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MUNCH TIME

Providing free meals to kids on the north side.

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LUNCH IS OVER

What’s next for Madison’s Oscar Mayer property?

JOE TARR

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SCIENCE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT environmental issues and environmental reporting, UW-Madison junior Trina La Susa is pursuing a certificate in sustainability, along with majors in journalism and strategic communications.

She’s also been out in the field, working on a sustainability project for UW housing in collaboration with the Office of Sustainability.

She writes this week about one way to get people to think more about what they throw away — trash audits.

Tender loving care for ailing Capitol Square trees.

9 SCIENCE

WANT NOT WASTE Trash audits can help boost recycling efforts.

10 OPINION

ANSWER TO REVENUE CAPS Referendum needed to sustain public schools.

13 COVER STORY

POLICE PROTECTION

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Will the MPD be a sacred cow this budget cycle?

Thurs.-Sun., Aug. 18-21, Angell Park, Sun Prairie

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Sun Prairie Sweet Corn Festival starts with a parade on Thursday.

Add live music, a craft fair, a carnival midway, Bingo, helicopter rides, a beer tent – you hardly need Saturday and Sunday’s sweet corn chowdown (noon-7 pm). But slather on the butter and salt and rest assured: The corn is not genetically altered.

Teriyaki is the center of attention at Glaze.

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LAKE SWIM

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26-27 MUSIC

Love wins

KING OF THE NERDS

“Weird Al” Yankovich brings his pop parodies to Overture.

Fri., Aug. 19, 100 S. Baldwin St. 3rd floor, 4:30-6:30 pm

27-28 STAGE

The Love Wisconsin Project combines photography, video and storytelling to illuminate life in our own mitten-shaped part of the universe. See for yourself at a Wisco-style happy hour, with an interactive gallery of stories, beer, appetizers and the chance to tell your own story.

WHEREFORE ART LEAR?

Effects and gimmicks obscure the relationships in the Bard’s tragedy.

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OPINION THE HEALTH OF MADISON’S public schools is both a personal and political issue for Ruth Conniff, editor of The Progressive. Conniff, who has three daughters in the school district, opines this week about the need for another referendum which, she says, would provide critical funding to the district.

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HERO’S JOURNEY

Kubo and the Two Strings soars.

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SEW FINE

The Electric Needle showcases quality machines and quilting aids.

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

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Pride Parade Sunday, Aug. 21, State Street & Capitol Square, noon-5 pm

The annual community celebration of LGBT diversity and inclusion hosted

by OutReach departs at 1 pm from the 500-600 blocks of State Street and marches to the Square for a rally with speakers and music. A mini drag show follows featuring Queens of Pride Cass Marie Domino, Desiree Mathews and Vanilla Diamond.

Gather at noon if joining the march.

Pollinators rule Sat., Aug. 20, Southwest Commuter Path at Commonwealth, 9-11 am

The recent phenomenon of colony collapse has underlined the importance of pollinators. Don’t take ‘em for granted! Learn more at this neighborhood pollinator garden, with tours, butterfly and bee identification and more.

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SECTION IN MARCH ALDS. MARK CLEAR and David Ahrens floated a proposal that, at its core, was about who ultimately controls the city’s purse strings.

At the time, news editor Joe Tarr started thinking about what this might mean for the next budget cycle. The proposal didn’t go anywhere, but the mayor will soon be introducing his capital and operating budgets and, as the cover story reflects, the battle lines are already being drawn.

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Over 15 minutes, the team serves 35 lunches to kids and adults, with a number of residents taking food for others. “We don’t question them if they say they need to take something home for family — they just get it,” says Andy Czerkas, co-director of The River.

With close to 80% of children living around Northport Drive qualifying for free or reduced lunch, school meals can be the only thing some students eat all day.

Realizing this need, the Madison school district continues its lunch program through the summer school session. But on weekends and days when school is out, many of these children can — and do — go hungry.

“There are a lot of kids where the parents work weekends and the kids are on their own,” says Czerkas.

To fill that gap, The River launched the Madison Urban Nutritional Children’s Hotspot (aka MUNCH) program in June, delivering lunches to kids in poor northside neighborhoods on weekends and when schools are closed.

“I can’t believe we didn’t do this sooner.

These kids have to eat.” says Czerkas. “The need is there — it’s obvious.”

The pantry team’s next stop is the Brentwood Village neighborhood, just south of Warner Park. Lunch delivery here starts slow-

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Some residents peek out of windows before coming down to get lunch.

Three kids on bikes ride by, check out the scene but don’t stop. “It takes time to trust us, and that’s fine,” says Steckel. The kids on bikes return, grab some burgers and peel away.

Business turns brisk. Between this and another stop one block over, the pantry team goes through another 55 lunches in just 30 minutes.

The MUNCH program began serving lunches seven days a week when summer school ended Aug. 8; it will switch back to weekends-only (and when schools are closed), at the start of the school year.

The program has been aided by donations of food from Oscar Mayer and the Madison Mallards this summer and has arrangements to get surplus concession food from UW-Madison sporting events during the rest of the year.

MUNCH, which now also serves Kipling Drive, Vera Court and Karstens Drive, plans to add other neighborhoods next year.

“We’ll keep adding them until we hit every low-income neighborhood on the north side,” says Czerkas. “There’s 1,500-1,600 kids locally we could be serving, and we think that’s doable. We have to.” ■

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Reclaiming Oscar The city contemplates what to do with meat-packing site

BY JAY RATH

As the Oscar Mayer Company prepares to leave its longtime quarters in Madison, a city vision for the massive complex is beginning to take shape. Possibilities include the return of five city streets and purchase of the site for $1.

However, redeveloping the site will require soil remediation at a massive expense.

Oscar Mayer’s parent, Kraft Foods Group Inc., merged last year to form The Kraft Heinz Company. The resulting new organization announced in November that it would close a number of Oscar Mayer plants, including the manufacturing facility and company headquarters in Madison. Following an ongoing series of layoffs, all operations here will cease in March.

Mayor Paul Soglin cautions that it’s still very early to consider how the city could redevelop the site.

“Up until this point we’ve been pretty much focused on what I would call technical issues,” he says. “We have a general consensus that the property focus is on economic development and good jobs, and not housing. That’s the first thing.”

At its peak in the 1970s, Oscar Mayer employed 4,000 people in Madison. According to company documents, when the plant included stockyards the total facility spanned 170 acres. Today it covers almost 50 acres, which are assessed at $16.6 million. The land alone is assessed at $3.6 million. Annual property taxes are more than $404,000.

In reality, though, “the parcel has a negative value of between $10 and $20 million,” says Soglin. That includes the cost of anticipated remediation of contaminated soil; over decades the company hosted a wide variety of industrial activity.

In leaving Madison, Heinz Kraft caught the city’s Department of Planning & Community & Economic Development off guard.

The city’s 2006 comprehensive plan didn’t anticipate any other use for the parcel since no one imagined that Oscar Mayer would depart.

That oversight is now being corrected.

“The city does view it as an important piece of land, to continue to support strong employment opportunities that are well-served by transit, rail lines, the airport, and still within walking and biking distance of several residential areas,” says Heather Stouder, the city’s Planning Division director. For now, the site will continue to be zoned for industrial use.

The city’s Economic Development Division is taking the lead on planning, “but it is an interagency staff team that has been educating themselves about the site,” says Stouder. “Currently, the focus of our work is to learn more about situations in other cities similar to this one, and to work with [Kraft Heinz] to ensure that they understand the importance — from the city’s standpoint — of maintaining the site for future employment uses.”

The Oscar Mayer complex includes more than 20 separate structures. It began with one four-story building that had bad cork insulation.

Originally based in Chicago, the company’s expansion to Madison was, at the time, a bold industry innovation that led to fantastic growth over time. “The sequence of buildings and spaces accommodating specific use — basically the processing of meat — was designed over 100 years,” notes Soglin.

In 1919, 30-year-old Oscar G. Mayer, son of Bavarian immigrant founder, Oscar F. Mayer, was visiting relatives here when he learned of a defunct meat packing plant out in the country, far from what was then the edge of Madison’s east side. The farmers cooperative facility was 2 years old, and hadn’t operated in a year, due to financial difficulties.

Harvard-educated Oscar G. Mayer had an idea. Previously, meat packers located operations at railroad centers such as Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. Livestock were shipped from rural areas to cities, where the animals were processed. Often they arrived in poor condition, owing to travel. Mayer would reverse that process, bringing operations close to farmers, and then using rail and roads to transport finished product to city markets.

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The city has not yet begun detailed planning for how to deal with the site, Stouder says. But some things are evident.

“In terms of utilization of the site, it appears that with the exception of one long single-story building, at the entrance to the campus, everything else would come down,” says Soglin.

“The manufacturing part of the plant is of virtually no use to anyone.”

Not even the eight-story headquarters office building can be saved. Ironically, it’s doomed by the plant’s efficiency of operation.

“The entire facility has one [heatDAVID MICHAEL MILLER ing, ventilation and air conditioning] He hurriedly went home to inform his father system, and so when the manufacturing porabout the pending co-op sale. It would take one tion of the plant is demolished, it leaves the third of the company’s capital — nearly $14 mil- offices without any HVAC,” says Soglin. “At lion in today’s dollars, to purchase the plant and that juncture, at which you’re already derepair and replace equipment that had fallen signing a new facility, whatever that may be, into disrepair. Oscar senior had little time to the cost of retrofitting the old offices with a consider, but “his son’s voice was filled with ur- new HVAC system is not cost-effective.” gency,” recalls a company newsletter. “He put Redevelopment will require private on his hat and caught a Madison-bound train.” money. “The only interest we have in the The company opened here Nov. 26, 1919. city acquiring the site as owner is that the Headquarters were moved from Chicago in 1957. city would be eligible for Environmental Major additions were built in 1925 and 1939, Protection Agency funds to take care of any 1933, 1938, 1942, 1945, 1954, 1968 and 1970. At remediation of the soil,” says Soglin. “If deits peak, the complex was capable of processing molition took place — everything removed, as many as 10,000 hogs a day. In 1969, adjusted so that the only thing left to do was remefor inflation, its annual payroll for hourly and diation — then the city would consider pursalaried employees totaled $256 million. chasing it for a dollar.”

“In several respects, the large Madison plant The complex includes vacated portions is much like a self-sufficient city,” boasted the of at least five city streets. “One of the poscompany newsletter that year. “Electricity gen- sibilities is to restore those city streets,” says erated by the plant’s powerhouse each week is Soglin. “It depends on what the private use equivalent to the electrical load used by 10,000 of them would be.” homes in the same period. Each week the plant The city has not been in touch with Oscar uses about 35-million gallons of water,” equiva- Mayer descendents, many of whom still live lent to a single day’s use by all the rest of Madi- in the Madison area. Some sort of memorial son at the time. will certainly be part of any future site, he “Wastewater treatment facilities have a 4.5 says. But whatever happens, whether one million gallon daily capacity, easily enough to or several industries take up residence on serve a community of 45,000 persons.” the site, it will take time.

Amazing in its day, that aging self-sufficient Adds Soglin, “It’s possible that given its city will have to be dealt with before develop- size it will take a decade or more to develop, ment occurs. and it would be done in stages.” n

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Those visiting the Capitol Square lately might have done a double take. Tree leaves are changing color and dropping, but fall hasn’t arrived just yet. It’s a disorder.

The appearance of trees on the terrace around the Capitol is increasingly strange.

“The leaves are yellowing, except the veins are remaining green,” notes Steve Michels, communications director for the state’s Department of Administration.

These are signs of chlorosis, a disorder that can strike a variety of plants. The most obvious symptom is an inability to create chlorophyll. Chlorosis has many potential causes, including damaged roots and a deficiency of minerals including iron, manganese or zinc.

“The grounds crew has taken steps to deal with the chlorosis,” says Michels. The Capitol Square trees have been receiving special treatment since last fall, after the state consulted R. Bruce Allison of the UW-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.

On the advice of Allison, the trees were inspected for girdling roots — roots tootightly wrapped around the trunk. Trees that showed symptoms have been removed.

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Leaves on trees planted on the Capitol Square terrace have been yellowing and dropping.

“In the fall of 2015 and the spring of 2016 each tree was flushed using a 1 1/2-inch fire hose connected to city hydrants and flushing for three minutes,” to remove any accumulated salts, says Michels.

“The concern is about salt from sidewalks and roads,” explains Brian Hudelson, director of the UW-Madison Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic.

This spring the grounds crew applied iron and manganese to the soil, to promote root growth and chlorophyll production. Variations

in soil quality can complicate treatment of chlorosis, and may require significant ongoing work.

But Michels is optimistic: “We are being proactive and diligent to care for the trees and believe they will recover.”

On Tuesday evening, a tree at Carroll Street and West Washington Avenue fell on two pedestrians, who were taken to the hospital. The tree had been actively monitored, according to DOA, and showed no signs of stress. The department says other trees will be re-examined. n

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Brenna George remembers the first time she put on a pair of rubber gloves to look through trash. She had just been hired as an intern at UW-Madison and was assigned to sort through the waste coming out of Grainger Hall’s Capitol Cafe. George was disappointed to see the vast amounts of food waste and items that could have been recycled instead.

“I thought more people cared and paid attention to what they threw away, but when you really get to look into it, it’s not that way at all,” says George.

Trash auditing involves sorting waste from a particular location into distinct waste streams such as mixed paper, office paper, recycling and landfill. The goal is to determine whether waste is being properly disposed of.

A few campus groups have been doing audits, including the Office of Sustainability, where George works, and WE CONSERVE, a program dedicated to conservation and waste elimination. There’s also the ABCs of Waste, which launched with the help of Frank Kooistra, a retired coordinator for the Office of Sustainability’s physical plant operations and WE CONSERVE’s recycling initiatives, and focuses on reducing the university’s contribution to the landfill.

“It’s important to understand that garbage cans are not black holes,” says Miles Tryon-Petith, a former Office of Sustainability intern who founded the ABCs of Waste project. “Trash audits are important because it helps you see those traces of your lifestyle that you are sweeping under the rug, in a certain sense. The landfill is a giant rug.”

During 2014, interns audited 15 academic buildings sorting through more than 1.5 tons of waste.

“We did an initial audit and gave all that data to the building managers, then audited again to see if the results improved at all,” says Aaron Conradt, a WE CONSERVE student leader.

The 2014 audit data revealed a 23% average contamination rate in UW–Madison academic buildings. Yogurt cups, plastic food containers and coffee cup lids and

sleeves were among some of the items improperly recycled.

Tryon-Petith says the data will be used to improve signs to describe what to toss where.

In spring 2014, professor Catherine Middlecamp incorporated two weeks of trash auditing labs in her environmental studies class. When the students dug through trash from a campus dorm, they discovered a large amount of cups, bowls, plates and silverware.

“They were losing thousands of dollars with items in housing being thrown away and we only looked at trash from one dorm,” Middlecamp says. “I believe the change they made was that no one can take [settings and silverware] out of the eating area any longer and that they also put a place to return those items on every floor of the dorms.”

Data from the ABCs of Waste also found that UW-Madison loses an average of $200,000 each year from recyclables thrown into the landfill.

Although valuable, audits have to be done safely, Middlecamp says. “That means you have to protect your hands, you have to protect your eyes. You have to be prepared for the unexpected and anybody who does a trash audit should really take a good look at the safety protocols before digging into bags of trash.”

While George says the Office of Sustainability plans to further investigate the university recycling system in September, it is unclear how many trash audits will be done. She hopes to see changes in infrastructure to promote recycling.

“I haven’t seen any improvement, but currently there really hasn’t been a ton of effort to add more recycling bins to campus, change the signage on them or make them brighter and different colors to make it obvious which bin is which,” George says. “Recycling is also not a part of employee training, so when employees come to campus it is confusing because the city of Madison is a single stream recycling system and on campus it is not.”

It’s also not a part of student orientation and many students come from municipalities that are single stream, adds George. “So people see a recycling bin and just think all the stuff can go in there.” ■

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Referendum or not?

It’s decision time on funding Madison schools

BY RUTH CONNIFF

Another school year is beginning, with all the excitement, jitters and dread the fall always brings. But this year, as Madison public schools face an uncertain future, that nervous feeling is magnified into a kind of existential dread.

Will Madison continue to boast some of the best public schools in the nation? Or will massive staff and program cuts make our schools a shadow of their former selves? We’ll know the answer by the end of the year.

The district is proposing a referendum on the November ballot that would authorize Madison schools to exceed state-imposed revenue caps by $26 million over the next four years. The referendum would allow the district to maintain current funding levels for our schools. Without it, according to data the district presented to the school board in August, school funding will fall off a cliff.

Among the projections: Madison would have to cut 90 teachers in 2017-2018, and 50 teachers the year after that. Our schools could be unrecognizable by the time my fourth-grader is ready to start sixth grade.

Fortunately, we have time to act, and our community has shown that it is willing to support public schools.

So far, Madison has fared better than other districts around the state under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget cuts and revenue limits that have pitched many communities into crisis.

Our city started 4-year-old kindergarten just in time to boost enrollment and add needed revenue. The district struck a bond deal with the city that also added some funds. And in a 2008 referendum, taxpayers voted to pay more over the last few years, staving off deep cuts in programs and staff.

But now those measures are played out, says school board member Ed Hughes.

Hughes supports a November referendum to lift revenue caps in increments of $5 million a year for the next two years and $8 million a year for two years after that.

The impact on the average homeowner, according to district data, would be negligible, as projected growth continues to increase the property tax base.

On the other hand, if the next state budget maintains the strict revenue caps recently favored by the Republican leadership, and if Madison doesn’t go to referendum, property tax rates will take a nosedive, and so will funding for schools.

“This would provide us with spending authority that allows us to spend at the same level as the recent past,” Hughes says. “It’s not a blank check,” he adds, pointing out that school spending under the referendum would essentially remain flat. “We could spend to the max and still have to make cuts.”

That’s exactly why Hughes’ colleague, school board member TJ Mertz, has been reluctant to support putting the proposed referendum on the ballot in November.

Mertz does not dispute that the school funding outlook for 2018 is “scary as hell.”

But, he says, he’d rather take more time and craft a better referendum, with more community input, and put it on the ballot in April.

“I definitely recognize that there’s a need that only can be met through referendum under state law,” Mertz says. “But I don’t think the short timeline allows us to craft the best referendum we can.”

Why go along with a plan based on relatively low cost-of-living and seniority raises and rule out an across-the-board raise for teachers, Mertz asks.

“We should have a community-wide conversation on whether to raise base pay,” he says.

The school board Aug. 15 declined to vote on the proposed referendum. Its meeting on Aug. 29 will be the board’s last opportunity to get a referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot.

Mertz is optimistic that Madison will support a referendum, whether it’s on the ballot in November or in April, and he would like to see a community conversation about funding priorities.

“I think our community supports schools,” Mertz says. “And our community gets that our state system doesn’t provide adequately for schools and that a referendum is how you address that.”

Turnout will be much higher, however, in the presidential election in November.

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And Hughes, board member Mary Burke, and school district administrators warn that waiting until spring would give the state Legislature a chance to pass more laws that take away local control.

In the last session, Republican legislators floated proposals to limit local school-funding measures. One proposal barred a second referendum for two years if a school-funding measure failed to pass.

Another limited the dates for elections when a referendum could be placed on the ballot.

“Who knows what the Legislature is capable of,” Hughes says. “All of this is premised on the fact that we don’t know what they will do in the next budget.” n

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Third party Michael Cummins — After reading your article in the July 28 Isthmus (“I Survived RNC 2016 — But Will My Party?”), I believe you should start a third party to give the unhappy people of both parties (there must be a lot) someone to vote for. The “independent party” or “third party” with Bernie Sanders as candidate for president.

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lives, we should be giving them free and easy access to long-acting birth control, empowering them to stay in school so they can get decent, well-paying jobs, and encouraging them to postpone starting a family until they can give their children a stable and healthy upbringing that every kid deserves.

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While a northside pool may indeed be a worthy goal (“In too deep? 8/11/16), our lakes deserve to be more accurately portrayed. Mendota is as clean as it’s been in years. For Paddle and Portage, both lakes were refreshingly algae-free.

Joe Lusson (via Isthmus.com)

The Democratic party in Wisconsin, sadly, is not particularly progressive (“Holding out hope” 8/11/16). Bernie Sanders showed how to win big and run on a very progressive campaign platform: increase social security (big in Wisconsin); help families with tuition problems; raise the minimum wage. These are all economic issues and they sell well in Wisconsin. But look at Feingold, who still doesn’t get it; and with him, most of the moribund Democratic Party. Wisconsin really needs a third progressive party. A real progressive has to step up and run for governor. I see that, not the State senate, as the beginning.

FFlambeau (via Isthmus.com)

Not an accident I am writing in response to “Catalyst for Change” (8/11/16). I applaud the women in this article for doing something positive for a community in need, but I question why we as a society are not doing more to prevent this from happening in the first place. I understand that people make mistakes, and young women do get pregnant.

However, when it happens two, three, four or more times, it is no longer an accident, it is a choice, and it is the children (and the taxpayers) that suffer. No child deserves to grow up being raised in a car, with four other siblings, with a 24-year-old single mother. And we wonder why we have an achievement gap in our schools! If we really want to help young women live better

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needs, it would decrease the demands on police, he argues. “If we’re spending more money on police, we’re spending more money on the reaction instead of the prevention.”

This year, the city of Madison faces another tight budget, with growing expenses and stagnant or declining revenues. The mayor is looking at all options and asked every department, including the police, to consider cutting budgets by 2.5% and delaying already approved projects in order to keep property taxes from growing by more than 3% next year.

Soglin specifically asked the police department to consider delaying the planned midtown station and canceling its officer academy in 2017.

Chief Mike Koval is against these suggested cuts. “We’re in a unique service-based industry where well over 90% of our budget is already inextricably tied to salary, benefits and contractual obligations...that literally offer me no wiggle room,” he says. “When you say 2.5% out of an almost $68 million budget, that means [eliminating] $1.7 million.”

In a phone interview, the mayor was circumspect about what cuts he is leaning toward making, saying he simply wants to consider all

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Dave Glomp appreciates Mayor Paul Soglin’s attention to the city’s fiscal health and his regular calls to limit borrowing.

But there’s one area where Glomp says the city can’t afford to be frugal: public safety. A Meadowood neighborhood resident since 1971, Glomp has been one of the city’s consistent law-and-order cheerleaders. For him, policing is the bedrock that all city services are built upon.

“I applaud the mayor for his fiscal restraint — he probably wouldn’t like the word conservatism,” says Glomp. “But I’m a realist when it comes to public safety. I believe in my neighborhood, my city. I want it to prosper and grow, but it won’t if people don’t feel safe. That’s the bottom line.”

Eric Upchurch II, an activist with the Young Gifted and Black Coalition, has a different take.

“Police don’t determine safety. They’re a reactive force,” says Upchurch. “They’re a symptom of our lack of safety. The degree to which you require police provides an indicator of how unsafe you are.”

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In a June 6 memo to department heads, Soglin blames state government for much of the city’s financial woes, noting that the Legislature has passed 125 laws since 2011 that limit the powers of municipalities. His mandate to department heads was this: “We must do all we can to protect existing service levels and avoid layoffs.”

All city departments were asked to either cut operating budgets by 2.5% of 2016 levels (provided the cuts don’t involve layoffs) or create “a plan for efficiency investments in technology or other process improvement efforts with a payback of three years or less.”

In an April 4 memo, the mayor asked department heads to not propose any new projects in the capital budget, which is a borrowing plan for new buildings, roads, sewer lines and equipment. He also asked that they “seek to remove projects or reduce anticipated costs” for projects approved in earlier budgets.

Because debt payments come out of the operating budget when cities have a lot of debt, they have less money to spend on salaries and services.

Since beginning his third term in office in 2011, Soglin has repeatedly grumbled about excessive debt. He has routinely accused his predecessor, Dave Cieslewicz, as well as the Common Council, of reckless borrowing.

In 2011, about 12.5% of the operating budget was going toward debt payments. It’s now close to 15% and the current projections have it hitting 18% in 2019.

Soglin continues to blame Cieslewicz and the council for this growing debt, saying “much of it has been dictated by prior decisions or lack of prior decisions.”

Schmiedicke says that one thing driving the high borrowing is that much of Madison’s infrastructure was built about 50 years ago and now needs to be rebuilt or replaced.

“A lot of it was built in the 1960s when we had a rapidly expanding city,” he says.

The renovation of the Central Library added about $20 million in debt to the city and the

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options. His budget will be finalized in early October, after which the council will have a few weeks to tweak and approve it.

The council and mayor have a contentious relationship that has been most strained around budget time.

Many council members are bracing for a battle over public safety issues this fall, although it’s unclear who the fight might be with: the mayor or the police chief.

“I hope there’s not a fight,” says Ald. Matt Phair. “I hope we can work through things more collaboratively. But with this mayor, I’ve learned to expect the unexpected, not so much with what he puts in his budget but how the process plays out and the tactics he uses.

“It seems like we get down the road through the process and he surprises us with strong ideas and draws these lines in the sand.”

As is typical, city officials sounded a gloomy note when kicking off the budget process earlier this year.

“Every year we say it’s the worst budget ever,” says Ald. Mark Clear. “Even though it’s kind of a cliche, it’s also kind of true, because every year our expenditures go up faster than we can pay for them.”

In a July 17 presentation to the Common Council, city finance director David Schmiedicke laid out the bleak news: revenues are not keeping pace with expenses.

The goal is to keep the city’s operating budget just under $300 million.

The city is looking at a $3 million to $5 million gap — meaning, its projected revenues are that much lower than the expenses it expects to incur.

The city is restricted in how much money it can raise through taxes because the state has imposed strict levy limits. The Legislature also took away the city’s power to determine how 70% of its room tax revenue can be spent. That money is now turned over to a special board made up of representatives from the tourism industry to spend.

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Chief Koval: “We’re in a unique service-based industry where well over 90% of our budget is

already inextricably tied to salary, benefits and contractual obligations.”

The Madison Police Department has a ratio of 1.87 officers for every 1,000 residents.

Koval would like to see the ratio grow to two officers for every 1,000 residents in the next four years. Adding 10 positions a year over the next four years would reach that goal.

Former Ald. Brenda Konkel is skeptical of the calculation, noting that Madison has other police agencies working within its borders — the Capitol Police and UW Police — that aren’t included.

She says much of what the police do could be considered public relations, such as playing euchre at senior centers or basketball with high schoolers. “It’s like they have a PR machine at work, trying to improve their image,” she says. “And other departments can’t [afford] paper.”

“No other departments in the city are growing at the same rate [as MPD]. And if you compare it to nonprofits, it’s ludicrous,” she adds. “You’re not giving Rape Crisis Center more funding. Everybody across the board has to serve more people, but they are not getting the same increases in staff.”

Ald. Paul Skidmore counters that the police rarely lack things to do. “I do security downtown and there are times I just simply can’t call PD for help because there’s only two officers on duty at certain times of the day because of shift time,” he says. “We’re not flush

with people. There are not officers driving around looking for things to do.”

Koval agrees that violent crime has declined since he joined the force in 1983. But he says the work has become vastly more complicated. To illustrate, he pulls a dose of the opioid-overdose remedy Narcan out of his shirt pocket, and notes that officers routinely save lives with it. The profession requires much more training and individual calls take much longer.

“When we get a mental health episodic break that can be a minimum five hours, but more likely eight hours before that’s resolved,” he says.

Konkel says those issues could be dealt with in better ways. “They end up dealing with all those things because everyone else is underfunded,” she says.

Getting the force up to the chief’s desired size won’t happen any time soon if the department cancels its 2017 academy, as the mayor asked Koval to consider. Canceling the academy would save the city almost $400,000. The mayor has also asked the department to stop applying for federal grants to hire new officers, because these require scarce matching city funds.

Since there’s an academy starting next month, with a graduation date slated for June 2017, cancelling next year’s academy wouldn’t have an impact until the summer of 2018. But Koval fears it will be harder for the city to “catch up” if the department dwindles.

The proposed annexation of the town of Madison poses another staffing challenge.

The MPD estimates it will need 18 officers to serve the area. Many of these could come from the town’s police force, but they would all have to go through at least an accelerated city academy. Until then, the city’s current police force will have more area to patrol with the same number of officers.

Soglin says he hasn’t made any decisions about any cuts, but wants to explore options. Asked if the police department is more vital than other agencies, he says merely, “Every city service is important.”

This wouldn’t be the first time the council has wrangled over how much to fund the police. Staffing levels have been debated for at least the past two decades. And Soglin has previously floated delaying construction of the planned midtown police station, which is estimated to cost $10.8 million.

Staffing would increase operating expenses.

Although the council has kept the project on track, Soglin is again contemplating delaying it. While many alders say they’re committed to the current timeline, support for it might not be as deep as it has been. Ald. Ledell Zellers is also troubled by ballooning debt. While she hasn’t made any decisions, she adds “there are a number of things we should take a second look

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But from the chief’s perspective, that’s not enough officers. The city’s growing population, the increasingly complex nature of the situations police deal with and the imminent annexation of the town of Madison, all increase demands on police, he argues. Soglin surprised alders last week by proposing the annexation, which was originally scheduled for 2022, be moved up to the end of the year. This would have major budget implications.

There are also a high number of officers at retirement age — the department has more than 90 officers who are over 50 years old.

Among those officers, about 30 are at least 53 and have 25 years on the force, meaning they could retire immediately with full benefits.

“They could literally lay a letter of resignation at my door today,” says Koval.

And he says the national environment — with growing concern over officer-involved killings (including several in Madison), protests and calls for reform — is making policing an undesirable profession. “In the last three weeks, I’ve had two people resign with less than three years experience,” Koval says. “I’ve been told there are others considering it.”

Even if nobody retires soon, Koval says the staffing levels at the police department are lower than what the city needs.

According to the U.S. Justice Department, the average staffing level for cities in the Midwest is 2.6 officers for every 1,000 residents.

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One critic calls some elements of community policing, such as playing euchre with senior citizens, a departmental “PR machine.”

at. The police station is one of them.”

Koval says it would be a mistake to delay the project, since the demands on the west district continue to grow as the population swells and the city braces for the annexation of the town of Madison. The west district serves about 85,000 residents and is the largest of the department’s five precincts.

Koval repeats what he admits is a familiar talking point: “If the west district were severed off from the rest of Madison, it would be the fifth largest city in Wisconsin.”

Several other public safety issues are likely to be debated this fall.

Skidmore will revive a $400,000 pilot proposal to put body cams on some officers. A new fire department training center, scheduled for Femrite Drive, could also be delayed, although Ald. Denise DeMarb says she’ll fight for it if Soglin doesn’t fund it. She won the battle for it last year.

Alds. Maurice Cheeks and Phair have proposed several anti-violence initiatives, a variety of intervention and diversion programs, that would be funded next year at a cost of $750,000. Phair says the city needs to address racial disparities, homelessness and violence.

Although Soglin initially supported these, he said last week that he doesn’t expect to fund all of them.

“Some of them are solid proposals,” he says. “Some of them are rather shaky proposals that are well intentioned but fatally flawed.” He would not elaborate.

Soglin’s ambiguity frustrates Phair. He notes the mayor’s silence on a number of issues, including the planned $400,000 study of the police department, which Koval bitterly objected to.

“I’d like to know where the mayor stands and where he would draw a line in the sand, but he won’t say any of that,” Phair says. “He plays a lot of games and waits and waits to see where the political winds are and goes with that.”

Ald. David Ahrens has a similar opinion.

“I’d like [Soglin] to weigh in on the important city issues,” Ahrens says. “He’s said very

little about police-community relations other than we need to get along. When you think about what he talks about, it’s mostly about panhandling and some food-related issues.”

It’s tough to say at the moment whether the council has a worse relationship with the mayor or the police chief.

Soglin seems to welcome acrimony with the council, frequently lecturing the body at meetings and blaming it for the city’s debt. He appears to relish battles with alders and picks fights he is unlikely to win — such as proposing time limits for sitting on public benches or trying to keep a State Street french fry restaurant from getting a beer license.

But some say that Koval has strategically targeted the council, by trying to rile up residents on behalf of the police department. In June, Koval aggressively pushed back against the consultant study of the MPD. He first wrote a blog post criticizing the study and admonishing council members. “You are being watched,” he wrote. “And be on notice: this is a preemptive first strike from me to you.”

At a council meeting days later, he pushed back even more forcefully, yelling at alders and threatening to walk out.

Clear says those moments will be hard to forget when the council debates police funding.

“Everything the chief has done over the last couple of months, all of his statements and behaviors are geared to ginning up support for additional officers,” he says.

He says the tactic definitely got residents fired up, as council members have been bombarded with emails about the police department — both for and against — ever since. “Usually issues like this blow up and then die down,” he says. “This one has tremendous staying power.”

Clear regrets that emotions will be hard to separate from the facts. “It’s going to be very difficult to take a very data-based, empirical look at that because it’s been so inflamed over the last couple months,” he says.

“I’m not sure if the council or community can make a rational decision about it.” ■

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Bonanno won’t be the only chef making something special for Yum Yum. Grampa’s Pizzeria won’t be serving pizza — instead, truffled chicken dumplings with foie gras torchon is on their menu. El Grito, a food cart known for its tacos, will feature Lap Xuong sausage over rice noodles. Salvatore’s Tomato Pies will be serving saltimbocca-style veal rotolo. Heritage Tavern has suckling pig with coconut red curry.

You’ll find wood-fired roasted duck crepes at Sardine’s stand. Mezze will be cooking salt-cured lamb kebabs. And Sujeo is offering Thai-style fried wild Alaskan rockfish.

And don’t worry, many vendors will also be offering vegetarian options.

Admission to the festival is $10; each of the 25 participating restaurants will be serving one item that will cost $5.

After expenses are covered, proceeds will benefit the parks foundation, Yum Yum organizers say. “[Yum Yum Fest] has been extremely generous. They are one of our biggest donors. More than $10,000 over the past two years,” says Stephanie Franklin, executive director of the Madison Parks Foundation.

Three restaurants from Milwaukee will be joining the festivities. The Chinese restaurant DanDan plans on bringing a ham crepe with scallions and egg. The Vanguard, a sausage bar, will have a beef salad with heirloom tomatoes and Wisconsin cheeses. Sanford, which serves New American cuisine in the Cream City, will be selling roasted lamb belly with hop leaf tabbouleh and apricot yogurt.

Yum Yum Fest will have plenty of desserts too. Adamah Neighborhood Table will serve a trio of petit sufganiyot (Israeli donuts). Nostrano will be whipping up grape or brambleberry ice cream floats with buttermilk gelato.

Surprisingly, the Underground Butcher stand won’t be serving any meat, in favor of blueberry and mint chocolate chip push pops.

See yumyumfest.org for a full schedule and menu. Gil Altschul, owner of Grampa’s Pizzeria and Gib’s Bar, says Yum Yum Fest is Madison’s definitive food festival.

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Chef Dan Bonanno of A Pig in A Fur Coat says Yum Yum Fest is his chance to try something new. He’ll be selling a Koreanstyle dish: Grilled beef bulgogi with kimchi, rice, cucumbers and nori.

“I don’t normally make it. But it’s my day off, it’s a festival and I want to have some fun too,” says Bonanno.

Yum Yum Fest, now in its third year, returns to Central Park Aug. 21 from 3-8 p.m.

The one-day food festival is organized by the Madison Area Chefs Network and the Madison Parks Foundation.

Yum Yum Fest is “a perfect way to spend in an afternoon in Madison,” says event organizer Bob Hemauer. “What’s unique is chefs get to stretch their legs, do something a little different. It’s really food-focused like no other festival in Madison,” says Hemauer.

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Glaze Teriyaki is the latest of the small “boutique” chains to find its way to lower State Street. It joins Mooyah, Naf Naf Grill and Colectivo in the first floor of the luxury student housing development the Hub. It’s been quite the transformation for the 500 block since 2013, when the restaurant tenants adjacent to the old University Inn were told they had to vacate. These were unique, homegrown spots that encapsulated what people thought of when they thought of dining on State Street.

Thankfully, Roast Public House and Kabul found new digs across the street, and Buraka has finally reopened a few miles away on Williamson. Only the Turkish restaurant Hüsnü’s has failed to reopen.

The new restaurants are slicker-looking, their fare both more predictable and more portable.

The New York City-based Glaze (with five locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn) also has storefronts in Chicago (one) and 2827 • (608) 241-2200 SanAtwood FranciscoAve (two).

Its interior has a lightly Sun-Mon 8am-3pm; Tue-Sat 8am-8pm Japanese vibe; it feels peaceful and more www.daisycafeandcupcakery.com sophisticated than Naf Naf or Mooyah. The turntable sitting just inside the front door is for decoration only; there are no vinyl nights.

The draw is Seattle-style teriyaki, although Glaze has no locations in Seattle.

There, the teriyaki territory has apparently already been thoroughly staked out. Teriyaki is Seattle’s signature dish, its Philly cheesesteak, its Chicago dog. Seattle-style teriyaki is a straightforward dish, just a grilled protein served on rice, with a sweet/spicy soybased sauce and a side salad.

Proteins here are chicken (choose from either breast or thigh meat), steak, pork loin, salmon, tofu or wok-sauteed vegetables (I know, that’s not a protein, but that’s how it’s listed).

Glaze has sometimes been dubbed “the Chipotle of teriyaki.” It attempts to source locally and organically, as does Chipotle.

But customers don’t really design their own bowls, picking from various ingredients in an assembly-line fashion. Here the dish is basically set: just choose a protein and either white or brown rice. (Protein can also come

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on top of salad.) The rice bowls all come with a small side salad, made with fresh greens and choice of dressing. I like the honey-lemon dressing best. (It’s like lemonade! On salad!)

You can customize to some extent. Let’s say you decided to order the salmon as your protein. But you’d also like some wok-sauteed vegetables with that. You could order the vegetables with salmon as your extra protein ($10.50) or order the salmon with extra vegetables ($12.75). Maybe choose “combo A” (any two teriyaki entrees for $10), or choose “combo B” and pick the vegetable add-on option ($11.75) instead of the gyoza. Figuring the best way to get what you want can leave you feeling a little bit like Jack Nicholson trying to order the wheat toast in Five Easy Pieces.

The salmon teriyaki rice bowl is quite good; the fish moist, mild. The wok-sauteed vegetables are fresh and currently being sourced from Borzynski’s Farm in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative.

Glaze representative Vicki Morton notes that the Madison restaurant sources “from a variety of different purveyors, and any given day something could be different.” Plans are to eventually highlight one local purveyor each month and to start featuring locally made desserts.

I would strongly suggest sticking with the regular teriyaki sauce that’s included with all the rice dishes. It has some fairly pleasant orange notes. The “spicy” sauce (an upcharge of $1) tastes medicinal and overshadows any flavor from the other ingredients. It’s also really spicy; there’s also an “extra spicy” and a “hottest” sauce.

Tofu is its usual genial self and tastes mostly of the teriyaki sauce. Steak is also a pretty good choice. The pork is tender, but so salty as to be almost inedible, while the chicken didn’t have much flavor.

The smarter way to customize at Glaze is via the menu of sides. Steamed edamame come with a dusting of spices. A salty and lightly tart cucumber salad is simple but surprisingly satisfying. The deep-fried shishito peppers are a little greasy, but a thoroughly appealing delivery system for salt and a jolt of vegetable heat. The serving is a perfect size for sharing — but also dangerously easy to consume, solo.

An order of the salmon or the tofu on brown rice with a side of the shishito peppers would make me pretty happy on most days.

But Glaze would be a more attractive destination if more of its proteins were as appealing. ■

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Before the closing ceremony at the actual Olympic games, here’s your chance to compete for the gold. Events include bean bags, washers, Polish horseshoes and flipcup. At Next Door Brewing Company, 2439 Atwood Ave., 1 pm. $20 entry fee per team. More information on Next Door Brewing Company’s Facebook page.

This is one of a series of farm dinners at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie-style home in Spring Green. Includes a hike focused on the ongoing ecological restoration on the property. At Taliesin, 5481 County Road C, Spring Green, 5 pm. Tickets ($125) available at taliesinpreservation.org.

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Biggest Beer The Bent Effect, Radicle Effect Brewerks (Rock Island, Illinois) This is a collaboration beer with Bent River Brewing (Moline, Illinois) using Mississippi River Distilling Company (Le Claire, Iowa) whiskey barrels to age this brown ale. It had lots of character from chocolate and rye malt. Sweet, yet dry, with a warm alcoholic finish of 6.5% ABV.

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Big and Sexy, Sand Creek Brewery (Black River Falls) This was described as a 2013 vintage of the brewery’s Oscar’s Double stout. However, brewmaster Todd Krueger admitted he had no idea how long this oatmeal stout had been aging in wood. “We actually forgot what was in that barrel and it had sat around at least three years, maybe longer,” he confided.

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“You really don’t know what you’re going to get with a Brett beer until it’s done,” says O’so brewmaster Marc Buttera. “Wild yeast can do something different every time.”

This is a light, effervescent sour. Notes of lemon, pineapple and melon give it a bright, crisp character, while there’s enough malt to lend pleasant softness to the mouthfeel. New Zealand “Dr. Rudi” hops offer a faint resiny pine flavor, adding subtle dryness in the finish. It’s great with sandwiches, and lighter meats and seafood on the grill. Mild musty cheeses go well with it, too. Hardcore sour fans may find it too tame, but I enjoy Refresher Course for being a clean, mildly tart, fruity sour that should appeal to a range of drinkers.

Over the past year Refresher Course has been offered a few times in the brewery’s Plover taproom and turned up on a limited number of draught accounts locally. Now, the beer is bottled-conditioned in cork-and-caged 750 mL bottles that sell for $9-$10. Refresher Course finishes around 5% ABV. n

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Rare Steakhouse had never crossed my mind as a prime happy hour haunt, but on my first visit there with a coworker, the artisanal ice cube that is my heart was melted by the Rare Manhattan. Simple yet flawless, it’s made with Makers Mark bourbon, Carpano Antica and Angostura bitters. The drink is stirred (as all Manhattans should be) and garnished with an Amarena cherry.

(Since my visit, Rare has started barrelaging its Manhattan, mixing the ingredients ahead of time and letting the flavors mingle for two weeks. Genius!)

The bar manager at Rare is a real gem — he was nice enough to give my friends and me the happy hour deal, even though we ordered shortly after 6 p.m., because he saw we had been waiting. The bar was busy, and for good reason — cocktails are half price from 4-6 p.m. on weekdays. It’s a phenomenal deal, and an even better excuse to try out a fun new spot for after-work drinks.

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Making a splash at last year’s Madison Open Water Swim.

What began in 2003 with 41 swimmers — many from the Lussier Family East YMCA Masters Swim Program — has evolved into a major training event for Ironman Wisconsin triathletes and other experienced swimmers looking for a break from the pool.

The 14th annual Madison Open Water Swim, with 1.2- and 2.4-mile courses, will be held in Lake Monona on Saturday, Aug. 20, with 550 participants from all over the Midwest. Initial online registration closed five-and-a-half hours after it opened in May and the waiting list remains long.

“Swimming in a lake is very different than in a pool, because you don’t see any black lines at the bottom,” says Suzi Green, director of the Madison Open Water Swim. “You don’t know where you’re going and how much farther you have to go. You’re going to get kicked in the head and elbowed in the face, too.”

Despite all that — and the fact that open water swimming has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, as the 6.2-mile men’s and women’s marathon swimming events took place earlier this week at the Rio Olympics amidst concerns of swimmers navigating through raw sewage — open water swimming is the fastest-growing Olympic

sport in the world, according to the World Open Water Swimming Association.

The Madison Open Water Swim is a grassroots effort. Organized by members of the nonprofit Madison Swim Club Inc., it receives no outside sponsorship money and donates proceeds to scholarship funds for age-group swimmers, Madison’s Clean Lakes Alliance, the YMCA of Dane County, Goodman Pool and the city’s new-pool fund.

The club is governed by United States Masters Swimming, which approves the event’s safety plan and helps promote it.

“About 70% of our swimmers are triathletes, and many of them are doing Ironman Wisconsin,” Green says, referring to the event that takes place Sept. 11, beginning in Lake Monona. “That was never the purpose of Madison Open Water Swim, but we have certainly benefitted from that.”

She advises adult swimmers who want to begin training for next summer’s swim to gain some non-event practice first; Devil’s Lake, with its clean water and lack of motorboats, is ideal, Green says. Participants also should be able to swim 1.2 miles in less than 70 minutes and 2.4 miles in less than 140 minutes. “If you can’t do that in a pool, you have no business being out there in the lake,” Green says. “It’s just not safe.” ■

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“Weird Al” Yankovic

BY TOM WHITCOMB

Since the late 1970s, “Weird Al” Yankovic has been in a league of his own. The pop parodist has been witness to countless shifts in musical trends, from Michael Jackson to Lady Gaga (who he says told him getting the Weird Al treatment was a “rite of passage”), and has deftly skewered them all, selling millions of records across the globe.

But with his whopping 14-album deal with Volcano Records now complete (“I had the option of signing this record contract or keeping my day job, working for minimum wage in a mailroom,” he says), Yankovic is free to focus on his own projects, which include his current day job as bandleader on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang!

Isthmus caught up with “Weird Al” in advance of his Aug. 21 show at the Overture Center to take a closer look at the lengthy, colorful career of a true music and comedy legend.

“I grew up in the Compton-adjacent city of Lynwood. I went to the same high school as [Death Row Records’] Suge Knight.”

Oct. 23, 1959 Alfred Matthew Yankovic is born in Downey, California.

“The choice was between guitar lessons and accordion lessons, and, of course, my parents — being the visionaries that they were — went with the accordion, because they wanted me to be extremely popular in high school.”

1966 Al takes his first accordion lesson after a door-to-door salesman visits his parents.

“I didn’t have the money for a professional recording facility, so I recorded it in the bathroom across the hall from my college campus radio station. I remember how giddy I was when I got a postcard from Dr. Demento saying that “My Bologna” had been No. 1 on his Funny Five countdown for two weeks in a row. I actually thought, ‘Man... my life’s never going to get any better than this!’”

“This album is kind of painful for me to listen to, but I suppose I just have to allow it to be a product of its time and resist the George Lucas impulse to completely re-record it just because I actually know what I’m doing now.”

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“Bad Hair Day is still my highest-selling album to date (over 2 million copies) because of “Amish Paradise,” and also because of the fact that it came out in an era when people were still actually buying albums. Plus, Amish people buy tons of CDs, right?”

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“I lucked out by releasing “White & Nerdy” at the crest of the wave of nerd empowerment. 2006 was the tipping point when all of a sudden people decided it was actually cool to be a nerd. I guarantee you, nobody was trying to establish their ‘nerd cred’ when I was in high school!”

“I had been under contract to my record label for 32 years, [and] Mandatory Fun was the last album on my 14-album record deal. I thought it was a really strong album, but I didn’t think I had a standout single. I figured I would release it anyway and quietly fulfill my contractual obligations. Instead, to my amazement, the album made history.”

1979 Just before his senior year at Cal Poly, Al records “My Bologna,” which becomes his first professionally released parody.

1983 Al’s self-titled debut album is released.

1984 “Weird Al” Yankovic in 3-D is released, with “Eat It.” 1989 Comedy film UHF is released in theaters.

1996 Bad Hair Day is released, including “Amish Paradise.”

2006 Straight Outta Lynwood is released, including “White & Nerdy,” his biggest-selling single to date.

2014 Mandatory Fun — including single “Word Crimes” — is released and becomes his first No. 1 album in the U.S. (and the first comedy album to top the charts since 1963).

2016 Al joins IFC’s Comedy Bang!

Bang! as bandleader.

Aug. 21, 2016 Al performs at Overture Hall in Madison.

“‘Eat It’ basically changed my life. Within 24 hours of that video going into heavy rotation on MTV, I became a celebrity. It was literally overnight fame. I couldn’t go anywhere in public without people staring and pointing at the ‘Eat It’ guy. That was the power of MTV back in the day.”

“UHF went on to become a beloved cult classic, but it was an unmitigated box office bomb. The whole experience was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster because the movie had tested extremely well and everybody was treating me like I was going to be Orion Pictures’ next big movie star. After its dismal opening weekend, nobody at Orion even wanted to establish eye contact with me.”

“Comedy Bang! Bang! is one of my all-time favorite TV shows, and Scott Aukerman is an old friend of mine, so when he offered me the bandleader gig, I jumped at the opportunity. It’s a real thrill for me every single day on set, because I get a chance to do music, improv and sketch comedy with some of the absolute funniest people in the world.”

“My whole life has been building up to this. Let’s face it, it’s all downhill after the Madison gig.”

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Midwestern cowboys Driveway Thriftdwellers’ debut album is a country love letter The War at Home: Kyle Blanchard (le ) plays Russell, an Iraq War veteran, and Jessica Werther portrays his wife, Elsie.

BY ANDY MOORE

Madison’s deep Americana well just gushed more oil. Cutover Country, the first album from Driveway Thriftdwellers, is Southern rock with Northern heart. The record, which the band will debut at the Frequency on Aug. 20, could just as easily be called Flyover Country. But these songs are rooted in the dirt from four long seasons spent on county roads.

Jon Knudson, a Milwaukee-based songwriter who founded the band with his brother Ryan in 2012, writes tunes that are like letters home from a Midwestern boy turned loose to a shuffle beat of twangy guitars and pedal steel. “Northern Accent� is the tale of a honky-tonk encounter in a California roadhouse. Sounds like Bakersfield when you listen to the music. Sounds like Sconnie love when boy meets girl at the bar and, lo and behold, she has a Northern accent. The Knudson brothers grew up in northern Wisconsin.

The band’s name is one of the most confounding you’ll see in local listings, so I had to ask where it came from. Jon says it came to him in a dream about one of those old ladies who has a summer-long yard sale every year. “Can I help you driveway thriftdwellers find something?� the dream-lady asked.

The Thriftdwellers’ music sounds more like a vintage yard sale that Jon’s musical hero Merle Haggard might have thrown. The album’s retro sounds were aided and abetted by resources — human and otherwise — at Madison’s Dojo Studios, where the album was recorded and mixed by Brian Knapp.

Knapp, one of Madison’s best country singers as demonstrated by work in his own

Real-life theater Returning Home tells vets’ stories

BY JAY RATH

Playwright Nick Schweitzer got an inside look at how difficult it is for veterans to reintegrate into families, work and society after fighting overseas.

His play, Returning Home, which runs at the Bartell Theatre Aug. 19-27, is based on true stories shared by veterans. “I’ve been working on this issue of people dealing with trauma for many, many years,� says playwright and producer Schweitzer, whose past works include Surrounded by Reality, which celebrated Madison’s 2006 sesquicentennial, and Fighting Bob: A Love Story, about Bob and Belle La Follette.

Schweitzer, an adjunct law professor at UW-Madison, was inspired by the 2010 book Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Training and the Undoing of Character. Its author, psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, is an expert on post-traumatic stress disorder who worked for the Veterans Administration. “As I read through the case histories, I thought it would make great theater,� recalls Schweitzer. With Shay’s permission, he dramatized the work, retitling it The Tragedy of Achilles in Vietnam.

A reading at a 2008 meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies in Chicago was well-received, especially by

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band, Ghost Town Council, oversaw the production. He also provided gear that itself could have been flown in from Bakersfield circa 1970: vintage tube amps, instruments and old recording devices.

Of course, all the cool toys in the world won’t make a recording if you don’t have the talent to put them to use. And the current Thriftdwellers’ lineup has chops. In addition to rhythm guitar and vocals by Jon (who has also provided lead guitar and backing vocals for Madison’s Whitney Mann), Ryan provides high-flying pedal steel.

Lead guitarist Kyle Rightley knows how to play the fat, farty truck-driver notes but can also pretty up a song countrypolitan-style. Rightley’s other projects include the Civil Engineers and Five Points Jazz Collective. Former Locksley bassist Aaron Collins also sings harmony. Milwaukee-based drummer Jon Storey rounds it out. “My heroes have always been cowboys,â€? says Jon. Cutover Country, is a worthy tribute to those heroes. â–

Dr. Sharon Wills, a psychologist with the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System. Wills helped get the show produced in Austin.

Rather than Vietnam vets, however, Wills was mainly treating veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. She invited the playwright to meet with some patients, and he began to gather material, with permission, from group therapy sessions. Some of these vets performed in a staged reading of Returning Home, the work that grew out of the sessions. “The play focuses on group therapy as one of many interventions for dealing with PTSD, which is a label placed on a wide range of behaviors that are adaptive in situations of great stress, but that can’t be easily unlearned in ‘normal’ life,� says Schweitzer.

Austin’s veterans-turned-actors enjoyed Schweitzer’s script. “They were very complimentary,� says the playwright, laughing. “But they all said that I didn’t have enough profanity in it — even though every other word in the play is ‘fuck.’� The upcoming world premiere of Returning Home will be produced

by Wilder Theater, a group that works with local playwrights. Madison Theater Guild staged a reading of the play in 2012.

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The great thing about classic, archetypal stories is that even when they are transposed into other eras and circumstances, the essential truth of the narrative can be just as potent, if not more so. Putting a familiar tale in a different setting often helps audiences see the drama in a new way — to understand the main characters, plot and motivations even more clearly. This is not the case with American Players Theatre’s current production of King Lear, directed by William Brown. Instead, incredible stage effects and high-tech updates obscure emotional connections with the main characters, Lear and his three daughters.

This Lear, set in the present, begins with a highly choreographed press conference, complete with an official podium, photographers and white chairs spread out over a lawn of Astroturf. As the king (Jonathan Smoots) announces he is splitting his empire among his daughters, Goneril (Laura Rook) and Regan (Kelsey Brennan) give hyperbolic speeches of filial adoration that seem perfectly fitting in the context. Like family members extolling the attributes of a candidate at a political convention, the remarks have been vetted and are being performed for the benefit of the cameras. But this overproduced photo opportunity overshadows Cordelia’s refusal to participate.

Regan and Goneril’s journey in the play is a descent from shallow vanity to murderous desperation as they compete for the attention of Edmund, the Machiavellian bastard son of Gloucester (a deliciously charming but base Marcus Truschinski).

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wardrobes devolve from power suits and ensembles (including fabulous hats) befitting Kate Middleton into fishnet stockings and skintight mini dresses that belong on the set of a “Real Housewives” reality show.

Without emotional foundation or noble credibility that is normally established in the opening scene, Lear’s decline from a king to a poor madman railing against his lot seems incidental — he is “handled” in dementia by his few remaining supporters just as his press secretary “handled” his entrance.

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That leaves the weight of this epic play on the shoulders of the king’s few allies, who fortunately shine in their supporting roles, still propping up a monarch whose nobility the audience never witnesses.

As the fool, Christina Panfilio has the trust and friendship of the king — and permission to tell him the truth, as long as it is wrapped in a song or riddle. She leads her master to safety from a horrendous rainstorm, prophesizing a disastrous end. Panfilio imbues her role with the honest love Lear couldn’t find in his two elder daughters.

Jim Ridge is also extremely affecting as the Duke of Gloucester, acting out a parallel story to Lear’s. When he mistakes Edmund for his loyal son and Edgar for a villain, he puts his trust in the wrong man and it costs him his eyes. Eventually led out of his suicidal despair by Edgar (a tender Eric Parks), disguised as the beggar Poor Tom, the Duke “sees” the truth about his children and his own foolishness. His moment of recognition and reconciliation is the most beautifully rendered part of the story.

Another advocate for the king is the Duchess of Kent, played with strength and intelligence by Greta Oglesby. Even in a disguise that includes a bandana headband and pink t-shirt emblazoned with a cartoon drawing of Eeyore, Kent is fierce in her defense of her liege. Although Lear had banished her in a fit of misplaced rage early on, the Dutchess demonstrates the king’s worthiness through her bravery and devotion.

In the midst of these shifting alliances, mistaken identities and madness — both real and feigned — the elaborate effects in this production are both stunning and overwhelming. Armies of soldiers enter carrying M16s. Cordelia detonates a bomb that seems to shake the theater just before she is captured. While Lear yells at the storm to “crack your cheeks! rage! blow! Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!,” he and the fool are drenched in gallons of water that actually pour onto the stage.

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Breathtaking storytelling Kubo and the Two Strings is an animated wonder

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In the central plaza of a seaside Japanese village, many years in the past, a young one-eyed boy named Kubo (Art Parkinson) is surrounded by a rapt audience. Playing on his magical shamisen — a three-stringed Japanese instrument — Kubo brings to life a succession of origami figures, part of an ongoing performance about a warrior on a quest who battles frightening monsters (and perhaps also a fire-breathing chicken). It’s an archetypal tale, nested inside another archetypal tale, a hero’s journey about bravery and the connections of family. Kubo isn’t just telling a story; he’s telling the story.

The setting, both geographical and temporal, is in many ways incidental to Kubo and the Two Strings — the latest terrific feature from stop-motion animation studio Laika (Coraline) — although there’s a delightful specificity to this village and its inhabitants.

Like all of the greatest stories, this one is about something bigger and more broadly human than its surface narrative. This is movie-making of the most magical kind — not just an astonishing feat of visual imagination, but a resonant celebration of what stories themselves give to us.

Kubo’s own quest involves many familiar elements from the culture-spanning monomyth. Mystery and magic surrounds his parentage; a prologue shows his sorceress mother bringing him across the sea to safety as an infant after the death of his father.

Years later, when his mother is mostly an invalid and only sporadically lucid, Kubo finds himself again threatened by the same powers that stole his eye — his mother’s witchy sisters (Rooney Mara) and his own grandfather, the Moon King. Only three enchanted objects can protect him, and Kubo must set out to acquire them, accom-

panied only by the animated totem of a monkey (Charlize Theron) and a samurai who has been transformed into a man-sized beetle (Matthew McConaughey) and whose only vague human memories are of serving Kubo’s father.

If Kubo had been nothing more than its unique style, it still would have been one of the year’s most remarkable films — not animated films, but films, period. Director Travis Knight — a Laika veteran animator with his first directing credit — oversees a production that features characters designed with a distinctive sharpness. The action sequences are magnificently choreographed, highlighted by a battle between our three protagonists and a massive creature made of bones, and a confrontation between Monkey and one of the evil sisters on a sinking ship built out of leaves. The comic relief, when it comes, is low-key and anchored in the characters. Individual shots are breathtakingly beautiful, none more so than a river covered in floating lanterns, sailing into the glowing sunset.

The heart of Kubo, however, is in the skill with which its screenplay (by Marc Haimes and Chris Butler) allows us to invest in this specific story while building on its expansive foundation.

It explores our need to reach out to the genera-

tions that came before us for wisdom and guidance, and the myths and legends that serve that need. It touches on the power of humanity to recognize what pulls us together, and makes us want to fight for one another. It recognizes art — music, a paper figure, a tale of a long-ago warrior — as some of the most potent magic we have for defeating heartlessness and despair.

If the description of a shamisen as a three-stringed instrument seems confusing in light of the film’s title, rest assured that Kubo and the Two Strings handles that issue in a manner that’s almost unbearably heartbreaking. Like much of the rest of the story, it’s built on allegory and metaphor, but never in a way that feels like an academic lesson.

In a landscape of animated films that rarely reach for more than franchise-building, wacky hijinks and pop-culture punch lines, this one has been crafted with soaring ambition. What better lesson to convey to children through a cinematic story than why we continue to tell stories at all, how transcendent they can be and how they allow us to understand the experiences — and people — that made us who we are. ■

Damned enjoyable Hell or High Water features go-for-broke performances

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This West Texas crime movie barrels in with the force of a full-gale dust storm over the flat, dry plains of our parched movie summer. Hell or High Water is a good but not great movie with sensational lead performances that elevate it to enjoyably memorable status. Add to that a pleasing soundtrack composed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, and stunning cinematography by Giles Nuttgens, who has made several previous movies with David Mackenzie (Young Adam being the standout), and Hell or High Water has what we need to quench our summer cinema drought.

We’ve seen all the tropes before: the bankrobbing brothers (Ben Foster and Chris Pine), the bloated Texas Ranger (Jeff Bridges) who’s due to retire in a few weeks, the Mexican-American partner in law enforcement (Gil Birmingham) who bears the brunt of his superior’s casual racism, the Indian casinos, the loyalty to family, and signs everywhere of widespread poverty, underemployment, and the greed of bankers.

The screenplay by Taylor Sheridan calls to mind his previous film Sicario, a crime drama embedded in the American Southwest in which the endemic racism is part of a deeper study of the cultural milieu. In both films there is a sense that the storytellers could have mined even deeper veins. Misgivings, maybe, but the go-for-broke

Chris Pine (le ) and Ben Foster play bank-robbing siblings.

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Pooley’s: Nite Fire, classic rock, free (patio), 7 pm.

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Harmony Bar: The Sharrows, 9:45 pm.

High Noon Saloon: The Delicate Delegate, Jettkick (split cassette release), 5:30 pm; Well2Do, Hirt Alpert, Yid Vicious, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Connor Brennan, Jim Ripp, Kevin Gale, dueling pianos, 8:30 pm.

Java Cat: Bob Ardern, new age, free, 4 pm.

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

Mariner’s Inn: Bahama Bob, free, 6:30 pm.

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THE SHARROWS

w/ DJ FERNANDO 10PM

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TUESDAY 8/23

SUN. AUG. 21 - THUR. SEPT. 1

Me and Julio, Fitchburg: East Wash Jukes, 9 pm.

Merchant: DJ Mike Carlson, free, 10:30 pm.

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

Mickey’s: Fire Retarded, Big Eyes, Dumb Vision, 10 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Winning Ugly, free, 10 pm.

Octopi Brewing, Waunakee: Small Blind Johnny, 7 pm.

5:30-7:30PM FREE

5:30PM FREE

Ben Sidran’s Salon

CLOSED

w/Nick Moran, _Louka _ _Patenaude _ _ _ _ _& _Todd _ _Hammes ____

FOR HARMONY SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT AND ANNUAL STAFF R&R FRI. SEPT. 2 REOPEN!

JAZZ JAM

w/ THE NEW BREED 9PM • FREE

M A D I S ON ’ S C L A S S I C DA N C E B A R

www.harmonybarandgrill.com

Paoli Schoolhouse: Caravan Gypsy Swing, free, 6 pm.

Plan B: DJ Amos Smith, 9 pm.

2016

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

The Red Zone: Devilution, H1N1, Breech, Squidhammer, Cast in Fire, Samyaza, 7 pm.

Saturday, Aug. 20, Crescendo Espresso Bar, 8 pm

The Piasa Bird is the name of J. Hardin’s aching, polished new record. A mythical creature feared and propagated by the Illini Indians centuries ago, the paisa (PIE-a-saw) was a lion-sized, vicious, human-eating bird that flew the updrafts of the Mississippi River bluffs where it dwelled. Hardin comes from that place and seemingly from that time, too, because he’s created an album of songs that have all of the mystique of its namesake. He is an ardent songwriter who will definitely go places with this remarkable recording, which combines the pioneer instincts of Levon Helm with the rapture and intelligence of Bonnie “Prince” Billy.

Sprecher’s Restaurant: Mad City Funk, 7 pm.

Tavernakaya: DJ Fuzzy Duck, free, 10:30 pm.

Tempest: Bill Roberts Quartet, jazz, free, 9:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Jon Hoel Trio, jazz, free, 10 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners: Vehicle Six, 8:30 pm.

Snow White: Fresco Opera Theatre production (all 2 pm): 8/20, 901 Turnberry Drive, Waunakee; 8/21, 3301 Derby Down. Free. frescooperatheatre.com.

Memory of Dust: Theatre de l’Ange Fou modern movement play inspired by the poetry of Robert Desnos, 7 pm on 8/20 and 4 pm, 8/21, former Wyoming Valley Church, 6348 Hwy. 23, south of Spring Green. $15 donation. 815-441-8828.

MONONA TERRACE ROOFTOP IN MADISON

ART E X HI BITS & EV ENTS

Leah Brooke Conway and Jason Banks Saturday, Aug. 20, Winnebago Studios, 7-11 pm

Handphibians Saturday, Aug. 20, Memorial Union Terrace, 9 pm

Captain Bill’s, Middleton: Casey & Greg, 6:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, 10 pm.

Come Back In: Mad City Funk, free, 9 pm.

Artist and musician Leah Brooke Conway (art pictured) is relocating to Austin, Texas, and is bidding farewell with an art show featuring her oil and acrylic portrait series and a performance by her band, Royal Jelly. She also promises to give away door prizes, including “weird random possessions and art.”

DJ Ace @ 5:30 & 7:30 PM 6–7:30

Davis Family

8–9:30

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DJ Ace @ 5:30 & 7:30 PM 6–7:30 8–9:30

Kinfolk Grupo Candela

Rain location: Monona Terrace indoors

Rain location: Alliant Energy Center

FAI RS & FE STIVALS Stoughton Coffee Break Festival: 9 am-4 pm, 8/20, Mandt Park, Stoughton, with Java Jog run/walk 9 am, car show, arts & crafts fair, kids’ activities, coffee brewoff, music. Free admission. stoughtonwi.com.

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Food vendors: Cuco’s Mexican Restaurant / Kipps Kitchen / Lake Vista Cafe / La Taguara Weather info: DaneDances.org or Call 608-261-4000

AUGUST 18–24, 2016 ISTHMUS.COM

The sound of dozens of drums should create a new kind of wave on Lake Mendota as Handphibians, Madison’s own Brazilian “bateria,” takes the lakeside stage.

The pan-global percussion will doubtless bring the Terrace crowd to its feet.

Don’t spill the pitcher. Brazilian jazz from Grupo Balanca kicks off the evening.

FREE Every Friday in August

T HE AT E R & DANCE

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Saturday August 20, 2016 10am - 5pm

5500 East Cheryl Parkway

Mitch Sigmund

Gandy Dancer Festival: Annual train-themed music festival, 11 am-8 pm, 8/20, Westland Promenade, Mazomanie, with kids’ activities, exhibits, food. Main Stage: Cris Plata with Extra Hot 11 am, Lonesome Aces 12:30 pm, Art Stevenson & High Water 2 pm, Barefoot Movement 3:30 pm, Harmonious Wail 5 pm, Iron Horse 6:30 pm. Donations. gandydancerfestival.org.

SP ECIAL EV ENTS

Pride Block Party: 4 pm-midnight, 8/20, on King Street (by Woof’s), with music by DJ John Murges, Perfect Harmony Men’s Chorus. Donations. 204-6222.

Firefighter Fun Day: Activities for all ages, 1-4 pm, 8/20, Fire Station No. 9, 201 N. Midvale Blvd., with fire prevention resources & station tours, food. 213-5441.

Nick Ringelstetter

HOM E & GARDEN Wisconsin Daylily Society Sale: 10 am-4 pm on 8/20 and 11 am-3 pm, 8/21, Olbrich Gardens. 221-1933.

Lyn Chevrier Brennan Thorgerson McKee Rd.[PD]

August 12-20 Middleton PAC middletonplayers.com 1-800-838-3006

Agora Art Fair: 100+ artists, 10 am-5 pm, 8/20, 5500 E. Cheryl Pkwy., Fitchburg, with kids’ art yard, food/beer, music (two stages). agoraartfair.com.

EMCC 50th Anniversary Celebration: All ages activities, 2-6 pm, 8/20, East Madison Community Center, with music by SOUL Men, DJ Fabulust, EMCC Breakers, games, food. Free admission. 249-0861.

The Musical

Oh, the thinks you can think when Dr. Seuss’ most beloved characters come together in this unforgettable musical caper!

■ ISTHMUS PICKS : AUG 20 - 25

North to Hwy 12/18

Fish Hatchery Rd.

The Agora

E. Cheryl Pkwy

Lacy Rd.

Paul Morrison

www.agoraartfair.com

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES FREE Every Thursday & Saturday from 6-8pm

Horticulture Field Day: Annual event, 10 am-2 pm, 8/20, UW West Madison Agricultural Research Station, Verona, with gardener Q&A, tours, vegetables tasting. Free. 262-2257.

KIDS & FAM ILY Backpacks for Success: 100 Black Men of Madison’s annual picnic for elementary/middle schoolers, 10 amnoon, 8/20, Demetral Park, with free backpacks filled with school supplies, games, hot dogs. 205-8572.

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Pride Parade: Annual LGBT celebration, noon-5 pm, 8/21: line up 500-600 blocks of State Street for 1 pm march, rally 2 pm, afterparty with Queens of Pride Cass Marie Domino, Desiree Mathews, Vanilla Diamond, DJ Leo. outreachprideparade.org. 255-8582.

Yum Yum Fest: Madison Area Chefs Network showcase to benefit Madison Parks Foundation, 3 pm, 8/21, Central Park, with dishes from 24 local restaurants, music, art. $10 admission (free ages under 12); food/drink tickets $5 each. yumyumfest.org.

T H EAT ER & DA N C E The African Company Presents Richard III: 1 pm on 8/21 (talk by Carlyle Brown 4 pm) and 7:30 pm, 8/25, APT-Touchstone Theatre, Spring Green. $75$54. americanplayers.org. 588-2361.

King Lear: 4 pm on 8/21 and 7:30 pm, 8/24, American Players Theatre, Spring Green. $75-$47. 588-2361.

B O O KS Beverly Little Thunder: Discussing “One Bead at a Time,” her memoir, 2 pm, 8/21, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

mon aug 22 MUS I C Come Back In: John Masino, rock, free (patio), 5 pm.

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

The Frequency: Rum Rebellion, The Killer Hearts, Courtesy of Tim, 8 pm.

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

tue aug 23 MUS I C

CARAVAN GYPSY TRAPPER SCHOEPP SWING ENSEMBLE Saturday, June 4th

“Weird Al” Yankovic

Saturday, August 20th

Sunday, Aug. 21, Overture Hall, 8 pm

PAOLI SCHOOLHOUSE Shops & Cafe

For full schedule visit paolischoolhouseshops.com • 608-848-6261

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Up North Pub: Brandon Beebe, free, 7 pm.

Thursday, June 2nd

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Wyoming Valley School Cultural Arts Center, Spring Green: The Stellanovas, Rural Musicians Forum fundraiser concert, 7:30 pm.

Malt House: The Barley Brothers, free, 7:30 pm.

JOHN DUGGLEBY JIM WHITE

Woof’s: DJ Tony Ritschard, 3 pm.

Julep: Christopher Plowman, Carrot Anne, 6 pm.

Every Thursday & Saturday • Music 6-8pm • Dinner 5-9pm

Thursday, August 18th

Bobby Briggs, country, 3 pm.

LAST SHOW OF THE SEASON! 8/25

valley queen (CA) W/ LITTLE LEGEND

East Side Club • 3735 Monona Drive • Tiki Bar

rotating food carts!

For every great pop song of the past four decades, there’s been an equally great parody of that song by “Weird Al” Yankovic.

The genius behind comedy classics like “Eat It” and “Amish Paradise” released Mandatory Fun, his 14th full-length album, in 2014, and currently serves as bandleader on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! Now he has a live spectacle that includes enough costume changes to tire out Cher. See page 26.

Nau-Ti-Gal: The Change, free (on the patio), 3 pm.

Tuesday, Aug. 23, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm Andy McKee exploded onto the acoustic guitar world with a series of YouTube videos, a format perfect for showcasing his percussive and active playing style. When hearing the music, one’s first thought may not be “How is he doing that?” but it certainly becomes a question when the visual aspect is added. You can bet local players will be right up front trying to absorb what McKee is up to; everyone else will enjoy his propulsive, melodic songs. With Owen Campbell.

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

Capitol Square at King Street: WheelHouse, noon.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Frank James &

The Frequency: The Foxfires, 8:30 pm.

Allen Centennial Gardens: Clocks in Motion, 4 pm.

Alliant Center-Exhibition Hall: Volbeat, Killswitch Engage, Black Wizard, rock, 7 pm.

Essen Haus: John Lyons & Jon Lyons, Elvis Presley tribute, free (on the patio), 4 pm.

The Frequency: Casket Robbery, Repaid in Blood, 3 pm; Redeye Revolver, Lazydeadpoet, 7 pm.

High Noon Saloon: The Best of Hank & Rita: A Barroom Operetta, by The Frye, 7:30 pm.

Hop Garden, Paoli: Back2Back, folk/rock, free, 2 pm.

For more details, visit: LakesideMadison.com

Andy McKee

Hilldale: Dave Stoler Trio, jazz, free (west plaza), 5 pm.

Malt House: Dollar Bill & the Bucks, free, 7:30 pm.

Mickey’s: Blythe Gamble & the Rollin’ Dice, 5:30 pm.

B OOKS

thu aug 25 MUS I C

John Burke: Discussing “12 Simple Solutions to Save America,” 7 pm, 8/23, HotelRED. 283-9332.

LEC T U R ES & S EM I N ARS Israel/Palestine Delegation: Talk by U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan on recent congressional trip, 11:30 am, 8/23, First United Methodist Church. madison@jewishvoiceforpeace.org.

History Sandwiched In: Brown-bag lunch program, “The War of 1812 in Wisconsin: The Battle for Prairie du Chien” by author Mary Antoine. 12:15 pm, 8/23, Wisconsin Historical Museum. 264-6555.

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Sunset Series: Valley Queen

S E E Y O U S U N D AY

Thursday, Aug. 25, East Side Club, 6 pm

With a sound that combines Motown soul with driving southern roots-rock, Los Angeles-based quartet Valley Queen has been creating buzz since they started collaborating in 2014. Frontwoman Natalie Carol’s golden-throated wail soars above the solidyet-psychedelic instrumentals. With their much-awaited debut album dropping soon, this is a band to watch. With Little Legend.

Skeletonwitch Thursday, Aug. 25, The Frequency, 8:30 pm

Johnny and Molly + Jillian Rae + Seasaw Wednesday, Aug. 24, Gates of Heaven, 7 pm

Headliners Johnny Solomon and Molly Moore (pictured) are members of Communist Daughter, a critically acclaimed folk band from St. Paul, Minnesota, and Jillian Rae is a prodigiously talented violinist who parlays her talent into killer alt-country jams. The lineup is rounded out by Madison indie-pop duo Seasaw, whose album, Too Much of a Good Thing, was released earlier this year. An unforgettable night of music.

30 on the Square: Geoffrey Keezer with Gillian Margot, Darren Sterud & the New Orleans Tribute, Goodman Community Center Youth Group, Jazz at Five, free, 4 pm.

Brink Lounge: T. Burns, Mark Adkins, John Duggleby, 7 pm.

The Frequency: Jennifer Hall, Cold Country, The Hottman Sisters, Karen Wheelock, 9 pm.

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

Mickey’s Tavern: Momotaros, Neiv, Brilliant Beast, Post Social, free, 10 pm.

Opus Lounge: Teddy Davenport, free, 9 pm.

Quaker Steak and Lube: Madison County, 5:30 pm.

Shitty Barn, Spring Green: Chris Pureka, Auralai, 7 pm.

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

Willy Street Pub/The Wisco: Boaconstructor, Future Exes, Neu Dae, Nonfinite, Owl, 10 pm.

Dennis Rooney, KC Arora, David Freeburg: 11 pm, 8/24, Fountain. 250-1998.

A RT EX H I B I TS & E VE N TS Demetrius Morgan: Art exhibit, 5:30-8 pm, 8/24, Central Library, with premiere of short film “Rejection of Acceptance” at 7 pm, performance by Otto “In My Mind” featuring Tony. 266-6300.

Alchemy Cafe: Los Chechos, free, 10 pm.

Edgewater Plaza: Corey Mathew Hart Band, 6 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Emerald Grove, free (patio), 6 pm; Double Ewes, Queenager, Knute, Kleptix, 9 pm.

Kiki’s House: Kevin Seconds, Steve Soto, house concert (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com), 8 pm.

Merchant: Christopher Plowman, free, 10 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Rotten Tommys, Toxenes, 10 pm.

FAI RS & FESTIVALS

Orton Park Festival Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 25-28, Orton Park

The family-friendly kickoff for the 51st annual festival includes pizza, ice cream and a 7:30 pm performance from Cycropia Aerial Dance — a troupe of dancers that swings on trapezes and ropes hung in the park’s stately oaks. Quintessential Madison. Throughout the weekend, the Marquette Neighborhood Association festival presents a diverse lineup. Friday: The Big Payback (5:15 pm) and the Kissers (7 pm). Saturday: GGOOLLDD (6:30 pm) and Twin Peaks (8:15 pm). Sunday: Milwaukee’s Dead Horses (1:30 pm) and local hip-hop crew Fringe Character (4 pm). It’s not summer without Orton Park.

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8/21 3PM - 8PM C E N T R A L PA R K

Michael Che: 8:30 pm on 8/25 and 8 & 10:30 pm, 8/26-27, Comedy Club on State. $25-$15. 2560099.

LIMITED TICKETS

Hyperbole: With Allie Lindsey, Lauren Callihane, Matt Lind, Dan Bacula, Michael Daubs, host Vanessa Tortolano, 10 pm, 8/25, Fountain. 250-1998.

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One of the biggest names in modern metal, Skeletonwitch has been going strong for 13 years. In that time, the Ohio five-piece has managed to not only master their sound — a hybrid of thrash and doom metal — but also get themselves on Disney’s shit list. In 2013, the Mouse banned Skeletonwitch from playing at the Orlando House of Blues for being “unfit to be associated with Disney.” How’s that for scene cred? With Zebras, No Hoax.

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■ EMPHASIS

A new, larger store means the Electric Needle can stock more fabrics by the yard.

Material world The Electric Needle takes sewing and quilting to a new level

BY CANDICE WAGENER

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In a year that has seen the closing of Stitcher’s Crossing, Hancock Fabrics and the Sewcial Lounge, it may seem like a rogue move for a sewing store to expand.

But that’s exactly what Jen Mulder, owner of the Electric Needle, has done. She sees it as a way to serve the patrons of those stores as well as offer more to her regulars.

It all started a few years ago at a Jo-Ann Fabric store as Jen and her husband, Jay, waited in line to get some calico cut. Jay noticed machines on sale and suggested she buy a new one.

“I had a $150 cheapie that made me curse like a sailor every time I had to sew,” says Jen. A fellow shopper recommended investing in a Viking or Pfaff — but to purchase it at a dealer because of the support they offer. Back at home, while Jen laid out her pattern and fabric, Jay hopped online and found a Pfaff dealer in Oakfield, Wisconsin — an hour and 15 minutes away.

It happened that Pfaff was looking for a dealer in Madison and the Mulders were looking for a business opportunity. The Electric Needle opened in January 2010 in a tiny Market Square storefront. There they primarily sold and serviced Pfaffs and offered a small selection of fabric as well as a few classes.

Since their move this summer to the bigger space at 4281 W. Beltline Highway, the Mulders have a dedicated classroom space with a utility sink for dyeing classes and have added Viking machines and tripled the amount of fabric they carry.

The Electric Needle offers a wide variety of classes for beginner to intermediate sew-

ers. Project-based classes involve creating something fun like a superhero cape or a table runner from start to finish, extremely helpful if you run into questions or problems.

There are also more social meetups like “Sit & Sew” and “Sew & Tell,” perfect for sharing projects and casual peer support.

The Kids Can Sew program continues to be popular, as does Sewing Machine 101 and Beginning Sewing 101. “That’s great, because it means new people sewing,” says Jen. The additional space also means they can offer more intermediate classes on embroidery, smocking and quilting techniques.

Because so many of the store’s customers are quilters, the main fabric stock is quilting cottons — but these can also be used for bags, clothes and home decor projects that don’t require a heavy weight. Jen consults her customers on what types of fabric to order, but her penchant for bright colors is also apparent. She stocks every color in the solids line of Kona Cotton by Robert Kaufman, which she chose for its nontoxicity. Come this fall, the store will carry a line of organic cotton geared towards babies and children, with a class aimed at sewing kids’ gear as well.

An Accuquilt machine on site die-cuts fabric into exact sizes and shapes, ideal for quilt squares and applique pieces. The machine is not currently available to rent, but the shop holds classes taught by a certified Accuquilt instructor. The Electric Needle will continue to rent time on its long-arm and mid-arm Pfaff machines, useful for quilters, as well as provide support for quilting projects.

“If it’s someone’s first quilt,” says Jen, “it’s helpful to have someone guide you through the process.” ■

THE ELECTRIC NEEDLE ■ 4281 West Beltline Hwy., Madison 608-422-5449 ■ electric-needle.com

ART IN A NEW LIGHT A CUTTING EDGE EXHIBITION FEATURING ILLUMINATED INSTALLATIONS IN THE OUTDOOR GARDENS

Friday, August 19, 6 –10 p.m. Ages 21+

OPENING VIEWING

MCM teams up with Forward Fest — join us for innovative pub talks, maker activities, and more!

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 7:30-10:30PM First Glimpse of GLEAM! Live Music, Cash Bar, Meet & Greet with the Artists, Lighting Designers and Artistic Director.

TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE ONLY STARTING AUGUST 1

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Tickets: $12.75 online (ends Aug. 18) $15 day of

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International Jet Set w/ Los Checos

Aug 19

The Ben Ferris Quintet

Aug 20

Handphibians w/ Grupo Balanca

Aug 26

Mal-O-Dua

Aug 26

Nuggernaut

Sept 2

TBA

Aug 27

Edi Rey Y Su Salsera

Sept 2

Tony Casteñada

Sept 3

VO5

Sept 8

The Shondes w/ Venus in Furs (8pm)

Sept 9

Trapper Schoepp w/ Christopher the

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Spider-Man (2002)

Aug 29

Creed (2015)

Sept 5

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) + World of Tomorrow (2015)

8-11pm Every Wednesday. Sign up at the soundboard at 7:45pm New Performer Showcase

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Middleton woman looking for a personal assistant to walk me to the gym and back, do arm exercises (ROM), walk on the treadmill, and a few abs. Contact Angie secchiangie@yahoo.com or at (608) 3328962 (leave a message if there is no answer).

Helping Hands Needed!

Are you a compassionate, dependable person who loves spreading joy? Help seniors in our community maintain their independence with nonmedical companionship and in-home care!

Flexible hours. Home Instead Senior Care: 608-663-2646. EOE Help provide affordable, nutritious meals to seniors in our community as a weekday meal program volunteer at the Goodman Community Center.

Volunteer one day a week, Mon-Fri from 10am-2pm, serving meals and making friends! We even provide you lunch.

Calling beauty enthusiasts: Oak Park Place is looking for outgoing individuals to help give residents basic manicures. Duties include cutting, filing, and painting residents’ nails. Please consider helping to pamper our residents and making their day special.

Hours are available on Friday mornings and can be flexible based on your availability.

Follow-up Specialist needed for 2-1-1 information and referral service. The main objective of this project will be to call United Way 2-1-1 clients whom gave us permission to follow-up on the outcome of their initial call by completing a simple survey. This is a very flexible opportunity without any strict requirements regarding volunteer shift days and times.

Call the Volunteer Center at 608-246-4380 or visit www.volunteeryourtime.org for more information or to learn about other volunteer opportunities.

CAN YOU DELIVER?

Isthmus needs delivery drivers on Thursdays. We use independent contractors. The delivery requires a physically fit individual with an eye for detail, a good driving record and up-to-date insurance.

There are various routes available that run from 3-4 hours to deliver. Immediate routes available.

Please contact Circulation Manager Tim Henrekin via email: thenrekin@isthmus.com

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The Donald’s first wife Band on Butt-head’s T-shirt Elementary school basics “Say that thou ___ forsake me”: Shakespeare “The Owl and the Pussycat” poet Edward ___ Cynwyd, PA Beyond saving “The Heat ___” (“Beverly Hills Cop” song) Zurich peak Stephen of “The Crying Game” It’s often done with soil or fish tanks Suffer a mosquito attack, say Inkling Snapple stuff Hip or Nap follower

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Dear readers: I’m on vacation for three weeks — but you won’t be reading old columns in my absence, and you won’t be reading columns by anyone who isn’t Dan Savage. You’ll be reading new columns, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me.

Our second guest Dan Savage is 32 years old, single, and living in London. Dan Savage got his professional start working in promotions at the legendary London nightclub G-A-Y. He’s now 10 years into a career in theater arts marketing and currently works for some of the West End’s biggest hit musicals. Dan has never written a sex advice column before, but he occasionally gets angry tweets that were meant for me. Take it away, Dan! I’m an early-30s bi woman. As I have more relationships, I have started to see a pattern in that I find sex much hotter when there is some degree of confusion or forbidden-ness. So relationship sex can get boring quickly. I know there’s not necessarily a good answer for why, but any suggestions on what to do about this? I want to have great sex with a partner for life! Maybe my expectations about good sex in a long-term relationship are unrealistic? I know it’s not always going to be crazy passion, but how can I sustain amazing sex in a relationship?

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A problem you and I share! The fun is in the chase, the excitement of someone new, and that first time.

You may return for a second or maybe a third time — but then what or who is next? Often regardless of whatever feelings may have started to develop.

For those who don’t understand, just imagine we’re talking about food. You like food. You like lots of different types of food. Right now, your favorite food is hot dogs. But you don’t want to eat that every day. Occasionally, you might want an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet.

I believe the secret to a good relationship — besides love and passion — is keeping it downright dirty! It’s about keeping that spark alive. If the fun starts to fade, spice it up with toys, games, risky locations, additional people, rubber dog masks — you can’t know what will excite you both until you give it a try! But that’s the key, that you both like it.

There are millions of people all over the world in long-term relationships that on the face of it maintain a fun and healthy sex life — can it really be that hard? Or maybe long-term relationships aren’t for you, PFFT!

thought it was funny and would not do it.

I will be seeing young guys who are sexually active, so I think I should be able to get this vaccine. I do not want cold sores or warts or whatever at my age.

This Old Pop

I am a 65-year-old male new to gay relationships. I placed a listing on SilverDaddies and have had a LOT of responses from great young guys. I have met only one guy so far. He is 23 and says he has had only a few girlfriends and has not had any gay experiences. He is so passionate. Very oral. Long kissing sessions, and he puts his tongue EVERYWHERE. Very submissive and insatiable. Of course I use condoms. I asked him what he gets out of this. He said he gets an intensity he can’t explain over pleasing an older man that he doesn’t get from sex with a female. Being a sub makes him rock hard, and with a woman, he has to be the performer. He considers himself straight, since he is attracted only to older men and is only a bottom. In any case, he will be back at grad school soon, and I will no doubt have another partner. I have never had an STD. I don’t want to get one now. I talked to a clinic over the phone about getting the HPV vaccine, and they

I think it’s great — if you don’t mind me saying — that in your advanced years you are able to embark on this new sexual adventure and experimentation. As long as you are safe and wear a condom, you shouldn’t put too much stress on yourself regarding STIs. My personal opinion is this guy may not be being as honest with you as you’d have hoped. A 23-year-old straight guy, in his first homosexual encounter, being “very oral” and “only a bottom” and putting “his tongue everywhere” — that sounds to me like someone who knows what they’re doing. My experience of first times is generally a quick fumble and an even quicker ejaculation.

Regardless, he is soon to leave, TOP, and you will find a new sexual partner. Advice from a YoungTOP to an OldTOP: Go with the flow and be safe, but most of all enjoy it!

(And to older gay gentlemen who think you can’t get any: TOP is! You can!) ■ Follow Dan Savage, Londoner and marketing exec, on Twitter @DanSavage83.

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