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FRESH OFF THE VINE

Picking grapes for Old Sugar Distillery brandy.

6–11 NEWS

HALL MONITORS

Madison’s school cops say they just want to help kids reach their potential.

17 COVER STORY

LINDA FALKENSTEIN

24 FOOD & DRINK IT WOULD BE HARD TO IMAGINE Madison these days without food carts. They have been an important part of the food scene for at least two decades and competition for a spot on the Capitol Square and Library Mall is fierce. Features editor Linda Falkenstein has written about the city’s annual review process every year since 2009 and writes this week about her participation on the panel.

She’s always on the prowl for a new food cart and is especially thrilled when it serves something new to Madison. And she still mourns the much-missed food cart Spice Yatra.

PETER JURICH IS A FREELANCE writer who focuses on science.

He has a journalism degree from Wayne State University in Detroit and is the author of the self-published memoir Typing With One Hand. He brings a personal perspective to his cover story this week, having suffered a neurological injury when he was a child. He read about the UW-Madison’s Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Lab in a book; intrigued, he had to check it out.

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DIRT INVADERS

An invasive Asian worm is even more destructive than its European cousin.

14 OPINION

THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT SENTENCING Tough on crime laws simply aren’t working.

17 COVER STORY

BRAIN HEALING

UW lab is challenging the notion that brains cannot mend.

24-27 FOOD & DRINK

MUNCHING MARATHON

A two-week city survey of food carts shows that the state of Madison street eats is strong.

28 SPORTS

SILVER LININGS?

The Brew Crew was terrible this season. But not literally all the time.

23, 32 MUSIC

STILL HERB ALPERT

The legendary trumpeter visits Stoughton Opera House with his Grammy-winning partner Lani Hall.

31-32 ART

CREATIVITY FARM

Retreats help busy folks make time for the arts.

It’s about the camera Friday-Sunday, Oct. 7-9, Overture Center, Pyle Center and other venues PhotoMidwest’s Focus Weekend includes both master class workshops and a variety of gallery shows and talks that are free and open to the public. Especially worth catching is Friday evening’s reception at Overture Center (5-9 pm, Promenade Terrace) featuring juror Larry Fink speaking at 6 pm on the surprising, varied photos he selected for the Festival show in Galleries 1 and 2. Complete schedule: photomidwest.org.

34 BOOKS ALEJANDRO ALONSO GALVA

6 NEWS ALEJANDRO ALONSO GALVA comes to Madison via the Puerto Rican diaspora and the University of Iowa, where he studied English and religious studies. After three years teaching in the Madison school district, he is now chasing his radio and writing dreams at WORT News. He says he keeps two things in mind when reporting: “Each story is made up of people” and “Heroes can be found in the darkest places.”

Here comes the neighborhood

WIT AND WISDOM

Roughneck Grace is an delightful essay collection from Michael Perry.

Saturday, Oct. 8, Monona Terrace, 8am-5pm

36-37 SCREENS

Civic-minded nerds, mark your calendars for the 20th anniversary edition of the citywide Mayor’s Neighborhood Conference. This year’s event features an array of workshops with community leaders, walking and biking tours, and a keynote speech from New York City Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver. To register, visit cityofmadison. com/neighborhoodconference.

CRAZY DREAMS

Experimental filmmakers collaborate on collective: unconscious.

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BELLY UP TO THE BARRE

A new cardio and strength workout spot opens on West Washington Avenue.

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 49 P.S. MUELLER 49 CROSSWORD 51 SAVAGE LOVE

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Monday, Oct. 10, UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall, 7 pm

Jonathan Jarvis, the director of the National Parks Service, will speak on “History, Heritage and the National Parks: Promoting the Relevance of the American Narrative.” It’s part of the park service’s continuing efforts to underscore the relevance of open spaces, monuments, battlefields, memorials and historic trails to a diverse population in this, its 100th anniversary year.

Moving toward equity Saturday, Oct. 8, Fountain of Life Covenant Church, 9-10:30am

Since May 2015, the Justified Anger Coalition has been fostering community conversations and piloting innovative projects to improve racial disparity in Madison. Join founder Alex Gee and staff for an update on the group’s progress on social justice. RSVP at stateofourmadison.eventbrite.com.

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Old Sugar Distillery founder Nathan Greenawalt (center) picks grapes for an upcoming batch of brandy with the distillery’s production manager, David Van.

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If you stand near Dave Mitchell and listen awhile, you are bound to hear something profound.

Wearing a worn ball cap and sunglasses, Mitchell looks out over rows of woody grape vines at Mitchell Vineyard and declares, “It’s just like how you put all your energy into your children....”

Mitchell explains how grapes grow: “The plants put all of their energy into ripening the grape seeds, so when the grapes are picked, the plants can put energy back into their roots.”

In 1972, Mitchell opened the Wine and Hop Shop on Monroe Street. He soon had the idea to grow grapes to supply his home winemaking customers.

That dream was realized in 1976 when Mitchell first planted grapes in these fields 15 minutes south of Madison near Oregon.

Forty years later he has 47 rows of 12 different grape varieties, including Concord, Foch and Prairie Star. About half of his harvest this year will be used by Old Sugar Distillery on Madison’s east side to make its Brandy Station.

On this warm mid-September morning, Mitchell has organized a group of people, mainly through Craigslist, to harvest for the distillery.

Old Sugar was founded by UW graduate Nathan

Greenawalt, who worked for Mitchell at the Wine and Hop Shop for five years before launching his own business.

A motley crew of about 15 people has gathered to pick Concord grapes. Together we will pick 3,000 pounds, and our haul will be added to the 21,000 pounds of previously harvested grapes that will be crushed, destemmed, distilled, aged in oak barrels and ready to drink in the fall of 2017.

We join Mitchell, Greenawalt and Old Sugar production manager David Van in the vineyard and get to work. Among us there is a bartender, a retired teacher, a television news producer, a bike courier and pedicab driver, a veterinarian turned school teacher, and a house-sitter.

Mitchell says it is rare to get people who return for more. “It’s romantic to pick once,” Mitchell says.

“But the edge of romance wears off; it’s not as much fun the second day.”

Derek Jarvi, a bartender at downtown Madison bar Merchant, is a rare veteran picker. This is his sixth or seventh day in the vineyard. “I like to be outside,” Jarvi explains. “And I like mornings.”

Aside from the heat, the work isn’t particularly taxing. The Concord grapes are plentiful and all at

our height, so we don’t have to bend over or stretch.

I hear this isn’t the case with other varieties.

As we leapfrog down the rows, using shears to cut bunches of purple grapes and drop them into fivegallon buckets, we start to learn more about each other. We share the names of our children and the stories behind those names, other places we have lived, and career changes.

Occasionally a man drives a four-wheeler down the row collecting buckets of grapes and leaving empty ones behind.

Want ads are the reason most of us are here (we’ll each get $10 an hour for our labors). A classified ad is, in fact, how Mitchell got started on his career. While finishing a graduate degree at UW-Madison in the early ’70s, he spotted one for a winemaking class.

It led him to Bob Wollersheim’s house, where he bought a wine-making kit. When Wollersheim decided to restore the land outside of Prairie du Sac to a working winery, now the site of well-known Wollersheim Winery, Mitchell helped him plant the grapes.

There was no looking back.

“One of my favorite sounds is to go out in the morning,” Mitchell says. “To hear that plunk of the first cluster of grapes into the bucket, that is music to my ears.” n

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School assignments Despite controversy, Madison’s educational cops say they just want to help kids

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When Madison police officer Zulma Franco walks through the doors of East High, she is reminded of her own childhood. Not because Franco went to East High — she dropped out of school in Los Angeles at 13 after becoming pregnant. Still, many of the children Franco sees every day remind her of her younger self, troubled and at risk.

“Growing up in LA, being Latina, being poor, my experiences were different with law enforcement,” Franco says. “Most of my friends went to jail or [died]. That’s just kind of the road you took.”

Fortunately, Franco eventually found a different path. Today, she’s one of four educational resource officers — or EROs — who work in the city’s high schools. And she has transferred her motherly instincts onto the hundreds of kids she sees every day.

“I want to protect them, and I want to provide for them. I want them to flourish and grow up and do all these wonderful things,” says Franco, who admits playing mom with the students. “Because of my own life and my own struggle, I just think, ‘If only I could give you this knowledge now.’”

The school officers work with at-risk youth and gather information to prevent fights and gang activity. Like any police officer, the EROs have the power to arrest students; however, they also refer students to restorative programs aimed at avoiding citations. Since 1998 the Madison Police Department has assigned one officer to each of the city’s four largest high schools with the goal of providing security while creating a buffer between students and the criminal justice system.

But lately, the officers’ presence in the schools has been questioned, as community concerns about police use of force, particularly against people of color, have grown.

“We’ve had good collaborative relationships with these individuals in our schools,” says school board member TJ Mertz. “[But] they don’t have any obligation to follow our rules. We pay their salaries, pay [for] their cars, they are interacting with our students all the time. Yet they are only answerable to their own command structure. That raises some issues.”

The concerns led the Madison school board to request a shorter, year-long contract with MPD while it reassesses the program and waits for the results of a city study of the police department. Although the contract was delayed, on Oct. 4, another three-year contract was approved, albeit one that gives the district the ability to opt out after two years.

The controversy surprised one of the officers, Shane Olson, who just started the Memorial High beat a few weeks ago.

“I was worried I’d be done before I got started,” Olson says.

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Officer Corey Saffold in many ways fits the mold of big brother, playing basketball with students and helping to coordinate college trips. Long before working as an officer in the school, he worked on West High’s security team and advised the Black Student Union. But wearing a badge seemed unlikely when he was a student.

“I was one of those teenagers that wasn’t bad, but I wasn’t too good either,” he says. “I could have easily fallen through the cracks.”

Officer Zulma Franco feels motherly towards the students at East High: “I want them to flourish and grow up and do all these wonderful things.”

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But Saffold’s experience in high school with a police officer inspired him to try to change the system from within. A police officer, responding to a fight, handed out tickets to everyone, including bystanders, “without giving it a thought, without thinking about investigating,” says Saffold. “And I just wanted to provide a system where that did not happen.”

Franco, a Colombia native, has also seen police at their worst. She grew up in LA during the city’s Rampart police scandal, when numerous officers in the city’s anti-gang unit were found to be corrupt. But the Madison Police Department showed her a different side of the profession, with a department engaged in the community through programs like Amigos en Azul.

“I wanted to help people, specifically the Latino community,” Franco says. “For me, being part of this organization feels patriotic.

You’re carrying around the American flag. Although I’m very much proud of where I came from, it also symbolizes belonging here.”

Kenneth Mosley, the officer at La Follette, was inspired to help the vulnerable when he was 13 and his grandmother was robbed twice. “I remember how that made me feel,” says Mosley. “I wanted to take an active role in combating that type of crime.”

Mosley has worked with children in other roles. Before joining the Madison police, he taught third grade in the Milwaukee Public

Schools and also worked for that city’s Mobile Urgent Treatment Team, intervening when kids had mental health emergencies.

While studying to be a nurse in East Los Angeles, Franco worked in HIV and AIDs prevention. “I was at Hollywood Boulevard giving out needle kits and condoms to runaway youth, and helping in shelters for people that were not part of the system,” Franco says. “I come from that place.”

Although a rookie school officer, Olson is an MPD veteran who 17 years ago gave up a job at a bank to fight crime. Before starting at Memorial a few weeks ago, Olson served for six years on MPD’s gang unit. There he spent the days making contact with at-risk youth through gang prevention efforts. Although he liked the mission, he regretted not getting to spend more time with students.

“The difficult part was how do you get kids to see things your way when you’re only talking with them a few minutes at a time,” Olson says. “Being in the school, I have more access to kids as they grow and can help.”

Working in the schools, Olson hopes to make more of a difference. “Getting someone off the streets who has been involved in truly violent actions in the community is extremely rewarding,” says Olson. But if he can prevent people from becoming violent criminals “that’s even better. It’s just not something you get associated with directly as a cop.”

All four officers say that critics of police in schools overlook their skill set and motivation.

“I hear school board members all the time saying we need more training; we don’t know how to work with kids, especially kids with mental health diagnoses. All I’ve worked for is kids,” says Mosley, who has a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. “Critics of the ERO program never come into the building.

They go off hearsay and statistics.”

The officers admit the job is a demanding one that not everyone is cut out for.

“Some officers won’t put in for this because they don’t want to deal with a student talking back to them,” Saffold says. “Inside a school it’s a more of a delicate situation.

You may see an ERO get cursed out or even threatened… and sometimes it’s just giving them the space to do that. You’re not the one who has to save face.”

Having that kind of patience, to deal with this generation’s set of challenges — sexting, girl fights, gangs, online bullying — requires empathy.

“One act doesn’t define who you are.

We all make mistakes,” Olson says. “I got to know them when they weren’t doing something wrong. So I know they can do better.”

“Kids are human beings like everybody else. You treat them with dignity, you treat them with respect, and they are going to recognize the error in their ways,” agrees Saffold.

“Everyone wants to be treated with respect, regardless of what mistakes they’ve made.”n

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Fresh powder Madison will make snow all winter at Elver

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For cross country skiers in Madison, winter can prove a fickle friend.

Snowfalls are often inconsistent, and when it does fall, a few days of above-freezing temperatures can quickly ruin groomed trails.

But in welcome news for local crosscountry skiers, plans are quickly taking shape to make snow at Elver Park to provide a guaranteed venue for lessons, racing and outdoor winter recreation.

Snowmaking at the west-side park would begin as the weather allows, possibly by early December. The goal is to create a 1.5-kilometer loop of manmade snow running from the shelter building past the sledding hill and around the soccer fields.

The trail would be open to anyone holding a valid Madison/Dane County parks ski pass, which costs adults $7 a day or $30 a year.

The snowmaking effort is connected with plans to relocate the Madison Winter Festival from the Capitol Square to Elver Park in February. Held each year since 2005, the festival would continue to feature cross country skiing, ice sculpture, sledding and other events without the need to truck snow downtown.

For the past several years, organizers of the Winter Festival have made big piles of artificial snow near Willow Island at Alliant Energy Center, trucked it downtown on Friday night for the weekend events and then plowed it all away by Monday morning.

“Now, instead of just using that snow for only two days, we can provide skiing all winter while still having the festival,” says Yuriy Gusev, director of the Madison-based Central Cross Country Ski Association (CXC) and founder of the Madison Winter Festival.

While moving the Winter Festival away from downtown will end the thrill of skiing around the Square, officials say the Elver Park venue is well-suited to a family-friendly event. The Parks Commission must still approve the move to Elver, but there seems little opposition from city staff.

“We are excited to see this fun, vibrant event come to Elver Park and the [west] side,” says assistant parks superintendent Charlie Romines. “Elver offers everything you could

want for winter fun, from skating to serene ski trails, and, of course, the giant sledding hill.

With plenty of parking and easy access right off the Beltline, we think the Winter Festival is going to enjoy its new home.”

Snowmaking for both cross country skiing and sledding at Elver Park has been in the plans for the city’s Parks Division for nearly a decade. The city even purchased two large snow fans and other equipment, but discovered it didn’t have the staff resources or expertise to make it work.

Meanwhile, snowmaking for cross country skiing has taken off at numerous other venues in the upper Midwest, including a half-dozen parks in the Twin Cities and the popular state Department of Natural Resources-maintained trail at Lapham Peak outside of Milwaukee.

At Elver Park, snowmaking duties will be handled by CXC in conjunction with the Madison Nordic Ski Club, which will use the manmade loop to offer lessons to the public and run its various other programs.

The city will continue to provide grooming for skiing at Elver Park and its half-dozen other maintained trails when natural snow falls. The city is also providing the water and electricity for snowmaking, along with use of Elver’s shelter building.

“Madison has invested considerable resources into making Elver Park a yearround destination for outdoor recreation,” says Jen Sereno, president of the Madison Nordic Ski Club. “Holding Winter Fest at the park will help make the event accessible to the surrounding neighborhoods and perhaps attract new families to cross country skiing and other winter outdoor activities.”

Snowmaking at Elver Park is the latest positive development for cross country skiing in Madison, which last year saw the opening of the University Ridge Golf Course as a 20-kilometer groomed trail system.

Outside of the Twin Cities, Madison provides the largest number of participants for the annual American Birkebeiner ski marathon, the largest cross country ski event in the U.S. Some 2,000 area skiers and their families make the trek north each year for the Birkie and its sister race, the Kortelopet. ■

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n Aug. 25 explosion that A leveled a house in Fitchburg and seriously injured the homeowner, 57-year-old Brian Grittner, was caused by an uncapped gas line, Grittner’s attorney says. A worker who installed a new dryer at the house five years ago apparently failed to cap the gas line. n UW-Madison officials announce the termination of its Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity chapter for violating the terms of a previous suspension by throwing a “hick”themed party over the summer. The frat also displayed a banner urging women to “dump ‘em out,” which is apparently a reference to displaying breasts. Classy! n

educational resource police officer at each of the district’s four main high schools for least two more years. See story, page 6. n Mayor Paul Soglin proposes a $299.5 million operating budget for 2017, which includes $400,000 to help the newly formed grassroots Focused Interruption Coalition address racial disparity in Madison, and $170,000 to help the homeless.

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Incumbent versus grassroots Election audits and integrity at center of Dane County clerk race

BY ALLISON GEYER

Karen McKim remembers the moment she became concerned about the way Dane County counts its votes.

She was at a statewide meeting for a grassroots political group in 2011, where members were brainstorming priorities. The list included a number of predictable topics — mining regulations, gerrymandering. But then a recently retired municipal clerk stood up and suggested something McKim and others at the meeting hadn’t previously considered — that Wisconsin’s electronic voting machines could be at risk because results are not verified before the results are declared final. “[A] cash register is reconciled at the end of the night, but our voting machines aren’t,” says McKim, who went on to help found the Wisconsin Election Integrity Action Team in 2012.

Over the last four years, the group has conducted citizen audits of election results and advocated for transparency in post-election vote-counting procedures both in Dane County and statewide.

Now, she’s mounting a bid to unseat Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell, arguing that the incumbent has not done enough to verify elections.

McDonell, however, says McKim’s criticisms are unfounded, calling Dane County’s election procedures the “gold standard” of integrity. Dane County’s voting machines are brand new, making them the most accurate and secure technology on the market. Plus, Dane County is the only county in the state that conducts post-election audits — a measure McDonell implemented in February for the spring primary. The results have not been released publicly yet, but he says the audit showed “the numbers came out exactly.”

“That provides a level of transparency that’s unparalleled,” he says.

McDonell, a former Dane County Board chairman, gained notice during his first term for being one of the first clerks in the state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and for his voter ID outreach and educational efforts. He points out that overseeing elections is just one of many duties that a county clerk performs. “It’s obvious that [McKim] is running a single-issue campaign,” he says.

But to McKim, who has branded herself in campaign literature as the “count-ing clerk,” McDonell’s high level of confidence in the current vote-counting system highlights the very reason she’s concerned.

“The fact that he thinks it isn’t an issue is the issue,” she says. “I would rather have elections officials who are skeptical.”

Beyond their differing approaches to postelection audits, the candidates share many of the same views: Both support same-sex marriage, both have criticized Republican-led voter ID laws on the grounds that the requirements disenfranchise some voters.

McKim, who is running as an independent in the Nov. 8 election, has been endorsed by a number of local progressive grassroots activists and national election integrity activists, including former director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Mike McCabe. McDonell is endorsed by U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, two of the highest-profile Democrats in the state.

If re-elected, McDonell hopes to continue his work in voter advocacy and education and plans to implement new training methods for election workers and invest in new technology, such as electronic poll books, to speed the voting process.

“Over the next four years,” McDonell says, “I’m going to focus on making it faster and easier to vote.” n

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Worming their way into Wisconsin

BY DENISE THORNTON AND DOUG HANSMANN

When local gardeners turn over a spade of soil, they’re usually happy to find an earthworm or two. While these familiar worms were brought over by European settlers and are not beneficial to native habitat, they can form a healthy partnership with plants that farmers and gardeners have come to depend on.

Now these sometimes helpful critters risk being done in by their frenetic and destructive invasive Asian cousins, Amynthas spp., called jumping worms because of their hyperactivity.

The first Asian jumping worms sighted in Wisconsin were found in the UW-Arboretum in fall 2013 during a study session on invasive species co-hosted with the state Department of Natural Resources.

“One of the topics was a new Asian earthworm that we didn’t think had made it to Wisconsin yet,” says Arboretum ecologist Brad Herrick.

“In a sugar maple stand behind our field shop, Bernie Williams from the DNR cleared away some of the leaf litter on the soil, and there were half a dozen of them snaking around.”

Since that time, Arboretum personnel have spotted the worms in other wooded ar-

eas. “We are monitoring their spread,” Herrick says. “They are from Japan, where they are found in grasslands. We are concerned about our prairies.”

Research on what these invasive worms do to the soil began in the 2014 growing season. By that October, Monica Turner, a UW-Madison zoology professor, and her graduate researcher Jiangxiao Qiu, discovered that the invaders dramatically change the surface layer of soil.

European and Asian earthworms are both destructive to native habitats. According to Herrick, “From what we’ve seen in northern forests, European earthworms in high numbers devour the leaves and organic matter, which limits germination and survival of native plants and in some instances allows other invasive plants such as buckthorn and garlic mustard to readily invade. We think Asian jumping worms will have similar effects, if not faster.”

When European earthworms burrow and feed, they leave behind castings that can improve the texture of agricultural soil and create slow-release fertilizer for plants.

Jumping worms follow a different pattern.

They breed rapidly, relentlessly dropping cocoons. When the cocoons hatch, they grow to maturity in about 60 days, voraciously con-

suming all of the leaf litter and leaving harmful waste in its place.

“It’s happening really fast in the fall right now, when the worms are largest and at their biggest biomass,” says Turner. “They hatched in spring, and they have been growing all summer. They eat the leaf litter more rapidly and release nutrients much more quickly than European earthworms do. The jumping worms also leave behind elevated levels of phosphorus in the upper soils, which is already a problem for Madison lakes, and there is an especially large increase in nitrate. Nitrogen can be a useful fertilizer, but in the nitrate form it is very soluble and can pollute our groundwater.”

Herrick notes that the jumping worm castings look like coffee grounds, which dry out more quickly than uninfected soil.

Jumping worms are being spotted around the Madison area. They are easy to spread because they winter in the ground as tiny, round brown or black cocoons about the size of the head of a pin. “That makes it easy to move them around in the winter or spring without even realizing that you have a new organism in soil, potted plants or mulch,” says Turner.

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An Amynthas spp. is much more hyperactive than its European cousins.

rick says. “Wash your tools after you have been working in an area that you think might be infested,” he says. “Wash your boots — especially after a rain, when you often see worms come to the surface, and the soil is stickier.”

“We are hearing from a number of people who think they have these worms,” says Carly Ziter, a UW-Madison Ph.D. student working with Turner. “It’s not a cheerful story, but it’s not time to sound the alarm yet. We hear about a new invasive species, and the panic bells start ringing. We don’t have all the answers yet, and we are actively working to find out more.” n

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The truth about truth in sentencing The costly law should be repealed

BY MICHAEL CUMMINS Michael Cummins is a Madison-based business analyst.

Carlson will soon petition for a sentence modification to shorten his supervision. Just getting in front of a judge will be a long-shot, but he has geared his life toward the possibility. He will be fully prepared to demonstrate that he has taken the initiative in his own rehabilitation.

Something interesting happened to Carlson as he began working toward this goal. His transformation, he insists, took on a life of its own. “I started improving myself for myself.” Getting his sentence reduced has become but a secondary motive.

Carlson contrasts his newfound inspiration with the languor he witnessed in lock-up.

“I have seen how detrimental TIS is to people who are incarcerated.” He believes that the promise of a parole hearing, however far in the future, would give inmates “something to work for, rather than just sitting complacent.

If you put that carrot in front of someone, they will work extra-hard to get it.” Absent that, “they just sit. They have no objective to work toward.”

Study after study backs up Carlson’s observations. The corrections administrations of both New York and Washington have established that the availability of criteria-based early-release programs lowers recidivism. And a 2012 study by Florida State University showed that inmates subject to early release commit fewer rule infractions.

Democrats in Wisconsin, by and large, no longer believe that truth in sentencing serves us well. My assembly representative, Chris Taylor (D-Madison), advocates its full repeal.

Conservative attitudes toward criminal justice reform are changing, too. Taylor’s Republican opponent this fall, Jon Rygiewicz, also wants Wisconsin to abandon truth in sentencing.

“Our sentencing laws effectively target minori-

tion of the law, continuing a nationwide trend, Wisconsin’s prison population and corrections costs climbed.

And though the prison population began to dissipate in 2008, its decline has not kept pace with the continuing drop in crime.

By the 2011-2013 biennium budget, spending on corrections had overtaken spending on the UW System, thanks in large part to the TIS boondoggle.

Since the early 2000s, states across the country have been pulling back on DAVID MICHAEL MILLER the more punitive measures they passed in the 1980s and ties and the impoverished,” he says. “I have a 1990s. They have revised mandatory miniwhole criminal justice reform package geared mum guidelines, overturned “three strikes” toward a rehabilitation mindset.” laws, and instituted a wide range of diver Rygiewicz, a fiscal conservative, adds that sion programs.

Wisconsin’s old parole-based system “was defi- But despite the new consensus that nitely more cost effective.” That’s putting it mildly. sometimes “less is more,” when it comes to Truth in sentencing was originally sold as a imprisonment, truth in sentencing remains cost-neutral proposition. Backers insisted that, the elephant in the room. With its uniquely upon implementation, judges would start re- pernicious effect on rehabilitation, the ducing sentences to account for the impossibil- law must now become the primary target ity of early release. But while the crime rate fell for those who are serious about fixing our in the years following the 1999 implementa- criminal justice system. n

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For most of its history, the United States had a tradition of releasing qualified prisoners before their nominal sentences were complete. But in the 1990s, a bipartisan “tough-on-crime” frenzy led state after state to implement so-called truth in sentencing (TIS) laws. These laws severely weakened early-release opportunities for inmates.

Wisconsin passed a particularly comprehensive truth-in-sentencing law in 1998, virtually eliminating parole as an institution. The Legislature softened the law a bit the following decade, before reinstating it in full in 2011.

At one time, the law made complete sense to me. That perpetrators often served less than half their sentences struck me as a cruel hoax, especially on their victims.

But like many viscerally appealing government policies, the law is fraught with latent side effects.

Though widely perceived as a mere gratuity to offenders, parole and other criteria-based early-release programs are fundamental to rehabilitation. As a matter of fact, early release is among the very few carrots that our stick-oriented corrections system has to offer.

Convicts enter prison in a bad state of mind. But at least 95 percent of them will eventually rejoin society, whether we like it or not. Encouraging them to start thinking more positively, to make good use of their time behind bars, is in our interest. Prisoners who know that their deeds, bad and good, will eventually be scrutinized by a parole board are far more likely to chart a constructive course.

I met David Carlson of Eau Claire through his defense lawyer. Carlson knows firsthand that having someone to impress is an indispensable component of rehabilitation. Several years ago, he was sent to prison for burglary. He is now out on extended supervision, which is a kind of mandatory post-incarceration probation.

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We’re all in this together The article about the new early childhood center Playing Field was very good but it implied a perception that economic segregation is normal in the field (“Fair Play,” 9/15/2016).

Looking at the most recent data from Wisconsin Shares, the state’s child care subsidy program for low-income children, 75 percent of the full-day group centers in Dane County are serving children on the low-income subsidy program. What is even more interesting is that percentage is the same for programs inside and outside the city of Madison in Dane County. Adjoining counties are in most cases closer to 100 percent. In Dane County 36 percent of the low-income children on Shares are in five-star programs, the highest-quality centers, as opposed to 42 percent of the overall population in care. And these percentages are probably an undercount, since the Wisconsin Shares system is just one of several ways low-income families access regulated early childhood education programs.

I write this for two reasons. First, I have seen parents who balk at putting their child in a center like Playing Fields (and there are a number in Dane County in addition to Playing Field, using various approaches) that are consciously integrating children from different economic backgrounds. The reality is that the center they ultimately choose will probably also have low-income children in it. The programs that are consciously approaching economic integra-

tion, however, will often do a better job at it for not just the low-income children but all the children in the program.

Second, middle-class parents need to realize that when it comes to early childhood education, the services their children receive are closely linked to how much the state or community values low-income children.

The level of regulation, the availability and the quality of programs are all affected and largely driven by how much the government values the children who are low income.

When the child care budget was cut several years ago (coincidentally the year the disastrous WEDC grants were created for about the same amount), middle-class as well as low-income parents paid for it.

So rather than worrying about your children learning next to children from low-income families, middle-class parents need to realize we are all in this together and pay serious attention to the public policies driving the system. That is the first step in creating a system that provides true quality for all children.

George Hagenauer Data and public policy manager Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C)

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2005, Jeri Lake was riding her bicycle to the clinic where she worked as a nurse and midwife when a car suddenly drove into her path.

“As far as I know, I hit the brakes to avoid hitting the car,” says the Champaign, Illinois, resident. “I must’ve slipped. I came down hitting the pavement, broke my helmet right behind my right ear. I don’t really remember much about it.”

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■ COVER STORY Dr. Yuri Danilov assists Jeri Lake with rehab.

Using an electronic tongue stiumlator, the lab helped Lake dramatically recover from a 2005 bicycle accident.

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medical circles that however improved you are with rehab six months after a neurological injury, that’s as good as you’re going to get.

“A lot of conventional wisdom was that the brain is not plastic,” says biomedical engineer Mitchell Tyler. “It is hardwired. And once you lost a function, that’s it. You just learned to adapt to the situation.”

Tyler is the clinical patient orchestrator and one of three lead scientists at the Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Lab, or TCNL. I tell him a bit of my story, about how when I was a child fresh out of brain surgery, the doctors said I’d never even be able to ride a bike or drive a car. I do both now very well — despite a few speeding tickets. Tyler listens intently and says, “At the time, [your neurologists] were exercising the best tools they had. But the tools that clinicians have...are oftentimes 10 years out of phase from what is going on in the research domain and what is possible.”

The TCNL is a UW research lab within the School of Education’s kinesiology department. It works to challenge the notion that the brain cannot heal or adapt. Over

The PoNS sends electrical impulses to people through the tongue.

The late Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita founded the lab that developed it.

the years, more and more research is turning this idea on its head, giving credence to a once rejected idea called “neuroplasticity.”

Neuroplasticity is a relatively new term in medicine. It is the idea that the brain can change when one part of it is impaired.

Though the idea has been around for decades, it has yet to really make its way into public consciousness. Writing this story has been my own introduction to it.

“What we and other people have been demonstrating is that people can recover a long time after injury — even years or

even decades after injury,” says Dr. Kurt Kaczmarek, technological specialist and a second lead scientist. “What we are trying to do with our subjects — our volunteer human subjects — is we are helping them to retrain their brain. Well, how do you retrain your brain? You practice, practice, practice.”

It is an idea that has yet to be widely accepted by the medical profession.

The lab — which is supported 100% by grants, contracts and gifts — has seen patients with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injuries, strokes and

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“When I got into my office, someone noticed very quickly that things were not right, and took me to the emergency room.”

The ER staff told her she had a concussion and to get some rest. But by Monday morning, her condition had worsened.

“Everything just went in a period of days.

I couldn’t walk, I was crying in hysteria incessantly, I had left-sided weakness.”

As I interview Lake, it’s jarring for me to hear her mention those symptoms, as they’ve also been a big part of my life. When I was a child, I had two strokes that temporarily left me unable to walk and caused left-sided weakness that I still struggle with today, more than 25 years later. Lake tells me, “Somebody could just set a fork down on the table at dinner, and I would just be hysterical,” and I vividly recall crying in elementary school at something as simple as breaking my pencil.

Lake was eventually diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury from her accident. “It got to the point where I couldn’t even produce speech,” she says. “I had all this anxiety and stress and weird things happening in my head; I couldn’t even trust my own thoughts.”

Three years of rehab brought little improvement. Her neurologists told her there was no more that could be done. Muscle weakness, balance issues, memory impairment — these were all things that were just going to be a part of her life now, so she’d have to adapt.

Though now suffering from depression, Lake continued researching treatment and rehabilitation options. “I would search and read stuff on the internet until I had headaches so bad I had to sleep for a few hours and then get up and start again,” she remembers.

Around this time, she discovered the Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory on Madison’s west side.

other disorders, many of whom have made drastic improvements at the lab.

“The preliminary results to date suggest that most individuals who have complied with the training regimen have seen improvement in some of their symptoms,” Kaczmarek tells me.

To find out how exactly this is so, I sit down in the lab for nearly two hours with Dr. Yuri Danilov, a neuroscientist and research specialist and the third lead scientist. Over the past 15 years, he’s personally advised and participated in the recovery of about 2,000

people. He kindly talks me through the history of the lab and their research as I write down key phrases I’ll need to Google later.

“Sometimes for us, it is a hard time to believe it’s possible to see what we see,” he says.

But he repeats a dearly held tenet of the lab: “A brain is flexible at all ages.”

What do they do differently from other labs to get the positive rehab results I’d read about? Danilov shows me videos of former patients he’s treated.

One is of Jeri Lake.

Lake received an invite

The name PoNS is a bit of

a play on words. The pons is also an area of the brain that deals with sense and motor function. In the lab, the PoNS is referred to simply, yet ethereally, as “the device.”

So what is the device?

“It is a pulse generator, in essence,” says Kaczmarek, the electrical engineer who designed it.

The device sends electrical impulses into the central nervous system via the tongue using the attached tongue depressor. The tongue as a door to the nervous system was chosen purely from a technical standpoint, Danilov says. It has a fluid surface, a constant pH, constant temperature, and it’s electroconductive. “You couldn’t find anything on your body that has the same sensitivity and tactile resolution,” he says.

“It is definitely not a normal, everyday experience, except for those who stick 9-volt batteries on their tongue,” Kaczmarek says.

Kaczmarek’s research background is in medical instrumentation. In the 1990s, the TCNL discovered that stimulation of the tongue with electrical pulses had very positive impacts on people with neurological disorders pertaining to motor function, senses, mood, memory and speech.

“That is a bit of a hump to get over for individuals who are looking for help,” Kaczmarek says. “How can doing something here,” he says, pointing to his tongue, “possibly help what’s going on here?” and he points to his foot.

Kaczmarek lets me try the device. The tongue depressor has many tiny electrodes

Dr. Kurt Kaczmarek says the PoNS helps patients “retrain their brain.”

on the end that tickle, but it’s not uncomfortable because I get to control the pulses’ intensity with two tiny buttons.

This is much different than the rehab I went through as a kid. Between the ages of 3 and 6, my mother hauled me off weekly and sometimes daily to physical and occupational therapy. For two hours a day, I’d do different balance and dexterity exercises. It took years for me to get to a functional level. Being so young, this was still easier for me to do than an adult in a similar predicament.

With the PoNS on my tongue, I absentmindedly contort my left hand — the one that was affected by my strokes. I’m hoping the stimulation will help me use my left hand just as well as my right, something I’ve never quite managed years after rehab.

The PoNS doesn’t have any noticeable effects on me, but 30 seconds can’t compare to a full-time inpatient therapy session. Still, hearing and reading about the PoNS now, I’m elated that there might be a future in which others won’t need months or years to recover.

It would be difficult to

write a story about the Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Lab without mentioning its founder, Dr. Paul Bach-yRita. The neuroscientist’s name pops up anywhere that this lab is mentioned.

In the 1960s, brain mapping, or attributing different body functions to areas of the brain, dominated the neuroscience community. “Everybody in the world believed the brain was hardwired,” Danilov says.

But Bach-y-Rita had a different theory.

“He said the brain is plastic,” Danilov says. “The brain is highly changeable, manageable, and environment can mold the brain functions. It was heresy.”

“Paul was quite comfortable being a provocateur, challenging the system and challenging conventional wisdom,” adds Tyler.

“He kind of reveled in it — which was great, but it also caused a lot of controversy.”

One of Bach-y-Rita’s “heretical statements,” as Danilov calls them, was that if you have a broken sensory system like vision, you can replace it with another healthy sensory system. And to prove that he was right, he built a machine using an old dentist chair with hundreds of small pins on the back. He then used a video camera to point to different objects.

Whatever object the camera pointed at, the pins would press its image into the backs of the blind subjects who sat on the chair. Danilov relates this anecdote while showing me videos of a blind man sitting in the chair while the camera points at a telephone. The man is thus able to identify the object and even the fact that the receiver is off the hook — all based on the shape of the pins on his back.

“Everybody was excited,” Danilov says.

“Everybody around the globe published an article about how people can see through the skin.”

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to the lab in 2010. That September, when she and her husband made the four-hour drive to Madison, they blocked the back windows with drapes because too much stimulation made Lake nervous and exhausted.

On her first full day at the lab, the scientists performed a baseline study. The first video Danilov shows me today is of a woman hunched over, gingerly shuffling her feet down a hallway, perpetually on the brink of falling over.

Part of this test included stepping over a shoebox; Lake barely made it.

After the study, the team broke for lunch.

Lake, too overstimulated to eat, as she now describes it, opted instead for a quiet place on the floor to rest. Danilov had other plans: he wanted her to exert herself further. “I’m assuming you’ve met Yuri by now,” she later tells me with a laugh. If he wants you to get up, she says, “you will get up.”

The studies Danilov wanted to perform involved a small rectangular box — similar to, but lighter than the battery on a MacBook charger — with a small tongue depressor protruding out of it. This is called a Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator, or PoNS. It was developed at the lab. The team blindfolded Lake and instructed her to stand for 20 minutes with this strange thing in her mouth.

Lake, more than willing to try anything at that point, did not think she could handle the first day of tests — or even the first test.

“I didn’t think I was going to make it,” she says, of the standing test. “I didn’t think that 20 minutes was ever going to be up.”

When that was over, Danilov instructed her to go to the next room to a treadmill.

Still hunched over, dejected, and convinced that being exhausted was not going to help, she shuffled on.

Lake tells me a psychiatrist in the next room asked her how she was feeling.

“I kind of turned my head around to look at her and I said, ‘I....’ At that moment, it hit me that I had just turned my head. I hadn’t turned my head in six years. That was beyond my wildest imagination of what could ever happen.”

She started to cry. Her husband, too. At that she committed fully to the intensive weeklong therapy that followed. She attended six hours of PoNS sessions a day.

The research team had to teach her how to walk again, to move smoothly and to swing her arms in tandem with her legs.

In the week Jeri spent in the lab, her balance, gait and depth perception improved dramatically. Her speech began to improve, too. Repaired cognitive function came more slowly. But these changes were far more drastic than anything she’d ever dreamed of.

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Brain imaging has even shown that the areas of the brain commonly thought to be reserved for sight are activated in blind people who used this device, disproving the â&#x20AC;&#x153;use it or lose itâ&#x20AC;? mentality that once prevailed in neurology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The brain is actually much more malleable than we give it credit for,â&#x20AC;? Tyler says.

Tyler remembers his introduction to Bach-y-Ritaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work while an undergrad at the University of California-San Francisco. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I was hearing was both mindboggling and exciting and a little threatening. Not everything was fitting nicely into the way that I had been studying the nervous system.â&#x20AC;?

Tyler moved to Madison in 1987 to study with Bach-y-Rita and â&#x20AC;&#x153;to harness modern technology for the purpose of rehabilitation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; specifically neurorehabilitation.â&#x20AC;?

This lab has been his passion since.

Bach-y-Rita, who died in 2006, famously said you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see with your eyes, you see with your brain. A much smaller version of that dentist chair is being sold today, but in a form that no one in the lab quite anticipated.

Wicab Inc. of Middleton, a company also founded by Bach-y-Rita, is selling the BrainPort, which uses the same technology developed here at the TCNL: the same tongue depressor and electric impulses used for the PoNS are now equipped to mimic those hundreds of pins that once vibrated on blind subjectsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; backs.

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way? How does an electrical impulse generator placed on the tongue during physical therapy result in such dramatic improvement?

Well, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually know. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we are up to 29 theories now,â&#x20AC;? says Tyler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are not mutually exclusive.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all facets of a vastly complex process. They are all probably true to a greater or lesser extent.â&#x20AC;?

Kaczmarek says they theorize that in adding the PoNS tongue stimulation to physical therapy, â&#x20AC;&#x153;it somehow primes or predisposes the brain to be more plastic or more adaptable in learning how to conduct those movements more fluidly, more accurately, and more precisely.â&#x20AC;?

Danilov envisions neural pathways to be much like a system of roads between two cities: You may have your preferred route to get from A to B, but what happens when there is a roadblock? Danilov says you simply find another way to your destination. It may take some time to get used to, but taking this new route will become second nature.

That is what your body must do with motor function and establishing new neuro-pathways.

The team has pages upon pages of data and published scientific articles that prove that the PoNS works, but still must win over remaining skeptics in the greater medical community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Skepticism is good as long as there is a willingness to look at the results and engage in ideas to learn from that experimental process,â&#x20AC;? Kaczmarek says.

The team is currently in the middle of a double blind study to meet an FDA regulation

Lake says the PoNS â&#x20AC;&#x153;gave me my life back in a form I can recognize.â&#x20AC;? for approval. They began these clinical trials in May 2014, and Tyler hopes that they will have FDA approval by the middle of 2017. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The landscape is completely naked in terms of information about how the PoNS works, so we are creating that knowledge base,â&#x20AC;? Tyler says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are literally writing the book on this.â&#x20AC;?

As for Jeri Lake, the woman I speak to on the phone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; so quick with a laugh, and so willing to discuss such a trying time â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is a far cry from the one she described from years prior. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am not confined to my home,â&#x20AC;? Lake says happily. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can ride my bike. I can travel with my family. I volunteer with brain research. The PoNS did not give me the same life I had before, but it gave me my life back in a form I can recognize.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;For many people who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have hope at all, we open the doors,â&#x20AC;? Danilov says.

The team shies away from words like â&#x20AC;&#x153;miracle,â&#x20AC;? reiterating that it is very hard work and dedication on the part of the patient. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why no miracles, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pure anatomy and physiology,â&#x20AC;? Danilov says in a tone that suggests this is not up for debate.

Though the results that Lake saw on her first day were wonderful, they are not typical. Nor was her turnaround. She did a 100mile bike ride months after her first visit to the lab. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was in shock,â&#x20AC;? Danilov says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is everyone going to respond dramatically? No,â&#x20AC;? says Tyler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the thing we have to counsel people on is to not have too high of an expectation, because if it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet their potentially unrealistic expectations, they are going to be disappointed.â&#x20AC;?

Today, my own motor impairment is only noticeable to myself. The most I need to do occasionally is explain why I walk a little strangely. But for those in far worse shape, I can only imagine the sense of relief that will come upon a successful rehab using the PoNS. I think Lake sums it up best: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a very sweet day when that FDA approval goes through.â&#x20AC;? n

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best known for her work with Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 and for the theme from the 1983 James Bond flick Never Say Never Again, has a couple Grammys of her own. Performers half Alpert’s age find touring an unbearable grind and would happily give it up if they could. So why do it?

“People leave our concerts feeling better than when they entered, so that’s a really great feeling for me,” Alpert says. “And I’m not compromising; I’m making the music I like to make.”

Fair enough. People will be leaving the Stoughton Opera House feeling better than

when they entered on Oct. 14, when Alpert and Hall bring their act to town as part of a Midwestern swing to promote Alpert’s new album, Human Nature.

The album is a mix of originals and covers, mostly instrumentals but with a couple of cuts that feature Hall’s vocals. Among the covers, the title track — Alpert’s take on the Michael Jackson hit — stands out, as does his rendition of the Burt Bacharach classic “Alfie.” In my estimation, one of the originals, “Shake It,” has radio hit written all over it, but that’s not the one

being plugged as the featured single. That honor goes to another original, “Doodles.”

But Herb agrees with me about “Shake It.” “‘Shake It’ was the one I thought was gonna be the one too,” he says. “But you never know; the public tells you. When I had A&M Records and I’d hear a side that one of our artists made, and I thought ‘Man, that’s a hit record if I ever heard one,’ and I’d go into the promotion department and play it

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At age 81, with so much money he can give it away in seven-digit chunks, Herb Alpert doesn’t have to tour. He could stay home and noodle around in his studio, sculpt wax, slather coffee (his current favorite medium) on canvas and hang with his talented soulmate and musical collaborator Lani Hall.

Alpert has already sold some 72 million records, racked up nine Grammys, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and been awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama. Hall, a vocalist,

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Chefs in carts Newcomers raise the stakes in the annual city food cart review pepita sourdough rolls come on the side. (Common Pasta is currently vending most noons at 1025 W. Imagine eating at 59 food carts in Johnson St. in front of the Educational two weeks. This is the task taken Sciences building, so you don’t even on by the city of Madison food cart have to await the results of the cart review panel. About 25 volunteers review to try this food.) evaluate all currently licensed LiOr consider the Ugly Apple, brary Mall/Capitol Concourse food which will specialize in breakfasts. carts — the first week devoted Laurel Burleson, who’s been cooking to Library Mall, the second to the professionally in Madison and ChiSquare. On consecutive Saturdays, cago for 15 years, just picked up her the panel squeezes in weekend-only cart from the genius makers Caged vendors plus all new carts trying for Crow Fabrication in St. Germain, mall/concourse licenses for the 2017 Wisconsin, two days before the vending season. (Food carts can review. Her menu focuses on biscuit vend elsewhere in the city without sandwiches and steel-cut oatmeal; needing to go through this process she hopes to use overstock produce — this is the hoop that must be from local farmers in such items as jumped through for a coveted mall/ her market veggie sandwich, appleconcourse slot.) sauce and apple fritters.

This year, 19 new carts joined Braisin’ Hussies made its debut 40 returnees, all vying for 40 mall/ late this summer at office parks. concourse spaces. Reviewers are Common Pasta’s Chef-owner Michael Sollinger went charged with rating the applicants rich beef ragu on to culinary school and then traveled on the basis of food (40 percent); housemade bigoli the world, working in kitchens from apparatus, i.e., everything about the (top); co-owner Thailand to Southern California, even cart itself (40 percent); and originalBrian Baur owning three restaurants and a bakity (20 percent). (below). ery in eastern Europe. His approach It’s a challenge. A pleasure, to his tacos, grain/noodle bowls and largely, but also work. The two-week sandwiches is global; the cart allows marathon ended Saturday, Oct. 1; him to focus “on the cooking techscores should be released by the city nique, not the ethnicity” of the dish, later this month. he says. Sollinger embraces the cart This is the second year I was on as a path to do simple cooking his the panel. I first participated in 2014. way, without incurring the debt inI skipped 2015 — in part due to a volved in starting a restaurant. With backpacking trip, but also because I downtown rents rising, more chefs in remembered what a commitment it carts may be on the way. was, in terms of both time and, yes, Of course, family-run carts foeating and considering all that food. cusing on a single world cuisine, the Since visiting all the carts means original hallmark of Madison mobile hitting up four or five of them each food, aren’t absent. The new Sabor weekday (and a formidable 14 carts Catrachos specializes in Honduran on the second Saturday), there’s food, and yes, pupusa lovers, there a lot of eatin’. You can spot panel are pupusas and curtido along with members not just from their official pastelitos, nactamales and other ID lanyards but from their tote bags national dishes. Noosh will reprise bulging with leftovers. its menu of Eastern European JewBut because food carts are my ish dishes from the short-lived resfavorite way of eating lunch, I wanttaurant on South Park Street. Zam ed to get back on the horse this year.

Zam will serve Afghani food; dZi And it was a good year to get back Little Tibet its country’s momos, on the horse.

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The arrival of Banzo in 2011 sigThere’s lots more, but it turns out it’s Durbin, veterans of Grace and the Bristol, respecnaled a sea change in cart culture, with its even more difficult to fit 59 carts into a tively, in Chicago, and Nostrano in Madison. professionally manufactured trailer, a logo single newspaper article than it is to eat “We wanted to have a food cart that is like the and graphics designed by a graphic artist at them all in two weeks. If the number of restaurant of food carts,” Baur says. Their white and active social media accounts broadcastaspiring newcomers continues to rise, the chef coats and black aprons reinforce that aim. ing daily locations and specials. current review system may need revamping.

The contemporary-looking cart even houses This year, the scene seems poised to Who will come out on top? Officially, we a six-burner restaurant stove. Menu mainstays shift direction again, with several new chefwon’t know until the city tabulates the scores are housemade pastas created with the help of driven carts hoping to join El Grito, the and adds seniority points for veteran carts. a “beast” of an Italian extruder they picked up in haute taco trailer with Matthew Danky (an I found that most are doing everything, or Connecticut, says Baur. There’s a kale-almond alum of Cafe Montmartre and L’Etoile) at almost everything, right, with only a few not pesto on gemelli, a beef short rib and tomato ragu the helm. quite making the grade. Great news for Madion bigoli, and mac ’n’ cheese made with Carr ValTake a look at Common Pasta, the apson street eats. ■ pealing new cart from Brian Baur and Thomas ley and Roth Kase cheeses. Housemade polentaBY LINDA FALKENSTEIN

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Join the wolfen clan Merchant unveils fall cocktail menu Like it or not, it’s fall. And when Merchant, 121 S. Pinckney St., unveiled its new fall cocktail menu last week, it was full of drinks made with brandy, cognac, bourbon and warming flavors associated with cooler weather – like maple syrup, cinnamon, pistachio and vanilla chai tea. But if you’re not quite ready to don your turtleneck sweater and leg warmers, opt for the bright, citrusy Werewolf Bar Mitzvah.

Named for a song performed by comedian Tracy Morgan during a Halloween-themed episode of NBC sitcom 30 Rock, this drink still hints at summer and will ease the shift to early sunsets and darker days.

Made with Death’s Door Gin, Dolin Genepy des Alpes (an herbal liqueur that adds to the cocktail’s greenish hue), green apple-fennel cordial and lemon juice, this drink is served up without ice. It’s a real sipper in a wolf’s costume. The apple-fennel cordial is made in-house by juicing apples, adding sugar and a tincture made from fennel,

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Tyranena brewmaster Rob Larson runs a fine barrel-aging program. Sailors Take Warning builds upon his expertise in that area. Here, he takes matters to another level by using tequila barrels for finishing this unique blonde ale that also has additions of blood oranges, cherries and agave. Larson adds raw, organic, blue agave nectar in liquid form at the end of the boil. He also separately adds blood orange and cherry purees.

Then, before packaging, it conditions for about four months.

This beer should appeal to aficionados looking for something that’s out of the mainstream. The layers of flavor stand out. Even though there’s no honey, this has a honey-like sweetness in the finish. This is a big beer with flavor and alcoholic warmth that will be great as the first flakes of snow fly.

The beer finishes around 9 percent ABV with an estimated 10 IBUs (International Bitterness Units). It sells in the brewery’s taproom for $5.50 a glass (snifter) and in four-packs for $11/

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Organizers of the Westside Community Market were in a real pickle. Since 2005, Wisconsin’s Department of Administration has granted a yearly permit for the 50-vendor farmers’ market to use the large surface parking lot at the Hill Farms State Transportation Building on Saturday mornings.

But with construction already underway to redevelop the 21-acre site at University Avenue and Segoe Road, the state was giving organizers the cold shoulder when they inquired if they’d be allowed to operate at the site during continuing construction in 2017.

Even less certain was whether the Westside Community Market could stay at Hill Farms after construction was complete on the controversial $196 private development deal hatched by the Walker administration to replace the aging Department of Transportation building.

“Despite multiple attempts to try to get a seat at the table, we still haven’t had any discussions with [the developers],” says Cassie Noltnerwyss, owner of Crossroads Community Farms and board president of the Westside Community Market. “But sometimes silence is an answer. So we decided we needed to find a new location.”

So the market’s board contacted longtime local food activist Barry Orton, who helped found the market and has helped out with logistics ever since. Throughout the summer, Orton scouted a new home for the market and eventually struck up talks with UW Health to secure use of the parking lot at its Digestive Health Center, 750 University Row. The clinic is just a half-mile west of the Hill Farms property. A deal was finalized in early September, ensuring that local farmers would still be able to sell vegetables, meats and other local food products there at least through the 2017 season.

The market will debut there in April 2017.

Orton praises the market as being a real resource for nearby residents. “Unlike the downtown farmers’ market, we don’t get many tourists or looky-loos. Our customers are locals who usually come each week, buy what they need, say hi to their friends and head home,” says Orton.

Orton says the many seniors who live in the apartments along Sheboygan Avenue are also frequent customers at the Westside Community Market, and the one drawback he sees with the new location is that it will be harder for that population to walk to. “I’m trying to secure some grant money to get a shuttle bus going,” says Orton.

Ben Zimmerman, the market’s manager, says the Westside Community Market regularly attracts thousands of customers in any given week.

It operates every Saturday from April through the first week of November. The livelihoods of dozens of farmers and food producers would have been in jeopardy if a new location hadn’t been secured.

“For many of our vendors, this is the biggest market that they do. It’s a 30-week season, so it’s a big chunk of change for them,” says Zimmerman.

Noltnerwyss, who sells 55 kinds of fruits and vegetables at the market, appreciates that the state allowed the Westside Community Market to operate at Hill Farms for over a decade.

“I understand that it’s not our property, and it’s been a gift that we’ve been able to be there for so long. Since its change over to private hands, I get that we aren’t guaranteed that space,” says Noltnerwyss. “But it would have been really nice to talk to those folks about how important this market is to the community.”

For now, the Westside Community Market might be able to operate at the Digestive Health Clinic through 2018, but long-term, the market’s site is still uncertain. Noltnerwyss says market organizers are holding out hope that one day they will be able to return to Hill Farms, which is more convenient for many residents and for shoppers at Hilldale. Yet she also recognizes that as Madison continues to become more densely developed, “it might mean we need to march a little farther west, where there is the kind of space we need.” n

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Chef-owner Shinji Muramoto opened his first restaurant at 106 King Street in 2004.

In that space (now empty due to Red Sushi’s recent move to West Washington Avenue), veteran Muramoto chef Matt Morris and his wife Francesca Hong (once of 43 North) will open Morris Ramen, a traditional ramen shop. Muramoto Downtown and Morris Ramen are both tentatively scheduled to open in November.

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More Latin food on the east side La Taguara is now open at 827 E. Johnson St., once home to the Spot, a neighborhood bistro that closed in April.

The Venezuelan and Latin American restaurant is a sister to the La Taguara on East Washington Avenue. The new location serves the same dishes, has indoor and outdoor seating, takeout and delivery. Unlike the Spot, La Taguara won’t have a full bar, but a selection of Central and South American beers will be available, as well as wine.

The Madison Common Council has approved a liquor license for Fuegos Tacos and Tapas, slated to open in November. Fuegos bills itself as a Spanish-style steakhouse with ample vegan selections on its Latin-inspired menu. It’s expected to open in the new mixed-use building at 904 Williamson St. this November.

The license comes with a host of conditions added to gain the support of the Marquette Neighborhood Association. Fuegos must meet the legal definition of a restaurant (majority of sales must come from food.) Alcohol can’t be served after 10 p.m. on weekdays or 11 p.m. on weekends.

The restaurant’s outdoor patio can seat only 12 patrons and must close at 9 p.m. on weekdays, 10 p.m. on weekends. No live or amplified music will be allowed on the patio. Fuegos will also be prohibited from 24-hour production of food or use of exhaust hoods — a nod to the ongoing dispute neighbors are having with That BBQ Joint, which smokes its own meat, directly across the street.

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Tickets ($25/$10 student/$5 kids) benefit Alliance for Animals and the Environment. At Masonic Center, 301 Wisconsin Ave., 5-9 pm. More info: allanimals.org.

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Madison will soon have the state’s first restaurant serving primarily Cambodian (aka Khmer) cuisine. Angkor Wat, Khmer and Thai Cuisine, 602 S. Park St., is slated to open this month in the former home of Inka Heritage, which served its last Peruvian dish in September.

Cambodian food is similar to cuisine from neighboring Thailand and Vietnam. But the use of chilies — a New World ingredient introduced to the region in the 16th century by Spain and Portugal — never caught on in Cambodia.

Khmer cuisine also tends to shy away from sugar and coconut milk and cream.

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The 2016 Milwaukee Brewers season is history, and it wasn’t quite as horrifying as some preseason pundits predicted.

Sure, the Brew Crew finished 16 games below .500 (73-89), and the opening day roster was significantly different from the lineup that took the field for Milwaukee’s final game of the season last Sunday in Colorado.

But if the relaxed smile on manager Craig Counsell’s face after first baseman Chris Carter launched his 41st and final home run of the season in the 10th inning at Coors Field to give the Brewers their penultimate win of the season last Saturday was any indication, we can call this rebuilding season a success. Carter tied Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado for the National League home run title.

And Milwaukee won five more games than in 2015, finishing fourth in the NL Central and above eight other Major League teams.

Realistically, no team other than the Chicago Cubs was going to win the NL Central.

They got off to the best start in modern baseball history and only slightly slowed down en route to being the only team this season to win more than 100 games (103-58).

The Brewers, oddly enough, played spoiler in mid-September by taking three of four at Wrigley Field — slightly delaying Chicago’s clinching of home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.

Statistics analysis website FiveThirtyEight gives the Cubs and American League East champion the Boston Red Sox the best odds of winning the World Series. Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein was general manager of the Red Sox when, in 2004, that team won its first World Series championship in 86 years. Now he could play an integral role in the Cubs winning their first title in 107 years.

Looking ahead to the offseason, the days of seeing Ryan Braun in a Brewers uniform might be over. Reports last month suggest that the former All Star and discredited user of performance-enhancing drugs could be traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers over the winter for polarizing brat Yasiel Puig — who was demoted during much of the final two months of the season, playing for the Dodgers’ Triple-A affiliate in Oklahoma City.

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Making time Creative retreat provides space to pursue passions

BY ALLISON GEYER

I drove down to Make Time Farm on a Sunday morning in August, bringing with me an artsy friend for company and a violin I had barely touched since studying music in college. After a brief detour thanks to Google Maps, we arrived just in time to find our fellow Make Timers setting out across

Down on the farm, there’s no Wi-Fi. Which also means no electronic distractions.

from previous events and updates about their various projects.

Huan-Hua Che, a multi-disciplinary artist, who plays in a local indie pop band called Gentle Brontosaurus, was working on label artwork for an upcoming album — a flipbook-style illustration featuring, of course, a running brontosaurus. She says the gathering has helped her stay accountable and set goals for her artistic pursuits, and it’s helped her make connections with other creative-minded people in the area.

“It’s so helpful to have people supporting you in the creative process,” says Che, 36. “The act of [coming to Make Time] is almost spiritual. It’s like a practice.”

Herald keeps the gatherings loosely organized by facilitating creative prompts in the morning before setting participants free to dive into their personal projects on their own.

The group then reconvenes for a potluck meal and conversation. The retreats have led to several collaborations among members.

“I really love seeing what everyone is working on,” says Sarah Jennings Evans, a drummer who plays in the local band Glassmen. “I get a lot of energy and inspiration being around people making things.”

Evans didn’t make it to the farm as often as she wanted this summer, but she hopes to get back into the groove this fall, when Make Time moves to its cold-weather home in Madison (location TBD — check the Make Time Facebook page for updates).

Herald wants to continue growing the Madison group, but she thinks the Make Time philosophy could become a national movement — some of her friends with farms in other states have started hosting similar gatherings as well.

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An empty journal. A half-finished painting. A stack of books, perpetually unread. A oncebeloved instrument that’s been silent for years, gathering dust in a closet or under a bed.

In a culture that fetishizes the concept of “busy,” creative pursuits are often the first things to fall by the wayside when schedules get tight. And in an era of seductive digital distractions, it’s easy — and tempting — to relinquish those rare moments of downtime to a mindless Netflix binge.

“It’s very hard to set aside the time to really dive in and pursue the projects that are important to us,” says Vanessa Herald. “In some ways, I think our culture tells us we’re selfish if we do.”

For the past year, Herald has hosted monthly gatherings aimed at engaging people who struggle to make time for their passion projects. She owns a few acres between Janesville and Beloit — which she’s christened “Make Time Farm” — where she invites an eclectic mix of visual artists, musicians, writers and others to unplug and immerse themselves their various creative pursuits.

“This farm is kind of my baby,” says Herald, 35, whose day job is in farm-toschool outreach at the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems. “I have this space that I love, and I wanted to share it with people. [This retreat] gives people the permission to make space in their lives for creativity.”

the property, finding the perfect spot to settle in and let the creativity flow. Some spread out on blankets and camp chairs in the hay fields, others gathered around a farm table under an awning next to the ruins of an old barn. One person opted to take a nap in a hammock.

Herald collects cell phones at the beginning of the retreat, keeping them in a basket playfully labeled “Shit You Don’t Want!!!”

“This is a no-baggage day,” the note continues. “Don’t even let it in the door.”

My friend and I were the only new faces at the farm that day — the others, about a dozen people in all, were either friends of Herald’s or mutual acquaintances brought into the fold

by Make Timers over the last year. Anyone is welcome at the gathering, but Herald asks that people check in with her via the Make Time Facebook page so she knows how many to expect.

“New people become instant friends,” Herald says. Between retreats, members keep in touch via a Facebook group, sharing photos

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Human impact The first exhibit in the Terra Incognita series features live music and photography

BY HOLLY HENSCHEN

An exhibit by the musician and photographer Rob Lundberg will launch the UWMadison Center for the Humanities’ Terra Incognita art series, which highlights the work of artists exploring the current ecological epoch — the Anthropocene — during which humans have had the greatest influence on the environment and climate.

Alongside his “Bearings” photo collection, Lundberg, who is also a stand-up bassist, will lead a sextet playing his original compositions at 7 p.m. on Oct. 7 at the Central Library.

Lundberg, a Milwaukee native, was a bit of an outsider in a family of visual artists because he pursued a musical path.

“I’ve always been inclined to that sort of visual language,” Lundberg says. “I just enjoy bouncing around.”

He earned a BFA at New York City’s New School, focusing on experimental, improvised and contemporary classical music with jazz and rock leanings. Afterward, Lundberg spent a few years playing, recording and touring. On the road, he picked up photography as a way to connect with the places he passed through.

During a stay in New Mexico, Lundberg was caught off guard by the deserted, nearly lunar landscapes. He began to view the winding two-lane roads as functional sculptures.

“What if the idea of the highway was not just to get you from point A to point B, but

to allow you to experience these strange, alien landscapes?” he asks.

This new vantage point awakened in him a passion for environmental issues and conserving natural spaces. It also pointed him down the path of the scholar. Lundberg is now enrolled in law school and the master’s program at UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute, a hotbed of interdisciplinary academic research on environmental science.

His photography, which captures images such as cracked blacktops lined with sand and vanishing into the vast blue horizon, explores the interaction of humans and natural spaces through infrastructure. Lundberg says roads and dams, for instance, are physical manifestations of society’s culture and beliefs.

Alongside his photos, Lundberg will add another layer of perspective through nontraditional sound arrangements.

The other musicians will be dispersed throughout the gallery among the photos; gallery visitors will experience different sounds depending on their physical locations. Lundberg’s compositions explore minimalism through gradual development of simple technical and melodic ideas.

“It creates a very different, more meditative space as a performer and hopefully as listener, rather than a more traditionally evolving composition,” Lundberg says.

The Terra Incognita Art Series opens at 7 p.m. on Madison Gallery Night, Oct. 7, at Madison Central Library’s Bubbler Gallery. n

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a billion dollars in 1989, cashing out in time to avoid the devastation that downloading and filesharing have inflicted on the record business.

In addition to Human Nature, Alpert also released remastered versions of 24 of his classic albums in September. He didn’t have to do it. He doesn’t need the money, and it’s not hard to find those albums on vinyl at used record stores. So why bother?

“A lot of those records were not released internationally,” says Alpert. “And then I started seeing on Amazon and some of the other websites they were bootlegging my albums from different parts of the world and selling them for like $100 for a CD. So I said, hey, let’s just make some new legal ones.”

In addition to material from Human Nature, the Stoughton show will likely include the expected Tijuana Brass medley, a Brasil ’66 medley, some standards (including a few he recorded on last year’s album, Come Fly With Me), and other odds and ends from Alpert’s and Hall’s storied careers.

These days, Alpert spends as much time on visual art as he does on music, and his stuff

is good enough to be on display in galleries and museums all over the place, including a batch of his bronze Spirit Totems that were exhibited at the Field Museum in Chicago for the past year.

Alpert’s other passion, along with music and art, is philanthropy. He’s given millions of dollars to support music education. Through his Herb Alpert Foundation, he has endowed two music schools, one at UCLA and another at California Institute of the Arts. In August, the foundation donated $10.1 million to Los Angeles City College’s Music Department to provide free attendance and additional private lessons for music majors there.

At an age when most musicians have traded in their ax for a rocking chair, Alpert has no plans to stop performing any time soon.

“I’ve spent my musical career trying to make music that’s uplifting,” Alpert says.

“I’m not interested in downer music. I wanna make music that makes you feel good, and makes me feel good to play it. I always felt that if it’s fun for me to play, it’ll be fun for someone else to listen to.” n

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for them, and they’re staring out the window. The truth of it all is that nobody knows what’s gonna be a hit.”

While there are a few ballads mixed in, Human Nature is really an electronic dance album, featuring several cuts with peppy, percussive underpinnings. Alpert says he didn’t initially set out to make a rump-shaker. It just kind of happened.

“A few of my musician friends presented me with these rhythms and grooves that I just felt good about, and I started playing the trumpet over the top of it and having a good time; one thing led to another, and I recorded,” Alpert says. Alpert is no stranger to dance music, of course. “Rise” was a monster hit, riding an infectious groove and hummable trumpet melody to the top of the charts back in 1979.

Most people know Alpert best from his string of ’60s hits with the Tijuana Brass, including such classics as “The Lonely Bull,” “A Taste of Honey” and “This Guy’s in Love With You.” While he was never the hottest trumpeter around, his style is unmistakable.

Hall and Alpert in 1986 after Hall won the Grammy for Best Latin Pop Performance.

But Alpert’s mark on the music business has at least as much to do with his role as record label mogul as it does with his chops and compositions. Alpert was the “A” in A&M Records, which he founded in his garage with partner Jerry Moss in 1962. A&M was home to such hitmakers as the Carpenters, Peter Frampton, the Police, Janet Jackson and many others. Alpert and Moss sold the label to Polygram for half

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Best-selling author, underrated singersongwriter and self-proclaimed “intermittent pig farmer” Michael Perry has penned a weekly column for the Wisconsin State Journal for years.

Not all of Perry’s columns are winners.

But the pieces chosen for his new essay collection, Roughneck Grace: Farmer Yoga, Creeping Codgerism, Apple Golf and Other Brief Essays from On and Off the Back Forty (Wisconsin Historical Society Press), serve as a compelling reminder of Perry’s subtle wit, charm and predilection for nature, family and friends.

That may sound a bit sappy, but that’s okay. In a world in which 140 characters count as “writing,” Perry’s thoughtful and sensitive prose provides the authentic perspective of a 50-something man with one steel-toed boot planted firmly in nostalgia and the other in an ever-changing present.

Perry, a Wisconsin native who now resides in rural Chippewa County, shares stories about the funeral of a friend, the mysterious gift his deceased grandfather

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Greater context by providing original publication dates would have been appreciated, and a handful of these selections border on the maudlin and predictable. Still, it’s hard to fault a guy who’s not afraid to use words as diverse as “pusillanimous” and “snotsicle.”

The collection concludes with one of the book’s shortest essays, simply titled “Gratitude.” “Such a lovely word,” Perry writes. “Humble and warm. Humble, because it’s not a word you use if you think you did everything yourself. … Warm, because gratitude is not compatible with a cold soul.”

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Dreams tell us something about the dreamer, and films tell us something about the filmmaker. What do films based on someone else’s dreams tell us?

Five independent filmmakers decided to find out with with their acclaimed omnibus film, collective:unconscious, screening at the Micro-Wave Cinema Series on Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. at 4070 Vilas Hall.

Omnibus films can be hit and miss, but collective:unconscious delivers a consistently strong collection of shorts by established independent filmmakers adapting each other’s dreams.

Daniel Patrick Carbone’s Black Soil, Green Grass features a subtle performance from frequent Micro-Wave actor Frank Mosley. A droning voice counts sheep, amplified from a mountain lookout tower. The valley residents must protect themselves from hearing it by any means. Mosley’s character finds an antidote in the Romanian gypsy songs sung by his grandmother. The crisp black-andwhite cinematography highlights textures and details to create a tense hyper-reality ruled by a twisted dream-logic.

Josephine Decker (Butter on the Latch) begins First Day Out like a rap video directed

by Federico Fellini. The movements on screen interpret the voices of formerly incarcerated men, whose interviews are heard on the soundtrack. Lauren Wolkstein’s Beemus, It’ll End in Tears transforms a vivid high school experience into a nightmare. A gym teacher, Mr. Beemus (UW-Madison alum Will Blomker), demands complete control of his gym, but un-

Lily Baldwin’s Swallowed.

fortunately that gym is in (Mount) Saint Helen’s High School in 1980 (volcano nostalgia, anyone?). Both filmmakers understand the emotional stakes of physical confinement and movement.

Frances Bodomo’s Everybody Dies! delivers a sharp satire using the language of infotainment.

Smiling host Ripa the Reaper (Tonya Pinkins) reminds viewers of their mortality, then proceeds to lead African American children through an on-set “Death” door. It’s basically a one-joke film, but the message is chilling.

Swallowed, the final short by Lily Baldwin, provides the most typical dream film, recalling avant-garde psychodramas by Maya Deren.

More overtly than Decker, Baldwin transforms the psychic trauma of interpersonal relationships into physical movement as her performance toggles between seizure and dance.

Thanks to a somewhat awkward framing device in which a therapist leads each filmmaker

into his or her film, we know who directed what, but we don’t know who dreamed what until the final credits. Gender and race have transformed in intriguing ways in the transition from dream to film. This leads to some interesting interpretive possibilities for the viewer.

“All analysis is self-analysis,” explains the film’s therapist.

Micro-Wave Cinema, UW-Madison graduate student Brandon Colvin’s adventurous showcase for micro-budgeted independent films, shares its venue, 4070 Vilas Hall, with UW-Cinematheque. But the series promotes its screenings separately on Facebook. Most events include a Skype Q & A with filmmakers. A Halloween-themed shorts program will screen Oct. 30, followed by the 2016 Slamdance Festival Jury Awardwinning Driftwood on Nov. 13. n

Kaili Blues is an impressive debut from a Chinese poet Many people admire cinematic long takes because unedited shots preserve continuous time. But you’ll see one in Kaili Blues that throws the very concept of time into question.

Director Bi Gan’s impressive feature debut has earned festival accolades and comparisons to the work of Alain Resnais and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, both known for their meditations on time, history and memory.

It also has almost no chance of a weeklong theatrical run in Madison. That’s a loss for Madison cinephiles who can’t make the sole screening on Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. at MMoCA. The elliptical storytelling in Kaili Blues challenges the viewer to slowly piece together the backstory. Chen (Chen Yongzhong), a practitioner at a small clinic in Kaili (Guizhou province, southwestern China), has a tense relationship with his brother, nicknamed Crazy Face (Xie Lixun). Chen disapproves of how Crazy Face treats his son, Weiwei (Luo Feiyang), and Crazy Face remains bitter that Chen inherited their mother’s estate.

When Crazy Face sends Weiwei to the town

of Zhenyuan under suspicious circumstances, Chen insists on retrieving him.

Loss and regret suffocate many of the film’s characters. Before Chen’s departure, an older doctor at the clinic requests a favor. She has lost touch with an old love who is in failing health in the village of Dangmai. She owes him some sentimental items and asks Chen to deliver them for her. Because Kaili Blues traffics in muted emotions, several repeating motifs carry significant emotional weight: watches, glitter balls, cassette tapes, trains, legends of “wild men” and a shirt the doctor wants delivered to Dangmai.

In an exhilarating sequence in Dangmai, Bi Gan delivers that memorable long take. The 41-minute hand-held shot blurs past, present and future, rewarding attentive viewers and provoking second-guessing about what we’re watching. As with the earlier motifs, viewers must pay close attention to character names for the sequence to exert its full resonance.

An emotional Chen fills in the backstory when he recalls a “friend.” We assemble the pieces of Chen’s puzzle and begin to understand why he describes his brief time in Dangmai as “like living in a dream.”

Kaili Blues is part of MMoCA’s Spotlight Cinema series, which continues Wednesday nights through November to fill Madison’s international art cinema gap. The gap widens at the top: the last two Cannes Palm d’Or winners, for example, have had only one-off screenings in town, including Dheepan at Spotlight last month. The gap will close only when distributors see support for films like Kaili Blues throughout the year. n — JAMES KREUL

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Bring it to the Table: Documentary about engaging students in civic action; Morgridge Center for Public Service screening with director Julie Winkour. UW-Madison Education Building, Oct. 6, 6 pm.

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Mulholland Drive: David Lynch’s 2001 neo-noir about an amnesiac (Naomi Watts) searching for clues about her past in Los Angeles. Central Library, Oct. 6, 6 pm.

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The Virgin Suicides: Director Sofia Coppola’s adaptation of the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides.

UW Union South-Marquee, Oct. 6, 7 pm.

Les choses de la vie (aka The Things of Life): A man recalls his life in the moments after a bad car accident. UW Cinematheque, Oct. 7, 7 pm.

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Bad Rap: Documentary about Asian American rappers, plus Q&A with producer Jaeki Cho. UW Elvehjem Buiding-Room L140, Oct. 7, 7 pm.

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Tyrus: Documentary about Chinese American painter Tyrus Wong, plus Q&A with director Pamela Tom. UW Cinematheque, Oct. 8, 2 pm.

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Night of the Living Dead: This low-budget horror classic is pretty much the reason for the pop-culture obsession with zombies. Point, Oct. 6-8, 10 pm.

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Flight of the Butterflies: Friends of Lake Wingra documentary screening. AMC Star-Fitchburg, Oct. 9, 10:45 am.

Ace in the Hole: Kirk Douglas stars as an ambitious journalist in this powerful, dark Billy Wilder masterpiece. Chazen Museum of Art, Oct. 9, 2 pm (UW Cinematheque).

People’s Republic of Love: Documentary about the cultural, economic and political implications of love in contemporary China, plus Q&A with producer (and UW graduate student) Yizhou Xu. UW Elvehjem Buiding-Room L140, Oct. 9, 2 pm.

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He Named Me Malala: A documentary profiling Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who survived an assassination attempt. UW Union South-Marquee, Oct. 11, 7 pm.

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Best of Enemies: Doc about 1968 debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley; panel discussion by Mitch Henck, Stu Levitan and Bill Rizzo follows. Central Library, Oct. 13, 6:30 pm.

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Kaili Blues: Spotlight Cinema: A doctor searching for a long-lost child encounters a town where past, present and future come together. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Oct. 12, 7 pm.

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MMoCA Gallery Night Friday, Oct. 7, various locations, 5-9 pm Art lovers have a dizzying array of options on this special night when creativity is bursting out all over Madison.

Just a few highlights: the Latino Art Fair and PhotoMidwest at the Overture Center, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Wisconsin Healing Art show at VSA (1709 Aberg Ave.), a dance party amid MMoCA’s fantastic 2016 Wisconsin Triennial (9-11 pm), “avantgarde and surrealist” taxidermy...and so much more. Plan your night by visiting mmoca.org or pick up a guide at a participating venue. Get your art on.

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

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

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

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

Harmony Bar: Bing Bong, rock, 8 pm.

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

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Knuckle Down Saloon: Blues Jam, 8 pm Thursdays.

Liliana’s: Ken Wheaton, free, 5:30 pm Thursdays.

Thursday, Oct. 6, Majestic, 8:30 pm

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

With their identities kept “under wraps” (possibly due to record contract conflicts), the 10 members of the Here Come the Mummies perform in full mummy costumes.

That’s cool, but they also deliver an energetic, eclectic funk sound that will keep the dance floor hopping. With People Brothers Band.

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

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Stoughton Opera House: Wilder Deitz Group, 7:30 pm.

Thursday, Oct. 6, High Noon Saloon, 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.

Lucille: DJ Brook, free, 10 pm Thursdays.

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

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

Mr. Robert’s: Romero, Compact Deluxe, Stone Room, Hired Rivals, rock, free, 10 pm.

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

Maggie Faris Thursday, Oct. 6, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Maggie Faris’ 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. She’s only here for one night, so catch her live act. With Colin Bowden.

Tempest Oyster Bar: Paul Rowley, free, 6 pm.

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

AIDS Memorial Quilt: On display 10/6-9, First Congregational United Church of Christ. 233-9751.

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

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

Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, 9 pm Thursdays.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Pro Arte Quartet with Leon Fleisher, free, noon.

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

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David Travis: “Passerby,” PhotoMidwest 2016 exhibit, 1-4 pm Saturdays, 10/8-22, PhotoMidwest (reception 7 pm on 10/6 and 5-9 pm, 10/7). photomidwest.org.

FCI Art Show: Art show & sale benefiting Middleton Outreach Ministry, 5:30-9 pm, 10/6, Food Concepts, with music by the BriarPickers. Free admission. fciartshow.com. 830-5000.

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David Grisman & Del McCoury Friday, Oct. 7, UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall, 8 pm

These bluegrass giants perform together frequently. Grisman, 71, and his mandolin helped redefine acoustic music, while singer-guitarist-banjoist McCoury, 77, ushered bluegrass music into the modern era.

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Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Vitale, Marilyn Fisher & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

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

Lucille: DJ Radish, free, 10 pm.

Majestic: Getter, Josh Pan, Half Empty, 9:30 pm.

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Merchant: DJ Nick Nice, free, 10:30 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Josh B Kuhl, free, 10 pm.

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Overture Center-Capitol Theater: Maraca & His Latin Jazz All Stars, 7:30 pm.

Friday, Oct. 7, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm

Red Rock Saloon: Gunnar & the Grizzly Boys, 10 pm.

With tracks about everything from the minutiae of everyday life to the emotional rollercoaster of new relationships, this rap duo are heralded for their relatability. Expect a set made up of tracks from their newest album, Fishing Blues, and classics like “Sunshine” and “Trying to Find a Balance.” Bonus: Madison-born activist emcee Brother Ali is opening the show, which also includes Dem Atlas, Plain Ole Bill and Last Word.

Red Zone: Gabriel & the Apocalypse, OncetheSun, Disappearance, Genotype, 8 pm.

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

Rhapsody Arts Center, Verona: David Mays, Mickey Lytle, piano, free, 7 pm.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Middleton: John Widdicombe & Cliff Frederiksen, jazz, 6 pm.

Stoughton Opera House: The Best Westerns, 7:30 pm.

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

Tempest Oyster Bar: Louka, free, 9:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Milwaukee Hot Club, free, 10 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Universal Sound, classic rock/pop, 8 pm.

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Tuvalu Coffee, Verona: Chas Coberly, Jeff Holcomb, plus open mic, 7 pm.

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UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Symphony Orchestra, free, 8 pm.

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Up North Pub: Cosmic Strings, folk, free, 7 pm.

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Friday, Oct. 7, Frequency, 8 pm

Commander: An openly gay governor runs for president in this dark comedy by Mario Correa, a StageQ production, 10/7-22, Bartell Theater, at 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays (2 pm only 10/22), plus 2 pm, 10/16. $20/$15. bartelltheatre.org. 661-9696.

In 2007, the Spill Canvas were introduced to mainstream alt-rock when their single “All Over You” became a minor radio hit.

But the Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based band has been on the rise since 2002, playing a hybrid of emo and acoustic rock that’s won a wide fan base. Now the group is turning to that fanbase for its “Requestour” — where the shows’ setlists will be made up entirely of fan requests. We’ll be shouting “Lust a Prima Vista” in the front row. With the Anderson Brothers.

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

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: 5th Gear, country, 9 pm.

Brink Lounge: Sweet Delta Dawn, John Lennon tribute, 8 pm; Edi Rey y Su Salsera, DJ Rumba, 9 pm.

Cardinal Bar: Tony Castañeda Latin Jazz Quartet, free, 5:30 pm; DJ Chamo, Latin, 9 pm.

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

Club Tavern, Middleton: Dan Law & the Mannish Boys, free, 9 pm.

Essen Haus: David Austin Band, 8:30 pm. Also 10/8.

First Unitarian Society: Madison Bach Musicians, “English Music from the Renaissance & Baroque” concert, 7:30 pm (lecture 6:45 pm). Also: 3:30 pm, 10/9, Holy Wisdom Monastery (lecture 2:45 pm).

Fisher King Winery, Mount Horeb: Ken Curtis, 6:30 pm.

Fountain: Richard Shaten, piano, 7:30 pm Fridays.

High Noon Saloon: Mersey Brothers, playing “Especially For You” by the Smithereens, 5:30 pm; Phat Phunktion, Gabe Burdulis Trio, 9 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: City Electric, free, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Philly Williams, Peter Hernet, Luke Hrovat-Staedter, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

Kiki’s House: Beaver Nelson, Matthew Grimm (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com), 9 pm.

Jimmy Pardo Friday, Oct. 7, Comedy Club on State, 8 & 10:30 pm

He may not be a household name, but Pardo has spent the last half-decade as the dedicated warm-up act for Conan.

His mega-successful podcast Never Not Funny has hosted all of your favorite triple-A comedians, ranging from Amy Poehler to Don Draper himself, Jon Hamm. His crowd work cannot be touched, and there are few topics the seasoned comedy veteran shies away from. He truly lives up to his podcast’s name. With Ken Schultz, Raghav Mehta.

ALSO: Saturday, Oct. 8, 8 & 10:30 pm.

The Cut: Amateur improv competition, 8 pm Fridays 10/7-11/11, Atlas Improv Co. $8-$5. 259-9999.

Marty Clarke: 10:30 pm, 10/7, Fountain. 250-1998.

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n ISTHMUS PICKS : OCT 7 - 8 BOOKS/SP OKEN WORD Mel Miskimen: Discussing “Sit, Stay, Heal: How An Underachieving Labrador Won Our Hearts and Brought us Peace,” her new book, 7 pm, 10/7, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

Madison Storytellers: Listen to/share stories, 7 pm, 10/7, Crescendo. Free. facebook.com/madstorytellers.

Madtown Poetry Open Mic: With Paul Baker, host Ron Czerwein, 8 pm, 10/7, Mother Fool’s. 255-4730.

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SHOVELS AND ROPE BARRYMORE 10.8

JIMMY EAT WORLD BARRYMORE 10.11

Gallery Night: Receptions, demonstrations & artists’ talks, 5-9 pm, 10/7, at 65+ venues around Madison; afterparty 9-11 pm, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, with DJ Phil Money, art activities, refreshments ($5). See back page for locations. 257-0158.

PhotoMidwest 2016 Focus Weekend: Photography exhibit receptions, workshops, talks & more, 10/7-9, UW Extension Pyle Center, Overture Center (and other venues). photomidwest.org. 630-9797.

It Can Happen Here: Group exhibit envisioning a potentially dark post-election future, 10/7-29, Arts & Literature Laboratory (reception 5-9 pm, 10/7). 556-7415.

SP ECIAL EV ENTS Urban Cabaret: Urban League fundraiser, 6-10 pm, 10/7, Monona Terrace, with entertainment, speakers, food. $100. urbancabaret.org. 729-1268.

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD MAJESTIC 10.15

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Harvest Moon Festival: Hands-on activities & presentations for all ages, 6-9 pm, 10/7, Lake Farm County Park-Lussier Family Heritage Center, with torch-lit trails, bonfire, music, s’mores, silent auction. $5. friendsofcapitalsprings.org.

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Shovels and Rope Saturday, Oct. 8, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

The Bonnie and Clyde of American folk music, Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent attack their live shows as if they’re robbing a bank. The South Carolinians trade back and forth on guitar and drums — and sing together with absolute abandon. Their latest release, Little Seeds, is a highly personal project, with tracks about Hearst’s pregnancy, Trent’s father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s, and the death of a close friend. With Matthew Logan Vasquez.

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An intriguing mix of local stalwarts and national up-and-comers hits the Middleton brewery’s patio for a fall blowout. The Mascot Theory (pictured) kicks off the show with the official release party for their new disc Trust and Bones, followed by Madison reggae rockers Natty Nation. Also on the bill is Eliot Sumner (who formerly performed as I Blame Coco and is the child of Sting and Trudie Styler), and singersongwriter Cobi (formerly of Gentlemen Hall), whose debut single “Don’t You Cry for Me” was a viral hit this past summer.

RSVP for Share Your Harvest: Grace Episcopal Church Food Pantry annual fundraiser dinner, 6-9 pm, 10/14, Goodman Community Center. $75. RSVP by 10/7: gracefoodpantry.weebly.com. 293-2806.

UW Women’s Hockey: vs. Ohio State, 7 pm on 10/7 and 1 pm, 10/8, LaBahn Arena. $5. 262-1440.

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Saturday, Oct. 8, Capital Brewery, Middleton, noon-8 pm

Mad for the Cure: Fundraiser for Susan G. Komen South Central Wisconsin, 7 pm, 10/7, Smart Motors, with silent auction, music by VO5. $60. info-komen. org/MadfortheCure2016. 836-1083.

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Last chance to see the Madgadders with the kiddos. The ’gadders have an origin story that could come from a Portlandia segment: The band formed as a musical subset of a babysitting co-op in 2002, wanting to create a family rock ’n’ roll experience. Drawing heavily on the Beatles, They Might Be Giants, Schoolhouse Rock and other classics, they’ve also recorded some true originals, including “Thanks for the Spaceship” and “Squid Attack.” Now their kids are grown, and the youngest member, Isaac de BrouxSlone, fronts his own up-and-coming lo-fi pop group, DISQ. ALSO: 11 am and 1 pm.

Saturday, Oct. 8, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm With an easygoing, surf-tinged sound and a trio of acclaimed albums to their credit, Real Estate has become one of the biggest names in indie rock. The New Jersey four piece’s most recent release, 2014’s Atlas, debuted at #34 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was subsequently named one of the “100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far” by Pitchfork. With EZTV. 1855 Saloon Cottage Grove: Robert J, free, 7 pm.

Alchemy Cafe: No Name String Band, free, 10 pm.

Avanti Italian Restaurant, Verona: Rod Ellenbecker’s American Standard, rock, 7:30 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, Latin, 10 pm.

Club Tavern: Anderson Brothers, free, 9 pm.

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

Crystal Corner Bar: Blythe Gamble & the Rollin’ Dice, DJ Bill the Walkin’ Doctor, 9 pm.

First Congregational United Church of Christ: Con Vivo, “All That Jazz,” chamber music, 7:30 pm.

Fountain: Kieran Connor, free, 8 pm.

Frequency: Mad Trucker Gone Mad, Venison, Rotten Tommys, The Rumours, Apollo Affair, 8 pm.

Harmony Bar: Teddy Davenport Band, The Lower 5th, 9:45 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Trailer Kings, free, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Dan Rafferty, Brandon Jensen, Kevin Gale, Philly Williams, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Sweet Diezel Jenkins, 9 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee House: The McDougals, folk, 6:30 pm.

Lazy Oaf Lounge: Healers, free, 10 pm.

Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Larry Stout, 6:30 pm.

Lucille: DJ Nick Nice, free, 10 pm.

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

Middleton-Cross Plains Area Performing Arts Center: Ted Vigil, John Denver tribute, 7:30 pm.

Mother Fool’s: Lil’ Rev, Boo Bradley, 8 pm.

Natt Spil: DJ Fuzzy Duck, free, 10 pm.

Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ: Chance Allies, The Road Home fundraiser, 7 pm.

Orpheum: Cherub, Frenship, Boo Seeka, 9 pm.

Our House: Tim & Myles Thompson, house concert (RSVP: annedave@chorus.net), 7:30 pm.

Paoli Schoolhouse: Mal-O-Dua, free, 6 pm.

Parched Eagle Brewpub: Mike McAbee, 7:30 pm.

Spring Prairie Lutheran Church-Prairie Coffeehouse, DeForest: Cris & Ann Plata, free, 7 pm.

Black Earth Institute Fellows’ Reading: Poetry, dramatic readings & stories, 7:30 pm, 10/8, Arts & Literature Laboratory. 556-7415.

S PECI AL E VE NTS Monona Fall Festival: 10/7-9, Winnequah Park (unless noted). Saturday: Arts & crafts fair 9 am-3 pm, Hoot Hoot Hustle 5K 10 am, Book sale 10 am-4 pm (Library; also 1-3 pm, 10/9), Chili festival/cook-off 11:30 am-3 pm, Pie party 1-4 pm (Community Center. $10). Sunday: Family fun day 10 am-3 pm. 222-4167.

Pipers in the Prairie: Annual fundraiser, 4:30-8 pm, 10/8, Aldo Leopold Nature Center, Monona, with music

by West Wind, The Green Man, Irish dance by Cashel Dennehy, kids’ nature activities, hors d’oeuvres & desserts, bonfire. $75 ($25 ages 5-17). RSVP: 216-9373.

Vegan Chili Cookoff: Alliance for Animals fundraiser, 5-9:30 pm, 10/8, Masonic Center, with food from local restaurants, raffle. $25 ($5 ages under 12). 257-6333.

Lakeview-Palooza: All-ages activities, 10 am-3 pm, 10/8, Lakeview Library, with public safety vehicle display noon, raptor program 2 pm. 246-4547.

Farley Center Fall Celebration: Potluck & cider pressing, 10 am-3 pm, 10/8, 2299 Spring Rose Road, Verona. Bring container for take-home cider. Free/donations. 845-8724.

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Tavernakaya: DJ Brook, 10:30 pm.

Bike the Art: Guided east side trip, starting 12:45 pm, 10/8, Allen Centennial Gardens, and ending at Arts & Literature Laboratory; to join along the way follow stops at facebook.com/biketheart. 556-7415.

SP ECTATOR SP ORTS UW Volleyball: vs. Illinois, 7 pm, 10/8; vs. Minnesota, 7 pm, 10/12, UW Field House. $5. 262-1440.

DANCING Harvest Fever Square Dance: 7 pm, 10/8, Wil-Mar Center, with music by Grandpa’s Elixir, dessert potluck. $7 ($20/family). facebook.com/grandpaselixir.

KIDS & FAM ILY Operation Kidsafe Safety Week: Free child bio records created for parents, 10 am-6 pm, 10/6-7, Wilde East Towne Honda; fair with games, safety demos, exotic animals & more for all ages, 10 am-4 pm, 10/8. operationkidsafe.org. 242-5500.

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Stoughton Opera House: SHEL, 7:30 pm.

Sun Prairie High School: Barrage 8, 7 pm.

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Tempest: The North Westerns, free, 9:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Emerald Grove, free, 10 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners: Rock Collector, 8:30 pm.

Tuvalu, Verona: Gin, Chocolate & Bottle Rockets, Badger Prairie Needs Network benefit, 7 pm.

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Saturday, Oct. 8, Madison CollegeMitby Theater, 7:30 pm

The American Girls Revue: Children’s Theater of Madison musical production, 10/8-23, Overture Center-Playhouse, at 1:30 & 4:30 pm Saturdays & Sundays and 10:30 am, 10/16 (sensory-friendly). $38 ($26 ages 17 & under). 258-4141.

B OOKS / S P O K EN WORD Patricia Skalka: Discussing “Death in Cold Water,” 2 pm, 10/8, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Produced and Directed by Julia Huffman After the screening there will be a panel discussion and Q&A with: HSUS Wisconsin State Director Melissa Tedrowe Certified animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell, Ph.D. Ho-Chunk Nation Elder Robert Mann Woodsman, environmentalist and author Barry Babcock Retired WI DNR Wolf Program Administrator Randy Jurewicz Emcee Carl Anderson $10 advance, $12 d.o.s. Advance tickets only available online and by phone at (608) 241-8633

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n ISTHMUS PICKS : OCT 8 - 11 S PECI AL INTERESTS Talking Spirits: Annual Wisconsin Veterans Museum walking tour, 5:30-7:30 pm on 10/8 and noon-4 pm, 10/9, Forest Hill Cemetery, with re-enactors, artwork.

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Cargo-East Washington: Jamie Guiscafre, free, 2 pm.

Tuesday, Oct. 11, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

The Frequency: Self Evident, The Bronzed Chorus, Czarbles, 8:30 pm.

Harmony Bar: Jes Raymond & the Blackberry Bushes, Sortin’ the Mail, string band, 3 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Kelsey Miles Band, Good Morning V, El Donk, Motherhive & Verge’s Drum Circle, High Falootin, Material Boys, Led Zeppelin tribute, medical benefit for Dawn Hansen, 3 pm.

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

Madison College-Truax, Mitby Theater: Edgar Knecht Trio, Madison College Big Band, free, 2 pm.

B OOKS Kristin Oakley, Kathleen Tresemer, M.F. Lamphere: Discussing new novels, 2 pm, 10/9, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Alexander Grant: Reading from “The Owl’s Plea,” his children’s book, 4 pm, 10/9, Sector 67. 772-1819.

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FOOD & DRINK Barista Latte Art Throwdown: Fundraiser for On the Ground and Project Chiapas, 5-8 pm, 10/9, Ancora Coffee. $10 to compete; free for spectators. facebook.com/ events/537680456436894.

Battle Trance Monday, Oct. 10, Gates of Heaven, 7 pm Tenor saxophone fans should be on high alert about this Tone Madison GateSound concert by avant-garde quartet Battle Trance, which consists entirely of tenor saxes. Their challenging new album-length composition “Blade of Love” should make for a fascinating listening and viewing experience — especially for fellow players trying to figure out just how they are getting some of these sounds from their instruments. The New York-based ensemble includes former Madisonian Patrick Breiner (Vartan Mamigonian, New Breed Quintet). With Randal Bravery.

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

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

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

UW Old Music Hall: UW Jazz Orchestra, free, 7:30 pm.

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Monday, Oct. 10, Monona Terrace, 4-9 pm

Come witness the spark and sparkle of glassblowing as artists create works that will be auctioned off to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank. It’s all part of the eighth annual convention and Glassroots Art Show, with more than 150 exhibitors of functional and wearable glass art. ALSO: Oct. 11-12.

For more than 20 years, Jimmy Eat World has been at the forefront of modern rock.

But the influential quartet’s humble beginnings as emo heroes are long since behind them, thanks in large part to chart-topping singles like “The Middle” and “Pain” and platinum albums like Bleed American. Not bad for four dudes from Mesa, Arizona.

Their ninth album, Integrity Blues, is set to be released later this month. With the Hunna.

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

Frequency: Oozing Wound, Dos Males, Blessed, 9 pm.

Louisianne’s, Middleton: Johnny Chimes, New Orleans piano, free, 6 pm Tuesdays-Wednesdays.

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

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

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

Williamson Magnetic: Jonesies, Anna McClellan, TS Foss, 8 pm.

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Are We Delicious Sci-Fi Tuesday, Oct. 11, Bartell Theatre, 7:30 pm

A small group of Madison writer/actors will boldly go where no troupe has gone before to create a full-length sci-fi play in a single week. With an all-star cast of local thespians and improvisational comedy veterans, very little can go wrong. ALSO: Wednesday, Oct. 12 (7:30 pm) and Oct. 18-19 (7:30 pm).

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Magda Gryparis: Paintings, 10/10-11/4, Verona Library. 845-7180.

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Saint Vitus + The Skull Tuesday, Oct. 11, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Prepare for an evening of influential doom metal. Along with Trouble and Pentagram, Saint Vitus is considered a genre pioneer. No wonder the Los Angeles band is touring with the Skull, featuring Erik Wagner — Trouble’s original vocalist. With Witch Mountain.

Impractical Jokers Tuesday, Oct. 11, Overture Hall, 7 pm

A Candid Camera for the 2010s, Impractical Jokers on truTV has become the king of prank shows. And its stars — four lifelong friends who compete to embarrass each other in public by posing as everything from hot dog vendors to gymnasts to substitute teachers — also make up the Tenderloins comedy troupe. Billed as the “Santiago Sent Us” tour, the quartet’s Madison stop will blend comedy with exclusive video footage.

Other than that, we have no idea what to expect. But if the live version is half as funny as the TV show, this should be a blast.

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Angela Palm: “Riverine: A Memoir From Nowhere but Here,” 7 pm, 10/11, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

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emcee defies any single label. He’s horrorcore. He’s party music. He’s empathetic. He’s apathetic. Expect this born entertainer to produce a jam-packed, high-energy show featuring his latest hits such as “Hood Go Crazy” and older hits like “E.B.A.H. (Evil Brain Angel Heart).”

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Majestic: Futuristic, Beez, TJ Hickey, Justina, 8 pm.

Opus Lounge: Teddy Davenport, free, 9 pm.

Stoughton Opera House: Nick Lowe, Josh Rouse, 7:30 pm.

Williamson Magnetic Recording Company: William Z. Villain, Jeremy Waun, Mr. Jackson, 7 pm.

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Forward Theater Company Play Club: Readings from “4,000 Miles,” 6:30 pm, 10/12, Verona Library. Free. veronapubliclibrary.org. 845-7180.

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Thursday, Oct. 13, Frequency, 9 pm

The Hood Internet surfaced in the late aughts, in the wake of Girl Talk’s mashup masterpiece Night Ripper. Droves of laptop remixers, equipped with new groundbreaking software like Ableton Live, set out to copy and paste loops into the next big thing. The Hood Internet duo of ABX and STV SLV separated themselves from these copycats with their constant barrage of clever and catchy mash-up singles, sharing their own fusion of hip-hop, pop and indie of every color, shade and college clique. Drake, Ratatat, The-Dream, R Kelly, M83, the Black Keys, of Montreal, Battles. They’re all there; go dance. With Show You Suck, DJ Lolo.

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

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Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson: The New Pioneers, 7 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm.

Louis C.K. Wednesday, Oct. 12, Overture Hall, 8 pm

Louis C.K. is an unlikely A-list star. But the hugely popular standup/writer/director/ Renaissance man loves to defy convention. He brings his razor-sharp, bemused cynicism to Overture for just two nights in one of the hottest comedy tickets of the year. Note: Ticket sales are online only. ALSO: Thursday, Oct. 13, 8 pm.

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

High Noon Saloon: Electric Six, In the Whale, 8:30 pm.

Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, Vince Strong, 9 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, Hawaiian, 5:30 pm; Oedipus Tex, Crushed Out, free, 10 pm.

Middleton-Cross Plains Area Performing Arts Center: Middleton Community Orchestra, works by Bernstein, Gershwin, Sondheim, 7:30 pm.

Orpheum Theater: Zeds Dead, dubstep, 9 pm.

Stoughton Opera House: The SteelDrivers, Sarah Lou Richards, 7:30 pm.

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

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Aaron Hill, oboe, faculty concert, free, 8 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Fredric March Play Circle: Mike Marshall & Darol Anger, 8 pm.

T H EAT ER & DA N C E Sinful Showtunes: Songs From Villains of Stage and Screen: Music Theatre of Madison revue, 7:30 pm, 10/13, Brink Lounge. $10 donation. 237-2524.

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Chazen Expansion 5th Anniversary: 6-8 pm, 10/13, Chazen Museum of Art, with music by Ben Sidran, refreshments. Free. 263-2246.

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Follow the leader The Barre Code offers all elements of a dynamic workout

BY ERICA KRUG

When it comes to exercise, there are generally two camps: people who prefer a solitary activity like bicycling or jogging, and people who revel in a group fitness class — possibly one led by an energetic leader with a headset and a strict plan for which muscle groups you are going to work to exhaustion that day.

If you fall into the second camp, there’s a new kid in town: The Barre Code, 316 W. Washington Ave., opened in late August. It holds group classes Kellian Jacobs (foreground) leads a class at specializing in strength, cardio and the Barre Code, a strength and cardio workout “restoration” — stretching exercises hot spot in the AT&T building. akin to yoga.

The Barre Code franchise started in Chicago in 2010 and now has locations local Barre Code provided more than a workin 13 states. This branch is owned by Madiout, Jacobs says. It introduced her to a welson native Kellian Jacobs. coming community of people who motivated Jacobs attended her first Barre Code each other. Soon after, Jacobs went through class six years ago when she had just moved to Chicago. At the time she was job- training to become an instructor and set her sights on bringing the Barre Code to Madison. less and looking for something to do. Her

Collect ‘em all

The bright exercise space is on the ground floor of the newly renovated AT&T building.

Lockers and dressing rooms flank a mirrorlined studio. The floor features shock-absorbing mats. Participants wear socks for class; no shoes are allowed.

Jacobs explains that routines change weekly, so students’ muscles never plateau and so “people don’t get bored.”

Classes are music-driven, and a DJ creates new playlists monthly.

I attended a 50-minute introductory “Barre Code” class, a full-body fitness session. It was nice not to have to think about what you’re going to do next; you simply follow the directions of the person with the mic. The class moved at a rapid rate as we squatted, crunched and bicep-curled our way through class. It was a bit of a whirlwind and was over before I knew it — but for a couple of days after that I could feel that I had gotten a really good workout.

Other classes include a high-intensity interval training class, dance-inspired cardio and more.

Jacobs says she is happy to be home. “I know how great the Barre Code community is, so I wanted that for Madison,” she says.

Individual classes are $20; membership costs $99 per month for unlimited classes. ■

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A question on your favorite topic, Dan. Just kidding, it’s a question about my vagina. I’m having a problem with the microbiome of my vulva and vagina. I’ve been going to my gyno for the last six months for recurrent bacterial vaginosis and yeast infections. She shrugs, gives me a script, the symptoms go away for a week or so, then they come back. I understand the infections are likely due to an imbalance in my vaginal pH, but I don’t know what to do to fix this. I’ve used probiotic suppositories to boost the amount of lactobacillus, and these help more than anything else, but the problem remains. I also wear cotton, loose-fitting undies and practice good hygiene and never douche or use anything scented. The problem started when I stopped using condoms with my partner, but it’s not an STI. We’ve both been tested. There’s tons of sites online talking about this problem, but no one has a solution that I’ve found. How the hell can women with this problem fix their pH?! Thanks a ton if you read this far, and thanks a million tons if you or one of your experts has any ideas to help.

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“I love that she used the word ‘vulva,’” said Dr. Debby Herbenick, a research scientist at Indiana University, a sexual health educator at the Kinsey Institute, and the author of Read My Lips: A Complete Guide to the Vagina and Vulva and numerous other books. “Most people have no idea what that even is!”

I know what that is! (Full disclosure: I know what that is now. I didn’t know what that was when I started writing this column.) The vulva is (the vulva are?) the external genitalia of the female — the labia, the clit, the vaginal opening, some other bits and pieces. (Fun fact: Vulva is Latin for wrapper.) The vagina, aka “the muscular tube,” runs from the vulva to the uterus. (Fun fact: Vagina is Latin for the sheath of a sword.)

People tend to use “vagina” when referring to a woman’s junk generally, and while meaning follows use and I’m inclined to give it a pass, saying “vagina” when you mean “vulva” makes scientists like Dr. Herbenick rather teste. (Sad fact: Teste is not the singular form of testes.)

Now back to your vulva and vagina, VULVA....

Dr. Herbenick recommends seeing a “true vulvovaginal health expert” (TVHE) about your problem, VULVA, and your gynecologist presumably qualifies as a TVHE...right?

“Not necessarily,” said Dr. Herbenick. “Gynecologists know far more about vaginal and vulvar health issues than most health care providers,

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And if they have, it was likely when they were in med school — so years ago. They might not be up to date in the latest research, since not all doctors go to vulvovaginal-specific conferences.”

Is there a fix for that problem?

“Yes! If everyone lobbied for their doctors to go to events like the annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD),” said Dr. Herbenick, “we would live in a country with millions more happy, healthy, sex-interested women and others with vaginas and vulvas, too, like trans men.”

As for your particular problem — a tough case of bacterial vaginosis — Dr. Herbenick, who isn’t a medical doctor but qualifies as a TVHE, had some thoughts.

“There are many different forms of bacterial vaginosis (BV) and different kinds of yeast infections,” said Dr. Herbenick. “These different kinds respond well to different kinds of treatment, which is one reason home yeast meds don’t work well for many women. And all too often, health care providers don’t have sufficient training to make fine-tuned diagnoses and end up treating the wrong thing. But if VULVA’s recurrences are frequent, I think it’s a wise idea for her to see a true specialist.”

A TVHE is likelier to pinpoint the problem. Even so, Dr. Herbenick warns that it may take more than one visit with a TVHE to solve the problem.

“I don’t want to overpromise, since BV remains a challenging diagnosis and often does come back at some point,” said Dr. Herbenick. “There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to BV, which is also why I think VULVA is best off meeting with a health care provider who lives and breathes vaginal health issues.

The ISSVD is full of health care providers like that — they’re the Sherlock Holmes of vaginas and vulvas, none of this ‘shrug and here’s a script’ business. VULVA can check out ISSVD.org for more information.” n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

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