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IN THE LINE OF FIRE

Preparing for active-shooter scenarios.

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BOSS BUILDING

Ajani Carr is driven to make a difference.

PAT DILLON

LINDA FALKENSTEIN ANNUAL MANUAL THE ANNUAL MANUAL is our guide to living in Madison. It is a massive undertaking and the largest special section produced by Isthmus. Features editor Linda Falkenstein has been in charge since 1999, painstakingly updating restaurant listings, brainstorming story ideas and writing a slew of pieces herself. This year we cut down on some of the listings we have run for decades (we assume most readers now turn to the internet for such resources) in favor of more content about our Favorites poll winners. Congrats to all award winners!

6, 23 NEWS, BOOKS FREELANCE WRITER Pat Dillon profiles two people of note this week — both of whom rose from challenging circumstances in their own lives to work on broader issues of social change in the black community. The stories are inspiring. So much so that, we note in the interest of full disclosure, Dillon was moved to contribute a small sum to 13-year-old Ajani Carr’s efforts to build trust between local police and black residents.

BUS COUNTER

Madison Metro ridership is down this year.

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THE VIEW FROM ABOVE Making sense of satellite data.

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Bikes have a right to the road too.

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TECH TALES

The stories behind some of Madison’s startups.

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MASS QUANTITIES

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HABEAS CHOCOLATE

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THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER Indomitable Warriors tackle Aussie rules in Mad Town.

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A new book profiles black women.

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COVER STORY MANY PEOPLE KNOW about the successful software company Hardin Design & Development and its co-founder Scott Resnick, but don’t know much about the other co-founder — you know, the one the company is named for. And that’s okay with Jon Hardin, who would rather stay out of the limelight. Staff writer Allison Geyer discovered in researching this week’s cover story that Hardin is not the only successful tech entrepreneur in Madison flying under the radar.

POST-APOCALYPSE PLAY APT nails Beckett’s Endgame.

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Grassroots unification Sunday, Aug. 28, Penn Park, 1-5 pm

Immigrant Workers Union hosts the annual Black-Latino Unity Picnic, promoting community collaboration.

All are welcome at the picnic, which is free and features entertainment

by Maria Diaz Ballet, spoken word performers and others.

Myc drop Wednesday, Aug. 31, Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative, 6 pm

Peter McCoy is a mycologist — aka mushroom expert — and for him it’s about more than stalking the tasty morel. Mushrooms, he says, can address global problems from food shortages to diseases. He’ll discuss his new book, Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing & Working with Fungi.

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Madison police officer Matt Magolan leads a tutorial on how to survive a mass shooting.

Preparing for the unthinkable

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First of all, take a few deep breaths. Seriously.

When you suddenly hear gunfire, or explosions, or screaming, your physiology will be affected. Your heart rate and blood pressure will spike. You’ll probably start trembling. You may even freeze.

“These things are normal,” Matt Magolan assures. They are typical responses to a “critical incident” like a mass shooting. But fortunately, there are “stress response tools” you can deploy. Like autogenic breathing.

Inhale deeply through your nose. Hold it for several seconds. Expel the air forcefully through your mouth. Repeat. This will help you regain control, to save your own life and perhaps others.

It is a Thursday evening in August. Magolan, a Madison police officer, is in a large classroom at the Madison Police Training Center on Femrite Drive. There are about two dozen people present, including a few media reps. This is the first such tutorial offered to the general public, although Magolan and other officers have previously put it on for dozens of groups, including employees at shopping malls, hotels and, sigh, day care centers.

The training is called Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events. It’s based in part on a model adopted by the FBI. A former teacher, Magolan has been giving these presentations for about six years. The training, to be offered again on Nov. 10 or for groups on request, is for what he calls “the unthinkable.”

“We need to train for the realities of life, not what we wish the world to be,” he says in an interview.

Magolan is proud that at least one person on the scene when shots were fired during a confrontation at East Towne last December had gone through his training and reportedly felt more “empowered,” less afraid. Another person who was there, a few feet from the shooter, is attending the tutorial tonight.

Magolan’s more than two-hour talk is part rundown of notorious mass shootings, part statistics on such events, and part what his audience clearly most wants to hear — advice on how to be, if not a hero, then at least a survivor.

“You can choose to not be a helpless victim,” Magolan advises.

How exactly?

First, know that there are three stages of disaster response: denial, deliberation, decisive action. The first is the most dangerous. How likely is it, really, that someone is setting off firecrackers in an office building?

“Don’t deny,” Magolan instructs. “Go immediately to deliberate action.”

This has its own trinity: avoid, deny, defend. The first is self-explanatory: Get out if you can. Do not play dead, hide or hope if you have other options.

Deny means to deny access. Lock the door. Barricade access points. Remain quiet.

Defend means to fight back. Part of it is mental.

Turn your fear to anger. Know this is someone who

wants to kill you. Commit yourself to not letting that happen. Go into “warrior mindset.”

Attack the shooter’s vision, wind and limbs.

Don’t punch. Bring down your fist as though it were a hammer. Again and again. Try to gouge out his eyes or stab at them with a Sharpie. “Anything that can cause injury and dysfunction, you can use it.”

Grab the top of the shooter’s gun to keep it from rotating or recycling to discharge more bullets. Yes, this will burn your hand if the gun has been fired.

But, Magolan says, “I’ll take a burn to the hand over a bullet to the brain any day of the week.” He shows an audience member onstage how to grab a semiautomatic pistol or assault rifle while still being able to pummel the possessor.

In response to the inevitable audience query about concealed carry, Magolan notes this is a legal right and that people who violate posted signs against carrying weapons face a mere trespassing fine. But he says simply taking a hunter safety course is not adequate training for a shootout. And he makes it pretty clear that if you’ve just killed the shooter and are holding a gun as police arrive, you’ll likely end up being added to the body count. Heads nod.

It’s a grim tutorial. But some audience members seem as though they can hardly wait. One man says if he hears shots, he’ll head in that direction. “I’m drawn to it, because I’m one of those guys.” He also says he may poop his pants.

We’ll see. Better yet, let’s hope we don’t have to. n

Average number of people killed in activeshooter events: 3 Common active-shooter personality trait: INJUSTICE COLLECTOR Percentage of shooters who are male: 96 Percentage who act alone: 98 Most common active-shooter setting: WORKPLACE (ABOUT 45%) Percentage of times intended victims stop attack: 18 SOURCE: MADISON POLICE DEPARTMENT

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Last week, Ajani Carr sat waiting for Madison Police Chief Mike Koval with high hopes and a handwritten list of concerns. The 13-yearold wanted to discuss homelessness, policecommunity relations and teens feeling unsafe around law enforcement.

Soft-spoken but relentless, Carr is tackling tough issues. This summer he founded Building Bosses, an incorporated organization on the path to nonprofit status through a GoFundMe effort that aims to empower low-income youth to become entrepreneurs and leaders. It’s his response to the 2,600-plus shootings this year in Chicago, where he spent the summer.

At home, Carr will launch “Building Bosses Presents Field Day” at Penn Park on Sept. 18, the first in a series of game-oriented events connecting black community members with law enforcement to build tolerance and connection.

Carr dreams that through interactions like this, “someday when a police officer sees a black teen on the street, rather than think he’s doing something wrong, they’ll think, ‘there’s somebody’s son.’”

With the Fitchburg Police Department on board, Carr hopes to recruit the Madison police to Field Day. Carr’s backstory is riddled with loss. When he was 2 years old and his mother, Dorecea Carr, was 19, his grandmother was raped and murdered in Chicago. The murder triggered a pattern of homelessness that persisted until 2008. In 2009, his cousin Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old Chicago honors student, was beaten to death by other teens while walking to school. A month later his uncle was killed by a stray bullet. In 2012 Carr lost his “granddaddy,” whom he idolized, to cancer. In addition, his father, Durant Carr, is on dialysis, and his mother battles a rare autoimmune disease.

“My [great]-grandfather used to say, ‘As a person on this earth you have to serve other people,’” Carr says. “After he died I started thinking about what he was actually saying and how I can embed that in my own mind so I can impact the world in a positive way.”

When Tony Robinson was killed by a Madison police officer in March 2015, Carr wrote Andrea Irwin, Robinson’s mother, from Atlanta, where he lived at the time. When his family moved to Fitchburg later that year, he befriended her.

His quest for social justice grew. Last year he joined Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. And he began challenging racism at Savannah Oaks Middle School in Verona by reporting incidents of “racially motivated bullying” by white students, which he says included being “called the N-word” and told he should be “whipped because he’s black.”

Feeling ignored by administrators, Carr and his guidance counselor formed a weekly group called Black Voices. Carr circulated a petition, signed by almost 100 students, calling for eq-

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Ajani Carr has heeded his great-grandfather’s advice to “to serve other people.”

uity, and later addressed the Verona school board about the issue.

Verona Superintendent Dean Gorrell has advocated for Carr by enrolling him in Verona High School’s leadership programs.

Gorrell will also help Carr facilitate Black Voices at other schools.

“This is a kid who wakes up every morning with ideas about how to change things,” says Dorecea Carr. “I have to rein him in.”

During his meeting with Koval, Ajani Carr told the chief: “Black kids don’t feel safe.”

“African Americans right now don’t trust police,” he adds. “There’s so much tension between the two; I know what it’s like to hope you don’t get confronted because

you don’t know if the situation is going to escalate. So I explained to him what I want to do with Field Day — build a relationship between the police and fire department and the people, mostly black people.”

Koval was impressed. So he assigned an officer to recruit others to attend.

“Ajani was very thoughtful, extremely progressive and forward thinking, and has a good grasp on what’s happening locally and nationally,” says Koval. “He came equipped with a bevy of thoughtful suggestions that could possibly work toward greater opportunities for engagement in the community and trust building.” n Editor’s note: The author donated $25 to Carr’s GoFundMe site.

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Hammock haven Some types of State Street loitering escape scrutiny

BY DYLAN BROGAN

How did Brian Schwartz spend his last day of summer break? Lounging in a hammock on State Street.

“I’m enjoying my last few moments of freedom before I go to school,” says Schwartz, a junior at Edgewood High who is back at school this week.

Schwartz could be seen kicking back in his hammock on several occasions this summer.

His go-to spot was between two trees outside the Red Elephant Chocolate Café on the 100 block of State Street.

“There only a few places [on State Street] where the trees are the right distance apart to put up a hammock,” explains Schwartz. “I like being downtown. I like watching people.”

But while Schwartz was free to enjoy the summer breeze undisturbed, just around the corner from him, a crackdown has been underway. Police have been writing tickets for “occupy[ing] any flower bed or area of plantings” to homeless individuals who refuse to leave the planter behind the outdoor stage on State Street — a subsection of the city’s ordinance on damaging trees (Sec. 23.24 (02), Madison General Ordinances). It’s part of an effort spearheaded

by Mayor Paul Soglin to push back on “bad behavior” downtown.

“I was wondering whether the cops would say anything to me,” Schwartz says of the crackdown. “You always see a bunch of them just down the block. But they just drive right by and leave me alone.”

That’s not to say that Schwartz escaped notice. “A few people have asked me what I was doing here. Most were nice about it,” he says. “Every once in a while a stuck-up asshole would yell, ‘You can’t do that!’”

Brian Schwartz: “I was wondering whether the cops would say anything to me.”

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Assistant City Attorney Amber McReynolds says Madison doesn’t have “hammock laws” per se. “There are laws about injuring trees.

Laws about placing items on sidewalks,” says McReynolds. “There is also the obstructing streets and sidewalk ordinances. It all depends on the circumstances.”

McReynolds says it’s up to the discre-

tion of police officers to decide whether Schwartz’s hammock lounging is running afoul of the law.

“As far as I know, no tickets have ever been issued regarding this specific scenario,” says McReynolds.

Police officer Kraig Kalka — who was on State Street while Schwartz was occu-

pying a hammock — didn’t see a reason to respond.

“We haven’t received any calls or complaints,” says Kalka.

Although Schwartz is back in school, his hangout is no longer ideal for a hammock. A week after he returned to class, the city moved a large potted plant in between his favorite two trees. ■

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Off the bus Until Metro can expand services, increasing ridership will be tough

BY JAY RATH

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We’re riding the bus less often this year.

In the 12 months ending May 31, total Metro Transit ridership was down 8.8% according to a summary recently shared with the Madison Transit and Parking Commission. Weekend ridership on routes with hourly service dropped far more, between 20% and 30%, according to a July report by the Madison Area Transportation Planning Board (MATB).

It’s too early to say whether it’s part of a larger trend or just a momentary blip, but Madison Metro officials are certainly taking notice.

“It’s definitely a concern,” says Bill Schaefer, MATB transportation planning manager. On the other hand, he notes, “We’ve had ridership increasing 4% or 5% a year until recently, and that was not a sustainable metric.”

While ridership on Metro has been growing for decades, there have been sporadic spurts and dips.

Metro officials suggest a few reasons for this year’s drop. One could be all the new, massive housing developments, increasing population density on the isthmus. More people with business in the downtown area can simply walk.

“Between employees and students, campus makes up about half of all ridership,” Schaefer points out. “Any impact, any reduction in the number of students taking the bus — that obviously has an impact. So, all those high-rises going up close to campus, with students moving closer, that could be a small piece of it.”

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Another possible explanation for the drop is positive. Recent mild winters allow people to bike earlier in the spring and later in the fall, “which is a good thing,” adds Schaefer. “As long as they use an alternative mode, we’re happy.”

However, there’s also evidence that good weather may not be the culprit. “Some of our drops, to be very candid, are also happening when we compare one warm-weather month to another warm-weather month,” says Chuck Kamp, Metro’s general manager.

So far there’s only anecdotal evidence, but numbers will come soon. Local bike travel has been studied since late autumn, as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Household Travel Survey. Its collection of supplementary Madison-area data is funded by the city and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Results will be available in the fall of 2017.

The real cause of the ridership drop may be something more prosaic: gas prices. They’ve dropped significantly since 2014. The way fuel prices affect public transit isn’t simple. Looking at transit across the country, “For bus systems our size, the ridership is down about 5%,” says Kamp.

Meanwhile, “In big cities, where you have more buses and more trains, ridership is still up,” he says. The calculus that prompts people to ride transit varies by location.

In the largest cities, where driving and parking are always a hassle, fewer people reach for their car keys when gas prices drop. Convenience and reliability trump fuel costs. If you

Ridership on Madison Metro has been growing for decades but is down 8% this year. Is it a new trend or a sporadic dip?

live where buses or trains come frequently, why bother with the car?

“What is a reality in our world of transit business is, the more service you provide, the more your ridership begins to be resilient to gas price increases or other factors,” says Kamp. But in smaller cities, “when gas goes from $3.50 a gallon to $2 a gallon, we have a little more difficulty holding onto our ridership than New York City or Chicago.”

Less extensive weekend service may explain the 20% to 30% decline on those days.

“I think part of it has to do with the reduction in service levels going back now five or 10 years,” says Schaefer. “When your budget’s tight and you’re looking where you allocate service, weekdays tend to get priorities.”

Some major corridors, such as East Washington Avenue, have weekend buses only once an hour. “It’s just not enough,” says Schaefer. “It’s not frequent enough for people who have a choice to take the bus for those trips. People say, ‘Okay, well I’m just going to find another option now.’ It’s just not convenient.”

Mick Rusch, Metro Transit marketing and customer service manager, says there’s not much Metro can do about it.

“We don’t have any immediate plans to add more frequent trips on weekends,” says Rusch. “We are still studying this issue to get a clearer picture of what exactly is happening, and [what] might be needed to improve ridership during this time.”

Metro is limited in what it can do because there aren’t many funding options. The city is cash-strapped. Fare increases are unpopular and hurt those who rely on the system the most. And in the 2011 budget, the Legislature dissolved a recently formed Dane County regional transit authority that would have

allowed a half-cent sales tax to fund a larger, more comprehensive Metro system. These factors force Metro to focus on maintaining the status quo, rather than expansion.

“In 2015, we had 39 buses at or past replacement age,” says Rusch. “This is approximately 18% of our total fleet.”

Adds Kamp: “I think we’re really at the situation — to borrow a Yogi Berra quote — ‘If you can’t grow you can’t grow.’”

Not only does Metro need more buses, it also needs more space to park them. The city has purchased land on Nekoosa Trail where a $35 million bus garage could go, but it doesn’t have the money to construct it. Metro officials were disappointed to learn the city again missed out on its application for a $17.5 million grant to help pay for the garage, which would hold 50 to 70 buses.

Kamp looks far into the future and sees Metro Transit providing service to a much larger area, with far greater speed.

“Our area is growing,” he says. “Epic is in Verona. Many of its new employees live in Madison.” Ridership on Epic Route 75 is up 20%. “That route is up so high because it’s accelerated express service. I see our ability to grow and to have a bus rapid-transit system one day that will almost double our capacity, that would improve travel times — but our ability to do that is contingent on creating a regional transportation authority.”

For transit purposes, Madison and its surrounding communities, together, have to be counted as a far-reaching single entity, Kamp argues.

“My message to our leaders, including at the state level, who don’t necessarily have an ear tuned into us at the moment, is, ‘You need to remember Madison is more like the Twin Cities or Chicago than it is like Appleton or Green Bay.’” n

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Over the past 40 years, ground-based measurements have been the gold standard of atmospheric measurements, Holloway notes. “Here in Madison, our main air-monitoring station is behind East High School, run by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.”

Because the United States already has such a well-developed monitoring system, “it can sometimes be challenging to figure out how to insert new data sources into the existing program,” she says.

That will be the work of NASA’s newly formed Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, led by Holloway. Her team members will include experts from Columbia University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of Colorado, University of Washington, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center.

Holloway will be aided by UW colleagues including Jonathan Patz, an expert on global environmental change and human health, and Steve Ackerman, an expert on weather satellites and their development.

“The satellites can see chemicals in the air that are exactly the same chemi-

cals that we’re regulating and that we’re concerned about for health reasons,” says Holloway.

In fact, the satellites see so much that the result can be data overload. In science, this difficulty is often termed a ‘signal-to-noise’ problem. “Just because there are lots of data out there doesn’t mean people are using it.”

All sorts of new kinds of information is beamed back to Earth, but how to make it helpful? Where to place it in the atmospheric puzzle? How to add orbital measurements to Earth data and make sense of the new, complete picture?

“We’ll be figuring out how to take that data from space and fit it into analysis, decision needs and communications activities,” explains Holloway. The information will serve organizations such as the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the National Parks Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, American Lung Association and the Centers for Disease Control.

UW classrooms will benefit, too. “I work actively with both graduate students and undergraduates, and I’ll be pulling them in to be part of the problem solving and the research process and attending some of the meetings,” she says. “It’s a great way for them to get experience working on these cutting-edge problems while they’re at the university.” n

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A new generation of satellites is sending back an unheralded amount of data, measuring air pollution, pollen, smoke and much more.

But is anyone paying attention? And is the data even available?

NASA recently tapped Tracey Holloway, a UW-Madison environmental studies professor, to make sense of the data.

With the help of her graduate and undergraduate students, Holloway will lead a multiinstitutional effort to help make environmental satellite data more accessible and useful down here at street level.

“I think that a lot of people, when they think of NASA, they think of space,” she notes. “But NASA does a lot related to the Earth.”

Modern satellites can do things like measure industrial chemicals, smoke from forest fires and even pollen.

“The kind of data from those instruments is essential,” says Holloway. “Is the air getting cleaner or is it getting dirtier? Which pollutants are of concern? Are the levels that we’re breathing considered acceptable based on health impacts?”

Thanks to the Clean Air Act of 1970, “we have some of the cleanest air worldwide, despite the fact that we use a lot of energy,” especially fossil fuels, she says. “These policies are based on science. You have to know what’s happening in the air to be able to know how to clean it up.”

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Right to the road Bicyclists are entitled to ride where they choose

BY DAVE CIESLEWICZ Former Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz is executive director of the Wisconsin Bicycle Federation.

He blogs as Citizen Dave at Isthmus.com.

Entitled. That’s a word I hear often from people irritated by bicyclists. With derision, they say people who ride bikes believe they are “entitled” to their place on the road.

Hell yes! We are entitled to exactly that.

And people driving cars and trucks have a responsibility to honor that right, because failing to do so kills people. We have seen that all too often this year.

On a Friday morning in July, Cynthia Arsnow was commuting to work at HSA Home Warranty in Cross Plains. She was riding her bicycle on Highway 14 from her home in Madison, as she did every work day. A driver, who admits that he was looking down at some papers, veered off the travel lane and struck her as she rode on the shoulder. She died at the scene.

Exactly three weeks later, Shelton Berel was riding his bike on a quiet road in the town of Oregon. He was training for a triathlon. The father of two was struck and killed

by Kevin D. Meister, who fled the scene and later told investigators he thought he had hit a deer. Meister was charged Aug. 18 in Dane County court with second-degree reckless homicide and hit-and-run resulting in death.

Claiming you hit a deer is a popular defense for hit-and-run drivers. The man who hit and killed Keith Habenicht near Germantown last August also said he thought the thing he saw in daylight, with the flashing red rear light, was a deer. Habenicht was riding his bike home after picking up groceries.

So here we have three people riding bicycles: one commuting, one training and one doing daily errands. We’ll have to wait for the justice system to sort all this out, but this much is clear — none of these three had to die. Each was the victim of, at best, needlessly distracted drivers and, at worst, homicide.

The problem isn’t the choices cyclists make.

It’s the behavior of the drivers.

Arsnow’s chosen form of transport was the bicycle, and Highway 14 was the fastest route to work. Berel was training for a competitive bike ride, and quiet country roads are exactly where his race would take place.

Habenicht needed to be on his road to get to the grocery store.

Actually, it doesn’t matter why they were there. A bicycle is legally a vehicle just like a car or a truck. And except for limited-access highways, bicycles belong everywhere. Cyclists do not need to explain why they are at any given point on any given road any more than people who are driving cars need to.

Those driving vehicles with internal combustion engines do not own our roads. In fact, the history of the road long predates the predominance of cars, or even their existence. The Romans built an intricate road system, most of

which was made for walking. Bicyclists founded the American “Good Roads Movement” of the late 19th century, paving the way for the motorists to follow.

It’s also good to keep in mind that the laws of physics trump the laws of society. Behind the wheel of my 2,500-pound car, I am in charge of

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If I hit a car with my bicycle, I will almost certainly injure or kill myself.

So, driving and cycling are not activities with equivalent moral responsibilities. I have a greater responsibility as a driver because of the size and power of my vehicle. It’s not unlike any relationship among people, communities or even nations. Where there is greater strength and power, there is also greater responsibility and the need for restraint.

Part of the problem is the rarity of cyclists in certain situations. We know from many studies that there are fewer crashes in places where people on bikes are more common. As more people get on their bikes and ride in more places, drivers start to look for them, and the roads become safer for everyone.

In fact, cycling is becoming much safer, despite the focus on recent deaths. The number of cyclist traffic fatalities nationally has dropped from an annual high of 30 in the 1970s, to an average of 11 over the past five years, according to data compiled

by Professor Robert Schneider at UW-Milwaukee. Since 1990, the number of injuries to people riding bikes has dropped from nearly 1,800 per year to about 800.

But there’s no reason we can’t push these numbers even lower. It starts with a simple recognition of the right to the road. n

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Behind every startup, there’s a story

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JON HARDIN

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y any measure, Jon Hardin is the portrait of millennial entrepreneurial success. His name is on the door of one of Madison’s oldest and most successful tech companies.

And he made the UW-Madison Alumni Association’s Forward Under 40 list when he was just 25 years old.

But the 29-year-old president and CEO of Hardin Design & Development tends to shy away from the spotlight. And when he gets home from work, you won’t catch him near a computer.

He lives in a gorgeous house on eight acres in Verona, which he owns free and

clear. His garage, which he remodeled all by himself, is filled with luxury vehicles — Porsche, Jaguar, Mercedes. He loves fine dining and wine so much that he handbuilt his very own cellar, with room to store more than 800 bottles. He’s addicted to home improvement projects, harvesting timber from his property to build things like an outdoor fire pit with seating for up to 40 friends. Life is good in the Hardin household.

“People joke that I’m kind of a recluse,” Hardin says. “I’m not someone who’s going to 10 networking events a week. I’d rather be out working on my land.”

Madison’s tech and startup scene has exploded in the last decade, with local innovators and industry groups continually pushing it to become the entrepreneurial epicenter for the entire Midwest.

Many of the local success stories have since become household names — Epic Systems and its various spinoffs, EatStreet and the ever-growing stable of local food tech companies, PerBlue, Raven Software and the array of other gaming companies.

But while some startup stories have garnered attention and grabbed headlines, other innovators tend to fly more under the radar.

Hardin says he’s “not really wired to seek out publicity” — a personality type that makes him unique among CEOs. “Jon is definitely an enigmatic figure in the tech community,” says co-founder Scott Resnick, who serves as the public face of Hardin Design & Development. “I get to go do fun outreach and sell the Hardin brand, and Jon’s back at HQ doing programming — and that’s what he does very well.”

Hardin’s close friends like to joke that he’s always one stroke shy of perfection — he scored 35 out of 36 on the ACT; he got one B in college. But he’s earned a reputation for hard work and intellect

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through his record of solving some of the toughest software engineering problems brought forth by his clients.

“Folks may not see that side of Hardin, but he’s the engine that drives the company,” Resnick says.

Since the company’s humble beginnings in a dorm room on the second floor of UW-Madison’s Chadbourne Hall, Hardin Design & Development’s business has grown considerably. What started as two college kids trolling Craigslist for freelance web development gigs has evolved to a fully fledged boutique software development firm with offices in Madison, Chicago and Dallas and an extensive list of clients, both domestic and international.

These days, Hardin Design & Development has as an average of 30 different projects in the pipeline at any given time. They range considerably in size and scope — the smallest can be knocked out by a single developer in three days, and the largest can take a team of five developers up to four years to build.

One such project, which Hardin describes as the “crown jewel” of the company’s portfolio, is called Visual Manager, a commercial real estate management and business intelligence platform that the company developed at the request of a client, Fischer & Company. It’s now being used by FedEx, IBM and a host of other big companies. The technology is a complex marriage of data storage and analytics, which allows users to take information from disparate sources and gain insight on things like competitor locations, market characteristics and demographic trends.

The Visual Manager project was a massive undertaking — not to mention a huge get for the small company — but both Hardin and Resnick speak modestly about landing the deal, crediting the intersecting relationships they’ve built over the years and the stellar reputation the firm has established.

“At the end of the day, it all goes back to talent,” Resnick says. “And Jon is one of the best developers, if not the best developer, I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing.”

Hardin is hardly the only hardworking entrepreneur to escape notice. The city is filled with people quietly pursuing innovative ideas and shaping Madison’s future. But, like Hardin, they all have a story to tell.

WINNIE KARANJA The inspirer

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innie Karanja has a vivid memory of what it felt like to be the only girl — and the only African American — in her web design class at McFarland High School.

“I remember thinking, ‘This isn’t okay,’” says Karanja, who immigrated to the Madison area from Kenya with her parents and sister in 1999. “There’s such a benefit to having diversity in the tech field.”

Women and minorities are notoriously underrepresented in the tech industry, both in Madison and across the nation. Karanja’s desire to shift those demographics and encourage girls and students of color to break into the field led her to create Maydm, an educational nonprofit that teaches kids a range of entry-level tech industry skills. Karanja founded the initiative in November 2015, and in the first teaching sessions held from April through June of this year, she’s reached more than 80 students. Of those, 40% were girls, and 76% were students of color — statistics that are “very unlike the tech field,” Karanja says.

She’s still analyzing demographic data for sessions held in July and August.

“Technology is made for everybody, but it’s not made by everybody,” Karanja says.

Maydm, which is a play off the phrase “made by them,” aims to get students comfortable with the idea that they, too, can code the next big app or build the next iPhone.

Karanja is young — she’s under 30, but she declines to reveal her exact age, out of concerns that people in the industry won’t take her seriously. A self-taught coder and a graduate of the London School of Economics and Politics with a bachelor’s in education and a master’s in developmental economics, Karanja says her background gives her a “unique and intersectional worldview” that has helped define Maydm’s platform. As a teacher, she sees technology-focused education as an essential tool to propel girls and students of color into higher-earning jobs. And as a developmental economist, she knows that good jobs are among the most important factors for reducing poverty, hunger and housing insecurity among vulnerable populations.

“The average tech job in Wisconsin [pays] $70,000 per year,” Karanja says.

“That’s where we want our students to be.”

Maydm targets youth from third to 12th grade, offering single-day and weekend training sessions as well as a flagship, semester-

long course that officially launches this fall with the new school year. The program is fee-based, but Maydm partners with sponsor organizations to provide scholarships for low-income students. Students learn technical skills, including programming and working with open-source electronic hardware, as well as soft skills like communication, teamwork, leadership and resumewriting. Students develop a portfolio showcasing the skills they learned from Maydm, which they can use as a reference when looking for a job. Partners from local tech companies, like Bendyworks and Zendesk, serve as mentors, giving students an insider’s look at how the industry works.

Surveys given to Maydm participants before and after the course show that the curriculum has a big impact on the way students think about themselves and technology. Karanja believes Maydm will eventually become known as a “top talent pipeline” that connects bright young workers from diverse backgrounds to job opportunities at local tech companies. In the future, she plans to form an alumni network to make sure program graduates remain connected as they begin their professional lives.

“If Wisconsin is moving to become a tech hub,” Karanja says, “it should not be an afterthought to bring in girls and students of color.”

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ormer Wisconsin Badgers football player Fred Willis can pinpoint the exact moment he realized that his heart wasn’t in the game.

He was in the locker room with his teammates before the 2011 Big 10 conference home opener against Nebraska — a huge game versus a brand-new rival — and the players were swept up in an impassioned pep talk by one of the coaches. “[The coach] was so pumped up, and everybody was so geeked,” Willis recalls.

“He looks around and starts yelling, ‘Everybody’s been waiting for a moment like this all their lives, right?’”

The players roared their agreement, but the question gave Willis, then a freshman wide receiver, pause. Unlike his teammates, many of whom had been training since elementary school, he hadn’t been waiting his whole life for that moment — in fact, he had only been playing football for a few years when college recruiters started calling.

“Literally everybody was like, ‘Hell yes!’”

Willis remembers. “And I was there just thinking, ‘Maybe I’m in the wrong place.’”

Willis hung up his jersey in August 2012 — a move that cost him a full-ride scholarship to UW-Madison. Struggling to pay for school and unsure what career path to pur-

sue, he eventually dropped out, entering what he calls his “free-fall” phase. He dabbled in graphic design, videography, studied financial planning and eventually decided to teach himself computer programming.

Willis, whose decision to quit football stemmed in part from a desire to have more control over his time, saw web development as a good opportunity for him to earn a living while working independently and being his own boss.

“I needed something that fit into my schedule, but I didn’t have $19,000 to spend on a three-month [coding program],” says Willis, who then enrolled in a part-time web developer course that was offered online. Within a month, he had mastered the basics of Ruby on Rails, a widely used full-stack language, and built his first website, a simple blog.

“It wasn’t hard for me to pick up at all,” says Willis, noting that he’s always been a bit of a natural with computers and technology and that there are a number of other “techies” in his family. “I didn’t learn everything, but I went straight for the core.”

In June, Willis, now 23, launched his business, Hacknvest, which combines his specialties: web development and financial investing. He builds software for his “strategic partners” in exchange for a percentage

of their business, then he turns around and invests the capital to generate even more income. So far, he’s built relationships with local businesses like the Soap Opera and Dane Buy Local, as well as a number of financial companies and nonprofits.

“I don’t really have clients [so much as] I try to build relationships with other business entities,” Willis says.

Inspired by Warren Buffett, Willis’ investing skills are also self-taught. And he’s incorporated his tech skills into his strategy, building a “web scraping” program that harvests information on undervalued stocks, which he then considers when diversifying his portfolio. Eventually, his goal is to bring in five figures of business each month. He’s not quite there yet, but he says persistence, networking and continually learning new skills will help him land that “big breadwinner.”

Though he’s found success as a programmer and enjoys being an entrepreneur, Willis says it isn’t just the work that he’s passionate about — it’s more about the freedom to make his own schedule and be his own boss that his independent venture allows.

“I like the idea of having time and money,” Willis says. “It’s important for me to have a balance of both.”

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s president of a company that specializes in social media, Kelly Ehlers doesn’t exactly intend to fly under the radar. But her highly specialized niche business is rare in the world of marketing and advertising agencies.

“It was a real gamble focusing on social in the beginning,” says Ehlers, recalling the countless times potential clients said they could just have the intern do it. She always responded by asking, “Would you give your intern a microphone and let them be on the 6 o’clock news?”

“That’s what it’s like if they’ve got the keys to your social media,” she says. “[Companies] are just now catching on to it.”

Ehlers founded her agency, Ideas that Evoke, in 2009, in the midst of the recession and a time of massive upheaval in technology, media and communication. Ehlers was also pregnant with her first child, and her husband had just lost his job. “My husband

and I decided to sort of put all our chips on the table,” she says.

At that point in the late 2000s, the concept of social media as an e-commerce and communication tool was only just beginning to take shape. Blogging emerged as a platform for brands and influencers, Facebook for businesses became available and widely used, and Twitter was beginning its meteoric rise as a direct marketing and communication device. Technology like Instagram, Snapchat, Periscope and Facebook Live weren’t even in the picture yet.

Especially in those early years, companies didn’t quite understand the nascent technology — let alone how to harness its potential. But Ehlers, who was working at a traditional advertising agency at the time, took notice that some of the big, international brands were starting to “dip their toes in the water” of social media. She was fascinated — and hooked.

“It was kind of opportunistic,” she says.

“I thought, ‘Let’s just see where this goes.’”

At first, it took a lot of convincing on Ehlers’ part even to get companies to consider adding a line item in their budget for social media. Businesses understood things like print advertising, radio spots and billboards, but social media was an intangible — up until the point that it started proving its worth.

“We can target messages exactly to [a demographic] and turn that lead into a sale,” Ehlers says. And when clients see results, “it’s magical to them.”

Over the last seven years, Ehlers has transformed her one-woman agency into a bustling company with more than 30 employees. She hired her first employee four years ago, but the majority of the company’s growth happened in the past year and a half. She specializes in the beauty, lifestyle and luxury market, repre-

senting a number of international clients, including Elizabeth Arden and Proctor & Gamble. In 2015, Ideas that Evoke was named one of the best entrepreneurial companies in the nation by Entrepreneur magazine. This year, it landed a spot on Inc. Magazine’s list of the 500 fastestgrowing private companies in the nation.

It grew 1,000% in the last three years.

Here in Madison, Ehlers is partnering with Mary Burke to launch a new initiative called “Building Brave,” a nonpolitical organization that launches this fall. The first event is set for September, but Ehlers can’t release many details, other than saying it will encourage people to step out of their comfort zones.

“It’s all about lifestyle, wellness and professional development,” Ehlers says.

“We’re bringing these things to other women, which is something I’m really passionate about.”

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ed Gurman isn’t your typical tech entrepreneur. He spends more time on a yoga mat than he does in front of a computer screen.

“There’s absolutely nothing technical about anything I’ve ever done in my whole life,” he says with a laugh. But the lack of a technical background didn’t stop him from founding BlueTree Network, a health care information technology consulting firm that specializes in Epic software.

Getting into consulting is a common next step for former Epic employees like Gurman, 36, who was a project manager for the health care software giant from 2006 to 2010. But Gurman, who founded BlueTree with fellow Epic graduate Reggie Luedtke, wanted to build something that was different from the traditional

consulting firm. Established in 2012, the company has grown to employ nearly 250 people and has offices in Madison, Denver and New York City. About 180 employees work remotely at client sites.

“It’s very common in the consulting world for folks to feel like they’re on an island, like they’re part of a company, but only by name,” says Gurman. “Once they’re done onboarding, done with their background check and done getting their insurance in place, they never hear from the company again.”

Not so at BlueTree, where employees are affectionately known as “Blue Leaves.”

The company’s philosophy is rooted in the idea of wellness, community-building and development — both professional and personal. From the start, Gurman made it his

mission to make his holistic approach to health and mindfulness a central pillar of the company — he gave himself the title of “Minister of Happiness.”

“We find that when someone becomes a Blue Leaf, they want to continue working for us,” Gurman says. “It feels like a family.”

The company has an advocacy program that matches new hires with mentors who are dedicated to help facilitate their “personal and professional happiness” at BlueTree, and the company’s structure is not hierarchical. Every employee gets a FitBit and is encouraged to participate in company-wide fitness challenges. Standing desks are available to anybody who wants one. There’s a BlueTree “Give Committee,” funded by a donation from the company’s an-

nual budget and made up of volunteers who meet monthly to decide what kind of philanthropy or volunteer work they’d like to pursue. BlueTree holds volunteering events in the Madison community every two months, and it coordinates with the New York and Denver offices as well.

And like many startups, BlueTree offers unlimited vacation — and Gurman makes sure people know that it’s acceptable (and expected) that employees take full advantage of the perk.

“I think there’s a generational shift where millennials have different expectations for their work environment. There’s no longer this broad perspective that work is supposed to be unpleasant,” he says. “The way I see it, you only live once. Why would you want anything less?” n

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6:30 pm - Weiner goes far, far behind the scenes of notorious Democrat Anthony Weiner’s 2013 New York City mayoral run (2016).

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Stories that transform Infamous Mothers profiles stigmatized black women

BY PAT DILLON

It’s not something she saw while reading fiction. “These moms — teen moms, baby moms or single moms, women formerly addicted to drugs, stigmatized women — were not recognized as change-makers in regular novels,” says Levingston. So she set out to profile women in the community who represented these voices.

Infamous Mothers is a coffee table book featuring 22 inspirational profiles of Madisonarea women who overcame personal struggle and social alienation to make a difference in the public sphere. Self-expressive photographs and unedited stories told in each woman’s own words give voice to what Levingston calls “the too often unheard.”

Levingston, who has raised six children — five as a single mom, while earning a bachelor’s degree and doctorate — has stories of her own.

Members of her paternal family worked in the “sex industry as an alternative to domestic labor or factory work,” and her mother’s side included college graduates, mostly women, who never escaped poverty.

“I come from a weird hybrid of educated folks and substance abusers,” says Levingston, 38, who grew up in low-income housing on Chicago’s South Side. “Three of my 11 siblings died because of drug abuse.” She learned about other possibilities at Lake Forest Academy, a boarding school in Chicago’s northern suburbs.

With this uncommon background, Levingston believes she is in a position to present a nuanced perspective on the lives of black women.

“We either tell stories about women who are living these perfectly pristine lives, or we’re telling stories about women who are stuck in some

kind of pathology,” says Levingston. “I want to disrupt this either-or narrative to tell stories of women who inhabit complexity that society doesn’t acknowledge.”

In February 2016, Levingston located a funder and began interviewing subjects for the book. But with the project solidly underway, and a release date of April 2017, Levingston and the project’s funder parted ways amicably. It then became critical for Levingston to find the money she needed to publish.

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With $8,000 to go and 30 hours left to her Kickstarter campaign, Sagashus Levingston walked into Divine Transformation Salon on Madison’s south side, looking for help. After hearing about the project, the salon’s owner, Fontainious Webb, made a generous contribution and offered ideas for more funding possibilities. As clients trickled in, support began to swell.

Levingston is an artist, activist and UW-Madison Ph.D. candidate in English.

She was seeking funds that day in July to self-publish a book, Infamous Mothers, an offshoot of her dissertation in which she seeks to answer the question: Can marginalized black mothers contribute to social movements and become agents of social change?

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Saucy subs Mr. Torta’s customizes subs, nachos and more

BY KYLE NABILCY

Madison’s getting a lot of customize-yourentree fast-food operations these days. The San Francisco “Mission” style of burrito at Mr. Torta’s Mexican Subs closely resembles the style served at Chipotle. But in terms of overstuffing both burritos and diners, Mr. Torta’s laps the field.

The opening of Mr. Torta’s does not remedy the 2012 closure of Antojitos el Toril, a more traditional Mexican restaurant, for the Cottage Grove Road area. Mr. Torta’s (which takes the place of Papa Bear’s BBQ) isn’t a typical taqueria; the menu goes in a more Mexican-American direction. There are seven meats to choose from, and seven delivery methods for consuming them.

Column A on the menu board consists of subs, burritos, tacos (two to an order), quesadillas, taco salad and nachos.

You might wonder why they’re called subs and not tortas, as in the restaurant’s name. All I can say is that they come on hoagie-style rolls, somewhat resembling a bolillo roll but really more like a hoagie.

Column B, the meats, lists barbacoa beef, pork carnitas, chicken carnitas, Philly steak, spicy chorizo, spicy chorizo with bacon, and fajita steak. Chatter on the restaurant’s Facebook page indicates that vegetarians have been able to successfully order custom nonmeat dishes from the vegetable add-ons.

The beauty of this style of menu is that you’ll get what you want, creating the whole dish from top to bottom. The curse of this style is ordering too much. Keep it simple.

Layers upon layers of cheese sauce and toppings create nacho nirvana.

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The tongs and ladles at Mr. Torta’s hold a lot, and it’s easy to overstuff your entree.

A chicken carnitas burrito with rice, chopped lettuce, pico de gallo and jalapeño cheese sauce was very, very full. On a subsequent visit, my fajita steak burrito was as close to spherical as I’ve ever seen a Mission-style burrito. There was easily enough meat for two reasonably portioned burritos, which makes me wonder what a burrito with optional extra meat would look like. Neither the chicken nor the steak came off as particularly delectable cuts, but the chicken at least offered some browning and a little crispy texture.

The combination of bacon and chorizo is more than a little inspired, though I wouldn’t order it in a burrito or sub; that would be an inadvisable amount of salt. I had the chorizo with bacon in taco form, and even that was a bit much. After adding salsa or spicy ranch dressing, it’s a blowout. Try it in the quesadilla. I tried the Philly steak that way, and the result is toasty and its fillings are distributed well.

(From my observation, the Philly steak and the fajita steak seem to be nearly identical.)

Some more traditional add-ons would be a big plus. What I would have given for some simple lime wedges and sliced radishes to put on my pork carnitas tacos.

If you like saucy, though, Mr. Torta’s is your jam. There’s sour cream and that spicy ranch dressing, a spicy cheese sauce and a spicy sort of Thousand Island deal. And there are salsas galore, including one with diced mango. The guacamole is smooth; my move is to order it on the side to keep the flavor fresh.

There’s one killer item on this menu: the nachos. When you see a layer of chips, then a layer of jalapeño cheese sauce, then more chips and more cheese sauce and shredded cheese go into the toaster before you even get to your chosen toppings, you know you’re in for a good time. I liked the fajitas steak on top; in this dish the chorizo would also add some zing. The chicken carnitas would also be good here.

A problem at Mr. Torta’s is that most of the meats are kept waiting in a bath of juice, where the flavors become indistinct, muddied. The juices also have a tendency to leak through even the big starchy torta roll. The generous fillings plus the addition of a sauce or salsa means most dishes sog out before you can appreciate flavors and textures.

Excess is not entirely foreign to Mexican cuisine. Think the salsa-soaked torta ahogada, or the hot dog-stuffed torta cubana. Even corn on the cob comes slathered in mayo and cheese at Mexican food stalls. But it’s hard to enjoy soggy leftovers, and there will most likely be leftovers. Mr. Torta’s feed-you-till-you-burst M.O., while generous and inexpensive, probably should be dialed back. n

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Raw fish and coffee A spate of openings also includes new Indian and soul food restaurants Cafe Social sources and roasts its beans in the Andes region of Colombia.

The East Washington Avenue corridor will soon have a fifth coffee shop between the 700 and 1200 blocks. Milwaukee-based Stone Creek Coffee, 1216 E.Washington Ave., is slated to open a new shop in November. It’s part of McGrath Property Group’s new luxury apartment building dubbed the “Factory District.” Nearby in the Robinia Courtyard project, the former A-OK is (at least for now) called the Black Locust Café.

The whiskey bar Cask & Ale, 212 State St., is now open. The tavern carries 300 whiskeys from around the globe. Rest easy, hopheads, there are more than 25 beers on tap, too.

New floors, booths, shelving and handmade countertops were installed this summer.

The space was most recently home to 608 Restaurant and Bar, which moved to Fordem Avenue earlier this year. Unlike 608, Cask & Ale will be serving only drinks — no food.

Lucky’s Bar & Grill has moved down the block to a new location at 1313 Regent St., formerly the Foreign Car Specialists repair shop.

The new space is three times bigger than its old location. This fall, the pub will ramp up to serve craft beers brewed on-site.

Haldi Masala, 7475 Mineral Point Rd., has replaced the short-lived Kangchen Indian Restaurant on the city’s west side. The new establishment will serve South Indian cuisine and offer a lunch buffet.

Soul food restaurant Sweet Tea, 122 State St., is now operating out of the storefront adjacent to the Fountain Bar. The eatery is open late — 1 a.m. — every day but Sunday.

The menu changes daily, but expect to find baked ham, fried chicken, au gratin potatoes, steamed cabbage and other Southern classics.

The space was most recently home to the Fountain Express.

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The new Lucky’s Bar & Grill has a potent post-industrial vibe, drawing on unique elements of its site, a former garage.

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Miko Poké, 2701 Monroe St., opened this week in part of the former Bluephies.

Everly, which will occupy the rest of the space, is expected to open later this fall.

The two “California-inspired” restaurants are the latest projects from the Food Fight Restaurant Group. Miko Poké’s specialty (and namesake) is a Hawaiian raw fish salad called “poke.”

Red Sushi served its last roll on King Street this week. The popular sushi spot will re-open Aug. 28 at 301 W. Washington Ave. There, it will be able to seat three times as many patrons (if you include the new patio space), according to co-owner Tanya Zhykharevich.

Cafe Social Coffee, 102 N. Bedford St., is up and running in the new luxury student high-rise called UnCommon. This is Cafe Social’s first brick-and-mortar location; it also sells coffee from a sporty yellow truck.

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Lesbian pop-up bar

Lawyer moves closer to becoming a full-time chocolatier

A tavern takeover created to fill the void left by there being no bona fide lesbian bar in town. This month’s pop-up bar is at Barolo, 829 E. Washington Ave., at 7 pm.

Details: Lesbian Pop Up Bar // Madison Edition Facebook page.

Ice cream social Saturday, Aug. 27

Come for the pie and ice cream, stay for the wagon rides and root beer floats. Sassy Cow Creamery will be giving tours of its dairy farm and creamery at this free familyfriendly event. At 1492 Bristol Rd., Columbus, noon-5 pm. More info on Sassy Cow’s Facebook page.

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OSS Madison and Bos Meadery team up for a four-course tasting. Veggie purée paired with Ace Up My Sleeve (hopped mead, gin and rosemary simple syrup); cheese curds tikka masala paired with Magic Carpet Ride (souq mead); grand cru boar brat paired with Hammer Smashed Cherry Old Fashioned (cherry mead, brandy and orange bitters); plus, lemon Italian ice and Equinox mead floats. At OSS, 910 Regent St., 6-8 pm. Tickets ($30) via Brown Paper Tickets.

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BY STEVEN POTTER

The main ingredients in Syovata Edari’s life are her kids, court and chocolate.

But if the criminal defense attorney and mother of two has her way, that will soon change.

“I still love practicing law, I still have a passion for it, but I’d rather make a living doing chocolate and take cases part time,” says Edari, 44, who’s been a trial lawyer for the last 15 years. Most recently she took on the high-profile case of Genele Laird, the Madison teen violently arrested

by Madison police officers in June for allegedly waving a knife at East Towne Mall. She helped Laird enroll in Dane County’s Restorative Justice program in lieu of facing immediate charges.

Less publicly over the last a decade, Edari has been building a business as a chocolatier, filling custom orders.

Edari is now hoping to step back from court and spend more time in the kitchen. For one thing, she’s tired of the old boys’ club legal system. “As a female attorney, as a female attorney of color, [it’s a system] that doesn’t want me in it, doesn’t want single mothers in it,” she says.

She’s found the chocolate business far more welcoming. “I could be a bad-ass lawyer and I still wouldn’t get respect, but with chocolate, it transcends the bullshit,” she says. “It doesn’t matter who’s behind it — if the chocolate is good, it’s good, and people are going to buy it because they want it.”

And they do want it. She recently delivered an order of more than six dozen golf ball-shaped treats for a client who was hosting an all-women’s golf outing. “One golf ball was a salted caramel

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For Edari, chocolate means freedom from the old boys’ club.

with Maldon sea salt in a single-origin dark chocolate shell,” she explains with a calm confidence in her craft. “The other was a strawberry milk chocolate ganache with a white chocolate shell.”

Other recent orders she’s fulfilled have included his-and-hers wedding shower bonbons, an elaborate chocolate sculpture with miniature musical instruments and chocolate butterflies for Mother’s Day. Although she specialized in bonbons and truffles in the past, these days she’s focusing on creating unique flavors for chocolate bars.

Her family cooking background is a big help.

“My stepdad is from Iran, my dad is from Kenya, my mom is Irish and Russian. We’re all big foodies in my family,” she says.

Edari is ramping up her efforts to make chocolate her full-time gig. In late April, she

flew to France to attend a one-week master chocolatier course at Ecole Chocolat, where she learned a number of new techniques, including how to work with a food-grade chocolate stencil called a chablon. She spent 10-hour days in the school’s industrial kitchen with a diverse set of students, all with the same goal.

“It was a group of a dozen students. One woman was from Saudi Arabia, another from South Africa, one from Denmark, a guy from Hungary and people from all over the United States,” she says. All had to pass an online course before attending the French school.

“It was very science-heavy,” she says. “I was scolded for over-emulsifying my ganache — it had too many bubbles, and that would lessen its shelf life. There’s no way I could even learn half of what I did there from a book.”

Since returning home, she’s also purchased a $30,000 Italian-made automatic tempering machine that delicately warms the chocolate pieces (known as pistoles or feves) she uses to make her desserts. “This machine will do in eight minutes what it takes me an hour to do, and it does it continuously all day long.”

Edari is also in the middle of re-branding her business under the name CocoVaa, a play on her father’s nickname for her, “Young Vaa.” A new website, cocovaa.com, is in progress.

“My focus is on developing a local market, spreading out and seeing where it goes,” Edari says. “I like the idea of providing chocolate to my community.”

Inquiries can be made by phone at 888803-6122, or email info@cocovaa.com. n

Howard helles lager from Lakefront Brewery

House-made infusions shine at Green Owl

Lakefront’s “My Turn” series consists of beers designed by brewery employees.

Howard is the brewery’s maintenance manager and is a quiet, dependable guy who prefers not to have his last name out there, says the brewery’s sales manager, Matt Krajnak. “He’s the brewery’s MacGyver. One day he’ll be fixing a doorknob and the next he’s fine-tuning the German-designed bottling line,” says Krajnak.

Howard chose the helles lager style because he wanted a light-bodied, flavorful beer for late summer. It’s made in the traditions of Bavaria, featuring German ingredients including pilsner malt and Hallertau Mittelfrüh hops. It’s fermented with a German lager yeast that leaves the beer clean, allowing the hops to really come through.

It has a light bready sweetness from the pilsner malt that gives it a solid backbone, while the Hallertau Mittelfrüh hops lend herbal aroma and spicy dryness. Overall, it’s nicely balanced, flavorful, clean and crisp.

Though it’s sandwiched between two of my favorite Atwood Avenue haunts, Ideal Bar and Alchemy, Green Owl Cafe never quite made it onto my list of places to enjoy a cocktail. In fact, I didn’t even realize it served drinks until I stopped in recently with a knowledgeable vegetarian friend.

I almost don’t want to give away this secret, but I feel that it is my duty to inform the people of Madison that Green Owl does indeed have amazing drinks. And, priced at only $6 or $7, they’re a great value. Plus, they’re vegan. What more could an eastsider want?

The key to Green Owl’s cocktail success is its fantastic array of house-infused spirits, featured prominently in nearly every drink.

My favorite was the Blazin’ Berry: habanero tequila, raspberry and pomegranate liqueurs and lemon juice. It’s tart, tingly, fun to sip and spicy as hell.

Another winner was the Chaitini, which features two infusions: chai tea and vanilla

Howard finishes around 4.5% and is sold in six-packs for about $10. The My Turn beers are one-offs and can be a bit hard to find, so you might need to check around some of the larger beer stores. As of late August the brewery says about 40% of this beer remains in the warehouse, so it should be available through most of September.

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Fighting chance Waunakee’s Brody Joseph wins big in kickboxing-like sport Muay Thai

BY STEVEN POTTER

If the martial art of Muay Thai were an Olympic sport, there’s a good chance Brody Joseph would have been in Rio this year representing the United States.

But it’s not, so the 17-year-old Waunakee native will instead be representing the U.S. at the International Federation of Muay Thai Amateur Youth World Championship Aug. 24-Sept. 1 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Muay Thai (or “the art of eight limbs,” pronounced moy tie) is a Thai style of fighting similar to kickboxing that uses punches, kicks, knees and elbows.

The tournament brings Joseph one step closer to fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional mixed martial arts fighter.

“This all started as a childhood dream.

Some kids want to be president or an astronaut and I wanted to be a professional MMA fighter and the Ultimate Fighting Championship champion,” says Joseph, who stands 6 feet tall, weighs 156 pounds and has a reach of 73.5 inches.

Joseph, who began training and fighting at age 12, was invited to the international championship by Team USA after a string of national amateur championship wins in the States. In all, he’s won four out of the five national Muay Thai amateur championships for the youth age brackets he’s competed in.

But it hasn’t always been smooth sailing.

In 2014, he lost a close match in the final round of the national amateur championship.

During the fight, he says, “my mind wanted to keep going but my body just couldn’t — I was completely drained. I lost and took

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second,” he recalls. “It was heartbreaking.”

A couple of months later, the Waunakee high school student learned the sudden onset of fatigue wasn’t due to a lack of training.

When he suffered a cracked rib at the start of football season, doctors discovered he had a hole in his heart. “That hole was recirculating unoxygenated blood, so it was taking my cardio down,” Joseph says.

If it was left unrepaired, he was told, he could suffer heart failure within 10 years.

Doctors repaired the hole by going in through an artery in his leg, a relatively new procedure that avoids the trauma of open-heart

surgery. Even so, the recovery took some time.

“It was really difficult to go from being an athlete who trains all the time to someone who can barely get out of bed,” Joseph says. But he went on to win two national amateur championships in the last two years.

His training regime doesn’t include days off, which can be difficult. “It’s hard to diet every day and wake yourself up and run, then go to the gym,” he says.

But Joseph knows his strengths and the importance of strategy. “My power is my punches — it’s a very American style. I kind of fight like a boxer,” he says. “As soon as the bell rings, all of

the emotions are gone. I’m completely empty, and the only thing I’m doing is looking at my opponent for his weak spots. I watch his reaction to everything. If I throw a kick and if he blocks it, I’ll notice how and that will set me up to do something different next.”

Joseph sees the international championship in Thailand as another step toward his goal of becoming a professional fighter.

“This is the Olympic equivalent of the sport — there will be 140 countries there,” he says. “I want to represent myself and my family and Wisconsin and now the United States.” n

Playing footy Madison’s Indomitable Warriors play Australian rules football

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Jason Wilhelm and Nafla Poff met each other in the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in 2014 on their way to Australia for an international Australian rules football competition. Now, they are both living in Madison and have started a local team with the goal of joining the United States Australian Rules Football Association.

“It’s not really the type of game that you can walk up to somebody on the street and say, ‘Hey, do you want to play?’” Wilhelm, 29, says of the contact sport nicknamed “footy” — a combination of football and soccer with similarities to rugby that dates back to mid-19th-century Australia. Players are 18 to a side and can run with the ball, kick it or “handball” it (sort of like a volleyball serve) to teammates, but most points

are scored by kicking the ball, similar in shape to a football, between two tall goalposts. One more thing: Tackling is allowed, but nobody can wear pads.

For years, Wisconsin’s primary Aussie rules football club was the Milwaukee Bombers, and most serious players from the Madison area belonged to that team. Today, the Bombers are no longer a powerhouse, Wilhelm says, so earlier this year he and Poff decided to start the Wisconsin Indomitable Warriors, a Madisonbased footy team. It’s coed, and the group only practices and scrimmages together; they don’t compete as a team yet. (Wilhelm will compete on a team from Dallas and Poff on a team from Minnesota for the USAFL National Championships in Florida in October.)

Practices are held at University Bay Fields on Sundays at noon and at High Point Park on Mondays at 6 p.m. They’re free and open to

anyone. Wilhelm and Poff have personally offered to teach newbies the skills necessary “to make it through the practice.”

“We’ve been much more successful than we thought we’d be,” says Poff, 27, a Madison West High School graduate who competes in the male-dominated sport wearing a hijab. As many as 40 players have shown up. A typical practice includes 12 to 19 people.

Local players for the Indomitable Warriors range in age from 13 to mid-60s, but the average footy player is between 21 and 35. According to the USAFL, there are 36 men’s teams and 12 women’s teams in the country.

Anybody interested in what footy looks like in action can check out a men’s scrimmage on Sept. 10 between the Minnesota Freeze and the Chicago Swans. A time and location has yet to be determined, but updates will be posted on the Indomitable Warriors Facebook page. n

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compensate artists who have contributed time and materials.

Chris Charles, a photographer, graphic designer and brand consultant based in North Carolina, and Tanisha Lynn Pyron, an “infamous woman” and Chicago photographer who assisted him, are on Levingston’s accounts payable list. Charles shot 15 of the 22 photographs at the Chicago Cultural Center, and Pyron shot seven more at Monona Terrace.

“My process was to photograph with dignity, regardless of backgrounds — to antistereotype,” says Charles. “Instead of images of downtrodden black women with multiple children — what we typically see in media — I asked how they want the world to see them.”

Levingston met one of the book’s subjects, Lenora Rodin, 61, while tutoring at the UW Odyssey Project, a rigorous accredited humanities class for people with economic challenges. Rodin projects an aura that comes from a life well led. “I look great, don’t I?” she asks an Isthmus reporter. Then adds: “I smoked crack, drank, I was a whore.”

Now clean for 25 years, Rodin, a certified nursing assistant with extensive on-the-job training, has built a successful career working in senior care. “I have much to be thankful for,” she says. “I have one daughter, six grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and I’m married to a doctor. Many women who have been through my life are not here anymore.”

Author Sagashus Levingston raised six children while earning multiple degress.

Lolita, 49, another woman in the book from Madison, says telling her story publicly was a life-changing experience. “I’ve been a crack addict my whole life, never took the opportunity to grow,” she says. “When Levingston asked me what empowers me, I realized it came from speaking my truth.”

Five days after meeting Levingston, who is now her mentor, Lolita (who asked Isthmus to withhold her last name) entered rehab and is now in recovery. She is finally using her certification to teach early childhood education.

Pyron says working on the project made her feel less alone: “You feel no one gets it, then you come into a community of women like these mothers who made it, are still making it. We’re sisters now.” n

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When you descend into American Players Theatre’s indoor Touchstone Theatre to see the current production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, a faint mist of smoke, like the last gasp of a funeral pyre, wafts up from the stage.

It may also be the remains of an ashy fire and brimstone or nuclear blast. We’re never sure.

What we do know of the world outside is that it’s irreparably scorched. The sun is a dull coin on the horizon. The sea has lost its tide. And the earth is “all corpsed.” In other words, this is the end, my friend. This is the end.

Or is it? Beckett’s play takes place at an end of times officially described as “hopefully never” and in an anonymous everywhere called “hopefully nowhere.” The most existential of audience members will point out that Beckett never needed an environmental or atomic disaster to set the stage for absurdity. Life itself was hell, and existence a pointless repetition to be endured.

In the play, Hamm (Brian Mani) is a sightless, wheelchair-bound patriarch, cruel and onerous. His lame son, Clov (David Daniel), is more of a manservant than a progeny, exclusively there to fulfill Hamm’s every whistled command. Hamm’s father, Nagg (John Pribyl), and mother, Nell (Sarah Day), are both legless and live in a pair of ashcans in bunker’s trash heap. They pop up and down into the plot with the measured regularity of a jack-in-the-box.

The character names are wordplay for tools — Hamm for “hammer” and Clov, the French word for “nail” — and these are good descriptions for their aggressive codependency. (It’s said that Beckett used his own intense marriage as the basis for their relationship.) Neither is made happier by the

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Out of the dorm room, onto the stage Lucien Parker brings his laid-back rap to the High Noon Saloon

BY STEVEN POTTER

Lucien Parker has no use for a pseudonym.

The 19-year-old emcee and UW-Madison student says he doesn’t need one — he’s the same person on- and off-stage.

“I decided if my music was an extension of who I was, and I was writing about my life and telling my own stories, I should just go with who I really was and use my government name,” says Parker. “I’m lucky to have a unique name, so that helps too.”

Parker is quickly gaining a reputation around Madison — both on and off campus — as one of the newest local emcees to watch. He performs Aug. 28 at the High Noon Saloon, where he’ll be joined by indie rock/ hip-hop/soul hybrid Bien Bien and others.

With a crisp, clean and relaxed flow, Parker’s raps cover plenty of ground. In his first full-length album, Black Sheep, he touches on everything from failed relationships and life as a young black man to hanging out with friends and his hometown of Minneapolis.

Beats provided by DJ Pain 1, Geek Session and others give the album a laid-back feel that’s become his signature. He began recording it in his UW dorm room and finished back at home in his mom’s basement; he did the mixing and mastering himself.

“I’m doing what I can, learning what I can and asking questions,” says Parker. “It’s nice to craft my own shit from the bottom up.”

Before releasing the album in July, he dropped a video for “After Recess” that shows slowmotion scenes of Madison as Parker waxes about his ambitions and resisting the pull of the streets.

Like a growing number of rappers in his generation, he gravitated to music from spoken word poetry. “My poetry was already a lot like rap,” says Parker. “I just added in the fun parts, which is the drums and the rhythm.”

Parker, who is part of the First Wave scholars program at UW, says he was drawn to the mic because hip-hop “is a tool that creates community and creates dialogue.” He hopes to forge a future by merging music, politics and social justice. Although he is undecided about his major, he says he’s leaning toward communication arts or political science.

He also wants to help other emcees develop their art — and their brands.

“A lot of kids want to make music now but don’t understand all of the steps it takes to really embody this as a career,” he says. “You have to brand yourself, you have to have a logo, know what it takes to shoot videos, to manage yourself, to email venues, to promote on social media, and [know] what language attracts people.

These are all things I’ve learned.” n

Parker gravitated to music from poetry.

“The album that changed everything” Get Back Wisconsin re-creates The Beatles’ Revolver

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Plenty of bands form via Craigslist. But Get Back Wisconsin — a five-man group from Madison that re-creates nothing but Beatles songs onstage — can trace its origins back to a 2012 documentary film about the online classified advertising website.

After watching Craigslist Joe — about a man who spent a month depending on Craigslist for food, shelter and companionship — guitarist, keyboard player and longtime Beatles aficionado Aviv Kammay took to the site in search of fellow Fab Four fans. “I wanted to talk about the Beatles, but instead I started a band,” he says.

Faster than you can say Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the like-minded musicians he met on Craigslist starting playing Beatles songs together, and things escalated from there.

Get Back Wisconsin’s ultimate goal?

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of every Beatles album by performing it live as it was originally released in the U.K., beginning with 1963’s Please Please Me. No costumes or fake accents allowed.

While previous album-anniversary shows were held at the Harmony Bar & Grill, the

The band pays homage to Beatles albums.

band’s tribute to Revolver — released in August 1966 and recently hailed by Classic Rock magazine as “the album that changed everything” — will happen at the High Noon Saloon on Sept.

2. The show will feature 10 extra musicians, including brass and strings players, to vividly bring to life the songs producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick perfected in the studio.

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becoming an unfair comparison to everybody else in the world,” says guitarist and vocalist Sean Michael Dargan, who took over on vocals and guitar for Get Back Wisconsin after the 2014 death of Charlie Johnson.

Paul McCartney’s high vocal range on “Got to Get You Into My Life,” the tricky guitars and tempo of “And Your Bird Can Sing” and the complex vocal harmonies of “Dr. Robert” are some of the challenges involved in re-

creating the album, according to Dargan and Kammay.

In addition to performing Revolver’s 14 songs, Get Back Wisconsin will play dozens of other Beatles songs spanning the band’s career — even cover songs they played. The show could last as long as four hours, says Kammay, who claims to not have a favorite Beatles album or Beatles song: “I see the beauty in each one, and I think that’s an advantage for me.”

Playing other artists’ songs is nothing new for Dargan, who in addition to his own solo act has performed one-off cover shows with musicians since the late 1980s, featuring tributes to such bands as the Cure, the Smiths, the Who and, on Oct. 7 at the High Noon, the Smithereens.

Get Back Wisconsin isn’t a one-off, but it’s a finite project. The Beatles’ final album, Let It Be, was released in May 1970. Revolver’s follow-up, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, came out in June 1967, and Kammay and Dargan hope the concert celebrating that album will be held at an even larger venue.

“I want to play great songs, no matter who writes them,” Dargan says. “For me, the writing is always going to be the greatest thing about the Beatles.” n

Goodbye, Doc A local jazz giant has left the stage

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BY BOB JACOBSON

When trumpet ace Doster “Doc” DeHaven Jr. passed away Aug. 12 at age 85, the Madison jazz scene lost a towering presence. It’s hard to overstate his contributions as a performer and educator over the past half-century.

DeHaven’s trumpet style was lyrical and melodic, with a rich tone perfectly suited to the kinds of traditional jazz he played the most. He blew clean but sassy. Longtime Madisonians remember DeHaven best from his stint at the Pirate Ship, the downtown club where his combo held court three or four nights a week for 14 years in the 1960s and 1970s. To others, it was his role as an educator — he taught music at Monona Grove High School for 32 years — that left the most lasting mark on Madtown’s musical landscape.

By all accounts, the one thing that was more important to DeHaven than music was family. Often the two overlapped. DeHaven’s father, Doster Sr., was a pro reed player who jammed with the likes of Bunny Berigan.

Doc’s daughter, Kelly DeHaven, remembers jazz was always playing. “I grew up with a lot of earlier and standard jazz,” she says. “I don’t think most families had that regularly playing in their homes.” Visits to her grandfather’s house provided an opportunity to dig into even more of that great body of music.

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But the music gene has filtered down to the next generation; grandsons John and Jake, performed at DeHaven’s memorial service.

Kelly says her father was a “man of few words,” in spite of his cantankerous public persona. “He liked playing at the Pirate Ship because he was up in a loft and didn’t have to be seen,” she says. It wasn’t until later in his career that DeHaven began sharing his excellent singing voice with his audiences.

DeHaven gave up playing in public a decade ago. But he continued to teach private lessons, and his impact on younger musicians in Madison will be felt — and heard — for years to come. n

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Ever had a brilliant idea for a community event but no idea how to pull it off? A new program coming to the Madison Public Library this fall aims to educate teams of budding organizers through an “event-planning bootcamp” that will culminate in three largescale events around Madison.

Called the Library Takeover, the initiative is part of a recent push to promote lifelong, community-based learning and to get more people participating in programs at the library, says Laura Damon-Moore, a community engagement librarian.

“People like going to community events in Madison, but the average person doesn’t necessarily have the network, skills or financing to make [them] happen,” Damon-Moore says.

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More bark than bite Wiener-Dog links four stories — with a dachshund

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When Wiener-Dog shows its teeth, director Todd Solondz taps into the humor of emotional abuse and dysfunctional relationships with a sustained growl.

The film is made up of four episodes — linked across the country by a dachshund.

Unfortunately, two of the episodes have more bark than bite.

Wiener-Dog shares the bill on Aug. 27 at the UW Cinematheque with the unrelated documentary Weiner (about that sly dog, former Rep. Anthony Weiner).

Dina (Julie Delpy) can’t communicate with her young cancer survivor son (Keaton Nigel Cooke) without causing collateral damage, and she’s as mesmerizing as a traffic accident. “Death is a good thing?” he asks, moments after she describes his dog being put to sleep. “It feels good, like forgetting everything,” she explains with a smile, ignoring the fact that the boy has fought off death — and can’t forget his dead dog.

The boy’s dog is not dead, however. She’s saved by vet assistant Dawn Wiener (Greta Gerwig), who takes her on a road trip with

former classmate and crush Brandon (Kieran Culkin). Young Dawn (nicknamed Wiener-Dog) was the central character in Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995). Fans should not expect many rewarding connections, nor expect much from the segment, which is long on setup and short on payoff.

The remaining two segments feature reserved but memorable performances from Danny DeVito and Ellen Burstyn. DeVito impresses as screenwriting professor Dave Schmerz, but the segment revisits worn tropes about academia and moviemaking. Burstyn dominates her scenes as Nana, despite barely moving and wearing large sunglasses, as she receives a long-overdue visit from her granddaughter. These last scenes match Dina’s in their dramatic range and impact, but they are far more concise.

Solondz often seems tone deaf in terms of identity politics (itself a target of satire in one scene). Dawn meets a mariachi band straight out of a Speedy Gonzales cartoon. Jewish names become a running gag in the nexus of academia and entertainment surrounding Schmerz. Some moments satirize those who see the world through stereotypes. Some don’t.

Remi (Keaton Nigel Cooke ) is a cancer survivor with a close connection to his dachshund.

Despite some uninspired staging, Ed Lachman’s cinematography gives Solondz’s dark vision a crisp, vibrant energy with stylized green hues and magical slow motion.

And I have to give Solondz credit for one shot as audacious as anything in his cult classics, Happiness and Storytelling. It is worth sharing with a crowd. ■

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As in his 2012 indie film breakout, Sleepwalk With Me, writer/director Mike Birbiglia mines what he knows: comedy. Both films are based on the unknown workaday comics who hone their craft in the dark, half-empty comedy clubs that dot every major U.S. city.

For a few hours every week, the thrill of the stage is theirs, while the rest of their days are spent laboring at dull, soul-sucking, serviceindustry jobs that support the continuance of their comedy habit.

Although a Three Musketeers-like “all for one, and one for all” attitude is evident in the members of the comedy troupes, Birbiglia also has a keen sense of the roiling resentments and sublimated jealousies that infect the individuals. Young, creative sorts may be more susceptible to these insidious and selfdeprecating emotions, but Birbiglia’s acute perspective will pertain to almost any industry in which a few are chosen to advance, and the vast majority are left to wonder, “Why not me?”

The six members of the Commune improvisational troupe all have each other’s backs.

It’s one of the tenets of the improv form they love so dearly (along with “say yes” and “don’t think”). The Manhattan group is one of the training grounds from which Weekend Live (a fictional version of Saturday Night Live) is known to pluck new cast members. On a night when talent scouts are known to be in the audience, Jack (Keegan-Michael Key) can’t resist showboating with his impeccable Obama imitation, and later he and his

The film features a fictional troupe.

girlfriend Sam (Gillian Jacobs), the group’s resident couple, receive an invitation to audition for the national show. The group tellingly hesitates a moment too long before congratulating the pair on the invite, and when Sam makes the cut, the stage is set for the slings and arrows of the unjustly overlooked, as well as the conflicts experienced by the more measurably successful Jack in trying to stay true to his roots and remain friends with his old group. Add to the group’s woes that they’re being evicted from their longtime performance space to make way for a new Trump edifice (how timely is that?).

Cameos from Ben Stiller and Lena Dunham, appearing as themselves, lend additional credence to the comedy milieu. And although his visual style is relatively flat and expository, Birbiglia’s penetrating observational skills make Don’t Think Twice an exceptional film about both the comedy world and the plight of young professionals who wonder if they’ve stalled out before even getting into gear. ■

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The Good Dinosaur: Pixar continues to reign supreme in the realm of family-focused animation with this story about a world in which dinosaurs never went extinct. Sequoya Library, Aug. 25, 2 pm.

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Up: Pixar’s animated wonder about a solitary codger who hooks up his house to thousands of helium balloons, flying high with a young scout accidentally in tow. Meadowood Park, Aug. 25, 8 pm.

Garo: The Animation: Anime Club screening (RSVP: 608-246-4548). Hawthorne Library, Aug. 26, 7 pm.

Dressed to Kill: After a woman’s murder, her son teams up with a prostitute who witnessed the crime, in this thriller from director Brian De Palma. UW Cinematheque, Aug. 26, 7 pm.

Glassland: A taxi driver trying to help his mother defeat alcoholism crosses over into crime.

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Blow Out: Director Brian De Palma’s thriller about a soundman (John Travolta) who knows the truth behind a blackmail plot. UW Cinematheque, Aug. 26, 9 pm.

The Penelope Complex: Theatre de l’Ange Fou film screening. Wyoming Valley Church, Spring Green, Aug. 26-27, 7 pm.

48 Hour Film Project Awards Party: View the best 2016 films. High Noon Saloon, Aug. 27, 5 pm.

Weiner: Documentary about Anthony Weiner’s 2013 New York City mayoral run. UW Cinematheque, Aug. 27, 6:30 pm.

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Cheeseheads: The Documentary: Documentary about life in Wisconsin, with talks by director John Mitchell, Luanne von Schneidemesser and Joseph Salmons. Central Library, Aug. 31, 6:30 pm.

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E.T., the Extra Terrestrial: A gentle alien stranded on Earth befriends a young boy named Elliott, but government intervention leads to a dire situation for everyone. Point, Aug. 28 (noon), Aug. 29 & 31 (7 pm).

The Departed: Leonardo DiCaprio is a cop who infiltrates the mob, and Matt Damon is a mobster who infiltrates the cops in this Boston-set gangster movie, which also stars Jack Nicholson as a mob boss. Director Martin Scorsese luxuriates in the fetid atmosphere. Majestic, Aug. 30, 7:30 pm.

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Creed: Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) passes the torch to Adonis Johnson Creed (Michael B. Jordan), the son of his former nemesis. The film isn’t a complete KO, but it goes all 12 rounds with vitality and style. UW Memorial UnionTerrace, Aug. 29, 9 pm.

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Wiener-Dog: Director Todd Solondz follows a canine through a series of broken homes. See review on page 34. UW Cinematheque, Aug. 27, 8:30 pm.

The King and I: 60th anniversary screening of the classic musical starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner. Point, Aug. 28 (2 pm) & Aug. 31 (2 & 7 pm); and Palace-Sun Prairie, Aug. 28 & Aug. 31, 2 & 7 pm..

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Orton Park Festival Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 25-28, Orton Park The 51st annual event in Madison’s oldest park features a spectacular and diverse lineup. Friday: The Big Payback (5:15 pm) and the Kissers (7 pm). Saturday: GGOOLLDD (6:30 pm) and garagepop from Milwaukee’s Twin Peaks (8:15 pm). Sunday: Milwaukee’s Dead Horses (1:30 pm) and local hip-hop crew Fringe Character (4 pm). And, of course, performances from Cycropia Aerial Dance — a troupe of dancers who swing on trapezes and ropes hung in the park’s stately oaks (Thursday at 7:30 pm and Friday at 8:30 pm.) It’s not summer without Orton Park.

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Sunset Series: Valley Queen 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.

Alchemy Cafe: Los Chechos, free, 10 pm.

Bos Meadery: Hoot’n Annie, string band, free, 6 pm.

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Edgewater Plaza: Corey Mathew Hart Band, free, 6 pm.

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

Merchant: Christopher Plowman, free, 10 pm.

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

Nau-Ti-Gal: Nick Matthews, free (patio), 5:30 pm.

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

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

Tip Top Tavern: Kurt Funfsinn, guitar, free, 9 pm.

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As the co-anchor of Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment, Michael Che knows a thing or two about smart humor.

Now, during the show’s yearly break, Che is taking his act on the road, bringing his knack for biting observational comedy with him. Come see why he’s been named one of the funniest people in the world by Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed, Variety and countless others. With Charlie Kojis. ALSO: Friday and Saturday, Aug. 26-27, 8 & 10:30 pm.

Friday, Aug 26, Breese Stevens Field, 4:15-10 pm

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

T HE ATER & DANCE Returning Home: Wilder Theater play for and about combat veterans, 7 pm, 8/25-27, Bartell Theatre. $20 donation. 692-8002.

Disney’s Peter Pan Jr.: Children’s Theater of Madison, 7 pm, 8/25-26, Overture Center. $7. 258-4141.

Black & White: 8 pm, 8/25-27, Broom Street Theater. $11. 244-8338.

So you didn’t make it to Milwaukee Irish Fest this year — settle your shillelagh, because Madison has its own Irish/Scottish music fest a rockin’ this weekend, including several performers (Skerryvore, the Kilkennys, etc.) who also played the Summerfest grounds.

Gaelic Storm’s (pictured) your headliner — need we say more? — but the real shot of Tullamore Dew might be We Banjo 3, featuring a two-pack of Galway brothers who’ve set up their bodhrans at the intersection of trad and bluegrass, with irresistibly toe-tapping results. Ireland can’t get enough of these guys, and that’s good enough for us.

ALSO: Saturday, Aug. 27 (noon-10 pm).

The Defibulators Friday, Aug. 26, Edgewater plaza, 6 pm Nobody bitch-slaps country music like Brooklyn’s Defibulators. The hillbilly heroin coursing through their latest release, Debt’ll

Russian Circles are most frequently lumped in with metal, but calling them that is only partially true. The Chicago instrumental trio also incorporates elements of post and prog rock, resulting in a sound that’s as much atmospheric as it is heavy. And make no mistake — it’s still super-heavy. Their most recent album, Guidance, was released on Aug. 5. With Indiana shoegazers Cloakroom.

Black Marigold Friday, Aug. 26, Parched Eagle Brew Pub, Westport, 7:30 pm

The local wind quintet is premiering the craft beer-inspired Brian DuFord composition they commissioned...at a nanobrewery in Westport? You read that right. Plus, brewmaster Jim Goronson has brewed a Black Marigold-inspired beer.

Synergy. ALSO: Saturday, Aug. 27, 7 pm, First United Methodist Church.

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Allen Centennial Gardens: Krause Family Band, plus all-ages activities, food carts, free, 4 pm.

Babe’s: Rod Ellenbecker’s American Standard, 7 pm.

Bos Meadery: Kendra Swanson, folk, free, 6:30 pm.

Geek.Kon: Annual multi-genre fan convention, 8/2628, Marriott-West, Middleton, with music, gaming, panels, vendors. $45/weekend adv. geekkon.net.

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Brink Lounge: The Moon Gypsies Trio, 8 pm.

As You Like It: 6 pm on 8/26-27 and 1 pm, 8/28, Young Shakespeare Players Playhouse. Free. ysp.org.

Cardinal Bar: Dave Irwin & Helen Avakian, Brazilian, 5:30 pm; Immigre, Afrobeat, 9 pm.

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Chief’s Tavern: The Maintainers, 6:30 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Anderson Brothers, 9 pm.

Come Back In: Dead Sea Squirrels, free, 5 pm.

Daly’s Bar, Sun Prairie: Nine Thirty Standard, 7 pm.

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

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

Frequency: Heavy Looks, The Flips, BackBuzz, 9 pm.

Great Dane-Hilldale: DJ Samroc, free, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Anthony Cao, 8:30 pm.

Java Cat: Johnny O’Brien, free, 5 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee House: Madison Classical Guitar Society Showcase, free, 7 pm.

Liquid: EOTO, Red Rose, Oh My Love, mindcntrl, 10 pm.

Lucille: DJ Ryan Savic, free, 10:30 pm.

Movie Hell: Movie commentary by Anthony Siraguse, Cynthia Marie & Eric Olander, Cody Lemke, Mike Jonjak, 8 pm, 8/26, Fountain. 250-1998.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Mr. Wisconsin Leather Weekend: Weekend of Leather Community events, 8/26-28, Woof’s, Bartell Theatre and other venues. $80/weekend (individual event tickets at door if available). Schedule: mrwlevent.com.

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Majestic Theatre: Steez, Dense City, free, 9 pm.

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Mickey’s: Mr. Jackson, Kvnute, DJ Umi, free, 10 pm.

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Friday, Aug. 26, Olbrich Gardens, 7:30 pm Check out the opening of the magical light-art installation “Gleam” in its second year at Olbrich Gardens. The ticketed opener includes music and a meet-and-greet with the artists.

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Mr. Robert’s: Sinking Suns, War Brides, Them Teeth, free, 10 pm.

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FAIRS & F ESTIVALS Good Neighbor Festival: 8/26-28, Fireman’s Park, Middleton, with carnival, entertainment, craft fair, kids’ activities. goodneighborfestival.com.

This chamber music festival, now in its 27th season, brings world-class musicians together in an intimate pastoral setting.

This year’s concerts feature pre-show walks along a reclaimed trout stream and music from local and national talents, including Grammy-nominated mezzo soprano Margaret Lattimore (pictured) and co-artistic directors Mary Rose and John Harbison. Fittingly this year’s theme is “water music.” For the full schedule (concerts continue through Sept. 4) and ticketing, visit tokencreekfestival.org.

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West Fest: Madison Parks activities for all ages, 7 am-7 pm, 8/27, Elver Park, with fitness classes, nature activities, splash pad, crafts, food, entertainment. cityofmadison.com/parks. 266-4711.

Bust out the earplugs, kids, because you’ll want to retain some hearing to enjoy 20 bands at this Midwest Mix-up all-day blowout. An excellent lineup of heavy regional bands both established and up-andcoming is anchored by Growing, Droids Attack and the Faith Hills Have Eyes.

Simpson Street Finest Families Neighborhood Reunion: 10 am-10 pm, 8/27, Winnequah Park-Dream Park, Monona. Free; all welcome. 957-1652.

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When you think of salsa music, Madison isn’t the first place that comes to mind. Thankfully, Edi Rey y Su Salsera is here to change that. The octet hails from our fair city, and specializes in multiple forms of Latin music, which they list as “salsa, mambo, merengue, cumbia y cha-cha-cha.” Clear your calendars, folks — it’s time to dance.

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JVN Day Hip-Hop Festival honors First Wave student John “Vietnam” Nguyen (who died in 2012) with a weekend of events including an open mic (8 am Saturday, Aug. 27, Terrace) and graffiti art event (noon-5:30 pm Sunday, East Campus Mall). The festival ends with a concert featuring spoken word and music by SABA, Rich Robbins (pictured), Broadway, Me eN You, Heru and others.

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

Bos Meadery: Linn Jennings & Dan Pasque with Laurel Poston, pop, free, 6:30 pm.

Buck & Honey’s, Sun Prairie: David Hecht, 6:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Rumba, 10 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Mad City Funk, free, 9 pm.

Come Back In: Alias Jones Band, rock, free, 9 pm.

Edgewater Plaza: The Sharrows, free, 6 pm.

Essen Haus: Brewhaus Polka Kings, free, 8:30 pm.

The Frequency: Satsang, 7 pm; The Begowatts, Known to Wander, Johnny Likes Noize, 10 pm.

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Vince Strong, 8:30 pm.

Java Cat: Chad Anderson, free, 9:30 am.

Malt House: Karl Von Huene, free, 3 pm.

Mickey’s: Phylums (ELO tribute), Terrible Twos, 10 pm.

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

Pooley’s: Nine Thirty Standard, free (patio), 7 pm.

Sprecher’s Restaurant: The Blue Olives, 7 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Charlie Painter & Friends, free, 10 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Hank Kimball & the County Agents Band, 8:30 pm.

Sunday, Aug. 28, Frequency, 7:30 pm

While it’s technically legal for women to be topless in public in Wisconsin, an exposed female nipple is still sexualized to the point of being taboo. Not so at the annual Nipple Equality Bar Crawl, where fearless females (and their woke male allies) strip down to end the hypocrisy and #freethenipple. This year’s event ends with a party at the Frequency, with a performance from Madison gypsy rock band SHESHE (pictured), burlesque and comedy from Les Cougars and a Queer dance party with music from DJ Boyfrrriend.

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Snow White: Fresco Opera Theatre “Garage Opera” (all 2 pm): 8/27, 1248 Mockingbird Lane, Sun Prairie; 8/28, 21 Shea Court. Free. frescooperatheatre.com.

High Noon Saloon: Lucien Parker, Bien Bien, Son, Bear in the Forest, DJay Mando, 9 pm.

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Lone Girl Brewing Co., Waunakee: The Emmylous, free, 3 pm.

Thomas Martinelli & Michael Mentzer: Discussing “Unbreakable Bonds: Edgewood Football, Life Lessons: 1927-2015,” their new book, 3 pm, 8/27, Edgewood High School. 233-2850.

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

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■ ISTHMUS PICKS : AUG 28 - SEP 1 T HE AT ER & DA N CE King Lear: Shakespeare’s masterpiece tragedy, 1 pm on 8/28 and 7:30 pm, 9/1, American Players Theatre, Spring Green. $75-$47. 588-2361.

Aloha Chicago: Luau dance performances, 4 pm, 8/28, Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison. 223-9576.

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Arcadia: Tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard about a young woman and her tutor, 6 pm, 8/28, American Players Theatre, Spring Green. $75-$47. 588-2361.

Fedchock is a trombonist whose been active in the New York City jazz scene for over three decades. Local hotshot Wallmann is the director of jazz studies at UW-Madison. Performers from the Madison Music Foundry kick off the free outdoor show. The UW Jazz Ensemble is also on the bill.

FO O D & D RI N K Barbecue Social: Wisconsin Flying fly-in/drive-in event with free pulled pork/sides, 5-7 pm, 8/31, Wisconsin Aviation. wisconsinflying.com.

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SP EC I A L EV EN TS Black-Latino Unity Picnic: Immigrant Workers Union annual event (all welcome), 1-5 pm, 8/28, Penn Park, with food, music, dance & spoken word performances, kids’ activities & more. Free. 866-476-0884.

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MU S I C Come Back In: Josh Becker, free (on the patio), 5 pm.

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

Julep: Louka Patenaude, John Christensen, 6 pm.

Malt House: Lonesome Willie Jones & His Dime Store Posse, free, 7 pm.

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A fixture in the underground DIY music scene for the last decade, Seattle-based indie-pop group iji (pronounced ee-hee) released a new album, Bubble, on July 29. Recorded in just five days, Bubble was inspired by a collective dream journal the band kept while on tour in 2015. Wild and introspective, strange and familiar, it’s like staring into someone’s subconscious — and then rocking out. With Tippy, the Jonesies and TS Foss. Ask Spencer Bible (from Tippy) about the panda.

Brink Lounge: Arboretum Music School Rock Band, 6 pm.

Frequency: Young Valley, Gentle Brontosaurus, 8:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Foundation, 9 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Devil to Drag, Ford Theatre Reunion, The Deeps, 8 pm.

Come Back In: Shelley Faith, free (on the patio), 5 pm.

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

Monday, Aug. 29, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

A RT EX H I B I TS & E VE N TS Karen Loper: “Trash Interrupted,” 8/29-9/29, UW Health Sciences Learning Center-1st floor. 263-5992.

Erase any preconceptions you have about the banjo — and that’s where you’ll want to place Danny Barnes. His experimental, ambient folk is imminently groovy, and his haunting, weird vocals will stay with you. Steve Martin gave him a prize, and Dave Matthews loves Barnes enough to entice him to sit in with his band, calling his playing “heaven and earth.” With Miles Over Mountains.

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

Natt Spil: DJ Golden Donna, free, 10 pm.

If you’ve paid attention to comedy at all in the past few years, chances are you’ve run across T.J. Miller. The laconic, bushy-haired comedian stars on HBO’s Silicon Valley, and has appeared in Deadpool, Our Idiot Brother and Big Hero 6. But it’s his standup that got him noticed in the first place, and now Miller’s bringing his meticulously crafted observations to the Barrymore.

With Kate Miller, Nick Vatterott.

Wednesday, Aug. 31, Crescendo Espresso Bar, 7:30 pm

Capitol Square-King Street Corner: Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, free, noon.

Hilldale Shopping Center: Hirt Alpert, Herb Alpert & TJB tribute, free (west plaza), 5 pm.

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Jazz at Five: Johannes Wallmann Brasstet Wednesday, Aug. 31, outdoors at 100 State Street, 4 pm

The Johannes Wallmann Brasstet featuring John Fedchock headlines the fourth installment of the Jazz at Five summer series.

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

The Frequency: The Road, The Psychodelics, The Ferns, The Artysts, 8:30 pm.

Ivory Room: Taras Nahirniak, piano, free, 9 pm.

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

Opus Lounge: Shawndell Marks, free, 9 pm.

Quaker Steak and Lube, Middleton: Pupy Costello & the New Hiram Kings, honky tonk, free, 5:30 pm.

Uno Chicago Grill-Crossroads Drive: Northern Comfort, bluegrass, free, 6:30 pm.

Geoff and Kia’s 20th Anniversary Spectacular Thursday, Sept. 1, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Local music fans are no doubt familiar with Geoffrey Brady and Kia Karlen, two musicians celebrating 20 years of wedded bliss...and numerous MAMA awards, plus tours, gigs and bands. This special benefit show for WORT will feature eight revered bands in which the couple perform. The once-in-a-lifetime lineup includes the Tiny Band, the Velvet Smash, Hirt Alpert (pictured), the Theramones, Girls Are Go!, Optometri, Yid Vicious and Yammer. With special guests Sockrates Sock Puppet Carnival of Morals and Logic presenting the latest treasures from “Letters to the Willy Street Co-op Reader.” A $10 donation is appreciated.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Angels & Outlaws, free, 6 pm.

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

The Frequency: Soul Low, Beat Bums, 8:30 pm.

Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Sortin’ the Mail, free (patio), 6 pm.

Williamson Magnetic Recording Co.: The Minotaurs, Throwing Rocks, Dumb Vision, rock, 7 pm.

Lisa Link Peace Park: Lost Highway All-Stars, 5 pm.

BOOKS/SP OKEN WORD Peter McCoy: Discussing “Radical Mycology: A Treatise On Seeing & Working With Fungi,” his new book, 6 pm, 8/31, Rainbow Bookstore. 257-6050.

Nerd Nite: Free social gathering/informal presentations, 8 pm, 8/31, High Noon Saloon, with topics including bumblebees, pin-ups and cooking shows. 268-1122.

Majestic: Mike Posner, Adam Friedman, 8 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: La Historia, Automatically Yours, We Should Have Been DJs, free, 10 pm.

CO MEDY Bryan Morris, Toler Wolfe, Gena Gephart: 8:30 pm on 9/1 and 8 & 10:30 pm, 9/2-3, Comedy Club on State. $15-$10. 256-0099.

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Walking through the hand-carved teak entry doors into Free People, the latest lifestyle brand to launch in Hilldale’s new open-air pedestrian mall, is kind of like walking into Coachella. But without the live music. And instead of hanging on lithe, supermodel bodies, all the fringed, flowing, flowered frocks are artfully displayed on hangers.

Not just any old hangers, though, but charming, floral fabric-covered versions.

Shimmery sequined curtains provide dressing room privacy, while the store’s warm, white texturized walls are carefully adorned with twinkly lights, mirrored mosaics and decorative macramé wall hangings. Free People occupies an impressive 4,505-square-foot space. Its decor doesn’t miss a beat in creating a laid-back bohemian vibe.

If sister stores Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie have mastered the kitsch and French flea market aesthetics, respectively, Free People has cornered the market on music festival chic (all three are owned by Philadelphia-based Urban Outfitters Inc.).

According to the store’s assistant manager, Macy Milanowski, this corporate relationship is one of the main reasons the parent company chose a revitalized Hilldale for North American boutique number 121. “The success of Anthropologie in Madison really contributed to the decision to open the first Free People in Wisconsin,” says Milanowski.

Traffic has been strong since the store opened June 24. Milanowski feels it’s a destination for shoppers from all over the state: “We are regularly seeing customers who are driving in from Milwaukee and the Fox Valley, too.”

Milanowski says mother/daughter shopping dates are a store mainstay, and I can un-

derstand why. Despite being approximately half and twice the age of Free People’s selfproclaimed 26-year-old target demographic, my daughter and I both fell in love with the same breezy, crocheted off-the-shoulder peasant dress ($168), vegan-leather moto jacket featuring funky metal hardware ($168) and frayed-at-the cuff high-rise ankle jeans ($88) from Levi’s — one of the few noneponymous brands the store carries).

The folks at Free People understand that there’s genuine intergenerational appeal in the creative, carefree spirit that hippie-esque apparel evokes. It’s not too often that a mother born before Woodstock and a daughter too young to drive herself to Lollapalooza can agree on sartorial choices.

The store also boasts an impressive intimates collection, a well-curated jewelry selection that leans heavily on chokers, and, in keeping with the music fest zeitgeist, a line of faux-vintage concert T-shirts sporting artists’ logos ranging from the Steve Miller Band to Van Halen to the Clash ($68).

The “Free” part of the brand’s name might be a little misleading; much of the store’s full-priced clothing collection starts at well above $100. Not quite designer prices, but still quite a bit more than one would pay for similar products from Art Gecko or the SERRV stores.

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I’m a 41-year-old straight woman who stayed a virgin way longer than I should have (thank you, church and cultural slutshaming). I wasn’t 100 % “good,” i.e., I was one of those “not PIV = not really sex” girls, so I indulged in outercourse and other “cheats.” When I finally realized that “not until marriage” wasn’t working for me and did the real thing, I discovered I loved it. Go me, right? Unfortunately, I’m not good at dating, so I usually go a long time between relationships.

The relationship I’m in now is the first one I’ve had in two years.

“Guy” is nice to me — calls me beautiful, sticks up for me, comes to watch me play with a community orchestra (my own family and friends don’t even come to my shows). But we don’t have much in common (hobbies, political outlook, religious beliefs) and sometimes our conversations feel labored. But that’s okay, right? At least I’m getting my sexual needs met, right?

Well, no. Every single time we’ve tried to have sex, Guy either can’t get hard or stays hard for only a few minutes. I’ve tried going down on him, using my hands, different positions — nothing works. He’s never had an orgasm with me. We don’t even kiss that much. I don’t say anything because I don’t want to hurt his feelings and because I’m really grateful to him for wanting to be with me and being nice to me. He says sorry and that he’s asked the doctor about it, but we don’t get anywhere. It feels lonelier than when I was single. To be blunt, I don’t want to date him anymore. But I feel too guilty to break up with him. He really cares about me, and he didn’t do anything wrong. We’ve dated for four months, and I don’t know if I’m giving up too soon. Where would I be if previous boyfriends had ditched me for being inexperienced instead of showing me the ropes? Don’t I owe Guy the same thing?

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Dear readers: This is the final week of my summer vacation — but you’ve been getting a new column every week I’ve been gone, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me.

Our final guest Dan Savage is an independent designer, illustrator and animation director based in Brooklyn, New York. He created Yule Log 2.0, a collaborative art project where animators around the world reimagine the famous Yule log fireplace. He has worked with The New York Times, Herman Miller and Google, he’s taught design and animation at NYU and SVA, and he’s won a bunch of design industry awards you probably haven’t heard of.

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My girl and I are both 26, and we opened up our marriage. Now I have a girlfriend with whom I am getting to have some of the kinky fun that was lacking at home. Here is my question: Things are really casual between me and this new girl. I want to do some pegging, but I don’t know who should buy the strap-on? Me, because it’s my ass and my idea? Or her, because she would wear it and would also think it was super hot? Should I buy the dildo and she buys the harness? Go halfsies on the whole rig?

What is the equitable way of doing this?

Purchasing Erotic Gear Good Etiquette, Dan? You’re 26 years old, PEGGED, buy the damn thing. How much could it possibly cost? If I were in your situation, I would want full control over what goes up my ass. If she owns it, would she use it while you weren’t around? With strangers? No thanks. Plus if you split the cost, who gets to keep it when you break up? Just buy it and enjoy. If you struggle with picking it out, might I suggest starting small? ■ Follow Daniel Savage on Twitter at @somethingsavage.

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First off, I think a long time between relationships is good. I also think not having things in common can be okay if you create new hobbies and experiences you can share.

Having said that, TDTBW, four months is plenty of time to know if it’s working. He sounds super boring.

The sooner you break it off with him the better. You don’t want to hurt him any more than you have to, especially if he’s really into you, and the longer you draw it out, the more it’s going to hurt. No amount of “training” is going to get this dude hard. The only rope being shown here is his flaccid dingdong. It doesn’t seem like you even want to be his friend if you broke up.

I wouldn’t feel guilty at all about dumping him. Sometimes you gotta think about number one.

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