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EVERYBODY DANCE NOW

Sitting ballet class puts dancers on equal footing.

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POLICE FORCE

Violent arrest of black teen caught on video.

MEDIA BOOT CAMP SAM ANNIS

IN MEMORY: TOM LASKIN

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MUSIC THE INIMITABLE Tom Laskin, a former music critic and writer for Isthmus and the lead singer for Madison’s punk band the Appliances-SFB, died June 15 in Amsterdam. Our condolences go out to his wife and artistic soulmate, KTinsley Laskin, and the rest of Tom’s family. Gifted writers are an editor’s dream, and they are rare. But Dean Robbins, who edited Isthmus’ arts section for decades before becoming editor, got lucky with Tom. “He was one of my favorite writers — not just at Isthmus, but in the world,” says Dean, whose tribute to Tom is in this week’s issue. “His approach to writing — and his perspective on life — were very influential for me, and his memorable lines stuck in my head for years. His range as a writer was beyond belief.”

15 COVER STORY SAM ANNIS has written about the economics of bartending and how he trained to become a piano tuner. In this week’s issue he speaks to UWMadison alum and poverty researcher Matthew Desmond.

Says Annis: “As [Madison] grows, and the rents, like vines, climb along with it, we may need to turn more frequently to individuals like Matthew Desmond for advice.”

Madison365 introduces young people of color to journalism.

DOGGY DOOS AND DON’TS

DNA helps property owners nab mystery poopers.

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New app monitors fertility cycle.

12 OPINION

BAD STRATEGERY

GOP’s plan to restrict minority vote could backfire.

15 COVER STORY

THROWAWAY SOCIETY

Go Big Read author discusses the reality of evictions.

19, 28-30 MUSIC

MIXMASTERS

A behind-the-board peek at local sound engineers.

GOOD VIBES

Black Poets Society raps a positive message.

20-24 FOOD & DRINK

Madison’s annual fireworks extravaganza keeps upping the ante.

This year’s Shake the Lake features two music stages — a new country stage headlined by Jon Pardi and a west stage anchored by Guster. Celebrity chefs, a “human cannonball” launched over Lake Monona, the UW Marching Band and a Mad Rollin’ Dolls exhibition are just part of the fun.

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26 SPORTS MADISON MIRROR JERI CASPER is largely responsible for maintaining Isthmus.com and tracking web traffic. And she recently helped develop a new feature for the site. Madison Mirror is a bit of a return to our weekly “Scenes” photo, except that it’s online only and posted daily, promptly at 11:30 a.m.

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Send your photo to pics@ isthmus.com, with your name and a description of the photo (who/what/when/where).

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Come explore the fascinating aquatic ecosystem of Lake Mendota with researchers from the UW-Madison Center for Limnology.

Visitors can talk with experts, take a boat ride and catch their own plankton. Plus, there’s a visit from Bucky Badger and free Babcock Hall ice cream.

Swiss pride Fri.-Mon., June 24-27, New Glarus, various times and locations

“America’s Little Switzerland” wears its alpine heritage on its sleeve, with presentations of the Heidi Play (Cute alert: live goats and kittens on stage!) and a music festival. Brats are roasting, beer is flowing and live music is pumping all weekend in the Village Park. Grüezi!

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The Kehl School of Dance, located in a shopping mall off Verona Road, is open, but inside it’s deadly quiet. That is, until Mari Koopmans bursts in in her wheelchair, golden retriever Olive in tow.

The 10-year-old is here for her weekly sitting ballet class. It’s her second year. “It’s fun,” she says. “I think ballet is my talent, so I like to do it.”

Mari used to take regular ballet classes, but at age 3 her body started showing signs of a neurological condition, which progressed until she needed to use a wheelchair most of the time. “The class is a challenge,” she says, “which is good for me.”

As her father puts her ballet shoes on, Mari explains that Olive has a job. “She helps me pick up stuff that I drop, turn on lights, open doors. I say commands, and she jumps and does what she’s told.”

Claire Spitz, 12, has been coming for two years. “I’m a pretty good dancer,” she says.

“But the classes make me better. I also [build] arm strength, and it’s nice to get to know the other girls.”

A third sitting dancer, Caitlyn Ianne, quietly slips into the studio, as do the three standing dancers who are rehearsing with the sitting dancers. Caitlyn loves to dance, says her mother later. “We thought it would be a fun class where she’d be able to dance to the best of her abilities.”

Although Caitlyn usually sits, in the upcoming recital she will perform standing.

Caitlin says that she loves having the opportunity to express herself. She enjoys dancing

and likes to work with the other girls. “It can open all kinds of things for us,” she says.

The instructor, J Matzner, known here as “Miss Jo,” had a life-threatening illness. A longtime dancer with a degree in dance from UW-Madison, she looked for an accessible ballet class upon recovering. She could find none so started this class.

“This is a group of empowered young students,” says Matzner.

Like the girls, Matzner is dressed in leotard, tights and ballet shoes. She lines the six dancers up and gives instructions. “Remember, we have an audience with us today, so do it for real. Smile!” They do, and Claire waves at yours truly, the audience. As “Singing in the Rain” fills the space, Mari takes a big breath before her standing partner wheels her in. It’s off to rehearsal. There are pink umbrellas and wheelchairs making circles, fists bumping and reminders of the right rhythm.

Raise one arm to the count of four, raise the other to the count of two. Down 1-2 and whistle and ahhhh! We’ll do it again.

Claire’s standing partner brings her back “on stage,” starts leaving, then comes back to lock the wheelchair. Time to start the routine again. The girls are all smiles and joy, and Claire is now singing with the music.

Towards the end of the hour, the parents are invited to come in and watch. There’s applause, and Olive bursts in. She is afraid

WHEN DID THE SITTING BALLET CLASSES START? January 2014 HOW MANY DANCERS HAVE PARTICIPATED SO FAR? 14 WHAT DO SITTING BALLET DANCERS LEARN? The same arm movements and French vocabulary as standing dancers. They use their hands and arms to simulate the movements of the legs and feet of standing dancers HOW TO JOIN THE CLASS: Call the Kehl School at 608-819-6501 for more information or read more at kehldance.com/dance-classes/ all-abilities

of umbrellas and had to stay in the outer room, but now her tail wags forcefully, and she, too, is all smiles.

This is a great opportunity for the standing dancers too, says 13-year-old Emma Cushman. She started dancing six years ago and has been working with the sitting dancers since January. “It’s really inspiring and moving,” she says. “They really want to dance; it’s really cool. I enjoy dancing with them and want to continue doing it.” ■

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Protesters outside the Public Safety Building on Tuesday night demanded the release of 18-year-old Genele Laird — and the firing of the police who aggressively arrested her earlier in the evening.

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“It looks like excessive force was used” Public officials, family outraged over violent police arrest caught on video

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Horrifying. Gut-wrenching. Crazy. That’s how elected leaders describe the arrest of 18-yearold Genele Laird by Madison police officers outside of East Towne Mall early Tuesday evening. A cellphone video of the violent encounter between police and the African American teenager was posted on Facebook shortly after the incident. By nightfall, community leaders, state and local elected officials, protesters and Laird’s family were gathering outside the Public Safety Building demanding answers.

According to police, officers responded to a call at 5:15 p.m. from mall security about a woman described as “out of control and making threats” in the food court. Laird allegedly confronted an employee at Taco Bell claiming that her phone had been stolen. Security claims she then displayed a knife and made threats to the Taco Bell employee. When asked to leave, Laird allegedly threatened to kill the security staff.

The video recorded by “RichBoy Robinson” begins with an officer confronting and then restraining Laird after she exits the mall.

Laird appears to try to break free from the officers but is unsuccessful. “Get your hands behind your back,” says the officer. “Arrest me

then, bitch,” replies Laird. A second officer pulls up in a squad car with its sirens on. He exits the vehicle and joins the struggle, which quickly escalates. The second officer strikes Laird in the leg several times with his knee, as the officers bring her to the sidewalk.

As the struggle continues, one of the officers punches and then Tasers Laird as she begins to shriek. After the officers subdue her, Laird complains about being unable to breathe. She threatens to bite an officer who in turn threatens to Taser her again. The police then place a “spit sock hood” over her head.

Laird can be heard weeping, saying to her friends, “I don’t want you to see me like this.”

The teenager is then deadlifted by four officers and placed in a squad car.

Laird was taken to jail, tentatively charged with “disorderly conduct while armed (a knife has been recovered), resisting police (causing injury), battery to police officer, and discharge of bodily fluids,” according to the police report. She remained in jail as of Wednesday afternoon.

Two officers were treated for injuries at a hospital and released.

Numerous public officials were horrified by the video.

“I was outraged and very sad. There’s no other way to explain it,” said Ald. Barbara

“It was terrifying,” Ald. Rebecca Kemble said of the video. “What I saw was one police officer restraining [Laird] physically and then another police officer charging in — at full speed — and just pounce on the woman without even talking to the other officer.”

Michael Johnson, president of the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County, arranged for Laird’s family to meet directly with Police Chief Mike Koval shortly after 10 p.m. Laird’s aunt, Mallory Christianson, was part of the group that met with Koval for an hour. “She did not deserve to be kicked.

To be hit. To be Tased over A cellphone video captured two Madison police officers and over,” Christianson said. punching and using a Taser on Genele Laird Tuesday “She did not deserve this.” evening outside of East Towne Mall.

“It looks like excessive force was used against this Harrington-McKinney. “She was a teenager. young woman,” said state Rep. Chris Taylor To see someone pounded into the ground...it (D-Madison), who also attended the meethurt.” Harrington-McKinney and some of her ing with Koval. “The police have discretion on council colleagues had returned to city hall what they charge. Unfortunately, it looks like after seeing the video following the council’s they are charging her with four felonies. The Tuesday night meeting. family also made a plea that she get medical

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attention if she has not seen a physician.

Obviously, we are going to know a lot more in coming days.”

Around 30 protesters assembled outside the Dane County Public Safety building Tuesday night to demand Laird be released from custody and the officers involved in the incident fired.

“Thank god that this happened in broad daylight and it was recorded,” Alix Shabazz from Freedom Inc. told the crowd.

“We demand the charges be dropped [for Laird], and the officers charged with assault of a child. I know she’s 18, but she’s somebody’s baby.”

Matthew Braunginn with the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition called Koval a “racist bully” and blamed him for the incident. “This is his police department, this is part of his training,” he said.

“Koval needs to go, needs to be fired.

This is absolutely unacceptable.”

In a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Koval said the department will conduct an internal review of the incident, which will include oversight from the Dane County Sheriff ’s Office.

The chief would not release the officers’ names, saying their lives have been threatened.

Koval admitted that the video was unpleasant to watch, but defended his officers. “Force when administered, especially when someone is motivated not to be taken into custody, can be very ugly,” he said. “That’s the long and short of it.”

Tuesday night Johnson thanked Koval for quickly meeting with the family and concerned community leaders. He said it is important for the “family to know that there is going to be due process.” But Johnson also defended the teen.

“This young lady has no criminal history. Her cellphone was stolen, she was agitated. I think we have to make sure that we are fair and that we don’t villainize this young lady. She’s sitting in a jail tonight.”

Urban League president and CEO Ruben Anthony Jr. condemned the police behavior in a statement Wednesday.

“I am outraged to my core. The abuse this young woman faced at the hands of these police was savage and excessive,” he wrote. “This type of treatment is unacceptable and undermines the work that many of us have done to improve relations between the police and communities of color.”

The incident comes as the police department is under heightened scrutiny for its training and use-of-force policies.

Two weeks ago, the Common Council authorized spending up to $400,000 on a consultant analysis of the department, which Koval aggressively pushed back against in a blog post and at a council meeting. The review had been called for in part because of the killings of two young unarmed men by police, Paul Heenan in November 2012 and Tony Robinson in March 2015. ■ isthmus.com/opinion/tell-all

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Some of UW-Madison’s most reviled edifices — the Mosse Humanities Building, Van Hise Hall, the McArdle Cancer Research Building and the Engineering Building — could be torn down in the near future, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.

After years of searching, Dane County has finally found a spot for its homeless day resource shelter that might stick: the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce building on East Washington Avenue.

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With Wisconsin’s gray wolf population at a record high, Gov. Scott Walker says he’s hopeful that a federal judge will reinstate the annual wolf hunt, Wisconsin Public Radio reports.

Auf wiedersehen to the Essen Haus?

A proposed redevelopment of East Wilson Street would demolish the German beer hall and the Come Back In, but the businesses would continue in the new space.

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the state Department of Public Instruction from seeking outside counsel in a federal lawsuit, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. This decision comes after the state Department of Justice dropped their representation of DPI as a client in the suit — a move that DPI Secretary Tony Evers calls “beyond the pale.� The department is being sued by a religious school in Washington County that wants the state to provide students transportation to the school.

SATURDAY, JUNE 18 n   State Department of

Health Services Secretary Kitty Rhoades dies unexpectedly after a brief illness. Rhoades was named deputy secretary of DHS in 2011 and took over as secretary in 2013. She served in the state Assembly from 1999 to 2011.

program to support homeless veterans. With cooperation between the state departments of Administration and Veterans Affairs, the Welcome Home Veterans Initiative will provide funds for rent, security deposits and utility bills.

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video showing the arrest of Genele Laird, 18, in a disturbance at East Towne Mall prompts outrage over the aggressive tactics police use to subdue her. See story on page 6.

group Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty shows full-time teacher salaries declined by an average of about $2,000 after Gov. Walker signed Act 10. n   Wisconsin’s income gap is widening, according to a study from the Wisconsin Budget Project and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. From 1979 to 2013 the average income of the top 1% grew by almost 120%, while the average income of the remaining 99% grew by only 4%.

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She’s the property manager at River Bend Apartments, a housing complex near the University of Wisconsin Arboretum — and a place where, until recently, people apparently didn’t know how to pick up after their dogs. It was “an ongoing problem,” with inconsiderate dog owners leaving messes around the property and inside the buildings, Baty says.

She tried just about everything she could think of to encourage residents to do their duty, sending out countless written reminders and even installing convenient cleanup stations with plastic bags and garbage cans throughout the property. “Nothing was working,” she says. “It just seemed to get worse.”

That’s when a prospective tenant told Baty about PooPrints — a dog DNA database and genetic service developed by BioPet, a canine research laboratory based in Knoxville, Tenn. Dog owners perform a saliva swab of their dog’s cheek and mail the sample to the company, which in turn stores the dog’s genetic profile in its

database. Then, when a mystery pile appears at a property, management collects a small sample, puts it in a vial with some water and mails it off to PooPrints for identification. If there’s a match, the offending dog’s owner gets a fine.

Baty, who began using PooPrints at River Bend in April, was worried at first that the tenants would resist the new program. But she found that the majority were supportive of the idea — probably because they were just as sick of the dog poop problem as she was. It was an immediate success.

“We have not had any issues since,” she says.

The testing process takes about two weeks, during which scientists extract the genomic DNA and use microsatellite fragment analysis to determine a match, according to the PooPrints website. The process establishes the genotypes of 15 loci (the position of a gene on a chromosome), plus a gender marker. The company charges $50 for a swab kit and $60 for testing.

Anna Schloesser, who manages Middleton Shores Apartments in Middleton, is a PooPrints

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Homegrown talent Madison365 launches training program to cultivate journalists of color

BY ALLISON GEYER

Media organizations here and across the country (Isthmus included) have long struggled to attract minority candidates even while consciously attempting to add diversity to staff. It’s a problem that did not elude Henry Sanders Jr., who co-founded Madison365 to tell stories that matter to people of color, told from the perspective of people of color. The nonprofit online news platform seeks to fill an important niche in the local media market, where the vast majority of journalists are white.

“I couldn’t find any journalists of color,” says Sanders, who launched Madison365 in August with David Dahmer, the former longtime editor of The Madison Times. “And I didn’t want Madison365 just to be an organization that complained about the problem without working on a solution.”

In response, Sanders, along with associate publisher Robert Chappell and Dahmer, who is editor in chief, created 365 Academy — Madison’s first journalism training program for students of color. The academy begins in July with a three-week “journalism boot camp” for high school students, produced in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County. During the academic year, the academy will hold another session aimed at college students and adults interested in learning about journalism and strategic communication. The summer program will enroll 10-15 students, and the core program will enroll 20 each semester.

The Madison365 partners consulted

Madison365 editor in chief David Dahmer (le ) and writer Amber Walker will give youth of color a crash course in journalism with a new training program called 365 Academy.

with journalism professors to create a wide-ranging curriculum that covers such reporting basics as interviewing, news gathering, writing, editing, taking photos and making podcasts. “It’s going to be a holistic view of the journalism profession,” Chappell says.

Classes will be held at the downtown campus of Madison College, and instructors will include Sanders, Dahmer and Chappell along with Amber Walker, a Madison365 writer and a former high school English instructor.

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Students will practice writing a variety of story formats, from investigations to profile pieces, which will be published on the Madison365 website. In addition, the academy will explore journalism-related topics, including what it means to serve on an editorial board. Madison media professionals will come in as guest speakers, and students will have the opportunity to tour local broadcast studios and newsrooms.

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Beyond teaching students the fundamental skills, the academy will also focus on “community journalism” — an approach that emphasizes building trust and relationships with sources and approaching storytelling from a different, more personal angle than is often presented in “mainstream” media. This is particularly important when writing about communities of color, Sanders says.

“A white person might not see those angles,” he continues. “You have to always take a look and ask questions and consider how a person of color would perceive a situation. If you do that, you’ll get a whole different perspective and a different news story.”

The academy is supported by the Madison Community Foundation, the American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation and CUNA Mutual Foundation. Collectively, the three organizations donated $80,000 to fund the program. Organizers hope the academy will create a “pipeline of talent” that will increase the number of minority journalists, not only at Madison365, but also in newsrooms throughout the community — and beyond.

“It helps us, but it also helps the industry,” Sanders says. “We can start placing interns and getting [them] real job opportunities. This is a real chance to build a portfolio and really learn the craft.” ■

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Fertility monitoring UW scientists develop app that could help women get pregnant

BY DENISE THORNTON

Katie Brenner knows how exasperating it can be for women who are struggling to get pregnant.

“I went through the crazy can’t-getpregnant thing for months on end,” says Brenner, a postdoctoral researcher at UW-Madison. “We had the blood tests trying to figure out what was going on with my hormone levels. As a bioengineer and biochemist, I decided there must be some better way to handle this.

And, in fact, there is.”

Or there will be soon, thanks to the work of Brenner and Doug Weibel, an associate professor of biochemistry.

The two are developing an app to help women monitor their hormone levels through a saliva test. It’s been found to be as accurate as the blood test currently given in doctor’s offices.

“Also, you can take it every single day so you can understand what your body is doing constantly instead of getting sporadic snapshots from blood tests,” says Brennen. “That doesn’t help the woman whose cycle is irregular or abnormal.”

Brenner and Weibel’s idea is so promising that their startup — bluDiagnostics — earned a $10,000 award on June 14 in the Women Who Tech competition in San Francisco. The competition focuses on breaking down barriers for women innovators in an economy where only 7% of investor money goes to women-founded startups.

But the real winners will be the estimated 25% of American women concerned about their ability to become pregnant.

The roles of estrogen and progesterone in women’s cycles is well understood, but they are present in such low levels in saliva that until now they couldn’t be measured as accurately as they can be in blood.

It took the advent of electronics sensitive enough to detect those chemistries and smart phones to put this technology into consumers’ hands.

The app will look a lot like the basal thermometer women now use as an aid in getting pregnant. A basal thermometer can take extremely precise temperature readings, which, when plotted on a graph, can belatedly tell a woman when she has just ovulated. The new saliva-hormone test will give women four to five days advance warning.

Using the app, a woman will be able to look at all her data and compare it to population averages and her own monthly trends. She can also share the data with her physician.

BRYCE RICHTER/UW-MADISON Brenner, who monitored her own saliva in the lab during the course of While trying to get pregnant, UW-Madison scientist Katie Brenner knew there had to be an easier way two pregnancies while developing for women to monitor their hormones. So she and her colleague invented one. this study, hopes this revolutionary device will be on the market by 2018, but that goal will depend on the U.S. Food 2015 Governor’s Business Plan Competition how they affect a woman’s body,” Schroll and Drug Administration approval process. last June. That competition and others have led says. “These hormones change dramatically “We will be FDA approved, which is the real dif- to investments now totaling about $1.2 million. throughout a woman’s lifetime.” ferentiator for our test,” Brenner says. “Everyone Schroll combines a health care background Monitoring women’s hormones so knows that women who want to get pregnant are with an MBA, experience in pharmaceutical closely could have many applications. willing to spend money, and there is a lot of quackery marketing and consulting for bio startups. “Research is just starting to look at how in this field. We want to be FDA-approved so it’s very Schroll sees the prospects of bluDiagnostics hormones may relate to certain cancers,” clear to physicians that this is a trustworthy option.” expanding far beyond this initial fertility test. says Schroll. “It has taken a long time to The money to make development happen is “As Katie and I have developed this test, we gain recognition of how different women’s starting to roll in. With assistance from the third are both amazed that there hasn’t been more bodies are from men’s, and how differently co-founder, Jodi Schroll, bluDiagnostics won the work done on the role of female hormones and they should be studied.” n

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Republicans on trial Federal trial exposes their plan to reduce minority access to the polls

BY BRUCE MURPHY Bruce Murphy is editor of Urban Milwaukee.

The lawsuit launched by liberal groups One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin argues that Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-led Legislature enacted changes in state election law to make it harder for people of color to vote. The groups claim the changes violate the federal Voting Rights Act, the First Amendment and equal protection clause.

The trial came before Judge James Peterson in a federal court in Madison, and coverage has made much of the testimony regarding the impact of the photo ID mandate. But the suit also targets other changes that have made it more difficult to vote and have gotten less attention, including reducing early voting from 30 days before an election to 12 days, limiting the hours when voting can take place and restricting early voting to one location per municipality.

To rebut the idea these changes were problematic, the state brought testimony from clerks for the cities of Cedarburg and Port Washington, who said the new laws were easily accommodated. “From the start, we have had virtually no problems at all,” said Waukesha County Clerk Kathleen Novack. But that testimony is a double-edged sword, showing the new rules worked well in heavily white, heavily Republican areas, but leaving the question whether they then gave these districts an advantage over urban areas with high minority and Democratic voting patterns.

Two elections experts from urban cities testified that this was indeed happening. Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl detailed how

the election law changes created delays at polling places and prevented voters from casting ballots. And Milwaukee Election Commission executive director Neil Albrecht testified that in the 2016 presidential primary election, the turnout percentage in the city trailed the statewide average by nearly 10%, a gap far higher than in 2008, when it was less than 2%.

Is this what the law intended to accomplish? A key “gotcha” moment in the trial came when Novack testified that weekend voting gave “over-access...to particular parts of the state” and “too much access to the voters as far as opportunities.” This is someone whose job is to make sure all who want to vote do so, and she is arguing against that mission, in favor of reducing access to voting.

Her testimony echoed the claims of Republican leaders like Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) that reducing early voting hours would “level the playing field” between urban and other areas.

As the suburban clerks testified, there were no problems for voters casting early ballots in the 2012 presidential race in those areas under the new rules. But size matters.

Madison had 182,859 registered voters for that election, or 37 times more than Delafield, and by law is required to handle all in-person early voters at one place. The restrictions in hours for early voting, combined with the one-polling-place requirement, meant long lines and more barriers to voting in urban areas.

The impact of such restrictions was measured by elections expert Kenneth Mayer, whose analysis found this: “In 2010, the last statewide election in which late weekend registration was permitted in the three days before an election, significantly more people registered over this

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In addition, he concluded: “Turnout in student wards (...nearby colleges and universities, and which have large concentrations of 18-24-year-old registrants) dropped significantly between 2010 and 2014.”

Elections expert Barry Burden did a comparison of the 2010 and 2014 elections, which showed that the disparity in turnout between blacks and whites grew from 3.8 percentage points in 2010 to 11.3 points in 2014. The disparity between Latinos and whites grew from 17.9 points in 2010 to 28.8 points in 2014.

The evidence seems overwhelming that major reductions in the days and hours when people can vote led to fewer ballots being cast in urban areas. It remains to be seen how Judge Peterson will rule: Final arguments are sched-

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uled for June 30, and his ruling is likely to be issued in late July.

Regardless of how he rules, the threadbare justification for reducing access to voting amounts to a confession by Republican leaders that they can’t win a presidential election in Wisconsin that provides equal access to all voters. Indeed, they haven’t since 1984.

In a nation that’s rapidly moving to a majority-minority population, the Republicans in this state and others are sending a message to black and Hispanic voters that they will do everything possible to make it more difficult for them to vote. In the case of black voters, who were systematically disenfranchised as voters for most of American history, it’s a shockingly ugly strategy. And in the long run probably a stupid one. It may make GOP candidates anathema to minority voters for decades to come. ■

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■ FEEDBACK

Hail to the chief In a Common Council discussion, Police Chief Mike Koval gave in to his intensely protective commitment to his department and, under duress, made some immoderate remarks.

Bill Lueders alleges he berated the alders, even made some cry (“Chief Koval Must Go,” 6/16/2016).

But does Koval really qualify as a bully? Does he even have the power to bully? Lueders mentioned, almost in passing, that Richard Williams — one of Koval’s predecessors — “was a lousy chief.” Williams was the most outrageously inadequate chief Madison ever had, and that is a broad and daring statement. He used to fly out of town the day before our annual Halloween riot, I mean party.

About the best you could say about Williams was that since he seldom showed up for his job, he did less harm than he could have. Now, how long did we put up with him? Ten years. If the Police and Fire Commission were cool for a decade with this malingering incompetent, I really don’t see why they’d dump hard-working, committed Koval because there were a couple occasions when he should have buttoned his lip.

As to claims that he made the alders cry, you would think that after everything they’ve gone through from Mayor Soglin they would have toughened up.

Margaret Benbow (via email)

Bill Lueders’ opinion piece was shallow and offensive. Koval is far from alone in his disdain for the Common Council plan to shovel $400,000 to a consultant to examine the generally well-regarded police department.

Rather than addressing the issue, Lueders resorted to character assassination, pegging Koval as a “petulant bully...hothead with a badge and gun.” Kudos to Koval for passionately defending his department and venturing the wrath of “Lieutenant Lueders of the PC police.”

Terry Farley (via email)

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Many may be unaware that Koval’s behavior in this latest incident is part of a consistent pattern, dating to when he first assumed the position of chief, including repeated eruptions, unprofessional behavior, threatening statements and false or misleading public statements, all of which are clear violations of MPD and city of Madison policies.

At his first community meeting, approximately three days after he became chief, Koval blew up at me when I asked a polite question. (I asked what specific reforms he planned to implement, and noted that the per capita rate of fatal officer-involved shootings was substantially higher for MPD than NYPD.) I was neither loud nor rude in manner. His eruption at me elicited such pushback from the audience, including other officers present, that Koval was reduced to making a lame joke that he might only remain chief for a few more days.

In sharing his disgust for democratic political process with MPD officers, as he has, he is dangerous. His behavior is exacerbating an “us versus them” mentality within MPD, and is negatively impacting perceptions of acceptable behavior and attitudes among MPD officers.

Gregory Gelembiuk (via email) I have lived in the city of Madison for 20 years, and can count on one hand how many times the city council members have voted for anything to actually reduce

my taxes. I finally had the chance to retire last week, but I guess I’ll be looking for another job somewhere, as I’ll need more money to pay for things like the “extra” $350,000 for crap like this.

Chief Koval, you have been running your department in a very positive way; keep it up.

For the alders that “actually cried” at the meeting, maybe you should shed a few tears for the majority of the citizens you have shafted with your votes through the years — you have done us few favors.

David Hoyt (via email) Bill Lueders’ “Chief Koval Must Go” column is an example of just what he accuses Chief Koval of being: thin-skinned and hostile to perceived slights. Even if the description of Chief Koval’s conduct is accurate, asking for his dismissal on those grounds is half-preposterous and halfmalicious. His column is impulsive, excessive and over the top, as is his summary condemnation of an honest, dedicated, hardworking police chief with decades of honorable service.

Moses Altsech (via email)

Clarification The Police Policy Manual cited in last week’s opinion column has been replaced by a Code of Conduct that contains similar language.

The rule against “overbearing, repressive or tyrannical conduct” is gone, but there remains an admonition against “actions that bring disrespect upon the department or members of the community.”

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Embedded MICHAEL KIENITZ

UW alum Matthew Desmond talks about his groundbreaking book on evictions

BY SA MUEL A NNIS

Matthew Desmond had little to distinguish himself

he was a grad student in Madison. “Evicted is written by one of our own,” says Blank. “It began as Desmond’s dissertation at UW, and bringing back one of your own is a nice bit of symbolism for our students.”

To conduct his research Desmond lived for a year in Milwaukee trailer parks and in crumbling homes where the heat didn’t work and the floor sagged because of leaky plumbing. His words ring true because he lived alongside the individuals whose lives he chronicles.

His masterful storytelling and innate sense of pacing evoke an excellent novel, but the reader is challenged with the knowledge that these heartbreaking stories don’t come from the imagination of a gifted writer but from the streets of a city close to home.

I spoke with Desmond on the phone from his office in Boston. Though a forceful writer, Desmond speaks in a gentle voice. And while his research yields bleak findings, he still finds cause for hope.

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from other applicants when applying to Ph.D. programs in sociology. As he remembers it, only one acceptance letter arrived at his door — from UW-Madison.

But soon after moving here in 2002, Desmond’s untapped potential began to reveal itself in his work at the Institute for Research on Poverty. Growing up in Winslow, Ariz., in a family that struggled financially, Desmond was intimately familiar with the lives of the poor. His curiosity about why some people become locked into a cycle of poverty expanded into a life mission.

During the time he spent working on his doctorate, and in the years since, Desmond has drafted a small library’s worth of articles about poverty and eviction, co-edited several anthologies on the subject and published two book-length works.

After graduating in 2010, Desmond was snapped up by Harvard and is now the co-director of the school’s Justice and Poverty Project. In 2015, he received a MacArthur “Genius Grant.”

His second solo-author book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, was published this March. A

raw and harrowing read, it follows the lives of tenants and landlords who live in some of Milwaukee’s poorest neighborhoods.

The critically acclaimed book landed on The New York Times bestseller list and was named one of the most important books of 2016 by the Wall Street Journal, O: The Oprah Magazine and The New York Times.

In April, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank chose Evicted as this year’s Go Big Read, which means 7,000 incoming freshman and transfer students will receive copies at the fall convocation welcoming event. The entire law school will also be reading the book this fall, and 60 classes in a range of fields will be using Evicted in their curriculums, says Blank. Desmond will return to Madison in November to speak at the Memorial Union Theater.

“The book itself is about a major social question about community and how you treat those who are more marginalized,” Blank says. “It has a broad interest for students from a wide variety of backgrounds.” It’s also meaningful that Desmond produced the research for the book while

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n COVER STORY Why did you choose Milwaukee as the location of your research?

I wanted to set the book in a city, a city on a bit bigger scale than Madison, to give me a shot at representing the experiences of low-income folks in cities like Cleveland and Indianapolis and Houston and St. Louis.

What was it like moving between Madison’s academic community and inner-city Milwaukee?

There is a big group of folks in Madison that wants to apply the skills and perspectives of social science to some of the most morally urgent questions of the day. I tried to take the training that I had been offered in grad school and apply it to the things I was seeing in trailer parks and the inner city on the north side of Milwaukee. The thing that was tough is going from someone who is facing homelessness or maybe has had a tragedy or experienced violence, to communities that don’t have to think about those two things. I think that was existentially challenging.

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A woman in Milwaukee sits on her stoop as a sheriff’s eviction is underway.

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Keys belonging to Quentin, a former gang member who became a landlord.

Did you have any experience with eviction or poor neighborhoods in Madison?

It’s a different kind of poverty — or, it’s poverty on a different kind of scale. My wife and I lived on the south side of Madison, off South Park. We loved that community. It was a mixed-income, multi-ethnic community. There were pockets of poverty, but it was a tightknit, on-the-sidewalk community. I remember there was this huge snowstorm, and everyone was out shoveling. No one had a snow blower. So we were all just workin’ it, you know, with a shovel.

We teamed up with the other folks and we all pitched in and made a neighborhood breakfast. Fisher Street, to some folks in Madison, is considered to be a low-income community, but it’s almost a different species, in terms of a trailer park on the far south side of Milwaukee, or some neighborhoods in the inner city of the north side of Milwaukee.

What does chronic eviction do to a community?

Eviction is an acutely stressful, drawnout process. It can really take a toll on family life. Moms who are evicted experience high rates of depression, and that has to affect relationships. It has to affect kids. We know that when neighbors work together to confront issues on their block they can make huge differences.

They can drive down crime and can improve their neighborhood. But, for that to happen, we have to give them the opportunity to be a community. And some neighborhoods in Milwaukee have 15%20% eviction rates, people constantly shuffling in and out. Under those conditions, we kind of ensure that neighbors remain strangers. And we dilute the power of local citizen engagement. I think the lack of affordable housing in our cities is the wellspring for so many problems we care about.

In Evicted, you follow white families and you follow black families, all of whom are poor, but it’s clear that there’s still a hierarchy. How are race and poverty connected?

There are things that you can’t understand about the eviction crisis without recognizing the saliency of racial discrimination and the legacy of racial disadvantage. The fact is that low-income African American women are evicted at startlingly higher rates. Among Milwaukee renters, one in five black women reports being evicted sometime in her life, compared to one in 15 white women.

Low-income black women are disproportionately affected by the eviction epidemic, and it’s especially true of mothers. Moms with kids — that’s really the face of this problem.

If you go to any housing court in the country, you just see just a ton of kids running around. Today, the majority of white folks in America own their homes; that’s not the case for the majority of African American folks, and that’s the result of a certain historical legacy.

And then there’s the saliency of discrimination in the housing market. We surveyed folks that live in cities like Milwaukee, and most people think that the city’s still segregated because of personal choice, but the research is not supportive of that idea. It’s supportive of the idea of the prevalence of housing discrimination and the housing market. It’s also important to recognize that this isn’t a problem that’s just concentrated in low-income communities of color — that’s why it was important to write about folks in the trailer parks. It’s in immigrant communities, it’s in expensive cities like Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. But it’s also in the middle of the country. It’s in Madison and St. Louis and Houston.

The parts where landlords are featured prominently were some of the most upsetting for me, but you never come across as saying, “These are bad people.”

Yeah, I never felt it was my job to say that. Also, saying that lets ourselves off the hook. It allows us to just stereotype certain kinds of folks as bad or greedy, or, if we had different politics, we might stereotype the tenants as irresponsible or lazy. If we get down to the ground level and really look at what’s going on, we realize it’s a lot more complicated. I think you do see the landlords in the book take an emotional hit by being up close and personal with the wreckage that we permit, with respect to the level of poverty in America.

And the fact is that today, most poor families are spending most of what they have on housing. So, when Katrina has to evict Lamar (all names were changed to protect privacy), she doesn’t just do it, and she doesn’t

shrug it off. She really wrestles with it. And you can see [her] delaying and negotiating, and she finally has this amazing conversation with her husband, Quentin, when she says, “I love Lamar, but love don’t pay the bills.” I think that was important to capture, because we see these kinds of things in other areas of life too.

We see the effect of incarceration on prison guards. We see the effect of eviction on landlords. We see the effect of failing schools on burned-out teachers. We see the reverberations, the effects, not only in local families and communities but in a lot of other folks engaged in these issues as well.

Distraught over her eviction, a woman is comforted by her 11-year-old nephew.

There’s a section of the book where one of your central figures, Larraine, uses her food stamps to go buy lobster tail, shrimp, crab legs, salmon, lemon merengue.

When Larraine did that, I was really angry at her, and flabbergasted. And I think I responded to it in a way that a lot of other folks would respond to it. But Lorraine didn’t apologize for it, and I thought, “Well, gosh, if she doesn’t, it’s not my job to either.”

You say in a footnote related to that passage, “There are two ways to dehumanize: the first is to strip people of all virtue, the second is to clear them of all sin.”

I felt that I could identify with what Larraine did, and I felt it was a very human thing for her to do. We can’t live by bread alone, and that goes for folks like Lorraine, too. I guess my wager with the universe is that, by telling this story, I encourage a few of us to think a little harder about the lives of the poor, and really try to understand how we might blow a monthly allotment of food stamps on lobster too — if we were living so far below the poverty line that no amount of good behavior would lift us above it.

kids. Most of the folks in the book are just trying to make it, and do right by their kids.

But I also thought it was important to write about moments like the one with Larraine, because it does teach us something about the texture of poverty today.

Another individual you follow wins a small amount of money at a casino. But instead of using it on her own pressing needs, she uses it to help a friend pay the rent.

There’s this other thing there, the incredible generosity you sometimes witness among folks who are facing truly difficult situations. There’s a little mention of this moment in the fieldwork where I was spending time with the Hinkston family, which lives in a really terrible house. It was February, and Doreen asked me to go downstairs to look at the furnace. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I came back up and they had bought me a birthday cake and they wanted to surprise me.

Their heat was off, but they were focused on this moment of generosity. It was just a powerful moment for me — and those are all over the book — because it reminds us how people refuse to be reduced by their poverty; they refuse to be defined by their hardship.

It’s challenging in discussions like this to avoid reducing people to their poverty.

I knew that people in the book would read the book. I gave it to them long before it went to the publisher. And I knew that if I did reduce them, and they didn’t recognize themselves in the story, I would be doing them an injustice. So I did try to write about their full selves, even parts of them that are hard to read.

How do scholars doing this kind of work retain the humanity of their subjects?

I think you have to put in the work, you have to spend a lot of time on the ground. If you can, you want to live in the communities. And when you start writing and thinking about this, you want to spend a lot of time with people’s words and experiences. It’s a heck of a responsibility to write about someone’s life. When I left the field, I would be constantly listening to recordings from Milwaukee over and over and over again, while I was walking to work or rocking my kid to sleep. I’d be listening.

And I had all these field notes, like 5,000 single pages, that I just read and reread and reread because I wanted to make sure people’s stories really got under my skin. When I started writing, I felt I had a completed picture of their situation.

That kind of work takes a lot of time, and it takes a bit of commitment to the field, and commitment to people’s lives.

Reading your book made me want to take action. What can we do next?

I started this foundation that preceded the book called Just Shelter. You can go to justshelter.org to see organizations in your community that are working on these issues, preventing family homelessness and eviction. The good news is that there are a lot of people working really hard on these issues, and a lot of cool stuff getting done block by block, in our cities.

How do you feel about Evicted being chosen for Go Big Read?

It is an enormous honor. I am a proud alum of the University of Wisconsin and am forever indebted to that great university — and to its Department of Sociology in particular. My book bears witness to the lack of affordable housing in America and the persistence of poverty in our cities. That incoming freshmen will be reading Evicted makes me hopeful that Wisconsin will help lead the nation in a national conversation about these morally urgent issues — and that that conversation will spur us to act.

Which, after all, is the Wisconsin Idea.

What does it mean to have an academic work cross over into the popular conversation in this way?

It means that we are ready to have a public conversation about the fact that the high cost of housing is crushing families of moderate means, and eviction is transforming the face of our cities, destabilizing homes and entire communities. It means that we are growing intolerant of the fact that we are the richest democracy in the world with the worst poverty. It means that we are ready to allow our children — no matter where they are born or what their parents do — a real shot at reaching their full potential. n

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I think we forget, possibly, that a necessary part of existing is to do things that are not “necessary.”

There is a whole literature now, behavioral economics, that shows that a lot of folks behave like that. It shows that someone like Larraine is not poor because she makes bad decisions — if that’s what we want to call that — she makes those kinds of decisions because she’s poor. We do know that things like stress and poverty tax the brain. It’s also important to point out that she’s kind of the oddball on this one, right?

You don’t see lot of folks in the book doing that. When Eileen gets a little bit of extra money, she buys sneakers for her son; she invests it in her

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Life behind the board Isthmus talks to live sound engineers about their invisible role

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sound engineer’s work feels like something of a dark art. I don’t understand it and wouldn’t know where to start.”

I spoke with nearly a dozen Madison live sound pros. They say it starts with training. And knowledge.

Frequency sound engineer Eric Geane says he learned his tricks of the trade in school (Madison Media Institute) and, more so, on the job. He turns “dark art” into science by organizing a successful mix into three parts.

A solid foundation is “banging drums and bass,” says Geane. “You gotta be able to clearly hear the tings of the cymbals while the bass guitar, kick drum and toms shake bottles off the back bar.” Clear, intelligible vocals, he adds, are “the most important and therefore hardest part.” Geane calls guitars, keys, samplers, horns and backing vocals “the movement of the music,” and says mixing them requires small detail

work, including muting instruments on the fly when they’re not in use.

Baseline technical approaches vary, but High Noon mixer Jon Chvojicek, a mechanical engineering graduate from UW-Madison, sums it up by saying he “meets the artist right in the middle.”

That balancing act involves perfecting not one but two sound systems: the monitor mix that the performers hear through stage speakers and the front-of-house mix coming at the audience through the club PA. That’s a lot of sonic real estate, and it requires polished people skills along with technical know-how.

Then there’s the problem of musicians who don’t know what they want or are disorganized on stage. Intellasound engineer Dec Dwyer says artists who ask for “a little of everything” are guaranteeing a long night.

“Sometimes what musicians say isn’t actually what they mean,” adds Intellasound’s Bryan

Schalburg. “Many times less is more. If a musician’s having a hard time hearing one part, like vocal, I find if I turn down something else in their mix just a bit, suddenly their vocal pops right out at them.”

“Musicians can be a very odd group of people,” adds Bear Sound owner Andrew LaValley. “It’s fairly common to deal with a wide range of personalities in a single group.

But this is a service job. It’s in my best interest to get along with the artists and gain their trust. This almost always works.”

“Be respectful,” says Schalburg. “It’s amazing how a performer can walk into a sound check in a terrible mood, but then you are polite, smile, clear in your communication, and suddenly everyone is having a great day.”

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I’ve often felt bad for the person at the sound board. Think of the indignities. The amplified, sometimes demeaning, instructions of a lead singer on stage. The bro who sloshes beer on your shoes on his way to the board to bark for more bass. The grunt work — breaking down the stage in the wee morning hours.

You’d think these guys (and it’s mostly guys — more on that in a bit) would hate their job. You’d be wrong.

“In the end, nothing beats getting to help an amazing artist put on an incredible show,” says Dustin Boyle, sound mixer at the Frequency and vice chair of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Audio Engineering Society.

What makes a sound engineer tick?

And what kinds of tics make a good sound engineer? Madison singer-songwriter Evan Murdock says even seasoned performers often don’t have a clue: “As a performer, the

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As restaurant challenges go, transforming an Indian spot into another Indian spot is about as easy as it gets. Restaurant consultant Anwar Zaidi and his wife, Reba, have enlisted the help of chef Dev Raj, who worked at both the east- and west-side locations of the former Maharaja. You might expect a little light redecoration to spiff the place up, maybe groovier Punjabi music, but obviously the buffet will go there, the tables here. The only questions most people are going to be asking are: Is the food better? How about the service?

And so it is with Tandoori House, which replaced Maharaja-west earlier this year.

Odd half-finished details abound, and there’s a sense that the attention of Zaidi’s team has been directed at areas other than dining room presentation. But who cares if all the molly bolts sit flush against the drywall? Not me, because the food is comforting, satisfying on a primal level. I could be sitting in a ruin and it wouldn’t matter.

The lunch buffet is typical of Madison’s Indian restaurants in its dishes, but distinguished by some excellent preparations: plump grilled shrimp with peppers; seekh kardhai (ground chicken with onion and garlic, finished in the oven); palak paneer (homemade cheese and stewed spinach). “Aloo” slow-roasted turnip with potato and cumin was one of many vegetarian dishes at the buffet.

Daal makhni, black and red beans simmered in spice and sauce, is smoky and subtle — it was my favorite vegetarian dish and one of the most interesting and flavorful dishes in the entire buffet.

Chunks of fish, lightly seasoned and perfectly seared, are served with sliced red bell peppers and white onions. Westerners don’t always like eating raw onions (unless they’re on a cheeseburger), but here it feels right to chow down on the slivers of raw white onions like they’re Fritos.

Desserts are fun at the buffet. In a refreshing switch-up, there’s strawberry ice cream, with a bolder taste than I expected, along with the standard mango. The gulab

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jamun (doughnut-like dumplings in sweet cardamom syrup) and gajar halwa (shredded carrots in milk pudding with raisins and whipped cream) make for a varied array of sweet stuff.

Dinners are enormous, so choose wisely. I always benchmark an Indian restaurant by asking for spicy beef vindaloo, “as hot as you can make it.” Not once in Madison have I ever had my tongue seared, or even really challenged, but I’m pretty sure that’s because we are living in the land of bland flavors. If the kitchen fires up the spices, I imagine people just return the dish, and the restaurant loses money. At any rate, the vindaloo here was neither too spicy nor without kick, but nowhere near “my head is on fire.”

Chicken tikka masala, a good dinner choice, also won the approval of one representative of the notoriously fickle 13-yearold demographic. Fresh herbs and spices made tandoori chicken impossible to resist.

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ander was the only misfire, stringy even by the standards of that rangy animal.

While some of the appetizers (like the bland samosas) were not remarkable, one unusual dish lit up all five zones on the tongue like a ball caroming through a classic pinball game. The Pakistani dish chapli kababis Peshawari (minced beef kebabs) was the unexpected hero of the menu — truly spicy, with a complex, earthy kick and slow-burning heat. When leftovers were resurrected from the fridge, these patties were very good cold, too. This was a daily special, but is available regularly as part of the kebab platter.

There are some screws to bolt down, some details to attend to, and while it’s troublesome that the team hasn’t smoothed off all the edges this long after opening, the food is so good that it doesn’t matter very much. The proof is in the rice pudding: Both the service and the food (especially the Pakistani dishes, like halheem and nihari) are a notch above Maharaja.

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The “Kale”-ifornian salad, a toss of kale and arugula in an orange and jalapeño vinaigrette, gets a boost from roasted beets along with avocado and pine nuts.

It’s unique to the East Wash location of the local mini-chain.

Basically a quick-pickled beet, this salad keeps the focus on the young root vegetable, combined with radish, watercress, goat cheese and a hit of pickled mustard seed.

Even many beet lovers have never enjoyed the pleasure of baby beets, which are sweeter and more vegetal than the grownup version. Here, they’re roasted and joined by chorizo, goat cheese, almonds and a hint of dill.

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Beer Buzz: Fired up, ready to go Peshtigo brewery enters the Madison market

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So far, Forgotten Fire beers Among the newest beers to seem to have generated only appear in Madison are from modest excitement in the the Forgotten Fire Brewery of Madison beer community; howPeshtigo. The brewery is named ever, look for the recipes to be for the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, tweaked in the near future. For“forgotten” perhaps only in gotten Fire beers are available comparison to the Great Chiin six-packs of 12-ounce bottles cago Fire, which took place on for around $8-$9 each. the same day. (Nonetheless, the Peshtigo Fire is still the deadliLone Girl opens est wildfire in U.S. history.) in Waunakee Forgotten Fire beers started appearing in Madison about a The first in-house beers from month ago. Owner Joe Callow, Lone Girl Brewing went on tap who also owns Forgotten Fire June 18.

Winery, is currently making his This Waunakee brewpub beer with the help of the Steopened in early June, serving vens Point Brewery. He’s hopother local beers. Now that ing to break ground on a new ROBIN SHEPARD PHOTOS its new brew house is up and 12,000-square-foot brewery in running, the initial line of its Joe Callow brings his Hopstinguisher and other brews to Madison.

Peshtigo by the end of the year. own beers includes the light His offerings in Madison bodied Speakeasy Ale at 5% have included Hopstinguisher, a session Radler this summer and Stein Hoister, an ABV, a citrus-focused IPA that finishes at IPA, and 5 O’Clock Beers, an amber lager.

Oktoberfest, this fall. Callow also intends to 6.5% and a bold, dark, sweet stout that Others to watch for as this young comuse his wine-making experience to develop ends up around 5% ABV. pany increases distribution include Cherry a line of wine barrel-aged beers.

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It’s obvious Graze, 1. S. Pinckney St., is having some fun with its new seasonal cocktail menu. For this round, each bartender got to create and name a cocktail after a favorite song.

So the menu is full of drinks like the China Girl, Let’s Go Grazy and Hard Day’s Night. I opted for the I Don’t Want No Shrubs, a riff on the TLC song “No Scrubs.”

The shrub is a drink based on a sweetened vinegar-based syrup; they were first popular in the 17th and 18th centuries in English public houses.

Shrubs, both alcoholic and not, have been regaining popularity in the U.S. since around 2011.

I Don’t Want No Shrubs is a concoction of Twisted Path dark rum, ginger-honey syrup, grapefruit shrub, Bittercube Jamaican #2 bitters, lime juice and soda water. It’s served over ice in a highball glass with an orange twist.

When I had it on a humid, early summer night right before a wild storm, it was a tall glass of cool refreshment; a bright and spicy drink to ring in summer. Get there before July 11, when a new menu is set to debut.

— ERICA KRUG

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You do want one, after all.

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Graze’s seasonal cocktail menu goes crazy

The latest Mr. Brews Taphouse is set to open the week of June 20 at 5251 High Crossing Blvd., on Madison’s far east side.

It’s the ninth restaurant for the Wisconsin-based company, which has five other locations in the greater Madison area.

“Madison is a very demanding market with craft beers,” says company president Steve Day. The new location is about 3,000 square feet and will feature 64 tap beers and an outside patio that can seat 60. “We typically try to have 60% of our beers be as local as possible,” says Day. The company is still working on plans for a Cottage Grove taphouse at 425 West Oak St.; Day is hoping that location will be open by late fall.

Beer to watch for: Viking Brewpub’s Midnight Sun cream ale The American cream ale is a mild beer with a smooth, light maltiness and low hop bitterness. Brewers often call it a true American style; it emerged prior to Prohibition as U.S. brewers looked for something to compete with the emerging popularity of the European-influenced lager brewing.

Midnight Sun has been offered by Viking Brewpub since its first summer in 2014. Brewmaster David Worth found the beer to be too similar to his Nordic Blonde lager; it didn’t stand out. He gave the cream ale a little more body and color thanks to a combination of flaked corn, pale base malt, darker Munich caramel and honey malt.

The beer also has a solid herbal spiciness from Styrian Golding and Summit hops. Worth uses a combination of both ale and lager yeast for fermentation and allows it to condition a little longer to soften its distinctive corn sweetness. Even so, there’s lots of grainy corn flavor, and the beer has a light malty sweetness that makes this a solid cream ale. I’m recommending this for those looking for a flavorful alternative to macro-lagers. Midnight Sun Cream Ale finishes at 5.9% ABV and about 8 IBUs. It’s sold at the Viking Brewpub bar for $4.75/ pint and $13/growler (refill).

More beers to watch for: It’s Berliner Weisse season. Next Door, One Barrel and Parched Eagle all have versions of this old German style on tap right now.

Vintage Brewing is offering Kindled Spirits, a rauchhelles that’s made with German beechwood-smoked malt. There’s a touch of bacon and campfire in every pint; it finishes at 5.7% ABV. The Great Dane-Hilldale is planning to release a cold-press coffee IPA made with coffee from local roasters Kin-Kin in early July.

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Next stop, Washington Market Taco bar and public market planned for historic train depot A new restaurant, public market and coffee shop are on track to open in the historic Milwaukee Road Depot, 640 W. Washington Ave. What’s been dubbed Washington Market is the latest project from Gil Altschul, the restaurateur behind Gib’s Bar and Grampa’s Pizzeria. “It’s a beautiful building. We want to see it fully utilized in a positive way,� says Altschul. “This will hopefully add something that we think is lacking in that part of the city.�

Plans for the project call for a public market on the boarding platform of the defunct train station, built in 1903. A half-dozen vendor stalls will be added in between the platform’s pillars and then subleased to independent sellers. “It’ll be like a smaller version of Seattle’s Pike Place Market,� says Altschul. “Produce.

Flowers. Seafood. Maybe ice cream. Pastries.

I’m in early talks with a butcher.� Glass walls will be installed to enclose the platform, allowing the market to operate year-round.

Bandit, a taco restaurant with a heavy bar focus, will open in the station’s baggage depot. “A big part of this plan will be grinding our own masa and making our own tortillas every day,� says Altschul. Details of the cocktails aren’t

The multifaceted project at the Depot aims to make a destination out of an underused, historic venue.

finalized, but don’t be surprised if tap margaritas and paloma slushies are on the menu. The twostory brick structure sits directly behind the main depot (which will continue to house Motorless Motion Bicycles). Before the train station was closed in the 1960s, the baggage depot stored — what else? — luggage. It’s currently an office for veterinary pharmaceutical company Nexcyon.

The exterior will largely go untouched. The interior will be remodeled to emphasize the original architectural details of the 113-yearold building.

The project will incorporate the five-car passenger train parked alongside the train depot.

The locomotive will be moved closer to West Washington and converted into Bandit To Go, a takeout arm for the restaurant that will serve on Badgers football game days and during events at the Kohl Center.

Two of the passenger cars will be fitted with wet bars and rented for private parties. (The cars will be separated from the locomotive and rolled further down the tracks.) The remaining two passenger cars are being moved off the site entirely.

The result will be an unobstructed view of the Milwaukee Road Depot from West Washington and the Southwest Commuter bike path. “A big part of making the property more attractive was opening up the ‘face’ of the train depot,� Altschul says. “It’ll be lit up at night, which will look great with the glass walls that run the length of the building.�

The public market space will also act as a courtyard to connect Bandit to the main depot.

That’s where Porter, a coffee and sandwich shop, will be located. Demolition is underway in the former back office space that Porter will soon occupy. La Lingerie Shop will continue to

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Make an edible masterpiece at this event hosted by Revel. Instructor Alex West, owner of Yield Bakehouse in Grafton, will teach you how to make a perfect cookie canvas and provide tips on creating different effects using food coloring and brushes. At Revel, 107 N. Hamilton St., 2-4 pm. Tickets ($45) available on revelmadison.com.

Friday-Sunday, June 24-26

In Sun Prairie this weekend you can take in not one but three festivals. On Friday, the Fiery Foods Festival features, guess what, “spicy, fiery and blazing-hot foods,� 2 pmmidnight. The Bacon, Brew & BBQ Festival, an all-you-caneat-and-drink event, takes place on Saturday, noon-5 pm (you’ll need a ticket for this one). Sunday brings the World Food Fest, a showcase of foods from around the globe, noon-5 pm. All are at Angell Park, 300 Park St., Sun Prairie.

Free admission on Friday and Sunday. Tickets ($60) for Saturday at summerfeast.org.

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The Milwaukee Road Depot was designated a Madison landmark in 1975 and is listed on both the state and federal registers of historic places. Over a century before Gov. Scott Walker put the kibosh on high-speed rail, the train station connected Madison to Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and was a bustling center of activity. “This should be a game changer for the area,� says Altschul. “The idea is that Washington Market will be a destination. A gathering spot where people go to eat, shop...just show up to walk around and check it out.�

Porter is expected to open this fall, but completion of the entire Washington Market project will take at least a year. Construction on the baggage depot won’t even begin until October. “Optimistically, the entire project will be complete by July 4, 2017,� says Altschul. “The response from the neighborhood and the city has been tremendously positive so far. It’s all coming together.�

The project received preliminary approval from the Landmarks Commission June 6 but is still wending its way through city committees. — DYLAN BROGAN

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A communal four-course dinner party from Pig & Plant, a new family-run venture by Emily and Max Day in Middleton Hills, includes a spring panzanella salad, arancini, wood-grilled lamb chop (with lamb from Pinn Oak Farms) and strawberry shortbread crumble. At 3325 Prairie Glade Rd., 8 pm; email pigandplant@gmail.com to reserve a seat.

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BY MICHAEL POPKE

On Saturday, June 25, the Madison Mallards will be in Green Bay. But Warner Park won’t be silent. The Madison Mad Dawgs, the city’s 3-year-old semipro football team, will wrap up its home season with a 3 p.m. game against the Tri-County Bulldogs of Reedsburg. (Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for kids under 9.) With a 3-2 record in the nine-team Northern Lights Football League, the Mad Dawgs have three games remaining on their schedule, and there’s a good chance they’ll host a playoff game in late July.

“These guys don’t get paid, so the majority of them play for the passion of the game,” says Fred Jackson, Mad Dawgs owner and offensive coach. “For many, it’s a positive outlet.”

With about 60 players ranging in age from 18 to 53 — and experience levels spanning from “absolutely none” all the way up to having tried out for an NFL team — the Mad Dawgs are a motley bunch. Some are engineers, while others work at McDonald’s.

A handful of players have police records, and more than a few might be roaming the streets were it not for the opportunity to play football.

Team-building experiences, opportunities to advance in the sport and participation in community events, such as the MDA

Madison Muscle Team fundraiser at Keva Sports Center on July 28, help these men improve their lives, according to Jackson.

“We work with players off the field, which keeps them tied to the program,” he says.

If the team’s name sounds familiar, that’s because the Madison Mad Dogs was an arena football team that played from 1998 to 2000 at what was then known as the Dane County Coliseum.

The Mad Dawgs (see what Jackson did there?) arrived in Madison in 2014, right around the time the Madison Mustangs of the semipro MidStates Football League galloped off to wherever financially defunct sports team go. They went undefeated last season and are the reigning NLFL champions.

Not bad, considering that the Mad Dawgs didn’t even exist in 2013; back then, they were known as the Milton Mayhem and played in a league composed of eight-man football teams. Some of the same players remain.

Jackson doesn’t worry about his team folding, as the Mustangs did. Through sponsorships by such local businesses as Burrachos in Sun Prairie and First Choice Drywall in Waunakee — as well as his own out-ofpocket payments for referees and league fees for players who can’t afford them — he keeps the Mad Dawgs barking. ■

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Rapping old-school The Black Poets Society brings back its uplifting rhymes

BY STEVEN POTTER

Rap is about much more than violence. It’s about community. It’s about connecting with others.

And the Black Poets Society — a local, live hip-hop band from the 1990s — is bringing back its unique brand of uplifting rhymes and positive vibes to prove it.

“Why can’t we talk about the black kid who’s graduating from college to become a doctor? Or the young Latino kid who’s the first in his family to graduate high school?” asks Seth Yosef, one of the Black Poets MCs, who goes by Row on stage. “Those stories [about violence by other rappers] are important because that’s what’s real for them, but there’s other topics to be discussed too.”

The group — also known as BPS — will bring their positive raps about good times, achieving one’s best and elevating one’s mind when they hit the stage for their second annual reunion show July 1 at the High Noon Saloon.

A crew of eight that includes a handful of MCs and many musicians, the BPS sound is a throwback to old-school rap from the 1980s and early ’90s, when songs about parties and romantic pursuits got you dancing and your heart racing.

When they first got together in the early ’90s, the group “tried to mimic our favorite artists like De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest,” says Lacouir Yancey, who plays bass and raps under the name Bboy Spirit.

Others in the group include guitarist and MC Adem Tesfaye (who goes by D-iZ-iLL), drummer Nathan Greer (Stank Foot), guitarist David Anderson (DaV), drummer and

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The BPS sound is a throwback to hip-hop of the 1980s and early ’90s.

MC Yorel Lashley (Thesis), keyboardist Ricky Flowers (FloRoc) and Theodore Yancey (The), another MC. BPS formed after a few of the members started rapping at house parties and asked other musicians to join. After gaining a buzz, they recorded some songs and became the go-to local act that promoters booked to open for national rappers who came through town, including the Pharcyde, Guru’s Jazzmatazz and even their idols De La Soul.

A spin through their limited but energetic catalog shows a passion for life. The title track from the first BPS mixtape, Concepts, released

in 1993, centers on what we can learn from personal interactions, while “AOF (Assessment of Freshness)” is a classic posse cut, with each MC boasting about his lyrical skill.

The Black Poets Society released a second mixtape, In Our Society, in 1995, but disbanded a couple of years later. Although they drifted apart musically and pursued different paths, the members always stayed in close contact with one another. They played their first reunion show last year.

Now ranging from their late 30s to mid-40s, the members have become seasoned musicians.

“We’re right in that age range to know what

we want and where we’ve done enough not to go back,” says Yancey. “We’re good where we are.”

They plan to release a new full-length record sometime next year, Yancey says, and will perform material from a new mixtape at the July 1 show. But they’ll play old stuff, too, and fans from the past can expect that same old BPS vibe.

“We’ve always been about positivity.

We’ve always been about family. We’ve always been about growth,” says Yosef. “You can expect a big jam session at the show.

And you can expect to be dancing.” n

Tom Laskin, a Madison original The longtime Isthmus writer put the “alternative” in “alternative weekly newspaper”

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Tom Laskin never used a cliché in a quartercentury of writing for Isthmus. I can vouch for that fact because I edited most of his stories. Clichés abound in journalism, particularly in Tom’s specialty, music writing.

But he always had an original take, an original turn of phrase — just what you’d expect from this thoroughly original personality.

When I heard that Tom had died last week, I recalled seeing him for the first time in the mid-1980s. I was Isthmus’ arts editor, and he’d signed on to do the arts section’s humblest job: writing blurbs about the week’s live-music highlights. He was notorious as the lead singer of Madison’s great punk band the Appliances-SFB, so of course I expected a snarling punk. Instead I met a polite young man with owlish glasses and

an Oxford don’s vocabulary — a product of his master’s degree in English and wide-ranging intellectual interests.

Reading that first set of blurbs — for which we paid him $15 as a freelancer — was an experience an editor has once or twice in his career, if he’s lucky. I discovered a new voice, witty enough to make me laugh out loud and insightful enough to make me see music in a different way. Every week I looked forward to the latest blurbs, sharing them with fellow editor and Tom Laskin fan Michana Buchman. We both knew his work could stand comparison to the best music writing in the country.

I soon learned that Tom could write just as perceptively about books, movies and visual art. News editor Bill Lueders and features editor Judy Davidoff assigned him articles for their sections, and publisher Vince O’Hern offered him a staff writing job.

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Laskin with Appliances-SFB in 1984.

Tom helped make sense of Madison, from politics to business to the arts. He became an indispensable part of Isthmus, putting the “alternative” in “alternative weekly newspaper.”

Tom came by his alternative perspective honestly. He was anti-authoritarian, befitting his punk roots. He saw through bullshit and never bullshit anyone himself. His writing style combined literary flair with an underground sensibility — imagine T.S. Eliot as a zine contributor. For all his iconoclasm, however, he had a heart. His articles revealed a generosity of spirit, and he treated co-workers with respect. At his Appliances shows, I marveled at a mild-mannered reporter’s transformation into a ferocious rocker.

I feared Tom would leave Isthmus for the Village Voice, L.A. Weekly or another big-city publication. But he remained loyal to Isthmus, and to Madison, until moving to Paris in the late 2000s with his wife, KTinsley Laskin. Tom died abroad, but we should remember him for his inestimable contributions to our town while he lived among us. n

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Clockwise from left: Surround Sound, Distant Cuzins and the Violet Aversion Theory.

Area youth bands face off at Summerfest For some Wisconsin rock bands, playing Milwaukee’s Summerfest is the ultimate big gig — affirmation that making music is finally paying off.

A dozen bands representing students from 23 high schools and middle schools around the state were chosen from among more than 50 entrants to compete in the Rockonsin finals at Summerfest next week.

They will perform 20-minute sets on the Johnson Controls Stage on June 30 and July 1 from noon to 3:30 p.m.

Among them are three Madison area local bands appearing consecutively on June 30: • Distant Cuzins, a quartet from Oregon High School, plays a raucous fusion of rockabilly and classic rock (1:15 p.m.).

• Surround Sound, a heavy-rockin’ fourpiece, is made up of students from Waunakee, Middleton and Madison Memorial high schools (1:45 p.m.).

• The Violet Aversion Theory, a trio from Madison West, submitted a dark and doomy version of the Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun” for its Rockonsin entry (2:15 p.m.).

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will play a 45-minute set at Summerfest’s Harley-Davidson Roadhouse on July 10, plus receive a professional recording session at Madison’s Blast House Studios. Additionally, one rock, punk or metal band will be selected to represent Rockonsin at the Milwaukee stop of the 2016 Vans Warped Tour on July 26, and another act will be chosen to perform at Waukesha BluesFest on Aug. 13.

“This provides a peek at the next generation of young garage bands and their own signature sounds and interpretation of music that will rock future music lovers in the Badger State and beyond,” says Rockonsin producer Dennis Graham. “Rockonsin gives these young bands the opportunity to display their musical chops at a festival recognized as the largest in the world. That’s pretty cool.”

This year, Rockonsin replaced Launchpad, an annual garage band competition founded by Graham that ran for 11 years but only allowed three groups total to perform at Summerfest.

Graham expects the number of bands participating in Rockonsin to increase as the competition evolves. “I want to make this a truly statewide representation of the young talent in Wisconsin.”

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The term “sound guy” is a stubborn term with uncomfortable roots in reality. National estimates show that women represent less than 5% of producers and engineers industrywide. There are many theories as to why, but no consensus.

“I couldn’t tell you why there are so few women,” says Britny Williams, one of Madison’s few female engineers; she works as a freelance mixer and full-time broadcast specialist at Wisconsin Public Radio.

Williams says live engineering can be a “thankless job,” but she hasn’t experienced much overt sexism on the job. “My lifting limit is lower than my male colleagues, but other than that, it really isn’t a thing. My gender doesn’t occur to me in relation to my job.”

Male or female, if you’re at a sound board you have a target on your back. Unsolicited advice from patrons is guaranteed. I see it as the equivalent of someone with a Netflix account telling one of the Coen brothers how to frame his next camera shot “The easy part is ignoring the bullshit,” says Geane. “The not-so-easy part is weeding out and accepting the constructive comments. Shame be had if you miss out on learning a new trick just because you let ego get in the way of a stranger’s advice.”

“I genuinely listen to see if they are right,” says Boyle. “It may be that more bass is needed. If an artist has been late to a sound check and I’m in the middle of an on-the-fly mix, and someone walks up and sneers that something can’t be heard — as I probably haven’t gotten to it yet — I may just move a non-active control and ask if that’s better, to which they almost always say yes.”

“I take the compliments with a smile and ignore the criticism, with a smile,” says Majestic Theatre engineer Dan Edwards.

Intellasound’s Declan says the most frequent question he gets from audience members is, “Do you know what all those buttons do?”

“I usually point at one button and say, ‘Only this one.’”

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Britny Williams is part of a small cadre of female sound engineers.

The top complaint among Madison sound pros? Patrons placing or spilling beer on the mixing board.

The outdoor festival season brings its own set of challenges. “Fifteen-minute changeovers at festivals are the bane of my existence,” says Declan. “Who thinks they can get musicians to tear down one full band of gear and set up another full band, set mics, and do a sound check in 15 minutes?”

Other engineers, especially those using their own gear — not a company’s — pointed out the stress related to the constant threat of stormy weather.

“I enjoy mixing outdoors as long as the PA is adequate for the outdoor space,” says Eric Brusewitz, who works the board at the High Noon and was the go-to mixer at the late, great O’Cayz Corral. “It’s refreshing not to have to deal with room acoustics, and it’s a little lower volume, which saves the ears.”

Indoors or out, I entered this assignment convinced that being a sound engineer was a thankless task. I was mistaken.

“During a show I am intimately connected to the musicians on stage,” says LaValley.

“I get the privilege of presenting that band in my unique way to the audience. Seeing and feeling that connection between the performer and their audience is pure magic. This is my version of the American dream.” n

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Heartbreak up the hill It’s impossible to look away from Death of a Salesman

BY GWENDOLYN RICE

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is a contemporary tragedy wrought so beautifully, with such rich language and characters, that a good production will stay in your mind and heart long after the curtain has come down. This summer’s production at American Players Theatre is so good that it won’t just linger after the applause fades; it will haunt you.

As director Kenneth Albers writes in his program notes, from the moment audience members enter the outdoor theater “up the hill” they know they will witness a suicide but will be unable look away. Indeed, from Brian Mani’s first entrance, as a rumpled, slightly bowed Willy Loman, lugging his heavy sample suitcases into his modest house late at night, it’s impossible not to be drawn in to his confusion, exhaustion and despair. A large physical presence onstage, Mani seems to shrink over the course of the play, withdrawing from the world that baffles him.

Loman’s grown sons, Biff and Happy, are worried about their father’s fragile mental

state but feel powerless to heal him. Marcus Truschinski creates an extraordinary Biff, the son who was filled with all of Willy’s aggrandizement and oversized dreams. Truschinski embodies the high school football star and golden boy in flashback scenes. As an adult who has come back home to try to reconcile with Willy, Biff’s anger, frustration and pain gnaw at him.

When he finally explodes and breaks down, it creates one of the most moving moments of the production.

Biff’s younger brother, Happy, played by a beguiling Casey Hoekstra, has transformed into a slick “yes man” who can fast-talk his way into the company of any young woman he wants.

Hoekstra shows impressive range in Happy’s late-night confessions to his brother, revealing his character’s moments of sober honesty and introspection.

Tracy Michele Arnold brings quiet resilience to her character of Linda, Willy’s wife and most ardent supporter. In a role that is too often filled with histrionics and blame, Arnold imbues Linda with unwavering strength.

Albers made a provocative directing choice in casting African American actors in the roles of the Lomans’ next-door neighbors, Charley

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(Johnny Lee Davenport) and Bernard (Sylvester Little Jr.). This choice sharply exposes Loman’s irrational belief in his own white privilege, making it even more perverse that Willy will not humble himself to take a job from the much more successful Charley, played with exceptional depth and resonance by Davenport.

Death of a Salesman is a dramatic masterpiece, and American Players Theatre presents the foibles and battles of Willy Loman with devastating emotion and heart. And even though the end is inevitable, it is a fascinating, heartbreaking journey, and one that I highly recommend embarking on this summer. n

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Welsh villagers crash the elite party in true-life Dark Horse

BY STEVE DAVIS

There is nothing so magnificent, so utterly inspirational as a horse at full gallop, its muscular torso flexing with each lengthening stride, suspending the creature in an airborne state of physical grace for a brief second or two before the hooves hit the ground again, only to lift the animal aloft once more.

It’s a spectacular thing to behold, hypnotic in its poise and beauty. The enormously heartfelt documentary Dark Horse translates this equine grandeur into something even more breathtaking, recounting how the residents of an economically depressed Welsh mining village with no prior equestrian experience pool their financial resources to breed a racehorse, fittingly named Dream Alliance. In this Cinderella story, the glass slipper is not the brief fame and fortune that this scrappy but determined animal brings to its unlikely owners, but the unconditional love he shares with those human beings and the sense of pride they feel in his accomplishments, which include winning the 2009 Welsh Grand National. It’s a you-can’t-write-thiskind-of-stuff true story that will bring tears (the good kind!) to your eyes, beguiling in its simplicity and purity of heart. Take your handkerchief and prepare to well up, just as Dream Alliance’s working-class owners

occasionally do as they recall their lifeenriching experience in the film. Watching their misty-eyed reminiscing is nothing less than humbling. This is the real thing.

First and foremost, there’s the middleaged barmaid Janet Vokes, who overhears a pub patron discussing a racehorse he once owned (a less-than-positive experience, no less) and decides she’d like to do the same, with a little help from her friends. For this nurturing woman and her fellow syndicate members, breeding and racing Dream Alliance is not just some get-rich scheme motivated by profit. (At the end of the horse’s career, they each only cleared $2,100.) As his carefully chosen name indicates, he means much, much more to them.

Class plays a subtle but important role in the narrative of Dark Horse, as the villagers rub elbows with society’s elite and dare to intrude upon a traditional pastime of Britain’s landed gentry. (One can’t help but gleefully imagine the reactions to the warm, toothless grin of Vokes’ husband, Brian, as he mingles with the racetrack crowd.)

While the underdog element of this tale is emotionally gratifying, it’s the humanity on unadorned display here that will move you beyond words. Regardless of whether Dream Alliance wins, places or shows, he and this lovely film are, without question, a sure bet. n

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The Mother and the Whore: An idle young man in an open relationship takes advantage of his freedom. Cinematheque, June 24, 7 pm.

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Chronopolis: Animated fantasy by Piotr Kamler.

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The Muppet Movie: Their first big-screen adventure. Memorial Union Terrace, June 26, 8:30 pm.

Animal House: National Lampoon comedy about a feud between a college dean and a troublemaking fraternity. Memorial Union Terrace, June 27, 9 pm.

2001: A Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick’s stunning and/or confounding adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel about a mysterious object found on the moon. Majestic Theatre, June 28, 7:30 pm.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: A gentle alien stranded on Earth befriends a young boy, but government intervention leads to a dire situation for everyone. Edgewater Plaza, June 28, 8:30 pm.

Casablanca: The 1942 classic about an American expatriate (Humphrey Bogart) who meets a former lover (Ingrid Bergman) during World War II. Robinia Courtyard, June 28, 9 pm.

La bête humaine: Based on a novel by Emile Zola, this tale of a love triangle and murder plot provided a prototype for American film noir.

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Rashomon: Witnesses recount differing versions of a horror in Akira Kurosawa’s 1951 classic.

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Violent Cop: A rogue officer discovers his colleague is dealing drugs; mayhem (and deadpan comedy) ensues. Cinematheque, June 30, 7 pm.

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Dark Star Orchestra Friday, June 24, Live on King Street, 6 pm Majestic’s free summer concert series kicks off its new season with this Chicago-based Grateful Dead tribute band. Dark Star Orchestra formed in 1997 as a result of cofounder John Kadlecik’s idea to perform complete shows pulled from among the nearly 2,500 concerts the Dead played from 1965 to ’95, in order, song by song as originally played. With DJ Nick Nice.

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Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Denim ‘n Leather, rock, free, 6 pm.

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

Capital Brewery, Middleton: Blythe Gamble & the Rollin’ Dice, blues, free, 6 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: John Masino, 9 pm.

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

Crescendo Espresso Bar: Paul de Jong, 7:30 pm.

Edgewater Hotel: Phillip Michael Scales, free (plaza), 6 pm.

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

Fountain: Durango McMurphy, 7 pm; Max Rickun, 8 pm.

Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Briana Hardyman, free, 6:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Teddy Davenport, free (patio), 6 pm.

Jessica Lea Mayfield Thursday, June 23, East Side Club, 6 pm

This Ohio native paired up with Seth Avett last year for an album of Elliott Smith covers and recently moved to Nashville to work on her next solo record. With Faux Fawn.

Hop Garden, Paoli: Old Black Joe, free, 6 pm Thursdays.

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Thursday, June 23, The Frequency, 8:30 pm

Now more than a decade into its career, Screaming Females has found the perfect punk-rock balance with songs that are both harmonious and raucous. Though the band scaled back the pandemo-

Ivory Room: Anthony Cao, Leslie Cao, piano, 9 pm.

Thursday, June 23, High Noon Saloon, 9 pm

Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Ken Wheaton, 5:30 pm Thursdays.

David Bazan left his band Pedro the Lion in 2005 and has spent the last 11 years penning songs of deep personal introspection.

Recently, the singer-songwriter released two single series, and in May he re-recorded a handful of those tracks for Blanco, his third solo full-length. With Laura Gibson.

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Hop Haus Brewing Company, Verona: Back2Back, 7 pm.

Jaill has been making catchy pysch- and punk-rock music in Milwaukee for nearly 15 years, though not always under that name: Upon signing to Sub Pop Records in 2009, the trio had to add an extra “l” to its name to avoid confusion with a ’60s-era group. In the last two years, Jaill has released two full-lengths: 2015’s Brain Cream and 2016’s cassette-only Whatever It Be. With Forgotten Tropics.

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

Majestic Theatre: Dopapod, Pho, 8 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Stone Room, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Zukas, free, 10 pm.

Nau-Ti-Gal: Crosstown Drive, free (on the patio), 5:30 pm.

Otto’s: Michael Hanson Jazz Group, free, 5:30 pm.

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

Rotary Park, Stoughton: Oregon Community Band, Stoughton City Band, free, 6 pm.

Sprecher’s Restaurant: Ron Denson, free, 6 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Swamp Rats, Andeeks Roadshow, 9:30 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Frank James & Bobby Briggs, country, free, 8 pm Thursdays.

Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, 9 pm Thursdays.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Piper Road Spring Band, free, 5 pm.

World of Beer, Middleton: David Hecht, 7 pm.

Franz Kafka’s The Trial Thursday, June 23, Memorial Union’s Fredric March Play Circle, 7:30 pm

The weird and powerful dream world of the Franz Kafka play gets an original adaptation and production by Fermat’s Last Theater Company. One of the great works of world literature, The Trial is an absurdist tale about a man arrested by anonymous authorities for an unspecified crime. Live music will be performed by Left Field Trio, and all performances are free and unticketed, thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (7:30 pm) and Sunday 2 pm), June 24-26.

Eurydice Thursday, June 23, American Players Theatre (Spring Green), 7:30 pm

Eurydice tells the story of Orpheus’ attempt to reclaim his wife Eurydice from the underworld from her perspective.

Written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Tyne Rafaeli, the play repurposes the myth as the struggle between choosing father or husband; its world premiere was at the Madison Rep in 2003. ALSO: Saturday (3 pm) and Wednesday (7:30 pm), June 25 and 29. Through Oct. 8.

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In recent years, punk rock has strayed from the unhinged aesthetics it was built on, trading circle pits for shared beers and bro hugs. And then, of course, there’s Direct Hit! The Milwaukee quartet has released two full-length albums loaded with songs from the perspective of werewolves and religious cults, and their third (Wasted Mind, out June 24 on Fat Wreck Chords) follows suit. The band will celebrate its release here with support from local favorites the Hussy and Milwaukee power-pop upstarts Midnight Reruns.

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Bos Meadery: Jim Barnard, free, 6 pm.

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society: “Quicksilver,” 7:30 pm, 6/24, Overture Center-Playhouse; and 2:30 pm, 6/26, Taliesin-Hillside Theater, Spring Green; “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” 7:30 pm, 6/25, Overture; and 6:30 pm, 6/26, Taliesin. $40. 255-9866.

Brink Lounge: The Keepers, classic rock/pop, 9 pm.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: Dave Steffen Band, 6 pm.

Cardinal: Mideast Salsa, 5:30 pm; DJ Fortune, 9 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: The Rascal Theory, 9 pm.

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

Crossroads Coffee, Cross Plains: Soul Purpose, 7 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Hometown Sweethearts, 9:30 pm.

Edgewater: Charlie Parr, Dead Pigeons, free, 6 pm.

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

Book & Bake Sale: 10 am-8 pm on 6/24 and 9 am2 pm, 6/25, South Madison Library. 266-6395.

Five Nightclub: United, benefit for Pulse & victims of shooting in Orlando, 10 pm.

Fountain: Richard Shaten, piano, free, 7:30 pm Fridays; Black Poets Society, free, 8 pm.

The Frequency: Gabe Burdulis Trio (CD release), 7 pm; Vic Ruggiero, Trap Saturn, Call Them Q, 10 pm.

Halverson’s, Stoughton: Back2Back, 6 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Sparks Band, rock, free, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Eben Seaman, 8:30 pm.

James Madison Park: DJs Fortune, Kim Nix, Glynis, Quinley, free/donations, 4 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee: Mississippi Flanagan, 6:30 pm.

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

Liquid: Caden, EDM, 10 pm.

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

Lucky’s Bar, Waunakee: Brandon Beebe, free, 7 pm.

Majestic/King Street: Dark Star Orchestra, 7 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Wood Chickens, Rashita Joneses, Seven Costanza, free, 10 pm.

Mr. Brews Taphouse-Downtown: Ryan Joseph, 8 pm.

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

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

The Red Zone: 3 Pill Morning, Throw the Fight, Strange Daze, Left of Reason, rock, 8 pm.

Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: Don Peachey, 8:30 pm.

Rotary Park, Stoughton: Stone Room, free, 7 pm.

Sprecher’s: Country Wide Rocks, free, 7 pm.

Tempest: DJ Whodie Guthrie, free, 9:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Owls, Foxes & Sebastian, free, 10 pm.

Tyranena Brewing, Lake Mills: Cash Box Kings, 6 pm.

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Angela Woodward, Sara Greenslit: Discussing new books, 7 pm, 6/24, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

Lauren Gucik & Rachel Cassandra: Discussing “Women Street Artists of Latin America: Art Without Fear,” 7 pm, 6/24, Central Library. 266-6300.

Ann Garvin: “I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around,” 7 pm, 6/24, Mystery to Me. 283-9332. mIEKAL aND: Release party for “Samsara Congeries,” plus reading by Robin Brox, release of “Every Lines Other: The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Was” (aka Lyx Ish), 8 pm, 6/24, Mother Fool’s. 259-1030.

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proc·ess [ pro’ses ](proc·essed, proc·ess·ing, proc·ess·es) Friday, June 24, Arts + Literature Laboratory, 7-9 pm (opening reception)

Connecticut-based artist Caryn Azoff presents an installation of hundreds of small works on paper and sketchbooks filled during her daily art-making sessions. She is chair of the art department at Hamden Hall Country Day School and a gallery director who finds meaning in simple shapes, forms and colors. Exhibited through July 18.

Stephen KP, Jordan Weiss & Alissa Valeri: “A Magnetic North and Bearings From It,” 6/24-8/9, UW Memorial Union-Class of 1925 Gallery (reception 6-8 pm, 6/24). 262-7592.

Claire Huber: 6/24-7/17, Drunk Lunch (reception 5-9 pm, 6/24). 630-8401.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, 5 pm; Trapper Schoepp, Jack Klatt, 9 pm.

Plain Cloth Productions: “Weaving lab,” by Marianne Fairbanks & students, through 8/25, UW Discovery Building-Image Lab (reception 4-6 pm, 6/24; floor loom weaving demo 1 pm Weds.-Thurs.). 262-8815.

Wisconsin Brewing Company, Verona: Red Hot Horn Dawgs, free, 6 pm.

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American Family Insurance Championship: PGA tour event, 6/24-26, University Ridge Golf Course. $25/day ($60/pass). amfamchampionship.isthmustickets.com.

Up North Pub: Leah Brooke, free, 7 pm.

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Final Fridays in the Garden: 4-8 pm, 6/24, Allen Centennial Gardens, with music by Corey Mathew Hart, garden-themed activities for all ages, food trucks. Free admission. allencentennialgardens.org.

Sunday in the Park with George Friday, June 24, Middleton High School Performing Arts Center, 7:30 pm

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s masterpiece of musical theater was inspired by the Georges Seurat painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” The musical about the enigmatic painter won a Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for 10 Tony Awards, and Middleton Players brings some serious talent to the production. ALSO: Saturday and Sunday (7:30 pm), June 25-26. Through July 2.

The Comedy of Errors: 8 pm on 6/24, 6 pm on 6/26 and 7:30 pm, 6/30, American Players Theatre, Spring Green. $75-$47. americanplayers.org. 588-2361.

The African Company Presents Richard III: Carlyle Brown’s unique take on the backstage play, 8 pm on 6/24, 6 pm on 6/26 and 7:30 pm, 6/30, APT-Touchstone Theatre, Spring Green. $75-$54. 588-2361.

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Jon Pardi Saturday, June 25, Shake the Lake (John Nolen Drive), 8 pm

This Golden State native just released his second album, California Sunrise, and he’s one of the most classic country-influenced artists on contemporary radio. “I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud,” Pardi recently told Rolling Stone. “Really rock ’n’ roll stuff but with a country sound behind it.” Opening support comes from LANco (6:30 pm), Drew Baldridge (5:15 pm) and Madison’s 5th Gear (4 pm).

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ART E XHI BITS & EV ENTS Grant Gustafson: “Still eat eggs,” 6/21-30, UW Art Lofts (reception 7-9 pm, 6/25). grantgustafsonstudio.com.

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Saturday, June 25, Shake the Lake (John Nolen Drive), 8:30 pm

Last year, with the help of producer-wizard Richard Swift, this long-lasting Boston band created Evermotion, an album that paired their acoustic guitar roots with infectious electro-pop grooves. Opening support comes from folk rockers Blitzen Trapper (7 pm), soul rockers the Congregation (6 pm) and Americana act the Mascot Theory (4:30 pm), a four-piece that was recently crowned 2016’s MAMA Artist of the Year.

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

Bos Meadery: Durango McMurphy, free, 6 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, 10 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Mersey Brothers, 9 pm.

Come Back In: State Maps, free, 4 pm; Alias Jones Band, rock, free, 9 pm.

Fountain: Set Fires, jazz/blues, free, 8 pm.

The Frequency: Government Zero, Not Dead Yet, The American Dead, 10 pm.

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Peter Hernet, 8:30 pm.

Lazy Oaf Lounge: Saturday Morning Cartel, 10 pm.

Liliana’s: Doug Brown & Bob Kerwin, free, 6:30 pm.

Liquid: DJ Nick Magic, EDM, 10 pm.

Mickey’s: Tippy, CJ Boyd, True F.O., Mid-Waist, 10 pm.

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

Mr. Robert’s: Dystopian Echo, free, 10 pm.

Nau-Ti-Gal: The Emmylous, free (patio), 5:30 pm.

Paoli Schoolhouse: Art Jazz Trio, free, 6 pm.

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Pete Davidson Saturday, June 25, Barrymore Theatre, 7:30 pm

This standup comedian was discovered in the summer of 2014 by Bill Hader during filming for Judd Apatow’s hit film Trainwreck. Davidson parlayed a bit role into a Saturday Night Live career that September. Now 22, the Staten Island native is SNL’s first (and so far only) player to be born in the 1990s, and his honest and self-deprecating humor has been a big hit since joining the cast.

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UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Madison Summer Choir, “This is My Song!” concert, 7:30 pm.

Bacon, Brew & BBQ Festival: Fireman’s Park in the Prairie fundraiser, noon-5 pm, 6/25, Angell Park, Sun Prairie, with food & beer samples, music (three stages). $65 (21+ only). summerfeast.org. 243-9593.

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

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Kings of Spade / 7 Seasons Deep Good Morning V / 7:30PM $25 ADV, $35 DOS

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Parched Eagle: Matt Joyce & Justin Aten, free, 7:30 pm.

Pooley’s: Your Mom, free (on the patio), 7 pm.

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n ISTHMUS PICKS : JUN 26 - 30 The Frequency: Lovely Socialite, We Are the Willows, Mr. Jackson, 9 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Thistle Pettersen, free, 8 pm.

Hop Garden, Paoli: Ken Wheaton, free, 2 pm.

Frequency: Anthony D’Amato, Trapper Schoepp, 7:30 pm.

Java Cat: Nick Matthews, free, 9:30 am Sundays.

Liliana’s: Cliff Frederiksen, free, 10:30 am Sundays.

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

East Side Club: Bluegrass Jam, 6:30 pm Mondays.

A RT EX H I B I TS & E VE N TS Tenney-Lapham Art Walk: Annual self-guided tour of neighborhood artists’ studios, 1-5 pm, 6/26. Free.

Map & info at tenneylapham.org. 256-6282.

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VFW Post 7591-Cottage Grove Road: Jerry Stueber, free, 6 pm Wednesdays.

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

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

Hava Nagila Jewish Community Picnic: 10:30 am1:30 pm, 6/26, Goodman Jewish Community Campus, Verona, with lawn games, kids’ activities, music, food & more. Free. jewishmadison.org. 278-1808.

B O O KS David Krugler: Discussing “The Dead Don’t Bleed,” his new book, 7 pm, 6/29, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

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

Up North Pub: Your Mom, free, 7 pm.

thu jun 30

Warner Park: Ladies Must Swing, free, 6 pm.

Barbara Landes/Paul Sullivan, Caryn Ann Bendrick, Marissa Mackey: “Hair-Trigger Eternities,” 6/27-9/4, Overture Center-Playhouse Gallery. 258-4169.

tue jun 28 Alchemy Cafe: Ted Keys Trio, free, 10 pm Tuesdays.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: Mac Dralle, free, 6 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Ben Sidran, Louka Patenaude, Nick Moran, Todd Hammes, 5:30 pm; New Breed Jazz Jam, 9 pm.

Come Back In: WheelHouse, 5 pm Tuesdays.

Essen Haus: Brian Erickson, free, 6:30 pm Tues.-Wed. Free House Pub, Middleton: Westerlies, 7:30 pm Tuesdays.

Gordon Lightfoot is still going strong at age 77. The Canadian folk-pop legend recently completed his first tour of the U.K. and Ireland in 35 years and has 76 total performances scheduled for 2016, including this return visit to a state where bars still get quiet when “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” plays on the jukebox.

Arts & Literature Laboratory: House & Land, Patrick Best, 7 pm.

Zella Day is an up-and-coming Los Angelesbased pop star. The singer-songwriter picked up a guitar before she hit age 10 and has been writing songs since she was 12 (though she first hit fame with a cover of the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army”).

Her debut album, Kicker, came out last summer. With Dreamers, Emilie Brandt.

1855 Saloon, Cottage Grove: Ken Wheaton, 6 pm.

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

Arts & Literature Laboratory: Sissy Spacek, Grave Texture, TrashSquirt, 7 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Rock Star Gomeroke, 9 pm Tuesdays.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Saturday Morning Cartel, free, 6 pm.

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

Brink Lounge: Lords of the Trident, Ultrea, metal, 8 pm.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Vitale, Marilyn Fisher & Laurie Lang, jazz, free, 5:30 pm.

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

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

Capitol Square: Concerts on the Square, “The Appian Way,” Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra with guest pianist Liam Mayo, free, 7 pm.

Mickey’s: Em Jay, Domenic Marcantonio, 10 pm.

Chief’s Tavern: Mad City Jug Band (CD release), 6:30 pm.

Neighborhood House: Bluegrass Jam, 7 pm Tuesdays.

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

Olbrich Gardens: Sena Ehrhardt & Cole Allen, 7 pm.

DreamBank: Madison Malone, free, 5:30 pm.

Otto’s: Westside Andy & Glenn Davis, 5:30 pm Tuesdays.

High Noon Saloon: Gentle Brontosaurus, Kino Kimino, The Square Bombs, 8 pm.

The Red Zone: Lorelei, Disgunt, Archives, Guilty of Destruction, Cognative, 8 pm.

Up North Pub: Pat Ferguson, free, 8 pm.

B OOKS Jerry Apps: Discussing “Telling Your Story,” his new book, 7 pm, 6/28, HotelRED. 283-9332.

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Come Back In: John Masino, rock, free (patio), 5 pm.

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The Frequency: Last Time Only, Courtesy of Tim, 10 pm.

Louisianne’s: Johnny Chimes, 6 pm Tues.-Weds.

Monday, June 27, Capitol Theater, 8 pm

MUS I C Wednesday, June 29, The Frequency, 7:30 pm

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UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Open Mic with Frankie Pobar Lay, free, 8 pm Wednesdays.

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

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Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Adria Smith, piano, 6:30 pm.

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Swamp Thing + Optometri Thursday, June 30, Crystal Corner Bar, 9 pm

It’s the reunion show to end all reunion shows. Swamp Thing emerged from Smart Studios in 1985 after Butch Vig recorded their album Learning to Disintegrate. After disbanding at the end of that decade, members scattered to New York, San Francisco, Milwaukee and Monona and went on to play with Brian Ritchie, Elvis Costello, Paul Cebar and Grover from the Muppets. They reunite here to play the full album. Optometri is a “Russian” rock band with a mysterious past, whose press release says they are “waiting for history to catch up to their ahead-of-its-time potency of gathered storm force.” This blast from the past is a benefit for WORT’s digital archive.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Metal Gonz, free, 6 pm.

Brink Lounge: Common Chord, Americana, 7 pm.

East Side Club: Diane Coffee, People Brothers Band, Sunset Music Series, 6 pm.

High Noon: Boy & Bear, Hannah Georgas, 8 pm.

Marriott-West, Middleton: National Women’s Music Festival, annual event, 6/30-7/3. wiaonline.org.

Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen, free, 5:30 pm.

Monona Terrace Rooftop: Too White Crew, hip-hop, free, 7 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Evan Woodward, free, 10 pm.

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

Opus Lounge: Shawndell Marks, free, 9 pm.

Paoli Schoolhouse: Jim White, free, 6 pm.

Otto’s: Gerri DiMaggio, free, 5:30 pm Wednesdays.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Sortin’ the Mail, 5 pm.

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Nina’s Department Store in Spring Green celebrates 100 years women’s clothing, cards and stationery, gifts, health and beauty aids, toys, crafts, yarn, Many great department bed and bath items, home stores have been founded decor, and housewares. in Wisconsin: Gimbels, “Nina’s Department Store is Kohl’s, Prange’s and, of truly a wonder,” says fan Brenda course, Nina’s.

DeVita, artistic director of Nina’s? nearby American Players TheA favorite both of locals atre. “When I tell people about and tourists, Nina’s Departit I say, ‘I have never walked in ment and Variety Store of there and asked for something Spring Green celebrates its they didn’t have.’”

100th anniversary this sumJoel Marcus’ great-greatmer, tying Milwaukee-based grandfather, Harris Marcus, Gimbels for state longevity immigrated from Russia in — and Gimbels isn’t around 1884. Relatives in Columbus, anymore. Meanwhile, Nina’s Wis., had a store — but no not only survives but thrives. work for him. “They gave “We’re sort of the antiJoel and Judy Marcus in Harris a pack with samples of Walmart,” says Joel Marcus, front of the beloved store. fabric and needles and thread, whose family founded the and told him that there was business. He and his wife, an area along the Wisconsin River that wasn’t Judy, run it today. “We draw customers from Walmart towns who are dissatisfied. They will really covered, and that there was territory to peddle,” says Marcus. travel 50 miles,” says Marcus.

After a few years of that, Harris could afford Up front, a counter island with local a horse. With saddlebags, he was able to carry postcards surrounds the cashier, along with more goods. Soon he could afford a wagon. a display of old-fashioned candy, includThen in 1896 he opened a store in Muscoda ing those big orange marshmallow “peathat became the basis of Harris Marcus and nuts.” Judy has described the business as Sons, a small chain in southern Wisconsin. a 10,000-square-foot store packed into a Nina’s is the only survivor.

3,500-square-foot building. Its many narThe Spring Green store boasts a broad, row aisles can create a maze affect. From green-striped awning and the original educational and tinplate toys to housewares pressed-metal ceiling. There have been and quality apparel, the store seems to have plenty of changes over the decades. everything. Products include men’s and

BY JAY RATH

NINA’S DEPARTMENT AND VARIETY STORE 143 E. Jefferson St. ■ Spring Green, 608-588-2366

It was originally a classic two-floor department store. During the Great Depression, it became more of a dime store. In 1946, the business incorporated under the name of Marcus’ grandmother, Nina. It became a variety store — general merchandise at inexpensive prices — and then a discount retailer.

Marcus’ father passed away in 1978. “I left graduate school at that time with the idea of closing up the store,” Marcus says.

Instead, he ended up reinventing Nina’s yet again. While some retailers suggested that it become a dollar store, Marcus decided to upgrade. He and Judy restored the façade, winning a county preservation award.

“The store is always warm and welcoming, and Joel and Judy are wonderful community members,” says DeVita. “They’re generous boosters of everything Spring Green has to offer, and are important, enriching voices in our community.”

Marcus feels that despite the store’s appeal to tourists, Nina’s is first and foremost a community store. “Of course, Spring Green is not your typical small town,” he notes, “and Nina’s reflects its artistic and creative character.” ■

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24 Credited in a footnote 25 Red Muppet who’s always 3 1/2 years old 28 Digging

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50 Hipster feature, maybe 53 Compound with a doublylinked carbon atom 55 Hajj 61 Disco or Big Band 62 Love by the Louvre 63 Message with a subject line

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There is a guy at my work who is into puppy play. I know this because I have some friends in the gay puppy community.

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My name is Peter and I’m a longtime fan.

I’ve also been very involved with the Human Rights Campaign and their work in getting the Equality Act passed. I’m 21 and only recently out of the closet. I opened up about my sexuality after the passage of marriage equality last June and have since been a proud gay man. It seemed that since marriage equality, our community was only going up. Even the passage of HB2 didn’t make me cynical about the future. But this recent shooting has changed my world completely. Fighting for equality in housing, education, and employment seems like a joke after this massive act of violence in Orlando. I’m looking to someone in the community for guidance.

Peter They don’t win—the haters don’t win — when they chase us, beat us, or kill us. They win when we stop fighting.

Please don’t stop fighting.

And please don’t despair. Hundreds of thousands of us died in the 1980s and ’90s when hate, fear, greed, racism and negligence intersected with a deadly virus. A lot of us felt then the way you do now — that it was over, that it was hopeless, that the coming out and the organizing and the fighting had been for nothing, and that everything we had won up to that point was meaningless. And then we got up off our butts and we showed them — we showed those motherfuckers — that the fight in us was greater than the hate in them.

We showed them that we were stronger and smarter than they were, we showed that fucking virus that we were stronger and smarter than it was, and we made it clear to them that we were not going to shut up and die quietly or go back into the closet and die alone.

And we had only each other for a while there — for a long while. For years we fought alone.

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“It’s important to note, firstly, that pup play isn’t a sexual activity so much as it is a head space,” says Amp, a puppy, a gamer, a porn performer and the co-host of Watts the Safeword, a kink-friendly sex-education YouTube channel. “For DOGGONE’s coworker, pup play may be a comfort thing, or a social thing, or even a way for him to redefine who he is as a person so that he can take control.”

Amp, who is 26 and lives in Seattle, got into pup play about five years ago.

“A daddy and his pup joined a group of friends on a gay camping trip,” said Amp. “Their bond just seemed to glow, and their relationship stuck with me as something I wanted in my life. For me, yes, pup play can get sexual with my Daddy, but Amp is just who I am when I’m out and about.”

Like your co-worker, DOGGONE, Amp goes by his puppy name socially and professionally. So I put this question to him: Does he get a secret thrill and/or a visible boner when a co-worker, barista, casual friend, or rando calls him by his pup name?

“God no!” says Amp. “If someone calls me ‘pup’ in a really sexual way or an aggressive way, maybe, but not when someone is simply using your name. A pup name is essentially a nickname, and people use nicknames socially and professionally. So long as the kinkier aspects of pup play — tail wagging, barking, ball chasing — are kept out of the workplace, DOGGONE’s co-worker using his puppy name at work doesn’t involve the office in his sex life.”

A quick thought experiment, DOGGONE: Let’s say a female co-worker married a man — a really hot man — and later confided in you that she married him because the sex was great. And let’s say she took her new husband’s last name. Would using her new last name “involve” you in her sex life?

Being married partly defines who she is, it led her to take a new name, and sex is an important part of her marriage. But her new name isn’t just about sex — it’s about identity, intimacy, connection and sex.

Pup play isn’t as serious a business as marriage, of course, but you should be able to extend the same courtesy to Spike that you wouldn’t hesitate to extend to your hypothetical straight female co-worker — that is, use the names you’ve been asked to use without obsessing over their respective sex lives.

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