, race, politics, religion and substance abuse. But some Real World purists argue later seasons

Year Real World first aired: 1992 Number of seasons: 31

have devolved into drunken hookups, fistfights and gimmicks like “surprise visits” from family members and ex-lovers.

I went to the casting call on a whim, drawn by a mix of 1990s pop culture nostalgia and a supreme curiosity about what sorts of people would show up — and why anyone would do such a thing.

“I’m young, I’m stupid, and I want to put myself out there,” says Michael Braatz, an aspiring model and actor. Originally from Hayward, he studied at Madison College before dropping out to travel the world and now performs as a drag queen under the name Regina Taylor. He sees the show as an opportunity to break into the entertainment business and build his own personal brand.

“I used to be redneck as fuck,” Braatz jokes.

“I’m trying to live a life bigger than what I came from.”

Within an hour, dozens of prospective reality stars pack into the waiting room. They fill out questionnaires revealing their hopes, dreams, deepest fears and darkest secrets and carry

Cities the show has been filmed in: 22 Number of cast members from Wisconsin: 5, INCLUDING U.S. REP. SEAN DUFFY

headshots with hopes that the producers will remember them when it comes time for a callback. One guy brings a 12-pack of Spotted Cow. In many ways, the people auditioning for the show were almost exactly what one would expect — friendly, extroverted, eager to connect with others and unabashed about sharing details of their personal lives.

Some, like Braatz, come seeking fame and fortune. Ta’tiana Clacks, a 27-year-old UW-Madison student and the mother of a 7-year-old, styles herself as “the next Nicki Minaj” in hot pink crop top and leggings and gold platforms.

“I want to show the world what I’ve got,” she says.

Others, like 21-year-old Libby DeGregorio, just come to check it out.

“I’m about to graduate,” says the 21-year-old UW-Madison student. “I’m taking a year off, and I don’t know what to do, so why not go live in the Real World house?”

As someone whose idea of good television is a Ken Burns documentary, I am shocked by how many people are Real World superfans. But it seems the show has resonated with millennials the same way it did for Gen Xers 20 years ago.

“There’s nothing better than reality TV,” says Jimmy Bales, 22, a former television student and self-described “reality TV buff.” He likes the genre because it allows people to be “true to themselves” and doesn’t shy away from tough topics.

For Tessmann, being cast on the show would give her a chance to open up about her own personal struggles with anxiety and depression.

“A lot of people don’t like to talk about it,” Tessmann says. “But if I can help even one person, it’s worth it.” n

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The trouble with tenure Some UW faculty consider abandoning ship, but many never had a lifeboat

BY DARIEN LAMEN

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Jesse Stommel was born in Madison, just a mile from the UW campus. Working there had always been his dream job.

And so he surprised even himself last year when he decided to leave a coveted tenure-track position at the UW-Madison for a non-tenure-track job at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia.

Stommel says the reasons for that decision are complex. But chief among them is what he calls a “lifeboat mentality” that has taken hold in the midst of UW’s tenure troubles.

“The narrative that started to be spun by my senior colleagues was that we have to take tenure extraordinarily seriously, because we have to protect it from all of the people that would swoop in and take it away from us,” Stommel says. “For practical purposes, that meant that anything that didn’t fit into a really traditional frame ended up not being trusted and, essentially, not being allowed.”

Stommel says he was discouraged from dedicating so much time to digital publications and activist scholarship on pedagogy, innovative work he says he was hired to do.

“I can understand what motivates it,” he says. “But when a system puts people in a position where they feel like they have to stay quiet in their lifeboat, otherwise they might drown too, that’s the point at which things start breaking down.”

Stommel is one of several UW faculty who have left in the wake of a one-two punch delivered to the university last year

by Gov. Scott Walker and the Republicancontrolled Legislature. The first was a $250 million cut in state funding, and the second was removal of faculty tenure from state statute. The Board of Regents recently adopted a system-wide tenure policy, but gave administrators greater flexibility to terminate even tenured faculty.

The fallout from these actions is still just starting to be felt. Many warn of a growing exodus of talented professors. Last semester alone, UW-Madison spent nearly $9 million to retain “star faculty” who were contemplating offers elsewhere, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

But is everyone leaving for the same reason? And what about those who can’t leave, or who won’t?

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One of the university’s high-profile departures was announced two weeks ago by Sara Goldrick-Rab, who will leave her tenured position in Educational Policy Studies this July for a tenured position at Temple University.

“I always thought I’d be 80 years old and retiring before I had to say goodbye,” says Sara Goldrick-Rab, who calls the decision “heart-breaking, gut-wrenching.”

Goldrick-Rab founded the Wisconsin HOPE Lab and served for years on the

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Committee on Undergraduate Recruitment, both efforts to help low-income, minority and nontraditional students access higher education. She was originally drawn to the UW because of its reputation for scholarship in the public interest, a central tenet of the Wisconsin Idea. But she says even with tenure, politicized scholarship like hers has become increasingly risky.

Despite having taught and brought in more than $10 million in research funding, she worried she could be laid off “in the name of efficiency” under the regents’ new tenure policy.

“If the University of Wisconsin cannot be a supportive environment for that work, I have to find a new one,” she says.

She recognizes that not everyone has the luxury to leave.

“We’re not going to see an exodus,” she says.

“What we are going to see is a fundamental change in what made this place great. We’re going to see a change in the intellectual culture.”

Lost in much of the recent high-stakes, highvolume debate over the demise of “real tenure” and the defection of “star faculty” at the UW, is the fact that the vast majority of those who

“What we are going to see is a fundamental change in what made this place great. We’re going to see a change in the intellectual culture.”

— Sara Goldrick-Rab teach there already do so without the job security and intellectual freedom that tenure is designed to provide.

According to data compiled by the UW System, UW-Madison employs 2,124 tenure-track faculty, compared to 2,270 non-tenure-track instructional staff and 5,339 graduate assistants.

Nationally, only about three out of 10 faculty are tenure-track. UW-Madison relies less than average on adjunct and part-time faculty but more than average on grad student teaching.

“Academia is like acting or sports,” explains Dan Thurs, a non-tenure-track faculty associate in the Department of Physics. “You’ve got a lot of people after a few tenured positions, and you really only see the ones who make it. But most are going to be doing commercials or playing in the bush leagues for the rest of their lives.”

Many non-tenure-track faculty were unaware of the tenure turmoil.

“I haven’t heard a peep,” says Allison, a lecturer who teaches four courses per semester and asked that her name not be used out of fear of reprisal.

Allison has worked at several universities and knows what it’s like to be a “flyby-night” adjunct, the temp workers of academia who are hired on a semesterby-semester basis for $2,000 to $6,000 per course with no benefits.

At one university, she says she was dismissed because a colleague thought the innovations she was making to a course “made him look bad.” “So all of a sudden, I have no work; I have a condition that requires a lot of medical attention, so I have to have health insurance,”

she says. “I didn’t think I’d ever come back to academia.”

She has since been hired at the UW on a “rolling contract,” which consists of three one-year contracts to start, with the possibility of renewal. Although she sees her job as “pretty stable” now, she’s considering starting a consulting business on the side, just in case.

Rebecca, a lecturer in the hard sciences at UW-Madison who also asked that her name not be used, says not having tenure isn’t her main concern. “I’m pretty mobile, and if I did lose my job, I would be willing to uproot and move elsewhere,” she says.

But she’s troubled by the pay disparity and lack of input into her department, since she estimates that those without tenure who teach have “comparably intense” workloads to those with tenure who do research.

“Do I deserve to be a second-class citizen where that person who does more specialized work gets to have amazing voting privileges while I can’t vote about anything that happens in the curriculum?” she says. “I think that’s bullshit.”

Allison says there’s no reason the kind of tenure protections afforded to those who do challenging research couldn’t also be extended to those who do innovative teaching, a measure the American Association of University Professors has recommended as well.

But she believes tenured faculty would have to do more to advocate for those without it. “I hope that if UWMadison stops being under fire, we could start making decisions like that.”

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At the heart of the UW tenure debate is a clash of visions for public higher education, says Goldrick-Rab. “The current leadership of both the state and the UW System seems to think that what we’re supposed to do is simply...engage in job training that prepares students for a narrow set of things.”

“There’s nothing wrong with job training,” she adds. “But it doesn’t prepare you for life. It doesn’t allow you to develop those critical thinking skills that allow you to be a contributing member of our democracy, your community, and, most importantly, to have job after job after job and develop careers that provide economic security.”

On that, Dan Thurs would likely agree.

“I’d rather have a discussion about the role of the university in today’s society than a debate about tenure.”

“Maybe it’s a proxy for that discussion,” muses Thurs. “‘What should the university be doing? What is its role, really?’” n

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They’re here!

Democratic presidential campaigns give special attention to Madison

BY STEVEN POTTER

The presidential campaign — at least the Democratic one — has officially arrived in Madison, with both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders opening offices here late last week.

And yes, they will have yard signs.

Serving as headquarters for voter outreach efforts before the April 5 Wisconsin primary, the Bernie Sanders office is downtown at 122 State St., while the Hillary Clinton camp is on the west side at 6409 Odana Road. The Republican candidates are also honing in on Wisconsin, although none appear to have opened offices in liberalleaning Madison.

In the Dane County area of the 2nd Congressional District, there are 11 Democratic delegates up for grabs, the most of any district in the state, which has 57 total Democratic delegates.

Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll, has conducted two polls of the Democratic presidential race this year.

Combined results for January and February show Clinton and Sanders are in a 44%-44% tie statewide.

But in Madison, Sanders “is running well ahead compared to the state as a whole,” says Franklin. Here, 57% of voters approve of Sanders, with 28% favoring Clinton and 15% undecided.

Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor, agrees that Madison is key to Sanders’ chances here. “Sanders managed to turn out thousands of people

for a rally in Madison last summer,” he says, referring to Sanders’ appearance last July at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. “His supporters in the area are already organizing to turn out progressives on primary day. He will need to run especially well in the district if he is going to win the statewide vote.”

Sanders is expected to visit Wisconsin before the primary, but a time and place have

campaign won’t concede the district’s delegates without a fight. “A broad coalition of Democrats have given Hillary Clinton a nearly insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, but she remains committed to earning every vote by sharing her plans to move our country forward,” Varonis says. “That is why Hillary Clinton is committed to Madison, committed to Dane County and committed to Wisconsin; and why our volunteers and staff have been on the ground for months and will continue to make phone calls, knock on doors and let voters know that Hillary Clinton is the only candidate who can break down the barriers holding Americans back.”

Clinton does not currently have any scheduled stops in Wisconsin before the April 5 election. But her daughter, Chelsea, will be in Madison on March 24, with visits also planned for Milwaukee and Waukesha.

D emo cratic strategist Joe Zepecki, who was the Wisconsin communications director for President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, says Madison voters are worth the effort.

DAVID MICHAEL MILLER “[It’s] a critical bloc for any statenot been set yet. Robert Dempsey, statewide wide campaign in a Democratic primary director for Sanders’ Wisconsin effort, says his due to the number of votes available and the candidate has “tremendous” support here. He reliable turnout,” he says. “In a presidential says the campaign is focused on “reaching out primary, that amplifies its importance.” to the hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites In addition to voting for the presidential who support Bernie Sanders and his message nominee, Madison and Dane County voters of economic equality and opportunity.” will on April 5 vote for the next justice of Yianni Varonis, communications director the state Supreme Court and a handful of for Clinton’s campaign in Wisconsin, says the county supervisor seats. n

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Daniel Litvak was working out one day in late 2014 when he noticed some weightlifters doing a ridiculous thing: using paper and pen to document workout data. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a computer science major and entrepreneur, that just felt wrong,â&#x20AC;? he says.

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Good thing, because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to need it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still building every unit by hand, because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not at a point where we can afford to ship it off and have someone do it for us,â&#x20AC;? Chulick explains.

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March money madness Who profits — and who doesn’t — from the lucrative NCAA basketball tournament

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

He blogs as Citizen Dave at Isthmus.com.

Wisconsinites leapt from their couches Sunday night, spilling salsa and flinging chips all around as Bronson Koenig drained an improbable three-pointer from the corner to give the Badgers another trip to the Sweet Sixteen.

Many of us might agree that the man who drew up that play is worth a hefty sum. But is the man who executed it really worth nothing?

The National Collegiate Athletic Association will make about $11.5 million off of every game in this year’s March Madness basketball tournament. The NCAA gets an average of $771 million a year from CBS to cover the tournament’s 67 games.

In 2014, NCAA president Mark Emmert made $1.7 million, and NCAA administrators pulled in a total of $54 million in pay and benefits. Most of the rest, about $546 million, was distributed to universities.

Coaches get a lot of that. For example, UW-Madison just hired Greg Gard to be its men’s basketball coach for $1.75 million this year with automatic increases of $50,000 in each year of his five-year contract.

But the players get nothing. In fact, the NCAA enforces arcane rules to make sure that players get absolutely nothing. Joe Nocera reports that the NCAA has even prohibited colleges from picking up the tab for low-income family members to travel to watch their sons and brothers play in the tournament.

Nocera’s new book Indentured is another in a growing list of books, articles, documentaries and lawsuits that may one day topple the mighty cartel that is the NCAA. Still, Gard’s and even Emmert’s salary isn’t the real issue. Too often the focus among academics is on resentment over the high salaries paid to coaches and athletic administrators. In fact, UW-Madison

DAVID MICHAEL MILLER

Chancellor Rebecca Blank has called for a cap on coaches’ salaries.

But that misdiagnoses the problem. The trouble isn’t that Greg Gard’s salary will creep up toward $2 million a year. The problem is that Bronson Koenig can’t be paid a dime. The issue isn’t how much the coaches are being paid but how much the players are not being paid.

The UW’s “shoegate” controversy of several years ago points up the hypocrisy of it all. In 2001, an investigation found that 147 UW athletes received discounts on shoes at the Shoe Box store in Black Earth. The benefits totaled about $23,000, which comes to $156 per student. All hell broke loose. Some players were suspended, and all of them — some from very poor families — were forced to pay back the amount of their discounts to charity. Some were forced to do community service work as if they had committed a crime as opposed to having just violated an NCAA rule.

Flash-forward to now. In July, UW athletics will start a 10-year, $96 million deal with Under Armour to provide uniforms and, yes, shoes to all of its players. It is reported to be among the most lucrative deals in the country.

Let this sink in. The UW athletic department can pull down almost $10 million a year for requiring its players to wear the shoes it gets from Under Armour and act as billboards for the company. Yet, if those same players were to go to a store and receive a special discount for shoes that they might want to wear off the court, they’d be subject to penalties that might end their athletic careers.

This is why every economist on the face of the earth recognizes the NCAA as a cartel designed to keep the free market out of the

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competition for players even as it allows the market to work to the benefit of coaches, administrators, television networks, shoe and apparel manufacturers and all kinds of companies that make lots of money off of the performances of those very same players.

In a city as progressive as Madison, where social justice might as well be part of the official city motto, how can we let this fierce exploitation of labor go on without so much as a mild objection?

I love college sports, and the Badgers especially. But I can’t attend a game or watch one on television without a gnawing sense that I’m contributing to a system that is fundamentally and egregiously unfair.

I would enjoy the games more if I knew that the players were fairly compensated for their work. And no, a scholarship is not fair compensation when you consider the players who never finish their degrees because they weren’t ready for college. In fact, the NCAA can’t say that scholarships are payment because that would make athletes employees, subject to the right to bargain collectively. That’s why the NCAA insists on calling them “student-athletes.”

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Wake up, Dave I find Citizen Dave’s opinion piece “Should a Liberal Vote for Kasich?” (3/18/2016) appalling. Yes, Dave Cieslewicz, you can share this other guy’s ideas and strategies for voting in Wisconsin’s upcoming primary and again in November. However, what disturbs me is how you quickly proceed to write off real possibilities for election outcomes.

When I read “So, with the nomination pretty much sewn up by Clinton,” I feel irritated. This is an erroneous presumption and only serves to dissuade voters from thoughtful and active participation. This does not meet needs for respect and consideration of voters, or democracy itself.

A better strategy for you and that liberal friend of yours is to let voters in Wisconsin, and those in primaries to come, be the ones to sew up the race at the end of the primary season. You are wielding Citizen Dave power in a way that puts a damper on democracy and aliveness afoot in rural communities and urban centers alike.

Stop it! Bernie Sanders is a formidable contender. This is not a liberal movement, but a local and grassroots groundswell.

Wake, up Dave. Wake up, naysayers!

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I take exception to Isthmus highlighting the work of graffiti “artist” ATER (Snapshot, “Graffiti Rush,” 3/10/2016). Praising his efficiency in working covertly under stress, the author, Dylan Brogan, admiringly extoled his virtues as though he was a fine craftsman.

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Finally, to tout the legal exemption for a reporter to be present to document and report on this act of vandalism only serves to indict the journalism profession.

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Corrections and clarifications The URL for Banzo Shük in last week’s review was incorrect. The correct URL for both Banzo restaurants is banzomadison. com. “Uncontested,” last week’s story about Dane County Board races, should have noted that one of the candidates, Adam Tobias, has contributed movie reviews to Isthmus and that he works for state Rep. Joe Sanfelippo (R-New Berlin).

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UW Cinematheque at Vilas Hall and tried to sit in the center of the first row, you’ll find those seats usually aren’t available. They’re reserved for David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, two local film scholars who have changed the way the world looks at cinema. Since the late 1970s, the couple have written books, taught classes, blogged and pioneered new approaches to examining film. Along the way, they’ve affected generations of both filmmakers and critics, and, some say, the industry itself.

“If you go to any film festival and David or Kristin walk in, they’re recognized. They’re held as celebrities,” says Peter Debruge, chief international critic for Variety magazine.

“Filmmakers know them, critics know them.

Anyone who wants to engage with cinema does so by first reading their work. They literally wrote the book that everyone reads.”

That book, the cornerstone of all Film 101 courses, is Bordwell and Thompson’s Film Art: An Introduction, now in its 11th edition. Recently, it was ranked 153rd on the Open Syllabus Project’s list of most-used college textbooks, and it’s the only film book in the top 200. That might be enough of an accomplishment for any scholar, but Bordwell and Thompson continue to be prolific — and relevant. The couple’s blog, “Observations on Film Art,” contains more

for advice and connections. Jim Healy, the director of programming for both organizations, says Bordwell and Thompson serve a critical role: “One of their contributions is that they’ve helped bridge the gap between the academic world and the popular world.” films. They really do love cinema. They have this energy you feel when you talk to them.”

Though they work closely together, the two are markedly different as individuals.

Bordwell is ebullient, brimming over with ideas that animate him. Thompson is more subdued, choosing her words more carefully, but packing a wallop with each quiet observation. The two are consistently tapped by local film programmers, including staffers for Cinematheque and the Wisconsin Film Festival,

bordwell first fell in love with

film as a boy living on a farm in upstate New York. “My family only went to town once a week,” he remembers. “I had to watch films on TV, mainly old movies from the ’40s. But I started reading books about film when I was 12, and that’s what drew me in.” Thompson’s cinephilia emerged later, when she was an undergraduate at the University of Iowa. She was a theater major who took an elective course on the history of film on a whim. “By the time I got my bachelor’s degree, I realized I didn’t want to be in theater anymore,” says Thompson.

The pair met in Iowa in the early 1970s when Thompson, who was born in Iowa City, was finishing her undergraduate degree and Bordwell was beginning his master’s. Iowa was one of the only schools to have a dedicated film school at the time, but the program was limited. When UW-Madison offered Bordwell a teaching job, the couple migrated to Madison, which was a center of film culture when they arrived in 1977.

By that time, major studios had donated thousands of films to the campus-based Center for Film and Theater Research. The respected film theory magazine The Velvet Light Trap was edited by graduate students at the UW and the University of Texas at Austin. “Plus there was a very active film society scene, maybe 25 film societies,” says Bordwell. “You could see a movie any night of the week and choose between four or five.”

While Bordwell taught, Thompson pursued her Ph.D. and even worked as a teaching assistant in Bordwell’s introductory course on the “language of film.” The class was packed each semester with hundreds of students, and eventually led to the offer to write Film Art. “The standard template was to teach a historical survey on film,” Bordwell says. “But we wanted to teach the language of film. In other words, the elements or ingredients of

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than 700 entries, not just on classic cinema, but on current films anyone would recognize: Mad Max: Fury Road, Paranormal Activity, Spotlight; even broad comedies, such as Sisters or Daddy’s Home.

Bordwell, who retired in 2004 after 31 years of teaching in the UW Communications Arts Department, has just published a new book on revolutionary critics of the 1940s, and Thompson is turning her attention to a surprising second career working as an Egyptologist.

“One of the things that’s fascinating is that, after David retired, he and Kristin worked more than ever,” says filmmaker and UW Faculty Associate Erik Gunneson. “The blog is just incredible. The number of things they cover, everything from the best films of 90 years ago to current analysis of popular

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film as a medium: editing, lighting, staging, sound.” With Thompson’s specialty in film history, she was brought on to help write those chapters.

Gunneson, who now works with the couple creating film segments in support of Film Art, emphasizes the book’s worldwide impact. “Whenever I visit David and Kristin, they always have it in a new language. Recently he gave me the Chinese edition. It’s just global.” Gunneson also points out that Film Art has influence far beyond academic circles. Roger Ebert was a fan of their work; Bordwell wrote the foreword to his book The Great Movies III. Well-respected filmmakers such as Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi) are interested in how the couple view their work.

At the core of their reputation is Bordwell and Thompson’s passion for the art of film.

“The pleasure of moviegoing is not something that has gotten lost,” says Healy. “You can talk to them for hours about movies.

Then you want to go off and watch all the movies they’ve talked about. But they also give you the feeling that it’s mutual. They want to know what you’ve discovered; what you like. They have that unending curiosity.” partners in life and work, bor-

dwell and Thompson married in 1979. Their Film Art collaboration carried over into other books, including the 1994 Film History: An Introduction, which they plan to revise for its

fourth edition next year. Since the beginning, their process has been the same: talking through and mapping out a book together, then going off to write separate chapters on their own. Their home offices are divided by two levels, each surrounded by their own set of books, each a tribute to the work they love and a sanctuary for each writer.

An almost life-sized cut-out of Ian McKellan as Gandalf the Great stands guard on the landing of the stairs leading to Thompson’s office. The wizard is a testament to Thompson’s passion for all things Tolkien.

She’s written extensively on the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies in her book, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, and on dedicated blogs, including theonering.net and kristinthompson.net.

“I’ve been reading Tolkien since high school,” she says. “I had some resistance to the films because you always assume they won’t do justice to something you love. But I liked them more than I thought I would. And there were so many groundbreaking things about how they were doing them.”

Thompson is referring to the multi-tiered franchising of the films. Filmmakers worked hand-in-hand with videogame makers. Extravagant features were shot for the DVDs to help market the films for home release.

“Every aspect of filmmaking, promotion and merchandising was historically new or went beyond what had been done before,” says Thompson. “I realized someone had to write about it. Then I realized it had to be me.”

At the Wisconsin Film Festival in 2006, Thompson interviewed Roger Ebert for her book The Frodo Franchise. He was the last of 76 interviews for the project.

The focus on a popular series isn’t unusual for Thompson or Bordwell. They both tend to see inspiration everywhere, and are just as likely to see a film at the multiplex as an arthouse cinema.

It’s also fascinating to see where the pair diverges. The Tolkien films aren’t particularly Bordwell’s interest — and neither is science fiction or fantasy. He leans more to horror or action movies, especially Hong Kong cinema.

In the interest of their work, they have, as they put it, “divided up the world.” Middle Earth and the Middle East for her, Asia for him. “I think you tend to get interested in films from countries you’ve visited,” Thompson says, “and I’ve visited a lot of Middle Eastern countries.”

Especially Egypt. Thompson was fascinated with Egypt as a child, and always planned to take a trip there. In 1992, she signed up for a short tour that metamorphosed into a fascination with Amarna period sculpture, work done in the 14th century B.C. Now Thompson participates in yearly trips where she helps with statuary reconstruction. She says it’s become a second career.

Bordwell insists she’s being modest. “This is a big deal. She lectures at museums, at Oxford; she’s invited to give these talks all around the world. She’s just really smart,” Bordwell says with a laugh. For someone who has spent most of her writing career devoted to film history, Thompson’s autodidactic turn as an Egyptologist is impressive.

In a few months, Thompson will be in residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and next year, will publish a book on Egyptian statuary, a huge tome, mainly for specialists. Through it all, she continues to write about film. An upcoming entry about The Hobbit will hit the blog soon.

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bordwell has plans of his own.

In April, University of Chicago Press will release his new book, The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture.

It’s a tribute to four early reviewers — Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber and Parker Tyler — who originated approaches to film writing, shaping a generation of critics that followed, people like Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris and Roger Ebert. In July, UW Cinematheque will celebrate the book with a screening series of 1940s films where they will hand out some of the early reviews.

Bordwell is passionate about the critics, and when he talks about them, echoes of his own work come to mind. “These critics really cared about their writing, and they all had really unusual styles,” he says. “They were all bad boys in their own way. They all fought what they thought was a very pretentious and stuffy atmosphere.”

Bordwell differentiates these critics from many of today’s reviewers, who he says tend to recycle press releases and merely give a thumbs up or down. The early critics offered interpretation, but many of today’s reviewers only provide opinions. And today’s critics are too likely to follow conventions, says Bordwell: “They never give away an ending.

They usually use a star rating system. They talk about acting. Finally, they praise the film. But you know, you can love bad movies and dislike good ones. Taste is not the same as evaluation.”

Bordwell’s ability to evaluate a film, regardless of whether it suits his taste, is something that stands out for Ben Reiser, coordinator of the Wisconsin Film Festival.

He remembers seeing Johnny Depp’s The Lone Ranger with Bordwell. “A total flop,”

Reiser recalls. “But David always has something interesting to say, and after talking to him about it, I realized there were things in it I hadn’t seen. He and Kristin are like the film Yodas of Madison.”

Like the critics he admires, Bordwell writes with intentional zing. In Rhapsodes, he calls James Cagney “a feral pug.” He writes in metaphors, invoking “the candy-box palette” of a Chagall painting or a trio of Busby Berkeley films, which he calls “three fat cherries on a delectable sundae.” The Rhapsodes is imminently readable, a slim volume that slips in your backpack just as easily as it slips into serious film discourse.

Bordwell wrote for a student newspaper as an undergraduate, and always loved that snappy, journalistic style. “I wondered if I could do journalistic-style writing that was clear enough for people to read but still had an academic dimension to it,” he says. “That was really the experiment behind our blog.”

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Also, Bordwell adds, we still have the Wisconsin Film Festival, Sundance and outlets like the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, which screen arthouse and specialty films. Bordwell says many arthouse theaters around the country are challenged by an aging audience. But in Madison, that scene is different.

“You go to the film festival and there are a lot of young people there,” says Bordwell.

“It’s the same with MMoCA, and that makes Madison kind of unique. I don’t think most towns get that 20- and 30-something range of audiences — and that’s been a constant here since the ’70s.”

Once in New York, both will continue to work on the blog, and Thompson will work on her new book about Egyptology.

Bordwell plans to finish his own volume on Hollywood cinema in the 1940s that he’s been working on for the last four years. The new book is likely to brim over with analysis, culture, history and insight into the art of the cinema.

“As writers and people that have dissected film, they’re just world leaders,” says Healy. “Their influence on the international scene is just absolutely profound.” n

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It’s an unscientifically proven fact that food just tastes better on the farm.

I grew up in suburbia but relished summertime visits to relatives in rural southeastern Minnesota, where old Norwegian ladies worked magic in the kitchen. It’s hard to pin down just one reason why farm food is so delicious — maybe it’s the freshness of the ingredients, maybe it’s the simplicity of the classic recipes or the rustic charm of the setting. Restaurants often try to capture the flavors and the experience (witness the farm-to-table movement), but few capture the true spirit of the cuisine.

Holstein Kitchen, which opened last year at 101 S. Main St. in Oregon, comes as close as any restaurant I’ve ever dined at, though, offering down-home comfort food made with high-quality ingredients.

Before moving to Oregon, owner Scott Zeitler operated the restaurant in Brooklyn, Wis. The menu and concept have changed slightly from the original location, perhaps playing up the farm-to-table trendiness to lure the Madison crowd. But it has a smalltown authenticity and charm.

A few shareable appetizers start off the dinner menu, including two kinds of fried cheese curds. My table opted for the more unusual-sounding preparation — curds tossed in house-made, General Tso’s-inspired sauce with sesame oil, chili and garlic. The deep-fried morsels are tasty enough and hold their crunch surprisingly well under the sauce, but they weren’t the best I’ve had. Still, it’s a generous portion to split among three or four, and the plate was scraped clean when the server arrived to take our order.

Entrees at Holstein focus on meat and potatoes presented with care and refinement. There are a few fresh, hearty-sounding salads, including one topped with a fried egg and cheese curds. And “farm dinner plates” come with an excellent house salad and plenty of fresh bread. Big, gloriously messy sandwiches come with fries and coleslaw, and there’s a wonderful array of sides that can be added to any meal or ordered to share.

Looking over the menu, I realized that the last fried chicken I had was about a decade ago at KFC. When the fried chicken supper arrives, I’m suddenly glad I saved myself for all those years: The breading was light and the chicken almost scandalously moist.

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Keeping with the comfort food theme is the chicken fried steak, a dish I’ve always been curious about but had never tried before my visit to Holstein. It’s pretty much a fried hamburger, and I mean that in the best way possible. The steak comes with snap peas and hearty mashed potatoes, all topped with a light, brown gravy. Another winner is the Blue Ribbon Steakburger, which has two patties stacked with melted cheddar cheese, barbecue sauce, bacon and diced pickles. Dinner ends on a sweet note, with an order of cream

puffs. The Midwestern county fair staple is made a bit more elegant with a drizzle of caramel and a sprinkle of sea salt.

A return visit to try the brunch menu was a similar success. The menu features an array of inventive scrambles, omelets, skillets, breakfast meats and the best French toast I’ve ever had.

It’s muffaletta bread soaked in egg and flashfried to a crisp, topped with powdered sugar. A full order is enormous, but it reheats amazingly well the next day. Or get a half order with dilled Havarti eggs for a sweet and savory combo.

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South of the border Cafe Maya celebrates the best of Mexican coffee piloncillo (brown cane sugar) and cinnamon brewed together in a clay pot that imparts a distinctive flavor to the brew.

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Whitney Square is home to Cafe Maya, 5501 Odana Rd. It’s a Mexican-influenced coffee house that opened in October of last year, taking over the space formerly occupied by Victor Allen’s.

Works from area artists (right now it’s large glass mosaics) line the walls, while the drink menus hang on several wooden chalkboards.

A list of traditional coffee options is bolstered by the addition of three Cafe Maya specialties: Mocha Maya, a mocha made with Mexican chocolate; Horchatte, a latte mixed with the sweet rice-based drink horchata; and Café de olla. This traditional Mexican preparation involves ground coffee beans, orange peel,

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Eats events The Hungry Caterpillar Saturday, March 26

A cooking class for kids ages 2-6 is intended to give them confidence to try new foods. In this session, healthy recipes tie in to Eric Carle’s classic book The Hungry Caterpillar. Includes recipes and coloring sheets to take home. Instructor Tara Verma of Yummy Sprout leads the class, 10:30-11:30 am, Whole Foods, 3313 University Ave. Tickets ($17) through Eventbrite.

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First United Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Ave., will serve a free holiday meal noon-2 pm, cooked by Carmella Glenn, leader of Madison Area Urban Ministries’ Just Bakery Program, and Matt Julian, of Meriter UnityPoint.

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“When my son and I went to visit, one of the first things she did was take us to a cat cafe,” Glover says. “We had a blast.”

Patrons pay an entry fee of $10, which includes one self-serve beverage and all the kitty playtime you can handle. Additional drinks are $2. The hours are subject to change, Glover says, but as of now Cat Cafe Mad is open 3-9 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 3-11 p.m. Thursday and Friday and noon-11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Monday night’s soft opening drew scores of curious, cat-loving humans, but the cats themselves seemed to still be warming up to the idea.

At one point, more than 30 patrons were milling about the space, hopeful for some feline attention, but only a handful of the bravest cats were interested in participating. (I spritzed my ankles with catnip spray before leaving my house to check out the cafe, which I thought would make me a popular guest, but it only succeeded in driving one kitten temporarily insane.)

Object of adoration at the new Cat Cafe Mad.

An employee tried, valiantly, to drag some cats out from the back room where most of them were hiding, but really, the cats are calling the shots. A few felines — aloof but apparently still interested in watching the spectacle — perched in cubby holes built along the wall of the cafe.

But that structure is off-limits for petting, patrons learned. The cats need a “home” space for an escape when they’re tired of attention.

Wisconsin law prevents Cat Cafe Mad from being a “full cafe,” so Glover compromised by making the drinks self-service and keeping the beverage area separate.

Any new business is bound to run into a few kinks in the beginning — particularly a business that depends on the cooperation of cats. Here’s hoping our feline friends continue to get comfortable in their new home — when they’re ready, they’ll certainly have lots of fans waiting for them to come out and play. n

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In what might be the most highly anticipated new business of 2016, Madison’s first “cat cafe” opened March 21 at 1925 Monroe St. Part coffee shop and part petting zoo, the Cat Cafe Mad offers customers a chance to play and interact with 15 cats while enjoying self-service coffee, tea or soda, says owner Cheryl Glover. The concept originated in Asia nearly two decades ago, but it has recently started gaining popularity in the U.S. “We’re really excited and passionate about the idea because we help shelter the cats and provide them a home,” she says.

Most of the cats will be permanent residents at the cafe, but some will be fosters. Glover also plans to have local shelters host adoption events at the cafe.

Glover got the idea to open a cat cafe after visiting her daughter, a Ph.D. student in archaeology at UW-Madison, when she was living in South Korea on a Fulbright scholarship.

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The gose (gose-uh) will be this year’s Common Thread, a collaboratively brewed beer that’s come to symbolize Madison Craft Beer Week.

It’s the fifth year that brewers from around the state (a majority from southern Wisconsin) have joined forces to develop a different recipe and make a beer that gets showcased during the 10-day annual event. Common Thread reflects how brewers who normally compete for shelf space and bar tap lines can come together and make a beer. In 2015, Common Thread was a Belgian tripel that was designed by a group of Wisconsin’s woman brewers.

The selection of a gose for 2016 calls attention to a style that’s gaining in popularity.

It’s an old style of beer, somewhat overlooked.

It originated along the Gose River, which flows through the town of Goslar in the German state of Lower Saxony.

Traditional versions are quite sour and salty. The saltiness in particular likely came from naturally saline and mineral-rich water from around Goslar and Leipzig that was used for brewing. The style is very similar to a hefeweizen in that it’s made with high amounts of malted wheat. It has very low hop bitterness.

However, this beer can have some dryness and spice from additions of coriander and salt.

The gose is commonly fermented with both yeast and lactobacillus, and will range in alcohol from 4% to 5% ABV.

The brew crew at the mashing-in for this year’s collaborative Common Thread.

Gose is not a beer that’s found or made regularly around the U.S., although that’s changing. “It is kind of an exotic style, and it shows our collective ability to cover a wide range of beer types under the Common Thread banner,” says Wisconsin Brewing’s brewmaster, Kirby Nelson.

Along with Nelson, Vintage Brewing brewmaster Scott Manning was among the brewing corps that made this year’s Common Thread. Manning says one of the challenges was using a kettle-souring process to make the beer. Kettle souring involves initially cooking the grains and then stopping the heating process, adding in lactobacillus and sealing the brew kettle to allow the mixture to sit for one to two days until the bacteria imparts a sourness. Then the brew kettle is restarted to kill the bacteria and finish making wort.

A number of Wisconsin brewers have been tinkering with lactobacillus and kettle souring their beers. Manning himself created one last summer called Berliner Geist.

Wisconsin Brewing Company in Verona was the brewing host. Manning says scaling things up on WBC’s brewing system was a welcome challenge. “I can only imagine how difficult it is to fit something goofy like kettlesouring, which occupies the brewhouse for days, into Wisconsin Brewing’s busy production schedule,” says Manning. The initial brew took place March 17, with the restart of the kettle two days later.

The beer will appear throughout Madison on draft during Craft Beer Week, April 29May 8, 2016. Proceeds go to the Wisconsin Brewers Guild and are used for beer education and industry awareness. n

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Bronson Koenig wasn’t talking directly to me last Sunday night on national TV. But I took the University of Wisconsin junior’s comments to CBS Sports reporter Dana Jacobson personally after the Badgers’ unexpected, unlikely and unbelievable 66-63 last-second victory over Xavier.

“Our goal is to always win a national championship, and we always believed in ourselves,” Koenig said, minutes after nailing a three-point buzzer-beater to send the No. 2-seeded Musketeers back to Ohio in the second round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. “The difference was, the media didn’t really believe in us. So, hopefully, you guys believe now.”

Guilty as charged, and faith restored.

The Badgers have won 13 of their last 16 games — including an ugly, low-scoring grinder against Pitt in last Friday’s firstround game — and are the only team in NCAA history to advance to the Sweet 16 five times in six seasons.

The Badgers, a No. 7 seed in the East Regional, will play No. 6 Notre Dame at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on March 25 at 6:27 p.m. on TBS. The winner advances to the Elite Eight on Sunday

against either top-ranked North Carolina or No. 5 and Big Ten rival Indiana.

There hasn’t been this much Sunday night excitement for Wisconsin sports fans since the NFL season. And it’s arguable whether the Green Bay Packers have ever pulled off a play as stunning and significant as the one in which Ethan Happ, with the score tied at 63, threw an inbound pass to Koenig, who dribbled once into the deep right corner and let the ball fly directly in front of the Badgers bench.

A little more than two months ago, UW was 9-9 and headed nowhere fast. But theninterim head coach Greg Gard made some adjustments in the wake of Bo Ryan’s sudden retirement, and less than two weeks after Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez introduced Gard as Ryan’s official replacement, the Badgers find themselves in the position to make a third straight Final Four run.

Is it too soon to broach that possibility? Consider this: The Badgers rebounded from the Pitt game — in which UW played sluggishly, shot only 32% and scored just 16 points in the first 20 minutes — with a performance against Xavier that will go down as one of the all-time greatest. This team’s never-say-die spirit, on display all season long, is peaking at the perfect time. n

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Musical love triangle Fresco Opera’s Clara looks at an unsung heroine — and a scandal

BY HOLLY HENSCHEN

Clara Schumann shattered gender norms and may have broken hearts in 19th-century Germany.

In Clara, Fresco Opera Theatre tackles the scandalous tale of one of history’s finest yet most frequently overlooked musicians.

Performances run April 1-3 at Overture Center’s Promenade Hall.

“It’s a true, tragic love story straight from a soap opera. You can’t make this stuff up,” says Frank Cain, Fresco Opera Theatre’s executive director, co-founder and co-writer of the libretto.

Not only was Clara Schumann a child prodigy and groundbreaking female performer and composer, she was also at the center of a Romantic-era love triangle with Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

She battled for emancipation from her stage father in order to marry Schumann. Robert, supposedly envious of her renowned talent, later attempted suicide, went mad and died in an asylum. Meanwhile, superstar Clara developed an intriguing and intimate relationship with the Schumanns’ student, Johannes Brahms. Supposedly, the two lovers actually burned their letters at one point to

the sound of all three composers’ music played by a female pianist.

“We have a lot of girl power going on with this show,” says Melanie Cain.

Clara showcases the German song style lieder, sing-along tunes played on home pianos during the era of the story.

The play also integrates modern elements into a period piece through projections and multi-layered visual effects.

After Robert’s death, Clara poured herself into promoting his music.

She left her family at home to tour Europe in a time when few women even performed publicly. Clara was also the first to play Brahms’ music in concert. Brahms eventually moved into the family home to help raise the Schumann brood.

“Clara Schumann was this amazing musical force in the 1800s; she was just born at the wrong time,” says Frank Cain. “Without Clara, I would argue there would be no Brahms and no (Robert) Schumann.” n

avoid detection. Rumor has it that Clara’s eighth child, born when Robert was institutionalized, was actually Brahms’ son.

Aside from the drama, Clara was a pioneering composer and performer whose concerts unfailingly sold out. She may have ghost-written some of the music attributed to Robert, as women did not publish music in those days.

“She was the Taylor Swift of the 1840s,” said Melanie Cain, Fresco Opera Theatre co-founder, artistic director and the show’s co-writer. Cain also plays Clara’s mother in the production.

The Cains and Jeff Turk, Fresco’s board president, used the experimental biography Trio as source material. The book’s author, Boman Desai, is a native of Mumbai, and is now based in Chicago.

Desai will speak before each performance of Clara.

Clara is not an actual opera, but rather a play told with music. It follows the unconventional tradition of other Fresco Opera Theatre productions, such as The Real Housewives of Dane County and Opera Smackdown. It unfolds through the perspective of a female historian and to

Clara will be performed April 1-3 at Overture Center’s Promenade Hall. More information is available at FrescoOperaTheatre.com.

Futurefarmers “Seed Journey” is a planned sailing voyage that will transport ancient grains to their long-ago native soil.

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Building on that, “Seed Journey” is a planned sailing voyage that will transport varieties of ancient grains, recently discovered in Oslo, to their long-ago native soil in the Fertile Crescent. During the journey, artists, researchers and Futurefarmers will stop in various cities in Europe and the Middle East to exchange ideas and grains. Depending on the weather, they’ll depart Oslo this autumn and arrive at Istanbul sometime in October 2017. UW students are assisting with preparations for the voyage.

“What we’re doing with students here is that we’re including [them] on the research that we’re doing for the sea journey,” says Franceschini. “Each of the students has a [vocational] practice already, so there’s artists and chemists and biologists. They’ve taken the class because they find something in their work that relates to our project.”

Among other activities, students are designing and making the ship’s sail and the sailors’ togs. “We want to make them, not the everyday sailing outfit,” Francsechini says. “We want to have some personal touch. So we’re trying to make the clothes out of hemp, which is a plant that’s related to the seeds we have on the boat.”

The seeds themselves are ancient grains no longer in wide use. “In a way

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they’re kind of orphans,” says Franceschini.

“They aren’t accepted in the mass market. You can’t really make money off them. And hemp is in the same place right now.”

If none of this sounds much like the art you’re used to, that’s understandable. Though some trace “social practice” art to the 1960s, it was only in 2013 that The New York Times attempted a definition: “Its practitioners freely blur the lines among object making, performance, political activism, community organizing, environmentalism and investigative journalism, creating a deeply participatory art that often flourishes outside the gallery and museum system.”

There’s also a healthy dose of Dada. As the Times noted, it pushes “the old question — ‘Why is it art?’ — as close to the breaking point as contemporary art ever has.”

Franceschini is much less interested in labels for her work than she is about the future of farming. She grew up on two farms, separated by divorce. Her father had a large industrial farm, and her mother ran a small organic farm. “I was living between those two kinds of ideologies and logic,” she recalls, “and I realized that there are two different people, two different kinds of farming, but they were both dedicated to making healthy food for people.”

Norma Saldivar, interim director of the Arts Institute, says Franceschini’s residency epitomizes the interdisciplinary focus of the institute. “Seeing the students in the classroom who may not have common majors come together and research for a high-caliber international project that brings together artists, environmentalists, farmers, scientists, etc., has been very exciting for us, “says Saldivar.

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Mutemath get happy The veteran New Orleans alt-rockers are as upbeat as ever

BY AARON R. CONKLIN

Paul Meany admits he’s a little bleary. He’s just finished pulling an all-nighter, but for the best of all possible reasons. The Mutemath frontman burned the midnight oil working on a remix of Twenty One Pilots’ “Stressed Out.” It’s probably a longshot that it’ll be part of the set list when the New Orleans altrockers play a sold-out show at the Majestic Theatre on April 2, but we’ll bet our alreadybroken tourney brackets there’ll be plenty of cuts from Vitals, Mutemath’s 2015 release.

“When you finish a record, there’s always a defensive mechanism,” says Meany, who’s co-written all the band’s songs with drummer and longtime pal Darren King since the two first formalized their operation 13 years ago. “You hope for the best, but you don’t know how it’s been received.”

It’s a notion that hit home for Meany after the release of 2009’s Armistice, the band’s follow-up to its self-titled smash debut — the one that gave us “Typical.” Meany recalls a fan coming up to him after a show with tears in his eyes. Meany thought he and his bandmates had struck an emotional nerve — and they had. Just not in the way he initially thought.

“This guy looked at me and said, ‘Do you think you’ll ever make a record like the first one again?’ Our second album was a stark

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Frontman Paul Meany (far right) says a sense of writer’s block set in while working on new album Vitals.

wake-up call that you can disappoint your fans.”

That hasn’t been the case at all with Vitals, as upbeat an offering as the foursome has ever produced. The band tapped into a new nationwide audience thanks, in part, to Ellen DeGeneres falling in love with the music video for the song “Monument,” a work that featured Charles “LaLa” Evans, a New Orleans man who turned his home into a shrine to the 60-year relationship he enjoyed with his wife.

A tightly refined, minimalist dance-groove vibe helped, too. Vitals features several songs that are buoyed by beats that wouldn’t sound at all out of place in a nightclub, including the opener, “Joy Rides,” and the instrumental title track.

“That felt fresh for us,” Meany says. “At the end of the day, you’re just looking for a path to a good song.”

Meany jokes that 2011’s Odd Souls was just “60 minutes of drum solos, and we just wrote songs around them. Darren played every fill he knew. We were kinda like, ‘What do we do now?’”

He may be joking, but a sense of writer’s block actually became an issue. Meany talks about being “bottled up” by the thought that any new music the band made had to somehow sound like it belonged alongside the old. “It becomes part of the mind game,” he explains. “You find yourself asking, “Is it Mute-

math enough?’ You’re essentially trying to be a new band.”

Taking some time to clear their heads helped. So did making a sizable compositional departure: For the first time in its 13-year history, the band wrote songs in the key of C major — “the happiest key in the world,” says Meany.

As Mutemath Nation would undoubtedly agree, at the end of the day, happy’s what it’s all about.

“We’re just here trying to follow our bliss,’ says Meany. “We have certainly zigged and zagged over the course of our albums, but I’ve been proud of them all.” n

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Scott Frazier (left) plays the young, stymied Willie, a legend in his own mind.

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Satirical home run Broom Street Theater’s Sweet William is a genre-buster

BY LAURA JONES

Remember Jimmy Dugan, the cantankerous but ultimately good-hearted baseball player memorialized by Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own? Imagine if there were not a single Hanksian quality to redeem him and he was just a hard-hitting, hard-spitting outfielder who lived to ruin everyone’s favorite pastime. If you can picture that, you’re zeroing in on Sweet William, the title character of Broom Street Theater’s new production, written and directed by Doug Reed.

Sweet William, which runs at Broom Street until April 9, is an immersive genre-buster of a play. From the moment the audience walks in the door, we’re transported into the world of 1950s baseball, sitting in the stands, being sold baseball cards and handed programs (sadly, beer and hot dogs aren’t an option).

Everything from the opening announcement about where to find the bathrooms — sung to the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner — to the playbill, which doubles as a scorecard, is designed to convince us we’re at the ballpark in the good old summertime.

The show uses parody, musical numbers, multimedia and Shakespeare to crack open Sweet Willie’s life

and the mystery that surrounds his teammate, the goodas-gold Johnny Johnson (Loryn Jonelis), and the disappearance of the owner’s daughter (Kelly Maxwell). As if this weren’t enough of a mash-up, the show also employs the wrap-around plot of a Ken Burns-style documentary, shot by filmmaker Dorothy (Heather Renken). Oh, and there’s also an appearance by Jesus Christ on the cross.

Sweet William plays as fast and loose as a 95-mph curveball edging over the plate. The lead character of Willie McSlide is played by two actors, Keith Huie as the get-off-my-lawn senior Willie, and Scott Frazier as the young, stymied Willie, a legend in his own mind. Both are convincing, as are the rest of the cast members, who seem to be having a lot of fun with this satirical take on the seedy side of America’s sport.

I don’t want to make mountains out of (pitcher’s) mounds, but I’m inclined to think that the show is also out to expose the underbelly of our squeaky-clean past, our most admired heroes. Maybe underneath it all, America itself is more Sweet Willie than Gentleman Johnny Johnson. It’s a good question for this election year. Reed, as the writer and director, definitely chooses a side.

I won’t give away any more of the ending. To solve the mystery, you’ll have to buy your ticket and get in the game. n

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Memoirs can be tricky to write. If an author isn’t careful, she can end up telling a very different story from the one she set out to tell. In White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters, Beaver Dam native Mary Pflum Peterson has written the tragic story of her parents — a mentally ill mother and a closeted gay father — and the disaster that was their marriage. But it’s hard to know if this is the story she meant to tell, because it comes wrapped in a sugary cover and is organized in a way that trivializes the raw, painful material.

Pflum Peterson’s mother, Anne, suffered from depression from a young age.

In 1950s Indiana, before the days of SSRIs and supportive therapists, she would spend weeks at a time debilitated by endless crying jags. Finding some solace in the routine of prayer and meditation, Anne joined a convent after college, but this seems to have only made things worse. Isolated from family, bullied by other nuns and subject to the identity-robbing strictures that were common in 1950s convents, her mental and physical health deteriorated, and she eventually left the convent.

Meanwhile, the author’s father, Dale, was growing up on a farm in southern Indiana, where Catholic values and traditional gender roles ensured that he was running as fast as possible from his homosexuality.

Deeply closeted, in a time and place where he had no positive gay role models, Dale clung desperately to the idea that marriage to a nice Catholic girl would “fix” him.

What sort of cosmic bad luck brought these two unhappy people together? They met through mutual friends and married after a brief courtship, but their marriage was doomed from the start. Dale became emotionally abusive and self-destructive.

Anne blamed herself and cycled in and out of deeper depressions. Yet somehow they managed to have two children together, the author and her older brother, Anthony, and eventually moved to Beaver Dam. Mary overcompensated (as smart girls do) by maintaining stellar grades and test scores. She eventually won a full scholarship to Columbia University and forged a successful career as a TV journalist and producer.

She’s won numerous awards, including four Emmy Awards, two Edward R. Murrows and a Peabody. Yet those accolades are not enough to erase her sense of abandonment.

Although the last third of the book details Mary’s life as a reporter in far-flung locales, her relationship with her parents is never far offstage. Dale finally embraced his identity, but Anne was defeated by hers. In later years her uncontrolled anxiety and depression manifested themselves in compulsive hoarding.

Mary’s attempts to get her mother to leave the garbage-filled house in Beaver Dam were futile, and eventually Anne passed away.

Mary writes candidly and bravely about her emotional pain and her parents’ struggles; it’s terribly sad. It’s also sad that potential readers might miss this book because it’s not what it appears to be from the outside.

The author, who now lives in Manhattan, returns to Wisconsin for a book tour, which will bring her to A Room of One’s Own Bookstore at 6 p.m. on March 30. n

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Home movie Krisha is an unflinching look at family and addiction

BY KENNETH BURNS

Krisha Fairchild, the writer/director’s aunt, stars in this family affair.

At least The Lost Weekend spread the misery out over a few days. The harrowing Krisha takes a concentrated, unflinching look at the damage an alcoholic/addict inflicts over the course of a single Thanksgiving Day celebration. This very good domestic drama, which runs a short 85 minutes, is the assured feature debut of Trey Edward Shults, who directed, wrote, produced and edited.

He also does some fine, mournful acting in a critical role.

Krisha is a family affair, story-wise and production-wise. The title character is played by Shults’ aunt, Krisha Fairchild. Also appearing are his mother, Robyn Fairchild, and grandmother, Billie Fairchild. The casting strategy favorably recalls Girls creator Lena Dunham’s pleasing indie feature Tiny Furniture, which stars members of her family and raises similar questions about the line between fiction and autobiography.

In a coup of location scouting, Krisha was shot in the home of Shults’ parents, an enormous McMansion that apparently is somewhere deep in the heart of suburban Texas. With its sprawling kitchen and soaring, two-story great room, the house perfectly conveys the comfortable, upper-middle-class milieu in which this sad story unfolds.

The film begins outside the house, on a quiet residential street crowded with cars parked for holiday gatherings. In a single, long, remarkable take — one of several — Krisha, a woman in her 60s who favors sandals and flowing skirts, pulls

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The heart wants what it wants in Hello, My Name Is Doris, a gently lovesick dramedy about a guileless sexagenarian (Sally Field) who decides to romantically pursue a much younger male co-worker. With her cat-eye glasses and ubiquitous big bow in a messy pile-up of hair, Doris is more huggable stray than prowling cougar as she applies her feminine wiles to ingratiate herself with the seemingly clueless John (Max Greenfield). While character consistency occasionally falls short in the screenplay by Laura Terruso and Michael Showalter (who also directed), the movie admirably never apologizes for Doris’ amorous ambition, no matter how unlikely its consummation may be. Is this 60-something woman who’s besotted with the office hottie a little deluded? Yes, without a doubt. Is she pathetic for thinking he’ll reciprocate her feelings for him? Definitely not. In her journey of selfdiscovery (yes, this is one of those kinds of movies), Doris intuitively decides this infatuation may be her last chance to experience magic in a life mostly spent caring for a sickly mother and hoarding everything

a suitcase behind her as she wanders from house to house. She steps in mud and curses bitterly. When she finds the right house, she is welcomed by multiple generations of a large, boisterous family. The greetings are warm, but there is a palpable undercurrent of wariness.

This scene is disorienting, as is much that follows. Shults is artfully sparing in the way he discloses information about how these people are related. I won’t say more than that about the family ties, because an important aspect of watching Krisha is figuring out who is who.

Krisha has tasked herself with preparing dishes for the Thanksgiving dinner, including a comically enormous turkey. She complicates the job by sneaking off, as addicts do, to take prescription drugs and guzzle wine from the bottle. As she gets increasingly loaded, family members confront her about her devastating past mistakes and the effects they’ve had on her loved ones.

Krisha is an accomplished film, but I have a quibble, one relating to a technical choice. Late in the film, Shults switches the aspect ratio from wide to narrow — in order, he notes in the press kit, “to give an effect of the walls closing in on Krisha.” The effect is subtle, but I mainly found it distracting. In commercial cinema, this sort of shift is perhaps best made as a bold effect, not an understated one, like the amazing moment at the beginning of This Is Cinerama when the frame opens up from Academy format to glorious widescreen. In Krisha, the change looks like artiness for artiness’ sake. n

possible for fear of losing something precious. In some ways, this is her raised middle finger to the world, although it’s unlikely this meek person has ever actually flipped anyone off.

Field is perfect in the role. She makes this movie work. It’s hard to believe this actress began her career as an industry joke: a boy-crazy surfer; a flying nun; the girl with something extra. Luckily, something miraculous happened when she found parts requiring more than a perky smile, leaving us breathless in performances that eradicated all memory of Gidget and Sister Bertrille. She was — and always will be — Sybil, Norma Rae, Edna Spalding, Mary Lincoln. When there’s an honest connection between Field and the character she plays, it’s an awesome thing to behold. That’s what happens in Hello, My Name Is Doris. In Field’s ever-capable hands, Doris is a thing with feathers, eternally hopeful in her quest for love in the twilight of her life. This wonderful, silly old fool doesn’t need your pity, doesn’t require your sympathy. Once she gets under your skin, you understand her completely.

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Superman: Forget Henry Cavill and choose Christopher Reeve instead. Warner Park Community Recreation Center, March 26, 7 pm.

Standstill: An exploration of the cultural and political forces infringing on the lives of Canadian Aboriginals and Palestinians. A screening with talk by writer/director Majdi El-Omari: UWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Elvehjem Building (Room L140), March 29, 5 pm.

The 39 Steps: Alfred Hitchcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1935 thriller about a murder suspect (Robert Donat) who travels to Scotland to foil an espionage plot while avoiding the police. Bos Meadery, March 30, 6 pm.

Time Out of Mind: Richard Gere stars as a homeless man struggling with mental health challenges. A screening with discussion of Housing Initiativesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; new program to help Madison homeless: Central Library, March 30, 6 pm.

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Breaking Benjamin Friday, March 25, Orpheum Theater, 8:30 pm For nearly two decades, Breaking Benjamin has been a constant in the ever-changing world of modern rock. Dark Before Dawn, the group’s most recent LP, was released in 2015, and proved that there’s a reason the Pennsylvania quintet has been around so long.

Packed with grungy, contemplative rock, the album is a testament to the band’s lengthy career, nostalgic without losing relevance and mature without losing aggression. After all, Breaking Benjamin isn’t just another name in the post-grunge landscape. It’s a landscape the group helped invent. With Starset.

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his acoustic songs are just as arresting absent his bandmates’ volume. With American Cream, DJ Stamp Collector.

THEATER & DANCE

1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove: Eric Joseph, folk, free, 6 pm Thursdays.

sex, revenge and baseball. See page 32.

ALSO: Friday, Saturday and Thursday (8 pm), March 25-31. Through April 9.

CO MEDY

The Bayou: Johnny Chimes, guitar/piano, free, 5:30 pm Thursdays.

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

Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, 10 pm.

Christy’s Landing: Open Mic with Shelley Faith, free, 8 pm Thursdays.

SIMO Thursday, March 24, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

This fast-rising Nashville-based band mixes blues, jazz and psychedelia. Founder and namesake JD Simo is a virtuoso guitarist who’s been shredding away since his teenage years.

Their newest album, Let Love Show the Way, was released in January, and there’s at least one reason why it sounds so good: Simo recorded the whole record with Duane Allman’s 1957 Les Paul. With Mojo Radio, Feed the Dog.

Essen Haus: Bill Roberts Combo with Bob Corbit, free, 9 pm.

Great Dane-Downtown: DJ Phil Money, free, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Jim Ripp, dueling pianos, 9 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Blues Jam, 8 pm Thursdays.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Ken Wheaton, fingerstyle guitar, free, 5:30 pm Thursdays.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Jim Erickson, jazz, free, 6 pm Thursdays.

Misalliance Thursday, March 24, Bartell Theatre, 7:30 pm

As part of its “British Invasion” season, Strollers Theatre tackles George Bernard Shaw’s hyper-talky comedy of manners.

ALSO: Friday (7:30 pm) and Saturday (2 pm), March 25-26. These are the final performances of a three-week run.

Merchant: Christopher Plowman, free, 10:30 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, French swing/ Hawaiian slack key, free, 5:30 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Compact Deluxe, Winning Ugly, The Cutouts, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Bruce Blaq, free, 10 pm.

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North and South Seafood & Smokehouse: Jerry & Nora, classic rock/country, free, 5 pm Thursdays.

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Overture Center-Overture Hall Lobby: The Jimmys, blues, free, 6 pm.

Oedipus Tex Thursday, March 24, Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm

Eric Caldera is the guitarist for instrumental soundscapers El Valiente when he’s not performing solo as Oedipus Tex, and

Plan B: DJs Brook, Lizzy T, 9 pm Thursdays.

Sweet William

The Red Zone: Hotstop, Of Brighter Skies, Pets with People Names, Almost Nothing, rock, 8 pm.

Thursday, March 24, Broom Street Theater, 8 pm

Tip Top Tavern: Kurt Funfsinn, guitar, free, 10 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Frank James & Bobby Briggs, country, free, 8 pm Thursdays (no show 3/31).

Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, blues/ Americana, free, 9 pm Thursdays.

Prolific playwright Doug Reed, author of The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker, turns his wicked sense of humor from politics to baseball. Sweet William (“the meanest majorleaguer who ever wore spikes”) looks back on a sordid career in this comedy exploring

Leonard Ouzts Thursday, March 24, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Hailing from South Carolina, Leonard Ouzts brings Southern comfort to life through his myriad personal stories and quick quips.

A big guy with a big heart, Ouzts made his TV debut last month on Conan and doesn’t shy away from letting the audience in on his ever-changing love life and hunger-based observations. If nothing else, he’ll make working at IHOP sound sexy. With Jovan Bibbs. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), March 25-26.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Yellow Rose Gallery Anniversary Showcase: Works by local artists, music, refreshments, 6-11 pm, 3/24, 122 State St. #201; 6-11 pm, 3/25, Winedown, with music

by Gabe Barnett & them Rounders. artonstate.com.

C A REERS & B US I N ESS High Tech Happy Hour: Free networking social, 5-7 pm, 3/24, Concourse Hotel. 836-0282.

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Alchemy: Tani Diakite & the Afrofunkstars, free, 10 pm.

SP ECTATOR SP ORTS

Male Call: Thanks: Bricks Theatre presents original stories by local raconteurs, 7:30 pm on 3/24 and 8 pm, 3/25, Brink Lounge. $15. 358-9609.

Badger Bowl: Denim ‘n Leather, rock, 9:15 pm.

UW Men’s Tennis: vs. Iowa, 2 pm, 3/25, Nielsen Tennis Stadium. 262-1440.

FOO D & D R I N K

Brink Lounge: Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, 8 pm.

March Madness Cheese Challenge: Matchups winnowed by public voting, 3/17-4/3, Willy Street Co-op East & West locations, with sampling 2-6 pm Thurs.-Fri. and noon-6 pm Fri.-Sat. willystreet.coop.

Brocach-Square: The Currach, free, 5:30 pm Fridays.

FU N D RA I S ER S

Chocolaterian Cafe: Tom Klein & Dan Hildebrand, accordion, free, 7:30 pm.

RSVP for Cocktails for a Cause: Painting with PaintNite to benefit Safe Harbor, 6 pm, 4/7, Elks Club. $45. RSVP by 3/24: paintnite.com/events/1048563. html. 661-9787.

P U B L I C M EET I N G S

The Bayou: DJ Chamo, Latin, free, 10 pm Fridays.

Bos Meadery: Farmony, free, 6:30 pm.

Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: Ernie Hendrickson, 8:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Golpe Tierra, Afro-Peruvian, free, 5:30 pm; DJs Surf n Turf, Tre Ginjahvitis, Foundation, 9 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Four Wheel Drive, free, 9 pm.

Crescendo Espresso Bar: Beth Kille, Nick Matthews, Lyndsay Evans, Joe Marsden, 7 pm.

Crossroads Coffeehouse, Cross Plains: JBR Band, 7 pm.

Wisconsin DOT Open House: Discussing Verona Road (Hwy. 18/151) reconstruction, 5:30-7:30 pm, 3/24, Fitchburg Fire Station No. 2. 884-1227.

East Side Club: The Lower 5th, 7 pm.

HOM E & G A R D EN

The Frequency: Vein Rays, The Minotaurs, We Should Have Been DJs, Darkwing, 10 pm.

Green Thumb Gardening: Class, “Shrub Selection & Care,” 6:30 pm, 3/24, UW-Extension Dane County. $25. RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/19125178925.

LEC T U R ES & S EM I N ARS Wright Design Series: “Evolutions & Assemblies” by Dan Wheeler, 7 pm, 3/24, Monona Terrace. 261-4000.

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Essen Haus: Tom Brusky, free, 8:30 pm.

Fountain: Richard Shaten, piano, free, 7:30 pm Fridays.

Hody Bar, Middleton: John Masino Band, rock, free, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Kevin Gale, Peter Hernet, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Paul Filipowicz, blues, 8 pm.

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

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Hanson Family Jazz Band, free, 6:30 pm.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, New Orleans piano, free, 6:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays.

Lucky’s Bar, Waunakee: Teddy Davenport, free, 7:30 pm.

MU S I C

Majestic Theatre: DJs Josh B Kuhl, Tanner, ‘80s vs. ‘90s hip-hop, 10 pm.

Merchant: DJ Bruce Blaq, free, 10:30 pm.

Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse: Aaron Scholz & Chris Boeger, Motoday, 8 pm.

DANCING Fourth Friday Milonga: 8-11 pm, 3/25, Italian Workmen’s Club. $5. 238-2039.

F UNDRAISERS RSVP for MSCR Spring Breakaway 3on3 Adult Basketball Tournament: Fundraiser for kids’ camp scholarships, noon-5 pm, 4/9, La Follette High School. $80/team.

RSVP by 3/25: mscrsportsleagues.org. 204-3037.

Badger Bowl: Lube, classic rock, 9:15 pm.

Bos Meadery: Milkhouse Radio, free, 6:30 pm.

Brink Lounge: Undercover, classic rock, 9:30 pm.

Kite Making: Workshop by Julio Flores, 10:30 am, 3/25, Hawthorne Library (RSVP: 246-4548); 2 pm, 3/25, Ashman Library (RSVP: 824-1780); 2 pm, 3/26, Pinney Library (RSVP: 224-7100).

Come Back In: Field & James, free, 9 pm.

Superfoods: Seaweed & Algae: All ages, 1 pm, 3/25, Madison Children’s Museum. $8 admission. 256-6445.

SP ECIAL INTERESTS How to Live in Happiness: Drikung Kagyu Dharma Circle Buddhist lecture by Venerable Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche, 7 pm, 3/25, Goodman Community Center (free); teachings continue 9 am-5 pm on 3/26 and 9 am-4 pm, 3/27 (donations). 832-6522.

P OLITICS & ACTIV ISM Good Friday Way of the Cross Walk for Justice and Mercy: St. Francis Catholic Worker of Madison event, 4:30 pm, 3/25, from corner of West Washington & South Henry streets. 622-7432.

Hacking Democracy: Social Action & Solidarity documentary, 6 pm, 3/25, South Madison Library. 438-9536.

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Cardinal Bar: DJ Rumba, 10 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: The Flavor That Kills, Uzi Ferrari, Cloverlane, rock, 9:30 pm.

Essen Haus: Brewhaus Polka Kings, free, 8:30 pm.

The Frequency: Lovely Socialite, Honeymooners, John Praw & the North American Counsel for a Moonless Tomorrow, 9 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Cris Plata with Extra Hot, Tex-Mex/ country rock, 5:30 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Mad City Funk, free, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Kevin Gale, Anthony Cao, Peter Hernet, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Widdicombe & Dan Barker, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

Liquid: DJ Nick Magic, EDM, 10 pm.

Malt House: Karl von Huene, classical, free, 3 pm.

Merchant: DJ Mike Carlson, free, 10:30 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: The Pollinators, Pink Beam, Marty Finkel, free, 10 pm.

Mother Fool’s: Open Mic with Angelica Engel, 8 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Gentle Brontosaurus, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Trichrome, free, 10 pm.

Paoli Schoolhouse: Jim White, free, 6 pm.

The Red Zone: John Masino Band, 8 pm.

Olbrich Gardens: DJ Phil Money, 7 pm.

Spring Green General Store: Nancy Rost, free, 2 pm.

Red Rock Saloon: Jacob Martin Band, country, 10 pm.

Sí Café: Jake Sanders & Patrick Donley, vintage jazz/ Americana, free, 7 pm.

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

Cullen Omori

Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Middleton: Marilyn Fisher & Roger Brotherhood, jazz, free, 6 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Country Storm, 9 pm.

Friday, March 25, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm

Tip Top Tavern: Royal Jelly, rock, free, 10 pm.

Cullen Omori is best known as the brains behind indie rock darlings the Smith Westerns, a Chicago-based band that called it quits in 2014. His first solo record, New Misery, finds the former frontman occupying the same pleasantly familiar territory of his old group: dreamy, catchy and brimming with big, joyous choruses. With Living Hour.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse and Gallery, Verona: Jen Brady, Hannah Busse, free, 7 pm.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse and Gallery, Verona: Gin, Chocolate & Bottle Rockets, Raine Stern, Mackenzie Moore, Girls Rock Camp Madison benefit, 7 pm.

Up North Pub: Dan Law & the Mannish Boys, free, 8 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Young Bassists Conference clinicians concert, free, 7 pm. Also: Student concert, 7 pm, 3/26.

Meghan Rose & the Bones

VFW Post 7591-Cottage Grove Road: Universal Sound, classic rock, 8 pm.

This album release party is one of your last chances to see Meghan Rose before the dynamic performer leaves our fair city for New York. With Nester, Disq.

Wil-Mar Center: Barry Wayne Callen, Wild Hog in the Woods concert, 8 pm.

The Wisco: Sikfuk, Bloody Obstetric Technology, Goremonger, Mass Murder Messiah, Aborning, 9 pm.

Saturday, March 26, High Noon Saloon, 9 pm

These Madison-based electro-psychedelic rockers are celebrating the release of their new five-song EP, Beacon, which they recorded “nearly impromptu” at Blast House Studios.

With Fatal Eggs, Spare Change Trio.

Annie Kubena: “Seed & Arrow,” paintings, 3/25-4/24, Drunk Lunch (reception 5-9 pm, 3/25). 630-8401.

HOME & GARDEN Native Plant Sale Pre-Orders: UW Arboretum invites orders through 3/25 for their annual fundraiser; plant pick-up 5/5. Forms: arboretum.wisc.edu. 263-7760.

Wil-Mar Center: Chançonette, medieval instrumentals, free, 7 pm.

Memory Cloth Circle: “When is a Dishtowel Not a Dishtowel?” 3/11-5/27, Whole Foods Market. 233-9566.

Rita Mae Reese: Discussing “The Book of Hulga,” her new book, 7 pm, 3/25, Arts & Literature Laboratory. allgallery.org.

ART E X HIBITS & EV ENTS

Viking Lanes, Stoughton: Cool Front with Jon French, rock/blues/funk, 9 pm.

Creative Power: VSA Wisconsin traveling exhibit, through 4/30, Millie’s, Waunakee. 241-2131.

B OOKS

Friday, March 25, Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm

Viking Brew Pub, Stoughton: Mike McCloskey, Americana, free, 7 pm.

Artists in Absentia: Works by Oahkill Correctional Institution inmates, 3/3-31, Central Library (“Write a Letter to a Prisoner” noon-4 pm, 3/26; talks by organizers 3:30-5:30 pm, 3/30). 266-6300.

Atlas Improv Company: 8 & 10 pm Fridays & Saturdays, 609 E. Washington Ave. $8 ($5 kids). 259-9999.

The Earthlings

Tyranena Brewing Company, Lake Mills: Greg Boerner, blues/roots, free, 7 pm.

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Art In Gallery: An Evening at Maria’s, with Negative Example (EP release), Corey Mathew Hart, 6 pm.

Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: Bill Camplin, 8:30 pm.

The Red Zone: Disgunt, Ash Aria, Unbibium, Birth Defect, Black Box Warning, Towering Abomination, 8 pm.

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Alchemy Cafe: The Beat Chefs, free, 10 pm.

KIDS & FAM ILY

Mr. Robert’s: The Dusty Duo, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: The Real Jaguar, free, 10 pm.

wizardry of the Allman Brothers. Balls Pricey, their fourth album, builds on that, featuring 13 tracks of throwback rock ’n’ roll that will make you wonder whether you’re actually at a kegger in 1970s Georgia and not at a bar on Atwood.

UW Student Art Show: Annual exhibit, 3/11-4/19, UW Union South-Gallery 1308. 262-7592.

The Family Business Saturday, March 26, Harmony Bar, 9:45 pm

Seeing as they formed here in Madison in 2005, the Family Business is not a Southern rock band in the geographic sense.

Sonically, though, the quartet marries the bluesy stomp of ZZ Top to the frenetic guitar

Jennifer Bucheit: “Everyday Form,” photographs, through 4/17, Sunroom Cafe. 255-1555.

B O O KS Don Sanford: Discussing “On Fourth Lake: A Social History of Lake Mendota,” his book, 11 am, 3/26, Lakeview Library. 246-4547.

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HOME & GARDEN Scionwood Exchange: Free cuttings for fruit tree growers, 2-4 pm, 3/26, Olbrich Gardens. 246-4550.

E N VI RONM ENT Dog Park Cleanup Day: Volunteers needed rain or shine, 10 am-noon, 3/26, at all dog parks in Dane County. Bring gloves/scoopers. 266-4711.

The Wizard of Oz Saturday, March 26, Overture Center’s Playhouse, 2:30 and 7 pm

The Wizard of Oz is one of the most beloved stories of the 20th century: As a book, it received widespread critical acclaim, and the 1939 big-screen adaptation is one of the most recognized films of all time.

As a musical, it’s still being adapted for the stage today, including this Children’s Theater of Madison production. These are the last two shows of a two-week run.

COM EDY Monkey Business Institute: Improv: all ages, 5:30 pm; and 8 pm & 10:30 pm Saturdays, Glass Nickel-Atwood. $10-$6. monkeybusinessinstitute.com. 658-5153.

Southern Wisconsin Trout Unlimited Work Day: With Upper Sugar River Watershed Association, 9 am-noon, 3/26, Sugar River Wetlands State Natural Area (meet at intersection of Epic Lane & County View Road, Verona).

RSVP: jim.hess@tds.net.

UW Arboretum Ecological Restoration Work Party: Core Area and Curtis Prairie, 9 am, 3/26, UW Arboretum Visitor Center. 265-5214.

Sustainable Saturday Night: Discussing neighborhood actions enhancing community, sustainability, justice & more, 7 pm, 3/26, James Reeb Unitarian Universalist Congregation; potluck at 6 pm. Free. 630-3633.

sun mar 27 MUS I C Brocach Irish Pub-Square: An Blas, Irish, free, 5 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Mad City Jug Band, Bill & Bobbie Malone, Northern Comfort, Charlie’s Angels, Open Jam, 2 pm.

Olbrich Gardens: New Hyperion Jazz Babies, jazz, 2 pm.

SP EC I A L EV EN TS

FOOD & DRINK

Kids in the Rotunda: Music by David Landau, 9:30 & 11 am and 1 pm, 9:30 am, 3/26, Overture Center-Rotunda Stage. 258-4141.

Easter Egg Hunt and Crafting: Easter-themed activities, 9:30 am-noon, 3/26, DreamBank. RSVP: dreamfearlessly.com/dreambank/events. 286-3150.

Easter Hat Parade: Hat-making workshop, 10 am, 3/26, Capitol Kids, plus visit by Peter Rabbit, lambs & baby chicks; parade around Capitol Square at noon. Free. 280-0744.

Tip Top Tavern: Open Mic, free, 9 pm Sundays.

Free Easter Meal: Noon-2 pm, 3/27, First United Methodist Church, with kids’ activities. 338-0320.

E N VI RONM ENT UW Arboretum Walk: “Early migrants” topic, 1 pm, 3/27, UW Arboretum Visitor Center. 263-7888.

Friends of the UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve Bird/ Nature Walk: 1 pm, 3/27, UW Parking Lot 129 (Picnic Point). 698-0104.

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C A R EER S & B U S I N E SS FEED Kitchens Info Session: Learn about business incubator/shared commercial kitchens, 2:30 pm, 3/26, 1219 N. Sherman Ave. Free. RSVP: feedinfo@ northsidemadison.org. 204-7015.

P OL I T I C S & AC T IVI S M Progressive Roundtable: “Socialism as Economic Democracy,” The Madison Institute panel discussion, 1 pm, 3/26, Central Library. 438-4178.

Up North Pub: Pat Ferguson, free, 7 pm.

COM EDY Open Mic: 9 pm Mondays, Argus Bar. Free. 256-4141.

KIDS & FAM ILY Youth Dance Classes: Ages 5-9, 3:30 pm Mondays, 3/285/16; ages 10-14, 4 pm Fridays, 4/1-5/20, Mound Street Yoga Center. $75/series. RSVP: lcpdance.org. 835-6590.

FOOD & DRINK

Sally Mann: Wisconsin Union Directorate talk by the photographer/filmmaker, 7:30 pm, 3/29, UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall. 262-1143.

PO L I T I C S & AC T I V I S M One Wisconsin Now 10th Anniversary: With special guest Rep. Mark Pocan, 5:30 pm, 3/29, Winedown.

Donations. 204-0677.

PUB L I C MEET I N GS Madison Common Council: 6:30 pm, 3/29, CityCounty Building. 266-4071.

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RSVP for Grace Before Meals: Family Meals, Family Life: Cooking demonstration & lunch with Father Leo Patalingbug (The Cooking Priest), 11:30 am, 4/2, St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. $8. RSVP by 3/28: jennifer@ stamadison.org. 833-2606.

SENIORS Sports for Active Seniors Bowling: 1:30 pm, 3/28, Ten Pin Alley, Fitchburg. 513-7658.

The Lone Bellow Wednesday, March 30, Shannon Hall, 8 pm

tue mar 29 M USIC Alchemy Cafe: Ted Keys Trio, free, 10 pm Tuesdays.

Cardinal Bar: New Breed Jazz Jam, free, 9 pm Tuesdays.

Come Back In: WheelHouse, free, 5 pm Tuesdays.

The Lone Bellow does Americana music better than pretty much all of their contemporaries. The folk-and-gospel trio released their second album, Then Came the Morning, in early 2015. The National’s Aaron Dessner produced it, and the band’s harmonies — and ability to sound bigger than a trio — shine throughout. With David Ramirez.

Essen Haus: Brian Erickson, free, 6:30 pm TuesdaysWednesdays.

Free House Pub, Middleton: The Westerlies, Irish, free, 7:30 pm Tuesdays.

High Noon Saloon: Hirt Alpert, Girls Are Go, 6 pm; Rock Star Gomeroke, audience invited to sing with The Gomers, free, 9 pm Tuesdays.

Ivory Room: Drew DeFour, Kin Curran, piano, free, 9 pm.

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Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Vitale, Marilyn Fisher & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 5:30 pm Tuesdays.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, New Orleans piano, free, 6 pm Tuesdays-Wednesdays.

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

Mason Lounge: Five Points Jazz Collective, free, 9 pm Tuesdays.

Mickey’s Tavern: Disembodied Monks, Moving Panoramas, Dash Hounds, free, 10 pm.

SP EC I A L I N T ER E STS

WORT-FM Record Riot: Collectible/used vinyl records & associated items, noon-3:30 pm, 3/26, High Noon Saloon. Free admission. 256-2001.

Natt Spil: DJ Ted Offensive, free, 10 pm.

L EC T URES & S EMI N A RS

The Frequency: Digg, Stargoyle, Spencer Houghton, 9 pm.

Easter Egg Hunt: 10 am-2 pm, 3/26, America’s Best Flowers, Cottage Grove, with Easter Bunny visit.

Free; bring donations for Cottage Grove Food Pantry.

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Spring New & Now: Fashion/beauty show, 9 am, 3/26, Boston Store-West Towne. $10. RSVP: newandnow.com. 833-9799.

Mr. Robert’s: Open Jam, free, 9:30 pm Mondays.

Board of Education: 6 pm, 3/28, Madison Metropolitan School District’s Doyle Administration Building. 663-1659.

Natt Spil: DJ Foundation, free, 10 pm.

K IDS & FA M I LY

Malt House: Barley Brothers, string band, free, 7:30 pm.

P UBLIC M EETINGS

Mendota Rowing Club Open House: Tours & info about lessons, 9 am-noon, 3/26, James Madison Park-Bernard’s Boathouse. mendotarowingclub.com.

Wisconsin Tango Social: With DJ Marquis Childs, 7-10 pm, 3/26, Cardinal Bar. $3. 622-7697.

High Noon Saloon: Clyde Stubblefield All-Star Band, 6 pm.

Maduro: DJ Nick Nice, free, 10 pm Sundays.

Mickey’s: Fire Retarded, Platinum Boys, Foul Tip, 10 pm.

DA N C I N G

Harmony Bar: David Landau, family concert, 5:30 pm Mondays.

Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen, jazz, free, 9 am.

R EC R EAT I O N & G AME S

Maple Syrup Fest: Annual tree-tapping demonstrations & hands-on activities for all ages, 1-4 pm, 3/26, Aldo Leopold Nature Center. $8 ($29/family). RSVP: aldoleopoldnaturecenter.org. 221-0404.

Cold Fusion, Middleton: Bluegrass Jam, free, 6:30 pm Mondays.

Natt Spil: DJ Phil Money, free, 10 pm.

Up North Pub: Teddy Davenport, free, 8 pm.

Acid Mothers Temple Monday, March 28, The Frequency, 9 pm

This experimental collective has been one of the premier trippy jam bands of the last two decades. Led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and based in Japan, the ever-shifting crew avoids musical genre pigeonholing and single-digit song lengths in equal measure. With Mounds, Moss Folk.

Alchemy Cafe: DJ Samroc, free, 10 pm Mondays.

American Legion Post 385, Verona: Paoli Street Pickers, country/bluegrass, free, 12:30 pm Mondays.

The Bayou: Open Mic, free, 8 pm Mondays.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Concert Band, UW School of Music concert, free, 7:30 pm.

KIDS & FAM ILY RSVP for Toddler Story & Stroll: “Rainforest Romp” series, 10 am Tuesdays, 3/22-4/5, Olbrich Gardens. $9.

RSVP one week prior: 246-4550.

Get a Grip: “Wonder Bugs” nature class for ages 2-5, 9:30 am or 1:15 pm on 3/29 or 9:30 am, 3/30 or 4/1, Aldo Leopold Nature Center, Monona. $9. RSVP by prior day: 221-0404.

ARTS NOTICES Wisconsin Film Festival Sneak Peek: Trailers, Q&A with organizers, 6:30 pm, 3/29, Sun Prairie Library. 825-7323.

Le1f Wednesday, March 30, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

Rapper Le1f released his debut, Riot Boi, late last year, but he’s been operating on hip-hop’s experimental fringe since he penned the beat for Das Racist’s “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” in 2008.

His songs are both challenging and fun, wrapping political, activist lyrics in bassheavy bubblegum-esque beats. With Lex Allen, MADDEN, DJ Boyfrrriend.

1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove: Ken Wheaton, fingerstyle guitar, free, 6 pm Wednesdays.

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

Brocach-Square: Irish Open Jam, 8 pm Wednesdays.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Foundation, 9 pm.

Genna’s Lounge: Open Mic, free, 9 pm Wednesdays.

High Noon Saloon: Imaginary Watermelon, Tim Coughlin Jr. Jeffrey James Show, 8 pm.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, piano, free, 9:30 pm.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 5:30 pm Wednesdays.

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BOOKS Book Sale: 4-8 pm on 3/30 ($5 admission), 10:30 am7 pm on 3/31 & 4/1 and 10:30 am-2 pm, 4/2 ($4 bag sale), UW Memorial Library-Room 116. 265-2505.

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P UBLIC M EETINGS MMSD Behavioral Education Plan: Madison Metropolitan School District community forum on revisions (all 6-8 pm): 3/30, West High School; 3/31, La Follette High School; 4/4, East High School; 4/5, Memorial High School. lkimball@madison.k12.wi.us.

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Carrying on a long tradition of ragged folk, blues and country influences, you’d never guess that Jeffrey Foucault is from Whitewater. The acclaimed musician has released a whopping 11 albums of his Americana hybrid, some of which he’s recorded with his wife, fellow folksinger Kris Delmhorst. His most recent, Salt as Wolves, was released last year. With Dusty Heart.

With the second coming of vinyl in full swing, nostalgia is king in the music industry. And no one knows that better than Madison’s Rare Plant Records, who deal exclusively in the earthy crackle of cassette tapes. They’ll be hosting their second showcase of indie music, including Madison favorites Pollinators, the Momotaros, the Tea Heads and Trophy Dad (pictured), as well as Howardian, a New York-based group that’s a spinoff of noise punk demigods Japanther. All that for a measly $6 cover is tough to beat.

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Pokémon: The First Movie: A Staged Reading

Badger Bowl: Scott Wilcox, Josh Becker, 8 pm.

Thursday, March 31, Atlas Improv, 9:30 pm

Bos Meadery: Hoot’n Annie, string band, free, 6:30 pm.

Isthmus contributor Alan Talaga has painstakingly transcribed the first Pokémon film into a radio play and convinced various local entertainers to read the script on stage. This debut performance has sold out; Talaga is donating his share of the profits to a scholarship fund for the young daughters of a designer at the Pokémon Company who died recently in an accident.

Alchemy Cafe: Los Chechos, free, 10 pm.

Brink Lounge: Alison Margaret Quintet, jazz, 8 pm.

Buck & Honey’s, Sun Prairie: David Hecht, 6:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Jo-Z, Latin, 10 pm.

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

The Frequency: The Last Vegas, Once Around, The Rumours, 8 pm.

Gates of Heaven: Skeletons, Mid Waste, experimental/improv, 7 pm.

Great Dane-Downtown: DJ Mike Carlson, free, 9 pm.

Hop Haus Brewing, Verona: Dan Brusky, free, 7 pm.

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Kiki’s House of Righteous Music: Chris Mills & the Distant Stars, Gerald Dowd, house concert (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com), 8 pm.

RSVP for Make the Magic: Annual Camp Kesem fundraiser (recreation for children of parents with cancer), 6 pm, 4/16, Concourse Hotel, with dinner, silent auction & presentations. $50. RSVP by 3/31: campkesem. org/uwmadison/make-the-magic. 616-0652.

Majestic Theatre: Iration, Hirie, The Expanders, Amp Live, 8:30 pm.

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Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Leslie Cao, pianos, 9 pm.

Merchant: Corey Mathew Hart, free, 10 pm.

Middleton Library: Distant Cuzins, Soulmen, Take the King, Volatile, free, 6 pm.

Stoughton Opera House: Aoife O’Donovan, 7:30 pm.

Climate Change Symposium: UW Center for Climatic Research event: Keynote by Peter Clark 7 pm, 3/31; and 2:30-6:30 pm, 4/1, Weeks Hall-Room AB20. Free. Schedule: ccr.aos.wisc.edu. 262-2839.

Unity of Madison: Dick Hensold, folk, 7 pm.

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Tom Brady Thursday, March 31, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Tom Brady is coming to town to tell some jokes! If you’re confused, don’t be. This Tom Brady is a comedian visiting us from the Big Apple to talk about sports (which is to be expected), Craigslist and his name, because that’s a contentious point.

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For two nights only, artists Christopher Bostwick, Dan Crane and Nathan Schultz have put together a balloon-filled avant-garde party space showcasing large-scale graphite drawings, prints, paintings and sculptural installations.

An immersion in “symbols of luxury and distorted nostalgia” is on the bill, along with “decorative extremism.” The expectations-lowering exhibit title promises an adventuresome, tongue-in-cheek excursion. ALSO: Friday, April 1, 7-10 pm.

FAI RS & FESTIVALS Mid-America Spring Fling Horse Show: 3/31-4/2, Alliant Energy Center. midamericahorseshow.org.

POL I T I CS & ACTIV ISM Defend Essential Healthcare: Planned Parenthood fundraiser, 5 pm, 3/31, Lakeside Street Coffee House, with talk by Rep. Chris Taylor. mjmorrisette@gmail.com.

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The Bodgery, Madison’s latest addition to the hackerspace and makerspace scene, is a place for tinkerers, hobbyists, makers and, well, everyone. “If you’ve ever made a sandwich, you’re a maker,” says John Eich, one of the Bodgery’s founders.

The Bodgery hosts making of all sorts, from crocheting to blacksmithing. Visitors might find people creating roses made of thinly hammered brass, forming coral-like sculpture by pouring molten aluminum over chilled water beads, typing code for an Arduino board (a programmable microcontroller board used in electronics projects), or knitting pieces for a yarn bombing. One member recently made a set of costumed plush bats that play tunes from Les Misérables...in high-pitched “chipmunk” voices. And, one evening, a guest spearheaded the building of a firenado in the parking lot. Yes, that’s a tornado made of fire.

The Bodgery grew out of social club MadCity Makers, who had been meeting since 2013 in libraries and garages around town. In June 2014, members partnered with Evolution Arts Collective to have a physical space in which to meet and make. A year later, the Bodgery had outgrown that location. In July 2015, it moved to its current home: a 3,400-square-foot warehouse on Madison’s east side between Cottage Grove Road and Milwaukee Street.

The catalog of tools at the Bodgery is impressive. Walls are filled with hand tools; elsewhere are lathes for sculpting metal and wood. (Appropriate, since the space is named after “bodgers,” or wood workers who traveled from place to place in the 19th-century in England.) There are also CNC machines (a computer-controlled machine that cuts, grinds or shapes materials), welding and blacksmithing equipment, a sandblasting machine, vinyl cutter and multiple 3D printers. A “clean room” is stocked with computers, a serger, a

soldering station, a CNC embroidery machine and a felting machine.

Currently, there are just over 40 members.

Each member pays $50/month for 24-hour access to the tools and workspace. Consumable materials — welding wire or plastic filament for 3D printers, for instance — are available at cost.

The Bodgery itself is a nonprofit.

But you don’t need to be a member to use most of the space’s resources. Guests are welcome any time while accompanied by a member. Open maker nights, held each Monday and Friday, are also free to the public. “We take pains to make sure everyone who walks in the door feels comfortable. We want people to feel like they belong,” says Eich.

One group that’s embraced this welcome are woman makers. Over a third of the Bodgery’s members are women. This can be unusual in the makerspace and hackerspace world.

“Hackerspaces have a tendency to be a bit of a boys club, sometimes unintentionally,” says

founder Karen Corbeill, “sometimes not.”

It was part of her mission to “try to make a space where a woman didn’t feel like she had to prove anything in order to be there or feel like she belonged.”

Member Myranda Hege, a knitter who also transforms old books into journals, found it a “novel experience” to walk into the Bodgery and be surrounded by a community of people who took genuine interest in her work. “I think the welcoming nature of the people has attracted women,” she says. “I have never felt out of place.”

With the diversity of tools, materials and people, it’s likely that even the most seasoned maker will discover something new at the Bodgery. Inspiration can easily cross-pollinate. “We’ve seen crafters take up welding, woodworkers build circuits, artists fly drones, and programmers make furniture,” says Eich. “It’s like asking ‘Why not?’ every day.” n

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Fan from Sweden here! Question: My fetish has no name. It is a “worshipping” fetish, for want of a better term, where I am the one being worshipped. Not by one man, but all men of the earth. The worshipping itself, while sexual, is not bound to my body parts. It would be great to have this named.

Lack Of Vocabulary Enervates My Experiences A year ago, I would’ve diagnosed you with “caligulaphilia,” LOVEME, after the Roman emperor Caligula, who considered himself a living god, and -philia, the go-to suffix meaning “abnormal appetite or liking for.” But these days, I’d say you were suffering from a bad case of “trumpophilia.”

I’m a 24-year-old male, married three years, monogamous. My wife and I are religious and were both virgins when we got married. I’m sexually frustrated with two things. (1) How can I get her to give me oral sex? (She has never given and I have never received oral sex. I regularly give her oral sex.) She is afraid to try it, saying she’s not ready yet. About every six months, I bring it up, and it leads to a fight. She is a germophobe, but I think she believes fellatio is done only in porn. (I used to look at porn, which nearly ended our then-dating relationship.) (2) I feel like I’m always giving and never receiving any type of affection: massages, kisses, caresses, you name it. It’s like having sex with a sex doll — no reciprocation. How do I broaden our sex life without making her feel like we’re in a porno?

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If you don’t already have children — you don’t mention kids — please don’t have any, SF, at least not with your first wife.

You’re a religious person, SF, a lifestyle choice I don’t fully understand. But you’re also a sexual person, and that I do understand. And if you want a lifelong, sexually exclusive and sexually fulfilling relationship, then you must prioritize sexual compatibility during your search for the second Mrs. SF. Because your next marriage is likelier to survive for the long haul if you’re partnered with someone who is attracted to you physically and is aroused — roughly speaking — by the same sex acts, positions, and fantasies you are.

In other words: Don’t marry someone and hope she likes sucking your dick. You tried that, and it didn’t work. Find someone who likes sucking your dick and marry her.

I am a 26-year-old guy and I have an overwhelming foot fetish. I cannot help but think about the male foot every hour of every day.

I often find myself pushing boundaries with attractive male friends and acquaintances to satisfy my urges, which has caused me a lot of stress and anxiety. I’m obsessed with the idea of offering some of my friends and acquaintances foot massages, but I just don’t know how to bring up the subject, given my mixed experiences. A lot of people think of foot rubs as intimate and believe they should be restricted to romantic relationships. While I’ve been lucky on very random occasions, I’ve had some fuckups. I asked a gay friend whether he would like a foot massage, but he declined — and while he was polite about it in the initial exchange, he has since ignored me. I asked a straight guy, and he considered it but never followed through, and I feel weird about asking him again. I told another straight guy who was shocked that I would ever ask him such a thing, but he still talks to me and makes light of the

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incident. Whereas another guy unfriended me on Facebook after I messaged him and told him I liked his feet. What should I do?

Is there a proper way to ask to rub someone’s feet? It’s not like I’m asking to suck on people’s toes.

Crazed About Lads’ Feet You remind me of those straight guys who send unsolicited dick pics to women they barely know — they don’t do it because it never works, they do it because it works on rare/random occasions. But you have to ask yourself if those rare/random instances when an attractive male

friend allowed you to perv on their feet — the handful of times you’ve gotten a yes — are worth the sacrificing of all the friendships you’ve lost.

Foot rubs are a form of intimacy, particularly when performed by foot fetishists, and you’ve gotta stop pestering your hot friends about their feet. There are tons of other foot fetishists out there — most male, loads gay, tons online. Go find some fellow foot pervs and swap rubs with them. n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

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