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THE PIANO MAN

Tuning WUT’s 12,000-piece Steinway.

6-10 NEWS

TALKING THE TALK

Will MGE follow through on customer input?

PEDI-CURE

Helping homeless put their best foot forward.

12 TECH SANDY TABACHNICK

PHIL DAVIS 17 COVER STORY PHIL DAVIS WAS Isthmus’ first staff writer. Starting in the early 1980s, he covered media and the arts, writing features and reviews.

After leaving the paper, he continued to freelance off and on. In researching this week’s cover story, he says he learned how complex and difficult farming is. Any notion of returning to the land will stay just that. He will gratefully continue to buy his organic vegetables from local farmers who do all the hard work.

35 MUSIC CLASSICAL MUSIC has been a passion of Sandy Tabachnick’s since she was 12, when an uncle introduced her to a recording of Paul Badura-Skoda playing Beethoven’s piano sonatas. She went on to earn a degree in piano performance from Eastern Michigan University, and later one in English language and literature. She draws on both areas of expertise in her informed and well-written music reviews.

FLIGHT RISK

Glass buildings are killing our birds.

14 OPINION

COUP D’ÉTAT?

Common Council “power grab” isn’t all that.

17 COVER STORY

PANDORA’S BOX

CSA farmers face daunting challenges.

23-28 FOOD & DRINK

COOL TAPPINGS

14 Madison Craft Beer Week picks.

MEALS ON WHEELS

What’s new for the 2016 food cart season.

30 SPORTS

A WOMAN’S PLACE is on the gridiron.

33-35 MUSIC

WINNING WAYS

Young artists put the class in classical.

Where’s Ghengis?

Tues., May 3, Overture Center’s Capitol Theater, 7:30 pm National Geographic Live’s “The Search for Genghis Khan” features the work of Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin, who has developed computer-based technologies to make archaeological discoveries without disturbing soil or grass. Many Mongolians consider the tomb of Ghengis Khan to be sacred, and this non-invasive technique opens up new worlds for explorers.

ROAD WARRIOR

Reading, writing & rhythm

Anna Vogelzang hits her stride with Hiker.

36 ARTS

WELCOME SIGN

Sat., April 30, State Street, 1-3 pm

Union Corners project brings people together.

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DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL DAVE CIESLEWICZ

TAPIT/new works explores censorship, U.S. history.

14 OPINION FORMER MAYOR DAVE Cieslewicz opines on subjects large and small in his blog, Citizen Dave, at Isthmus.com.

He tends to stick to the larger stuff for his opinion column, this week delving into a proposal to change the power dynamics between the mayor’s office and Common Council. It’s a topic he knows a little something about.

38 SCREENS

MAN WITH A HORN

Miles Ahead goes beyond the usual biopic.

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GOING OUT GREEN

More than two dozen musical acts will be singing and playing their little hearts out on every State Street corner this Saturday as part of the Literacy Network’s Busking for Books. Show your appreciation by dropping a little dough-re-mi in their collection cans — every penny goes to support adult literacy.

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IN EVERY ISSUE 8 MADISON MATRIX 8 WEEK IN REVIEW 14 THIS MODERN WORLD 15 FEEDBACK 15 OFF THE SQUARE

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The other Labor Day Sun., May 1, Brittingham Park, noon

Take a load off and join members of Madison’s Immigrant Worker’s Union as they celebrate International Workers’ Day and rally to continue the fight for the working class, from the battle for an eight-hour workday to the fight for a $15 minimum wage.

Mi casa es su casa Sat., April 30, Arboretum Cohousing, Village Cohousing, Troy Gardens, noon-4 pm

Madison’s cohousing communities invite the public to check out their awesome spaces with free tours, refreshments and discussions.

Find out more at Cohousing.org/OpenHouse2016.

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Ruth Conniff, Marc Eisen, Erik Gunn, Bob Jacobson, Seth Jovaag, Stu Levitan, Bill Lueders, Liz Merfeld, Andy Moore, Bruce Murphy, Kyle Nabilcy, Kate Newton, Jenny Peek, Michael Popke, Steven Potter, Adam Powell, Katie Reiser, Jay Rath, Gwendolyn Rice, Dean Robbins, Robin Shepard, Sandy Tabachnick, Denise Thornton, Candice Wagener, Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva ADVERTISING PRODUCTION MANAGER Todd Hubler ADVERTISING MANAGER Chad Hopper ADVERTISING ASSISTANT Laura Miller ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Lindsey Bushart, Peggy Elath, Lauren Isely WEB ANALYST Jeri Casper CIRCULATION MANAGER Tom Dehlinger MARKETING DIRECTOR Chris Winterhack EVENT DIRECTORS Kathleen Andreoni, Courtney Lovas ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR Kathy A. Bailey OFFICE MANAGER Julie Butler SYSTEMS MANAGER Thom Jones ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Carla Dawkins

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Fine tuning

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The Wisconsin Union Theater’s Shannon Hall is silent, dim and mostly empty. But up on the stage, Bob Hohf is hard at work.

The tall, skinny man is hunched over the theater’s dismantled B piano. His tools are spread out around the stage floor, and piano parts sit on a nearby table. A lamp illuminates the inside of the instrument that Hohf literally knows inside and out. A piano technician and tuner, he has worked on the theater’s pianos since 1993. Right now he’s putting in new dampers and fitting them to the strings, “one of the hardest things to get right,” he says.

Although I work at the Union Theater, I am about to learn how much I didn’t know.

Hohf is reconditioning the piano, a job that consists mostly of restringing. He’s been at it for about six weeks, some days for longer than eight hours of meditative, repetitive, silent processes. Putting in one string takes 10 steps, and you have to keep doing it all day without letting your mind wander, he explains. “I sit in silence.

I believe in focusing your full attention on the task at hand.”

A piano is made up of some 12,000 pieces. Many of them are glued on the inside and are unreachable, but the rest need to be reconditioned or, at times, rebuilt.

There are 80 pieces for each note, which makes for over 7,000 parts for the “action” mechanism alone — the mechanical assembly which causes pressed keys to move the hammer that strikes the strings, producing sound.

“These are very complicated machines,” Hohf says.

“When you think about it, it’s amazing they work at all.”

Although Hohf has played piano all his life, he studied biology at Princeton. After graduating in 1971, he couldn’t find a job in his field. He worked for two years for a manufacturer of slaughterhouse machines, then decided to learn to tune pianos.

Most piano technicians now use digital machines to tune, but Hohf still does it the old-fashioned way, by ear.

“It takes many years to learn to do it by ear,” he says, “I’m one of the dinosaurs who still do it. In general, tuning is better nowadays since the machines came into play because doing it by ear is very difficult.”

People can learn the craft of refurbishing pianos at a handful of schools or by doing an apprenticeship with a master technician. All of them need to take an exam by the Piano Technicians Guild to become certified. Hohf predicts that in a few decades there will be very few piano technicians left. The economic collapse of 2008 hit the piano world very hard, and there are only four American factories left that manufacture the instruments.

Having tuned for many great and famous pianists, Hohf maintains that tuning is usually not the most important thing; what they really care about is the “voicing” — what the piano sounds like. To get the right voice, one needs to adjust the hardness of the hammers by needling them to release the tension in the felt.

The B piano, which was purchased in 1970 and served as the A piano until a newer piano was purchased in 1993, is used mostly by jazz and world music performers, who prefer its “harder, more percussive tone, which is good for amplification.”

The A piano, used mostly for classical concerts, has a “rounder sound, which is better for non-amplified concerts. If you put them side-by-side,” says Hohf, “they sound very different,” even though both of them are Model D nine-foot Steinway Grand pianos.

Hohf is almost ready to hand the piano over to musicians who will stabilize the strings by playing it. Numerous retunings will be necessary before the strings are finally stabilized a year from now. n

Number of Steinways, the top of the line, manufactured each year in the United States: 3,500

Number of pianos produced each year in China, the only place where the industry is expanding: 350,000

Artists who have signed the B piano: LEONTYNE PRICE, ITZHAK PERLMAN, DAVE BRUBECK, ALICIA DE LARROCHA, GARRICK OHLSSON, EMANUEL AX, GEORGE WINSTON, MURRAY PERAHIA, BEVERLY SILLS AND BEN SIDRAN.

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Truth to power MGE reached out to customers, but will it listen to them?

BY DYLAN BROGAN

Madison Gas and Electric recently wrapped up a year of public engagement with an invitation-only “community energy workshop” that brought together a wide swath of business, nonprofit and community leaders.

Held April 19 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center under tight security, participants were treated to a lavish spread of hors d’oeuvres before participating in small group discussions on the future direction of MGE and how to better communicate with customers.

“To successfully develop and implement our framework for the future, we at MGE recognize the importance of working with a broad cross-section of our community,” Gary Wolter, the company’s CEO, told the crowd of prominent Madisonians. “This workshop is specially designed with the goal of including the many perspectives, diverse experiences and collective wisdom of our community.”

The message from the power company was clear: MGE is listening.

But many wonder whether the utility will translate that input into policy, most importantly by weaning itself from coal and investing in renewable energy.

Andy Olsen, senior policy advocate of the Environmental Law & Policy Center, is irked at MGE’s tight control over the conversation. He says Madison is home to national experts in a number of cutting-edge fields that aren’t being used.

“There is a continuing pattern of very choreographed and restricted public dialogue that gives a lot of concern that we’re not tapping the best that Madison has to offer,” Olsen says. “We deserve better than this.”

MGE’s big public outreach comes after the utility was blasted in 2014 for proposing a major rate increase that critics said rewarded big energy users while sticking it to both average consumers and those who made investments in energy conservation, such as solar panels. The company later asked for

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a more modest — but still unpopular — fixed rate increase, which the state’s Public Service Commission approved.

Madison Ald. David Ahrens, who was not invited to last week’s workshop, says MGE “found religion” after the outcry.

“I think that [MGE] was pretty astounded to see the depth and breadth of the opposition,” he says. “There is an incredible divide between where this company is and where the community stands.”

After the blowback, MGE hired the Washington, D.C., consulting firm Justice & Sustainability Associates to run a yearlong communityengagement campaign. The effort included last week’s workshop with community leaders and nearly 100 “energy conversations” that were held throughout the past year. These smaller group conversations were also tightly controlled, although people could ask to participate.

“This a vastly different approach. Until last year, [MGE’s] efforts have mostly been hype,”

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Energy 2030 lays out goals for MGE, including supplying 30% of retail energy sales with renewable resources like wind and solar by 2030. The plan also promises to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 40% from 2005 levels and

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says Ahrens. “Whether they like it or not, this is their community.”

MGE corporate communications manager Dana Brueck says the feedback gleaned from the public was used to craft its Energy 2030 Framework. Published in November 2015, the report is a guide for the utility’s energy plans.

It was released more than a month before Justice & Sustainability Associates publicly released its findings on “themes” raised by community members.

“It had a tremendous impact,” Brueck says of the community engagement. “We were getting significant input as a result of the [public listening sessions], and that is reflected in the framework.”

deepen “engagement with customers” on how to accomplish long-term goals.

What’s missing from Energy 2030 are details on how the goals will be accomplished or a timeline for implementing them. Olsen is optimistic about the plan but remains concerned about the company’s original 2014 rate proposal. He says it was the “single most aggressive [proposed] increase in fixed mandatory fees in the nation.” “[MGE] went whole hog in the wrong direction. The question is, have they done a 180, a 90 or is this just marketing?” says Olsen. “The jury is still out on that.”

State Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison) says unlike other states, Wisconsin isn’t incentivizing public utilities to move away from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas.

Taylor calls the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, the three-member panel that regulates public utilities, “a sham.” “[The Public Service Commission] is a bunch of political hacks,” Taylor says. “They aren’t interested in promoting renewables; in fact, they are quite critical of renewable energy.”

Taylor cites neighboring Iowa, where the entire state is now running on 30% wind power, as evidence that Wisconsin is missing out on the opportunities offered by the green energy sector. She says the state doesn’t offer any incentives to MGE to move away from fossil fuels.

“MGE is making hand-over-fist in profit; why would they change? The consumers are going to have to demand it,” says Taylor.

Ahrens says whether MGE will live up to the vision set by the utility’s own listening sessions will be evident fairly quickly. “We should be able to know in five years what steps [MGE] has taken to fulfill those goals.

They can’t wait until 2029 to do it.”

In the meantime, Brueck says MGE encourages people to engage via its website. “It’s an ongoing process to balance all the diverse needs of our customers and our obligations to provide safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable energy in the years to come.” n

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Madison Police Chief Mike Koval worries that Saturday’s Mifflin Street block party could be trouble. UW-Madison’s student-sponsored Mifflin alternative, Revelry Music and Arts Festival, has been scaled back due to budget constraints and construction at Memorial Union, which could mean more house parties.

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MONDAY, APRIL 25 The Verona Common Council directs staff to draft a resolution to close the tax incremental financing district that was created to lure Epic Systems from Madison 14 years ago. Closing the district would bring most of Epic’s campus — valued at almost $400 million — on to the tax rolls. n Dane County Circuit Judge William Foust refuses to put on hold his ruling that bars enforcement of the state’s new right-to-work law, which he found unconstitutional.

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Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette), co-chair of the Legislature’s budget panel, tells the paper: “$250,000 to assure every vote is counted, I don’t think is a problem.”

TUESDAY, APRIL 26 Joshua Gehde is charged with first-degree reckless homicide for allegedly causing the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter by physically abusing her.

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Stepping up New volunteer group provides foot care for the homeless

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Homeless for the past 10 months, Roy Jacobs is constantly on the go.

“I’m on my feet at least 70% of the day,” he says. “I need them.”

Fortunately, Jacobs hasn’t had any foot problems. But like most homeless people, his feet are yet another thing to stress over.

So Jacobs took advantage of a new foot clinic offered by Madison Area Care for the Homeless OneHealth (or MACH), a volunteer group made up of health care professionals and others.

“I wanted to have my feet checked out by a professional, just to be on the safe side,” says Jacobs. “I’ve never seen a foot doctor before.”

The group held its first clinic earlier this month in the basement of First United Methodist Church downtown.

Proper foot care is often neglected by the homeless due to a lack of health care and the prioritization of other needs, says volunteer organizer Dr. Ann Catlett.

“People living on the streets don’t have a way to bathe or stay clean, or they might not have a change of socks like we do,” says Catlett, a palliative care specialist with UW

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Health. “Everyone needs help with their homeless who needed health care, feet, and this is a very basic service we “which is why we wanted to have the can provide.” foot clinic downtown at a central lo Some of the foot problems homeless cation,” says Lee. people have include “ill-fitting shoes In addition to the free foot clin[or] moist feet, which can lead to fungal ics, MACH will conduct more surinfections. They could also have diabeveys to tailor other programs to the tes or circulation problems,” she adds. county’s homeless.

“They have to be mobile all day to go The homeless weren’t the only ones between service agencies, and they’re to benefit from the free foot clinic. “[It] carrying things constantly.” was a lesson in humility and human In the span of three hours, Catlett ity,” says MACH volunteer Dr. Bethany and a couple dozen volunteers tend to Morehouse Howlett. “When we come the feet of 15 people, providing a full together as a community to provide foot-health checkup, including an inicompassionate care to one another, tial assessment of any ailments, a thorwe foster trust and resiliency.” ough washing, wound care and an exam Another volunteer, Carmel Assa, by nurses and doctors for pain and conan incoming UW medical student STEVEN POTTER cerns. Free socks and shoe padding are who washed feet at the clinic, agrees.

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Deadly reflections Glass is a popular construction material. Can it be made safe for birds?

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to minimize bird collisions. “No building can eliminate the possibility of a bird hitting a window,� he says. “But we also know we can reduce the probability of that happening.�

Daniel Klem Jr., a professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., sees two sets of solutions to what he calls a “critical animal welfare and conservation issue.�

Short-term solutions include retrofitting existing clear and reflective panes with materials that cover the outside surface. Long-term solutions include using bird-safe sheet glass and plastic in remodels and new construction. Fritted or acid etching patterns transform windows into barriers that birds see and avoid.

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rently working with manufacturers to develop and retail this product, so only prototypes exist today, he says.

When asked if he sees a trend toward birdsafe building designs in the U.S., he points to Chicago’s Studio Gang Architects as a “terrific example� and to the best practices for builders recently published by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Klem calls the latter “a continuing governmental approach to stimulate volunteer efforts to protect birds.�

He says that the best practices are aimed at government agencies “primarily in hopes of stimulating their responsible building practices within the U.S. government that in turn will spill over to the private sector.� Still, Klem hasn’t seen the kind of progress that would “significantly and meaningfully save more bird lives.�

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Depending on its momentum in flight, a bird thudding head-first into a window can suffer a range of often fatal injuries — broken beak, ruptured blood vessels, brain damage and fractures to its skull, neck or wings.

An estimated 50 million to 1 billion birds in the U.S. die this way every year. Their miscue? An inability to see glass for what it is.

When birds see reflections of the sky or lush landscape in glass windows, they can’t tell the reflections apart from welcoming habitat.

This unfortunate optical illusion can claim the lives of pretty much any avian species through all seasons, but collisions peak during migrations. Among its frequent victims are ruby-throated hummingbirds traveling to and from Central America.

Peter Cannon, a Madison resident and former regional director of the National Audubon Society, is speaking out about the toll that buildings with glass facades take on bird populations: “Why is the issue important to me? I don’t want to see hummingbirds become rare!�

He says he has noticed that glass is becoming the “surface treatment of choice for major new construction in Madison and around the country.� He sent his alder, Ledell Zellers, information from the American Bird Conservancy in hopes of influencing the architecture of new buildings, including the development queued up for Judge Doyle Square. The Common Council recently gave initial approval for two glass buildings to be constructed by Chicagobased Beitler for this development, behind the city’s Municipal Building. “I realized that the magnitude of the problem was such that I could not ignore a major threat happening in my own city,�

Cannon says. “Buildings last a long time. If we don’t get things right when the building is first built, the problem may still be with us in 50 to 100 years.�

The company’s president, J. Paul Beitler, says he takes the matter seriously and wants

Things look brighter in Canada, where bird-safe architecture is “promisingly poised to increase nationwide because of the pressure of environmental laws spurred by a long history of media coverage,� Klem says.

While the same laws don’t exist here, there are resources for concerned developers and architects. The American Bird Conservancy offers a “Bird-Friendly Building Design� guide, teeming with examples of bird-safe buildings, like the School of Pharmacy building at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Architects had planned to cover the facade in glass and limestone but (because of the price tag) revised the design to incorporate watercolors of medicinal plants as photo murals.

Another is Cooper Square in New York City, which features “a skin of perforated steel panels fronting a glass/aluminum window wall,� which saves energy as a bonus. The Studio Gang’s Aqua Tower in Chicago, also designed with birds in mind, uses fritted glass and balcony balustrades to deter birds. In Philadelphia, the Wexford Science and Technology building facade features frosted glass.

Back home in Madison, all is not lost. The city recently earned the top status of “High Flyer� through Bird City Wisconsin, a conservation organization that recognizes communities for their bird-focused conservation and education activities.

This means Madison met 12 out of 39 criteria spread across five categories, such as habitat creation and protection, community forest management and public education.

Bryan Lenz, director of Bird City Wisconsin, reports that “there are many solutions to retrofit buildings that were not designed with birds in mind — which is pretty much every building.�

Developers interested in reducing deadly bird strikes can seek LEED Pilot Credit 55 from the U.S. Green Building Council. The credit requires them to do three things, says Lenz.

Developers must follow specific reflectivity guidelines that prevent building materials from being either highly reflective or perfectly transparent.

Addressing another pitfall for birds — being drawn to and disoriented by powerful artificial lights when migrating at night — the credit requires developers to use lights that are shielded or pointed downward, and to avoid using external lights to illuminate the building overnight.

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Council stages bloody coup!

(Actually, proposed changes to mayoral power aren’t all that earth-shattering)

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

He blogs as Citizen Dave at Isthmus.com.

Don’t believe every headline you read.

A proposal by Madison Common Council members to take away some of the mayor’s power isn’t as earth shattering as Mayor Paul Soglin makes it out to be.

Council members Mark Clear and David Ahrens are actually pushing a series of changes. Let’s take a closer look at the three most significant of these.

Two-year terms for council presidents. Under the current system, council presidents serve one-year terms. I always thought the council went out of its way to make itself less effective by limiting its presidents to one year. Just when I got comfortable working with a council leader, I had to start a new relationship with the next one. And just when a president got the hang of the job, she had to step aside. So, both in terms of the balance of power and continuity in the relationship between a mayor and a council, two-year terms make a lot of sense.

We don’t have to look further than the backto-back one-year terms of former alder and council president Chris Schmitt to see how well it can work.

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Taking the mayor off the finance committee. First, Clear and Ahrens want to call the Board of Estimates what it is — the finance committee. The mayor currently chairs that committee and can vote to break ties among the six alders who sit on it. But chairing a city committee doesn’t bring with it the same power to control the agenda as is common in legislatures and in Congress. Most items are put on the agenda automatically under city rules. And, of course, there would be nothing to stop the mayor from attending the finance committee meetings and speaking whenever he wanted to. This won’t fundamentally

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change a dynamic where any mayor gets about 95% of what he wants in any budget.

Moving the power to appoint alders to committees from the mayor to the council president.

This is the most significant of the Clear and Ahrens proposals, but it’s also the way most legislative bodies work. President Obama doesn’t appoint members of Congress to congressional committees. Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t appoint legislators to their committees.

Those tasks are handled by the legislators elected by their peers to leadership positions. In fact, it’s an odd mixing of executive and legislative branch functions that always seemed to me to be a breach of the principle of separation of powers.

And this is only a significant change if you accept the argument that the appointing authority can buy the loyalty of alders with a plum assignment. In eight years as mayor — and despite my fervent hopes — that just never happened. No sooner would I give an alder a prime slot on the BOE or the Plan Commission than they would make it a point to vote against me on something I wanted. In fact, the culture of the Madison Common Council is for its members to demonstrate their independence from the mayor and even from one another. So, the argument that this will lead to alders trading votes for council president in exchange for the best committee assignments — even if valid — is not likely to result in those alders then slavishly following the demands of the president.

And, of course, even under the current system, a mayor could dangle a great assignment in front of an alder whose support he wants in the next election.

Before these proposals were even introduced, Soglin threatened a veto and said that

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if his veto were overridden he would seek citizen signatures to put the question on an election ballot. Later he proposed a commission to study these proposals and others for almost two years and at a cost of a quarter million dollars. Cynics see the commission as a stall tactic and an expensive one at that.

Soglin probably does have a valid argument when he says that this is mostly about him, but it’s not about him in the way that he wants us to believe. The mayor says that the council is just trying to push back against his strong fiscal policies. But there’s just no evidence of that. After

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five Soglin budgets during very good economic times, the city finds itself with less cash in the bank than it had when he took over and with the deepest debt it has had in the modern era. If the mayor is pushing back against profligate council spending, it sure isn’t apparent in the numbers.

But it is fair to say that this movement wouldn’t be taking place if Soglin had a better working relationship with the council. The mayor has earned a reputation for not consulting with the council, for grandstanding, for lecturing at them, for being mercurial, for choosing odd fights, and often for just being plain unpleasant.

As a former occupant of the office, I hate to see it diminished. Moreover, these changes should be considered in light of the fundamental balance of power between branches of government, and not just in the context of the current mayor and council.

But what Clear and Ahrens are proposing is not a coup. At base, it’s really just constructing stronger and perhaps appropriate walls separating two branches of government. n

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Green Party calling

The Florida vote was re-counted by a media consortium after the 2001 inauguration. Al Gore won Florida (and the nation). Ralph Nader didn’t “spoil” anything. tovangar (via Comments)

Typecast I used to read Isthmus from cover to cover, but since changing the print to be so small and hard to read, I can barely read anything in the paper.

I have mentioned this to many people who feel the same. Since we are seniors, we are probably not your target audience, but it was my primary local news analysis source.

So sorry to have lost this source.

Also losing the movie list of times and shows has been a loss. Not everyone relies on computers and smart phones.

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DAVID MICHAEL MILLER

Re “Plan B After Bernie” (4/21/2016): I agree with this 100%. I gave up on politics till Bernie Sanders. Both parties are corrupt, and this two-party system needs to end. After the election, no matter what, I’ll be independent or third party. I think the Green Party is calling my name! zachary (via Comments)

Beating the drum Re “Kids or Parking Lots?” (Citizen Dave, Isthmus.com, 4/18/2016): Spoton analysis. I am glad Isthmus (and contributors) keep beating this drum against public spending at Judge Doyle Square.

Also, is it just me, or are Mayor Soglin’s “dramas” getting more and more irrational? I am seriously concerned for the guy’s mental health. Maybe I should have voted for Resnick after all.

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Some lives are transformed in a moment of clarity.

Rob Baratz’s life changed the day he realized that what he really wanted to do was be a farmer.

It was 1987. He was standing in a suit at six in the morning, ready to take the train from the suburbs to his job as a floor trader on the Chicago Stock Exchange.

And then he saw the light. Well, actually, he saw the dirt as he gazed out at one of the two hobby gardens that he lovingly tended in his suburban neighborhood.

“I realized at that moment...I thought, you know, I would rather do this all day,” he says. “I would rather grow things and figure out if I could do this for a living rather than take the train into the city to be part of the rat race.” ➡ Equinox Community Farm, located near Waunakee.

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John Hendrickson of UW-Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems teaches small-scale organic vegetable farmers and studies the efficacy of CSAs.

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John Binkley of Equinox Community Farm has started a commercial canning business for his vegetables, to further diversify income sources beyond the CSA.

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Soon Rob and his wife, Ellen Meany (the former creative director at Isthmus), were looking to buy a farm, an exhaustive nationwide search that ultimately took three years and brought them to the Gilbertson Farm, two miles east of Stoughton on Highway 51. They purchased it in January 1991, and started farming what was known as Pleasant Hill Farm that spring.

Rob and Ellen realized their dream, or at least their dream at the time. They went on to farm for 20 years, establishing one of the first organic community-supported agriculture (CSA) farms in Dane County. But over the next two decades they also learned that beyond pioneering an organic farming movement, they were also starting a small farming business that would be a constant and monumental challenge, a challenge for which many idealistic would-be farmers discover in practice that they are simply not equipped.

Cultivating and maintaining a farm brings with it a steep and ongoing learning curve that demands creativity, significant horticultural knowledge, workforce management skills, infinite flexibility, shrewd business acumen, unwavering faith of purpose, some luck and, in the end, always, a willingness to do hard, hard work — harder sunrise-to-sunset work than most non-farmers will ever experience or imagine possible.

Community-supported agriculture was supposed to make small farming more viable. The idea of selling consumers shares of a farm’s produce prior to planting — thus providing the farm much-needed upfront operating capital and building a strong relationship between producer and consumer — spread quickly. Consumers subscribe for a season’s worth of vegetables, fruits and herbs, and then receive a fresh weekly box of the latest harvest for their payments and support. According to the USDA’s 2012 figures, there are now nearly 13,000 CSAs nationwide.

CSAs are most often done with small organic vegetable farms, providing a level of financial support and security that has not traditionally been available to American farmers.

But the model has not turned out to be a panacea, though success is a hard thing to quantify. There are no records tracking farms that tried the approach and gave it up. Moreover, it is hard to separate the pros and cons of operating a CSA farm from the pros and cons of simply operating a small farm.

But through limited research and anecdotal evidence from farmers, some common themes emerge.

CSAs require farmers to market and promote their products to prospective members, not just focus on planting, cultivating and selling their produce and goods. They must also maintain their customer base and be user-friendly when it comes to member requests and complaints (“What am I going to do with all these parsnips in my box!”). Perhaps most importantly, farmers’ incomes have not necessarily improved as a result.

“CSAs have been a huge boon to farmers in terms of providing money upfront in spring, enabling them to plan expenses and eliminating the need for an operating loan,” says John Hendrickson, an outreach program manager at the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at UW-Madison. He coordinates the Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers, a program for people wanting to start small-scale organic vegetable farms.

But Hendrickson says CSAs have been less successful at ensuring “fair and adequate compensation for the farmer.”

“Some are successful and can afford health insurance and save for retirement, but a whole lot of farms are struggling to make it work.”

The beginnings of the box The birth of community-supported agriculture in the U.S. dates back to the 1980s on the East Coast. Dane County’s first CSA coalition took shape in 1992. Composed of would-be farmers, agricultural activists and community organizers, the group called itself the Madison Eaters Revolutionary Front, or MERF, eventually

FairShare’s Erika Jones helps people understand what communitysupported agriculture means and how they can be a part of it.

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But except for a few cases, that has really not been the way that CSA has evolved.”

Hendrickson says there are some farms where CSA members become involved with distribution, finding new members and overseeing the budget, but they’re few and far between. He says there is no one reason for this.

“People are busy,” he says. Plus, some farmers “didn’t want to relinquish control over those types of activities.”

Young farmers But there are long-lived Wisconsin CSAs that continue to make a go of it.

Spring Hill Community Farm, says Hendrickson, is one of the state’s oldest, and it is doing well. Located an hour northwest of Eau Claire, Spring Hill is exclusively a CSA. While most small organic farms diversify their distribution and revenue by selling produce at farmers’ markets, and to restaurants and grocery stores, Spring Hill Community Farm survives solely on members who live in northwestern Wisconsin and the Twin Cities.

Its member retention rate is high, and the bond the farm has built with its supporters is strong. When Spring Hill principals Mike Racette and Patty Wright believed their farm workers were not making enough money, Hendrickson says they asked the CSA’s members to support an increase in share prices to give farm workers a raise.

They did, and the workers got a raise. It is a great story, a wonderful picture, and it displays the profound opportunity that CSA represents for people who care about where their food comes from and how the people grow it are treated.

Newer farmers are also adopting the model. John Binkley’s Equinox Community Farm, located outside Waunakee, says his first five years were extremely challenging.

But, now in its eighth year, Equinox has turned the corner on profitability.

“The last three or four years, we have reached the point where we’re actually making more money than putting it

John Binkley of Equinox: “Having the CSA is the core and base of our farm.”

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evolving into the more respectable-sounding Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition (MACSAC), that’s now known as FairShare CSA Coalition.

In 2012, according to the USDA, Wisconsin had approximately 392 CSA farms. (Exact numbers for 2016 are not available.) FairShare has 59 farms in its coalition this year, according to executive director Erika Jones.

“When the coalition started in the early 1990s, the original eight farms sold a total of 200 to 250 shares to consumers,” Jones says. In 2014 that number had risen to 12,600 shares sold through 50 farms.

Out of the 59 farms in the coalition this year, 20 are located in Dane County. Forty-two of them deliver to sites in Madison and Dane County.

The coalition’s role from the beginning was to promote CSAs: “Building awareness, helping people understand what community-supported agriculture means and how they can be part of it,” says Jones. FairShare does promotional work, outreach and marketing. It produces ads so small farms don’t have to spend time or money doing so, promotes workplace CSAs, helps fund shares for low-income families and sponsors farmer education.

While marketing and finding customers and distribution channels are essential to the survival of virtually all of today’s CSAs, that was not the original intent of the CSA model, according to UW’s John Hendrickson, who himself owns a small farm and was one of the original members of MERF. “A huge part of the original idea of community-supported agriculture was that it was a way for the farmer to be able to focus on being a good farmer and steward of the land,” Hendrickson says. “The marketing and distribution and sales — and all the work and effort and stress that goes into that — would be removed by having a community of members that would take care of that.

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back into the farm,” Binkley says. “The farm is financially viable, and I don’t feel like I’m working for nothing.”

Binkley started with about an acre and sold a handful of CSA shares. The farm has grown to 6½ acres of vegetables. He sells at area farmers’ markets and to restaurants, and now has between 200 and 250 CSA members.

“Having the CSA is the core and base of our farm,” Binkley says. “It’s a guaranteed market, so once the share is sold, it doesn’t matter if it rains or how you do on a given week at the farmers’ market, though having that and restaurant sales to supplement the CSA income is really important, too.”

Five-year-old Vitruvian Farms near McFarland, which starting out selling its product only to restaurants and a few food co-ops, has started a CSA this year.

Founder Shawn Kuhn says selling CSA shares upfront takes a lot of financial stress off the operation. The farm has sold 15 to 20 full shares, 30 to 40 half-shares.

“The frontloaded payment really helps take care of the growing season,” he says.

Previously, he would harvest the first crops in April or May and get restaurants the fresh produce the next day. “But they might not pay us back for a month or two, which was always a huge problem.”

Kuhn knows that it can be tough to satisfy all tastes so is experimenting with new marketing approaches, like Free Choice prepaid debit cards, that allow people to visit his farm stand and choose what they want to put in their box. Like shares in the CSA, the card is purchased prior to the

growing season. How and when consumers want to use it is up to them.

The potluck of a normal CSA box is a “bit of a give and take,” Kuhn says. “The Free Choice card makes it all a little more malleable.”

Big responsibilities CSA farms grow multiple varieties of crops, to diversify their offerings. “To do that well is no small feat,” says Hendrickson. “It can be done, and there are farms that are doing it exceptionally well, but it is not an easy thing to do.”

Scott Williams, of Garden to Be outside of Mount Horeb, started as a CSA farm but found he needed to simplify. One of the things that went was the CSA. “I looked at the CSA as a big responsibility on my part,” says Williams. “You are taking people’s money at the beginning of the year. I didn’t want to give anyone a bad experience.”

And as he and his partner were expecting their first child, the idea of managing that new responsibility and the CSA seemed overwhelming.

“We were 95% of our labor force,” says Williams. “We were unsure if we could meet our commitment to our CSA members.”

Now with two kids, Williams guarantees that “it would have been a disaster.” Happily, the rise in area farm-to-table restaurants has made it possible for him to make a living primarily marketing directly to chefs. It’s allowed him to focus more narrowly than he was able to do with the CSA: “The diversity of work and crops involved in a CSA farm, you have to have so many built-in efficiencies that it is hard to manage. The more you add, the harder it is.”

Rob Baratz, the Chicago stock trader turned

farmer, also discovered early on that building and maintaining a sustainable and profitable CSA was not going to be an easy thing to do.

He says his farm grew slowly and steadily but a couple of things hit it particularly hard, bringing it to a close.

First, there was increased competition.

When Baratz began his farm in the early 1990s, there were just a few other Dane County farms doing CSAs. But MACSAC was encouraging more and more growers to become CSAs, Baratz says. “I was, like, ‘Guys, wait, there’s a finite market,’” says Baratz.

He felt that the Madison area market became oversaturated: “So you go from six [MACSAC] members to, 10 years later, 50 or 60 farms that had CSAs.” As competition increased, CSAs offered more and more amenities — “egg shares, meat shares, flower shares, extended-season shares,” says Baratz. “I was losing people just to that.”

He also ran up against a problem common to CSAs: high member turnover.

“I was hearing from people, ‘Oh, yeah, I want to support your farm, but we want to support these other farmers because they’ve only been in business a year or two,’” Baratz remembers.

According to North Carolina State Cooperative Extension, CSAs lose between 25% and 70% of their members each season. That flies in the face of one of the original goals of community-supported agriculture: shareowner engagement with a specific farm.

“The idea was the farmer would not have to find a lot of new members each year,” says Hendrickson. “Farm hopping does not help the farmer.”

But the final straw for Baratz was 2011’s Wisconsin Act 10, the state law that, among other things, required higher public employee contributions to health insurance coverage.

“That really hurt us,” Baratz says. He had customers, public employee couples, who were losing $800 from their combined paychecks and could no longer afford the CSA. Costs for running the farm had also risen. “With that going on and with the CSA membership so unpredictable, it was tough,” Baratz says. “Ultimately I saw it as a business model that wasn’t viable anymore.”

Pay dirt Today, five years after giving up on CSA organic farming, Baratz and Meany are no longer married and have gone separate ways. Meany kept the farm, and her son lives there while attending college. She travels there on weekends from Moline, Ill., where she now works.

Baratz moved to the state of Oregon where he found many organic vegetable farmers growing marijuana on the side just to get by economically — growing marijuana in Oregon is legal. He says he has not lost his passion for farming and getting his hands in the dirt, but now he is working mostly with a marijuana farmer, “trimming” the plants seven days a week.

“It enables me to connect my passion and skill set of over 30 years gardening with work again, into a real job,” he says, sounding upbeat. “It’s something I love doing. I’m not growing vegetables and herbs, but I’m outside growing a really intriguing plant that people really appreciate.” n

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Thursday, April 28, at Next Door Brewing, 2439 Atwood Ave., 5-11 pm

Get an early start with this special visit from Ahnapee Brewing of Algoma. Without driving to Kewanee County, this is your chance to taste the small-batch beers of brewmaster Nick Calaway who will offer four brews: a chocolate milk stout, an English IPA, a red ale made with rye and a barrel-aged Baltic porter. (R.S.)

Launch Party for S’Wheat Caroline Friday, April 29, at Wisconsin Brewing Tap Haus, 107 State St., 7 pm-2 am

Students in the UW-Madison Department of Food Science’s Fermented Foods and Beverages Program and the Craft Brewery Project release their 2016 beer.

Buy a pint and get free entry to the Ivory Room for a Neil Diamond sing-along. (R.S.)

Cask Ale Fest Saturday, April 30, at Breese Stevens Field, 2-5 pm

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Field Table scored a very rare barrel of Bo and Luke, the smoky, Pappy Van Winkle barrel-aged stout from Kentucky’s Against the Grain. (K.N.)

Perennial, Founders and Evil Twin Tap Takeover Sunday, May 1, at Dexter’s Pub, 301 North St., 11 am-2 am

Take a deep breath, try to get some sleep before, during or after your Great Taste of the Midwest ticket line-sitting on Sunday, and then stop by Dexter’s Pub. Perennial, Founders and Evil Twin will fill the cool digital menu board behind

the bar. Owner Nick Zabel gets the good stuff, and these brewers are known to deploy some wild adjuncts and big stouts. (K.N.)

Something Special from Wisconsin Monday, May 2, at the Malt House, 2609 E. Washington Ave., 4 pm-midnight

Wisconsin favorites Oliphant, Karben4 and 3 Sheeps take over the house with limited releases and regular favorites. (R.S.)

Ballast Point Sculpin and Taco Night Monday, May 2, at Jordan’s Big Ten Pub, 1330 Regent St., 6-9 pm

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The start of Madison Craft Beer Week is marked each year with the release of Common Thread. This year’s offering is a gose, tackled by two dozen brewers as a collaborative project. Goses are made with a high percentage of wheat malt and seasoned with coriander and salt. In Germany, some pubs even offer additional salt for licking, and at your request different types of salt, too.

This is a unique, complex beer — a flavorful and assertive take on the gose.

It’s more tart than sour. Enjoy it as cold as possible and you’ll get the full tartness. As it warms you’ll sense more sourness. The coriander and salt add accent to the finish.

The coriander, in particular, tends to lend a spicy and somewhat popcorn-like ending (salted popcorn, without gobs of butter).

It’s crisp, tart, very drinkable and distinctive.

This Common Thread is in the genre of sours without being over the top, and remains very approachable for a wide range of adventuresome craft beer drinkers.

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with a special taco night menu. I’m told they blend fairly well with each other, so politely asking for an empty sampler glass is probably the pro move. (K.N.)

Friday, May 6, at Mr. Brews-downtown, 305 W. Johnson St., 6-10 pm

Perennial and Avery Takeover Tuesday, May 3, at HopCat, 222 W. Gorham St., 6 pm-midnight

Catch a cab to HopCat for its two-brewery Perennial/Avery tap takeover. Perennial’s Sump coffee stout (10.5% ABV), Avery’s Uncle Jacob’s Stout (16.9%) and Tweak barrel-aged coffee stout (17.81%) will unquestionably require a safe ride home, no matter how much cheeseburger you jam into your face. (K.N.)

Potosi Brewing Co. and Madison Homebrewers & Tasters Guild Release Party Wednesday, May 4, at Brocach, 7 W. Main St., 6-8 pm

Potosi Brewing teamed up with the Madison Homebrewers & Tasters Guild to make a Belgian golden strong that’s a beer not to miss. (R.S.)

The underrated Lift Bridge pours at Mr. Brews’ downtown location. Though the tap list has yet to be revealed, keep your radar up for Irish Coffee Stout, Silhouette and Commander. And of course the flagship IPA, Hop Dish.

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Surly Night Friday, May 6, at the Coopers Tavern, 20 W. Mifflin St., 5 pm-2:30 am

The Minneapolis brewer has been re-releasing its excellent anniversary beers in anticipation of its upcoming 10th birthday. I wouldn’t be shocked if Surly’s “One” (quadruple bock) or “Three” (black braggot) popped up at some Surly event this week. But this Coopers Tavern tap takeover is the only one to publicly proclaim an anniversary brew: “Two” — a cranberry stout originally hailing from 2008. (K.N.)

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Friday, May 6, Edgewater Hotel, 6–9 p.m.

Thursday, May 5, at Gib’s Bar, 1380 Williamson St., 7 pm-1 am

“Gr8” (as in eight great beers) from One Barrel Brewing and Wisconsin Brewing Company paired with appetizers from the Boathouse Bar and Grill overlooking Lake Mendota. Tickets are $30. (R.S.)

Swing by for Upland sours you probably won’t see elsewhere, as well as non-sour Upland brews. (K.N.)

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CONNECT Madison and the REAP Food Group team up to celebrate Madison food entrepreneurs and young professionals. Five small plates and two craft beers (from Bunky’s Cafe, Roman Candle Pizza, Heritage Tavern, Monty’s Blue Plate and more, plus brews from Karben4, Mobcraft, and Lakefront) and all the fun the Madison Children’s Museum, 100 N. Hamilton St., has to offer, 6-9 pm.

Tickets ($25) through ConnectMadison.com.

The 13th season of the Monona Farmers’ Market kicks off this weekend. Vendors will be selling eggs, fresh veggies and other market items to the sound of cowpunk rockers Rodeo Bums. Master gardeners will be offering tricks of the trade, and Joy in Yoga will be teaching a “Class in the Grass.” At Ahuska Park, 400 E. Broadway, Monona, 9 am-1 pm.

For the monthly meeting of the Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW), UW-Madison history professor Nan Enstad discusses revising the place of the housewife in the American food system. At Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa St., 7:15 pm.

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Los Angeles has its taco trucks, Austin its chicken and barbecue vendors. And Madison’s Library Mall appears to be the food cart epicenter of the avocado spring roll.

With the new food cart season upon us, some of the longest lines on the mall have been for the three carts serving these hefty, burrito-sized rolls overstuffed with big hunks of ripe avocado, shredded cabbage, other veggies and protein add-ons, all drenched in a sweet peanut sauce. The cheapest is just $2.50; the most expensive $4.

These are not the relatively diminutive appetizers of your neighborhood Thai restaurant. These are sui generis — so far as I can determine via persistent Googling, Library Mall is the only place in the U.S. where giant avocado spring rolls are even a thing.

The Natural Juice cart is the most generous with fresh veggies — spinach and red bell pepper were great additions. It also leads the way in protein add-ons — your choice of chicken, tofu, jellyfish, seaweed (all $3.50) or shrimp ($4). Jellyfish is chewy and a little salty; shrimp is mostly flavorless.

Luangprabang offers only avocado ($3).

The cart often adds too much peanut sauce, though I find there’s often too much in all of the carts’ rolls.

The longest lines tend to be at Fresh Cool Drinks, which sells the avocado-only version at $2.50 and offers either a tofu, chicken or shrimp add-on for just 50 cents more.

They’re difficult to eat — the thin ricepaper wrapper can’t hold the generous contents, and sauce rolled inside makes it gloppy. Once the rice paper rips, not even the cellophane wrapping can save your meal from disintegration. Still, it’s not hard to see how these are popular on campus — they’re inexpensive, gluten-free and healthy. They’re fairly tasty, but if you have more than $4 in your pocket, consider trying something more exciting for lunch. There’s plenty to choose from.

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El Grito’s real variation on Madison’s current cart tacos is its excellent sauces — the ancho brisket’s cacahuate (peanut) sauce, the pork’s tart mango and, best of all, the carrot’s pumpkin seed pesto — complete with toasted pepitas. El Grito serves no rice or beans, and the tacos are modestly sized. These may work better as appetizers paired with cocktails; as lunch, it feels unbalanced.

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It has a slight edge on flavor over the steak/ chorizo mix, but the big spicing here comes from the three salsas — a thin red with a pleasant chipotle hit, an excellent guacamole and a hot green tomatillo. Two classic tacos with rice and beans will run you $7.

Masarap Filipino food is new to Library Mall but a veteran of Let’s Eat Out cart nights.

Its lumpia are crispy eggrolls filled with pork or veggies; Filipino baboy-b-cue features tangy pulled pork. My favorite is the caldereta, a tomato-based stew that comes with tofu or chicken and shows Spanish influence with peppers, chickpeas and green olives ($7.50).

A new cart making the satellite rounds of office park lunchtimes is Buzzy’s Lake House.

The pretty, cabin-style cart even features a guest book for patrons to sign. Chef-owner Cynthia Heffling serves a healthy version of the simple foods people make at summer cottages. Several chicken and rice dishes are augmented by Rock Bar Tuna, a lively, lemony tuna salad with artichokes and kalamata olives; a summery cucumber sandwich or wrap; and daily specials. Slaws and potato salad sides round out the menu, and don’t leave without a packet of crisp home-baked chocolate chip cookies (3/$1). In addition to noontime appearances at Covance, University Research Park and American Family (see the cart’s Facebook page for schedule), Heffling expects to join Let’s Eat Out evenings starting in June.

City street vending coordinator Warren Hansen has had to move some carts around to avoid construction on Mifflin Street and near St. Paul’s site on Library Mall. The Capitol Square now has a new cluster of carts at East Washington Avenue (including the Pickle Jar, serving barbecue sandwiches and pie) as well as El Grito across the Square. More new carts continue to roll out as the weather warms. Stay tuned. n

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The Madison Blaze, a professional team in the Independent Women’s Football League is 2-0 heading into its home opener on Saturday, April 30.

Big deal, you say? Well, it kinda is.

The Blaze, led by several returning players and more than a dozen rookies, outscored its first two opponents — the Detroit Pride and the Nebraska Stampede — 63-20.

Madison faces the 2-0 Minnesota Vixen at Middleton High School’s Breitenbach Stadium at 5 p.m. Both teams will be coming off a bye week.

The Blaze have won three straight IWFL Midwest Division championships and made back-to-back appearances in the Founder’s Bowl, a game featuring some of the league’s top teams. Head coach Rick Heuer has called this year’s Blaze squad the most competitive he’s coached, and Blaze players have the IWFL World Championship on their mind.

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New ownership and a name change came in 2013, and the Blaze work hard to promote women’s football as a serious endeavor.

This season, the IWFL boasts nearly as many active teams as the NFL (26 vs. 32), and its three-day Championship Weekend (in Charlotte, N.C., in July) is the longest-running women’s tackle football event in North America. Additionally, the IWFL, founded in 2000, is the oldest of the three active full-contact women’s football leagues in the United States.

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Author Robert Bausch writes from the perspective of Skip Granger, the Redskins’ assistant coach — who discovered Jesse Smoke on a beach in Belize, throwing a regulation-size football 60 yards across the water with an arm stronger than John Elway and Tom Brady. Bausch tells this tale as if Jesse Smoke were once the most famous woman in the world.

His vision of the future reveals the present-day ugliness pervading American culture in matters of gender and sexual orientation, and his engaging book (I received an advance reading copy) deserves to begin a new national conversation about the role of women in male-dominated sports.

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When professional football players retire, many find second careers in radio or TV broadcasting. That included former Green Bay Packers guard Daryn Colledge, who took off his helmet for the last time in 2014.

But then he realized he wasn’t finished with being part of a team.

In mid-April, Colledge took leave from his part-time sports-talk gig at radio station KTIK in Boise, Idaho, to become a soldier in the U.S. Army National Guard.

“A lot of people have said, ‘You’re absolutely crazy. You earned millions of dollars playing football. Why would you do this now?” admits Colledge, 34, who began his nine-year NFL career in Green Bay and also played for the Arizona Cardinals and Miami Dolphins. “The fact of the matter is, it just doesn’t seem that crazy to me. A lot of my teammates in college became firefighters, police officers and public servants. When you’re fortunate enough to be an athlete, you look inside yourself to decide what kind of impact you want to make.”

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Colledge weighed about 310 pounds when he retired from the NFL. Because the average military man weighs around 200, he trained daily on his own and was down to 265 before boot camp; and he will need to pass a series of increasingly challenging fitness tests as he moves through the process of becoming a soldier.

After 10 weeks of basic combat training at Fort Jackson, in Columbia, S.C., Colledge will transfer to Virginia’s Fort Eustis for 15 weeks of Advanced Individual Training.

Then he will officially join Company A, 1st Battalion of the 168th Aviation Regiment at Gowen Field Air National Guard Base in Boise, where he will work as a mechanic on 15T UH-60, or Black Hawk, helicopters with the goal of becoming a crew chief.

And he’ll be back on the air for KTIK in October, just in time to talk football.

Colledge says he joined the National Guard for an opportunity to participate in humanitarian efforts that give back to his community in Boise, where he attended college and lives with his wife, Megan, and two young daughters.

Colledge grew up in North Pole, Alaska, near two military bases. Several relatives served in the Armed Forces, his brother is an active-duty military member, and Megan comes from a military family.

Originally, Colledge planned to join the U.S. Navy after graduating from Boise State University, where he was a four-year starter for the Broncos. But then the Packers picked him in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft.

His military dreams were rekindled during the 2011 offseason following Green Bay’s Super Bowl XLV victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, when a handful of Packers took a trip sponsored by the Navy Entertainment Program and visited U.S. troops overseas.

“That trip stuck with me,” Colledge says.

“I was impressed by their commitment and brotherhood and sacrifice. I’ve gotten to the point in my life where my family is taken care of. This is an opportunity for me to go out and continue to protect the things I’ve worked so hard for.”

Before he left for basic training, Colledge was often asked about Pat Tillman, a safety for the Arizona Cardinals who enlisted in the Army after 9/11. He was killed in 2004 during a friendly-fire incident in the mountains of Afghanistan.

“I’m uncomfortable being mentioned in the same sentence as Pat Tillman,” Colledge says. “Pat Tillman obviously sacrificed everything to serve his country at a time when he thought the United States was most vulnerable. Then he went out there and gave his life in a tragic incident. He’s a hero. I haven’t done anything yet.”

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New grit Anna Vogelzang hits the road with upcoming album Hiker

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Anna Vogelzang’s been spending a lot of time lately in her rehearsal space. But the Madison singer-songwriter isn’t so much honing the songs from Hiker, her upcoming fifth full-length album, as figuring out how to handle the album’s multi-layered, multiinstrumental arrangements when she heads out on the solo leg of her upcoming tour, which includes a May 1 show at High Noon Saloon.

“I’ve gotten into gear, things like guitar pedals,” Vogelzang says. “I’m thinking, what can I do that’s representative of the album even though I’m going to be by myself? I’m messing with guitar effects and secondary vocals — all of this crazy stuff.”

It’s just another creative exploration for the Massachusetts native, who’s spent most of her decade-plus professional musical career — the last five years of which have been spent in our fair city — doing just that.

Hiker is a textbook example, an album that’s taken an interesting and winding journey to completion.

Slated for release on May 6, it features songs that she wrote in a cabin in Green Lake back in 2013. As she did with 2011’s Canary in a Coal Mine, Vogelzang used Kickstarter to help fund Hiker, but this time only for the postproduction piece of the equation. In 2014, to bridge the gap, Vogelzang released Driftless, a six-song EP featuring a collection of poppier songs.

But if Driftless represented a move away from Vogelzang’s earlier folk-pop work, Hiker is darker and grittier, a reflection of where she was mentally and emotionally at the time, grappling with difficult family relationships.

“A lot of the songs came from a place where I was thinking about how all humans are animals, like all of the things we do that reveal our animal nature to ourselves, whether that’s habitual

patterns or self-destruction or loving someone,” she says. “These songs found each other.”

The theme’s overt in tunes like Hiker’s opener, a number called “Bear,” and the song “Howl,” but it’s subtler elsewhere. One of the album’s strongest songs, a number called “Reins,” almost got lost in a folder of demos Vogelzang recorded in 2014 as part of Real Women Real Songs, an online project that challenged female musicians across the country to write a song a week for a full year, posting their work online. Her Californiabased producer and musical collaborator, Todd Sickafoose, saw the song’s potential and rescued it from potential obscurity. Now everyone who hears the album ends up name-checking it.

“I was reading a newspaper article on the media’s portrayal of women,” says Vogelzang of the song’s genesis. “When I play it live, I like to tell the crowd that it’s a slow jam about the patriarchy.”

Vogelzang, who ended up writing a whopping 70 songs in 2014 (she’s slowed down a little since then), says the Real Women Real Songs experience was essential for her development as a singer-songwriter.

“If I hadn’t done that project, I think I would have still been growing,” she says. “I’ve gotten out of my own way. Or maybe, as one of my friends put it when she heard the album, ‘It sounds like you’ve gotten out of the songs’ way.’”

Unlike her first album, 2005’s Some Kind of Parade, a record Vogelzang says sounds like “a kid who went to music school,” her more recent work reflects a hard-won maturity and understanding that she doesn’t have to follow all the rules she learned as a student. Now, she’s willing to let her powerful voice rasp a little.

“I’m choosing to do it because it has the effect I want,” she says. “My voice is becoming more and more my own.” n

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it’s an amiable work, with an attractive, slow movement elaborating on a Scottish song of the day. Again, WCO provided a welcome chance to hear this music, so rarely given exposure on concert programs these days.

Finally, we were treated to the masterpiece, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C. Full of swagger, exuberance and (in its middle movement) bewitching tenderness, this work vividly demonstrates how a soloist is able to interact artfully with the orchestra in a concerto.

O’Conor is not a barnstormer of a player; nor is he known for showy egotism. It was a pleasure to hear his honest and beautiful presentation of the music — a fine opportunity to enjoy his grace, precision and utter commitment. n

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Although it is gearing up for summer Concerts on the Square, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra has played its final event of the season, welcoming soloist John O’Conor, one of the most admirable pianists of our time.

The April 22 concert at the Capitol Theater opened with Symphony No. 1, one of only two symphonies composed

by Carl Maria von Weber when he was in his 20s. The piece was clearly based on Haydn, with only touches of Beethoven’s influence. Though it contains hints of Weber’s unique wind scoring, and even vocal style, Weber’s material just was not designed for symphonic development and elaboration. Rightly, the composer went on to create operas, chamber works and concertos. Still, it was stimulating to

hear this rare work for perspective on his development.

Opening the second half was another novelty, one of two short suites for small orchestra that Igor Stravinsky worked up from tiny piano pieces — teasing tidbits from the composer’s World War I years.

Another novelty was brought by the Irish-born O’Conor, who has championed the piano works of his compatriot, John Field (1782-1837). A leading pianist of his day, Field is acknowledged as an influential forerunner of Chopin. As an encore, O’Conor played one of Field’s Nocturnes that clearly anticipated Chopin.

One of O’Conor’s two vehicles was the first (1796) of Field’s seven piano concertos. The piano writing is full of sparkle and wit, but Field again anticipated Chopin, and in giving almost all the work to the soloist, the orchestra has little to do while he is playing. Still,

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The Sibelius violin concerto was the composer’s anguished farewell to his dream of being a virtuoso violinist. Rhee added a youthful glow to its dark beauty while capturing its inward nature. “I love that the concerto has dissonance but is also very romantic,” says Rhee.

Both soloists received standing ovations.

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In addition to the first- and second-place winners in this year’s competition, honorable mentions went to two fine pianists, Audrianna Wu and Liam Mayo.

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Wisconsin’s classical music future is in good hands.

The next generation’s talent and enthusiasm was on full display on April 19, as approximately 1,000 high school students filled Overture Hall for the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s Spring Young People’s Concert.

The event featured winners of this year’s Bolz Young Artist Competition, marimbist Robert Rockman and violinist Tabby Rhee.

In addition to the MSO, the competition is sponsored by Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television and several other organizations, and is open to high school-age students Rockman, a homeschooled junior from Sun Prairie, began percussion lessons in 2009. He has diverse musical interests, including percussion, classical guitar, singing and dancing. He also was named one of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s 2015 Stars of Tomorrow.

Rhee, 18, is a senior at Brookfield East High School and a recipient of a merit scholarship to the Music Institute of Chicago. She originally began her music training on piano,

played Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints by Alan Hovhaness, and Rhee, second place, played the first movement of the Violin Concerto in D minor by Jean Sibelius. The orchestra also performed works by Mozart, Jaromir Weinberger and Tchaikovsky.

DeMain says the young artists tackled challenging material. “Tabby’s piece is very difficult for both the soloist and the orchestra,” he says. “There are many crossrhythms that are difficult to play accurately. Robert’s piece came together without too much difficulty, even though Winners of the Young Artist Competition (from left): the orchestral score looks Audrianna Wu and Liam Mayo (piano), Tabby Rhee (violin) daunting.” and Robert Rockman (marimba).

Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints begins slowly and builds to a fury. Rockbut found that the violin was a better fit and has man played with the poise and confidence that been playing it since age 5. comes with knowing the music thoroughly, and At the April 19 event, Madison Symphony at times his marimba mallets were a blur.

Orchestra music director John DeMain led “This piece, as the name suggests, is based the orchestra and soloists through their winon a Japanese scale, which is very different ning pieces. Rockman, first-place winner,

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One of the boldest openings on May 6 Gallery Night will not occur inside a tony downtown studio. It will be outside, at an east-side construction zone.

The Intentionally Welcoming Community will be unveiling a large, collaborative art work at Union Corners, the 11.4-acre mixed-use development site at the corner of East Washington Avenue and Milwaukee Street that broke ground in September.

The exhibit will be framed by a structure inspired by the communal longhouses built

by Native Americans. The frames will hold 2-by-8-foot canvas panels contributed by more than a dozen community advocacy organizations.

The “Intentionally Welcoming Community” theme comes from the adjacent Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara Neighborhood Association, which adopted it as a motto several years ago.

The idea has since been taken up by a diverse group that’s planning cohousing at Union Corners, a cooperative housing model with a combination of shared and private spaces.

“There’s just one problem with ‘Intentionally Welcoming Community,’” says Susan Thering, executive director of the

nonprofit Design Coalition Institute, which is spearheading the cohousing project. “How do you put that motto into action?”

Each of the organizations is providing a panel interpreting what the theme means to them. Some of the groups have artists inhouse. Others are being guided by Thering and project coordinator John Steines.

Participating organizations include Art Working; Badger Rock Middle School Coaches Club; East Madison Community Center; Edgewood Nurses; Farley Center for Peace, Justice, and Sustainability; New People Emerge/ Call for Peace; Goodman Community Center Youth Program; Kajsiab House; Madison Music Makers; Period Garden; Rodney Scheel House/Union Triangle; and UNIDOS. Thering says the idea behind the installation is to facilitate interaction and understanding among groups. “It’s a way really of counteracting a lot of the tensions that have built up over the last several years,” she says. “Racial tensions and homophobic tensions and tensions around immigrant communities and that sort of thing.”

Project coordinators and documentarians Johnny and Marie Justice are recording the process, and the plan is to hold group discussions on and off the site. The exhibit will stand at Union Corners for 10 weeks, and if the

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Baron von Steuben, the Revolutionary War hero credited with transforming the Continental Army into a force capable of beating the British, was never asked and didn’t tell: By many accounts, von Steuben was a gay man.

In Ben Franklin & Baron von Steuben vs. the Paine County School Board, conservative school board members get wind of a history teacher’s lessons on von Steuben. Directed

by Stephen F. Murray and written by Danielle Dresden, the play opens May 6 and runs through May 21 at TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater, 1957 Winnebago St. The company’s two producing artistic directors, Dresden and Donna Peckett, play the ghosts of Franklin and von Steuben, who risk intervening in contemporary affairs to set the record straight. “They get fed up with the references to what people think their intentions are,” says Dresden.

The inspiration for the story began six years ago when Dresden picked up a gay and lesbian newspaper at a Madison coffee shop and came across an article asserting that Ben Franklin was the first gay ally. “I wanted to do something about it,” Dresden says. “At that time, ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

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Controversy and comedy: Donna Peckett (left) plays Baron von Steuben and playwright Danielle Dresden portrays Ben Franklin.

was still the policy for the military. Ironic since the person [von Steuben] who wrote their first training manual was gay.”

Despite the humorous premise, Dresden and Peckett hope the play will spark healthy dialogue.

“It suggests that for democracy to work we have to be able to talk to each other, even if we don’t agree,” Dresden says.

Plot points are tied to contemporary events, local and national, past and present. For example, in 2013 a conservative majority elected to the school

board in Jefferson County, Colo., attempted to censor the AP U.S. History curriculum to “promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system.”

In her research for the play, which is her 36th, Dresden interviewed a representative from the Wisconsin Association of School Boards to learn the ins and outs of textbook censorship. “School boards can’t actually change the content of a textbook, but they can change the very textbook the district uses,” she says.

In addition to the public performances, Dresden and Peckett have designed a portable version of the play for Madison-area high schools and middle schools. In recent weeks, they have traveled to four area schools to engage with students on issues such as censorship and curriculum.

Peckett says TAPIT, now in its 31st year, does not shy away from controversy. “It’s important to set the record straight: Are we a democracy?” asks Peckett. “I don’t know that we are. This is a critical time in American history.” n

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Don Cheadle gives one of his best performances, even re-creating Davis’ famous rasp.

Fictional fantasia Miles Ahead is an audacious riff on the life of the jazz great

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Miles Ahead is a fitting tribute to the legend of jazz innovator Miles Davis. The film is not a biopic where you’ll witness all the significant moments in the musician’s career and personal life, from birth to death.

Nor is it a micro-focused drama that zeroes in on a particularly salient period or aspect of Davis’ personal history that might help elucidate the inner workings or thoughts of the musical icon.

More boldly, Miles Ahead is not even a recreation of actual events, but instead a fictional fantasia that isn’t, but could be, true.

The film is a controlled improvisation that builds on known facts to speculate about the unknowable. Like a newly spun-off jazz riff, the venture earns applause for its audacious sprint into uncharted territory. Yet like many a jazz improvisation (even some by Davis

himself), the practical payoff does not equal the soaring ambition.

In addition to starring as Miles Davis, Don Cheadle makes his directing debut with this film, which he also co-wrote. Many years in the making, Cheadle’s labor of love was even helped along by a crowdfunding campaign in order to reach completion. His desire to fashion a biographical profile that does something other than burnish the legend is commendable. And the actor’s ability to re-create a plausible physical and vocal likeness of Davis is exemplary, right down to the musician’s famous rasp. It is one of the best performances of Cheadle’s career, made all the more remarkable because he’s also directing all the scenes. Still, the fabricated story that propels the movie is insufficient to seize our attention. It’s like a bent note that never finds its correct register.

The story is set in the late 1970s during a period of Davis’ self-imposed retreat from the

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industry and society, when drugs and creative inertia appeared to rule his life. But the movie also bounces back in time, using flashbacks to the ’50s and ’60s that highlight his abiding love for his first wife, Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi), who abandoned her dancing career for their marriage and was rewarded, in return, with Davis’ notorious physical and emotional abuse.

A knock on the door from Dave Braden, an unpredictable character played with zesty ’70s élan by Ewan McGregor, sets the plot in motion. What follows includes gunplay, car chases, stolen audio tapes, drug procurement, a mendacious record company exec (Michael Stulhbarg) and a wannabe jazz star (Lee Stanfield).

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Hardcore horror Green Room is a tense, brutal thriller

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While Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is a movie so unsettling and brutal that it almost feels cruel to recommend it, one of the most nerve-wracking moments comes before all bloody hell breaks loose. Our protagonists are a Washington, D.C.-based punk quartet called the Ain’t Rights — Pat (Anton Yelchin), Sam (Alia Shawkat), Tiger (Callum Turner) and Reece (Joe Cole) — and they’re playing an impromptu gig at a rural skinhead bar in the Pacific Northwest after their original gig has fallen through. Not content to take their money and get out of Dodge, they decide to poke their hosts — by playing a cover version of Dead Kennedys’ “Nazi Punks Fuck Off.” Green Room has gotten plenty of attention for Saulnier’s chops at manufacturing pure, low-down genre intensity, and that attention is certainly deserved. Yet buried in this crackling siege thriller is a story about kids posing at living on the edge, until they find themselves in a situation where they can see what the edge really looks like.

And it looks pretty awful once the members of the Ain’t Rights make the mistake of walking back into the club’s green room. Much of what follows takes place in that room, as the terrified musicians come to realize that nothing good lies just outside their lockable door.

Green Room probably works best because of the characters Saulnier places in that room. From the opening scene in which we see their van having plowed through a corn field because the driver fell asleep at the wheel, to their guerrilla missions to siphon gas so they can keep their road trip rolling, it’s clear that the Ain’t Rights are living their idea of a punk life. Green Room excels as a horror movie that can jolt an audience out of their seats, but it’s also about the horror of realizing that no matter how hardcore you might try to convince the world you are, there are things — and people — out there that are much harder. n

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Francofonia: The history of the Louvre, through the eyes of director/writer Aleksandr Sokurov.

Grandma’s House: The story of an inner-city matriarch looking out for all generations of her family.

Keanu: Key & Peele star as friends who pose as drug dealers to recover a stolen kitten.

Louder Than Bombs: The family of a late war photographer grapples with their feelings.

Mother’s Day: Three generations get together for the holiday in this dramedy from director Garry Marshall.

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April and the Extraordinary World: This French import imagines an alternate reality in which electricity was never discovered. Thanks to an excellent story and beautiful animation, both treehuggers and climate-change deniers should be swept up into the fantastical, mesmerizing tale.

Barbershop: The Next Cut: This sequel raises tough questions honestly but only addresses them in a congenial, nonconfrontational way. As well-meaning but insubstantial “issues” movies go, though, it’s a pleasant one, with a large, likable cast and a palpable respect for the community it represents.

A Hologram for the King: Tom Hanks stars as a divorced salesman who tries to save his career by negotiating an IT deal with the Saudi government. Hanks sells the movie with his commitment, and there are times when watching him act is enough, even when he’s the only thing in this Hologram that feels real.

The Huntsman: Winter’s War: A follow-up to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman that focuses on the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth).

Very little of this movie makes sense on even the most basic level.

The Jungle Book: Disney’s beautiful and thrilling live-action/CGI/3-D (whew!) adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s timeless collection of fables about man-cub Mowgli and the furry denizens of his tropical habitat often feels like a video game or a theme-park ride: It’s fast-paced and engaging, but lacks some of the pathos you might expect.

More film events 3 Women: In Robert Altman’s 1977 film, a trio gradually transfer identities. Cinematheque, April 29, 7 pm.

Boy and the World: A 2016 Oscar nominee, this animated feature is as beautiful, chaotic, depressing and joyous as the world it depicts.

Union South Marquee, April 30, 6:30 pm.

One-Eyed Jacks: Marlon Brando’s only directorial effort is a sprawling, super-Freudian variation on the oft-told saga of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Cinematheque, April 30, 7 pm.

Persona: A traumatized actress and her nurse develop an intense relationship in this influential Ingmar Bergman film. Chazen, May 1, 2 pm.

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Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires

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Saturday, April 30, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm Charles Bradley has a backstory even the best Hollywood writers couldn’t dream up. The soul throwback worked for years as a James Brown impersonator but didn’t really find his audience until 2011, at age 63, when he released his debut album, No Time for Dreaming. He’s since released two more LPs, including this year’s Changes, and shows no signs of slowing down.

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Essen Haus: Bill Roberts Combo w/ Bob Corbit, 9 pm.

Remembering the Irish Rebel: James Connolly: Talk by Paul Buhle on “A Full Life,” new graphic novel, 7 pm, 4/28, Rainbow Bookstore/Infoshop. 257-6050.

Frequency: Ian Moore, Zachary Scot Johnson, 7 pm; Nate Millyunz, KLZ, Grhyme, Lauren Cash, Dre Lee, 10 pm.

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Crescendo Espresso Bar: Olivia Millerschin, 7 pm.

Great Dane-Downtown: Prognosis Negative, 9 pm.

Harmony Bar: Bing Bong, rock, 8 pm.

Hop Haus Brewing, Verona: Lucas Cates, free, 7 pm.

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Josh Dupont, 9 pm.

Merchant: Old Soul Society, free, 10 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, 5:30 pm; The Moguls, Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb, Allez Allez, 10 pm.

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

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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 full-length, Iller Than Most, was released in 2014. With DJ Shiftee, Sean Anonymous.

Alchemy Cafe: Los Chechos, free, 10 pm.

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

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

Buck and Honey’s, Sun Prairie: Nine Thirty Standard (CD release), 6:30 pm.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: Dan Law & the Mannish Boys, free, 6 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm.

agnès b: “Humanities without Boundaries” lecture, 7:30 pm, 4/28, Central Library. 263-3412.

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Stoughton Opera House: Dailey & Vincent, 7:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Kurt Funfsinn, guitar, free, 9:30 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Morphy Hall: Bob Sheppard with Johannes Wallmann Quintet, 8 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Play Circle: UW Black Music Ensemble, free, 8:30 pm.

Verona Library: Spotlight Polka Band, free, 6:30 pm.

T HE ATER & DANCE Magic Time: University Theatre dressing room comedy, 7:30 pm on 4/28-30 and 2 pm, 5/1, UW Vilas Hall-Mitchell Theatre. $23. 265-2787.

COME DY Ricky Gonzalez: 8:30 pm, 4/28, Comedy Club on State. $10. 256-0099.

ART E XHIBITS & EV ENTS Cherie St. Cyr: Fiber arts, 4/28-7/28, UW HealthAmerican Center. 263-5992.

Jessica Frantal, Mali Winfield Mrozinski: MFA exhibit, 4/28-5/13, UW Nancy Nicholas Hall-Design Gallery (reception 5:30-7:30 pm, 4/28). 262-8815.

The Generosity of Richard Brock: Drawings & Paintings: 4/29-8/7, Chazen Museum of Art (reception 6-8 pm, 4/28). 263-2246.

The Jones Family Singers Friday, April 29, Shannon Hall, 8 pm

The Jones Family Singers really are a family, and they deliver gospel like no other group.

The five sisters, two brothers and father were the subject of a 2015 documentary and have toured extensively — including New York City’s Lincoln Center and globalFEST in Washington, D.C. — with their joyful, foot-stomping gospel. In fact, The Austin Chronicle calls their performances “the living embodiment of the indelible connection between the black church and its rock and soul offspring.” With the UW Madison Black Music Ensemble.

Alchemy: Tani Diakite & the Afrofunkstars, 10 pm.

Capital City Jazz Fest Friday, April 29, Wyndham Garden Hotel (Fitchburg), 6:30-11 pm

This year, the Jazz Fest’s four sessions feature brand-new participants representing styles from around the country: The Fat Babies Jazz Band brings Chicago jazz, Swing Central (pictured) plays small-band swing, Wolverine Jazz Band hails from the East Coast but boasts a Dixieland sound, and the Yerba Buena Stompers put on brassfilled, West Coast-inspired performances.

ALSO: Saturday (11 am-4 pm & 6-11 pm) and Sunday (11:30 am-4 pm), April 30-May 1.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Reloaded, rock/pop, free, 9 pm.

Brink Lounge: Ladies Must Swing, 7 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Darren Sterud & the New Orleans Tribute, free, 5:30 pm; Madison Noize Collective, 9 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Blue Olives, blues, 9 pm.

Delaney’s: Bob Kerwin & Doug Brown, free, 6 pm.

Essen Haus: Zweifel Brothers, 8:30 pm (also 4/30).

First Unitarian Society: Noon Musicale: J. Adam Shelton, tenor, Vincent Fuh, piano, free, 12:15 pm.

Frequency: Los Colognes, Bad Wig, 7 pm; Post Paradise, Meghan Rose & the Bones, Guppy Effect, 10 pm.

Harmony Bar: Frogleg, 9:45 pm.

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Friday, April 29, Bartell Theatre’s Drury Stage, 7:30 pm

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Vitale, Marilyn Fisher & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

Shipwrecks, desert islands, sprites and monsters all make appearances in one of the Bard’s most beloved plays. The venerable Madison Theatre Guild closes out its 70th season with an all-star cast bringing alive Shakespeare’s classic exploration of love, identity and power.

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Monona United Methodist Church: Philharmonic Chorus of Madison, free, 7:30 pm. Also: 2 pm, 5/1, Bethany United Methodist Church.

Mr. Robert’s: The Civil Engineers, The Czimmmer Effect, Cindy Set My Hair on Fire, free, 10 pm.

Overture Center-Overture Hall: Madison Symphony Orchestra, with guest vocalists Jeni Houser, Thomas Leighton and Keith Phares, 7:30 pm. Also: 8 pm on 4/30 and 2:30 pm, 5/1.

Parched Eagle Brewpub: Mike McAbee, 7:30 pm.

Red Zone: Cyanosis, Unnecessary Gunpoint Lecture, Anomaly, Vermillion, Guilty of Destruction, 8 pm.

H2OMO: Fluidly Queer: Scenes, spoken word & dance by Proud Theater Sun Prairie, 7 pm, 4/29-30, Colonial Club, Sun Prairie. $7 donation. 222-9086.

CLUE: The Musical: Based on the popular board game, 7:30 pm on 4/29 and 2 & 7:30 pm, 4/30, Edgewood College-Ballweg Theatre. $12. 663-6710.

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Tempest: Hammond B Organ Trio, free, 9:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Gentle Brontosaurus, Color Me Once, free, 10 pm.

Up North Pub: The Naughty Bits, free, 6 pm.

UW Discovery Building: SoundWaves: “Let’s Start at the Very Beginning: Origins in Science and Music,” lecture/music by John Yin, Clark Johnson, Elizabeth Hennessy, Laura Schwendinger, Daniel Grabois, 7:30 pm.

UW Humanities Bldg-Mills Hall: UW Chorale, 8 pm.

UW Old Music Hall: Bob Sheppard with UW Jazz Orchestra, High School Honors Jazz Band, 8 pm.

VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Midlife Crisis, 8 pm.

Wil-Mar Center: Dangerous Folk, 8 pm.

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Arlington Friday, April 29, Lakeside St. Coffeehouse (402 W. Lakeside St.), 7 pm

Arlington centers on an afternoon, as Sara Jane thinks about her life, her family and her husband, Jerry, a soldier whose correspondence has been sporadic as of late. The play doesn’t take a stance on war, but it asks the audience to consider what it means for our country. A Music Theatre of Madison production and Midwest premiere. ALSO: Saturday and Thursday (7 pm), April 30-May 5. Through May 7. A special performance for veterans and active military members will be held on Thursday, April 28 (7 pm).

Blithe Spirit Friday, April 29, Bartell Theatre’s Evjue Stage, 7:30 pm

Strollers Theatre continues its British Invasion series with Noël Coward’s witty comedy featuring an eccentric medium who mistakenly summons a glamorous ghost with an ax to grind. ALSO: Saturday (7:30 pm), Sunday (2 pm) and Thursday (7:30 pm), April 30-May 5. Through May 21.

Ari Shaffir Friday, April 29, Comedy Club on State, 8 & 10:30 pm

You might know Ari Shaffir as the title character of YouTube series The Amazing Racist, or possibly from his popular Skeptic Tank podcast, or maybe via his storytelling show This Is Not Happening, which was recently renewed for a third season on Comedy Central. Shaffir worked his way to the top through elbow grease and ticket stubs at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles and is touring nationwide three albums later.

He’s proud of his heritage, so be ready for jokes about how being Jewish affects his life and his facial hair, plus how Mel Gibson changed his perspective on success. With Sammy Arechar, David Schendlinger.

ALSO: Saturday, April 30, 8 & 10:30 pm.

Fighter & the Kid: Podcast recording, 8 pm, 4/29, Barrymore Theatre. $30 ($28 adv). 241-8864.

B O O KS Erika Janik: Discussing “Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction,” with Doug Moe, 7 pm, 4/29, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Design MMoCA: Biennial interior design showcase with temporary “rooms” based on art from the permanent collection, 4/30-5/8, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (gala preview 6:30-10 pm, 4/29, $85). Free admission. 257-0158.

Mad Rollin’ Dolls: 2-8 pm Thursdays, 5/5-26, Art Hub (reception 7-10 pm, 4/29). 284-8277.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Madison Craft Beer Week: Isthmus presents tastings, brewer meet & greets and more (including various free events), 4/29-5/8, at Madison area locations. Schedule: madbeerweek.com.

May Day Sing-Along: Annual event, 7-10 pm, 4/29, Glass Nickel East. Free/donations. 423-4018.

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Sleeping Beauty: PlayTime Productions modern take on the Brothers Grimm, 7:30 pm, 4/29, Central Library (free); 7:30 pm, 4/30 Monona Grove High School (activities begin at 6:30 pm; $5 benefits PTP. 437-4217.

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UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW All-University Strings, free, 4 pm.

UW Memorial Union: Redefined, a cappella, 7 pm.

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

S PO K EN WO RD The Vagina Monologues: English language 5 pm, Spanish 7 pm, 4/30, Five Nightclub. $12 ($10 adv.) benefits UNIDOS. 256-9195.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Artworking: Works by local artists with cognitive disabilities, 4/30-6/4, UW Hospital C5/2 Surgical Waiting Area. 263-5992.

Best in Show: Dogs in Art: Canine-themed artwork, 4/30-6/19, Overture-Playhouse Gallery. 258-4961.

Revelry Music Festival Saturday, April 30, Orpheum Theater, 6 pm

THE OAKWOOD CHAMBER PL AYERS welcome you to our 2015-16 season, which promises to be FUN! We’ve enjoyed playing for the residents of Oakwood Village for over 30 years, and this season we look forward to sharing the fun with you. Join us for musical performances that contemplate the beauty and pleasure of nature. This season will lift your spirits and please your ears. We love to play for you…now come play with us!

Summer Splash Saturday, May 14, 2016 – 7 pm Sunday, May 15, 2016 – 1:30 pm Franz Schubert: Trout Quintet for violin, viola, cello, bass and piano Samuel Barber: Summer Music for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn Craig Bohmler: Six Pieces After Shakespeare for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bass

After expanding its lineup to 21 acts and a spot on Library Mall last year, UWMadison’s annual end-of-semester arts fest has downsized and moved to the Orpheum.

However, its lineup remains strong and college-centric: Atlanta’s ILoveMakonnen (pictured) headlines, with Midwestern hip-hoppers WebsterX and Finding Novyon and electronic acts Hudson Mohawke and Davilla also slated to perform.

Fringe Character Saturday, April 30, Crystal Corner Bar, 9:30 pm

Madison’s Fringe Character describes itself as a “nuelectrosoulhop” band, combining the freshest elements of electronic, soul and hip-hop into a high-energy, groovebased act that showcases 10 musicians.

Sporting two emcees, a wind section and live electronics, Fringe Character cranks out hook-laden tunes you’ll be humming after you leave the show. The band is celebrating the release of a new album, Mint, which just dropped April 26.

With Madison afrobeat masters Immigré.

Spring Potters Tour: Clay Collective self-guided tour, 10 am-5 pm, 4/30-5/1, eastern Dane & western Jefferson counties. Map: theclaycollective.org.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Cask Ale Fest: Annual Isthmus event featuring 20+ brews, 2-5 pm, 4/30, Breese Stevens Field. $40 adv. isthmus.com/caskalefest. 251-5627.

Discover the Dinosaurs: Exhibits and activities for all ages, 9 am-7 pm on 4/30 and 10 am-5 pm, 5/1, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall. $18 ($22 ages 2-12). discoverthedinosaurs.com.

Threads: Impact: UW Textile & Fashion Design Program runway show & reception, 2, 5 & 8 pm, 4/30, Nancy Nicholas Hall, plus exhibits. $35 ($15 students). fashionshow.wisc.edu.

Fiesta de Amigos: Fundraiser for Amigos de las Americas, 5-8 pm, 4/30, Goodman Community Center, with music by Golpe Tierra, silent auction, raffle & taco bar. $15 ($8 ages 4-10). wisconsin.amigosinternational.org.

Schools for Haiti Fundraiser: Annual dinner, 5:30 pm, 4/30, Marriott-West, Middleton, with music by George DelaGardelle & Faith Gladem, auction. $75. RSVP: schoolsforhaiti.com. 697-1793.

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1855 Saloon, Cottage Grove: Robert J, free, 7 pm.

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

The Bayou: DJs Siberia, Mindphaser, dark ‘80s, 10 pm.

Chief’s Tavern: The Gentlemen, ‘60s band, 7:30 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Eddie Butts Band, 9 pm.

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

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Farley Center, Verona: Frank “Anakwad” Montano & Skip Jones, 1 pm.

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Knuckle Down Saloon: Pistol Pete, blues, 9 pm.

Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Dan Barker, 6:30 pm.

Majestic: Charles Bradley, Tenement, 9 pm.

Mickey’s: Novagolde, Go Go Slow, Winning Ugly, 10 pm.

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

Overture Center-Overture Hall: Hymn Sing, 11 am.

Paoli Schoolhouse: Jim White, free, 6 pm.

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Riverview, Spring Green: Nowhere Band, 7 pm.

State Street: Busking for Books, Literacy Network fundraiser, donations, 1-3 pm.

Tempest Oyster Bar: Bill Roberts Trio, free, 9:30 pm.

Kevin Mahogany Sunday, May 1, Studio A at Full Compass (9770 Silicon Prairie Parkway), 2-5 pm

Here’s your chance to hear a living jazz legend: Kevin Mahogany, who Newsweek called “the standout jazz vocalist of his generation.” Mahogany will be accompanied by UW Jazz Studies director Johannes Wallmann, saxophonist Tony Barba, bassist Nick Moran and drummer Dave Bayles — with an opening set by the 13-piece UW Latin Jazz Ensemble. Full Compass is a venue designed by experts for maximum audio perfection, and what’s more, the concert is a benefit for the nonprofit Greater Madison Jazz Consortium.

ART E XHI BITS & EV ENTS Prairie Star Studios: “NPS100,” photographs, 5/1-6/30, Lowell Center (reception 5-7 pm, 5/1). 577-3300.

Marquette-Atwood Neighborhood Art Walk: Annual tour of artists’ studios, 11 am-5 pm, 5/1; maps at facebook.com/marquetteartwalk. Free. 286-1776.

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The Besnard Lakes Sunday, May 1, The Frequency, 8 pm

Led by the husband-and-wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, this sixpiece kicked off the new year with the release of A Coliseum Complex Museum.

The band’s fifth album, it balances progrock pomp with harmonies that would make a young Brian Wilson jealous.

With J Fernandez, the Present Age.

Performing the Jewish Archive: “Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish Music, Literature and Theater,” University of Leeds, UW School of Music & Mosse-Weinstein Center events, 5/1-5, campus & downtown venues. Most events $10. Schedule: music.wisc.edu. 263-5615.

FARME RS’ M ARKETS Monona Farmers’ Market: 9 am-1 pm, 5/1, Ahuska Park, with music by Rodeo Bums. 469-2807.

POL I T I CS & ACTIV ISM May Day in Madison: Annual rally for labor rights, immigration reform & fair treatment for all, noon, 5/1, Brittingham Park. 866-476-0884.

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Generation Axe: A Night of Guitars Sunday, May 1, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm

When five of the biggest names in rock guitar, backed by a primo rhythm section, agree to share the stage, it’s a one-of-akind tour. Generation Axe features solo, duo and group performances by Steve Vai (pictured, whose résumé includes Frank Zappa, Whitesnake and David Lee Roth), Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne, Black Label Society), Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme) and Tosin Abasi (Animals as Leaders). But this won’t be a night of excessive guitar wankery. Each of these players brings his own style and appeals to a different type of fan, and recent shows have included unexpected performances of Prince’s “Purple Rain” and Boston’s “Foreplay.”

Chazen Museum of Art: Pro Arte Quartet, 12:30 pm.

Edgewood College-St. Joseph Chapel: Edgewood College Jazz Ensemble & Concert Band, 2:30 pm.

JOHNNYSWIM Monday, May 2, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

This husband-and-wife duo’s music feels like a breath of fresh air in an industry rife with cynicism and corporate greed.

JOHNNYSWIM — Amanda Sudano (the daughter of Donna Summers) and Abner Ramirez — blends folk and soul with pop tendencies into a sound that celebrates life’s simple pleasures. With Jonny P.

One of the “best jazz bands in New York today” (Forbes) plays old-time “hot jazz” with glamour, grit and passion.

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Harmony Bar: David Landau, family concert, 5:30 pm Mondays; Oak Street Ramblers, bluegrass, 7 pm.

Malt House: Grandpa’s Elixir, free, 7:30 pm.

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Natt Spil: DJ Zukas, free, 10 pm.

Sun Prairie High School: Sun Prairie High School Jazz I Ensemble, send-off concert for trip to “Essentially Ellington” festival, 7:30 pm.

Up North Pub: Gin Mill Hollow, Americana, free, 7 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Masters Singers, free, 7:30 pm.

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S POKE N WO RD Pundamonium: “Pun slam,” 7 pm, 5/2, High Noon Saloon. $6. 268-1122.

ART E XHI BITS & EV ENTS Verona Area School District K-12 Art Show: Student artwork, 5/2-31, Verona Library. 845-7180.

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National Geographic Live: The Search for Genghis Khan Disney’s The Lion King

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The Magic Men: 8 pm, 5/1, Barrymore Theatre. $81$29 adv. 241-8633.

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Funk’s Pub, Fitchburg: Project M Challenge, 105.5 FM local band competition, 6 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Chris Pureka, Anna Vogelzang (album release), 7 pm. See page 33.

Pursuit: The story of a young woman’s journey to enlightenment, 7 pm, 5/1, Overture Center-Promenade Hall, with music by Lo Marie, 1nvisibleman & Melanie Joy, contemporary dance by Valerie Homburg, Kallie Tierney & Ariel (AJ) Juarez. $15. 258-4141.

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Alchemy Cafe: Ted Keys Trio, free, 10 pm Tuesdays; DJs Jorts, Tank Top Troy, midnight.

Cardinal Bar: UW Jazz Standards Ensemble, Blue Note Ensemble, 6:30 pm; New Breed Jazz Jam, 9 pm.

The Frequency: Von Stomper, Eddie Danger, Old Soul Society, 10 pm.

Carrie Underwood Tuesday, May 3, Kohl Center, 7 pm

Carrie Underwood has become such an icon in the past decade that it can be easy to forget she got her start in 2005

High Noon Saloon: The Sigourney Weavers, The Rotten Tommys, 6 pm; Gomeroke, free, 9 pm Tuesdays.

Majestic Theatre: Nahko & Medicine for the People, Cas Haley, 8 pm. Also: 8 pm, 5/4.

Malt House: Cajun Strangers, free, 7:30 pm.

Up North Pub: The Lower 5th, rock, free, 8 pm.

BOOKS Book Club Cafe: Annual Friends of Madison Public Library fundraiser, 7 pm, 5/3, Central Library, with author Erin Celello, refreshments, raffle. $25. RSVP: madisonpubliclibrary.org/cafe.

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Alex Tande: Photographs, 5/3-6/2, UW Hospital E5/2 Hospital Main Entrance. 263-5992.

Dagny Quisling Myrah, Barbara C. Anderson, Mary Jane Allen Armstrong: Paintings & jewelry, 5/3-6/2, UW Hospital E5/2 & C5/2 Display Cases. 263-5992.

LECTURES & SEM INARS National Geographic Live: The Search for Genghis Khan: Presentation by scientist Albert Yu-Min Lin, 7:30 pm, 5/3, Overture Center-Capitol Theater. $35$25. 258-4141.

P OLITICS & ACTIV ISM Spring into Choice: Annual NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin fundraiser, 5:30-8:30 pm, 5/3, Old Sugar Distillery, with 2016 Champion of Choice Awards, food & drinks. $35 donation. RSVP: prochoicewisconsin.org. 287-0016.

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Patricia Skalka, M.E. May: Discussing their mystery series with Doug Moe, 7 pm, 5/4, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

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Alchemy Cafe: Boo Bradley, blues, free, 10 pm.

Buck & Honey’s, Sun Prairie: Robert J, free, 6:30 pm.

Jeff Halper: WUD’s Distinguished Lecture Series with the Israeli peace activist & author, 7 pm, 5/4, UW Discovery Building-DeLuca Forum. 262-1143.

ing, a record that indeed represents the group’s established blend of new-era reggae. With Fear Nuttin Band, E.N Young.

Badger Bowl: Scott Wilcox, 8 pm.

Bos Meadery: The Getaway Drivers, free, 6 pm.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: David Hecht & the Who Dat, R&B/funk, free, 6 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Golpe Tierra, 6 pm; DJ Chamo, 10 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Foshizzle Family, New Nature Collective, 9 pm.

The Frequency: Imarhan, Immigre, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Pupy Costello & the New Hiram Kings, Daylight in the Swamp, free, 7 pm.

Ivory Room: Piano Fondue, piano, free, 9 pm.

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Malt House: The North Westerns, free, 7:30 pm.

Thursday, May 5, Majestic Theatre, 8:30 pm

Monona Terrace: The Del Rays, free, 5:30 pm.

Olin Park: The Maintainers, blues, free, 6 pm.

Opus Lounge: Alison Margaret Jazz Trio, free, 9 pm.

Quaker Steak & Lube: Johnny Can’t Stop, 5:30 pm.

Up North Pub: Lost Highway All-Stars, free, 8 pm.

With a nod to both rock and roots music, San Diego band Tribal Seeds bring a much welcome flourish to the classic reggae sound. The sextet has shared stages with Dave Matthews Band, the Wailers and even Skrillex, and in 2014 released Represent-

RSVP for Madison Gives: Annual Madison Community Foundation events: “The Domino Effect of Generosity” talk by author Michael Norton, 4 pm ($35); dinner, 5-8:30 pm, 5/12, Monona Terrace, with keynote by Norton ($75). RSVP by 5/5: madisoncommunityfoundation.org. 232-1763.

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

Tommy Johnagin, Alex Stone, Dan Bacula: 8:30 pm on 5/5 and 8 & 10:30 pm, 5/6-7, Comedy Club on State. $15-$10. 256-0099.

The Frequency: Tall Heights, pm Buys, 7 pm; Eagle Trace (EP release), 10 pm.

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High Noon Saloon: Lonesome Willie Jones & His Dime Store Posse, free (patio), 6 pm; Phun, 7:30 pm.

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Donald Sanford: Discussing “On Fourth Lake: A Social History of Lake Mendota,” his new book, 6 pm, 5/5, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

Madison College-Truax Campus, Mitby Theater: Madison Municipal Band, free, 7:30 pm.

Matthew Pearl: Discussing “The Last Bookaneer,” his novel, 7 pm, 5/5, Central Library. 266-6300.

Mr. Robert’s: The Artysts, free, 10 pm.

Matthew Prigge: Discussing “Milwaukee Mayhem: Murder and Mystery in the Cream City’s First Century,” new book, 7 pm, 5/5, Middleton Library. 831-5564.

Tempest Oyster Bar: Paul Rowley, free, 8 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall: We Banjo 3 & Cristina Pato, bagpipes & banjo, 8 pm.

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Delcourt, 57, will retire this summer from his job teaching social studies at Malcolm Shabazz City High School. That opens the door for him to focus his attention on Humble Crossings, his eco-friendly casket business.

It’s a calling that weaves together his long experience as a woodworker and his exposure to Native American practices.

Delcourt earned a graduate degree in art from UW-Madison, concentrating on woodworking, and he studied under local Native American artist Harry Whitehorse. He used to use chainsaws to carve large pieces, including one that now sits in front of a casino in Lac du Flambeau. But due to the wear and tear it took on his body (holding the chainsaw up high and carving), he’s moved to smaller pieces.

The idea for Humble Crossings began in 1989, the year his father died. Delcourt says he was dispirited by his family’s interactions with the funeral home: “It made us feel guilty — if we chose the most modest [casket], that we were not honoring him somehow,” he says.

Humble Crossings (the name is inspired by a Celtic traditional song called “The Water Is Wide”) is meant to refocus burial on

what really matters: integrating death as a part of life, a body’s return to the earth, and healing.

An eco-casket is for people, but also for the earth: “Don’t get buried six feet deep, don’t get embedded in concrete,” says Delcourt. When buried just three feet deep, a body can more easily “benefit the biosphere, decomposing and offering nutrients to the rest of the world,” he adds.

A hunter, Delcourt feels he should give back to the land where the deer he killed and consumed once roamed. Someday, deer will eat plants nourished by his own body. Green burial, he says, shows respect for “the web of life.”

Handmade wooden caskets used to be common in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There is renewed interest in them, driven by aging baby boomers looking at options for green burial.

Delcourt’s plan is to mill wood on-site from downed trees on friends’ properties near Plain and Wisconsin Dells. Oak and poplar will be abundant. The caskets will be metal-free, connected by dovetail joints and wooden pegs. Families who wish to be a part of the building process are welcome. He also makes burial baskets made from ditch willow for babies who have died.

He hopes people will order caskets ahead of time, but wants to keep models in stock, too. He plans to offer five types, from plain pine to pine with oak, walnut or cherry trim, and other hardwood mixes. He will also offer customizations like carvings, depending on customer interest.

Delcourt is hoping to raise funds on GoFundMe to purchase more specialized equipment, including a thickness planer and a jointer. He is also raising funds on Patreon to create a bank reserve that will enable him to sell caskets on a sliding scale for those in need. Full-price caskets will range from $650 to $1100.

On April 11, Delcourt began teaching his final Shabazz class, called “Listening to the Land,” on home funerals and green burials.

Students sat in a circle and engaged readily. He told them that letting go of someone is “hard to do,” but in the face of death, the gift of life is all the more sweet.

“Find the world and embrace it,” he said.

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BY DAN SAVAGE

I am a trans man, and I have no love life. But I did just hook up with a friend two nights ago. It was the first time I’ve had sex in more than a year. My problem is that it was a “one-time thing.” I was hoping to be FWB at least. I’m furious with myself for giving that away for what amounted to a hookup, and thoroughly sorry for myself for it being a “one-time thing,” because it nearly always is. I feel thoroughly unlovable and dejected.

I was raised a Boston Irish Catholic, and I have PTSD from my parents being difficult.

In a backward way, I hope the issue for others is tied to the fallout from my upbringing — because that’s something everyone has problems with, and those things, while not entirely fixable, are manageable and not so visible. I worry it’s not that, though. I worry my being trans is the first problem a potential partner sees. I am a man with a twat — a forlorn, underused twat at that.

Not Often Picked, Everyone Not Interested Sexually Buck Angel is a public speaker, a filmmaker, an activist and a trans man, NOPENIS, who famously and fearlessly bills himself as “the man with a pussy.” I passed your letter on to him because who better to answer a question from a man with a twat than the man with a pussy?

“Anyone who hasn’t had sex in more than a year is going to find it scary to get back out there and start again,” says Buck. “And starting again with a body that you might not be 100 percent comfortable with yet? That’s even scarier. The first thing that NOPENIS needs to hear — and really believe — is that he is lovable. And he is, even if he doesn’t know it yet.”

The second order of business: You gotta stop beating yourself up over that one-night

stand. Take it from Buck, your fellow trans man, and take it from me, your fellow Irish Catholic queer: You didn’t do anything wrong — hell, you were doing something right.

“Hookups can be important for understanding your body sexually,” says Buck. “So NOPENIS shouldn’t be mad at himself. We learn and grow from our experiences, even if they’re bad ones. And here’s what I learned from my first experiences in the gay men’s world of sex: Hookups are the way it’s done.

I was not prepared for that because I’d had sex only with women before my transition.

That was hard for me, too, at first. But what I learned was that I wasn’t being rejected, even if it was only a one-night thing. I was being accepted in a way I wasn’t used to.

“Finally, NOPENIS, you’ve got to stop seeing your body and your twat as problems. It’s the only body you’ll ever have, and it’s a body some will find attractive and some won’t.

Some guys will be attracted to your body (and you, ideally) for its differences — not attracted to your body (ditto) despite its differences.

“NOPENIS absolutely shouldn’t count himself out just because he’s trans,” said Buck. “The world is different now, and many people are attracted to trans men sexually.

He just needs to learn to love himself and to have sexual confidence, because people find that attractive.”

CRAIG WINZER

“Anonymous is right — Fox News is a malady, one that I’ve often joked is worse than Ebola,” says the documentary filmmaker Jen Senko. “It destroys families and has torn apart the country. That’s pretty powerful.”

Here’s what Senko did about it: She made The Brainwashing of My Dad, a terrific documentary exploring how Fox News and other right-wing media turned her mild-mannered,

nonpolitical father into a ranting, raving, right-wing fanatic.

“We need to stigmatize ‘Faux News,’” said Senko. “I make it a point when I walk into a restaurant or some other public place and they have on Faux News of politely asking them to turn it off. I write to news outlets when they try to emulate Fox and complain.”

But how do you get your own dad to turn off Fox News?

“Speaking to loved ones is important but it’s difficult,” said Senko. “You have to approach them in a calm way, starting the conversation on neutral ground. Sometimes just getting them out of the house and away from the TV helps. There is a group called Hear Yourself Think (hearyourselfthink.org) that focuses on deprogramming Fox News viewers. You will find plenty of advice there. But if you can sit down with your loved one and tell them you are concerned about their anger and their worry and you feel that Fox News is helping to generate that, it can be a conversation opener. You can also get them to try to watch our movie!”

Watch the trailer at thebrainwashingofmydad.com.

Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

My father is a friendly, kind, all-around good guy. We get along well and always have. But I now have to avoid all political discussions with him. He was always a bit socially conservative, but now he gets a lot of batshit crazy ideas from the scourge of our nation today: Fox News. How can we stop the dumbing down of our society by Fox News, Dan? We have to do something about this malady!

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