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BANJO BLISS

Finding enlightenment in the plink of a banjo.

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POLICE PROTECTION

New study looks to see if yoga and meditation can help cops cope with job stress.

ELISA WISEMAN

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ANDY MOORE

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SNAPSHOT ANDY MOORE LEARNED TO play the banjo in 2007, an experience he relayed in his “Close to Home” column. It is a passion that endures. When Moore decided it was time to retire his column in 2015, after 25 years in Isthmus, he said he would “pour reclaimed creative time” into, among other things, “banjo practice.” This week he writes about an unlikely pairing: banjo playing and yoga.

NEWS ISTHMUS INTERN ELISA Wiseman has been practicing yoga for about six years and it’s now her “go-to-stress reliever.” Perhaps that’s why she was intrigued to hear about a new study looking at how meditation and yoga could be used in a police setting. Wiseman, a Washington D.C. native, is majoring in journalism at UW-Madison and will graduate in December.

12 SCIENCE

POWER INVESTIGATION

Scientists team up to examine possible consequences of ATC project on Driftless Area.

14 OPINION

CAN IT BE?

Gov. Scott Walker’s transportation budget is not all bad.

17 COVER STORY

HOT TICKETS

Isthmus critics preview the fall arts scene.

23-28 FOOD & DRINK

OY, IF I GET THAT BOY...

Me & Julio in Fitchburg disappoints.

29 SPORTS

DEEP IMPACT

A new study casts doubt on whether head hits in football are as dire as previously thought.

30-31 ART

MAD SHOTS

Photographer Glenn Trudel gets a major retrospective.

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GLASS SLIPPER TIME

Tatyana Lubov comes home to play.

Incarceration nation Monday, Oct. 3, Fountain of Life Covenant Church, 7 pm More than two million people are currently imprisoned in the United States, more than in any other nation. Nehemiah Center begins a free workshop series, “Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System,” with an overview of that population and the impact of mass incarceration on our communities. Future workshops are Nov. 7 and Dec. 5; for full details and to RSVP, visit ncjrworkshops.eventbrite.com.

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OPINION SOON AFTER LEAVING OFFICE in 2011, former Madison mayor Dave Cieslewicz began blogging on Isthmus. com as Citizen Dave. In October 2013 he became the executive director of the Wisconsin Bicycle Federation.

Regular readers of his blog and opinion columns might be surprised with his take this week on Gov. Scott Walker’s transportation budget. He likes it! He really likes it.

NEW TITANIC

Deepwater Horizon is disaster filmmaking at its best.

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WHOO! OK!

Workshops teach women to take charge of their voices to be taken seriously.

IN EVERY ISSUE 10 MADISON MATRIX 10 WEEK IN REVIEW 14 THIS MODERN WORLD 15 FEEDBACK 15 OFF THE SQUARE

38 ISTHMUS PICKS 49 CLASSIFIEDS 50 P.S. MUELLER 50 CROSSWORD 51 SAVAGE LOVE

PUBLISHER Jeff Haupt ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Craig Bartlett BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Mark Tauscher EDITOR Judith Davidoff NEWS EDITOR Joe Tarr ASSOCIATE EDITOR Michana Buchman FEATURES EDITOR Linda Falkenstein ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Catherine Capellaro STAFF WRITERS Dylan Brogan, Allison Geyer CALENDAR EDITOR Bob Koch

Wisconsin lawmakers have repeatedly rebuffed efforts to legalize marijuana, but that hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm of local advocates; the annual Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival has grown into one of the biggest educational events in the U.S. This year speakers, vendors and bands take over Library Mall 11:30 am-6:30 pm Saturday and noon-3:30 pm Sunday, when the march up State Street to a rally on the Capitol Square begins. Don’t forget the Friday kick-off fundraiser for Is My Medicine Legal YET? (5:30 pm, Mr. Robert’s) and concert (9 pm, Harmony Bar).

Party animals Saturday, Oct. 1, 5132 Voges Road, 6 pm (VIP) and 7-10 pm

Bark & Wine is the best kind of cocktail party, with hors d’oeuvres by Liliana’s Restaurant, jazz

by Cliff Frederiksen and John Widdicombe, and, most importantly, special furry guests from the Dane County Humane Society. Admission ($75) benefits DCHS.

ART DIRECTOR Carolyn Fath STAFF ARTISTS Todd Hubler, David Michael Miller, Tommy Washbush CONTRIBUTORS John W. Barker, Kenneth Burns, Dave Cieslewicz, Nathan J. Comp, Aaron R. Conklin,

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Fried catfish and lemon icebox pie Wednesday, Oct. 5, Goodman Community Center, 7:15 pm

Former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Dave Hoekstra discusses the essential spot that soul food has on the historical menu of the U.S. for the monthly meeting of CHEW (Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin). That’s also the topic of his new book The People’s Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today.

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The banjo makes sounds that carry a country mile. I could hear the plink of the high G string from the street, even before I found the class in James Madison Park. The Banjoga class, that is.

It’s yoga with banjo music. It’s banjo music with yoga.

I play the banjo, but I don’t know a note of yoga. So when I heard about the weekly, Sunday-at-noon class, I had to check it out. How will these two things go together? The banjo, which for many is the most anxiety-provoking instrument in the cabinet, and yoga, the quiet staircase to serenity.

“If they can put people in a peaceful place while the banjo plays,” commented a friend, “more power to them.”

It may have been the most beautiful day of the summer. Gulls flapped and squawked through cloudless, blue skies. Tall sails criss-crossed out on Lake Mendota. In the soft grass over by the basketball courts, four students formed an arc with their mats. Sun straight overhead, they cast no shadows.

They faced the lake and their teacher, certified yoga instructor Hanna Hermanson, who guided them through some warm-up poses in a soft, soothing voice.

So far pretty normal.

Behind Hermanson, seated on her own mat and facing the class, Alice Bradley played the banjo like a Buddhist monk — from Appalachia.

I recognized the song. In fact, I know the song. But given the eccentric context, I couldn’t place the title. It was a tune from the deep clawhammer canon that names songs after people.

“Sally Ann” or “Bill Cheatum,” one of those.

Bradley made the song her own. More to the purpose, she made the music the aesthetic property of her fellow classmates. Her playing was supple, balanced, flowing. The notes washed over the outdoor classroom, as Hermanson, wearing a “Life Is Beautiful” Tshirt, whispered, “shoulders roll down” (a few measures of banjo). “Smile” (a few measures of banjo). “Left hand behind....”

A couple jogged by on the sidewalk and slowed to a stop for a look.

Hermanson and Bradley have offered the weekly, by-donation Banjoga hour since Memorial Day. It’s their creation.

Bradley, who also practices yoga, played banjo one night at Hermanson’s apartment.

The next thing she knew she started playing for some of Hermanson’s classes. At first the classes were apartment-bound, but they soon moved to the park.

“This combines two of my favorite things,” says Bradley. Playing for the yoga class, Bradley says, gives her “a sense of community and a feeling of flow, responsiveness.

“I might have a set list. Or not. I try to integrate what they’re doing into what I’m playing,” she says. “I’m listening to the teacher, too, and integrating what I’m playing.”

For her part, Hermanson believes live banjo music makes the ancient practice “more accessible, less intimidating.”

It turns out that the number five is an essential part of yoga. Knowledge of the five elements, earth, water, fire, air and space, allows the yogi to understand the laws of nature so as to attain five aspects of better living: health, power, knowledge, wisdom and happiness.

There are also five strings on a banjo.

Banjoga student Megan Turski has been in the class since the beginning. She brought several previous years of practice to the experience, and says Banjoga “brings lots more connection with the teacher, with the other students, with the moment. Everything feels more sincere.”

“Other yoga done in the classroom, I don’t want to use the word ‘clinical,’ but this is more natural,” says student Jacob Bricknase.

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Next Banjoga class: OCT. 2, 6 P.M. IN JAMES MADISON PARK. Fall classes will meet: OUTSIDE AS LONG AS WEATHER PERMITS. Winter classes will meet: IN “CREATIVE INDOOR SPACES. MAYBE A GREENHOUSE.” Biggest misunderstanding about yoga: “THAT IT ISN’T FOR EVERYBODY OR THAT YOU HAVE TO BE FLEXIBLE.” Alice Bradley’s favorite banjo tune: “I DREAM A HIGHWAY,”

BY GILLIAN WELCH. Popular banjo joke: WHAT DO YOU THROW A DROWNING BANJO PLAYER? HIS BANJO.

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Carefree highway?

Hippie travelers find Madison an accommodating stopover

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Bumblebee has been traveling the country hitching rides from city to city since 2001.

But he’s never seen a city quite like Madison.

“Dude, this place rocks,” he says while sitting on a State Street curb. “A cop told us we can panhandle. Normally it’s like, ‘you can’t sit here and you can’t talk to anybody.’”

He rolled into town on an 18-wheeler Sept.

7 along with two other self-proclaimed “traveling dirty kids,” who identified by their street names of Toedoe and Josie. They say they don’t need money to travel, eat, or buy cigarettes and beer.

“Most of the time we don’t really even have to ask for it. People just see us and like what we are doing and think it is cool and just help us out,” Josie says. “In a lot of places people will actually be really rude and be like, ‘dirty hippie, get a job’ and stuff like that. We haven’t really had that here.”

Some places, Toedoe adds, “have no-sitdown laws, like you can play guitar on the street but you’ve got to stand up. You get tickets for sitting down.”

“And you definitely can’t sleep just anywhere like people sleep on the benches. That is really different,” Josie adds. “We slept in [James Madison] Park and nobody bothered us.”

The three represent another aspect of homelessness — those who lead nomadic lifestyles.

“There are definitely different breeds of us,” says Toedoe. “There’s Deadheads, train kids, festy kids, trustafarians, gutter punks, street punks.

Just traveling dirty kids I guess.”

Their presence in Madison is a ritual.

“I’ve been working the downtown beat area for six years now, and I’ve come across the ‘travelers’ aka ‘train hoppers’ aka ‘children of the dirt’ each summer without fail,” reports Madison police officer Shawn Kelly. “It almost seems like their yearly summertime visits are a common rite of passage for downtown Madison, similar to how it wouldn’t be a proper summer in downtown Madison without Concerts on the Square, the farmers’ market and other festivals.

I believe that the allure of the State Street atmosphere is known among their community, so word gets out about making a stop.”

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Josie says she thinks of herself as home-free rather than homeless. She, Bumblebee and Toedoe all say they are part of the Dead family — the groupies who followed the Grateful Dead on tour, and endure as a community since the band’s demise. The three also consider themselves part of the Rainbow family, a nomadic group that has been traveling since the 1970s, congregating at annual gatherings.

They get around in various ways, by ridesharing, hitchhiking and jumping freight trains.

Toedoe and Bumblebee are originally from New York, Josie is from Wisconsin. “I love traveling; it is humbling,” Josie says. “I used to get caught up in materialistic things. That is what I like about [traveling], not having to worry about that anymore. You appreciate every cup

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From left to right, Toedoe, Bumblebee, Josie and Bumblebee’s dog, “Black Dog,” hangout on State Street during a brief stay in Madison.

The city is a popular destination for “traveling dirty kids” or “gutter punks” in the summer.

of coffee and every cigarette and every bite of food that much more.”

Bumblebee says he has cut all ties from before he started traveling. “I got my guitar, my dog and my backpack.”

It is common for traveling people to be estranged from their families, Josie says.

“Most people on the road have really bad relationships with their family, and that is why they travel.”

Josie started her life on the road after dropping out of UW-La Crosse at 19.

“I was really depressed and didn’t know what I was doing with my life. I was walking around downtown after bar time, and I came up on a street kid,” she says. “I’m 19 and I’ve never seen street kids or knew about the lifestyle. I didn’t even realize people hitchhiked still. He told me about it, and I was like, ‘fuck yeah, I’m doing that.’

“I put all my shit on the curb and left and hitchhiked to California,” says Josie, who is now 25. “I’ve been hooked on it ever since, just meeting the new people and seeing the new sunrise in a different place.”

Toedoe has been on the road for three years. He says traveling helped him overcome drug addiction. “You’re on the streets, so there are drugs everywhere, but you just keep moving,” he says. “I’m addicted to traveling now.”

Bumblebee is from Ithaca, New York. He says met some people who came to Ithaca for a Rainbow gathering. After the gathering, Bumblebee tagged along with one of his new friends to Michigan and has been traveling ever since.

Tami Fleming is chair and director of operations of Friends of State Street People, which distributes food, clothing and supplies to homeless people around down-

town. Although the travelers may portray their lifestyle as a choice, Fleming says there’s usually more to the story.

“I think if you talk to people about their childhood, you’ll find a lot of them were runaway or throwaway youths or struggle with childhood trauma,” Fleming says. Most of the travelers she has met haven’t been able to keep a regular job, but they often do seasonal work, which fits their lifestyle.

“Sometimes there is maybe a cognitive disability, learning disability, addiction or subtle mental illness that kind of keeps a lot of people that travel from fitting in,” Fleming says. “I’m not saying everyone is like that, but when I’ve sat down and really gotten to know people, that is a very common thread.”

Life on the road is not without challenges.

“You’ve got to be careful traveling by yourself,” Bumblebee says.

Fleming agrees. “It is really a dangerous lifestyle,” she says. “I know lots of young women and young men who have been sexually assaulted and beaten, gotten all their things stolen again and again. People are cruel in a lot of places to these folks.

“It is not a glamorous life, it is not fun,” Fleming adds. “Kids go hungry, kids go without consistent medical care, and then their health problems get really bad by the time they finally get treatment.”

Madison police report that while the travelers are generally all nice folks, they do sometimes cause problems or become victims.

“Throughout my 19 years of working on the street, I’ve had to toss aside first-impression theories,” writes officer Rhonda Hennessey in an email. “Most often when I encounter these ‘home-free’ individuals, their

appearance is one of ‘unclean; gruff; angry at the world.’ What I have discovered, however, is despite an extra layer of dirt; most of these folks are kind individuals. They are simply choosing [to live] a worry-free day-to-day existence.”

Kelly agrees that most are nice, but says “I have had some of my more dangerous contacts with a few of them over the years. Many are often highly intoxicated; some drug addicted.

Members are known to carry knives, and some have unpredictable dogs as traveling companions.” Bumblebee did in fact carry a large knife and appeared intoxicated.

“The group this summer seemed to have arrived late, but they have been mostly polite and cordial,” Kelly adds. “However, most are constantly drinking alcohol, panhandling, swearing and sleeping in front of State Street business and residential doorways. Complaints are starting to come in at a steady pace.”

Bumblebee will soon hit the road again. He is crashing with a friend until Oct. 12 and then hitching a ride back to California, where he plans to spend the winter in Slab City. Toedoe and Josie have already taken flight. On Sept.

25, the two caught a ride on a “hippie bus” to North Dakota to join the pipeline protests.

Josie occasionally takes breaks from the road. She says she recently worked a few months at a Montana ski resort and spent a summer as a zip line guide in Tennessee. She also lived in Hawaii for 10 months working on an organic farm through WWOOF, which connects volunteers to small organic farms in exchange for room and board.

“I like to think that I am going to settle down someday, and ideally that would be on an organic farm, but every time I’ve worked on them and it’s like paradise, I still get antsy,” Josie says.

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Voice of a community La Comunidad News celebrates 25 years in Madison

BY ALLISON GEYER

When La Comunidad News launched in 1989, co-founder Dante Viscarra and his family had a vision that the publication would help connect the local Latino community.

Back then, there were only about 1,500 Latinos living in Madison, and about 50 families beginning to establish roots in the area, Viscarra recalls. Many were recent immigrants from Latin America, grappling with the difficulties of learning a new language and adapting to a new culture.

People in the community gathered periodically at social events, but there was no established Latino neighborhood or support network. “Families felt isolated,” Viscarra says. “I remember thinking, ‘We’ve got to integrate them, we need to keep them informed, we have to get them connected with resources.’”

In the last two decades, the Latino population has increased significantly in Dane County. La Comunidad has grown with it.

On Oct. 8, the publication will celebrate its 25th anniversary at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery. There will be music, dancing and food at the event, and La Comunidad will unveil its redesigned print and online platforms, a sign that the biweekly print paper and its corresponding website are still going strong in the digital era.

“Many people count the print era as being over, but there’s a new guard [in modern community journalism],” Viscarra says.

“Those things are happening over at our paper as well.”

Viscarra, and his parents, Rafael and Gladys Viscarra, founded La Comunidad as a quarterly Spanish-language newsletter aimed at highlighting local events and

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La Comunidad News is led by (from left) Luis Castillo, Rafael Viscarra, Gladys Viscarra and Dante Viscarra, pictured here outside the newspaper’s south Madison office.

people as well as providing a link to community resources for immigrants. “We would go to social events and sell the newsletter for $1 apiece, because we had no money to print,” Dante Viscarra recalls. Since then, La Comunidad has expanded to become a free, biweekly newspaper with more than 30,000 monthly readers.

Rafael Viscarra, who worked as a lawyer and a judge in his native Bolivia, felt strongly that Spanish speakers in Dane County needed to be engaged with the community and the democratic process. He worked with leaders from local organizations like Centro Hispano and Community Action Coalition to get the paper

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up and running and courted sponsorships to help fund the endeavor.

“In the beginning, it was a tough sell,” Dante Viscarra says, recalling how the family worked to convince advertisers that there were enough Latinos in the area to merit a niche publication.

Now, Latinos are Dane County’s largest nonwhite demographic, and its fastest growing. A 2014 U.S. Census Bureau report estimates the population at more than 32,000, but Viscarra thinks the true number is closer to 100,000.

“The census doesn’t tell the whole story,” he says, pointing out that undocumented immigrants typically don’t respond to the census.

He looks at clues from the community — the

frequency of baptisms and weddings, the growing number of Latino soccer teams, anecdotes from local Latino businesspeople about new families showing up in town.

Dante’s mother, Gladys Viscarra, serves as reporter and handles distribution, loading up her old Hyundai with hundreds of newspapers and delivering them, often starting her route before dawn. La Comunidad transitioned from the era of typewriters and oldschool layout techniques to the age of computer processing and, eventually, the internet.

Dante Viscarra, who studied computer programming as an undergraduate in California, helped push technological advances to keep the paper relevant and accessible.

“We’re ready,” Viscarra says, “for the next stage.”

The paper’s content has evolved as well, moving from community coverage into in-depth investigations, profiles of Latino community members and features on such political issues as immigration reform, voter ID and racial disparity. The paper has also served as a training ground for up-and-coming journalism students seeking to expand their knowledge of multicultural issues.

Jason Stein, who now covers state politics for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, wrote for La Comunidad from 2002 to 2003 when he was a UW-Madison master’s student.

“It helped me build a portfolio as a journalist, and it gave me a better understanding of the issues that Latino immigrants face,” Stein says. “Understanding how they live their lives, what challenges they face, what contributions they make, what problems they contribute to — all those things give a much richer understanding of one of the groups that gets plugged in to the whole mosaic of the country.”n

Stress control Madison police to try out yoga and meditation in a new UW study

BY ELISA WISEMAN

Seven and a half hours of boredom, plus 30 minutes of terror.

That’s how Dr. Michael Spierer, a Madison-based psychologist, describes the typical police officer’s shift. Eight hours of paperwork and petty crime, with the knowledge that a high-pressure and dangerous turn of events may be just around the corner. Chronic stress is inherent to the job, he says.

In an effort to help officers cope, the Wisconsin Center for Healthy Minds and the Madison Police Department have teamed up for a pilot study to research the effects of mindfulness practices, including yoga and meditation, on officers’ mental health.

While this type of research is relatively new, some officers practice mindfulness techniques in their personal lives, and have found it’s made them better at their jobs. Madison Detective Samantha Kellogg started practicing yoga and meditation about 10 years ago, and she’s excited to see mindfulness potentially take on a bigger role for officers.

“The transformation I’ve seen in myself in dealing with day-to-day stress has made a remarkable difference,” she says. “In any given situation, I can go to my breath, and it can affect my ability to think and my ability to control the trauma response that so many officers and first responders fear, from the heart rate, to the adrenaline jump, to just processing it. There are so many things that affect you with that ongoing build of day-today stress, this is just a positive tool to deal with it.”

According to Capt. Kristen Roman, the department’s point person for the study, nine out of 10 officers will experience a traumatic event of some kind in their first years

on the job. She’s hopeful that the department could eventually teach these mindfulness strategies at the police academy, so that new recruits can begin their careers with these skills already under their belts.

Roman says that while there’s been plenty of research on mindfulness training and stress reduction in other arenas, it’s never been studied in-depth for policing.

“It’s one of the first studies of its kind,” Roman says. “Cultivating greater awareness through meditation practices, gentle yoga, thoughts — it’s a being present in the moment kind of thing. What our study will involve is tailoring all of that to deliver it to police officers.”

The study’s been a year in the making, says Dan Grupe, an assistant scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Healthy Minds. He and his team spent the last year working with Roman to put together a set of goals that would best address officers’ needs. They discovered that it isn’t just the obvious risk of trauma that burdens police, but also the day-to-day administrative work that contributes to a pattern of chronic stress.

“You’ve got a large bureaucratic organization where there isn’t a lot of control over the work that they do...and there’s this cumulative world of stressors that builds up around it,” says Grupe. “They only have room

for so much programming, and a lot of the programs they have in place to address officer well-being are more responsive. They respond to traumatic events that happen, but there aren’t a lot of programs that are more preventative, that can kind of build up a coping system in anticipation of the stressors that are going to take place.”

The center will conduct an eight-week training session on what they call “mindfulness-based resiliency training,” meant to control stress. The curriculum, which will teach breath and body scan exercises, gentle yoga and meditation, is based on a similar study from a few years ago with Oregon’s Hillsboro Police Department. The center was not involved in that study.

Chad McGehee, an outreach specialist at the center, says that they’ll also teach the cognitive processes going on behind each exercise, in hopes of addressing any skepticism from officers.

The short-term goal is just establishing feasibility, Grupe says. The pilot study, which is tentatively slated to begin in November, will act as a trial period, to test out what a more in-depth exploration would call for. He anticipates it would take years, and a lot more money, to research the mindfulness effects as deeply as he’d like to.

Regardless, the study represents a groundbreaking move for policing, says McGehee, and enthusiasm has been high on both ends.

“It’s pretty cutting edge what we’re offering here...and the level of collaboration that we’re having with MPD has been great,” he says. “It’s been a mutual process from the beginning and continues to be so. It’ll allow us to have more success, and be of a greater benefit to the officers.” n

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A Chicago environmental legal advocacy group is scrutinizing the Driftless Area west of Madison and the damage that could be done there with construction of a high-voltage American Transmission Company power line.

The ATC project would carry electricity from Dubuque County, Iowa, to Middleton along 500 steel towers, each one 10 to 15 stories tall.

The Environmental Law and Policy Center has led a number of successful advocacy campaigns designed to protect natural resources throughout the Midwest. In 2003, the group led the effort to get a court order that halted accelerated logging in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, safeguarding 22,000 acres of forestland.

One of the tactics that makes the center successful is its Science Advisory Council. Susan Mudd, the group’s senior policy advocate, says, “Each scientist contributes pro bono advice and connects us with other experts and research that relates to our work.”

One of these experts is Don Waller, a UW-Madison professor of botany and environmental studies. “This Driftless Area Project and the transmission corridor is a new approach,” Waller says. “Instead of just focusing on one issue, we are looking at the range of threats now and in the future for a particular region and how those threats can be addressed in an effective and collaborative way.”

Waller has studied how development and forest fragmentation diminishes plant diversity. “Similar work has been done on birds,” he says. “Everything clearly indicates that when extensive edges are created, such as when you install a power line corridor, you reduce habitat and diminish local diversity within the remaining patches of habitat.”

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David Clu er, executive director of Dri less Area Land Conservancy, points out a potential powerline corridor near Brigham County Park to Howard Learner, executive director of the Chicago-based Environmental Law and Policy Center.

On Sept. 19, center staff and board members joined their counterparts at the Driftless Area Land Conservancy, a 15-year-old Dodgeville-based land trust, to tour the two proposed power line corridors, traveling through some of the area’s most fragile environments.

The tour began at the panoramic vista from Brigham County Park, where Mark Mittelstadt, a forester and Conservancy board member, pointed out that towers twice as tall as the trees in the woodlands below could cut directly across that view.

The Nature Conservancy has named the Military Ridge Prairie Heritage Area — which contains 95,000 acres of grassland in Dane and Iowa counties — a priority area to protect because it provides habitat for declining species. With more than 60 prairie remnants,

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Waller points out that predators of native birds like raccoons, skunks, bluejays and crows thrive by foraging in edge habitats created by intrusions like power corridors. “These predators make life miserable for the songbirds who are trying to reproduce in the nearby habitat remnants.”

“Transmission corridors also act as avenues of invasion by species that thrive in open habitats, including both opportunistic predators and weedy species of plants,” Waller says. “Workers managing the corridors sometimes accidentally introduce weedy invasive plants from their clothing and equipment.”

Waller adds a third destructive element. “Vegetation under the lines is controlled with a combination of cutting and herbicides, so we’re also concerned about herbicide drift.”

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Transmission lines proposed for the Dri less area are 10 to 15 stories tall.

Kaya Freiman, a spokesperson for ATC, says her company will comply with federal and state environmental requirements and anticipates that the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin also will prepare an environmental impact statement. “We have practices in place to minimize environmental impacts of our work,” Freiman writes in an email.

But David Clutter, executive director of the Driftless Conservancy, hopes to stop the project. “This is a unique area,” Clutter says. “Most people wouldn’t think of putting a power line across the Grand Canyon, so why would we think of putting one through one of the most beautiful and unique landscapes in the Upper Midwest?

We have a national treasure in the Driftless Area, and we should treat it like one.” ■

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On transportation, I stand with Scott Walker The governor’s budget is not bad. Really.

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Even if you are more skeptical than I am about the future of automated vehicles, it would be smart to emphasize existing road repair and to hold off on big, expensive superhighway expansions until all this shakes out.

But nobody is talking about that. Instead, transportation politics is making for all kinds of strange bedfellows. I (a liberal and the executive director of a bicycle advocacy organization) find myself agreeing with staunch conservatives like Walker. Yet, leading Democrats in the state Legislature are aligning with some top Republicans like Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) to call for higher taxes and more roadbuilding.

One of the things that gets bandied about in this debate is a 2013 report from the Transportation Finance and Policy Commission. That report found a deficit of several hundred million dollars per year in transportation spending and called for a series of tax increases, including a gas tax increase and increases in vehicle registration fees to fill the gap.

I served on that commission as an appointee of then Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller (D-Madison). I understood

that I was in the minority on a commission dominated by roadbuilding interests. But I worked with the group in good faith. Department of Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb chaired the effort with an even hand, and the commission members listened to my views and even accepted many of my policy recommendations.

But what followed is pretty much what I expected. Lawmakers have focused on the commission’s findings with regard to major highways, while the policy recommendations

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If you’re concerned about our environment, the condition of local roads and ways of getting around other than driving (like bicycling), then the transportation budget that Gov. Scott Walker has endorsed is a good start. Really, it is.

The governor is proposing significant increases in funding for local road aids and for repair and maintenance of state highways. What that means is that more potholes are likely to be filled and more rural highway shoulders paved — good news not just for local drivers but also for cyclists. And more smooth pavement means safer conditions and improved vehicle fuel mileage.

Despite the increases in support for local roads and state highway maintenance, the governor is proposing no new transportation taxes, and he’s reduced borrowing from the current budget’s record levels.

He accomplished that by delaying the completion of some major freeway expansions, most notably the Verona Road project here in the Madison area and the north leg of the Zoo Interchange in Milwaukee. But current phases of these projects would be completed.

Still, the governor would keep other big projects on schedule, like the widening of the stretch of I-90 between Madison and Beloit. If anything, he should have delayed that project and others in southeast Wisconsin as well.

That’s because advances in technology could make those expansions unnecessary.

Driverless cars will make every lane of highway much more efficient. One of the things that most affects traffic flow is the erratic weaving movements of drivers. Driverless vehicles will be able to function like trains, smoothing out traffic flow and increasing the capacity of every existing lane mile. With the federal government endorsing automated vehicles and with virtually every major auto manufacturer working on them, this isn’t a far-off fantasy, but a reality likely to happen within the next decade or so.

that convinced me to join the others in unanimous support for the report are being ignored.

For example, the report proposed a substantial increase in funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects and called for regional transportation authorities that could raise local revenues to support mass transit. And it suggested that we move toward a fee for every vehicle-mile driven so that we would create a direct relationship between how much we drive and the wear and tear we place on roads.

When drivers understand the costs of every mile driven, they might look for alternatives that are less taxing to our environment — and less taxing on themselves.

Yet these progressive parts of the report are not being talked about. We only hear that there’s a vague deficit and that it needs to be filled. We need to ask if every big highway project on the books is really necessary. In fairness, Vos has indicated a willingness to look at the per-mile fee, though it hasn’t gotten traction anywhere else.

Those who have criticized the governor for not confronting the long-term issues in transportation are correct. Even if we emphasize maintenance of state highways and local road aids, some new form of revenue, like the permile fee, has to be considered.

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But instead I read that once again MMSD is turning to an outside group of experts they’ve hired with the alliterative mission of building “culture, conditions and competencies of excellence and equity.” Whew.

That is a mouthful. I have not seen, in my decades teaching in Madison, great things from hiring outside experts who are contracted to change our schools’ culture.

MMSD has a problem. We are not alone.

It seems intractable in part because social conditions do not vigorously support healthy families and thoughtful parenting. There is just too much that too many are up against.

While this is not an excuse, we can’t ignore its impact on our schoolchildren. And yet, kids can, with support, still thrive in school.

Teachers feel under siege as more is put on our plates at the same time our voice, our right to collectively bargain and have a say in our work, is receding. Many teachers feel a disconnect between what “downtown” decides and how those decisions play out in our classrooms and impact our students.

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Missing from those quoted were students’ voices. When I asked my middle schoolers last spring how they felt about the way behavior is managed in our school, many told me that they thought grownups too often seemed afraid to confront bad behavior. And students who tended to misbehave said that it was easier to keep it together in classes where there were clear expectations, where sabotaging their own or others’ learning wasn’t really a choice. Only when the social contract seemed fuzzy did they feel empowered to act out. Sadly, when they did, they not only interrupted their own learning but others’ learning as well.

My students tried to explain how school might look if it were more “functional.” Kids seem to crave civility and just enough order in the hallways and lunchroom and playground to make them feel safe.

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Madison audiences are lucky to have access to exceptional performing arts options all year long. But the fall is special: That’s when companies launch their seasons, which, this time around, are full of awardwinning scripts and dynamite performances.

If you’re in the mood for a fairytale, Overture is hosting a touring version of Cinderella, Oct. 4-9. It features hometown girl and Tommy Award winner Tatyana Lubov in the title role. As the poster says, “glass slippers are so back.” At heart, it’s the same beloved story of a poor, mistreated stepsister who steals the prince’s heart. But when the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was remounted on Broadway in 2013, the show gained new characters — including a sympathetic stepsister — and now the heroine is fighting for social justice as well as her own happily ever after.

On campus, UW-Madison’s Department of Theatre and Drama begins its season with an irreverent and modern look at one of Anton Chekhov’s most famous plays, The Seagull. In Aaron’s Posner’s Stupid F*cking Bird, Oct. 20-Nov. 6, the characters and their romantic entanglements are taken straight from the source material. But the storytelling is innovative, exciting and funny — all words which are not generally associated with Chekhov. It will be a fun night of theater, whether you’re a Seagull fan or a newbie to Russian drama.

Speaking of drama, do not miss The Pleasure Of His Company: Our 40 Year Love Affair With William Shakespeare — With Randall Duk Kim and Anne Ochiogrosso at the Wisconsin Union Theater on Oct. 21.

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Bard’s unedited language. It’s also a homecoming for two of the visionaries who founded American Players Theatre in 1980. This evening celebrates the upcoming exhibit of the First Folio, Shakespeare’s original 1623 manuscripts, at the Chazen Museum, Nov. 3–Dec. 11.

Head out to American Players Theatre one last time this year for the final production, Mary’s Wedding, Oct. 28-Nov. 20. Stephen Massicotte’s beautiful and melancholy story of first love interrupted by World War I is set in a dream on the night before a young woman’s wedding. Directed by APT’s artistic director, Brenda DeVita, with choreography by Theater LILA’s Jessica Lanius, this production in the Touchstone Theatre is bound to be visually and emotionally stunning.

For important context in our ongoing conversations about race, the Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre presents Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit 67, Oct. 28-Nov. 12. Framed by the music of Motown and the riots in 1967, African American siblings Chelle and Lank argue bitterly as they try to imagine a way out of those turbulent times.

In another period piece exploring race, Madison Theatre Guild will present The Whipping Man, March 3-18, by Matthew Lopez. Set in Virginia at the end of the Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier comes limping home to find his estate in ruins. Two of his former slaves inhabit the house now, and the trio celebrates an awkward Passover together, marking the release of the Hebrew slaves from bondage in

Egypt in ancient times. Winner of an Outer Critics Circle New Play Award in 2011, critics have called the piece “haunting, striking and powerful.”

Four Seasons Theatre and Theatre LILA are collaborating on a re-imagined version of Big Fish, Dec. 2-11, a musical that pits a son rooted in reality against a father known for his tall tales. Instead of a big Broadway aesthetic, the creative team is putting its own spin on the production, using a small bluegrass ensemble and actors’ bodies to create stage pictures.

Forward Theater Company will bring a little piece of Ireland to Madison with John Patrick Shanley’s Tony-nominated play Outside Mullingar, Jan. 26-Feb. 12. It’s a quirky love story focused on two aging, introverted misfits — a rural cattle farmer and the woman who lives next-door — and their struggle to find happiness by overcoming family rivalries and a bitter land feud.

Children’s Theater of Madison celebrates the silliness and genius poetry of Dr. Seuss with Seussical, Feb. 25-March 12. The musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty is based on many beloved books, including Horton Hears a Who! and Green Eggs and Ham. After a not-so-successful Broadway run, the production was retooled and has since been a hit with audiences of all ages.

And finally, I’m looking forward to seeing Mercury Players’ production of Tracy Letts’ sprawling epic August: Osage County, March 10-25. Three sisters return home to attend their father’s funeral and try to confront their abusive mother, an ill-tempered, drug-addicted cancer patient. Exploring the extremes of family dysfunction, The New York Times called this Pulitzer Prize-winning play “fiercely funny and bitingly sad.”

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wash-like bright color, Castillo’s pleasing expressions almost appear to pulsate with movement and celebratory life.

Not affiliated with Overture, but housed high under the same roof, the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters’ James Watrous Gallery consistently presents some of the most challenging and beautiful visual works by state artists. The gallery’s latest offering is no exception: “Beading Culture: Raised Beadwork and the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin,” through Nov. 16, is an intricate exploration of the Iroquois Confederacy by contemporary Wisconsin Oneida artists. The artists’ raised beadwork spans new and traditional forms, including photographs and original works, animal imagery, rich textures and bold color. It’s an important show that evokes our region’s past while also reminding us of a vital living legacy.

The Chazen Museum scored a treasure when it landed “First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare” (Nov. 3-Dec. 11). Published in 1623, the First Folio is the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays, many of which would have been lost forever if two of the Bard’s fellow actors hadn’t sought to publish them. This rare and priceless book is now on tour and contains 36 plays, all of which you can page through at your leisure (actually, no, you probably won’t be encouraged to do that). An accompanying multi-panel exhibit explores the playwright’s significance throughout the ages. In conjunction with this and many other Shakespeare-related activities this fall and winter, the Chazen will also display “Presenting Shakespeare: Posters from Around the World” Oct. 14-Dec. 11.

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Madison’s fall visual arts season kicks off this year with something truly special: MMoCA’s Wisconsin Triennial 2016, which runs through Jan. 8. This is a major exhibition from Wisconsin painters, sculptors, printmakers and other talented visual artists featuring a rich array of styles and expressions. A couple of highlights: the dreamlike ceramics of Craig Clifford, futuristic glowing glasswork by Helen Lee, a haunting softly focused realist painting by Daniel O’Neal and a stark, fierce animal drawing by Colin Matthes. For sheer variety and the fun of discovery, this show is a consistent dazzler.

Always worth the wait, this big MMoCA show also has some fine company in other venues, large and small.

Two photographers who served tours of duty in Vietnam nearly 50 years ago have reunited to create a powerful show, “The Vietnam War and Its Lasting Impact: The Photography of Robert Seitz and Peter Finnegan.” The exhibit in the Playhouse Gallery at the Overture Center, which runs through Oct. 16, was curated by Housing Initiatives in conjunction with efforts to address veterans’ homelessness. Often raw and guileless as the snaps in a family photo album, these human-scale portraits are warmly composed and tinged with sadness.

The smiling — and sometimes eerily familiar faces — are haunting and unforgettable.

Madison’s Latino artists get a turn in the spotlight at the Latino Art Fair in Overture’s Rotunda Lobby through Oct. 15. This year’s winner is painter Leticia Castillo, whose Legends of Mexico City explores traditional Mexican myths of time and place through depictions of subjects such as folkloric dance. With simplicity and the use of soft,

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There’s no shortage of high-quality dance performances in Madison, but sadly, there is sometimes a shortage of audience members.

We have dedicated dance fans, but some people seem a bit intimidated. I’ve had friends admit they’re curious about dance but don’t seek it out because they “don’t understand it.”

You don’t have to “get it” to enjoy a dance performance. Maybe you’ll be wowed by the dancers’ artistry and athleticism, or perhaps you’ll be struck by how the music influenced the choreographer. This season presents so many opportunities for you to be moved by dance — don’t be shy.

After canceling their full-length ballet Peter Pan last spring due to financial woes, Madison Ballet is back on their toes again.

The company’s comeback show, Black/ White, takes place on the intimate Drury Stage of the Bartell Theatre on Oct. 14-15. A study in contrasts, it will begin with excerpts from Balanchine’s masterpiece The Four Temperaments. The George Balanchine Trust tightly controls which regional companies get permission to perform the master’s revered works, so local balletomanes are fortunate to have an opportunity to see this piece. The show also includes artistic director W. Earle Smith’s hip-hop inflected Street, set to music from Black Violin.

UW-Madison’s dance department turns 90 this year, and the faculty is planning a number of concerts, special alumni events and guest artists in residence during the 2016-2017 season. Assistant professor Kate Corby’s company, Kate Corby & Dancers, will be part of the celebration, with Oct. 20-22 performances of Compass at Lathrop Hall’s Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space.

You’ll see why Dance Magazine in 2011 declared Corby a choreographer to watch. Corby’s work, always smart and challenging, has only gotten richer, reflecting her democratic

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process of generating dances through improv sessions. The concert will include her newest work, a duet for Ben Law and Chih-Hsein Lin, a real-life couple exploring the push/pull of their relationship. Chicago-based Hedwig Dances presents a reworked version of Tradewinds.

Kanopy Dance Company’s season opener Nov. 11-13 at Overture’s Promenade Hall, Martha Graham: [R]evolution in Black and White, continues to honor Graham’s legacy while also mounting new works. The choreographer’s groundbreaking Heretic from 1929 is being staged by Miki Orihara, a former principal

dancer with Graham’s company, who will also perform the solo Resonance. Martin Løfsnes, another former Graham dancer and artistic director of his own 360° Dance Company, returns to Madison with the world premiere of his Ritual.

Løfsnes and Greg Blackmon will dance the duet As Yet Untitled. Look for pieces from co-artistic directors Lisa Thurrell and Robert E. Cleary and an appearance from Chicago-based dancer Zada Cheeks (I dare you to try to take your eyes off him when he’s performing).

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view an amazing performance that is no longer available for audiences to enjoy. That’s why you’re getting a heads-up about some one-night stands worth seeing.

Liz Sexe, UW dance lecturer and member of Li Chiao-Ping Dance, presents TWO: Exploring Duos at Madison Circus Space on Oct. 15. She’s asked her “Madison dance crushes,” local female choreographers, to create new duets for her and others she will be dancing with.

Two touring companies that have long been delighting audiences around the globe will be making quick stops in Madison. On Feb. 23, the always innovative Pilobolus performs Shadowland at Wisconsin Union Theater’s Shannon Hall, layering modern dance with multimedia shadow play.

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo swoops into Overture Hall on Feb. 24 to dazzle you with their wit and campiness.

But underneath that veneer is really great dancing from this all-male troupe, whose members perform in drag (tutus and pointe shoes) with aplomb.

I’m also excited to see the Chicago troupe The Seldoms at Wisconsin Union’s Fredric March Play Circle on Jan. 27. The acclaimed troupe combines movement, image, sound and text (and 75 suspended chairs) for thought-provoking dance theater.

Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group is far and away the dance company with the best tagline: “Not Just Your Mama’s Post-Modern Dance Company.” The Brooklyn-based group presents a piece called CITIZEN at Overture Center’s Capitol Theater on Jan. 10. It’s a timely piece about belonging and surviving, inspired by Wilson’s research into why some black artists (like Zora Neale Hurston) stayed in the United States to create art while many others departed for European cities.

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The coming season shows much promise for classical music lovers, with performances by our smaller ensembles as well as our world-class symphony orchestra.

The Madison Bach Musicians will be at the First Unitarian Society Oct. 7 and 9, presenting “English Music from the Renaissance and Baroque.” The excellent ensemble will offer vocal and instrumental works, some related to current Shakespeare celebrations.

On Oct. 14, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra under the leadership of Andrew Sewell will bring lean sonorities to Tchaikovsky’s dashing Violin Concerto, with Russian virtuoso Ilya Kaler as soloist. Framing that will be a spritely Symphony No. 5 by the 18th-century Englishman William Boyce, plus Schubert’s youthful but surprisingly powerful Symphony No. 4, the “Tragic.”

The Madison Symphony Orchestra, under John DeMain, turns to its second program of the season Oct. 21-23. Elgar’s surging and too-little-heard overture In the South (Alassio) and Beethoven’s beloved Pastorale Symphony, the Sixth, will be followed by Max Bruch’s perennially popular Violin Concerto No. 1. The Norwegian

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virtuoso Henning Kraggerud will be soloist, and also play a composition of his own.

November brings a feast of opera. On Nov. 4 and 6, the Madison Opera will present the first of its three productions this season — Gounod’s rapturous French setting of Shakespeare’s beloved Romeo and Juliet, with Madison’s own Emily Birsan as Juliette.

And the University Opera tackles Verdi’s Falstaff, the great comedy — and another opera derived from Shakespeare — on Nov. 11, 13 and 15.

The MSO also performs Nov. 11-13 with guests Christine and Michelle Naughton playing Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos.

Debussy’s colorful ballet score, Le Printemps (Spring), and that roof-raiser among Shostakovich’s symphonies, the Fifth, also will be included.

The standout in December will be the sixth of Madison Bach Musicians’ annual “Baroque Holiday Concerts.” The Dec. 10 concert at the First Congregational Church mixes some interesting instrumental curiosities by Biber and Telemann with Renaissance choral pieces and a Christmas cantata (No. 122) by Bach.

When activities resume in January, the MSO will lead off with a pair of concerts (Jan. 14-15) outside its normal season schedule. They bring back the highly successful “Beyond the Score” format, this one devoted to Rimsky-Korsakov’s brilliant Scheherazade.

On Jan. 27, Andrew Sewell, with his compact WCO, will renew his focus on the monumental symphonies of Anton Bruckner with the Third, considered the composer’s first truly mature work in the form. The program will also include the contrasting Symphony No. 30 of the young Mozart and the unusual Guitar Concerto No. 2 by the Spanish-born Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, with guest Ana Vidovic as soloist.

On Feb. 10 and 12, we’ll get a chance to see a genuine novelty: the new opera by jazz composer Daniel Schnyder, Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, which dramatizes the life of the famous saxophonist. This Madison Opera production will be only the second time the jazz opera has been performed since premiering in Philadelphia in 2015. n

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It doesn’t matter if your most personal connection to agriculture is that one time your grandpa drove you around Grant County to show you the farm where his mother was born. The World Dairy Expo is cool, and there are a number of reasons to hang out there: Swag. With all those exhibitors, there’s ample opportunity to grab some goodies even if you don’t know a Class III dairy price from a Class C felony. There is no shortage of pens, koozies, note pads and tote bags, not to mention samples of cheese and

other nibbly things being given away. Many freebies get nabbed by the high school FFA crowds, but if you’re really lucky you can snag a mouse pad or whoopee cushion from an exhibitor from Tennessee called Big Ass Solutions (the producer of Big Ass Fans).

Food. For almost a week, the best lunch in town is a grilled cheese sandwich and milkshake from the UW’s Badger Dairy Club tent. It will set you back a whole $3. The club will sell about 30,000 sandwiches, with a different cheese selection daily. The ice cream stand (sponsored by milking equipment

giant GEA), also with a changing menu, is always a big deal, too. New this year is a Dairy Happy Hour with free snacks for Expo visitors at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily.

Technology. The Expo illustrates that modern agriculture is a spaceage enterprise mixed with a monster truck show. Robotic milkers are simply mesmerizing. Many of the health and genetic innovations for the animals give a hint of what might be in store for the future of human life on this planet.

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A lot of Madison-area people see the World Dairy Expo only as an event for farmers and others involved the dairy industry. That’s a pity. There’s a lot there for city folks as well.

More than a reason to clog up the Beltline and absorb a swath of hotel rooms that reaches to the Dells, the Dairy Expo is an economy-boosting event that this year celebrates its 50th anniversary of exhibiting the world’s finest dairy cattle and cutting-edge dairy technology. More than 70,000 people are expected to visit from approximately 90 countries.

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Breeds. Last year MilkSource of Kaukauna earned a historic triple crown with three animals of three different breeds from the same farm taking top honors in their classes

— Jersey, Holstein, and the Red and White Holstein. Those are just three of the breeds dubbed by former Wisconsin governor and dairy guru W.D. Hoard as “The Foster Mothers of the Human Race.” The other four, also at the Expo, are Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Guernsey and Milking Shorthorn.

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I love brunch, almost unreservedly, and it broke my heart when the yolks in the complimentary hard-boiled eggs at the bar were deeply gray-green, and the sopapilla strips were still raw dough in places — not even an improvement over fast-food French toast sticks. Was this for real?

Service lapses included the young hostesses braiding each others’ hair at the main entrance.

Yet after all this, certain elements still managed to charm me. An excellent bloody mary was made with optional horseradish vodka, and I liked the crisp and zingy bang bang shrimp (available alone in an appetizer, or in taco form). And surprisingly, the chorizo, the CCQ and the boring guacamole come together to build a surprisingly effective breakfast burrito.

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There’s been a lot of talk about Me & Julio, the most recent occupant of the Fitchburg spot that’s been home to Veranda, the Continental, La Paella and L’Escargot, but it hasn’t been about the food.

You might have heard about the live alligators brought in for the grand opening.

And the massive (and unrelated) house explosion that occurred in late August about 500 feet away across South Fish Hatchery Road. The restaurant (a second branch of the original Me & Julio in Hastings, Minnesota) was unharmed.

These things don’t really matter to the evaluation of Me & Julio, though the alligator thing does speak to some potentially questionable judgment on the part of ownership. No, the only thing you need to talk about is the food. Is it any good?

I think one of the appeals of the “nightmare restaurant” reality shows hosted by Gordon Ramsay is the “this couldn’t possibly happen in my town” angle, the disbelief that such poor decisions could be made by restaurant professionals. Honestly, I wondered if I’d ever find one in Madison, a restaurant ecosystem I regularly defend to outsiders as punching above its weight.

Well, this isn’t quite Madison, but it counts. And it’s happening here.

I ordered the tortilla chips with guacamole and chili con queso (unnecessarily abbreviated as “CCQ” right after the name) and recognized the flavor of condensed cream of celery (I’m thinking) in the queso. And I was already balking at the $10 price tag, symptomatic of a rather pricy menu overall.

An oddly bitter chunk of something stuck to one surface of the otherwise decent Jucy Lucy-style stuffed cheeseburger, hinting at leftover food remnants burning on the griddle surface.

Scattered atop the enchiladas were bits of avocado that seemed both flaccidly braised and almost pickled. And that’s to say nothing of the enchiladas themselves, which had zero texture and barely enough structural integrity to hold a shape.

I was intrigued at the inclusion of puffy tacos, a specialty of the San Antonio area.

This couldn’t be what Me & Julio intended its puffy tacos to be, could it? This shattering taco salad-shell version wasn’t bad exactly, but certainly not the crisp exterior and tender interior that a puffy taco shell should have.

Pan-fried walleye seemed like a safe bet, but I set down my fork after two bites and declared the lukewarm, butter-logged, decidedly unsizzling fish a complete

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Cellar star Keller Brau from the Grumpy Troll A kellerbier is an unfiltered cellar beer historically served right out of the cask in which it was fermented. Because the style is unfiltered, the beer is unpasteurized, and can appear slightly hazy or cloudy. Keller Brau from the Grumpy Troll Brewpub and Pizzeria in Mount Horeb is a light golden lager that falls somewhere between a helles and a German pilsner. “Kellerbiers are not very available around here, and I wanted to introduce [the style] to folks,” says brewmaster Mark Knoebl.

Unfiltered cellar beers have a distinctive freshness from initial aroma to aftertaste/ finish. The use of Spalt hops lends a spiciness that rises above a hint of yeasty fruitiness of the cellar conditioning, making this a memorable beer. There’s also a touch of black pepper spiciness that adds to a subtle dry finish. I just got back from a trip to Austria and Germany for Oktoberfest, and while there, I made a point to try as many kellerbiers as I could. Knoebl’s Keller Brau ranks right up there with the best.

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Ten days of DIY food workshops and more at Fermentation Fest

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Invented more than a century ago at a New York City hotel, the Aviation is considered a classic cocktail that never quite managed to take off, perhaps due to the obscurity of one of its core ingredients, creme de violette.

The purple-hued, floral-scented liqueur, made from violet flowers and a brandy and/ or a neutral-spirit base, was all-but-unavailable in the U.S. until about 2007, when importers decided to bring it back.

These days, the Aviation is a lovely addition to the cocktail offerings at another hotel bar, Augie’s Tavern at the Edgewater.

The aforementioned elixir gives the Aviation its signature color, a whimsical lavender, along with a delicate, yet distinctive, flavor. Add some good gin, Luxardo maraschino liqueur, a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and garnish with a brandied cherry, and you have yourself a sweet, tart and utterly refreshing throwback.

Creme de violette also stars in another stellar original, the Spring Thaw, a vodkabased drink with elderflower, lemon and ginger syrup. But for a more seasonally appropriate palate-pleaser, try the Mini-Manhattan Project. This barrel-aged cocktail combines Templeton rye with three kinds of vermouth: Carpano Antica, Dolin Rouge and Punt e Mes. — ALLISON GEYER

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A total of 25,000 people — more than twice the population of Reedsburg — are expected to attend Fermentation Fest this year. The annual celebration of everything fermented kicks off Sept. 30 with a beer and appetizer tour through historic downtown Reedsburg.

Another main attraction of the 10-day festival is the Farm/Art DTour. The self-guided, 50-mile tour through rural Sauk County is peppered with temporary art installations, live performances and pop-up food markets.

But Fermentation Fest is more than a local food and art festival. It’s an annual boot camp for DIYers. More than 40 workshops will teach pickling, home cheesemaking, bread baking and a host of other fermented favorites.

Madison’s NessAlla Kombucha is offering beginning and advanced kombucha brewing classes. The effervescent, fermented tea (served cold) is made with a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast.

“Generally, when food is fermented it creates a slew of different kinds of bacteria, vitamins and probiotics that help your body process and digest food,” says Vanessa Tortolano, who owns NessAlla with longtime friend Alla Shapiro.

“People are interested in kombucha because they are seeking out a healthy lifestyle,” says Shapiro. “The experience of brewing your own fits right into that.”

Furthermore, “the science of how gut health is linked to emotional and mental health has really taken off lately,” Tortolano says.

If vegetable ferments pique your interest, dietitian Laura Poe is teaching Vegetable: Krauts, Pickles, Condiments and More. Faith Anacker — aka Dr. Fizz, the owner of Fizzeology Foods in Viroqua — leads a hands-on introduction to vegetable lacto-fermentation (sauerkraut, kimchi and brined veggies).

Shawn Rediske, owner of Waterhouse Foods in Lake Mills, really drills down into the bread, with different classes for whole-grain bagels, sourdough bread, sprouted grain loaves and rye and gluten-free yeast breads.

This will be the fourth year that Deirdre Birmingham, owner of the Cider Farm near Mineral Point, will be an instructor at Fermentation Fest. In the past, she mostly taught the history of hard cider with an accompanying tasting of different styles of what’s traditionally fermented apple juice.

This year, cider-making will play a more prominent role in her lesson plan.

“Interest in cider has really blossomed in recent years, and that has people interested in making their own,” says Birmingham. “We’ll go over the type of apples to use, the equipment needed. The whole fermentation process.”

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Nance Klehm will provide a crash course in foraging.

There are also a host of classes that stray from fermentation but stick with DIY food production. There’s Eco Printing and Dyeing, Beekeeping for Beginners, PlantBased Paper Making, Hand-Built Beer Steins and Coffee Mugs and the intriguingly named Riding Cookies and Pickles to Freedom (a workshop on best practices and pitfalls of self-employment).

Nance Klehm, self-declared “steward of the earth,” will lead two field trips on identifying edible and medicinal plants in both urban (in downtown Reedsburg) and rural (Sauk County’s White Mound Park) environments.

Klehm’s interest in foraging began over two decades ago when she first discovered the surprising abundance of life tucked away in the old industrial corridors of Chicago.

“On just a half-mile stretch, I realized I had seen 67 species that were unintentionally planted. No one’s managing those landscapes. No one’s weed-whacking them.

No one is spraying pesticides. All sorts of diversity was coming forward, and I was blown away,” says Klehm.

Dandelion, burdock, yellow dock, mallow and chickweed plants are common in Wisconsin and are typically categorized as invasive weeds — despite being edible or having medicinal properties. Klehm says once you are able to identify and recognize the value of these plants, the connection between landscapes and health emerges.

“I like showing people healthier ways of eating and taking care of their bodies,” says Klehm.

“My hope is it stirs some curiosity in people that gets them to not only care more about their own health but also the impact humans have on the land.”

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Tour highlights architectural and scientific discoveries

BY JAY RATH

For many of us, the agriculture campus at the UW-Madison is something we whiz by at 40 or more miles per hour on Campus Drive.

But for others the ag campus is a gem, a pastoral island in the middle of a city otherwise occupied with paperwork and politics.

Less than 2 miles from the Wisconsin Capitol, there are cows. Surely no other state can boast the same.

The historic agricultural campus will be showcased by the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, with 90-minute tours on Oct. 1, every half hour between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tours start at the Allen Centennial Gardens, 620 Babcock Drive.

Most of the buildings included were built between 1890 and 1917, when agriculture was at the center of the university’s reason for being. As biotech arose, in 1967 the ag college was renamed the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Research by its scientists, including Stephen Babcock, Harry Steenbock, Karl Paul Link and, more recently, Hector DeLuca, has resulted in improved animal and human nutrition, advances in plant genetics and life-saving drugs.

After Bascom Hall was built, the next building to be erected on campus was the Horse Barn, in 1868. It originally displayed elements of both Tudor and Queen Anne architecture. Just across Linden Drive is the 1915 Stock Pavilion, designed by the celebrated firm of Laird and Cret, under the direction of campus architect Arthur Peabody. The pavilion’s acoustics are so good that the Chicago and London Symphonies performed there, as did Paderewski and Rachmaninov. Next door, the 1868 artist-in-residence house is still standing, but slated for demolition, to accommodate expansion of Babcock Hall.

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This was the pastoral scene on the ag campus at U.W.-Madison circa 1900. In the background is the Dairy Barn, built in 1897.

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Nearby Hiram Smith Hall (1892), now nearly hidden, was a charming precursor to Craftsman style, with an exterior finish of pebbles. Once home to the entire dairy program, it likely is the only UW building with a second-floor screen porch. Almost adjacent, King Hall (1893) formerly sprouted a huge windmill on its western tower.

But the star of the tour will be the 1897 Dairy Barn. During construction it was hailed as an architectural wonder, and it helped the UW create what came to be known as “the Wisconsin Idea” — disseminating practical university research to state residents.

Experiments carried out at the barn led to the discovery of vitamin A in 1913 and vitamin B in 1915. But perhaps the most striking experiments at the Dairy Barn related simply to its design. It served as a model to farmers

internationally who had previously never seen a barn with cupola ventilation or a silo — arguably the first in the country.

The barn was named a National Historic Landmark in 2005.

The tour was created by emeritus professor Peter Gottlieb of the School of Library and Information Studies. “While I was putting the tour together, I was thinking about the roots of the Wisconsin Idea and how so many people have benefited from the research, teaching and outreach programs of the ag school,” says Gottlieb.

Tickets are $20/students, $25/Madison Trust members and $30/general admission.

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Diagnosis: Maybe Football could be safer than we think

BY MICHAEL POPKE

For several years, I regularly wrote about concussions and other injuries that occurred in youth and high school football. As a result, my wife and I decided our young son wouldn’t play the sport. He loved swimming and baseball; why risk a serious injury on the gridiron that could harm his performance in those other sports?

But recently I read about a new UW-Platteville study suggesting football in the absence of a concussion is no more dangerous to the brain than any other sport.

I was skeptical, but I also wondered if my wife and I made a mistake in not allowing our son to play.

“Maybe football isn’t as bad as we think,” says lead researcher Matthew Rogatzki, an assistant professor of health and human performance at UW-Platteville.

Rogatzki and his team of researchers measured two biomarkers of brain injury in blood serum before and after a UW-Platteville junior varsity football game last fall.

The biomarkers determine whether brain injury occurs when players experience subconcussive impacts — head impacts not serious enough to cause a concussion.

The results showed that serum biomarkers of brain injury increase following a football game, even in players not experiencing a concussion, which is what researchers expected. But Rogatzki was surprised that the increase in biomarker levels of players without concussions were no different than those of athletes in other sports such as running, swimming and basketball.

The study was published in the July issue of the International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology.

Although Rogatzki admits more research is necessary to prove that football is safer than previously thought, his initial work has the potential to be pioneering, and he’s collecting biomarker data from a wider sample of UW-Platteville football players this season.

Additionally, select Pioneers are wearing Riddell helmets equipped with technology to analyze the number and location of hits to the head. That data helps determine if biomarker levels correlate with hits.

“Currently, there is no single method of diagnosing concussion injury,” Rogatzki says. “Finding a biomarker to diagnose concussion will provide an objective test.”

Mike Emendorfer, head football coach and interim athletic director at UW-Platteville, says this research “has the potential to make the sport of football significantly safer at all levels.”

Rogatzki has applied for grant money from the National Institutes of Health to fund further studies, and he may partner with other universities conducting similar research.

“I would eventually love to take this to the NFL,” he says. n

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A vision for the arts John Baldacchino relocates from Scotland to run the UW’s Arts Institute

BY JAY RATH

John Baldacchino, the new director of UW-Madison’s Arts Institute, has no doubt about the quality of the arts programs offered here. But he believes there’s more to be done to raise the profile of the university. “In two weeks, I’m going off to New York, where our alumni from visual arts are doing a show downtown,” says Baldacchino. “There’s an opportunity there in terms of highlighting and bringing out the name of the university. That good name is there, but sometimes it’s hidden, so to speak.”

Baldacchino is a Renaissance man who has experience to back up his statement that “Wisconsin is special.” He arrived in late summer from the University of Dundee, Scotland, where he held a professorial chair of arts education at its School of Education and Social Work.

Before that, he taught and held various senior positions in universities in Britain and the United States, including Falmouth University and University of Warwick, both in England, and Columbia University in New York.

The Arts Institute was created in 1975 as the chancellor’s Arts Consortium, and it serves as the voice of the arts at the university. In July 2015 it became an independent UW division, which is significant, says Baldacchino. “That means that the university is investing in that vision in terms of enhancing and strengthening the arts presence within the academic sphere.”

Baldacchino’s “Deo Gratias,” acrylics on canvas.

Baldacchino will be filling the shoes of longtime theater and drama professor Norma Salvidar, who served as interim director for the division. Around 85 faculty members from across the university are affiliated with the institute, which places emphasis on interpretation and critical investigation, encouraging cross-pollination between different art forms and with non-art disciplines. For example, it hosts artists-in-residence and helps organize

the Wisconsin Film Festival and is a partner with UW Housing, running an arts-focused residence hall.

“I think the arts have a lot to contribute, not only to create aesthetically pleasing experiences,” Baldacchino says. “We know that the creative industry is very keen on students who come out with arts degrees. We know that artists make very good business persons. They work really hard.”

Again, Baldacchino speaks from experience. An accomplished visual artist, his main focus is painting, but he has also been trained in sculpture. “I prefer to work on large canvases, though lacking space I found myself working on smaller abstracts, which bring together figurative and landscape themes,” says Baldacchino, adding that he hopes to paint more now that he’s settling into Madison.

He has also written widely on the arts, philosophy and education. He’s currently working on the first volume of the WileyBlackwells Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education. He’s completing a book on philosopher Ivan Illich. “As soon as this is done I will be embarking on a short volume on the work of Giambattista Vico,” a polymath during the Age of Enlightenment. “Beyond these three projects I have already the outlines and bare bones of a couple of volumes, which will continue where I left with my book Art’s Way Out,” published in 2012.

He and his wife, Laura Falzon, are natives of Malta. In addition to teaching music at Columbia and New York Universities, she is a concert flutist who has performed in Europe, Asia and the United States. They live downtown, and she divides her time between Madison and New York City.

“She’s very excited about Madison,” says Baldacchino. “As much as I am.” n

DO touch the art An exhibit by and for those with vision loss

“Au Naturale,” by Elena Santin.

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Most artists don’t welcome gallery-goers to touch or listen to their art. But the five artists exhibiting at the Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired are not typical; all of them have experienced vision loss.

The exhibit, which is part of MMoCA’s Gallery Night on Oct. 7, is also designed for those with vision loss in mind.

This year’s exhibit includes photography

by Elena Santin and Mike Morris, ceramics

by Judith Rasmussen, wood carvings by Don McCall and woodwork by George Wurtzel.

The art is made accessible for attendees with vision loss through audio descriptions, by allowing patrons to touch art works and by placing art at eye level to be viewed more easily by people with limited vision.

Santin, a Madison high school student, was born blind with congenital glaucoma. Through surgery when she was an infant, she was able to gain some sight. She began drawing in preschool, using brightly colored markers because they were easier to see. “As I went through elementary school, it became an outlet for me — a way to relieve stress,” Santin says. Beginning in eighth grade, she took up photography. Her highcontrast nature images, shot through filters, are meant to evoke concern for the environment.

Wurtzel, who lives in Napa, California, was born blind. He has a background in architectural millwork and creates highly tactile art works, such as bowls and boxes. He chose to participate in the show, he says, “to show the world art is in your brain, not in your eyes.”

Morris was 38 when the effects of myopic macular degeneration began to affect his vision. That’s when he began exploring nature photography.

McCall began working with wood at a young age and continued woodworking in his

early career as a carpenter in Madison. In 1983, an eye injury in a construction accident resulted in total blindness in McCall’s left eye; in 2007, a stroke left him with limited vision in his right eye. McCall’s carvings include songbirds, waterfowl, birds of prey, fish, caricatures and wind spirits. He obtains basswood from northern Wisconsin and makes platform bases from a variety of woods, including driftwood he picks on the Pacific Ocean shores when visiting family in Oregon.

The Oct. 7 Gallery Night event begins at 5 p.m. at the offices of the Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired, 754 Williamson St. Gallery talks from the artists begin at 6 p.m. The exhibit runs through Nov. 18. n

Capturing Madison Longtime photographer Glenn Trudel has a major retrospective

BY JAY RATH

Over a 40-year career, photographer Glenn Trudel artfully encapsulated the small moments and big events that made up life in Madison.

Local editors and reporters instantly recognized his photos, and Trudel contributed images to many newspapers and magazines, including Isthmus. “It was a great run,” recalls Trudel, whose current focus is on portrait photography.

Starting Sept. 30 and through Oct. 31, visitors will be able to see a retrospective of Trudel’s large body of work at the Goodman Community Center. An Oct. 7 opening event coincides with Madison’s Gallery Night.

“Glenn was notable for his artistry in printing black-and-white — deep, deep tones of black and voluptuous, creamy whites,” recalls Ron McCrea, former senior editor of the The Capital Times, who coined the phrase “candid metaphor” to describe Trudel’s trademark eye.

“Glenn Trudel’s photographs consistently create a tangible human connection between the photographer and the viewer that is difficult to achieve,” says Andy Kraushaar,

Trudel’s “After the Willy Street Parade,” circa 1978.

visual materials curator at the Wisconsin Historical Society. “Trudel is a photographer’s photographer, creating a delicate balance between subject, lighting and composition.”

“Time Lapse,” the name of the upcoming exhibit and accompanying book, features Trudel’s black-and-white photos from the 1970s through

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1990s, when photography was a matter of film, negatives and chemical baths. Time, moving and mishaps conspired to make many of Trudel’s original prints and negatives vanish. Kraushaar was instrumental in preserving and digitizing many of the photographer’s “work prints” — in predigital times, a photographer’s first drafts.

Trudel was 6 when his family immigrated to the United States from Belgium.

He grew up on the East Coast and bounced around the country, teaching himself photography and finally landing in Madison.

Trudel became a photographer for the student paper The Daily Cardinal even though he wasn’t enrolled at UW-Madison.

His talent was recognized by McCrea and Bob Rashid, who helped lead The Press Connection, a short-lived cooperative newspaper created in 1977 by striking employees of The Capital Times and the Wisconsin State Journal. It lasted through early 1980.

“I am proud to this day to have spotted him and helped give his work a following,” says McCrea. “Trudel was less a photojournalist than an art photographer. He might be sent to a fire and come back with wonderful pictures of icicles. He captured spirited portraits of Madison — of boys riding an inner tube, of Madison old-timers, of the Dalai Lama here on a visit.” n The opening celebration for “Time Lapse” is Oct. 7, 5-7 p.m., at the Goodman Community Center.

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The glass slipper fits. Tatyana Lubov, a 23-year-old from Cottage Grove, is making her national tour debut as a Disney princess. The recent graduate of UW-Stevens Point is playing the lead in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s updated classic, Cinderella.

Lubov has been performing on local stages since she was a child. She was in the ensemble of a community theater production of Evita. She fell in love with the stage when playing young Cosette in a local production of Les Misérables. As a teen, she won several of Overture Center’s Tommy Awards: Outstanding Leading Performer in 2010 (as Natalie in All Shook Up) and 2011 (as the title role in Aida).

Lubov had been in New York City for only four months when she auditioned for the touring production. “It was an open, non-Equity [non-union] call. I showed up really early, and I was already person 412!” she says.

The casting directors only had time to see the first 200 people, and they told the remaining hopefuls to send in an audition video instead. Lubov says she got excited when she noticed the Tatyana Lubov was cast as number of views for her video skyrockCinderella a er just four months eting. Over the course of the next two in New York City. months she was called in for multiple callback auditions before the creative team announced she’d be playing Ella.

Lubov will be traveling across the U.S. and Canada with Cinderella until June 2017. The show opens Sept. 27 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and moves to Overture Center on Oct. 4. Isthmus talked to Lubov about falling in love with theater and what to expect in the modern version of Cinderella.

What was the first musical you saw as a kid?

My parents took me to see Beauty and the Beast. They say I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.

What’s your dream role, apart from Cinderella?

I’ve always really wanted to play Christine in Phantom of the Opera. I think it’s one of the coolest shows of that genre.

Who inspired you to become a performer?

I definitely wouldn’t be where I am if I didn’t have the support of my parents.

My mom was my choir teacher. [Lori Nahirniak, Monona Grove High School choir director and music teacher]. My dad [Taras Nahirniak, a composer] was my musical director a couple of times. I grew up in a very music-centered home.

Do you think it will be nervewracking performing in Madison, or will it feel like coming home?

I’m definitely a little anxious. My mom told me she has 150 students coming for the last performance. I’ll probably be more excited than scared.

How has the Cinderella story been updated?

It’s very contemporary. Ella is a much stronger character; she’s politically involved in what’s happening in the kingdom. They really focused on making her an equal with the prince. I think that’s important for little girls coming to see the show. ■

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Beautiful music, distracting backdrop Symphony season opener features video that misses the point

BY JOHN W. BARKER

Madison Symphony Orchestra opened its 2016-17 season with a mixed bag, experimenting with a video presentation that detracted from the excellent music.

Two short works constituted the first half of the program, which opened Sept.

23. The youthful Georges Enescu (18811955) scored hits with a pair of “nationalist” works, two Romanian rhapsodies, evoking dance melodies and rhythms of his native country. He went on to become a prolific composer of “serious” music, as well as one of the leading violinists and mentors of his time. The MSO played the first of the two rhapsodies, following in the traditions of folk-dance compositions

by Liszt, Brahms and Dvorak. Maestro John DeMain whipped up quite a party with it.

Rather than inviting a guest soloist for the season opener, the orchestra instead featured someone from the ranks. Concertmaster Naha Greenholtz played the “Chaconne,” a spinoff from John Corigliano’s film score for The Red Violin. It has a virtuosically fluffy solo part in a mis-

managed re-creation of the Baroque variations form of the chaconne.

Greenholtz was certainly effective in her florid role.

The program’s second half ostensibly offered one of the greatest orchestral scores of the 20th century, the suite The Planets, by Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Unfortunately, the music was played against an HD video compilation of NASA photographs. Many of these are remarkably impressive, and would be fascinating if accompanied by a lecturer who could help audience members identify what they are seeing. The trouble is, the video has nothing whatsoever to do with Holst’s music.

The video deals with the planets as astronomical objects. Holst’s suite reflects the composer’s fascination with mythology, mysticism and East-

ern thought. He thus portrayed the planets in astrological terms, grounded in ideas about how they, in their interactions with each other and us, have varied influences on us. The seven movements are musical contemplations of war, peace, fleetness, jolly fun, aging and death, trickery and infinity.

Not an orbital rock in sight!

I wonder how many attendees to this program — especially those hearing the Holst score for the first time — really paid much attention to the extraordinary music. Against the distraction of the video, the music (superbly realized in color and moods by the MSO) was reduced to background music for the film. n

Concertmaster Naha Greenholtz played the “Chaconne.”

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Wait, what? “Based on a true story of real life heroes”? Wasn’t the Deepwater Horizon that total cluster-you-know-what of incompetence and corporate greed that spilled an ungodly amount of oil all over the Gulf of Mexico? Yes, it is. But this is not that story. This movie doesn’t even get into the oil spill itself — which went on for months and is still the biggest ever anywhere — or the cleanup and long-term impact of what turned out to be the worst U.S. environmental disaster to date. Nope, this is just about the explosion on that offshore oil-drilling rig, in April 2010, and the immediate aftermath for those onboard, most of whom were just regular grunts who weren’t to blame for the disaster.

Ah, but were they heroes, or just poor schmoes unlucky enough to get caught up in catastrophe? Well, at least some of what Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg), Deepwater Horizon’s chief electronics technician, did in the hellscape that the rig became definitely qualifies as heroism of the “risking your life to save others” variety. And since director Peter Berg seems to have gone to great lengths to stick to the truth of the events — including having survivors on set as consultants — I’m gonna give the movie the

benefit of the doubt and presume that the selflessly heroic actions of other characters here also really happened.

Like Berg’s previous film, Lone Survivor, about a calamitous real-life military mission in Afghanistan, Deepwater Horizon is immensely intense and suspenseful even when you already know the general outcome. This is disaster filmmaking at its most gripping, and yet (also like Lone Survivor) there is nothing the least bit exploitive or sensationalized about it. Horizon is exhausting partly because it feels real, not exaggerated. Even though the vessel Deepwater Horizon has something of a science-fiction feel to it, this huge monster of a machine is a boat: It floats. You kinda can’t help but gawp at the awesomeness of it. The film does an amazing job of explaining the deeply complex and technical work of an offshore oil prospecting and drilling rig in a clever way — via Williams’ daughter’s school report on her dad’s job. Using just a can of Coke and a straw, she helps us understand how the Horizon works…and how it can fail. This is an action disaster movie that’s as much about science and engineering as it is about survival.

But what we see here is downright horrifying. The delicate machine that is the Horizon has not been well maintained. If there’s any humor in this movie at all, it is of the grim kind, as Williams chews out a BP exec (a hiss-worthy John

Malkovich) for how the company refuses to make time and money available for desperately needed maintenance. And it’s all in Wahlberg’s delightful fast-talking style, until he slows down for the conclusion: “moneyhungry sons-a-bitches.” BP does not come off well here, as it shouldn’t.

The Horizon is already over budget and behind schedule on its current mission, so there’s a rush to cap off the well so it can move on. The capping is done poorly, there are leaks of methane from the well, and BOOM! What comes after that is rather like Titanic except with mud and fire instead of cold and ice, and with no romance (thank goodness no one felt a need to shove one in). Deepwater Horizon should be proud to be in its company: Titanic is an amazing film about (among other things) corporate greed and how it’s the little people who pay when big companies put profit above all else.

It’s too soon to say — that well might still be leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and BP is still in business — but perhaps someday, in a hotter future, the Deepwater Horizon disaster will be seen as a powerful metaphor for humanity’s arrogance in the same way that the sinking of the Titanic is.

If so, Peter Berg may have created a film for the ages.■

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Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey: Documentary screening about the inventor of the electronic instrument, with demonstration by Madison musician Geoff Brady. Hawthorne Library, Sept.

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Mean Girls: Teen comedy featuring a screenplay by Tina Fey and star Lindsay Lohan before she became a trainwreck. Vilas Zoo, Sept. 30, 7 pm.

The Childhood of a Leader: Art house historical drama meets â&#x20AC;&#x153;bad seedâ&#x20AC;? horror flick, with a soundtrack by Scott Walker (the good one). UW Cinematheque, Sept. 30, 7 pm.

Ghostbusters: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones share an irresistible camaraderie in this reboot. UW Union South-Marquee, Sept. 30-Oct. 1 (8:30 pm), Oct. 2 (3 pm).

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Out of the Blue: Dennis Hopper stars in and directs this story of a man trying to start over with his family after being released from prison. UW Cinematheque, Oct. 1, 7 pm.

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To Each His Own: Olivia de Havilland won a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of an unwed mother. Chazen Museum of Art, Oct. 2, 2 pm (UW Cinematheque).

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Ziggy Marley Saturday, Oct. 1, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm Bob Marley’s son has carried on the family’s reggae legacy for decades, including 15 years fronting the Melody Makers. Now Ziggy Marley is an activist and children’s book author and he’s supporting his eponymous sixth solo album, which includes the track “Marijuanaman.” Who knows? Maybe he’ll stop by Library Mall for Harvest Fest.

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Jesse Lee Kercheval, Jon Loomis: Discussing poetry collections, 7 pm, 9/29, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Thursday, Sept. 29, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm Even though Folds’ quirky alt-musical journey eventually expanded to include a band, orchestral compositions, unforgettable work with college a cappella groups and a stint as a judge on The Sing-Off, it’s both poetic and appropriate that his current sold out Madison shows are — you guessed it — just Folds and a piano again. ALSO: Friday, Sept. 30, 9 pm.

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Lagers for Lowell: $1 for each Nextdoorberfest sold donated to Lowell Elementary art program, 11 am9 pm, 9/29, Next Door Brewing. 709-1454.

Thursday, Sept. 29, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Aaron Maine may be dating indie sensation Frankie Cosmos, but listening to the music he makes with Porches, you’d think he’s the loneliest boy in the world. With a melancholic synthpop sound, Porches make music for nights spent wandering under neon signs without anywhere in particular to go. With Japanese Breakfast, Rivergazer.

Badger Bowl: Midlife Crisis, Madcity Cocktails launch party, 6 pm.

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Bos Meadery: John & Glenn Widdicombe, 7 pm.

Capital Brewery: No Name String Band, free, 6 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Dock, Latin, 10 pm.

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Bill Burr Thursday, Sept. 29, Orpheum Theater, 7 & 10 pm

Bill Burr has hit the big-time with his New York brash, angry, crass, witlessly offensive riffs on society and race. Besides, Thursday Night Football is just the Dolphins getting trounced by the Bengals — which may or may not be funnier. ALSO: Friday, Sept. 30, 7 pm.

Essen Haus: Big Wes Turner’s Trio with Billy Flynn, Americana, free, 9 pm. Also: 9 pm, 10/6.

High Noon Saloon: Joe Marsden, free (patio), 6 pm.

Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter: UW Havens Center lecture by Brown University postdoctoral fellow Jordan Camp, 7 pm, 9/29, The Village on Park. 262-1420.

S PEC I A L I N T ERESTS The Bodega: Vendors, food carts, kids’ activities, music by Seasaw & Christopher Gold, 4-8 pm, 9/29, Breese Stevens Field. breesestevensfield.com.

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Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, Nicky Jordan, piano, 9 pm.

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

Tip Top Tavern: Teddy Davenport, free, 9 pm.

Twist Bar and Grill: Bill Roberts Quartet, jazz, 5 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Troker, Canzoniere Grecanico, free, 7 pm.

Zuzu Cafe: Jazz Jam, free. 7 pm Thursdays.

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Ryley Walker Thursday, Sept. 29, Frequency, 9 pm

A year’s worth of hard touring in 2015 brought Ryley Walker home to Chicago, where he began the winter recording sessions for Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, his beautifully prismatic new album co-produced by Wilco’s LeRoy Bach.

The intimate Frequency should be the perfect venue for full immersion. With Circuit des Yeux.

Esther’s Descendants: A ghost attempts to guide her family into a brighter future, 8 pm, 9/29-10/1, Broom Street Theater. $11. 244-8338.

ART E XHIBITS & EV ENTS Monica Rudquist: “Conversations,” ceramics, through 10/14, Edgewood College-The Stream Gallery (artist talk 4:30 pm, reception 5-7:30 pm, 9/29). 663-3252.

Wisconsin Triennial: Through 1/8, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (gallery talks: Emily Arthur 1 pm, 9/29; David Drake, 6:30 pm, 9/30). 257-0158.

Nancy Peidelstein: “Reach,” paintings, 9/29-11/1, UW Hospital-Carbone Center Waiting Room. 263-5992.

Fahim Anwar Thursday, Sept. 29, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Would you rather be an aerospace engineer, building better airplanes in a cubicle, or a standup comedian? Anwar made his choice to leave Boeing, and you know what? It’s working out pretty well for him. He recently made his big-screen debut in Tina Fey’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. His stories of falling in (and out of) love and his fresh takes on dating are wellsuited to the millennial crowd. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30), Sept. 30-Oct. 1.

DANCING FOOT-Loose: Dance with Madison Jazz Orchestra, 6-8 pm, 9/29, Olin Park Pavilion. Free. 239-4299.

We Gotta Get Out of this Place Friday, Sept. 30, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

Local literary luminaries Doug Bradley and Craig Werner will be on hand to talk about We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Music of the Vietnam War, named the best music book of 2015 by Rolling Stone. Local legend Sean Michael Dargan (pictured) re-creates the soundtrack of the book with his Back in the World Band.

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The Frequency: Consider the Source, Lords of the Trident, Post Paradise, Government Zero, 8:30 pm.

Harmony Bar: Ifdakar, The Grasshoppers, Liver Killers, FlowPoetry, 9 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Anderson East, Brent Cobb, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, Vince Strong, Nicky Jordan, 8 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Reverend Raven, blues, 9 pm.

Liliana’s: Fisher, Barker & Kuehl, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

CRASHprez Friday, Sept. 30, Memorial Union Terrace, 9 pm

Originally from Maryland, this UW grad bares his heart on every track and has made a name for himself as an emcee who doesn’t shy away from complex emotions tied to racial tensions, as evidenced by his most recent track, “ILLEGAL.” He’s also built a following for high-energy shows and rocking crowds. With Trophy Dad.

Lucille: DJ Lauren Franchi, free, 10:30 pm.

Merchant: DJ EMC, free, 10:30 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Cribshitter, IE, rock, free, 10 pm.

Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse: Medicine Brothers, 8 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Disheveled Hen, Flavor That Kills, 10 pm.

Octopi Brewing, Waunakee: David Hecht & the Who Dat, 7 pm.

Red Rock Saloon: Cort Carpenter, country, 10 pm.

Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: Back 40, 8:30 pm.

Tavernakaya: DJ Wangzoom, free, 10:30 pm.

Tempest Oyster Bar: John Christensen, free, 9:30 pm.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse, Verona: Ellie & Cam, free, 7 pm.

Up North Pub: Gin Mill Hollow (album release), Chicken Bacon, Americana, free, 8 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Play Circle: Russ Johnson’s Headlands, “InDIGenous” series, free, 7:30 pm.

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Varsity Bar, Sun Prairie: Open Mic, 10 pm Fridays.

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Daikaiju vs. Knuckel Drager This twin-bill of surf-influenced volume dealers is hosted by Madison’s own masked action combo, Knuckel Drager, one of few bands where it makes sense when two drummers and two bass players join the wall of guitars on stage. Their opponent is kabuki-masked Daikaiju (pictured), whose intense live show inspires equally intense devotion from the group’s fanbase.

Too explosive to be contained within the Wisco’s walls, this show will take place outside if the weather cooperates.

Friday-Saturday, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall, 8 pm

MANDOLIN ORANGE Nov. 12, 2016

The UW music school’s third Brass Fest features a booking coup sure to be appreciated by brass lovers. Stockholm Chamber Brass has been winning competitions, wowing festival crowds and introducing new material to the brass quintet repertoire in Europe for more than 30 years, but has never before been on tour in the U.S. For Saturday’s concert the ensemble will be joined by Wisconsin Brass Quintet, UW and high school students.

Arts & Literature Lab: Ken Vandermark, jazz, 8 pm.

Bos Meadery: Matt DeBlass, folk, free, 7 pm.

Brink Lounge: Dan Law & the Mannish Boys with Broadhead Andy Smith, 9 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Mike Cammilleri Organ Trio, jazz, free, 5:30 pm; DJs Boyfrrriend, Sola, 9 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Unity, free, 9 pm.

Crossroads Coffee, Cross Plains: The Dang-Its, 7 pm.

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Wisconsin Brewing Company, Verona: Pupy Costello & the New Hiram Kings, honky tonk, free, 6 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Hometown Sweethearts, 9:30 pm.

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

Freud’s Last Session Friday, Sept. 30, Upper House (365 Campus Mall, suite 200), 7 pm A special one-night-only theater event takes place in an imagined final session where the Father of Psychotherapy matches wits with famed author and devout Christian C. S. Lewis. The two men are played by Steve Koehler, of Guys on Ice fame, and Alan Atwood, who tours with a one-man show portraying characters from the Bible.

Tandem Acts of Wryness: Mercury Players Theatre presents five short plays, 7:30 pm on 9/30-10/1 and 3 pm, 10/2, MercLab. $10. 255-9335.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Crackle: Fire & Froth: Annual fundraiser, 7-10 pm, 9/30, Olbrich Gardens, with bonfire, music by People Brothers Band, food & refreshments. $25 (21+ only; available at door if weather permits). 246-4550.

UW Veterinary Medical School Benefit: Student Chapter of the AMVA dinner, 6-10 pm, 9/30, Brink Lounge, with live & silent auctions, raffle. $25 ($20 adv.). RSVP: raiseyourpaw.eventbrite.com.

Fermentation Fest: Wormfarm Institute’s “Live Culture Convergence” of farming, conservation & the arts, 9/30-10/9, Reedsburg area, with self-guided farm/art installation tours, workshops, food/drink tastings & entertainment. Schedule/RSVP: fermentationfest.com.

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Chinese Fine Art Association: Chinese brush paintings, 10/1-29, UW Hospital-2nd Floor. 263-5992.

David Braund: Photographs, reception 6-9 pm, 10/1, Cha Cha Beauty & Barber. 204-3988.

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Cardinal Bar: DJs Chamo, Fernando, Latin, 10 pm.

Chocolaterian Cafe: The Dalton Gang, free, 7:30 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Universal Sound, free, 9 pm.

Come Back In: Twang Dragons, free, 9 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Cash Box Kings, blues, 9:30 pm.

Essen Haus: Steve Meisner, polka, free, 8:30 pm.

Farm Tavern: Northern Comfort, bluegrass, 7 pm.

Fountain: Connor Marks, free, 8 pm.

Harmony Bar: Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound, 9:45 pm.

Kiki’s House: Peter Case, house concert (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com), 8 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Denim ‘n Leather, Metal Gonz, Bierfoot, Murgatroyd, Rokkhouse, Master of Puppets, Buckeye Inn reunion, 2 pm.

Liliana’s: Stan Godfriaux & Laurie Lang, jazz, 6:30 pm.

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

Friday, Oct 7

Monona Terrace: Karla Bonoff, 8 pm.

Sunday, Oct 9

Overture Center-Overture Hall: Twisted Wasteland, with Jordan Hollywood, Wiintr Blanco, Lucien Parker, dripd, Cardan Manns, DJs Q, Chamo, Shneur, Teo, Fusion, Fabulust, Fire Unit Squad, Mando, 8 pm.

2:45 pm lecture, 3:30 pm concert Holy Wisdom Monastery

Saturday, Oct. 1, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm

As loud and pissed off as he is funny, Lewis Black is one of the most popular standups on the planet. The Daily Show vet tackles myriad topics — from politics to pop culture — with his signature scathing rants. And given our current political climate, you can be sure he has a few new things to say — er, shout.

One Sky One World Kite Festival: Annual event, 11 am-4 pm, 10/1, McKee Farms Park, Fitchburg, with regional kite-flyers, sport kites, kite-making for kids, demos & displays. Free. 271-8265.

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Art In: Tenement, Dusk, Momotaros, The Central, 8 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Whiplash, free, 9 pm.

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Joseph Jachna: PhotoMidwest 2016 exhibit, 10/111/30, Sundance. 316-6900.

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

Bos Meadery: Tin Can Diamonds, folk rock, 6:30 pm.

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The Artistry of Innovation: WARF Patent Drawings Through Time: 9/30-11/14, UW Union South-Gallery 1308 (reception 5-7 pm, 9/30). 262-7592.

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Middleton Area Performing Arts Center: Capitol Chordsmen, “Haunted Harmonies,” a cappella, 7 pm.

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Prairie Music & Arts, Sun Prairie: Paul Hastil & PHfactor, jazz, 7:30 pm.

FA I RS & FEST I VA L S Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival: Wisconsin NORML celebration, 10/1-2, UW LIbrary Mall, with speakers & more. Saturday: Music by Gary David & the Enthusiasts 11:30 am, Rat Sass 12:30 pm, Earthlings 1:45 pm, Material Boys 3 pm, Feed the Dog 4:15 pm, Chalice in the Palace 5:30 pm. Sunday: Music by Sweet Delta Dawn noon, Pine Travelers 1 pm, People Brothers Band 2:15 pm, march to Capitol steps 3:30 pm, followed by speakers, Natty Nation. madisonhempfest.com.

WJJO Sonic Boom: Annual metal fest, gates 11 am, 10/1-2, Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport, Janesville, with Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Korn, Breaking Benjamin & many others. $189. wjjo.com.

Kilbourn City Live: Free all-day music festival, noonmidnight, 10/1, downtown Wisconsin Dells. Schedule: kilbourncitylive.com.

Oktoberfest: Outdoor music festival, 10/1, Stalzy’s Deli, with Mal-O-Sua 11 am, David Austin Band noon, Madison Music Foundry Rock Band 1:45 pm, Tony Castaneda Latin Jazz Sextet 2:45 pm, Rodeo Bums 4 pm, Pupy Costello & the New Hiram Kings 5:15 pm, Kaisers, 7 pm, People Brothers Band 8:30 pm. Free. 256-2544.

Oktoberfest: 2-8 pm, 10/1, Edgewater, with Mike Schneider Band 2 pm, Brewhaus Polka Kings 3 pm, German Men’s Choir 5 pm, Crane Wives 6 pm. 535-8189.

EN V I RO N MEN T Birds, Bikes & Brews: Annual Madison Audubon ride around Lake Monona, start anytime 2-6 pm, 10/1, from Next Door Brewing, with birding stations, social. $15; a portion of beer sales also donated. 255-2473.

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With Old Wounds, Audacity, No Hoax.

Kids in the Rotunda: Music by Dancing Drum, 9:30 am, 11 am & 1 pm, 10/1, Overture Center. 258-4141.

The Frequency: Sweet Delta Dawn, FlowPoetry, Cosmic Strings, Dee ‘n Mike, Jay Vonn, Left Field, 9 pm.

Saturday Science: “Ideas to Inventions,” free exploration stations & activities, 10 am-noon, 10/1, UW Discovery Building. 316-4382.

Harmony Bar: Oak Street Ramblers, bluegrass, 7:30 pm.

Beerfest: Annual benefit for local charities, noon5 pm, 10/1, Quivey’s Grove, with 45 breweries, music

by Westside Andy/Mel Ford Band. $40 adv. 273-4900.

Ham Dinner: Annual fundraiser, 4:30-7 pm, 10/1, Sherman Avenue United Methodist Church, plus bazaar & bake sale beginning at 2 pm. 244-0868.

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Chazen Museum of Art: Sunday Afternoon Live: Pro Arte Quartet, free, 12:30 pm.

The Frequency: Whiskey Blanket, Travelers Music, Autopilot, Derill Pounds, 8 pm.

Harmony Bar: Lonesome Willie Jones & His Dime Store Posse, 6 pm.

Heritage Congregational Church: Prata Duo, 4 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Korbee, Gin, Chocolate & Bottle Rockets, 8 pm.

Lone Girl Brewing, Waunakee: Brandon Beebe, 4 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Daikaiju, Roboman, free, 10 pm.

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

Stoughton Opera House: Edgar Knecht Jazz Trio, 3 pm.

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Malt House: Grandpa’s Elixir, free, 7 pm.

Stoughton Opera House: Middleton Jazz, free, 3 pm.

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

BOOKS/SP OKEN WORD Robert Olen Butler: Discussing “Perfume River,” his new novel, 7 pm, 10/3, Central Library. 266-6300.

THEATER & DANCE The Trump Card: Reading of new political performance piece by Mike Daisey, 7 pm, 10/3, Bartell Theatre. Free/ donations benefit One Wisconsin Now. 661-9696.

ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS Laurie Ruck: “Cat’s Paw Glass,” 10/3-28, UW Hospital2nd Floor Surgical Waiting Cases. 263-5992.

Healing Art Show: National Alliance on Mental Illness-Wisconsin annual event, 10/3-11/30, VSA Wisconsin. 268-6000.

PhotoMidwest Nature Interest Group: “Images from Nature;” Landscape Group: “The World Around Us,” 10/331, UW Health Sciences Learning Center. 263-5992.

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Cinderella Tuesday, Oct. 4, Overture Hall, 7:30 pm This touring version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella features hometown girl and Tommy Award winner Tatyana Lubov in the title role. At heart, it’s the same beloved story, but in the 2013 Broadway rewrite, Cinderella is fighting for social justice as well as her own happily ever after. ALSO: Oct. 5-6, 7:30 pm; through Oct. 9. See story, page 32.

B O O KS Kathleen Ernst: Discussing “A Memory of Muskets,” her new book, 7 pm, 10/4, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

S PEC I A L I N T ERESTS World Dairy Expo: 10/4-8, Alliant Energy Center, with exhibits (9 am-5 pm), demos, judging & skills competitions. $10/day. worlddairyexpo.com.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Cassius Callendar: Photographs, 10/4-28, UW Hospital-2nd Floor Hospital Entrance. 263-5992.

Wis-Con-Sin: Three Generations of Wisconsin Photographers: Works by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Charles Van Schaick J. Shimon & J. Lindemann, 10/41/2, Biopharmaceutical Technology Center-Promega Gallery (symposium 3:30 pm, reception 4:30 pm6:30 pm, 10/4). promega-artshow.com.

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Jerry Apps & Steve Apps: Discussing “Roshara Journal,” 2 pm, 10/2, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

S PECI AL EV ENTS Blackhawk Bash: Free all-ages activities, 11:30 am3:30 pm, 10/2, Blackhawk Ski Club, with music, youth ski team demos, kids’ games & contests, expanded bike-ski trails, food trucks. facebook.com/ blackhawkskiclub.

Fall Food Cart Fest: Project Kinect fundraiser (for Carts for Community), 11 am-7 pm, 10/2, East Side Club, with music, MadCity Bazaar vendors. $10 admission ($5 adv.). RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/27475632356.

Whad’Ya Know?: Podcast recording with music by John Sieger & Semi-Twang, hosts Michael Feldman & Stephanie Lee, noon, 10/2, High Noon Saloon. $10.

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Beats Antique Southern Culture on the Skids Tuesday, Oct. 4, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm SCOTS + HNS = guaranteed rock ’n’ roll party.

The trio of Rick Miller, Mary Huff and Dave Hartman has been making dancers of even the most dedicated “stand stolidly with yer beer” concertgoers for more than three decades, and exploring various greasy corners of American music on their recordings. The current tour showcases boss new album The Electric Pinecones, a return of sorts to a ’60s “country psych garage”besotted alter ego that SCOTS used while playing parties in the ’80s. With Lou Shields.

Brink Lounge: Open Mic, free, 9 pm.

The Frequency: Magic Sword, Immortan, 8:30 pm.

Kiki’s House: Justin Kinkel-Schuster, house concert (RSVP: undertowtickets.com), 8 pm.

Majestic: Matoma, Cheat Codes, Steve Void, Baynk, 9 pm.

Malt House: Cajun Strangers, free, 7:30 pm.

Every Time I Die Monday, Oct. 3, Majestic Theatre, 7:30 pm

For just a shade under two decades, Every Time I Die has been at the forefront of modern metal. The Buffalo, New York,

Up North Pub: The Lower 5th, rock, free, 8 pm.

LECTURES & SEM INARS Academy Evenings: “The Power of the Liberal Arts,” lecture by Lake Superior State University president Thomas Pleger, 7 pm, 10/4, Overture Center-James Watrous Gallery. RSVP: wisconsinacademy.org.

Wednesday, Oct. 5, Majestic Theatre, 8:30 pm Oakland, California-based Beats Antique are touring with their 10th studio album, Shadowbox, and for this show, they’re planning a multimedia extravaganza based on Indonesian shadow puppetry. The group bridges the technological age by merging modern beats with traditional music, especially from the Middle East. They have also dedicated proceeds from their album, Killer Bee, to efforts to address the bee crisis. Expect to see a lot of local bellydancers in attendance, and be sure to stretch your muscles before diving in. With Too Many Zooz, Thrifworks.

Steve ’N’ Seagulls Wednesday, Oct. 5, The Frequency, 8 pm Hailed by the band’s own publicist as “a YouTube lark gone horribly, horribly wrong,” the five Finns in Steve ’N’ Seagulls (see what they did there?) play “hillbillified” bluegrass versions of classic cuts by the likes of AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden and Metallica.

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Duck Soup Cinema: Metropolis

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Thomas Pleger, president of Lake Superior State University and former dean of UW–Baraboo/Sauk County, will discuss ways of strengthening liberal education in our public and private universities, how a creative culture and economy can form at the intersection of the sciences, arts, and humanities, and the role the Wisconsin Idea plays in all of this. Come at 6:00 pm for a reception and tour of the new Beading Culture exhibition at our James Watrous Gallery.

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Thursday, Oct. 6, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm

Alchemy Cafe: Boo Bradley, blues, free, 10 pm.

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

Bandung: Louka, 7 pm.

The Frequency: Brady Toops, Travis Agnew, 7 pm.

Cardinal: Foshizzle Family, New Nature Collective, 9 pm.

Harmony Bar: Bing Bong, rock, 8 pm.

Malt House: The North Westerns, free, 7:30 pm.

Ivory Room: Philly Williams, Jim Ripp, 10:30 pm.

Monona Terrace: Little Vito & the Torpedoes, 5:30 pm.

Liquid: Duke Dumont, Mielo, mindcntrl, 10 pm.

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

Majestic Theatre: Here Come the Mummies, 8:30 pm.

Up North Pub: Lost Highway All-Stars, free, 8 pm.

Merchant: Gin Mill Hollow, Americana, free, 10 pm.

UW Humanities-Mills Hall: UW Wind Ensemble, Mead Witter School of Music concert, free, 7:30 pm.

Twist Bar and Grill: Bill Roberts Quartet, 5 pm.

BOOKS John Scharer: Discussing “Say It Isn’t So,” his new book, 7 pm, 10/5, Verona Library. 845-7180.

Twenty-three-year-old pianist Deitz is an old jazz soul making very new and improvisational music. Deitz studied under UW-Madison bass virtuoso Richard Davis and has a new album of energetic, original compositions called Child’s Play. Deitz is a generous artist on and off the stage. In addition to launching his own career, he’s the director of Madison East’s Black Music Ensemble.

UW Memorial Union-Play Circle: Musical Theatre Open Mic with Four Seasons Theatre, free, 7 pm.

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High Noon Saloon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 7 pm It’s not at all unusual for Celtic bands to meld traditional Irish and Scottish music into their repertoires. But Hungarian folk songs?

Now that’s what you call a Celtic curveball.

Jani Lang, Dallahan’s fiddler and co-lead vocalist, is responsible for adding a Transylvanian touch to tunes like “Zold Erebon,” a fast-paced reel off the band’s second album, A Matter of Time. But the ability to serve up gypsy swing is only part of the reason why the award nominations keep piling up in their native Scotland; if you’re looking for first-rate Celtic trad, come on and get your jjg on. With Open the Door for Three.

Some comedians craft a stage persona so dissimilar from their off-stage personality that it’s almost like meeting a totally different person. Maggie Faris is the exact opposite of that. Her genuine Midwestern charm comes across clearly, and the conversational tone of her sets really makes it feel like she’s just chatting with the audience. A comedy festival pro, Faris has won the Minnesota Laugh Off and beat fellow queer comedian Tig Notaro at the Aspen Comedy Festival in both the “Funniest Clip of the Year” and the Silver Nail award.

Maggie is here for one night only, so catch her while you can! With Colin Bowden.

B O O KS Rachel Simon: Discussing “Riding the Bus with My Sister,” memoir, 5:30 pm, 10/6, Central Library. 266-6300.

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Vocal coach Veronica Rueckert: “Women need to be taught to interrupt and hold the floor.”

In a recent New York Times article, “Speaking While Female,” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Wharton School professor/organizational psychologist Adam Grant articulated what many women in corporate America already know: “When a woman speaks in a professional setting, she walks a tightrope. Either she’s barely heard or she’s judged as too aggressive.

When a man says virtually the same thing, heads nod in appreciation for his fine idea. As a result, women often decide that saying less is more.”

This notion resonates deeply with Veronica Rueckert, an award-winning host on Wisconsin Public Radio and a vocal coach. “Our voice is how we interact with the world,” she says. “It’s a powerful thing, like a fingerprint. It’s our responsibility to share this unique, precious gift — women especially.”

Since July 2015, Rueckert has been helping women find their voices and use them more effectively through one-on-one coaching, group workshops and public presentations.

As the featured speaker for an August meeting of the Women’s Business Resource Group at American Family Insurance, she spoke to an auditorium of both men and women about the challenges women face communicating in a business environment. She also outlined how both genders can change their behavior to make sure that everyone’s ideas are heard.

“In business, in any major decisions, we need a plurality of voices,” she said. Her mantra for the women in the audience: “Talk anyway, even if you are penalized for it.”

With a background as an opera singer and a degree from UW-Madison in vocal performance, Rueckert focuses some of her message on mechanics: learning how to use the breath. “Women are used to sitting with legs crossed, folded arms, which makes it hard to breathe,” she says. “They’re also encouraged to suck their stomachs in — which inhibits full use of the diaphragm.” For the most effective speech, she advocates standing with shoulders rolled back, sternum lifted, and the lower abdomen released.

Delivering a strong message through behavior and phrasing is as important as having a strong voice. Common pitfalls for women speakers include: • Over-apologizing • Giggling or laughing at the end of a sentence • Saying “Does that make sense?” or “You know what I mean?” at the end of a statement • Overusing up-talk — raising the pitch of your voice at the end of a sentence so it sounds more like a question • Couching statements with “I think” and trailing off at the end of a thought • Touching your face or hair while you’re talking, which pulls focus away from what you’re saying.

Rueckert advises women to instead take up space with their bodies and voices. “Move around when giving a presentation.

Talk with your hands to make your message bigger. Get comfortable with pauses, and use ‘red carpet phrases’ to introduce a topic like, ‘I have an idea.’”

Rueckert uses her own experience to reinforce her message.

Professionally, she began with writing content for radio broadcasts, but quickly became on-air talent and producer of classical music programs, talk shows, news segments and the nationally broadcast “To the Best of Our Knowledge.”

Working in radio, Rueckert has seen firsthand how interesting, sometimes brilliant ideas can be sabotaged by anxiety, timidity, clumsy phrasing or the unpleasant sound in the speaker’s voice. She remembers a particularly disappointing experience when interviewing a female scientist on the air. “I was really excited to talk to this researcher, who had a new book out on dolphins. It was an interesting topic, but she couldn’t effectively tell her story because of the limitations of her voice.”

Rueckert’s “Speaking While Female” workshops are “for women of all stripes,” she says, from executives to stay-at-home moms. She also offers general voice workshops that are open to men and women. Rueckert’s next workshop is slated for Nov. 1 ($75); for more information or to find out more about individual coaching, see veronicarueckertcoaching.com.

“After I did my first few workshops I realized people are hungry for this information,” she says. “Women need these tools to be more assertive and present. Women need to be taught to interrupt, and to hold the floor. Lots of clients feel like there’s a lion inside them. When they can tap into that power and finally release it, it’s inspiring. I love it.” ■

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I’m a guy, 35, and a cheating piece of shit.

I’m engaged to a woman I love, but earlier this year I cheated on her. I have no excuse.

She discovered the dating app I used, and we worked through that. But she doesn’t know that shortly after her discovery, I went ahead and cheated. To my meager, meager credit, I did seek out only women who were looking for NSA hookups. But I quickly came to realize how big of a mistake this was, how much I love my fiancée and that I’m a shitty person. I see a therapist, and he advised that, if I’m certain this was a onetime thing, and if I’m convinced that I’m happy with my fiancée, I should keep quiet.

I shouldn’t burden my fiancée with this knowledge. I’m inclined to agree but, dear God, the guilt. I feel like I’m not the person my fiancée thought I was. What do I do?

Should I just accept this as a lesson learned and keep it to myself? Perhaps there’s selfishness at play here, since I’m trying to make myself feel better, but I’m struggling.

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finer advice columns (Dear Prudence, Dear Sugar, Savage Love) to some of our actual therapists.

While honesty (best policy) and confession (good for the soul) get all the positive press, there are times when unburdening yourself is absolutely the wrong thing to do. The person who confesses may wind up feeling better — because at least now they’re being honest — but the person to whom they’ve confessed can wind up feeling a whole lot worse. Some burdens should be borne not shifted. If your fiancée is going to inevitably find out, CPOS, better she find out about it from you. But if the secret can be kept, and if living with the guilt motivates you not to cheat again, then you can keep your mouth shut with a semi-clear-ish conscience.

This advice is not a license for serial adulterers. If you can’t be faithful to someone — if that’s what you discovered when you had the affair — then you should extract yourself from the monogamous commitment you’ve already made to your fiancée and refrain from making monogamous commitments to anyone else in the future. But if you honestly believe you can be faithful, CPOS, you don’t have to see yourself as a cheating piece of shit. A serial adulterer/ betrayer/liar is a cheating piece of shit; someone who cheated once, regrets it, and makes a good-faith, multi-decade effort not to do it again is a fallible human being.

I am a 36-year-old Italian straight man. I love my girlfriend endlessly. One month ago, she told me she has thoughts about missing out on the things she didn’t get to do in her teens.

She is 29 years old now. Also, she says she feels only a mild love for me now and is curious about other men. Yesterday we met and cried and talked and made love, and it felt like she still loves me passionately. But she also told me she had sex with a stranger a week ago and she is going for one and a half months to Los Angeles on her own. Now I feel confused. I should hate her for what she did to me, I should tell her to fuck off, but I can’t do it. I am so in love and I want to be together again after her trip. How do I exit this turmoil?

Pensive And Insecure Now You exit this turmoil by breaking up with your girlfriend.

She wants to get out there and do “things she didn’t get to do in her teens,” i.e., fuck other guys and most likely date other guys. This isn’t what you want, PAIN, you’ve made that clear to her, but she’s gonna fuck other guys anyway.

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