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SHINE ON

Fireflies lure urban kids outside.

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D.A. DUEL

Accusations fly as Ismael Ozanne faces challenger Bob Jambois.

SENDING OUT AN SOS

Nonprofit rallies support for Syrian refugees.

11 TECH BILL LUEDERS

NEWS BILL LUEDERS reports this week on the heated race for district attorney between incumbent DA Ismael Ozanne and his challenger, Bob Jambois. Lueders will also be on the panel for an Aug. 4 debate Isthmus is sponsoring between the candidates that we’ll livestream on Facebook and post as a video to Isthmus.com.

Game pioneers flee Wisconsin.

12 OPINION

WOOING HISPANICS

Koch-funded group tries to build GOP base.

15 COVER STORY

FEAR AND LOATHING 21, 30 BOOKS

AIR POWER

Celebrating 100 years of state public broadcasting.

22-27 FOOD

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Field Table covers all the bases.

ROAD TO RIO

Party time!

A disheartened Republican survives the RNC.

28 SPORTS

MICHAEL CUMMINS COVER STORY MICHAEL CUMMINS entered UW-Madison 25 years ago as a Democrat. Four years later, “in defiance of statistical probabilities,” as he puts it, he left a Republican. Really more of a libertarian, he’s stuck in our two-party system. But Donald Trump’s ascendency has tested his loyalty, as he relates in this week’s cover story on his time at the Republican National Convention.

BRAIN DRAIN

UW athletes are Olympics bound.

Summertime is heating up, and the festivals are in full bloom. Here’s this weekend’s lineup: AtwoodFest (July 30-31; see page 41); Disability Pride Fest (July 30; see page 32), WaunaFest (July 28-31, Centennial Park, Waunakee: music, sports tournaments, carnival); Greek Fest (July 30 & 31, Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, 11 N. 7th St.: Greek dancing, ethnic foods, lots of “Opa!”); Madison Brazil Fest (July 29-31, various sites — check facebook page): Afro-Latin Dance, Capoeira, drumming, samba, workshops, Festa).

Stronger together

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SWEET DREAMS

Sat., July 30, 2222 S. Park St., noon-5 pm

Whimsical exhibit uses vintage pillowcases for canvas.

32 MUSIC

Head down to Madison’s south side for the Urban League of Greater Madison’s annual Unity Picnic, which features three musical acts and snacks from Kipp’s Catering and Smokehouse BBQ. Admission is free, and guests are encouraged to wear their favorite hat.

BREAKING BARRIERS

Gaelynn Lea headlines Disability Pride Fest.

CHELSEY DEQUAINE

ART CHELSEY DEQUAINE has a strong connection to dreams, which drew her to review the art exhibit, Impressions on a Dream Canvas. Dequaine has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies from UW-Milwaukee. She recently began working as a social media specialist with designCraft Advertising, focusing on local businesses and nonprofits.

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GAY APPAREL

Cross-dressing men gather for a retreat in Casa Valentina.

34 SCREENS

OFF THE GRID

Captain Fantastic has a retro anti-establishment vibe.

44 EMPHASIS

SUCCESS STORY

First Black Business Expo is a hit.

IN EVERY ISSUE 8 MADISON MATRIX 8 WEEK IN REVIEW 12 THIS MODERN WORLD 13 FEEDBACK 13 OFF THE SQUARE

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

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Stroll, roll, pedal and glide through five miles of car-free streets as the city shuts down some key downtown arteries to motorized traffic. This Ride the Drive features five “villages,” where you can see live music and entertainment, grab a snack, get a tuneup and try out some groovy vehicles. See cityofmadison.com/parks/ ridethedrive/ for routes and info.

Paddle power Sat., July 30, James Madison Park, 7-9 am; Olbrich Park, 11 am-4 pm

This year’s Isthmus Paddle & Portage begins at James Madison Park with a one-mile paddle on Lake Mendota, a one-mile portage around the Capitol and Dane County Farmers’ market and then a 2.5-mile paddle across Lake Monona to Olbrich (not Olin) Park. More than 900 participants are expected, and the party at the finish includes live music, food, craft brews and an awards ceremony. Too much fun. Almost.

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After about a 15-minute hike into Indian Lake County Park in Cross Plains, Vaunce Ashby and Janice Jones rest on a bench. The trip, which they’ve made with several families from S.S. Morris Community African Methodist Episcopal Church on Milwaukee Street, is a nice respite from the city. But it’s not exactly quiet. As the sun drops down over the horizon, children are giggling all around them, chasing fireflies and scooping them into Mason jars and old peanut butter containers. Each time a bug blinks, they leap in a new direction — laughing after their prey. Soon jars are filled with five, 10, then 15 glowing bugs that illuminate their temporary homes. Ashby and Jones watch the pursuit, grinning. “Growing up, we didn’t know any better so we would take the lightning part off the back and make it a ring or earring,” says Ashby. “That’s kinda brutal, now looking back as an adult, but as a kid we just thought it was the coolest thing. And then you’d keep a couple in your jar and you’d keep them in your bedroom and you’d fall asleep watching them and the next morning they’d be...well, you know, done.” Jones says her grandkids are more mindful of the insects’ well-being. “My grandkids wanted to know first thing, ‘are we letting them go?’” she says. “They were worried about that. They didn’t want to keep them.” One of her grandkids chimes in as she runs by: “No animal wants to live in a jar.” “Out of the mouths of babes,” Ashby says, laughing. About 70 people attended the first annual Firefly Walk hosted by Outdoors 123, a group promoting health and wellness for families, especially those of color. The group is led by Diane Schwartz, whose day job is at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. “Nature for me has always been a place of restoration and healing if I’m going through a tough time,” Schwartz says. “I want to give that to all people, and I see that as my contribution to...equity and social justice. We have a lot of work to do in our communities, and if we can get to each other in nature and find a little peace that way then I think we’re all going to be better off.” Schwartz first led outings for kids while working at Goodman Community Center in 2008. Get Kids Outside started in 2010, but she changed the name to Outside 123 this past year to shift the focus to creating role models, especially for children of color, in natural or outdoor settings. In 2012, the Rev. Everett Mitchell invited her to visit his church, Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church, which she later joined. “I would like to expand to work with more churches because that’s what, I believe, is the heart of the African American experience. It’s the heart of the social justice movement,” Schwartz says.

Ten-year-old Kashyia Smith (foreground) peers at fireflies she’s captured at Indian Lake County Park, while Lyrick Hutson, 13, keeps watch for other beetles to catch. The health and wellness group Outside 123 brought the kids to the park.

“Now, we just need to make our parks and outdoor spaces safe so that people of color want to go there.” Ashby laments that many children of color are not used to going outside and learning about nature. “As kids we did, but for some reason, this generation, it’s not on their minds,” she says. “And as a city kid growing up, it was expected that you could essentially live in the park until the [street] lights came on.” Lala McKinney, 10, is thrilled to be here. “This is the perfect place,”

says McKinney, who will be a fifthgrader at Cottage Grove Elementary School in the fall. “We got to roast marshmallows and catch fireflies and stay up late because it’s past my bedtime. This place was really fun, so thank you to all the people who organized this.” Schwartz is happy to help. “These are seminal events growing up, like when you catch your first fish,” she says. “You just don’t forget these things.” n

TYPES OF FIREFLIES: 160 to 200 species in North America; more than 2,000 worldwide. ARE FIREFLIES FLIES? No, they are flying beetles. WHY DO FIREFLIES LIGHT UP? There’s a chemical reaction in their lower abdomen between luciferin, which is heatresistant and glows, and luciferase, an enzyme that triggers light emission. LIFESPAN: Two months in the wild. FOOD: Other insects, pollen and nectar, although some don’t eat at all.

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A heated battle for Dane County DA Challenger comes on strong in bid to unseat Ismael Ozanne

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Bob Jambois calls the Dane County District Attorney’s Office, where he works, “the most dysfunctional, disorganized and demoralized office I have ever seen.” He says his boss, District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, whom he is challenging in an Aug. 9 election that many voters don’t know is happening, has “no conception of how to lead this organization.” That’s some serious dissing of the boss. Here’s Ozanne hitting back: “My opponent has [made] a baseless attack on me which basically plays on implicit bias and explicit racism,” Ozanne charges. “I’m not the first person of color to be called lazy, incompetent and not coming to work.” Such is the nature of this heated faceoff for what may be the single most important local elected office. District attorneys wield vast and largely unchecked power, including the power to do nothing — that is, to not file charges. Because no Republican is running, the primary between Jambois and Ozanne, both Democrats, will decide the winner. It is the first electoral contest faced by Ozanne, 45, who is the first African American district attorney in Wisconsin history. Ozanne was appointed in 2010 by Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle (Jambois also sought the post) and was elected unopposed to a four-year-term in 2012. He prosecuted lawmakers, without success, for open meetings violations when they gutted public employees’ union rights, and took part in the suspended John Doe probe into alleged illegal activities involving Gov. Scott Walker. Ozanne ran for state attorney general in 2014, finishing third in the three-way Democratic primary. But Ozanne’s biggest public moment came in May 2015, when he declined to charge the Madison police officer who killed Tony Robinson, an unarmed black teenager. Ozanne’s measured remarks, including reflections on his own experience with racial bias, prompted the Wisconsin State Journal to editorialize that he “shined under intense pressure with humanity and grace.” But his finding that the officer had no choice but to use lethal force was blasted by others, including the ACLU, which mused, “Are police officers above the law?” Jambois, 64, is a veteran prosecutor who formerly served as district attorney in Kenosha County. He has prosecuted high-profile cases, like that of Mark Jensen, convicted in Kenosha County of killing his wife; Jensen’s conviction was overturned, and Jambois is still assigned to the case as a special prosecutor. Some local criminal defense attorneys call Jambois an “old-school” prosecutor with a penchant for seeking harsh sentences. Jambois rejects this criticism, say-

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Background: Lifelong Madison resident, sixth-generation Wisconsinite; graduate of University of Wisconsin Law School, 1998; Dane County assistant district attorney, 1998-2008; executive assistant Wisconsin Department of Corrections, 2008-09; Dane County DA since 2010.

Background: Native of Monona, UW Law School graduate, 1981; assistant Kenosha city attorney, 198188; Kenosha County district attorney, 1989-2005; state Department of Transportation chief counsel, 2005-11; attorney in private practice, 2011-15; assistant Dane County DA since 2015.

Family: Married with two daughters. Soundbite: “We have changed this criminal justice system here more in six years than has been done the last 20.”

ing his sternness is reserved for “violent repeat offenders.” Jambois represented a Democratic state lawmaker in the open meetings case brought by Ozanne, effectively arguing the same position. And he was pro bono counsel for protesters fined for singing in the state Capitol, leading to the dismissal of 160 citations. (Ozanne also takes credit for standing up for this group, by refusing to prosecute these cases.) Jambois says he had no plan to run for the DA’s job when Ozanne’s office hired him as an assistant in May 2015. But “within a matter of weeks, I saw it was

Family: Married with two daughters, one adopted; has fostered 25 foster children. Soundbite: “I’m running because of my dissatisfaction with the DA’s office.”

in terrible disarray.” While he declines to critique Ozanne’s handling of specific matters, like the Robinson case, pretty much everything else is fair game. Ozanne, according to Jambois, is too often absent and not sufficiently engaged. The office’s prosecutors, he says, are “undervalued and demeaned.” Exhibit A is a staff meeting in May, shortly before Jambois announced, in which Ozanne ripped what he felt was racial bias in the case file notes of some prosecutors. Jambois says it was unfair to chew out everyone for the actions of

a few. Ozanne defends his decision, saying he wanted the whole team to be aware of his concerns. “If that demoralizes Mr. Jambois, so be it.” Ozanne admits he was especially astringent because he had just learned of “someone” in the office saying, “Do you think if I came in in blackface, I won’t have to go” to a training program on implicit bias. Race looms prominently in Ozanne’s view of his role and people’s reactions to him. Take his decision to frame Jambois’ criticisms of his work ethic as an attempt to portray a person of color as “lazy” and “incompetent.” Beverly Jambois, the challenger’s wife and campaign manager, is upset by Ozanne’s reference to race. “We have an African American daughter,” she writes in an email. (The couple has fostered 25 children, many black, including their adopted daughter; Bob Jambois is the former vice president of the Kenosha NAACP.) “We find his statement reprehensible.” She says her husband never called Ozanne “lazy” or “incompetent.” Ozanne’s campaign manager, Alan Furnas, says his candidate was “paraphrasing.” A Jambois campaign flier says Dane County voters deserve a DA who “actually shows up to work.” Ozanne says he’s in the office almost every day and is often working when he is not. He shared hundreds of pages of calendars and card swipe records that track his comings and goings, saying, “I’m 24/7, 365 days a year, for every year of my term.” The Dane County DA’s office, like others in Wisconsin, is a bifurcated operation. It has more than two dozen prosecutors, Ozanne included, who are state employees; its support staff, consisting of about 80 people, work for the county. Ozanne argues that morale is worse for the state employees because they are “under the boot” of a state government that has “taken every opportunity to kneecap workers.” Jambois chides Ozanne for not handling more jury trials, to ease the workloads of others. But previous district attorneys personally tried only a small number of cases, and Ozanne says he is properly focused on larger issues. The DA’s office has seen an exodus of experienced prosecutors. A State Journal article from June 2016 tracks the loss of 11 prosecutors with a combined 230 years of experience in just over a year. Jambois, in a press release, says 20 prosecutors have left during the last two years. Jambois blames Ozanne, saying, “I had a pretty low turnover rate when I was Kenosha DA.” But Ozanne notes that the

loss of experienced prosecutors began before he took office and owes mainly to other factors, such as staff shortages and stagnant pay. Assistant District Attorney Matt Moeser, a veteran prosecutor, says he left the office in late 2014 because of low pay and returned a few months later when Ozanne found a way to increase his salary. He calls Ozanne a good boss, saying most people in the office like him and feel supported.

The Aug. 9 ballot features only a few local races. It’s a low-profile affair certain to have low turnout.

The Aug. 9 ballot features only a few local races, also including a three-way Democratic primary for county treasurer and primaries for area state Assembly races. It’s a low-profile affair certain to have low turnout. Ozanne is running on his record, including expanded drug treatment courts and other diversion programs, and increased efforts to keep people with mental health issues “out of the justice system.” He has created child abuse initiatives to protect children and teach positive parenting techniques. “If we can educate parents and effect positive change, we can protect that child and every child in that home,” he says. Jambois boasts of having efficiently run the Kenosha County DA’s office, improving its handling of domestic abuse, child protection and sensitive crime prosecutions. “I have always been an innovator and a reformer in the course of my legal career,” he says on his website. Ozanne has secured some big endorsements, including Madison Teachers Inc., AFSCME Council 32, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi, Sheriff Dave Mahoney, state Sens. Fred Risser and Mark Miller and U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan. Jambois says he has not asked supporters for endorsements but has gotten a few, including former state Department of Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi. Campaign filings show that Ozanne raised no money in 2015, except for a small loan from himself. He raised $14,225 this year through June 30, including a $3,200 self-loan, and after various disbursements had $3,786 cash on hand. Jambois, meanwhile, has raised $16,855 this year, including $10,800 from himself and his wife. He reported having $12,710 on hand. n

DA candidate debate Isthmus is hosting a debate between the two rivals for Dane County district attorney, incumbent Ismael Ozanne and challenger Bob Jambois, on Thursday, Aug. 4, at 3 p.m. The 60-minute event will be live-streamed and archived on Isthmus.com. The election is Tuesday, Aug. 9.

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“I really think a lot of the criticism of ‘Ish’ is unfair,” says Moeser. “The frustrations people feel are due to the workload and [other factors] outside of his control.” Shelly Rusch had 28 years of prosecutorial experience (including a stint working under Jambois in Kenosha) when she stepped down as a Dane County assistant DA to work for the state Justice Department in mid-2015. She agrees pay and staffing are serious problems, but says that wasn’t why she left. Rusch puts that on Ozanne, whom she says spent too much time on outside meetings and things like “showing students around the office,” when he should have been “rolling up his sleeves” and pitching in. “The office could work better if we had leadership,” says Rusch, adding that Ozanne does not have the respect of other key players in the criminal justice system. Ozanne recently drew flak from two Dane County judges for his absence from a meeting over new rules to speed up bail hearings for poor inmates. Judge Juan Colas pointedly declined Ozanne’s re-

quest to further delay the changes, after the DA’s office raised belated concerns. Jambois cites the episode as evidence that Ozanne is “disengaged.” But Ozanne says the changes created “unintended consequences” he was right to oppose. Both claim to be looking out for the best interests of poor, often black, suspects.

MISSING TEETH?

■ MADISON MATRIX

■ WEEK IN REVIEW BIG CITY

John Stanley, a delegate at the Democratic National Convention from DeForest, launches a hunger strike to show support for Bernie Sanders. Feel the churn.

Gov. Scott Walker appoints Waukesha attorney Daniel Kelly to the state Supreme Court. Even by conservative standards, Kelly’s views are extreme.

SURPRISING

St. Mary’s Hospital settles a lawsuit by the wife of a 37-year-old Monticello man who died after a routine procedure at the hospital in 2013, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. The amount is confidential, but it’s more than $3.75 million.

More than 500,000 sunflowers are blooming this week at Pope Farms Conservancy in Middleton. See you there with your selfie stick!

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ping malls could be getting a big upgrade, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Two separate proposals submitted to the city include plans for an eight-screen movie theater and pub at East Towne and a Dave & Buster’s at West Towne.

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files a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of Shannon Andrews, a cancer researcher at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, the State Journal reports. A transgender woman, Andrews says she was unfairly denied insurance coverage for gender reassignment surgery. ■ Not everybody is loving the Pokemon Go craze. Sonia J. Teas is arrested for punching a police officer after she and a friend allegedly threatened two people playing the augmented reality game on Oakridge Avenue. Her friend, Harry

Seidel, is alleged to have drawn a knife and said to the players, “Don’t play Pokemon here!” WEDNESDAY, JULY 27 ■ Wisconsin is facing a

nearly $1 billion gap in transportation funding over the next two years, according to a memo from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. Gov. Scott Walker has pledged not to raise the gas tax or vehicle registration fees, but some Republicans say it’s time to fund Wisconsin’s roads.

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During a June downpour, Dr. Tarif By February, Livny had created Bakdash shared a bleak reality about her own “Soup for Syria” event. life in Syria with 80 people at ThreshBunky’s served the participants soup old on Atwood Avenue. while they listened to Kelly Hora, a “Every 30 seconds a Syrian child Madison acupuncturist, talk about becomes a refugee,” said Bakdash, her experience working at a Syrian a member of the Syrian American refugee camp in Greece. Medical Society of Milwaukee. “I am The June event raised $1,200, going to introduce you to the level of which will be split between Baksuffering that the children are going dash’s organization and local refuthrough. This is to evoke sympathy.” gee support. Images of children strewn in hap“Our intention is to raise awarehazard rows — some missing faces, ness and then work with agencies others limbs, all casualties of war — to see how we can supplement their spilled across a screen. “There are efforts to welcome the refugees,” 1,400 orphans in one group who’ve said Livny. lost both parents,” Bakdash said. He The group has since formed partthen showed images of people fleenerships with Lutheran Social Sering, pooling into streets in droves. vices and Jewish Social Services. Both “These are not terrorists.” agencies are experienced in resettling These graphic photos were an atrefugees and will assist Open Doors tempt to spur Madisonians to offer for Refugees in getting food, clothing, support for what Bakdash calls “the housing, employment and education worst humanitarian crisis of our time.” to people from any country. JASON FLORIO The event was sponsored by Currently Lutheran Social Sera newly formed nonprofit, Open Every day, 8,000 people flee Syria. Aisha escaped with her four children through Africa and then vices places 100 refugees per year Doors for Refugees, founded by Efrat on a large fishing boat in the Mediterranean. She’s pictured here on a migrant rescue ship. in the Madison area. Jewish Social Livny, an east-side arts therapist who Services, in partnership with HIAS also started Threshold, a space on (a national resettlement agency that Atwood Avenue that houses healing arts Buddhists and atheists to support relief efBakdash said every 28 minutes a Syrian is works with federal refugee placement probusinesses and events. forts. “How can nothing going on be accept- killed, and 80% are living below poverty level. grams), has a pending agreement, based Last year, President Barack Obama pledged able for us?” asks Livny. “Big things start with “The cost of rebuilding the country is $250 bil- on approval from the state, to place 50 to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees by Sept. 30, little things, like this effort that came out of a lion,” he added. refugees from many countries in Madison 2016. The U.S. has so far admitted about two- conversation. Now social service agencies and Livny’s vision to bring speakers like Bak- starting this fall. thirds of that number. Gov. Scott Walker has knowledgeable citizens have come together to dash to Madison took hold in November after Doors for Refugees will hold a fundopposed this effort. Although Walker doesn’t open doors for refugees.” she purchased a Soup for Syria cookbook, a raising picnic Aug. 7, 11 a.m.-3 p.m, at Olin have the authority to bar them from the state, According to the Syrian American Medical collection of Syrian and Middle Eastern soup Park. The event includes a potluck picnic, he could deny them services. Society, 220,000 Syrians have been massacred, recipes published as a fundraiser. Her interest music and games. For information contact With her husband, Ken Baun, Livny has with 8,000 fleeing the country daily and 12.2 was primarily to make great soup, but she was Efrat Livny at 608-220-8849 or OpenDoorsreached out to Christians, Jews, Muslims, million more in need of help. quickly inspired to do more to help. ForRefugees@gmail.com. ■

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Time to leave Fed up with political climate, game pioneers abandon UW-Madison BY AARON R. CONKLIN

About this time last year, Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler were at the forefront of a newly charged-up effort to cement a burgeoning game development scene in Madison. As of this January, they’ll be taking their efforts to California instead. Squire and Steinkuehler, married UW-Madison professors who co-direct the UW-Madison Games + Learning + Society Center, are leaving the UW at the end of the year, having accepted positions at the University of California-Irvine. While part of their decision was driven by the academic and professional opportunities Irvine offers, another part was driven by something else. “The climate of the state of Wisconsin helped contribute to the feeling that it was time to leave,” says Steinkuehler. “State government and state universities don’t always align, but the way the conversations have gone lately — so disrespectful, so cantankerous — statesmanship has gone out the window.” Squire agrees: “When there is this kind of open hostility and uncertainty in what the future will hold, it’s hard to innovate in an environment like that.” Their departure almost certainly assures that a formalized game development program at UW-Madison, something Squire and Steinkuehler have been working toward for the past decade, will be delayed if not scrapped altogether. The possibility of earning a basic game developer certificate at the UW, however, still exists. In Steinkuehler, UW is losing someone who spent two years serving as videogames czar for President Barack Obama and is the current president of the Higher Education Videogames Association. This week, she’s representing the association in Philadelphia,

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speaking at a Democratic National Convention event on the importance of the videogame industry and the role of games in civic engagement. Squire and Steinkuehler’s GLS program was responsible for bringing in more than $10 million in grants from the federal government and private foundations, and another $1 million in private industry contracts. Additionally, the center’s staff has dozens of people employed in private-sector projects involving gaming. It’s not difficult to understand what lured them away. Unlike UW, UC-Irvine has a game development degree program already in place, as well as an informatics and e-sports program.

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Bruce Murphy is editor of UrbanMilwaukee. Rachel Campos-Duffy was picked as one of the most powerful Latinos in Wisconsin by Madison365, and for good reason. She rose to fame as a cast member of the reality TV show The Real World, and has gone on to become a frequent guest host on The View and a regular guest on Fox News’ Outnumbered. The photogenic media star is also married to Republican Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy (they have eight children) and is the national spokesperson for the Libre Initiative, a Koch brothers-funded group that hopes to convert Latinos into GOP voters. In an ad on Libre’s “Share the Dream” program, Campos-Duffy tells her family’s personal story, then adds: “I’m worried that government programs that are supposed to help Hispanics are actually doing harm.... A sense of entitlement and dependency on government is starting to take over.” Republicans need the vote of Latinos, who are projected to make up more than 11% of the electorate nationally in 2016. In Wisconsin, they account for just 3.6% of the electorate, but in a swing state like this, they could be crucial. Which may be why Wisconsin is among just 10 states that have a branch of the Libre Initiative.

Libre bills itself as a “grassroots” nonprofit that seeks “to empower the U.S. Hispanic community” and touts its many individual donors. In fact it is organized as a 501(c)4 that needn’t disclose donors and that uses pass-through organizations to disguise that as much as 99.84% of its funding comes from Koch-funded groups. And for a grassroots group, it seems lavishly funded. The group has at least 70 on staff and has received $15.8 million in Koch-connected funding, The New York Times reported. Libre comes off as an independent group, but is closely connected to the GOP. As The Progressive has reported, its leadership is heavily Republican, from executive director Daniel Garza to several other leaders. Libre seems all about helping Hispanics, with some wonderful programs. At a recent forum in Milwaukee, “Attendees were offered free sunglasses, lip balm, wristbands, notepads and pens all branded with the Libre logo, and treated to an Italian dinner,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Libre has offered Latinos tax preparation help, wellness checkups and scholarships, as well as help preparing for driver’s tests, as the Washington Post reported. It has offered flu shots, English lessons and seminars on how to start a business — all for free — and given away Thanksgiving turkeys, the Times reported.

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Ups and downs Too bad the story “Highs and Lows” (7/21/2016) did not highlight the UW’s Van Hise Hall. The top floor has superb views east and west of the isthmus and beyond. The building is the second tallest in the city, behind the State Capitol. A trip to the top is a treat for those visiting Madison, and a must for those living here. Michael Pierick (via email) I enjoyed this article and especially Michana Buchman’s photos of the ski jumps. Blackhawk Ski Club is a local treasure. Coincidentally, this Saturday, July 30, it will be open to the public 5-8 p.m. for a free bluegrass concert, so here’s a perfect opportunity for community members to see the jumps up close. It’s a family event open to everyone. Three food carts will offer their wares for sale while the Soggy Prairie Boys play. The club invites visitors to pack a lawn chair and a favorite beverage and make their way to the East Chalet at 10118 Blackhawk Rd. in Middleton to share the scenic and structural beauty of the jumps. The next open event will be the Blackhawk Bash Oct. 2. Sue Ulrey (via comments)

To what extent is Ruth Conniff — and other backers of the state Democratic Party — upset with the lack of campaigning finesse among Democrat office seekers (“What Hope Is There for Wisconsin Dems?” 7/14/2016)? Tom Barrett is doubtless a worthy mayor. But how could he have imagined that regularly referring to Scott Walker as “a rock star” was a smart debating tactic? And what can one say about Mary Burke’s walking off stage after a televised debate and allowing Walker to hobnob all by himself with the panel of questioners? Walker is an average campaigner at best, but he can seem professional simply by looking steadily into the camera while an opponent (Burke again) must refer to notes even to express simple notions. The Democrats need a gubernatorial candidate who knows how to campaign. Jim O’Brien, Middleton (via email)

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I SURVIVED RNC 2016— BUT WILL MY PARTY?

Our man in Cleveland found his party’s convention at times “nauseatingly surreal.”

ON A BEAUTIFUL EVENING in early July, I attended the Republican Party of Dane County’s annual “Night at the Duckpond,” at the Warner Park baseball stadium. As the Madison Mallards struggled toward victory, I commiserated with old friends and made a few new ones. I was keen to learn how the local GOP grassroots are processing our party’s unusual summer. We were just about a week away from what was expected to be the weirdest major party convention since 1968. I would soon be heading to Cleveland to cover the festivities. Whatever you might say about the Republican elite — the politicians and rich folks the media pay attention to — the activists and leadership of the local party are almost uniformly thoughtful, conscientious and civicminded. They are party stalwarts, to be sure, but not slavish followers of GOP dogma.

The previous summer’s Duckpond event was on the same night as the first 2016 GOP presidential debate. Some attendees were paying closer attention to debate updates on their phones than they were to the ballgame. Hackles were raised when it came through that Donald Trump, alone among the debate participants, would not commit to supporting the eventual GOP nominee. His preemptive refusal to fall in line struck these faithful Republicans as insolent, or even disqualifying. What a year it has been. Trump’s antics on the campaign trail have made that early transgression seem quaint. Ironically, they’ve made rejection of the Republican presidential nominee a perfectly acceptable position among the party grassroots. Though the majority of party members I spoke with at this summer’s Duckpond outing plan to vote for Trump, few seem

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to be looking forward to it. And none were in the least bit put off by me or others who flatly refuse to support our party’s candidate. I have long hoped to see a shake-up within the GOP. But unlike some of my libertarian brethren, I do not wish to see the party shattered. I set out to Cleveland because I believed that this convention would be a turning point for Republicans. Considering who the guest of honor would be, I had little hope that it would be a turn in the right direction. I want to see change within my party, and I want to see it united. But not at the price of having Donald Trump as its leader.

IN THE WEEKS LEADING UP TO the convention, a vocal minority of delegates rose up in staunch opposition to Trump’s nomination. This “Dump Trump” movement gave me at least some hope that I was not walking into a fawning coronation. The faction’s efforts focused on the insertion of a “conscience clause” into the Republican National Committee’s rules. The clause would have explicitly “unbound” delegates who were pledged, by virtue of their state’s party rules and primary results, to vote for Donald Trump. The effort was a long-shot. The clause was overwhelmingly rejected by the rules committee, which met just before the convention. And as desperately as I wanted anyone other than Trump to be our nominee, I recognized

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GOP delegates chanted “Lock her up!” during a mock trial of Hillary Clinton.

that the spirit of fair play precluded the de facto disfranchisement of 13 million Trump primary voters. My hopes for the convention were fairly realistic. I wanted to see some concerted resistance to Trump, even if it were merely symbolic. If my party was going to lie down before a demagogic strongman, it should let America know that it was doing so grudgingly.

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vention, the Republican National Committee finally posted the convention’s program schedule on its much-touted mobile app. As I rode into downtown Cleveland, some fellow train riders boisterously made fun of the C-list celebrities that were scheduled to speak. “Scott Baio? Seriously?” I was about to tell them that the program would feature a couple of soap stars, too, but they exited the train before I could get a word in. The unusually late release of the convention schedule hinted at the disorganization that was to come. I thought I knew exactly where I was supposed to get my press credentials. The folks in charge had sent multiple emails amending the location and time of pick-up. But the last message, sent just the weekend before the convention, made the procedure seem straightforward. I was greeted at the Cleveland Federal Building by a long and slow-moving line. It was, at first, kind of cool to be stuck waiting

with a number of media celebrities. (I somehow thought they were above enduring such indignities.) But the wait became more and more uncool by the minute. My writing notebook and laptop were 14 floors below, at the security checkpoint. I left them there because I naively thought I would be back down quickly. Once I finally made it through the process, I headed to the convention’s media filing center, where there was supposedly a desk waiting for me in an air-conditioned room. I was promptly told that my precious badge would not get me in. I found out that I would need a second set of credentials from an office almost a mile from where I got the badge. By the time I made it to the second office, it was closed for the day. I would be “on the outside” until at least the following morning. This did give me the opportunity to join in the bitch session developing in the lobby of the second office building. I was far from the only member of the press who had been confused by the blizzard of emails that the credentialing crew sent in the lead-up to the convention. One writer from Los Angeles opined that this disorganization reflects the current state of the Republican Party. Tom Hauser, chief political reporter for KSTP-TV in Minneapolis, was fuming. “I have been to every national political convention since 2000. This is by far, not even close, the most disorganized media credentialing process I have ever seen.”

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but there really was plenty going on outside of the convention hall. On the banks of the Cuyahoga River, famous for having been so polluted in 1969 that it caught fire, a group called Citizens for Trump held an “America First Unity Rally.” The crowd was dotted with people wearing “Hillary for Prison 2016” shirts. There was also plenty of “911 = Inside Job” apparel, likely because conspiracy hero Alex Jones was scheduled to speak. Among the event’s sponsors was Bikers for Trump, an organization founded by Christopher Cox. He spoke with reporters as the event was underway. “We need a commander-in-chief...who is going to be able to bring jobs back to America. We have ghost towns all across Pittsburgh and upstate New York. I’m here for the working man.” The Bikers were not in Cleveland merely to show their support for the jobs magician. “We feel like it’s open season on police officers. We will be there to help serve and protect [them].” Corrogan Vaughn spoke at the rally. He is a senior adviser for the National Diversity Coalition for Trump. He is also running to unseat Elijah Cummings, longtime Democratic congressman from Baltimore. Vaughn held court at the side of the stage after his speech. A reporter asked why he, a black man, would support Donald Trump. “Mr. Barack Hussein Obama has been the most, the most, divi-

sive president of the United States,” he said. Vaughn also praised the judge who had, that morning, found Baltimore police Lt. Brian Rice not guilty in the 2015 post-arrest death of African American Freddie Gray. Milwaukee native Tom Ertl was selling Trump paraphernalia at the America First rally. He is the national media director for Christians for Donald Trump. I asked Ertl what he says to those who observe that Trump has embraced a decidedly non-Christian lifestyle. Ertl addressed the allegation that Trump owns a strip club. He

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dentials the second day of the convention, I wandered around downtown to soak up the pageantry. Whatever threat free political expression might be under in America generally, it flourished fully in Cleveland during convention week. The Revolutionary Communist

Party held what looked to be an impromptu march, dozens strong, straight down crowded “media row” on East 4th Street. Everyone just kind of made way for them, politely accepting their fliers, titled “Time to Get Organized for an ACTUAL REVOLUTION.” Dr. Cornel West appeared in the street, seemingly out of nowhere. He was in town to lead a late-afternoon rally to “Protest Murder by Police.” I asked him if he worries that his refusal to support Hillary Clinton will help Donald Trump become president. He said no, adding, “I’m unconvinced by her case.” Tuesday’s convention proceedings were not scheduled to start until early evening, so I went to the downtown Hilton to visit with a couple of Madison-area delegates. Scott Grabins of Verona is chair of the Republican Party of Dane County, and a friend. I asked him about the procedural dust-up that had occurred on the floor the previous afternoon. Grabins was not part of the faction, but said, “I was not opposed to the roll call vote. We’re here to work out issues. Everyone should have a voice, so that when the convention ends we can be unified. Let people get it off their chests.” Delegate Roger Stauter of Monona thinks he knows why the anti-Trump forces had to be “steamrolled.” “This is typical of Trump and [campaign manager Paul] Manafort. Manafort likes to say things like ‘we crushed them.’ They make no effort to bring opposition into the fold. Twenty percent of the del-

Local GOP chair Scott Grabins wants party unity.

egates are trying to convince themselves to support Trump, but they are getting no help from his campaign.” Stauter is, as you might have guessed, an adamant anti-Trumper.

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shortly before the evening session was gaveled in. The first person I sought out was Beau Correll, a Virginia delegate who was pledged to vote for Donald Trump in the imminent nomination proceedings. Earlier in the summer, Correll brought a federal lawsuit to unbind himself. The judge in that case ruled that the Virginia law that bound Correll is unconstitutional under the First Amendment. But at the rules committee meeting just before the convention, a party rule was put in place affirming each delegate’s bound status. Legally speaking, the Republican Party is a private organization, and so not subject to First Amendment constraints. So where did this leave Correll? I asked him what he would do when it came time to vote. “We’ll see how this plays out,” he said rather mysteriously. The roll call of states proceeded with virtually no drama. When Virginia’s results were announced, they were completely consistent with the pledged counts. And with that, the ‘Dump Trump’ movement finally succumbed.

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pointed out that Trump no longer owns the casino at which the club is located. (Trump lost it in a bankruptcy proceeding, soon after the strip club opened.) “We [Christians] see a lot of tremendous personal character attributes in [Trump] that are really important for a leader. He’s got all those male characteristics that God...intended for men to act like. For the last two generations, we see around us everywhere...men that have been feminized.” As I made my way back to my exurban hotel that evening, I heard that the anti-Trump faction was causing a stir in the convention hall. Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had gone so far as to throw his delegate credentials to the floor in disgust when the anti-Trump faction’s demand for a roll call vote on the rules was ignored. The insurgency appeared to be at a procedural dead end. But I remembered that the DumpTrumpers had been pronounced dead any number of times over the previous month. This burst of tenacity fueled my hope that significant resistance to Trump’s nomination was still in the works.

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proceedings, I felt a bit sick to my stomach. I had, of course, known for some time that this moment was inevitable. But the sight of solid, respectable Republicans dancing around in “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” hats was nauseatingly surreal. Most of these same folks had, not long ago, agreed with me (and Marco Rubio) that Donald Trump is a political con man. Watching the nomination on television would have been less affecting. I began to wonder if attending the convention was a mistake. While Tuesday’s nomination proceedings hit me at an emotional level, the speeches that followed assaulted my intellect. The night’s supposed theme was ‘Make America Work Again.’ There was a little of that, but most of the night was dedicated to vicious attacks on Hillary Clinton. I mostly agreed with the substance of the attacks. I am no fan of Hillary Clinton. But in its unrestrained, undignified descent into the mud, the Republican Party demeaned itself as much as it demeaned Clinton. Chants of “Lock her up! Lock her up!” boomed from the crowd as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivered a faux prosecution of the former Secretary of State. In a mob-like manner, redolent of France’s Reign of Terror, Christie incited the crowd to yell “Guilty!” after bellowing each count of his indictment. Dr. Ben Carson, reportedly deviating from his prepared remarks, exaggerated Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the late radical Saul Alinsky. He then implied that Alinsky was in league with Satan. Bringing Tuesday’s bacchanal to its logical conclusion, a Trump adviser called for Clinton to be “put in the firing line and shot for treason“ in a radio interview offstage. There was a time, not too long ago, when rhetoric like this was confined to the fringes of the GOP. But my party was Trumpifying, right before my eyes.

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AS I WATCHED THE NOMINATION

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about vice presidential nominee Mike Pence. It was instead mostly about Ted Cruz. Cruz held an offsite “thank you” event for his delegates in the early afternoon. It was really more a “Ted Cruz 2020” rally. Some believed that Cruz would endorse Trump either during or before his convention address, which was to take place that night. But during his rally, Cruz tellingly asserted that “every one of us has an obligation to follow our conscience.” The line was met with cheers. Cruz’s use of the word “conscience,” which was an anti-Trump shibboleth during

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the erstwhile effort to free the pledged delegates, was a sure sign that no endorsement was forthcoming. I spoke with state Sen. Duey Stroebel (R– Saukville), a convention delegate, at Cruz’s afternoon rally. I asked Stroebel, who was chair of Ted Cruz’s primary campaign in Wisconsin, if he himself planned to endorse Donald Trump. “No one man is bigger than the party. We’re a conservative party. We have ideas and principles,” he said. “As far as I’m concerned, we need to abide by those, and we need to see our candidate do that. If he does, great. We’ll see what happens.” Later that night in front of all convention attendees, when Cruz repeated his mantra to “vote your conscience,” he was met not with cheers, but with loud indignation. If Cruz overshadowed Pence on Wednesday night, he buried Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Walker’s convention address roused the audience, especially the Wisconsin delegation. But I could hardly recall anything about it by the end of the night, and the media had no interest in reminding me.

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session that Ted Cruz’s “conscience” gambit from the previous evening was the last glimmer of resistance I would see at the convention. By the time the evening’s program commenced, I had pretty much checked out mentally. And when, in the evening’s invocation, the Rev. Dr. Steve Bailey condemned incivility without a hint of irony, I strongly considered checking out physically, too. The last person I wanted to see at that point was Donald Trump himself. But see him I did. For all the analytic ink that has been spilled over Trump’s address, I found it almost unremarkable. My favorite

moment was when the ever-so-reasonable Donald waved his hands to quell a re-eruption of the “lock her up” chant, as though he had not just spent a year’s worth of rallies egging on exactly that type of behavior. The overriding theme of the address was that heavy-handed government activism, in the form of Trump’s mostly unspecified actions and policies, can cure the nation’s many, many ailments. The speech could have been titled “Believe Me,” after the catch phrase that punctuated it, a favorite refrain of liars. Judging from the reaction of the convention floor, the supposed small-government conservatives that dominate my party actually believed Donald Trump. A national political convention is an ideal breeding ground for groupthink and the credulity it engenders. For delegates, the convention is a four-day political retreat. They rub shoulders with their political idols, perhaps getting a little star-struck by all the individualized attention. Maybe their congressperson is staying right across the hall, in their delegation’s sequestered block of hotel rooms. Add to this the dizzying spectacle of the massive convention hall, and you have a setting tailor-made to undermine skepticism. I cannot say where, exactly, the Republican Party will go from here. But I am pretty sure its only hope of survival, in anything but name only, is a Trump loss. Once this perverse and perverting candidacy is in the rear-view, perhaps the party will commence a long-overdue period of recovery and reconstitution. A new batch of leaders, untainted by the mass capitulation I witnessed in Cleveland, might usher in a better GOP for the 21st century, one that eschews corporatism, avoids stupid and murderous wars, and steadfastly defends the rights of all Americans. ■

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was furious.” He declined the TV station’s invitation to respond and likened the segment to “assassination.” He sent a tape to state legislators, who oversaw funding for the UW-Madisonaffiliated station. Republican Assembly Speaker Harold Froehlich responded: “Quite frankly, from time to time, I think the university needs censorship.” If this anecdote sounds familiar, that’s because it reflects a dynamic that has played out in one form or another since 1917, when the UW dispatched its first radio broadcast from a physics lab in Science Hall. In his book, Mitchell, the former director of Wisconsin Public Radio,

recounts the rich history of how this poorly received (in more ways than one) experiment blossomed into statewide public radio and television networks. Mitchell, a still-active UW-Madison journalism professor emeritus, headed WPR from 1976 to 1997. He brings an insider’s knowledge and true believer’s passion to the tale of how public broadcasting in Wisconsin has struggled to provide quality programming within a maelstrom of reactive public officials, alternatively devoted and volatile audiences and an alphabet soup (WHA, WPR, WPT, PBS, etc.) of interconnected but not always cooperative entities.

From the start, the forces behind public radio in Wisconsin sought to create a system based on a philosophy of public service, with the goal of facilitating democracy. Wisconsin’s first public television went on the air in 1954, as just the nation’s third noncommercial TV station. Both ventures have drawn almost constant criticism. In the 1930s, the head of the UW agriculture department, which sponsored broadcasts of Badgers football, groused that the announcer was “too neutral” about agriculture. In the McCarthyite 1950s, a business group ran anti-public-TV ads asking, “Do you want government-controlled propaganda in your living room?” And state

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In 1970, Madison’s public television station, WHA-TV, aired a segment focusing on how an outspoken young alder named Paul Soglin wanted to wean city vehicles off gasoline and onto diesel and propane. Toward the end of the interview, reporter Owen Coyle asked about a rumored plan to recall the city’s newly elected conservative mayor, Bill Dyke. Soglin, who went on to unseat Dyke in 1973, was noncommittal about the neverlaunched recall but added, “It is obvious Madison made a bad mistake in electing Dyke last year.” Coyle wrapped things up: “Okay, very good. Come back and visit again.” According to Wisconsin on the Air: 100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State That Invented It (Wisconsin Historical Society Press), a new book by Jack Mitchell, “Dyke

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Field Table, the newest spot on the Capitol Square, remains just a bit of an enigma even three months after opening. Is it a coffee shop? A farm-to-table restaurant? A highend market? A fancy wine and cocktail bar? The answer, to varying degrees, is yes. Even before the restaurant opened back in April, it struck me as wonderfully ambitious. Could one place really do so much? The service hours alone — 6:30 a.m. to 1 a.m., Monday through Saturday — seemed crazy, let alone the challenge of introducing Madison diners to the chimera-like concept. But after keeping an eye on Field Table for the last several weeks (it’s right around the corner from the Isthmus office, after all), I’ve been consistently impressed with the food and service. In fact, every time I’ve been in there I’ve smiled at the diverse clientele — construction workers grabbing coffee and doughnuts alongside the downtown office crowd; hipster foodies dining next to families. Co-owned by Patricia Davis and André Darlington (a former Isthmus food critic), the interior space at 10 W. Mifflin St. is a pleasing amalgam of sleek, industrial-chic meets rustic, pastoral charm. Floor-to-ceiling windows open wide to let in the summer sun and, on weekends, the sights and sounds of the farmers’ market — a local institution that inspires much of Field Table’s food and

overall concept. The menu changes frequently to reflect what’s in season, usually a little more often than once a month. I’ll mention the doughnuts first, because they are excellent (and I don’t even like doughnuts). My favorite was filled with strawberry-jalapeño jam, topped with mango icing and dusted with chili powder — transcendent. A more restrained lemon poppyseed doughnut was light and flavorful, but the texture was oddly spongy and the glaze a bit too sticky. And no write-up of Field Table’s baked goods would be complete without mention of the cretzel, a pretzel-croissant hybrid filled with beer cheese. Just try it. A central island serves as Field Table’s bar, host stand, pastry display case and coffee counter. To the right, there’s a refrigerated case with grab-and-go sandwiches, salads and produce and another with chilled wines, kombuchas, organic milks and artisan cheeses. Farther back, crisp white shelves display an enticing array of colorfully packaged dry goods, giving the space the feel of a luxury airport duty-free shop. I’ve heard some people complain about the pre-made lunches (too small, too expensive), but I found them a rather pleasant surprise. A spicy pad Thai salad made with spaghetti squash instead of rice noodles is healthy, flavorful and deceptively filling, and a lettuce wrap stuffed with nutty freekeh (green wheat), hummus and pickled peppers is pretty to look at and bursting with fiber. The cheesemonger sandwich is a classy little baguette with spicy arugula, pickled onion, aioli and

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You got IPA in my coffee beer! Konga Buzz IPA from the Great Dane-Hilldale Most coffee beers are based on porters and stouts; the Great Dane breaks new ground with its Konga Buzz IPA. The brewers met with Madison-based micro-roaster Kin-Kin Coffee to try several varieties of beans in hopes of finding just the right coffee for an IPA. Here, the bright and crisp acidity of the Ethiopian coffee beans are matched with hops that have similar fruity and citrus qualities. Brewers Nate Zukas and James Kramer selected Summer as the primary hop, a relatively new variety from Australia known for hints of orange, tangerine, melon and stone fruit.

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The transformation of Pierce’s Northside Market into “Willy North” is nearly complete. The shelves still need to be dusted and stocked. Some new flooring still needs to be installed. But all the basics — including the green lampposts over the registers — are in place at the Willy Street Co-op’s new grocery store on Madison’s north side. The memberowned cooperative’s third location at 2817 N. Sherman Ave. in the Northside Town Center will be open for business on Aug. 15. “The residents of this neighborhood need a grocery store,” says James Phetteplace, director of information services and project manager for Willy North. “A fast turnaround on the remodel was really important because the community can’t wait.” The public can get a sneak peek of Willy North this Sunday, July 31, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Just two weeks after that, customers will have their first chance to buy groceries under a “soft opening,” says Phetteplace. The official grand opening, when all the construction is complete, is scheduled for early this fall. Willy North will be far larger than its sister stores on Williamson Street and University Avenue in Middleton. In freezer space alone, Willy North will have about triple the capacity as the other co-op locations. “We could put the entire east-side Madison store right inside this one and still have 40% to fill up,” says Phetteplace. Shoppers can expect to see virtually all the local, organic, fair-trade and specialty products the co-op currently offers at its other locations. A larger selection of more traditional grocery items, comparable to what was available at Pierce’s, will help occupy all that additional space. “We’ll be carrying more conventional grocery products. And they’ll be on the shelf right next to our regular products,” says Phetteplace. “We’re a consumer cooperative. The food choices are ultimately made by the people who live in this neighborhood.”

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When it comes to neighbors, the folks who live next to Punky Egan hit the jackpot. The certified master baker, one of just 200 nationwide, regularly drops off desserts since she stepped down as lead instructor of baking and pastry arts at Madison College. “My neighbors are probably saying, ‘I can’t eat any more of it,’” jokes Egan. “I still bake every day. In my freezer right now, I have some macaroons, tart shells, croissant doughs, icing and fillings. I never know when I might need it.” For 30 years, Egan taught the next generation of bread bakers and pastry artists. She hung up her apron at Madison College in 2015 but never left the kitchen or classroom. After routinely delivering batches of sweet treats to the Lakeview branch of the Madison Public Library, she was eventually asked to give lessons. This year, Egan has taught free classes at the library on the basics of baking, bread making and tartlets. The lessons have been a hit with kids from the neighborhood, and she plans on doing more this fall. “The free cookies are obviously a draw,” says Egan. “But they were very intent on listening and learning about baking. I’m amazed that most people have never even made cookies from scratch at home.” Egan works part-time as an instructor for Sur La Table at Hilldale. This summer she’s teaching Spectacular Summer Macarons and Amazing Summer Cakes. She also leads a regular baking segment on WISC-TV with anchor Susan Siman as well as private consulting. “With cooking, you have to eat every day, right? It can be such a task. But you don’t have to bake something sweet every day,” says Egan. “Baking to me is about joy. It’s an unexpected treat when you bring it to someone.” Egan developed the baking curriculum for the job training program at FEED Kitchens, where she periodically teaches as well. Egan was the guiding force behind Sucre, a

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The timeline of problems plaguing the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro — from bribery to Zika and from doping to dead bodies — suggests that these Games could be, as The New York Times recently declared, “an unnatural disaster.” I already was beginning to feel unusually sympathetic toward this year’s Olympians, who will compete, starting Aug. 5, under heightened safety and security measures. But then the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., announced that researchers will monitor potential Zika virus exposure among athletes, coaches and other U.S. Olympic Committee staff members during the Rio Games and September’s Rio Paralympics. The goal is “to improve understanding of how the [mosquito-borne] virus persists in the body and to identify potential factors that influence the course of infection.” Whoa. These athletes, including 20 with ties to Wisconsin, trained for years at an elite level to compete with the best in the world, and now some of them will essentially become guinea pigs? Kudos to those who have agreed to participate in the NIH research, despite any personal distraction it might cause.

Former Wisconsin Badger Kelsey Card, who will throw the discus for Team USA on Aug. 15, says she’s not going to let the Zika threat distract her. “I was at a wedding last weekend, and somebody there was married to someone from Brazil, and he just got back from Sao Paolo,” Card recently told Channel3000.com. “And he’s like, ‘You know, it’s not as bad as they’re making it seem. The mosquitoes aren’t really too much of an issue.’ And as long as [I’m] smart about it, I think it’ll be all right. I’m not going to go wandering in any swampy areas or anything like that.” Some may conclude that Card has more guts than the top four male golfers in the world — all of whom withdrew from the Games over Zika concerns. Other current and former UW athletes who will brave conditions in Rio include 2016 Big Ten Swimmer of the Year Matt Hutchins, who joins the contingent from his native New Zealand to compete in the 400and 1,500-meter freestyle events; decathlete Zach Ziemek, who earned the seventhhighest score in the world earlier this year; and Grace Latz, who rowed for Wisconsin from 2006 to 2010 and is on the women’s quadruple sculls team, keeping alive UW’s remarkable streak of having at least one female rower in every Olympics since 1968. n

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Filled with plot turns on almost every page, the book is loaded with references to Mufasa and Obi Wan Kenobi, Styx, Romancing the Stone, SpongeBob SquarePants, Nicholas Sparks, The Brady Bunch and — hilariously so — “John Fucking Grisham.” At turns witty, smart, violent and poignant, The Hemingway Thief becomes an adventure story in which the four main characters share a common mission while also seeking their own fresh starts. In the end, narrator Coop winds up with one hell of a story that makes his vampire tales read like The Bobbsey Twins series, and Harris emerges with a memorable hardboiled caper that should establish him as one of the genre’s most-promising new writers. ■ Shaun Harris will discuss The Hemingway Thief at Mystery to Me, 1863 Monroe St., on Friday, Aug. 5, at 7 p.m.

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In the rollicking style of crime novelist Carl Hiaasen — and with confident knowledge of pop culture and literary license — Sauk County author Shaun Harris has penned The Hemingway Thief (Seventh Street Books), a debut novel about four misfits on an epic road trip through northern Mexico’s drug cartel country. Novelist Henry “Coop” Cooper’s agent sends him to a shoddy tourist motel in Baja, Mexico, for inspiration. Under the silly pseudonym Toulouse Velour, Cooper has written several romance bestsellers about a Scottish vampire detective named Alasdair MacMerkin, but he wants to retire the character and write something more literary. That origin story alone makes for worthwhile reading. But Harris, who lives in the village of La Valle, northwest of Reedsburg, is just getting started. One night, after two thugs beat up the hotel bar’s only other patron, a young drunk exquisitely named Ebbie Milch, Coop and hotel owner Grady Doyle are launched into the middle of one of literature’s most enduring mysteries. In December 1922, while Hemingway’s wife, Hadley, was traveling by train from Paris to Geneva to join her husband, someone pilfered a brown valise containing the only copies of the author’s works in progress. In The Hemingway Thief, Milch, a smalltime grifter, is on the run with a stolen firstdraft manuscript of Hemingway’s posthumously published memoir, A Moveable Feast. That manuscript contains clues to the location of the missing valise, and Coop, Doyle, Milch and the hotel’s stoned handyman Digby pursue the literary holy grail. The only hitch: Other treasure hunters are on the trail, too, and they’re willing to kill for the prize.

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Republicans called for abolishing public radio as “socialistic.” Mitchell may dwell a bit too much on the revolving cast of characters that has energized public radio and television through the years, but he offers a lively and loving history. His book reminds us that Wisconsin has been a programming pioneer, reaching national audiences with such offerings as To the Best of Our Knowledge and Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know? And the Education Communications Board, which facilitates public broadcasting in Wisconsin, helped produce the riveting 1979 documentary The War At Home, about Madison’s anti-war movement. Wisconsin’s embrace of public broadcasting derives directly from the Wisconsin Idea, which calls on the university community to share its insights and expertise. As UW President Charles Van Hise put it in a 1904 speech, “I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the university reaches every home in the state.” That’s a fairly literal description of what Wisconsin public radio and television accomplish. Mitchell, in his final chapter, recounts how Gov. Scott Walker sought to remove

language regarding the Wisconsin Idea from the UW’s mission statement last year. Although the proposal was wiped out by a tidal wave of outraged reaction, the author cautions that the future of public broadcasting remains fraught with peril. The stations, he says, “could not survive in a free-market media world and will always require subsidies.” Yet the people who control public dollars are more resistant than ever to supporting this cause. That’s a sad reality, given the value of public broadcasting to the citizens of Wisconsin and beyond. One of the virtues of Wisconsin on the Air is that it shows how the people in public broadcasting aspire to — and generally reach — high standards of fairness and accuracy. This is reflected in Mitchell’s admission that political bias exists in some quarters of the academy and public broadcasting, as it does in all segments of society. “Whether or not critics choose to believe it,” he writes, “both academics and public broadcasters strive to approach questions with open minds and produce answers that grow from verified facts. Both sometimes fall short, but no other institutions try harder.” Hear, hear, Jack Mitchell. Hear, hear. ■

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Soaring past obstacles Violinist and songwriter Gaelynn Lea headlines Disability Pride Festival BY HOLLY HENSCHEN

Gaelynn Lea is a rising music star who happens to have a disability. Ushered into the national spotlight in March, the Duluth resident beat out 6,100 entrants, including several from Madison, to win NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Contest. The energetic 32-year-old is a classically trained violinist who, with the help of a middle school teacher, learned to hold her instrument like a cello to accommodate for effects of brittle bone disease, a congenital disorder that requires her to use a wheelchair. In addition to her solo act, Lea released an EP in 2012 with Alan Sparhawk of Duluth-based indie rock trio Low. Sparhawk introduced her to the looping pedal, which helps Lea create layers of soaring, ethereal strings and vocals. Lea will perform her singular blend of Celtic fiddle, infused with haunting indie rock influences, at the fourth annual Disability Pride Festival on July 30 at Brittingham Park. The event is hosted by Disability Pride Madison, a group that strives to promote positive engagement with people with disabilities. The recent interest in Lea’s music has given her the opportunity to offer her perspective on the challenges people with disabilities face. She speaks publicly on dis-

ability awareness, overcoming obstacles, entrepreneurship and the importance of music. Lea says disability rights lag behind other civil rights, often because of the financial costs associated with accommodating people with disabilities. “The worst thing about the disability itself is not the physical body or the disability itself — it’s the barriers you face,” Lea says. Lea has had to enter restaurants through the kitchen or be carried onstage during the Tiny Desk Concert tour because spaces lack wheelchair accessibility. In some cases, simply adding an automatic door would make a world of difference. Lea says allies of people with disabilities can help by learning about disability issues while also avoiding defining people by their disabilities: They’re not disabled people — they’re people with disabilities. “I don’t see my body as a disability. It’s given me a perspective that’s positive,” Lea says. “It gets distorted when people use negative language about disability.” Lea is releasing a six-song EP in mid-August with Minneapolis guitarist Al Church called The Songs We Sing Along the Way, and she plans to record again with Sparhawk after completing an upcoming tour. The Disability Pride Festival, which runs from noon to 5 p.m., also features Tani Diakite & the Afrofunkstars and Johnny T-Bird & the MPs. ■

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Listening to dreams Monona author brings book of dreams to life in art exhibit

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During the launch presentation for Impressions on a Dream Canvas, an art exhibit at Pinney Library, Ann E. Aswegan peers through her crimson frames as she asks a room full of dreamers, “Does anyone have an example of a dream that predicted something for you?” I couldn’t help but raise my hand. Swallowing was suddenly difficult as I recalled my own dream. Toward the end of my five-month study abroad trip in Ireland, I dreamed of walking through the forest with my best friend at my side, a German Shepherd named Oscar. The dream was fuzzy and faint, but Oscar spoke to me. Suddenly, Oscar died. I cried in my dream, and the heavy sobs woke me in my Londonderry bed. During the car ride home from the airport, my mom broke the news to me that Oscar had, in fact, died. Aswegan, a scholar of dreams, has a gift for unleashing the workings of the subconscious mind. She released the third edition of her book, Awakening to the Song

of Yourself: Revelations by Day and Dream by Night, in 2012. While writing the book, she had the dream that inspired Impressions on a Dream Canvas. The exhibit, based on Kristin Sobol’s chapter illustrations, is on display through Aug. 31. Transformed into iron-on transfers, the illustrations are pressed by hand with a dry iron onto 30 vintage embroidered pillowcases that hang on the Pinney walls (one for each chapter of the book and one for the cover), reminiscent of laundry hanging on a line. Sobol, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, creates a flowing visual narrative with simple, black-and-white images. The result is comforting and inspirational. The project took almost three years to create. Aswegan had technical support and graphic design assistance from Cindy Martinelli, a marketing analyst from Cottage Grove who met Aswegan in a women’s group and attended a year-long class connected to Aswegan’s book. Aswegan’s background includes degrees in creative writing, nursing and health education.

Images from Ann Aswegan’s book were transferred onto vintage pillowcases.

She has studied internationally with dream experts, including at the C.G. Jung Institute in Switzerland. She has offered workshops, retreats and classes on dream-related topics for more than 25 years and also provides confidential, private dream consultation services at her Monona home. “I began recording my dreams when I was 9 years old,” she says. “I have a stack of dream journals about three feet high.” Naturally, it was an image from a dream that launched the pillowcase project in the first place — the image on a window shade of a girl playing near a creek. “I couldn’t get that image out of my head,” Aswegan says. “There are no limits on dreams, and that’s one of the things I love about them.” ■

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In Casa Valentina, seven cross-dressing men dance daintily on the outskirts of convention in a Catskills bungalow. Harvey Fierstein’s 2014 Tony-nominated play is set in 1962, a pre-internet age when people living outside heterosexual norms sought refuge in underground communities. StageQ’s Midwest premiere, which runs through Aug. 6 at the Bartell Theatre, comes to Madison on the heels of the popular tour stop for Kinky Boots, another Fierstein creation, which celebrates drag performers. Casa, directed by Michael Bruno, opens at a resort owned and operated by George, aka Valentina (Bob Moore, also the show’s technical director), and his supportive wife, Rita (Kathleen Tissot). The couple takes pride in their establishment and lifestyle. Modern audiences may be familiar with such a “camp” from an episode during Season 1 of Amazon Studios’ trailblazing series Transparent. Main character Maura, a trans woman, visits a cross-dressing retreat at “Camp Camellia” before her transition. The evening, staged in the Bartell’s intimate Evjue Stage, begins as a mirthful dinner party celebration, with drinks and candlesticks and slumber party makeovers. That is until Charlotte (co-producer

Donnovan Moen), a cosmopolitan publisher, flies in with a plan for creating a national advocacy group for cross-dressing men. The proposal and the possibility of being outed exposes rifts in their seemingly cozy cohort. Throughout the play, the “femmepersonators,” as they call themselves, show how their forbidden activities are forms of self-love and self-acceptance. But away from their supportive community, they face the grinding daily incongruence of living secret lives. The show features a number of standout performers. Bessie (Scott Albert Bennett) is the knowing jester, delivering campy, selfdeprecating punchlines. She’s a good match for the play’s appropriately kitschy mountain lodge décor and ’60s girl-group soundtrack. Sean Langenecker plays Gloria, a bouffantcrowned Southerner with as much conviction as grace. A poignant monologue from Eleanor (Simone LaPierre) exemplifies the challenges these individuals face in a disapproving society. Being one’s own person is more acceptable these days, but only to a degree. Ask the transgender people facing similar issues outside bathrooms across the country. In Casa Valentina, the audience gains valuable insights into the meaning of acceptance while catching a glimpse of the glorious possibilities of living authentically. n

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Feral family Captain Fantastic is a study in contrasts BY STEVE DAVIS

Viggo Mortensen may be the most taciturn actor in American movies today. His handsome, weatherworn face (with a cleft chin to rival Kirk Douglas) communicates character with only the slightest of movement. You can’t slack off while watching one of his performances; his delicate way of registering feeling requires your utmost attention. In Captain Fantastic, Mortensen plays Ben, the dogmatic paterfamilias of a brood of six civilized savages living off the grid somewhere in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The childrearing practices of this hippie-survivalist are unorthodox, to say the least: He nurtures their

minds by versing them in Marxist theory, quantum physics and Vladimir Nabokov, and trains their bodies to kill wildlife for food, to scale sheer cliffs for disciplined strength and to defend themselves (to the death) against some unspoken future possibility. At times a benevolent papa, other times a dictatorial cultist, he believes the unsentimental education he provides his children will save them from the outside world, a conviction Mortensen conveys in the man’s confident facial expressions and taut body language. But when the heartbroken family leaves their cocooned idyll to venture out into an American landscape of fast-food obesity and unfettered consumerism to attend a funeral, Ben finds him-

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self outside the comfort zone he’s created, and his once unyielding certainty begins to falter. Look closely and you can see the change in the shift of Mortensen’s expression and posture. Does father really know best? There’s a retro anti-establishment vibe in Captain Fantastic that’s nostalgic, though hardly quaint. The geographic setting, the mode of transportation (a bus!) and the rebellion against authority all echo the work of ’60s-era writers like Ken Kesey, with Ben’s brood serving as a younger (and non-drug-fueled) version of the counterculture author’s Merry Pranksters. In his first feature-length film, writer/director Matt Ross, who plays the egomaniacal tech-king Gavin Belson on HBO’s Silicon Valley, keeps it together fairly well until the film takes a pre-

dictable turn in contrasting the lifestyle of Ben’s family with their relatives’ way of life (the potshots don’t require much aim) and, more critically, in prompting Ben to reevaluate the choices he’s made for his kids when one of them barely escapes serious injury. For a while, the freeing experience of the clan’s nonconformity gets tamped down, and the movie appears headed toward some kind of moralized conclusion. Once back on familiar ground, however, Captain Fantastic rights itself toward as happy an ending as possible. In the movie’s last scene, Ross sustains a long take that makes the best of Mortensen’s subtle gift for conveying so much using so little. A bemused look has seldom appeared so content and so yearning at the same time. n

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Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) is bored. A regular Angela Chase, he fills his Captain’s log with long sighs. Three years into a five-year assignment steering the starship Enterprise across the galaxy, it’s all just become so hohum, so hum-drum for him. I’m right there with you, James T. Kirk’s ennui breaks in Star Trek Beyond when the ship crash-lands on a distant planet, scattering the ensemble cast into micro-hives of ones and twos. Competent but heavy with dutifulness, the script by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung puts everyone in a place on this rock and gives them a purpose — a reason to go from point A to point B. But there’s none of the joyful, swashbuckling sense of adventure evinced in the film’s predecessors, nor a compelling case made for the stakes: Supervillain Krall (played by Idris Elba, regrettably covered in rhino-hide-like prosthetics) is a real drag, and his superweapon, the Abronath, sounds like something jaunty and tartan Scotty might pick up in a Highlands gift shop. This third film of the franchise reboot is the first to be directed by Justin Lin, who took over the Fast & Furious series in 2006 and

promptly sent down the assembly line four superjuiced machines of loving mayhem. (He replaces Trek reboot architect J.J. Abrams, who in the Hollywood game of franchise musical chairs hopped to another Star with last year’s The Force Awakens.) Lin lavishes attention on the massive-scale stuff, but the human side — the tending to these tiny animate beings we’ve been watching for 50 years — feels less carefully considered. n

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More film events The King of Comedy: Rupert Pupkin (Robert DeNiro), an addle-brained but endlessly enthusiastic and determined would-be standup comic, decides to kidnap talk-show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) and hold him hostage in exchange for an appearance on the show. Cinematheque, July 29, 7 pm. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: A high school smart aleck is determined to get a day off of school, no matter what it takes. Memorial Union Terrace, Aug. 1, 9 pm. The Mighty Ducks: A self-centered lawyer is sentenced to community service coaching a rag-tag youth hockey team. Edgewater Plaza, Aug. 2, 7:30 pm The Royal Tenenbaums: The family that fails together, ails together. Majestic, Aug. 2, 7:30 pm Gone with the Wind: Iconic drama follows petulant Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Robinia Courtyard, Aug. 2, 9 pm. Blow Out: A movie sound technician accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger. Bos Meadery, Aug. 3, 7 pm Moonrise Kingdom: In 1965, a romantic boy at camp runs away with a girl as adults make chase. With this tender film, Wes Anderson crafted an elegant metaphor for adolescence. Central Library, Aug. 4, 6:30 pm

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Ra Ra Riot Friday, July 29, Live on King Street, 6 pm Put your dancing shoes on, Madison, because Ra Ra Riot is coming to King Street. The Syracuse indie rock crew has released four albums of jangly, danceable indie rock, including this year’s Need Your Light, which was produced in part by former Vampire Weekend guitarist Rostam Batmanglij. That makes sense, because Ra Ra Riot sounds a lot like the result of Vampire Weekend wandering into an all-night dance party. With Fury Things, Oh My Love.

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PICK OF THE WEEK calling it quits, but they’re going out in style. The group is embarking on one last tour — fittingly called “So Long, Farewell” — to treat their fans to classics like “Everything Is Alright” and “The Future Freaks Me Out” one last time. With A Great Big Pile of Leaves, Rozwell Kid.

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Diana Ross Thursday, July 28, Overture Hall, 7:30 pm

Central Park Sessions: Honky Tonk Thursday, July 28, Central Park, 5-10 pm

It’s the honky-tonk women! Local powerhouse Beth Kille, Screaming fireball Nikki Hill and Austin’s long-legged blues piano superstar Marcia Ball (pictured) bring blistering twang and grit to the summer’s first Central Park Session. The Urban League of Greater Madison and WORT will benefit from the proceeds.

Beloved R&B and soul singer Diana Ross has one of the most impressive musical résumés of all time: She nabbed 12 No. 1 singles as lead singer of the Supremes; she was a recipient at the 2007 Kennedy Center Honors and earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012; and she’s sold more than 100 million albums worldwide. Opening is Rhonda Ross, daughter of Diana Ross and Motown founder Berry Gordy.

Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub: Mark Croft, 6 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Sam Ness, folk, free, 9 pm.

The Mascot Theory Thursday, July 28, Memorial Union Terrace, 9 pm

With an uptempo folk-rock sound that calls to mind acts like Mumford and Sons and the Lumineers, Madison’s the Mascot Theory seem poised for a breakout, and very soon. Having already conquered their hometown — the quartet took home a whopping seven awards at this year’s MAMAs, including the coveted Artist of the Year prize — the global stage seems to be looming ever closer. See your hometown heroes now before they take over the planet. With Future Stuff.

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Barrymore Theatre: Motion City Soundtrack, rock, 8 pm.

Bos Meadery: Hoot’n Annie, string band, free, 6 pm. Brink Lounge: Madison Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 pm.

Bad Bad Hats Thursday, July 28, East Side Club, 6-9 pm

Bad Bad Hats is a Minneapolis-based rock trio that released its catchy, cutting debut fulllength album, Psychic Reader, last July. In addition to receiving praise from outlets like NPR and Pitchfork, the group was named Minnesota’s best new band by alt-weekly City Pages and performed at a Minnesota Twins game in June.

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Motion City Soundtrack Thursday, July 28, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

When they released their debut, I Am the Movie, in 2003, Motion City Soundtrack announced themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the emo-punk genre. Thirteen years and six albums later, the Minneapolis-based quintet is amicably

Central Park: Beth Kille Band, Nikki Hill, Marcia Ball, 5 pm. Come Back In: Teddy Davenport, free, 5 pm. Dean House: KG & the Ranger, free/donations, 7 pm. East Side Club: Bad Bad Hats, Sunset Music Series, 6 pm. Edgewater Hotel: Jessica Martindale, free, 6 pm. Essen Haus: Bill Roberts Combo w/ Bob Corbit, free, 9 pm. The Frequency: The Red Plastic Buddha, Killer Moon, The Ferns, 9 pm.

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Thursday, July 28, Vilas Hall’s Mitchell Theatre, 7:30 pm

In a University Theatre production of a show The New York Times dubbed “pithier than Python,” three brave actors tackle 37 of the great playwright’s texts in a 97-minute, nonstop farce. Take a deep breath before entering the theater. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (7:30 pm) and Sunday (2 pm), July 30-31.

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StageQ’s production is set in the early 1960s at a retreat in the Catskills for crossdressing men. Harvey Fierstein’s script is based on true stories and explores the political and gender dynamics of people trying to live openly and authentically. See page 33. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 pm) and Sunday (2 pm), July 29-31. Through Aug. 6.

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Pooley’s: US Silver Dollar Band, free, 7 pm.

When he’s not performing a standup act that touches on subjects like baldness and the state of clothing apparel in the 2010s, John Roy has been a creative consultant for various national ad campaigns, including some Super Bowl spots. He’ll be recording his second album during this run of shows. With Robert Jenkins, Jake Snell. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), July 29-30.

Tip Top Tavern: Jakob Heinemann Trio, free, 10 pm.

FAIRS & F ESTIVALS WaunaFest: 7/28-31, Centennial Park, Waunakee, with sports tournaments, carnival, kids’ activities. Friday: Retro-Specz 7 pm, Boogie & the Yo Yoz 9 pm. Saturday: Run/walk 7:30 am Volcanics 9 pm. Sunday: Car show 8 am-3 pm, Parade 11 am, Waunakee Community Band 12:30 pm. waunafest.org.

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Bye for Now: The Final Rockstar Gomeroke Rock ’n’ roll’s merry pranksters are taking an “indefinite hiatus” after this, so it’s the final (for now) opportunity to drop your name into the magic hat for a chance at fleeting stardom. The talented veterans of live-band karaoke play from a list of more than 2,000 songs and back you up as you take the mic and sing your heart out. Badger Bowl: Fighting For, rock, 8 pm. Bos Meadery: Imaginary Watermelon, free, 6:30 pm. Brink Lounge: Tommy Harkenrider, The Memphis Kings, Dave Potter, Birddog Olufs, 7 pm.

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FA I RS & FEST I VA L S Madison Brazil Fest: Omulu Capoeira Madison celebrates 30th anniversary with free music, dance & martial arts classes, 7-9 pm on 7/29 and 10 am-3 pm, 7/31, Kanopy Dance, and 10 am-5:30 pm, 7/30, UW Union South. Also: Performances by Forro Fo Sho, Samba Novistas, Metabaque, DJ TrixZ, 8:30 pm, 7/30, Brink Lounge ($10). Schedule: facebook. com/events/608381519308944. 492-1919.

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Arcadia Friday, July 29, American Players Theatre (Spring Green), 8 pm

Arcadia is a tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard that was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play in 1995 and Best Revival of a Play in 2011. Splitting its time between the early 19th century and the present, the play follows the interactions between Thomasina and her tutor, Septimus, as well as a couple of academics who try to decipher just what happened in the house during Thomasina’s time. ALSO: Thursday, Aug. 4, 7:30 pm. Through Oct. 1. Jake Revolver, Freelance Secret Agent: P.I. parody by Upstart Crows Productions, 7 pm, 7/29-30 & 8/5-6, Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ. $15 donation. 827-9482. The Gondoliers: Madison Savoyards annual summer Gilbert & Sullivan production, 7:30 pm on 7/29-30 & 8/5-6 and 3 pm, 7/31 & 8/7, UW Old Music Hall; children’s pre-show 1 pm, 8/7 (RSVP: krys.lonsdale@ gmail.com). $40/$30. madisonsavoyards.com. Big Fish: Oregon Straw Hat Players musical based on the Daniel Wallace novel, 7:30 pm on 7/29-30 & 8/4-5 and 2 pm, 7/31, Oregon High School Performing Arts Center. $17. 835-9126.

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The glorious summer celebration begins with a parade at noon called “The Convergence,” where four different streams of costumed revelers come together at the Kids’ stage. Two days of continuous music pumps from three stages near Monty’s Blue Plate Diner and Tex Tubb’s. This year’s lineup includes some fantastic regional talent — Sonny Knight & the Lakers and Jane Lee Hooker — and also showcases some of Madison’s favorite crowd-pleasers, including the People Brothers Band, the Family Business, VO5, Steely Dane (pictured) and the Jimmys. See atwoodfest.com for a full schedule. ALSO: Sunday, July 31, noon-7:30 pm.

Lemonade: A Celebration of Queen Bey Saturday, July 30, Majestic Theatre, 9:30 pm

Calling all the single ladies, and everybody else: Majestic is screening Beyoncé’s new, internet-shattering visual album, Lemonade, followed by DJ Josh B. Kuhl spinning hits from Queen Bey, Destiny’s Child and other female pop stars. You’re going to want to get in formation early to catch this one. Bos Meadery: Winning Ugly, punk, free, 6 pm. Cardinal Bar: Grupo Candela, DJ Danny, Latin, 9 pm. Come Back In: Twang Dragons, free, 9 pm. Edgewater Hotel: Pat McCurdy, free, 6 pm. Essen Haus: Zweifel Brothers, free, 8:30 pm. The Frequency: Street Names, All the Wine, MixMinus, 7 pm. Harmony Bar: MoonHouse, Jake Llika, Joel Ward, 9:45 pm. High Noon Saloon: The Delicate Delegate, Jettkick, 5:30 pm; Post Social (album release), Midnight Reruns, Cedarwell, Dash Hounds, 9:30 pm. Ivory Room: Kevin Gale, Philly Williams, 8:30 pm. Liquid: DJs Chamo, Fernando, 10 pm. Mr. Robert’s: The Benders, 6 pm; Saurus, Hue, 10 pm. Natt Spil: DJ Trichrome, free, 10 pm. Plan B: DJs Siberia, ellafine, ‘80s, 9 pm.

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When she co-founded Colorado collective Paper Bird in the mid-’00s, Esmé Patterson was just one part of a much larger whole. But as a solo artist, the Portland-based troubadour is beginning to make a name for herself. Patterson has released three masterfully crafted indie folk albums (including this year’s We Were Wild) and collaborated with the likes of Frank Turner, Nathaniel Rateliff and Shakey Graves. With the Awful Truth, Christopher Plowman.

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folks here often say they don’t feel supported within their own community and the larger community,” she says. “If you don’t feel supported, that kills your spirit. I’m always trying to find a place to bring us all together.” Judy Cooper was at the expo selling her magnetic jewelry that doubles as a name badge holder. Cooper, who lives and works in Madison, says she cobbled together a magnetic ID holder for herself a few years ago and ended up getting so many inquiries it spawned the idea for her business, QBs Magnetic Creations. “QB” is named after Cooper’s mother, Qubie, who passed away in 2003. Cooper says her business, most importantly, is a way to keep her mother’s memory alive. As she says on her LinkedIn page, “each creation represents love, care, charity and remembrance of a woman who was very special.” Cooper says Saturday’s sales were good. “I would do it again in a heartbeat,” she says. “It was a wonderful way to bring out so many people in the community.” Rudy Bankston also had a booth. Featured in an Isthmus cover story about the struggles faced by former inmates once released into the community, Bankston now works with students at Memorial High School on restorative justice issues. He was at the expo selling copies of his novel, Shed So Many Tears. Vannessa Rodello of adorable was also there. Her group partners with the YWCA on the YWeb Career Academy, creating the curriculum for a new web development career training program targeting women and people of color. The idea is to get more women of color into tech careers, where they are underrepresented. Says Rodello: “We want to push more women into the pipeline.” n

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• Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive • Vehicle Dynamics Control • Subaru Advanced Frontal Airbag System • Front Seat Side-Impact Airbags • Side-Curtain Airbags • 4-Wheel Disc Brakes w/Brake Assist • Anti-Lock Braking System • Rear Vision Camera • Anti-Theft Alarm & Immobilizer System • Air Conditioning

LEASE FROM

Financing Available!**

AWD+ MPG!

EPA MPG HWY

199

/mo+tax

36 mo/10,000 mile/year lease. $1,999 due at signing. No security deposit.

Model GLF-11 Stock #26-4229

2016 SUBARU

FORESTER 2.5i • CVT Automatic • Alloy Wheels • Luggage Rack • Power Windows/Locks • Backup Camera • Bluetooth Compatible and Much More!

ISTHMUS.COM JULY 28–AUGUST 3, 2016

AWD+ MPG!

Financing Available!**

2016 SUBARU

CROSSTREK 2.0i STANDARD WITH: • AWD • 6.2” Starlink multi-media system • Rear Vision Camera • Power Windows/Locks • Heated Seats/Mirrors • Windshield Wiper De-icers and Much More!

AWD+ MPG!

EPA MPG HWY

1.49% as low as

Financing Available!

EPA MPG HWY

TWO LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU!

WEST: 5822 Odana Rd. • 442-3200 • donmillersubaruwest.com SALES: MON.-THURS. 9AM-8PM; FRI 9AM-6PM; SAT. 9AM-5PM

EAST: 5339 Wayne Terrace • 258-3636 • donmillersubarueast.com SALES: MON.-THURS. 9AM-8PM; FRI 9AM-6PM; SAT. 9AM-5PM

East & West Service: MON.-FRI. 7AM-5:30PM; SAT. 8AM-1PM • SUBARUSERVICE@DONMILLER.COM Subject to prior sale. Subaru, Forester, Impreza, Legacy and Outback are registered trademarks. EPA-estimated hwy. Actual mileage may vary. Tax, title, license & service fee extra. See participating retailers for details. **Cannot be combined with any other incentive. Financing for well-qualified applicants only. Length of contract is limited. Subject to credit approval, vehicle insurance approval and vehicle availability. No down payment required. Offers end 7/31/2016.