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COVER STORY AS A CHILD, Dylan Brogan would ride in the annual Fourth of July bike parade in Tenney-Lapham, where the tykes would decorate their bikes with American flags.

One year a cynical Madison leftist complained about this show of colonial might. But a neighborhood hippie had the perfect retort: “It’s our flag too.” Thus began Brogan’s love of flags. He writes about Wisconsin’s lackluster flag in this week’s cover story, which also offers alternatives created by local designers.

FOOD JANE BURNS gets her best ideas while out for a walk, and sometimes the walk is the idea.

She’s a big fan of city walking tours, and this week writes about Madison’s blossoming food walking tours. She says she likes how the local food culture is about innovation as well as tradition: “It’s a place that appreciates a new Tory Miller venture and a good meat raffle.”

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SNAPSHOT A LONGTIME Isthmus contributor, Mary Langenfeld is a seasoned sports photographer who covers Badgers basketball and football for USA Today Sports Images. This week’s Snapshot about Madison’s cricket league offered her a chance to explore unfamiliar territory. “Covering a new sport is a visual education,” Langenfeld says.

“I did some homework before arriving at the match.”

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Abhishek Kulkarni, a member of the Madison Cricket Club, attempts to score a run during a game at Reindahl Park.

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At a break between matches on a Sunday afternoon, dozens of cricketers set down their gear and circle around Ald. Samba Baldeh.

He’s not the coach — he’s the elected official representing Madison’s far east side. But you could call him the city’s patron saint of cricket for his role in securing a $30,000 budget amendment this year to improve the pitch in Reindahl Park, where members of the Madison Cricket Club play.

“We’re going to continue to pursue improvements,” Baldeh tells the players, who for the first time this year have a new practice area and an improved run-up — the area where bowlers make their approach on the field. He and the club members are eager to do more, perhaps adding infrastructure like nets and a pavilion for spectators. For now, they’re thankful for the city’s support in their quest to grow the club and secure Reindahl as the permanent home of Madison’s lively cricketing community.

“We’re from developing nations,” jokes Pavi Misra, a longtime club member. “We can get by.”

Misra, like many of the cricket club’s 150 members, moved to the U.S. from India, where cricket isn’t just a sport — “it’s more like a religion,” he says. Invented in England in the 16th century, it came to India along with British colonialism.

Cricket started there as a game for the elite, but it soon caught on with the rest of society and developed into a nationwide obsession that peaked when India won the cricket world cup in 1983.

“That fueled people up to become cricket fans,” says Misra, who remembers being a child and stealing his mother’s washboard to use as a bat and fashioning a ball out of old bike tire tubes. He and his friends played in the street and called it “gully cricket” — the game was inexpensive, accessible and infectious.

The Madison Cricket Club has members of all ages who play for fun, recreation and fitness.

But there are a few rock-star players: Ernest Allen, who grew up in Jamaica (another former British colony) and played cricket in college,

and Navi Singh, a semi-professional player from India who helped his team win six national championships.

“In India, they worship cricketers,” Singh says. And the rivalries are fierce — especially among fans. “If India loses, especially to Pakistan, people break their TVs.” In the cricketing world, rivalries are often political. But in the Madison Cricket Club, people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Caribbean, Australia and the U.S. play side-by-side. Pakistan and India have a history of political tension and a fierce cricket rivalry, but “none of that matters” in the Madison club, says Asad Mohammad, who was raised in Pakistan before moving here.

Raj Shah, who moved from India to Madison with his parents in 1999, says the cricket league community gives him motivation to stay fit in the offseason. But perhaps more importantly, he says, cricket is one of the main reasons he’s decided to stay in Madison all these years.

“This ground is like a lifeline for us,” Shah says. “This club is the reason why I never

moved away. This is something that reminds me of home.”

Jon Schnelle is one of the few white guys in the league — a native Midwesterner who grew up playing softball. He’s a college friend of Shah, who introduced him to cricket. Schnelle spent a year observing the league and learning the complicated sport before picking up a bat.

“There’s more strategy involved,” Schnelle says. “It’s almost like playing a card game.”

He admits he sometimes gets funny looks when he shows up at a pitch, but he says learning cricket has “opened [his] mind up to cultural differences,” he says. “It gets rid of racial tensions.”

An immigrant from Ghana, Baldeh knows how important traditions like cricket are to transplanted individuals. “[Cricket] is something that connects them to this country and helps them feel comfortable and belong,” he says. “It makes Madison feel like home.” n

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Fatal fentanyl The drug that killed Prince blamed for spike in Dane County overdoses

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Heroin overdoses are up in Madison. Way, way up.

Last month, an opioid antidote, Narcan, was used 42 times to revive drug users who had overdosed, according to the Madison Fire Department. This compared to just 11 times in May of last year.

While that increase is alarming, it pales in comparison to the month before. In April 2015, Narcan was used 14 times to correct an opioid overdose, but in April of this year, drug users overdosed and were revived 70 times.

“These are just the cases that we know of,” says Ché Stedman, medical affairs division chief for the Madison Fire Department.

His department’s data includes only overdoses where paramedics or someone else reported using an opioid antidote.

“It’s very likely — because there’s so much more Narcan out there now — that someone overdoses at home, [someone gives them] Narcan, and they never call us about it,” he adds. “So, we have no idea how many more of those there are.”

The suspected cause of the increase in opiate (naturally occurring substances) or opioid (synthetically manufactured drugs) overdoses likely isn’t an influx of new, inexperienced users or a larger-than-normal quantity of drugs coming into the area.

Instead, authorities say, it’s an incredibly more potent opioid being mixed in with the heroin. Fentanyl, a fast-acting pain relief narcotic, became headline news last week when it was reported as the cause of Prince’s death in April. Authorities believe this drug is now circulating in Madison, causing the spike in overdoses.

“The [drug] user pool is pretty steady, and their needs are pretty steady, so there’s something in the supply that’s causing this,” says Madison Police Lt. Jason Freedman, commander of the Dane County Narcotics Task Force. “What we believe is happening is that fentanyl or something akin to fen-

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tanyl is being introduced with more regularity and in a higher quantity with standard heroin.”

Freedman says fentanyl’s strength is its selling point with addicts. “The addicts will seek out the most potent source because, frankly, that’s more bang for the buck — it’s almost rational,” Freedman says. “If I know my buddy got something that’s super, super potent, I’m going to seek that out even if I know it’s more dangerous.”

For about four years, paramedics have used fentanyl as a “go-to pain med,” says Stedman.

“We typically use it in pre-hospital [emergency situations] as a good pain control for our trauma patients.”

“It’s been used more predominantly in recent years because it doesn’t mess with people’s vital signs like morphine does,” Stedman adds. “It’s preferred because it’s a cleaner drug.”

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But it’s also much stronger, making it riskier to take recreationally. In October, the Centers for Disease Control warned public health agencies about an outbreak of fentanyl-laced heroin, stating it is “50-100 times more potent than morphine.”

While local authorities believe fentanyl is causing the spike in overdoses, they aren’t positive. Those who overdose on fentanyl typically need more Narcan to be revived.

“We can make a pretty reliable guess that these patients that we’re giving two to three times more Narcan to is that it’s likely because it’s fentanyl-laced heroin,” Stedman says. “But, we never know for sure.”

Freedman agrees that fentanyl-laced heroin is circulating in Madison. “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it’s probably a duck,” he says.

The introduction of fentanyl-laced heroin to the already-ongoing opiate epidemic “is only

Melissa Heinz, a supervisor with Public Health Madison & Dane County, says fentanyl is likely here to stay. “I think fentanyl in the heroin drug supply is the new normal,” she says. “I can’t imagine a reason why traffickers would move away from something that is so fabulously successful.”

This increases the need for prevention, treatment opportunities and Narcan availability, says Heinz, adding that “friends and family members should be prepared for the possibility [of an overdose] with an overdose response plan.”

Outreach groups, like the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, work to provide such a plan. The center, which runs a needle exchange program to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, warns addicts about the potency of unknown narcotics. “[We tell addicts] that if they’re purchasing the heroin from someone other than your usual source, do not do the same amount that you normally do from your

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Other signals suggest a surge in fentanyl-laced heroin across the country. According to the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, fentanyl drug seizures have spiked.

In 2012, fentanyl was confiscated 618 times, while just two years later, authorities seized it 4,585 times. About 80% of the drug was found in 10 states, including Ohio and Indiana in the Midwest.

Authorities suspect that fentanyl-laced heroin is being manufactured en masse by the drug cartels. “The vast majority of our heroin is coming from Chicago, and the vast majority of their heroin is coming from Mexico,” Freedman says. “So, the logical conclusion is that somewhere south of the border, at the point of manufacture, by the time it comes into the United States, it’s already been [mixed with fentanyl].”

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He adds that the country has seen fentanyl before. “When we started the preventing fatal opiate overdose program, it was late 2005, and it was because there was a batch of heroin that was laced with fentanyl and there were 200 overdose deaths in the Midwest alone over the course of a weekend,” Stokes says.

Since 2006, ARCW’s fatal opiate overdose prevention program has trained more than 9,000 people how to administer naloxone — the drug in Narcan. The program is free, and those trained receive five doses of naloxone. Statewide, graduates of the program are credited with reviving 4,000 people who’ve overdosed since the program began, including 1,038 last year.

In Madison, naloxone is available for purchase at local pharmacies without a prescription. It ranges in price from $40 to $140, depending on the dosage and delivery device. It’s most commonly available as an injection but can also be given as a nasal spray, which is less effective.

Although overdoses might be on the rise, deaths associated with heroin are down locally. Fentanyl has been listed as a contributing factor in a handful of them, according to Barry Irmen, director of operations for the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office.

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and 2014, 26 and 29 deaths respectively were caused by heroin, with fentanyl a factor only in one case each year. So far this year, there have been six deaths caused by heroin; in two of those fentanyl was found in the deceased’s system.

Stedman fears there could be more because heroin use ramps up during summer.

“The highest months have always been July and August, and those [historically] have only been about 25 or 27 [opioid overdoses],” he says. “So, what we’re afraid of right now is that if July is usually our highest month and we’re already at 70 in April, what is that going to mean for July of 2016?”■

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At a time when UW-Madison continues to face deep state cuts and legislative attacks on its mission and integrity, a group of prominent alumni, donors and supporters has formed a new, independent advocacy organization that will lobby state government on behalf of the internationally renowned research institution — and fund candidates for office.

The 501(c)(4) advocacy organization has about 15 people committed to serve on its board of directors and is in the process of hiring an executive director, says Cory Nettles, a board member who is acting as the group’s spokesman as it prepares to make an official announcement. A 501(c) (4) is similar to a Super PAC but without the requirement to disclose donors. Members of the group plan to lobby lawmakers on an individual basis on behalf of the university officials. The group also expects its executive director, according to the job ad, to “Plan and execute a strategy to solicit and distribute political contributions to candidates and elected officials.”

“This is completely independent of the UW System,” says Nettles, a Milwaukee-based attorney who served as state secretary of commerce under Gov. Jim Doyle. “We’re free to advocate without political entanglement.”

Still in its “startup phase,” the group is working under the name Badger Advocates, but that name is subject to change, Nettles says. Badger Advocates was also the name of a previous lobbying organization that formed in 2011 to promote the New Badger Partnership, a controversial proposal to split UW-Madison from the rest of the UW System and convert the institution into a public authority model.

That plan was eventually removed from the 2011-2013 state budget.

This current incarnation of Badger Advocates includes some members from the previous organization, but Nettles says the new group will take a broader, more institutional approach to its lobbying efforts rather than focusing on single-issue advocacy. Groups of UW-Madison supporters have been coming together under the Badger Advocates moniker “on and off ” over the last several years, Nettles says, but recent policy decisions affecting the university and last year’s $250 million budget cut have spurred organizers to accelerate their efforts. For now, the focus will be solely on UW-Madison, but there has been discussion of including the entire UW System.

“We really acknowledge the work that’s been done in the past, but we thought we needed something that transcended any specific issue,” Nettles says. “We felt strongly as alums and as volunteers that there ought to be a strong, independent, bipartisan, national and internationally focused

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group of people that’s advocating aggressively on behalf of the university.”

Nettles says he and the other Badger Advocates volunteers want to prevent the university and its work from being “politicized” and ensure that the university remains “appropriately resourced” in future budget cycles so that it can retain its status as a “world-class and preeminent” research institution. While a formal plan for the lobbying issues and approach is still being developed, Nettles says the state’s next biennial budget will “absolutely be top of mind.” But advocating on broader policy issues, such as tenure protections, will also be high on the group’s agenda.

“We’re free to advocate without political entanglement.”

— Cory Ne les “We really will be focused on those big, strategic issues that will affect the university for years to come,” Nettles says. “We’re trying to make sure that university leadership has the space to make decisions about what’s best for the university long term.”

Pending its official announcement, Badger Advocates is not yet releasing the names of its board members, but Nettles says the group will be “intergenerational” and will include individuals who have been involved with a number of schools within UW-Madison as well as

its advisory boards, the UW Foundation and the UW System Board of Regents.

“They are the ‘who’s who,’ in my view, of the Wisconsin and national leadership,” Nettles says. “There will be names that are instantly recognizable.” The group is also forming an advisory board of UW supporters — numbering 50 or more — who do not have time to take on the fiduciary responsibilities of the main board. This board will draw on UW alumni from around the world.

Pete Christianson, a Madison-based lawyer and lobbyist, has been volunteering with Badger Advocates during the startup phase. He was also involved in 2011 with the earlier incarnation. With a five-generation family connection to UW-Madison, Christianson hopes the group’s lobbying efforts will foster “better appreciation” between both ends of State Street.

“I don’t think they talk enough,” Christianson says of the relationship between elected officials and UW-Madison officials. “If they talked more, there would be more understanding.”

Christianson also foresees Badger Advocates reaching out to the business community to emphasize and strengthen the university’s “almost limitless” contributions to the statewide economy. And like many others, he laments the decline in state support for the university and worries about what Wisconsin would become if the state’s flagship university were to diminish in quality or prestige.

“We have a world-class research institution here,” Christianson says. “If you took that away, we’d be more like Idaho and Montana — but without the mountains.” ■

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App to table Will technology threaten the CSA model that small farms rely on?

BY NATHAN J. COMP

The forthcoming app Grazin aims to provide consumers the local produce they want, whether it’s one tomato or 100.

remedy for all farming woes. Some consumers have spurned the model because of the uncertainty of what will be inside the box, which can include disliked or unwanted produce.

“With us you order exactly what you want,” Flores says. “You know exactly what you’re going to get every order.”

Flores expects Grazin will edge into the local food market by eliminating this uncertainty, in addition to allowing consumers to purchase from multiple farms, like at a farmers’ market, and to decide the quantity that is right for them.

In shifting uncertainty back onto the farm, Grazin’s success becomes more reliant on farmers themselves to deliver orders on time each week, regardless of whether it is just one tomato or 100.

To prevent farmers from feeling like mere FedEx drivers, Flores has turned to brick-andmortar markets, like SuperCharge! Foods on East Washington Avenue, to give Grazin’s regional hubs a social component.

“I want every hub to be a place people want to go anyway,” he says. “SuperCharge is a fantastic location for hanging out for a little bit.

This is a great thing for small businesses.”

While Flores, who collects a percentage of each order, aims to promote local produce — “We only make money if the farmers make money” — the potential siphoning off of CSA capital could, ironically, reduce access to such produce.

“CSAs are a big part of why there is more access to these products in stores and at farmers’ markets,” Strader explains. “Without CSAs, it is much harder to supply farmers’ markets and store shelves.”

Madison’s food economy, which has grown rapidly over the last decade, may have room for CSAs and new food-to-table apps to peacefully coexist. The wild card, of course, is consumers themselves. While the convenience Grazin provides is evident, the intangibles are not.

Like most apps, Grazin may help consumers cram more into their crowded lives, but a person’s diet, as Pollan notes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, is as much about culture as convenience.

For many Madisonians, like Phibi Miller, patronizing the Dane County Farmers’ Market is a multigenerational tradition. “I have a lot of happy memories here,” she says.

“My parents always brought me here. I love the smells of the bakery and being able to touch the produce.”

Miller also likes to inspect produce before purchasing. “One basket of strawberries might look better than the other.”

As with all new technologies, it is impossible to predict the novel ways they’ll be put to use or change people’s lives. But more than revolutionizing the local food economy, Grazin — and the competitor apps that are sure to follow — may only resemble innovation.

Flores’ main selling point — providing options to consumers on what to eat — cuts to the essence of the omnivore’s dilemma without advancing the cause, some say.

“These kinds of options don’t challenge consumers to try different kinds of foods, expand their palates or learn new cooking skills,” Strader says. “But from a consumer perspective, pick-and-choose is far more convenient.” n

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After reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals in 2011, Tim Flores set out to reverse his years of unhealthy eating by going locavore and shedding 70 pounds.

“I was really unhealthy,” he says. “My life changed after reading that book.”

Now a farm-to-table evangelist, Flores believes that a diet of primarily locally produced food can reduce the girth of entire populations by helping them resolve the dilemma many face at the grocery store, and which Pollan laid out in his 450-page treatise: What to eat?

“The first supermarkets didn’t pop up until the 1940s,” says Flores, a 31-year-old software engineer-cum-entrepreneur.

“Where did food come from before then?

It came from a farm, and it was purchased from the farmer.”

Farmers will likely continue to grow produce well into the future, but Flores hopes the purchasing will be done through Grazin, his soon-to-launch virtual farmers’ market.

Flores and his two-person team of engineers began developing Grazin late last summer as a link between farmers and consumers. The app allows consumers to order produce from multiple farms. Orders are delivered to a network of regional hubs, where they are assembled by a Grazin rep and picked up by consumers.

“The concept is that everybody eats, so everyone is a potential Grazin customer,” Flores explains. “It’s based on the food system we had 70 years ago, where everything came from a within 50-mile radius.”

Unlike CSA (community-supported agriculture) farms, there are no subscription fees or shares to buy. “It’s like shopping on Amazon; you add produce to the cart and check out,” he says.

For this reason, some worry that Grazin has the potential to do to CSAs what the online bookseller did to local bookstores and what ride-sharing apps are doing to taxis.

“It really does threaten the food economy and supply chain,” says Claire Strader, an organic farming educator with FairShare Wisconsin, a coalition of 59 organic CSA farms. “CSAs are a very important way to get consumers access to organic produce.”

Under the CSA model, consumers purchase shares during the offseason, which provide farmers like Tricia Bross with the infusion of capital she needs to purchase seed stock and hire labor.

“It is assured money,” she says, on a recent Saturday at her stand at the Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Capitol Square. “Otherwise we wouldn’t know [how much money] was coming in week to week.”

In return, shareholders — depending on the type of share — receive a box of produce as often as once a week throughout the growing season. But CSAs have not been the

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n OPINION

The lie that won’t die Gender-pay-gap statistic based on misleading analysis

BY MICHAEL CUMMINS Michael Cummins is a Madison-based business analyst.

When in late April, Donald Trump claimed that the only thing former first lady, senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has going for her is the “woman card,” the Twitterverse exploded in response. Among the wittier retorts was, “If I had a dollar for every time I’ve used the #womancard I’d have about 77 cents by now.”

The “77 cents on the dollar” statistic, which purports to quantify wage discrimination against women, has become a full-blown meme. President Obama has cited it several times. In his 2014 State of the Union address, he said that women “still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.

That is wrong.... A woman deserves equal pay for equal work.”

The Washington Post’s Fact Checker had good reason to give Obama “Two Pinocchios” for his use of the 77 cents statistic.

It is wildly misleading to couple that figure with the “equal pay for equal work” mantra, as senior White House officials have done over and over again.

The notion that employers routinely pay women almost 25% less than men for “equal work” seems implausible on its face. If corporations — amoral profit hounds that they are — could get equal work from women at a much lower cost, wouldn’t the vast majority of their hires be women? Would corporations forsake their financial interests for the dubious pleasure of having a bunch of men around?

Of course not. According to a 2011 publication by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, “[r]esearch suggests that the actual gender wage gap (when female workers are compared with male workers who have similar characteristics) is much lower than the raw wage gap.” The “raw” wage-gap ra-

tio is indeed about 77 cents to the dollar. But that is an aggregate statistic, comparing all female full-time workers to all male full-time workers. It does not even account for variations in profession.

Men and women freely choose different types of jobs. Nine of the 10 most financially promising college majors are male-dominated, by at least two to one. Fewer than 20% of all engineering and computer science students are women.

Once their careers get going, women are much more likely to take extended breaks from work to care for family. Such sacrifices have immense social value. But because they create gaps in work history, they leave many older women with less job-relevant experience than male co-workers of the same age.

The raw 77-cent measure is further limited by its generic definition of “full-time” worker.

It gives equal analytic weight to everyone who works at least 35 hours a week. So it does not consider that the average full-time male works

8.4 hours per day, whereas the average full-time female works 7.8.

As a 2009 study prepared for the U.S. Department of Labor put it, “the differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of individual choices being made by both male and female workers.” This is borne out by the reverse raw wage gap — 108 cents on the dollar — observed among younger, childless workers. Is this reverse gap, where women are making more than their male counterparts, indicative of an anti-male bias? No. It just reflects the fact that more women than men within that group chose to pursue a college degree. Employers expect college graduates to deliver superior productivity.

To be clear, the explanations above still leave a measureable “residual” — an actual gender wage gap — unaccounted for. So we have not yet fully achieved the goal of equal pay for equal work.

But we are getting pretty close. An expansive sizing of the residual gap comes from the feminist Institute for

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Women’s Policy Research. The IWPR contends that 25% to 40% of the raw wage gap cannot be accounted for by individual choices. If that is the case, then a raw gap of 77 cents on the dollar translates into an actual gap of between 91 and 94 cents on the dollar.

Other studies have calculated an even smaller actual gap, and professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard believes that the gap “might vanish altogether” if firms start allowing for more day-to-day flexibility in work hours.

So, while perhaps mildly interesting from an econometrics standpoint, the 77-cents-on-the-dollar statistic is essentially meaningless. And the Obama White House knows it. In 2014, the McClatchyDC news service found a significant raw wage gap among White House employees. When confronted, then-White House press secretary Jay Carney was quick to the defense. He countered that McClatchyDC’s calculations “looked at the aggregate of everyone on staff, and that includes from the most junior levels to the most senior.”

Apparently, the administration will not abide the use of misleading wagegap metrics, except when it’s time to rile up their base of support. n

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Trumping the shark Thanks to Dave Cieslewicz for challenging state Republicans over support for their party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump (“The Moral Moment,� 6/2/2016).

Citizen Dave suggests that Trump is so vile no moderate Republican could support his candidacy.

Trump is certainly a phenomenon, but also an unsurprising outcome of an engorged multimedia-politico-infotainment industry, among other social forces. For some of us, who have been having out-ofbody political experiences for a while, Trump is simply jumping the shark Republicans let loose long ago. Remember when Paul Wolfowitz promised the Iraqis would underwrite our war with them? Sounds like Trump’s Mexican wall scheme. Remember the Clinton impeachment? Iran-Contra? Sarah Palin? Torture?

Nearly all of the most significantly loony American politics of the past several decades have been largely and disappointingly

supported by Republicans both nationally and locally. In Wisconsin, most telling is the silence of “moderateâ€? Republicans, as Gov. Tommy Thompson’s protĂŠgĂŠs continue to systematically disassemble the governmental and educational institutions and environmentally positive culture that had once proudly defined Wisconsin.

Republicans are not solely to blame.

Progressives/Democrats/Rationale people continue pick-axing away in a long-empty mine in search of a vein of Republican moderation. “Well, that John Boehner is a good fellow,� PDRs said. “The tea party is an outlier.� “Bush is okay, but Cheney made him do bad things.� “Ronnie is nice; who needs welfare?� And, in Wisconsin, “Republicans can’t possibly support Walker’s efforts to [name an issue here].�

Perhaps it is time to recognize that reason and real morality have no sway over Republican governance. Republicans are like dogs. As individuals, with proper training, one can be a fairly civil, socialized creature. In packs, however, they all chase the same, sick calf.

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Wisconsin deserves a better

flag

Isthmus offers a few alternatives

BY DYLAN BROGAN

THERE IS A REASON NEIL ARMSTRONG

plunged Old Glory into the surface of the moon: Flags have power. We fly them high atop poles, hang them on our walls, burn them in protest and lower them to mourn the dead. We stick them on our car bumpers and print them on T-shirts, hats and underwear.

Flags are used to conquer, unite and identify whatever corner of earth we call home.

“Flags are a key piece of nonverbal symbolism that have been adopted for the last 1,000 years to spur very strong emotional responses,” explains vexillologist Edward B. Kaye. (Vexillology is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags.)

But a flag’s power rests in its design, and the Wisconsin flag is undeniably lackluster.

A 2001 survey of flag design published by the National American Vexillological Association ranked the Wisconsin flag one of the 10 worst in the U.S. and Canada. Kaye, the author of the survey, says the Wisconsin flag has several fundamental design problems. “First off...it’s virtually indistinguishable at a distance from 23 other U.S. state flags, all of which have a seal on a blue background,” Kaye says.

Wisconsin is missing out on an opportunity to inspire civic pride and build community, Kaye says. “The idea of creating a symbol under which people can rally to address the greater issues that a city, state or even a nation is facing, is an important factor in making that all possible.”

In honor of Flag Day, we at Isthmus hope to get the conversation rolling by presenting some alternatives, created by Madison designers Brian Lorbiecki, Distillery Design, Richard Hartley and Isthmus’ David Michael Miller. It’ll take an act of the Legislature and the signature of the governor to officially change the Wisconsin flag, but you gotta start somewhere.

“We actually pledge allegiance to the flag” says Kaye. “That’s a powerful statement to pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth. Well, it’s not the cloth, it’s what the cloth represents.”

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Wisconsin didn’t even have a flag for its first 15 years of statehood. At the behest of Civil War regiments, an official flag was adopted in 1863 for Wisconsin soldiers to carry into battle. It took another 50 years for lawmakers to codify the design specifics of the Wisconsin flag into statute.

A 1913 law spells out that the state flag will feature a royal blue background with the Wisconsin coat of arms at the center and an optional yellow knotted fringe.

The coat of arms is where the symbolic elements of the Wisconsin flag are incorporated. It contains a sailor with a coil of rope and a miner (or yeoman) with a pick, representing workers on water and land. Between the two men is a quartered shield featuring Wisconsin’s historic industries: a plow for agriculture, a pick and shovel for mining, an arm and hammer for manufacturing and an anchor representing navigation. At the center of the shield is the U.S. coat of arms and the U.S. motto “E pluribus unum” (“out of many, one”), to signify Wisconsin’s loyalty to the Union.

Hovering above the shield is a badger — the state animal — as well as the state’s motto, “Forward.” At the base of the shield is a cornucopia, which stands for prosperity and abundance.

There’s also a pyramid of 13 lead ingots, which represent the mineral wealth of Wisconsin as well as the 13 colonies that turned the tables on old King George.

Kaye says the problems with Wisconsin’s flag start with the coat of arms, because it’s crammed with small details. Consequently, the symbolism is lost. “Coats of arms are meant to be viewed close up and simply don’t belong on flags,” Kaye says. “It’s just crummy design.”

In the late 1970s, the Wisconsin Legislature sought to correct this by adding “WISCONSIN” and the statehood date, 1848, in bold white letters. It only made the flag worse. “What would you think of France’s flag if it said ‘France’ on it?

You would laugh, and rightly so. It’s ludicrous,” Kaye says. “Flags are graphic symbols. Adding words defeats the whole purpose of a flag.”

Kaye says there is a correlation between complexity and “crummy” flags. “Bad flags tend to cost more than good flags, so they are flown less often because, not only are they ugly, they are more expensive.”

Rethinking flags is becoming popular around the country. Kaye says there are more than 40 U.S. cities that are contemplating changing their flags.

Just down the interstate, Milwaukee will unveil a new one on Flag Day, June 14. Movements to update state flags are also afoot in Nebraska, Kansas and New Jersey. So why not Wisconsin? ■

David Michael Miller STAFF ARTIST AT ISTHMUS Isthmus’ own David Michael Miller points out that Wisconsin already has a symbol known around the world: the cheesehead hat. So he fashioned a Wisconsin flag after this iconic image, which he calls “Forward with Cheese.” The green and gold seen in the flag are, fittingly, in honor of Wisconsin’s beloved Packers. The iconic cheese wedge is centered on the flag in the likeness of the web symbol “play” suggesting “Forward,” the state’s motto. “For the sake of history and continuity,” Miller says, “the field of Union Army blue is retained.”

Want to take a crack at designing your own Wisconsin flag?

Take a photograph of your design — make sure the flag takes up the entire frame — and send it to isthmus@isthmus.com.

Please include your name, where you’re from and a descriptive title. Your flag will be showcased on isthmus.com, and staff writer Dylan Brogan will hand deliver all the designs to legislative leaders and Gov. Scott Walker at the Capitol.

Please make your submission no later than Friday, June 24.

Distillery Design team Brad Nellis, partner with Distillery Design, writes that his team drew “inspiration from the three pillars of Wisconsin: agriculture (green), recreation (blue) and industry (white).” These colors depict an abstract of the state’s animal, a badger. The animal is shown in motion to embody the state’s motto, “Forward.”

Nellis says the three-color palette also reflects the land and climate of the state. In the top-left corner of the flag is a sun with 11 points, which “pays homage to the Native American tribes present in Wisconsin.”

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When Richard Hartley began contemplating a new flag for Wisconsin, he started asking people what they like about the state. “It almost always was beer, football, cheese. Badgers. Over and over,” Hartley says. So he asked a slightly different question: What do you like to do in Wisconsin? “A new yet consistent pattern emerged. Hiking. Swimming.

Camping. Parks came up. Devil’s Lake. Governor Nelson. Bayshore Park. Whitefish Dunes, Egg Harbor.

Potawatomi.” So Hartley created a flag to reflect Wisconsinites’ love of the outdoors. The natural beauty is represented with blue skies, green trees and sunshine, which form an outline of “the good old ‘W.’”

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Brian Lorbiecki GRAPHIC DESIGNER AT WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION Brian Lorbiecki was inspired by the chevrons used by color field painter Kenneth Noland. The shapes are set on a field of red to form the head of a badger. Lorbiecki is pleasantly surprised that the state’s animal is easily recognizable. He says the flags of New Mexico and Maryland are praised for their designs because of simplicity.

“But simple is hard, as we say around here.”

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The second design conceived by Lorbiecki is a tricolor flag that represents sky, land and water (hence the cool palette). The flag fits traditional vexillological aesthetics but is also influenced by the landscapes of minimalist artist Brice Marden.

“There’s more sky than the rest, to convey the horizon,” says Lorbiecki. “The colors are not just symbolic. It’s more of a literal depiction, even though it’s extremely abstract.” ■

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Right now, these types of casual culinary tours are popular from coast to coast. Gehrig, who founded the walking tours that the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation has offered for more than a decade, says that “people are okay with spending money on an experience where they learn something.”

Tour prices for all three companies range from $30 to $50, which includes a variety of dishes and beverages. The three companies vary in their approaches, but all offer a way to experience the city through its food.

“I don’t think there is a shortage of people who want to explore what we have here in Madison,” says Cassidy, whose tour company began by concentrating on east-side neighborhoods, “and I think we all offer something different.”

Madison Food Explorers includes a strong dose of city and neighborhood history to go with its food insights. Madison Eats is more specifically food-based, as Cassidy takes advantage of connections she’s forged with chefs as a food writer. Capital City Food Tours concentrates on the Capitol Square area, over the lunch hour.

Madison Food Explorers was launched in 2010 by Andrea Hughes. New owner Gehrig, who still works for the Wisconsin Historical Society and is a member of the Madison Landmarks Commission, worked for Hughes giving tours. Gehrig was drawn to the food tours because they combined her love of history and architecture with her love of food.

“I blame my mother for all of it,” says Gehrig. “She was probably the first woman in Monona to feed her kid pesto.”

Madison Food Explorers offers three tours. A weekly Lake to Lake tour begins each Saturday at Monona Terrace and ends at the Memorial Union Terrace, with stops in between at Caracas Empanadas food cart, Fromagination, Ian’s Pizza, Vom Fass, Himal Chuli, State Street Brats and the Memorial Union’s ice cream counter.

“The places we choose aren’t holes in the wall you’ve never heard of, but good representations of what Madison has to offer,” Gehrig says. “I learned the history by sitting and talking to the restaurant owners.”

Once a month, there is also a Monroe Street Brunch Tour and a Happy Hour Tour.

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For more than a decade, Erica Fox Gehrig led architectural and history tours through Madison, with a promise of something to eat or drink at the end.

Now, the promise of Gehrig’s tours is the food, and a growing group of hungry wanderers are joining her and other food tour leaders throughout the city.

Gehrig and her husband, Mark, are the new owners of Madison Food Explorers (madisonfoodexplorers.com), which was the city’s first food tour business. Another, Madison Eats (madisoneats.net), was founded

by Othelia Cassidy in 2012, and Capital City Food Tours (capitalcityfoodtours.com) was launched this year by Brittany Hammer. The tours draw a mix of visitors and locals. All the companies will also do private tours, and have corporate clients.

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Sushi, with a side of theater Head for the hibachi room at the new Fuji in Middleton

BY CANDICE WAGENER

When you first step into Fuji Sushi and Hibachi in Middleton, you’ll be asked if you want to sit in the hibachi room or the dining room. The hibachi room is the place to be, where chefs cook your meal on a griddle right in front of the table.

Watch as the chef does magic tricks with his utensils! As the chef tosses that piece of broccoli, try to catch it in your mouth. It’s entertainment, plus a delicious meal that includes soup, salad, fried rice dotted with onion, red bell pepper and egg, grilled fresh veggies, two jumbo shrimp and your choice of meat. The chicken, calamari and filet mignon (cooked to perfection at medium rare) were all excellent.

But if you’re not in the mood for hibachi, there are plenty of other options from the menu. There are appetizers, like crab rangoon and coconut shrimp, that are not standard Japanese cuisine. The chicken lettuce wraps make a nice starter and can almost be a lunch on their own. Wok-seared chicken with a hint of teriyaki is mixed with mushrooms, green onions, red bell pepper and water chestnuts, all served over crispy rice noodles and ready to scoop into large iceberg lettuce leaves. Have your napkin ready for this one, but the mess is definitely worth it.

The Karashi octopus is a cold salad made of raw octopus, diced avocado and julienned cucumber, tossed in a spicy vinegar sauce with roe scattered across the top. The crisp, cool vegetables and seafood intertwined with the tangy, spicy sauce is a delightful combination and a unique dish.

Sushi entrees are a mix of different pieces, and include soup and salad. You can order chef’s choice, or mix and match on your own by ordering maki (traditional rolls), nigiri (seafood laid over rice), sashimi (just seafood), or a little of everything. There are an almost overwhelming number of choices.

I tried the volcano roll — spicy yellowtail, cucumber and avocado, topped with

a spicy mayo. While the rolls themselves had a great, fresh flavor, there was a curious mound of crispy panko in the center of the plate that I believe was meant to look like lava spilling out of the rolls — a quirky twist that I could have done without, because the panko was pretty tasteless and dry.

I’ve always been a fan of the spider roll, and Fuji’s did not disappoint. Lettuce, cucumber and a drizzle of spicy mayo over the top are good elements, but the real excitement comes with the crunchy fried softshell crab.

My favorite was the rainbow roll. The base is a California roll (avocado, cucumber and crab), which is then wrapped with slices of tuna, salmon, red snapper and white tuna, along with more avocado. This was a palate-pleaser. While a roll with five kinds of seafood may sound too complex, the fresh flavors all came through.

The bento box also makes for a nice meal, especially at lunch. Choose a meat (chicken, beef, salmon or shrimp), which can be prepared either teriyaki or tempura style.

It comes alongside fried rice, a California roll and soup or salad. I’d go with the onion soup, a delicious broth that’s not too heavy — though it seems as marginally Japanese as the salad, a mix of iceberg lettuce, croutons and a Thousand Island-esque dressing.

Fuji is the kind of place where it’s not just about the food, but the experience as a whole. Birthdays here are raucous, as the serving staff serenade birthday guests with “Happy Birthday” in Japanese and English, accompanied by bongo drums and a tambourine. Even if it’s someone you don’t know, you’ll feel like singing right along and wishing them well. And while the whole menu at Fuji offers a wealth of delicious options, the hibachi experience, and the sense of community that accompanies it (you may end up sharing a table with complete strangers), makes this a special place for going out. More than just eating rolls, it’s an event. n

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Macha Tea hosts a pop-up dinner with Isthmus Dining Company chef Rob Grisham, 7 pm. Menu highlights: lamb with gem lettuce, fennel and mint; manila clams with sweet pea gazpacho and shallot preserves; pork belly on rhubarb, leek and melon; mystery “sweets” for dessert. Tickets $55, including dinner, beverage and gratuity, through Macha Tea, 823 E. Johnson St., 608-283-9286.

Try a variety of pies topped with ice cream and other treats while supporting the Middleton Area Historical Society.

The New Horizons Band will also be performing. At Lakeview Park, 6300 Mendota Ave., Middleton, 5-8 pm. More info on the Middleton Area Historical Society’s website.

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cocktails at Julep and coffee at A-OK. Cassidy began Madison Eats with an Atwood Avenue tour, one that this season includes Tex Tubb’s, Monsoon Siam, Table Wine, Next Door Brewing and Chocolaterian.

“Atwood represents something that’s really cool about Madison — what you might not see, what you might not know about,” Cassidy says.

Madison Eats also offers an Ethnic Eats tour on Williamson Street, a food cart tour over the lunch hour, a B-Cycle Brunch Tour and a downtown tour.

Capital City Food Tours begins its circuit at the Great Dane Pub and Brewing Co., then heads to Gotham Bagels, Kilwins, Wisconsin Brewing Tap Haus and Dlux.

Founder Hammer, who was inspired to launch her company after taking a food walking tour in Chicago, hopes to branch out into the suburbs and to find ways to create related events in the cold months that don’t involve walking much outside.

“A lot of people may think that this is an activity for visitors or tourists,” says Hammer. “But every local that I have had has walked away eating something they had never tried and learning about a piece of Madison that they never knew.”

Tours are geared toward adults.

Those who don’t drink alcohol get other options when beer or wine is served.

Tours last about three hours.

Food and drink have a way of connecting people to each other, says Gehrig. A group may start as strangers, but “you sit down to eat together, and you all end up talking together.” She likens it to going to a bed-and-breakfast: “You get this shared experience with people you don’t know.

Usually by the end, they’re all talking to each other, and I’m just walking in front.” ■

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“The food system is broken” National Farm to Cafeteria Conference focuses on nutrition and food justice

BY LINDA FALKENSTEIN

The eighth National Farm to Cafeteria Conference officially kicked off at Monona Terrace on June 3 with rousing renditions of UW marching band classics like “The Chicken Dance” and “When You Say Wisconsin” from the “Echoes of Camp Randall” group. The band led a procession of national farm-to-school groups into the first-floor ballroom for the conference’s opening speeches.

This followed a pre-conference day of field trips highlighting the many programs our area has developed to connect producers of healthy, locally grown fruits and vegetables with schools and the underserved. Conference attendees visited the Goodman Youth Farm, Grow Academy, Community GroundWorks’ Troy Gardens and Milwaukee’s Growing Power, among others. Nathan Larson of Community Groundworks, who’s attended three previous Farm to Cafeteria

inspired to see what’s happening in Madison and Wisconsin.”

While the conference’s field trips, workshops and “lightning talks” focused on progress being made, the opening speeches took a broader, national look at the farm-to-school movement.

The executive director of the National Farm to School Network, Anupama Joshi, said the group has grown quite a bit since it launched 14 years ago.

More than 1,000 attendees were at this year’s conference, with LINDA FALKENSTEIN 70% of them first-timers.

Michelle Obama offered inspiration via video.

Debra Eschmeyer, executive director of Let’s Move — first lady Michelle Obama’s initiative to improve conferences, thinks it’s one of the best of its nutrition and exercise — spoke of how there kind in the country addressing farm-to-table are now farm-to-school programs in every issues. Attendees are “very collaborative and state, with 40 states having official supportive very curious,” says Larson, and “impressed and

Night owl Green Owl Cafe to expand late night hours The Green Owl Cafe, 1970 Atwood Ave., is expanding its hours this summer. Starting in July, the city’s only dedicated vegetarian restaurant will offer a late-night food menu and cocktails until bar time on Fridays and Saturdays. The Green Owl was previously open until 10 p.m. on the weekends.

Owner Jennie Capellaro says Schenk’s Corners, the restaurant’s home, is booming.

“There’s a lot more people walking around and places to go. It’s kind of like a mini-State Street,” says Capellaro. She credits the recent residential developments on East Washington Avenue for the increased foot traffic.

Green Owl’s late-night fare will focus on small plates and vegan-friendly sliders. On the menu so far is a Cajun blackened tofu slider and a barbecue jackfruit slider. The restaurant also plans on serving new cocktails — including a spicy margarita made with habanero tequila and calamansi, an Asian citrus fruit. They’ll also come up with an egg white alternative to make a vegan version of the classic whiskey sour.

The success of Green Owl’s outdoor patio is also a driving force for staying open late, says Capellaro. “It’s a nice spot to hang out, so why not extend the hours and utilize what we have?”

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Keynote speaker Ricardo Salvador, director of the food and environment program of the Union of Concerned Scientists, sounded a darker and more cautionary note.

“Our first objective is to create a more just food system,” Salvador began. “The food system is broken. It serves well those who have economic power.” Our current food makes us sick, he stressed, referring in part to the diabetes epidemic. “The more profit it makes, the sicker we get.” Not only that, but agricultural laborers have few if any legal protections against chemicals used in fields, he noted.

Salvador exhorted the food activists in the audience to work to “shift the culture.” Much as the culture of the nation changed on social issues, for instance accepting and then demanding marriage equality, the culture needs to shift to reject “what is not tolerable” in the food system.

“You are just the people positioned to do what needs to be done,” Salvador told the audience. “Stop transmitting fairy tales about the way the system works.” Not being satisfied with the status quo is “the single most American thing you can do.” n

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For June, Gib’s has come up with the Safe Harbor Sunrise, made with tequila, Campari and orange juice. The drink was created for Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center and plays off the group’s sunburst logo.

“This our way of creating relationships with these fantastic organizations and a way to give back to the people who live in our neighborhood,” says Ed Hong, general manager at Gib’s. The community cocktail will benefit the Willy Street Chamber Players in July, Creative Learning Preschool in August and Alzheimer’s & Dementia Alliance of Wisconsin in September.

A few local bars and restaurants are also involved in Negroni Week this year. Launched in 2013 by Imbibe magazine and Campari, the promotion raises money for local charities by donating sales from negronis (made with gin, vermouth and Campari) June 6-12. Over 6,000 restaurants are participating nationally; in Madison, the Old Fashioned, Mezze, Cento and Nostrano are on board.

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Madison’s professional disc team expects to dominate

BY MICHAEL POPKE

Early into the Madison Radicals season, when Bill Everhart told me the city’s professional ultimate disc team expected to win the 2016 American Ultimate Disc League title, it was easy to view his words as a confident and intimidating boast from a guy on one of the most experienced and toughest teams in the country.

But now it’s beginning to look as if Everhart’s prediction was right on target.

The Radicals moved to 8-0 on the season after dismissing the Pittsburgh Thunderbirds, 23-16, on June 4 at Breese Stevens Field in what many players and fans considered to be Madison’s biggest challenge of the year.

The victory also improved the Radicals’ winning streak at home to 28 games. A record (and boisterous) crowd of 1,212 fans packed the stands, and the action was streamed live on ESPN3.

The Radicals have now defeated Pittsburgh, the closest thing to a full-blown rivalry in the AUDL’s Midwest Division, twice this season. And with five games remaining, it’s time to start thinking that not only will Madison host the AUDL’s Championship Weekend V on Aug. 6 and 7 at Breese Stevens, but that the Radicals also could win the whole thing.

Madison has made the AUDL’s final four in three of the team’s four seasons of existence, and the Radicals finished 13-1 last year, coming within two points of winning the 2015 AUDL title in San Jose, Calif. No wonder several hundred local fans already have purchased their tickets for championship weekend, which will feature the best teams from each of the league’s four divisions competing in a playoff format.

All three games will be live-streamed on ESPN3.

Several Radicals stepped up against Pittsburgh. Jay Froude, who travels 475 miles from Kansas City, Mo., to play in Madison, broke up a scoring play that would have tied the game 6-6 in the second quarter. The Thunderbirds never caught up after that.

Whenever they came close, another Radical — Tom Annen, Pat Shriwise, Seth Meyer and Andrew Meshnick, among them — would step in for the score or a key defensive stop.

The Radicals will go for their ninth win of the season and 29th in a row at Breese Stevens on Saturday, June 11, at 6 p.m. against the 4-5 Detroit Mechanix and then return home for the final regular-season game against the Indianapolis Alleycats on July 10.

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In the last quarter century the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society has produced some of the region’s finest chamber music.

In commemoration of its silver jubilee, the group has planned an ambitious summer festival, including a commission from a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.

In 1992, founders and artistic directors Jeffrey Sykes, pianist and vocal coach at UC Berkeley Department of Music, and Stephanie Jutt, principal flute for the Madison Symphony Orchestra and flute professor at UW-Madison, pulled the first concert together at the old Civic Center by bribing their fabulous musician friends with strong margaritas. They didn’t have money to print tickets, but the house was packed anyway.

John DeMain, conductor and music director of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, says that Jutt and Sykes are pioneers of making chamber music accessible and fun. “When you attend their concerts you will have a good time and hear profound music played by first-class musicians.

That’s a winning combination for success.”

On June 10-26, 25 world-class musicians will gather in venues in Madison, Spring Green and Stoughton to present six silver-themed programs. Jutt and Sykes have planned concerts that include composers from Baroque to contemporary.

BDDS concerts have always challenged our notions of propriety on the classical music stage; the group is known for highquality performances and also for including comedy skits and handing out outlandish door prizes, such as a 50-gallon drum of horse manure a lucky gardener won during a festival titled “Same Carriage, Fresh Horses.”

The following is a guide to festival highlights.

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n Hi-Yo Silver! opens the festival and includes pieces about musical “Lone Rangers” such as Ravel’s lovelorn Don Quichotte À Dulcinée. Also included are two Airs featuring flute and violin by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts. Bass-baritone Timothy Jones sings the Ravel and also Schubert’s Schwanengesang (“Swan Song”).

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n Silver Threads Among the Gold introduces the world premiere of Kevin Puts’ In at the Eye, settings of six poems by W.B. Yeats starring singer Timothy Jones. The title is part of a line from Yeats’ poem “A Drinking Song”: Wine comes in at the mouth/ And love comes in at the eye. The song cycle, co-commissioned by BDDS and four other music festivals, was composed for Jones.

“Kevin’s music is emotional, complex, and full of color and nuance,” says Jutt.

In a phone conversation from New York, Puts told Isthmus that he was attracted

to Yeats’ poetry because of its simple treatment of love. “It’s not complex, and it’s not profound, but it gets to the point,” he says. “It also gave me new territory to explore in the way of atmosphere, and a composer needs to be pushed in new directions.” Puts also has high praise for BDDS. “They’re a great group of amazing musicians who are totally committed to their work.” n Silver Linings highlights music by Miguel

del Aguila.“His music has Haydn-esque wit and Beethoven-like motivic structure,” says Sykes. These Viennese compositional traditions underlie sassy Latin rhythms.

n Stars of the Silver Screen features cin-

ematic music. Composers Ravel, Schoenberg, Astor Piazzolla and Guillaume Connesson take center stage. Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony in E Major from 1906 is a “passionate late Romantic work that is a total emotional rollercoaster,” says Jutt. Pianist Pablo Zinger also plays arrangements of music by Nino Rota and Henry Mancini. The concert also features clarinetist Joseph Morris.

n Quicksilver presents mercurial

works, such as Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 and Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat Major.

n Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina weaves Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into a tantalizing mix of tango and baroque violin. Violinists Axel Strauss and Madison’s Suzanne Beia star.

The show opens with Derek Bermel’s gospel-tinged viola work, Soul Garden, featuring Ara Gregorian.

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society will also present “How Did You Write That?” a free family concert on Saturday, June 11, at 11 a.m. in the Overture Center’s Playhouse. Composer Kevin Puts will be on hand for an interactive journey through the process of turning ideas into sounds. n For ticket information and a full schedule, visit bachdancinganddynamite.org or call 608-255-9866.

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Plucking at the HeartStrings Madison Symphony Orchestra quartet brings therapeutic music to health care facilities

BY KATIE MOHR

At St. Mary’s Care Center, a skilledcare nursing facility on Madison’s south side, a string quartet delivers a performance worthy of an upscale concert hall while residents form a semicircle around the players. Some bob their heads and tap their feet, while others feel their way through the melodies by waving their hands in the air.

The players are from Madison Symphony Orchestra’s Rhapsodie Quartet, representing HeartStrings, a 10-year-old effort demonstrating that music transcends culture, age and ability. HeartStrings recently won a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support its operations.

Each year, the talented quartet performs throughout Dane County at retirement communities, health care facilities and institutions that aid the developmentally disabled. In total, the quartet’s rigorous schedule brings therapy-informed performances to about 3,200 people.

“The music is so peaceful; it feeds from the center of your being,” says Carmela Mulroe, activity director at St. Mary’s Care Center, which started hosting HeartStrings after Mulroe caught a performance about five years ago. The residents at St. Mary’s always make an effort to attend the performances — even those who prefer to stay in their rooms and

the beat. Even when the attendees are quiet or slow to answer questions, she takes the time to encourage them and thank them for participating.

“As musicians, we don’t get to see a lot of tangible good we create,” says Beia, who has been with the program since the beginning. “We could see people responding.”

Beia’s fellow musicians — violinist Laura Burns, violist Christopher DozoLAURA GHARRITY ryst and cellist Karl Lavine — say they cherish the interaction and energy they receive from audiences. skip most communal activities make an apThanks to funds from the NEA grant, the pearance, Mulroe says.

Wisconsin Arts Board and numerous other The players have had years of consultadonors and sponsors, the MSO offers the pertions with Laurie Farnan, coordinator of music formances at no cost to the facilities. therapy at the Central Wisconsin Center for Because many residents in elder care fathe Developmentally Disabled — another cilities are no longer able to get out for a night HeartStrings location. “We focus on improvon the town, the concerts evoke a sense of ing audience members’ quality of life,” says elegance. “It’s like a date night,” says Mulroe, Kathryn Schwarzmann, MSO’s director of pointing out a couple holding hands througheducation and community engagement. out the concert.

Each concert has a theme — such as Mulroe says memory care patients (with Americana — but the program is modified to various forms of dementia) “reach a different fit the needs of the people at each facility. For level of serenity” during performances. The adults, the music generally runs 50 minutes. songs and melodies trigger long-forgotten For kids, they trim it to about 30 minutes. memories, and occasionally the patients end Suzanne Beia, the quartet’s violinist, inup singing along with lyrics they haven’t uttroduces each song, weaving in stories and encouraging participation. She’ll ask questions tered in decades.

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Homegrown humor Kevin Bozeman joins a growing list of comics to record at the Comedy Club

BY TOM WHITCOMB

Large cities like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are the proving grounds for many young comics. But for Kevin Bozeman, Madison was his launchpad.

“There wasn’t much of a scene. [The Comedy Club on State] just had the open mic on Wednesday, and there weren’t more than maybe 10 comics that came through,” says Bozeman. “That was the late ’90s, when I started hitting up the mics.”

He was so green that he left immediately after performing his first set. “I thought I couldn’t stick around because I hadn’t paid to get in. That’s how little I knew about standup.”

Bozeman, a semifinalist on Last Comic Standing, got his start in Madison.

Bozeman, a former basketball player at UW-Whitewater, is one of the success stories to emerge from Madison’s burgeoning comedy scene. He was a semifinalist on Last Comic Standing in 2010, has appeared on HBO and Comedy Central and hosts the sports-centric Ball Hog podcast. Currently living in Chicago, he even teaches a class on the art of standup comedy to students at DePaul University.

Bozeman returns to his roots June 9-11 to record a live album at the Comedy Club — the same venue where he used to tell what he describes as “ridiculous poop jokes.”

“I always wanted to do something here, but it had to fit logistically,” says Bozeman. “I had to be ready, and I knew my date was coming up here in Madison. And they have a great room. It’s one of the best clubs in the country.”

Bozeman is not the first to record there. In recent years acclaimed comics Wyatt Cenac, Rory Scovel and former Saturday Night Live cast member Brooks Wheelan have recorded live albums in its performance space.

“We set the room up so that recording is very easy,” says Comedy Club manager Joe Buettner. “When we redid the sound and the recording stuff in the showroom, we installed a bunch of extra mics in the crowd and bought higher-end recording equipment, so that comics can decide last minute if they want to record an album. Not a lot of clubs do that.”

But, says Buettner, it’s not just the improved tech that’s bringing performers to their stage. “Madison is great for having smart

crowds that understand jokes that take brainpower to get,” he says. “The crowds come because they know they’re going to see good comedy.

A lot of people will come not knowing who the comic is. It’s really the only type of entertainment that people will buy tickets for not knowing who JAMES HEIMER they’re seeing.”

Bozeman’s crowds will need a lot of that brainpower for his material, which features his wry, cynically optimistic take on subjects like sex, politics and parenting. “There’s some darkness in it,” he warns.

“This will probably be the last album where I’m being more objective, talking about pop culture and society,” says Bozeman. “My next body of work will probably be more of what I experience in my life as opposed to my point of view. I’m excited to get it out.” n

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Mindful boogie Natty Nation is all about inner peace

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Natty Nation wants you to have a healthy mind.

With their recent album Divine Spark — their fifth in a career spanning 20 years — the local roots reggae crew delves into the benefits of finding mental balance through mindfulness meditation.

The first two tracks are even called “Balance” and “Meditation.” These upbeat jams set the tone for the record’s theme. They’ll also have you instinctively swaying to their smooth melodies.

Your next chance to sway with a live Natty Nation is Thursday, June 16, for the season’s second installment of the Monona Terrace “Concerts on the Rooftop” series.

“The goal is to uplift,” says JAH Boogie, the group’s frontman, lead vocalist and bassist. “To teach people about the energy within their bodies. Open them up to a healthier way of life.”

Though it starts slow and serene, Divine Spark quickly ramps up in both speed and substance after the first few tracks.

Things get heavy with deep electric guitar riffs and solos on “Suffice,” a track about pushing through difficult times in love. Over the

quick drumbeat of “Purpose,” you’re asked flatly how you’ll leave a mark on this world.

“Civil Rights” is a driving, funky tribute to those who devoted their lives to fighting for equality and is aided by F.Stokes, a Chicago-born rapper who spent his formative years in Madison.

BOB GOOD The album closes with three spaced-out jams. “Divine Spark” The reggae crew brings its uplifting tunes to the Monona Terrace rooftop on June 16. is a mellow track about releasing the spiritual power within; it a lot,” says Konkol, who joined the group When the weather gets colder, the group melts into “5th Dimension Dub” and “She Cries in 2002. “We let the other musicians who plans to head overseas, likely to Europe and Dub,” traditional dub remixes of earlier tracks are playing put their own stamp on it.” anywhere-warmer-than-Wisconsin. (“Divine Spark” and “Suffice”), with plenty of With the new direction of Divine Aaron Konkol, the group’s musical director, synthesized effects and echoes layered in.

Spark, the crew will continue to grow keyboard player and backup vocalist, says the key Divine Spark was mixed by Errol Brown, from within — and hopefully add new to keeping their live shows fresh is simple: “We who was Bob Marley’s tour engineer and also fans to their base as they go, says Boogie. improvise a lot. During a show, Boogie will begin worked with Lauryn Hill, Gregory Isaacs and “I’ve been into meditation for a while. singing a different song on the top of the one Burning Spear, among others.

We’re picking up people through that,” we’re playing, so it keeps everyone on their toes.”

Now that they’ve got another album under he says, adding that Natty Nation will Due to other band and life commitments, their belts, Natty Nation can get back to what continue to “find new avenues that spark Natty Nation uses a handful of different musithey love most — playing live shows and tourour creativity, [and] explore different cians to play live gigs when the usual suspects ing. For the summer, they’re playing one or two concepts and try to incorporate them Olen Franklin (drums) and Richard Hildner (guifestival gigs per weekend, with other appearinto the music.” n tar) are busy. “Bringing in other musicians helps ances mixed in.

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BY JAMES KREUL

If you’ve had enough of summer’s assembly-line blockbusters, head up to the top of the city for Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s Rooftop Cinema series for a breath of fresh air.

The screenings, which roll after sunset on Fridays in June, treat audiences to artisanal animated short films, displaying idiosyncratic approaches to the moving image, such as the short films of Naoyuki Tsuji and Karen Aqua.

Naoyuki Tsuji’s films on June 10 alternate between puppet animation and charcoal drawings. The puppet films are not as pristine as those of the Brothers Quay, but Tsuji’s character designs and art direction create an equally brooding fairytale world.

The hand-drawn films use an “additive” technique, not completely erasing the charcoal lines from the previous frames. This creates a ghostly trace of movements, adding a dreamlike quality to physical transformations.

Tsuji repeats and transforms scenes from a personal mythology across his work.

The strongest film in Rooftop’s screening is the 2003 charcoal film A Feather Stares at the Dark, which landed Tsuji an invitation to the Cannes Film Festival. The kernel of his vision from earlier films germinates into a personal journey (with mild erotic imagery) within an elaborate and imaginative cosmology.

Audiences might be familiar with Karen Aqua’s work even if they don’t recognize her name. She animated more than 20 segments for television’s Sesame Street between 1990 and her death in 2011. On June 17, Rooftop will showcase 11 of her independently produced animated shorts, which were celebrated at experimental and animation film festivals around the world.

Aqua’s films explode with visual energy driven by beat-heavy soundtracks. Abstract shapes and colors fluidly transform into stylized human figures, or animals, vegetables and minerals in the case of her last film, 2011’s Taxonomy. Her quick fluctuation between shapes and figures synchronized to music places her work in the tradition of an accessible avant-garde.

Aqua’s Kakania (1989) is a pure delight, as movements match a lively jazz fusion composition with a chorus that shouts out the title.

Aqua’s childlike joy in using simple repetition and variation made her a natural match for Sesame Street. n

On Friday nights in June MMoCA screens experimental films on the rooftop.

Lampooning the music biz Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping gives the industry a gentle ribbing

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

The mockumentary Popstar so accurately mimics the music biz it means to lampoon, and so faithfully reproduces the behind-the-scenes music-doc aesthetic it intends to goof, you might not even see the jokes: The ego, excess and product synergy just don’t feel all that exaggerated compared to pop music’s real-life absurdities. And that may be an intentional, even artful, bit of misdirection on the part of the Lonely Island comedy trio, who wrote, directed and star in the film.

Because, hard truths: Popstar’s jokes land pillow-soft.

Saturday Night Live is where Lonely Island first made their name as digitalshort savants. You could call their viral music videos “Lazy Sunday” and “Dick in a Box” prep work for Popstar’s featurelength ribbing of the industrial pop music machine, but nothing here touches the

compact, catchy, wackadoodle brilliance of those shorts. It’s that same old saw: 90 seconds is a lot easier to fill than 90 minutes.

Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) plays pop star Conner4Real, who recently and acrimoniously split with his Style Boyz bandmates (Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, who also codirected) to embark on a solo career.

It’s tempting to try to read between the lines for a meta-narrative — in real life, Samberg’s star rose faster and higher than his friends’ — but that would be making a mountain out of nary a molehill. These Lonely Island kids seem to like each other an awful lot and, in turn, are themselves so very likable.

(Enough to attract a gaggle of A-list cameos from Questlove, Nas, Usher, Seal and Ringo Starr.) You really can’t buy this kind of goodwill. If only it paid off more. n

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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A serviceable but unremarkable movie about a mathematician who undoubtedly deserves to be honored (especially since racism and colonialism prevented him from being well-known in his lifetime), but whose career simply doesn’t make for stimulating cinema — at least not in this telling of it, by writer-director Matthew Brown, adapting Robert Kanigel’s book.

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Inside Out: A Midwestern girl transplanted to San Francisco navigates her new world, guided by her conflicted emotions. Warner Park Duck Pond, June 11, 3 pm.

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Cage the Elephant Saturday, June 11, Orpheum Theater, 7 pm When their breakout single “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” hit the airwaves in 2008, it was obvious that Cage the Elephant would be huge. Eight years and four albums later the Kentucky garage demons are one of the most popular and critically acclaimed acts in modern rock music. They’ll be joined here by two of indie rock’s best and brightest — experimentally minded Alaskans Portugal. The Man and Chicago’s upstart garage rockers Twin Peaks. (Originally scheduled at the Alliant Energy Center.)

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thu jun 9 MU S I C Babe’s Restaurant: Acoustic Alloy, free (on the patio), 6 pm.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Pilot, rock, free, 6 pm.

Brink Lounge: Danika Holmes, 7 pm; Blues Jam, 8 pm.

Capital Brewery: Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, free, 6 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Pedro Juan Rivera, 5:30 pm; DJ Rumba, 10 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Madpolecats, free, 9 pm.

Come Back In: The Rascal Theory, free (on the patio), 5 pm.

East Side Club: Swear & Shake, Hayward Williams, 5 pm.

Edgewater Hotel: Mark Croft, free (on the plaza), 6 pm.

Edgewater Hotel-Sky Bar: Reyna, DJ Nick Nice, 6 pm.

Essen Haus: WheelHouse, free, 9 pm.

The Frequency: Of Brighter Skies, Forgetting Charlie, The Ferns, 7 pm.

Harmony Bar: Bing Bong, rock, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Kerosene Kites, free, 6 pm; The American Dead, Fringe Character, autism research benefit, 7 pm.

Lisa Link Peace Park: DJ Yachtshot, free, 5 pm.

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

Rennebohm Park: Capitol City Band, free, 7 pm Thursdays.

Tip Top Tavern: All Good Things, free, 9:30 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: SpareTime Bluegrass Band, 5 pm; Johnny Chimes, free, 9 pm.

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Rewoven: Works by female, trans & non-binary artists, 6/10-9/1, 100state (party 9:30 pm2 am, 6/9, with DJs Kayla Kush, Tay/them, food, $10 or $5 with nonperishable food donations for Domestic Abuse Intervention Services. facebook.com/events/1591665977810842.

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Book Sale: 5-8:30 pm on 6/9 ($6 admission), 9 am-8:30 pm on 6/10 and 10 am-3 pm, 6/11, Pinney Library. 224-7100.

Garrard Conley: Discussing “Boy Erased,” his new book, 6 pm, 6/9, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

The Red Zone: The Rumours, Skyline Sounds, Audiophilia, Ultrea, 8 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Paul Dietrich Quintet, free, 5 pm; Kyle Megna & the Monsoons, free, 9 pm.

Veterans Park, Cambridge: Madpolecats, 6:30 pm.

VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Kristi B, 7:30 pm.

Wisconsin Brewing, Verona: Conscious Pilot, 6 pm.

Sonny Knight & the Lakers + Clyde Stubblefield All Stars Friday, June 10, Majestic Theatre, 8:30 pm

Two giants of Midwestern soul and funk come together under one roof: Sonny Knight & the Lakers is an R&B band founded by a retired truck driver brought to local fame after a 2015 record release, Do It Live, while Madison’s own Clyde Stubblefield performed with James Brown and is considered by many to be an archetype of funk drumming.

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Capital Brewery, Middleton: The Sharrows, 6 pm.

WIAA State Softball Tournament: 6/9-11, UW Goodman Softball Diamond. $8/session; $6/ game finals. 715-344-8580.

Cardinal Bar: Alison Margaret Quartet, jazz, free, 5:30 pm; DJs MykeMyth, Chris Rusu, 9 pm.

Madison Mallards: vs. Lakeshore, 6:35 pm, 6/9; vs. Wisconsin Rapids, 7:05 pm on 6/10 and 6:35 pm, 6/11; vs. Battle Creek, 7:05 pm, 6/16-17, Warner Park Duck Pond. $46-$8.

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Central Library: InDIGenous Jazz: The Organic Quintet, free, 7:30 pm.

Local favorite Kevin Bozeman left our fair city for Chicago more than a decade ago, but that doesn’t make him any less funny. The former UWWhitewater basketball player turned super-funny comic wields a set of jokes so strong you’d think he taught a class on it. And you’d be right: When he’s not on stage, Bozeman teaches comedy to students at DePaul University in Chicago. See page 32. With Jim Flannigan, Earl Elliot. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), June 10-11.

Pooley’s: Small Blind Johnny, free (patio), 7 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Leah Brooke & Royal Jelly, 10 pm.

The Comedy of Errors: Shakespeare, 7:30 pm on 6/9 and 8 pm, 6/11, American Players Theatre, Spring Green. $75-$47. 588-2361.

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Mr. Robert’s: Compact Deluxe, free, 10 pm.

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

T HEATER & DANCE

The African Company Presents Richard III: Carlyle Brown’s take on the backstage play, 7:30 pm on 6/9 and 3 pm, 6/11, APTTouchstone Theatre, Spring Green. $75-$54.

588-2361.

Mickey’s Tavern: On You, Asumaya, free, 10 pm.

Sprecher’s: The Sparks Band, ‘60s rock, free, 7 pm.

Kathleen Gallagher & Mark Johnson: Discussing “One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine,” 7 pm, 6/9, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Thursday, June 9, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

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PICK OF THE WEEK

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

Bos Meadery: DuggHopper, free, 6 pm.

Cargo-E. Washington: County Highway PD, 7:30 pm.

Come Back In: Robert J, Americana, free, 5 pm.

Edgewater: The Appleseed Collective, free, 6 pm.

FUNDRAISERS

The Frequency: City of Ghosts, Street Names, Hidden Hospitals, 9 pm.

Dessert for Syria: Fundraiser for Open Doors for Refugees, 7 pm, 6/9, Threshold. $10 donation. 438-5240.

High Noon Saloon: Cork ‘n Bottle String Band, 20th anniversary, 5:30 pm; Hometown Sweethearts, 9:30 pm.

Kiki’s House: Ray Bonneville, 9 pm.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society: “Hi-Yo, Silver!”

7:30 pm, 6/10, Stoughton Opera House; and 2:30 pm, 6/12, Taliesin-Hillside Theater, Spring Green; free family concert, 11 am, 6/11, and “Silver Threads Among the Gold,” 7:30 pm, 6/11, Overture Center-Playhouse; and 6:30 pm, 6/12, TaliesinHillside Theater. $40. 255-9866. See page 30. #ReclaimBeauty: Kickoff for project to make the word “beauty” more inclusive of all, 5 pm-midnight, 6/10, Winedown, with music, open mic, visual art, selfie station. Free admission. facebook.com/ events/221104601605294.

B O O KS / S PO K EN WO RD

William Povletich Friday, June 10, Wisconsin Historical Museum, 11 am

This Wisconsin sports historian discusses his new book, Some Like It Cold: Surfing the Malibu of the Midwest, which tells the true story of twin brothers who learned to surf off the shores of Lake Michigan.

Sean Patrick Little: Discussing “After Everyone Died,” YA novel, 7 pm, 6/10, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Watershed Reading Series: Poetry by J.L. Conrad, Jeanie Tomasko, Steve Tomasko, Timothy Yu, 8 pm, 6/10, Arts & Literature Laboratory. 556-7415.

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Nearly two dozen musical acts will perform over two days, highlighted by Austin asskicker Jon Dee Graham. A guitarist with the soul of a songwriter and a songwriter whose lyrics are rendered like short stories on fire, Graham currently fronts the fearless cow-punk trio the Fighting Cocks.

He’s scheduled for two performances on Sunday: on the Cottonwood Stage at 2:30 pm and the main stage, with the Fighting Cocks, at 4:15. Saturday’s roster is anchored by Haitian composer and guitarist BélO (pictured, 6:30 pm), while Chicago soul band JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound headlines on Sunday (6 pm).

Queer Shorts 2.0: The Re-Boot Friday, June 9, Bartell Theatre’s Drury Stage, 8 pm

StageQ, Madison’s premier LGBT theater troupe, presents an evening of short plays from local and national playwrights, all related to the impact of social media and technology on our lives. ALSO: Saturday (8 pm), Sunday (2 pm) and Thursday (8 pm), June 10-16. Through June 18.

ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS Jane Fasse: 6/6-7/20, Madison College-Downtown Gallery 211 (reception 4-6 pm, 6/10). 258-2437.

Good Day Market: 5-10 pm, 6/10, Octopi Brewing, Waunakee, with DJ, food carts. oneonethousand.net.

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Madison’s longtime experimental laboratory presents a live rock musical about a Christian rock band that hires a Jewish drummer for a big gig after their former drummer fornicates with the pastor’s daughter. ALSO: Saturday, June 11, 8 pm.

Amy Carani: Paintings, 6/10-7/26, UW Union SouthGallery 1308 (reception 6-8 pm, 6/10). 262-7592.

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Ben Sidran’s Salon w/Nick Moran, Louka Patenaude & Todd Hammes

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Few 20th-century works capture the realities of the American dream quite like Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

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Silver Threads Among the Gold Saturday, June 11, Overture Center’s Playhouse, 7:30 pm

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society kicks off its 25th anniversary “Silver Jubilee” with a world premiere from Kevin Puts, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. His new song cycle, “In at the Eye,” sets six poems of W.B. Yeats for bass-baritone, piano, flute, violin and cello. The program caps off with Brahms’ thrilling Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25. “Silver Threads

Richard Shindell Saturday, June 11, Art in the Barn (5927 Adams Rd. Fitchburg), 7:30 pm

Head to the ‘burbs for an intimate solo performance by this Long Island native who now lives in Buenos Aires. An acclaimed folk singer and songwriter, Shindell plans to release a new record later this year and is performing here to benefit local nonprofit Haiti Allies. With Nelson Graham.

Good Old War Saturday, June 11, The Frequency, 10 pm

When his pop-punk outfit Days Away disbanded in 2008, Keith Goodwin wasted no time getting back to work. He teamed up with former bandmate Tim Arnold and guitarist Dan Schwartz, and they went in a wholly new direction to create the laid-back indie folk trio Good Old War. Arnold left the band in 2014 to raise a family, but Goodwin and Schwartz are still going strong, having released Broken Into Better Shape last year.

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Now the inventive emcee returns, hot on the heels of A Princess Named Leroy, his third full-length, which serves as both a concept album about a young South Sider trying to make it in Paris as well as a musical throwback to the 1980s.

Alchemy Cafe: No Name String Band, free, 10 pm.

Bos Meadery: Brian Koenig, free, 6:30 pm.

Come Back In: The Blues Party, 9 pm.

Crescendo: Ryan Montbleau, Sam Sardina, 7:30 pm.

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Speaking his mind in the city he once ruled!

The Frequency: The Apollo Affair (CD release), Gods in the Chrysalis, 7 pm.

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Anthony Cao, Peter Hernet, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee: The McDougals, 6:30 pm.

Lazy Oaf Lounge: Fighting For, rock, 10 pm.

Liliana’s: Cliff Frederiksen & Kevin Frederiksen, 6:30 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: We Should Have Been DJs, free, 10 pm.

Pooley’s: The Rascal Theory, free (patio), 7 pm.

Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub: Mark Croft, 7 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Charlie Painter & Friends, 10 pm.

Waunakee High School: Spirit of India, Hindustani & Carnatic classical music festival, featuring headliners Ustad Shahid Parvez & Lalgudi GJR Krishnan, 4 pm.

Wisconsin Brewing Co., Verona: Frenchtown, 6 pm.

Rebecca Behrens Saturday, June 11, Mystery to Me, 1 pm

A Madison native who now lives in New York City, Behrens will speak about Summer of Lost and Found, her new middle grade novel in which a girl becomes involved in a centuriesold mystery during her summer vacation.

Bradley Thomason: Workshop and Q&A based on “Potentialized,” his new book, 10 am, 6/11, Goodman Community Center, followed by book signing. $20 (includes a copy of the book). RSVP: potentializedbook.splashthat.com.

Jeanie & Steve Tomasko: Reading from “Violet Hours” and “no spiders were harmed,” new chapbooks, 2 pm, 6/11, Crossroads Coffeehouse, Cross Plains. 798-2080.

SP ECIAL EV ENTS Taste of the Arts: Annual event, 9 am-4 pm, 6/11, Sheehan Park, Sun Prairie, with 100+ arts & crafts vendors, demonstrations, kids’ activities, entertainment, wine & cheese tasting. Free admission. 837-4547.

Dead Walk Fest: Zombie film festival, noon-10 pm, 6/11, Market Square Theater. $8. deadwalkfest.com.

SummerPalooza: Rotary Club of Madison event, 10 am2 pm, 6/11, Madison Children’s Museum & North Hamilton Street, with all-ages entertainment, games, activity tables & more. Free MCM admission all day. 256-6445.

Linda & Gene Farley Center Open House: Earth Day themed activities for all ages, 1-3:30 pm, 6/11, 2299 Spring Rose Rd., Verona, with farm & sanctuary tours, music by Raging Grannies. Free. 845-8724.

Posh Plants: Fundraiser, 6-9 pm, 6/11, Allen Centennial Garden, with music by the Paul Muench Quartet, silent & live auctions, botanical runway show. $50. 576-2501.

SP ECTATOR SP ORTS Madison Blaze: vs. Iowa, 5 pm, 6/11, Middleton High School stadium. $10. madisonblazefootball.com.

Madison Radicals: AUDL vs Detroit, 6 pm, 6/11, Breese Stevens Field. $7 ($6 adv.). radicalsultimate.com.

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Craig Mason Combo Sunday, June 12, Coliseum Bar, 1-4 pm

The Madison Jazz Society’s annual year-end party features the Craig Mason Combo, a Stoughton-based group that performs many styles of jazz from the early 20th century to the present.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Wyatt Agard, 6 pm.

Cargo Coffee-East Washington: Jamie Guiscafre, guitar, free, 2 pm.

Essen Haus: Meet the Beetles, free (patio), 4 pm.

Frequency: Daniel Bachman, Boo Bradley, 6:30 pm; Mrs. Magician, Barbara Hans, 10:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Ladies Must Swing, Primates Inc. fundraiser, with dance lessons & contest, 4 pm.

The Red Zone: Another Lost Year, Drugs Delaney, Left of Reason, Amberstein, 7 pm.

Roxbury Tavern: Westside Andy, Larry Collins, annual Northwest Dane Senior Services benefit, 2 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Frank James & Bobby Briggs, country, 3 pm.

T H EAT ER & DA N C E Tommy Awards Ceremony: Annual student musical theater event, 6 pm, 6/12, Overture Center. $25.

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Madison 56ers: vs. Aurora Borealis, 7 pm, 6/15, Breese Stevens Field. $8. 217-5453.

Capital Brewery: No Name String Band, free, 6 pm.

The Frequency: Bets, Glassmen, 10 pm.

High Noon Saloon: The Low Czars, classic rock, 6 pm; Rock Star Gomeroke, free, 9 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Em Jay, Jordan Davis, free, 10 pm.

Up North Pub: Derek Ramnarace, free, 8 pm.

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ART E XHIBITS & EV ENTS

Sunday, June 12, A Room of One’s Own, 2 pm

This Milwaukee author discusses her new novel The Audacity of Goats, the second book in her award-winning North of the Tension Line series. ALSO: Friday, June 17, Mystery to Me, 7 pm.

Floating on Waves: Japanese & Wisconsin artists, 6/149/23, BioPharmaceutical Technology Center-Promega Gallery, Fitchburg (symposium 3:30 pm and reception 4:30-6:30 pm, 6/14). promega-artshow.com.

wed jun 15

SP EC I A L EV EN TS Dog Fest: Annual Mounds event, 10 am-4 pm, 6/12, Angell Park, Sun Prairie. Free admission; dogs six months & older welcome. 825-9800.

mon jun 13 MU S I C Come Back In: John Masino, rock, free (patio), 5 pm.

The Frequency: The Ferns, The Everymen, Mr. Martin & the Sensitive Guys, 8 pm.

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

Warner Park: Northern Hooks, free, 6 pm.

thu jun 16

The Record Company Wednesday, June 15, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

The Record Company was formed in 2011 by three music fans who had moved to Los Angeles: lead singer and guitarist Chris Vos from Milwaukee, bassist Alex Stiff from Wayne, Pa., and drummer Marc Cazorla from Elmira, N.Y. A rock band with a raw and rootsy sound, the group is fresh off the release of a debut album, Give It Back to You. With Eagle Trace.

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Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Midlife Crisis, free, 6 pm.

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Brink Lounge: Sonnich Lydom, Kristian Bugge & Morten Alfred Hoirup, 7 pm.

Dead Horses + Ida Jo Wednesday, June 15, The Shitty Barn (Spring Green), 7 pm

Dead Horses’ sound is a blend of modern folk and classic blues material. The Milwaukee-based band recently recorded Cartoon Man, its third record and first as a trio. Madison’s Ida Jo (pictured) began playing violin around the time most people learn to ride a bike. Last fall she released Guardian of Being, a spacious showcase for the singer-songwriter’s voice and violin playing.

Buck and Honey’s, Sun Prairie: Nine Thirty Standard, blues/country/rock, free, 6:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJs Brook, Siberia, fetish night, 9 pm.

Come Back In: Field & James, free, 5 pm.

The Frequency: Rodrigo Amarante, Hooops, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: SheShe, Oh My Love, German Art Students, Paths to Healing benefit, 8 pm.

Malt House: Don’t Spook the Horse, free, 7:30 pm.

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

Quaker Steak & Lube, Middleton: Vinyl Thunder, 5:30 pm.

Uno Chicago Grill-Mineral Point Rd.: Northern Comfort, bluegrass, free, 6:30 pm.

Austin Lucas + Adam Faucett Thursday, June 16, Gates of Heaven, 7 pm

Austin Lucas (pictured) is a former choirboy who mixes punk rock and Americana in equal measure. Adam Faucett marries a soulful rock and blues combo with one of the most breathtaking voices you’ll hear in contemporary music; an Arkansas newspaper described it as an “unidentifiable cosmic holler.” Put it all together in a historic synagogue in James Madison Park and you’ve got an unforgettable night.

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June 13

A League of Their Own (1992)

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June 20

West Side Story (1961)

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Immigré

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June 27

Animal House (1978)

Fri, June 24

Trapper Schoepp

July 4

American Graffiti (1973)

Sat, June 25

Post Social w/ Pollinators

Thu, June 30

Lex Allen feat. New Age Narcissism

Fri, July 1

Something To Do w/Proud Parents

Sat, July 2

4th of July Celebration featuring

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Science is FUN and Gabe Burdulis

June 12

The Incredibles (2004)

Township w/The Other Shapes

June 26

The Muppet Movie (1979)

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Pokémon The Movie 2000 (1999)

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“There was the guy who split his crotch doing a high kick during a Packers game,” says Ryan Huber, co-owner of Context Clothing, the downtown menswear shop known for its selection of high-quality raw denim lines.

“And there was the guy who wore his favorite pair every day for three years until the knees finally gave out.”

Huber has heard countless stories of jeans so worn and tattered they came perilously close to becoming cutoffs. But fortunately, with its side business First Settlement Denim Repair, even the most ragged denim, expertly mended, can enjoy a new lease on life.

Context began repairing denim over 10 years ago, shortly after opening its doors in 2005. Back then, Huber’s business partner, Sam Parker, had his mom repair some jeans for his daughter, who was 2 years old at the time. After a few repair jobs, they hung the little girl’s jeans up in the store thinking they’d make a cool display. “Customers seemed to gravitate to the rough, patchwork style,” says Huber, with some asking if Context could repair jeans for them. A new enterprise was born.

In the early days, the repair service was a family affair, with Parker’s mom, Patty, wielding the needle and thread. But as customer

demand grew, the store began to turn work over to Tess Camacho, a professional sewer and Context’s current denim repair specialist.

Camacho, who has a fine arts background, works out of her east-side home studio, which is equipped with two industrial sewing machines. “I am very proud,” she says, “of the unique repair style I’ve developed.” The process, which involves placing a denim patch behind the hole, followed by significant darning with matching thread over the top, gives the jeans a reworked look that is also durable.

“I love the work because I get to blend artistry with something very utilitarian,” says Camacho.

In addition to replacing crotches and knees, Camacho reattaches back pockets, creates new belt loops and refreshes cuffs.

“I guess you could say many of our clients are denim geeks. They worked hard for their creases and fading,” she says. “They really love how their jeans have evolved and aren’t ready to say goodbye.”

Repairs average around $55, depending on the extent of damage. Camacho supplies clients with quotes before work begins.

The store even plans to start selling a line of T-shirts with the First Settlement Denim Repair tagline, “You Blow It, We Sew It.” ■

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When we met, I was really insecure and she had to spend a lot of time reassuring me that it didn’t matter — she loved my dick, sex with me was great, it was big enough for her, etc. I broke up with her once because I didn’t think she should settle for someone so small. After some hugely painful nights and another near breakup, we are in a good place now. We have lots of great vanilla sex, we love being together, and we recently got engaged. After everything I put her through — and I put her through hell — how do I tell her that being mocked (and worse) for having a small dick is the only thing I ever think about when I masturbate? I want a woman to punish me emotionally and physically for having such a small and inadequate dick. There’s porn about my kink, but I didn’t discover it until long after I was aware of my interest. (I grew up in a weird family that lived “off the grid,” and I didn’t get online until I got into college at age 23.)

I’ve never been able to bring myself to tell anyone about my kink. How do I tell this woman? I basically bullied her into telling me that my dick was big enough — and now I want her to tell me it isn’t big enough. But do I really want her to? I’ve never actually experienced the kind of insulting comments and physical punishments that I fantasize about. What if the reality is shattering?

Tense In New York “I was in a similar situation years ago with my then-girlfriend, now-wife,” says TP. “I was too chicken to tell her about my fetish and worried she wasn’t satisfied with my size, so I didn’t want to bring more attention to it. I eventually went to a pro Domme and felt guilty about doing it behind my girlfriend’s back.”

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“I got really lucky because I found the Domme I’ve been serving for more than 10 years,” says TP. “It was my Domme who encouraged me to bring up my kinks with my wife. I only wish I had told my wife earlier. She hasn’t turned into a stereotypical dominatrix, but she was open to incorporating some SPH play into our sex life.”

According to TP, TINY, you’ve already laid the groundwork for the successful incorporation of SPH into your sex life: You’re having good, regular, and satisfying vanilla sex with your partner.

“TINY’s partner is happy with their sex life, so he knows he can satisfy a woman,” said TP. “That will help to separate the fantasy of the humiliation from the reality of their strong relationship. I know if I wasn’t having good vanilla sex, it would be much harder to enjoy the humiliation aspect of SPH.” When you’re ready to broach the subject with the fiancée, TINY, I would recommend starting with both an apology (“I’m sorry again for what I put you through”) and a warning (“What I’m about to say is probably going to come as a bit of a shock”). Then tell her you

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