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BUFFALO BUSINESS The 16-hour day of a Dane County market vendor

Cindy and Leroy Fricke, of Cherokee Bison Farms

LAUREN JUSTICE

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■ WHAT TO DO

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A CLOSE SHAVE

Testing razors so you don’t have to.

6-10 NEWS

STRESS TEST

Another police shooting rattles neighborhood.

POLICE REPORT

Who’s qualified to evaluate the cops?

DYLAN BROGAN

TOM DEHLINGER

FAREWELL BEING A CIRCULATION manager is not easy. Aside from all the logistical issues of distribution, you are often the first point of contact when someone is upset about a cover image or critical news story. In those moments, you want someone like Tom Dehlinger on your side — cool, calm and deliberate. Dehlinger, who has been with Isthmus since 1978, save for a fouryear break in the mid-1980s, worked his last day June 30.

By his account, he has 1,457 days of Thursday distribution under his belt. He intends to take the summer off, but will continue making music.

A multi-instrumentalist, you can catch him the first Friday of every month at Chief’s Tavern on Cottage Grove Road.

Thanks for everything, Tom.

17 COVER STORY IN ORDER TO authentically and accurately tell the “day-in-thelife” story of bison farmers and market vendors Leroy and Cindy Fricke, staff writer Dylan Brogan did a lot of traveling and got little sleep. The couple caught Dylan’s eye because they are among the vendors who live farthest from the market. Brogan did some reconnaissance before approaching them about doing a story: “They seemed nice when I bought some bison jerky.”

12 TECH

LOOK, MA, NO WIRES

Integrated circuits you can wear on your skin.

14 OPINION

LIFESAVER

Restorative justice rescues teens from themselves.

Off the beaten path Sat., July 9, Pleasant Branch Creek Conservancy, 8 am Like to run but got the asphalt/sidewalk blues? Join Trample the Trails, a 5K and 10K trail run series through some of our most beautiful parks, for all ages, experiences and abilities. This week’s ramble takes you through a scenic area of Middleton, with burial mounds, a view of the Capitol, wetlands and springs.

17 COVER STORY

THE LONGEST DAY

Riding shotgun from home on the range to farmers’ market.

23 BOOKS

THE TRIALS THAT BIND

A father and daughter head for the wilds of Alaska...and survive!

24-27 FOOD & DRINK

ROCK SOLID

New Rockhound Brewing is an inventive addition to Park Street.

PISCATORY PR

Sea Grant Institute wants you to eat more local fish

28 SPORTS

FLYING HIGH

World-class disc golf comp comes to Madison.

30-31 ART

DO THE MATH

Arts + Literature Laboratory = creativity.

HOMEWRECKERS LAUREN JUSTICE

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COVER STORY

PHOTOGRAPHER Lauren Justice got a bit more sleep than Dylan Brogan did for this week’s cover, but she, too, was up before dawn to catch the arrival of Cindy and Leroy Fricke at the Dane County Farmers’ Market. She says it’s the type of work she loves, “where time is given to really spend time with people and get to know them and their passions. It was great to see the farmers’ market from their perspective.”

Exhibit captures human impact on Mother Earth.

32 MUSIC

LOOPER-IN-CHIEF

Shane Quella is living the dream...the ’80s dream.

34 SCREENS

A FETCHING FILM

The Secret Life of Pets will have you beggin’ for kibble.

44 EMPHASIS

TRIPLE PLAY

New State Street retail has multiple personalities.

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

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

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Sun., July 10, Bridges Golf Course, noon

MtM presents Mixed Greens, two lively days of readings, signings and other events from nine different authors, with MC Doug Moe. Among the nine: Doug Bradley (We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War), Victoria Houston (Dead Loudmouth, Loon Lake Series), Sean Patrick Little (After Everyone Dies) and Kate Vieira (America by Paper: How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy).

Want to have a great day on the greens and help a good cause too?

You can do both at the annual Harmony Bar Golf Outing, a benefit for A Place to Call Home, which raises funds to create affordable housing for homeless people with mental illnesses. Golf is preceded by a putting contest at 11, and postceded by dinner and drinks at the Harmony.

Golden oldies Sat., July 9, through Sat., July 16, concerts at Mills Hall, lectures at L140 Elvehjem Building, various times

Madison’s Early Music Festival celebrates the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death and the reign of Queen Elizabeth I with a week of concerts, lectures, films, classes and dances. The festivities culminate in an All-Festival Concert on Saturday, July 16.

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Stylist Debbie Desmarais uses a prototype beard trimmer to cut Adrian Flores’ hair, while product developer David Toy, right, observes.

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Remington hair clippers and electric shavers are sold all over the world. They shape mutton chops in Maine, goatees in Guatemala and soul patches in Saskatchewan. Mustaches both sincere and ironic have been sculpted with a trimmer designed by Remington engineers.

But before any of the brand’s products hit the shelves, they are tested on local faces and heads in the Good Neighbor City: Middleton.

The “shaving lab” is located within the corporate headquarters of Spectrum Brands on Deming Way. Remington, which is owned

by Spectrum, has been making electric shavers since 1937. The small room is reminiscent of a mall salon, except it’s next to office cubicles and laboratories.

Mirrors line one wall in front of a barber chair. Unseen cameras behind each mirror record the action, which is displayed on a flatscreen TV on the adjacent wall.

David Toy, a Remington product developer, says analyzing trimmers in a salon environment is a crucial step in developing products. “It lets us know how [a product] is being used, and it uncovers potential problems you wouldn’t discover any other way,” says Toy. The test subjects are usually employees from other departments. Today, Adrian Flores, a graphic designer at Spectrum, is sitting in the barber’s chair, wearing a black smock. “I’m the guinea pig,” says Flores.

Debbie Desmarais, a stylist at the Hampton Court Salon, is brought in periodically to try out prototypes. Today, she uses a NB4900 trimmer — known as the Perfector — to cut Flores’ hair. Since scalp hair is more dense than facial hair, using the beard trimmer for a haircut will demonstrate its durability.

“This is an extreme stress test,” Toy says.

“If [Desmarais] is able to do haircuts, and do them without problems, that usually bodes pretty well for [beard trimming].”

The shaving department is busy these days. “Right now, beards and beard culture is huge,” he says. “We have to have the right products, at the right time.”

Clippers are just a few of the products that are given scrutiny in the salon. “Epilators.

Curlers. Flatirons. Blow dryers. This room is ever changing,” says Toy. “You come in next week and they might be testing the effectiveness of hair straighteners.”

Giovanni Gonzalez, Spectrum senior engineer, says products are aggressively tested under many conditions before going to market. “What people don’t realize is most companies spend a lot of money correcting issues,” says Gonzalez. “We try to be wise.

We want to utilize our time and energy right at the front. This way we can make adjustments or go back to the drawing board if we have to.”

An infrared camera in the salon can measure the number of red blood cells that come to the surface of the skin after a shave.

“By doing so, we can tell, statistically, the level of irritation,” says Gonzalez. “Because sometimes a person doesn’t feel it and the skin doesn’t get red.”

Gonzalez says Remington was also an early adopter of 3D printers, which allow the company to print prototypes in a manner of hours. “Major game changer,” says Gonzalez.

Spectrum’s long history in the Madison area started with battery-maker Rayovac, which was founded on Madison’s east side in 1906. Since becoming Spectrum, the corporation still makes batteries but also owns dozens of well-known products. George Foreman grills, Black & Decker coffeemakers, Juiceman juicer and hundreds of other products are run through a gauntlet of tests in Middleton. Those recipes that came with your bread maker? They were probably written in a test kitchen in Middleton.

Toy says it doesn’t take a lot of convincing to recruit employees to sign up for a free haircut.

Fewer volunteers are willing to give feedback on how a beard trimmer performs on hair located on more sensitive areas of the body.

“It’s led to some interesting conversations, but hey, it’s a consumer need, and we have to do it,” says Toy. “But it can be a little bit more awkward to get the data than just doing haircuts in the salon.” n

LONGEST BEARD ON RECORD: 17.5 feet. Hans Langseth of North Dakota spent 62 years growing the beard.

Per his final wishes, it was preserved after his death in 1927. It was on public display at the National Museum of Natural History from 1967 to 1991. It’s currently stored in the Smithsonian archives.

SPECTRUM BRAND STATS (FISCAL YEAR 2015): 15,500 employees worldwide 500+ employees in Middleton Products sold in over 1 million stores in 160 countries $4.69 billion in net revenue $1.67 billion in gross profit WHY PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN GREW A BEARD: An 11-year-old girl sent him a letter saying it’d improve his appearance.

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“Utter fatigue” East-side residents, officials dejected by another police-involved killing

BY DYLAN BROGAN

The police shooting on Morrison Street the night of June 30 is just two blocks from Kevin O’Malley’s home. That’s where Paul Heenan was killed by officer Stephen Heimsness in 2012, right in front of O’Malley. “I think the point we’re at right now in the neighborhood is complete and utter fatigue,” O’Malley said on July 1. “It feels like the new normal.”

O’Malley is close friends with the homeowners at 1303 Morrison St., where police killed 41-year-old Michael Schumacher of Fitchburg. O’Malley said they were big supporters of his family in the aftermath of Heenan’s death. Now, inexplicably, his friends are going through a similar trauma. “[The homeowner] came up to me and gave me a hug last night and let me know his family was okay.

That’s where you’re at. You’re not at any other level when it happens to you.”

O’Malley said he still hasn’t completely sorted through what happened outside his home four years ago. “I remember talking to multiple people. Each of them told me it would take years to really process, and it’s true. It does takes years. I don’t know how much the city or the police department has learned to manage these situations properly. This has happened three times in the past four years.”

“Feeling terrible is just something everyone is going to feel,” he added.

According to Police Chief Mike Koval, the incident started with a 911 call from a resident who saw a man “chest-deep in the lake.”

“The person was acting oddly in that they seemed to be talking to themselves and were subsequently slapping the water,” Koval said at the scene, a few hours after the

on social media and went to the scene. “It’s tragic for our city. We are struggling to deal with the issue of use of force, and it comes and smacks us in the face again and again in different ways,” said Rummel.

This is the third officer-involved shooting in the Marquette neighborhood since 2012. Heenan was killed in November 2012, and Tony Robinson was killed in March 2015.

Dane County Supervisor John Hendrick lives directly across the street from where Thursday’s fatal shooting occurred. He said the killings will likely make people reluctant to call the police for help. “It’s hard when you think if you call the police someone is going to die,” Hendrick said.

DYLAN BROGAN

Police Chief Mike Koval talks to reporters on June 30, a few hours after one of his officers shot and killed a 41-year-old man who had broken into a home on the east side.

shooting. “This person was [also] seen hurling a rock through the [nearby neighbor’s] dwelling, breaking the window.”

A second 911 call then came in from the homeowners, who had fled after hearing someone enter their home, Koval said. “They could hear things being smashed up. We sent multiple officers to the scene. The first officer arrived and was told to stand down.”

As the lone officer (identified Wednesday as Hector Rivera) waited for backup, the suspect allegedly approached him wielding “a fourprong pitchfork” used to rake lake weeds. “The

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officer gave numerous verbals to drop it and to stand where he was,” said Koval. “The officer started to back off, person was aggressing and the officer was compelled to shoot him.”

First aid was administered to the suspect, who was taken to the hospital, but the man “succumbed to his injuries and died,” said Koval.

Since 2008, Schumacher had been living in an apartment provided by Housing Initiatives, a nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness for people suffering from mental illness, says its executive director, Dean Loumos.

“I’m not exactly sure what happened, but it looks like he was having an episode,” Loumos said this week. “That’s what’s insidious and terrifying about this illness. It can make you do things that you would not do in your right mind. This is not normal behavior, and it wasn’t Mike’s normal behavior.”

Ashley Painter, who lives around the corner from where the shooting happened, describes a terrifying scene on the night of the shooting. She was sitting on the couch with her husband, with the front door open to let in the summer breeze. Shortly after 9 p.m. they heard gunshots.

“They felt like they were right outside our house,” said Painter. “We got scared and went into our basement. We didn’t know it was the police; we just heard shots.”

When the couple emerged from the basement 10 minutes later, scores of police were outside 1303 Morrison St., and officers were cordoning off their block with yellow tape.

“I’m relieved that our neighbors with two small children just happened to be out of town,” she added.

Marsha Rummel, alder for the east-side district, heard about the shooting from neighbors

Mayor Paul Soglin, in a press conference the day after the shooting, proposed an education campaign to teach the public about how to interact with police. “Last night when I was informed of the latest officerinvolved shooting, I lay there in bed and I said, ‘we got a problem here,’” said Soglin.

The mayor said individuals have three choices when they are in a situation with the police. “Obey the order of the police officer. Go limp and not resist. Or they can make the mistake of not obeying. I don’t know how many times we’re going to have to go through this. I really believe we’ve got to do something as a community.”

Rummel, the council’s pro tem, said Common Council leadership is concerned about “issues surrounding the community and the Madison Police Department.”

“There is a sector of our community that wants community control over the police,” she said. “They been asking about that ever since Tony Robinson.”

The state’s Department of Criminal Investigation, as required by recent state law, is conducting a review of the incident.

Amelia Royko-Maurer was an advocate for the 2014 state law that requires that an independent agency review police conduct during all officer-involved shootings. Heenan was staying with RoykoMaurer at her Baldwin Street home when he was killed.

“There seems to be a common theme of people in crisis. It begs the question, shouldn’t we have a 24-hour mental health agency for the sole purpose of responding to mental health crises, not for the sole purpose of enforcing the law?”

Days after the killing, Loumos was grieving. When on medication, Loumos said, Schumacher was “engaging, interesting and quite bright.”

“But this illness just changes you 180 sometimes,” he added. “Going forward, how do we ensure someone who is demonstrating behaviors that are clearly some kind of breakdown — whether it’s drugs, alcohol or mental illness — that the response never reaches this point.” n

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■ WEEK IN REVIEW pears to have been murdered. Italian police later detain a 40-year-old suspect in the investigation.

BIG CITY

TUESDAY, JULY 5

Courageous Conservatives PAC, a group that is trying to usurp Donald Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee, is asking Gov. Scott Walker to allow himself to be drafted as an alternative candidate at the convention.

Walker is scheduled to speak at the convention, suggesting he’s on board with Trump.

■ Mayor Paul Soglin introduces a proposal

The Madison school district is expected to get $53.7 million — a 2.3% hike — in state funding next year, according to estimates from the Department of Public Instruction. New laptops for everyone!

PREDICTABLE

THURSDAY, JUNE 30 ■ A Madison police officer shoots and kills

SURPRISING

R! HELD OVE After raising more than $20,000 through Kickstarter (twice what he was seeking), Michael Feldman announces that his 31-year-old radio show, Whad’ya Know?, will continue as an independent podcast.

Two state delegates to the Republican National Convention announced they won’t be going.

Michael Grebe, a Walker ally, told the Associated Press he couldn’t stomach Donald Trump as the nominee, while Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch blamed scheduling conflicts.

SMALL TOWN

41-year-old Michael Schumacher on the near east side, reigniting concerns about how police use force. Schumacher, who reportedly suffered from mental illness, had allegedly approached the officer with “a four-prong pitchfork.” See story, page 6.

SUNDAY, JULY 3 ■ The Wisconsin State Journal reports that

the UW Board of Regents has decided to put the historic Knapp House, 130 E. Gilman St., up for sale. The building — which is at least 160 years old — was the original governor’s mansion.

to limit the amount of time that people can sleep in the downtown Business Improvement District between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.

A similar proposal he introduced last year failed to get council support.

■ The Common Council unanimously approves an agreement with Beitler Real Estate for the $170 million Judge Doyle Square development. The project will include a 250room hotel, 354 apartments, retail space and more than 1,000 parking stalls. The city, which will invest $43 million in the project, has entertained numerous proposals and ideas for the development adjacent to the Municipal Building. Even Ald. David Ahrens, a fierce critic of many proposals, voted in favor of the project.

MONDAY, JULY 4 ■ The body of Beau Solomon,

a 19-year-old UW-Madison student, is discovered in the Tiber River in Rome. Solomon, who was in Italy as part of a study abroad program, ap-

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Seeking guidance Are there any consultants qualified to review the Madison Police Department?

BY RACHAEL LALLENSACK

The Common Council has approved spending $400,000 to review the Madison Police Department’s training procedures and use of force. But finding a qualified consultant to do the study might not be that easy.

“There’s not a lot of people out there,” former Madison Police Chief David Couper tells Isthmus. “It’s a wasteland.”

The city put out a request for proposals on June 13 looking for a consultant. The deadline is Aug. 8. So far, no one has responded.

Couper, who has recently been vocal in his criticism of Chief Mike Koval and the department’s use of force, says those doing these types of studies usually fall in two camps. “You’ll get some experts who’ve done work either for or against police, and if you’ve got one that’s done a lot of work defending police, the community will say, ‘Forget about it,’” Couper says. “And if it goes the other way the police union will say, ‘Oh this guy is biased against us.’”

“I’ve talked to couple of my colleagues across the country, and there’s very few people that can do this — who have the credibility or experience,” he adds.

But Michael Scott, a former Madison police officer who is now director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing at Arizona State University, has a different take.

“It is a relatively small community of organizations and individuals across the country with the expertise and resources to do these sorts of reviews, but enough of them such that there is genuine competitiveness in the bid process,” Scott writes in an email.

He estimates there are several dozen organizations that do this sort of work routinely.

Former Madison Police Chief David Couper says “there’s very few people who can do” a credible evaluation of the MPD.

Policing expert Michael Sco counters that there are enough consultants to ensure a “genuine competitiveness” in the bid process.

Specific eligible agencies may be nonprofit and for-profit police research, technical assistance or membership organizations like the Police Executive Research Forum, the Police Foundation, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Institute for Law & Justice, Circle Solutions or Booz Allen Hamilton, says Scott.

University-affiliated police research institutes, the U.S. Department of Justice and private individuals with prior police management experience may also be interested in an undertaking like this, Scott adds.

Mayor Paul Soglin and the Common Council created a 14-member committee to study police department procedures and training two months after Tony Robinson, a 19-year-old teen, was shot and killed by Madison police officer Matt Kenny. The killing increased concerns about how Madison police use force, particularly with people of color.

The council anticipated the committee would have to turn to outside experts for advice. After months of work, the committee distributed a 38-page request for proposals outlining a comprehensive list of review expectations focused on use of force, racial biases, community policing and restorative justice.

The committee is accepting questions from interested parties until its next meeting July 14, says Luis Yudice, committee chair.

“We’re not rushing this. We know it’s important to do quality work in terms of the proposals,” says Yudice, a former Madison police captain who now works for the Madison school district.

The city clerk’s office sent the request for proposals to about 30 eligible candidates nationwide, says Gloria Reyes, deputy mayor for public safety, civil rights and community services.

The city identified qualified candidates with the help of the state Department of Justice, municipal officials in other states and through “word of mouth,” Reyes says.

“We’ve got a lot of press coverage on this,” she adds. “Anyone who follows this topic and anyone in this profession is following our progress.”

Scott says because this is not an externally mandated review, but rather, a voluntary one initiated by a local governing body other than

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the police department; its effectiveness following a completed review will depend on the quality of the study and the willingness of the police chief to implement the recommendations.

“The ‘voluntary’ reviews tend to be of two basic types — those welcomed or solicited by the police chief, for the purpose of helping the chief effect changes that the chief wanted to make; and those imposed on the police department by the local governing body, for the purpose of getting a reluctant police administration to make changes desired by the local government,” Scott says. “Obviously, the former type leads to more effective changes because they have the support of police leadership.”

Couper says that’s exactly the problem.

If the report finds any areas where improvement is needed, Koval will be the one who is responsible for implementing them.

“The fact of the matter is, that’s what police chiefs do,” Couper says. “They are responsible for improving the systems they operate. And there’s the conundrum.”

Koval aggressively pushed back against the study in a blog post, complaining about how the price tag has grown from $50,000 to $400,000. The additional funding was later approved last month, over Koval’s heated objections at a June 7 council meeting.

Couper believes the high price tag is needed to avoid a study that ends up looking more like a “checklist.”

“If you’re going to do a good study and you have the opportunity to do it for $400,000, you do it for $400,000,” Couper says. “You don’t do it for $50,000.”

Reyes says the amount of the study proposal was determined after talking to officials in such cities as St. Louis and Cincinnati where similar studies have been done. She says it is unlikely a single individual could take it on. “Because our [request] is so broad and covers many areas within a department, we could potentially see a team of people apply,” Reyes says.

The city is looking for experts who have comprehensive knowledge regarding use of force and training, policing of people with mental health or substance abuse issues, and issues related to cultural dynamics and implicit bias.

The committee is also calling for a comprehensive analysis of police data, including records of arrests, citations, use of force, civilian injuries and fatalities. It also wants a review of investigation methods like interrogation techniques or identification procedure. The request calls for extensive interviewing of officers, administrators and civilians. ■

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Wearable technology UW engineers develop “fast, flexible, stretchable” integrated circuits

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A team of UW scientists has made a breakthrough creating stretchable integrated circuits that can be worn, paving the way for a number of futuristic devices, perhaps one day even an “Iron Man” suit.

The engineers published their findings in the journal Advanced Functional Materials in May. According to Zhenqiang “Jack” Ma, the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in electrical and computer engineering who led the project, it marks the beginning of a new phase where technology is finally realizing the prospect that “everything will be interconnected.”

Describing the high-frequency, wearable integrated circuits as a “platform” for future advancement in a myriad of industries, Ma says the device affixes to the skin like a bandage or a temporary tattoo and acts as a transmission line with high-speed 5G network capabilities. It can then “be reshaped or redesigned” to wirelessly connect other devices performing a specific function — for example, eliminating the need for hospital patients to be physically wired to multiple devices to read their vital signs.

While Ma says “quite a few people” have already released variations of wearable integrated circuits, they’ve largely been low-speed, lowfrequency models. Ma was convinced he and his team could solve the missing link and introduce a much faster version into the market.

After experimenting with about 200 different designs over more than two years, computer and electrical engineering doctorate students Yei Hwan Jung and Juhwan Lee, alongside other team members, tested and developed a double-wired transmission line design in a twisted, serpentine shape, an approach much more “unusual” than the typical single-wire or parallel-wire style, Lee says.

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The circuits, designed in a serpentine shape, interact wirelessly with other devices and can be worn like temporary ta oos.

Electromagnetic waves transmitted through the line are coupled together, minimizing interference and frequency loss even when the device is bent, folded and stretched.

The result is a device composed of tiny layers of silicone polymers and criss-crossing, interlocking metal blocks so thin — about 0.02 millimeters thick, or a “fraction of the thickness of your hair,” Jung says — it could also be implanted non-invasively in the body.

Venturing into uncharted territory presented many challenges, especially with “no resources to look at.” Once the design was finalized, the team had to figure out how to stretch the device and measure it simultaneously, Lee said.

“Even the measuring tools are not designed for such unconventional devices,” Jung adds. “For this one, you have to test whether it’s performable when it’s stretched, and find out when it fails. That took a lot of time.”

Ma says his team spent hundreds of “very costly” hours in the lab at the Wisconsin Energy Institute — an expense alleviated by a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers grant Ma received in 2008 from the Department of Defense. He’s since used more than $1 million in funding toward numerous “highimpact” projects, including the world’s fastest flexible transistor and a biodegradable, wood-based computer chip created

in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Ma filed a patent for the stretchable integrated circuits through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation earlier this year — he has about 30 patents through WARF, more than any other individual or department, and expects to have 40 by early next year. Since filing the patent, Ma and his team have been in touch with both Mayo Clinic and the Department of Defense, on potential applications for the device. One “vision” of Ma’s is to attach it to soldiers’ uniforms in order to power “sophisticated wireless communication much better than a phone” over long distances — or, in Lee’s words, aim even higher and make “an Iron Man suit.”

But those visions are hardly limiting on the device’s potential in other sectors, especially considering the relatively cheap cost of materials needed to produce it.

“The defense application here can be easily moved to civilian and commercial sectors, because the performance is so much better,” Ma explains. “You save power, you get more functionalities, and everything becomes wireless.”

Ma and his team are developing other projects, including researching ways visionimpaired people can potentially regain their sight by regrowing photoreceptor cells; they are also looking into how people could control their artificial limbs through the triggering of electrodes in the brain.

And while they’re versed in every minute detail of the discoveries they share with the world, Ma says how those devices are ultimately used is “beyond [their] imagination.”

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Justice for 18-year-olds without viral videos A felony conviction for Genele Laird would be a life-changer

BY ALAN TALAGA Alan Talaga co-writes the Off the Square cartoon with Jon Lyons and blogs at isthmus.com/madland.

Genele Laird, who is 18, will not immediately face criminal charges for her actions last month at East Towne Mall. Instead, Laird will be referred to the Dane County Community Restorative Court, even though she would normally be ineligible because some of her charges included felonies. Upon successful completion, the criminal charges will be dismissed.

Laird is getting access to the restorative justice program almost entirely because of the local and national outrage that erupted after cellphone footage of her June 21 arrest went viral. The forceful takedown of Laird by Madison police reopened a rift between cops and community that never really closed after the officer-involved death of Tony Robinson.

It also probably helped Laird’s case that Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne is facing an opponent in next month’s primary election. Ozanne and Madison Police Chief Mike Koval have political incentive to push this off to the side as quickly as possible — particularly with news of another officer-involved shooting on June 30.

But what if someone hadn’t recorded Laird’s arrest on video? What if the community hadn’t taken her case to heart?

Without the video of her arrest, Laird would be looking at a potential felony conviction. A felony conviction would hang over her for the rest of her life.

I’m not trying to minimize her actions.

She allegedly threatened others, flashing a knife, spitting on and hitting officers. She deserves to face consequences for her actions, as I believe she will in the restorative justice program. But I don’t think she deserves to have her life permanently altered by one very bad afternoon.

People can feel the impact of a felony conviction decades later. Even if the prac-

tice is illegal, convicted felons face discrimination when looking for a job or housing. It can be an incredibly heavy price to pay for being a teenager with a woeful lack of judgment.

Despite an ever-increasing body of research that says people under 25 haven’t developed full rational decision-making skills, our society still charges 17-, 18- and 19-yearolds with felonies.

We don’t trust 18-year-olds with alcohol or rental cars. An 18-year-old is technically an adult in the same way Bernie Sanders is technically still running for president. It’s true on paper, but it’s a silly idea to take seriously.

Charging teenagers with felonies leads to some mind-blowing outcomes. For example, some 17-year-olds in Brown County illegally voted in this spring’s presidential primary. For committing voter fraud, they might be tried as adults, which is punishable under law with up to nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine.

Outside of pleading down to a misdemeanor, young defendants in Wisconsin — the ones without viral videos — have few options to avoid a felony charge. There’s the Dane County Deferred Prosecution Unit, aka “the first offenders program.” But that’s offered sparingly, particularly for youth of color.

A 2011 study found that white Dane County defendants were almost twice as likely to have their cases end with deferred prosecution compared to black defendants.

Since this study, Ozanne, to his credit, has added new programs to the Deferred Prosecution Unit specifically designed to address the needs of people of color.

There’s also expungement, where court records can be sealed for offenses that occurred before the age of 25. But that can be a lengthy court process and isn’t foolproof. For example, the Wisconsin Department of Justice keeps the conviction in a searchable database,

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The Dane County Community Restorative Court, the program Laird has entered, offers a new and innovative opportunity to help young people who have committed a crime before they go down a troublesome path.

This isn’t an attempt to let young people escape consequences. Restorative justice, when done authentically, requires real work on the part of the offender. In many cases, it ends up being more work than paying for a citation. Good restorative justice programs offer a better learning opportunity than a ticket or jail time. Just as importantly, restorative justice gets the victims of the offense involved and helps them heal as well.

At the moment, Community Restorative Court is still a pilot program aimed specifically at south Madison, and it is currently limited only to misdemeanor charges.

But the district attorney has been willing to make exceptions when the defendant has social media outrage at his or her back.

If the pilot program proves successful, it should be expanded countywide. Young adults with lower-level felony charges should be eligible for the program as long as they meet other basic requirements of the program.

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Still here The article about Madison 365 was interesting and offers hope for a more diversified pool of potential reporters who represent people of color (“Homegrown Talent,” 6/23/2016). However, the article failed to mention the Simpson Street Free Press, which fulfilled the same mission and produced a small newspaper that I read regularly in years past. I have not seen available copies recently.

It is important to have our news outlets able to represent the interests of our entire community.

Fran Bicknell (via email) Editor’s note: Simpson Street Free Press (simpsonstreetfreepress.org), about which we’ve written in the past, is indeed alive and kicking.

Design flaws Thank you for calling attention to the relatively unremarkable Wisconsin state flag (“Wisconsin Deserves a Better Flag,” 6/9/2016). As a member of the North American Vexillological Association, I was pleased to see that Dylan Brogan spoke extensively with Ted Kaye about flag design.

Having said this, it is evident that “designers” still do not necessarily understand the principles of good flag design. One of the five featured designs showed an animal facing “right” (away from the hoist), which means a carried flag would show the animal

“moving backwards.” (This is why rightshoulder U.S. flag patches are “backwards” to viewers.) Likewise for the “forward” cheese wedge concept. Still, the designs do have merit — my own personal favorite of the five is the red “badger head” concept.

The article was mildly remiss in not mentioning the excellent flag of the city of Madison, rated 11th out of 150 U.S. city flags by NAVA. Recent initiatives by Ald. Maurice Cheeks and the city council have resulted in this flag being flown at more city venues and, we hope, will result in more voluntary use by others.

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Soglin is tilting at windmills At Paul Soglin’s press conference following the tragic shooting of Michael William Schumacher, the mayor informs us, “I don’t know any of the facts pertaining to what happened last

night” (“Utter Fatigue,” 7/1/2016 online, and updated in this issue on page 6). He then goes on to provide a lecture on the necessity of citizen compliance with police directives by fully cooperating or going limp.

I’m not a psychiatrist, but a potential sign of mental illness was reflected in the first 911 call to the police that someone was in the lake talking to himself. My questions would be as follows. Did dispatch establish with the officer sent to the scene that the person in the lake might be mentally ill? Was it determined that the man with the pitchfork at the house was the same individual who had been acting erratically in the lake? Had any of the officers dispatched undergone Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training?

I, like the mayor, don’t have all the facts.

However, suggesting the citizenry undergo further education/training to ensure cooperation with police commands is without merit when the subjects those orders are directed at are not in a rational state of mind. While the bell cannot be un-rung here, Madison has been on the forefront of a number of innovations ensuring the linkage of persons with mental illnesses to proper treatment in the community. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) was founded here, and Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) originated in Madison. The Madison Police Department has CIT-trained officers, and they have a Mental Health Liaison Program recognized by the Council of State Governments. Pieces are in place for collaboration moving forward. Meanwhile, I feel sorry

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God-fearing justice Thank you for Bill Lueders’ article “Too Extreme to Be Supreme?” (76/30/216). Daniel Kelly is indeed too extreme on affirmative action. In addition, he has no respect for the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Windsor, which ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional. This disrespect makes me wonder whether he will protect LGBT rights. Finally, his repeated references to the God of the Bible make me fear that he will not respect the division of church and state.

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It’s 2 a.m. at Cherokee Bison Farms.

A full moon hangs high over rural Cherokee, just outside of Colby in central Wisconsin. The night sky is awash in stars, and the air is calm. Even the crickets have gone to bed. The moon provides just enough light to see the dark outline of the buffalo herd lying down in the pasture. A few of the giant creatures stand guard but are motionless, as if they have dozed off as well.

As for Leroy and Cindy Fricke, they’ve already been awake for nearly an hour. It’s Saturday, after all. The husband and wife own and operate Cherokee Bison Farms, a longtime vendor at the Dane County Farmers’ Market.

“When you grow up on a farm, complaining about waking up early doesn’t get you very far,” says Leroy.

There’s no sleeping in Sunday morning, either, says Cindy. “Nope. We have church in the morning. We’re used to it by now.”

Neither of them drinks coffee, which may explain the lack of frenzied activity inside the Fricke home. The truck was loaded the night before, and only a few last-minute details need attention

now. Cindy checks pre-orders one last time. Leroy unplugs the freezer, stocked with bison meat for the upcoming market, that sits in the cabin of the truck. The routine is a familiar one, despite the early hour. The couple has made the three-hour drive down to Madison hundreds of times.

At 2:20 a.m., they back the old Dodge out of the garage and head south to market once again. Any later and they risk losing their coveted spot at the corner of North Pinckney and East Mifflin streets.

Leroy and Cindy have been selling buffalo meat at the Dane County Farmers’ Market, the largest producers-only farmers’ market in the nation, since 1992. The market has played a major role in their success; the Frickes sell around 75% of their bison meat there. Bison is the correct name for the animal, but it’s commonly referred to as buffalo.

Since they joined the market, they’ve added maple syrup (tapped on the farm and made the old-fashioned way) as well as sunflower oil to their stand. Cindy and Leroy are also founding vendors at the winter Dane County market, located at the Madison Senior Center, which has been around since 2003. For many years, Cindy helped govern

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The couple also did some “cattle flipping,” raising Holstein bull calves then selling them to other farmers for some extra income.

The husband-and-wife team embody the family farmers that were once the norm in rural Wisconsin. The hours are long, the work is endless and the future is often uncertain. But the Frickes are proof that in an era in which small farms are disappearing from America’s Dairyland, it’s possible to earn an honest living off the land.

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got mixed up in this noble pursuit still amazes Cindy and Leroy Fricke.

Bison meat is often touted as healthier than other red meat. Nutritionists say it has lower cholesterol and fat content than beef.

“It tastes great. It’s leaner than beef. And I’m selling it,” quips Leroy on why people should buy bison steaks, burgers and sausages. When grass-fed — as the buffalo at Cherokee Bison Farms are — omega-3s in the meat are as high as in a serving of salmon. But it’s the dense meat’s sweet, rich flavor that ultimately attracts customers, says Leroy. “I don’t think it’s the health benefits so much. Maybe that’s what gets people interested at first. They want flavor.

It has to taste good or they won’t buy it.”

For most of their 24 years at the Dane County Farmers’ Market, Cindy and Leroy have been the only bison meat vendor. And they have built a loyal base of customers.

“They like that they are buying direct from us,” says Cindy. “It’s all-natural; we don’t use hormones, antibiotics or feed additives.

We give the bison some hay and silage in the dead of winter, but besides that, they pretty much take care of themselves.”

At various times, Cherokee Bison Farms has supplied prime cuts and burger meat to L’Etoile, Dotty Dumpling’s Dowry, chef Dan Fox (of Heritage Tavern) and the now-defunct Dog Eat Dog and the Dry Bean Saloon. “We sold to Dotty’s for years and years. Then its bison demand just took off, and we couldn’t and didn’t really want to keep up,” says Cindy.

The Madison Club is now the only restaurant the Frickes regularly supply with bison meat. The couple prefers the market, says Leroy. “We like the customer contact and having pleased customers that come back.”

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3:30 a.m.

A fog is rising on the back country roads as

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Leroy and Cindy wend their way towards Interstate 39. Sunrise is still two hours away, and they’re not quite halfway to Madison yet. Leroy is behind the wheel. Cindy is trying to catch a few winks. As they round a bend, a large doe darts in front of the truck, forcing Leroy to hit the brakes and swerve.

The deer finishes her crossing unscathed.

For over two decades, Leroy and Cindy have rarely missed a market. “We took off to attend our daughters’ weddings and that’s about it,” says Cindy. They’ve braved torrential downpours, snowstorms, a blown transmission, a busted fuel pump and a myriad of other unexpected calamities on the weekly drive down to Madison.

The old Dodge truck is packed full of bison meat, maple syrup and sunflower oil.

“That’s why it’s always better to get here early,” says Leroy. “You never know what might happen.”

Cherokee Bison Farms is classified as a daily vendor at the market. Unlike permanent vendors, who are guaranteed a spot on the Capitol Square, daily vendors have to show up the day of the market and then are given a slot based on seniority.

“We are so far up the line, we always get the same spot. We’ve had it for 15 years,” says Cindy.

The current system for spots is far more orderly than when Cherokee Bison Farms first joined the market.

“The daily vendors used to have to line up, and whoever got there first got to pick their spot,” says Leroy. “We’d leave here at nine o’clock at night, get down to Madison around midnight. You’d see [vendors] with sleeping bags on the street.”

“We had a van with a bunk in the back.

We’d put the girls in there and sleep until six in the morning,” says Cindy. “Then it was a mad dash around the Square to find a spot.”

Even though they lived within a few miles of each other, the couple didn’t meet until they were teenagers.

“Until she dated a friend of mine,” Leroy says.

“Who was that?” asks Cindy. Leroy whispers a name into her ear. “He was a friend of yours?” she exclaims.

When Cindy steps away, Leroy fondly recalls his courtship. “I had to drop her off at the very end of her driveway or her old man would have grounded her for six months.”

They were married in 1980, not long after Cindy finished high school. Soon they were raising three daughters on Leroy’s family’s farm.

Alongside his father, Edward Jr., they milked 120 cows three times a day. Running a small Wisconsin dairy farm seemed to be in the cards for Leroy and Cindy, too. But a fateful Thanksgiving night in 1988 put the family on a new path.

“We had dinner, went to bed...then, oh my goodness, the barn was on fire,” Cindy says.

“We lost a lot of animals that night. We had to put everybody down a week later because of smoke inhalation. It was devastating.”

The dairy industry is still strong in Marathon County, but a lot has changed since Leroy and Cindy were kids. “Bigger farms, fewer farmers,” says Leroy. Collapsed barns and farmhouses in various states of abandonment are a common sight around Cherokee. The average herd size for a family dairy farmer used to be around 30, says Leroy. “Now the small farms have closer to 100 milking cows.

It just goes up from there. The big operations have over a thousand head.”

Not sure what to do next, the Frickes took a year off to decide their future. “We knew we wanted to stay on the farm. But Leroy’s dad was getting older, and we didn’t know if we wanted to invest in milking again,” says Cindy. But, accustomed to the Wisconsin dairy mindset, they wondered how they could even stay on the farm without milking cows.

While researching other agricultural opportunities, the Frickes met Dr. Kenneth Throlson of North Dakota. Throlson, a veterinarian by trade, is a pioneer of the buffalo business.

He started raising bison for meat in the 1960s, a practice virtually unheard of at the time.

“We fell in love with the animals. They are intelligent. They’re awesome to look at. It just seemed right,” says Cindy.

The Frickes made the bold decision to start a bison ranch. In 1989, they brought 100 calves to their farm and introduced buffalo to the area. “The neighbors thought we had lost our minds,” says Cindy. “‘How you ever going to make a living off those things?’ they asked us. They didn’t think there was enough people to eat the meat to actually support a family and farm.” In fact, she says, “The neighbors are still skeptical.”

A few years after the Frickes started raising bison, they were having difficulty finding places to sell the meat. While reading the local farm paper, Leroy saw a picture of someone selling vegetables at a market in Madison. “About 20 phone calls later, I was talking to market manager Mary Carpenter, and the rest is history.”

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5:01 a.m.

Cindy and Leroy arrive on the Capitol Square in good time this morning, nearly an hour before they are allowed to start setting up their stand. It’s a beautiful day, and the weather promises to be sunny, but not too hot. At 6 a.m., Leroy begins unloading the truck, and Cindy starts setting up the stand.

She fills the table with bottles of maple syrup and sunflower oil, then sets out some bison jerky. Leroy pulls the meat out of the freezer, then lifts the freezer out of the truck and plugs it in. “They charge us for electricity too,” says Leroy as he replaces the meat. Soon their white tent is up and Cindy hangs the sign listing which cuts they have in stock this morning.

The couple work in tandem setting up the stand. The choreography comes from years of practice. By 6:15, a regular customer is already chatting with Leroy, and the market is officially underway.

Leroy Fricke is now a veteran in the small world of bison farming, but milking cows is what runs in his blood. Cherokee is five miles east of Colby, where Joseph Steinwand developed the specialty cheese named for the township in 1885. Leroy’s roots in the area stretch back even further. “My father milked cows. His father milked cows. Everybody used to milk cows around here,” says Leroy.

The original Fricke homestead — granted to Leroy’s great-grandfather, Erhardt Fricke, in 1878 — is just across the road from Cherokee Bison Farms. A section of Marathon County’s Cherokee Park once belonged to Leroy’s grandfather, Edward Fricke Sr., who built a dance hall on the land that was used for parties, weddings and a monthly community meeting that featured a popular local talent show. “Cherokee used to have a grocery store and a tavern,” says Leroy. “But those were gone before my time.”

Cindy Fricke (formerly Firnstahl) grew up just three miles away from the Fricke clan.

Her grandparents operated a grocery store near Colby and bottled milk for a time.

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“When you grow up on a farm, complaining about waking up early doesn’t get you very far,” says Leroy Fricke.

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personally shoot a legendary buffalo before the species disappeared altogether.

Bison weren’t killed just for their hides and tongues. Following the Civil War, the federal government stepped up efforts to contain the Native Americans in the West.

The tribes that resisted were ultimately not beaten by the U.S. Cavalry, but by the systematic slaughter of the bison.

“The easiest way to control the Indians was to eliminate their food supply,” says Leroy. “So the government let it happen.”

“Real nice, huh?” says Cindy.

1:45 p.m.

After eight hours, it’s time to pack it all up

“It’s actually better when we’re swamped.

It goes by fast, and it keeps you energized,” says Cindy Fricke.

Her father, Paul Firnstahl, was a planning engineer for the Packaging Corporation of America. “He was what you’d call a gentleman farmer,” Cindy says. “He always rented out his land for others to farm on.”

They did have horses on the farm, which Cindy showed on the open circuit and through 4-H. This fostered a lifelong love of working with animals. Her most recent “pets” are 15 chickens. It’s never easy for Cindy to see the bison taken away to the family-run meat processing plant for harvesting. But it’s a fact of life.

“In as many years as we’ve been doing this, it’s still hard for me to look at the animals in the trailer when they are on their way to slaughter,” says Cindy. “Uh. Just don’t look.”

9:45 a.m.

The biggest surge of customers at the market

they don’t want to be separated. The trick to get them to do what you want is to make them think they are in charge,” says Leroy.

The story of the American buffalo is a sad one.

Sixty million once roamed the rich grasslands known as the great bison belt, an enormous stretch of the western plains that ran from Alaska all the way to the Mexican border. Plains Indians relied on buffalo for food. They used their hides for clothing and to make shelters. When Europeans started to arrive, buffalo hides — not meat — became a prized trading commodity.

It all started to go downhill for the bison after white settlers began populating the west in the 19th century. As prey goes, bison are an easy target. A herd will circle around a buffalo that’s injured or dead. This might have prevented wolves, mountain lions or bears from landing a meal, but it just made it easier for hunters to kill buffalo en masse.

“When the fur market got flooded, they used to just take the tongues. Tongues were considered a delicacy. They left the rest [of the carcass] to rot,” says Leroy.

In 1889, the last shipment of buffalo hides was shipped back East. By then, it’s estimated that the bison population totaled less than a thousand, with as few as 85 still free-ranging in the wild. President Theodore Roosevelt was so alarmed that the American bison would soon be extinct that he rushed to North Dakota to

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usually occurs right before 10 a.m., says Cindy.

“It’s actually better when we’re swamped. It goes by fast, and it keeps you energized. When you sit there and twiddle your thumbs you get tired. Then you get bored and grumpy.”

The market is now teeming with people, and the pace around the Square has slowed to a crawl. Cindy greets a regular customer and grabs his order from the freezer. Leroy is talking about the resurgence of wild bison at Yellowstone National Park with another

market-goer. “Leroy will talk buffalo all day long if you let him.” says Cindy.

One Madison couple, who had stopped by the farm earlier in the week to check out the bison herd, drops off an armful of cherry wood to thank the Frickes for their hospitality. “You’re welcome back anytime,” says Leroy.

It was a big lifestyle change, switching from milking cows to raising bison, Cindy says: “When you’re in dairy, you take care of your animals and your farms. Someone else does the marketing.

They pick up the milk, and away it goes.”

Joining the market meant that they had to “get sociable,” says Cindy. “We had to talk to people. Explain what we were doing and tell them why they should buy bison meat. We never had to do stuff like that before.”

Bison are also not your ordinary farm animals. “They look kind of big and dopey, but bison can clear a six-foot fence without touching it,” says Cindy.

They can also be dangerous. “Last summer, Leroy was attacked by one of the big breeder bulls,” Cindy relates. “He charged the four-wheeler Leroy was on, flipped it. Started pummeling it. Leroy got pinned under the four-wheeler but somehow he didn’t get hurt. That’s only happened once — but we’ve all been chased.”

The Frickes have had plenty of reminders that a buffalo herd is decidedly more wild than a herd of cattle. “They want to be a herd, and

and head home. “We had a good morning.

Lots of customers were stocking up because we won’t be back at the market until October,” says Leroy.

During the couple’s summer break from the market, Leroy will continue with his parttime job off the farm. He started looking for one in 2014, when the beef market took a dive and he and Cindy decided to sell their Holstein calf operation. “I know the market,” says Leroy. “Somebody was going to take a bath on that, and I sure didn’t want it to be us.”

Leroy now drives for H.G. Meigs, a paving and asphalt company. “It’s a seasonal job. In between, I farm,” says Leroy. The job also provides health insurance, a huge perk.

Cindy is enjoying slowing things down a bit at the farm. “We have eight grandkids.

I want to be the kind of grandma where my girls can call and I come right over. I already babysit two days a week for my daughter in Wausau. I love it.”

At one point, more than 300 bison roamed at Cherokee, a huge herd by Wisconsin standards. They slaughtered about three animals every other week then, but have scaled back the last few years, in part because of Leroy’s new gig. The herd is now under 100 head, and they harvest around 10 to 15 animals a year.

By 2 p.m., the Frickes have the truck packed and are ready to go. Even when the Frickes return to the market in the fall, they likely won’t come every Saturday, as in years prior. “It helps,” says Cindy, “when you know you don’t have product in the freezer.” n

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Then the guy manages to raise a daughter, Aidan, who is equally worthy of a book-length tribute. That’s what he delivers in Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild. It’s as much about parenting as it is about adventure, though in Campbell’s book the two concepts are often inseparable.

Aidan, when we meet her, is a plucky 15-year-old with the courage to face her deepest fears and the smarts to warm her hands

in the intestines of a caribou she’s helping butcher on a day when it’s 35 degrees below zero, not counting the wind chill.

Yup, Campbell takes Aidan to hang with Heimo and his wife, Edna, in the Arctic bush, in the dead of winter. It’s actually just one of three Alaskan adventures they share, in order of increasing difficulty.

First, the father-daughter team travels to Heimo’s neck of the woods in the summer,

to help him build a new cabin, an activity most teenage girls would probably rank below banging their heads against a wall in terms of desirability. Even Edna took a powder on that. Aidan is in charge of stripping bark from logs, a task that’s every bit as arduous as it sounds.

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Not to take anything away from Jim Campbell’s considerable talents as a teller of tales, but, hot damn, what luck he’s got!

The Lodi-based writer just happens to have a cousin, Heimo Korth, who left Appleton decades ago for a hardscrabble life hunting and trapping and raising three daughters in the remote Alaskan wilderness, 250 miles from the nearest road. Korth was the subject of Campbell’s bracing 2004 book, The Final Frontiersman.

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A pub for Park Street Rockhound Brewing has a great tap list and an inventive kitchen

BY LINDA FALKENSTEIN

The term “gastropub” may have outlived its usefulness.

Back in 2008, Isthmus thought the term needed to be explained. The idea of a bar with inventive, well-thought out food instead of just burgers and fries was still novel.

Eight years on, almost every restaurant that opens here seems to be a gastropub in concept, with wide-ranging menus and carefully curated craft beer tap lists. This has become the norm, and it’s time to put the term to bed. But Rockhound Brewing Company certainly fits the bill.

Rockhound is a small brewpub, or rather, it will be. Right now, house beers are still being brewed at the east side’s House of Brews and not on the five-barrel brewing system onsite.

But it feels like a brewpub. The rustic, good-looking space has big windows and a welcoming U-shaped bar in the center of the room. On the periphery there are a few booths, but mostly “tall” tables with stools for parties of two and four, and only a few standard dining tables — in other words, it’s more pub than restaurant. The service is helpful and unfailingly friendly. Not sure about a beer? Samples are freely given. Four or five house beers are on tap along with a dozen or so guest taps of mostly Midwestern craft brews. I liked the house “Grinder” coffee porter and the “Hoity Toity” hefeweizen, and I’m looking forward to trying the returning Mosquito Bite IPA. The menu includes tavern standards like burgers and a Reuben, but also travels far from them. The website describes the cuisine as “comfort food with a bit of a twist.”

This is true, but sometimes the dishes would work better with fewer twists.

Good news — the pub’s signature pot pies are terrific. They’re straightforward pot pies, the only twist being a puff pastry top instead of a traditional crust. The chicken

pot pie comes with plenty of chunks of meat and doesn’t try to glide by on gravy. And even the gravy is good: creamy and peppery.

Carrots, onions, celery, corn and potatoes enhance the filling rather than padding it.

Just as good is the beef version. The veggie pie features root vegetables — sweet potatoes, parsnips, turnips, rutabaga and pearl onions — and is vegan. The pot pies are accompanied by a good-sized side salad; for a light eater, this is two meals of food.

But other dishes I had at Rockhound were not quite what I was expecting, and not offbeat for the better. From the “snacks” menu, the sundried tomato croquettes were actually little phyllo dough triangles filled with sun-dried tomato and goat cheese.

These were fine, but not what I expect from something called a croquette. And the heavy, cold dipping sauce, made from fresh spinach and yogurt, had no flavor yet killed the flavor of the, err, croquettes.

Fried cheese curds are described as being “house-brewed beer-marinated” but they just tasted like cheese curds in a slightly crunchy batter.

The spinach and chickpea salad seems good in theory, with edamame and corn rounding out the vegetables, but the somewhat wan spinach base was overcome by a sweet, heavy dressing of avocado, tahini and maple syrup. This salad needs the brighter notes of a vinaigrette — even a maple vinaigrette would work.

The duck confit sandwich didn’t feature that much duck for $13; gorgonzola garlic puree spread on the oversized roll didn’t enhance the flavor, either, although arugula, sliced apples and chunks of gorgonzola hold potential with the duck pairing.

I’d heard good things about the saffron risotto stuffed red pepper dinner, and I was glad to see an entree so laden with vegetables.

But the overall plate seemed poorly thought out. The red pepper was undercooked, as if it

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Tex Tubb’s Taco Palace, 2009 Atwood Ave.

While fried cauliflower as a taco filling may smack of veggie-happy California, it makes sense — the deep, almost meaty flavors here are paired with contrasting vegetables (spinach and corn relish) and double-down on the richness with cheese and crema. A spirited pico de gallo is the triumphant finish.

General Tso’s cauliflower Tavernakaya, 27 E. Main St.

A popular dish for vegetarians and omnivores alike, the deep-fried cauliflower holds powerful flavor even without the bright sweet-and-spicy sauce.

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was meant only as a decorative container for the rice. The pepper comes on a bed of vinegary Roasted red pepper stuffed braised kale, which was fresh with saffron risotto on braised and flavorful and went well with kale with caponata and the risotto and a lovely smear of herb sauce. lemony pesto. But then there was also the large mound of caponata. It was quite good — but I’d already eaten the risotto with the kale, leaving the caponata at the party without a date. How about some toasts to spoon it onto? Or more risotto? Still, the intentions behind this dish strike me as good, if overeager.

The least successful dish I had was the Friday fish fry — haddock with an aggressively TRACY HARRIS salty, heavy batter that was crisp and dark brown on the outside but mustard-colored and doughy inside like an unkitchen can come up with winners. There dercooked cornmeal pancake. A tiny cup of coleslaw are plenty of vegetables on the menu, not seemed an afterthought. The dull dressing — neijust fried junk food, for which Rockhound ther sweet mayo nor bright vinegar-based — didn’t deserves a round of applause. Just a few turn the shredded cabbage into a real slaw. tweaks on some of the accoutrements — dip Despite these missteps, there’s much to like missteps, batter blunders — and Park Street about Rockhound. The pot pies demonstrate the could have a bona fide hit. n

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Upcoming La Taguara is opening a second location this fall at 827 E. Johnson St. It will offer the same menu as its East Washington location including arepas, empanadas and other Venezuelan and Latin American cuisine. La Taguara is seeking a license to sell alcohol and will have a public hearing on August 17. La Taguara replaces The Spot restaurant, which closed in April after three years.

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demand came for more, so we took it to the next level and are making it into a business,” says McGee. “Ten percent will still go straight to the church.”

Right now, volunteers are staffing the eatery, but McGee hopes to be able to bring on paid staff soon. “We want this place to be a safe haven for the community. Somewhere you can sit down and enjoy the air [conditioning], use the Wi-Fi to do homework. On Fridays, we plan on doing some spoken word and poetry,” says McGee. The restaurant is in the former Taco Bell on Park Street. It was briefly the Sephardic Jewish restaurant Noosh, which closed in December after a dispute with the landlord.

— DYLAN BROGAN

Food news Dough Baby Bakery, 511 State St., sold 250 doughnuts — its entire supply — when it opened on June 30. The new bakery offers doughnuts in a variety of flavors that will rotate daily. Its debut selection included honey, raspberry and blueberry glazed doughnuts and Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Owner and head baker Kristine Miller is not new to the local restaurant scene. She’s the former pastry chef for L’Etoile and Graze (co-owned by her husband, chef Tory Miller).

Glaze Teriyaki, 563 State St., is now open on the ground floor of The Hub. The selfdescribed Seattle-style teriyaki restaurant has locations in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and now downtown Madison. Glaze is currently seeking a license to sell alcohol; it’s scheduled for a public hearing before the Alcohol License Review Committee in July.

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McGee’s Chicken, 1920 S. Park St., has only been open a month but is already doing brisk business on Madison’s south side. So says pastor Esperdell McGee Jr., proprietor of the new fried chicken restaurant. “It’s been all word of mouth. Just people saying, ‘Hey, they got some good food.’”

McGee’s Chicken has an expansive menu that offers far more than just fried chicken. Gyros, catfish, Italian beef, rib tips, pork chops and gizzards are also available. Side dishes include macaroni, greens, spaghetti, dressing and yams.

McGee is the pastor of Miracles of Life Outreach Ministries. He says the idea for the restaurant came after parishioners started selling dinners to help the church. “The

Ironworks Cafe, 149 Waubesa St., is up and running again at the Goodman Community Center. The cafe is part of a teen employment and training program. The young staff works alongside professional chefs to learn the fundamentals of running a restaurant with an emphasis on fresh, locally sourced ingredients. It ceased operations at the end of last summer because the teens had to attend class during normal business hours. Now that school is out, the cafe reopened on June 20 with a revamped menu. In the morning, Ironworks Cafe has pastries and coffee. After 10 a.m., it serves several varieties of tacos, allbeef hot dogs and sandwiches.

BY DYLAN BROGAN

Farm-to-table restaurants. Locavore challenges. Producer-run farmers’ markets. The local food movement is alive and well in America’s Dairyland. But even though we are known for our Friday fish fries, most of the fish we eat in Wisconsin comes from overseas.

“Over 90% of the seafood that we eat is imported. About half of what we are importing is from China and Thailand,” says Kathy Kline, education outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute.

The Eat Wisconsin Fish project, started in 2014 by Sea Grant, is seeking to reverse that trend by promoting fish that is caught and raised in the state. As part of the effort, the group has put together a local buying guide to connect Wisconsin fish producers to retailers, restaurants and culinary schools. Just last month, a new website — eatwisconsinfish.org — was also launched. Want to know where to buy local tilapia, smelt, lake whitefish, burbot, lake herring, chubs, caviar, Atlantic salmon, walleye, yellow fish and several varieties of trout?

Check the guide.

“Since we have a really strong local food movement in Wisconsin, we wanted to help include local fish within that movement,” says Kline.

Historically, commercial fishing has been active in Wisconsin because of the state’s proximity to the Great Lakes. Kline says the supply and market for fish caught in the Great Lakes has shifted since the industry’s heyday in the early 20th century. But commercial fishing has never left the state.

“We have lost the local demand for fish.

Most of the fish that the commercial fishermen are catching gets sold out East,” says

Kline. “There’s still fish out there; [they’re] just not sticking around here in Wisconsin.”

In addition to listing suppliers of wildcaught fish, the guide and website also includes those who raise fish on several different types of fish farms. Half of the world’s seafood is cultivated using aquaculture (fish farming), according to the Sea Grant Institute. Kline says there are negative connotations associated with fish farming, but not all operations are created equal.

There are traditional outdoor systems that use raceways to add oxygen to water while flushing out waste, recirculating indoor systems that use filters, and the relatively new method of aquaponics, where plants filter the water. Any of these could be good or bad, in terms of the environment, depending on how the operation is run.

“In terms of environmental regulations, the U.S. doesn’t have any control over what China does with its fish farming. But in Wisconsin, there are standards in place that ensure that fish are raised sustainably,” Kline notes.

The Eat Wisconsin Fish website also lists retailers that sell local fish directly to consumers. In the Madison area, Wisconsin fish can be found at Metcalfe’s Market, Hy-Vee and the Seafood Centers (inside both Willy Street Co-op locations, as well as the one on Whitney Way).

Kline says she hopes the guide and website lead to more local fish being served in Madison restaurants, too.

“Why not have a local fish farmer that restaurants in that community get their fish from?” says Kline. “There’s also talk around the state of having a small aquaponics system as part of a restaurant.

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Stoughton’s Mershon’s Artisan Cider celebrates its second anniversary with a tap takeover in downtown Madison.

Mershon’s new Mystic Berry Cider will be available, as well as Death Valley Dry, a mead-style beer. Live music and drinking games will also be a part of the festivities.

At the Side Door Grill and Tap, 240 W. Gilman St., 4 pm. More info on Mershon’s Facebook page.

Depth Charge Saturday, July 9

Wisconsin Brewing Company’s second annual Stein Bier (Stone Beer) bash.

Come to preorder the limited-edition Depth Charge Scotch Ale, stay for the feierlichkeiten. The main event is an explosive brewing in which hot rocks (in this case curling stones) are dropped into the wort to boil it. It’s followed by a victory march with bagpipes. Heritage Tavern will also be selling food. The night ends with a performance by Jon Dee Graham & the Fighting Cocks. At Wisconsin Brewing Company, 1709 American Way, Verona, 3-11 pm. More info on Wisconsin Brewing Company’s Facebook page.

15th Annual Garlic Dinner Sunday, July 10

A six-course meal at Harvest Restaurant that gives garlic its due. Menu: confit garlic and white bean purée served on grilled bread and gremolata, roasted garlic flan, fennel and garlic pork sausage with a roasted chicken thigh, crispy pork belly, and a main course of a garlic and red wine braised lamb shank. For dessert, black garlic and pistachio crusted foie gras torchon. At Harvest Restaurant, 21 N. Pinckney St., 6 pm. Reserve tickets ($65) by calling 608-255-6075.

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A good rauchbier has a strong presence of smoke, but you never forget you’re drinking a beer. It’s a tough task for a brewer to make a smoked beer that’s based on a light-bodied golden ale or lager. (In the U.S., rauchbiers are more commonly made as offshoots of the more robust porters and stouts.) Vintage brewmaster Scott Manning works from the long tradition of a German rauchbier. He uses malts that are floor-roasted over beechwood fires from a maltster in Heidelburg and Tettnanger hops, which lend a nice spice and pepper complement to the smoke.

This is all about finesse, and Manning delivers with creative flair and precision. At the core of Kindled Spirits is a light golden ale that’s clean, crisp and well-balanced. While initially its smoke seems assertive in aroma, it never overwhelms. There’s an obvious baconlike flavor, especially in the finish.

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This is a great beer with cheese; a sharp cheddar or stilton is a solid choice. Kindled Spirits is a fun beer for summer, and it’s well worth stopping by Vintage for one. Kindled Spirits finishes at 5.7% ABV and an estimated 21 IBUs. It sells in the west-side brewpub for $5/ pint, $7.50 crowler and $14/growler (refill).

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On tap DLUX’s kegged cocktails are just right for lunch Kegged cocktails seemed like a passing fad back in 2013 when magazines like Esquire started writing about the spreading phenomenon. Three years later, it’s obvious the practice of keeping certain high-demand cocktails on tap, like beer, isn’t going anywhere. An early adopter on our shores was DLUX, the burger-and-boozy-milkshake spot at 117 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., which had kegged cocktails on the menu right from its opening in 2012. The Double Fina margarita remains a solid refresher (blue agave tequila, blood orange juice, orange liqueur and lime); it’s joined by a gin and tonic (featuring housemade tonic) and the “Patio Pounder” (a summery sauvignon blanc with vodka and lime).

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Madison offers several opportunities to witness world-class competition in unconventional sports up close and in person — from the Tug-of-War International Federation’s World Outdoor Championships to the North American Unicycling Convention and Championships.

Now the city can add the Professional Disc Golf Association Amateur and Junior Disc Golf World Championships to that list.

The Mad City Disc Golf Club and the Madison Area Sports Commission will welcome the elite of a sport many nonparticipants still confuse with ultimate disc to the Madison area July 12 to 16.

Disc golf is a fast-growing sport that dates back to at least the 1920s. The game adheres to the same general rules, terminology, scoring and etiquette as traditional golf — except players throw a disc (which, incidentally, is a radically different design from a regular Frisbee) at a standardized target. Like golfers who traverse courses with numerous clubs, serious disc golfers carry a bag of 10 to 15 different discs.

More than 4,000 disc golf courses are active in the United States, according to the PDGA, which boasts 86,000 members internationally. “Part of the reason disc golf is so popular is that it can be played by a broad range of folks,� says tournament director Mike Batka, who also owns Glide, a disc golf apparel line and pro shop on Madison’s east side. “It’s very accessible and inexpensive.�

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The finals will be held July 16 at Token Creek.

A total of 576 participants ranging in age from under 8 to almost 80 will compete, including several local disc golfers who qualified by earning points in 2015 PDGA-sanctioned events. “We’re talking about playing 135 holes of disc golf to crown a champion in some divisions,� Batka says. “Some of the people who’ve won or come close are now the face of the sport.�

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Incubating artists and writers Arts + Literature Laboratory has found its niche as a creative hub

BY HOLLY HENSCHEN

At the Arts + Literature Laboratory, last night’s art show swiftly becomes the backdrop for tomorrow night’s reading series and next week’s concert.

For these reasons and more, Rita Mae Reese and Jolynne Roorda founded Arts + Literature Laboratory (ALL). The experimental, collaborative space opened in January and has since been packed to the gills with people attending multimedia exhibitions, theater and musical performances.

The nonprofit was recently awarded two local grants to further its mission: $107,000 from the Madison Arts Commission to fund ALL’s Professional Development Series for Writers, which includes monthly craft talks and write-ins, and a $960 grant from Dane Arts to help support a series of exhibitions by emerging Dane County artists and related professional development programs for visual artists.

The 500-square-foot gallery at 2021 Winnebago St. has an urban, industrial feel; exposed gray brick walls and aging wooden rafters are juxtaposed with matte gallery walls and track lighting. The current works on display by Connecticut artist Caryn Azoff have a mosaic effect, featuring angular shapes in turquoise, tangerine and goldenrod on wood. Azoff says the work represents the association of memory through color on the space of the canvas. When the ALL hosts events, the gallery pieces act as an inspiring backdrop for other artists.

In preparing for her exhibit, Azoff says the gallery’s many purposes were a top consideration. “We did a lot of editing and thinking about the space in terms of the various uses of ALL,� Azoff says. “I like the different audiences — music, literary and arts — that visit the space.� “We were all so shocked that Madison didn’t have a place like this,� adds Reese, a UW-Madison MFA grad and poetry and fiction author who published her most recent

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Roorda, a graphic artist with a background in community art education, already had experience creating such a space. She opened an Arts + Literature Laboratory with Azoff in New Haven, Conn., in 2003, though it’s no longer operating. “Since our [Madison] opening, we’ve been flying,� says Roorda. In fact, ALL has something happening nearly every night. It facilitates events for the ArtWrite Collective, the Watershed Reading Series and Monsters of Poetry. In addition, it has hosted lectures by professional writers, workshops on food and memoir writing and concerts in partnership with Tone Madison, a local arts and culture website. Write-ins, held the first

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And the gallery is willing to showcase art that might not find a home in more traditional spaces such as public galleries and coffee shops.

UW-Madison Art Department lecturer Alaura Seidl’s exhibition “Toast� occupied the ALL space for much of April. Focused on the queer experience and Seidl’s discovery of sexuality and gender identity, the show re-created Seidl’s apartment, down to the furniture, and included video and audio clips of provocative anti-gay slurs alongside positive affirmations. “There’s absolutely no way I would have been able to pull off that show had they not been so open to a social and relational piece,� Seidl says. “A lot of places will lean toward censorship.�

The space seems to be filling a need in the Madison community for an interdisciplinary space.

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“Outside of the university, there is not really a place for artists of multiple disciplines to come together and create meaningful connections,� says Max Puchalsky, a board member and sound design artist.

With the recently acquired grant money, ALL will be able to pay speakers, increase marketing efforts and double its footprint by renting more space adjacent to the current one. There, they’ll offer a designated space for writers, an expansion of ALL’s small press library and a curated collection of prints from Wisconsin artists. “We hope that this can be a community center where writers just want to drop in and work together and be social together.

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Sometimes poignant, often powerful, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Our Good Earth” captures the tragic impact of humanity upon its home.

“This show is one of the first exhibitions I’ve done in some time that has a political edge to it,” says Richard Axsom, MMoCa’s senior curator. “It takes on climate change and global warming, endangered habitats and species migration and more.”

Selected from the museum’s permanent collection, the works in the exhibit, which runs through Aug. 21, address how modern and contemporary artists have portrayed the natural world. It documents a range of locales, geological features and weather, in diverse media and styles.

The title comes from a 1942 lithograph by John Steuart Curry, one of the great regionalists and the first artist in residence at any university anywhere. (He served at UW-Madison from 1936 until his death in 1946.) The exhibit alternates between pleasant and provocative; its title could as easily have come from Curry’s “The Line Storm,” with its horizon trajectory filled with fiery light and raw power.

The exhibit includes two accounts of the planet’s beginnings: the Mayan creation myth as rendered by Carlos Mérida in a selection of lithographs from “Estampas del Popol,” and “The First Four Days of Creation,” a series of engravings by Fritz Eichenberg.

Following the expulsion from Eden, viewers are swept along through lyrical works such as Jack Beal’s glowing, impressionist “Taylor’s Way” and Thomas Hart Benton’s poetic “Sunset.” Grant Wood’s signature gumdrop trees pepper his “July Fifteenth.”

Contrasted against these are bold images such as Claes Oldenburg’s whimsical “Floating Three Way Plug.”

The conceptual exhibit climaxes as witness to violence. Curry returns with “Flood,” tragic and obscenely beautiful at the same time. Fire, drought and Armageddon are engendered in various scenes. The blunt

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World of glass Retired UW art prof opens new gallery in Fitchburg

BY BRIAN RIESELMAN

Madison sculptor Steve Feren’s new art gallery, Ferenheit, is built in an open, lightfilled room at the back of the building that houses his large working studio — itself a museum of incandescence and color.

The high-ceilinged, industrial fantasy-like building, with its blowpipes and powerful furnace, is just a short walk across the curving driveway and lawn from Feren’s house, where he lives with his wife, Charity Eleson, on a winding county road in rural Fitchburg.

The couple opened Ferenheit in late June with a pig roast and live music by the Tony Castañeda Latin Jazz Band.

After an inaugural six-month exhibit of Feren’s new work in glass and mixed media, other visual artists — painters, sculptors, print-makers, photographers — will be invited to show their work in solo shows in the gallery for six-month runs.

“This is a robin, in concrete and glass,” Feren says in the studio as we pass a massive and whimsical seven-by-eight-foot big bird, whose shimmering surface is inlaid with thousands of ice-blue reflective glass balls.

For decades, all of Feren’s works, most of them large-scale public works in glass, concrete, steel and ceramic, have incorporated light as a central element.

“Glass is about light,” he says. And while many of the gallery pieces are examples of exquisitely blown glass — such as the shimmering birds that hang overhead at Ferenheit — glass is only one of the substances Feren employs. Ceramics and silkscreened photographs, for example, are found in surprising combinations. The results glitter and glint with alluring fluidity and depth.

Feren recently retired after 30 years running the UW-Madison’s art department’s prestigious glass lab, begun as the first aca-

demic program of its kind by Harvey Littleton in the early 1960s. Littleton attracted future superstars such as Dale Chihuly, who came to Madison to study with him in 1965, and Marvin Lipofsky, the American Studio Glass Movement pioneer of UC-Berkeley, who died in January.

Feren still teaches glass blowing to adults and children in his home studio. He also lectures widely, including at 14 universities in China, to teach and talk about sculpture, public art, glass and light.

Feren’s best-known Madison work is probably the “Kohl Promenade” at the Kohl Center, created with sculptor Gail Simpson, in concrete, metal and acrylic with controlled LED lighting.

The artist also takes pride in “The Life Expressive,” a large-scale public art project in glass, aluminum and acrylic installed at UWParkside. It was among the last works to be funded by the Wisconsin “Percent for Art” program before the state Legislature ended the program in 2011. Feren’s piece for UW-Platteville, called “Unus Mundus,” installed in 1989, was one of the defunct program’s early successes.

In the gallery, his figurative sculptures in cast glass are on display. The comically beseeching four-legged beasts called “Spigs” have a candy gloss and milky depth within their colors, both reflecting and glowing with natural light.

Other cast glass works such as “Oakscape” stand like blocks of crystal-clear ice, embedded with stark black silkscreen images of winter trees, lakes and haunting glimpses of tiny people. They are bracingly fresh, cold and bright, with a storybook quality of fine old etchings.

Feren, who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, says he still draws inspiration from his childhood. He recalls shafts of sunlight beaming through nearclosed curtains in his grandmother’s house. And he was fascinated by simple yet elegant objects such as reflective railroad signs: “It was the glass balls in these road signs that gave them their luminosity.” ■

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Then Jim and Aidan return in late November and December for three and a half weeks of Arctic living, sleeping in a tent heated by a wood stove that goes out several times a night. Finally, they return the following July, when Aidan is all of 16, to spend four weeks traversing a mountain range and canoeing 110 miles down a perilous river.

Why do people do such things? Campbell has a bead on his own motivation: “I want an indelible bond with my daughter. I want her to remember this trip for the rest of her life.

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want Awe. I want to feel alive. I want Aidan to be filled with life and wonder.”

Campbell is an engaging writer with an essayist’s flair and a sportswriter’s precision. He honestly relates moments when, like most parents, he falls short of perfection. Some readers — my mom among them — would flip their lids at the dangers he exposes his daughter to. But Aidan appreciates the opportunity, and proves herself worthy of his trust.

“Dad?” she asks him at one point. “How do you really live each day?”

Now she knows. ■

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Looped in Neens gets ready for its biggest gig yet

BY AARON R. CONKLIN

Shane Quella likes to refer to his musical life as a weird journey, and when you hear him describe it, you realize the guitarist and looper-in-chief for Madison’s Neens isn’t wrong. The 31-year-old has spent 16 years toying around with what he’s come to call “experimental dream goth pop,” often as a one-man show.

But now the payoff is at hand. After a strong opening performance for El Ten Eleven at the Majestic last February, Neens has been tapped to open for Lewis Del Mar at Live on King Street. The July 15 date is the band’s biggest gig yet and is likely to attract plenty of new fans.

Neens’ foundational sound is built around looping guitars and synthesized drum riffs, but we’re not just talking Shoegaze Central here — there’s some narrative depth to songs like “DD,” a Quella-penned song that the band’s bassist, Kyle Turner, describes as a “waking dream.”

“We didn’t grow up in this sugar-coated, white-boy life,” says Quella, a Racine native. “We all have our deep little secrets, and the songs are not peppy songs. There’s dark meaning.”

He and his bandmates cop quickly to a love of all things ’80s — they’re fans of doom-and-gloom icons like Joy Division and the Cure — and songs like “Look Like a Fool” wouldn’t have sounded out of place on a John Hughes soundtrack. In fact, the song’s video is a shot-for-shot re-creation

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of the final scene of Pretty in Pink, with Quella in the Andrew McCarthy role.

Quella composed most of the band’s current catalogue during the three years he abandoned Madison for Arizona, where he spent a lot of time alone in his bedroom, playing with Casiobased sound effects and looping riffs through multiple cassette recorders. After Quella returned to Madison two years ago, his sound caught the ears of guitarist/drummer Braden Huffman and Turner, who’s also from Racine.

The full band has since come together, with each band member influencing the sound.

“The older songs continue to grow and change,” says Huffman. “They’re these evolving things. We approach each arrangement a little differently.”

The first cassette pressing — there’s that ’80s vibe again — of the band’s 2015 Factory Sounds EP sold out on Bandcamp, and the band just added

a drummer to its lineup, the appropriately named Travis Drumm, another Racine native.

“With the beat machine, we were limited,” says Quella. “Especially with the loops we’re doing.”

It’s a busy summer for Neens. On July 23, they’ll front an afterparty at High Noon Saloon to help celebrate the release of a new album from fellow Madison music scenesters Seasaw. After that, they’re hoping to devote more time to new material, including some songs by Huffman and Turner. Quella’s angling for a couple of polished singles that lead to a label and an eventual full-length album.

The King Street gig, though? Unleash the new drummer and set the rest of Neens free.

“I don’t want to be this band that plays behind a computer,” says Quella. “That doesn’t seem raw to me. I want to see some sweat. I want to see someone screw up. It’s what builds character.” ■

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siasts. Dean Schroeder say he was “averse to opera” for most of his life until he heard an aria from Handel’s Alcina on Wisconsin Public Radio. “I was so moved by how gorgeously melodic it was that I had to pull over to listen,” says Schroeder. “I knew then that I had to seek out this opera and this composer and hear more. In recent years there has been a renaissance of his music, and in encouraging young singers, we are thrilled to be a part of it.” ■

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A Madison soprano has made it into the final round of competition for the Handel Aria Competition, a worldwide competition now in its fourth year.

“It feels exciting and a tiny bit scary,” says finalist Christina Kay, who will perform with other finalists at a public concert in conjunction with the Madison Early Music Festival at Mills Concert Hall on Friday, July 8, at 7:30 p.m.

A native of Harrisburg, Pa., Kay earned her master’s in music at UW-Madison in 2014 and currently freelances in the area.

At the concert she will perform Handel’s “M’adora l’idol mio” from the opera Teseo and “As Cheers the Sun” from the oratorio Joshua.

“Handel’s music runs the gamut of expressivity, from beautiful and simple to thrilling and fiery...and everything in between,” says Kay. “As an ornamentation

nerd, I love figuring out what kinds of embellishments fit both the character of the aria and my voice. There’s so much you can do within Handel’s melodic frameworks, which makes the learning and performing particularly fun.”

The contest judges chose Kay from a field of almost 100 performers from around the world.

She is among seven finalists and two alternates who will travel here from as far away as Montreal and Sydney, Australia. At the concert, each singer will present two arias, accompanied by the Madison Bach Musicians.

“I love Handel’s music, along with all things Baroque, so I’m thrilled to be singing these pieces for the competition,” Kay says. “Knowing that there will be many friends, mentors and colleagues in the audience makes it both special and a little more nerve-wracking, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

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executive producer credit, the weekly eightparter boasts some major behind-the-scenes influences, including director Steven Zaillian and writer Richard Price, the respective writers of Schindler’s List and The Color of Money among many other film credits. The Night Of seems like typical HBO fare in many ways, and it may bring back some of the missing edge and darkness that the network’s old dramas were famous for. The first episode is streaming now on HBO Go and HBO Now. — ALEX CLAIBORNE

John Turturro plays lawyer John Stone.

The film list New releases Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates: The paper-thin story by Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O’Brien includes some pretty funny zingers (some of which were probably improvised), but they’re the type of jokes that dominate most of today’s dumb-ass comedies in which characters are primarily defined by a lack of inhibition or inappropriate conduct.

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The BFG: Working from a script by the late Melissa Mathison (E.T.), director Steven Spielberg sticks closely to Roald Dahl’s story of an orphaned British girl named Sophie and the “Big Friendly Giant” who protects her from other, flesh-eating giants. The technical achievement of this motioncapture creation is certainly astonishing, but it’s recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance who gives the BFG soul and a gentle spirit that makes his connection with Sophie feel completely genuine.

Be a part of this first time in Madison event, the 2016 Professional Disc Golf Association Amateur and Junior World Championships.

The Legend of Tarzan: This latest version of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle lord begins after Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) is already a legend. The filmmakers have chosen to skip the customary origin story, a laudable impulse in the Age of Reboots. But the story they tell instead is a dull, lumbering thing that presumes familiarity with — and fondness for — the Tarzan mythos and doesn’t bother trying to earn it.

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Swiss Army Man: A man (Paul Dano) stranded on a deserted island after a boating accident finds potential salvation when a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) washes ashore. If you can reveal something profound about the way discomfort leads us to hide ourselves from others, and do so while parading fart and boner jokes, you’ve got something special going on.

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The Interrupters: Activists work to curb violence in their Chicago neighborhoods by intervening in street fights and showing youths a better way to resolve conflicts. Hawthorne Library, July 8, 7 pm.

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Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made: Documentary about a Raiders of the Lost Ark adaptation made in the 1980s by Mississippi teens; screens as a double feature with the fan film. Sundance, July 8, 7 pm.

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The Dictator’s Guns: A skipper gets mixed up in a gun-running scheme in this action flick based on a Charles Williams novel. Cinematheque, July 13, 8:30 pm.

Captain America: Civil War

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La horse: A farm patriarch (Jean Gabin) destroys his grandson’s heroin stash and prepares to fight the gangsters coming to pick it up.

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Sea Fog: A fishing boat agrees to smuggle immigrants from China to Korea. Ashman Library, July 8, 7 pm.

Counter-Attack: A Russian soldier and German officers are trapped in a basement playing mind games while awaiting rescue. Cinematheque, July 14, 7 pm.

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Art Fair On the Square/ Art Fair Off the Square Saturday, July 9 (9 am-6 pm) and Sunday, July 10 (10 am-5 pm), Capitol Square Welcome to art city. The city of Madison is putting the construction mess back together (at least temporarily) just in time for MMoCA’s biggest fundraiser of the year, the Art Fair on the Square. The fair draws more than 500 artists and 200,000 visitors to downtown, and is devoting the 100 block of State Street to emerging artists. The Wisconsin-focused Art Fair Off the Square peacefully coexists along MLK Drive and the esplanade leading to Monona Terrace. Support the artists of the future by visiting the High School Clay Coalition booth near the convention center.

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Soul Low is making a return visit ahead of the Aug. 5 release of Nosebleeds, the Milwaukee indie poppers’ second album. With Able Baker.

Chief’s Tavern: Hoot’n Annie, free, 8:30 pm.

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

Dean House: Madison Accordion Band, 7 pm.

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Thursday, July 7, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

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

If you love puns, Matthew Broussard has a whole section of his set dedicated to them.

Elected “Houston’s Funniest Person” in a 2012 competition, this Atlanta-raised Rice University graduate has showcased his comedic talents on Comedy Central’s Adam DeVine’s House Party, MTV2’s Guy Code and his own weekly webcomic (mondaypunday.com).

With Brian Aldridge, Randy Humphrey. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), July 8-9.

The Frequency: Inaeona, The Lion’s Daughter, 10 pm.

Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Robert J, free, 6:30 pm.

Harriet Park, Verona: The Midwesterners, 6 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Mascot Theory, free (patio), 6 pm; The Sharrows, Feed the Dog, Dash Hounds, 8:30 pm.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, Connor Brennan, 9 pm.

Lisa Link Peace Park: Sunspot, free, 5 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Artifakts, Red Rose, free, 9:30 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, French swing/Hawaiian, free, 5:30 pm; Jollys, Tarpaulin, Tippy, free, 10 pm.

Monona Terrace Rooftop: Ultimate Legends Band, Aretha Franklin/Blues Brothers tribute, free, 7 pm.

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Red Zone: ‘68, Red Sweater Lullaby, After Hour Animals, Human After All, 8 pm.

Madison Mallards: vs. Battle Creek, 7:05 pm, 7/7; vs. Wisconsin Woodchucks, 7:05 pm on 7/8 and 6:35 pm, 7/9; vs.

Kenosha, 7:05 pm, 7/12; vs. Rockford, 7:05 pm on 7/14, Warner Park. $46-$8. mallardsbaseball.com. 246-4277.

Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub: David Hecht, 6 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Oak Street Ramblers, bluegrass, free, 5 pm; Township, free, 9 pm.

B OO KS Patti Clark: Reading from “This Way Up,” her new book, 6 pm, 7/7, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

FAI RS & F ESTIVALS Jefferson County Fair: 7/6-10, Fairgrounds, Jefferson, with entertainment, exhibits, carnival. Friday: Andy Grammer, Madison County 7 pm. Saturday: Steve Augeri, Shotgun Jane 7 pm. $10/day. jcfairpark.com. 920-674-7148.

Wrenclaw Friday, July 8, High Noon Saloon, 5:30 pm

Madison band Wrenclaw releases its latest CD, Nights & Weekends, at a special happy hour show. Led by guitarist-songwriter Dan Walkner, the group holds down the rockin’ end of the Americana spectrum, so get ready to groove right into your weekend. Ricky Ganiere of Great Lakes Drifters opens.

Boom Forest Friday, July 8, The Frequency, 6:30 pm

Currently based out of Nashville, John Paul Roney is no stranger to Wisconsin’s music scene. And now the Baraboo native and former We the Living frontman is bringing his electronically tinged folk project back to the Badger State. Boom Forest sees Roney playing the character of John Rayne, an “evangelist in the face of our looming techno-apocalypse.”

The result is a sound that’s not quite folk, not quite electronic, but wholly original and hugely entertaining. With Midas Bison.

The Gotobeds Friday, July 8, The Frequency, 10 pm

This Pittsburgh-based four-piece recently signed to the legendary label Sub Pop Records and makes swift, discordant garage-punk songs with lyrics that put the “smart” in smart aleck. Their noisy new LP, Blood // Sugar // Secs // Traffic, may be awkwardly named, but it’s the Gotobeds’ second fantastic record in three years.

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The Frequency: Caustic, Go Fight, The Dark Clan, Am.psych, “Electronic Saviors” release party, 9 pm.

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Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Larry Stout,6:30 pm.

UW Humanities-Mills Hall: Handel Aria Competition, finalists with Madison Bach Musicians, 7:30 pm.

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Sunday, July 10, Allen Centennial Gardens (620 Babcock Dr.), 4 pm

Sunday afternoons are getting a little classier with a new concert series in the verdant paradise known as Allen Centennial Gardens. Plunk down a chair or a blanket to hear the talented string players of Quartessence, whose wide-ranging repertoire includes everything from Bach to the Beatles.

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Sunday, July 10, Middleton High School, 6 pm

The Drum Corps International tour stops in Middleton to demonstrate what a bunch of committed young people can do with brass and drums. Our very own Madison Scouts are in the lineup as well as drum corps from California, Texas and Ontario, Canada. If you haven’t experienced a live drum corps show, prepare to have your mind (and ears) blown by what these kids can do — marching and dancing in complex formations while expertly playing instruments. Tailgate fundraiser for Madison Scouts starts at 2 pm.

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2015 was another busy year for hip-hop head Rory Ferreira. Having returned to Milwaukee after a short stay in Los Angeles, he released two full-length albums: Plain Speaking under his Scallops Hotel moniker and so the flies don’t come as Milo. The latter received praise from both Pitchfork and Rolling Stone and was named Milwaukee Record’s fourth favorite LP of 2015.

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Saturday, July 9, Memorial Union Terrace, 9 pm

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Madison Early Music Festival: “Shakespeare 400: An Elizabethan Celebration,” 7/9-16, UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall. $25/concert ($90/pass). Schedule/related events: madisonearlymusic.org. 265-2787.

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Home Garden Tour: Annual self-guided jaunt to benefit Olbrich Gardens, 10 am-4 pm on 7/8 and 9 am3 pm, 7/9, Nakoma & Arbor Hills area. $14. olbrich.org.

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With five albums, multiple television appearances and a plethora of viral takedown videos to his credit (several of his antiheckler YouTube clips have reached one million views), there’s a good chance Steve Hofstetter has made more than a blip on your media radar. With Sam Horton.

BOOKS Alison Flowers: Reading from “The Exoneree Diaries,” 2 pm, 7/10, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

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ily’s shoe factory and befriends a drag performer named Lola along the way.

With songs by Cyndi Lauper and choreography and direction by Jerry Mitchell, it wasn’t all that surprising when the musical took home six Tony Awards in 2013. ALSO: Wednesday and Thursday (7:30 pm), July 13-14. Through July 17.

SP ECIAL EV ENTS Fly-in/Drive-in Pancake Breakfast: Annual EAA Chapter 1389 event, 7:30 am-noon, 7/10, Middleton Municipal Airport, with airplane & emergency services displays. Breakfast $8 ($3 ages 12 & under). 437-1974.

Prism Tats Tuesday, July 12, The Frequency, 8 pm

Prism Tats is the Los Angeles-based brainchild of South African transplant Garett van der Spek. Musically, Prism Tats deals in garage rock played with reckless abandon, like the Kinks on an Adderall bender. And for van der Spek, it’s paying off. The band recently signed to ANTI- Records, the eclectic label that also houses Wilco, Deafheaven and Title Fight, and released their self-titled debut in April.

Brink Lounge: Reverend Raven, Jimmy Schwarz, Jimmy Voegeli, fundraiser for local Bernie Sanders delegates to the Democratic National Convention, 6 pm.

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High Noon Saloon: Tiny Band, Girls Are Go, 6 pm; Rock Star Gomeroke, free, 9 pm Tuesdays.

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Olbrich Gardens: Listening Party, 7 pm.

Brook Pridemore Monday, July 11, Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm

Brooklyn denizen Brook Pridemore brings his punk-informed folk rock to Mickey’s Tavern on the banks of the Yahara as part of a Midwest tour. He’s reportedly starting to record his sixth album, The Protest Singer, so expect some new songs for this show. With Madison garage-poppers New Villains and ace songwriter Aaron Scholz.

Mickey’s Tavern: Blythe Gamble & the Rollin’ Dice, free (on the patio), 5:30 pm; Em Jay, free, 10 pm.

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

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

Julep: Moist Towelette, Ween tribute, free, 6 pm.

Malt House: The Kissers, Irish, free, 7:30 pm.

Warner Park: Thirsty Jones, free, 6 pm.

Winnequah Park, Monona: WheelHouse, 6:30 pm.

SP OKEN WORD The Moth Madison StorySLAM: Storytelling competition, 7:30 pm, 7/11, High Noon Saloon. $10. 268-1122.

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Broadway’s Kinky Boots, which premiered in 2012, tells the based-on-true-events story of a man who inherits his fam-

Adam Faucett Wednesday, July 13, The Shitty Barn (Spring Green), 7 pm

Adam Faucett is one of music’s best-kept secrets. Armed with swampy, poetic lyrics and a voice that The A.V. Club says “knocks your brain into the back of your skull,” the Arkansas native has spent the better part of the last decade crafting ethereal folk songs that sound like they’re truly from another world. His most recent album, Blind Water Finds Blind Water, was released in 2014. He’ll be joined by Madison psych-country band Wood Chickens.

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Capitol Square: Concerts on the Square: Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra with guest violinist Jerry Loughney, free, 7 pm.

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

DreamBank: Betsy Ezell, jazz, free, 5:30 pm.

The Frequency: Damsel Trash, German Art Students, rock, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Intronaut, Entheos, Moon Tooth, The Fine Constant, 8 pm.

Opus Lounge: Teddy Davenport, free, 9 pm.

Quaker Steak and Lube, Middleton: Angels & Outlaws, free, 5:30 pm.

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Myzica (pictured) is an effervescent indie pop duo that creates songs that “bound along with chipper spunk” rather than adhering to any twanging, melancholy clichés. They’ll be joined here by Madison synth-pop duo Oh My Love, whose sound calls to mind CHVRCHES with a hip-hop backbone.

Brink Lounge: Common Chord, free, 7 pm.

Edgewater Hotel: Ryan McGrath Band, free (plaza), 6 pm; Seabird, DJ Nick Nice, 6 pm (Sky Bar).

Fountain: Meghan Rose, rock, free, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Good Morning V, Fistful of Pistol, Johnny Likes Noize, 8 pm.

Monona Terrace Rooftop: Madison County, 7 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Melisande, 9 pm.

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Brian Posehn Thursday, July 14, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm While many comics find their audience among the geeks, Brian Posehn takes it one step further. The acclaimed comedian has a side gig co-writing Deadpool for Marvel Comics. And it’s a perfect fit, as the profane, pop-culture loving mercenary is an excellent mouthpiece for Posehn’s razor sharp sense of humor. With Brad Wenzel, David Fisher. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), July 15-16.

FA I RS & FEST I VA L S La Fete de Marquette: Annual Bastille Day celebration (benefits Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center), 7/14-17, Central Park, with music, food, arts & crafts. Free admission. wil-mar.org. 257-4576.

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Bastille Day Celebration, ft. Mélisande

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Dazed and Confused (1993)

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Bastille Day Celebration,

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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

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Bastille Day Celebration, ft. Sweet Crude

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Limanya Dance and Drum Ensemble

Fri, July 22

Conundrum

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Hoofer Sailing Commodore’s Ball,

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Thu, July 28

Mascot Theory w/Compass Rose

July 10

Pokémon The Movie 2000 (1999)

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Peter Mulvey w/Corey Mathew Hart

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The Iron Giant (1999)

Sat, July 30

The Anderson Brothers

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Zootopia (2016)

Thu, Aug 4

The Gambol

Fri, Aug 5

The BlueZone Band

Sat, Aug 6

Local Hip Hop Fest

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Madison is known as a city that prides itself on, well, itself. Eating local is cool. Shopping small is expected. Supporting neighborhood businesses is just what you do. And that’s what the folks at the recently opened Tailgate, the Coffee Shop and Don’t Ask Why like about being here.

According to store manager Becca Swalla and assistant store manager Natalie Schneckloth, participating in Madison culture is an integral part of the new State Street stores’ business model.

Tailgate and Don’t Ask Why are connected via the Coffee Shop; all three are on the ground floor of the Hub apartments. And they’re all part of American Eagle Outfitters, their financer and parent company. This sort of “store montage” is the first of its kind for the company, with two more similar retail arrangements coming soon to Knoxville, Tenn., and Athens, Ga. Todd Snyder, a graduate of the University of Iowa, was interested in vintage collegiate graphics and began running a screen-printing business out of his dad’s basement. Production increased, and, in 1997, Tailgate was born. It stayed a wholesale, web-based business until Nate Kaeding, a former Hawkeye football player, approached Snyder about bringing his products to Iowa City. In 2014, the first brick-and-mortar Tailgate opened. A year later, in November 2015, American Eagle acquired the brand.

Now Tailgate is licensed with more than 50 colleges to produce official logo merchandise.

Madison’s Tailgate, only the second physical location for the business, opened May 12; it features lots of old-school Bucky designs and a local T-shirt collection, with shirts commemorating places like Wando’s, Dotty Dumpling’s and Badger Liquor. Most of the distressed-look T-shirts are $30-$32; a hooded Bucky sweatshirt is $69.

The store is decorated with UW memorabilia, from old photographs of famous Badgers to wooden baseball bats. Tucked away in the back of the store there’s even a vintage Coke machine that dispenses glass bottles. Getting one of the Cokes is reserved for customers spending over $100 at the store, which even the clerks admit is pretty easy to do.

Tailgate’s merchandise is meant to create warm, fuzzy memories of shoppers’ college years; the look and feel is supposed to hark back to the days when the business was run out of Snyder’s dad’s basement.

However, the overall sophisticated merchandising and the prices don’t really bring to mind a DIY operation. That said, all the vintage logos are quite local and kind of fun.

Tailgate’s sister store, Don’t Ask Why, is another sub-brand for American Eagle that makes women’s “one size fits most” clothing. This is a bit misleading, as the loose-fitting casual wear — shirts, skirts and shorts — appear to range between a conventional extra-small and possibly a medium.

Madison’s Don’t Ask Why has what’s referred to as a “living wall,” which has a vertical irrigation system that allows plants to grow from it. More succulents in terracotta planters complete the decor. (The low-maintenance “air plants,” which grow without soil, sell for two for $5.)

Swalla says another wall in the store is reserved for a quarterly exhibit intended to showcase work by UW-Madison art students. The store sells select American Eagle and Aerie goods as well.

While patrons browse, the Coffee Shop provides refreshments. Here’s where the local connection really kicks in; the shop brews locally roasted Kickapoo Coffee and sells Batch Bakehouse pastries and Wisco Pop sodas. The space is clean and bright, with natural light streaming in from large windows that open onto State Street in good weather.

The Coffee Shop is meant to make this more than a typical retail space, to create an environment that gets shoppers excited about being there, says Swalla. Customers are welcome to order a drink, lounge on the sofa, “do their homework, listen to music — you just kind of hang out here,” says Swalla.

“And then maybe you stop over at Tailgate and buy a T-shirt for the next Badger home game coming up. Or you have some event coming up with one of your sororities, so you stop over and you buy a cute tank top or dress from Don’t Ask Why.” n

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Woman in Middleton needs help exercising at gym. Six days/wk for 1.5 hrs; starting 6-7 pm. Assistance with shopping, tasks around the house, etc. Student of physical or occupational therapy preferred. Call Angie @ 608-332-8962, if interested.

Title: Event Manager Location: Middleton, WI Status: Full Time / Seasonal from approx. August 1, 2016 through Jan 15, 2017 The Event Manager provides overall leadership for the planning and production of a major entertainment event hosted on a railroad.

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Jobs Volunteer with UNITED WAY Volunteer Center Call 246-4380 or visit volunteeryourtime.org to learn about opportunities If you love to write, Hostelling International Madison would love for you to help them create local content for HI Madison’s blog page on the national site, hiusa.org. Volunteer will work with hostel staff to support marketing goals and use online platforms to support our mission to spread diversity and inspire travel.

Work can be done from home, with monthly meetings at the hostel.

Madison Senior Center is seeking a computer lab attendant. If you are comfortable using a computer and the internet, patient, and enjoy interacting with older adults, this may be the volunteer opportunity you have been waiting for. Choose one of the many 2-hour opportunities to hang out in the computer lab. Once a week is preferred but a rotation is possible.

Bayview International Center For Education and The Arts needs volunteers to help clean up, weed and beautify the greenspace near the corner of West Washington Ave and Regent St. This is where there is a circular planter and a sign that is currently full of weeds. Please consider helping to make this a welcoming site.

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Participants are needed for a study at UW-Madison looking at whether the cautious use of sleep medication reduces depressive symptoms in people with depression and insomnia.

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Overlooked, as faults Drink in Take for granted More Bohemian *”Do the Right Thing” actress 17 *Singer/percussionist who collaborated with Prince on “Purple Rain” 18 “Ew, not that ...”

19 French 101 pronoun 20 This pirate ship 21 Commingle 22 They’re taken on stage 24 Like pulp fiction 26 Mata ___ (World War I spy) 27 Boost 29 Friend-o 30 Actress Kirsten 31 “Hello” singer

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Carved pole emblem *”Full Frontal” host ___ umlaut Small towns Silicon Valley “competitive intelligence” company with a bird logo 44 Exercise count 46 Wise advisors 48 Brand that ran “short shorts” ads 49 Bankrupt company in 2001 news 51 LPGA star ___ Pak 52 Abbr. after a lawyer’s name 53 He was “The Greatest” 54 Clothe, with “up” 56 Triple ___ (orange liqueur) 57 *Arsenio Hall’s rapper alter ego with the song “Owwww!”

59 *Two-time Grammy winner for Best Comedy Album 61 Buddies, in Bogota 62 Not just by itself, as on fast-food menus 63 Fixed up 64 Land attached to a manor house DOWN

1 Cone-bearing evergreen 2 Bitter salad green 3 Internet enthusiasts, in 1990s slang 4 “Gangnam Style” performer 5 Car company with a four-ring logo 6 Sense of intangibility?

7 Gets ready to drive 8 Reacted with pleasure

9 “Uncle Remus” character ___ Rabbit 10 HPV, for one 11 J.R. Ewing, e.g.

12 Shows again 13 Portmanteau in 2016 news 17 Brangelina’s kid 23 Kind of trunk 25 Danger in the grass 26 Shoulder-to-elbow bone 28 “I’m hunting wabbits” speaker 30 Fix up, as code 32 Word between dog and dog 34 Bar accumulation 36 Wardrobe extension?

37 Fancy ways to leave 40 “You betcha I will!”

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There are a bunch of congressmen out there that will be collecting unemployment if Trump is elected but if Hillary is elected they’ll still have a job.

Assault rifles should only be sold to the government.

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■ SAVAGE LOVE

Scenes from a marriage

BY DAN SAVAGE

My wife and I have been married for 14 years and in a committed (I assumed) relationship for 17 years. Sex between us (often kinky) has always been great. We have a wonderful life together and two perfect children. I thought we were good; turns out things were too good to be true. I learned recently that my wife has been unfaithful to me throughout our marriage. She began an affair with an older man soon after we were married, and they were physically intimate for five years, including bondage and a Master/sub relationship. The physical sex stopped, but phone sex and online flirting continued up until I discovered this two weeks ago. This is a man I know. She has introduced our children to him.

There’s more: She slept with another man (just once, more bondage) but also flirted with him online and met up with him while I was away. She slept with yet another man she works with (just once, vanilla this time). She had phone sex with at least two other men and flirted with still more on Facebook. This came out because I was jealous about something that now seems minor and checked her email.

(Not proud of that.) She is repentant and

relieved that I finally know, and she promises that she will be faithful from now on.

I’ll always love her, and I know she loves me.

We had one session with a counselor and another is scheduled. Results were mixed. One thing that came out was that she has never been faithful to a romantic/sexual partner. I could forgive a one-time drunken fling, but this is a consistent pattern of infidelity that runs from the beginning of our marriage, and I had no idea. I cannot process it. I thought she had always been as loyal as I’ve been, which is to say completely. I can’t put my wedding ring on — it feels like a lie. I have no one to talk to. For the sake of our future, the love we still share, and our children, we are committed to fixing things, but we’re not sure how.

Heartbroken And Devastated I’m going to preface my response with what someone in my position is expected to say and what, given the circumstances, may even be true: Your marriage is over. The scale, duration, and psychological cruelty of your wife’s betrayals may be too great for you to overcome.

But you didn’t need me to tell you that, HAD. You knew that already. So I can only assume you wrote wanting to hear something else. You don’t need me to outline the reasons you should leave, and you don’t need my permission to go. You wrote because you’re looking for a reason to stay.

I’ll give it my best shot.

A long-term relationship is a myth two people create together. It’s not chemistry, it’s not math, it’s not engineering. It’s a story, HAD, a story we tell each other, a story we tell others, and a story we tell ourselves.

And sometimes it’s a story we have to revise.

Right now, it feels like the story you’ve been telling yourself and others about your marriage is a lie: not partly, but wholly. You thought your marriage was a loving, committed, and “completely loyal” one, but it’s not — it can’t be, and it never was, because she was cheating on you from the beginning.

But loyalty isn’t something we demonstrate with our genitals alone. Your wife wasn’t loyal to you sexually, HAD, and that’s painful. And the conventional “wisdom” is that people don’t cheat on partners they love. But you were married to this woman, and you describe your marriage as good, loving and wonderful. And it somehow managed to be all those things despite your wife’s betrayals. She must have been loyal to you in other ways or you would’ve divorced her long before you dis-

covered her infidelities.

Think back over the last 17 years: every kind and loving gesture, every considerate action, every intimacy, every moment you took care of each other — was it all a lie?

I’m not trying to exonerate your wife, and I’m not trying to minimize her betrayal or your pain.

JOE NEWTON But if you want to stay together, HAD, you’re going to have to tell yourself a new story, one that makes room for contradiction (loves you, cheated on you), betrayal (shitloads), apologies (shitloads from her), forgiveness (shitloads from you), and...some accommodations going forward.

If I may paraphrase Maya Angelou: When someone finally shows you who they are — after you found the incriminating emails — you should believe them. Your wife has never been faithful to you or to anyone else, HAD, at least not sexually. Adjusting your expectations and making accommodations accordingly is more realistic than expecting your wife to become a different person. ■ Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net, or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

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