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BACKSTAGE BANQUET

Mama Rökker keeps musicians fat and happy.

6-8 NEWS

FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE

Non-English-speaking patients aren’t getting translation services they’re due.

GET OFF OF MY LAWN!

City cracks down on State Street hangout.

9 TECH

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DARIEN LAMEN

6 NEWS WE BID ADIEU to Darien Lamen, who penned this week’s story on medical interpretation services. Lamen has moved to Brunswick, Maine, to teach music and Latin American studies at Bowdoin College. Lamen enjoyed his foray into journalism, both with Isthmus and WORT-FM, because it allowed him to be engaged in the community. “The rapid-fire pace is an exciting part of it, compared to academic research, which can take years to turn around,” he says.

COVER STORY ONE OF THE NICE things about covering a beat is that one story often begets another. Such is the case with this week’s cover story. Steven Potter first wrote about Michael Ford in May, shortly after the Madison College professor was tapped to design the Universal Hip-Hop Museum in the Bronx. Potter recognized, and rightly so, there was more to Ford’s story.

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Education conference offers high-tech guidance.

10 OPINION

PARENTAL PARITY

Surrogacy snafu shows why family law needs updates.

13 COVER STORY

URBAN OUTLOOK

Michael Ford brings hip-hop sensibility to architecture.

BRYCE RICHTER/UW MADISON

SWORDS TO PLOUGHSHARES

U-rah-rah Wis-con-sin!

THE CHEESE STANDS ALONE

Sun., Aug. 7, Camp Randall Stadium, 3-5 pm

19-22 FOOD & DRINK Vet-centered farm is a new way to serve.

Roelli takes top honors at conference.

24 SPORTS

FLYING HIGH

Radicals can win it all at Ultimate championship.

Fans of all ages get a chance to rub elbows with the 2016 Badgers at Family Football Fun Day. Maybe even give coach Chryst a couple tips for the upcoming season.

The Earthlings

26 MUSIC

Sat., Aug. 6, Tex Tubb’s Taco Palace, 2-10 pm

28 BOOKS

Nipping at the heels of AtwoodFest is Atwood City Limits, a recent and very welcome addition to the festival circuit. In addition to TTTP’s tacos and mmmargaritas, there’s music

by Chloe Webster, the Lucas Cates Band, the Dirty Bros, the Earthlings and the Union Suits.

A regular bids a heartfelt farewell.

TRY, TRY AGAIN

Persistence pays off for Fitchburg children’s author.

28 ART

ARTISTIC LICENSE

Alex Connelly defies convention.

29 STAGE

GARAGE SHOW

Fresco Opera stages plays in unusual places.

ESTY DINUR

30 SCREENS

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BOURNE THERE, DONE THAT

FOOD ESTY DINUR SERVED IN the Israeli military, was married to a Vietnam veteran for 18 years and is one of the founders of the Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace.

She writes this week about a veteran-run farm and CSA in Waunakee, across from Governor Nelson State Park.

Parking lot party

NO MORE GOMEROKE

Jason Bourne has outlived its time.

40 EMPHASIS

DREAM SPACE

Employees help design breakrooms.

IN EVERY ISSUE 7 MADISON MATRIX 7 WEEK IN REVIEW 10 THIS MODERN WORLD 11 FEEDBACK 11 OFF THE SQUARE

32 ISTHMUS PICKS 41 CLASSIFIEDS 42 P.S. MUELLER 42 CROSSWORD 43 SAVAGE LOVE

Circle of life Thurs.-Sun., Aug. 4-7, Olbrich Gardens Bolz Conservatory, 10 am-4 pm

Last call for lepidoptera gawking.

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Commune with local peace activists and reflect on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings at this family-friendly ceremony. Stop by for a peace song singalong, crafts and other activities and a floating lantern launch at dusk.

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Fresh off the AtwoodFest stage, local guitarist Dan Walkner chats with Mama Rökker while he chows down at her backstage bistro.

Rockstar hospitality

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It’s Saturday afternoon on Atwood Avenue, and Madison’s biggest neighborhood festival is in full swing.

The sun is shining, the streets are packed, and the sultry sound of rock ’n’ roll music — and the enticing smell of garlic bread — lingers in the air.

AtwoodFest is a great party by any measure, but one of its best-loved traditions actually takes place behind the scenes. For the last 14 years, Michelle Schneiderman (aka Mama Rökker) has shared her legendary hospitality with hundreds of hungry musicians, roadies, crew members and other festival VIPs at Mama Rökker’s Band Bistro.

“Sometimes I think, ‘What’s wrong with you, girl?’”

Schneiderman says with a laugh as she surveys her backstage feast. “Nobody in their right mind would ever make 800 meatballs.”

A tent behind Monty’s Blue Plate Diner serves as an open-air green room, complete with a buffet line, plenty of seating and umbrellas for shade. As the guitar riffs swell from the Harmony Bar stage, Schneiderman bustles about making sure the tables are stocked with vats of homemade pasta and mountains of fresh salad.

Guests fill their plates, and you’d better believe they’re going back for seconds, because Mama Rökker insists.

Schneiderman, 71, is the mother of the mononymous Rökker — a musician, publisher of Maximum Ink magazine and Max Ink Radio, purveyor of Rökker Vodka and longtime AtwoodFest organizer. The pair has teamed up to feed the festival bands since 2002, but

even before that, Schneiderman was famous for catering Rökker’s shows around town. She’s fed more than a thousand musicians over the years, by his estimate.

“I do the booking, she does the cooking,” Rökker says. “Mama Rökker’s Band Bistro is the secret ingredient of AtwoodFest.”

The planning starts several months in advance.

Schneiderman stockpiles boxes of pasta, jars of sauce and other dry goods (and stores them all over the house, her husband points out), and keeps an eye out for sales on meat. She makes as much as she can ahead of time, freezing as she goes, and transports the whole operation from Waukesha to Madison the week before the festival.

From 2002 to 2013 (when the event was known as Atwood Summerfest), the Schneidermans footed the bill, but when it switched to AtwoodFest in 2014, the festival began providing a budget to help feed the bands.

“The trick is knowing when to thaw everything out,” says Schneiderman, who keeps a detailed calendar to help organize the whole operation. “You just can’t believe or fathom what goes on these few weeks.”

Schneiderman’s love of music started when she was a teenager in the 1950s and ’60s, back in the days of American Bandstand and canteen shows. She met her husband — an electrical engineer who prefers classical music and opera — in 1964 and introduced him to the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle. She ran a music venue, Mishelli & Co., in Waukesha and spent countless hours supporting her sons’ musical pursuits.

“They were always pounding on the drums — we had to get earplugs,” she recalls. “I think they drummed their daddy crazy.”

In addition to raising two rockers, Schneiderman has also served as a surrogate mama to many artists over the years. Some of her favorite folks to see (and feed) backstage are local disco dance band V05 (which includes Isthmus arts and culture editor Catherine Capellaro), national blues act Sonny Knight & the Lakers and Madison tribute band Steely Dane.

And the bands love her back. “When I was booking Sonny, one of the reasons he said he’d play was the backstage hospitality,” Rökker says.

“I remember one year,” adds Schneiderman, “the Outlaws showed up the next morning at Rökker’s house for more pasta.”

Nobody appreciates a homecooked meal quite like a touring musician.

“This is fantastic,” says Dan Walkner, a guitarist with the local blues-country band Wrenclaw who was playing with Teddy Davenport on Saturday. “Backstage at a normal show, we’d be outside changing our shirts in an alley.”

Schneiderman’s hospitality reminds Walkner of his own mother and of all the other rock ’n’ roll moms who seem to live to support the music.

“They’re always the first ones out on the dance floor, the first ones to help out with anything,” Walkner says.

“That’s what it takes to make this community work.” n

MAMA RÖKKER’S BAND BISTRO STATS FROM 2016 ATWOODFEST Number of meatballs: 800 Loaves of garlic bread: 14 Amount of pasta and sauce: 10 GALLONS SAUCE, 15 POUNDS OF PASTA Rockers (and friends) fed: ABOUT 200

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Lost in translation Not all service providers are making interpretation available

BY DARIEN LAMEN

ISTHMUS.COM AUGUST 4–10, 2016

Alexis Wills had a job she loved. In January, the recent UW-Madison graduate started working for Family Service Madison, a respected, century-old nonprofit that provides behavioral health therapy services and assists other nonprofit organizations.

In the role of bilingual service coordinator for an early intervention program, Wills helped Spanish-speaking families whose children have developmental delays access therapy and other services.

“I loved going to work, and I went above and beyond in my job,” Wills says.

But she believes going above and beyond got her fired.

On May 20, Wills received a termination letter stating that her conduct had damaged Family Service Madison’s “professional business image in the community” and led to the “unanimous decision” to let her go.

In April, the Spanish-speaking mother of a child on Wills’ caseload told her she needed help making an appointment for her older child at Madison Orthodontic Centers, one of the only Medicaid providers in the area.

Wills contacted the orthodontist’s office and explained the family would need an interpreter.

According to an email from the orthodontist, Dr. Thomas Kuhn, “Alex told my receptionist it was mandatory to provide a translator and unlawful not to do so. My receptionist kept passing the information to me. I was not concerned. I speak a little Spanish. Also, translation can be provided quite easily on the internet. Plus, other Spanish-speaking people are usually available in our office.”

But after phone calls from Wills insisting that a trained interpreter, familiar with medical terminology, be there became “more frequent” and “increasingly hostile,” in Kuhn’s words, the orthodontist sent an email complaint to Russell King, president and CEO of Family Service Madison.

Two days later, Wills was fired.

She says it was the first and last complaint she received in her five months on the job.

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After coaxing from mentors, Wills sought out the Workers’ Rights Center in the hopes that they could help her get her job back. But attempts to resolve the matter informally deteriorated after King canceled a June 16 meeting with Wills and a third-party mediator, Salvador Carranza, a member of Voces de la Frontera.

Carranza says the broader issue is the difficulty Latinos often face in accessing services to which they’re entitled.

Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits providers who receive federal funding like Medicaid from discriminating on the basis of national origin, which has been interpreted to include limiting “meaningful access” to services for those with limited English proficiency (LEP). An executive order signed by President Bill Clinton in 2000 clarified the law and man-

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dated that federal agencies develop additional LEP guidelines for funding recipients.

Those guidelines allow hospitals, doctors and dentists some flexibility in exactly how they make interpretation services available — whether by video-stream or in person, for example — and in whether they must translate written documents. But in Carranza’s view, relying on the internet for translation or asking untrained staff to interpret falls short of the “meaningful access” standard.

“ We have more and more families coming from other countries to the area. This issue is not going away.”

— Salvador Carranza

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“Interpretation is totally different than translation,” Carranza says. “Health is a very complex language that needs to be interpreted properly. That’s why you need an interpreter that has the expertise in health terminology. That’s the bottom line.”

Latinos aren’t the only, or even the largest, demographic in Madison to whom federal LEP requirements apply. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for 2010 to 2014, nearly 6% of the city’s total population — more than 13,000 people — have limited proficiency in English.

LEP households, defined as those in which no one over age 14 speaks English “very well,” account for 3.5% of all households.

In Madison, 24% of LEP households are Spanish-speaking, while 32% speak Asian and Pacific Island languages, with Chinese and Hmong accounting for the largest subgroups.

“We have a lot of Hmong speakers who need interpretation services, and we have

more and more families coming from other countries to the area,” Carranza says. “This issue is not going away.”

A former civil rights compliance officer for a state agency in Wisconsin, who asked not to be identified, explains that the obligation to provide certain language services, such as translation of vital documents, depends on the concentration of LEP individuals within a service delivery area and on how critical the service is.

“One thing is a must: a doctor [who accepts federal funding] cannot refuse to hook up an interpreter to determine exactly what the need is. That provider needs to be able to assess what is the need and be able to provide access to the services.”

Although undocumented immigrants are covered by federal LEP requirements, many are reluctant to come forward with formal complaints in an era of increased deportations.

In such cases, they often end up “passing on the responsibility to nonprofits that are trying to help LEP individuals,” the former compliance officer says.

On June 26, following a public campaign by the Workers Rights Center to reinstate Wills, Family Service Madison’s CEO circulated a statement clarifying the reasons for dismissing her. Wills’ engagement with the orthodontist was simply outside her professional purview as well as the scope of the organization, King wrote.

“This child involved is not, nor ever has been, a client of Family Service Madison,” he wrote of the sibling needing orthodontic services.

“Ms. Wills was conducting private, personal advocacy for a non-client while working in a program paid for by federal funds specifically allocated to children living with disabilities,” the statement reads. “No matter how laudable the activity, the federal government does not allow these funds to be misdirected to advocacy activities or expended on non-clients.” King declined to comment further on the case.

Kaleem Caire, a Family Service Madison board member, says King has kept the board informed of the situation, and that he has its full support.

For his part, Carranza hopes a positive outcome for all — particularly the family — is still possible.

“Obviously, Family Service is providing very needed services to the community,” he says.

“The initial effort was to try to get some positive outcome for the young woman that was fired and for the family that was not... provided the services they’re entitled to.

I’m still hopeful that a positive solution is possible.” n

n WEEK IN REVIEW

■ MADISON MATRIX

MONDAY, AUG. 1

BIG CITY

n Jazzcat, a short-lived

A group of shareholders files a lawsuit against Fitchburg biotechnology company Promega and its CEO, Bill Linton, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.

TUESDAY, AUG. 2 n An anti-gentrification

vandal spray paints “CONDOS KILL WILLY” on the side of a new development at the corner of South Paterson and Williamson streets. They’re actually apartments, but nice try. n Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he’s “just not there yet” when it comes to endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan in the GOP primary. Trump also praises Ryan’s opponent, Paul Nehlen, giving the underdog candidate a boost of free publicity. Is it enough for an upset? n Gov. Scott Walker wants to extend the UW System tuition freeze through the 2017-19 state budget, and

state higher education officials are not happy about it. System President Ray Cross issues a plea: “Continued budget cuts and frozen tuition cannot be sustained.” n A body, later identified as Megann Schmitt, 35, is discovered in Lake Monona near the 1500 block of Morrison Street. Foul play is not suspected.

U.S. District Judge James Peterson strikes down parts of Wisconsin’s voter ID law, limits on early voting and prohibitions on allowing people to vote early at multiple sites.

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mascot for a marketing campaign promoting Madison’s Jazz at Five concert series, is euthanized after local musicians voice concern that the character promotes racist stereotypes and demeans jazz musicians, Tone Madison reports.

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The state Department of Natural Resources quietly scales back the scope of its plan to regulate manure spreading, the State Journal reports. The change comes after pressure from the farm lobby.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3 n Mayor Paul Soglin tells the

Wisconsin State Journal that he’s considering having the city take over the Oscar Mayer property when the facility closes in 2017. The buildings would be demolished and cleaned up with the help of federal funds, but not city tax dollars.

For the fifth year in a row, UW Hospital and Clinics is the state’s top hospital, according to U.S. News and World Report’s latest ranking.

It’s also among the nation’s top 50 hospitals in nine medical and surgical specialties.

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State Street crackdown City targets “bad behavior” in hangout popular with homeless

BY DYLAN BROGAN

ISTHMUS.COM AUGUST 4–10, 2016

Tyrone has lived in Madison for 30 years. For the past three weeks, he’s been sleeping outside. Like many other homeless residents, during the day he hangs out at the top of State Street near the small outdoor stage on the Mifflin Street side of the Capitol Square.

“Madison is a small town trying to grow. But it’s leaving the people who’ve fallen on hard times behind,” says Tyrone, who declined to give his last name. “They want us to leave here.

People would be ready and willing to move if the city alleviated the problem of having nowhere to go.”

The top of State Street is the latest pressure point for poverty and homelessness in Madison.

It’s a spot where people sleep, where outreach groups provide food and clothing, and where the homeless can find safety in numbers. It’s also a hotbed for crime and bad behavior, says Mayor Paul Soglin.

“Unfortunately, there is a lot of activity that’s not appropriate in most places but particularly in a public place,” Soglin says. “This includes consumption of alcohol and drugs. Sale of drugs.

And then some other behaviors that raise that probability of violence.”

The mayor is leading a crackdown on illicit behavior here, similar to recent purges at nearby Philosopher’s Grove and at the City County Building. This effort is supported by Mike Verveer, the district’s alder, as well the business community. Soglin also wants to bring in food carts to encourage other people to congregate there.

Others condemn the crackdown, calling it a waste of money that fails to address the real problem of poverty.

“We all want the same thing, for people to be in housing and off the streets. It’d be great if we could work together on that, but the mayor can’t get past his ego and antiquated ideas,” says Brenda Konkel, an advocate for the homeless.

“What we need is a mayor that stops wasting our time on ludicrous proposals that don’t have the votes. We need a mayor willing to sit down and openly discuss ideas that might not be his own.”

Soglin counters that homeless advocates are doing no favors for the homeless. “Some folks’ attitude on all this is ‘get over it. I’m morally superior to you because I can tolerate these behaviors and put up with it.’ The critics of what we are doing are saying that this is all about the city being oppressive and the city criminalizing homelessness. They are in complete denial.”

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Madison police Lt. Brian Austin says the department increased its presence at the top of State Street a few months ago. A squad car and officers are now a regular fixture at this spot, which is next to Isthmus’ office. He says many people causing problems are not homeless.

“We’ve given citations for depositing human waste, urination. Disorderly conduct for fighting.

Open intoxicants if we are finding people actively drinking. We’ve had people dealing synthetic marijuana and other drugs,” Austin says. “I’ve

Police have been increasingly visible at the top of State Street to address complaints about crime and conduct.

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talked to women who have admitted they are engaged in the business of prostitution.”

Casey, who also did not wish to give his last name, currently has housing but has lived on and off the streets in Madison for two decades. He spends most days at the top of State Street.

“State Street’s been the one hub where you can get your panhandling on, your little hustle on and you basically have three liquor stores around here where you can get your booze,” he says. “Most people don’t cause any trouble.”

On July 30, activists Miles Kristan and Mike Walton led a demonstration against the crackdown after $439 tickets were issued to individuals for “occupy[ing] planting area.”

“How is somebody supposed to pay that when they don’t have any money?” Walton asks.

“All you’re doing is kicking people out of one spot and not addressing the root cause,” says Kristan, who vows to launch a recall effort against Soglin. “The amount of money that it takes to police some unconstitutional policy like telling people they can’t sit on a certain spot, that money could be spent better on something that could be more productive.”

Austin says although “dozens of warnings” were given to people for sitting on the planter, only a few tickets have been written.

“Citation has not been our first line of attack on this. It’s just been talking to people and getting voluntary compliance,” he says.

“But we’ve received a lot of complaints about people sitting on the wall that are blocking

the sidewalk, harassing people and saying lewd things to women walking by.”

Carrie, who has been homeless for three months, was ticketed for sitting on the planter.

“This is where we feel safe. Everybody knows everybody. Not everyone is homeless, but most of us are. My homeless family looks out for me better than my real family, and that’s fucked up,” says Carrie. “We drink to take care of the pain.”

Tyrone says most of the cops are “sweet as pie” but there are a few bad apples. “[The police] come over. They intimitate by standing in front of you or besides you. Listening to your conversation. Looking like they are talking or being friendly. But they’re not,” he explains. “They are up here to do what the mayor told the police chief to do: Get rid of us when the prissy white folks come through.”

Austin says police are being forced to deal with deeper societal issues.

“We’re doing this because we have to,” he says. “There are people who are engaging in behavior that is ruining it for everyone.”

Tiffany Kenney, executive director of the Central Business Improvement District, says store owners and employees on the 100 block of State Street are negatively affected by people congregating in the area.

“This is about addressing behaviors at the top of State Street and not homelessness,” says Kenney. “We have been in support of the increased police presence because there hasn’t been any improvement in the behaviors after trying to work with that group to ask for some improvements.”

The BID holds several free public events intended to “positively activate” the space.

Kenney says the homeless have been welcome. The organization also held a meeting last week with homeless advocates, police, public officials and business owners.

“Not one person sitting in the meeting wants to give a homeless person a $400 ticket,” says Kenney. “No one has a miracle solution, but [everyone] understanding the complexity of the issue I think is going to be helpful.”

Soglin agrees that tickets are not the solution.

“We are not going to arrest our way out of this. It’s going to take more supervision and more mental health and substance abuse services. But we do need rules and regulations,” Soglin says. “Whether it’s the urinesoaked place, whether it’s the violence, whether it’s the harassment of pedestrians... it’s simply not tolerable. It’s very possible to have homeless people present without having these very challenging and in some cases dangerous behaviors.”

Tyrone says what the homeless really need are jobs.

“There are cranes all around us. The city should require that some of the general labor jobs go to the homeless,” Tyrone says.

“Give people something to do. Because you kick us out of one area, we’ll just go somewhere else.”

Soglin says he’s happy to kick some people out: “If we are pushing out drug dealers and we’re pushing out people with guns — that’s fine with me.” ■

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Teaching from a distance How technology is transforming education

BY JENNY PEEK

Education is going through radical changes. Chalkboards have evolved into SMART Boards, and massive open online courses (MOOCs) have replaced some classes.

Teachers and professors can lecture from across town or around the world.

While ostensibly a boon for educators, technology is also causing confusion and uncertainty.

“Technology can be disruptive, and a lot of these new innovative, instructional technologies have created a disruption within our traditional system,” says Les Howles, director of UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies’ Distance Education Professional Development. “It’s forcing us to think about teaching, learning and learners in new ways.”

The issue is broader than simply having access to technology, and the UW distance education team is trying to help educators make the most of online learning. One way is through the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning, slated for Monona Terrace, Aug. 9-11.

“What we do in layman’s terms is help educators teach more effectively online, using new technology tools,” says Howles.

Jeffrey Russell, vice provost for Lifelong Learning and dean of Continuing Studies, says new technologies have created more ways to create and organize content.

“There are a number of educational resources that are now available for somebody to design in their learning, to teach to a broader array of students and their needs,” says Russell. “It’s a really exciting space because it puts the students at the center.”

New teaching methods include incorporating videos into lesson plans or sending students to various online portals to practice specific concepts. It also includes “gamification” — a relatively new technique that adapts video game strategies for teaching.

“We really need to think about how can we adapt our instruction for a new generation,” says Howles.

While a majority of the work that the DEPD team does is directed towards higher education, the concepts and practices can be used at any level.

“Learning transcends generations,” Russell says. “If you’re in K-12, a technical college, in higher education or you’re in the public or private industry, learning cuts across all of that.”

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is seeing new technologies quickly moving into the classroom.

Ten years ago, very little technology was being used in the classroom, writes Janice Mertes, assistant director of Instructional Media Technology and Digital Learning at DPI in an email. Now, Wisconsin schools are using interactive display technology and integrating personal devices.

“Students are experiencing technology at all grade levels and in all content areas,” Mertes says. The challenge, she says, is to use the technology in effective ways to prepare students to be “career and college ready.”

Howles admits educators at UW are still finding their way. “We’re still pioneers in this area,” he says. “Not too many people on this campus are doing personalized learning or adaptive learning, but we’re all moving in that direction.”

Technology also makes it easier for teachers to monitor students by collecting data on their progress.

“Analytics is improving student success because students are tracked, and professors and teachers can be alerted if a student is struggling,” Howles says. “Once the teacher is alerted they can intervene, and intervening at the right time often makes a world of difference.”

All of these emerging technologies and practices will be discussed in detail at the distance teaching annual gathering at Monona Terrace.

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Same-sex couples need certainty under law Horror story on surrogacy ordeal shows need for Wisconsin statute changes

BY MARK SPREITZER Mark Spreitzer is a Democratic state representative from Beloit.

Recently, I read Judith Davidoff’s story detailing Jay Timmons’ and Rick Olson’s surrogacy ordeal. I also read numerous other posts and articles about their situation circulating the internet. Like many, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of shock and empathy for this couple.

Then, my disbelief turned to anger, and my anger to resolve.

Jay and Rick, a same-sex married couple attempting to gain access to rights finally recognized in Obergefell v. Hodges — the U.S. Supreme Court decision recognizing marriage equality — were searching for a state with sensible surrogacy and parentage laws. Unfortunately, they chose Wisconsin, where the laws are anything but. Jay and Rick were caught in a legal quagmire brought about by intolerance and arcane statutes.

At first, things went according to plan, as the couple secured an interim order granting legal parentage rights to their son, Jacob, in Dane County Circuit Court. That order was to be finalized upon the birth of the child. However, a new circuit court judge was appointed

by Gov. Scott Walker, and politics threatened to break up their family.

Judge Jim Troupis set aside the original paternity determination. This decision was a clear calculation by Troupis: With a harsh decision in opposition to a same-sex couple in Dane County, Troupis could bolster his conservative bona fides and be an appealing candidate for appointment to an open

Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Wanting to go a step further, Troupis appointed a special advocate for the unborn child, hand picking a lawyer from Waukesha who openly opposed same-sex marriage and believed justice must involve the Bible as much as it involved state law.

While the couple’s account of the story is heart-wrenching and elicits an “I can’t believe this” response, I believe they made one innocent mistake: They falsely believed that Wisconsin’s statutes were up-to-date and offered certainty for same-sex couples seeking equal parental rights.

Unfortunately for Jay and Rick, and countless others, this is not the case.

Wisconsin marriage and family law is simply ill-prepared to deal with modern families. Wisconsin often refers to spouses only as “husband and wife,” which means many same-sex couples like Jay and Rick must face expensive legal challenges, particularly when seeking parental rights.

Even when the determination of parental rights is

uncontested and amicable among all the parties involved, Jay and Rick’s ordeal demonstrates that a single activist judge pursuing a radical social agenda can use our out-of-date laws to cause real damage to real people.

However, preventing disasters like that brought on by Jim Troupis could easily be accomplished.

This past session, I introduced a bill called the Marriage and Family Equality Act, which would update Wisconsin law to account for marriage equality. The legislation changes references to “husband and wife” to “spouse” or “spouses” and therefore includes both same-sex and differentsex married couples. The bill ensures that the in-

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tent of Obergefell, legal marriage equality, will be a reality in Wisconsin even with people like Judge Troupis on the bench.

The changes included in the bill involve simple revisions to ordinary things like fishing licenses and income tax returns. It also clarifies the law relating to insurance coverage, retirement benefits, death benefits and medical assistance.

This bill would also bring clarity to parentage and family law. If passed, these changes will recognize equality for same-sex married couples and their children by eliminating the confusion caused by explicit references only to “husbands,” “wives,” “mothers” and “fathers.”

Same-sex married couples should not have to pay a lawyer and go to court to secure basic rights. Opposite-sex couples do not have to hire lawyers, file briefs or be deposed under oath in order to ensure the state recognizes their child as their legal child when no one contests parentage.

Next session, I look forward to reintroducing the Marriage and Family Equality Act so other families don’t have to suffer the ordeal that Jay and Rick went through. Why would we make it harder for loving families to raise a child? n

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Bill Lueders’ article about the Dane County DA’s race was important and timely (“A Heated Battle for Dane County DA,” 7/28/2016).

It is heartening to see scrutiny brought upon the office. The elephant in the room: the gross racial disparities that continue to be perpetrated under Mr. Ozanne’s administration.

Spouting racial justice language is different from actual justice. As the Race to Equity Report makes clear, Dane County continues to be a perilous place to be black. Embedded unjust legal processes — hidebound prosecutorial ways that go back decades — have only worsened under Mr. Ozanne’s tenure.

Race-driven charging decisions, overzealous prosecutions, extreme disparities in sentencing, all continue unabated under Ismael Ozanne. Voters have a chance to put a stop to it on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016.

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Losing game Wisconsin Republicans, you are playing a losing game. Your constant devastating cuts continue to ravage our beloved University of Wisconsin. I was deeply distressed when I learned in the recent Isthmus article “Time to Leave” (7/28/2016) that two more highprofile UW-Madison professors are departing for a more supportive university. Even worse, they are the co-directors of the groundbreaking UW-Madison Games + Learning + Society (GLS) Center. Ten million dollars in grants and another $1 million in private industry contracts will leave Wisconsin with them.

This loss is personal for me. My daughterin-law works at Filament Games, a Madison business founded in 2005 by two graduates of GLS. I have watched Filament grow rapidly.

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Bill Lueders has done again what he’s done so often before — take an involved issue and break it down, give accurate information, share all sides, and give the readers/voters what we need to decide who will have our vote. Journalism doesn’t get any better than this.

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tional Organization of Minority Architects to attract more young people to the profession.

Fusing hip-hop with architecture is not just about creating a new design style — one inspired by the 3D structure of graffiti or breakdancers’ poses — it’s about fostering fresh, out-of-thebox thinking. “There were tools and instruments that were not available to the pioneering hiphop artists,” explains Ford. “They didn’t have the traditional instruments — the trumpets or keyboards — so they looked to records and their parents’ turntables, and they were able to create a new style of music.”

Ford believes those drawn to architecture through hip-hop will be able to tap into that same ingenuity.

“People in this generation, people like me, are looking to make a name for themselves in architecture, but we don’t have the reach or the resources — so, how can we go about it in a totally different way?”

His end goal isn’t just about jobs — it’s about empowering people of color.

“The people that are developing our communities don’t represent the diversity within the communities,” says Ford. “No one who looks like them is sitting at the table to represent their ideas or make sure their interests are being upheld during the discussions.”

CLASS IS OUT FOR THE SUMMER, BUT MICHAEL FORD IS STILL IN TEACHING — AND RECRUITING — MODE.

FORD HAS BEEN STUDYING the intersection of urban

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culture and design since his undergraduate years at the University of Detroit Mercy.

In the past few years, Ford has published articles and lectured — with the aid of a DJ spinning rap — at conferences and colleges, including the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Syracuse University, UW-Milwaukee and University of Illinois at Urbana.

In 2014, he curated an exhibit at the annual convention of the American Institute of Architects called “Cultural Innovation: Hip-Hop Inspired Arts and Architecture.” He’s also created an extensive website for his company, BrandNu Design, which includes conceptual renderings for hip-hop-infused spaces and a blog.

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The Madison College professor of architecture is meeting a recent East High graduate at the DreamBank downtown to chat about careers. The student had been leaning toward engineering, but Ford is pushing him to consider a different kind of design.

Ford shows him examples of architecture from around the world using Google Cardboard virtual reality goggles. He also shares a copy of Pharrell Williams’ Places and Spaces I’ve Been, and tells him to go home and pick out things in the book that interest him.

And he sets him straight on one thing.

“There won’t be students who look like you, and there are very few professors who look like you,” he told the young man. “But that’s exactly why we need you.”

Like Ford, the prospective student is black.

When it comes to the numbers, Ford isn’t exaggerating.

Only 4% of the more than 107,000 architects in the United States are African American, according a 2015 report from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Ford calls the lack of other African Americans in the field the “biggest hurdle.”

“Dealing with that and being able to cope with it is hard,” he says. “So, you have to find a way to make architecture relatable to you, to make it your own.”

“I did that by bringing hip-hop into my work,” continues Ford, who’s dressed in a simple Ralph Lauren T-shirt and black Nike Air Max sneakers. “They call me the hip-hop architect.”

Ford, a Detroit native, is gaining a national reputation for helping develop an architectural style and philosophy — “hiphop architecture” — that he believes will open up the field to new voices and collaborative approaches, creating more inclusive planning processes. He was recently tapped to lead the design process for a high-profile project, a new hip-hop museum in the Bronx, N.Y., and is developing a local program through the Na-

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COVER STORY Ford emphasizes that hip-hop architecture is an emerging style. But he says it relies on two hip-hop pillars: breakdancing and street art, aka graffiti.

“Graffiti provides a precedent for 3D shapes in geometry that are unprecedented in architecture,” he says, adding that elements like drop shadows and bevels “create presence.”

And Ford says the poses of breakdancers also provide valuable insight. “We need to investigate their poses because there must be some kind of stability to them. And, if we can understand it, can we scale it up to create new architecture — or even furniture?”

Ford is not alone in his quest to reimagine architecture. Sekou Cooke, an architect and professor at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture in New York, and others are also actively pursuing the fusion of hip-hop and architecture. But the merger is very much in its infancy.

“It’s an uphill climb. You have to have clients who will embrace your vision, that will allow you to practice and produce your work over and over again,” says Craig Wilkins, an author and professor of architecture and urban planning of the University of Michigan. “I believe that those who really want to practice hip-hop architecture are going to be looking for projects in communities that will allow them to practice this kind of work,” explains Wilkins. “[That] means they’re going to be working in areas that really need some architectural and development interventions and that also allow people of color to not only be a client, but also be an owner and a designer.”

Ford, says Wilkins, “needs the right client and the right project to show the world what he can do.”

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AS FORD SEES IT, ARCHITECTURE — or,

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more accurately, bad architecture — created hip-hop.

“Hip-hop and architecture are seemingly unrelated, but when understood, it’s impossible to break the two from each other,” he says. “[Architects] provide the spaces that dictate interactions between people, and those interactions between people are the basis of culture.”

Bronx housing projects incubated early hip-hop artists in the 1970s, says Ford.

“When you look at the design of public housing, it’s modular, very nondescript.

That became the definition of public housing across the urban landscape,” he explains.

“It’s tall, brick towers that lack detail — those towers became the cultural incubators.”

In his graduate school thesis, “Cultural Innovation: A Hip-Hop Inspired Architecture,” Ford dug deeper. He found that the idea for low-income housing projects started with Swiss architect Le Corbusier, a pioneer of modern architecture who designed a set of high-rise housing units for Paris.

While the French dismissed Le Corbusier’s monotonous designs, a New York city planner named Robert Moses adopted them and used the design concepts to construct many of New York City’s housing projects.

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“I call Moses’ implementation of Corbusier’s plan the worst remix ever,” says Ford. “The policies within public housing, along with the architecture, had a huge role in birthing hiphop culture. Hip-hop was born from these bad environments.”

Of course, the architects who designed public housing felt differently about them.

“I’ve gone back to look at videos, books and things created by architectural historians who described [the low-income housing] as the perfect solution for urban areas, and I use hip-hop as this counterargument to say, ‘No, actually you created some of the worst architecture and environments imaginable.’”

“GOOD ARCHITECTURE PROTECTS AND LIBERATES ITS INHABITANTS.”

— MICHAEL FORD

Ford looks to rap songs for evidence to support his theory. Take Grandmaster Flash’s “The Message,” for example, which speaks to the hopeless atmosphere of housing projects: “You’ll grow in the ghetto, livin’ second-rate/ And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate/The places you play and where you stay looks like one great big alleyway.”

“When the designers created their low-income housing projects, like where Jay Z grew up [called the Marcy Houses], they envisioned

fields of grass,” says Ford. “But the towers they built blocked out the sun and no grass could grow, so they just became dirt fields, and as [Jay Z] says, shards of glass replaced those blades of grass.”

FORD GREW UP IN HIGHLAND PARK,

a poor neighborhood in Detroit. He lived with his parents and four sisters in a flat above a supper club, and his introduction to hip-hop came early. “On Friday nights, the club hosted a ‘kid disco,’ and on Saturday nights, it was the 21-andup crowd,” he recalls. “There was a common area from our apartment that led down some stairs to the club, and next to that dark stairway was the DJ booth.”

He and his cousins would sneak down to watch the action. “We found the sweet spot on the stairs where the DJ couldn’t see us but we could watch everyone dancing.”

Songs forever stuck in his memory from those days in the mid-’80s include “Planet Rock” by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force, “It Takes Two” by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock and, of course, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang. “I could hear these songs from my bedroom and hear the bass thumping. It was like the sound was drawing me to come down and see what was happening.”

He had always wanted to become an automotive designer. But after taking a few architec-

ture classes at Cass Technical, a large public high school in Detroit, he was hooked.

He pursued that interest to college, where he began to make the connection between the music and culture he’d grown up in and his chosen profession. “Architecture is like a tree with branches that are different styles.”

But none of those branches seemed relevant to him. “In architecture school, you study a lot of Western European architects and learn they’re the greatest architects, the greatest thinkers and the greatest city planners,” says Ford. “So, you always feel as though your community had very little contribution — and you’re given very little hope that you’re going to have any contribution because all the great thinkers don’t look like you.”

In grad school, Ford had his epiphany.

“Hip-hop was my vessel to allow me to revisit the history of architecture and tell it from the eyes of hip-hop culture. And it also gave me the opportunity to create a new architectural style that’s not dominated by someone outside of me.”

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“goes beyond bricks and mortar. Good architecture protects and liberates its inhabitants.”

After grad school, Ford landed a job in Detroit with Hamilton Anderson Associates, one of the country’s largest black-owned architecture firms, where he worked on projects that embodied his ideas of “good architecture.” He was on the team that designed Wayne County Community College’s Larry K. Lewis Education Center in Detroit and the Louis Armstrong Park and Congo Square in New Orleans. The college project is significant for its groundbreaking environmental design; it was the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) platinum building in the state of Michigan. And creating a jazz park in New Orleans was important for historic reasons.

At one point, Congo Square was the only place where slaves were allowed to congregate to make music on Sundays.

Ford also found support for his ideas of melding hip-hop and architecture. Coowner Rainy Hamilton Jr. pushed him to give his first lecture on the topic at a conference of the National Organization of Minority Architects in 2007. Ford also taught architecture courses for his alma mater.

He married in 2009, and he and his wife, Gail, moved to Madison in 2010 so Ford could take a job with Flad Architects, where he helped design hospitals and research laboratories.

In 2014, Ford accepted a full-time professorship at Madison College, where he had been teaching part time.

He favors a collaborative approach in the classroom. “Other professors kind of want you to sit and watch, but he has us all do it together as a class so when someone gets stuck, we all learn from it and figure out how to fix it,” says Allison Eicher, a student in Ford’s computer design class.

As an added bonus for hip-hop fans, Ford’s classes have a soundtrack. “He’s always playing it in the background — new, old and everything in-between,” says Eicher. “You can tell he plays it not just because he wants us to know about it, but that he really loves it.”

Ford says his students inspire his own creativity, and he enjoys helping young people explore the field: “Their imagination is wide open and not as inhibited by constraints such as budgets or programmatic ideas that the clients may come in with.” Teaching, he adds, allows time “to research and explore things that the profession might not be ready for.”

Thus far Ford’s hope to educate a new generation of black architects is still a dream. “In the two years since I’ve been there, there have been six African American [architecture] students out of about 200 students [I’ve taught],” says Ford. “One has graduated. Only one.”

That’s part of the reason why Ford is backing the proposed expansion of the college’s south campus. He believes it would be a step in the right direction for all students of color, regardless of their field of study.

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WHEN FORD LECTURES ON THE ROAD, A DJ SPINS RAP. “There’s an obvious deficit when it comes to minorities [at Madison College] — not just with students but also with instructors,” says Ford.

And when it comes to his chosen field, step one is to expose children of color to the promise of architecture. “One of the key things that can improve diversity is letting children know this is a field they can get involved with and a field that needs you and wants you,” he says.

But Ford isn’t waiting for others to reach out to young students. He and another black architect, Rafeeq Asad of Flad Associates, are creating a local chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects; they hope to implement a program called Project Pipeline by the end of summer. Historically, the NOMA program has been offered to juniors and seniors in high school, but Ford and Asad’s version may include students as young as 12 years old.

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a Madison College colleague to be the architect for the Universal Hip-Hop Museum in the Bronx, Ford has a prime opportunity to put his theories into action.

Hip-hop pioneer Kurtis Blow, one of the museum’s founding members, says Ford is the perfect fit for the project.

“We get the best of both worlds with Michael Ford. He grew up in the culture, he knows hip-hop, he lives hip-hop, he feels it with his heart, and he is one of the best in his business,” says Blow, who’s best known for creating the rap classic “The Breaks.”

Slated to open in a couple years, the museum is currently securing funds for remodeling an old courthouse. Ford recently facilitated planning meetings in New York City that included students from Madison College’s architecture program and the UW’s First Wave initiative. Instead of using the traditional architectural term “charrette,” the group dubbed the brainstorm sessions “design cyphers” — a nod to rap cyphers, where emcees spit their latest lyrics in an

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effort to improve their delivery and outdo each other.

The students created 3D renderings for the museum that include a large outdoor plaza called “The Corner” — a reference to the city street corners where many rappers got their start. The idea is to create a flexible space to showcase different art installations, live performances and serve as a beacon for the museum.

Inside, designers envision subway cars that will serve as virtual canvases for graffiti, including art created by museum visitors, among many other hip-hop-related exhibits.

Having the museum’s end-users — hiphop fans, students and rap artists themselves — involved in the design process will help ensure the project’s success. Useful, functional architecture “is determined by the people who occupy the space,” says Ford.

Ford might also end up playing a big role in another arm of the museum. He was recently named a finalist for a $200,000 “Place By Design” grant from SXSW Eco (an offshoot of the annual South By Southwest multimedia conference held in Austin, Texas) to create “The UHHM Mobile Museum,” a traveling installation that will collect stories and artifacts for the Bronx museum.

For Ford, the hip-hop museum is just the beginning.

All it would take for hip-hop architecture to truly take off, he says, would be one large project, a building created from the ground up that incorporates the aesthetics and innovative nature of hip-hop. Maybe it will take a big name getting involved. Pharrell and Kanye West have both expressed an interest in the field, and, interestingly, Ice Cube once studied architectural drafting.

“Once a project is done in tandem with a hip-hop artist, that architect is going to receive a lot of attention,” Ford says. And that publicity will invigorate and energize a new generation of architects, he predicts: “We’re going to create architecture that hasn’t been seen before.

And I don’t mean just visually, I mean programmatically — we’ll be creating architecture that enables and empowers communities.” n

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indirect fire and designating targets,” he says.

“Many vets come back very disheartened,” says Acheson. “Providing good food to my community is much better service than anything I did in the military.”

Crystal Colon works full-time at the farm, located across from Governor Nelson State Park.

She volunteered there during its first season.

“After spending several years in a destructive military culture, it’s refreshing to now be giving life to things,” she says. “I enjoy learning how

to produce food for myself, my family and my community. And the farm has been a key part of my military-to-civilian transition.” Colon also values “being around other vets that may understand your struggles.”

Peacefully Organic grows more than 190 varieties of vegetables, which are sold primarily as shares to 130 CSA members — mostly veterans, employees of the VA Hospital or Dryhootch, the veteran peer support group. The farm also employs two veterans full-time and

has six veteran worker-share members.

The farm is also raising about 125 free-range meat chickens and 25 heritage turkeys. Five heritage hogs from Pecatonica Valley Farms are the latest addition. They are out on pasture and eat spent grain from the nearby Parched Eagle brewpub.

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Peacefully Organic is more than a CSA. The veteran-led farm on County Highway M offers former soldiers a community and a sense of stability.

“It’s therapeutic to put your hands in the soil,” says Peacefully Organic co-owner Stephanie Krueger.

Her husband and partner in the farm, Steven Acheson, is a veteran of the Iraq War. He was a forward observer — “those who do most of the calling in of field artillery and

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On every visit I’ve made to the Lone Girl Brewing Company, someone in my party has gasped audibly upon seeing the shiny new facade stretching down the block toward the railroad tracks. It’s that kind of a build-out, one that probably wouldn’t be possible in the world of Madison real estate prices. Out in Waunakee, you can do something this visually impressive as a first act.

Distance is both the primary boon and a potential obstacle to Lone Girl’s success.

Waunakee is far enough away from even the north Madison brewery corridor (Karben4, Ale Asylum) to draw its own audience. The Parched Eagle in Westport and Octopi Brewing, also in Waunakee, have taprooms, but with limited menus of pizza and snacks. The Lone Girl has an expansive menu.

And its beautiful location in the revitalizing downtown has been a big draw for locals. Brisk crowds have marked all of my visits. It’s a family-friendly operation, already a sponsor to at least one sports team.

It’s that kind of place.

But it may not be exceptional enough to pull in crowds from Madison or Middleton.

The beers are uncomplicated and drinkable, like good homebrew often is. Off the Rails is a sudsy, modestly hopped IPA. Pipe Dreams is an even more impressive session-y pale ale, clean and mild.

I heard Sweet Baby Stout pitched to a nearby table as “not as dark as Guinness,” as if the waitstaff is trying to allay “I don’t like dark beers” sentiment. It’s exactly as dark as Guinness, just a little sweeter — which is probably what the server was getting at. As far as sweetly fruited wheat beers, the Summer Lovin’ mango wheat ale is a solid quencher.

The Lone Girl food menu, slow to finalize into its current form, is tidy and doesn’t overreach.

What the menu labels as “Taproom” seems most like an appetizer section, though the plates are quite large. Cheese curds are uniformly small, crunchy and occasionally prone to leaking out of their breading in the fryer. Three moderately sized pretzels arrive piping hot and appealingly crisp on the outside. Their interiors are soft, and there’s no shortage of butter holding the salt in place.

Don’t consider the crab cakes as an appetizer; they’re a full entree in reality, fat pucks padded out with a lot of bread and large pieces of onion and bell pepper.

I don’t mind the filler in this dining environment, but the cakes should be better seasoned, better seared — or both.

I expect a buffalo chicken sandwich to be at least spicy, if not fried. Lone Girl’s version is neither, and the chicken is diced into a loose salad. Skip it. The burgers are better, CAROLYN FATH prepared in the increasingly popular smashed style. InterSteak in the tacos is marinated in Sweet Baby Stout. nally juicy and cooked right to the requested temperature, the Girl’s food menu: It’s overpriced. A modest Smash & Grab burger is a Big Mac clone — meal for a table of three averaged out to read that menu description with a song in over $25 per person with tip. Lone Girl is your voice. While the patty could use more nice, but not that nice. salt, it’s an enjoyable bite all the same.

Even so, it’s a little easier to keep people Flour tortilla tacos are available with steak happy in a smaller market, and everything or seared cod. Cod is unlikely to be the next big here is designed to make people happy. fish taco thing, as the stronger fish flavor rides There’s better pub food to be had in Madiroughshod over the more delicate, fresh ingreson. There are better beers to be had in dients. Steak was a better fit, medium rare and Madison. But while the Lone Girl continues tender (though, again, underseasoned). to refine its operation, it should still prove a A small ramekin of guacamole, while quite draw in Waunakee, not in small part to its good, was an additional three dollars, and that welcoming, palatial space on Main Street. ■ speaks to an overarching criticism of the Lone

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A full weekend of activities including tours of farms led by Wisconsin women, workshops and farm-to-table meals. Highlights: Taste of the Place at Cow & Quince Restaurant in New Glarus (Friday), Dinner on the Farm at Sandhill Family Farms in Brodhead (Saturday) and wood-fired pizzas and sandwiches at Inn Serendipity in Browntown (Sunday). Various locations; see soilsisters.wix.com/soilsisters for more details.

Nibble on fresh tomatoes from Voss Organics while sipping tomato-friendly wines. Sample all six wines or select two glasses for $14. At Table Wine, 2045 Atwood Ave., 5:30-7:30 pm.

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lish farmers’ markets at UW Hospital and Clinics, the VA Hospital and Meriter; at the VA Hospital, the vendors are all vets.

Peacefully Organic has held several fundraisers to underwrite the cost of providing vegetable shares to veterans. In 2014, the farm first teamed with musician and veteran Jason Moon and his nonprofit Warrior Songs project (which sets stories provided by veterans to music) and held a concert on the farm, funding 11 shares. The goal for this year’s “Veggies for Vets” fundraiser on Aug. 13 is to raise enough money to fund 20 shares and to help the “Farmacy” program at the VA Hospital, in which dieticians distribute vouchers to diabetic or overweight veterans to redeem at the farm stand at the VA’s market.

Veggies for Vets, says Arm, “fits in perfectly with our commitment to be of true service to our communities and of direct help to our veteran brothers and sisters.” He calls it “a tremendously uplifting experience, our way of encouraging our community to set aside the yellow ribbons and parades and support the troops in a way that is meaningful, healing and consequential for all of us.”

The day on the farm includes music from the Guitars 4 Vets Band, Greg Thornburg, Jason Moon, Tairis, American Feedbag and the Gambol; kids activities; tours of the farm; food; beers from the Parched Eagle, Karben4 and Next Door Brewing; vegetables for sale and more.

Acheson, who has been coping with posttraumatic stress (he doesn’t like calling it a “disorder”), says that the farm has “made me feel like things were going to be okay, like I could once again find a way to not only productively serve my country, but more importantly, our community.” He hopes Peacefully Organic will attract other veterans who feel the same way. “I feel like this farm is way more purposeful than anything I did while deployed, no question.” n

Big win for Little Mountain Roelli nabs top honors

BY JANE BURNS

A Wisconsin cheese rose to the top of the mountain last week, besting more than 1,800 competitors.

Little Mountain, made by Roelli Cheese Co. of Shullsburg, was named Best of Show at the American Cheese Society conference in Des Moines. It’s a raw, cow’s milk cheese with a smooth, nutty flavor that is a tip of the hat to cheesemaker Chris Roelli’s Swiss heritage. It’s his take on a cheese called Appenzeller, from the Appenzell region of Switzerland.

“This is everything,” Roelli said after winning the award. “It’s everything for everyone who ever had our back. Every crappy day is now better.”

The cheese is made in 15-pound wheels that age for eight to 14 months. The winning wheel had aged for nine months, Roelli said.

Roelli, a fourth-generation cheesemaker, made his mark in the artisanal cheese world in 2008 when he debuted Dunbarton Blue. The cheddar-blue has become his company’s signature cheese and was followed three years later by another cheddar blue, Red Rock.

Little Mountain is Roelli’s third- or fourth-best-selling product, and it’s probably about to get a lot more popular. Roelli had 1,200 pounds of it in the cellar, in various stages of aging, when he won the award last Friday.

“He’s going to be making a lot more of it now,” says his wife, Kris.

The cheese is currently in stock at Fromagination, for $30 a pound. It will also soon be on the shelf at Metcalfe’s Market.

Demand was such that the company’s website crashed over the weekend. On Monday, Chris Roelli sent a letter to distributors saying that until recently the cheese had been marketed only locally and plans are in place to increase production. He also asked them to be patient.

“It has overwhelmed us, but it is a great problem to have,” he said in the note to distributors.

Roelli’s honor capped a good week for Wisconsin cheesemakers. State producers earned 28 blue ribbons in 108 categories, and won 104 overall ribbons.

Another top winner, Jeffs’ Select Gouda from Caves of Faribault, Minnesota, also had a Wisconsin connection. The cheese, which was in a third-place tie for Best of Show, is a collaboration between Jeff Wideman of Maple Leaf Cheese in Monroe, who makes the cheese that is then aged by Jeff Jirik at the Caves of Faribault.

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When Acheson was growing up on a dairy farm in the Fox Valley, he maintained a large garden for his family and grew sweet corn and giant pumpkins to sell to the public.

After the 9/11 attacks, Acheson, then 18, enlisted — hoping, he says, to “be close to the frontlines and go kill Osama bin Laden.”

While in service, he was injured (to date, he’s had three back surgeries). He also became disillusioned with the American presence in Iraq: “When you’re on the ground and see the carnage and the aftermath of what we did, that starts to wear on you over time. I saw the Iraqi people for what they are: Humans who want to be happy and provide for their families.”

Acheson was introduced to Iraq Veterans Against the War while still on active duty. In 2007, he came home and enrolled as a student at UW-Fox Valley, where he met Krueger, a full-time student and single mother.

Krueger had joined a CSA just before they started dating, wanting to know how her food was grown and that it was organic.

She and Acheson started thinking about how they could combine her passion for good, organic, local food with his work with Iraq Veterans Against the War. After Krueger graduated, the two headed to Madison. Acheson stumbled upon a job on the farm that they now run. At the time it was operated by a disabled veteran whose field manager had walked off the month before. The fields were all weeds, but with help from other veteran friends, Acheson got them producing again. However, their boss didn’t want to remain in the CSA business.

Local developer Terrence Wall owns the land; he approached Krueger and Acheson and offered to lease it and the dilapidated house on it for free if they worked the fields.

Acheson fixed the house. This is their third

year on the land, and business is good. There’s a waiting list for shares next year.

Ron Arm, a Vietnam veteran, volunteers at Peacefully Organic. Working there gives him a way to deal with his PTSD pain, he says. “As soldiers we destroyed, but now we’re building and producing something of value to our country and community. That is the way we really ‘serve.’”

Best of Show winners Kris (left) and Chris Roelli.

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Madison’s west side can be a challenging place for wannabe cocktail snobs like me to drink. Imagine my delight, then, when an old high school pal recommended the mint vodka lemonade at Gates and Brovi. I almost always order a burger when I go there for lunch, even though something about the place — the lobster boat décor and the alluring aroma of fried seafood — reminds me of summers on Long Island.

And you know what drink pairs perfectly with that fantasy? Fresh mint muddled into Stolichnaya Citros vodka with juiced lemons, just enough simple syrup to take the edge off the sour and a splash of soda to top it off.

The drink is more minty than lemony, and personally, I could have used more lemon. But I had plenty of time to scrutinize the herbal-to-sour flavor ratio, because the drink is served in a nice, tall beer mug. Cool and refreshing doesn’t just describe the surf in Montauk. When I put my ear to the stein, I could almost hear the ocean.

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The Trader Gus gas station, 5420 Willow Rd., in Westport, is currently closed, but Athens Gyros (the food stand located within the former Shell station) lives on! Athens Gyros is now serving homemade Greek cuisine next to the filling station from a truck. Several patio tables are available for “dining in.” A brick-and-mortar Greek restaurant is being built nearby.

If you’re hoping to stop by Sophia’s Bakery & Cafe, 831 E. Johnson St., before owner Sophia Barbas retires, you still have time. It was

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The Breakwater, 6308 Metropolitan Lane, is serving farm-to-table pub fare and craft cocktails in Monona on the banks of the Yahara River. Brandon Reid, former chef for Heritage Tavern and Coopers Tavern, is a co-owner and the executive chef.

announced last month that the weekendonly breakfast hot spot is seeking a new owner after two decades in business. Becky Parmentier, Barbas’ daughter, who is often found behind the register, says there is no definite timeline for closing, and they intend to take their time finding the right new proprietor.

A-OK Sunshine & Spirits, 829 E. Washington Ave., is getting a new name and new operators. Gwen and Kyle Johnson, who also own Johnson Public House, are parting ways with the building’s owner, Jon Reske. The coffeehouse will be renamed and become more food-focused. The Johnsons are looking for a new location for A-OK but have no definitive plans yet.

Closed Dale Beck has closed The Bayou, 117 S. Butler St., to spend more time on his latest project: Lagartos, 802 Atlas Ave. The Latin American restaurant hosts DJs, dance nights and other entertainment.

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“These games will be the best games we have ever played,” DeByl says. “The top players in the U.S. and Canada play on the teams coming in, and this is our chance to measure ourselves versus those players.”

The Radicals have represented the AUDL’s seven-team Midwest Division at Championship Weekend all four seasons of their existence but have never won the league title.

This weekend, DeByl says, the Radicals will need to generate greater offensive productivity than Madison did against San Jose in last year’s championship game. Once you fall behind in ultimate, it’s tough to come back, because of the sport’s high-scoring nature.

Falling behind is not something the Radicals have experienced for a long time, and they don’t intend to start now. As DeByl reminded me, “It’s also been a long time since a Madison team in any sport has won a championship.” ■

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About 10 years ago, when I was driving for Union Cab, I picked up a passenger near State Street. He had a self-confident demeanor that grabbed my attention. During the ride, “Danny” let on that he was going to sing with his band that night. Having played music for three decades, I had to ask: “What band do you play with?” Without hesitation, he said he was the vocalist for the Gomers. What Danny didn’t know was that I, too,was headed to the High Noon later — and that I’d been belting it out there for the last several Tuesdays. I was pretty sure he was not, in fact, a member of the Gomers.

But that sense of belonging is exactly what the band was after when they created Rockstar Gomeroke in 2004.

On July 29, the Gomers played a marathon “Goodbye for Now” Gomeroke that marked the beginning of an indefinite hiatus for the band. From 5 p.m. until bartime, the merry pranksters played five sets of live-

band karaoke to a sold-out crowd. Highlights from the night: keyboardist Dave Adler’s spirited version of “Jewish Rapper,” a singing polar bear and shark duo, and a patron requiring CPR during Michael Massey’s rendition of “Rocket Man.” It was Massey’s wife, Robin, who saved the stricken patron’s life.

Stepping onstage at Rockstar Gomeroke for the first time was like your best friend throwing you the keys to his tricked-out Chevelle SS as he climbed into the passenger seat. If you were judicious on that throttle, you might emerge from the experience alive. If you were ill prepared, you might end up in a ditch. The Gomers were the guard rails, bouncing you back onto the road. With applause in your ears, that powerful V-8 was still glug-glugglugging and ready for more. Your friend patted you on the back with a smile and invited the next lucky partygoer to step behind the wheel. You survived and stumbled back into the party with adrenaline-dilated eyes, ready for a shot of bourbon.

The singers were an eclectic assemblage of oddballs. You could usually pick out the first-

The author salutes the band at the final performance.

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need lyrics, and strutted around the stage impersonating the rock stars they were channeling. A number of singers came in as shy amateurs and developed into fearless howlers. A choice few even gained nicknames. Adler dubbed me “Sir Tom” and welcomed me on stage with horn lines worthy of royalty. I had been knighted.

The Gomers’ lineup was fluid. Some nights the stage was teeming with Gomers, other nights singers fronted a power trio.

Founding member bassist Gordon Ranney rarely missed a Gomers show, but tragically left us for that great gig in the sky on Feb. 28 after a two-year battle with lung cancer.

His departure likely brought about the end of Gomeroke.

Bandmates are going in their own directions, to other musical endeavors and their families. On Friday, there were tears and hugs, and a tight-knit community of fans is left wondering how to fill the gaping hole in our lives. Thank you, Gomers, past and present, who allowed so many people to get their five minutes of fame. n

Citywide talent show Overture’s Rising Stars hopes to discover new artists

BY JAY RATH

Attention, fire-eaters, head-bangers, belly dancers and plate spinners: Overture needs you.

In fact, no matter what your talent is, Overture Center for the Arts invites you to take part in its annual Rising Stars competition.

“It’s an opportunity for a little artist development for people who may never have had the opportunity to audition for anything,” says Emily Goretski, Overture’s programming and community engagement

coordinator. The competition is open to anyone age 6 and up, and has three different categories: music, dance and variety.

Prizes include cash awards and various levels of membership in Broadjam, a Madison-based promotional website for independent musical artists.

The competition debuted in 2013 as part of Overture’s 10th anniversary celebration. Approximately 200 artists try out annually. One of the most unusual acts came in the first year’s competition: an acrobat performing on a huge upright wheel, termed a “German wheel” in circus parlance.

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Patience and persistence Pat Zietlow Miller releases two new children’s books

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Long before she sold her first picture book, Sophie’s Squash — a story about a child’s bond with her favorite fruit that went on to win seven awards — Pat Zietlow Miller was a mother of two who sat on her living room floor and studied every picture book she could find. She paid attention to plot structure, where pages turned and how problems were resolved at the end.

“I read everything Kevin Henkes ever wrote,” Miller, 47, says about the famed Madison children’s author. “Kevin is a topshelf picture book writer. He’s in a different hemisphere than I am.”

Readers of Miller’s five picture books might disagree. In fact, with Henkes releasing a 20th-anniversary edition of Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, and former Isthmus editor Dean Robbins and Miller publishing critically

acclaimed titles this year, Madison could be in its own children’s book hemisphere.

In 2016, the Fitchburg-based author published two books. The Quickest Kid in Clarksville is about two girls growing up in segregated Tennessee in 1960, shortly after African American sprinter Wilma Rudolph became the first woman from the United States to win three gold medals at the same Olympics. Sophie’s Squash Go to School is a sequel to Sophie’s Squash, in which Sophie takes her two zucchini squash, named Bonnie and Baxter, to school with her.

Miller’s story is not one of overnight success; in fact, she wrote her first picture book manuscript at age 19, received one rejection letter and gave up for 20 years.

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Defying convention Alex Connelly’s exhibit frees the mind

BY CHELSEY DEQUAINE

Drop the wall between what you think you should be seeing, and just see. Just feel.

See the crashes of maroon and forest green divided by a red line in “The Field Where I Died.” Feel a sense of sorrow, regret and mourning. See the ink and colored pencil of “Unanticipated Knees” and “Albino Asparagus.” Feel provoked. Feel amused.

That was my experience at multidisciplinary artist Alex Connelly’s exhibit, Spoonfuls of Those Golden Raisins.

The solo exhibition of illustrations and works on canvas opened July 29 and will

be on view through Aug. 20 at Drunk Lunch, a design shop and gallery at 807 E. Johnson St. “I would rather have someone feel love or feel hate about my art than to feel indifference,” Connelly says at his opening reception, speaking above Drake’s “Hotline Bling” as a patron cracks a PBR. Born and raised in Madison, Connelly, 30, completed his BFA at the University of Vermont in Burlington in 2009 with a focus on photography, painting and mixed media.

Calling his studio an “area of instrument,” Connelly liberates his mind, incorporating unconventional artistic media such as makeup, coffee, mangos and hot chocolate. “I don’t like

more books are on the way, beginning in 2018.

As The Quickest Kid in Clarksville proves, Miller aims for diversity in her books. And Sophie’s new friend in Sophie’s Squash Go to School is an African American boy. “Children’s books are overwhelmingly white, and that’s not the face of our youth anymore,” says Miller, who is white. “I think any kid should be able to pick up a picture book and see themselves in it.”

In addition to striving to be inclusive, she also aims for subtlety in her writing.

“I read manuscripts that have a line in them like, ‘And that’s why you should always brush your teeth,’ and I don’t want that,” Miller says.

“Picture books succeed when they have a universal truth or emotion in them, when anybody can pick them up and say, ‘Okay, maybe I’ve never fallen in love with a butternut squash, but I remember when I was a kid feeling that way about a blanket or a teddy bear. Nobody’s too old for a picture book.” n

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“This collection surpassed my expectations,” she says. Spoonfuls is Drunk Lunch’s second exhibit in the designated rear space of the shop, fourth total. Exhibits rotate after three weeks. Drunk Lunch is booked through early April.

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If all the world’s a stage, then how about opera in your garage?

Fresco Opera Theatre will present its own production of Snow White at five area garages this month. The performances are meant to ease newcomers into opera. “If you’ve never been to a show before, this is as easy as it’s going to get,� says Fresco artistic director Melanie Cain. “You don’t have to dress up. You can bring the chair that you’re comfortable in. The kids will love it, and it’s only about 45 minutes.�

First, though, Fresco will present an innovative performance at Olbrich Botanical Gardens from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9. Concertgoers strolling the lush grounds will come upon scenes from Rusalka, Serse, Turandot, LakmĂŠ and The Marriage of Figaro.

Stand, listen and then proceed. The concert is free, but Olbrich suggests a $2 donation.

Fresco was founded in 2010, in part to help draw new audiences to classical music by framing it in provocative ways. Since then the company has presented a number of memorable productions, including last summer’s Star Wars interpretation of Handel’s Rinaldo.

The company has made great strides and is now a tax-exempt nonprofit with its own board. Frank Cain Jr., Melanie’s husband, serves as executive director. “This is our first year that we’ve actually put out a season,� she says. It will include

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two original works: a requiem for Edgar Allen Poe, and Queen of the Night, a prequel to Mozart’s Magic Flute.

Snow White will be presented free, thanks to supporters including Dane Arts and CUNA Mutual Foundation. In general, though, Cain says grants are difficult to secure. “We’ve just had to shift more toward ticket sales and making sure we’re on a budget. That’s the reality of it.�

Cain describes Snow White as a pastiche or “ballad� opera, drawing arias from established works and fitting them into a storyline; Bizet, Britten, Handel, Mozart and Verdi will be featured. Fresco experimented with the garage setting last year, drawing audiences as large as 150.

“We had fans coming up to us asking, ‘Could you use our garage next year?’� says Cain. There will be costumes, and scenery based on the faux-comic book art of Roy Lichtenstein. But how are acoustics in the average garage? “You know, it’s funny,� says Cain. “They’re not bad at all.�

Fresco Opera Theatre will present Snow White at 2 p.m. at the following addresses: Aug. 14 at 21 La Crescenta Circle, Madison; Aug. 20 at 901 Turnberry Drive, Waunakee; Aug. 21 at 3301 Derby Down, Madison; Aug. 27 at 1248 Mockingbird Lane, Sun Prairie; and Aug. 28 at 21 Shea Court, Madison.

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tion. Both in singing and speaking, the soloists are not always perfectly clear, and the singers in the chorus, especially the women, are verbally blurred. As a result, much of Gilbert’s crisp and satirical wit is diluted, and even lost at times.

(The best diction, ironically, comes when the chorus sings a short number in Italian, every word clearly audible.)

If the English words are not always fully realized, the music certainly is. The Gondoliers has more than a dozen singing roles, and the cast delivers fine vocal performances. I was most impressed by Alaina Carlson’s beautiful articulation as Tessa. The two gondoliers — tenor Christopher Aaron Smith as Marco and baritone Brian Schneider as Giuseppe — are splendidly virile. I found the Duke of Plaza-Toro (William Rosholt) and Don Alhambra (Don Dexter) rather too exaggerated in their clowning: The former should be less flamboyant and more pompous, while the latter needs elements of menace. But Rebecca Beuchel is a proper wife-who-wears-the pants (under exaggerated pannier skirts) as the Duchess. Of the other women, Deanna Martinez struck me as a bit shrill as Cassilda (the Plaza-Toro daughter who is the eventual Baratarian queen), while Lauren Welch is nicely tart as Gianetta.

Though the orchestra occasionally overwhelms the singers, it’s led with flair by conductor Kyle Knox, Madison’s ubiquitous back-pocket maestro, who helps polish this thoroughly enjoyable production. n

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The Savoyards, whose performances run through Aug. 7, have wisely chosen to stage the last of the collaborators’ greatest creations. The Gondoliers combines spoofing of constitutional monarchy with Mediterranean spicing. Beginning in Venice, it ends in Barataria (ex-barrister Gilbert’s covert pun suggesting a “kingdom of lawyers�), and the plot involves identity confusion about which of two newly married gondoliers is king of that realm.

Using simple but effective sets by Mike Lawler and luscious costumes by Rebecca Stanley, the production is a visual delight.

Stage director Audrey Lauren Wax joins vivid action with Kristin Roling’s bouncy choreography, keeping everything in spirited motion.

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Bourne again?

Times are changing

Matt Damon is still great, but the world has changed

More than a year ago, Isthmus stopped including movie screening times in our print edition due to a variety of factors.

We no longer received information from some theaters, and what we did get was at times incomplete and subject to change. In fact, two theater chains told us they specifically did not want us to publish the times anymore. We didn’t want to publish outdated information either, so we transitioned our listings to a Friday newsletter and an online page.

It’s been a noble experiment, but an extremely time-consuming one, requiring constant updating. As time has gone on we have also watched how — and if — readers were using our online listings.

It appears many folks are doing the same thing we do: checking individual theater websites or Googling the information.

For these reasons, we have decided to discontinue compiling complete movie times. We will continue to publish reviews and information on special onetime screenings and film series such as UW Cinematheque in our online calendar at Isthmus.com (look for the Movies category) and in print.

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It’s been nine years since we last saw Matt Damon racing around the world and beating people up as brainwashed assassin Jason Bourne — and the weight of those interim years rests heavily upon this fourth installment. Oh, it’s not that Damon, now 46 years old, isn’t up to the physical demands of the role. In fact, his Bourne is significantly beefier here: bigger, more intimidating, just plain more dangerous in an all-muscle kind of way. Damon stalks around as if he is just barely restraining Bourne’s power, and when he unleashes it, he owns the screen, simultaneously indulging Bourne’s menace and suggesting that he hasn’t yet let it fully uncoil.

Nor has returning director Paul Greengrass lost his mojo.(Greengrass did not direct the first film, 2002’s The Bourne Identity, but did helm the second and third, 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy and 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum.) He remains an absolute master of breathless nonstop action that is always tightly controlled and supremely comprehensible. Whether it’s an exhausting motorcycle getaway from assassins through streets overrun by rioters in Athens or a relentless demolition derby through ordinary traffic in Las Vegas, we are right in the middle of the mayhem, bombarded by thrills and terror while never losing track of what is actually happening. No one does this better than Greengrass.

No, it’s that the world has moved on from the initial confusion and upheaval — geopolitical, cultural, technological — of the years just after 9/11, and Jason Bourne can’t keep up with how much darker and grimmer the world we’ve moved into is. Those early 2000s Bourne flicks had an urgency to them even when they weren’t directly addressing the global mess, and when they were — as in Ultimatum, the best of a terrific bunch — it

Damon is beefier, but the script isn’t.

made for crackerjack pop filmmaking. Jason Bourne makes a few feints toward engaging with the spiraling disaster that is today’s zeitgeist, but it doesn’t do anything with them. It brings in a Julian Assange-esque internet whistleblower called Christian Dassault (Vinzenz Kiefer) but then almost instantly dismisses him. It touches on the privacy concerns that total surveillance raises via tech wunderkind Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed), but the movie cannot even decide what his “Deep Dream” project is about: Greengrass, who wrote the script with Christopher Rouse, seems to think that it’s enough that the CIA wants a backdoor to peek in on Deep Dream’s users, but it’s all little more than a vague wave of the hand at a hot topic.

And I just can’t figure out why Bourne is back. His story was pretty much wrapped up after Ultimatum: He had regained his memory and was out of the professional-killer game.

Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), grown from the clumsy CIA functionary of Identity into some-

one genuinely dangerous, shows up here to convince him there’s more to learn. But what that turns out to be isn’t particularly thrilling, and it feels rather tacked on when it finally comes out in the end. The promise of the character of Nicky isn’t explored much, either, and she exits quickly, leaving Bourne without a humanizing companion such as he had in the first movie in Franka Potente’s Marie.

Everything looks great on paper here: Damon’s brawny presence; the smartly staged action; the globehopping from Rome to Reykjavik, Berlin to London, and beyond; the always cool Tommy Lee Jones as the director of the CIA; Alicia Vikander as a smooth, slippery CIA analyst; Vincent Cassel as yet another professional killer. And it’s not unfun. But it feels less black ops than old hat, like we’ve been here before. We have — and this visit ultimately disappears in a wisp of inconsequence. n

Hollywood romance Woody Allen’s Café Society is uneven yet compelling After nearly 50 years of making movies — and around half that long with a spotlight on unsavory aspects of his personal life — Woody Allen has become a filmmaker whose movies are psychoanalyzed for autobiographical subtext as much as they’re actually watched. His latest, Café Society, is another period piece, opening in 1930s Hollywood where recently arrived Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) finds work with his high-powered agent uncle (Steve Carell) and falls for his uncle’s secretary, Vonnie (Kristen Stewart). Romantic roundelays of the “heart wants what it wants” variety

ensue — with strong performances by Stewart and Eisenberg, the latter of whom avoids obvious Woody-surrogate tics — alternating with life among the members of Bobby’s New York-based Jewish family, including his gangster brother (Corey Stoll). But while Allen’s own voice as narrator evokes the nostalgia of Radio Days, there’s a more acidic bite here in the story’s look at what people lose of their souls while pursuing what appears on the surface to be a successful life. It’s too uneven to be fully satisfying, but you don’t have to call it a mea culpa to find at least a little wisdom.

— SCOTT RENSHAW

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Norm of the North: A talking bear (voiced by Rob Schneider) finds his calling when he travels to New York with three playful lemmings to discourage a developer from building a new subdivision in the Arctic. Sequoya Library, Aug. 4, 2 pm.

Moonrise Kingdom: A boy and girl fall in love and run away, which turns their small town upside down, in this film by director Wes Anderson. Central Library, Aug. 4, 6:30 pm.

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: Based on Kim Barker’s memoir, The Taliban Shuffle, Tina Fey plays a news producer who challenges herself by becoming a war reporter in Afghanistan. Pinney Library, Aug. 5, 6:30 pm.

Anomalisa: In this stop-motion puppet movie co-directed by screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, customer-service expert Michael sees the same face and hears the same voice, over and over again. Michael snaps out of it when he suddenly hears the voice of Lisa — differentiated, musical — a miracle. Hawthorne Library, Aug. 5, 7 pm.

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Breathe: An intense friendship between two teen girls turns dangerous. Ashman Library, Aug. 5, 7 pm.

The Matrix: Keanu Reeves stars as a computer hacker who learns the true nature of reality. Market Square, Aug. 5-6 (7:30 pm) and Aug. 7 (2 pm).

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet: Encore screening of Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production. Sundance, Aug. 6 (12:30 pm) and Aug. 8 (7:15 pm).

Zootopia: Easily one of Disney’s more imaginative CGI offerings in a while, using the classic tropes of anthropomorphized animals and comic pop culture references to slyly puzzle out what it means to be “civilized.” UW Memorial UnionTerrace, Aug. 7, 8:30 pm.

Space Jam: An evil alien theme-park owner (Danny DeVito) tries to kidnap Bugs Bunny (Billy West), who challenges him to a basketball game that includes NBA legends Larry Bird, Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan.. UW Memorial Union-Terrace, Aug. 9, 9 pm.

Silver Linings Playbook: After being released from a mental institution, a former teacher (Bradley Cooper) meets an alluring young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who offers to help him reconnect with his wife — if he does her a favor. A super-smart script and knockout performances by Cooper and Lawrence make this film one of the best romantic comedies in years.

Majestic Theatre, Aug. 9, 7:30 pm.

Twister: Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt star as storm chasers on the brink of divorce and being blown away by superstorms. Edgewater Hotel plaza, Aug. 9, 8:30 pm.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire about an insane general who sets the world on a course for nuclear holocaust.

Robinia Courtyard, Aug 9, 9 pm.

Charlotte’s Web: This adaptation of the timeless tale of a runty pig and his spider friend loses very little of the plainspoken nobility of E.B. White’s children’s book. Sequoya Library, Aug. 11, 2 pm.

Celebration of Sid Boyum: Short films & slides of work by the east-side folk artist. Pinney Library, Aug. 11, 6 pm.

Almeida Theatre: Richard III: Simulcast from London of production starring Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave. Sundance, Aug. 11, 7:15 pm.

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Casa Valentina: StageQ, 8 pm on 8/4-5 and 2 pm, 8/6, Bartell Theatre-Evjue Stage. $20. 661-9696.

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Spamalot Friday, Aug. 5, Memorial Union Shannon Hall, 7:30 pm The nonstop antics of the British comedy masters Monty Python are brought to new heights of silliness in this irreverent musical parody of the Arthurian legend adapted from the 1975 cult classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Four Seasons Theatre puts on professional shows with top-notch talent and full orchestras. It’s one weekend only, so don’t miss it. ALSO: Saturday (7:30 pm) and Sunday (2 pm), Aug. 6-7.

Ahmed Bharoocha Thursday, Aug. 4, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Ahmed Bharoocha hates ceiling fans...and refrigerator door ice dispensers. Maybe he just has a problem with appliances. A Renaissance man with a film career and numerous comedy festival awards under his belt, you’ve likely seen this adorable guy somewhere — perhaps on Conan or on Adam Devine’s House Party? He’s recording a live album here, and will blow you away with his capacity for onomatopoeia and genuine, everyman observations about dumb appliances. With Russ Williamson, Gena Gephart. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), Aug. 5-6.

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Hyperbole: With Anthony Siraguse, Aarushi Fire, Carson Leet, Adam McShane, Charlie Kojis, host Vanessa Tortolano, 10 pm, 8/4, Fountain. 250-1998.

B O O KS / S PO K EN WO RD Poetry Open Mic: 6:30 pm, 8/4, Central Library. 266-6350.

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Alchemy Cafe: DJs Radish, Dr. Funkenstein, free, 10 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Umi, free, 10 pm.

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

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

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

Discovery Days: Annual celebration with free activities & exhibits, 9 am-6 pm, 8/4-7, Cave of the Mounds, Blue Mounds. Tours also available ($18). 437-3038.

Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: Chuck Lemonds, 7:30 pm.

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The Central Park Sessions continue with the Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha (pictured), which creates a unique sound by fusing traditional melodic strains from their homeland or more far-flung regions with indie pop, programmed beats and other modern sounds. Also bringing the world to Madison: New Orleans jazz/R&B band Sasha Masakowski & the Sidewalk Strutters and gypsy flamenco swing by Ameranouche.

Mark Sultan Thursday, Aug. 4, The Frequency, 8:30 pm

Mark Sultan is a garage rock hero, touring as the one-man band BBQ since the turn of the century (and sometimes making it a two-man show with the similarly heroic King Khan). His songs combine sweetness, grit

Open Doors Cuba: Photographs, noon-4 pm Saturdays, 7/16-8/26, PhotoMidwest, 700 Rayovac Drive (reception 7-9 pm, 8/4). photomidwest.org.

and danger in an irresistible mixture. With Madison/Milwaukee rockers the Midwest Beat and Chicago trash pop duo Tinkerbelles.

Brink Lounge: Blues Jam with Bill Roberts Combo, 8 pm.

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Katherine Cramer: Discussing “The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker,” her new book, 6:30 pm, 8/4, First United Methodist Church. 819-4740.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: David Hecht & the Who Dat, R&B/funk, free, 6 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, French swing, free, 5:30 pm.

Paoli Schoolhouse: John Duggleby & John Jacobs, 6 pm.

Plan B: DJs Brook, Lizzy T, 9 pm Thursdays.

Rennebohm Park: Capitol City Band, 7 pm Thursdays.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Jo-Z, Latin, 10 pm.

Rotary Park, Stoughton: The Material Boys, free, 6 pm.

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

Sprecher’s Restaurant: The Blues Party, free, 6 pm.

Christy’s Landing: Open Mic with Shelley Faith, 8 pm Thursdays.

Tip Top Tavern: Tos Hopkins, folk, free, 9 pm.

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

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

Dean House: Old Time Fiddlers, free/donations, 7 pm (pie/ice cream social 5:30 pm).

Edgewater Hotel: Beat Chefs, free (on the plaza), 6 pm.

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

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

Great Dane-Downtown: DJ Mike Carlson, 7 pm Thursdays.

High Noon Saloon: The Fauxtons, free (on patio), 6 pm; Supervillain Fire Drill, Seeking Machines, #1 Band Very Good, rock/ska, 8 pm.

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

Ivory Room: Philly Williams, Luke Hrovat-Staedter, 9 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Blues Jam, free, 8 pm Thursdays.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Ken Wheaton, fingerstyle guitar, free, 5:30 pm Thursdays.

Lisa Link Peace Park: Gin Mill Hollow, free, 5 pm.

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

Tofflers, New Glarus: The Jimmys, free (patio), 8 pm.

Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, 9 pm Thursdays.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Devil in a Woodpile, free, 5 pm; The Gambol, free, 9 pm.

THEATER & DANCE Nicholas Nickelby: Two-night performances, 6 pm on 8/4-5; and 3 pm on 8/6 & 1 pm, 8/7, Young Shakepeare Players Playhouse. Free. RSVP: yspboxoffice@gmail.com.

Once Upon a Mattress: Children’s Theater of Madison production, 7 pm, 8/4-5, Overture Center. $7. 258-4141.

Big Fish: Oregon Straw Hat Players musical based on the Daniel Wallace novel, 7:30 pm, 8/4-5, Oregon High School Performing Arts Center. $17. 835-9126.

Arcadia: Tragicomedy about a young woman and her tutor, 7:30 pm on 8/4 & 10 and 8 pm, 8/6, American Players Theatre, Spring Green. $75-$47. 588-2361.

Brew, Bites & Bytes: Wisconsin Technology Council event, 6-9 pm, 8/4, Wisconsin Brewing Company, Verona, with music by the Grooving Needles, carnivalstyle games, food, beer. $35. 442-7557.

FA I RS & FEST I VA L S Wisconsin State Fair: 8 am, 8/4-14, State Fair Park, West Allis. Main stage: Shawn Mendes, 8/4; Halestorm, We Are Harlot, 8/5; Rascal Flatts, Kelsea Ballerini, 8/6; The Turtles, Chuck Negron, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, Mark Lindsay, The Cowsills, Spencer Davis Group, 8/7; Newsboys, Francesca Battistelli, 8/8; Berlin, A Flock of Seagulls, 8/9; Happy Days Live, 8/10; Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Melissa Etheridge, 8/11; Salt N Pepa, Color Me Badd, Coolio, Rob Base, 8/12; Phillip Phillips & Matt Nathanson, 8/13; Beach Boys, 8/14. $12/day ($6 ages 6-11; main stage extra). wistatefair.com. 800-884-3247.

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Willmar, 7:05 pm, 8/8 & 10, Warner Park. $46-$8.

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Bos Meadery: Owls, Foxes & Sebastian, Echelon String Quartet, rock, free, 7 pm.

Brink Lounge: Charanga Agoza, DJ Latin Fresh, 8 pm.

Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: Ameranouche, 8:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Madison Choro Ensemble, 5:30 pm; DJs Funkenstein, Ishai, Vaughn Marques, 9 pm.

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Chief’s Tavern: Frankie Lee, Tom Dehlinger & Cris Plata, free, 6:30 pm.

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

Edgewater Hotel: Dig Deep, free (on the plaza), 6 pm.

Essen Haus: David Austin Band, 8:30 pm (also Sat.).

The Frequency: Sean Hayes, Derik Hultquist, 7 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Low Czars, classic rock, 5:30 pm; Wolbaianos (Novos Baianos tribute), Metabaque, 9:30 pm.

Ivory Room: Peter Hernet, Taras Nahirniak, Connor Brennan, dueling pianos, 8:30 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Ray Fuller & the Blues Rockers, 9 pm.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Rand Moore Quartet, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

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

Lucky’s Bar & Grille, Waunakee: Moxie, free, 7 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Cornmeal, free, 11 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Novagolde, Queenager, My Obsession, free, 10 pm.

The Council of Ricks Get Schwifty!

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Taking a cue from the beloved cult comedy Rick and Morty, three local bands are inviting fans to come get schwifty at the Frequency. Dress up like your favorite character and hear high-energy sets from Help Desk, Cold Black River (pictured) and Dr. Noise; try your luck with random giveaways and enjoy flying saucer-shaped pancakes. Don’t miss this one, or we’ll check your portal gun to see where you were. Wubba lubba dub dub!

Natt Spil: DJ Ben Silver, free, 10 pm.

Oakwood Village-University Woods: Dixie Sizzlers, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

Pooley’s: Lucas Cates, rock, free (on the patio), 7 pm.

Red Rock Saloon: Georgia Overdrive, country, 10 pm.

Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: Kristi B Band, 8:30 pm.

Sprecher’s: The Sparks Band, ‘60s rock, free, 6 pm.

Steinway & Sons: Daniel Kuzuhara, free, 7 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Imaginary Watermelon, free, 10 pm.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse, Verona: Karen Wheelock, Laura Joy, John Duggleby, plus open mic, free, 7 pm.

Tyranena Brewing Co., Lake Mills: Boo Bradley, blues/Americana, free, 6 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Isthmus Vocal Ensemble, works by Johannes Brahms & Andrew Rindfleisch, 7:30 pm. Also: 3 pm, 8/7.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Wilder Deitz Group, jazz, free, 5 pm; BlueZone Band, free, 9 pm.

VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Frank James, 7:30 pm.

Wisconsin Brewing Company, Verona: The Mascot Theory, free, 6 pm.

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The annual celebration of musical roots brings workshops for players, demonstrations and discussion by musicians, open jams and activities for all ages to the shore of Lake Waubesa. And, of course, stage performances, including headliners Art Stevenson and High Water and Music City Doughboys (Friday) and Aoife O’Donovan and Jay Farrar (pictured) (Saturday). Music begins at 5 pm Friday and 11 am Saturday.

1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove: David Hecht, free, 7 pm.

Arts & Literature Laboratory: Tatsuya Nakatani, Tar Pet, Midwaste, 7 pm.

The Gondoliers Friday, Aug. 5, UW Old Music Hall, 7:30 pm

The Madison Savoyards, an institution since 1963, present a witty production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s last great operetta. With delightful singing and bouncy choreography, the show explores issues of class division and monarchy amid the mayhem of mistaken identities. See page 29. ALSO: Saturday (7:30 pm) and Sunday (3 pm), Aug. 6-7.

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Friday, Aug. 5, American Players Theatre, 8 pm

Amy Weh: Mosaics, 8/5-31, Stone Fence (reception, 6-9 pm, 8/5, with music by Jourdan Hines). 238-4331.

Not only is King Lear arguably the greatest tragedy Shakespeare wrote, but it’s possibly the greatest tragedy ever written by anyone, period. The play, which hasn’t been performed at American Players Theatre for 16 years, follows King Lear as he gives away his kingdom to two of his daughters and subsequently spirals into madness. ALSO: Thursday, Aug. 11, 7:30 pm. Through Sept. 30.

Black and White Friday, Aug. 5, Broom Street Theater, 8 pm

A new play by Kip Price explores issues of identity and gentrification as an alternative coffee shop, proud of its record for inclusiveness, fights internal and external pressures. ALSO: Saturday, Aug. 6, 8 pm. Through August 27.

S PECI AL E V ENTS Soil Sisters: Events celebrating food & farming, 8/5-7, Monroe/Brodhead area, with farm tours, workshops, dinners. Some events free. Schedule: soilsisterswi.org. 329-7056.

FAI RS & FESTIVALS Utica Fest: 8/5-7, Utica Community Association Park (intersection of Hwys B & W), with sports, raffles, beer tent. Friday: Madison County 8:30 pm.

Saturday: Mini-rods 5 pm, Shotgun Jane 8 pm. Sunday: Tractor pull 10:30 am, Jesse Walker noon, truck pull 3 pm, fireworks dusk. uticapark.org. 698-8300.

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Excalibur! The Story of King Arthur & the Sword in the Stone: First Act Children’s Theatre, 4 pm, 8/5, Oakwood Village-University Woods Center for Arts & Education. $7 ($5 kids). 358-9572.

Music Man, Jr./Love is Complicated: Sun Prairie Civic Theatre, 7 pm on 8/5 and 2 pm, 8/6, Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School, Sun Prairie. $8. 837-8217.

Jake Revolver, Freelance Secret Agent: P.I. parody by Upstart Crows Productions, 7 pm, 8/5-6, Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ. $15 donation. 827-9482.

Spamalot: Four Seasons Theatre, 7:30 pm on 8/5-6 and 2 pm, 8/7, UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall. $38-$23. 265-2787.

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Dane Dances/Shining Star + BBI

Def Leppard + REO Speedwagon + Tesla Saturday, Aug. 6, Alliant Energy Center, 7 pm

Break out the Aquanet, because for one night only, the ’80s will be alive at the Alliant Energy Center. Hair metal legends and classic rock radio mainstays Def Leppard (pictured) will be headlining, treating fans to fittingly stadium-sized hits like “Photograph” and “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” And if that’s not enough, support will come from REO Speedwagon and Tesla. Long live rock ’n’ roll!

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Friday, Aug. 5, Monona Terrace Rooftop, 5:30 pm

The sounds of the 1970s are alive and well on the rooftop of Monona Terrace Convention Center. The kickoff for Dane Dances features two visiting bands who share love for the costumes, choreography and soul-powered hits of the past. BBI (6 pm) electrifies crowds with funky crowdpleasing hits, and Shining Star (pictured, 8 pm) keeps the boogie alive with glittering renditions of tunes from Earth, Wind and Fire. DJ Pain 1 spins before and between bands, for one of the city’s most inclusive and joyous events. Get on down, y’all!

B OOKS / S P O K EN WORD Shaun Harris: Discussing “The Hemingway Thief,” his new book, 7 pm, 8/5, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Cradle of American Haiku Festival: Readings, workshops, potlucks & more, 8/5-7, The Foundry Books, Mineral Point (and other venues), with guests including Ed Rielly, Bill Pauly, CX Dillhunt. 987-4363.

Book Sale: Annual Friends group sale, 9 am-5 pm on 8/5 and 9 am-3 pm, 8/6, Amundson Community Center, Cambridge. 423-3900.

Saturday, Aug. 6, The Frequency, 9 pm

Bob Log III became a one-man-band sensation somewhat accidentally, when finishing a mid-’90s tour of the duo Doo Rag after his bandmate left the road. His shows are visually arresting thanks to an array of musical contraptions, a motorcycle helmet microphone and audience participation encouragement via songs such as the notorious “Boob Scotch.” Even without the outre stage persona and antics not for the easily offended, Log’s slide playing and lo-fi conception of the blues would need no visuals at all to be memorable. With Kevin Dowling Fitness Hour, The Art Brothas.

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■ ISTHMUS PICKS : AUG 6 - 9 Dane Re-Buy Local: Local re-purposed items vendors, electronics recycling & more, 8 am-3 pm, 8/6, Northgate Shopping Center. 729-7346.

Alchemy Cafe: Sortin’ the Mail, bluegrass, free, 10 pm.

Bandung: Mideast Salsa, free salsa lesson, 8:30 pm.

Bos Meadery: Durango McMurphy, donations, 6:30 pm.

Re-Art SWAP: Trade, donate or buy used/usable art & craft supplies, 9 am-3 pm, 8/6, Winnebago Studios. Volunteers needed: meghan@absolutelyartllc.com. 347-0267.

Brink Lounge: Owls, Foxes & Sebastian, free, 10 pm.

Captain Bill’s, Middleton: Ken Wheaton, free, 6:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, 10 pm.

SP ECTATOR SP ORTS

Come Back In: The Lower 5th, rock, free, 9 pm.

Craftsman Table & Tap, Middleton: Tent Show Troubadours, Blue Stone, Helen Avakian & David Irwin, Middleton Outreach Ministry benefit, donations, 4 pm.

Edgewater: Alex Wilson Band, free (plaza), 6 pm.

Fitz’s On the Lake, Lodi: David Hecht, 6:30 pm.

Harmony Bar: Old Soul Society, 9:45 pm.

Ivory Room: Anthony Cao, Philly Williams, Leslie Cao, dueling pianos, 8:30 pm.

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

Lucky’s Bar, Waunakee: Pat McCurdy, free, 6:30 pm.

Mariner’s Inn: LA Byrd, free, 6:30 pm.

Mezze: Charlie Painter & Friends, jazz, free, 9 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Ka-Boom!Box, free, 10 pm.

Nau-Ti-Gal: Nick Matthews & the Knuckle Sandwich, free (on the patio), 5:30 pm.

Octopi Brewing, Waunakee: Nine Thirty Standard, 7 pm.

Paoli Schoolhouse: Tom Waselchuk, free, 6 pm.

Parched Eagle Brewpub: Carly Baer, free, 7:30 pm.

Plan B: DJs Mike Carlson, WhiteRabbit, 8:30 pm.

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

Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub: Scott Wilcox, 7 pm.

Tex Tubb’s Taco Palace: Atwood City Limits, with Chloe Webster 2 pm, Lucas Cates Band 3 pm, Dirt Bros. 4:30 pm, Earthlings 6 pm, Union Suits 7 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: DJ Trichrome, free, 10 pm.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse, Verona: Dead Sea Squirrels, Back2Back, WORT-FM benefit, donations, 7 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Chaos New Money, RED, Charles Grant, Trebino, DJ Pain 1, Rich Robbins, Broadway, hip-hop, free, 9 pm.

Wisconsin Brewing Company, Verona: Moondance, pop/rock, free, 5 pm; Madison County, free, 8 pm.

T HE AT ER & DA N CE

Endgame Saturday, Aug. 6, American Players Theatre (Spring Green), 3 pm This bleak one-act from everybody’s favorite absurdist author, Samuel Beckett, features four characters: Hamm, who is blind, Clov, who can’t sit, and Nell and Nagg, who exist in bins.

As with most of Beckett’s work, this performance explores the cyclical nature of existence, as well as its emptiness. ALSO: Wednesday, Aug. 10, 7:30 pm. Through October 16.

American Ultimate Disc League Championships: Dallas Roughnecks vs. Toronto Rush 4 pm and Madison Radicals vs. Seattle Cascade 7 pm, 8/6; championship at noon, 8/7, Breese Stevens Field. $10/day ($15 pass). theaudl.com.

Past Point Zero Saturday, Aug. 6, Wyoming Valley Church, 6348 State Road 23, Spring Green, 5 and 7 pm

The White Church Theatre Project, home to internationally renowned mime and physical theater company Theatre de l’Ange Fou, hosts a new project from multi-hyphenate dancers, choreographers and performance artists Ariel Weymouth-Payne and Kiro Kopulos, collaborators since the 1980s. Past Point Zero, a blend of movement, music, images and atmospheric sound, is described as “total theater.” Guest artists include Kanopy Dance Company’s artistic directors Lisa Thurrell and Robert E. Cleary, who are always compelling performers. ALSO: Sunday, Aug. 7, 4 pm.

KIDS & FAM ILY Saturday Science: “Secrets of Math,” free demonstrations & activities, 10 am-noon, 8/6, UW Discovery Building. 316-4382.

Goodman Youth Farm Community Day: Learn about Community GroundWorks educational project, noon-3 pm, 8/6, 5017 Sudbury Way, with cooking demos, tours, kids’ activities. Free. communitygroundworks.org. 240-0409.

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The Summit Players: Shakespeare: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, 2:30 pm; and “As You Like It,” 7 pm, Lake Kegonsa State Park, Stoughton; workshops for ages 8 & up at 1 & 5:30 pm. Free (with park admission). 873-9695.

The Frequency: Warseid, These Fading Visions, Echo of Silence, Noesis, Mended, 7 pm.

Grace Episcopal Church: Madison Sacred Harp Singers, shape-note singing, 3 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Help Desk, Tyranny is Tyranny, We Should Have Been DJs, 7 pm.

Hop Garden, Paoli: DuggHopper, free, 2 pm.

Java Cat: Nick Matthews, free, 9:30 am Sundays; Jeff Larsen, fingerstyle guitar, free, 1 pm.

The Rigby: Madison Jazz Jam, free (all ages), 4 pm.

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

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Open Doors for Refugees Community Picnic: 11 am2 pm, 8/7, Olin Park, with potluck, music by Oudist Colony, games. OpenDoorsForRefugees@gmail.com.

K I D S & FA MI LY Wisconsin Football Family Fun Day: Annual event with UW players & coaches available for autographs & photos, 3-5 pm, 8/7, Camp Randall Stadium. Free (if rain, McClain Center). 262-2311.

mon aug 8 MUS I C

A Beer with Thornton Wilder in Our Town: Cambridge Word Theater reading, 6 pm, 8/6, Keystone Grill, Cambridge. Free. 235-2377.

Majestique: Burlesque/vaudeville/circus arts, 9 pm, 8/6, Majestic Theatre. $10. 255-09010.

B OOKS Pat Zietlow Miller: Discussing her new books, with Doug Moe, 1 pm, 8/6, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

S PECI AL EV ENTS Antique & Classic Boat Show: Clean Lakes Alliance benefit, 10 am-4:30 pm, 8/6, Christy’s Landing. Free admission ($30 boat registration; boat tour of area lakes available for participants, 8/5). glacbs.org.

Lake Monona Water & Drum Gathering: Annual meditation & rituals on behalf of Mother Earth, 8/6-8, Frost Woods Beach, Monona. Donations. 4p4h.com. 279-5225.

National Mustard Day: Annual event, 10 am-4 pm, 8/6, National Mustard Museum, Middleton, with kids’ activities & entertainment, mustard samplings, food, music by Evan Riley Band 10:30 am, Red Hot Horn Dawgs 1:30 pm.

Donations benefit NMM. mustardmuseum.com. 831-2222.

S PECI AL INTERESTS Latino Academy Annual Picnic: All ages activities, 11 am-2 pm, 8/6, Elver Park. 709-6285.

UW Children’s Hospital Intergalactic Throwdown Sunday, Aug. 7, Harmony Bar, noon-8 pm

Four Midwestern jam bands are bringing some musical healing to benefit the UW Children’s Hospital. Milwaukee-based psychedelic rock band Coyote, featuring former members of Evergreen, is joined by Madison’s own roots-reggae favorite Natty Nation (pictured) and local blues-rock outfit The Grasshoppers. With Chad Anderson & Friends.

Hide Monday, Aug. 8, Arts and Literature Laboratory, 7 pm

Cardinal Bar: DJ Djo Djo, African, 3 pm.

Electronic duo Hide is percussionist/keyboardist Seth Sher (of Chicago underground legend Coughs and many other bands) and singer/visual artist Heather Gabel. Their sound ranges from minimal synth grooves to beat-heavy industrial goth. With Litüus (a project of former Madisonian Connor Camburn) and Samantha Glass (Madison electronic musician Beau Devereaux).

Chazen Museum of Art: Lake Cottage Duo, 12:30 pm.

Bos Meadery: Lonesome Willie Jones, free, 6:30 pm.

Allen Centennial Gardens: Willy Street Chamber Players, free, 4 pm.

Bos Meadery: Ben Willis & BC Grimm, improv, 6 pm.

Brocach-Square: West Wind, Irish, free, 5 pm.

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

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The Frequency: Backbuzz, Nester, Cormano, 8 pm.

Opera Made Fresh

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

Tuesday, Aug. 9, Olbrich Gardens, 7 pm

Julep: Madison Hot Club, free/donations, 6 pm.

Taliesin-Hillside Theater, Spring Green: Black Marigold, chamber music, free/donations, 7:30 pm.

The innovators at Fresco Opera are staging scenes from various operas in different locations around the greenery of botanical gardens for an active audience experience.

Bring your own chair, if you want to plunk down for awhile, because these singers are going to blow you away. See page 29.

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

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

SP OKEN WO R D

Capitol Square: Tony Castaneda Latin Jazz Band, free (King Street corner), noon.

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

Natt Spil: DJ Bruiser as in Eric, free, 10 pm.

Shitty Barn, Spring Green: Anna Vogelzang, Monica Martin, 7 pm.

The Moth Madison StorySLAM Storytelling competition, 7:30 pm, 8/8, High Noon Saloon. $10.

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Cardinal Bar: New Breed Jazz Jam, 9 pm Tuesdays.

SP ECI A L EV EN TS

Free House Pub, Middleton: The Westerlies, free, 7:30 pm Tuesdays.

Lanterns for Peace: Annual commemoration of the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan (and all war victims), 7 pm, 8/8, Vilas Park, with lantern-making & floating, sing-along, crafts. Free. 232-9945.

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Come Back In: WheelHouse, free, 5 pm Tuesdays.

Crystal Corner Bar: Bing Bong, rock, free, 8 pm.

Frequency: Blisters, Earthman, Ian Seaholm, 8:30 pm.

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High Noon Saloon: Kerosene Kites, Peridot, 6 pm.

Hilldale Shopping Center: Tani Diakite & the Afrofunkstars, free (west plaza), 5 pm.

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

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Lakeview Library: Tom Pease, family concert, 2 pm.

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

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Mason Lounge: Five Points Jazz Collective, 9 pm.

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

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

Pheasant Branch Creek Conservancy, Middleton: Peter Borowicz, Matt Kronschnabel, Jeff Williams, Colleen Robinson, Steve Kurr, along the path, free, 6 pm.

SHOW AND SALE

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

Waterman Park, Oregon: Ben Ferris Quintet, 7 pm.

S PECTATOR SP ORTS

Ben Sidran’s Salon Tuesday, Aug. 9, Cardinal Bar, 5:30 pm

UW alum and international jazz legend Ben Sidran continues his annual summer series “for Secular Humanists, Arch Democrats and Free Thinkers” at the Cardinal. He’s joined by regular accompanists Nick Moran, Louka Patenaude and Todd Hammes, as well as his son, Leo Sidran, on Aug. 9 and 16.

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Major League Dreams Showcase: Northwoods League exhibition games, 4:05 & 7:05 pm, 8/9, Warner Park. $46-$8. mallardsbaseball.com. 246-4277.

FUN D RAI S ERS Wisconsin PATCH Program: 5% net sales donated, 8/9, Whole Foods. facebook.com/events/283112425413414.

PUB L I C N OTICES Fall Primary Election: Voters go to the polls between 7 am-8 pm, 8/9. cityofmadison.com/clerk. 266-4601.

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THE Jazz at Five Wednesday, Aug. 10, 30 on the Square, 4 pm The longtime fest at the top of State Street kicks off the 2016 season with music from Major Vistas (pictured), Skai Academy and the big band dames of Ladies Must Swing. Note: Sitting on planters is verboten. See page 8.

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running every 30 minutes between House of Brews and The Madison Children’s Museum (just of the square) with stops at One Barrel Brewing Co. and Next Door Brewing Co.

Colin Stetson/Sarah Neufeld + CHANTS Wednesday, Aug. 10, The Shitty Barn, 7 pm

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

1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove: Ken Wheaton, fingerstyle guitar, free, 6 pm Wednesdays.

Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Just Merl, free, 6:30 pm.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: The Trailer Kings, free, 6 pm.

Lisa Link Peace Park: Newport Jam, Flowpoetry, 5 pm.

Brink Lounge: Good Trouble, free, 7 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Gay Cum Daddies, free, 10 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Fabe, 9 pm.

Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub: Thirsty Jones, 6 pm.

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

Fountain: Sam Ness, free, 6 pm Wednesdays.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Mad City Jug Band, free, 5 pm; Cash Box Kings, free, 9 pm.

The Frequency: Stone Cold Fox, Dash Hounds, Skyline Sounds, 9 pm.

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Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 5:30 pm Wednesdays.

Mickey’s Tavern: Tani Diakite & His Desert Trance Infusion, free, 10 pm.

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

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In his first major solo project, Madisonbased saxophonist Tony Barba blends classic jazz improvisational stylings with ambient electronic effects to create rich, meditative soundscapes. He splits the bill with experimental folk artist Sam Amidon for this installment of the Tone Madison GateSound concert series.

Superstar circular-breathing saxophonist Colin Stetson and violinist Sarah Neufeld (pictured) began performing together between tours backing bands like Arcade Fire and Bon Iver. They released a collaborative album, Never Were the Way She Was, in 2015. CHANTS is the experimental-electronic project of Madisonian Jordan Cohen. His most recent release, The Zookeeper, came out in April.

Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, piano, free, 9 pm.

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Madison psych rockers Vanishing Kids recently released a CD/cassette EP of new tracks, and Oakland quintet Naked Lights (pictured) is touring behind a solid post-punk single release on Thee Oh Sees frontman John Dwyer’s label, Castle Face. With Cave Curse, Grave Texture.

Thursday, Aug. 11, Gates of Heaven, 7pm

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Old Sauk Trails Business Park: Concert in the Park

by Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra, free, 7 pm (grounds open for picnics 5 pm, fireworks following).

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

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

Quaker Steak and Lube, Middleton: WheelHouse, Americana, free, 5:30 pm.

Uno Chicago Grill-Crossroads Drive: Nine Thirty Standard, rock/blues, free (on the patio), 6:30 pm.

Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm.

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

Brink Lounge: Common Chord, Americana, free, 7 pm.

Central Park: Irish Eyes Session, Literacy Network (and other local nonprofits) fundraiser: The Kissers 5 pm, Nuala Kennedy Band 6:30 pm, Dervish 8:30 pm.

Come Back In: Teddy Davenport, free (patio), 5 pm.

East Side Club: Los Colognes, Wrenclaw, Erin Rae, 6 pm.

Edgewater Hotel: Lucas Cates, free (plaza), 6 pm.

Edgewater-Sky Bar: Soul Low, DJ Nick Nice, 6 pm.

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

High Noon Saloon: Corey Mathew Hart, free, 6 pm.

Tim Harmston, Sam Norton, Esteban Touma: 8:30 pm on 8/11 and 8 & 10:30 pm, 8/12-13, Comedy Club on State. $15-$10. 256-0099.

David Fisher, Dan Bacula, Allie Lindsay, Colin Bowden, Stevie Leigh Crutcher, Peter Jurich: 7:30 pm, 8/11, Bos Meadery. $5 donation. bosmeadery.com.

FA I RS & FEST I VA L S Operation Badger Base: Festival honoring Wisconsin military veterans, 8/11-14, Harley-Davidson of Madison & HoChunk Gaming Madison, with “The Wall That Heals” traveling exhibit, music, food. Free admission. operationbadgerbase.com.

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Home away from home Design is important in work breakrooms, too

BY CANDICE WAGENER

Oakwood Village has been serving the senior community for the past 67 years. Its University Woods campus employs close to 400 part-time and full-time workers: dining and maintenance staff, nurses, other caregivers. Those employees were making do with some seriously outdated spaces for their break time until last summer, when an internally run design contest inspired creativity among the staff to give these areas a much-needed facelift.

Michelle Godfrey, vice president of operational support, says it was fun to get everyone involved in the project “and give something back to staff, an enhancement to their space on the campus.”

While professional staff have more flexibility to cross the 30-acre campus to lunch together, line staff usually end up going to breaks in very tight pockets of time.

They tend to end up in their breakrooms together, Godfrey says.

Staffers were encouraged to work individually or in teams to put together as detailed a proposal as possible, including everything from the entertainment and vending options to the color scheme and even sketches for furniture and ideas about artwork.

Twelve proposals were submitted for four breakrooms, none of them like your

typical coffee and vending machine cubby. The winners are all thoughtful creations, yet very different from each other.

The remodeling was funded by a $20,000 grant from the Oakwood Foundation as well as a donation of $5,000 from an enthusiastic Oakwood resident.

One breakroom has been transformed into a Prairie styleinspired space called the Frank Lloyd Wright Cottage, with clean lines, natural elements and a Wrightian wall hanging.

Another is a serenity-themed room with a couch and reclinCANDICE WAGENER ers, blinds on the windows and Classic diner-style furniture and Coca-Cola art distinguish the “Route 66” walls painted a calming, muted breakroom, which also has a good-sized kitchen prep area. lilac. Originally, this space was painted such a garish color it had devolved into more of a storeroom.

Tracy Weishan, an art therapist at Oakwood Godfrey says she has noticed a change A third breakroom, where staff wanted who was behind the “Wright Room,” says that a $50 in how many people are sitting in the breaksomething more vibrant and fun, has been Visa gift card prize was a good incentive for entering rooms. “Now the breakroom can be utilized, converted to look like a 1950s diner, complete the contest, but she also wanted to create a peaceas opposed to ‘I have eight minutes to kill, with black-and-white check floors, red walls, ful place for employees to catch some downtime. where am I going to to go?’” retro furniture including bar stools and a “I thought about a place where I would like to Dave Bertsch, Oakwood’s director of counter and fun art displays of the Route 66 take a break,” says Weishan. The Wright Room facilities and property management, worked sign and Coca-Cola logo. was inspired by the architect’s strong and simple closely with the winning candidates to The final breakroom, with its remodel now design concepts and love of natural and organic sharpen their ideas. The Route 66 room nearing completion, will have a Northwoods elements. “What do people want in a break started as a general diner concept until lodge feel to it, with hunting and fishing elearea?” asks Weishan. “To me, the things that Bertsch helped with decisions on artwork, ments as part of the overall theme. come to mind are nature and relaxation.” ■ flooring and paint colors.

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I can’t believe this is why I’m finally writing you. My husband is using Pokémon Go as an excuse to stay out until 5 a.m. with another woman. She is beautiful and about a decade younger than him, and he won’t hear me out on why this is bothersome. Our work schedules don’t match up, and he always wants me to meet him in the wee hours of the morning after I’ve worked a full day shift and done all the work looking after our pets. I can give him the benefit of the doubt and be totally fine with him wanting to stay out after work for a few drinks with friends, even though I’m too tired to join them, but Pokémon Go until 5 a.m. alone with a twentysomething for four straight weeks?! It’s driving me crazy. I told him how I feel, and he says it’s my fault for “never wanting to do anything.” (I don’t consider walking around staring at a phone “doing something.”) I told him I feel like he doesn’t even like me anymore, and he didn’t even acknowledge my feelings with a response. With the craze this has become, we can’t be the only couple with this problem. I don’t think me enabling his actions by joining the game is the answer, but I’d be absolutely gutted if this game was the straw that broke up our 10-year relationship. Please help.

Pokémon Go Means No Second Life, SimCity, Quake, Counter-Strike, World of Warcraft, Minecraft — it’s always something.

By which I mean to say, PGMN, Pokémon Go isn’t destroying your marriage now, just as SimCity wasn’t destroying marriages 15 years ago. Your husband is destroying your marriage. He’s being selfish and inconsiderate and cruel. He doesn’t care enough about you to prioritize your feelings — or even acknowledge them, it seems.

When a partner’s actions are clearly saying, “I’m choosing this thing — this video game, this bowling league, this whatever — over you,” they’re almost always saying this, as well: “I don’t want to be with you anymore, but I don’t have the courage or the decency to leave so I’m going to neglect you until you get fed up and leave me.”

Let him have his ridiculous obsessions — with this game, with this girl — and when he comes to his senses and abandons Pokémon Go, just like people came to their senses and walked away from Second Life a decade ago, you’ll be in a better position to decide whether you want to leave him.

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No Clever Acronym There’s no need to disclose this to future partners. Everyone makes mistakes — and the mistake you made, while a deeply painful betrayal of your then-girlfriend and presumably a violation of a premarital monogamous commitment, is a thoroughly common one. Human beings aren’t used cars — we aren’t obligated to disclose every ditch we drove ourselves into before we resell ourselves. You didn’t fuck around on your ex habitually, you’re not a serial cheater, and you never violated your marriage vows. So there’s that. Resolve not to make this mistake again — make only new ones — and stuff that incident down Ye Olde Memory Hole.

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I have two questions. (1) I saw a sex worker for a legit sensual massage that turned into fooling around. Once that happened, he mentioned “making” straight guys have sex with him, wanting to give massages to teenagers, and he talked dirty about younger boys. I know this could all be provocative fantasy talk, but I had a weird feeling about him before meeting. Who would I even disclose this to if that were the right thing to do, and how would I do so while protecting his (should be legal) right to trade ass for cash? (2) Furthermore, I’m a thirsty genderqueer girl plotting her escape from a suburban town. I’m not going to be

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