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DIVE FOR YOUR DINNER
Dumpsters are a freegan cornucopia.
6-11 NEWS
CANDID CANDIDATE
An interview with the Green Party’s Jill Stein.
HIGH HOPES
County Exec Parisi pushes for lower pot penalties.
VIRAL RESPONSE
UW scientists play key role in handling epidemics.
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TIME’S UP TRINA LA SUSA 4 SNAPSHOT
BOB JACOBSON 23 ARTS UW-MADISON, which is celebrating 100 years of teaching Yiddish culture and language, will host a festival in early May showcasing unearthed works by Jewish artists. The festival is part of a larger multidisciplinary project, led by the University of Leeds. Bob Jacobson had some help with the piece from his son, Abner, who just happens to be studying abroad this year at the British university.
A SOPHOMORE majoring in journalism and communications at UW-Madison, Trina la Susa is interested in sustainable living. She learned about dumpster diver Luke van den Langenberg from a mutual friend and went along for one of his dives, which he did with friend Aaron Conradt. “The look of excitement when they found items they had never found before, like honey and containers of hummus, was unforgettable,” she says.
Parking enforcement goes high-tech.
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HUNGER GAMES
Bid to drug-test food stamp recipients a cynical ploy.
16 COVER STORY
WHOSE PARK? EVERYONE’S PARK! Neighbors unite to bring back Brittingham.
SHINE A LIGHT
The kids’ table
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Thurs., April 21, Goodman Community Center, 6 pm
23, 35 MUSIC “Out of the Shadows” celebrates Jewish culture. Beach Slang frontman James Alex hits it big, finally.
25-28 FOOD & DRINK
COMFORT AND JOY
Buraka’s back in new location.
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SKIN IN THE GAME
We’re betting PB&J’s won’t be on the menu at the O’Keeffe Top Chef Experience, in which local chefs team up with O’Keeffe Middle School students to compete for junior top chef. Judges include UW basketball player Nigel Hayes and schools superintendent Jennifer Cheatham. Participating restaurants, such as A Pig in a Fur Coat and Sardine, will be selling small plates at this school technology fundraiser.
Why Badgers fans should care about the playoffs.
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The play’s the thing
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Fri., April 22, Madison Children’s Museum, 6-10 pm
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The Bard takes over MCM for this Shakespearean edition of Adult Swim, with pop-up performances by the Madison Shakespeare Company, Elizabethan crafts, music by the Madison Early Music Festival, and the usual grownupsonly shenanigans. “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou?” “In the giant hamster wheel, fair Juliet.”
Fashion icon agnès b. advocates for art and creativity.
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
Mariposa and the Saint highlights the anguish of solitary confinement.
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A GYPSY’S LIFE
Aferim! takes on Roma slave trade in mid-1800s.
48 EMPHASIS CHRIS WINTERHACK, DYLAN BROGAN 6 NEWS DURING A STUMP STOP in Madison last week, Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein stopped by Isthmus for an interview. Marketing director/audio engineer Chris Winterhack joined staff writer Dylan Brogan at the interview, recording the hourlong session, which Brogan edited into a 30-minute podcast. Please take a listen; it will be linked to Dylan’s story on Isthmus.com.
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Dumpster à la carte
Aaron Conradt snacks on a strawberry inside a grocery dumpster while Luke van den Langenberg lights the scene with a cellphone.
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It’s evening when Luke van den Langenberg drives his old Toyota to the dimly lit parking lot of a chain grocery store on the west side. He pulls up to a dumpster, and his friend Aaron Conradt jumps out of the car. Conradt peers lovingly into the dark bin and then jumps inside. van den Langenberg hovers next to the dumster as Conradt brings up produce for him to inspect. “Dude, take all the garlic,” says van den Langenberg. “I made garlic chicken from the dumpster once.” For van den Langenberg, Conradt and a few others, this weekly dive into the muck is what they call grocery shopping. The only food van den Langenberg buys are dairy and alcohol. The rest is scavenged from area trash bins. “He’s hands-down the most dumpster-friendly person I’ve ever met,” Conradt says about van den Langenberg. “His idea of the ‘trash’ is like a bin of opportunity, and he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty. Luke really is just always looking to better his surroundings in a more sustainable manner, from food waste to clothing.” The two wear sturdy shoes, pants, gloves and jackets, all secondhand gear that can withstand a mess. The dumpster is nearly full with miscellaneous packaged foods, fresh produce
that is misshapen or lightly bruised, dented beverage cans and a variety of other discarded foods. “Food like this definitely needs to go to another individual who cannot put fresh fruits and vegetables on the table,” Conradt said. “There should be an easy way for grocery stores and restaurants to donate it.” In less than 30 minutes, the two systematically sort through the entire dumpster by the light of a smartphone. Conradt bobs up from the dumpster to snack on a banana and, later, ripe blueberries from a sealed plastic package. Their faces light up as they discover packages of unexpired cinnamon rolls, organic apples, parmesan-peppercorn bread, cans of Red Bull, sealed pie crusts, nearly a dozen bottles of honey, large spiral cut hams, plastic-wrapped chicken, bacon and much more. All of it goes in a cardboard box outside the dumpster to be hauled away. “Some people get freaked out about me eating from the trash, but I do it in a safe way,” van den Langenberg says. “I go to the USDA website, triplecheck it and cook the meat well.” The two bring home hundreds of dollars’ worth of groceries every week from dumpsters. van den Langenberg claims he’s only gotten sick once in the eight years he’s been foraging, suspecting a halffrozen pizza was the culprit.
van den Langenberg’s interest in waste began as a freshman at Winneconne High School, when he noticed how many useful items were being discarded. He developed a recycling operation in one of his classrooms to send gently used school supplies to Somalia. He also created a high school composting bin that provided nutrients for his garden. “I’ve been going through trash for the past eight years and really dumpster diving for the last four,” van den Langenberg says. “In high school I started digging through the trash because so many things were being thrown away that could still be put to good use. Then I came to Madison, where there are a whole bunch of freegans and sustainable-minded people going through dumpsters.” He graduated from UW-Madison in 2014 and now works at Rowheels, a Madison company that created a new type of wheelchair wheel. Every August, van den Langenberg also takes advantage of “Hippie Christmas,” when leases are up and students line the curbs with still usable electronics, clothes and household goods. “It’s a hard balance because there is a lot of cool stuff to find in the trash, but I don’t want people throwing this stuff away at all,” van den Langenberg says. “I will be happy when there is a day that I can’t dumpster dive. There’s so much economic value in this stuff.” n
Average value of food scavenged from dumpster each week: $200+ Recent favorite finds: CHERRY-SMOKED PORK TENDERLOIN, STRAWBERRIES, PREMIUM DARK CHOCOLATE Worst find: BOX OF SEX TOYS, BAG OF PUKE Best months for diving: NOVEMBER AND MARCH (BECAUSE IT IS NOT TOO COLD TO FREEZE PRODUCE BUT COOL ENOUGH TO PRESERVE IT)
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Plan B after Bernie Green Party candidate Jill Stein says Sanders voters are about to be burned BY DYLAN BROGAN
Dr. Jill Stein is waiting patiently for the Democrats to “sabotage” the Bernie Sanders campaign. “Bless his heart, he’s a team player, but he’s on the wrong team,” says the Green Party candidate for president. “This is why [the Democrats] have superdelegates and Super Tuesday — it’s to create a firewall against progressive, grassroots, populist campaigns.” During a visit to Madison last week for the state Green Party convention, Stein stopped by the Isthmus office for an interview. She says Sanders’ unanticipated success in the 2016 presidential race is evidence that voters are “feeling the Bern” for the Green Party, not the Democrats. Whether it’s putting millions to work reinventing the energy sector, curtailing the influence of Wall Street or providing a free college education to every American, Stein and Sanders are running on a strikingly similar message. Enough so, that Stein’s supporters often inquire about the duo joining forces. “We reached out in many ways, [but] at this point he does not acknowledge third parties,” says Stein. She finds it ironic that Sanders
has given the Greens the cold shoulder. “He’s kind of the socialist who doesn’t talk to other socialists.” But Stein is predicting that the coalition built by Sanders will flock to her camp if Hillary Clinton clinches the Democratic nomination. “There’s no doubt that those voters are not going to want to just line up behind Hillary,” Stein says. “We’ve made it clear that we are here for some people as a Plan B after Bernie.” Stein says the Democratic frontrunner isn’t championing progressive positions and accuses Clinton of embracing corporatism. “She talks about looking at things, not about doing things,” says Stein. “[The Democrats] are not going to change; we’re going to have to force them to change.” Nationally, the Green Party has never recovered from the 2000 presidential election despite it being the party’s best showing. Ralph Nader received over 2.8 million votes in that election but was cast as a spoiler for luring enough voters away from Democrat Al Gore to hand the election to George W. Bush. In Wisconsin, the Green Party garnered 94,000 votes in the 2000 presidential election. In 2012, when Stein also headed the Green ticket, she received just over 7,500 votes in the Badger State and fewer than a half a million nationally.
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Jill Stein says the Democratic Party has a “firewall” against progressive movements.
Bernie might be singing the Green Party’s tune, but far more people are listening. In the recent Wisconsin primary, Sanders received more than 500,000 votes, better than any other candidate from either party.
But Stein says the Sanders campaign will be good for independent politics. “If you talk to people under 30, they don’t have a lot of allegiance to either party,” says Stein. “They are giving Bernie a try in the Democratic Party, and they are being taught a lesson.” Stein sees the mainstream parties perpetuating a sense of hopelessness among the electorate that constrains what is politically possible. She scoffs at the “vote for the lesser of two evils” mindset and sees the rise of Republican Gov. Scott Walker as a prime of example of why Democrats are ultimately to blame for Wisconsin’s sharp turn to the right. “The Democratic Party candidates wouldn’t stand up for the key issues [of the] Wisconsin uprising,” she says. “Case in point how lesser-evilism paves the way for the greater evil.” Stein sees the current two-party dominance over the political system as a house of cards that may well collapse in 2016. “In the words of [author] Alice Walker, the biggest way people give up power is by not knowing we had it to start with. We got it, and we have to start using it.” n To hear Isthmus’ interview with Stein, go to Isthmus.com.
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A familiar, bearded face has joined Donald Trump’s inner circle. Rick Wiley, former campaign manager for Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential bid, is hired as Trump’s national political director. In a protest of “state-sanctioned LGBT discrimination,� Mayor Paul Soglin and Dane County Executive Joe Parisi ban city and county staff from traveling to North Carolina. Parisi also banned travel to Mississippi for the same reason. PREDICTABLE
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 n  After three and a half months, 59 confirmed cases and 19 deaths, state health officials still don’t know what’s causing the outbreak of Elizabethkingia infections, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. They’ve ruled out the water supply as a source, but “every other hypothesis remains open.� THURSDAY, APRIL 14 n  UW-Madison police
disrupt class to arrest 21-year-old Denzel McDonald, a student suspected in numerous instances of anti-racist graffiti on campus over the last six months. The arrest drew widespread outrage from faculty, staff and students.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 19 n  Controversy over a weekly
“Jesus Lunch� held in a park next to Middleton High School culminates in hundreds of students demonstrating for and against the faith-based meal, which has been organized by a group of parents since 2014. Middleton school district administrators called for an end to the gathering last week after parents and students voiced concerns about religious activity. n  In an early-morning shooting at Martin O’Grady’s Irish Pub on Mineral Point Road, 30-yearold Martez Moore of Madison is killed. Police are working to identify a suspect. It’s the city’s third homicide of 2016.
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develop Judge Doyle Square gets approval from the Madison Common Council. Now the city has 62 days to negotiate a preliminary deal with Chicagobased developer Beitler Real Estate Services. n  Members of the Madison Common Council elect Ald. Mike Verveer as president and Ald. Marsha Rummel as president pro tem. The contest for president was hotly contested, taking 15 ballots for Verveer to win.
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Smoke break Dane County pushes municipalities to lower fines for pot possession BY CAMERON BREN
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi has seen how possession of a small amount of marijuana can affect families in vastly different ways. “A young person would get charged with possession of marijuana, and their family would be facing a fine of over $1,000; that obviously comes down disproportionately on people living in poverty, and that can really set them back,� Parisi says. “Fines wouldn’t get paid, which would make it difficult or impossible for young people to get a job.� But the consequences can be much less crippling for others. “If someone in an upper-middle-class family would get a fine like that, yes, it would be inconvenient and a bummer for their family, but it would not change their life trajectory necessarily.� Although any amount of pot is illegal in Wisconsin, state law allows local governments to prosecute marijuana possession as an ordinance violation for amounts less than 25 grams — a little less than an ounce — with a current sale value in Madison between $290 and $370. While the movement to legalize marijuana is growing around the country, it seems unlikely that Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled government will join it any time soon. In Dane County, Parisi is spearheading an effort to decriminalize possession at the local level. It’s part of a county effort to consider how “policies have disproportionate impacts on people living in poverty.�
of color, even though the rate of drug usage is the same among different races.� “Marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug right up there with hard opiates,� Arnold adds. “Everybody knows it’s not the same.� Lowering the fine makes sense given that some states have already legalized the drug, Arnold adds, saying, “The strategy is to not treat this as such a serious offense and let the police work on violent crimes and traffic safety.� The decrease in the fines will not have a significant impact on the city’s finances, Arnold says. “We are not looking for the police department to write tickets to balance the city’s budget.� The reason the fine had been so high was because of a first offenders program pioneered by Municipal Judge Hamdy Ezalarab, Arnold says. Ezalarab used the large fine to motivate first offenders to participate in his program, which could reduce the fine. Arnold says the decrease has not lowered enrollment in the judge’s program. It kept the marijuana fine for minors at $200 as a concession to Ezalarab, Arnold says. On April 5, Middleton also lowered its fines for possession to $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second, $300 for a third and $500 for a fourth and subsequent offense. Monona debated changing its fines but its Public Safety Commission voted 5 to 4 in February to stick with the current amounts ($200 or $313 with court costs for a first offense), says Monona Police Chief Walter Ostrenga. Some wanted to see the fines increased, to be more of a deterrent, he says. The city issued 77 citations for marijuana in 2015, collecting $24,101 in fines, according to the commission minutes. If the fine had been $1, the amount would have been $77. Ostrenga says that while the commission discussed this fiscal impact, he adds, “I don’t think the money part of it played into the decision at all. They just felt strongly that they wanted a deterrent.� Ostrenga says it’s rare for his department to cite people for just possession of a small amount of marijuana. “Most of our arrests happen on traffic stops or if someone is arrested in
connection with another crime,� he says. “It is highly unusual to cite someone for a small amount of marijuana in their personal residence unless it is related to something larger, like manufacturing and sale of drugs.� The city of Madison has long had relatively liberal laws regarding marijuana. In the 1970s, the Common Council changed its ordinances to read: “A person may casually possess marijuana or cannabis in a private place. Such casual possession is not a crime and is not subject to forfeiture.� Outside a private place, the fine for less than 25 grams is $50, but with court costs that climbs to $124. Madison Ald. Mike Verveer says that the Common Council has also passed resolutions urging the Legislature to decriminalize marijuana. He says he would like to reduce the fines more. “Going back decades, our community has said marijuana is no big deal,� Verveer says. “Generally, I think the police department has received that message.� Gary Storck, a NORML consultant who blogs at cannabadger.com, says that local residents clearly favor legalization. More than two years ago, Dane County voters backed an advisory referendum to legalize marijuana for recreational use by 64.5% of the vote. Storck agrees that Madison was a pioneer, but says the city can do more now. “For so many years it stood as a shining example,� he says. “Now that [the ordinance] is 40 years old, it needs to be updated.� When he was in the Legislature, Parisi had co-sponsored legislation to decriminalize medical marijuana. While he’s pushed to decriminalize recreational use of the drug, he doesn’t take a stance on full legalization. “In terms of recreational use, I think Wisconsin policymakers should review impacts on public safety and public health in places where it’s already been legalized to inform future decisions on that in our state.� n
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Two years ago, Parisi’s office looked at the fines across the county and found that they varied widely, from a couple of hundred dollars to more than $1,000. Fitchburg’s fine was almost $1,300 including court costs. So Parisi asked the county board to reduce the fine in the county ordinance. The board agreed, lowering it to $1 plus court costs (about $115) for any amount under 25 grams. But since county ordinances only affect unincorporated areas, getting the municipalities to lower fines will have a much bigger impact. In a March 20, 2015 letter to the county’s municipalities, Parisi asked them to follow the county’s lead and lower penalties for all nonviolent crimes, adopt “ban the box� ordinances (removing conviction record questions from job applications) and monitor law enforcement traffic stop data. Fitchburg was the first municipality to revise its marijuana ordinances at Parisi’s request. Last September, it set fines at $1 (with an another $62 for court fees) for people 21 and older and $200 ($313 with court fees) for those under 21. “I think it is the right thing to do, and I hope the other jurisdictions follow the county’s lead and our lead,� says Fitchburg Mayor Steve Arnold. “You’ve got this disproportionate incarceration rate for people
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Spine of steel Jimmy Anderson takes on another challenge with Assembly run BY NATHAN J. COMP
Running for a legislative seat in Wisconsin’s current political environment requires a special kind of backbone. Jimmy Anderson, who announced his run for the District 47 Assembly seat April 18, literally has a spine of steel, a result of surgery following a devastating car crash. “I want to spend [my] time helping others,” says Anderson, sitting outside of the state Capitol. “I want the people in my district to have true progressive representation.” Anderson is running for the seat now held by former Monona Mayor Robb Kahl, a Democrat, who has admitted to voting for Gov. Scott Walker in 2010. (He’s since criticized Walker’s actions as governor.) If Kahl decides to run for re-election, the two will go toe-to-toe in the Aug. 9 primary. District 47 includes parts of Monona, Fitchburg, the city and town of Madison, McFarland and Cottage Grove. Kahl, a four-term Monona mayor, wasn’t surprised by Anderson’s announcement. “I haven’t decided whether I’ll run yet, but I won’t make my decision based on whether someone who has lived in the district less than
two years decides to run,” Kahl says. “If he was going to scare me out of the race you would’ve heard that announcement three months ago.” Kahl boasts that he would easily beat Anderson in an election. “If I do decide to run I will have everyone’s support, from Joe Parisi and Dave Mahoney on down,” Kahl says. “Jimmy has a compelling life story, but he’s never held elected office, and the people in my district know me, they know that I run to serve, and I will have their support if seeking the nomination is what I decide to do.” But Anderson says that Kahl’s vote for Walker doesn’t sit well with District 47 voters, roughly 70% of whom voted for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary on April 5. “It’s going to be a hard fight,” says Anderson, “but I’m going to do it.” Anderson knows a thing or two about long odds. On his way to celebrate his 24th birthday in California in the summer of 2010, a drunk driver plowed into Anderson’s vehicle, snapping his neck. Anderson emerged from a coma a quadriplegic, learning from his wife that his parents and brother died in the accident. In 2012, he returned to UW-Madison law school. After graduation, he worked a brief stint with the state Department of Justice.
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Anderson then launched Drive Clear, a nonprofit that provides financial assistance to victims of drunk drivers. “We recently helped a woman avoid being evicted,” he says. The son of a Caucasian truck driver and a Mexican American vegetable packer, Anderson’s bluecollar upbringing has shaped him politically, but his health insurer’s attempt to drop him following the accident left him wanting to shape politics.
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What distinguishes ESC is the active role Ebola survivors play. Research shows survivors are immune from reinfection for up to 10 years — which greatly reduces the risk of the spread of infection when working with those afflicted by the disease. “We’re developing a model that is powerful in and of itself, but it is also something that can be replicated in other situations,” says Marc Rosenthal, a longtime nurse who now works at UW Health’s Odana Atrium Clinic and is part of the ESC collective. He worked in a Sierra Leone Ebola treatment unit at the height of the epidemic and points to government agencies and community organizers working together in Africa as one way to effect significant change. As far as Paige is aware, there is no other U.S.-based organization accomplishing the same type of work as ESC. “I see us as part of the global community that is doing what I call ‘the good work,’” Rosenthal says. “This world is globalized, and we can’t wall off something that happens somewhere in Africa and say it doesn’t matter here. It matters, and has an impact on all of us.” There will be other epidemics, Rosenthal notes. “If it’s not Ebola, it will be Lassa fever or the Zika virus. We have to strengthen our global health care infrastructure, and this group is one piece of that effort. This model needs to be replicated.” n
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When the United States took the global lead in combating the world’s deadliest Ebola epidemic in 2014, the White House and public and private organizations sent out an all-call for assistance in equipping health care workers on the front lines with better weapons to battle the disease. That’s when Sarah Paige sprang into action. As an assistant scientist and grant writer at the UW-Madison’s Global Health Institute, she tapped into UW’s Kibale EcoHealth Project, a long-term investigation of health and ecology in the region of Kibale National Park in Uganda, Africa. (Several years ago, Uganda was officially declared free of Ebola, an often fatal disease caused by viral infection.) Before long — and thanks to successful crowdsourcing efforts via Indiegogo and the open innovation platform OpenIDEO — Paige created the Ebola Survivor Corps. “We wanted to elevate the status of Ebola survivors, leverage their inherent immunity to the disease and have them be the first responders to care, demystifying the health-seeking process and letting patients and their families know what to expect,” says Paige, executive director of the organization. “And we wanted to make this a long-term program and pay survivors for their service.” Today, less than two years after that national all-call, the Ebola Survivor Corps has partnered with West African Medical Missions and the Koinadugu district health sector in a remote area of the Republic of Sierra Leone — the country hardest hit by the disease, with more than 14,000 cases and nearly 4,000 deaths reported since 2014 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ESC staff in Sierra Leone includes a project manager, a project coordinator and five survivor health advocates, who fulfill ESC’s outreach mission. A small team in the United States consists entirely of volunteers and includes scientists from the UW, Tulane University and the University of Texas at Austin, as well as business and health professionals in Madison and media consultants in Seattle. Lina Moses, an epidemiologist from Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine who also is part of ESC, was on the ground in Sierra Leone doing work for Tulane’s Lassa fever program when Ebola struck the region.
She will speak at the UW Havens Center for Social Justice in the Health Sciences Learning Center, room 1306, on Thursday, April 28, at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and will focus on Moses’ experiences treating Ebola and her proposal for more compassionate and effective epidemic responses. “Lina’s experience is one that nobody else has, before the world started talking about Ebola in Sierra Leone,” says Andrew Bennett, a Ph.D. student and emerging infections epidemiologist in the UW’s Department of Pathobiological Sciences and a member of the ESC team. “People are underestimating the amount of work that still needs to be done related to Ebola. There are still cases appearing, and it’s going to last for a long time.” The ultimate goal of ESC is to prevent future Ebola outbreaks, as well as foster the psychological and sociological recovery efforts of those affected by the 2014 outbreak in West Africa.
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If a violator is discovered, the system beeps in recognition. With the second set of images and data recorded, the parking officer then pulls off the road to doublecheck the images. “It does occasionally screw up; that’s why we check each car,� says Powers, pointing out that the system monitoring cars on Hancock Street ID’d a sedan and a minivan as the same car. “The human element is still absolutely needed.� Rain and snow can obscure the images. “If I don’t have good, clean images, I’m not going to write the ticket,� says Powers. “If there’s no way to be absolutely certain, I skip it.� To increase accuracy, “we try to mimic the speed, distance from the parked cars and take the same path on the second pass,� says Powers. Although Powers usually drives 20 miles per hour while scanning, he says the system can work at up to 55 miles an hour. “I have no idea why you’d want to do that, but we can,� he says. Stefanie Niesen, the city’s parking enforcement supervisor, says the photos are kept only until the end of the day. “autoChalk may be able to access them at a later date if needed,� she says. “The photos of the vehicles cited are kept for at least seven years.� In the six years the city has been using the autoChalk system, only a couple of tickets have been successfully challenged in court thanks to the two sets of pictures taken. The system can also be used to scan for stolen cars or parking ticket scofflaws, but that’s fairly rare, as it can’t be done simultaneously with the parking checker, and it drastically slows down the system, says Powers. It cost $121,000 to outfit a Jeep and Ford Escape SUV with autoChalk systems, which are manufactured and maintained by Tannery Creek Systems in Ontario. Another benefit of the autoChalk system is that it’s more clandestine than the manual method, Niesen says. “If they don’t see us, they don’t know we’re out there because there’s no chalk on the tire.� n
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Gov. Scott Walker, who went out of his way to turn down $65 million in federal Medicaid dollars to expand health care coverage for Wisconsin’s working poor, is now leading a group of 11 Republican governors who want Congress to allow them to drugtest food stamp recipients. Apparently, Republicans are so concerned that impoverished drug addicts are a burden on the state, they’ve decided to turn them into hungry, desperate drug addicts. We already know that drug-testing people who get Temporary Assistance to Needy Families is a bust. ThinkProgress reports that, in the seven states that spent a total of $1 million to drug-test TANF recipients, the positive test rates in all but one were below 1%, and all of them were below the national drug use rate. But policy outcomes are not the point. Like voter ID, drug-testing food stamp recipients is a policy with certain unsavory racial overtones. Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, had to apologize a couple of years ago after he made some candid remarks on the subject to a local newspaper reporter. “I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call ‘welfare crazy checks,’” Alday told the ClarionLedger in Mississippi. “They don’t work.” That’s the stereotype that drives meanspirited policies like drug-testing food stamp recipients, which Walker wrapped together with a job training requirement in his last state budget. These measures might be popular with white racist voters, but as policy they are based on beliefs that are just plain wrong. For starters, most food stamp recipients are white. According to the Department of Agriculture, 40% of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) recipients are white, 25% are black, and 10% are Latino.
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So much for “all the blacks” getting food stamps, skipping work and selling government benefits to buy drugs. The typical food stamp recipient in Wisconsin is a poor, white working mom. Also, contrary to the Wississippi point of view, more white people than black people use illegal drugs. Whites are more likely than African Americans to have used cocaine, marijuana and LSD — even though African Americans are far more likely to go to prison for drug offenses, thanks to the same get-tough mentality that automatically views poor people and poor black people in particular as criminal suspects. The racial gap in drug use is huge — and exactly the opposite of the racist stereotype: Nearly
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the brit tingham renaissance Neighbors take back their once troubled park
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ary Berryman Agard and her husband, Steve, moved across from Brittingham Park in 1976 for one reason. “We have interracial children, and we came here because of the Bayview neighborhood,” says Mary, referring to what’s also known as “the Triangle,” the ethnically diverse area bordered by Park Street, West Washington Avenue and Regent Street. But the park, which sits on the banks of Monona Bay, was also a major plus. A city beach, staffed with lifeguards, was just down the block from the Agards’ house, and the water was clean and inviting. “We used the beach constantly,” she recalls. “The floors of my house were like sand dunes.” She says children from Longfellow School on South Brooks Street, which was then still open, often used the park and beach. “You didn’t worry that your kids were in Brittingham Park,” she recalls. “A lot of the children’s social lives happened in the park. Hanging with friends, boating, swimming, fishing.” Agard and her husband (whose art appears on this week’s cover) also socialized in the park, hosting a weekly Wednesday night gathering of friends in the warmer months. “The one requirement is that you had to bring somebody we didn’t know.” But by the 1990s, the water quality of the lake had declined, and fewer people were heading to the park to swim. The city subsequently closed the beach due to limited use. Meanwhile, unsavory behavior in the park increased, including gambling, drinking, prostitution and fighting. Panhandling was common, and women were harassed, says Agard. The park was dangerous at night, particularly for girls and women. By mid-2000, city park staff were discouraging users from renting the park pavilion, which had turned into a de facto homeless shelter for dozens of men. By the time a transgender
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woman was found dead in the park in July 2007 from complications of alcohol abuse, neighbors had come together under the umbrella of a new group, the Monona Bay Neighborhood Association. “Our position was that our beef was not with homelessness. It was with illegal and antisocial behavior in the park,” says Agard, the association’s first president. The police identified “frequent fliers” who were involved repeatedly in illegal behavior. Some were mentally ill; others were substance abusers. Porchlight, which provides housing and supportive services for homeless individuals, was tapped to bring additional help. Alcohol was banned from the park, surveillance cameras were installed, and police started patrolling regularly to remove chronic loiterers. Some advocates criticized the efforts for not focusing more on the root causes of homelessness, but ultimately reclamation efforts focused not so much on driving people from the park but inviting them back. Says Agard: “The police took the position that having more affirmative bookings in the shelter was the greatest thing that could be done to increase safety.” Is there anything more chill than piling into a hammock and staring at a lake? “I had a vision for us today,” says Molly Spoerl, who along with Andrew Baker and Lawrence Sullivan, shopped for food at the farmers’ market before setting up two lightweight hammocks at Brittingham Park on April 16, one of the glorious 70-degree days of this past weekend. The three, all sophomores at UW, live about 10 minutes from the park. None knew anything about the park’s past troubles. “I’ve never thought about it as anything other than nice,” says Baker, who often runs through the park as well. Neither did Zach Dyer, 23, or Zach Daniels, 23, who headed to the park in the morning with four other friends they know from Epic, where they work, to play pickup volleyball at the sand courts. “I really like that it’s off the lake,” says Dyer of the park. Both say they’ve never felt unsafe in the park.
The volleyball courts are located at the western edge of the park, just before the bike path empties out onto West Shore Drive and approximately a few hundred yards from the park shelter. Installation of the courts was driven by the Monona Bay Neighborhood Association, which also rallied for soccer fields. Today there are a couple of men hanging out on the tables inside the shelter; another is sleeping on the ground by a table just off to the side. Families with young children are all over the park, including one group with a woman in a long silk sari. People are fishing, playing football and Frisbee, sun-bathing, walking dogs and biking. Taylor Cole Miller is one of two gardeners working at the community garden plot, located to the east of the soccer and Frisbee fields, just before the park curves around to parallel South Brittingham Place. A graduate student at UWMadison, Miller lives about a quarter-mile from the park. He put his name on the waiting when the garden launched in 2013, and was thrilled when he made the cut last year. Freedom Inc., a nonprofit group that serves Hmong refugees who live in subsidized housing across West Washington, spearheaded the garden. Some neighborhood residents opposed the idea, fearing the garden plots would be unkempt and unsightly; others simply did not like the idea of cutting up public green space. But neighborhood police officer Kimberly Alan says the garden has been a wholly positive addition, bringing diverse people together in the process. “The people using raised beds tend to be disabled folks from the CDA building across the street,” says Alan. “You also have a lot of [Hmong] elders and families from Bayview and continued on p18
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From left: Andrew Baker, Molly Spoerl and Lawrence Sullivan find a quiet spot along Monona Bay on an unusually warm April afternoon.
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Graduate student Taylor Cole Miller digs a compost trench in his garden plot.
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Mee Xiong plants the garden’s flower border, which doubles as pollinator habitat.
c h e c k o u t b r i t t i n g h a m pa r k The public is invited to the annual Brittingham Boats/Monona Bay Neighborhood Association summer kick-off on May 14 (rain date May 15) 4 pm: Updates on park at Brittingham Boats | 5 pm: Neighborhood picnic | 5:45 pm: Updraft ribbon cutting, community gardens
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Hmong elders Naochee Xiong (left) and Washoua Lor install a perimeter fence at the gardens.
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folks from the Brittingham neighborhood and around Monona Bay.” Alan says the Hmong elders, in particular, also do small maintenance jobs around the park and keep an eye on potential problems. “That garden has provided a whole lot of natural surveillance for us,” she adds. Miller says he still sees homeless people sleeping in the pavilion and did lose some pumpkins to theft last year. But problems are few. He points to the now barren strip just on the other side of a temporary fence, noting it will soon be planted with a border of flowers. “People who garden out here love it,” he says. “They put their heart and soul into making things pretty.” — JUDITH DAVIDOFF
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Tyler Leeper was always attracted to Brittingham Park. “I’d be driving by, wondering what those random canoes were doing on the racks there, and who was going out from there.” Leeper, co-owner of Wingra Boats (which rents canoes and other watercraft in that near-west-side city park), liked Brittingham’s siting. “It’s a nice balance between the quiet water of Monona Bay and access to the larger lake chain,” he notes. “It seemed like a perfect location: close to downtown, visible, and yet still good for enjoying quiet water sports.” In 2012, Leeper moved to a home on West Shore Drive, adjacent to Brittingham along the south side of Monona Bay. “Then I recognized that there was a large community waiting for some activity to happen in the park. My neighbors had young children. I saw strollers, people running by every day. It was clear to me that there was a community here, waiting, with nothing to do.” Leeper and his Wingra Boats partner Stephan Reinke were authorized by the city to operate a boat rental concession and open a cafe out of the long-unused parks department building at Brittingham Beach; they entered into an eight-year contract with the city in 2013. The first task was to start cleaning out the building and turn it into a pleasant place to have a cup of coffee and a sandwich and create places for equipment storage. “People got excited,” Leeper remembers. “Neighbors came by who said, ‘We don’t want to go out on the lakes, but we’ll buy a membership every year, we’re so happy you guys are here.” Urban studies theorist Jane Jacobs has argued that parks benefit from various, diverse uses at different times of the day, and from attracting more than one kind of user. Brittingham Boats, which opened in 2013, has been instrumental in pulling in users not just from the immediate neighborhood, but workers from the Square who make the quick trip to the park during lunch hour or after work to paddle or have lunch at the summer
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cafe. Meriter Hospital employees, who have an unlimited access pass for boat rental, also come often. Even tourists staying at downtown hotels call and ask for directions to the boathouse. “Within a month we had regulars coming for lunch breaks, going out paddling,” says Leeper. “It surprised everybody, especially me, how quickly it became a destination.” Leeper notes that from the Square or Monona Terrace, “it’s really easy. It’s about a six-minute walk, but people aren’t used to walking in that direction.” Lessons and classes are given for standup paddleboarding and standup paddleboard yoga. New this summer, teams will be forming for standup paddleboard polo, in which two teams of three people each use something like a lacrosse stick to scoop up balls. “It’s a non-contact sport; you just have to be willing to get wet,” says Leeper. It’s also fun to watch from shore, he says. There are also kid day camps held in the park in summer, with introductions to canoeing, kayaking and fishing. Brittingham Boats has introduced a varied population into the park in the evening
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as well, with movie nights and monthly fullmoon paddles. Ultimately, Leeper would like to see the city build a new facility for boat rental and the food concession that would also contain meeting space for three area neighborhood associations that currently have no ideal gathering place. He’d also like to see programming increase to year-round activity in the park, especially winter activities. “What we really do is work to build community,” Leeper says. “We happen to do it by renting out boats, but the main focus is, ‘How do we bring people together?’” — LINDA FALKENSTEIN
Even co-owner Tyler Leeper was surprised at how quickly Brittingham Boats “became a destination.”
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Art for all Throughout March, Burns was overseeing the fabrication of the sculpture at Hooper Corp., on Madison’s north side, where a lucky visitor could catch a glimpse of the resting steel towers, whose elegant, curving leaves snake around thick, curved poles. Burns, an east-side resident, is a professional artist and metalworker who has created public art in the Arboretum, Troy Gardens, the Madison Children’s Museum and Olbrich Gardens. The Brittingham sculpture, due to be installed in the next two weeks, is his most prominent artwork to date. In the artist’s tool-filled east-side studio/workshop, where Burns is constructing the benches, he demonstrates the project’s evolution, from stacks of drawings, to tiny model, to life-sized wood mockup of the metal monument. In December, Burns oversaw the pouring of several tons of concrete at Brittingham. The concrete will
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Whether people are looking at the towering steel arch from afar or passing through its leafy arms, sculptor Mike Burns hopes people experience some of the awe he felt as a child looking up at the sky and trees. Burns remembers when his grandfather, an electrician, piled all the cousins into the back of a pickup truck and drove to job sites in Illinois. “We’d lie down and stare up at the elm trees. They were huge, like St. Peter’s Cathedral,” says Burns. “When you’re a kid and you’re lying up and looking at the trees, it’s just great. I’ve kept that feeling alive.” Burns has been working with the Monona Bay Neighborhood Association to design and create an installation called Updraft, which includes an open arch flanking the bike path (the two 20-foothigh pieces are not directly across from one another), four benches and an ornamented (rabbit-proof) fence.
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of a conscious effort to involve residents in improving neighborhoods. “We want to keep putting energy into our central city,” says Wolf, “but we also want to reinvest in our neighborhoods and have it be a grassroots, collaborative process. This is an example of where a neighborhood came to us and said ‘we want to do this,’ and we worked hand-inhand to help them get going.” Burns calls Updraft “an expression of motion,” evoking leaves caught up in the wind. Because the two pieces of the arch are 40 feet apart, passersby will spend some time within the installation. “This is a metaphor for traveling through, not just passing through,” says Burns, who says he was inspired by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. “Some of his photographs were black-and-white shots of trees along narrow streets or alleys in France. It’s like a cathedral. That spoke to me, too, as like a sacred space.” — CATHERINE CAPELLARO
The way we play A new playground might seem like an unlikely starting point for a neighborhood conversation about equity and social justice. But in Madison’s multicultural Bayview Neighborhood, a city plan to build new play structures in Brittingham Park sparked controversy among the area’s residents, leading to a series of neighborhood input meetings that resulted in significant changes to the city’s initial playground design. Scheduled to break ground in 2017, the new playgrounds are part of the ongoing effort to revitalize Brittingham Park, once plagued by crime and loiterers. “We’ve been able to turn the tide,” says Kay Rutledge, Madison’s assistant parks superintendent. “Now people feel comfortable going to that park.” The playground discussion began in 2014 when city officials announced plans to build a fully accessible, “barrier-free” playground next to the shelter house in Brittingham Park. Also proposed was a new “nature-based” playground that would replace an existing, traditional-style playground near the community gardens. A third, traditional-style playground was planned near Brittingham Beach. That might sound fine to someone outside the neighborhood, but Mary Berryman Agard, president of the nonprofit Bayview Foundation, says the proposed setup was out of step with the needs of the children and families in the area, because it ignored their cultural preferences. “There was an insensitivity in the way it was working,” she says. There are nearly 140 children living in nearby housing complexes known as the Triangle, which is close to the gardens and the site of the current playground, whose traditional style is “strongly preferred” by the residents. There are far fewer children living near the Brittingham Beach area of the park, so moving a beloved play structure to that area “made very little sense,” Berryman Agard says. Many Hmong parents and elders enjoy tending the community gardens and appreciate having the play area nearby so they can
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keep an eye on the children. Neighborhood residents made their case to city officials at a series of public input meetings in 2014 and 2015. Rutledge says she was “a bit surprised” by the strong, culturebased preferences, but the playground design team was receptive to the input. Meeting notices were posted in Spanish and Hmong, and interpreters were present to translate for the residents. City staff made a point to hold the input sessions at meeting spaces close to the neighborhood, and they worked with neighborhood leaders to spread the word and encourage attendance, Rutledge says. A new analytical framework, called the Racial Equity and Social Justice Tool, also helped guide the process. “We were able to more clearly hear their voices,” Rutledge says. In the revised plan, the nature-based playground will be near Brittingham Beach, the barrier-free playground will be near the park shelter and a new and improved traditional-style playground will replace the current structure near the gardens. Rutledge says the process has helped the parks department understand the need to “do more” to make sure the voices of community members are heard. “If cultures use parks differently, we want to know that,” she says. “We want to build our parks in a way that best serves the community.” — ALLISON GEYER
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or that have been collecting dust in obscure corners of archives. The project, led by the University of Leeds, is funded by a $2.5 million grant from the U.K.’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. As it turns out, Madison is an appropriate setting for such a major event. The UW was the first university in the country to offer Yiddish language instruction, starting when professor Louis Wolfenson taught his first Yiddish class in 1916. One hundred years later, UW is a leading center of Yiddish cultural literacy, thanks to the 2009 launch of the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture and the 9,000 historic Yiddish and Jewish sound recordings donated to the university by educator and Jewish music fiend Sherry Mayrent.
One of Madison’s contributions to “Out of the Shadows” will happen on May 2 when Henry Sapoznik, director of the Mayrent Institute, will lead a presentation on the institute’s recently acquired cache of wax cylinders made by the Chicago-based Thomas Lambert Company around 1901, thought to be the oldest, rarest Yiddish sound recordings in existence. These Yiddish recordings were part of a bigger stash of Lambert cylinders — all in remarkable condition for their age — obtained by music historian/sound engineer/collector (and UW alum) David Giovannoni. Although the Lambert cylinders were a huge score for UW and Sapoznik, the festival is
mainly about performances. Teryl Dobbs, associate professor and chair of music education at the UW School of Music, is the main organizer of “Out of the Shadows” and the lone U.S.-based scholar on Performing the Jewish Archive’s diverse core research team, which includes musicologists, performers, historians, educators and even a psychologist. Dobbs notes that a number of the compositions being performed are either world or U.S. premieres. One of the composers featured on the program is Gideon Klein, who was an upand-coming Prague musician until the Nazis herded him into forced labor in the nearby
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Madison is not known as a hotbed of Yiddish language and culture, but its flagship research university is hosting a major festival that celebrates the school’s role in preserving the history of Yiddishkayt in the United States. From May 1 through May 5, UW-Madison will present “Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish Music, Literature and Theater,” the first of four festivals around the world celebrating recently unearthed works by Jewish artists. (UW hosted a one-day “pilot” festival last fall.) “Out of the Shadows” and its sister festivals are a component of Performing the Jewish Archive, a multidisciplinary research project undertaken by scholars on four continents that showcases works once thought to be lost
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WINE DINNER Combo plates feature a choice of two entrees, like the dorowot and the peanut stew, served on injera.
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Buraka’s back Spicy stews and more are just as good at the new Willy Street location BY AMELIA COOK FONTELLA
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African nations are included. Kenyan coconut curry is mild and sweet, a good pick for less adventurous diners. Baris, a Somali specialty, will feel familiar to fans of Indian biryani: spices like cardamom and saffron turn the rice a beautiful yellow. The flavors were strong here, but the execution was lacking. The portion — less than a cup — seemed a little paltry, even for lunch, and the chicken was dry. While entrees feel relatively wholesome, Buraka’s appetizer menu is all about deep-fried decadence. Tostones, fried green plantains, are served dusted with chile and with an addictive spicy mayo dipping sauce, a secret recipe made by the owner. Yucca fries are insanely good, like deluxe french fries with crispy outsides and steamy, fluffy interiors. Their flavor is a little onedimensional, but in a good way, like mashed potatoes. More complex flavors are found in the beef and vegetarian samosas. It was the veggie version, filled with lentils, onion and tomato, that was the big winner at our table. Both the yucca fries and the samosas were served with the same spicy mayo as the tostones. While I am a huge fan of that secret spicy sauce, it lost some of its novelty when all the appetizers we ordered came with it. In the Oromo language, the word “buraka” means “joy and contentment,” an appropriate description for the feel of the restaurant’s cozy new location and its easy-to-like Ethiopian comfort food. With wonderfully spiced dishes, strong vegetarian offerings and comfy new digs, Buraka is back. And it’s as good as ever. 11 am-2 am daily
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If the wind is blowing the right way down Willy Street, you might catch the intoxicating scent of spice-rich Ethiopian food drifting from Buraka. First a food cart and then a beloved State Street restaurant, Buraka has been a Madison staple since the early 1990s. After being displaced in 2013 for construction of the Hub apartment complex, it closed while owner Markos Regassa scouted a new location. In March, Buraka reopened in the former home of Jolly Bob’s. The building has been completely revamped, with warm accent colors and wood-clad walls, making the most of the long, narrow space. The back patio will open later this spring. At the heart of Buraka’s menu are several stews, served with white rice or spread on a piece of injera, a sour Ethiopian flatbread. Entrees are often simple, featuring one or two main ingredients, but the real treat is found in their incredibly flavorful, spiceladen sauces. Dorowot, Buraka’s most popular entree according to the menu, is an Ethiopian chicken stew. Boneless chicken and carrots are simmered in a thick red sauce, flavored with a blend of spices called berbere. The exact spices in berbere can vary, but it often includes garlic, ginger, cumin and coriander — all of which come through in this dish. Buraka’s dorowot is not spicy, but the multitude of spices make its sauce wonderfully complex. It’s hearty comfort food, like an African version of chili. A dollop of sour cream makes it an even richer experience.
The peanut stew, available vegetarian or with chicken, was less peanut-y than I wanted, but the large chunks of cauliflower in the veggie version were perfectly cooked and earthy. Likewise, tender lamb and carrots are the centerpiece of begwot, another stew. Buraka’s menu has abundant vegetarian options. My favorite veggie dish is the misirwot, a thick lentil stew with split peas and potatoes. It’s hearty and satisfying without any of the dryness that sometimes accompanies lentils. Alicha, a curry with cabbage, carrots and potatoes, is also easy to like. The crunch and slight bitterness of the cabbage works well with the mild yellow curry. Black beans — which the menu calls a “special rich dish” — weren’t bad, but compared with the other options, are a bit boring: beans and potatoes in a red sauce that tasted very similar to that of the dorowot and begwot. The injera, which is available with most entrees, is made on site. On my first visit, it was heavenly: wonderfully sour and spongy, a perfect vehicle for soaking up every last drop of stew. On another day, however, it was downright inedible. The edges tasted stale, and it was so dry that it couldn’t be rolled; it was served broken in sad pieces on a bread plate. When I asked about it, the waiter assured me it was freshly made, but that the kitchen was “experimenting” with a gluten-free recipe. Another table nearby complained and left their injera untouched. Fortunately, when I stopped back a few days later, the injera was back to normal. Still, I felt a bit betrayed at being the unwilling participant in the kitchen’s gluten-free injera experiment. Though much of Buraka’s menu focuses on Ethiopian cuisine, a few dishes from other East
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Eat something! Adamah Neighborhood Table keeps kosher — and beats Bubbe at her own game BY LINDA FALKENSTEIN
At this year’s culminating “street food” event for Chef Week, it wasn’t any of the dishes from the hot name kitchens that stole my heart. For sheer audacity of flavor, it was the sabich sandwich from Adamah Neighborhood Table — the cafe in the UWMadison Hillel. The sabich, an Israeli favorite, is filled with fried eggplant and hard-boiled egg and jazzed up with hot schug sauce and amba (a tart-sweet mango sauce). This one was the work of Jason Kierce, executive chef at Adamah since July 2015. Kierce was behind my favorite dish from last year’s Chef Week potluck, too, a rich meatloaf made with additions of short rib meat and bacon, from Johnny Delmonico’s — Kierce’s kitchen at the time. Yes, you heard right, bacon. Kierce, who’s not Jewish, had never cooked kosher before moving from stints at Johnny Delmonico’s and Cento to take over the kitchen at Adamah last year. The cafe was then under the auspices of Blue Plate Catering, but as of Jan. 1, 2016, it’s been operating on its own as a nonprofit restaurant owned by Hillel. It’s open to the public 10 a.m.-8 p.m. SundayThursday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Fridays. Adamah is Madison’s only kosher kitchen and the only certified kosher restaurant in Wisconsin approved to serve both meat and dairy. It welcomes not just students but members of the community, tourists and other visitors who need a kosher meal. The kitchen even delivers kosher meals to UW Hospital and Clinics for families of patients. Kierce works in concert with Hillel educator Shlomo Geller, also the kitchen’s kosher supervisor. Geller, for instance, turns on the stove any time it’s needed (due to an element of kosher law that requires a Jew must take some part in the cooking process if a non-Jew is cooking). Once every two months the kitchen is inspected by a rabbi from Milwaukee.
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When Kierce started at Adamah, he looked at the cafe menu and wanted to do “food that was traditional but with my spin on it.” So he came up with, in one instance, a tomatillo and poblano version of shakshuka, the Israeli/North African dish that’s more conventionally eggs poached in tomato sauce. “People liked it, but they were longing for the traditional version,” says Kierce. “I always hear, ‘I want the stuff that Bubbe makes.’” He has obliged, and the menu includes homemade malawach, a “laborsome” fried bread that consists of layers of dough that are carefully cut, wrapped, pressed and then fried. The kitchen also makes its own harissa, the hot chili blend found in its sweet potato
hash and its chicken schnitzel sandwich. There’s also an American/Jewish deli side to the menu, with a pastrami sandwich, Rueben, matzoh ball soup, noodle kugel and potato pancakes. Kierce wants to introduce more seasonality into the menu, and is also toying with doing housemade brisket and a kosher sausage. For Passover, which starts this year on April 22, the entire kitchen must be cleaned and re-koshered. All-new food, even new spices, must be brought in, to make sure no flour has touched anything. “In Chicago, most restaurants just shut down,” Kierce says, because re-koshering the kitchen is so much work. But here Hillel will be extremely busy, with five seders scheduled and an abbreviated Passover menu in the cafe, complete with gefilte fish, and matzoh or latkes on the side of other dishes (like the now-traditional shakshuka). Kierce has been working on creating a state-of-the-art hydroponic growing system for fresh greens on site. His pilot setup in a small room upstairs from the kitchen is filled with nasturtiums and parsley. He’s still tinkering with a more elaborate system that’s been established in a sky-lit storeroom in the top floor of the building — adjusting fertilizer, water and light levels. Growing greens on-site is not just a nod toward trendy hyper-local. The laws of kashrut include a rule forbidding the eating of insects, and so all greens that the kitchen purchases must be rewashed and re-inspected. Growing greens indoors hydroponically means no insects. “The gardening is actually quite fun,” says Kierce. Currently he’s producing microgreens, edible flowers and “every herb you can think of.” He’s even planted squash, to use the plant’s blossoms. Kierce says that ultimately, Adamah provides “nourishment on more than one level. What we do is really specialized, but we put out really good food.” n
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A real bar Cask & Ale slated for July opening The new whiskey lounge Cask & Ale, 212 State St., is scheduled to open this July. But it’s also a nod to the past: Owner Ken Boll long managed State Street mainstay Paul’s Club, originally located in the same spot. (In 2012, Paul’s Club moved a few doors up the block.) Cask & Ale will be stocked with whiskies from around the world as well as small-batch, craft varieties distilled close to home. “The whiskey end of the cocktail world is definitely the biggest growing market right now,” says Boll. Boll will also cater to the Overture/Orpheum crowd with wine and cocktails and a revolving list of 30 draft beers. Late night he hopes to have DJs and acoustic music. The space, most recently home to 608 Restaurant and Bar, is being remodeled with a new back bar and new floors. Unlike 608 (which is moving to the former Einstein Bros. Bagel space on Fordem Avenue), Cask & Ale won’t have a kitchen and has been licensed to serve alcohol exclusively. Boll says it’s a “bit surreal” running down the basement stairs like he had so many times before to change a keg at Paul’s Club. “It’s also where I met my wife, so I have some history with the space. It’s neat to be back,” says Boll.
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Beer buzz: Fill ’er up Growlers to Go-Go is Madison’s first growler-only shop growler filling stations, which became possible in Madison only after an ordinance change in July 2014. Growlers to Go-Go will be open noon-9 p.m. Mon.-Sat. and noon-7 p.m. Sun.
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Growlers to Go-Go’s grand opening starts at noon, April 23, at 2927 E. Washington Ave., next door to Trixie’s Liquors. This east-side growler filling station is owned by Chris and Colleen Welch, who also own Trixie’s. The shop will pour fresh tap beer into 32-ounce or 64-ounce growlers, or 32-ounce cans (crowlers) for home use. There’s also a small (6-8 barstools) area where customers can sample or try a pint on-site. Welch has plans to sell pressurized growlers, and eventually mini kegerators. Beers include local, regional and national brands from at least 18 tap lines. Chris Welch says he’ll be choosing his rotating lineup with the ultimate beer geek in mind. “We’ll have high-end stuff, and [some] usually found as brewery-only beers,” he says. “They won’t all be hits — sometimes a miss, and sometimes off the wall,” he adds. Some of the initial beers include Naughty 90 Oaked IPA from Toppling Goliath and Dragon’s Milk Reserve Vanilla Chai from New Holland Brewing. The shop joins a growing number of grocery stores (Fresh Market, Festival Foods) that have
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There’s a traditional German custom of inviting friends into the brewmaster’s cellars to serve a beer unfiltered, directly from the lager tanks, poured from a spigot called a zwickel. New Glarus’ take on the beer has been offered only a handful times over the years (most recently in 2009). New Glarus does not serve zwickel directly from the tanks but sells it as a limitedrelease unfiltered lager, bottled in four-packs and available only in the brewery’s own beer depot (and well worth making the trip). It’s made with a blend of Wisconsin, Czech and English malts, and hopped with German, Czech and French varieties. New Glarus has also announced a new summer seasonal hefeweizen called Bubbler, featuring Wisconsin wheat, European pilsner malt and a blend of American and European hops. The beer has recently been on tap in the New Glarus gift shop; six-packs are expected this June.
New faces Door County Brewing of Bailey’s Harbor has hired Kyle Gregorash to join brewmaster Danny McMahon in the brew house. Gregorash recently served as a production brewer at Octopi Brewing in Waunakee and as an assistant brewer at Great Northern Brewing Company in Whitefish, Mont. Matt Gerdts is now brewing for One Barrel in Madison. He takes over for Dan Sherman, who wanted to spend more time with his young family. Gerdts is a familiar face to local homebrewers; he recently worked at Brew and Grow, an east-side homebrew shop. He’s also been a part-time brewer for Next Door. Fans of One Barrel should watch for a soon-to-be-released saison from Gerdts. His twist on the style will feature cherries and honey.
Beers to watch for: One Barrel’s 5th Element One Barrel Brewing calls 5th Element a Rye India Pale Ale (IPA) because of rye added to the grist in the brew kettle. It also showcases Calypso, Amarillo and Simcoe hops. “There’s a bready dryness, even light tartness from the rye that plays off the bitterness of the hops,” says One Barrel owner Peter Gentry. While this isn’t a new beer for One Barrel, it is new to bottles and six-packs. Since fall, Gentry has been contracting with Octopi Brewing in Waunakee to scale up some of his best-sellers into bottles. Scaling it up allows Gentry to take advantage of more advanced technology: “Working with Octopi and filtering with a centrifuge really brings out more of the bright sharpness of the tropical citrus notes.”
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5th Element is easy-drinking and approachable. There’s plenty of spicy dryness from the combination of hops and rye to make it interesting. A little rye goes a long way for me; too much means the bready, spicy toast qualities take over. This beer gets the rye right with spiciness that accents the aroma of the fruity Calypso hops. 5th Element finishes at 6.5% ABV and an estimated 50 IBUs. It sells over the bar at One Barrel Brewing for $5.50/pint. You can find six-packs (beginning this week) for $8-$9.
More beers to watch for: Next Door has a Berliner weisse on tap with a choice of flavored syrups that can be added to take the edge off this sour style. Current choices include blood orange, mango and raspberry. The Stevens Point Brewery says its summer seasonal will be a pale ale made with Australian hops called Vic Secret and Florida grapefruit juice. Siesta Key Citrus Pale Ale is available in bottles, cans and select draught accounts from now through August. n
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Follow any beverage blog these days and it’s readily apparent that craft bartenders are sick of Moscow Mules. Of course they are. Mules are straightforward and easy to make (vodka, ginger beer and lime juice), and copper mugs are no longer a refreshing novelty. So to keep themselves entertained, bartenders are continually inventing new riffs on mules and other classic customer favorites. The Three Cup Mule, on the spring menu at Merchant, 121 S. Pinckney St., is a savory reinvention. Inspired by the popular Chinese dish from Natt Spil called Three Cup Chicken, the Three Cup Mule is built around a sesame-washed mescal (made by freezing a mixture of sesame oil and mescal, then dumping off the congealed
oil). What remains is more than an aroma; there’s a definite taste of sesame. Bartender Sean Davis then offsets the oil with a spicy blend of fresh lemon, a cayenne tincture and ginger honey syrup — all of which give a cutting-edge nod to the classic mule cocktail. Finally, this drink is served up. I mention this because while most everyone apparently loves a cocktail on the rocks, I don’t. To me, this is a basic choice between delicacy and dilution. And for a strong drink that packs in so many fusion flavors, the Three Cup Mule is delightfully delicate. You’d never guess it was invented by the burliest guy behind the bar.
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Need a reason to care about the NBA playoffs, which began April 16 without the Milwaukee Bucks? Look no further than the defending champion Golden State Warriors — a team that rewrote basketball history all season long. Golden State won 73 games (and lost only nine!), breaking by one game a cherished record for most wins set by Michael Jordan’s 1995-96 Chicago Bulls. The Warriors didn’t lose until their 25th game of the season, when the Bucks (the Bucks!) beat them in December during probably the greatest thriller at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in years. The Warriors, led by likeable guard Stephen Curry, surprised absolutely nobody by grounding the Houston Rockets, 104-78, in the first game of a firstround best-of-seven Western Conference Playoffs series that could be over by the time you read this. Curry outscored Houston by himself in the first quarter but injured his right ankle in the second quarter. He barely played in the second half, leaving even non-NBA fans discussing the what-ifs should Curry miss more action. Speaking of playing time, former Wisconsin Badger and now Rockets rookie Sam Dekker was placed on the inactive list with back tightness for the Warriors
series. Injuries limited Dekker’s productivity this season, and he appeared in only a handful of games. But another former Badger, 2015 Big Ten Player of the Year Frank Kaminsky, is in the NBA playoffs — with the Charlotte Hornets, who face the Miami Heat in a best-of-seven Eastern Conference playoffs series. As for the Bucks? Well, they finished last in the Eastern Conference’s Central Division and lost 40 more games than Golden State. Yet the season still had its highlights: Milwaukee beat the Los Angeles Lakers in Kobe Bryant’s last game at the Bradley Center, head coach Jason Kidd was suspended for one game without pay in November for slapping the ball out of an official’s hand, and highly touted second-year forward Jabari Parker is finally starting to live up to expectations after overcoming injuries that plagued him as a rookie. Plus, the Bucks’ future in Milwaukee is no longer up in the air; a new and controversial $524 million arena is expected to open in 2018. Thanks to the NBA allowing more than half the league into the playoffs — 16 of 30 teams — and stretching first-round matchups to a possible seven games each, the NBA Finals won’t even begin until June 2. That’s another six weeks! Though some are ready to crown Golden State right now, anything can happen. n
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The inimitable agnès b. BY HOLLY HENSCHEN
Fashion designers don’t typically rub elbows with humanities scholars, but Renaissance woman agnès b. defies most labels by applying stylistic concepts to everyday life. The French designer of timeless styles, gallery owner, cinema promoter and art periodical curator will speak April 28 at the central branch of the Madison Public Library at 7:30 p.m. The event is part of the Humanities Without Boundaries series presented by the UW-Madison Humanities Department. “agnès b. has demonstrated that fashion is not just about pieces of clothing or even just about style, but about a way of life, the intersection of ideas and ethics, life and art,” says Sara Guyer, an English professor and director of the Center for the Humanities. Although the series regularly features scholars, agnès b. fits right in, Guyer adds: “We also present and situate work like hers that knows no boundaries, is intellectual and
complex and provocative and whose form — what we wear, where we shop — challenges our conceptions of intellectual work.” agnès b. designs “casual chic” women’s and men’s clothing with the intention that it will never go out of fashion. She opened her first shop in Paris in 1975 and now has stores in London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. The designer has also created scarves and jewelry to benefit humanitarian causes, including the Red Cross and charities helping earthquake victims in Nepal. But agnès b. is much more than a designer. In 1984, she opened galerie du jour, a contemporary art gallery in Paris. In 1997, she cofounded an atypical periodical, point d’ironie. Each of the six to eight eclectic annual issues is created by one artist. One hundred thousand copies are distributed worldwide to museums, galleries, bookshops, schools and theaters. Furthermore, agnès b. owns a film production house, Love Streams Productions. She has
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Terezin concentration camp, also known as Theresienstadt. “As soon as he got there, he started organizing musicians into this cultural community that started to blossom clandestinely,” Dobbs says. The Pro Arte Quartet and Madison Youth Choirs will both be performing Klein compositions at the festival. Another highlight of the festival is the world premiere of several piano pieces written by Josima Feldschuh, a young prodigy who was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto. Dobbs learned of Feldschuh’s compositions, written when she was 10 or 11 years old, while visiting a colleague
The UW’s Mayrent Institute houses the Lambert cylinders, the world’s rarest Yiddish recordings.
at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. “I stopped by to say hello, because he’s also on our advisory board for the grant, and he says ‘Teri, you gotta come and look at this.’ So I’m looking on his computer screen at the most incredibly beautiful hand-written manuscript by a child.”
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partnered with screenwriter/director Harmony Korine, who wrote the 1995 cult classic Kids, and sponsored the French release of David Lynch’s 2006 mystery flick Inland Empire. Some of her fashions garnered screen time in Mullholland Drive, Lynch’s 2001 dark thriller.
agnès. b will discuss fashion, art, film and social justice publishing in her Madison presentation. Adding a touch of class, receptions before and after her lecture will feature French 75s: cocktails of champagne, lemon juice, gin and simple syrup. n
How are the researchers managing to dig up these long-forgotten works after all these decades? Stephen Muir of the University of Leeds, the lead researcher on the project, says the stuff has been sitting around all this time just waiting to be identified, both in formal archives and in random piles in family members’ attics. “Even in huge places like the U.S. Holocaust Museum with a long history and professional staff, there are vast swaths of things that no one’s seen, largely untapped,” Muir says. “And the Jewish museum in Prague has its own archive that’s not completely catalogued.” Muir says that’s where musicologist David Fligg, a consultant on the project, stumbled across a trove of previously unknown Klein compositions. “But then there’s also these informal things as well, and you start to shift the meaning of
the word ‘archive,’” Muir says. He points to a chance meeting with a rabbi in Cape Town, South Africa, who put him in touch with a woman who had a plastic shopping bag full of her grandfather’s papers. Those papers turned out to be a Russian sheet music collection of major cultural importance. Feldschuh died of tuberculosis at age 12, and Klein died in a labor camp at 25. To Dobbs, the material being showcased serves as a reminder of how much was lost in the Holocaust, in both human and cultural terms. “Had they lived, we can only imagine what they would have accomplished,” Dobbs says. “We have to remember what can happen and what we’ve lost. The fact that we get to hear their musical voices today is a testament to human resiliency.” n For more information, see music.wisc.edu. Abner Jacobson, a student at the University of Leeds, also contributed to this article.
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Horror show Mariposa and the Saint explores the harsh reality of solitary confinement BY BILL LUEDERS
It was the tweezers that sealed her fate. Authorities at the California Institution for Women, near Los Angeles, deemed the item a “class-A weapon” and sentenced their possessor, inmate Sara “Mariposa” Fonseca, to 15 months in solitary confinement. As often happens to prisoners in solitary — locked down in tiny cells for at least 23 hours a day — this sentence was extended due to subsequent infractions. After more than two years of extreme isolation, Mariposa ended up in the prison psych unit, where she remains, likely until her 2018 release. Something else came from her ordeal: a work of art. Mariposa and the Saint is based on letters between Mariposa, nicknamed for her butterfly tattoo, and Julia Steele Allen, a New York-based actor and activist. The 45-minute play stars Allen and one other actor, a masked corrections officer; it’s followed by a discussion featuring advocates and former prisoners. There are five planned Wisconsin performances, including two in Madison sponsored by Wisdom and the Prison Ministry Project. The Wisconsin stops are part of an eight-state tour that began last September. To date, the play, which earned a positive notice in The New Yorker, has been performed about four dozen times. In Wisconsin and elsewhere, the shattering reality of solitary confinement is receiving long-
Julia Steele Allen (right) based her performance piece on letters exchanged with Sara “Mariposa” Fonseca.
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overdue scrutiny. It’s an environment, faced by about 80,000 U.S. prisoners, that invites madness, self-mutilation and suicide, all financed with tax dollars. “I never ever thought I would find myself crippled by a concrete box,” the character Mariposa says at one point. “I never thought of myself as weak before, but here
I was losing my ability to breathe, shaking, sweating, heart pounding out of my chest. Weak.” The saint in the play’s title, Allen explains, is an entity Mariposa creates in her mind. “You split your spirit to maintain your sanity,” Mariposa says, adding that the self that she splits into is “the person I strive to be.”
For the rest of us, just caring about the people we pay to lock in tiny cages would be a worthy aspiration. n Mariposa and the Saint will be performed at the Goodman Community Center on Sunday, April 24, at 7 p.m., and at the First Congregational Church of Christ on Tuesday, April 26, at 7 p.m. Both shows are free, but donations are encouraged.
Operatic wonder Madison Opera’s Tales of Hoffmann is an absolute triumph
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Bass-baritone Morgan Smith brings variety and flair to the show’s villains. JAMES GILL
Both visually and musically, Madison Opera’s production of Jaques Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is an absolute triumph — perhaps the finest achievement yet under Kathryn Smith’s reign as general director. It is a long and a difficult opera to cope with. Offenbach died before he could put his score into definitive shape. There are loose ends, and music not written by Offenbach himself has been added to revised editions, including the spurious “diamond” aria and the sextet in the Venice act. Since a Prologue and an Epilogue are set in Luther’s tavern (here, a 1920s bar), director Kristine McIntyre had the clever idea of presenting each of the full acts as performances on a stage-withinthe-stage, with the onstage audience serving as bar patrons. The direction was aided by a set supplied by the Virginia Opera, an extremely clever and versatile multi-piece construction. Based on three separate stories by the 19th-century poet and writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, each act has the author recounting three successive love experiences, foiled each time by a villainous nemesis.
Offenbach intended the nemesis to be represented, in a total of four personifications, by the same singer, and bass-baritone Morgan Smith brings them all off with marvelous variety and flair. Four small comic roles are likewise brilliantly conveyed by tenor Jared Rogers. There have been sopranos who have taken on all four of Hoffmann’s love interests — whom some interpreters consider four aspects of the same woman. But usually four different singers do these assignments. Here, coloratura soprano Jeni Houser is fabulous as the doll Olympia, and the full-voiced Siân Davies takes the other three roles: Antonia, Giulietta and Stella. As Hoffmann, tenor Harold Meers has a lovely lyric voice, matched by dramatic agility. As Nicklausse, Hoffmann’s muse and sidekick, mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala radiates boyish charm and wit. The six other characters are all brought vividly to life by their singers in this remarkably fine cast. Costumes, lighting, the full visual panoply are admirably handled, but director McIntyre is the magician who makes it all come together with seamless flow and clever ideas. As always, conductor John DeMain leads this excellent production with unalloyed devotion to the work. n
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In a very real sense, James Alex, the frontman and creative force behind Philly-based punkrockers Beach Slang, is the poster child for patience, the patron saint of good things coming to those who wait — and continue to bust ass. After all, it took more than two decades of grinding in the trenches of ballrooms and dive bars, most of them with ’90s pop-punk band Weston, for Alex to finally hit it big. Now, in his 40s, he’s reaping the rewards for his hard work: an increased fan base, SXSW festival gigs and one-on-ones with musical heroes like Bob Mould. A lot of musicians would have given up the fight a long time ago. “I suppose I’ve always romanticized the struggle,” says Alex, whose new band formed in 2013 and crashes the Frequency on April 24. “I’m way more into the hunt than the capture. I never moved to plan B.” Plan A is working pretty well at the moment. Alex prides himself on, as he puts it,
“not being a Xerox of anybody.” And he’s proud that Beach Slang’s core guitar-driven sound draws comparisons to Paul Westerberg, the man Alex calls “my songwriting bull’s-eye.” Tunes such as “Too Late to Die Young” and “Bad Art and Weirdo Ideas,” like most of the cuts from the band’s two EPs and its 2015 full-length debut, The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us, hit the same teen angst-infused notes that Westerberg and the Replacements nailed in punk’s ’80s heyday. Alex readily cops to living in a state of arrested development — “I’m still the guy with the band posters on his studio wall,” he says — which may explain how a guy a generation-plus removed from much of his new fan base speaks to them so effortlessly. From a different performer, a line like “The kids are still alright / We’re just too high to fight” (from the song “Kids” on the EP Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken?) might have felt a little too calculated. “It’s like I’m 20,” he laughs. “Except for that one, enormous thing.”
That “thing” is his son, who just turned 1 this month. And for every memorable Beach Slang moment — not long ago, the band was jamming in a packed room in Croatia, of all places — Alex is keenly aware of the costs he’s paying to live his dream. “That’s going to be the hardest obstacle,” he says. At least for 2016, since Alex and Beach Slang aren’t slowing down at all. (“I don’t do well with being idle.”) The band just recorded 10 songs for a second album, set for release in September, a collection Alex says evokes shoe-gazer ’90s groups like the Catherine Wheel and showcases his love of the Psychedelic Furs. “I don’t want to just bat out ‘Bad Art and Weirdo Ideas’ for the rest of my life,” he says. “I’ve always been a heart-on-my sleeve, confessional sort of guy, but I was also quiet and introverted. Now, I’ve developed these relationships with our fans, [and] my armor’s allowed to drop — that’s been pretty cool.” n
Wunderkind Joey Alexander headlines Isthmus Jazz Festival he competed against 43 adult pros. His debut album, My Favorite Things, was the first Indonesian act to show up on the Billboard charts — and he released it when he was 11. The Today Show says Alexander is “on his way to becoming one of the greatest jazz artists of our time.” Alexander’s June 22 performance at Union Theater’s Shannon Hall is the only ticketed event of the
festival, and it tops off a fantastic lineup of free events at Memorial Union Terrace and Fredric March Play Circle on Friday and Saturday, June 17 and 18. The full schedule is available at isthmusjazzfestival.com.
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Strange encounters Aferim! is a striking film addressing slavery in 1830s Romania emerging into the frame from far off in the distance. The story, too, could come from a Western: A lawman is charged with bringing Midway through Aferim!, a character appears an outlaw to justice. for the first and last time, and what he says is Despite the depressing Romanian history unsettling. The location is a rural marketplace in that informs it, Aferim! might not immediately the Wallachia region of Romania, and the year register as a social-issue movie. The tone is is 1835. In that busy commercial setting, this often light, the dialogue hearty and bawdy. The desperate Roma man asks market-goers to buy focus is Constandin (Teodor Corban), a conhis family as slaves. “Save us from hunger,” he stable who has been tasked by a wealthy landpleads. owner (Alexandru Dabija) with hunting down That sums up the horrific human rights a runaway slave (Cuzinn Toma). Constandin is calamity at the center of this striking film: In joined on his picaresque journey by his teenRomania, Roma lived in slavery until the 1850s. age son (Mihai Comanoiu), whom Constandin I didn’t know this, and I gather that in Romania, promises a better life in the army. it’s a painful topic that hasn’t been talked about Structurally the film recalls The Last Detail, very much. Last year, the film’s director and and it also reminds me of Monty Python and co-writer, Radu Jude, told The New York Times the Holy Grail, as its heroes travel around a that in his country, the matter is “only really disbasically premodern land and have a series cussed by close circles of historians and Roma of strange encounters. In Aferim!, though, the activists.” Aferim! is, he said, only the second episodes depict a series of injustices, one Romanian film to address Roma slavery, and it gkids presents a riveting steampunk fi after another. The father and son aresci accosted has sparked a discussion. by another constable, who extorts them. One Aferim! evokes classic Westerns with its from the creators of priest they meet is a slaveholder, another rugged landscapes and stark, black-and-white an appalling bigot. A woman tells of being cinematography. There are almost no closebeaten by her husband. A landowner punishes ups, and we frequently hear dialogue well a slave in a scene of hideous violence. before we see the actors, who have a way of BY KENNETH BURNS
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And although Constandin is frequently jolly, he is not a particularly nice man. He kidnaps a Roma child and sells him as a slave. He jerks a Roma woman around by her hair as he interrogates her. He boasts to his son of his philandering (“Don’t tell your mother,” he cautions). Even so, Constandin has his
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The film list New releases Born to Be Blue: Biopic about the 1960s career revival of Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke). A Hologram for the King: A businessman (Tom Hanks) tries to save his career by selling an idea to a Saudi monarch.
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Recent releases Barbershop: The Next Cut: The crew at Calvin’s tries to turn around their community. Criminal: The memories and skills of a deceased CIA agent are implanted into an unpredictable and dangerous convict. Everybody Wants Some!!: Richard Linklater’s charmingly meandering film follows the members of a collegiate baseball team as they count down to the start of the 1980 school year. Breezily funny and dead-on accurate about the time frame, this is Linklater at his best. The Jungle Book: New Disney adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic tales, directed by Jon Favreau.
More film events Concussion: Will Smith plays neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu, who battled the NFL after he discovered a degenerative brain disease in former pro football players. Pinney Library, April 22, 6 pm. McCabe and Mrs. Miller: Robert Altman’s wry, touching, exciting, romantic and despairing tale of a fast-talking entrepreneur who brings a bordello to a frontier mining town. Cinematheque, April 22, 7 pm.
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Spa Night: A closeted Korean American teen takes a job to help his family and inadvertently discovers an underground world of gay sex. Union South Marquee, April 23, 3 pm. Electra Glide in Blue: Robert Blake stars as a cop looking to get off the beat and into homicide investigation, in the only directorial effort by music producer James William Guercio. Cinematheque, April 23, 7 pm. Green Room: Sneak peek of thriller in which a punk band battles skinheads after witnessing a murder. Union South Marquee, April 23, 7:45 pm. Hour of the Wolf: Bergman drama features Max von Sydow as an artist fighting repressed desires. Chazen Museum of Art, April 24, 2 pm. Dark Side of the Full Moon: Documentary on maternal mental health, with panel discussion following. Edgewood College’s Anderson Auditorium, April 25, 6 pm. Popstar: Never Stop Stopping: Sneak peek of the Lonely Island comedy in which a pop/rap star will try anything to make a comeback. Union South Marquee, April 25, 9:15 pm. Hmong Memory at the Crossroads: Documentary featuring a former refugee who confronts his memories of war. Union South Marquee, April 26, 7 pm.
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Joel McHale Saturday, April 23, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm From his days hosting The Soup to his starring role on the dearly departed sitcom Community, Joel McHale has spent a comedic lifetime mocking pop culture. His standup is no exception, as McHale deftly skewers whichever celebrity is flavor of the week, flashing a razor-sharp wit and knowing smugness without ever coming off as, for lack of a better term, a dick. Plus, this show will benefit Gilda’s Club, a cancer charity founded in memory of the late Gilda Radner. The only thing better than laughing is laughing for a cause.
Nate Bargatze Thursday, April 21, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm
Considering Nate Bargatze’s down-toearth collection of sharp observations and his polished, conversational tone, it’s easy to see why Marc Maron calls him a “comic who should be big.” With Dan Shaki, Charlie Kojis. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), April 22-23.
A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Kay Chernush: “Bought & Sold: Voices of Human Trafficking,” ArtWorks for Freedom & 4W Initiative STREETS Project (Social Transformations to End Exploitation and Trafficking for Sex) photograph exhibit, 4/4-25, Chazen Museum of Art Plaza (artist talk 5:30 pm, 4/21). aalonso@wisc.edu. Golden Doors to Freedom: ArtWorks for Freedom & 4W Initiative STREETS Project exhibit of embellished doors & drawings, 4/4-25, Overture Center (talk by William Adair noon, 4/21). aalonso@wisc.edu.
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Artists in Absentia: Works by Oahkill Correctional Institution inmates, 4/5-30, Pinney Library (reception 6:30-7:30 pm, 4/21). 224-7100. Fete des Artistes: Celebrating agnes b., 5:30-8 pm, 4/21, Drunk Lunch, with music, film installation by Michael Doyle Olsen, collage project with Mollie Martin. Free. 630-8401.
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UW Drag Spectacular: 7 pm, 4/21, UW Union South-Varsity Hall. $5. 265-3344.
B O O KS The Writer’s Life: Talks by local children’s book writers Courtney Dicmas & Gayle Rosengren, 7 pm, 4/21, Madison College-Downtown-Room 240. 258-2489.
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Hop Haus Brewing, Verona: Dan Brusky, free, 7 pm.
This breathtaking Anne Washburn play, presented by Forward Theater, takes place immediately following the catastrophic failure of the world’s nuclear plants, as several of the survivors try to remember a specific episode of The Simpsons. It fast-forwards seven years, then 75, and what started out as a simple conversation evolves into the mythos of a new society. ALSO: Friday (7:30 pm), Saturday (2 & 7:30 pm) and Sunday (2 pm), April 22-24.
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High Noon Saloon: Gold Dust Women (Fleetwood Mac tribute), German Art Students, 7 pm.
Thursday, April 21, Overture Center’s Playhouse, 7:30 pm
Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, Michael Massey, piano, 9 pm.
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Majestic Theatre: Boombox, Ben Silver, 9 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Compact Deluxe, free, 10 pm. Natt Spil: DJ WangZoom, free, 10 pm. Nau-Ti-Gal: Baby Rocket, free, 6 pm. Stoughton Opera House: Kacy & Clayton, 7:30 pm. Tempest Oyster Bar: Paul Rowley, free, 8 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Danielle Simmons, free, 9:30 pm.
Thursday, April 21, Bartell Theatre, 7:30 pm
Mercury Players presents a small-town love story about a guy who hates his job and is pretty sure he is going to turn into a werecoyote when the full moon rises. ALSO: Friday (8 pm) and Saturday (4 pm), April 22-23. Forty Is the New Awesome: Four Seasons Theatre, songs & stories by Erica Halverson, 7 pm, 4/21, UW Memorial Union-Play Circle. $19.50. 265-2787. Magic Time: Theater dressing room comedy, 4/14-5/1, UW Vilas Hall-Mitchell Theatre, at 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Sundays. $23. 265-2787. CLUE: The Musical: 7:30 pm on 4/22-23 & 29 and 2 & 7:30 pm, 4/30, Edgewood College-Diane Ballweg Theatre. $12. theatre.edgewood.edu. 663-6710.
Friday, April 22, Alliant Energy Center Coliseum, 7:30 pm
When their breakthrough 2009 album Sigh No More was released, English folk quartet Mumford & Sons became unlikely rock stars. But as time has gone on, Marcus Mumford and his bandmates have embraced their rock stardom, and their most recent album, 2015’s Wilder Mind, is straight-up alt-rock. And given Mumford’s knack for pop songcraft, the decision to go electric has been a rousing success — the band’s already energetic live show has only gotten better. With Blake Mills.
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Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra with John O’Conor Friday, April 22, Overture Hall, 8 pm
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Lucky’s Bar & Grille, Waunakee: Blue Zone, 7:30 pm. Majestic: Manic Focus, Late Night Radio, Affair, 10 pm. Merchant: DJ Vilas Park Sniper, 10:30 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Hassler, Courtesy of Tim, The Revelators, free, 10 pm. Natt Spil: The Real Jaguar, free, 10 pm. Parched Eagle Brewpub: Mad City Jug Band, 7:30 pm. Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: Kristi B Band, 8:30 pm.
Tuvalu Coffeehouse and Gallery, Verona: Keith Hampton & Michael Mood, free, 7 pm.
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John O’Conor is an Irish pianist and former director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music who has performed on five continents. Here he will play Weber’s Symphony No. 1 in C major, John Field’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Stravinsky’s Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C K467 (“Elvira Madigan”).
Ivory Room: Peter Hernet, Kevin Gale, Leslie Cao, dueling pianos, 8 pm.
PWR BTTM Friday, April 22, Union South-The Sett, 9 pm
Combining loud, gritty garage punk with the defiantly flamboyant atmosphere of a drag show, New York’s PWR BTTM is a sight to behold. The duo of Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins make big, empowering statements about what it means to be young and queer in the modern age while maintaining a sound that’s meant to kick your ass as much as it is to inspire it. With Yoko & the Oh No’s, Dylan Wright.
VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Frank James, 7:30 pm. Wil-Mar Center: Traditional Frequency, 8 pm.
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Shades of Grace Friday, April 22, Lathrop Hall’s Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, 3:30 pm
Easy Star All-Stars Friday, April 22, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm
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The reggae collective will perform their Pink Floyd tribute Dub Side of the Moon in full, plus other covers and originals. Opening is Natty Nation, whose new record Divine Spark reached No. 3 on Billboard’s Reggae Albums chart.
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Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: The Beat Chefs, free, 9 pm. Bright Red Studios: CRASHprez, Fivy, Landon DeVon, DJ KennyHoopla, 8 pm. Brink Lounge: 420 Fest, Madison NORML fundraiser (schedule: thebrinklounge.com), 4:20 pm.
Tiffany Merritt-Brown, a fifth year senior in UW’s dance department, presents her honors thesis, which she describes as an exploration of love in pain, empathy and forgiveness using contemporary movement vocabulary, music and text. A coolly elegant performer, her choreography reveals keen intelligence and maturity and has already drawn international acclaim.
EN V I RO N MEN T UW Nelson Institute Earth Day Open House: Marking Gaylord Nelson’s 100th birthday, 11 am-1 pm, 4/22, Science Hall-Room 122. 265-5296.
S PEC TATO R S PO RTS Mad City Fire on Ice: Madison Firefighters Hockey Club tournament to benefit Make-A-Wish Foundation, 4/22-24, Madison Ice Arena, with raffle, silent auction. Free admission. madisonfirehockey.com.
Capital Brewery: Krause Family Band, free, 6 pm.
UW Women’s Tennis: vs. Rutgers, 4 pm, 4/22; vs. Maryland, 10 am, 4/24, Nielsen Stadium. 262-1440.
Cardinal Bar: Louka, Juan Tomas Martinez Paris, free, 5:30 pm; DJs Vaughn Marques, Ginjahvitis, Wangzoom, Izhai, 9 pm.
UW Softball: vs. Illinois, 4 pm on 4/22 and 1 pm, 4/23-24; doubleheader vs. UW-Green Bay, 2 pm, 4/26 Goodman Diamond. $5. 262-1440.
Chief’s Tavern: Robert J, Americana, 6:30 pm.
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Canstruction Madison: Middleton Outreach Ministry fundraiser with teams building structures with donated canned/packaged goods, 4/19-26, West Towne Mall; awards ceremony at 6:30 pm, 4/26. Donations of canned food encouraged. Team registration: canstructionmadison.org. 836-3414.
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Barbara Westfall Fused Glass Art & Design: Studio open house, 4:30-7:30 pm, 4/22, 8328 Swan Road, Mount Horeb. RSVP: barbarawestfall.com. 843-7515.
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Fountain: Luke Arvid, free, 8 pm. The Frequency: Dick the Bruiser, Cave Curse, Transformer Lootbag, rock, 7 pm. Gates of Heaven: Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, 7:30 pm. Harmony Bar: Cash Box Kings, blues, 9:45 pm. High Noon: Steve Moakler, Alex Masters, 9 pm. Immanuel Lutheran Church: Madison Area Community Chorus & Orchestra with Rachel Edie Warrick & J. Adam Shelton, Ringing Badgers Handbell Ensemble, annual Earth Day celebration concert & reception, 2 pm. Also: 2 pm, 4/24. Ivory Room: Peter Hernet, Kevin Gale, Eben Seaman, dueling pianos, 8 pm. Kiki’s House: Farmer Jason, family house concert (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com), 10 am. Lakeside Street Coffee: Northern Comfort, 7 pm. Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Larry Stout, 6:30 pm. Majestic Theatre: Buckethead, 9 pm. Paoli Schoolhouse: Mike McCloskey, free, 6 pm. Radisson: Rockin’ for a Cure, ALS Association benefit concert with Soul Brothers, LazyDeadPoet, Jim Ott Brass Ensemble Third Coast, 6 pm. The Red Zone: Ultrea, Decivilize, Left Of Reason, He-nis-ra, Adam Domack, 7 pm. Tempest Oyster Bar: No Name String Band, 9:30 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Lonesome Red & the Blue Strings, free, 10 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners: Virginia Liquor Co., 9 pm. Tuvalu Coffeehouse, Verona: Dan Stier, free, 7 pm.
T H EAT ER & DA N C E Michael Carbonaro: Magic/improv, 8 pm, 4/23, Barrymore Theatre. $39. 241-8633.
CO MEDY Joel McHale: Annual benefit for Gilda’s Club, 8 pm, Orpheum. $100-$45. 250-2600. See page 38.
B O O KS / S PO K EN WO RD Children’s Book Sale: Friends of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center event, 9 am-1 pm, 4/23, UW Teacher Education Building-Room 401A. Free (presale 8-9 am, $20/membership). 263-3720. Mark Levine, Emily Wilson, Erika Meitner, Josh Bell, Emilia Phillips: Monsters of Poetry reading, 8 pm, 4/23, Arts & Literature Laboratory. $3 donation. monstersofpoetry.tumblr.com.
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A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Melana Bass: “Black Girl Everything,” multi-media portraits, 4/23-29, UW Red Gym Class of 1973 Gallery (reception 6-9 pm, 4/23, with spoken word and hip-hop performances). 466-3670.
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Wild Belle, the brother-sister duo of Elliot and Natalie Bergman, dropped their sophomore album, Dreamland, earlier this month. Like their previous record, the new LP is inspired by musical genres from around the world, as demonstrated by their haunting, reverb-soaked single “Our Love Will Survive,” with a video shot in Jamaica. With James Supercave.
Malcolm Bracey & Marisa Kelling: “Yellow Gallery,” 4/23-5/20, Drunk Lunch (reception 5-9 pm, 4/23). 630-8401. Art Glass & Bead Show: Vendors, exhibits & classes, 10 am-5 pm on 4/23 and 10 am-4 pm, 4/24, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall. $7/day, $11/weekend (classes begin 4/22; RSVP: beadshowmadison.com). 838-8011.
S PEC TATO R S PO RTS UW Football: Spring intrasquad game, noon, 4/23, Camp Randall Stadium. $5. 262-1440.
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SP ECIAL EV ENTS Terrace Town: Going Green: “Green” scale model cities designed by 1,500 local students, 10 am-4 pm, 4/23, Monona Terrace, plus family activities. Free. 261-4000.
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With a dark, subtle wit and a prodigious knack for writing, David Sedaris is one of our finest living humorists. He’s returning to Madison to celebrate the paperback release of his most recent collection of essays, Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls. And as a man who’s worked as a department store Christmas elf and had a British garbage truck named after him, his stories are always eclectic, intensely personal and downright hysterical.
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Beach Slang put the passion back in punk in early 2014, when they released their first EP, Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? Since then, they’ve put out another EP and a full-length and toured with veteran acts like Cursive and Tommy Stinson. Their shows are swelling, heartfelt performances that rip and roar. See page 35. With Potty Mouth, Dyke Drama, Two Cow Garage’s Micah Schnabel.
Let’s Dance: Friends of the Monona Senior Center open dance, 1-4 pm, 4/24, East Side Club, with music by Universal Sound. $12 (kids free). 222-3415.
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Modest Mouse Monday, April 25, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm
Perhaps the first stars to come from the indie boom of the mid-aughts — thanks in no small part to their smash 2004 single “Float On” — indie icons Modest Mouse have in reality been going strong since the early 1990s. Their latest release, 2015’s Strangers to Ourselves, is filled with the type of acerbic alt-rock that the group helped define. With the Districts.
Hilary Hahn Sunday, April 24, Shannon Hall, 7:30 pm
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The Wisconsin Union Theater’s Concert Series, started in 1919, is one of the oldest of its kind in the country. Two-time Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn will close out this season, joined by pianist Cory Smythe; next season’s schedule will be announced at the performance. Arts & Literature Laboratory: Jack Write & Bob March, BC Grimm & Michael Koszewski, Tontine Ensemble, 7 pm.
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Bos Meadery: Bees of Spring Bluegrass Festival with Stillhouse Six, Oak Street Ramblers, Cork ‘n Bottle String Band, Hoot ‘n Annie, SpareTime Bluegrass, glass blowing demo, kids’ activities, noon-6 pm.
Gently psychedelic Brooklyn folk band Woods hit the road in support of a new album, City Sun Eater in the River of Light, which was released earlier this month through singer Jeremy Earl’s Woodsist label. Painting with thick sonic strokes, Woods’ ethereal songs are tightly packed with warm guitar tones and intimately cut vocals that feel like they are directly whispered into your ear. With retro guitar pop groovers Ultimate Painting.
Brocach Irish Pub-Square: An Blas, Irish, free, 5 pm. East Side Club: The Lil’ Smokies, Gambol, 8 pm. Edgewood College-St. Joseph Chapel: Edgewood College Jazz & Guitar Ensembles, free, 2:30 pm.
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High Noon Saloon: Madison Music Foundry Student Showcase, 11 am; Ladies Rock Camp Showcase, 7 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Little Big Bangs, free, 10 pm. Roxbury Tavern: Bill & Bobbie Malone, 4 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Frank James & Bobby Briggs, country, 3 pm. UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Choral Union, “The Creation,” by Haydn, 3:30 pm. Waisman Center: Redefined, Friends of Waisman Center fundraiser, 6 pm.
Monday, April 25, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm
Funk’s Pub, Fitchburg: Project M Challenge, 6 pm. Malt House: Barley Brothers, string band, free, 7:30 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Sunwatchers, free, 10 pm. Natt Spil: DJ Bruiser as in Eric, free, 10 pm. Up North Pub: Eddie Danger, free, 7 pm.
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just released a long-awaited sophomore record, Pennied Days. It’s glossier than their debut, but, as demonstrated by the early single “Denise, Don’t Wanna See You Cry,” just as likely to make you move. With Sleeping Jesus, Athletic Supply. Alchemy Cafe: Jon Hoel Trio, jazz, free, 10 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Dub Borski, 9 pm. Ivory Room: Michael Massey, piano, free, 9 pm. Natt Spil: DJ Evan Woodward, free, 10 pm. Oakwood Village-University Woods: Philharmonic Chorus of Madison, free, 7 pm. Opus Lounge: Teddy Davenport, free, 9 pm. Quaker Steak and Lube, Middleton: Dave Steffen Band, rock, free, 5:30 pm.
Frankie Cosmos Tuesday, April 26, High Noon Saloon, 6:30 pm
In the last five years, Frankie Cosmos has independently put out nearly 50 releases on Bandcamp, a figure that more than doubles the 22 years she’s spent on this earth. Next Thing, released last month, is perhaps her best collection of sortof-sad, sort-of-charming bedroom-rock tracks yet. With Eskimeaux, Yowler.
Sun Club Tuesday, April 26, The Frequency, 8 pm
This jangly Baltimore-based quintet has drawn comparisons to Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective and WU LYF. Their debut album The Dongo Durango was released by ATO Records, home to such big names as Alabama Shakes and My Morning Jacket. With Thick Paint, the Rashita Joneses. Capital Brewery: Dave Larson Jazz Quintet, free, 6 pm. Cardinal Bar: Golpe Tierra, Afro-Peruvian, free, 6 pm.
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This all-male troupe of dancers from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro performs jaw-dropping solos and group movement pieces, fusing Brazilian social dances with contemporary dance and hip-hop. The Boston Globe says the dancers are “brimming with raw energy.”
B O O KS / S PO K EN WO RD Kathy Cramer: Discussing “Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker,” 5 pm, 4/27, Mystery to Me. 283-9332. Kimberly Blaeser: Poetry reading, 7 pm, 4/27, Middleton Library. 827-7403. Nerd Nite: Free social gathering/informal presentations, 8 pm, 4/27, High Noon Saloon. 268-1122.
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Del the Funky Homosapien
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Night Moves is a Minneapolis trio whose music pinballs between psychedelia, country and classic rock ’n’ roll. They
Though he began his career writing lyrics for his cousin Ice Cube’s group Da Lench Mob, Del the Funky Homosapien is pretty far removed from gangsta rap. The influential, eccentric emcee is known for his funky flights of fancy (“Mistadobalina,” probably his best-known single, is built around a Monkees sample) and his frequent collaborations with Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz (the rap verses on “Clint Eastwood”? That’s Del). His last fulllength, Iller Than Most, was released in 2014. With DJ Shiftee, Sean Anonymous.
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RSVP of Dane County volunteer Bob Shank says passengers tend to be on the quiet side the first time he picks them up. “But on the ride home, then they get talkative. That’s when it feels you made a new friend,” says Shank, one of 336 active volunteers for RSVP’s driver services program. For 40 years, the nonprofit has provided free rides to medical appointments for Dane County seniors. Last year, the group served over 1,000 passengers. For many older adults, asking a friend or family member for a lift isn’t an option, and a taxi across town isn’t affordable. RSVP program coordinator Mary Stamstad says seniors are grateful for the service because it allows them to stay independent. And drivers do go above and beyond. “Our drivers regularly make stops at the pharmacy or for a gallon of milk on the way home,” says Stamstad. “Some passengers aren’t able to get out much otherwise.” In 2015, RSVP coordinated nearly 9,000 rides, and drivers logged close to 250,000 miles shuttling folks to and from the doctor. Volunteers, who are reimbursed $.50/mile to cover vehicle expenses, donated more than 19,000 hours to the program last year. Although no donation is required, passengers contributed $31,000 last year to keep the service up and running. RSVP also receives funding from the Dane County Department of Human Services. To be eligible,
seniors must be 60 and over; live in their own home, condo or apartment; not be in a wheelchair; and not be on Medicaid. Nationally, 10,000 baby boomers retire every day and Dane County isn’t immune from this looming influx of older people. “It’s great to have more [retirees] because it broadens the number of people who can drive for us,” says Stamstad. “But it also means there are more fragile elderly who require assistance to stay in their home.” Vets Helping Vets, an offshoot of RSVP’s ride program, also provides more than just transportation to veterans in need of a helping hand. Driver services manager Gene Kundert says the program has really taken off since it was launched in 2011. “Fellow veterans assist with finding jobs, applying for VA benefits and connecting with other [support] groups,” Kundert says. Because volunteer drivers come and go, RSVP is always on the hunt for fresh recruits. “Anybody who has a good, safe driving record and is 21 years old...we could use the help,” says Kundert. Since becoming a volunteer in December, Bob Shank has provided rides and good conversation to RSVP passengers a few times each week. He says he enjoys getting to know his riders and finds giving back to the community “very rewarding.” “I take a lot of pride in getting people to the right place, right floor, right doctor,” says Shank. “I see it as a down payment for when I may need some help too.” n
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I’ve been aware of my emetophilia since a very young age and have always kept it private. No need to tell me about the health risks, I’m aware, and I’ve only ever indulged this kink through videos online. The actual substance doesn’t turn me on — I have no desire to be puked on. For me, the fantasy involves being with someone as they begin to feel sick, and then taking care of them as they puke. It has something to do with the buildup and release. Who knows? I’m married, and I told my husband about my kink exactly once, a few years ago. He wasn’t judgmental, but he never brought it up again. We have a great sex life otherwise, and I’ve always assumed I’d have satisfying, normal sex with my husband and masturbate to this kink in private. But recently, on a whim, I posted a message on a kink site. A few weeks later, a guy reached out to say the description exactly mirrored his own kink. We’ve been texting for a few weeks. He makes me feel like less of a freak, it’s been super hot, and we’ve talked about meeting up and roleplaying for each other. It makes me go crazy just to think about this. In light of the health risks — and the fact that I’m married — this would be a one-time thing. Do I have to tell my husband? I don’t want to have sex with this person; I just want to live out my fantasy for one night, which doesn’t necessarily involve getting naked. But obviously we will both get off, so there’s a definite sexual element. My husband and I have had threesomes, so he’s not a “strictly monogamous” guy, but it is new for me to
strike out on my own. But more than that, I’m mortified at the thought of him knowing about the kind of night I’m having, asking me about it later, etc. I would just rather him not know. But is that cheating? A Lady Emetophile Meets Her Match The answer to your last question — is that cheating? — is obvious. If that wasn’t cheating, ALEMHM, or if you thought your husband wouldn’t regard it as cheating, you would be asking him for permission to meet up with your vomit buddy. So let’s just run with the assumption that getting together with your VB would constitute infidelity, if the low-grade, nonpenetrative, not-for-everyone kind. So do you have to tell your husband? You could tell your husband — and lots of people will insist you must tell your husband — but I’m sitting here, in this Starbucks on Lex and 78th, wondering if your husband would rather not be told. You shared your kink with your husband once, and he never brought it up again. We can reasonably assume that your husband isn’t interested in discussing, much less indulging, this very particular sexual interest of yours. Another reasonable assumption: Your kink may not be something your husband wants to think about. The awareness of your kink, to use Emily “Dear Prudence Emeritus” Yoffe’s phrase, could be a libido killer for him. If your husband worked at stuffing your disclosure down the memory hole, because it interferes with his ability to connect with you sexually, asking permission to spend an evening with your VB could come as an unwelcome reminder. So you could make — as I’ve just made — an argument for sparing your husband the reminder, and sparing yourself the discomfort, by not telling and/or asking him, and then dis-
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creetly meeting up with your VB just this once. (The counterargument is also easily made: He never brought it up again because he picked up on your shame, he didn’t want to distress you, etc.) But if you decide to meet your VB, ALEMHM, weigh the risks (what happens if you get caught?) against the rewards (scratching this off your kidney dish list!), meet up with your VB in public first, and let someone know where you are and who you’re with on the big night.
I find myself in the most boring of straight white girl pickles: My boyfriend is dragging his feet on proposing. I’m 29, and he’s 31. We’ve been dating for three years. Things are great. We talk about our future a lot — buying a house, vacations, blah blah blah. Lack of proposal aside, we’re solid. But I would hate to waste another year in this city for this guy when I could have been working toward tenure somewhere else. (I’m in academia.) I’ve tried bringing this up to him several times with no concrete results. Really Into Not Going Solo Propose to him, RINGS. Don’t informally propose a formal proposal — don’t ask him to ask you to marry him—but go get a ring (for him) and ask him to marry you (for fuck’s sake). You have the power to pop the question and call it at the same time. Good luck, I hope he says yes. On the Lovecast, the live Q&A from Madison! Listen at savagelovecast.com. Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net, or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.
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