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FREEING THE NIPPLE

Women and men shed their tops in support of equal rights.

JAY RATH

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NEWS KYLE STEELE IS FINISHING A joint Ph.D. at UW-Madison in educational policy studies and history. Prior to graduate school, he taught fourth- and fifth-graders in St. Louis, Missouri, his hometown. In his academic work, Kyle is most interested in engaging others in discussions about what he sees as the most complex issues facing our public schools.

Among them: What are the purposes of schools? What makes a “good” school “good” and a “bad” school “bad”? It is in pursuit of that goal that Kyle decided to try his hand at writing for a general audience.

BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES Madison schools grapple with new discipline plan.

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TO THE MOON!

UW researchers search for lunar caves that could support bases.

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TONE DEAF

Brad Schimel ignores conflict-of-interest issues with DOJ police investigations.

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THE FUTURE UW-MADISON

The campus could be in for big changes.

24-28 FOOD & DRINK

Los Meskales

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¡Celebremos la independencia!

Dough Baby offers a hip take on this classic fried confectionary.

30 SPORTS

Saturday, Sept. 10, Warner Park Duck Pond, 11 am-9:30 pm

AARON’S TAKE

Packers’ veteran quarterback talks about how players earn his trust and Jordy Nelson.

Come out to celebrate Madison’s Mexican community at the 12th annual independence festival, MEXICANFEST 2016.

With two stages, more than 20 performances, children’s activities and un montón of delicious food. Proceeds go to youth scholarships.

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SATIRICAL STANDUP

Trevor Noah’s apartheid childhood informs his comedy.

Bucky’s back

34 BOOKS

A SISTER’S JOURNEY

Saturday, Sept. 10, Camp Randall Stadium, 2:30 pm

Madison native’s novel The Sleeping World is set in 1970s Spain.

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COMEDY KIM BALTHAZAR HAS BEEN illustrating professionally for more than 15 years, and her work has appeared in dozens of publications. Now, in balancing freelance illustration, a day job, two kids and a slew of pets, illustrations that once began as traditional pencil drawings or paintings have morphed into manipulated digital collages that end as fully rendered digital art.

Badgers football returns to the friendly confines of Camp Randall after an upset victory in the team’s first game at Green Bay’s historic Lambeau Field. Can they capture their third nonconference victory over the mighty Akron Zips? At press time, some tickets were still available.

A free Badgerville pre-game tailgate on Engineering Mall begins at noon with music by Studebaker 7.

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TIME FOR CAKE

Frontman John McCrea tells it like it is.

38 SCREENS

FRESH TV

Five brand-new shows you won’t want to miss.

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A LITTLE OFF THE TOP

Atwood Barbershop’s Terry Moss knows that haircuts are about more than just hair.

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COVER STORY WHEN JAY RATH WAS A KID his parents used to take him to the Memorial Union Terrace, where, he recalls a bit wistfully, it was mostly grass, not concrete. He’s a UW alum, as are his parents. Much about the school fascinates him — he’s researched the red tile roofs that cover much of the western campus, and Arthur Peabody, the UW supervising architect who oversaw the design of many campus icons, including the Field House, Memorial Union and Carillon Tower.

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Bike the Art is a new free tour on wheels of city art spaces. The first edition begins at Central Library’s Bubbler space with a “food-focused art experience” and gradually proceeds to co-organizer Arts + Literature Laboratory for the opening of a new exhibit by Helen Hawley and Chele Isaac. Stops on the way include Drunk Lunch, Art In, Hatch Art House, Gallery Marzen, Cafe Zoma; late arrivers can find out where to join the tour at facebook.com/artlitlab.

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Au naturel

GoTopless Day participants fight for gender equality by enjoying drinks and food at Natt Spil.

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BY STEVEN POTTER

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As they slowly stroll along the path at B.B. Clarke Beach, a young woman tugs on her companion’s arm, pulling him closer. She clearly needs to tell him something important, discreetly.

“So, ummm, that lady is not wearing a shirt,” she says in a loud whisper.

“Where?” he asks while glancing around, the inflection in his voice showing a mix of interest and disbelief. “Oh. You’re right — she’s certainly not.”

Sure enough, Lili Luxe is topless as she saunters over to meet a group of men and women sitting on the grassy area above the east-side beach.

Otherwise dressed in black shorts and sunglasses, Luxe sits down, and another woman takes off her own shirt. Four more women show up, sit down and quickly do away with their shirts. No one talks about it. It’s as if all is normal on this hot afternoon.

And that’s the whole point.

It’s the last Sunday in August and the ninth annual International GoTopless Day — an event where women across the world free themselves of their shirts (and bras).

“In Madison, it’s legal for women to be topless — we’re not fighting for anything. But most of us don’t do it because society tells us our bodies are shameful or sexual,” says Luxe, 35, owner of Luxe

Productions, which promotes body equality by hosting private and public parties around town each weekend. “The idea of today is to normalize [being topless] for women. Free the nipple.”

This is Luxe’s third year organizing the “nipple equality” event, and because this is Wisconsin, it’s a pub crawl.

As people gather their things and head to the first bar, a woman who’s sunbathing nearby takes off her bikini top and continues reading a paperback book, seeming to not notice the topless women passing by.

Along the path toward downtown, Luxe directs the crowd for safety’s sake: “Ladies, let’s stay on the right side of the bike path — we’re already distracting enough.” A few fully clothed bikers and pedestrians pass the group, men and women alike taking some long glances but saying nothing. As the women cross the intersection at Williamson Street and John Nolen Drive, a few cars honk.

Kate de Felice, a 29-year-old mother, says she’s participating “to even the playing field. Men can do it. What’s the difference if I do it?”

Arriving at Natt Spil, the group joins another dozen topless men and women already at the bar. Some shout in support and exchange high-fives while others take selfies, and the two groups begin to mingle.

Some sit inside, others proudly dine outside.

One of the topless guys in the group, Brad Orego, 28, who has “Free the Nipple” painted on his chest and “Go Topless” sloppily written on his back, is there to show support. “I’m a feminist,” he says. “It’s total bullshit that only men have this right.”

On their way to the next stop, the group stops off to take a pic on the Capitol steps. Stunned by the spectacle, an older man asks no one in particular, “Am I dreaming?”

At the Shamrock Bar & Grille, the drinks keep flowing, and the topless group grows.

As the afternoon stretches into evening, a few of the topless women begin to gently compare each other’s bodies and discuss their tattoos and piercings.

In a couple of instances, creepy men ogle the women. At Shamrock, a drunken man is pulled aside by two men accompanying the group. The man eventually stumbles along and is gone.

“I can’t prevent it from happening, but I work to make sure people are held accountable for how they treat each other,” says Luxe.

Before heading to the Frequency to close out the night with a live rock show, Emilie Brandt, 22, proclaims the event a success. “It’s as normal as you make it,” she says. “I can’t wait to do it again.” n

Stops in GoTopless Pub Crawl: 4 Participants last two years: ABOUT 50 Age range of participants: 22-66 Topless selfies taken:

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Challenging behavior Superintendent remains committed to discipline code despite concerns

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BY KYLE STEELE

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As children return to school this fall, their conduct will be policed according to the Madison school district’s behavior education plan, now entering its third year. The discipline code has faced heavy scrutiny since its implementation.

In a winter 2015 survey of teachers, only 13 percent agreed that the plan’s “progressive” practices “have had a positive effect on student behavior.” Veteran teacher Stephanie Bush resigned that May from Jefferson Middle School, noting publically that the increase in disciplinary issues she was confronting, in combination with a lack of support, was causing her physical and emotional distress.

More broadly, a disproportionate suspension and expulsion rate for children of color — which the behavior plan hoped to resolve — has persisted.

But in recent interviews with Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham, board members, teachers and parents — almost 15 in all — it is clear that while discord about the plan remains, there are two meaningful points of consensus. One, that the plan’s key aim — to decrease suspensions and expulsions, especially the racial imbalance among them — remains a laudable priority.

And two, that the plan will need persistent effort, funding and community support in order to reach its potential and overcome its rocky start.

Suspensions in the district have dropped roughly 50 percent overall since the plan went into effect, but racial disparities endure, especially for black students. To address them, says Cheatham, educators will need to confront their “implicit bias[es]” regarding children of color head on. “We can work on the technical skills [of managing behavior, but] we cannot do that absent of working on our values and beliefs.”

To facilitate deeper conversations about race, poverty, and how they intersect, the district has contracted the National Equity Project, based in Oakland, California, to “build culture, conditions and competencies for excellence and equity” in Madison’s schools. For now, only administrators and other school leaders have participated, but Cheatham expects to widen the program in the coming months and years.

Cheatham is committed to the Equity Project because the behavior plan itself is built on a vision of equity, “a fundamental belief in every child’s capability.” The new discipline code marked a shift from the district’s more punitive “zero tolerance” approach, and is rooted in the simple logic that students cannot learn when they are not in school. According to the district, it is designed to help students learn positive behaviors, “repair harm when negative behavior occurs, and keep our students in classrooms.” It also encourages teachers to

As it stands, this year’s budget includes two more staff members for the team, bringing the total spent on the plan — through direct and indirect channels — to more than $3 million. But that is not enough, say Carusi and others. “We need two more staff members per school,” she says. Moffit herself, noting the plan’s ambitiousness, remains unsure about its funding. “It’s hard to quantify how much is enough. It’s a complete paradigm shift,” she says. “It’s a high priority for the district, and we continue to review it in a more regular way than any other policy.”

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learn about their students’ lives outside of school, and to try to identify and address the root causes of misbehavior, ideally in consultation with other staff members and the students’ loved ones.

Jeff Spitzer-Resnick, a local civil rights attorney who helped develop the plan, believes firmly in this approach. “When students act out,” he says, “there is probably something else going on. Maybe something at home. Maybe…[a] health problem. Maybe what the kid needs is better reading instruction.” Until these are resolved, Spitzer-Resnick adds, student misbehavior, to a degree, should be expected. “Keeping students in school is only step one.”

Most teachers embrace this holistic approach — indeed, many pride themselves in getting to know their students and their families. Nonetheless, they recognize that the plan, in order to work, requires extensive training on the nuances of “progressive” behavior, well-defined networks of support within schools, and a sizable increase in staff. For some, it falls short on all three.

Karen Vieth, a teacher at Sherman Middle School and a Madison Teachers Inc. board member, speaks to educators

throughout the district; she says the plan has not been implemented consistently.

“Some schools are relying on a dean of students, [yet] some don’t even have that position,” she says. “Some have [behavior education assistants], but they are paid as assistants, and...often asked to do what the dean of students used to do.

We are giving them lots of responsibility, even though they don’t always have a teacher’s license. They aren’t present at all of our training.”

Cris Carusi, a west-side PTO member and representative on the district’s Guiding Coalition for Equitable Behavior and Discipline, supports the plan, but has met parents with wildly different points of view. “Some parents I’ve spoken to say, ‘I haven’t noticed any negative changes,’ while others say, ‘We’re experiencing problems and we might consider moving if it doesn’t get better.’”

Some school board members agree that securing more funding is paramount. Board member Anna Moffit wrote an open letter in June calling for support for a $250,000 budget amendment to fortify the district’s Intensive Support Team, a small group with expertise in mental health and trauma-informed care that works with students who are having behavioral challenges.

In the meantime, though, teachers will need to work with what some see as the unintended consequences of the revised discipline code. “Unsafe behavior, disrespect toward staff members, cussing and inappropriate physical contact with other students has escalated and, at times, makes hallways or classrooms feel chaotic,” says Vieth.

Board president James Howard sees criticisms of a change this fundamental, in the early years of implementation, as natural. “You have to remember where we’re starting from,” he says. “Historically, we’ve just suspended and expelled students…[which] only serves the criminal justice system.

“And we have a few people complaining?” he adds. “Maybe that’s a good thing.”

With a gap between goals and resources in question, this could be an instance of an educational policy asking too much of the school system. Addressing student misbehavior might take a lot more than adding academic support; it could also mean helping students gain access to medical or dental care, secure clean clothes or food and navigate periods of homelessness or other family crises.

Under the plan, the school’s position within the social safety net broadens. “We are asking our schools to overcome poverty,” says Carusi. “We blame schools and teachers for entrenched social and economic problems.”

Despite the challenge, many remain steadfast, citing the behavior plan’s commitment to keeping students in school and on a path to success. Madison must ensure that every student “has the opportunity... to fulfill their goals, and to add their talents to the community,” says Andrew Waity, a fourth-grade teacher at Crestwood Elementary and president of MTI. “[We can’t be] ending a kid’s formal educational opportunities at any age. Children are our most treasured resources.”

Carusi concurs, saying she has “guarded optimism” about its future. “I believe getting the [plan] right is necessary for making public education equitable and successful in our community.” n

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Leaving the station Red Caboose move means child care will be scarce downtown

BY ALLISON GEYER

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Madison entrepreneur and former state representative Kelda Roys was a brand new mom in the early days of her business, OpenHomes Realty. The combination of launching a startup and raising a newborn was daunting, but Roys took comfort in knowing that her daughter would be in child care at Creative Learning Preschool, just a few blocks away from her downtown office.

“For someone who was working, it was essential for me to have her so close,” says Roys, who used to walk from her office on the Capitol Square to Creative Learning on South Butler Street to nurse her daughter during her first year. “It helped me transition back to work.”

For the scores of parents working in downtown offices and government buildings, there have been two strong options for child care near the Capitol Square: Creative Learning, and Red Caboose Day Care Center. Both are highly rated, accredited and have been around for decades. But in about a year, Red Caboose will move to a new location on the east side of Madison. The new building, which will be part of the Union Corners development, will allow Red Caboose to expand and serve more families, Executive Director Lisa Fiala says.

Creative Learning has also considered moving from downtown, causing concern about the few options for working parents who want to be close to their child.

“When you look at the development boom that’s been happening downtown in the last 15 years, rent has become more expensive and it’s difficult for all nonprofits — and particularly nonprofits like daycares,

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who are operating on very thin margins,” Roys says. “For public employees, state workers, county workers and university employees, there are really very limited options for child care downtown.”

Fiala sees the move for Red Caboose as a positive one. The daycare has about 100 children on a waiting list and space for only 65 children per day in its current

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facility. Red Caboose leadership has talked about renovating the current building, or even demolishing it and building new in the same location, but “it’s just not affordable for a small nonprofit,” she says.

“We love this neighborhood, we love this site, but we’ve been looking [at options] for over three years,” she says.

“We’re very happy that Union Corners is an opportunity for us to expand.”

Before deciding on the move, Red Caboose surveyed staff, families and alumni for input on how the shift away from the immediate downtown area would affect service. They didn’t want to go too far away from the city center, but the majority of those surveyed “felt that Union Corners is not too far away,” Fiala says.

The new Red Caboose will be across the street from the UW Health clinic.

The expanded facility will allow for two more classrooms, bringing its capacity to almost 100 children. Its current staff of 30 to 35 will increase by about 15.

Red Caboose is still working on its offer to purchase the property and is soliciting donations to offset the cost. Crews will break ground in fall 2017 or spring 2018. The current building on Williamson Street is not officially on the market yet, but Fiala says “people know it’s available” and interest in the property is high. The income from the sale of the

property will help fund the expansion.

“By staying [downtown], we wouldn’t have that additional amount of income,” Fiala says.

Meanwhile, Creative Learning is tackling the problem of rising costs downtown by raising money to buy its building from the current landlord.

So far, it’s raised $325,000 and needs $50,000 more to reach its goal.

Mary Flanner, who has been executive director of Creative Learning for 21 years, has seen the impact of rising costs — everything from increases in rent to the price of milk — and has weathered budgetary changes when Gov. Scott Walker ended the state’s child care subsidy five years ago.

When Creative Learning looked to move a few years ago, there was nothing affordable nearby and renovation was too costly. But a solution came when the owner of the building started talking about selling.

“We knew that if we didn’t buy it, nobody else would be able to afford to buy it and provide child care,” she says.

“It’s very exciting; we’re feeling very good about it,” Flanner says. “It’s just an amazing accomplishment for everybody, most of all the kids and the parents. Now, [Creative Learning] will go on indefinitely instead of being forced out.” n

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PTAs doing fundraising for the schools,” says Barry. “I’m not aware of any specific action taken by any outside group to upgrade the fundraising efforts directly in relation to the school budget for this upcoming year.”

Cuts in funding may have a larger impact on smaller, alternative schools, like Shabazz. “It feels like that might be true, but I imagine the other high school principals might have a different opinion,” says Shabazz principal Aric Soderbloom.

The budget cuts hinder Shabazz’s ability to have the out-of-school experiences that are central to its approach.

“We pride ourselves on providing an authentic educational experience at Shabazz and this often means leaving the confines of the school,” Soderbloom says.

“This type of learning can cost more than a traditional approach based in the classroom, but we feel it is worth both the effort and the expense.”

With a smaller formula budget, Soderbloom won’t be able to provide substitutes for his teachers, meaning fewer field trips.

“There’s a connection between what’s happening on the state level and how that impacts a small, alternative school that’s trying to be innovative,” says Soderbloom. “You look at the history of the cuts Madison has endured over the last 10 years and there’s an impact. It makes it harder for us to do our jobs and provide a quality education.”

In hopes to improve funding for future budgets, the school board voted unanimously to place a November referendum on the ballot that, if approved, would allow the district to exceed state-imposed revenue limits.

“If it’s successful it simply changes the parameters for the next budget so hopefully we won’t be making this many difficult and distracting budget cuts,” says Barry. “The referendum scheduled for November is about the future. It’s about getting ourselves ready for the next state budget.” ■

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Jennifer Chadli, who has a daughter enrolled at Shabazz High School and another who just graduated from there, has been upset to watch the school’s budget shrink in recent years.

Shabazz, an alternative school that emphasizes hands-on, experiential learning, is the smallest of Madison’s five high schools, with fewer than 150 students.

“Shabazz is such a great opportunity for so many kids who are looking for something different than the traditional high school,” says Chadli. “Because Shabazz is a smaller school, we’re not able to have the PTAs and PTOs, but there is a group of parents that are really interested in doing whatever we can to fill in the gaps.”

When Chadli saw a fundraising appeal for the school on Facebook, she began calling other parents, trying to rally their support.

The Facebook plea reads: “Please consider sending Shabazz $10… As a result of reductions at the state level, the Madison school district made cuts to individual school’s formula budgets (the budgets used to fund subs, supplies, and other operating costs). At Shabazz, our formula budget was reduced by $20,000, over 1/3 of our formula budget. As a result, our ability to support our usual activities, like getting students out of the building on field trips and improving our facility, will be limited.”

Of course, Shabazz isn’t the only school feeling the strain of budget cuts. At the beginning of the budget process, the district was slated to lose 66 full-time positions, forcing the school board to get creative in making cuts, explains Mike Barry, assistant superintendent for business services for Madison schools.

The board reduced by $750,000 money for “supply-type accounts” across all 50 schools. “What you’re seeing at Shabazz is their proportional impact due to that budget measure,” Barry says.

Whether more traditional high schools are making similar funding pleas like Shabazz is unclear. “We always have PTOs and

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■ MADISON MATRIX

■ WEEK IN REVIEW BIG CITY

Former U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl’s charitable group, Herb Kohl Philanthropies, funds every single request from Wisconsin teachers on the educational crowdfunding website DonorsChoose.com.

Mayor Paul Soglin unveils next year’s capital budget. The $329.7 million spending plan has the highest spending and the most authorized borrowing in city history.

PREDICTABLE

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 31 ■ Hillary Clinton’s postconvention surge appears to be waning — at least in Wisconsin. The Marquette Law School Poll shows the Democratic presidential nominee leading GOP challenger Donald Trump 42 percent to 37 percent among registered voters;three weeks ago Clinton had a 10-point lead.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 2 ■ A 35-year-old Sun Prairie

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State Sen. Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) thinks a new diversity outreach program at UW-Madison is “sinister.” Because apparently improving the experiences of minority students counts as “liberal indoctrination.”

man dies from an arm laceration caused by a glass table that was broken in a domestic dispute.

Police are still investigating the incident but are not calling it a homicide.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 6 ■ Madison officials announce a new initiative, called “Connecting Madison,” which will offer low-cost broadband and provide refurbished computers to four lowincome neighborhoods.

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The UW-Madison, with NASA, is looking at how to make us cavemen again.

On the moon. Large, natural, underground shelters may be able to host long-term stays by astronauts, and even anchor permanent bases, if we can find them. Life on the moon is difficult to imagine otherwise — it remains a dark and dangerous place.

“The surface of the moon is very inhospitable,” says Andreas Velten, group leader of the computational optics group at the UW’s laboratory for optical and computational instrumentation.

Much of the lunar surface is made of basalt, rendering it black. Only the thin atmosphere and reflection of the sun’s harsh illumination render it gray. The sun drives one other change, too: temperatures can swing from minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit at night to 240 during the day.

“It would be very hard to have a spacecraft or a space station up there for a very long time,” says Velten. “Humans could not survive on the moon for a significant amount of time without very extensive shielding.”

Caves could shield humans, but findHoles like these on the surface of the moon could be openings to larger caves that might one day contain human bases. ing and exploring them has been out of the question. Until now.

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“There is talk about Mars, for example,” Many lava tubes have been discovered. takes the radio waves to return can be used to PERISCOPE is in the design phase, with says Velten. “We’re focusing on the moon, These are long, empty passages through calculate distance and basic shapes. several students pitching in. we’re designing for the moon. Mars is a which volcanic lava once flowed. On Earth, PERISCOPE will do something similar “If we find that this is something that can be little bit of a different challenge.” lava tubes have been found that are 50 feet with immensely strong lasers, flashing light done, and done on a reasonable budget, then Mars has much more reflective surface, wide and 30 miles long. into a tube’s opening. The light will reflect off the next step will be to actually build a system but its atmosphere is denser, complicating “These caves are very interesting to the bottom of the cave, bounce around in- and try it out on Earth,” Velten says. “And even- satellite orbit.

NASA for many reasons, including human side the walls and reflect back to the satellite. tually design something that will be put on a “And the other thing that is actually kind exploration,” says Velten. Sometimes part of “From that...we can reconstruct an image of lunar satellite.” of interesting — on Mars we don’t know a lava tube’s “ceiling” gives way, opening it this tube,” says Velten.

“It’s a very exciting project,” he adds. “I whether there’s life in those caves,” says to the surface. “The problem right now is…

The energy pulse from the satellite will be think there’s a good chance that it might Velten. “There’s the possibility that there’s nobody can look in there.” only a few trillionths of a second long. The sat- happen.” something alive in there. And then the Velten and his team, with the help of ellite itself will have to fly comparatively low — Velten is wary of predicting a timeline, question is, would you harm them by sendNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, are de- just six miles above the surface — and because pointing to Congress’ changeable support ing these powerful laser beams in there? So veloping a way to explore those caves from of that will require an unstable orbit subject to of NASA. “I’d say three to five years may be that’s going to be another concern that we Earth. The project is called PERISCOPE. many course changes. Its life will likely range possible from an engineering standpoint,” he have to address.” ■

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What conflict of interest?

Attorney General Brad Schimel ignores problem with probes of police-involved deaths

BY BRUCE MURPHY Bruce Murphy is editor of UrbanMilwaukee.com

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Democratic Rep. Chris Taylor’s district includes much of Madison’s east side, which has not been immune to the plague of shootings by police officers that has galvanized the nation. “In my neighborhood there have been three officerinvolved shootings in the last four years,” Taylor notes. “All three people were killed, and none were armed.”

The killing of musician Paul Heenan by officer Stephen Heimsness in November 2012 occurred just a mile from Taylor’s home, and the subsequent investigation by the Madison Police Department included officers who had a relationship with Heimsness. “One was a good friend,” Taylor notes. “I was just stunned by the process of that investigation.”

Taylor began looking into model legislation to prevent such conflicts, and worked with Rep. Garey Bies (R-Sister Bay) to write a law enacted in April 2014 that requires an outside investigation of any police-involved deaths. In a Legislature riven by partisan conflict, the bill passed unanimously.

Not long after its passage, the state Department of Justice and Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen conducted an investigation under the new law of Milwaukee police officer Christopher Manney: He had killed Dontre Hamilton, a man with a history of mental illness, shooting him 14 times. Retired Milwaukee police were used to conduct the investigation, and, as in the case of Heenan, their findings helped convince the local district attorney there wasn’t enough evidence to charge the officer.

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public suspicious: “I would’ve thought that whoever made those assignments maybe would’ve considered those issues and... made a better decision and put a different investigator on.”

Many in Milwaukee have never accepted the decision not to charge Manney, and there have been periodic protests since then.

Van Hollen was succeeded by his fellow Republican Brad Schimel, who is using the same approach to investigate the killing of Sylville Smith in Milwaukee by officer Dominique Heaggan.

This is the killing that ignited a near riot in Milwaukee, with two days of violent reactions, and a subsequent orgy of national media coverage. Smith was African American (as is Heaggan), and the incident fit into the pattern of blacks being killed under hotly contested circumstances in urban areas across America.

This is a delicate, highly charged issue, and surely every effort should be made to assure Milwaukee’s black community that justice is being done.

Schimel, however, seems tone deaf to the situation. For starters, he has been a

frequent recipient of campaign donations from the Milwaukee police union, including five donations of $500 between May 2014 and October 2015, as the Wisconsin Justice Initiative has reported, but has declined to return the money as this group has demanded.

And in response to questions about his investigation using retired Milwaukee police officers, his answer has been that if any of them knows Heaggan, they will not be used.

But as Taylor notes, this creates “the appearance of bias” which can result in a “lack of confidence for the public” over any decision reached. Taylor released a statement saying that “allowing former Milwaukee police officers to investigate their former department circumvents the true intention” of the law she helped pass requiring outside investigations. “I have had several meetings with the DOJ to urge them to adopt conflict-of-interest policies to prevent this situation. They have refused to do so.”

The reaction from Schimel’s office was astonishing. His spokesperson Johnny Koremenos launched an ad hominem

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attack: “It should come as no surprise to anybody familiar with Rep. Taylor’s background — an attorney with no experience in the courtroom...and zero experience in any law enforcement capacity — would come up with this meritless idea. To imply that deeply experienced DCI agents are unable to carry out a thorough and thoughtful investigation...in the search for truth is insulting to all those who wear a badge.... One can only deduce that...Rep. Taylor intends to sow doubt in the public’s mind that law enforcement officers in this state lack the integrity and character our citizens have come to expect.”

Actually, what Taylor was suggesting was exactly what her Republican co-sponsor and former deputy sheriff Bies had said about the Dontre Hamilton investigation. It was in keeping with the spirit of a law passed unanimously, and that Gov. Scott Walker has bragged about signing, while emphasizing the need for independent investigations.

Taylor introduced a bill last session that would prohibit officers from investigating police departments where they used to work. Schimel opposes this. And he clearly intends to conduct an investigation of the Smith shooting that could end up looking tainted to many in Milwaukee. All that’s left is to hope his arrogance doesn’t inflame an already emotionally charged situation. n

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Chew on this I was disturbed by the comments from a lawyer and a rabbi in the article about the Jesus lunches (Sandwich, Chips and Jesus,” 9/1/2016). It is disappointing to see learned people have so little understanding of the Constitution and the First Amendment. The rabbi questions what would happen if Muslims chose to exercise their First Amendment rights in the park. What should happen is that they should be celebrated for exercising their rights. The fact that the Jesus Lunch people are practicing the majority religion in no way diminishes their right to practice their religion. I have met the main organizer of the lunches and her family. They are wonderful people who project positive energy and love in their interactions with others. We would do well to have more people like them interacting with students on a regular basis.

Joel Winnig, Madison This issue was addressed last year in a very good article by George Zen in the Middleton Review pointing out that the land is actually owned by the fire company and leased to the city, which in turn leased it to the school district. Either way it is a public park and subject to the rules of being a public park.

The fact that it is next to the school is just a coincidence. Viewing the lunch last year (have not seen one there this year) students are not approached by others to participate.

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I am no fan of evangelism. I’m radically agnostic. I hold a small place for the possibility of divinity because the universe is queerer than we can imagine, but all the evidence implies that the religious impulse is a vestige delusion from our Paleolithic evolution. But our first right guarantees freedom of expression. This is either always true or never true. People should be allowed to make their case, however crackpot. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hindu, Scientology, whatever — none of it’s real; it’s all just Santa Claus for grownups. But everyone has a right to their beliefs.

Society has the duty to teach and train its citizens to think critically for themselves and make up their own minds based on the merits of ideas and arguments presented to them.

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The concept for west campus promotes stormwater management and green infrastructure.

CAMPUS OF THE FUTURE What plans are on the table for UW-Madison?

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GARY BROWN REMEMBERS 2005, the last time UW-Madison updated the master plan

In 1997 the late Peter Drucker, an influential economist and futurist, alarmed academia when, in an interview with Forbes magazine, he predicted that in 30 years universities would be “relics...[and] won’t survive.”

Now that the university is once again doing a master plan, it’s worth asking: Will we even need a campus in 50 years? In 20 years? In 10?

For example, the current UW draft plan recommends adding 2,000 visitor parking spaces over the next 20 to 30 years. But the pace of technology is such that Brown is reluctant to consider building new parking garages.

“In 20 years, is a car going to pick you up at your house, drop you off at campus and go pick up somebody else?” he wonders. “Do we need a parking garage? So we have to be careful about how much parking we should be building. We don’t want to build a bunch of ramps that sit empty.”

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for its 936-acre campus.

Then, recalls Brown, director of campus planning and landscape architecture, the questions were about whether the university was going to run out of land. “Are we even going to be able to develop anymore?” Brown remembers wondering. “Are we going to have to think about a satellite campus? Because a lot of universities around the country are having to do that.”

A lot has happened in 11 years, including state budget cutbacks and a recession. And something else has happened: the rise of “distance learning.” Thanks to the internet, it’s possible to earn a UW-Madison degree in select programs without visiting the campus, or visiting just a few times.

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More than that may sit empty in 20 years.

Rooms for performing arts and labs will always be needed, but lecture halls? Offices?

In the future, a college or university may increasingly serve as an online nexus, matching students with instructors around the world.

“All of a sudden the students aren’t there.

The faculty members aren’t there,” notes campus planning expert and futurist Michael Haggans, visiting professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for 21st Century Universities. “But the institution is there.”

The school will perhaps serve as a name brand or imprimatur, guaranteeing a certain level of credibility and quality.

But this does not mean the UW-Madison campus is destined to become obsolete — or that it will cease to grow and change. In fact, Brown and his co-workers are cooking up a unique, futuristic vision for how the campus might look in a few decades.

Steven Cramer, UW-Madison vice provost for teaching and learning, says that the campus is on the precipice of a transformation.

“How we provide learning experiences and how we document and credential that learning will undoubtedly look much different in 20 to 50 years,” Cramer says. “We are in the early stages of very significant change.”

IMAGINE A PARK perched above the UW-Madison campus, allowing students to stroll through gardens and greenery, with tables chairs and food service. Imagine a

better-defined campus, with clearly defined campus entrances, with Henry Mall extending to the Camp Randall Memorial Park, a new quadrangle south of Dayton Street, and a twoway bike lane on University Avenue, protected by plants and trees.

Imagine a campus with a much-reduced carbon footprint, which actually cleans city stormwater as it drains to the lakes; wetlands instead of parking lots, and a goal of zero waste by the year 2025.

These are some of the ideas that Brown and his colleagues envision for UW-Madison as they work on the campus master plan.

UW updates its campus master plan each decade. The 2015 Master Plan, despite its name, is not complete. The process typically takes two years; a draft will be presented for public comment Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. in Varsity Hall at Union South.

Master plan updates take a broad view.

Specifics come later, with building designs and budgets.

“We do it because it’s important to continue planning for the future so we can direct and guide development, rather than being reactionary,” says Brown. State statutes also require the university, as a state agency, to develop longrange facility plans to support budget requests.

“Our first ‘campus master plan’ was developed in January 1850 by John Rague, an architect from Milwaukee, who envisioned a main edifice on a hill with four flanking dorms in a typical collegiate quadrangle on what would become Bascom Hill,” Brown says.

The 2015 plan assumes no increase in the enrollment of around 42,000.

Its goals revolve around making the current campus more modern and efficient. The current campus boundaries are expected to stay about the same, but its aging infrastructure needs to modernized to equip the university’s classrooms and laboratories for the 21st century. There’s a desire to expand renewable energy and work toward becoming a zero waste facility.

Reducing the number of cars with only one occupant and promoting alternate forms of transportation remain high priorities.

Few people would probably dispute these as admirable goals. But with technology upending the traditional model of higher education, will we even need this new and improved campus?

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to radical change that we can’t perceive it. “It’s that wonderful quote from [William] Gibson, the sci-fi writer,” observes Haggans, who currently serves as a visiting scholar to the University of Minnesota’s College of Design.

“He said, ‘The future is already with us — It’s just not very evenly distributed.’ I think that, yes, that [academic] transformation is already underway.”

But at the same time, he says, “the issues of digital transformation are only seen through a thicket of other issues.” Haggans points to a variety of factors affecting the

Futurist and campus planning expert Michael Haggans says distance learning means students won’t have to be present to learn. “But the institution is there.”

UW and other schools: changing demographics in the upper Midwest, decreasing enrollments, the decline of state support and resulting tuition increases. “And what that leads to is a challenge to the normal model of growth for a lot of institutions.”

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1930s through the 1950s, the university’s station WHA broadcast full curricula across the state, meant for radios placed in rural grade school classrooms. Even art lessons were taught. (When the program crossed over to the new technology of television in the 1950s, instructors were surprised to find that radio art students were more inclined to use their imagination, while TV students were prone to copying.)

But distance learning never posed a threat to a conventional college or university campus until the rise of the internet. The situation is similar to that of newspapers in the early internet age, when they started to share their content online, for free. “Gee, what could go wrong?” jokes Haggans.

About 25 percent of this summer’s UW undergraduate courses were offered online.

“This allows students who are on campus during the academic year to take a course or two while living at home and working part time during the summer term,” says Cramer.

This helps accelerate students’ progress toward a degree and saves them money, he

says. During the fall and spring semesters, online courses are targeted to students who may be studying abroad or working part time in an internship. Such offerings remain a small percentage, but the number is growing.

“UW-Madison’s strongest 100 percent online presence is in professional programs such as nursing and master’s degree programs,” says vice provost Cramer. Even for students who are physically present, “you see a significant campus shift toward use of online tools to increasingly deliver course content.”

Cramer is loath to project the impact of future technological advances, saying only: “We know they will be profound, and our world will be much different.”

BROWN’S THINKING about college campuses was shaped early on by UW-Madison. “I grew up just north of Madison. I thought every campus had a lake until I started traveling around,” says Brown.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture at UW-Madison. He believes

that half of what you learn in college is outside the classroom.

Accordingly, the master plan update includes a priority that perhaps sounds odd: enhance the campus’ “sense of place.” The 2015 plan will include the university’s first ever open space and landscape master plan — what Brown likes to call “the space between buildings.” It’s something that distance learning cannot compete with.

“Here in Madison it really is all about the lake,” Brown says. Everything on the physical campus comes back to that — or should, he believes, citing the Memorial Union Terrace as an example.

“Anywhere that I’ve been, you don’t have that kind of space where the faculty, students and community come together and share their lives on a very regular basis,” he says. “So what we’re trying to do from a design perspective is carry that theme, or that idea of the lake, into the campus.”

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The core question, Haggans says, is, “How do you think about the kinds of physical implications for the campus in the future that are a function of the changes in technology — the same kinds of changes in technology that have affected the travel business and journalism and retail and other industries?”

Distance learning is a phrase that covers a lot of territory. It includes terms such as online learning, e-learning, distributed learning and massive online courses (MOOCs). It boils down to students who learn without being physically present in classrooms.

Distance learning is not new to UW. That’s the meaning of the Wisconsin Idea, formulated in 1904: “The boundaries of the campus are the boundaries of the state.” Knowledge is to be shared widely, with the public. During the Progressive Era, the Wisconsin Idea first took the form of agricultural bulletins with the latest research benefiting farmers, mailed to newspapers across Wisconsin.

Long before the internet, the UW embraced distance learning with radio. From the

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A great part of that will be the UW’s first comprehensive stormwater management plan, included in the draft master plan. Runoff from as far away as the Nakoma Golf Club drains through campus, via Willow Creek. New campus wetlands, rain gardens and research areas will be introduced in many areas, notably replacing a large parking lot near the lakeshore dorms.

“The idea is to try and capture the stormwater, slow it down before it gets to the lake, clean it up, cool it off, let it infiltrate where it can,” says Brown. Water treatment will be in plain sight. “People are very interested in that. And we want them to be interested, for our researchers to do more and for our students to learn about it.”

Haggans is impressed. “As I see other campus planning efforts across the country, I believe the folks at the UW are taking the right steps,” he says. “They’re in effect reducing the carbon footprint of the institution.”

THE MASTER PLAN reaches beyond that, though, into aesthetics. A major priority will be creating what are called, in architectural parlance, “viewsheds.” The plan aims to emphasize and create vantage points and views — such as looking out over Lake Mendota from Observatory Hill, or to downtown Madison from the top of Bascom Hill.

“It’s important to us to be able to look back and see that lake, and know that we’re part of this bigger system of this watershed and the Yahara lakes,” says Brown. “We know the Native Americans — that’s why they were here — that’s why they put their effigy mounds on the tops of hills, because there was this connection of land and water and sky and views.”

Will this be enough to keep the physical campus relevant?

“We now know — and there’s lots of research I can mention — if you can look out a window and see green or trees or landscapes, you’re actually more relaxed,” says Brown. “You learn better.

You’re not distracted. You’re actually increasing your cognitive abilities by being able to look out

and see something beautiful and amazing, like the lake, like trees, like open spaces.”

There’s something special about the physical character of the campus, he says, “and we want to take advantage of that in the master plan. And that’s back to the whole sense of place concept.”

It also involves play. “I always talk about why we need big fields outside of the residence halls,” says Brown. “We think about connections and adjacencies and the importance of how the campus lays out. I call it social engineering. It’s clearly that.”

Construction at the Memorial Union will be complete later this fall, reopening fully in November or December. With that finished, Library Mall can finally be cleared of construction equipment and trailers, then redesigned and reopened — after consultation with a neighbor.

“There’s going to be a lot of discussion with the [Wisconsin] Historical Society, because they like the original space that’s out there,” says Brown.

The new School of Music performance facility on the corner of Lake Street and University Avenue will break ground in October; the adjacent Extension building will eventually be demolished to accommodate the project’s third phase.

The music school’s current home, the Humanities Building on the corner of Park Street and University Avenue, is a 1969 example of brutalist architecture. It is still slated for demolition. In its place could perhaps go parking to serve the Memorial Union and Wisconsin Union Theater.

The towering Van Hise Hall will be demolished, returning much of Observatory Hill to green space. A dramatic walkway will follow the hill’s curve, crossing over and above Charter Street. “It’s an overhead land bridge, basically,” says Brown. This might even include tables and food service.

The historic dairy barn, home to the first silo in the United States, has been discussed as a museum for years. “Still an idea, still interesting,” says Brown. Interactive classrooms will be part of infill development behind the

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But just because these ideas are in the plan doesn’t mean they’ll be done.

“It’s actually fairly likely we will do many of the things based on the Campus Master Plan — eventually,” says Brown. “In 2004, we had completed over 80 percent of the recommendations from the 1995 Campus Master Plan. In 2014, we had completed 35 percent of the recommendations from the 2005 Campus Master Plan.”

FOR BROWN, the process of thinking about the future UW campus spurs existential thoughts about higher education in general.

“Why is it important to have a physical campus, as opposed to me sitting in my bedroom in some distant place, in my shorts or pajamas, and learning that way?” Brown wonders. “That’s okay, and that’s another option, but we know that people learn faster and better if they’re interacting with people face-toface in a classroom.”

Although distance learning is likely to continue growing, Haggans says it doesn’t have to be viewed as competition with traditional educational methods.

“The short version for me is that I view it as both/and, rather than either/or,” he says. “The traditional campus will continue to exist for a long time into the future because it has some distinct values.”

Cramer agrees. “Most certainly a physical campus will be relevant for the foreseeable future,” he says. “UW-Madison is a research university, and as such, laboratories, studios and other facilities are necessary for the research and creative endeavors here.

“At the same time, learners at all levels are attracted to those great minds and those same facilities where they can practice their learning — they want to rub shoulders and be a part of that discovery, creativity and learning,” he adds. “And Madison is a pretty nice place to do so.” ■

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On Dayton Street near the Kohl Center is the massive Southeast Recreational Facility, or “SERF,” the only workout facility besides the Natatorium, behind the agricultural campus. It is a sad fact that the SERF has no air conditioning. Already under design, a rebuilt SERF will have a competition pool with spectator seating, all-new recreational and wellness facilities, new gyms and running tracks. The Natatorium will receive a major upgrade.

Behind the Social Sciences Building, on Observatory Drive, a stepped walkway will relieve erosion and offer better access to the lakeshore path below.

The former artist-in-residence building between Babcock Hall and the Stock Pavilion is still scheduled for demolition, to allow Babcock expansion.

Over 20 to 30 years, 2,000 visitor parking places may be added. In face of changing transportation modes, this would be done “slowly,” Brown says, as people understand how transportation trends settle out.

In the distant future, there could perhaps be a new parking ramp at the intersection of Spring, Randall and Monroe streets, a block from Union South. But again, Brown says, “maybe we won’t even need that ramp.” The nearby Field House deserves an upgrade, but just how that will happen is still being discussed. Its huge windows offer many possibilities.

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think the way they do. How people manage to completely throw logic aside and commit themselves to a view that they have.”

The host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show brings his international comedy tour to the Orpheum on Sept. 10. He grew up in South Africa — where his biracial family was illegal under the apartheid government. He developed his comedy chops performing in several of South Africa’s 11 official languages. After conquering the scene on his home continent, the 32-year-old is well on his well to establishing a global fan base.

During his long reign at the late-night satire show, Jon Stewart’s outrage at realpolitik was evident (and a reliable source of hilarity). Now that Noah helms the news desk, he says the

show’s approach has shifted: “I’m a lot more conversational in the way I approach a topic.”

Noah says Stewart had become frustrated after 16 years of seeing things get worse. “[Stewart] said to me, ‘You’re not angry, and you should enjoy that. Rather, let your true emotions guide you as you’re commenting on what’s happening. Because if you come at it artificially and try to occupy a space of anger, where do you evolve from there?’”

The Daily Show was on a brief hiatus while Noah toured overseas. New episodes started this week, but nearly every weekend up until Election Day Noah will be doing comedy around the country.

“This is where I was plucked from,” says Noah on doing standup. “It keeps me connected

with my art form. And it keeps me connected to the conversation I’m trying to have with people out there.”

He isn’t telling jokes about the African National Congress or South African President Jacob Zuma much anymore. But Noah says the humor he finds in politics transcends borders and culture.

“Comedy is comedy wherever you go,” says Noah. “It’s like watching another TV show. You just have to figure out who the characters are. A lot of the time, the themes they are playing with are exactly the same everywhere.” ■ Hear Dylan Brogan’s interview with Trevor Noah at Isthmus.com.

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Police brutality. Terrorism. Ebola. Trevor Noah’s standup is cheerful, almost blithe, considering the comedic territory he often frequents. In his latest special, Lost in Translation, Noah recounts several police shootings of unarmed black men as lessons on how to avoid getting shot himself: Don’t wear a hoodie; don’t approach police; don’t run away from police; don’t be a big black guy. Noah hones in on the absurdity of these tragedies. The result is commentary that’s biting as well as telling.

“Even in my saddest moments, I use comedy. That’s the tool I use to process information,” Noah told Isthmus while on tour in Australia. “I’m curious about why people

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The most puzzling aspect of Dough Baby, the new doughnut-centric bakery from former L’Etoile pastry chef Kristine Miller, may be its location. Once upon a time, State Street was the de facto place for quirky little storefronts. Do not count me among the number who bemoan what State Street has become, but there’s no question it has changed. Today, Dough Baby seems like a better fit for the much more hip Johnson Street.

But then I think back to my younger days, when I was an occasional visitor to Madison.

Back when there was a flourishing bakery operation on State Street by the name of Ovens of Brittany, at one time staffed by L’Etoile founder Odessa Piper. (Kristine Miller’s husband is Tory Miller, current owner and chef at L’Etoile.) I think about how my family stopped at Ovens during visits, and I start to get a better handle on the Dough Baby storefront.

It’s not just the historical baking angle that makes Dough Baby a very Madison shop, or the local restaurant bona fides of its owner. Take one step through the doorway in its narrow storefront, and you see the tidy, spartan decor, the purposefully stocked bakery case — no heaving trays jam-packed full of angle-parked doughnuts sticking to each other. You see the slightly winking inclusion of organic juice boxes on the menu. This is Generation X-aged parents’ and millennial twentysomethings’ Madison.

I’m not a parent, but I am a Gen X-er, and one who sets his interstate travels by the nearest doughnut shops. Will Dough Baby be Madison’s Glazed and Infused?

Its Strange? Its Voodoo Doughnuts? These shops (from Chicago, St. Louis and Portland, respectively) have a penchant for wild novelty and frequent recreational drug inhumor. That is not the Dough Baby way.

Dough Baby is more like Chicago’s Doughnut Vault, Minneapolis’ Bogart’s Doughnut Co. or St. Louis’ Vincent Van Doughnut. There is classic technique at

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work, with some flourishes that rely more on expected culinary combinations than pure goofball delirium.

Even so, the success of the doughnuts varies.

The vibrant pink icing on the peanut butter and jelly doughnut (yeast, filled) draws you in. Then, rather than filling the interior with raspberry jelly,

Dough Baby deploys a light but flavorful peanut butter creme. The fruit flavor is all on top, with a sprinkling of peanuts. The tart cherry almond (yeast, ring) performs similarly, with pleasantly tart icing but without the gooey filling.

The Cinnamon Toast Crunch (yeast, filled) has good cinnamon flavor in the icing, and the

bits of cereal on top are always welcome, but there’s a kiddie pool’s volume of bland cinnamon cream inside. And pulverized chocolate cookies are too powdery to deliver any recognizable cookie flavor on the cookies and cream (yeast, ring).

However coconut cream pie (yeast, filled) will get you right with the world. It’s the perfect application of Dough Baby’s all-coconut-oil frying medium, subtly amplifying the layers of coconut from shaved topping to thin veneer of icing to the creme filling. Dough Baby’s creme technique is rustic, not perfectly smooth like industrial Bavarian cream, but instead slightly lumpy.

The lack of greasiness from the coconut oil deserves mention. A baggie of doughnut holes (the actual dough babies of the name) never betrays its contents’ fried nature.

Many ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, eggs) are organic, and fruit is local and organic.

Apart from doughnuts, how about a bourbon pecan pie bar with rich eggy custard?

A caramel brownie that resists the trend of salting every caramel everywhere, and also straddles the line to please devotees of both fudge and cake brownies? These narrow, rectangular bars are handy for grab-and-go eating.

Equally delicious items in the Dough Baby case are a couple of junk food standards. The oatmeal cookie sandwich has raisins, okay, fine, but the cream cheese frosting between two superbly sweet, buttery oatmeal cookies is rich and just ample enough.

And what I will go back to Dough Baby for, time and time again, are the pop-tarts. Except they’re really not pop-tarts. I’d never toast one.

I’d never forget about one in a lunch bag. I’d never let so much as a crumb of these beauties fall to the floor under my desk at work.

Whether the filling of these little hand pies is Door County cherry, apricot and honey or some other fresh fruit, they’re winners.

They’re definitely trendy, but Dough Baby makes them more than just a perfunctory ironic reference. They’re just good. n

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This black-tie gala (theme: the Roaring ’20s) benefits the Madison Children’s Museum. Dan Fox and Heritage catering will serve Prohibition-era cocktails and cuisine from the Jazz Age. At 100 N. Hamilton St., 7 pm.

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Sample the results of a collaborative plantbreeding program that’s been adapting fruits and vegetables for organic farms in Wisconsin with small plates from local chefs (including Tory Miller and Daniel Bonanno). Ken Greene of Hudson Valley Seed Library will lead a discussion on crop varieties, culture and art. At UW Dejope Residence Hall, 640 Elm Drive, 6:30-9 pm. Tickets ($35/ advance, $40/day of) at tinyurl.com/farmtoflavor.

Taste the smoothest Speyside Scotch whiskies the highlands have to offer, including 12-year Glenlivet and Glenfarclas, 15-year Glenfiddich and more; six for $19. At the Malt House, 2609 E. Washington Ave., 5:30-8 pm.

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Candy-flavored cocktails Sweet vodka concoctions at the Harmony Bar I tend to prefer sweeter drinks, something friends never fail to take notice of. It probably seems notable due to gender norms — women like sweet drinks; men don’t. But give me a drink that’s sweet and vodka-based. At the Harmony Bar and Grill, a mainstay of Madison’s Schenk-Atwood neighborhood, owner Brad Czachor has recently created a selection of candy-flavored spirits by infusing bottles of Tito’s vodka with Jolly Ranchers. The bartender presented me with four flavor options: blueberry, raspberry, strawberry-watermelon and green apple.

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Local chocolate maker Infusion Chocolates has outgrown its kitchen at Hilldale Mall and is making plans to expand on Monroe Street next year. Pending approval from the city, Infusion will take over the storefront at 2503 Monroe St., once home to Zander’s Interiors, which is now next door at 2501 Monroe St. Owner Ann Culligan says she hasn’t decided on whether to keep a retail presence at Hilldale. She will be selling handmade chocolates at the Monroe Street location and is hoping to have an outdoor seating area, too. Infusion started in Madison in 2008. It makes 40 different kinds of truffles, a line of chocolate bars and other confections.

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Pasqual’s original location in the 2500 block of Monroe Street was one of the first TexMex restaurants in town.

And Coffee Gallerie, 1865 Northport Drive, served its last cup of joe on Aug. 31.

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An easy-drinking beer Sandstone from Rockhound Brewery Rockhound Brewery opened its doors last April but didn’t fire up its in-house brewery until a few weeks ago. Brewmaster Nate Warnke’s first core beer, Sandstone blonde ale, just went on tap.

Sandstone falls generally into a broad class of blonde ales. It’s probably closest to Belgian Blonde style because it’s made with a Belgian yeast, which lends a little earthy spiciness and hints of fruity sweetness to the aroma and flavor. Blonde ales are usually not hoppy. They are clean and balanced, with medium to light body. They commonly finish around 4-6 percent ABV. Sandstone has potential to be become part of the brewpub’s core lineup. It fills the bill for a light-bodied beer with a range in

food pairing. It’s really just a straightforward golden ale made with pilsner and biscuit malt and hopped with Saaz. “I was looking at the lighter beer side of things and wanted to make something with a different take on their flavor,” says Warnke. The Belgian yeast differentiates the brew from golden ales you’ll find in local breweries with a bit of spicy-fruitiness (at least right now).

Sandstone is on the lighter side of blonde ales finishing between 4.5 and 5 percent ABV, with an estimated 25 IBUs (international bitterness units). It’s sold over the bar in pints for $5/glass and $12/growler (refill).

Sandstone turns out to be a nice light beer with a mild fruitiness that emerges even more as it slowly warms. That’s when it becomes

smoother and softer, and more inviting. I actually prefer this beer that way. This is an easy-drinking beer that’s clean and without lingering aftertaste.

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Shirley Smith likes to have lunch at the West Madison Senior Center, largely for the companionship. “I still cook at home,” says Smith, who lives at the Rosewood Villas senior apartments on the city’s west side. “But having somebody else cook once in a while helps.”

There are probably as many reasons for eating at a senior meal site as there are sites in Dane County — currently, 27.

“The feeling about these meals has always been, ‘I’m not old enough’ or ‘I’m not poor enough,’” says Angela Velasquez, Area Agency on Aging program specialist for Dane County. She’d like to banish the stigma. “It has nothing to do with being too young or having too much money. You can be wealthy and home alone and not eating a balanced meal with fruits and vegetables. You can have chewing problems from bad teeth or be on a medication that affects your appetite. There are multiple factors. We want people to age well and eat well.”

Smith is dining at Dane County’s newest meal site, at the Meadowood Community Center, 5740 Raymond Road. On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m., volunteers serve 15 to 30 seniors a well-balanced meal cooked

by Gaylord Catering.

Seniors 60 and over are asked to pay what they can, with a suggested $4 donation, but there is no requirement that they give anything. Today’s meal is hot shredded beef on a bun with a spinach salad, apple slices and a yogurt cup. The beef is ample, savory and a great example of comfort food.

The spinach is impressively fresh, although everyone has trouble ripping open the slippery plastic packets of Newman’s Own salad dressing.

The Meadowood site was launched last November with state grant money earmarked for revitalizing the senior dining program, says West Madison Senior Center executive director Katie Kluesner. Meadowood will be funded through the end of 2016, and Kluesner hopes the site proves popular enough for that to be renewed for 2017.

It’s one of four locations at which West Madison serves meals, the others being Temple Beth El (Monday), Lussier Community Education Center (Wednesday and Friday) and the center’s headquarters on Sawyer Terrace (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday).

“Many older people start relying on cereal and soup, because they’re easy,” says Kluesner. These meals are approved by a dietician and must provide one-third of the recommended daily nutrition for aging adults.

But health doesn’t come from nutrition alone, Kluesner notes: “It’s about socializing.

Getting out. Talking with people.”

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Goodman Community Center’s Felicia Williams (left) and Gayle Laszewski: Meals served with a side of companionship.

West Madison is only one unit in a patchwork quilt of nonprofits, churches and municipalities that the county contracts with to manage senior meals. (Transportation to the sites is also available.)

Mandi Miller, nutrition site manager for the city of Fitchburg, oversees a program that offers lunch Monday-Friday in the Fitchburg Senior Center. The crowd usually numbers 25 to 30 seniors, “more on the days when it’s ribs or baked chicken,” says Miller.

A recent lunch of shrimp salad had a robust shrimp-to-macaroni ratio and plenty of crisp celery — and was better than many area grocery store’s deli offerings. It came with a side of fresh sweet-and-sour cucumbers, canned sliced apricots, milk and a cup of ice cream.

Fitchburg’s food comes from Consolidated Food Services of Dane County (other kitchens that provide meals are Waunakee School District, Colonial Club in Sun Prairie and the Goodman Community Center). Seniors are not limited to the meal site closest to them; if they have transportation, they can pick any site where they like the menu on a given day.

In addition, Dane County launched an innovative program in 2013 called “My Meal My Way,” which brings the senior dining program into several restaurants. Cranberry Creek was the first site, followed by Fink’s in Mount Horeb and, in December 2015, the DeForest Family Restaurant. On Oct. 6, Ziggy’s BBQ Smoke House and Ice Cream Parlor in Oregon will become the fourth. The number of entrees that qualify for the program range from four to 10.

Here, too, payment is by donation.

“It’s wonderful to be able to go to a restaurant,” says Dane County Department of Human Services director Lynn Green. “Senior sites are neat, and there is a lot of good socialization, but being able to order off a menu, a lot of people like that.”

At the Goodman Community Center on Madison’s east side, lunch is cooked on site

by Felicia Williams, Monday through Friday.

“I just love cooking,” says Williams, who uses some of her own recipes and will sometimes bake a few pies to bring in, just for fun. “Everything is from scratch,” says Williams. She says her most popular dish is mac and cheese.

“Everything she makes is to die for,” says a diner passing through the serving area.

Goodman combines activities with its meals, and bingo on Wednesday means that meal is the most popular. Typically attendance ranges from 30 to 60 diners; Williams estimates based on day of the week, and always preps 10 extra meals (Goodman is one of three sites that does not require a day’s advance phone-in registration).

Gayle Laszewski, Goodman older adults program manager, says 10 percent of its users are homeless, unique among the county’s sites. Its crowd skewed more male than female, unlike West Madison and Fitchburg, and was the liveliest dining room — with a blues combo playing beforehand and several round tables occupied by groups of regulars deep in conversation.

Every lunch at Goodman starts with a fresh salad of mixed greens; a recent menu consisted of Williams’ black bean burritos, salsa, spicy corn (well, mildly spicy), and rice — all homemade.

Angela Velasquez from the Area Agency on Aging says that the county is “looking at the foods being as fresh as possible and as local as possible. But it also comes with a price tag, and there’s only so much money.”

The senior meals program is part of the federal Older Americans Act, and is funded through a combination of federal, state and county money, often topped off with funds from cities and towns, plus grants that the managing agencies apply for. “We couldn’t do this without everybody,” says Velasquez.

In Dane County, “one-third of the funding for the meal program is paid for by donations from the seniors themselves,” Velasquez says. “Wisconsin is one of the top states in the nation for seniors contributing. They give what they can, and those who can, give more — for those who can’t.”

Since Velasquez came on board in 2013, she has reduced food waste and is always looking for creative ways to get food to older adults. Ideas for the future include working with food carts and holding a lunch and movie event at an area movie theater.

“We’d love to partner with someone. If anyone has any great ideas to bring to the table, let us know.” n More info on the senior dining sites is online at aaa.dcdhs.com/pdf/nutrition_brochure_040615.pdf.

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BY MARK TAUSCHER

I recently sat down with Aaron Rodgers for an interview on ESPN Wisconsin for the Wilde & Tausch radio show. Heading into his ninth season as starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, Rodgers, 32, is now one of the older guys on the team. We discussed how long he sees himself playing and how the loss of Jordy Nelson affected the team last year. Here are excerpts of the interview, edited for length and clarity.

How has the locker room changed with you being one of the old guys in the room?

It is different. I think back to my rookie year and learning to play dominoes with Walt Williams. When there were breaks, we played cards or dominoes or chess one year. You’re always interacting with your teammates. Now, there’s a break, and everybody’s sitting in their locker looking at their phones. It’s just a different type of interaction, and you have to be a little more intentional about starting conversations with guys and getting to know them.

The fun part is when you can get away from here. It’s the road trips, you get to know your teammates a little more, everybody’s a little more engaged and off their phones. But you have to break down the initial barriers of them looking at you like you’re the older guy and this person they watched on TV and let them get to know you a little bit, and they start to open up slowly from there.

How do guys earn your trust?

It’s direct. It’s direct in the meeting room, in the walk-through and on the practice

believing your own success too much, that can be an inhibitor of that energy flow.

Because when it stops is when the focus goes on the individual instead of the team.

So if you’re thinking about energy flow in a locker room, if there’s any end points, any people being too individualistic or selfish, that blocks the flow of energy. And I think that year, we just didn’t have the same type of group that approached it a little bit more unselfishly.

field. I need to be able to trust a guy to throw him the ball. And I need to know he’s prepared. Because Mike [McCarthy] always said, and I believe it, the best players are the smartest players. And I am reminded of that when I go to a walk-through that involves a lot of young players.

In order to get on the field with the first unit, you have to be a guy who studies and is pretty rock-solid with the offense. There’s going to be physical mistakes, there’s going to be drops, there’s going to be errant passes. But the mental mistakes are the ones that we just can’t have.

Did the loss of Jordy last year surprise you on how much it affected the offense?

No, it didn’t surprise me. I mean, you’re taking nearly 100 catches, 1,500 yards and 10-plus touchdowns just about every year out of the offense. We have specific packages for him, [and] we just didn’t have a guy who could fill those packages. And it was a lot of playaction stuff — where we’re taking eight-man protection and taking shots down the field, and we didn’t have a guy who could take that spot.

Is it that simple that you didn’t have Jordy?

It’s an excuse, but it’s the truth. The truth is we lost a stud receiver who put up incredible all-pro numbers one year, and he’s gone the next year without getting that production back.

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We knew you can’t replace a Jordy Nelson. But I thought that collectively we were going to be able to fill some of that void. But again, the stuff that he does is tough to teach, and that’s why he’s one of the best in the business.

I’m proud of the way that we battled, but we all didn’t play as well as we wanted to, and we didn’t get it done. I think when you start

Packers preseason ends with a bang

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When the TV cameras found Aaron Rodgers on the sidelines during the Green Bay Packers’ final preseason game, the quarterback ­— out of uniform and with porn-star mustache in full bloom — didn’t look too concerned about his team falling to the Kansas City Chiefs, 17-7.

His job, after all, was never in jeopardy.

Yet an essentially drama-free training camp and preseason, during which the Packers went 3-1 and worked their way down to the final 53-man roster last weekend, ended with bang.

Fans are no doubt still buzzing about the unanticipated release of three-time

Pro Bowl offensive lineman Josh Sitton, who started 112 of 121 regular-season games and all 13 postseason games he appeared in for the Packers during the past eight seasons.

ProFootballFocus.com ranked him No. 8 on the list of 10 best NFL offensive linemen heading into the 2016 season, and insiders link his release to Green Bay’s salary cap; Sitton was set to receive $6.55 million in this, the final year of his five-year contract. The day after his release, Sitton signed with the Chicago Bears.

News of Sitton’s fate on Saturday afternoon coincided with — and stood in stark contrast to — the bedlam taking place right outside the Packers’ executive offices, where the Wisconsin Badgers were in the midst of upsetting No. 5 LSU in the first-ever major college game at Lambeau Field.

How do you view your career window?

I’d like to add a couple more championships to our team’s legacy, for sure. But every year is not a given. It never is in this league. But as a young player, you think, “Oh, I’m going to be around awhile.” Especially when you’re a first-round pick, you think they’re not going to get rid of you for at least a few years.

But when you’re a high-dollar player, it’s a business. And when you’re a quarterback, you wear so many different hats — being a leader and a spokesperson for the team, face of the franchise. And then obviously you’ve got to play really well on the field, because this is a what-haveyou-done-for-me-lately league, and obviously there’s a lot of knee-jerk reactions you’re seeing with players and coaches moving on quickly based on production.

So you have to be consistent every year and not give them a reason to doubt your importance to the team. That’s why I’ve talked about the changes I made with my diet and my workout routines, because I’d like to play as long as possible. n

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Sitton’s departure leaves a massive hole that head coach Mike McCarthy better hope gets plugged fast. Fourth-year backup Lane Taylor will start at left guard in the Packers’ season opener Sunday at Jacksonville. As for the rest of the O-line, Sitton arguably was the most reliable among a crew that also includes T.J. Lang, Bryan Bulaga and Jason Spriggs.

In another surprising move that also appears related to the salary cap, Green Bay cut punter

Tim Masthay after six seasons and claimed former Tampa Bay Buccaneers (and much cheaper) punter Jacob Schum off waivers.

One more big story coming out of the final weekend before the regular season begins involved former Badgers wide receiver Jared Abbrederis. Green Bay drafted the West Allis native in the fifth round of the 2014 draft, but he spent his rookie season on injured reserve and began 2015 on the Packers’ practice squad. He eventually played in 10 games last season and is among an unprecedented seven receivers — including 2014 Pro Bowler Jordy Nelson, who returns after missing all of last season with a knee injury — to make the Packers’ final roster. n

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Just after noon on Sept. 3, Michael Feldman looked out over 250 fans gathered in front of the cramped stage at Madison’s High Noon Saloon.

“Thank you for being here,” he said, “Although it’s not hard to get a Wisconsin crowd in a bar at 12:01.” Loud laughter. The excited audience had been waiting for this moment since June 30, when Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know? made its last broadcast.

For 31 years Wisconsin Public Radio produced the program, distributed nationally

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“We’re here?” asked Feldman. “We’re all here!” Cheers, sustained applause. His daughter Nora ranged the room, taking photos. Feldman looked slightly anxious but embraced by the crowd’s warmth.

“We think we have about seven people watching this on YouTube,” he added.

“My dad is one of them,” said announcer Stephanie Lee, now elevated to co-host. “Hi, Dad!” Halfway through the show, Feldman asked Lee to defend her millennial generation, her attempts eliciting laughter from the crowd.

Next, Feldman let audience applause decide whether the show would play old or

new theme music. Thulin’s new theme won easily. Feldman concluded it was “Very nice, very podcast-y.”

Starting time had long passed. “We don’t have to start at 12. That’s the beauty of the podcasting model,” said Feldman.

Rick Devoy, a fan from San Luis Obispo, California — with close-cropped gray hair, jeans and dark polo shirt — practically bounced in his seat. He’d been a guest on Feldman’s last broadcast, and he wanted to be on the first new show. He would be.

Feldman noted a few changes. In addition to hosting, he was now technical producer, “because I had to buy the equipment.”

Not quite a joke. The audience’s traditional pastries were gone, but there were other refreshments.

“It’s a tradeoff,” he said. “Do you want doughnuts or a full-service bar?”

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Ernest Hemingway and Christopher Isherwood may have the Spanish Civil War covered, but few English-language novelists have looked at the fallout from the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Until now.

The Sleeping World (Touchstone), a stunning debut novel from Madison native Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, takes us to Spain in the late 1970s, a place not often visited by contemporary North American readers or writers.

Landing a publishing contract with Simon and Schuster’s Touchstone imprint is a well-deserved score for Fuentes, who is a doctoral candidate in English literature and creative writing at the University of Georgia.

When the novel opens, it’s 1977 and Franco has been dead for a few years, but the transition to democracy is slow and halting.

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The secret police murdered Mosca’s parents when she and her brother Alexis were children.

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creasingly unhinged by her failure to find him and by the effects of exposure and semi-starvation that set in once the meager funds run out. Mirroring Mosca’s disintegrating connection with reality, the novel becomes more and more dreamlike, ending with a series of beautifully written passages arranged like poems on the page.

At its heart this novel is about a sister’s journey through grief. Why did Fuentes choose to set it in Spain in the 1970s? Fuentes, who lived for a time in Salamanca, says she became

fascinated by Spanish history and by the country’s moments of crisis. “This landscape functioned for me not only as a literary space of grief but as a mirror of our own times,” says Fuentes. Her choice to set the novel in this time and place makes what could be a simple coming-of-age story into something new and compelling. n Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes will read from The Sleeping World at Barnes & Noble, 7433 Mineral Point Rd., on Sept. 12 at 7 p.m.

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Corporate loathing Cake’s John McCrea produces on his own terms

BY AARON R. CONKLIN

Conversations with John McCrea, the iconoclastic frontman of Cake, are many things: fascinating, polite, meandering, sharply political. They’re also filled with a bluntness and honesty that hits like a cold bucket of water upside the head.

It’s been five years since Cake (who’ll close the 2016 Breese Stevens Field concert docket on Sept. 9) released an album of new material — 2011’s Showroom of Compassion was the last. And while McCrea’s been talking about album seven for more than two of those years, it doesn’t actually seem like the band’s getting much closer to the recording studio. McCrea speaks vaguely about almost being ready to work on some new arrangements with his bandmates, but his mental timeline’s already sliding into 2017.

“I need twice as many songs,” McCrea explains. “In order to get 10, I need to write 21.”

Part of the delay probably has to do with the utter loathing McCrea has for all things corporate, including the recording industry, an institution he says has been eviscerated and utterly unhelpful for 99 percent of musicians.

Luckily, Cake doesn’t need new material to draw a crowd — their back catalogue is jam-packed with more than enough to sate

McCrea brings a funky, contrarian vibe to Breese Stevens.

faithful fans of the band’s kitchen-sink blend of ’90s alt-rock, country, folk, funk and brass.

Given the often quirky/ironic nature of Cake’s repertoire, it’s not surprising to learn that McCrea’s musical tastes are pretty diverse, too.

“I’ve always loved folk music,’ he says. “Also classic Appalachian and Broadway show tunes.

The type of songs that stick to your ribs.” (That probably explains “Opera Singer” and the iconic cover of “I Will Survive.”)

“I think we’re a touring band, a live band,” McCrea says, while admitting he’s unlikely to go around the globe in what he calls “a haze of petroleum.” The band heads to Nashville, Tennessee, and Athens, Georgia, after Madison. “If there’s no recording industry anymore, maybe we should just play live,” says McCrea. “It’s the only thing that’s left.”

Fans of the band know about McCrea’s activism: He’s long been outspoken on topics ranging from global warming to voter rights, and his politics are as much a part of his persona as the hats he wears onstage during his performances. Turns out he also doesn’t have much love for the tech industry, or for fans who choose to experience Cake concerts through the screen of a smartphone.

“These moments don’t come back. It may be the last time you ever hear me play a song,”

he says. “Listening becomes an acquisitional experience rather than a celebratory one, and that’s super-sad. Ninety-five percent of the info you record you’ll never even revisit.”

Obviously, McCrea’s as contrarian as he ever was, a characteristic that, along with the trumpets and deadpan spoken/sung vocals that leavened classics like “Rock n’ Roll Lifestyle” and “Comfort Eagle,” is essential to the band’s enduring appeal. Cake’s famous for performing without a setlist, a quirk that leads to some unexpected gems but also some nights where the band’s most recognizable and commercially successful songs — think “The Distance” and “Short Skirt /Long Jacket” — get left in the bullpen.

“The songs we play, we still like to play,” says McCrea. “We’ll skip what the free market deems an important song. We’re not trying to be punk rock by not playing the hit.

We’re trying to follow the muse rather than ‘oh, boy, a setlist.’ If I can’t do it this way, I don’t want to do it. To have to play a song at a certain moment feels like prostitution.”

But here’s the good news: While there’s no shortage of things McCrea doesn’t like, we’re not among them. “There’s a short list of towns I like visiting,” he confides. “There are only about four, and Madison is one of them.” n

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Sam Miess, guitarist for Oregon’s Distant Cuzins doesn’t much care for his band’s name. “We wish we could change it,” admits Miess, a 17-year-old senior at Oregon High School, who met the band’s drummer Ben Lokuta back in fourth grade when they formed a surf-rock duo. “We needed a name, and we used the “z” because another band was already called ‘Distant Cousins.’”

That name hasn’t stopped Miess, Lokuta, vocalist/bassist Nic Tierman and second guitarist Nate Krause (none of whom are cousins) from gaining a firm following and emerging as one of the most engaging and enthusiastic young rock bands in Wisconsin. They just won the statewide Rockonsin garage-band competition at Summerfest.

“They have the whole package,” says Rockonsin producer Dennis Graham. “When you watch them, you pick up on their love of music. They put on a show.”

With a sound that’s been called everything from “classically punk” to “classic rock meets rockabilly” to “just straight-up rock,” Distant Cuzins takes influences from their

parents’ album collections (Journey, Rush, the Clash, Bruce Springsteen), as well as Foo Fighters and the ska scene.

The band was a state finalist for two straight years at Launchpad, Rockonsin’s predecessor, and beat out more than 50 other high school and middle school bands this year. Twelve Rockonsin finalists competed for two days on the Johnson Controls World Sound Stage at Summerfest.

Rockonsin is considered the only competition of its kind in the United States, and as its prize Distant Cuzins received a second Summerfest slot and a professional recording session at the Madison Music Foundry’s Blast House Studios.

The fruits of that session can be heard on Big., a new EP produced by the band and engineered and mixed by Dustin Sisson, a longtime mentor for the Foundry’s Rock Workshop program for young musicians. Featuring five original songs, the EP provides a succinct sonic synopsis of Distant Cuzins’ sound, highlighted by the dark, hook-filled “Explain Yourself” and the delicious diss “Wok Fried Soba” — one of the first songs the band wrote.

Miess and Tierman write most of the songs, and Tierman’s lyrics convey the complicated emotions and harsh realities today’s high school

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students encounter. “He writes what’s real,” Miess says.

The name of the EP and its cover, featuring a 1966 photo of a young girl guzzling a bottle of beer, are attempts to dispel the notion that Distant Cuzins belongs on a Kidz Bop record.

“We’re not a little kids’ band,” Miess says.

“We’re an actual working band.”

Distant Cuzins will celebrate the release of Big. with fellow Rockonsin finalist Surround Sound (featuring members of Waunakee, Middleton and Madison Memorial high schools) at

Headquarters Bar & Restaurant in Oregon on Sept. 17. Music begins at 7 p.m.

With high school graduation approaching, Miess says he doesn’t know what’s going to happen to Distant Cuzins. Lokuta and Tierman want to continue making music, and the four have discussed several hypotheticals. But this band isn’t too worried about all that quite yet. After all, there are more songs to record and bigger gigs to play.

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September is a time for new beginnings. In the world of television, this is the time of year when networks and channels are trying hard to get your attention. From dark comedies like Better Things to the thrilling Marvel’s Luke Cage, here are some fledgling shows worth watching.

Better Things FX, premiering Sept. 8

Better Things is the latest comedy from FX, created by Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K. The show follows Adlon’s character as she tries to maintain her sanity while raising three daughters and working in Hollywood. On the surface, this show might seem like a female version of C.K.’s series Louie. But Better Things is not just a retread. You might recognize Adlon from her cameos on C.K.’s show, as well as her prominent voice roles in series including King of the Hill and Recess. She often plays cynical realists who don’t care what others think of them. I’m excited to watch a series featuring a mom with traits typically reserved for male characters. If you’re a fan of Louie or You’re the Worst, check out Better Things.

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Amazon Prime’s One Mississippi comes from standup comedian Tig Notaro and writerdirector Diablo Cody (Juno). The series chronicles what happened when Notaro returned home to Mississippi after her mother’s abrupt death. In 2012, Notaro was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy, which she has addressed openly in her standup routines. The relatable and honest nature of her material helped her gain fans in the comedy world. Tig also finds comedic fodder in her eccentric Southern family.

One Mississippi hits on all of that, as well as the hilarious moment when her wife (thengirlfriend) first meets her family. Tig has been on fire lately, and I can’t wait to see more.

The Good Place NBC, premiering Sept. 19

The Good Place comes from Michael Schur, creator of Parks and Recreation and former writer for The Office. The show stars Kristen Bell (Frozen, Veronica Mars) playing against type as Eleanor, a cynical and not very nice woman who dies and goes to heaven by mistake. Bell

typically plays bubbly and positive women, but this character is a departure from the norm.

Eleanor tries to receive some guidance from Ted Danson (Cheers) about “the good place,” but struggles over whether to keep skating by in the afterlife or admit there’s been a mistake and risk going to “the bad place.” I think there’s an opportunity here for NBC to have a comedic success, something it once had in spades.

Amanda Knox Netflix, premiering Sept. 30

There’s a lot of buzz circulating around this special, especially coming off the true-crime success of the O.J.: Made in America series.

The documentary about the U.S. student accused of murder while studying abroad in Italy is bound to intrigue audiences. It’s a case that has interested the media and the rest of the world for years, and while lurid details abound, definitive answers have been few and far between. Audiences crave conclusions for mysteries, especially if the situations are real. It also is a huge score that the director got Knox to speak candidly on camera about the events leading to her arrest.

Marvel’s Luke Cage Netflix, premiering Sept. 30

My final recommendation is Marvel’s Luke Cage, a spinoff from last year’s fantastic show Jessica Jones. Cage is an African-American man who is torn up by the senseless killing of his wife. His character is adapted from the Marvel comic universe and has impenetrable skin, which means fire and bullets can’t hurt him. Cage’s character was established on Jessica Jones as a quiet, powerful man and played to perfection by Mike Colter (The Good Wife).

I’m looking forward to this series because of its sensitive portrayal of the reluctant superhero. Cage just wants to be left alone and he doesn’t feel the call to save people as some superheroes do. And as a black man, he experiences life as an outsider — both in the real world and the Marvel universe. n

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Ping Pong: The Animation: Anime Club screening of 2014 series about friends and table tennis competitors (RSVP: 246-4548). Hawthorne Library, Sept. 9, 7 pm.

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Captain America: Civil War: Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) sides with UN officials wanting to register and rein in the superheroes, while Cap’s suspicion of authority and his uberpatriotic defense of civil liberties compels him to defy orders. UW Union South-Marquee, Sept. 9, 5:45 pm.

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Everybody Wants Some: Richard Linklater’s charmingly meandering film follows the members of a collegiate baseball team as they count down to the start of the 1980 school year. UW Union South-Marquee, Sept. 8, 9:30 pm.

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Black Orpheus: Orpheus and Eurydice adapted through the lens of Rio’s Carnaval. UW Union South-Marquee, Sept. 8, 7 pm.

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One More Time with Feeling: Film about the making of Skeleton Tree, the new Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album. Sundance, Sept. 8, 7:15 pm.

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Xenia Rubinos Thursday, Sept. 8, The Frequency, 8 pm

With her soulful, unapologetic, beat-drive music, Brooklyn-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Xenia Rubinos embodies the ethos of #browngirlmagic. Drawing from jazz, funk, hip-hop, R&B and garage punk, she’s created a genre-bending style all her own. It’s music that’ll make you dance — and make you think.

With DJ Lolo and Tin Can Diamonds. See story at isthmus.com/music.

Mavis Staples Saturday, Sept. 10, Majestic Theatre, 8:30 pm She’s still got it. The legendary R&B/ gospel singer is, at age 77, in the midst of a late-career resurgence, working in recent years with Jeff Tweedy and Win Butler. Hip singersongwriter M. Ward produced her latest album, Livin’ on a High Note, which features one song penned

by Eau Claire native Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). With William Tyler.

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PICK OF THE WEEK High Noon Saloon: The Getaway Drivers, free (on the patio), 6 pm; Dub Foundation, Bird’s Eye, Kazmir, 9 pm.

Lisa Link Peace Park: Krause Family Band, free, 5 pm.

Majestic: Over the Rhine, Lucy Wainwright Roche, 8 pm.

Gavin DeGraw Thursday, Sept. 8, Orpheum Theater, 7 pm

traveling circus closing out this year’s soggy Central Park Sessions. They blast out highenergy tunes while mustachioed steampunkinspired stilt dancers and acrobats groove among the crowd. Get there early for Better Yeti (5 pm) and the Portland Cello Project (6:30 pm) where four cellos and a drummer tackle everything from Bach to Britney.

Mickey’s Tavern: Momotaros, Vacation, Square Bombs, Number #1 Band Very Good, free, 10 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Snap, Aquafresh, free, 10 pm.

Orpheum Theater: Gavin DeGraw, 7 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Allison Merten, free, 9 pm.

Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, free, 9 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: The Shondes, Venus in Furs, free, 9 pm.

UW Union South: Pan African Music Session: Tani Diakite, Project 1808 fundraiser, donations, 5:30 pm.

Though he declared he didn’t need to be anything other than a prison guard’s son on his breakthrough 2003 single “I Don’t Want to Be,” Gavin DeGraw has built himself a pretty nice career as a pop star. His debut album, Chariot, went platinum, and in the years since he’s become a radio staple, with a slightly rasped take on blue-eyed soul that’s been polished to perfection on his most recent album, this year’s Something Worth Saving.

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Teresa Mertens-Pellitteri: Photographs, 9/1-30, The Gallery at Yahara Bay (reception 5-10 pm, 9/8). 2751050.

Brent Clark: Photographs, 9/1-30, Bos Meadery (reception 6-9 pm, 9/8, with music by Brian Koenig).

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Wisconsin Storytime: The Story of Wisconsin As Told

by Wisconsin Designers: 9/8-29, Central Library (reception 6-8:30 pm, 9/8). 266-6300.

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The Malian blues of Tani Diakite (pictured) are the highlight of this benefit concert for the Madison nonprofit Project 1808 — which works to build community in Sierra Leone through tutoring, mentoring and scholarships for students. The new concert series is part of a fundraising initiative for a university in Kabala.

Brink Lounge: Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, 8 pm.

Thursday, Sept. 8, Central Park, 5-10 pm

Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm.

If you’ve watched Portlandia, you’ve caught cameos from some members of MarchFourth (pictured), the thrilling brass-and-drums fueled

Central Park: Central Park Sessions, 5 pm.

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

Frequency: Xenia Rubinos, Tin Can Diamonds, 8 pm.

Ian Bagg Thursday, Sept. 8, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

He may claim to be “the only comedian to work for Judd Apatow and not become a multibillionaire,” but there’s a reason Ian Bagg was a top five finalist in NBC’s 2015 Last Comic Standing. The Canadian standup has appeared with Leno, Conan and Craig Ferguson, and his most recent special, Ian Bagg: Getting to Fucking Know You, is streaming on Hulu. He’s super funny, so y’know, go see him. With Michael Harrison. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30 pm), Sept. 9-10.

Cake Friday, Sept. 9, Breese Stevens Field, 7 pm

When their talk-singing alt-rock masterpiece “The Distance” dropped in 1996, Cake established themselves as a wholly incomparable entity in rock music. Twenty years and six albums later, the Sacramento, California five-piece is one of the most beloved and acclaimed bands around. They’ll be joined at Breese Stevens by Dr. Dog, a Philly-based psych folk-rock group that’s as musically talented as they are unabashedly goofy. See page 36.

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Breese Stevens Field: Cake, Dr. Dog, 7 pm.

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Cardinal Bar: Mambo Jazz, free, 5:30 pm; DJs Justin Schofield, Mr. Alexander, Whodie Guthrie, 9 pm.

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Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest

High Noon Saloon: The Low Czars, free, 5:30 pm; The Last Revel, Armchair Boogie, The Gambol, 9:30 pm.

Friday-Saturday, Sept. 9-10, Art in the Barn, Fitchburg

James Madison Park: DJs Justin Schofield, Zukas, Funkenstein, Jared Perez & Wangzoom, Foshizzle Fridays fourth anniversary party, free (all ages), 4 pm.

The annual celebration of Djangoesque jazz kicks off Friday at 7 pm with sets by Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan (pictured)and the Rhythm Future Quartet.

Music starts at 1 pm Saturday and lasts through the night, including Ultra Faux/ Hot Club of Baltimore and Olizarez Trio.

Don’t forget: Hosts Harmonious Wail take the stage both days as well. For full schedule visit midwestgypsyswingfest. com.

Kiki’s House of Righteous Music: Casey Neill, Lost Lakes, house concert (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@ gmail.com), 9 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Xavi Lynn’s Julep, 9 pm.

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

Liquid: Bro Safari, MC Armanni Reign, SMLE, Stratus, Tombz, 10 pm.

Majestic: Rod Tuffcurls & the Bench Press, 9 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Tippy, DTCV, Linda, free, 10 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Hired Rivals, Sons of Kong, Neocaveman, free, 10 pm.

Red Rock Saloon: Jacob Martin Band, 10 pm.

Sun Prairie High School: Mardra & Reggie Thomas Ensemble, jazz, 7 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: The Bestuls, Old Wolves, free, 10 pm.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse and Gallery: Jim Barnard, Bruce Edwin, John Duggleby, plus open mic, free, 7 pm.

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UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Trapper Schoepp, Christopher the Conquered, free, 9 pm.

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Wil-Mar Center: Rich Baumann, Wild Hog in the Woods concert, 8 pm.

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Friday, Sept. 9, Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm

Guitars chime, chug and buzz, with vocals in French (and sometimes English) floating above the fray: This is the sound of DTCV. The new trio formed by French singer-songwriter Lola G. and former Guided by Voices guitarist James Greer combines the Francophone pop of ‘60s Françoise Hardy with occasional ‘90s guitar skronk to great effect on their recent album Confusion Moderne. With Linda and Tippy.

Three Stages Cheese Tent Kids’ Street Farm Tours Parades Arts & Crafts Brewery Tours Cheese Carving Antique Tractors Cow Milking Contest Yodeling & Alphorns Deep Fried Cheese

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Laughter on the 23rd Floor: Strollers Theatre production of Neil Simon’s autobiographical comedy, 9/9-24, Bartell Theatre-Drury Stage, at 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays (2 pm only on 9/24), plus 2 pm on 9/11 and 7:30 pm, 9/21. $20. 661-9696.

Esther’s Descendants: A ghost attempts to guide her family into a brighter future in this dark comedy by Jan Levine Thal, 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 9/9-10/1, Broom Street Theater. $11. 244-8338.

Alan Robinson, Justin Shaw, Lee Christopher, Aarushi Fire, Avery Rapier, Dan Berry, Brian Russell: 10:30 pm, 9/9, Fountain. 250-1998.

B O O KS William Kent Krueger: Discussing Manitou Canyon, his new book, 7 pm, 9/9, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

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A Behanding in Spokane: Madison Theatre Guild production of dark comedy by Martin McDonagh, 9/9-24, Bartell Theatre-Evjue Stage, at 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays (2 pm only 9/24) and 2 pm, 9/18. $20. 661-9696.

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The annual WSUM-sponsored festival features some top Midwest acts this year: Chicago’s indie darlings Whitney (pictured) headline with support from the Minneapolis low-fi outfit Carroll; Hoops from Bloomington, Indiana; and Madison’s own Trophy Dad. Get there early, or you’re not getting in.

Artisan Gallery Exhibits: “When Your Dreams Are Bigger Than You Are” by Karen Halt; 13th Annual Ceramics Invitational; “Wisconsin Bird Project” by Craig Clifford, 9/9-10/30, Artisan Gallery, Paoli (reception 5-9 pm, 9/9). 845-6600.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Strings & the Wild Things: All-ages activities, 5:30-8:30 pm, 9/9, Vilas Zoo, music by Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra at 7 pm. $7 ($2 ages 3-17). 258-9490.

Wonder Ball: Annual gala fundraiser for Madison Children’s Museum, 7-11 pm, 9/9, Madison Children’s Museum, with speakeasy theme, music by Diamond Trio, food from Fox Heritage Catering, entertainment & auctions. $150. RSVP: madisonchildrensmuseum.org. 256-6445.

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Trevor Noah Saturday, Sept. 10, Orpheum Theater, 7 pm

Lydia Loveless Saturday, Sept. 10, The Frequency, 6:30 pm

Country is in the middle of an artistic revolution, and Lydia Loveless is adding a powerful female voice into the mix. The 25-year-old Ohio native combines the sounds of classic, honky-tonk country with the lyrical angst of punk rock, all the while maintaining a distinct, feminist point of view. She released Real, her most recent LP, on Aug. 19.

When Trevor Noah took over The Daily Show from Jon Stewart in 2015, he couldn’t possibly have been filling bigger shoes. But the South African comic has held his own, honing an affable-yet-politically charged sense of humor that manages to entertain and inform during some trying times. After all, when you grow up a mixed-race kid in apartheid-era Johannesburg, sometimes laughter is the only thing that gets you through the day. See page 23.

ART E XHI BITS & EV ENTS Georgia O’Keeffe Art Festival: 10 am-5 pm, 9/10, Cannery Square & Sun Prairie Historical Museum, Sun Prairie. cityofsunprairie.com/museum. 837-2915.

Bike the Art: Guided east side trip, starting 4 pm, 9/10, Central Library, ending at Arts & Literature Laboratory; follow stops at facebook.com/artlitlab.

FAI RS & FESTIVALS

Capital Land Music Fest Saturday, Sept. 10, Breese Stevens Field, 6 pm

The previous night’s Cake mess will barely be cleaned off the astroturf before this family-friendly music extravaganza kicks off. Featuring R&B artist Ginuwine, Joe and the soulful Vivian Green (pictured). With Madison’s own Kinfolk and DJ ACE. Alchemy Cafe: No Name String Band, free, 10 pm.

Breese Stevens Field: Ginuwine, Joe, Vivian Green, Kinfolk, DJ Ace, Capital Land Music Festival, 6 pm.

Brink Lounge: The Rascal Theory, 9 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, 10 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Winning Ugly, Sky Urchin, Peel a Peel, 10 pm.

Mexican Independence Festival: 11 am-9:30 pm, 9/10, Warner Park. Free. facebook.com/mexicanfestival.

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Yahara Riverfest: All-ages nature activities, noon-5 pm, 9/10, Conservancy Commons Park, DeForest, music by Tracy Jane Comer, Prairie Thunder Cloggers. yaharariverfest.com.

Cajun in the Country: noon-6 pm, 9/10, Shepard’s Barn, Columbus. Free/donations. columbuswifun.com.

FOOD & D RINK Thirsty Troll Brew Fest: Tastings of local microbrews, 1-5 pm, 9/10, Grundahl Park, Mount Horeb. $50 ($40 adv.; $10 designated driver). trollway.com.

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Edgewater Hotel: Gin, Chocolate and Bottle Rockets, free, 5 pm.

Essen Haus: Gary Beal Band, free, 8:30 pm.

Fountain: Dystopian Echo, 8 pm.

Frequency: Lydia Loveless, Will Courtney & the Wild Bunch, 6:30 pm; Something to Do (album release), Run & Punch, 4AM, 10 pm.

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Harmony Bar: Tony Kannen & the Sound Garden Crew, 9 pm.

High Noon Saloon: T.U.G.G., People Brothers Band, 9 pm.

Malt House: Black Marigold, free, 3 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: And Illusions, Bent Knee, Erik Kramer, free, 10 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Invisible Cartoons, Gentle Brontosaurus, The Earthlings, free, 10 pm.

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

Plan B: DJ Tim Walters, 9 pm.

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

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: The Sharrows, The Gambol, The Racing Pulses, free, 9 pm.

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Let’s Get it Back!

Sunday, Sept. 11, High Noon Saloon, 6 pm

A benefit for Wisconsin United to Amend, a group seeking to overturn Citizens United. Mike Crute from Devil’s Advocate radio emcees, and three awesome bands are on the bill: Sundogs, Sam Lyons Trio (pictured) and Primitive Culture.

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Majestic: Mavis Staples, William Tyler, 8:30 pm.

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mon sep 12 MUS I C Alchemy Cafe: DJ Samroc, free, 10 pm.

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

Fountain: Open Mic with Adam Pitt, free, 8 pm.

Frequency: Caveman, Cheerleader, 8 pm.

Jared & the Mill

Harmony Bar: David Landau, family concert, 5:30 pm; Oak Street Ramblers, 7:30 pm.

Sunday, Sept. 11, The Frequency, 8 pm

Julep: Aaron Scholz & Chris Boeger, free, 6 pm.

Sweet harmonies and a country-pop sensibility sometimes overwhelm Jared & the Mill’s more alt-country instrumentation (washboard, accordion, banjo). But a new EP, Orme Dugas, nudges the Phoenix, Arizona-based group in a more indie-folk direction, and the intimate Frequency should prove an attractive showcase for the band.

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

Bos Meadery: Open Mic, free, 2 pm.

Brocach Irish Pub-Square: The Currach, free, 5 pm.

Frequency: Jared & the Mill, Ida Jo, The Wells Division, 8 pm.

Funk’s Pub: Open Jam with Mudroom, free, 8 pm.

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Madison StorySLAM presents “Money” 7:30pm $10

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Deathwish The Crosses No Hoax / 8pm $16 adv, $20 dos 18+

Natt Spil: DJ Jamie Stanek, free, 10 pm.

Up North Pub: The Wang Show, free, 7 pm.

B O O KS / S PO K EN WO RD Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes: Discussing The Sleeping World, her new novel, 7 pm, 9/12, Barnes & NobleWest Towne. 827-0809. See page 34.

The Moth Madison StorySlam: Storytelling competition, 7:30 pm, 9/12, High Noon Saloon. $10. 268-1122.

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Majestic: Blind Pilot, River Whyless, 8 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Foundation, free, 10 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Open Mic, free, 9 pm.

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$10 18+ Doors at 7 1212 REGENT ST. 608-251-6766 THEREDZONEMADISON.COM

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Frank James & the James Gang, country, 3 pm.

Williamson Magnetic Recording Company: Wood Chickens, Kitsch, Jonesies, rock, 8 pm.

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Capital K9s Dog Paddle: Annual Madison Police Department canine unit benefit, 9 am-4 pm, 9/11, Goodman Pool. $25/dog ($20 adv.). RSVP: capitalk9s.org.

Tuesday, Sept. 13, The Frequency, 8:30 pm

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Mr. Robert’s: Open Jam, free, 9:30 pm.

Lone Girl Brewing Company, Waunakee: Beth Kille, free, 4 pm.

The Last Revel Armchair Boogie The Gambol 9:30 $8 ADV, $10 DOS 18+

High Noon Saloon: Primitive Culture, Sundogs, Sam Lyons Band, Wisconsin United to Amend benefit, 6 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Those Dirty Thieves, The Matador, 7 pm.

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Mickey’s Tavern: Fire Retarded, Empty Markets, The Smells, free, 10 pm.

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Hymn For Her still tours in a van, but they do it a little differently — the van is pulling a 1961 Airstream trailer behind it, which serves as a home away from home for the duo of Wayne Waxing and Lucy Tight. And their touring digs aren’t the only thing they do differently. Hymn for Her calls their sound a “juiced-up backwoods country blues with a dose of desert rock psychedelia,” which can be heard in full effect on their 2016 album Drive Til U Die. 30 on the Square: Open Mic with Curtis Goodman, outdoors, free, 6 pm.

Orestes Larios Zaak Sunday, Sept. 11, Goodman Community Center, 2-5 pm

The public is invited to attend and meet Orestes Larios Zaak (work pictured), one of contemporary Cuba’s noted painters, and his wife, Maria Ofelia Granela Suarez. Known for his thematic use of the environment, stressing its fragility and natural beauty, Larios’ paintings will be for sale while on exhibit through Sept. 22. Sponsored by the Madison Camaguey Sister City Association.

Stitching History From the Holocaust: Re-creations of fashion designs by Hedy Strnad, 9/11-10/13, Ruth Davis Design Gallery (panel discussion & reception 1 pm, 9/11). 262-1162.

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

Capitol Square: Jeffrey James Show, free (King Street corner), noon.

Cardinal Bar: Darren Sterud Orchestra, jazz, 6 pm; New Breed Jazz Jam, free, 9 pm.

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

Frequency: Hymn for Her, 8:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Music Trivia, 6 pm; Intelescope, Giant Zero, DJ Vilas Park Sniper, 9 pm.

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

Mason Lounge: Five Points Jazz Collective, free, 9 pm.

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

Natt Spil: DJ Whodie Guthrie, free, 10 pm.

Neighborhood House: Bluegrass Jam, 7 pm.

The Red Zone: Death Division, Dead Horse Trauma, Everybody Panic, Audiophilia, 8 pm.

LEC T U R ES & S EM I N ARS Forward? The Wisconsin Idea, Past & Present: UW Department of Sociology lecture series: “Conservation and the Wisconsin Idea: An Evolving Legacy,” by Curt Meine, 6 pm, 9/13, UW Extension Pyle Center.

262-2921.

Hall, and the Terrace and Willy Street will vibrate with bands from far and wide. Among the many highlights: Rajab Suleiman & Kithara (pictured, Zanzibar), Alsarah & the Nubatones (Sudan/US) and A-Wa (Israel).

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The Falcon Thursday, Sept. 15, Frequency, 9 pm

Plainsong Wednesday, Sept. 14, High Noon Saloon, 6:30 pm

Plainsong has been an on-again-off-again all-star aggregation since the early ‘70s, anchored by British singer-songwriters Iain Matthews (an early member of Fairport Convention) and Andy Roberts (of ‘60s art-punk progenitors Liverpool Scene). The duo is doing a brief acoustic tour in the U.S. this fall following up on the release of a Richard Farina tribute album. They will be playing both songs by Farina and from the Plainsong catalog.

Composed of members of the Lawrence Arms, Alkaline Trio and the Loved Ones, The Falcon represents some of the best punk has to offer — and their most recent album, this year’s Gather Up the Chaps, is proof. With their new Red Scare labelmates and Eau Claire’s own Arms Aloft.

Brink Lounge: Lipbone Redding, 7 pm.

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

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

Fountain: Durango McMurphy, free, 8 pm.

Frequency: The Falcon, Arms Aloft, 9 pm.

Harmony Bar: Backroom Harmony Band, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: SpareTime Bluegrass Band, free, 6 pm; D.R.I., Deathwish, The Crosses, No Hoax, 8 pm.

Ivory Room: Vince Strong, Connor Brennan, 9 pm.

Frequency: The Deslondes, Esther Rose, 8 pm.

Majestic: Troyboi, Gent & Jawns, Jean LeDuke 9 pm.

Majestic: Wild Child, Susto, 8:30 pm.

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Terry Moss cuts client Sam Taylor’s hair at Atwood Barbershop.

Cornerstone of the neighborhood At Atwood Barbershop, haircuts are about people

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Unless you spy the barber pole out front, Atwood Barbershop, 2140 Atwood Ave., can be easy to miss. Owner Terry Moss doesn’t advertise; his business comes largely from word-of-mouth. Those in the know get to the shop early or are prepared to take a number and wait: “Most mornings there are people here waiting for me when I arrive by 8:15 a.m.,” says Moss.

Around 9:30 on a Wednesday morning, there’s already an hour-and-a-half wait for services. And although he could fill his calendar weeks in advance, Moss doesn’t take appointments. He says it’s because people do not respect the time.

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A candy machine in the corner and two televisions playing ESPN keep patrons busy while they wait. It’s clear that Moss can run his shop anyway he pleases and people will flock to him regardless.

While Moss is all business regarding his “no appointments” policy, he has a kind demeanor and a rapport with everyone who walks through the door, calling most by name. People drive by and honk, and Moss waves out the door. He’s made this more than a place to get a haircut or a shave; it’s become a community gathering spot.

Moss started working professionally as a barber in 2008 and has owned Atwood Barbershop for four years. Barbershops are traditionally places that serve only male clients, but Atwood has some female customers, too.

It’s also one of the few shops on the east side that cater to black hair cuts. Although Moss

has a diverse clientele, the majority of his customers are African American.

A sign next to Moss’ barber chair lists services and prices. Haircut cost is based on age. Cuts for adults (16 and over) are $17, for seniors (60 and over) $14, and kids (12 and under) $12. A lining — when the barber makes sure the edge of the hair is straight — runs $7; a lining with a taper costs $10.

Customers also come for the barbershop classic of a hot towel and a shave, which costs $15. Moss calls this one “relaxation time.”

Josh Geidel keeps coming back to Atwood Barbershop, despite the wait times. “If I went to another place, I’d be paying $40 for a haircut,” Geidel says.

Moss grew up in the Atwood neighborhood and graduated from East High School in the late 1990s. He started cutting the hair of his friends and relatives when he was 12.

It was just something that he wanted to learn to do, he says — or possibly a reaction against his mom messing up his haircuts too many times. “I went to school with some embarrassing haircuts. There wasn’t no YouTube tutorial then.”

Moss opened the shop on Aug. 29 (a Monday, when the barbershop is normally closed), so he could give free haircuts to kids going back to school. Moss, who was joined by three other barbers, two of whom work at Atwood full time, says he does this every year because he wants kids to look nice and feel good about themselves. He also gave away 50 backpacks filled with school supplies.

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My husband left the picture recently, and I’m now a single mom supporting an infant in Toronto. I work a retail job and am drowning financially. I hooked up with a guy I met on Tinder, and I didn’t warn him that I’m still nursing because I didn’t even think of it. Luckily, he really got off on it — so I was spared the awkwardness of “Eww, what is coming out of your tits?!” Afterward, he joked about there being a market for lactating women in the kink world. My questions: If I find someone who will pay me to suckle my milk, is that prostitution?

And if I advertise that I’m willing to be paid, can I get into trouble for that? The possibility of making some money this way is more appealing every day.

Truly In Trouble “Allowing clients to suckle her breasts is, of course, sex work,” says Angela Chaisson, a partner at Toronto’s Paradigm Law Group.

“But sex work is legal for everyone in Canada, new moms included. The new sex work laws here — the 2014 ‘Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act,’ an Orwellian title for a draconian piece of legislation — prohibit sex work close to where minors might

be. So if she’s engaging in sex work close to kids, she is risking criminal charges.”

No one wants sex work going on around minors, of course — on or around minors — so that’s not what makes the ‘Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act’ an Orwellian piece of bullshit.

Laws regulating sex work in Canada were rewritten after Terri-Jean Bedford, a retired dominatrix and madam, took her case to the courts. The Supreme Court of Canada ultimately ruled — unanimously — that criminalizing sex work made it more dangerous, not less, and consequently the laws on the books against sex work violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But instead of decriminalizing sex work, Parliament made it legal to sell sex in Canada but illegal to buy it, aka the “end demand” approach to stamping out sex work.

“By making a sex worker’s body the scene of a crime,” writes sex worker and sex-workers-rights activist Mike Crawford, “the ‘end demand’ approach gives cops full license to investigate sex workers, leaving sex workers vulnerable to abuse, extortion and even rape at the hands of the police.”

Chaisson, who helped bring down Canada’s laws against sex work, doesn’t think selling suckling will get you in trouble, TIT. “But Children’s Aid Society (CAS) would investigate if they

felt there was a child in need of protection,” says Chaisson. “So the safest thing would be for her to stick to out calls only and to keep the work away from kids and anywhere they might be.”

To avoid having to JOE NEWTON worry about CAS or exactly where every kid in Canada is when you see a client while still making some money off your current superpower, TIT, you could look into the emerging online market for human breast milk.

There are more ads from breast milk fetishists (204) at OnlyTheBreast.com (“Buy, sell or donate breast milk with our discreet classifieds system”) than there are from new parents seeking breast milk for their infants (159). Good luck!

My husband and I have a pretty good sex life considering we are raising three kids, we both work full time, and I’m going to school. We have sex four to five times a week, sometimes daily. Before we married, it never occurred to me to check what he was looking at online.

Now I can’t stop. I know he looks at porn and masturbates. I never check his phone or his Facebook or anything like that, just what he has Googled. How can I let go and be more

confident and believe that, regardless of his personal habits, he still wants me? He says it’s not personal, it’s when I’m not available, and it’s a good way to take a nap.

I trust him and don’t think he’s doing anything wrong, but how do I feel okay with it?

Sees Problems On Understanding Spouse’s Electronics You don’t have a good sex life, SPOUSE, you have a great sex life. You two are raising three kids, you’re getting sex on an almost daily basis, and at least one of you is getting naps?

You’re the envy of all parents everywhere. It’ll put your mind at ease if you remind yourself now and then that no one person can be all things to another person — sexually or in any other way — and that the evidence your husband still wants you is running down your leg four to five times per week. Now please pass the paper/tablet/phone to your husband, SPOUSE, I have something to say to him.

Hey, Mr. SPOUSE, here’s a handy life hack for you: CLEAR YOUR FUCKING BROWSER HISTORY. Use the “private browsing” or “incognito” setting in your web browser, and spare your wife — and yourself — future scrutiny and smut shaming. ■ Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

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