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REPS WITH A (FORMER) REP Brett Hulsey will pump you up.

6 NEWS

STOP! THIEF!

Store owner thwarts armed robber.

10 SCIENCE

MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

Limnologist finds that science and songs are a perfect duet.

12-14 OPINION ISTHMUS was honored June 9 with a citation from the Wisconsin Legislature for 40 years of journalistic excellence and its “countless contributions” to Madison. Dane County Reps. Melissa Sargent, Chris Taylor, Lisa Subeck (left to right) and Sen. Mark Miller (back) presented the citation in the Assembly Parlor to Craig Bartlett and Jeff Haupt (left to right), who bought Isthmus in 2014 with Mark Tauscher. Isthmus founder Vince O’Hern is on far right.

ORLANDO

Dan Savage records a podcast from Madison and a local activist pens personal response to the massacre.

CIAO, KOVAL

Madison police chief broke rules, must go.

17 COVER STORY

PAR FOR THE COURSE

Steve Stricker helps bring pro golf to Madison.

23-28 FOOD & DRINK

VEGAN LOVE

Expanded fest brings the best in animal-free dishes.

SOUP’S UP

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30 SPORTS

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Give it up for soccer’s Copa América Centenario.

32 BOOKS

BURIED ALIVE

Novel explores the travails of the caregiver.

BILL LUEDERS

JOHN SMALLWOOD

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SNAPSHOT, 14 OPINION BILL LUEDERS shows his versatility in this week’s issue.

For Snapshot, he writes a self-deprecating account of working out with Brett Hulsey, former state rep turned fitness guru. Then he goes hard on Police Chief Mike Koval, revealing in a well-researched opinion column how the chief has violated MPD departmental rules — and his own training advice — regarding acceptable police conduct.

OPINION WHEN JOHN SMALLWOOD heard Monday morning there were still unidentified victims of the mass shooting in Orlando, it brought him back 20 years, to when he was a closeted man living in Alabama. He poured his heart out in a raw and personal Facebook post, which now appears in a slightly revised version in this week’s issue as well as on Isthmus.com. Smallwood is a founding board member of Equality Alabama and a former organizer with Fair Wisconsin.

Thurs., June 16, Madison College Mitby Theater, 7:15 pm Spend an evening with rock-star author and autism activist Temple Grandin, one of the world’s leading voices on animalhuman communication. Now she’s deeply involved in horse-based therapies. Hear what she has to say about this promising new area of research at a fundraiser for Stoughton’s Three Gaits, a therapeutic horsemanship center.

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44 EMPHASIS

MADE IN THE SHADE

Tips for saving your skin from Old Man Sol.

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

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40 ISTHMUS PICKS 45 CLASSIFIEDS 46 P.S. MUELLER 46 CROSSWORD 47 SAVAGE LOVE

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Brett Hulsey (left) shows Bill Lueders how to apply the “energy-efficiency ethic to exercise,” while David Davis III (standing) observes.

Brett Hulsey’s extreme (but brief) exercise routine

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First, some breathing exercises — five outlandishly deep respirations, in and out. Brett Hulsey tells me just what to do.

“Fill up all four corners of your lungs,” he instructs. My lungs have corners? Who knew? “Feeling a little lightheaded right now?” he asks. Why, yes. “Your body is not used to oxygen.” It’s not used to any of this.

I’m at a gym called I Give 100 Fitness, on Madison’s southeast side, getting tutored in Hulsey’s “16-Minute Workout.” It’s a business he started last year, after his quixotic but never boring bid for governor in 2014. He also runs an energy consulting business, Better Environmental Solutions, and is refurbishing a 169-year-old farmhouse on Milwaukee Street for use as affordable housing.

Next, the treadmill. The goal is to get the heart pounding. I plod along as Hulsey’s associate, personal trainer David Davis III, adjusts the slope and speed. The hand grips track my escalating heart rate. The goal, Hulsey says, is 120 to 130 beats per minute. After a minute of warmup I’m at 107. It quickly climbs to 134, then 141, then 147.

“The better shape you’re in, the harder it is to get your heart rate up,” explains Hulsey. Got it.

I’ve already filled out a health history and signed a waiver. An overview for Hulsey’s program advises, “Check with Your Doctor First, So You Don’t Have to Call Your Lawyer Later.”

Hulsey is 57, but says “my body feels younger.”

I’m 56, and wouldn’t make that claim. He’s run four Ironman races and is a good enough skier to give lessons to Davis, who looks like an Olympian. Now Hulsey is tapping into the high-intensity interval training trend with his own system of exercises meant to turn short-term pain into long-term gain.

“I’m sort of applying the energy-efficiency ethic to exercise,” he explains. The number-one excuse people give for not exercising is that they don’t have time, so he’s come up with a regimen no longer than the wait at Culver’s when the drive-through line is long. He cites scientific studies showing that intense exertion yields the same health benefits as longer periods of more moderate exercise.

My heart still pounding, we move to strength exercises involving dumbbells, including shoulder rolls and squat presses, which Hulsey pronounces “a great whole-body exercise.” Then he has me hang from a pull-up bar for a spell, an exercise meant to build out the shoulders.

In Hulsey’s mind, exercise is the key to solving most of the nation’s health woes. Diabetes. Heart disease. Obesity. Even cancer. Sixteen minutes a day and they’re held at bay. (His company’s actual slogan: “Feel better, get fitter, lose weight in just minutes a day.”)

It all kind of makes sense, coming from Hulsey, a former Dane County supervisor and state Assembly representative known for his intensity, sometimes to

his detriment. He once commandeered a press conference by seizing the mic after Gov. Scott Walker walked away from it. He also drew a disorderly conduct citation for an altercation with a 9-year-old at a beach.

But here, in the gym, the gap-toothed Hulsey is in his element: patient, encouraging, looking for ways to personalize his approach. He earned his personal trainer certificate last year, along with a certificate to coach cross-country skiing. He’s put on free workout tutorials at senior centers: “This is a business, but sometimes I give it away.” Usually, he charges $116 for an assessment, inaugural session and a month of coaching advice.

In his first year, he’s made less than $1,000 but looks on the bright side, saying his business has “good growth potential.” He’s looking to teach classes and perhaps write a book.

We move on to core exercises, which tune up the old torso. This includes what Hulsey calls let downs — pushups with an emphasis on prolonging the return trip. Hulsey’s overview advises, with regard to this exercise, “Repeat to fatigue.” I’m getting there.

But then we’re on to yoga-ish exercises and something Hulsey calls child poses, which provide gentle stretching. These are followed with my favorite exercise, the final rest pose: lying flat on the mat while Hulsey urges feeling like “a pat of butter melting on top of a pancake.”

This one, I could do for hours. n

HULSEY SCIENTIFIC STUDY CLAIM #1: “Three intense, 20-second biking bursts can get you in as good a shape as 45 minutes of steady biking.”

HULSEY SCIENTIFIC STUDY CLAIM #2: “A recent American Heart Association study showed short-burst exercise reduced blood sugar levels three times more than 30 minutes of steady exercise.”

DOES A 16-MINUTE WORKOUT HAVE TO TAKE 16 MINUTES? “It does not. One minute can be good. Any exercise is better than no exercise.”

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Thwarted Local store owner chases off armed robber

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Just like most nights, business on June 1 had slowed to a trickle at the Madison Food Mart after the 9 p.m. beer rush. Abdullah Akhun, owner of the store at the corner of East Johnson and Paterson, was standing behind the register, watching a Johnny Carson rerun on Antenna TV when he heard the door open.

When Akhun turned to greet the customer, it wasn’t one of his regulars from the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood. Instead, it was a man wearing a baseball cap, black hoodie and ski mask. He pointed a gun at Akhun and yelled: “This is a stickup!”

“I thought it was a prank at first,” says Akhun. “There was no time to feel afraid.”

As caught on surveillance video, Akhun didn’t react the way most people would when staring down the barrel of a gun.

“It was pointing at me, so I reached for it,” Akhun says. “My motive was to grab the gun out of his hand. See what happens when the shoe is on the other foot. Then what? So yeah, I reached for the gun.”

The video — which you can watch at Isthmus.com — shows the masked man evade Akhun’s reach, step back and cock the gun.

Akhun says he heard a loud click, a sound that jolted him into action.

He starts to come around the counter, turns back to grab a baseball bat, and then chases after the assailant. The robber seems to realize he’s outmatched and heads for the door. Akhun hears a second “click” before the robber flees down the street.

“Maybe the safety was on or there were no bullets [in the gun],” Akhun says. “But that would be a total guess. It happened so fast.”

The encounter lasted 12 seconds.

Abdullah Akhun thought an attempted armed robbery was “a prank at first.”

When he realized it wasn’t, he lunged for the handgun.

Unfazed by the robbery attempt, Akhun kept the store open another 40 minutes before closing as normal at 11 p.m. He didn’t bother to call 911.

“If I would have called the police, that’d send 10 squads, and I’d have been here for

hours,” says Akhun, who works at his shop 13 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week.

“No harm was done. This episode was over,” he says of his thinking at the time. “Tomorrow I will get up and be here at 7 in the morning. I wanted to go home.”

The incident was reported to police on June 3, two days later, but not by Akhun. By then, he had shown the surveillance video of the robbery to several customers.

“I suspect one of the neighbors called the police, but I’m not sure who,” he says. Police told Akhun he should have reported the attempted robbery immediately because the armed man might have committed another crime. “But maybe he didn’t,” Akhun counters. “Who’s to say? Certainly not me.”

Joel DeSpain, spokesman for the Madison Police Department, encourages all people to report crimes. “The store owner was definitely victimized, and we’d like to catch the guy so he can have justice. But it’s not just about him. It’s not uncommon for one person to commit several crimes in a relatively short period of time,” DeSpain says. “If we don’t hear about it, we can’t spot patterns.”

DeSpain says when police contacted Akhun, he was helpful and cooperative. A detective has been assigned to the case.

The Madison Food Mart — which declares itself the “Best Little Store in Town” on its sign — epitomizes the neighborhood corner shop.

Akhun, who bought the store in 2001, knows most of his customers by name, and they call him “Abby.” Akhun is quick with a joke and loves to talk politics. When neighborhood dogs get loose, they often sprint straight to Akhun’s store, because he’s generous with puppy treats.

A native of Hunza, which is now part of Pakistan, Akhun is nonchalant about the attempted armed robbery. He was held up one time before in the store, more than a decade ago, but can’t remember how he reacted that time.

“This is a nice, safe neighborhood. Everybody knows everybody,” Akhun says. “These things don’t occur here.” n

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The sound of science UW-Madison researcher mixes music and limnology Data collected from sensors on a buoy in Lake Mendota map the ebb and flow of the algal blooms that each year turn the lake green with phytoplankton. A look at the patterns created over time shows a confluence of interconnected cycles driven by season, temperature, sunrise and sunset.

To most people, that sounds like science.

A lyrical description perhaps, but well within the realm of what is observable, measurable and repeatable — the necessary conditions for a scientific experiment. But to UW-Madison researcher Paul Hanson, the data — and the forces of nature behind them — have the power to transcend his empirically driven discipline.

Hanson, a distinguished professor of research with the university’s Center for Limnology, is also a musician and a composer.

For the past several years he’s been collaborating with local musician Chris Wagoner and others to write and record songs inspired by both science and nature.

“There are three Cs that connect music and science,” Hanson says. “Creativity, communication and collaboration.”

Hanson had been playing music with Wagoner for some time before they began discussing the link between their professions. But as the conversations continued, they found that science and music have a great deal in common.

“Art and science terminology is very similar,” says Wagoner, a classically trained violinist who plays in a number of local bands.

“People assume music is all creativity, but there’s a lot of structure involved.”

Both science and music tell stories — they ask questions, they provide resolutions. Patterns and repetitions give emphasis and di-

rection to the narrative. In identifying these “analogous structures,” Hanson recognized the potential to use music as a new and different way to communicate science topics.

Earlier this year, Hanson debuted his project at the Center for Limnology, bringing in a full band to stage a live performance of “Falling Creek,” a song inspired by Hanson’s research on harmful algal blooms. During the academic year, the Center for Limnology hosts weekly seminars on topics related to the study of inland lakes and rivers. Typically, it’s a standard academic lecture designed for faculty, staff and students already familiar with the discipline. So when Hanson pitched his idea, it was a significant break in format.

“It’s never been done, as far as I’m aware, having live musicians in the seminar and as part of the team,” Hanson says. “I don’t think people had any idea what to expect.”

The song, a lilting waltz reminiscent of composer Aaron Copland, has musical elements that draw from Hanson’s algal bloom research as well as nature itself. The data doesn’t translate precisely to musical notes, but the cycles of water ecology provide the framework and inspiration for the song’s melody and structure.

Delicate guitar harmonics, plucked in a pentatonic melody, are evocative of dripping water; the low, sustained drone of a cello represents the consistency of the natural world.

As the free-form rubato of the melody swells, the tempo and meter represent the interconnected life cycles of the ecosystem as it moves through the seasons.

“It tells a full story, it has an end that you feel,” Hanson says. “It just feels right.”

Hanson says scientists face a “fundamental challenge” when pursuing and publish-

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UW-Madison limnologist Paul Hanson (standing) partnered with local musicians at Paradyme Studios to record and release an album of six science-inspired songs.

ing their research — assumptions must be laid out, the data must be repeatable, and there’s a “heavy emphasis” on conciseness and efficiency in how the information is presented. Adhering to such standards is useful in academia, but it can present a barrier for nonscientific audiences.

“We’re looking at how we can do a really good job telling a science story to people who aren’t scientists,” Hanson says.

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“That could have been me” A personal take on the Orlando massacre

BY JOHN SMALLWOOD John Smallwood moved from Alabama to Madison in 2011 on a temporary assignment. He found it a welcoming place for the LGBT community and now calls it home. His dream is that Madison be as welcoming a place for all, especially people of color.

This weekend’s massacre at the Orlando gay club Pulse is personal to me. I have only been able to process pieces of this. The whole would shut me down. Here is one of the many pieces: On Monday morning, the day after the deadly mass shooting left 49 dead and more than 50 wounded, all of the victims had been identified except for one. My mind quickly took me to a place two decades and a lot of self-work away. I became the unidentified victim.

Closeted. Hours from where I live. In the only place where I can be gay, be sexually attracted to men, and not judged, or worse.

It is the middle of the night. The rest of my world can’t see me.

Gay bars rarely have windows for a reason. They are a sanctuary. I was in my sanctuary. A respite from the lies that keep my current world from disappearing in an instant if I told the truth: I am a gay man.

No one in the bar will know my last name.

No one asks. They know my story by looking at me. It’s a familiar one.

My family will know something is very wrong when I don’t show up to pick up my mother for church. She doesn’t drive

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anymore because she is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. She gets great comfort in her lifelong Primitive Baptist Christian faith, which has served her well. She needs it now more than ever to get through this horrible time in her life of slowly losing her mind while her husband of 40 years dies of cancer. So her

closeted gay son takes her to a small church in the country.

Most of the “Brothers” preach in a cadence that sounds more like singing than a speech.

Most Sundays there is at least some mention of the sad state of this country when it considers men marrying men and women marrying

women. Sometimes the whole sermon is about the homosexual’s reprobate mind being an abomination unto the Lord and how the Lord will stop blessing Americans.

The chosen ones. The chosen religion. The chosen denomination. The chosen country.

His favor will be pulled. We will not be the chosen ones anymore. Even though this faithful house of worship has it right, they are too few in number to save the country.

America still must be punished, by...God. The God they worship...because gays might be able to marry.

The police will find my car parked blocks away. I would never park at the gay club.

They run my plates. My name revealed.

Dots connected.

So, my parents find out like that. Their world would not allow them to have a gay son. They will continue the denial they have lived all of their son’s life. The signs were there. They chose not to deal with it and taught their son to do the same. Carefully let him know he must do the same.

That will not change by his murder in a gay bar by a religious zealot who thinks God hates gay people. They will say, “He heard the gunfire and ran into the place because he thought he could help.” Their dead — not gay — son is a hero.

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Dan Savage just happened to be at the Shamrock Bar in Madison Saturday night. He and his husband, Terry, were in town for a nearby family reunion, enjoying a drink in the local gay bar on Main Street. At the same time, Omar Mateen entered Pulse in Orlando with an assault rifle and a handgun, and opened fire in the crowded gay nightclub, killing 49 people and wounding 53.

The latest Savage Lovecast was due to be released in a few days, and Savage says he “couldn’t bear the thought” of airing the upbeat introduction of the sex advice podcast that was already in place. In need of a studio, Savage contacted Isthmus to record his response to the mass shooting.

In his podcast, Savage talks about how, when he was growing up, gay bars provided a resounding counterargument to prevailing societal attitudes about what it meant to be gay.

“What I found in those bars was more than joy — it was the truth,” he says. “I saw with my own eyes that what I had been told all my life, that being queer, being gay, would mean being alone, it would mean being mis-

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People were happy. There was joy and love or the possibility of love.”

The attack at the Pulse, he says, was an attempt to take “that from all of us everywhere, that hard-won sense of belonging and place and safety. And we aren’t safe, particularly poor queer people, particularly trans queer people.”

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Madison, along with cities around the world, reacted to news of a mass shooting at an LGBT bar in Orlando with candlelight vigils and tributes for the victims.

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Chief Koval must go He has broken his department’s rules and set a bad example

BY BILL LUEDERS Former Isthmus news editor Bill Lueders is associate editor of The Progressive.

In 2009, I interviewed Sgt. Mike Koval for an Isthmus article on police temperament. It ran under the headline “Madison Police Are Taught Restraint, Even When Disrespected.”

Koval had by then logged 18 years as the cop in charge of training MPD recruits. He remained in that role until 2014, when he was named chief of police.

My inquiry was prompted by an issue in the national news: Henry Gates, a famed professor at Harvard who happens to be black, had been arrested at his home after he angrily accused an officer who questioned him of racial bias.

Koval was unequivocal about his expectation that Madison police, in a similar situation, should keep their cool. Being subjected to “disrespect and incivility,” he said, was part of the job, which is why cops here are trained to tolerate verbal abuse: “We have to have a thicker skin.”

As chief of police, Koval has fallen short of this standard. Instead, he has shown himself to be a petulant bully who lacks self-control — a hothead with a gun and a badge. He is just as temperamentally unfit to lead the MPD as Donald Trump is to be president.

Moreover, Koval’s conduct has violated his own department’s rules, for which he should pay a price.

On the evening of June 5, a Sunday, Koval released a splenetic blog post over an impending Common Council vote. At issue was a pro-

posal to allocate an additional $350,000 for a consultant to examine MPD policies and culture, perhaps identifying ways to reduce the number of unarmed people that Koval’s officers kill.

While claiming he wasn’t opposed to the study, Koval unleashed a torrential rant over it, attacking those citizens who dare to criticize his department, as well as council members.

“You are being watched,” he warned the alderpersons, who make $12,692 a year compared to Koval’s $147,444. “And be on notice: this is a preemptive first strike from me to you. I am going to push back hard when MPD is constantly used as a political punching bag and you are nowhere to be found.”

The allocation was approved on a 19-1 vote after a four-hour council discussion that began June 7 and dragged on past midnight.

Koval was combative, sarcastic and bellig-

erent. He regarded the alders with open disdain, rolling his eyes and striking a table. He threatened to walk out. Several alders, who as a group showed far more character and restraint than Koval, actually cried.

In an interview last week with Isthmus, Koval expressed regret over some of his rhetoric but put primary blame on a changing local culture: “The newest sort of strategy is rather than agree to disagree, you go on the attack, create polarity and you marginalize....”

This is actually an apt description for Koval’s own conduct, for which he offered a tepid apology in his blog this week. But he added that he “cannot be expected to remain silent with matters affecting our department and officer morale.” In other words, it will happen again. No thanks, Chief.

Getting rid of a chief of police is a heavy lift.

State law lets chiefs, once appointed, serve indefinitely. They are subject to removal only for misconduct that draws a complaint.

Richard Williams, one of Koval’s predecessors, was a lousy chief. But he never treated the city’s residents or elected representatives with contempt. Nor did he seri-

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ously breach his department’s own rules. Koval has.

Section 204 of the Madison Police Policy Manual holds that members of the MPD must refrain from “overbearing, oppressive or tyrannical conduct” in their dealings with the public.

Koval’s behavior during his public meltdown fits any reasonable definition of these terms.

And among the possible sanctions, according to the policy manual, at 4-1400, is termination.

Of course, it’s probably a waste of time to complain to the Madison Police and Fire Commission, which is in charge of meting out discipline to department members, including chiefs. The body, which is purposely ineffectual as an instrument of police accountability, is not going to fire Koval for anything less than the discovery of severed heads in his fridge.

But Koval’s blatant disregard of his department’s rules should cost him the consent of the governed. It should mark an end to the tremendous amount of deference he has received during his first two years. It should prompt the public to demand a new chief.

Koval has, through his actions, set a bad example. He has conveyed to every cop on the street that it’s okay to be thin-skinned, to bully people, to respond hostilely to perceived slights, to pound the table and roll your eyes and push back against anyone you consider difficult.

As Mike Koval once knew, this is not how police are supposed to act. And that is why, one way or another, he has to go. n

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Reinventing the flag Dylan Brogan’s flag story (“Wisconsin Deserves a Better Flag,” 6/9/2016) elicited memories of my excursion along the same path in 1979 at the behest of Dick Erney, a late director of the Wisconsin Historical Society who had been asked to provide the Assembly’s state affairs committee with a history of the flag in connection with the pending legislation. I returned from a vacation to find a note on my door with the assignment. As a result, the legislation rewrote the flag statute completely. No longer would a “legal” flag have to be silk, or embroidered, with fancy fringe or nearly five feet square. Instead it would be proportioned along the lines manufactured by America’s flag industries.

And, yes, it would have “Wisconsin” and “1848” added to it.

I relied on Edward B. Kaye’s vexillological ancestor Whitney Smith of the Flag Research Center, and I suggested in testimony, on television and in print that Wisconsin really needed “a readily made, symbolic state flag that will be truly simple, striking and easily recognizable, even when seen at a distance and waving in a breeze.”

It now has a readily made flag. It still needs everything else.

Jack Holzhueter Mazomanie (via email)

Brian Lorbiecki’s proposed tricolor design for Wisconsin’s flag captures the state’s essence.

Light blue depicts its vast unpolluted and unobstructed sky. Green represents Wisconsin’s farms, forests and land of fertile ideas. Dark blue positions Wisconsin on two Great Lakes with a Green Bay and a bounty of smaller lakes for fishing, swimming and boating. As Dylan Brogan’s article also observed, tricolor flags have the advantage of being affordable.

All Wisconsin citizens could buy and fly a tricolor flag, because it would be less expensive to produce than the current flag, which is crammed with small details on a coat of arms that cannot be seen from a distance.

LuAnne Feik (via email) I think the flag is fine; it’s the political majority that needs to be changed.

Carol Pope (via Facebook) Wisconsin deserves a better governor, too.

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Steve Stricker readies for his next career turn by michael popke SAM GREENWOOD

A decade ago, after three years of poor performances, Steve Stricker left the PGA Tour and almost stopped playing golf altogether. Nobody was confident that the Edgerton native, on the cusp of turning 40, would bounce back.

Yet that’s exactly what Stricker, one of Madison’s most famous golfers, did following the 2005 winter of his discontent.

And despite cutting back on the number of tournaments he plays, Stricker still was ranked No. 10 on the PGA’s career money leaders list at the end of May, having earned more than $41 million since 1990.

Now approaching 50, he’s leveraging his success on the course, his perseverance off it and his loyal ties to Madison in an effort to make Wisconsin a regular PGA Tour stop for the first time since 2009, when the Greater Milwaukee Open ended its 42-year run.

Stricker — one of several professional athletes known as American Family ambassadors — will host the American Family Insurance Championship on June 24-26 at University Ridge Golf Course. The no-cut, 54-

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Working with the former University of Wisconsin golf coach he had spurned in accepting a scholarship from another Big Ten school, Stricker tirelessly reinvented his swing and rejuvenated his career.

Beginning at The Barclays in 2007 and wrapping up with the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in 2012, Stricker racked up an astonishing nine PGA Tour wins.

Between 2007 and 2013, he finished in the PGA’s top 10 five times.

In April, he was named captain of the 2017 U.S. Presidents Cup Team — an honor he says he never thought he’d receive, even though he represented the United States on five Presidents Cup teams and three Ryder Cup teams over the years.

hole PGA Tour Champions event for golfers over 50 will feature an 81-player field competing for a $2 million purse.

Proceeds will be donated to the Steve Stricker American Family Insurance Foundation for distribution to the American Family Children’s Hospital and other charities.

“We kept talking about having an event,” Stricker says about his early conversations dating back more than three years ago with Jack Salzwedel, chief executive officer and president of Madison-based American Family Insurance. “At first, we thought about a smaller, two-day event that would bring in some pros and celebrities and raise money that way. And then it slowly morphed into a Champions event.”

Among the golfers participating are 27-time PGA Tour Champions event winner Bernhard Langer, 17time PGA Tour Champions event winner Jay Haas, two-time major champion John Daly, 1996 U.S. Open winner and 2006 U.S. Ryder Cup team captain Tom Lehman,

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Stricker, winner of 12 PGA Tour titles and five Wisconsin State Open championships, who was the No. 2 golfer in the world in 2009 and 2010, turned 49 in February and won’t be eligible to play in his own tournament until next year.

“This is meant to be a community event that embraces Madison,” says Nate Pokrass, tournament director of the American Family Insurance Championship, one of 26 tournaments in 19 different states and three countries on the 2016 Champions schedule.

“The PGA wants cities to make these events their own and unique to their community.”

To that end, the week’s schedule includes an Executive Women’s Day on June 20 presented by Kathy Ireland Worldwide (an independently produced television program on Fox Business Network about health and business issues featuring Ireland, another American Family brand ambassador), followed by a youth clinic hosted by First Tee of South Central Wisconsin on June 21 and pro-am events on June 22 and 23.

There will also be a celebrity nine-hole scramble on June 25 at University Ridge featuring former Green Bay Packers teammates Brett Favre and Mark Tauscher, a co-owner of Isthmus, along with Stricker himself and two-time U.S. Open Champion and Madison resident Andy North.

The economic impact on the Madison area of the American Family Insurance Championship is expected to be about $20 million, according to Pokrass and Stricker, and the event has the potential to eventually become as successful as the Greater Milwaukee Open.

“The GMO was always a great event,” Stricker says, taking a break from hitting balls at Cherokee Country Club one day in late April.

“I would get more nervous for that than some of the bigger events I played, just because of the expectations of coming back to Wisconsin and playing in front of my family and friends.

You have that pressure to perform well.”

Stricker didn’t always feel that kind of pressure. In fact, as a studentathlete at Edgerton High School in the early 1980s, he competed in three sports all four years, including golf and baseball — but basketball was his favorite.

“Back then, it was different,” he says.

“When you play a sport today, you do that for 12 months a year. Thirty years ago, you played everything, just concentrating on that sport during that season. I think kids who specialize today are missing out on a lot, like the relationships of getting to know other kids and how to handle themselves in multiple sports. You handle golf differently than you handle football, right? You have to adjust. That builds a more well-rounded child, which is why it’s good to play as much as you can and expand your perspective.”

Stricker still misses playing team sports, but he quickly found out he was most skilled at golf.

“Every level that I played at, I had some success fairly quickly,” he says. “That gave me the confidence to continue on, work at it and try to get better.”

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After hitting rock bottom in 2005, Stricker reinvented his swing. In a remarkable comeback, he won nine PGA titles between 2007 and 2012.

Dennis Tiziani: “Steve’s going to be a factor for the next 10 years.”

Stricker won the state high school title his junior year in 1984 and was recruited

by Dennis Tiziani, golf coach at the UW. Instead, Stricker opted to attend the University of Illinois on a golf scholarship, where the men’s program was in a rebuilding phase and he hoped he would be able to have an immediate impact as a freshman.

“Illinois did a good job recruiting him,” says Tiziani, 73, who went on to become an integral part of Stricker’s life when the golfer eventually married his daughter, Nicki.

“Wisconsin only had two golf scholarships back then, and one-third of one of them would have been for Steve.”

“I called Tiz up and told him I wasn’t coming to Wisconsin,” Stricker remembers. “And to show you what kind of guy he is, he said, ‘Well, I’m disappointed, but if you ever need any help in the future, don’t be afraid to come back.’”

Stricker did come back — including for a fateful private lesson during his junior year at Illinois when he met Nicki.

But that wouldn’t be the last time Stricker would turn to Tiziani for advice.

After graduating from Illinois, Stricker went pro in 1990, beginning his career on the Canadian Professional Golf Tour (now renamed PGA Tour Canada and typically referred to as the Canadian Tour).

He won his first major event in Canada in a playoff, and eventually made it past the PGA Tour Qualifying School — the term used for the annual qualifying tournaments that determine which golfers will earn a “tour card” and play the following year’s tour.

“It took me four times, but I finally obtained my card,” Stricker says. “There were a lot of good players over the years who just couldn’t make it over the hump and get through the qualifying school.”

Stricker married Nicki in 1993, and the couple have two children, Bobbi Maria and Isabella. He made his debut on the PGA tour in 1994 with Nicki as his caddy, and by 1996 he finished fourth on the PGA Tour money list. He was runner-up to tour veteran Vijay Singh in the 1998 PGA Championship in Redmond, Wash., losing by two strokes. The next year, he finished fifth in the 1999 U.S. Open, a tournament in which he’s placed in the top 20 six times.

The good times continued for a few more years. Then, beginning in 2003, Stricker’s game fell apart. He lost his tour card in 2004, and by 2005 was wondering whether his career was over.

“There was a coming-to-Jesus moment in 2005,” Stricker says. “I was basically asking myself, ‘What am I going to do?’ I just came

off my third poor season in a row. I had a pretty good run, and didn’t know if I wanted to continue floundering around.”

But the thought of finding alternative work was not particularly appealing, he jokes. “I started thinking, ‘What else could I do? What else am I qualified to do? I better get to work and figure this thing out!’”

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greatest comeback stories. After Stricker’s PGA Tour ranking plummeted below 150, he turned to Tiziani once again.

“This is normal for people on the tour who reach some success and try to go to a higher level,” says the former Badgers coach, who retired in 2003 from the UW golf team and owns the Cherokee Country Club and real estate firm Cherokee Park Inc. “Some people never come out of their rut, but Steve did — and he came back stronger than ever. He knew enough to sort things out for himself. He just needed someone to keep him on the right path.”

While Stricker never lost his reputation as a consistently reliable putter, he was struggling more than ever with his swing.

During the cold winter of 2005-06, in a heated training trailer at Cherokee Country Club, Tiziani analyzed his student’s swing and realized that it finished with the club pointing to the right of the target.

“My swing was long and across the line,” Stricker explains. “From that position, I could hit the ball way to the right or hook it to the left. Not ideal. We spent a long winter in that trailer looking at my swing in the mirrors and Tiz watching me and trying to get my swing into a position where I thought I could play well again.”

Stricker went back to the fundamentals, and Tiziani let him take the lead in realigning his own swing. Together, sonin-law and father-in-law broke down the complex physics of the game, and Stricker slowly improved. “When he would swing and get no response from me, that was good,” Tiziani says. “You move the player ahead, and then you get behind him. That’s my approach. Steve’s turnaround was really 100% him.”

“Golf is a game where you’re out there by yourself; nobody is helping you,” Stricker says. “Your coach isn’t saying stuff in your ear while you’re getting ready to hit your shot. So I had to figure it out for myself.”

Eventually, Stricker started seeing results on the driving range, then at pro-ams and finally going a solid couple rounds during tournaments. “All of a sudden, I’d put four good rounds together,” he recalls. “That was fun, and I knew I was on the right track.”

He won the PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year two seasons in a row (2006 and 2007) and was runner-up in the 2007 FedEx Cup Playoffs to Tiger Woods.

The relationship between Stricker and Woods — practice partners and Ryder Cup teammates — has been fodder for golf journalists for years, especially after Stricker tutored one of the most successful golfers of all time.

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n COVER STORY “Whatever he says, I’m going to do,” Woods told reporters in 2013 after Stricker gave Woods some putting pointers before the first round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship at the Trump Doral Golf Club and Resort in Florida. “He’s one of the best putters who ever lived. He can see what’s off a little bit because he knows my stroke so well.

Friends help each other, and Steve and I have been friends a long time.”

Stricker finished one stroke behind Woods that day in Florida, and the story lends credence to the widely held belief that Stricker is one of the nicer guys in all of professional sports. In 2012, he won the Payne Stewart Award, given to the golfer who best displays respect for the game’s traditions, is involved in charity and presents himself in a professional manner through dress and conduct. (Stewart, a three-time PGA champ, died in a plane crash in 1999.)

Stricker’s friendship with Woods has continued, even as Woods struggles on and off the course.

“We’re two completely different people, but he has a trust in me, and we’ve enjoyed each other’s company,” says Stricker, adding that he still exchanges text messages with Woods, whose absence at numerous stops on the PGA Tour in recent years has been notable. “He sounds like he’s in a really good place right now. He seems happy and wants to get back out there and kick some of these young guys’ butts, he told me. He wants to get healthy, and he’s working toward that.

Hopefully, he does, because the tour is definitely better with Tiger out there.”

For more than a month,

Stricker isn’t the only Madison golfer with ties to the Champions tour. Andy North, a two-time U.S. Open champion and winner of one Champions tour title, is a prominent Champions tour professional.

Another player on the Champions tour horizon with local connections is Madison native Jerry Kelly, who turns 50 in November.

Stricker will be onsite all week for the American Family Insurance Championship, visiting with players, sponsors and fans, Pokrass says, and will be part of the opening ceremonies and trophy presentation.

He also, no doubt, will be keeping track of the action on the course. After all, Stricker will become a member of the Champions tour next year and has a reputation to maintain as a player who improves with age.

Part of that, Stricker says, still has something to do with what he discovered during those winter training sessions out at Cherokee.

“I think that’s why I played well for a longer period of time,” he says. “I found out what worked for me in that trailer in 2005 and 2006, and I’ve whittled it down to three or four things that I continually work on. That’s what has made it enjoyable and fun, because I really don’t deviate from those things.”

Stricker took particular joy in watching 58-year-old Langer, a regular on the Champions tour, stay in contention entering the final round of the Masters in April. Langer had already committed to play the American Family Insurance Championship, and Stricker was beside himself with excitement.

“I was rooting for him, because if he went and won the Masters, we would have the Masters champion playing our event. I was like, ‘Holy cow, that would be really cool!’”

Langer faded at the Masters but still serves as an inspiration. “Watching him, it makes all the older players — and I hate to say it, but I’m one of them now — feel like we can compete on the big stage for quite a while. It’s harder, no question, but if you work hard during the week and make your putts and get everything clicking, it’s possible.”

Stricker will find out what’s possible soon enough. Next year will be his first on the Champions circuit, and he’ll be a contender, Tiziani predicts.

“Steve’s going to be a factor for the next 10 years,” he says. “I often say his history is in his future.” n

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Stricker, Pokrass and countless paid and volunteer staff members have been hard at work onsite at University Ridge, prepping to welcome professional golf to Madison.

“There is a sense of urgency and excitement about something brand new,” says Pokrass, who also is executive director of the Steve Stricker American Family Insurance Foundation. “The philanthropic connection is unique to the PGA, and it’s rallying the community.”

Unlike other professional sports organizations, the PGA Tour relies on more than 100,000 volunteers annually to run its tournaments, and the vast majority of those tournaments are structured as nonprofit organizations designed to donate 100% of net proceeds to charity. In 2015, the PGA Tour and its tournaments generated a record $160 million for charity, marking the first time they surpassed the $150 million threshold in a single year.

All told, Pokrass expects an estimated 1,500 people to be involved in working the championship event. When the call went out for volunteers, 1,100 individuals answered within the first six weeks. “That shows the commitment people in this state have toward golf and toward charity,” he says.

Up to 15,000 spectators per day are expected on the course, depending on who is in contention as play progresses. Tickets for the event (disclosure: Isthmus Ticketing is the agent) are available online or at the tournament entrance: $25 general admission or three-day pass for $60.

Stricker and American Family’s Jack Salzwedel (above) talked for three years about bringing pro golf to Madison.

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dors has nearly doubled from last year. As any vegan can tell you, it’s not just about avoiding meat. Other ingredients from animals — whey, gelatin and casein, to name a few — are included in a host of products that, without close inspection, one would assume are animal-free.

But at Mad City Vegan Fest, vegans can let their guard down, confident that everything on the menu is animal-free.

The Cultured Vegan, from the Chicago area, will be serving plant-based “fysh,” “chik’n” and “beef” tacos with rice and beans. They’ll also be offering chocolate

glazed doughnuts and watermelon refresca (watermelon juice with fresh mint and lime).

Rain Truth, chef for the Cultured Vegan, has attended Mad City Vegan Fest before, but this is her first year as a vendor. She recognizes that there are still negative connotations surrounding veganism. “That’s why I love bringing my kids and having them see that they are not out of the norm,” says Truth. The Cultured Vegan will be serving a special tofu scrambler breakfast plate in the morning.

Soul Vegan, also from Chicago, will be selling macaroni and “cheese,” gyros and

barbecue. Traditional cornbread and collard greens are also on the menu.

Chef Anah Lesure, with The Next Level Vegans, is cooking up gyros, eggplant “parmesan,” lasagna and sweet potato pie. Next Level was at the fest last year, and Lesure says she received positive reviews from vegans and non-vegans alike. “We like introducing people to vegan food.

It’s basically the same food you eat everyday, but we’re taking the meat byproducts out of it, so it’s healthier,” says Lesure. “My goal is when you see the word ‘vegan,’ you think delicious.”

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Last year’s Mad City Vegan Fest packed 4,000 attendees into the Goodman Community Center. People were generally happy with the event, says co-organizer Dave Friedman, but for one thing: “The only real complaints we had was that there was hardly room to breathe.”

That’s why the six-year-old fest is relocating to the Alliant Energy Center Exhibition Hall.

This year’s event takes place June 18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. “Moving to the Alliant Center also lets us add more food vendors and exhibitors,” says Friedman.

It’s the food court that usually steals the show, says Friedman, and the number of ven-

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Dining at Mini Hot Pot, one of the newest and most buzzed-about restaurants in the South Park Street corridor, is as much an educational experience as it is a delicious one.

The charming little spot specializes in a classic East Asian style of soup (also known by the Japanese name shabu-shabu) in which meats and vegetables are cooked, fondue style, in a simmering cauldron of broth. Traditionally, the hot pot is a communal dining experience, but Mini Hot Pot offers individual meals that diners cook on electric burners built right into the tabletops.

From the start, the hot pot is customizable — pick a protein (such as beef, pork, chicken, crab, or a seafood medley), then choose a broth base (there’s spicy Sichuan, coconut, Korean kimchi, mushroom, and spicy-sour Thai). In addition, hot pot combos come with a well-appointed vegetable tray, piled high with fresh spinach, Napa cabbage, enoki mushrooms and corn on the cob. Plus there’s an array of extras like fish cakes, fish balls, beef balls, mini sausages, clams, a shrimp dumpling, a crab stick, tofu and a slice of Spam. There’s also the option to order ingredients a la carte — perhaps a good option for a second visit, once you’ve identified your favorites.

Once you order, head to the noodle bar, where there’s even more fun stuff to add to your hot pot — unlimited soba and vermicelli noodles, raw eggs, sliced potato and sweet potato. Grab what you’d like and set it aside for when the broth arrives. Finally, there are sauces and the condiment bar, where you’ll find minced garlic, chili oil, hoisin, Taiwanese barbecue, Mongolian sauce, sesame paste, fermented bean curd, leekand-chive pesto, ground peanuts, cilantro, jalapeños, green onions. Mix up whatever seems appetizing or try them individually. If you can’t find a flavor you like here, there is truly no hope for you.

You with me so far? That’s the easy part.

Luckily, Mini Hot Pot co-owners Amy and Vincent Chang (head chef and lead server, respectively) are on hand to guide inexperienced hot potters through the meal, offering tips on how long to cook each ingredient

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and providing friendly, impeccable service.

More than once, I saw them swoop in to rescue struggling diners by providing a ladle, an extra napkin or a splash of hot water when the broth started running low. Originally from Taiwan, Vincent Chang moved to the U.S. to study hospitality and managed the food court at a HyVee in DeKalb, Ill., before coming to Madison.

Wanting to visit both ends of the flavor spectrum, my date and I order Sichuan broth (the spiciest option, clocking in at four chili pepper icons) with beef, and the coconut broth (the mildest) with seafood. We pledge to share. The food arrives promptly on beautifully arranged platters — thinly sliced beef, prawns, scallops, squid, clams and two of the biggest mussels I’ve ever seen. The broth, already hot, starts bubbling quickly once the burner is on. The Sichuan comes thick with chilis and peppercorns. It’s flavorful and pleasantly mouth-numbing. The coconut is lightly sweet with a hint of cream, a perfect tabula rasa for a hot pot journey.

Since my knowledge of hot pot was limited to the instruction “just make your own soup,” I made the mistake of throwing a bunch of stuff in at once, thinking I would end up with a bowl of soup. That is incorrect, I quickly learned.

The trick to a perfect hot pot is timing. Bigger vegetables, like corn and potato, take the longest. Toss them in the broth first and let them hang out for a bit. Then, cook individual bites as you go, dipping each ingredient in your chosen sauce. (Take care when handling raw ingredients and try not to cross-contaminate. You can “sterilize” the chopsticks in the boiling broth.) Finish with noodles, which require just a quick dip in the hot broth. And the best part? The flavor changes as the soup cooks, making the entire meal a fun, surprising, exploratory event.

During lunch, the restaurant also offers some favorite Americanized Chinese dishes (sesame chicken, orange chicken and the like). The entrees are affordable, generously portioned and way above average — on a return visit, my sesame chicken had big chunks of white meat, lightly fried, not drowning in sauce. They come with white rice and a fried spring roll. Try the homemade bubble tea, too.

There’s a reason people are obsessed with this place — everything is across-theboard fantastic. And it just gets better with practice. ■

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The city’s widest range of vegan fillings for tacos, including fried avocado, fried cauliflower, fried brussels sprouts and roasted sweet potato. Ask for soy-free Teese vegan cheese and the vegan cilantro-lime “sour cream,” also found on the house vegan nachos.

A sloppy joe by any other name, this bun-filler is based on seitan (wheat gluten, which absorbs the flavors it’s cooked in). In this case, it’s a sweet-tangy barbecue sauce.

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Brown Rice and Honey is a new local vendor this year. Owner and chef Kristina Stanley, formerly of the Baker’s Window on State Street, specializes in gluten-free and vegan pastries. “At the fest, we’ll have banh mi [sandwiches], a really tasty basil ‘ricotta’ and tomato tart. We’ll also have some of our more popular pastries.” Brown Rice and Honey will also be co-hosting the after-party for Mad City Vegan Fest at Charlie’s on Main, 113 S. Main St., Oregon. Proceeds from the party go to the Alliance for Animals and the Environment. D.B. Rouse will be playing. The ticketed event starts at 7 p.m.

Other vendors from the Madison area include the Green Owl Cafe, which will be serving a “sloppy owl” sandwich with chips, empanadas, chili mac and “unchicken” drumsticks. Ladonia Cafe, a food cart located on the Capitol Square, has a barbecue seitan sandwich and an eggless egg salad. Ladonia will also have whoopie pies and ginger limeade.

A cornucopia of vegan-friendly desserts is also in store. Prairie Moon Bakery will be selling cookies, muffins and a chocolate pecan caramel cluster.

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream has a long list of soy-based ice cream flavors that will be available as well several varieties of Italian ice.

In addition to the food court, 40 exhibitors are offering free samples of vegan edibles, personal care supplies and other specialty food products. Speakers will also be presenting at the festival, and a number of animal welfare and health-related nonprofits will be giving out information.

“Our attitude at the Mad City Vegan Fest is that any health-related information has to be backed up with evidence,” says Friedman. “That’s the criteria for our speakers as well as the exhibitors.”

Friedman says surveys in previous years revealed that a sizable percentage of fest attendees were not themselves vegan (some weren’t even vegetarians). Spouses and family members of practicing vegans make up a portion of that group, but Friedman says those intrigued by the lifestyle also flock to the fest. “We have a lot of people interested in being vegan but don’t know what that next step will be,” says Friedman. “Some people are interested for health reasons, ethical reasons or are concerned about the environment. This is a good opportunity for them to explore.” ■

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The speciality grilled cheese food cart Melted is converting a 1971 Dodge Travco motorhome into a food truck. Owner David Rodriguez says the vintage RV will have a full kitchen complete with a chef’s table, where patrons can get an up-close view of him cooking. In addition to serving the Melted menu during big events, Rodriguez is planning special pop-up dinners: “I’d like to do four-course dinners and take the truck to festivals around the state.” The retrofitting of the RV should be complete by the end of the summer. For the unveiling, Rodriguez wants to host an event at a Madison park and serve “fancy camp food.”

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The now-closed Bluephies, 2701 Monroe St., is being replaced with two “California-inspired” restaurants to be called Everly and Miko Poke. Caitlin Suemnicht, chief creative officer for Food Fight Restaurant Group, says Everly (which was briefly known as Verdant) will open in the former main dining area this fall and serve “vegetable-forward” cuisine. “Think about how an entrée is composed in a lot of restaurants — a large piece of protein, like a steak, will take up most of the plate, and then there will be a small side dish of vegetables,” writes Suemnicht in an email. “We’d like to flip that.”

Miko Poke will open in the former bar as an order-atthe-counter-style poke restaurant. “Pokē is Hawaiian for ‘to slice or cut’ and refers to a traditional Hawaiian appetizer salad made with raw fish,” says Suemnicht. “Customers will be able to customize their own poke bowl at the counter, choosing their fish, a base of white or brown rice, rice noodles, or mixed greens, and then top it with vegetables, spices and sauces.” Miko Poke is expected to open by mid-summer.

The new proprietors of the Ohio Tavern, 224 Ohio Ave., plan to reopen the historic pub in mid-July after installing new floors and a food prep room. Owner Josh Swentzel says he intends to start selling a mix of tacos and tamales. With the bar “right on the bike path, it’s going to be great takeout for the neighborhood,” he says.

608 Restaurant & Bar, 1738 Fordem Ave., is up and running in its new location (formerly Einstein Bros. Bagels). 608 opened on State Street in 2013 but closed this spring when its lease expired.

The new location has taken on more of a sports bar emphasis.

The venerable Ohio Tavern will be turning out tamales and tacos.

Closings Northside Family Restaurant, 1201 N. Sherman Ave. The diner-style spot, which opened in 2009, was previously known as the American Family Table Restaurant. A sign on the door thanks customers for their patronage.

Fountain Express, 122 State St. The takeout hot dog and Italian beef joint, an offshoot of the adjacent Fountain bar, has closed only weeks after opening.

AJ Bombers, 201 W. Gorham St. The Milwaukee-based restaurant was known for “bombing” its patrons with peanuts and serving specialty burgers created via feedback on social media. A new location will be opening in Wauwatosa. ■

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Let’s Eat Out neighborhood food cart dinners Monday-Thursday, June 13-Aug. 4

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Mondays: Franklin and Sandburg Elementary Schools, off Park Street on Hughes Place and on the 1400 block of Wheeler Road. Tuesdays: Vilas Park, the 400 block of Midvale Boulevard, East Madison Baptist Church and Fireman’s Park in DeForest. Wednesdays: Allied Drive, Country Grove, Shorewood Hills and John Muir Elementary.

Thursdays: Atwood Avenue at Jackson Street, Meadowood and Nakoma parks, and the City Church. Dinners 5:30-7 pm, weather permitting. More info on Let’s Eat Out’s Facebook page.

StrawberryFest Saturday, June 18

Over 1,000 quarts of freshly picked strawberries — from Kirschbaum’s Strawberry Acres in Beaver Dam — will be on sale at this annual event. For adults, a wine-tasting tent, too. Proceeds benefit the Colonial Club Senior Activity Center. At Colonial Club, 301 Blankenheim Lane, Sun Prairie, 8 am-3 pm.

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The U.S. advanced to the quarterfinals with a 1-0 victory over Paraguay on June 11.

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If you pay enough attention to men’s international soccer, you’re probably experiencing mixed emotions this month.

The United States is hosting Copa América Centenario — the 100th anniversary of the oldest continental soccer tournament in the world. A mini-World Cup of sorts, the tourney features the top 16 national teams from North America and Latin America competing in 32 games held in 10 U.S. stadiums built for American football, not fútbol.

Nevertheless, revved-up crowds are packing places like Soldier Field in Chicago and Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., to witness soccer’s best player in the world, Lionel Messi, take the field for Argentina.

Meanwhile, Team USA — a bearded bunch of players that look like they migrated from an indie rock festival — advanced to the quarterfinals on Saturday with a 1-0 win over Paraguay at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field.

Elsewhere, despite online ticket prices as low as $6, some matches are barely filling the lower bowls of stadiums.

Soldier Field will host a semifinal on June 22, and the Copa América final will be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on June 26.

Just as Copa América’s group play heated up, Euro 2016 kicked off last Friday.

Otherwise known as the UEFA European Championship, this quadrennial tournament features Europe’s 24 best national teams playing in France from June 10 to July 10 for continental bragging rights.

How big of a deal is that? Bloomberg reports that every game of the tournament is expected to attract more TV viewers than the Super Bowl. “We will deliver 51 Super Bowls in the next month,” UEFA marketing director Guy-Laurent Epstein said.

At a time when international soccer should be celebrated by fans — and introduced to newcomers who finally found Fox Sports 1 on their channel guide — the game remains under a black cloud. FIFA, the sport’s governing body, makes almost daily headlines for its culture of corruption, which includes bribery, fraud, racketeering and money laundering.

Among the latest revelations: Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter (currently suspended from the sport) and two of his cohorts gave themselves more than $80 million in raises and bonuses during the past five years.

Orlando Sentinel columnist David Whitley recently proclaimed that even “[Donald] Trump’s not corrupt enough for FIFA.” Fan violence and stadium security shortcomings in France also have marred Euro 2016.

Try not to let the sport’s real-world problems interfere with your own enjoyment of the beautiful game over the next five weeks. n

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Caretaker’s lament It’s complicated in I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around

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The underlying theme of Ann Garvin’s brisk new novel, I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around, is the struggle of the caregiver.

Whether it’s caring for elderly parents or newborns, life gets complicated when your identity and desires disappear under a pile of responsibilities. Other people’s needs tug at us, and we end up lost and adrift.

That’s certainly the case for the book’s witty protagonist, Tig Monohan, a frazzled therapist whose problems pile up like so many diagnoses in a nursing home patient. “Why do you think movies and fiction authors invent vampires, lottery winners and soulmates? I’ll tell you why: because watching someone brush their teeth, shop for sandwich meat and change the toilet paper is as mind-numbing for the observer as it is for the observed,� says Tig, after she lands a gig as a radio therapist.

Tig’s life is unraveling. She moved her mom into an Alzheimer’s unit after a grueling stretch of taking care of her at home.

Tig’s handsome and fit boyfriend leaves for a sabbatical in Hawaii but not before dropping

the bomb: He’s not sure if he’s into her. She quits her job as a therapist after telling off a patient.

And shortly after her flighty older sister gives birth, she goes AWOL, leaving Tig to care for the colicky newborn along with the ailing mom.

The most stable and loving presence in her life is her Labradoodle, Margaret Thatcher.

Tig is not always the most likeable or lovable character. I was annoyed at times by the char-

acter’s endless joking — the way she makes light of horrible situations. But she’s coping, using humor as the last line of defense.

Having watched dementia steal my father’s brain while my mom struggled to keep him at home, I connected with Garvin’s spoton descriptions of Alzheimer’s and the oddly soothing routines of a nursing home. The book also contains the single best description of a nap I’ve ever read.

That’s probably because Garvin gets it.

She lives in Stoughton and is a professor of sports psychology at UW-Whitewater. She also commutes to New Hampshire to teach in an MFA writing program. She worked as a gerontology nurse and cared for her mother (a professor of gerontology). In the news release for the book she says, “I wrote this book to try and make sense of it all in the context of fairness, care giving, and family.�

On this and many levels, I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around succeeds. Buy it, read it, forgive yourself for your shortcomings. And then take a good nap. n Ann Garvin reads from I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around at Mystery to Me on Friday, June 24, at 7 p.m.

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Following a recently completed tour with the notoriously debauched punk legends NOFX, it would make sense for Milwaukee four-piece Direct Hit! to return home with tales of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll.

But there are no stories, says bandleader Nick Woods. After all, he had no relief from his day job.

“I was working the entire time we were with them,” says Woods, who is a copywriter for an Indiana-based software company. For the West Coast leg of the 14-date spring tour, he would wake at the crack of dawn for that job and take an afternoon nap before soundcheck.

Though Direct Hit! didn’t get what Woods refers to as “the full NOFX experience,” Woods says he made wise decisions. “As a 31-year-old guy with a wife and kid and mortgage, it’s probably best that I’m not going out and blowing cocaine up my nose every night.”

Woods may still have a day job, but music has become more than just a hobby for the

singer and guitarist. Earlier this year, Direct Hit! signed to legendary punk label Fat Wreck Chords (founded by NOFX’s “Fat Mike” Burkett), which will release the band’s third full-length, Wasted Mind, on June 24, the same day Direct Hit! visits Madison’s Majestic Theatre. As Woods tells it, the signing wasn’t really expected.

“I’d been watching Fat since I was a teenager, but it was always kind of a pipe dream that we’d be able to put out a record with that label,” he says. “Our band has never existed with sort of a plan or an idea of what we were going to do next. We just put our heads down and work.”

Fans, however, may have seen the writing on the wall. In 2013, Direct Hit! released Brainless God, a concept album about the apocalypse that features songs from the perspective of religious zealots and serial killers. It received nearly unanimous praise and marked Direct Hit! as a band on the rise.

“The story that we heard on tour with NOFX was that Fat Mike had bought a copy of Brainless God because it showed up on so many [yearend] top-10 lists on punk blogs around the internet,” says Woods.

Wasted Mind, like Brainless God, is a 12-track concept album. And though it features the type of gonzo lyrics that powered Brainless God — Wasted Mind was influenced in equal part by Hunter S. Thompson and William Burroughs — it sees the band pivoting in a more polished direction.

Woods says the band spent more time listening to music for this album and incorporating such influences as the Who, Cock Sparrer and Billy Bragg. For example, “Promised Land,” one of the standout tracks on Wasted Mind, marries the band’s unhinged pop punk to piano, saxophone and tomheavy drums that are straight out of E Street.

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Shipwrecked and confused The Comedy of Errors is an outstanding start to American Players Theatre’s outdoor season

BY GWENDOLYN RICE

William Shakespeare did not invent the comic trope of mistaken identities, but in The Comedy of Errors, he perfected it. To take one elementary joke and build on it for two and a half hours while continually delighting an audience is a trick that modern comedy writers can only aspire to.

As performed by the richly talented acting company of American Players Theatre — which opened its outdoor season with Comedy on June 11 — this fast-paced carnival of misunderstandings is also filled with exquisitely wrought performances, making each silly character even more charming.

The story — first told by Plautus around 200 B.C. — centers on two sets of twins: masters and servants Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse and Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus, separated shortly after birth in a shipwreck that also divided the masters from their parents. Many years later, when both pairs of twins walk the same streets of Ephesus, friends, merchants and even a spouse assume they are the same person. As the mistakes become larger and the stakes higher, the twins become increasingly frenzied as the characters are progressively more unnerved by a world that appears to have gone mad.

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(Casey Hoekstra and Christopher Sheard) are indeed hard to tell apart, until the play’s final scene, when they stand side by side. The Dromios (Cristina Panfilio and Kelsey Brennan) are

also dressed nearly identically in clownish redand-white-striped trousers, with turquoise coats.

Matching wigs and false noses aid the women in assuming the roles of the humble

servants. But even more impressive are their twin mannerisms, goofy laughs and similar cadence when delivering their lines. Their reaction at seeing one another at the end of the play is a highlight of their hilarious performances. (Incidentally, this nontraditional casting approach was notable in that it allowed two very talented comedic actresses to shine. Hopefully, audiences can look forward to more gender-blind casting in classics in the future.)

With such a solid quartet at the center of this farce, it is significant that there are also so many stand-out performances in smaller roles. As Egeon, Brian Mani pleads earnestly for his life and for the sympathies of the Duke of Ephesus, explaining his search for his long-lost twin sons and their servants.

James Ridge mesmerizes the crowd as the conjuror Pinch. The charming Laura Rook expresses glee when the wrong Antipholus woos her instead of her sister Adriana. And as Aemelia, Colleen Madden finds countless comedic inflections as an abbess who harbors Antipholus and simultaneously chastises Adriana (a feisty Melisa Pereyra) for being such a sour wife.

True to a Shakespearean comedy, the identities are untangled, families are reunited, and all does end well in this outstanding start to American Players Theatre’s summer season. n

A hilarious, poignant celebration Queer Shorts 2.0: The Reboot skewers LGBT life in the digital age

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When I walked into StageQ’s opening night performance of Queer Shorts 2.0: The Reboot, the crowd was lively and vocal, the atmosphere charged. A drag queen named Sparkle, dressed in a rainbow feather boa, was making her way through the aisles, selling raffle tickets.

I knew I was in for a rollicking good time and a celebration of community. (It was still more than 36 hours before news of the mass shooting at an Orlando gay bar would break.)

I wanted to shout, “People! My People!”

This version of Queer Shorts, which runs at the Bartell through June 18, is a great night of short scenes and monologues with such titles as Case of the Gays and Snapchat Dickpicks. It’s primarily a celebration of contemporary queer life, set against the backdrop of today’s technology distractions.

Facebook, YouTube and, of course, Grindr, all get skewered on the Bartell’s black-box Evjue stage, which is, ironically, the most low-tech of all entertainment experiences. Queer Shorts employs minimal sets,

lighting and costuming to get across its central premise: We’re here, we’re queer, and damn, we need to tweet about it.

Some of the sketches, such as Dickpicks or the opener, Thank You for Liking My Check-In, aim for broad comedy. From the opening moments of the show, the audience was rolling in laughter as two actors self-referentially playing Queer Shorts ushers “break up” their Facebook relationship in search of greener platforms. “I need to find my true self,” says one usher to the other, “with a newer social network. And there are so many out there.”

But not all the shorts are merely hilarious.

In That’s Not Me, my favorite piece of the night, Remy (Loryn Jonelis) and Alison (Troy Meikle) examine the multidimensional world of gender identity on their QTube show. Being an old lady of 45 who came out in the days of ACT UP and feminist body politics, I have to admit that many of the latest conversations about gender identity are new to me. Slowly but surely, I’m catching up. That’s Not Me sheds important light on gender issues, including the concept of being “two spirited,” and the use of body-poisoning steroids and surgeries by transgender people in

DAN MYERS

Natalie Gerdung (left) and Emma Ruby Roberts in Those Who Don’t Learn from the Past — Oh Shit, What Was That Again?

their quest to become more true to themselves.

These are not cut-and-dried issues, and this powerful piece by Steve Jay suggests that perhaps the real struggle for “two spirited” people is learning to accept themselves as they are, gloriously made, outside the box of binary gender.

At Queer Shorts 2.0 The Reboot, I sat in the dark, nodding my head, learning things about

gender and queerness. I remembered things that I hadn’t thought of in a while. Mostly, I laughed and enjoyed this rare night of shared community. We are lucky in Madison to have StageQ, a company that’s willing to take risks to allow people to express themselves. It helps us all appreciate ourselves for who we are. Rainbow feather boa and all. n

JUNE 17-18 & 22, 2016 MEMORIAL UNION ALL EVENTS ARE FREE Fri. June 17

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Memorial Union Terrace (rain location - Shannon Hall):

High School All-Stars 4:30pm Ladies Must Swing 6pm Chicago Yestet 8pm Madison Jazz Orchestra 10pm Frederic March Play Circle:

Jazz in the Movies presented by Toni Jakovec 4:45pm JAZZCLASSWITH Gypsy Jazz featuring the Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble 6:45pm Afro Latin Music & The Jazz Connection featuring the Nick Moran Quartet 8:30pm Sat. June 18

Memorial Union Terrace (rain location - Shannon Hall):

Edgewood College Jazz Ensemble 1:30pm UW-Whitewater Jazz Ensemble One 3pm UW-Platteville Jazz One 4:30pm Gerri DiMaggio World Jazz Unit 6pm University of Wisconsin Jazz Orchestra with Sharon Clark 8pm Charanga Agoza 10pm Frederic March Play Circle:

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Shannon Hall, Wisconsin Union Theater

Joey Alexander Trio featuring Dan Chmielinski and Ulysses Owens, Jr. www.isthmusjazzfestival.com

This performance was supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Jean Gabin in La Bête Humaine.

The film list

Lino Ventura in Touchez Pas au Grisbi.

New releases John-Paul Belmondo in Moderato Cantabile.

Central Intelligence: An accountant (Kevin Hart) falls into espionage after reconnecting with an old friend (Dwayne Johnson).

Finding Dory: Pixar/Disney sequel to Finding Nemo.

Recent releases The Conjuring 2: Refreshingly, there’s nary a cheap scare manifested in this sequel — although the unspoken corollary is that it just isn’t very scary, or even unnerving. It’s based on the “real-life” Enfield Poltergeist that rattled Britain’s nerves from 1977 to 1979.

Now You See Me 2: The “Four Horsemen” find themselves attempting to smuggle a powerful encryption-cracking cell phone data card out of a secure facility, which requires a ton of nifty sleightof-hand and physics-defying card-throwing. It’s clearly preposterous, but it’s also kind of a blast.

Hommes d’action Cinematheque’s “French Tough Guys” leap off the screen

BY CRAIG JOHNSON

Anyone laboring under the erroneous assumption that French actors are men of thought and not action will stand corrected after viewing UW Cinematheque’s upcoming summer series, “French Tough Guys: Gabin, Ventura, Belmondo.”

In seven films spanning four decades, stars Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo deliver all the fists, guns and speeding cars that action fans crave, mais en francais.

The strengths of the French thriller should come as no surprise to those who know the influence 1930s French crime films had on the great American crime genre, film noir. Cinematheque has snagged one of these proto-noirs: Jean Renoir’s La Bête Humaine (1936), the tale of a train engineer who falls for the wrong woman and then falls from grace. Gabin turns in a surprisingly sensitive performance, which makes his violent turn as shocking as it is inevitable.

It is appropriate that France would create the existential tough guy, and Jean Gabin is the right man for the job. For nearly half a century, Gabin was the face of French cinema. This suave, aggressive, sad-eyed everyman had a knack for thrillers, and his powers did not diminish with age. In La Horse (1970), he is an old farmer who must protect his home from drug dealers. It’s the type of role Clint Eastwood lives for. Any Number Can Win (1963) has Gabin robbing a casino, and in the sexy Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Hands Off the Loot, 1954), he must preserve his illegally acquired retirement fund from his fellow gangsters.

His adversary in Grisbi is played by Cinematheque’s second featured star, Lino Ventura.

The toughest looking of these tough guys, Ventura took up acting after an injury ended his Greco-Roman wrestling career. This barrel-chested, potato-nosed actor was a threat wrapped in a nice suit who played heroes as well as villains.

In The Dictator’s Guns (1965) he is a charter boat captain who has a series of dangerous encounters with gun runners in the Caribbean.

Ventura shares the screen with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Greed in the Sun (1964), where they pursue guns, money and each other across the Sahara. Belmondo also stars in Moderato Cantabile (a.k.a. Seven Days...Seven Nights), one of the handful of films helmed by revolutionary stage director Peter Brook.

If your only frame of reference for Belmondo is his iconic performance as the not-so-tough crook in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, you might be surprised to find him on this list. You shouldn’t be: According to Cinematheque organizer Jim Healy, Belmondo was the toughest of the lot: “The guy does his own stunts à la Jackie Chan.” And like Chan, he could highlight the humor in deadly situations.

This series is produced in partnership with the film program officer at the cultural services department of the French Embassy, which helped Cinematheque acquire 35-mm prints. n “French Tough Guys” will screen on Wednesdays in June and July at 4070 Vilas Hall. Check cinema.wisc.edu for the full schedule.

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Maggie’s Plan bears in its DNA more than a little Midsummer Night’s Dream, a text quoted explicitly in the film’s topsy-turvy love matches and a late scrambling to restore amends. That scramble is just one of Maggie’s plans; she has a few, in fact, and to say too much about any of them would spoil the zigs and zags of this lightly screwball comedy, which runs sweeter and deeper than the genre usually allows. (Stay away from the trailer if you can — it spoils her endgame.)

A thirtysomething graduate school adviser at the New School, the sensible, spirited Maggie (Greta Gerwig) reveals her initial plan to her best friend (Bill Hader) in the film’s

opening minutes: She intends to have a baby. But Maggie’s plan gets derailed when chance — or is it fate? — puts her in the path of a professor in the ficto-critical anthropology department (whatever that is) named John (Ethan Hawke, born to play an academic), who looks to her for advice when his marriage to a fellow anthropologist, the withering Georgette (Julianne Moore, having a blast with a Germanic accent), hits a rough patch.

Writer-director Rebecca Miller has a terrific sense of humor about her chosen milieus, from the small-batch, craft scene to egghead academics. The plot’s flyaway antics are smoothed down by characters that are specific, and Miller delicately shades in their wants, longstanding aches and careful plans destined to go awry.

She has such compassion for these characters.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows: There’s no groundbreaking cinemagic in this sequel, but the oddball moments keep things weirdly surreal throughout. Those looking for big, dumb fun will find plenty of it.

Warcraft: The world of the popular video game is transformed into a movie about a horde of humanoid orcs fleeing their ravaged world through a portal to a realm populated by humans, dwarves and wizards.

More film events Karen Aqua: 11 short animated films spanning 1976-2011. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, June 17, 8:30 pm.

Minions: The titular trio from Despicable Me search for a villain to serve in this prequel.

Wingra Boats, June 17, 8:30 pm.

The Mask You Live In: Documentary following young men as they struggle with society’s construct of masculinity. Sundance, June 20, 5 pm.

West Side Story: The 1961 adaptation of the Broadway musical about a gang member who falls in love with a rival’s sister. Memorial Union Terrace, June 20, 9 pm.

The Dark Knight: A very conflicted Batman goes to extraordinary lengths to stop the Joker. Majestic, June 21, 7:30 pm.

School of Rock: Jack Black tries to shape a fifthgrade class into a kick-ass band. Edgewater Plaza, June 21, 8:30 pm.

Any Number Can Win: A fresh ex-con (Jean Gabin) recruits his former cellmate for a casino heist. Cinematheque, June 22, 7 pm.

Brazil: Disturbing dystopian fantasy from director Terry Gilliam. Bos Meadery, June 22, 7 pm.

Greta Gerwig anchors a terrific ensemble in Maggie’s Plan

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping: This music biz mockumentary from the Lonely Island comedy trio doesn’t feel all that exaggerated compared to pop music’s real-life absurdities, but the actors and singers seem to enjoy each other a lot.

Melvin and Howard: Jason Robards stars as Melvin Dummar, who claims to be in possession of a “will” deeding him much of the Howard Hughes fortune. Cinematheque, June 23, 7 pm.

Where to Invade Next: Michael Moore travels to various countries around the world to “claim” them in the name of the United States. Central Library, June 23, 6 pm.

Derailed? Ethan Hawke and Greta Gerwig.

Maggie’s Plan is an ensemble piece, with Maya Rudolph, Travis Fimmel and a magic, romantic New York rounding out the cast. They’re all great, but it’s Gerwig who’s just so damn goshwow. A natural comedienne, she stretches her limbs here to play, after so many flibbertigibbets, a character with her feet solidly on the ground.

That doesn’t mean her Maggie doesn’t make some seriously boneheaded moves. She’s only human — and what fools these mortals be. n

Also in theaters Alice Through the Looking Glass The Angry Birds Movie The Boss Captain America: Civil War

Love & Friendship The Man Who Knew Infinity Me Before You The Meddler The Nice Guys

Eye in the Sky

Sing Street

Horton Hears a Who!

Star Trek Into Darkness

The Jungle Book

X-Men: Apocalypse

The Lobster

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Make Music Madison Tuesday, June 21, various locations citywide, 8 am-9 pm Now in its fourth year, Make Music Madison is the solstice celebration to end all celebrations — a summer event where the city’s diverse musical talent is on full display. More than 340 concerts are taking place at more than 100 venues, including 19 city parks. You can wander aimlessly and be surprised, join in some “mass appeal” events (’50s/’60s rock at Vilas Park or 100 harmonicas at the Madison Children’s Museum) or map your day in advance at makemusicmadison.org.

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Sing Me Back Home: A Tribute to Merle Haggard

tell-it-like-it-is style was on full display at 2015’s Just for Laughs Festival as well as on MTV’s brand-new sketch series, Ladylike, where she’s a cast member. With Gerrit Elzinga, Anthony Siraguse. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), June 17-18.

Thursday, June 16, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

When Merle Haggard passed away in April, music lost one of its most talented, beloved artists. Now, a group of Wisconsin musicians are coming together to pay tribute to the late country legend.

Sing Me Back Home will feature performances by the Driveway Thriftdwellers (pictured), Nick Brown Band, Evan Murdock and the North Country Drifters, all offering their own takes on Haggard’s extensive and influential catalog.

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Bos Meadery: The Sigourney Weavers, free, 6 pm.

Brink Lounge: Mad City Funk, free, 8:30 pm.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: The Jimmys, free, 6 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Grupo Balanca, free, 5:30 pm; DJs Whodie Guthrie, Wangzoom, 9 pm.

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

Edgewater: Feeding Leroy, free (on the plaza), 6 pm.

The Frequency: Sleepwalkers, Marrow, 7 pm; Hired Rivals, Sons of Kong, 10:30 pm.

Harmony Bar: People Brothers Band, 9:45 pm.

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

The Frequency: Adia Victoria, Dash Hounds, Tin Can Diamonds, 8 pm.

Majestic: DJs Josh B Kuhl, Nick Nice, 9 pm.

Gates of Heaven: Austin Lucas, Adam Faucett, 7 pm.

Parched Eagle Brewpub: David Hecht, free, 7:30 pm.

Majestic: Hinder, Like a Storm, Brad Ray, 8 pm.

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Katie formed P.S. Eliot, a beloved indiepunk outfit that released two albums before disbanding in 2011. Now Katie’s focus is Waxahatchee, an intimate solo project that ping-pongs between lo-fi folk and power-pop, while showcasing intensely specific and often wrenching lyrics about the minutiae of intrapersonal relationships.

She’ll be joined here by Allison, who also plays in the band Swearin’, and Madison garage pop quartet Proud Parents.

Alchemy Cafe: Kiveh Mato, free, 10 pm.

Brink Lounge: Jeff Campbell, Mark Croft, 7 pm.

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Megan Gailey Thursday, June 16, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Standup comic Megan Gailey has made her way from Indiana to Chicago to New York, and last fall she made her TV debut on Conan. Her sarcastic,

Mickey’s: The Smells, Nones, Slow Walker, Kazmir, 10 pm.

Isthmus Jazz Festival Friday, June 17, Memorial Union Terrace, 4:30 pm-midnight

This year’s festival on the renovated Terrace spans two days and nights and is supplemented by films and performances in the Fredric March Play Circle. Don’t miss the femalepowered Big Band music from Ladies Must Swing (Friday, 6 pm) or the stunning vocals of Sharón Clark (pictured), who sings with the UW Jazz Orchestra (Saturday, 8 pm). Nothing says Madison more than listening to jazz while the sun sets over Lake Mendota. Plus, it’s free, so you can buy beer and ice cream.

ALSO: Saturday, June 18, 1:30 pm-midnight.

Waxahatchee Friday, June 17, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm

Musical prowess runs in the Crutchfield family. At the age of 18, twins Allison and

Tempest Oyster Bar: Compact Deluxe, free, 9:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Pine Travelers, folk rock, free, 10 pm.

THEATER & DANCE

up the ante, the production features a 25-piece orchestra, choreography by Madison Ballet’s W. Earle Smith, and Broadway performer Michele Ragusa as the one and only Mama Rose.

ALSO: Saturday, June 18, 1 & 7 pm).

An Ideal Husband Friday, June 17, American Players Theatre, 8 pm

This witty Oscar Wilde play examines how far a wife will go to protect her husband’s career. First presented in 1895, An Ideal Husband’s themes of political corruption and reputation still resonate today. The story, which takes place over the course of a ridiculous day in London, is bound to have audiences roaring. Through Sept. 24.

Annie Jr.: Sun Prairie Civic Theatre Penguin Project (featuring youth performers with special needs & mentors), 7 pm on 6/17-18 and 2 pm, 6/19, Sun Prairie High School Performing Arts Center. $15. 837-8217.

Mary Poppins: Verona Area Community Theater musical, 7:30 pm on 6/17-18 & 23-25 and 2 pm, 6/19, Verona Area High School Performing Arts Center. $15. vact.org.

B O O KS J.R. Riordan: Discussing “The Audacity of Goats,” her new book, 7 pm, 6/17, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

MaryNaomi: Discussing “Turning Japanese,” her new book, 7 pm, 6/17, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

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Gypsy Friday, June 17, Capitol Theater, 7:30 pm

Bound to be a summer dazzler, Capital City Theatre presents its second major production, based loosely on the true story of the famous burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee. To

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society: “Silver Linings,” 7:30 pm, 6/17, Overture Center-Playhouse; and 2:30 pm, 6/19, Taliesin-Hillside Theater, Spring Green; “Stars of the Silver Screen,” 7:30 pm, 6/18, Overture Center-Playhouse; and 6:30 pm, 6/19, Taliesin-Hillside Theater. $40. 255-9866.

Mad City Mix-Off: Clean Lakes Alliance fundraiser, 7 pm, 6/17, Concourse Hotel, with craft cocktail competition, appetizers & music by Harmonious Wail. $85. isthmustickets.com.

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VFW Post 1318-Lakeside St.: Northern Comfort, 7 pm.

Warner Park: Blues Picnic in the Park, Madison Blues Society’s annual free event with Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials, Lauren Anderson, Jimmy Nick & Don’t Tell Mama, Blues Disciples, Paul Filipowicz, noon-9 pm.

B O O KS Madison Comic Book Convention: 10 am-4 pm, 6/18, Badger Bowl. Free admission. 309-657-1599.

Christine Keleny: Discussing “Intrigue in Istanbul,” her new book, 2 pm, 6/18, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

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Oedipus Tex + In the Rushes Saturday, June 18, Broom Street Theater, 8 pm

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Madison Mad Dawgs: Semi-pro football vs. Roscoe Revolution, 3 pm, 6/18, Warner Park. $6. 239-6885.

Blake Geoffrion Hockey Classic: UW Health Burn Center benefit featuring former Badgers skaters, 5 pm, 6/18, LaBahn Arena. $20 ($15 ages 2-18). 262-1440.

FA I RS & FEST I VA L S Mad City Vegan Fest: Annual event, 10 am-6 pm, 6/18, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall, with food samples, speakers, cooking demonstrations, exhibits, raffle. Free admission. veganfest.org. 501-3378.

Jazz in the Park: Annual Dudgeon-Monroe Neighborhood Association event, 3-9 pm, 6/18, Wingra Park, with arts & crafts noon-6 pm, kids’ activities 3-6 pm, music by Isthmus High School All Stars 3 pm, Edgewood College Jazz Ensemble 4 pm, VO5 5:30 pm, Madisalsa 7:30 pm. Free admission. dmna.org.

Whiskeyonsin Family Reunion Saturday, June 18, High Noon Saloon, noon-midnight

Billed as a “celebration of Wisconsin-made whiskey and Wisconsin-made music,” the Family Reunion features 12 musical acts from around the state. Anchored late night

by WheelHouse (pictured) and the Family Business, it’s a full day of Americana, bluegrass, folk and rock on two stages: the High Noon’s main stage and its patio.

Art In Gallery: An Evening at Maria’s, with music (at 8 pm) by The Garza, Droids Attack, DJ Ted Offensive, metallic art, live body painting, 6 pm.

Arts & Literature Laboratory: Roscoe Mitchell, 8 pm.

Brink Lounge: Antique Nouveau, jazz, free, 8 pm.

Come Back In: The Rascal Theory, free, 9 pm.

Edgewater: Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, 6 pm.

The Frequency: Tickle Torture, Rio Turbo, 10:30 pm.

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ArtWorks: Outdoor show, 10 am-5 pm, 6/18, Hilldale Shopping Center (Price Place). 712-3440.

Grace Episcopal Church: Mal-O-Dua, free, noon.

Harmony Bar: Brothers Gow, Dead Larry, 9:45 pm.

Legends Sports Bar & Grill: Cool Front, 6 pm.

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Madison Area Music Awards Sunday, June 19, Capitol Theater, 7 pm

Madison’s own version of the Grammys is produced by the Madison Area Music Association, a nonprofit that provides resources for youth music education programs. This year’s show kicks off with a red carpet event (5 pm) and features award presentations and performances by local up-and-coming acts. And it’s MAMA’s biggest fundraiser of the year.

Edgewater: Mark Joseph & Deploi, free, 2 pm.

Essen Haus: John Lyons & Jon Lyons, 4 pm.

Frequency: Madisons, Gambol, Emerald Grove, 7 pm.

Harmony Bar: Piper Road Spring Band, 5 pm.

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

High Noon Saloon: Tiny Riots, Guts, We Should Have Been DJs, Dividing Line, 8 pm.

Malt House: Lucas Kadish Trio, jazz, free, 8 pm.

Majestic: Pop Evil, Stitched Up Heart, 8 pm.

Mickey’s: Apologists, Night Birds, Girls Are Go, 10 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: David Deon & Soul Inspirations, 10 pm.

Overture Center-Overture Hall: Adrian Binkley, MSO organ concert, free, 11 am.

Pegasus Games: The Doubleclicks, folk-pop, 7:30 pm.

The Red Zone: Tony Brown & the 608 Riddim Section, Dub Messengers, 9 pm.

Sprecher’s: Dave Weld & the Imperial Flames, 7 pm.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Mark Golbach: “Greater State Street,” photographs, noon-4 pm Saturdays, 6/26-7/9, PhotoMidwest, 700 Rayovac Drive (new location; reception 1-4 pm, 6/19). photomidwest.org.

Rewoven: Works by female, trans and non-binary artists, 6/10-9/1, 100state (reception 2-6 pm, 6/19). facebook.com/events/1591665977810842.

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Kiki’s House of Righteous Music: Vandaveer, house concert (RSVP: undertowtickets.com), 8 pm.

Madison Rose Society: Annual show, 12:30-4 pm, 6/19, Olbrich Gardens. 246-4550.

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Few artists are willing to let their voices hang bare like Julianna Barwick. The Louisiana-born musician builds songs on her vocal loops and little else; the majority of the time, she doesn’t even use lyrics. Barwick put out her most recent full-length, the haunting Will, just last month. With Mas Ysa (who contributed vocals to Will) and Cap Alan.

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Joey Alexander Trio Wednesday, June 22, Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall, 8 pm

Built to Spill Monday, June 20, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Come Back In: Josh Becker, free (on the patio), 5 pm.

Malt House: Material Boys, bluegrass, free, 7:30 pm.

McKee Farms Park, Fitchburg: Dead Horses, Madison Music Foundry, free, 6 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Dash Hounds, The Head, Barbara Hans, free, 10 pm.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: John Masino Band, free, 6 pm.

Brink Lounge: Thistle, Stephen Lee Rich, 7 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Dub Borski, 9 pm.

Come Back In: Shelley Faith, free, 5 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Cowboy Winter, Psychic Heat, Calliope, Brother Gruesome, 8 pm.

Malt House: Jim Schwall, free, 7:30 pm.

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

Quaker Steak & Lube, Middleton: Reloaded, 5:30 pm.

Shitty Barn, Spring Green: Paleface, Seasaw, 7 pm.

Warner Park: Eddie Butts Band, free, 6 pm.

St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Middleton: Pacific Boychoir Academy, free/donations, 7 pm.

Winnequah Park, Monona: Mark Croft Band, free, 6:30 pm.

Uno Chicago Grill-Crossroads Drive: Nine Thirty Standard, free (patio), 6:30 pm.

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Before even hitting his 13th birthday, jazz wunderkind Joey Alexander got a standing ovation at the 2016 Grammy Awards after playing “City Lights,” an original composition. The Indonesian-born pianist has played for Herbie Hancock and Bill Clinton, and topped a field of adult pros at the 2013 Master-Jam Fest in Odessa, Ukraine. Someday you’ll say you watched him play before he turned 13.

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Sun day routine Protective steps for skin care are crucial

BY CANDICE WAGENER

For Dr. Yaohui Gloria Xu, the choice is simple: Wear sunscreen or stay indoors between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., when the sun’s rays are the strongest.

“Regardless of what kind, spray or cream, or brand, you just have to use it.” says Xu, an assistant professor of dermatology at UW-Madison.

Xu says preserving skin health should be a year-round goal. Up to 80% of the sun’s rays come through clouds, and snow further reflects rays, which means there can be even more UV light in winter.

But protection becomes even more critical in the summer, when more people are outside and more exposed to the sun.

Unless you have any open wounds (areas on which you should avoid putting sunscreen), don’t worry about the sunscreen ingredients making their way into your bloodstream. There’s yet to be scientific research released proving this is a danger, says Xu. Common mistakes in applying sunscreen are not using enough, not spreading it evenly and not using it on the face, says Xu.

Of concern are both UVA and UVB rays. UVA rays are longer and able to penetrate window glass (and your car windows) and your skin to a deeper level. UVA rays are “the main carcinogen that causes skin cancer and aging,” says Xu. “UVA also causes wrinkles.” UVB rays, on the other hand, “will cause immediate burning, but they penetrate more superficially.”

Xu recommends reapplying sunscreen every two hours when in the sun and every 40 to 80 minutes if you’re sweating or swimming.

In addition to wearing sunscreen, protect your skin by wearing a hat, sunglasses rated to block 100% of UVA and UVB rays and light clothing — long-sleeved shirts and pants that cover your skin.

Xu, along with her colleague Dr. Mark Albertini, will give a presentation at Gilda’s Club of Madison, 7907 UW Health Court, Middleton, at 6 p.m. on June 20. They will discuss skin safety tips, when to see a doctor for skin concerns, and new advances in treatments for metastatic melanoma — that is, skin cancer. ■

HERE’S WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN PURCHASING SUNSCREEN: “Water-resistant” instead of “waterproof” (a false claim)

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Summer Feast Food & Music Festival is looking for more volunteers. The Goodman Community Center is recruiting volunteers for June 24 from either 1-5:30pm or 5:30-9:30pm. By volunteering you can raise money for Goodman Community Center’s food pantry too! For every hour volunteered, $10 will be donated.

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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is seeking volunteers to help with a variety of positions for Art Fair on the Square July 9 including: Watching over artists’ works when they need to take breaks, answering attendee’s questions, assisting in serving food and drinks to fair goers, assisting in the kid’s area, greeting attendees, and clean up.

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BY DAN SAVAGE

I’ve been dating a nice guy for a month or so. Sex is good, and we’re faulty compatible in other ways, too. He told me he likes to wear diapers. He said he doesn’t want me to do it with him, but that every once in a while he likes to wear them because it makes him feel “safe.” He said that this odd behavior isn’t sexual for him, but I have trouble believing him. I’m not sure how I feel about this. He also said that it embarrasses him and he wishes it wasn’t something he needed. If you have any insight into what to ask him or how to make sure I can keep him satisfied sexually as we move forward (if we do), it would be appreciated.

Do I Ask Pooper Everything Respectfully, Sir? You shouldn’t assume (contra your sign-off) that Potential New Boyfriend (PNB) is pooping his diapers. Most guys who are ABDL (adult baby/diaper lover) are interested only in wetting themselves, if that. (Some only wear, never fill.) It sounds like PNB is struggling with kink- and/or sex-shame, DIAPERS, and the assumption you’ve made about the extent of his diaper play might put him on the defensive. Even if your assumption is accurate, it could still put him on the defensive.

Moving on....

You have a hard time believing PNB when he says there’s nothing sexual about his interest in diapers, and that makes two of us. Seeing as he’s already succumbed to shame where his kink is concerned — or it might be more accurate to say he hasn’t dug himself out from under the shame almost all kinksters struggle with initially — he is very likely weighed down by the sex-negativity that comes bundled with kink-shame. So he may have told you there’s nothing sexual

about his thing for diapers because he thinks it makes his diapers seem less sordid.

That said, DIAPERS, “this makes me feel safe” and “this makes my dick hard” aren’t mutually exclusive phenomena. Both can be true. (And if diapers really do make adults feel safe — and I wanna see data on that — we could rebrand them as “portable individual safe spaces” and make them available at our better universities.)

Another clue there’s something sexual about this thing for diapers: not wanting you around while he wears them. Maybe diapers are something he enjoys wearing during alone time, or maybe the sight of him in diapers makes the sexual aspect hard to deny. (“Is that an enormous rattle in your diaper or are you just happy to see me?”)

I would advise you to say some vaguely affirming things (“Your diaper thing doesn’t bother me, and wouldn’t even if it were sexual”) without pressuring him to include you at diaper time. Don’t rush things — relationship-wise or diaper-wise — and focus on establishing a mutually satisfying sexual rapport/repertoire.

Speaking of ABDL: Residents of Mount Prospect, Ill., are upset about a new shop that caters to diaper lovers in their community.

Tykables sells grownup-size diapers, rocking chairs and cribs. The Chicago Tribune reports that some residents are uncomfortable because the shop — which has no signage and soon-to-be-frosted windows — is near schools, parks and other places where “children gather.” Mount Prospect is a suburb, so there are schools or parks near just about everything. And there’s a gun shop a couple blocks away from a large public park and an elementary school — and no one ever walked into a school and started diapering students to death. Maybe worry about the real threat to your kids, Mount Prospect?

spending my life with either. But I think sexual activity with either sex would be confusing and strange. In sex ed, I always thought the whole idea of sexual intercourse was strange. I don’t think I’m asexual, but I’m not sure if I am bisexual. I am more attracted to vibrant personalities. I don’t think that I am just straight or just gay, because I have equal feelings for both sexes. Does this mean I could find equal companionship with both? Should I wait until I find the right person and decide from there?

Confused About Sexuality, Help

JOE NEWTON

P.S. I think you meant “fairly compatible” not “faulty compatible.” Normally I would correct a mistake like this before printing a letter — but I rather liked your accidental phrase. A loving and functional-but-imperfect relationship — really the best we can hope for — could be described as faulty compatible.

I’m an incredibly confused man in my early 20s.

I’m attracted to men and women. I could see

According to the Tumblr Blog Decoder Ring that came in my last box of Kellogg’s Feelios, CASH, you’re bi-classic (attracted to men and women), bi-romantic (could be with a man or a woman), a sort of demisexual/sapiosexual hybrid (demis are attracted to people they’ve bonded with emotionally, sapios are attracted to people who are intelligent, and vibrancy may fall at some point between the two), and maybe falling somewhere on the asexuality spectrum. The best way to discover who/what works for you is to get out there.

If you find yourself feeling confused, just remind yourself that confusion — like so much else — is a spectrum. And wherever you fall on it, CASH, know you’ve got plenty of company. n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

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